Yours truly, on a post-coffee-on-a-Saturday-morning special episode on the weekly Not Quite Quorum podcast, where (partner and city councilor extraordinaire) Laura Bergus discuss the happenings of the past week around Johnson County’s (in)decision to push for a new jail:
I’ve said before that there is a single litmus test in local politics.
I feel like this is where the line is drawn: are you willing to go along with the status quo of our carceral system or not? And I think there is an unwillingness or lack of interest in understanding why people might question the status quo.
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