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Unpacking the Initiative Process with Sacramento Strategist Gale Kaufman

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Scott ShaferMarisa Lagos
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San Francisco election workers sort stacks of vote-by-mail ballots. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Political Breakdown hosts Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos run through President Trump’s State of the Union, and the latest campaign filings in California’s races for governor and Senate.

(6:01) Sacramento strategist Gale Kaufman joins to discuss the inside workings of the initiative process and the upcoming June primary. Over three decades at the Capitol, Kaufman has worked on campaigns that made marijuana legal and took on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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