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"The Governor has been a champion for survivor services. It doesn't align with her values to cut programs like this."
Frank Seddio just happened to nominate the protégé of the judge ruling on his sanctions case, before Democratic Party Chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn used a tablecloth to make herself invisible to journalists.
These reformers hope so.
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Both before and after judges get on the bench.
"I knew that those five he said 'pay attention to' were the ones they were going to nominate."
"It was this weird horror of: 'Wait, our judicial system is being decided by these people that I don't know, who aren't lawyers, who are sitting at a lobster house?'"
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