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‘People Are Nice Here’

by David Kurtz
09.04.12 | 1:14 pm

Rep. Mike Honda (D-CA), vice chair of the Democratic convention, on the differences between Tampa and Charlotte: “People are nice here. There is no vitriolic denigrating of ‘bad’ people like we witnessed on the Tampa stage.”

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