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by Todd Wiseman and Thanh Tan, The Texas Tribune
October 4, 2011
Credit: Todd Wiseman
MESQUITE — While speaking at Eastfield College today, President Barack Obama invoked the name of a laid-off Texas teacher and challenged GOP House Majority Leader Eric Cantor to bring up the American Jobs Act for a vote on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Todd Wiseman was the senior editor for video and multimedia at The Texas Tribune, where he worked from 2010 to 2023. Todd previously worked at the Austin School of Film and Synthetic Pictures and interned... More by Todd Wiseman
Thanh Tan was a multimedia reporter/producer for the Tribune from 2011 to 2012. She previously worked at Idaho Public Television, a PBS station that serves a statewide audience. While there, she was an... More by Thanh Tan
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