What happened was the governor, who is retiring, and Devin lemahue and Speaker Voss, the head of Senate and Assembly, also retiring. They. Those three got together and they talked for a good time negotiating a plan. Our leaders, Greta Neubauer from the Assembly, a Democrat, and Diane Hesselbein from the Senate, a Democrat, asked to participate in those conversations and they were excluded. What I now know is that there was the assumption that because the Republicans have the majority, they only needed 17 of the 18 of their Republican members to vote for it and it would pass without any Democrats. (27:04–27:17)
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Asserts that Democratic leaders were excluded from negotiation talks.
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