“Both Republicans and Democrats that I talked to were frustrated that their interests were denied,” Barrett said.
But it was a self-inflicted wound. All of California’s Republicans voted in favor of the stripped-down budget bill, which essentially was a vote knocking out the very grants they lobbied to put in the legislation — and the very constituents who relied on them to fund important local projects.
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