Veronica Escobar: “We had to fund indigent defense.”

“I served as a county commissioner in El Paso, and then I served as the El Paso county judge, which is the essentially the head of county government, the county executive. And We had to fund indigent defense. And I had, early on in my public service career in county government, we had members of the commissioner's court who would say, well, we can't afford to pay this, so let's not pay this.” (00:24–00:27)

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