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Coverage of the anti-lockdown rally at the State House on April 18, 2020 from the Concord Patch. From the article:
“Carla Gericke, a Republican state Senate candidate from Manchester, noted that the 125,000 people out of work was the same amount of people who live in Amherst and the Queen City. She said, while driving around in Manchester, imagine everyone you see is out of work. That is what it was like in the state today.
‘We are all essential,’ Gericke said. ‘It is not the role of government to decide who are winners and losers. It is not the role of government to tell some of us, we are not essential — while making sure every single one of them is still getting paid.'”
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