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hunter

(40,766 posts)

7. This is not a court of law.

Reply to lees1975 (Original post)

Sat Apr 18, 2026, 02:04 PM

Saturday

It's the public deciding who should be hired to manage our state government.

If we are calling around checking his own references and people are saying "Yeah, that could be true..." or worse, "Yeah, that happened..." we don't have to wait until it's all settled in court to remove him from our list of candidates.

If Swalwell hadn't dropped out I would have had even less respect for him than I do now.