Alumnus fondly remembers his two arrests at the Columbia 1968 Revolution 

Wikipedia: In 1968, a series of protests at Columbia University in New York City were one among the various student demonstrations that occurred around the globe in that year. The Columbia protests erupted over the spring of that year after students discovered links between the university and the institutional apparatus supporting the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War, as well as their concern over an allegedly segregated gymnasium to be constructed in the nearby Morningside Park. The protests resulted in the student occupation of many university buildings and the eventual violent removal of protesters by the New York City Police Department.
I was arrested twice at the 1968 student demonstrations at Columbia.

On April 30th I was arrested with my live-in girlfriend (in violation of Barnard College dormitory policy) Vicki Ruth Cohen. We were arrested in Mathematics Hall–the last of the buildings to be liberated by the police. Consequently, the pissed off New York City Police–generally a commendable group–were forced to act poorly on that occasion.


Boiling down the Six Demands (which I still support), there were, as Wikipedia points out lucidly, only three:

1 End Columbia’s shameful involvement in researching ways to kill Vietnamese.

2 Withdraw the gymnasium from Morning Side Park because it was architecturally a monument to racism; i.e. students and faculty entered through the nifty front door; members of the community; via. African-Americans, enter the back door at the bottom of the hill.

3. Do not punish the students; because why should we have been punished for demonstrating against the Vietnam War and Columbia’s racism: Amnesty. [Everybody got amnesty but me.]

Lost within our reminiscences was this reality. The student demonstrators—after taking over:

University President Grayson Kirk’s Office Loe Memorial Library

Hamilton Hall



Mathematics Hall

Avery Hall

and even the dope smokers at Fayerweather Hall (where in addition to weddings, sex also was reportedly taken place
this was a demonstration by stuck-in-the-mud prudes who had not yet met (mind-meld) style

Jerry Ruben—one of the surprisingly small number of outside agitators SDS sent us while SDS had persuaded the press incorrectly that Mark Rudd was our leader. We were our leader.

Regarding the amnesty deal, I was one of the few students who did not get the deal. If you were arrested once at the spring 1968 Columbiademonstrations, free pass. Charges dropped. Record expunged.No deal if you were arrested in any of the two subsequent demonstrations.There were nearly-one thousand students. Men and women arrested holding hands and freeking the police out in a way that demonstrated why so many members of my class are named partners in establishment law firms.

The then gender segregated Columbia boys and Bernard girls understood in some visceral way that it drove the police crazy (many of whom had daughters that age in their homes) to see the brazen way so many Barnard women had adopted the fashion of the time: Flaunting the fact that they were bra-less,  carelessly left their blouses only partially buttoned  revealing other things, they had not shaving under their arms.

The vast-majority had enjoyed their first arrest but were in no way eager for the next. When we emerged from The Tombs, there was the Columbia strike–held outside in beautiful weather and in several neighborhood bars. Students were learning Greek in the Golden Rule. The media loved it. There were moments when Newsweek, The New York Times, and other publications (which have since redeemed themselves) combined to render of version of fake news that would make me sound like POTUS 45.++++ Unfortunately, I was also arrested in the Third Bust. Students had again taken over Hamilton Hall. This time black and white together. Police came almost instantly—with horses, of course.

The Dean announced students arrested inside Hamilton Hall would be expelled. I was arrested outside Hamilton Hall. I was beaten up. Put in the Tombs with a cast of characters out of Becket [an ice cream salesman wearing his white uniform– change device still around his belt as he stared through thick prison bars].

Later, I was indicted by a grand jury charged with conspiracy to commit riot with three other people I had not met until we were arrested together.Because I had rioted on the outside of Hamilton Hall, I was not expelled but graduated from Columbia in 1969 with a major in Medieval European History. The spring semester (when I was arrested twic) in 1968 ; the only semester I made dean’s list for praiseworthy academic performance. More than a year after everyone else got out from the First Bust, so did I. I was released from the first arrest simply because the district attorney had gotten sick of the whole thing.

The worst part was Jerry Rubin. He was in our group and I had to see a lot of him.My indictment for conspiracy to riot [I had rioted but did not conspired to do so; rioting just came over me suddenly and never again] involved initially my attorney William Kunstler.

Unfortunately, Kunstler was the worst kind of attorney for this kind of thing because his outlook was ideological; mine was keeping my ass out of jail. Plus, my worried mother flew up from Florida distraught by the predicament her only son had gotten into seeking solace from my attorney and she nearly received too much.  When my mother’s eyes hit Kunstler’s, sexual sparks hit the air. I am convinced they would have done it before my eyes were there not four black panthers in the waiting room.

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Years ( a seeming 1978 lifetime) later, President Jimmy Carter honored me with a political appointment writing speeches for the number two person at the U.S. Department of Labor.  

Among my duties was reading CIA documents. This required a security clearance. Of course, I revealed all my arrests to the FBI agents in my office adding additional paper which was needed. Then, I showed my security form to my boss Deputy Secretary of Labor Robert J. Brown, who was a dyed-in-the wool United Automobile Workers labor skate who had worked for seven years on the assembly line,

Deputy Secretary Brown was jealous. “Damn; you were arrested, but I wasn’t.”

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Joel Solkoff, Class of 1969 Columbia College. My father Isadore was Class of 1925 . Joel is the author of The Politics of Food. He is a paraplegic and is a disabilities rights advocate in Rust Belt, Pennsylvania  

President Donald J. Trump’s resignation speech; your assistance requested [work in progress]

Not since Japanese aircraft bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1947 has our country experienced as a great a danger as the one we face from the Covid-19 pandemic. Another forecast, developed by former CDC director Tom Friedenn, former director of the Center for Disease Comtrol (CDC) predicted that “in a worst-case scenario, but one that is not implausible, half the U.S. population would become infected and more than 1 million people would die.“ — Washington Post, March 11, 2020
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/coronavirus-forecasts-are-grim-its-going-to-get-worse/2020/03/11/2a177e0a-63b4-11ea-acca-80c22bbee96f_story.html


Raisin d’être a.k.a Why now?

Premise

Prelude to a draft speech

Email to Bess Levin, Vanity Fair


I love you Bess

Today, Sunday, March 22, 2020 Dateline Lycoming County, Pennsylvania ( two miles from Williamsport City line), I am in the process of composing a Trump resignation speech.

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Premise: The Donald finds a quantity of LSD in the Resolute desk. Left over from the days JFK dropped with Timothy Leary.


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“Summer-bachelor Jack Kennedy stands on the Harry Truman balcony overlooking the rose-garden fountain, a soothing sight before him: prisms of lighted water shooting into darkness, the white spike of the Washington Monument, auto headlights flickering along Executive Avenue. He begins to feel a deep-seated goodness within, centered between his chest and throat. From the bedroom behind him, through white chiffon curtains in open french doors, float the chords of a Sinatra song — “All I Need is the Girl.”

“With strange clarity, JFK can suddenly make out every note….Behind the curtains moves the shadow of a tall woman who is not his wife. She is deeply connected to CIA, and has just dispensed to the President of the United States a dose of LSD. In the next few hours she will be “brainwashing” him, and she will be doing so on the directions of a Harvard psychologist, Dr. Timothy Leary, whose colleagues are all taking CIA money, and who has himself designed a personality test used by CIA..”

—http://www.whenthenewsstops.org/2011/04/was-timothy-leary-cia-agent-was-jfk.html

Among the many rumors about President John F. Kennedy is that he used LSD, supplied to him by a lady named Mary Pinchot-Meyer, supposedly one of his mistresses.
—https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/topic/167609-did-jfk-use-lsd/

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While peaking, President Trump watches John Oliver. DJT is convinced John Oliver is the reincarnation of Billie Graham.

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Hail to the Chief:


Trump invites John Oliver to the White House, While under the impression Oliver is Billie Graham. Trump confesses all and urges advice.


Oliver tells him first to have Pence resign Then, on National television, announces his own resignation. Introduces our 46th President Nancy P and then flies to Moscow.
Suggestions oh doyen,Joel570-505-1251 Room 310
https://joelsolkoff.com/speechwriting-basics-how-to-apologize-without-saying-you-are-sorry/

Bess Levin satisfies my Ad hominem purity cop out

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 6:42 PM Bess Levin at Vanity Fair<[email protected]> wrote:

Over the past three years, many terms have been thrown around to describe Donald Trump. Phrases like “huge moron,” “colossal jerk,” “massive prick,” and, our personal favorite, “malignant tumor.” Obviously many have agreed that the 45th president of the United States is both a terrible person and an idiot incapable of tweeting a coherent sentence, let alone running the country.

“Still, some have worried it would be taking things too far to diagnose the man as a full-blown sociopath. Are we being too cavalier with the designation, they’ve likely fretted. Shouldn’t we wait until the Mar-a-Lago groundskeepers find a few dozen heads in the basement, they’ve probably wondered.

“On Friday, however, Trump confirmed for all the world to see that he indeed has no conscience.During a press conference at the White House, NBC reporter Peter Alexander asked Trump, “What do you say to the Americans who are scared, though? Nearly 200 dead, 14,000 who are sick, millions, as you’ve witnessed, who are scared right now. What do you say to Americans who are watching you right now who are scared?” In reality this was a softball question that anyone with a semblance of a soul would be able to answer, responding with something like, “That’s an understandable feeling. I would tell them we’re in this together and we’re doing everything we can, as fast as we can.”

Trump literally only thinks about himself, so instead he told Alexander: “I say that you’re a terrible reporter. That’s what I say. I think it’s a very nasty question, and I think it’s a very bad signal that you’re putting out to the American people. The American people are looking for answers and they’re looking for hope, and you’re doing sensationalism and the same with NBC and con-cast. I don’t call it Comcast, I call it ‘con-cast.’ Let me just tell you something. That’s really bad reporting, and you ought to get back to reporting instead of sensationalism.”

Dylan Thomas’ “Rage, rage against the dying of the light”

In 1963, when I was a sophomore at Cheltenham House School in suburban Philadelphia, I first listened to Dylan Thomas read this, his most famous poem. My biology teacher had “punished” me by expelling me for a week for egregiously reading in class. For a solid week, I was in bliss at my school’s excellent library listening to this:

Wikipedia:

“Caitlin Thomas’s autobiographies, Caitlin Thomas – Leftover Life to Kill (1957) and My Life with Dylan Thomas: Double Drink Story (1997), describe the effects of alcohol on the poet and on their relationship. “Ours was not only a love story, it was a drink story, because without alcohol it would never had got on its rocking feet”, she wrote,[147] and “The bar was our altar.”[148]Biographer Andrew Lycett ascribed the decline in Thomas’s health to an alcoholic co-dependent relationship with his wife, who deeply resented his extramarital affairs.[149] “
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Thomas

This Caedmon record label remains evocative. Then, at 16, it evoked in me the sense that I too must die young, a notion belied by my 72 year old age. But, we Baby Boomers on the cutting edge wrote in1968, as I did in a diatribe, never trust anyone over 30.
Today, we Baby Boomers are surprised by our longevity and by the high cost of our health care which is poised to bankrupt countries in the developed world. Understandably, but not pleasantly, younger generations boast of the Corona virus, “Baby Boom remover.”
https://www.newsweek.com/boomer-remover-meme-trends-virus-coronavirus-social-media-covid-19-baby-boomers-1492190
This is New York City’s White Horse Tavern where legend has it, Dylan Thomas drank himself to death from so many shot glasses.There were times during my terrible teens, that I wished for that fate. Now, that I am a grandfather, I am glad the genie was deaf to my wishes.

“Do not go gently into that good night” forever remains a helpful guide to our future death

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At Rittenhouse Square, in love then, now, and forever with Leah, Jean Shepherd, and….

“Speaking of fishbowls, this is WOR—AM and FM, New York.”

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It was then,  a more recent then from Rittenhouse Square, but then nonetheless. I am not only older but old with pain radiating from the base of my spine until I remember: Leah, 16, the Ethical Culture Society, The Congress of Racial Equality and Her, my shiksa goddess.

Leah’s mother was a folk singer.

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[Come back soon, now hear?]

 

 

 

 

 

 

1973 Letter to my literary agent seeking her help to break a book contract on how Timothy Leary escaped from prison

Letter to Marie Rodell June 1973

Health South Pleasant Gap, PA profits off my not getting well

We are the nation’s leading owner and operator of inpatient rehabilitation hospitals and a leader in home-based care
(home health and hospice), offering services in 36 states and Puerto Rico.

On July 10, 2017, we announced the plan to rebrand
and change our name from HealthSouth Corporation to Encompass Health Corporation. On October 20, 2017, our board of directors approved an amended and restated certificate of incorporation in order to change the name effective as of January 1, 2018.

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Courtesy of Francois Micheloud
The cartoon reads “One sees his (Uncle Sam’s) finish unless good government retakes the ship”

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Along with the corporate name change, the NYSE ticker symbol for our common stock changed from “HLS” to “EHC.”

Our operations in both business segments will transition to the Encompass Health branding on a rolling basis. The rebranding is expected to be completed by the end of the first quarter of 2019.
We were organized as a Delaware corporation in February 1984. Our principal executive offices currently are located at 3660 Grandview Parkway, Birmingham, Alabama 35243, and the telephone number of the principal executive offices is
(205) 967-7116. We anticipate relocating to newly constructed offices at 9001 Liberty Parkway, Birmingham, Alabama on
April 2, 2018.

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https://www.google.com/search?q=mark+tarr&rlz=1C1CHZL_enUS753US754&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi_6fyaxdXdAhWxq1kKHQFgC-kQ_AUIDygC&biw=683&bih=313#imgrc=ISz60iekomJfOM:

 

 

 

 

 

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Our website address is www.encompasshealth.com.
In addition to the discussion here, we encourage the reader to review Item 1A, Risk Factors, Item 2, Properties, and
Item 7, Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, which highlight additional
considerations about our company.

We manage our operations in two operating segments which are also our reportable segments: (1) inpatient
rehabilitation and (2) home health and hospice. The table below provides selected operating and financial data for our inpatient
rehabilitation hospitals, home health agencies, and hospice agencies. See Note 18, Segment Reporting, to the accompanying
consolidated financial statements for detailed financial information for each of our segments.

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(205) 967-7116
(Registrant’s telephone number)
HealthSouth Corporation
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

Encompass10IK

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZjwnJePuUk

 

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These are the knowledgeable and dedicated physical therapists at Pleasant Gap’s Outpatient Therapy.
None of them receive stock options, adequate pay, proper working conditions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Specifics

How this “for profit” hospital steals your tax dollars

Inpatient Rehabilitation
For the Year Ended December 31,
2017 2016 2015
Medicare 73.2% 73.3% 73.2%
Medicare Advantage 8.4% 7.7% 7.9%
Managed care 10.9% 11.2% 11.1%
Medicaid 3.1% 3.0% 2.5%
Other third-party payors 1.6% 1.8% 2.0%
Workers’ compensation 0.9% 1.0% 1.1%
Patients 0.6% 0.6% 0.7%
Other income 1.3% 1.4% 1.5%
Total 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Home Health and Hospice
For

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Mark J. Tarr, Chief Villon, President and Chief Executive Officer and Director Encompass Health

Your tax dollars at work

Mark J. Tarr

Executive Compensation

As President and Chief Executive Officer at ENCOMPASS HEALTH CORPMark J. Tarr made $4,934,183 in total compensation. Of this total $900,000 was received as a salary, $1,169,280 was received as a bonus, $540,238 was received in stock options, $2,277,744 was awarded as stock and $46,921 came from other types of compensation. This information is according to proxy statements filed for the 2017 fiscal year.

President and Chief Executive OfficerENCOMPASS HEALTH CORPView local and national averages forsalaries$4.9MILLION$900,000Base Pay$1,169,280Bonus + Non-EquityIncentive Comp$2,069,280Total Cash Comp$2,277,744Stock Award Value$540,238Option Award Value$2,817,982Total Equity$46,921Total Other$4,934,183 Total CompensationFiscal Year Ended in 2017

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Bloomberg profile

Mark J. Tarr

CEO, President & Director,Encompass Health Corporation
Age Total Calculated Compensation This person is connected to 10 board members in 1 different organizations across 5 different industries.

See Board Relationships

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Background*

Mr. Mark J. Tarr serves as President, Chief Executive Officer And Director of Encompass Health Corp. since December 29, 2016. Mr. Tarr serves as the Principal Executive Officer and President at HEALTHSOUTH Colorado Real Estate, LLC, HEALTHSOUTH Kansas Real Estate, LLC, HEALTHSOUTH Sea Pines Holdings, LLC and HEALTHSOUTH Arizona Real Estate, LLC. He served as the Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President at Encompass Health Corporation since February 24, 2011 …

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Corporate Headquarters*

3660 Grandview Parkway
Birmingham, Alabama 35243United States

Phone: 205-967-7116
Fax: —

Board Members Memberships*

2016-Present
CEO, President & Director

Education*

Bachelor’s Degree
Ball State University
MBA
Emory University-Goizueta Business School

Other Affiliations*

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Mark J. Tarr

CEO, President & Director,Encompass Health Corporation
Age Total Calculated Compensation This person is connected to 10 board members in 1 different organizations across 5 different industries.

See Board Relationships

56

Background*

Mr. Mark J. Tarr serves as President, Chief Executive Officer And Director of Encompass Health Corp. since December 29, 2016. Mr. Tarr serves as the Principal Executive Officer and President at HEALTHSOUTH Colorado Real Estate, LLC, HEALTHSOUTH Kansas Real Estate, LLC, HEALTHSOUTH Sea Pines Holdings, LLC and HEALTHSOUTH Arizona Real Estate, LLC. He served as the Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President at Encompass Health Corporation since February 24, 2011 …

Read Full Background

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Corporate Headquarters*

3660 Grandview Parkway
Birmingham, Alabama 35243United States

Phone: 205-967-7116
Fax: —

Board Members Memberships*

2016-Present
CEO, President & Director

Education*

Bachelor’s Degree
Ball State University
MBA
Emory University-Goizueta Business School

Other Affiliations*

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I will be back soon with more Encompass Health corporate infamy details

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Showtime’s countdown to the mid-term elections

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfCR7ApWJyA

THE CIRCUS | Season 3 Episode 7 Premiere | Full Episode (TV14)

Published on Sep 18, 2018
The Gathering Storm. With the looming midterm elections, the Trump presidency under siege, and Hurricane Florence bearing down on the Carolina coast, Washington has a lot on its collective plate. Executive Producer and Host John Heilemann interviews Steve Bannon. Season 3 Episode 7 premiere. Watch The Circus Sundays at 8pm ET/PT. Order SHOWTIME for more! [TV14]

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“Jews will not replace us”

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As Midterms Approach, New Polls Favor Democrats | Morning Joe | MSNBC

Published on Sep 20, 2018
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As Midterms Approach, New Polls Favor Democrats | Morning Joe | MSNBC September 20, 2018

https://www.google.com/search?q=idlib&rlz=1C1CHZL_enUS753US754&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwiU2IXn9tDdAhWHylkKHYHFA4gQ_AUIECgD&biw=893&bih=393#imgrc=FWjI9_JKy3DlpM:

 

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Should President Donald Trump Be Impeached? | MTP Daily | MSNBC

March 2018


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Ted Cruz and Beto O’Rourke face off in first debate

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Coverage of Ted Cruz and Beto O'Rourke meeting for the first time to debate in the Texas Senate race. » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews

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George Strait – Amarillo By Morning (Live From The Astrodome)

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To Curb Illegal Immigration, DHS Separating Families At The Border

Immigrants make their way towards the border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico.

Gregory Bull/AP

The Department of Homeland Security has undertaken its most extreme measure yet to discourage asylum seekers from coming to the U.S. — family separation.

A 39-year-old mother is named as Ms. L in a lawsuit brought against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security by the American Civil Liberties Union. Ms. L traveled with her 7-year-old daughter, named as S.S., from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Mexico. They surrendered to immigration agents at the San Ysidro Port of Entry near San Diego in December and asked for asylum. They said they were fleeing violence in DRC.

The mother is being held in the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego, Calif. by Immigration and Customs Enforcement; her daughter is 2,000 miles away at a youth shelter in Chicago run by the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement. They are only able to speak by phone.

“When the daughter was taken, she (Ms. L) could hear her daughter in the next room, screaming, ‘Mommy, don’t let them take me!'” said Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project.

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Willie Nelson Talks Supporting Beto O’Rourke, Friendship With Frank Sinatra | The View

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Beto for Texas

https://betofortexas.com/

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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Beto O’Rourke: We Don’t Need A Wall

Official campaign site for Beto O’Rourke, the 2018 Democratic Candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas.

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