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Spencer Cox: “40 years ago, if we had asked this question, almost every…”

Featuring: Spencer Cox, Republican | Governor of Utah

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A Common Ground Forum with Governors Spencer Cox and Michelle Lujan Grisham

Published | Video Starts at 12:05

Bless you. That's probably the most hands I've ever seen in a crowd. There are four of you, right? Five of you, six of you. My Rotarians are my people. 40 years ago, if we had asked this question, almost every hand would have gone up. So we don't do that anymore. And we're desperate for. So if we can't have, you know, if we don't have any real friends, at least we can hate the same people together on Facebook, right? (12:05–12:09)

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Asserts a decline in participation in service organizations over the past 40 years.

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