It took me like 10 minutes to figure out what this post was about. Feels good to know I'm qualified to work on the NPR social marketing team.
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Fun fact from Wikipedia:
Ileana Garcia won in 2020 against incumbent José Javier Rodriguez by a margin of 34 votes.
Alex Rodriguez "ran" in the same race as a third party candidate, and despite not campaigning, recieved over six thousand votes. Likely because he shared the same last name as the Dem. Former Republican State Senator Frank Artiles has been arrested for bribing Alex to run and Alex will be testifying against him as part of his plea deal.
No wonder she has a soft spot for criminals.
I never understood the You Have Failed Me trope. If I found myself on the side where failing, or being too successful (being a threat) equals death, I'd switch sides as soon as I can. But I suppose this is just the human nature of fascism, and perhaps baffling to non-fascists.
It's 37,000 pages of documents.
$18k is for paper copies ($.50 a page)
$5,500 for digital, to cover the cost of scanning and redacting.
Or he can come to the office to review the files for free (though he's claiming the travel costs are prohibitive).
The likely perpetrators are in jail for theft from his son and have been ordered to pay $330k to his family. Prosecutors don't think they can make murder stick.
I feel for the grieving father, but I'm afraid my outrage meter isn't dinging on this one.
The video for those who'd like to watch and are hitting the RS paywall:
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It's pretty hilarious, he clearly didn't come prepared for the most basic of follow-up questions.
In her defense (*vomits quietly), it's really getting hard to keep track of all his legal proceedings.