I was the co author of the Bipartisan Infrastructure act in 2014 with Jerry Brown. I was the co author of the Water Bond in 2014. Water is an incredibly important issue, not a sexy issue in most of parts of the state. But here where I live, the agricultural economy is really the be all, end all. And even if you're not in agriculture, and I grew up in agriculture. My family, well, my grandparents farm almonds and pistachios, and my father and my grandfather ran a … (08:55–09:07)
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Asserts the critical importance of water to the local agricultural economy.
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