Most Influential: If animals could vote, Judie Mancuso would be president

It’s been 16 years since Judie Mancuso walked away from a lucrative tech job so she could dedicate her life to the politics of saving animals.
Since that switch, the Laguna Beach resident has spearheaded 36 bills aimed at making life better for non-humans, including 17 bills that have been signed into state law. Three of those new laws will take effect Jan. 1, following a record-setting run of legislation that led some in Sacramento to dub 2019 the “Year of the Animals.”
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