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Adam Gray: “We passed tough legislation in that area and I'm proud of…”

Featuring: Adam Gray, Democratic | U.S. House, California, District 13

13th Congressional District Candidates Debate

Published October 7, 2022 | Video Starts at 19:21

… the military, have the right to make a choice as an adult as to what they want to consume as far as tobacco products. But I'll stand on my record. We passed tough legislation in that area and I'm proud of it. This next question is, Mister Duarte, only in our debate before the June primary, why did you say that several leftist activists had been arrested for setting forest fires in the Sierra Nevada mountains. (19:21–19:26)

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“I was a founding member of the California Problems Larger Caucus, which is a caucus of equal Democrats and Republicans.”
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“Republican Sheriff Jeff Dierksey right here in Santa SAS County, Republican sheriff Verne Warkie in Merced County, Margaret Mims in Fresno…”
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“I think it's a terrible idea, and that's why I'm a co-author of Prop one here in California to put in the constitution protections for a…”
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“The water board was trying to take 50% of our water when I got in office ten years ago.”
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“We have fought them off for the past decade, hoping that the administration and the local leaders could come to a voluntary agreement…”
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“I think we've got to solve the delta legal issues to solve California's water problems.”
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“A third of the snow pack is going to be gone by 2050.”
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“800% increases in regulatory costs here in California for agriculture.”
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“We produce two-thirds of the fruits and vegetables that this country eats.”
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“Farmers are producing twice as much food with the same amount of water we had in 1980.”
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“We just did something like $8 billion investment in the western states on water.”
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“No, the election was not stolen. It was a free and fair election.”
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“I've taken on the folks in my party that tried to steal our water in this district.”
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“We passed some of the strongest laws in the country regulating e cigs.”
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“Passing the largest water bond in California history, $2.75 billion.”
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“About 1.8 billion of that's been allocated.”
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“We're going to see, starting in 2023 and 2025, 1.7 million acre feet of new water in California.”
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“The first class of medical students is going to begin at UC Merced as part of a UC Merced medical program in partnership with UCSF Fresno.”
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“We got the $18 million year funding.”
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“This last 24 months, we secured over $200 million to build the medical sciences building at UC Merced.”
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“Every republican sheriff in this district endorsing me in Merced county, in Fresno county, in Stanislaus county.”
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“We secured 800 million to extend ace rail all the way to mercedes through Modesto N Series.”
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“$100 million for campus parkway to connect UC Merced and the 99.”
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“Under pure republican government, like in 2016, when we had Donald Trump, a Republican Congress and Republican Senate, and under pure…”
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“They're currently working on the San Luis reservoir project to raise that. Something that didn't get done during the four years of Trump is…”
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“We need to invest in renewable energies in California.”
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“We need to look at carbon capture.”
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“Climate change policy, frankly, ought to be an opportunity to grow California agriculture and American agriculture.”
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“We've got to make these infrastructure investments.”
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“Too often what project you oppose reflects your party registration right here in California.”
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“A lot of conservatives don't like high speed rail, so that's a bad expenditure of tax dollars.”
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“A lot of progressive Democrats don't support the reservoirs that we need in this community and throughout California.”
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“During my tenure, just in this district alone, we've brought $30 million in from state government to help with homelessness.”
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“We absolutely do have to start addressing the root causes of homelessness.”
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“It has to do with drug addiction.”
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“It absolutely has to do with not having sane criminal justice policies.”
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“We don't have that right now here in California and we've got to abandon.”
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“For every several billion dollars we give, Skid Row gets, you know, seven blocks longer.”
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“I've got several dozen elected Republicans endorsing me.”
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“I've been called a radical centrist.”
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“I'm the only candidate that lives in this district.”
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