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Graham Platner: “We have fewer hospitals, we have fewer schools.”

Featuring: Graham Platner, Populist, Progressive | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Maine

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Well, I mean, quite frankly, because as an institution, she has overseen the deterioration of material conditions for working people in this state. I mean, where we are today is worse than where we were when she entered the Senate. We have fewer hospitals, we have fewer schools. Housing has become an abject nightmare for younger people in the state, and elderly, for that matter. We have seen people living on fixed incomes see their benefits continue to stay small while the price of everything else goes up. (08:00–08:03)

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Asserts that Maine has fewer hospitals and schools now compared to when Susan Collins entered the Senate.

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