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Kristen McDonald Rivet: “I left politics in the mid nineties to try to just do…”

Featuring: Kristen McDonald Rivet, Democratic | U.S. House of Representatives, Michigan, District 8

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Senator Kristen McDonald Rivet on Reclaiming Patriotism

Published | Video Starts at 17:04

And, and I still believe in that. But I honestly worked for a while and I found myself getting people elected that I wouldn't necessarily vote for. And I did. About face, I left politics in the mid nineties to try to just do something else and went to go work for head start. And I was their state advocate, their state lobbyist for head start. And I, the thing that a lot of people don't know about this free federally funded preschool program … (17:04–17:11)

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Asserts that she left politics in the mid-1990s to work for Head Start.

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