Given the gerrymander, we have a $4 billion plus surplus, as in billion. We have opportunity to make necessary investments in those matters, like child care, like our schools, like our universities, et cetera. But It has been held hostage by this legislature, particularly by the Joint Finance Committee where my opponent Dewey Strobel was a co-chair. co chair. There has been this partisan war to hold back the release of funding that we could go forward on. (33:14–33:26)
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Asserts that the legislature, particularly the Joint Finance Committee, is holding the budget surplus hostage.
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