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For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division, of pitting east against west, urban versus rural, region against region, and people against people will have no place in my Administration.

Ed Rendell

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Ed Rendell
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 5
Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
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Edward Gene Rendell
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