"It is being paid for by private dollars. … The city is not paying for it; the city has no dollars in this. … I don't know the shape of the bus, I don't know the color of the bus, I don't know the length for the bus. I just know that we're going to provide buses that are going to be paid for by private dollars."
— Catherine Pugh

January 1, 1970

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As quoted in "Baltimore mayor: Taxpayers won't pay to bus students to DC gun rally" by Keith Daniels, FOX 45 Baltimore (8 March 2018); in the same article, when asked by FOX 45 if public money would be used to pay for the trip, she replied: "We'll cross that bridge if we get to it. … This is all young people from all across the country and Baltimore want, to be represented. And if our young people want to go, we want to make sure that they go there safely."