Gavin Newsom: “I'd raise $84 million for my recall, then turn around in…”

“So it's our effort to sort of continue to chip away at addressing big Money. But it's just got. I mean, what you guys just experienced here with the outside money coming in, it's just obscene. I'd raise $84 million for my recall, then turn around in this Prop 50, raise $119 million in 90 days. It's obscene. It's wild. And so I get why people are pissed and then are criticizing folks for taking big money. Same time you're trying to save democracy. Right.” (50:07–50:15)

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