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Before a California Bill Gets a Vote, It Has to Get Past Blanca Pacheco
Assemblymember Blanca Pacheco chairs the California Assembly's Rules Committee, giving her significant power over which bills get hearings, how quickly they move, and whether laws take effect immediately.
She Lost. She Came Back. Then Suzette Valladares Made California History.
How open primaries expand voter choice even as party insiders work to dismantle the reforms that made her victory possible.
