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BF: Let's back up a little, and why don't you explain for us, well, for the camera, what exactly your position was at JACL and sort of what that entailed.

GU: My position at the JACL was the legislative strategy chair for the legislative education committee of the JACL. And the legislative education committee was formed because a non-profit tax-exempt organization, namely the JACL, cannot directly lobby with tax exempt dollars. So, if we wanted to do straight out lobbying, an adjunct organization had to be created, which accepted non tax-deductible dollars in order to lobby directly in Congress and in the White House. And I was responsible for formulating basic, bare bones strategy, like four things we ought to do, in this order. And on some of those things, I was not only the strategist, but I was the lobbyist. So I went and directly talked to many of the people that I said I talked to this morning.

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