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Heather Cox Richardson: “Every single elected that I have talked to who is trying to…”

Featuring: Heather Cox Richardson, Progressive | Historian and Author | Massachusetts

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American Conversations: Governor Maura Healey

Published | Video Starts at 23:13

It's actual. Like, you gotta, like, dig in. This is what we gotta do, and have an actual plan and go do it. It's real stuff. It's. It's interesting because Every single elected that I have talked to who is trying to get stuff done says exactly that, that they have worked, sometimes they've worked for decades to get something passed. And then when they finally do, people are like, oh, it was what I did last week that made a change. And they're like, no, actually, we've been moving the pieces here for decades. (23:13–23:23)

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