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Elissa Slotkin: “When we got the leak a year ago that Roe was going to be…”

Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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A Book Never Shot Anyone (with Rep. Elissa Slotkin and Cara Erskine)

Published | Video Starts at 36:27

Good intentions are not good enough. You have to have a plan for the era that we live in. And we had a plan. And that's why you saw When we got the leak a year ago that Roe was going to be overturned, Michigan had a ballot proposal already ready, already cleared through the lawyers ready to go, and we got 800,000 signatures in eight weeks. It's nearly one out of every ten michiganders, so that we could get Roe on our ballot and then voted for it and codified it, right? (36:27–36:39)

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Asserts that Michigan had a prepared ballot proposal and collected 800,000 signatures in eight weeks after the Roe v. Wade leak.

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