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Gavin Newsom: “There were two reforms that substantively shifted things in…”

Featuring: Gavin Newsom, Democratic | Governor of California

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Oh, open primaries. Yeah. Like, it's been. There's a. A real push. I thought it was at a time when there was so much dysfunction in California. There were two reforms that substantively shifted things in a very positive way. One was you don't get paid legislature unless you submit the budget on time. So you got to vote on the budget. There were so much games being played. We could never get a budget done. And we attached a paycheck by the way which should be the case in Congress. (47:22–47:36)

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Asserts that a reform was implemented where the legislature does not get paid unless the budget is submitted on time.

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