VERIFIED QUOTE · reported 2026-08-20
“We are a democracy of laws, not of whim. I don’t understand how people who were recalled in April can still be serving in August. They are making decisions on a constituency that they are not legally entitled to make.”
Zev Yaroslavsky · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-20
Yaroslavsky argued the recalled officials had no legal authority to continue governing.
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