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Issue Position:Ensuring Greater Government Transparency and Protecting Taxpayer Dollars

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By: Ricardo Lara

Date: Jan. 1, 2016

Issues: Government Budget and Spending

Californians deserve a transparent government that is free of corruption. Oversight is a critical component to increasing accountability and transparency in all levels of state Government. To be effective in doing the work of California we must have no doubt that representatives are acting with dignity and trustworthy.

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