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‘How hard am I going to crack down on China? Well, here’s a clue.’ Notable quotes from a week of Chattanooga area news

Staff File photo by Matt Hamilton / U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn speaks during an event in Chattanooga. Blackburn is running in the Republican primary for Tennessee governor.
Staff File photo by Matt Hamilton / U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn speaks during an event in Chattanooga. Blackburn is running in the Republican primary for Tennessee governor.

People who had a way with words in the news last week:

“How hard am I going to crack down on China? Well, here’s a clue.”

– U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn in a television ad in her run for Tennessee governor, before smashing up fortune cookies on a table.

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“We can’t continue to put resources into a vacant piece of property on the taxpayer’s dime.”