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The interest right now is taking resources back to the state and allowing the minority to have tyranny over the minority. It's an ideological power grab. It's like in this Congressional rebellion they are willing to sink the ship to destroy the captain.

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Jesse Jackson
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 8
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South Carolina
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Jesse Louis Jackson
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