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Joel Pollak
California Post (opinion editor, per on-tape intro)
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Asked whether Alameda County's newly approved reparations plan will produce cash payments; his basis: 'most of these cities and counties and state governments... just don't have the cash' @0:34 and Alameda 'came into the year with a 91 million budget deficit' @1:03. His closing swipe that the Newsom diaper-contract 'stench is going to follow him on the campaign trail as he heads out for 2028' @3:23 is rhetorical, not filed separately.
“They talk about reparations, they set up committees to study reparations, and then when it comes to paying cash reparations, they never deliver.”
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