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Jamie Lopez

101:06 - 101:23

“I looked straight night at basically the— and I said, uh, you can't spend a couple dollars for, you know, uh, basically the puffing in, uh, and more or less there's $100,000 in a slush fund, but the Good Neighbor Fund was used to put people there. Uh, one week later they are still here.”
Speaker
Jamie Lopez
Community
Alaska News
Location
Anchorage
Captured at
October 21, 2026

From the transcript

September 30th, at the Bremerton City Hall, I supplied 2 pulse fasteners of my own. Uh, Thea approached. Call was placed to Kathleen, and I heard the words Black Angus, and I was like, are you shitting me? I looked straight night at basically the— and I said, uh, you can't spend a couple dollars for, you know, uh, basically the puffing in, uh, and more or less there's $100,000 in a slush fund, but the Good Neighbor Fund was used to put people there. Uh, one week later they are still here.

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