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Grassy Knoll

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Mon Feb 10, 2014, 03:55 PM Feb 2014

Former Florida State Rep. Ana Rivas Logan Leaves GOP Over Immigration, Becomes A Democrat [View all]

Source: huffingtonpost.com

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"The GOP of today is not the party I joined; it's not the party of my parents," Rivas Logan said in a statement. "It's a party that has been radicalized and held hostage by a group of extremists. It's a party that attacks women and minorities -- and one that asked me, and my former Hispanic Republican colleagues in the Florida legislature, to turn on their own people by supporting extreme anti-immigrant policies. It's a party I was no longer proud to be a part of."




Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/10/ana-rivas-logan_n_4759605.html

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