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Gavin Newsom: “When I was mayor we did public financing for mayor's races…”

Featuring: Gavin Newsom, Democratic | Governor of California

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The problem is it could be bought on either side of the political aisle. Interestingly, we have this year's ballot some public financing opportunity to allow non charter cities. When I was mayor we did public financing for mayor's races. Only chartered cities, which there's a handful in California can do that. This would allow all cities to run with public financing. So it's our effort to sort of continue to chip away at addressing big Money. But it's just got. (49:46–49:54)

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Asserts that only chartered cities in California can implement public financing for mayoral races.

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