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Kevin's avatar

I really wish California could figure out our "nothing works" problems. High speed rail, is that ever going to happen? The cost of housing in San Francisco, is it just going to become a city with rich people and homeless people and nothing in between? Wildfires, is it going to become impossible to get home insurance?

The Republicans here in California, well, they just have no power at the state level. We don't have to make that sort of political compromise. If the Democratic Party has a plan for how to make things work, here in California we should just be able to fully enact it. And we should have plenty of money to spend on things because our economy has so many strong sectors.

California should be a beacon proving to the rest of the country that we know the right way to do things, not a symbol of dysfunction.

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Susan Clark's avatar

Please keep this conversation going. Because genuine progress on outcomes is so difficult, way too many people settle for rallying around “righteous positions” that might feel good in the moment but can impede the very outcomes they are hoping for.

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