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– I'm Carl Sciortino, and I'll never forget that conversation with my dad.

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– That's me!

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– Where I had to come out and tell him...

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– Wait for this...

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– ...that I was a Massachusetts liberal.

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– And he's proud of it!

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– Dad's in the Tea Party.

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– Damn right!

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– [laughs]

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– It was bad enough, him picking on the big banks and corporations in the legislature.

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– They weren't paying their fair share in taxes.

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– And he wrote the buffer zone law!

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– To protect women entering abortion clinics from harassment.

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– It's gone all the way to the supreme court!

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I was kind of proud of that.

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– But here's the one that drives him crazy.

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– He wants to go to Congress to take on the NRA and the Tea Party!

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– I won't give up on an assault weapons ban.

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– Or universal background checks, or banning high-capacity magazines...

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– There are some things you don't stop fighting for.

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– [sighs]

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– Also, the right to choose, equal pay for women,

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and equal rights for... well, everybody.

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– He's been like this for 35 years.

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– That's why I approve this message!

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And I still love you, Dad.

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– Me too, son.