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Graham Platner: “We were spending so much money. Like, somebody was clearly…”

Featuring: Graham Platner, Populist, Progressive | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Maine

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Towards the end of the appointment, I started to kind of return to my more cynical kind of state on the whole thing, mostly just because I saw, like, all the contractors and all the, like, We were spending so much money. Like, somebody was clearly getting very rich, but it wasn't us. But then, yeah, 2006 comes in Ramadi, and I mean, at that point, I became very. Well, I don't even know if I was, you know, let me rephrase. (33:15–33:21)

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Asserts that a lot of money was spent, enriching someone other than them.

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