Zohran Mamdani: “The Attorney General of [California] found that for every…”

“… well as the governor to file a lawsuit against the deployment of the National Guard in that state. A judge recently found in their favor that that deployment was illegal. The Attorney General of [California] found that for every dollar they spent on legal fees, they recovered more than 32,000 in otherwise lost funding from the federal government. And I am thankful and proud, as Assemblywoman Gonzalez Rojas said, that I stand here with the endorsement of our equivalents of those leaders. The Attorney General, Tish James, the Governor, Kathy Hochul.” (27:26–27:44)

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