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I'd been wanting to talk to Sheriff Alex Bienueva one more time before the election, but I didn't think

it would happen. After our first interview for this podcast, the sheriff had called me out of the blue.

He complained about my questions and accused me of being unfair. He said he wished he had never done

the first interview. So I'm surprised when a few weeks before voting starts, someone from the

sheriff's campaign calls me agreeing to set up a second interview. I ask Vianoueva, why?

Well, my goal one day is to reform you and to make you a credible journalist. And I still

hold out hope for you that one day. You'll embrace a concept that there's a corrupt establishment

and an honest man is never welcome in a den of these.

You're not kidding, are you?

No, I'm dead serious.

How do you think you can make me a better journalist?

When you start asking, going after information, asking questions.

But if you limit your questions and what you're preconceived a bias is,

well, then you're never going to discover the whole truth or the other side of the story.

You're not.

What he means is his truth.

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