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Yesterday insisting that no Colorado State resources could be used in any way to support that new Trump Administration family separation policy. So we broke the news of both of those aksz actions by the two different governors at this time last night and that is an interesting pair of actions. A democratic governor and a republican governor on the east coast, both of them popular governors, both of them ambitious and both deciding to take an additional step beyond just saying they disagreed with the policy of taking kids away from parents. They both decided on the same day that they needed to move on beyond just criticizing the policy to instead start taking actual overt action against it. Well, that was yesterday. With those two governors. Now today they apparently bust open the flood gates. Today the governor of new jersey phil murphy took the same action as the color ....
Interesting pair of actions. A democratic governor and a republican governor on the east coast, both of them popular governors, both of them ambitious and both deciding to take an additional step beyond just saying they disagreed with the policy of taking kids away from parents. They both decided on the same day that they needed to move on beyond just criticizing the policy to instead start taking actual overt action against it. Well, that was yesterday. With those two governors. Now today they apparently bust open the flood gates. Today the governor of new jersey phil murphy took the same action as the colorado governor and said no state resources will be used from new jersey to support the family separation policy in any way. Then the governor of delaware, john carney announced, today we received a request to send Delaware National guard troops to the southwest border, under normal circumstances we wouldnt hesitate to answer ....
People are looking for ways not just express their dismay or their criticism or disagreement or their outrage, people are looking for ways to try to stop the policy. to try to stop what the administration is doing. how can i do more than just express my upset? you saw it from the actions taken from the governors. you can t use my state resources and can t use my state troops or my state helicopters at the border. you saw today from the governors. saw it also from these three random moms in columbus, ohio, who decided that even if it was just them and no army, they they didn t have any troops to order, these three moms decided they could do something and they decided they would go to the office of their senator, rob portman. hi, everyone. this is merrill lehman, here with do you want your last name used. sarah boyd. with sarah boyd and danielle. danielle carlo. so we re inside of as you ....
hi, everyone. this is merrill lehman, here with do you want your last name used. sarah boyd. with sarah boyd and danielle. danielle car low. so we re inside of as you could see the anti-room of senator portman s columbus office and been lear and sin 3:30 here asking the senator to respond to specific questions we had that people have been asking him for days and days, what would he would do specifically to address this immediate need to remedy the problem of children being taken from their families. so i don t think we have much time. i think the police are coming up soon. but the answer that we got was not satisfactory. people in similar horrible ....