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And the pillars that once made our country strong - public education, healthcare, small businesses and local companies, worker’s rights, and the full protections of our Con","detail":"doing the rigging out loud. And the pillars that once made our country strong - public education, healthcare, small businesses and local companies, worker’s rights, and the full protections of our Constitution - have been worn down so badly they’re barely recognizable. This is not about left versus right. It is about right versus wrong; the top versus the rest of us. I am not running just to send Pat Harrigan back to his lake house; I am running to take the fight to those who sold us out to the billionaires who bankroll them, on both sides of the aisle. 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