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The longtime head of the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota is stepping down. 


Chuck Samuelson has been the agency's executive director since 1996. But he's fighting a neurological disease for the past four years. 


"It has become progressively difficult for me to move, it has been progressively difficult for me to type. My muscles are atrophying," he said in an interview Thursday with MPR News host Tom Crann. "I'm just getting too tired to do the job anymore." 


In his interview with Crann, he spoke about his tenure and the work of the ACLU. 

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Chuck Samuelson, the group's executive director since 1996, spoke with MPR News host Tom Crann about his work fighting for civil liberties and the difficult decision to step down.

Samuelson has been the agency's executive director since 1996.

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