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Hello and welcome to The Daily Beans.

I'm your host, Alison Gill.

As you know, I have all fresh, cool content for you this week,

even though we're not doing the breaking news,

but I wanted to bring back our good friend,

Executive Director of the Ballot initiative strategy center. We out

around November 20th and talked about the bright spots in the election with ballot initiatives

and things that passed in states. And now we're going to talk a little bit about what it's

like to protect those initiatives now that we voted for them and or against them, depending on

the disposition of the initiative. And of course,

going forward the importance of the work of the ballot initiative strategy center. So please welcome

the executive director, Chris Melody Fields, Figurato. Hi, Chris. How are you? I am doing all right.

Yeah. How are you doing? Hanging in there. I'm hanging in there. I'm slowly piece by piece

putting my armor on for the battle for the next four years. Reluctantly, sometimes with a very big

pouty face because I can't believe we're here and we have to do this again for four years.

But in the fight, staying in the fight, and that's why I wanted to have you back on because of the

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