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Ron DeSantis: “The marijuana people spent $150 million on this. The…”

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Governor DeSantis Addresses the Pennsylvania Family Institute

Published | Video Starts at 17:00

And then somehow you got people that are going to spend a lot of money to basically make us California through the back door with these initiatives and these amendments. The marijuana people spent $150 million on this. The abortion people spent $130 million. So we had to contend with $280 million of spending on very misleading language. And let's just be honest, they were pushing issues in which probably more people agreed with them than agreed with me or agreed with us. (17:00–17:09)

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Asserts that $150 million was spent on the marijuana initiative and $130 million on the abortion initiative.

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