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Debates need to cover more issues

Credit where credit is due: better than usual.

However; one segment on social issues covered same sex marriage and abortion. No mention of poverty, homeless people, environmental issues, global warming, rising costs of health care and nothing remotely bordering on gun control.

Ten men all intent with shrinking the federal government without acknowledging the department of defense IS the federal government (and takes a pretty big hunk out of the federal budget) final word is: ho hum, same old stuff.

Patti Simpson

Olympia

This story was originally published August 14, 2015 at 11:46 AM with the headline "Debates need to cover more issues."

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