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FBaggins

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2. There is no need to

Reply to Lovie777 (Reply #1)

Thu Aug 14, 2025, 08:11 PM

Aug 14

Newsom isn't asking the voters because he thinks they should play a role. He's asking them because the state constitution forbids what he wants to do and he's hoping that they'll change the constitution.

Texas's constitution has no similar measure.

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