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Socialist Progressives

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3. Thanks. Good link. Among other things, one has to wonder how this action...

Thu Aug 27, 2015, 10:12 AM

Aug 2015

...managed to pass a legal challenge. ( Assuming they were not reinstated.)

Aren't US citizens entitled to be represented by the people they elect?

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