And so my job was to figure out what were the politics that people were worried about and what were the policies that we should be concerned about. And so to the speaker, education was one of them. My very first major act as minority leader was negotiating with the Republican governor to ensure the preservation of a scholarship when Republicans wanted to gut it. and strip young people of color mainly of the ability to go to college. And they didn't say that, but we knew that based on the numbers, black and brown … (24:04–24:17)
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Asserts that she negotiated with a Republican governor to preserve a scholarship that Republicans wanted to cut.
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