El-Sayed apologizes to Jewish Democrats in person, pressed five weeks later to condemn Iran's regime again.

…(cont) Did Abdul El-Sayed stand up in front of the Michigan Democratic Jewish Caucus on Saturday, August 30th, and say, in his own words, "I made a mistake"? That's what The Hill had it as. Did the Washington Examiner, writing the very next day, describe that same appearance as him trying to build a bridge with Michigan's Jewish community over something he'd said after the attack on a Detroit-area synagogue? I believe it did. Both dates are on the insurance card.

So then why, twenty-six days later, on September 25th, did the New York Post run a piece asking why Mr. El-Sayed "refuses to condemn Iran's Revolutionary Guard thugs" — like the 30th never happened? And why, this week, on October 2nd, did The Federalist run very nearly the same question, a writer saying El-Sayed wouldn't condemn "the Islamic terror regime that persecuted my family members" — is that a new toll, or the old one, stamped a second time? I only ask because I've got August 30th written down, and I keep checking it against the other two, and the apology's still there. Nobody crossed it off.

The same week, a different driver got a letter at a different address. Out in Los Angeles, Fox News ran a piece calling Nithya Raman, who's running for mayor, a "DSA jihadi," on account of she defended calling what's happening in Gaza a genocide and said she backs the boycott movement, at a Jewish community forum, no less — same kind of forum El-Sayed stood up at. Is that the same system that doesn't talk to the other system? I don't have Ms. Raman's bank statement. I only have mine, and El-Sayed's, which is the only one with a payment already posted.

My car barely starts most mornings — I've been putting off the fan belt — and standing at that toll counter I had time to think, waiting on the woman to find the right screen. And look, excuse me, before you go — one more thing's been bothering me since the counter, and I'd be lying if I said it wasn't. If a man stands in a room on August 30th and says, "I made a mistake," and two different papers print it, with the date on it, is that apology still good on September 25th? Is it still good on October 2nd? And if it is — if it's sitting right there in two separate files, same as my bank statement was sitting right there in my pocket — who exactly is supposed to be the one who tells the toll plaza it's already been paid?