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Greg Casar: “They fired... a speech therapist here in eastern Travis…”

Featuring: Greg Casar, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 35

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Interview with Congressperson Greg Czar on Democratic Party Dynamics and Progressive Strategies

Published | Video Starts at 20:22

Your state, the state of Texas has some rigorous applications of boycott, divestment and sanctions laws that are in direct violation of the First Amendment. Yeah, they fired. I think she was like They fired... a speech therapist here in eastern Travis county because she refused to sign a statement... to refuse to participate in bds. So you don't have to. You don't have to have a view on bds to have a view that it's just deeply wrong. Yeah. For somebody to lose their job over that. (20:22–20:42)

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Asserts that a speech therapist was fired for not signing an anti-BDS statement.

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