Ep. 274: What Insane Laws Did California Pass This Year?

[00:00:06] If you're a California conservative, a libertarian, a moderate Democrat, believe in common sense

[00:00:11] or just the sane person, this is the political podcast for you. It's the California Underground

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[00:00:27] What's going on everybody? Thanks for tuning into another episode of the California Underground

[00:00:31] Podcast. I'm your host Phil and as always with me my trusty co-host, the best, the

[00:00:35] fastest researcher in the West. Camille, how are you doing tonight Camille?

[00:00:39] I'm good. Thank you. How are you?

[00:00:41] Good. Been a hectic week. We just got off a three day weekend and anybody who knows, it's

[00:00:47] like when you have a three day weekend, it's the Tuesday can be worse than a normal Monday

[00:00:53] after a three day weekend. Just because like everything that was bottled up all of a sudden

[00:01:00] like comes like exploding on Tuesday. So it's like all the emails, everything's urgent.

[00:01:06] Like, oh my gosh, like it's Tuesday. We're already halfway through the week. So sometimes you get

[00:01:12] payback for that three day weekend in the form of a ton of emails that think they're important,

[00:01:18] but they're not really super important. But yeah, how was your three day?

[00:01:22] I didn't know if you worked yesterday or not. We barely spoke over the last few days,

[00:01:26] which is kind of weird because we often text. I mean, not like all the time, but we

[00:01:30] often said, you know, some random political tweet back and forth.

[00:01:33] Yeah, we had a enjoyable Labor Day weekend. Had some people over for barbecue at the new house,

[00:01:41] which is good because it was a good kick in the pants to get the house cleaned and

[00:01:46] organized finally. So I think it's finally after two months of like moving and cleaning

[00:01:51] up and everything. I think we're finally at the place where like, okay, this is it.

[00:01:55] This is the home now. Like everything's done. Office is all set up. Everything's all set

[00:01:59] up. So and everyone had a good time. Everyone was here. Good food. You probably had good

[00:02:06] weather right before this heat wave too. Yeah, it was actually it was actually really nice in

[00:02:13] Sandia. It was I mean, the sun was hot, but there was a really nice breeze. So it made a

[00:02:20] lot more enjoyable. Wasn't sweltering hot. But yeah. So anyway, enough about our Labor

[00:02:27] Day plans or whatever we did. Now we're gonna be talking more about Labor Day in a second

[00:02:32] tonight's episode, we're gonna be talking about all well not all of them. We're gonna be talking

[00:02:36] about a bunch of bills that are headed towards Gavin Newsom's desk and we can't go over all

[00:02:44] of them because there's like hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of bills that are

[00:02:47] going to Gavin Newsom's desk. 890. That's the specific number 890. That's a lot of

[00:02:53] bills to go through. Every single one of them I hope you all have time to be with us. This

[00:03:00] is a marathon episode we are going to be on here for five hours. Anyway, I would be going

[00:03:08] through them really quickly 895 hours. We're gonna be going through probably like not even

[00:03:14] 12. We're gonna go through the ones that kind of stuck out that were kind of highlighted

[00:03:18] by Cal Matters, which were probably the most interesting in terms of extremism in terms

[00:03:23] of wackiness in terms of lunacy in terms of like hey this is California. And the one thing

[00:03:30] I will say before we get into all of this, the one thing I will say that I was thinking

[00:03:35] about on the ride home when I was going over like okay so Cal Matters and you can go

[00:03:40] look this up go to CalMatters.org. Look it up they have a whole list of like

[00:03:44] all the bills. They do this every legislative session or at least the bills that are interesting.

[00:03:48] And there were a lot more bills that we were going through out of this article. So we highlighted

[00:03:54] and pared down from that list. And you think about you look at all these bills and you

[00:03:59] go there's one thing that I really feel like is missing from all of these bills. And

[00:04:05] it's kind of it's affordability. I feel like none of those bills address like

[00:04:11] I start laughing because I thought you're going a different direction.

[00:04:14] What are you what direction did you think?

[00:04:16] We'll go that direction soon so I will drink my water and shut up.

[00:04:22] Yeah, I just thought I was like I'm looking at all this stuff. I'm like, like none of

[00:04:26] those addresses any of the issues that are happening here in California that we're

[00:04:32] all struggling with. We do have what we'll save this for the end to end on a lighter

[00:04:39] note. But we have some important bills that are huge support by both parties in the

[00:04:45] legislature. But before we get started with that, we have started this new segment that

[00:04:51] we've called cringe moment of the week. And it was cringey Kamala. Well, it's back to

[00:04:57] cringey Kamala. She had a real cringe moment this past week. So we we play our little

[00:05:05] stinger and we played. Thank you Kamala. We did not fall out of a coconut tree. So this

[00:05:13] past week, if you don't know Kamala Harris has more accents and impressions than Dana

[00:05:19] Carvey. It's unbelievable. Like when you sit here and listen to her you go and I'll

[00:05:28] just play the video and we'll comment afterwards. I'm sure everyone's seen this

[00:05:31] already but we want to add our little two cents.

[00:05:44] Let's just get through the next 64 days.

[00:05:48] And you all helped us win in 2020 and we won't do it again in 2024. And I will tell

[00:05:57] you when we get this done together, my friend.

[00:06:00] And when I am president, I will take on the bad actors who exploit a crisis.

[00:06:09] So that was a video of her in Detroit. The first one was a video of her in

[00:06:13] Detroit and then there were subsequent videos of her in other places. I have

[00:06:18] learned thanks to the many experts on Twitter. This is called code switching.

[00:06:24] So code switching is where we're speaking to someone differently based

[00:06:28] on who your audience is. So you kind of change your tone in your voice.

[00:06:33] And I thought code switching was racist but thanks to the astute experts on X or

[00:06:41] Twitter or whatever you want to call it, code switching is completely normal

[00:06:44] and it's not to be considered racist now that Kamala Harris is doing it.

[00:06:48] Right. It was racist before. Yeah.

[00:06:51] It was racist to code switch before because it was a public and we're

[00:06:55] doing it. Yes. Yeah. I think there were people who were who were like, you know,

[00:06:59] Hillary Clinton was code switching. Like she was pandering to black voters by

[00:07:04] trying to add like a black accent, whatever that is or a southern accent.

[00:07:11] All in Harris is from Oakland, California.

[00:07:14] She's not Southern at all.

[00:07:19] They if you've never been Oakland, they do not have Southern accents in Oakland.

[00:07:24] I don't think there's any part of California where there's a Southern accent.

[00:07:27] But somehow she's developed the Southern accent and she goes to Detroit

[00:07:31] and speaks in this thick Southern accent.

[00:07:33] And it's almost like now the Southern accent is taking on a life of its own.

[00:07:38] It sounds like she's like a Southern Baptist preacher.

[00:07:42] She's kind of like, can I get an amen? Can I thank a union member?

[00:07:46] Thank a union member.

[00:07:47] And it's like, can I get a man? Hallelujah.

[00:07:50] Like that. I'm expecting an amen or a hallelujah pretty soon.

[00:07:53] The Church of Kamala Harris politics.

[00:07:56] Exactly. So that was the cringe moment of of this week from Kamala Harris.

[00:08:04] And it's the ending stinger up here in this cloud that exists above us.

[00:08:11] Thank you, Kamala. It is above us in this cloud.

[00:08:15] I'm going to embarrass myself when I say this, but so I have three sisters.

[00:08:21] One sister has a Gold Retriever and she bred it a few years ago.

[00:08:27] And then my other sister, two, well, two of us then got puppies from her.

[00:08:32] So three of us have Gold Retrievers.

[00:08:35] And I don't know why, but we started like to our kids.

[00:08:39] We started, you know, we would talk for the dog.

[00:08:44] And somehow it came out as Southern accents.

[00:08:46] Every time our dogs speak, it's in a Southern accent.

[00:08:49] I'm not going to do it.

[00:08:52] That was like our dog impression of if our dogs were speaking English.

[00:08:57] They weren't Southern accents, but I feel like that was safe.

[00:09:00] We were in our own homes with our dogs.

[00:09:02] We were not on the road trying to run for president.

[00:09:05] So you weren't code switching just for your dog.

[00:09:07] Everything I needed to know.

[00:09:09] You were like, what is wrong with you?

[00:09:12] Why do I know you?

[00:09:14] Why am I here? Go away, Camille.

[00:09:16] You, you were code switching for your dog.

[00:09:19] Maybe your dog appreciate the code switching.

[00:09:22] She probably did.

[00:09:23] Maybe the dog didn't think it was as racist.

[00:09:26] But anyway, you know, in honor of.

[00:09:32] Well, maybe he's like, like, OK, from Looney T.

[00:09:37] Next, in honor of Labor Day and in what Kamala Harris said

[00:09:41] about thanking a union member, I just want to take a moment

[00:09:44] and thank the unions here in California for ruining California.

[00:09:51] If you do not know, the unions are the biggest contributor

[00:09:55] to the California Democratic Party.

[00:09:59] By like a long shot, right?

[00:10:02] Like I'm going to pull up this screen right now.

[00:10:04] So this is from follow the money.org.

[00:10:06] You can go find this site.

[00:10:08] So if you go to the California Democratic Party,

[00:10:10] you literally just go up and be like top donors

[00:10:13] and let's just go down the list and let's thank a union member

[00:10:17] for donating to the California Democratic Party.

[00:10:19] Because at this point in California,

[00:10:21] if you're part of the union, you're just donating to the Democrats anyway.

[00:10:24] We got the California Teachers Association,

[00:10:26] the California Association Realtors Association of Hospitals and Health.

[00:10:30] Read out some of their numbers.

[00:10:32] The California Teachers Association,

[00:10:35] which we all know is the number one contributor

[00:10:37] to the California Democratic Party.

[00:10:39] Follies, Follies, Follies.

[00:10:42] Sorry.

[00:10:43] Twenty nine million donated to California Democrats Association.

[00:10:49] It's sorry. I'm sorry.

[00:10:50] Is that over the last year or five years, ten years?

[00:10:57] I probably should have figured that out before I.

[00:11:01] I don't know if it's over the past year or not.

[00:11:04] Let's see. Is it over the past year?

[00:11:05] It doesn't say specifically.

[00:11:08] 188 records.

[00:11:10] So OK, but anyway, so they've donated $29 million

[00:11:14] Association of Realtors, $14 million.

[00:11:18] California State Employees, local 1000,

[00:11:22] $6.6 million California Professional Firefighters Association,

[00:11:28] $6.3 million SEIU,

[00:11:31] $5.5 million State Building Construction Trades Council of

[00:11:36] California, $5.4 million California Correctional Peace

[00:11:41] Officers Association, $5 million Health Care Workers Local 250,

[00:11:46] $4.8 million California Cable and Telecommunications

[00:11:50] Association, $4.3 million and the list goes on and on and on.

[00:11:54] Assembly Democrat leadership, it just goes on and on and on.

[00:11:57] California State Association of Electrical Workers,

[00:11:59] $3.7 million.

[00:12:01] So you can thank a union member for the next time you wonder

[00:12:06] what the heck is wrong with California.

[00:12:08] It's the amount of money that unions absolutely dump into

[00:12:13] the California Democratic Party that gives them so much power

[00:12:16] and so much influence here in this state.

[00:12:19] And it's just you can't beat it.

[00:12:21] Unfortunately, until people start to wake up and realize

[00:12:25] that the unions just run California.

[00:12:28] So you can thank a union member in the words of Kamala Harris.

[00:12:33] Yeah, I'm going to pass on thinking them.

[00:12:35] Can I tell a very brief Labor Day story?

[00:12:38] Very brief.

[00:12:39] First story.

[00:12:40] I'm not going to get TMI, but so this this Tuesday

[00:12:43] this Thursday in two days, my youngest daughter turns 13.

[00:12:48] I will have all teenagers, four teenagers.

[00:12:54] So 2011, that's 13 years ago, 2011, Sunday night, the night before Labor Day.

[00:13:01] At exactly midnight, my contraction started and I looked at the clock.

[00:13:05] It was midnight and I typed some Facebook post, you know, cringe post

[00:13:11] as we did 10, 13, 15 years ago.

[00:13:13] And I said something like it's Labor Day.

[00:13:15] And then of course I woke up to a bunch of messages from people being like,

[00:13:18] but is it Labor Day?

[00:13:20] Yes, it was.

[00:13:21] I went into labor at exactly midnight on Labor Day and gave birth to my fourth term.

[00:13:26] Who will now be 13 in two days and I'm not OK.

[00:13:30] And that is for another episode.

[00:13:33] No, it's not.

[00:13:35] That's behind the paywall subscription.

[00:13:38] All right.

[00:13:39] So all these bills that we got to get to

[00:13:45] tonight will try to get through as many as possible.

[00:13:47] There's another story we want to get to at the end involving Newsom

[00:13:51] and being told to take his ball and go home.

[00:13:54] All right, quick overview of what's going on here.

[00:13:57] So if you don't know what's going on here and why we're doing an episode on this,

[00:14:01] the legislature finishes their legislative session in September

[00:14:08] and they have to get all their bills in by now.

[00:14:11] So they have to get them all passed by both houses

[00:14:14] and they have to get them passed and then they pass them off to the governor.

[00:14:19] So that's where we're at right now is they finished up the legislative session.

[00:14:23] There are a bunch of bills at the last minute.

[00:14:25] They were all figuring out whether or not they have money,

[00:14:28] whether they can go to the governor and then it goes to the governor.

[00:14:32] He has 12 days to sign it.

[00:14:35] So what about the days I thought he had till the end of September?

[00:14:38] I thought so too.

[00:14:39] But I did my little research, my little civics homework.

[00:14:42] It's 12 days that Governor Newsom has to sign when a bill shows up on his desk.

[00:14:46] So we're already three days into that.

[00:14:48] Yes, yes.

[00:14:50] OK, so he's already got a bunch of bills

[00:14:52] that he should get working on right now.

[00:14:55] So 12 days and he has three choices.

[00:14:57] He can sign it, which would mean it goes into law.

[00:15:01] He can approve without signing,

[00:15:06] which I don't necessarily know what that means.

[00:15:08] I guess he can just give it a thumbs up or thumbs down.

[00:15:11] And then it goes into law and all these mostly go into law January of next year.

[00:15:16] So January, 2025.

[00:15:19] And the third one is veto it.

[00:15:21] Now, if he vetoes it, it can go back to the legislature.

[00:15:25] It can be overturned by two thirds of both houses.

[00:15:28] So it can be a legislative veto now with the super majority of Democrats.

[00:15:32] It's quite possible that they could just say,

[00:15:34] we're not listening to you Newsom and we're going to do this anyway.

[00:15:38] But again, that means they'd actually have to come back

[00:15:40] and do more work, which rarely happens.

[00:15:44] The two thirds.

[00:15:45] Yeah, it rarely happens, even though they have the numbers

[00:15:48] for a lot of these bills, and I think that they could definitely do it

[00:15:51] probably for any bill that they want to.

[00:15:54] I just don't think that they want to come back.

[00:15:57] I think they enjoy the fact that they get all this time off again.

[00:16:01] Sure.

[00:16:03] And I just want to real quick say I was like watching Twitter

[00:16:07] as it was a TV show on Saturday.

[00:16:09] And it was a madhouse in those final hours.

[00:16:13] Yeah, and that I mean, that could be a whole different episode too.

[00:16:16] So I don't want to go off on that, but you should go check Twitter.

[00:16:20] Read what was happening.

[00:16:22] Yeah, a lot happens in the final hours because people are trying

[00:16:24] to get their bills passed and up to the governor.

[00:16:29] I was going to say something, but I completely forgot now.

[00:16:32] They silence Bill Saley.

[00:16:34] They literally took the time to vote to silence him.

[00:16:36] And then it was like you're silenced on the floor for the night.

[00:16:40] So that's not surprising.

[00:16:42] They never like what Bill Saley has to say anyway.

[00:16:44] That's because he usually calls them out and embarrasses them.

[00:16:47] Well, exactly.

[00:16:48] He was like calm and sense, and they were like, we don't have time for that.

[00:16:52] Oh, I remember what I was going to say.

[00:16:53] If you've been a fan of this show, you know my stance about state

[00:16:57] legislators is we should make them part time and they should be

[00:17:01] capped at five bills per legislator.

[00:17:05] I think that I don't think there's any reason.

[00:17:07] I don't think there's any reason why state legislators need to be a full time job.

[00:17:12] And but people say, oh, but what are they going to do for work?

[00:17:14] I don't know. Get a real job.

[00:17:16] Like sorry, like live the real world for your fast food is paying pretty good these days.

[00:17:21] Yeah, go get a fast food job.

[00:17:23] It's $27 an hour.

[00:17:24] Just went up again.

[00:17:25] I don't know. Maybe it did.

[00:17:27] They just keep up in it anyway.

[00:17:28] It's going to be like $100 an hour pretty soon and we won't have fast food.

[00:17:31] We're done with this podcast and we're done.

[00:17:34] All right, so let's hop into it.

[00:17:36] We'll get right off the bat.

[00:17:38] We're going to go super controversial reparations.

[00:17:43] Obviously reparations has been a big topic of discussion here in California.

[00:17:47] For some reason, California feels like they have to be at the front of

[00:17:50] reparations and passing laws for reparations.

[00:17:56] Why we were not a slave state when California was admitted.

[00:17:59] Never was a slave state.

[00:18:01] But California and its infamy wisdom decided this is what's really important.

[00:18:06] So lawmakers show up to critical pieces of reparations legislation,

[00:18:11] the final hours of the session,

[00:18:12] but sent 10 other reparation bills to the governor's desk.

[00:18:16] California legislative black caucus announced 14 priority reparation bills

[00:18:20] in January based on recommendations made last year by first in the

[00:18:24] nation reparations task force.

[00:18:26] The most significant bill, AB 3089,

[00:18:29] authored by assembly member Reggie Jones Sawyer,

[00:18:32] a Democrat from Los Angeles and task force member would require a formal

[00:18:36] apology from the state for perpetuating the harms African-Americans face

[00:18:40] from racial prejudice and unequal distribution of state and federal funding.

[00:18:46] So there is a video and I think we should take a little look at it

[00:18:49] based on the reaction.

[00:18:53] So I guess the point of this video is no good D goes unpunished

[00:18:58] when it comes to Democrats virtue signaling.

[00:19:00] They sent this out, they figured we're going to virtue signal about reparations.

[00:19:05] I guess they didn't really care about the result,

[00:19:07] but once you brought it up people were kind of expecting you to do something on it.

[00:19:12] So here's a video of some people who are very upset about what's going on

[00:19:17] with the reparations bills.

[00:19:19] So we'll take a look at that.

[00:19:23] The rate of bills that haven't passed yet were just minutes away until the California legislative session

[00:19:28] comes to a close.

[00:19:30] Both houses had fewer than 200 bills combined left to go through some of the bills dealing with reparations.

[00:19:38] AB 2010's Garsh Bostonga joining us live from the state capitol to explain more on this very busy day.

[00:19:44] We still see people behind you in the rotunda there.

[00:19:47] Sorry Paul.

[00:19:50] Yeah, Luke and this place is fun with this patient to try to figure out if what is the status of their bill.

[00:19:56] And we are officially less than an hour away until we find out what the results are going to be of all the bills that they haven't voted on.

[00:20:03] If it is passed, it is going to go to the governor's new sums office to see if he will sign or not.

[00:20:09] But if it doesn't, it is going to die on the house floor.

[00:20:12] So we're trying to figure that out.

[00:20:14] But the biggest buzz in this building were bills that weren't voted on like funding reparations.

[00:20:21] The final hours of the California legislative session kicking into overdrive as lawmakers try to get their bills approved on Sunday.

[00:20:30] Lawmakers passed landmark bills to make amends for racism.

[00:20:33] The proposal they approved allows for the return of land or compensation to families whose property was unfairly taken by the government.

[00:20:42] And an informal apology for laws and practices that haunt black people.

[00:20:46] But the buzz surrounding the reparation bills package was over what wasn't addressed, direct payments.

[00:20:52] We relate to foundation that those bills are critically important to stand up what reparations would be here in the state of California.

[00:20:59] State Senator Stephen Bradford authored SB 1403 aims to establish the California American Freedmen Affair Agency while SB 1331 funds reparations both were not voted on.

[00:21:13] We should have gotten into the governor's desk. He never signaled he would veto the bill.

[00:21:17] He just said he had some concerns as they have with many bills.

[00:21:21] So but that doesn't mean you don't move forward with the bills because, you know, you can fix them.

[00:21:25] The California legislative black caucus pulled the bill because it said the proposal needs more work.

[00:21:31] The bills that pass are not reparations. And apologies, not reparations.

[00:21:36] Chris Logison, a reparation activist with coalition for just and equitable California.

[00:21:41] The only bills today that even had a chance of being core reparations or to even get us to reparations are the bills that did not pass.

[00:21:49] It's one thing if we go for a vote and we lose. Oh, right.

[00:21:53] It's one thing if we go for a vote, we win and it gets to the governor's desk and the governor vetoes it.

[00:21:59] Supporters of the reparations say they're not giving up despite the setback.

[00:22:04] It has to happen if we were going to have meaningful reparations to the people who deserve it. We're 160 years overdue for this.

[00:22:15] And just a few hours ago, there was a glimmer of hope that those two bills that were not heard, they would be heard, but that hope quickly evaporated.

[00:22:23] So a lot of people that were protesting here disappointed with that outcome.

[00:22:27] Now another bill that we're keeping a close eye on is SB 1414.

[00:22:32] That would make it a felony to purchase a child for sex.

[00:22:35] That is what we're waiting on over this next hour to see how the house is going to vote.

[00:22:42] Okay. Also it's called the assembly, the houses in Congress.

[00:22:47] Anyway, fun fact for that reporter.

[00:22:49] So obviously if you weren't watching just listening on audio there were merchandise made up.

[00:22:56] I don't know if you caught that one guy had a hat and then it had a shirt as well that said cut the check.

[00:23:02] So obviously I think there was a lot of interest in cash payouts regarding reparations.

[00:23:10] And again, I don't want to get too far down this rabbit hole but why California feels the need to do this?

[00:23:19] It's not like it's going to set the bar and all of a sudden the rest of the country is going to go, oh gee, shocks.

[00:23:25] I guess we all have to pass reparations as well.

[00:23:29] It's kind of a weird thing that California is taking the lead on this when we were not a slave state.

[00:23:36] California was effectively, I mean America came in and waged war and took California from Mexico.

[00:23:45] So where is that reparation? I guess you could say.

[00:23:48] I was covering that up. Like if anybody's owed reparations from California, I feel like it's Mexico.

[00:23:55] Yeah, well Mrs. California Underground would agree as someone of Mexican descent.

[00:24:02] So the biggest thing that has been interesting about this, obviously I said people wanted to get paid for this.

[00:24:10] There's no money. There's no money to even fund the home loan program which we talked about and we're going to touch upon it a little bit.

[00:24:17] There's no money for it. So that's not obviously going to happen.

[00:24:22] There was one thing that I wanted to see give me one second.

[00:24:26] There was an argument for those that had property taken from eminent domain and I feel like that's a valid argument.

[00:24:34] However, is there even any sort of research or reporting on if eminent domain actually took more property from black people than they did other colors, other races?

[00:24:49] Maybe. I mean is it more from the Hispanic community? Is it more from the African American community?

[00:24:55] I honestly don't know and I've never seen anything on that.

[00:24:59] And definitely like I've disagreed with eminent domain since my mom explained to me when I was like, hey, I was like how could they do that?

[00:25:08] And so like I said, I do see the argument there is just that I don't think that that was ever a race thing.

[00:25:15] And maybe it was. Maybe I'm wrong, but I've never seen any argument of or reporting of like that racially blacks were targeted more than other races for eminent domain in California.

[00:25:27] Yeah.

[00:25:29] Yeah, I mean I think that's if they have a task force that is investigating it.

[00:25:35] It's nice to see the numbers. Maybe I need to read that report.

[00:25:38] No seriously, maybe I need to because I don't know.

[00:25:40] Yeah, I mean that would be a good question to answer is it was it disproportionate. This was the number I was looking for regarding.

[00:25:48] So a September poll of 6000 registered voters from UC Berkeley Institute of governmental studies found that only 23% supported reparations while 59% who opposed it.

[00:26:01] So there is a pretty large majority, even here in California where people are not in favor of cash reparations.

[00:26:13] And I think they're trying to pass all these other symbolic bills like the apology is one thing and I guess they're that you know the apology doesn't go far enough.

[00:26:23] But this was something else that was pretty interesting.

[00:26:26] I'm trying to find do do do do do do this upon when you have a ton of different tabs open.

[00:26:34] Anyway, so the gist of it was that basically what Newsom does on this reparations package can affect Kamala Harris and the presidential race, because what it will do is kind of reverberate from Newsom to her.

[00:26:53] In a sense that Democrats make a lot of promises.

[00:26:57] But then when rubber meets the road, they always back out.

[00:27:02] So I think Newsom's really in a hot spot right now he's kind of in a pickle where if he signs it, it's based on those numbers it's it's really unpopular to give away cash reparations.

[00:27:15] But if he doesn't sign it any vetoes it, then it's going to blow back on Kamala Harris and you know, based on what we know about the rift between Newsom and Kamala Harris.

[00:27:28] Maybe he wants it to blow back on Kamala Harris after she kind of shunned him at the DNC and stuff like that.

[00:27:33] So who knows it has national implications in terms of the presidential race because of I guess how black voters will view Democrats in the sense that they promise you the world and then at the end of the day they kind of go back on their word and they don't do anything.

[00:27:50] So these are the desk.

[00:27:52] These are the reparation bills that have already gone to the governor's desk 3089 which we've already discussed recognizes and apologizes for harms against African Americans committed by the state under the institution of the

[00:28:03] institution of chattel slavery and for the enduring legacy of systemic discrimination.

[00:28:08] How do you apologize for something you didn't do.

[00:28:12] And why are they not apologizing to like Chinese Americans who were on, you know working on the railway, like basically for nothing back in the day when they first came over.

[00:28:24] You know, like we've already said there's a number of other groups in California that could definitely bring up enough grievances also requires a plaque memorializing that apology be installed at the state Capitol Building Assembly Bill 3131 requires that local educational agencies

[00:28:39] receive certain education formula funding typically located within majority black and brown communities be given positive consideration for a career technical education initiative.

[00:28:51] Okay,

[00:28:52] Hey,

[00:28:53] it's not going to make you feel better if you believe that you are rightfully owed something for past sins of people gone by like you're legitimately outraged.

[00:29:05] And you think that like parts of your life are maybe not so good because of what people have done to your ancestors is a plaque going to cut it for you.

[00:29:14] No, and I think that's what that one gentleman was bringing up is like that the apology is not enough like that's and I guess that's sort of the issue.

[00:29:25] You know, I guess that's sort of the issue here that Democrats have on they've opened Pandora's box in the sense of they've gone down this road with reparations.

[00:29:34] And they've brought it up and they brought up bills and they've they've now passed some to the governor.

[00:29:43] And they're they're looking at like, Hey, you said reparations. We have a certain thing in mind of what reparations is.

[00:29:51] And now Democrats are kind of like backing away from it going, we I don't think we expected it to get this far so it's kind of like a whole task force for it.

[00:30:01] Yeah, but again, it's it's sort of those feel good virtue signal bills.

[00:30:05] It's stuff that California Democrats love to do, which is they pass these virtue signal bills that makes it seem like I'm part of the community.

[00:30:13] I get it.

[00:30:14] I understand you vote for us for the next election.

[00:30:16] Like, you know, there's no Republicans out there doing what we're doing.

[00:30:22] But I think now they've kind of it's getting away from them in the sense that now they're saying, OK, we have to vote on these bills and we have to give them to the governor and now Newsom has to do something about it.

[00:30:35] And we'll see where it lands and it could have a pretty bad blowback.

[00:30:39] So what are some other watch or couple to watch be very interesting to see what happens.

[00:30:46] Yeah. And since, you know, the clock is ticking on these already they've already been sent to the governor so he's got, you know, a little over a week to figure out what he wants to do with it.

[00:30:54] I'm sure 3089 will probably sign 3089 this last one 3131 Senate bill 1050 says lands taken by the government entity by racially motivated eminent domain must be returned to its owner or just financial compensation must be provided.

[00:31:12] I don't know about that one. That one.

[00:31:15] Yeah, I don't know how you do that freeway.

[00:31:19] Like, yeah, if there was land taken to like, build the five or the 405 or like something like that, like, are you going to take away the 405 or the five like and just pick up.

[00:31:32] Nope, there's no part of that freeway anymore.

[00:31:34] Well, I mean it's just financial compensation.

[00:31:38] The idea is that they would pay them out but there's no money to pay them out.

[00:31:42] There's nobody.

[00:31:44] Senate bill 81089 requires groceries and pharmacies to provide a written advance notice of closure to employees and the employee development department.

[00:31:54] At first when I read this, I apologize I read this and I was like, why would they have to provide notice that the store is closing?

[00:32:09] I was like, oh, if you work there and I had a real bad brain fart moment where I was like, I don't really get what that has to do with reparations.

[00:32:25] That's been a really good barbecue film.

[00:32:28] Yeah, it was really good.

[00:32:32] But yeah, I think the idea of a freeway is that if you work there and you have a lot of people who are not in the office, you have to have a lot of people who are not in the office.

[00:32:33] I read it and I was like, okay, sure.

[00:32:37] But I mean it's nice.

[00:32:39] I mean, I think it's nice for everybody to maybe have an idea of when a store is closing.

[00:32:43] It doesn't necessarily have to be just for reparations.

[00:32:46] But anyway, so those are the bills that are.

[00:32:48] We got to try to know those part of reparations.

[00:32:51] That's a.

[00:32:52] Yeah, I guess because one of the arguments is that a lot of grocery stores and pharmacies that employ African Americans in certain communities are closing and they close without notice to the employees.

[00:33:09] I mean, I figured there had to be a reason there was a bill but I was not aware of that.

[00:33:12] And I mean, I think that's fair.

[00:33:15] I don't know why they had to make it like a law.

[00:33:18] I mean, but I think it's fair of any business to notify its employees like I'm very sorry, but tomorrow next week, 10 days you're unemployed because we're closing.

[00:33:27] Yeah, why won't you just make it a law that any business that plans on closing or relocating and putting your job in jeopardy has to notify you as soon as possible.

[00:33:38] Like, I don't know why that has to be part of reparations, but there you go.

[00:33:41] So like you said, these are bills that we're definitely going to keep an eye on.

[00:33:46] Because I think it'll be interesting how it plays out in the national election if you're watching on YouTube or rumble, make sure to comment that's why we go live is so we can hear your guys's live feedback.

[00:33:58] All right, moving on this next one.

[00:34:03] There's gonna be a couple that we're just going to blip on real quick.

[00:34:07] This is the Vince Fong law that I'm calling it AB 1784 would stop candidates from seeking multiple offices by clarifying state law to prevent cancer filing papers for more than one office in a primary election.

[00:34:22] It also allows people to withdraw their canistery until the filing deadline which they currently can't do.

[00:34:28] I call this the Vince Fong law because Vince Fong, if you don't know he was an assembly member and then he there was an opening with Kevin McCarthy stepping down and he decided to run for his district in Congress.

[00:34:40] And California was like no wait a second, you're already on the primary for assembly you can't do both.

[00:34:47] They sued, he won now he's in Congress.

[00:34:52] And it was because they wouldn't allow him to pull the papers for his assembly run, right? Because there's like, it had passed the filing deadline or something like that.

[00:35:02] So he couldn't get both papers for running is that what it was?

[00:35:05] I thought it was he was already on the assembly ballot for the primary and then like Kevin McCarthy stepped down and then it was like, oh, this congressional seat just opened up.

[00:35:16] I'm going to run for that. And like he didn't abandon his or end his assembly campaign and just he did both like he was running for both Congress and assembly.

[00:35:27] So they were like, wait, you can't do that.

[00:35:29] So that's the Vince Fong law.

[00:35:31] So no longer you silly Republicans you can't run for two offices at the same time in a move that will certainly help you with affordability when it comes to housing or gas prices.

[00:35:45] They have passed a law that's headed to Governor Newsom that would let governments create entertainment zones where bars and restaurants can sell alcoholic beverages that people can drink on public streets and sidewalks starting January 1 cities

[00:35:58] could tailor these zones to fit their needs.

[00:36:01] Also, yeah, AB 1775 would legalize cannabis cafes in California cannabis lunges already exist in some places but they're limited to selling prepackaged food and drinks.

[00:36:12] And of course, you're right. This is Scott Weiner is the author of SB 969 which he's been a big fan of that he loves open containers and letting people drink out in the seats says the bill would help boost local businesses and quote make our cities more fun.

[00:36:32] Cool.

[00:36:32] So I'm sorry for being immature but why wouldn't his bill, not Scott Weiner's bill be 969.

[00:36:41] Sorry.

[00:36:43] It's just that is that's like a teenage boy reference.

[00:36:47] No, it's just it's just a Scott Weiner like it's like why wouldn't it.

[00:36:51] Why wouldn't it be 69 right.

[00:36:54] Yeah, so in case you're worried about how you're going to pay your mortgage or your rent this month or whether you're going to decide between filling up your car or paying for groceries.

[00:37:02] That's okay you can get high and drunk in the same place. So have at it California.

[00:37:11] Not that I'm judging not that I'm being you know, a prude or anything like that.

[00:37:14] Yeah, I was conflicted about my feelings on that one.

[00:37:20] I don't think it's bad for like, yeah, whatever if that's what we want to do and we want to make zones where people can walk around.

[00:37:29] Cool. But is it the most pressing issue of like our state legislature?

[00:37:36] Like is this not something that you could organize locally?

[00:37:41] I don't know. Like is there something that we need to be wasting state legislative resources on?

[00:37:47] Right. And then it just feels like because Scott Weiner also had that other bill that I believe passed and maybe we're going to talk about it the driving speed limit new cars will have to have the device in it that alerts you if you're driving over like 10 miles over the speed limit.

[00:38:06] I don't even know how that's going to work because speeds of its change from straight to whatever.

[00:38:10] But it's just like he's like safety, safety, safety. But also I want to make it easier for people to get high and drunk in public places for longer. And this is kind of funny.

[00:38:22] Yeah, it's he's worried about you know, safety in your car going over the speed limit, but he wants people he's encouraging people to drink and smoke more, which is one of the recorded opponents is the California Alcohol Policy Alliance.

[00:38:37] Alcohol Justice California Council on Alcohol Problems and Citizens for a Better Los Angeles. They say the bill could harm mixed use neighborhoods and contribute to rising alcohol mortality rates and drunk driving accidents so

[00:38:50] So those those alert devices aren't really going to be helpful in a drunk driving situation when someone's like I don't care. I mean if they're driving drunk they already

[00:39:00] didn't have the their their mind wasn't exactly an irrational place of like I'm drunk. I'm about to go drive and now my cars be being cool.

[00:39:09] Yeah, like I know that I can't remember which bill it specifically was.

[00:39:18] But I remember the original version he introduced it got watered down throughout the process was he wanted it. So the car would slow down.

[00:39:30] So like, yeah, and now it's kind of watered down for it's like, yeah, we'll we'll just beep at you like you're going over the speed limit.

[00:39:40] Okay, like that's not going to stop people from going over the speed limit. They're just gonna be like, okay, there's the speed limit gauge or whatever.

[00:39:49] I we were talking about this. I don't know if it that one passes because the technology isn't out there and the fact that the state would have to somehow come up with an infrastructure to do that and like monitor I don't know.

[00:40:04] It's one of again it's one of those feel good virtue signum bills where it's like, sounds great on paper sounds great when you're hanging out at the bar having a couple beers or in Scott Wainer's case, you know, outside on the sidewalk, you know having a beer and

[00:40:19] Here's everybody of the eggs. Remember the eggs we and they still like the prices will go up and down and then there's like a bird flu. And then it's harder to get eggs in California and everyone's like why are they $12 a dozen right now and

[00:40:46] like, you know a name. I'm just kidding but like you know they passed all the legislation of like how much space a chicken had to have and all that. And those are the only eggs that are allowed to be sold to California so then when there's like a bird flu.

[00:40:58] And then there's less birds laying eggs and all of a sudden like well California won't allow other eggs. And so I feel like that's like might happen with this car situation is like well we're only going to allow cars that do this this this this and this and you know how all these things and car manufacturers

[00:41:13] are just gonna be like screw it. We're gonna make 10 cars that have what you have and then we're gonna be like why are cars $200,000 well because California

[00:41:23] Yeah, because there's a limited supply. And the other example we were chatting about is guns and guns are a perfect analogous example where California comes down with these ridiculous laws about what guns should have and they should have this

[00:41:40] safety feature and they should have this stupid fin on it and they should like they keep adding all these safety features by again by people have no idea like how to operate a firearm anyway.

[00:41:52] And so a lot of gun manufacturers just go okay we're not going to make guns for you guys anymore like that's simply like the ironic thing about it is that they've added all these safety features that they think makes the gun safer.

[00:42:10] But a lot of the guns are like on the handgun roster are like two or three generations old and they're actually less safe than the current generation. Yes, we actually have something about that before when new son did his cute little I shot a musket and I'm like cool.

[00:42:28] Okay.

[00:42:29] Then I saw the AR 15 and I got scared around because it was automatically going to shoot me like okay do some calm down.

[00:42:36] I was shaking in my boots. Yeah, so I don't think that one passes if I had to guess. I just think new some does have a way of kind of hell veto stuff because he says like there's no real infrastructure or there's no money to invest in it.

[00:42:52] So I would imagine he probably vetoes that and then Scott Wiener will go through a temper tantrum on Twitter and you know blame Donald Trump and Maga Republicans or something.

[00:43:01] I don't know for sure. You know, whenever things go wrong you always blames product 25 did it. That's the new thing. It's not racism. It's just product 2025. It's like yeah project 2025 stopped his little governor speed limit thing. Okay.

[00:43:18] Ban plastic bags. This is a new law that has been sent to the governor SB 1053 would ban all plastic grocery bags in California.

[00:43:27] So customers would have to use paper or reusable bags effective January 1st 2026 voters approved a similar ban in 2016, but a loophole allowed for plastic bags that are thick enough to reuse.

[00:43:40] Those are good quality bags I like to reuse those bags.

[00:43:43] I'm always using those bags to

[00:43:48] They're great for like little mini trash bags, you know they're nice and thick. You need to throw something out but you don't need a huge garbage bag.

[00:43:56] This was authored by Senators Ben Allen and Catherine Blake Spear Democrats from El Segundo and Encinitas they wrote the bill to raise awareness of the current laws contribution to plastic pollution.

[00:44:08] And who's opposed to it opposition includes the American recyclable plastic bag alliance which says that according to a survey they conducted 60% of Californians are reusing plastic bags from the grocery store. See all of us are using it.

[00:44:22] I know we stash them like when we have them we stash them somewhere we do to reuse them.

[00:44:28] They also say that many reusable bags have a more negative impact on the environment than a currently legal plastic bags. Remember, I think we had one episode where we talked about like

[00:44:38] the reusable bags and like how much bacteria is like actually in your reusable bag.

[00:44:42] Yeah, it's kind of disgusting like how gross your because nobody ever washes their reusable bags they just keep putting stuff in there.

[00:44:50] That was like during COVID I think we were talking about that.

[00:44:52] Yeah, I thought they were like banned during COVID for because they did carry.

[00:44:57] I forget.

[00:44:58] Yeah, they carried a certain amount of like virus and bacteria and stuff.

[00:45:03] It's like, oh mold like we were running like spores of mold and stuff in these bags.

[00:45:07] Well I don't know what these people are doing with their bags.

[00:45:10] If you're getting mold in them.

[00:45:14] Anyway, again top priority for Californians banning plastic bags making undocumented immigrants eligible for home buyer and jobless aid.

[00:45:23] We're not going to go too far into this one. If you want the in depth on this one just go listen to last week's episode we did an entire episode on this.

[00:45:31] This was a B 1840 and then SB 227 requires the employment development department by next next March to come over the plan on how to give undocumented workers who lose their jobs access to unemployment benefits.

[00:45:46] Employers pay into the unemployment fund and expansion would likely need to be funded by the state.

[00:45:50] Gavin Newsom in 2022 vetoed a similar bill directing directly requiring the new program because lawmakers hadn't identified a funding source, which again would probably be the same excuse this time around.

[00:46:04] There's no money so I don't know where you're going to get money for unemployment benefits for undocumented citizens who's opposed to it.

[00:46:12] California Republicans argue that programs providing aid to undocumented residents act as a magnet for illegal immigration even as many Californians can't afford to buy houses.

[00:46:21] Elon Musk posted on his social media site that half of earth should move to California given all the incentives to do so.

[00:46:29] Yeah.

[00:46:30] Yeah, I mean if you keep giving away free stuff people will come.

[00:46:36] Let's see.

[00:46:38] This one's I don't know this one's kind of another feel good virtue signal this is SB 1047 by our favorite Scott Wiener require the makers of advanced artificial intelligence models to test their likelihood to cause critical harm to society.

[00:46:54] Okay, honestly don't have a good enough understanding of AI.

[00:46:58] Like okay I get that you can you know give it a writing prompt and it'll write your your paper for you speech whatever I get that you can get pretty decent looking photos made from it that that almost look real unless you start counting fingers but I otherwise don't understand what is so controversial about it.

[00:47:23] What it does like I really don't.

[00:47:25] I mean I guess they're I guess they're afraid of what it could do and if it's voices.

[00:47:34] Supposedly the big thing yeah I mean pictures are not like they look you see an AI picture like this is totally AI this is not real at all.

[00:47:44] I don't know it's all the boomers on Facebook though.

[00:47:48] Yeah, maybe that's you know I know Scott Wiener cared about the boomer so much good for you Scott Wiener.

[00:47:55] The boomers people are getting scammed by AI and I'm not like that's true you see them if you go on Facebook and they like repost it and you know the law of their comments see this is why blah blah blah blah blah blah and you're like that's no actually that person wasn't writing a whale.

[00:48:12] That didn't happen.

[00:48:14] I think AI is kind of entertaining in a way like AI images and stuff like that.

[00:48:22] There's a there's a never getting off topic but real quick there's an account on Tik Tok called the AI Bible which I actually find really entertaining because it like takes what the Bible says and they'll be like what you think of like what Jonah and the whale looked like and then they'd be like.

[00:48:41] Oh yes really what the Bible described it as and they have like the image of it and you're like whoa that's terrifying.

[00:48:48] I think my niece is a nephew so like my kids are kind of into that because we have a big family group chat and they'll send stuff and they'll be like what you think the book of Revelation is and they'll like be like an angel and then they'll be like but what it really is it's like something really dark and the kids are like all blown away and I'm like okay so it's not the boomers it's the kids.

[00:49:06] Yeah I mean it's just taking information from the Bible and putting it into an image but anyway.

[00:49:13] I guess that's important as well AI but this these two next topics we've talked about this a lot in terms of local control in California.

[00:49:25] And so a lot of localities we've talked about this regarding the parental notification bills.

[00:49:31] A lot of localities now are starting to say okay well we're not getting a word in edge wise in Sacramento so let's force the issues and a lot of conservative areas and if you look at a map the electoral map of California.

[00:49:46] There's a lot of conservative areas of California in fact there is a lot of red area in California so a lot of localities are starting to pass ordinances and pass laws that push back on progressive policies.

[00:49:59] Now Sacramento hates this they do not like the fact that you disagree with King Newsom or his kingdom.

[00:50:07] So now they're trying to stamp it all out and this next one is they are banning book bans in public libraries is AB 1825 by assembly member Ali Mara Mara Stushi.

[00:50:21] Sorry if I butchered your name.

[00:50:23] Yeah I knocked it out.

[00:50:25] I would have done it worse but that's why I'm not the one doing this.

[00:50:29] So a Lawrence Democrat would require public libraries in California to establish a clear policy for choosing books including a way for community members to voice their objections but would prohibit banning material because it deals with race or sexuality.

[00:50:43] It also clarifies that library material can include sexual content that's not obscene and leave to the discretion of librarians where to display those books though they could not prevent minors from checking them out.

[00:51:00] If they're sexual content they can't prevent them from checking them out.

[00:51:05] They get to choose where they display it and they can I'm sorry this just this is just one of those things where it's just they go a little bit too far like a minor can go check out a book with sexual content in it like that.

[00:51:23] Does that seem like something we should be doing in California is.

[00:51:27] Allowing children and minors to be checking out books with sexual content in it.

[00:51:31] Okay no we shouldn't but I believe so my daughter goes to the library a lot and so she checks out video games and I thought she couldn't check out like she's 16.

[00:51:44] Certain video games with their ratings for sexual content violence etc.

[00:51:52] Like she's not allowed to do that without an adult as far as I know I should check.

[00:51:58] Maybe I need to be watching what goes wrong.

[00:52:00] No I'm serious though I'm pretty sure this video game she's not allowed to check out.

[00:52:04] That 16 but the books would be okay.

[00:52:10] Yeah most they I know they have video games and maybe I'm dating myself I don't know what the rating system is anymore.

[00:52:16] But I think there's like they put an M on video games like it's a certain age like yeah you have to be like over 18 or 17 to play these video games.

[00:52:26] Like M was for 17 and older.

[00:52:29] Yeah should be 17 soon enough but not that I want her checking those out.

[00:52:35] I'm just saying so yeah I just that's where I always get kind of like I know it's hard to be consistent with everything but I'm always like I don't there's no real reason.

[00:52:46] There's no consistency here in what we're doing.

[00:52:49] We want to ban this ingredient but not this one but yet this one's worse for you we want to make driving safer but we want to also make it easier for you to be drunk in public.

[00:53:00] I just wears that's where I get so confused and then.

[00:53:06] Yeah go ahead.

[00:53:07] Well okay so like she maybe couldn't check or she would be allowed to check this book out but it's in the library anyway where she could sit in the library and read it.

[00:53:17] Yeah I just I'm just confused.

[00:53:22] It's the Nanny State mentality.

[00:53:25] It's the Bay Area Nanny State mentality where people like Scott Wiener Matt Heaney and all these Democrats think that like they need to run your life for you.

[00:53:37] Because this is their life like they think because they live in this tiny little area of the Bay Area and you know you think about the Bay Area is a tiny part of California yet for some reason it imposes the most political will on us and it's just this Nanny State where they're like well we think you should not speed.

[00:53:58] Okay but we also think you should drink and get high in public. Also we think that kids should be reading sexually explicit content in in public libraries and be able to check it out because why not.

[00:54:11] Like we know what's best for your kids.

[00:54:13] Yeah we also think that school employees shouldn't tell parents about like gender affirming or you know it's just like they live this mantra like we know better than you and we want to run a life for you.

[00:54:24] And they're really encouraging kind of like bad decisions and but then here's the thing is that my daughter can't get a she couldn't get a library card on her own.

[00:54:35] She needed an adult to sign for her to get a library card.

[00:54:38] But she can check out.

[00:54:40] But now that she has that I guess we by saying that it's like here's free range to read whatever you want.

[00:54:47] Priorities.

[00:54:47] But then on the other hand on the other hand.

[00:54:51] Okay it's for me as a parent to watch her and what is she reading and checking out and playing video games like maybe not the library.

[00:55:00] So that's where it's almost kind of anti Nanny State is it's like it's not the library's job to make sure that she's reading age appropriate content or her maturity level content or whatever that's my job.

[00:55:13] Yeah but kids can be sneaky.

[00:55:16] Oh absolutely.

[00:55:17] You know my minor perfect.

[00:55:20] I'm kidding.

[00:55:22] Go to the library.

[00:55:24] They could check out a book.

[00:55:26] Read the sexual content and then check the book back in and they never have to take it home.

[00:55:31] So yeah absolutely.

[00:55:35] They can still be exposed to it outside of the parental.

[00:55:37] So that's where I mean it is a job a parent's job to parent.

[00:55:43] But I don't know why we want to make it easier for them to access these things and then.

[00:55:52] Yeah that's what that's what I don't get.

[00:55:54] It's just like why are we continually see making it easier for them to do things behind their parents back like we're encouraging.

[00:56:00] Because every time I have to speak up because I am a parent.

[00:56:06] Because I'm not a perfect parent.

[00:56:08] Go on.

[00:56:09] You know how to parent your children better than you do.

[00:56:12] I know they do.

[00:56:14] That's the bottom line.

[00:56:16] Next bill that tries to stamp out local control is SB 1174 is by Senator Dave Min.

[00:56:25] A Democrat from Irvine would ban local governments from requiring voters to present identification to vote.

[00:56:30] The bill attempts to push back against the charter provision passed by voters in Honey and Beach that supporter said would prevent voter fraud.

[00:56:38] Min said quote an overwhelming body of evidence proves our elections are safe secure and above board end quote.

[00:56:46] In April attorney General Rob Bonta and Secretary of State Shirley Weber filed a lawsuit against the city of Honey and Beach alleging that voter idea requirement is in conflict with state law.

[00:56:57] That lawsuit is pending.

[00:56:59] All right.

[00:57:00] So yeah that's another example of them stamping out local control.

[00:57:04] I kind of like the fact that they they're doing it this way.

[00:57:07] I think keep doing it conservative areas of California.

[00:57:11] Keep you know Rubin Sacramento's nose in it.

[00:57:14] Make them take a stance on it and push the issue.

[00:57:19] Right now I want to go back to the library issue and I don't think you know the answer to this but now I'm curious our live public libraries funded by the county city or state.

[00:57:29] I get that it's all taxes but now it's like because now I want to like go to my mayor to our camp.

[00:57:35] Who we had on the show last year.

[00:57:38] Like I want to be like hey what are we going to do to push back against us.

[00:57:43] Your bullet is very conservative.

[00:57:45] Yeah.

[00:57:46] I don't know.

[00:57:47] Now I need to go find out.

[00:57:51] That's yeah the next question is I think it's a combination of everything.

[00:57:58] Because there's because not every city has a library.

[00:58:01] No and there's counties like here in San Diego we have our city library system but we also have like the county library system.

[00:58:11] So maybe it's counting I think it might be a combination of all of them.

[00:58:16] But yeah ask ask Tara and then we'll figure that out.

[00:58:21] That's a good question.

[00:58:22] Sorry.

[00:58:22] That's a great question.

[00:58:23] Not for the show I just not for this show.

[00:58:27] All right.

[00:58:30] Rounding out on a lighter note you know outside of Democrats and Sacramento crushing any local control adding folic acid to tortillas.

[00:58:43] And that's what we're going to do.

[00:58:44] And the next question is a B 18 30 by assembly member walking a rambula same guy who also wants to give out home loans to illegal immigrants.

[00:58:53] He wants to make pregnancies healthier by requiring that manufacturers of corn masa at folic acid to their products starting 2026 corn masa is used to make tortillas corn chips and other foods the federal government already requires folic acid in rich grain products including cereals breads pasta and rice.

[00:59:13] And that's a point seven milligrams of folic acid in every pound of masa flour.

[00:59:19] Though the legislative process the bill was amended to make exemptions for small businesses and restaurants which often make their own corn masa and tortillas.

[00:59:28] Now anyone knows especially down here in San Diego the best places to get tortillas are from all the small businesses the mom and pop places like you could go to the grocery store and get tortillas.

[00:59:42] That's why people do that.

[00:59:44] But at the end of the day like you're getting the best ones from a small business you're not going to Ralph's and picking up you know right mission whatever.

[00:59:53] Mission sucks.

[00:59:56] So I don't again top priorities for California and to round it all out.

[01:00:02] Wait I have to say something on that because I just just searched.

[01:00:07] Now I did I had not heard about the tortilla one before that made me laugh because when I eat a bean cheese burrito a taco pasta.

[01:00:17] I'm not like this is healthy.

[01:00:19] Okay. Like I'm not doing I know this but I just Google can you overdose which isn't really the proper term but on full folic acid and yes you actually shouldn't get dices.

[01:00:33] Doses higher than one milligram daily may be unsafe.

[01:00:37] They can cause upset stomach nausea diarrhea irritability confusion behavior changes skin reactions seizures and other side effects.

[01:00:46] So like what if you're a pregnant woman and because pregnant women are encouraged to take folic acid and then you eat these tortillas that now have extra and you like you don't even know and now you're overdosing on folic acid.

[01:01:00] I just have to bring that up.

[01:01:03] Yeah kids take those Flintstone vitamins because they tell you if you like because I've been pregnant multiple times.

[01:01:10] They tell you like oh if you can't handle the prenatal vitamins which have folic acid and then they're like because some people nausea or morning sickness whatever it'll make you sick or they're like if you can't do it just take Flintstone vitamins.

[01:01:24] Okay which that's actually a lie don't do that.

[01:01:26] But let's say your kids you give them the Flintstone vitamins because you think you're doing a good job giving them that little sugar pill.

[01:01:32] It's kind of it but like I think that there's maybe there's not folic acid in that I know that's like an iron thing but I'm just saying like why do we need to add it and that's that was not the point of tonight's podcast and we just hit an hour going off about this but okay this is dumb this is really dumb and there was no thinking about this of like is this actually good or bad.

[01:01:57] It's not a good idea.

[01:01:59] Yeah I again I think if you're and I imagine that this assembly member Ramila is doing this because he's looking out for the Hispanic or Latino community.

[01:02:10] I think if you went to most Latinos here in California and said where do you buy your tortillas they're not buying them at Ralph's or the grocery store so they probably know someone that they're getting them fresh from.

[01:02:26] Or they're making them or their boilers making them.

[01:02:30] Like it's so again it's that feel good virtue signal thing and then maybe we have an issue of people who make like the tortillas like on a broad scale just go like I'm not going to do that I'm not going to add that much folic acid because I'm not changing my product just for California.

[01:02:48] All right to round it all off on a lighter note again for all those worrying out there about whether you can pay your mortgage or your rent or you have to decide between filling up your gas tank or buying groceries for your family.

[01:03:05] Do not fear because the California legislature has solved all your problems.

[01:03:10] AB 1850 will be naming an official state slug your welcome California it will be the banana slug.

[01:03:21] So there you go these are the priorities of our California legislature before you you before you thank them for caring so much about Californians and what's important.

[01:03:32] Just remember they voted in an official banana slug as our state slug.

[01:03:37] What if you think it was it will never win Santa Cruz ever again.

[01:03:42] Now you told me not to worry about now my biggest concern it's going to keep me up at night until I know what a few symptoms this and then but

[01:03:52] where do we go from here.

[01:03:53] He'll never be able to show his face in Santa Cruz ever again because that's who introduced it was Gail Petrin assembly member Gail Pellerin a Santa Cruz Democrat.

[01:04:04] She introduced it.

[01:04:06] I need to know more about her.

[01:04:08] This is this is this is some unhealthy thinking.

[01:04:11] There you go.

[01:04:12] This is concerning an official.

[01:04:15] We have an official slug ladies and gentlemen don't worry all of our problems are solved.

[01:04:21] These are the priorities of California in the legislature.

[01:04:24] The banana slug the banana slug final thing that we need to get into really quickly.

[01:04:30] We had a video and everything but we'll just go through it really quickly.

[01:04:33] Governor Newsom had his own ideas for what the legislature should do before it ended for the session.

[01:04:42] He wanted to call a special session on gas prices if you don't know or if you are listening you haven't been paying attention.

[01:04:49] Governor Newsom has waged this like Don Quixote like crusade against the oil and gas companies here in California thinking that if he just takes them on and gets real tough gas prices in California will somehow magically drop.

[01:05:07] And it's all that price gouging by those mean oil and gas companies just in California.

[01:05:11] This is like his annual like crisis.

[01:05:14] Yeah every year like I'm going to defeat that and then he like does this whole thing and then nothing happens.

[01:05:21] So he waited till the last minute because he was probably too busy out there campaigning for Joe Biden home for a while.

[01:05:28] He's been out you know on the campaign trail.

[01:05:31] So he got back and now he wants to do a special legislative session.

[01:05:35] So the governor under the California Constitution can call a special session meaning he can call the legislature back and they have to come back by law which makes this kind of interesting because by law they do have to reconvene if the governor calls it.

[01:05:48] But the answer from the state senate pro temp Mike McGuire was quote the Senate Democrat caucus is a hundred percent united that we're not going to come back for a special session.

[01:06:00] Pound saying Gavin Newsom we don't care that you call a special session.

[01:06:05] They asked McGuire if the Senate was violating the law by refusing to meet McGuire said I think that's hogwash.

[01:06:13] He told reporters that Senate would not gather for a special session because the governor governor's proposal has the votes in the Senate.

[01:06:19] I know how to whip votes McGuire said this is not disparaging anyone and then the assembly was they said we need more time.

[01:06:30] Revis speaker of the House Revis said it's our constitutional obligation to answer the call to ensure we dig into this work and we find solutions and bring some relief to hardworking Californians.

[01:06:41] And then a state senator Scott Wilkes said the pro temp is protecting his members from casting stupid votes prior to the election.

[01:06:49] Well calling it like it is.

[01:06:51] So this is the interesting part of this is this has never happened before in California history where the governor has called a special session and the legislature basically gives him the middle finger and says we're out.

[01:07:04] We don't care like we're not coming back.

[01:07:08] And as far as they know there's like no enforcement mechanism I guess they can go to court.

[01:07:13] I guess Governor Newsom can go to court and get a rift mandate to like get the legislature to come back.

[01:07:20] But how do you get all those members to come back and what if they don't comply like it's does it look I don't know does it look really bad on Newsom's part if he's suing his members of his own legislature to come back and do what he wants them to do.

[01:07:35] So.

[01:07:36] So what are the thoughts about this like I know they say the reason is like the Senate said we we have the votes.

[01:07:43] This isn't necessary but I feel like there's more at play here and maybe.

[01:07:48] I mean I think maybe they just are like look you we've been in session for months on end now you could have come to us with a package you could have negotiated with us.

[01:07:59] Like we're here.

[01:08:00] We're ready to tackle this issue like it's not like these Democrats are not it's not like they're opposed to what he's trying to do.

[01:08:07] They obviously want to score points by taking on oil and gas.

[01:08:12] But I think they're kind of just rubbing their thumb in their nose at him by saying like you waited till literally the last minute like we're out like we're all done like this is the analogous leave session.

[01:08:26] Bye like see you later.

[01:08:27] Like and maybe Newsom's losing some of his cash.

[01:08:30] Maybe he's losing some of his sway.

[01:08:32] Maybe this.

[01:08:33] I was wondering I know it's early but are they already like treating him like a lame duck.

[01:08:39] It's just like you're not going to be here in a couple years so we don't care to comply with you anymore because because I mean we've heard that Newsom and and like I don't know probably the most far away.

[01:08:54] Left leaning tend to be bullies to get everyone else on board with their policies and I'm wondering if our ones just like we're not doing this anymore.

[01:09:01] We're not picking up your slack.

[01:09:04] And then sorry.

[01:09:06] I know we're past time but this this session he wanted he wanted to make sure that we had reserves oil reserves was one thing but I don't know that he necessarily wants to tackle like the real reasons that our gases.

[01:09:20] I think a dollar or more or above the national average or something like he doesn't want to actually admit like we're taxing the people of California like crazy.

[01:09:31] So I don't know that he was even going to address lowering the gas tax which would you know if if they actually did that that would could significantly lower our gas prices.

[01:09:40] Yeah I maybe they maybe his stature has changed.

[01:09:45] He's not the rising star he was Joe Biden.

[01:09:49] He hitched his wagon to the wrong star like yeah I mean he's gone in two years so maybe they're just like yeah we're just going to do it without you.

[01:09:58] You were out busy campaigning doing national stuff thinking you were you know the heir apparent the golden boy.

[01:10:08] So it is interesting this will be an interesting standoff to see if Newsom is really that like gung-ho on it that he's actually going to sue the legislature to come in and like they have to comply.

[01:10:20] I bet he won't.

[01:10:21] I bet this was another virtue signaling.

[01:10:24] Yeah I mean it's one of those things where he can say I call the special session but no one showed up and it's like well you're the governor like they actually do have to show up so what did you do about it.

[01:10:34] Right.

[01:10:34] You didn't do anything you kind of like back down and chickened out.

[01:10:37] All talk no action.

[01:10:39] Yeah which is sort of the theme of a lot of the bills we went over tonight.

[01:10:44] A lot of talk in no action and nothing of substance so there you have it that was just a small small preview of the bills that I had to go over to Newsom's desk.

[01:10:57] There was a lot there.

[01:10:59] I mean you can go do your research yourself go to CalMatters.org they have a whole list of the highlighted bills they don't have every single bill but they have bills that you can definitely check out that they did an extensive amount of research on.

[01:11:11] But yeah I think there's you know there's a handful there that will probably get shot down.

[01:11:17] It might be interesting to see if Newsom takes this personally.

[01:11:24] If maybe he gets a little petty because the legislature gave him the middle finger in left town.

[01:11:31] Maybe he gets a little petty and starts to you know start vetoing stuff.

[01:11:37] Who knows maybe there's going to be some drama in Sacramento between Newsom and the Democrats and the legislature.

[01:11:43] So I guess we're going to find out in the next week or so what what happened.

[01:11:48] Any final thoughts on any of the bills before we sign off for the night.

[01:11:52] I'm just excited about the slug.

[01:11:55] Here we go.

[01:11:58] How many other states can say they have an official slug not many.

[01:12:03] It's like we're leading the way.

[01:12:06] Milkshake date shake milkshake.

[01:12:08] I tell you does Texas have that.

[01:12:10] I don't think so.

[01:12:12] You'll find that in a small town.

[01:12:14] Yeah take that Texas in Florida we got an official slug but anyway.

[01:12:20] So yeah I recommend I mean there's still 12 days if you want to call up Gavin Newsom's office you can any of these bills that are very offensive to you or you think like you want to have your voice heard you can call his office now is the time so if you want to go call his office.

[01:12:35] There's a number out there somewhere you can go find I'm sure you can just Google it.

[01:12:39] But if enough people call up and tell him we don't like this he might actually listen to you so.

[01:12:46] I have a comment a question.

[01:12:49] Okay so if he signs the slug into law does that make it a protected animal like I don't we don't have banana slugs here but they're common in the redwoods and stuff and I'm just I'm actually visiting the redwoods in a couple weeks and what if I step on one and kill it.

[01:13:05] I don't know maybe.

[01:13:07] That sounds very violent but I'm just wondering just by accident you can walk along and I'm like oh no I hope there's no cameras nobody saw that nobody heard that right.

[01:13:18] I don't know it does I would have become a protected species if you're the.

[01:13:23] Isn't it like illegal to pick random poppies now.

[01:13:27] I don't know.

[01:13:28] Yes I'm sorry that's really important but yeah there was a there was a time when I was in college I had to get my life sciences requirement in and it was the last like my last semester of college is called California flora.

[01:13:45] It was all about like the flowers of California and I was like this should be pretty easy.

[01:13:49] It's not very easy California flowers are there's a lot and it's very hard and part of it was we had to go on a field trip out to Death Valley.

[01:13:58] And we would collect a bunch of flowers and I guess you there was a way to like press them down and like you could preserve the flowers and then like note take them anyway.

[01:14:09] So they're like OK we're gonna stop here you guys can go out and start collecting your flowers and I was walking up on a hill and I was like hey look at these flowers they're really pretty and I start going to pick one and my teacher starts yelling no stop don't pick those.

[01:14:24] I was like why I don't get it and they're like their poppies are illegal to pick.

[01:14:30] And I just paused and I was like I'm from Jersey and then that was the end of it.

[01:14:35] They were like it's OK you didn't know that poppies were illegal to pick because you're from New Jersey anyway on that note.

[01:14:45] Next week I will be off next week because of work related issues going to trial and that's a big deal.

[01:14:55] I'm not going to trial personally I'm not on trial part of my job is to go to trial but anyway so we're off next week and we'll be back rounding out the proposition stuff like that and yeah it's a mad dash until November.

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