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Virginia Vaz: All legislature has to worry about is ‘warriors’?

If the only issue to be resolved in Sacramento is the names of high school mascots, we are paying salaries to individuals who obviously have nothing to do. I don’t believe whoever attended a high school with a mascot named after warriors thought of it as derogatory. It was, and is, with pride.

Virginia Vaz, Orestimba Warriors, Newman

This story was originally published July 24, 2015 at 5:53 PM with the headline "Virginia Vaz: All legislature has to worry about is ‘warriors’?."

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