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Citys largest single outbreak. Today the citys homeless shelter looked much like an emergency medical ward. Some residents were ferried to hotels the city has secured stoisolate vulnerable populations. To isolate vulnerable populations. We had plans to staff up hotel rooms as rapidly as we possibly can in case an outbreak occurs. Reporter for weeks, a number of city supervisors and helpings advocates had been pushing for broader use of hotel rooms ahead of such an outbreak. We need to move people into hotels now. It is absol inevitable that were gonna have outbreaks in all the hospitals. Reporter the Mayors Office resisted that approach, using hotel rooms on a more tactical scale, arguing the city does not have the staff for housing the homeless at large and at will. If you cant selfcare, youre still gonna come inside somewhere. But we need more care wrapped around you for that to be successful. Staff enough people, everything from monitoring to security to medical to counselo all of t
Pleasure to read. I think is great and important because a lot of attention. And just wanted to start out by kind of pulling back a little bit and asking you why did you want to write about Political Parties visiting your first book was focused on lobbying and in the universe of potential reforms, the electoral college, one of the biggest ones money in politics between your tongue about. The growth of executive power, he chose to focus on parties. Thats really is the linchpin. Can you talk a little bit about the parties. In the process. Matthew is going to be with you again. If an reunion here. Lee on cspan. And so why did i write this book. Another because i was worried about american democracy. I saw hyper partisanship as a serious problem. Affecting a country and i wanted to think about if there was some way to maybe solve the problem. It kind of exploded in a somewhat indirect way for my previous book but the corporate lobbying in that book i had basically concluded that one race w