Maybe they're captured by interests you like, that's fine. But that is not the thing that the mass of Californians who voted for Prop 1A knew they were getting. And Even those of us covering the stimulus bill were not looking at the precise requirements in the notice of funding opportunity in the grant program. So there is this thing, I think, where a lot of this highly technocratic governance, which is very much a negotiation between different interests, is in this King's cup way being justified as democracy. (58:24–58:34)
CLAIM
Asserts that journalists did not scrutinize the detailed requirements in the stimulus bill's grant program.
This is an excerpt from a raw transcript. The assertions have not been audited or verified. Tap the video to view the source footage and understand the context.
