If you for some reason hate poor people, but you want to be fiscally responsible, you can hit them over the head with the fact that Every dollar we spent on [the right to counsel for eviction] came back to us like three and a half times. on other things we didn't have to pay for, and then reminding everybody constantly that this is socialist policy. So in this case, it was actually on DSA's national platform. (57:57–58:01)
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