Dick Zimmer on Civil Rights

Republican Senate challenger

Supports Patriot Act as appropriate response

Zimmer said he supports the USA Patriot Act "as an appropriate response to a very serious existential problem to the United States," adding that the 2002 law helped law enforcement monitor and track the nation's enemies through the Electronic Age's newer forms of communications. Source: Press of Atlantic City May 23, 2008

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