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Sat Jun 10, 2017, 07:30 PM Jun 2017

We're in a critical time in Americas history, says Sen. Michael Bennet

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EDWARDS — Sen. Michael Bennet's second town hall in Edwards was ever so much more civil than his first.

Years ago when the Obama administration was pushing through the Affordable Care Act, hundreds of people packed Berry Creek Middle School gym to give Bennet, a Democrat, a piece of their minds. After that meeting was finished, Bennet found himself against a wall surrounded by angry people explaining to him with great enthusiasm that they believed Obamacare was a monumentally bad idea.

Friday's town hall at Colorado Mountain College's Edwards campus wasn't like that, at all.

"I'll behave myself, and I hope others will behave themselves," Bennet said grinning.

Read more: http://www.vaildaily.com/news/were-in-a-critical-time-in-americas-history-says-sen-michael-bennet/

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