Update: Steve Hilton vows to abolish California DMV if elected governor

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The available account reports that republican calls department of motor vehicles a ‘bloated bureaucracy’ as he seeks to boost his longshot campaign The longshot California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton pledged this week to abolish the state’s department of motor vehicles if he is elected, promising to shutter the oft-criticized department for good and set a flat $73 annual registration fee per car. The report also notes that Hilton, a Trump-backed former conservative pundit running in reliably blue California, called the state’s DMV a “bloated bureaucracy”, during a Tuesday campaign event, echoing the Trump administration’s efforts to slash the federal workforce.

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