look, you know, the california legislature is a very unusual legislature in lots of ways.s. the most restrictive term limits program in the country. as far as the 50 states go, that means that our legislators can be there for only in this case 12 years, and then they're out just like that. they're gone. well, with term limits you have turnover. and that means that lots of people who otherwise would not have considered running for the legislature do so because there's going to be changed openings. okay. and women have been greatly impacted by this to the extent that they have taken advantage of this opportunity and gained considerably in terms of the state legislature's representation. so we've got this little chart for you to look at, and you can see what's happened here. it's absolutely amazing. look, from 1989, percent of the legislature was women to 2024, almost 50% one seat short. cure this in just 44 years. it's absolutely amazing to see how quickly this has happened. wow. and california of course across the country known as, you know, a barrier breaking state, for be

heading into this election, north carolina republicans held a super majority in that state legislature in this election, they lost that super majority. democrats made enough inroads in that state legislature this year in this election that republicans in north carolina no longer have a super majority that allows them to override the veto, for example, from the governor. but, that is where the laws of dentistry come into the story because republicans in north carolina, after this election, where they did not do as well as they wanted to, they know they're about to lose their super majority in the state legislature, and they know that democrats just won almost every statewide elected office in the whole state. republicans know this is coming and so in the face of that oncoming change, republicans took this bill, making various changes to the laws of dentistry. they took the laws of dentistry bill and they turned it into something very much not that, which is probably good news for drunken dentists. bad news for mannequins, but it is also really big news, audacious news for what republica

how the california legislature is breaking barriers. we will be right back. >>> game day, the 49ers be in in a blizzard by buffalo. >> that is the 49ers season. >> reporter: what about running back christian mccaffrey? what does lorenzo think? >> there were talking about diamonds and th "the doctor will see you now." test test test test it is inevitable. chloe! hey dad. they will grow up. [cheering] silly face, ready? discover who they are. [playing music] what they want from this world. and how they will make it better. and while parenting has changed, how much you care has not. that's why instagram is introducing teen accounts. automatic protections for who can contact them and the content they can see. ♪♪ >>> welcome back, now at 11:21 pm on sunday night. tomorrow lawmakers return to sacramento for a legislative session of california's democratic super majority. the governor called it for preparation, and litigation against trump policies. the special session is expected to address reproductive freedom, clean vehicle policies, immigr

members of the legislature will return to the state capitol for the new session. both chambers will be full of some returning veterans as well. several rookies elected to office for the first time. all right. on wallace introduces us to the freshman lawmakers from both sides of the aisle already making history. >> yet this will be one of the most diverse legislature's ever. and it's all because of new members who will soon become very familiar with the halls inside there. the state capitol. >> it's a place of history and now the state legislature is making even more history as it welcomes newly elected lawmakers like sacramento, democratic assembly member maggy krell. the needs of the people in our community, our urgent. so i'm not interested in wasting any time trial of former state deputy attorney general and former chief legal counsel for planned parenthood is one of more than 30 new members elected to the legislature and she's part of a record. 58 women set to serve in the assembly and senate meaning for the first time ever, nearly half of the seats in the ent

nearly half of the seats in the entire legislature will be held by women. it's an amazing opportunity. i >> look at this building and i say, wow, i get to work in there and it gives me the chills and especially to be joining this historic last. it is amazing to be a woman in the state legislature for new republican state senator suzette martinez, valid tolls are not new. she served in the assembly for nearly 2 years from 2020 to 2022. and now is the santa clarita mother moved to the senate side. she's looking to the future and hoping to make a difference for fellow moms. so many issues and things that the state controls coming out of sacramento impact the daily lives of moms and having a voice here to say, hey, wait, what are we doing in education a week? how can we make things more affordable for families? >> actually produce ideas and bills to actually accomplish. todd. >> we need marta martinez. balderas is not the only new state senator with previous political experience. in fact, one of her colleagues on the democratic side of the aisle has years of ex

legislatures could easily say that. is the public attitudes are lagging behind reality. overall people have fond memories of their times on college campuses they think 30 years ago they had a wonderful time as under gravid at harvard and princeton. they find it very difficult to believe that these institutions could have deteriorated so much. even talking to republicans sometimes people look to me and say i just cannot believe what you're saying to me. i don't blame you for not believing it's almost incredible the degree to which they've gone bad. but we ought to do is more public relations on this issue. the public's got to be brought up to speed. mark: up next the head mucky muck of the great hillsdale college he joins me too reveal what is really happening on campuses across the country. we will be right back. ♪ ♪. mark: welcome back to the special episode of "life, liberty & levin." earlier this year the privilege of speaking with my friend doctor larry is the present hills.college. hearing his insights into the ris

that comes to 49% of the state legislature.ate legislature. just seven years ago. >> it's not only notable that we're finally going to have about 50% of lawmakers being women, but that a lot of the women are women of color. and so we're seeing diversity on a number of levels now in the california state legislature with black, latina, asian women in addition to white women coming in and representing the public. and so it's not just gender diversity, it's also a very diverse batch of female legislators that have been elected. >> now, according to the center for american women and politics, only three states colorado, new mexico and nevada are projected to have 50% of women in state legislatures after the november election. >> the leaders of one city on the peninsula will meet today to take another look at a messy problem tied to a growing goose population. the foster city council is trying to figure out what to do with the birds and the mess they leave behind at a popular city park. many call all the goose poop a public health ha

nearly half of the seats in the entire legislature will be held by women. it's an amazing opportunity. i >> look at this building and i say, wow, i get to work in there and it gives me the chills and especially to be joining this historic last. it is amazing to be a woman in the state legislature for new republican state senator suzette martinez, valid heiress. tolls are not new. she served in the assembly for nearly 2 years from 2020 to 2022. and now is the santa clarita mother moved to the senate side. she's looking to the future and hoping to make a difference for fellow moms. so many issues and things that the state controls coming out of sacramento impact the daily lives of moms and having a voice here to say, hey, wait, what are we doing in education a week? how can we make things more affordable for families? >> actually produce ideas and bills to actually accomplish. todd. >> we need marta martinez. balderas is not the only new state senator with previous political experience. in fact, one of her colleagues on the democratic side of the aisle has ye

so our state legislature is convening january 15th or 14th, like paying attention. what happens there? again, of hitting that point of like i think some accountability of like our state? d.o.t. promises to something with public money. they do that thing. did it happen? did they traffic did they make our commutes easier like and that's the role of journalists right it's just is hold these our public agencies accountable to the public. i think the role of citizens to show up at at committee meetings meet with your elected officials to say, hey, all the evidence shows doesn't work. like, why are you still doing that we definitely have time for one more. we'll see how quickly it goes. but yes, i try to be quick. then i do show up. and so i just to megan's point, wanted to ask, she noticed in the environmental document for i-30 ef5 as it relates the homeless, there's september 28, 2023. there was actually a slide that actually said mitigation i-35 is to move the homeless over to southeast austin in the industrial area where we already have them. and so i didn't know if s

you see, the country's legislature could block yoon's martial law decree with a simple majority vote, but a hot, trans yoon's declaration banned political activities and he sent soldiers to the national assembly building, basically their capital, to enforce the ban and to block lawmakers from getting inside the building for a quorum, where they could have a vote. and so, what do you get? you get visuals like this, as a civilian protesters teamed up with those lawmakers, who rushed to the capital, to help them scale the capital building, and get inside to cast their votes. it was, as one commenter on social media put it, a reverse january 6th. right? breaking into the capital to vote to save democracy. working together to get the national assembly to vote to overrule martial law. and it worked. within three hours of yoon's speech, a quorum of lawmakers, i believe 190 of them, got into the building, they forced a vote to reject his martial law declaration. a unanimous vote, as the ap noted, all 190 lawmakers who participated in the vote supported lifting the martial law. immediately aft

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first elected to the legislature. and what we don't do matters.nd how much will it cost the taxpayers 12 answers to get the information i need to decide whether or not to support the bill or site should it make it to my desk. what will be the impact over the next generation effects will think it only target of the consequences a week from now or a year from now in the long-term consequence, 20 years and we not know the impact on our kids and grandkids. the consequences. we all have people in our lives we stop talking to and amended by the they are too far the other end of the political spectrum. no sense wasting words and we need to get over ourselves. republicans left. [applause] and lovely. we do not this, we are missing an opportunity. and way too conservative for a time. worked across the aisle. remain true to our supposed. the way that brings hope and optimism. in teddy roosevelt not in the still count of life and washington. the tenacity and values. in the founders will not exactly and the only legitimate way. if they do it, america will be

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nearly half of the seats in the entire legislature will be held by women.an amazing opportunity. i look at this building and i say, wow, i get to work in there and it gives me the chills and especially to be joining this historic last. it is amazing to be a woman in the state legislature for new republican state senator suzette martinez, valid tolls are not new. she served in the ansembly for nearly 2 years from 2020 to 2022. and now is the santa clarita mother moved to the senate side. she's looking to the future and hoping to make a difference for fellow moms. so many issues and things that the state controls coming out of sacramento impact the daily lives of moms and having a voice here to say, hey, wait, what are we doing in education a week? how can we make things more affordable for families? >> actually produce ideas and bills to actually accomplish. todd. >> we need marta martinez. balderas is not the only new state senator with previous political experience. in fact, one of her colleagues on the democratic side of the aisle has years of experience

nearly half of the seats in the entire legislature will be held by women.. i >> look at this building and i say, wow, i get to work in there and it gives me the chills and especially to be joining this historic last. it is amazing to be a woman in the state legislature for new republican state senator suzette martinez, valid heiress. tolls are not new. she served in the assembly for nearly 2 years from 2020 to 2022. and now is the santa clarita mother moved to the senate side. she's looking to the future and hoping to make a difference for fellow moms. so many issues and things that the state controls coming out of sacramento impact the daily lives of moms and having a voice here to say, hey, wait, what are we doing in education a how can we make things more affordable for families? >> actually produce ideas and bills to actually accomplish. todd. >> we need more of martinez balderas is not the only new state senator with previous political experience. in fact, one of her colleagues on the democratic side of the aisle has years of experience in public servi

and then the montana state legislature, which was the funnest job ever had. if not for term limits, i would probably still endeavor to be a state legislature. i had my share of successes and failures, but all these commitments taught me most importantly that you have two ea rs and one mouth, act accordingly. you are never right all the time and you are never wrong all the time so listen to what people are saying. these public influences taught me how to get stuff done. in other words, how to go to work and be a workhorse, not a show horse. then there were influences outside of politics. of course our family farm. it didn't take long for me to understand that democracies don't work when you have hungry people. and over the 47 years that charlotte and i have been on the farm, we have witnessed the challenges of consolidation in land and markets and influence. and an increased dependence by farmers on government subsidies. public education, a great foundation of our democracy, the great equalizer, the ability for us to have the american dream, taught me a lot. b

yeah, this will be one of the most diverse legislature's ever. it's all because of new members who will soon become very familiar with the halls inside there. >> the state capitol. >> it's a place of history and now the state legislature is making even more history as it welcomes newly elected lawmakers like sacramento, democratic assembly member maggy krell. the needs of the people in our community, our urgent. so i'm not interested in wasting any time trial of former state deputy attorney general and former chief legal counsel for planned parenthood is one of more than 30 new members elected to the legislature and she's part of a record. 58 women set to serve in the assembly and senate meeting for the first time ever. nearly half of the seats in the entire legislature will be held by women. it's an amazing opportunity. i >> look at this building and i say, wow, i get to work in there and it gives me the chills and especially to be joining this historic last. it is amazing to be a woman in the state legislature for new republican state senator s

nearly half of the seats in the entire legislature will be held by women. it's an amazing opportunity. i >> look at this building and i say, wow, i get to work in there and it gives me the chills and especially to be joining this historic last. it is amazing to be a woman in the state legislature for new republican state senator suzette martinez, valid heiress. tolls are not new. she served in the assembly for nearly 2 years from 2020 to 2022. and now is the santa clarita mother moved to the senate side. she's looking to the future and hoping to make a difference for fellow moms. so many issues and things that the state controls coming out of sacramento impact the daily lives of moms and having a voice here to say, hey, wait, what are we doing in education a how can we make things more affordable for families? >> actually produce ideas and bills to actually accomplish. todd. >> we need more of martinez balderas is not the only new state senator with previous political experience. in fact, one of her colleagues on the democratic side of the aisle has years o

legislature. to have about 50% of lawmakers being women, but that a lot of the women are women of color. and so we're seeing diversity on a number of levels now in the california state legislature with black, latina, asian women, in addition to white women coming in and representing the public. and so it's not just gender diversity. it's also a very diverse batch of female legislators that have been elected. >> according to the center for american women and politics, only three states colorado, new mexico and nevada, are projected to have 50% of women in state legislatures after november's election. >> 804 your time president biden is explaining to the american people his decision to pardon his son, hunter, despite repeatedly, repeatedly pledging he would not exert those powers. the pardon spares hunter biden from a possible prison sentence for federal felony gun and tax convictions in california and delaware. president biden issued a statement late last night saying he believes in the american ju

yeah, this will be one of the most diverse legislatures ever. and it's all because of new members who will soon become very familiar with the halls inside there. >> the state capitol. >> it's a place of history and now the state legislature is making even more history as it welcomes newly elected lawmakers like sacramento, democratic assembly member maggy krell. the needs of the people in our community, our urgent. so i'm not interested in wasting any time trial of former state deputy attorney general and former chief legal counsel for planned parenthood is one of more than 30 new members elected to the legislature and she's part of a record. 58 women set to serve in the assembly and senate meeting for the first time ever. nearly half of the seats in the entire legislature will be held by women. it's an amazing opportunity. i >> look at this building and i say, wow, i get to work in there and it gives me the chills and especially to be joining this historic last. it is amazing to be a woman in the state legislature for new republican state senat

the governor passed and the state legislature about a year and a half.two years ago, the care court was implemented at first in seven counties and is now rolling out in alameda county and across the state. so that was the first. second issues were around stalled housing projects and retail vacancies. and then the third issue was around our arts district. we have an amazing arts district, the berkeley rep, the freight and salvage aurora theater, bampfa, but they're all struggling. it's been difficult to get audiences back, and they need our support and state support. >> yeah. so how do you think that the state could come in and really help with those issues that you just outlined? yeah. >> so around homeless issues, we need more funding for large regional shelters. so i think hopefully with the legislature and the governor to fund some of these programs, there's a model program that we have visited the nevada cares campus, washoe county and reno 600 beds flexes to, i think, 684 with a high quality shelter and wraparound services with a stair step to trans

and the, the main opposition and democratic party which is in control of the legislature. mm hm. can we just take this back a couple of steps and can you just give us a bit of background, a bit of context with people that might no, no, no, the ins and outs of south korean politics. the just the political in finding that is being that has been going on over the last few months course. so south korea politically is deeply divided like many countries. so in the last presidential election that so the car and prize who used to be able take office. we have seen the electro and basically split in the middle when it came to supporting either him or the can do that all the main office issue on party. and since then, the president has suffered serious major setbacks related to scan those involving his wife. who has been accused of the multiple instances of corruption. and there has been a call from the legislature, of course, the opposition party demanding a special investigation of the extent to which is why such being influenced in state politics. to. instead, he has been intensifying hi

do you make the run for a seat in state legislature.hat were you thinking and how did your family react? this is not in the grand scheme of things that long ago and in the modern era when somebody runs for congress the spotlight hits their family, families business dealings and all sorts of things. >> host: i would say after my dad passed away within a year or two i had received some awards that they put me on people's radar. i was named south dakota's outstanding young farmer after dad passed and south dakota's outstanding young leader and at that time our us senator was tom daschle, the majority leader in the senate and was from south dakota and i was at a lot of his meetings. he ended up appointing me to a board that oversaw federal farm programs in the state so i was involved in policy and showing up with different people and people asked me to consider running for the state legislature. it is interesting. my family thought that is strange, nobody has done that before but in our state the legislature meets 40 days a year, you going

the country's legislature could block yoon's martial law with a single vote. he sent soldiers to the national assembly building, their capitol, to enforce the ban and block lawmakers from getting inside the building for a quorum where they could have a vote. what do you get? visuals like this. as civilian protesters teamed up with lawmakers who rushed to the capitol to help them scale the capitol building and get inside to cast their votes. it was, as one commentator put it, a reverse january 6. breaking into the lis smith vote to save democracy. working to get the national assembly to vote, to overrule martial law. it worked. within three hours of capitol speech, quorum of lawmakers got into the building, forced a vote to reject the martial law declaration. a unanimous vote as the ap noted. 190 lawmakers participated supported the lifting of martial law. immediately after that, television footage showed soldiers leaving the site. six hours after he declared martial law as the sun rose, yoon suk yeol back down. i'm bad. maybe not. he lifted his order. proteste

this is threaded throughout the statutory scheme because the legislature ite upfront that part of thenterest is ensuring that minors appe their sex and not become disdainful, as the judge put it, that they look and live like boys andls. that adds on an additional layer of sex classification and so far that it shows part of what the state was ting to do is ensuring that adolescents conform their bodies to the state's physical expectations of how males and females should appear. it is not at rprising to think that as a sex classification. >> you are saying the are embedded with each other, that sex stereotyping is built into our understandings of trans and sex classifications? or is this sort of more logica analysis that might be found in an opinion like bostock? >> i think those an'txclusive. exclusive. i think they are reinforcing here. i think this is an en sier sex classification than the one the court confronted in bostock or would con if the court is committed just on transgend status. the legislature put the classification into the face of the law, one that prohibits inconsistenc

the reason it doesn't look like a typical medical regulation is e the legislature was doing something different in trying to nors to appreciate their sex and not become disdainful. that is no medical based justificbut i think it shows exactly where the state -- why the state drew the line wheret did. finally,nk the court world consequences of laws like sb 1, nser its effects on ryan rowe. as justice sotomayor recognized, ryan's gender dysphoria was so severe that he was throwing up before school every day. he thought about going mute much distress.ice caused him so ryan has told the that getting these medications after a careful consultation process with his doctors and his parents has saved his life. his parents say he's now thvi but tennessee has come in and categorically cut off say this is about protectingey adolescent health, but this law harms ryan's health and the health of all other transgender adolesfor whom these medications are a necessity. in the state says it doesn't even want the courts to take a look at whether this protects adolescent health. but asonrian can't have th

they introduce the bill brought it forward in the legislature refused to accept it. that is what the debate should be around when you can detect that heartbeat. that's what we know there's a human being and a life and that is on the protection kicks in. >> governor do not mean to belabor this could you help define for me a little bit better where in the first trimester is abortion still legal? at what point in the first trimester does it become illegal? >> was suture between that woman and a doctor by this notification there. abortions are illegal as of today except to save the leg of the life of the mother. >> in response to criticism often from democrats. not only democrats south dakota law does not allow exceptions in cases of rape and incest. how do you respond to that? >> i think that will continue to be a debate for the people here in south dakota that are contingent to talk about that. for mee personally it is a difficult conversation because i know that this tragic situation that happens to women is terrific. i cannot evenad imagine. i have never had to go th

so our state legislature is convening january 15th or 14th. like, paying attention to what happens there. again, sort of hitting that point of like, i think some accountability of our state dot promises to do something with public money. they do that thing. did it happen? did it fix traffic? make our commutes easier? that's the role of journalists, is to hold these public agencies accountable to the public. i think our role as citizens is to show up at committee meetings to say all this evidence shows it doesn't work. why are you still doing that? >> we have time for one more. yes. >> i try to be quick. i do show up so i just to megan's point, wanted to ask if she noticed in the environmental document for i-35, as it relates to the homeless, there's september 28, 2023, there was a slide that actually said mitigation for i-35 is to move the homeless over to southeast austin in the industrial area where we already have them. so i didn't know if she saw that. but it's a deal between the governor and our mayor. $65 million to warehouse them there.

the state capitol. >> it's a place of history and now the state legislature is making even more hry

we shut that down when i got in the legislature, that period of time in our lives was ov >> and now, my name in the senate is over. by the way, every one of those time periods were wrapped around by my family and i in particular doing production on the family farm. now, i tell i expected to serve 12 years in this body when i got here. i jumped in feet first, but i realized in short order that this is a seniority-driven body. the longer you're here the more ability you have to get done for your state and your country, and i very much appreciate the time that montanans have allowed me to serve as their representative in the united states senate. in the end i was able to chair two major committees that have an incredibly large, in fact, the biggest impact on our united states' budget. the senate appropriations defense committee, subcommittee, and the senate veterans affairs committee. these are the two largest in the united states senate. in those committees in the united states senate as a whole i've been able to do some good things, long lasting things for montana and for the united s

i am a big believer in the legislature. we represent the people. we are the policy arm of government. i think it is important that we strengthen the legislative branch of government. we have challenges. we are too divided. another is the way we finance elections. another is the fact that we have certain powers as individual members and we don't respect the rights of the institution itself and filibuster. there are things we have to do to improve the legislative branch of government. one of the ways is working together and when we disagree, do it in a civil way. civility is missing and our politics today and something we really need to invest in. >> tell people how you made friends. how did you go about making friends in your senate career? >> i started making friends by getting voters to vote for me. it is part of our life. almost everyone that is here and elected to office want to do things that are good for their country, their stay, their community. so we have a common agenda. let's figure out a way in which we can achieve what we want to do. we

we shut that down when i got in the legislature, that period of time in our lives was over. and now my time in the senate is over. by the way, every one of those time periods were wrapped around by my family and i, my wife and i in particular, doing production agriculture on the family farm. i will tell you that i expected to serve 12 years in this body when i got here. i jumped in feet first but i realized in short order that this is a seniority-driven body. the longer you're here, the more ability you have to get done for your state and your cup. i very much -- country. i very much appreciate the time the montanans have allowed me to serve as their representative in the united states senate. in the end i was able to chair two major committees that have an incredibly large -- in fact the biggest impact on the united states' budget. the senate appropriations defense subcommittee and the senate veterans affairs committee. these are the two largest agencies from a funding standpoint in the united states senate. and those committees and the united states senate as a whole i've

state legislatures are deciding to change that. most recently in 2023, arizona legislature decided hey, we don't want to be subject to our public records law anymore. indiana has a weird law where they're technically subject to their public records law but their claims of privilege are -- courts can't determine whether they are correctly applied or not so they can basely do whatever they want. some states have broad definitions of what public bodies are otherwise, going back to arizona, other than this recent state legislature thing, after the really broad definition of what a public body is. it includes any public organization or agency supported in whole or in part by money from the state or any public political subdivision or expending money provided by any state or local subdivision. that's -- that's anything. there's quality governmental bodies. there's a lot of availability out there but you really have to take a look. one other thing that is pretty unique among states but is available some places is the idea of civil penalti

. >> tomorrow will be a historic day for the california state legislature. lawmakers in the state's history will take the oath of office. according to the nonprofit close the gap, california. a record high of 59 women will serve. that works out to 49% of the state legislature, and double the number of women who served just seven years ago. the center for american women and politics says female state legislators make up about one third of seats nationwide. political science professor melissa michelson with menlo college says this puts california ahead of most states in achieving gender equality in representation. >> i think it's not only notable that we're finally going to have about 50% of lawmakers being women, but that a lot of the women are women of color. and so we're seeing diversity on a number of levels now in the california state legislature with black, latina, asian women, in addition to white women coming in and representing the public. and so it's not just gender diversity. it's also a very diverse batch of female legislators that have been electe

when i joined the legislature 6 years ago, we were less than a quarter women in just 6 years. we've gotten to almost half which is an incredible incredible week for california. politically, republicans made inroads this election flipping at least one seat in each chamber from blue to red. >> but just as it was before the election, both houses will be made up of at least 2 thirds democrats officially giving them a super majority status. that significant because just by the map alone, the super majority status allows democrats to pass bills without having to reach across the aisle for republican support. >> clerk will open the role. >> speaking of bills, assembly speaker robert remus announcing he will limit the number of bills each member can introduce. he says he wants members to focus on cost of living issues. our constituents. they don't feel that the state of california is working for them. that's their lived. experience in this moment. so our task this session. and it's clear. we must chart a new path forward and renew the california by focusing on affordability. later, la

she is one of 59 women that will serve in the california state legislature, an all-time high. >> i am we are at that point in our state and i'm excited that i was part of that journey. we juggle multiple things whether it is motherhood or community service. >> women make up 49% of the overall legislature and will hold the majority in the state senate for the first time. susanna delano with the organization close the gap says the number of female legislatures has doubled in the last seven years. >> california will become one of only four other states who have reached or surpassed this in its chambers. >> analysts say it comes down to term limits approved by voters 12 years ago. >> term limits provide an opportunity for growth in our community. >> the one place where women have not yet been successful is in the governor's office. >> there is research to suggest that there is a particular barrier for women in these roles. >> but they say it is just a matter of time. >> it is really changing the perception of people that these are men's jobs. >>> it has been a busy weekend at the box offi

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