On this episode we are joined by State Senator Brian Dahle who is the Republican Candidate for Governor in California this fall against Gavin Newsom. We discuss his start in politics, energy issues, inflation, and what agencies he would abolish or severely reform.
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If you're a California, conservative a Libertarian, a
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moderate Democrat. Believe in common sense or just
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the same person. This is the political podcast
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for you. It's the California underground
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podcast. Welcome everybody to another
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episode of California underground.
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We have with us here tonight, a huge guest.
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Take senorbrian Dolly running for governor of California.
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The entire State, not just you know he's ready for the biggest
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state. One of the biggest states in the
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entire country. Very excited to have them on.
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He is the Republican candidate running against Gavin Newsom in
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this race one-on-one. No recall, no 30.
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People know what Joker's coming out of the Woodworks?
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He's the real deal. He's here.
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He's running against Gavin. Newsom, very lucky to have him
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on tonight and we're going to have a full show.
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Asking them. Lots of questions about policy,
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thoughts on California, and yeah, Senator welcome to the
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show. How are you tonight?
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I'm great. Thanks Phil for having me on.
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Cynthia, could just get to see your smiling face.
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Yeah, we are out on the campaign Trail.
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So it's awesome with technology where we can just throw up an
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iPad and be able to talk to, you know, possibly thousands of
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people. It's awesome.
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I love it. And I'm glad you got the
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opportunity to connect. Yeah.
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So are we and that's how we like to do it and Cynthia, my trusty
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Cohoes, welcome, how are you doing tonight?
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I'm doing great Senator. Thank you so much for taking the
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time. I know, you know, it's I was
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busy with the session and then, you know, being on the campaign
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Trail. It's really no joke.
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Full disclosure, I have a state party delegate and I voted for
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you to get the endorsement party.
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So yeah. And we actually, I work for Dan
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home. So, you know, met you, you know,
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while you're on the campaign Trail before the primary, so
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really great to see you again we're very blessed to have you
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and we're excited to you know, for our audience to get to know
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you. Well thanks for your help and
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Convention. It was obviously something that
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hasn't happened in a long time. Since Meg Whitman and so it was
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a historic moment, really helped me get through the primary,
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appreciate it. Thank you.
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So you've been in politics for a long time and us down here in
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Southern California. I'm going to jump right into a
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lot of people who I know down here in Southern California,
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said, who's Brian Dolly? So why don't we start there?
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I know there's a good story about a pickle jar and your
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grandfather, so why don't we just got out and let people know
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who you are, where you came from and how you kind of got started
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and politics. Well, so the dollies came to
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California in the Great Depression.
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My grandfather actually came to Looking for a job 1929 and he
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was started out in La. He didn't find any work and it
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up up. North had an uncle in Shasta
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County, went to visit him. They said, hey you're a veteran
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of World War One veteran, they're giving out land grants.
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In Siskiyou County, you should go up and see if you can get a
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piece of land. So he did go up there, he put
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his name in a pickle jar, they drew his name out, and our
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family received an 80-acre Homestead into Lake California
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in 1929. He paid the taxes.
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Built a One room house moved, his wife, then and two children
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into the home and pay and we got the land.
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So we had we had that land for. So that was our start in
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California. We bought some land in Lassen
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County in 1942. And so, we've been farming in
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California for 92 years, Franklin, Roosevelt signed the
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deed to the property. After we pay the taxes, I have a
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copy of that, it's pretty cool. But I got in politics.
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Talk about were Brian Daly. Started out so high school
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education. Very involved in my community at
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work instruction and did a lot of things when I was younger,
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but I ran for the Board of Supervisors, in my County, at
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the age of 29 actually took office.
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When I was 30 served, 16 years On The Board of Supervisors, I
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left our County to run for the assembly in 2011.
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When I left my County, it was completely debt-free, our
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pensions were funded, we owned everything.
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It was pretty neat. It's very rare that that
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happens. Most counties.
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A lot of bond debt or pitching debt.
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So it would run it for this. People said you should run for
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higher office. I'm a farmer.
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I should say that. I farmed that all time.
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I have a seed business, we raised cereal grains for seed
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wheat, barley oats Rye peas. It's certified organic and we
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sell to other Farmers. My son all of a sudden Chase is
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running our farm right now and our business for us, doing a
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great job, very proud of him. I have a middle son Reagan.
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Who is living with us in? After Mentos he they both went
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to Cal Poly San Luis during covid-19 rough, Chase came back
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home, he says, have about a half a year to finish Reagan.
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Then moved to Sacramento is going to.
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William Jessup, took some time off?
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He's helping me on the campaign Trail.
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We have a daughter Roslyn who is 12 who goes to school and
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Sacramento and my wife Megan. By the way I when I ran for the
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state senate she took my place in the assembly so search 16.
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You're on the board supervisor six and a half years in the
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State Assembly. On the Senate, my wife.
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A place of assembly. So we're all in.
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We're not leaving California. That's why I'm running for
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governor been inside the capitol for 10 years.
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Working on trying to just bring some common sense to our
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legislature and keep businesses, and people in California, that's
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our goal. We don't want to leave.
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We're not leaving and we're in the fight and that's why I'm
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running for governor. So that wanted.
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Yeah, I want to touch on this real quick.
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This is something I talk about a lot with my listeners.
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You started low Local, you know, you started your political
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career local you see. So many times people jump into
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The Fray and they say, oh I want to get into politics.
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I'm going to run for Congress and they have no experience in
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politics. Have never done it before.
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They think the way to save California is I have to go to
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Washington, DC, and I always say no, don't don't go to
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Washington, d.c. I always say start local city
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council County Supervisors because we Of a good County
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Supervisor board that can make the whole difference from
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insulating yourself from the craziness of Sacramento, talk to
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us a little bit about how important it is to get started
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in local politics and how important local politics are in
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California. You're breaking up on me, but
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can you hear me? Yeah, yeah we can hear you.
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Yeah, so very important. I think you know all politics
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are local. I think there was a president
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that actually coined that phrase, can't remember which one
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but you know, at the local level you deal with land use
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decisions, you learn how local government works.
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It's a five-person board. The only thing you have to count
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you in the supervisors is a three to get something done.
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So, I served 16 years, I learned a lot about, you know, how the
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state actually impacts the local.
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And that's why I ran for the state and didn't run for
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Congress because my problems aren't in Washington DC for my
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business. They're right here in
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California. California, strangling my
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community. My neighbors are business
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Californians. And so that's why I went to the
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state legislature was because most of my issues are at the, at
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the local level or the state level.
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So, and I also felt that, you know, a lot of Republicans in
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California. Our can go beat the drum as a
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Republican and I have a republican District, but really
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don't dig in and aren't required to actually work real hard to
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get things done for your, for your, for your county.
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And I knew, I knew that as a County Supervisor, very
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frustrated. So when I went to Sacramento, I
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took a little different approach than most legislators.
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I reached out to the Democrats, I sent an email to everyone of
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them. Asking them to come to my
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district. Remember, I live four and a half
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hours past Sacramento North. It's forgotten part of
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California. Art 60% of the water for
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California comes from. There are forests are burning,
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but most of the legislators had never been passed documental
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from Southern California. So over the 10 years I've had
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127 legislators to my district, the speaker the pro tem.
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I invited Gavin Newsom when he was the lieutenant governor to
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come up to our farm or and to my area to go fishing and he likes
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to fish, I never took me up on it, but many of them came 127.
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Then likewise. I went to their districts as
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well and learn about their issues.
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Shoes and it's amazing to find out.
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We have a lot in common, so let me give you an example real
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quick. I went to Reggie Jones Sawyer
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District, he represents USC or he did at the time we just
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recommend change out some be representing USC, space
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shuttles, there. Toured the campus with you might
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or the space shuttle. Then we went to another part of
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his district which is Florence and Normandie where the Rodney
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King riots happened. And you know, saw a whole
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different side of what he's dealing with in his district and
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when he came to my district It's very rural but we have poor
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people, just like he has, there are obviously different color
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but they're poor. And so we realized that boys and
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men of color are faced with the same issues, no matter where you
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are in the state, in my district, young men, Native
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Americans 18 to 25, the highest suicide rate in California's
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Native Americans 18 to 25 in his district.
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They're black young black men. So, we work together on, boys.
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And men of color. We asked for Appropriations to
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And and get counseling for those groups.
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And we educated, also their communities through the boys and
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men of color caucus. So there's one example of an
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opportunity where Los Angeles and and reading, or Siskiyou
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County have something in common and it's, it's that way for
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homelessness. It's that way for housing, it's
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that way for energy cost when you really break it down.
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It doesn't matter where you're in, California, we are really
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faced with the same problems. We have a different approach
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now, Reggie and I don't see eye-to-eye on Public Safety at
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all. He believes we should let
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everybody out of jail. I don't believe that's a good
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way, but we set that in the parking lot, we work on the
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things that we should. We should that we agree on.
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So, I took that approach, I've done very well and educating
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members about our watersheds, our Wildlife, our fires, our
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water system, drought environment as a farmer.
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I'm very concerned about the environment.
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I'm environmentalist, I say I'm the original environment as we
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take care of our land. And so I educate them.
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And I passed many pieces of legislation on the environment
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to actually focus on what's emitting carbon like forest
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fire. And, you know, how to, how to
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get more water out of our forest, by actually cutting
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trees, down. Not all of them.
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But then again, Out our pores. So, those are a few examples of
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why local level learning to work with people as worked at the
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state level. And we need more of that quite
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frankly in California. And at the national level, we
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are so polarized from each people, each sides in their
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camps and there's a whole lot of people in the middle that just
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want government to do, what it's supposed to do.
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Keep them say build infrastructure, have a good
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school, make sure that they can stay in business and stay in
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California. So that's the approach I've
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taken is paid off very well. I have a lot of friends across I
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disagree, but it's not personal. So I know you have a great
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voting record. You have like 10 years so people
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can take that opportunity to check where you stand on the
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issues. So you speak about, you know,
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you have actually do have great relationships and it's possible
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to work. Across the aisle, how many bills
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have you successfully gotten signed into law?
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Because we get into it. It's very easy to introduce
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bills. I know there's that process
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where, you know, the votes might come short, how successful have
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you been as far as legislating getting things that you wanted
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done like signed into law? You know, I don't know the
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number But it's probably 25 or so, something like that bills
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that have been passed. But more importantly, I worked
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on really big pieces of legislation that don't have my
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name on it because I'm somebody who can manipulate or bring a
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point of view and change the language and a piece of
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legislation. So for example, balance billing
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was a huge bill that's people who go to the doctor and they,
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their anesthesiologist was not in their Network, their, their
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health care now. At work and they were getting
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the bill. It was not right.
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It happened to people in my district and the bill died.
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It was actually raw bonta, Bill, our attorney general's, Bill,
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and it died. And I've supported the bill.
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Nobody lobbied me on it because they just thought that
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Republicans were against that. I actually like the bill.
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And the next year, we came back and we did a we sat down
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bipartisan 15 meetings with the doctors and the health plans and
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actually hammered out a bill that both sides agreed on the,
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it's The money on attorneys and we passed that law helped our
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constituents on up to pay the bill and eventually that law
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went to the National level and they did it at the national
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level as well. Saving hundreds of millions of
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dollars for rate, payers for their health care and for
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doctors and attorneys, were the ones that lost.
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It was a great bill. So, that's a bill that doesn't
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have my name on it. I was a co-author but I actually
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brokered it because I brought Republicans to the table to get
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the job done. And I have I can tell you
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there's many times that I've done that on lots of piece of
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legislation, don't My name on it.
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And, you know, Ronald Reagan used to say that.
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It doesn't matter who gets the credit.
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It's a matter of who wants to get into the work.
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That's who I am. I'm a policy guy.
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I like to do the work and I don't need the credit.
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I just want to help my constituents.
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You touched you just said something that kind of rings
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true to me, which is I wouldn't use the word manipulate.
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I think the the way language is used in politics is incredibly
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important and I always talk about how you can.
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You can talk with people across the aisle, learn how to kind of
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speak their language, learn how to kind of connect with people.
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And, and that bill sounds like a perfect example of where it's
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the same. Core goal, but because it was
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worded differently. People got on board, from both
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sides, and in California, I feel like there is this disconnect of
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polarization, where one side is always throwing bombs at the
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other end saying, well, you're a socialist and I don't want to
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listen to you. You're a right-wing fascist, I
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don't want to listen to you and then it's really like you said,
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there's a lot of people in the middle once you start to talk to
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them and start to speak each other's language.
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That all of a sudden people go. Hey, I, like what this guy is
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saying, like, if someone will listen to you and hear a lot of
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your policies, I've listened to your interviews.
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They would probably say, I like, what this guy saying, and I
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think maybe the Republican party on a whole needs to get better
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at that, maybe you can help them with that.
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But talk about how talking to people about these kitchen table
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politics and speaking. Another language helps you get
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across the aisle and get things done.
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So, the other thing you should know Phil and Cynthia, this is
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that, you know, you get judged on your vote but there's a
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thousand things moving to get one thing done especially as a
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republican in Sacramento. So if you really want to serve
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your people, sometimes you negotiate a really bad built to
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be less bad because it's going to pass in a bad way and if you
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negotiate you can, you can. So let me give you an example.
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So the prop 1, water bond, which I was supposed to originally and
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it was because I didn't feel that it had any money in it for
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storage and so but they needed votes, they didn't have the
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votes to get it on the ballot. And so I said look, if you want
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to put money and dedicate that money to storage of water, I can
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vote for that. So I negotiated in good faith
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and they put the language in and I voted for that bill and
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unfortunately, this is the crazy thing.
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My whole District voted against it.
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But overwhelmingly voted against the bill, but California is a
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whole. Now, remember I come when
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there's a lot of the, what the headwaters for California, 60
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percent comes from a district. So, people in my district are
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like, why would I want to pay for?
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But California as a whole needs to store water.
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So the Delta need water for fish.
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The farmers need water for farming and the people need
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water for their homes. And so I negotiated that I knew
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it was going to pass and I was able to put in there for
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storage. So that's an example.
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Now I Beat up for it in my own District but it was a right in
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my mind was right thing to do. And I'm willing to take those
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bows and defend those votes, because I think it's good for
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California. We need to do those things and
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that's on a host of bills. A lot of times people like, you
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know, call me a rhino and to call me whatever they want to
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call me, which is okay with me, because I'm actually in there
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doing it. And it's not as easy as just
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your people. Do you need to go do this Brian
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and it's become somewhat of a, maybe I, you know, so I say I've
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been elected 26 years, 16 years, The Fourth Street Fighters, 10
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years in the Assembly of people to Brian.
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You don't need to do and I go, oh gosh, finally somebody's
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going to tell me I've been here. 26 years and I have no idea
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what's going on. Will you please tell me what I
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need to do because I just been lost and, you know, being
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actually sarcastic because they don't understand that.
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There's so many moving pieces to get something done and I'm doing
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the best. I can.
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I can defend every vote. If you give me the time to tell
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you what was happening at the time of that boat.
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And if that happens, I I will win them over but typically
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there's a sound bite. There's a click on their phone,
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there's a like, or dislike and there.
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They see one thing and that's it.
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There's a whole lot of other things, moving, and if you give
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me time, I can defend those boats.
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And people come to me and say, a b 7044, whatever number I've
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been there, ten years have been ten, a be 744s 10, a v1's tent,
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you know, ten, SB ones. And so I can't remember the
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number of a bill. You can't remember my own to be
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honest with you. I mean, I remember my first
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really significant bill was a be 744 because it was like, it was
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a Monumental bill to help do forestry and I got it.
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Done with some help. From some Democrats who had been
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to my district and understood what I was talking about.
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So if you give me an opportunity, I can defend those
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votes. And I can tell you, what was
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having a time, and my experience in what, and what's happening.
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For example, Broadband is very lacking in my communities, and I
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voted for a fee and erase freaked out because they say,
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you know, Jack's. Well, it is if he's attacks as
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well but it goes to underserved areas that are paying that.
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Don't get those services. So I made those decisions and
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because I know it will change the communities outline
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communities in California, it'll change the inner city kids and
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that's a vote that I'm willing to take two and I will defend it
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because I know it's the right thing to do.
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So we can get, we can have an upward Mobility for poor people,
00:18:56
and that's what I'm about. So you still going to sorry?
00:19:01
Go ahead Cynthia. Oh thank you.
00:19:03
Um so you see you obviously have done so many great things behind
00:19:07
the scenes and you don't get the credit that you deserve about
00:19:09
it. One fun fact, I think people
00:19:12
should know this before you got a promotion from your District
00:19:15
to be a state senator. You're the assembly leader for
00:19:19
the Republicans, how was your experience doing that?
00:19:22
Yeah, I was chosen by my colleagues to be the Republican
00:19:25
leader, you know? Not my goal.
00:19:27
My job was to, Get more Republicans in office and in
00:19:30
California, it's difficult. I will tell you most Republicans
00:19:34
don't understand. We don't, our party is really,
00:19:38
it's fractured. And what I mean by that, there's
00:19:40
the assembly's working for the assembly members, that Senate is
00:19:42
working for the senate members that Congressional guys are
00:19:45
working for the ggressive guys and we get, we're in California.
00:19:48
It's a blue state. So, we've been losing.
00:19:50
It's been tough. We have a very difficult time,
00:19:52
raising money and, and some of that's our own fault.
00:19:55
We put up. We've had candidates and safe
00:19:58
Republican. Streets Who Don't Do Anything,
00:19:59
don't take care of their constituents and their and the
00:20:01
people are frustrated. So my job was to go out and
00:20:04
raise money and try to elect people to our caucus and build
00:20:09
the Republican party and it's difficult in California.
00:20:12
So there's been many of us that had that job and I it's a tough
00:20:16
job to do. Everybody's a targeted seat.
00:20:19
Everybody wants money and there's a limited amount of
00:20:21
resources and so I raised a lot of money for the Republican
00:20:24
party. I raised Frank Bigelow
00:20:26
assemblymember Bigelow and I with a Top tube on razors in our
00:20:30
caucus, I raised 1.2 million dollars.
00:20:32
Most of it from my district from people.
00:20:35
I know that believed in me and I use that money and gave it to
00:20:38
other Republicans didn't spend on myself because I had a safe
00:20:41
District. So for example, my wife is in a
00:20:44
safe Republican District. She donated the maximum amount
00:20:47
that she supposed to donate to her party to her caucus to help
00:20:51
bring more people in. It's a team sport not always
00:20:54
played by our team that way but that's that's the way it is.
00:20:57
And what really Needs to happen in.
00:20:59
California is the Republicans need to unify.
00:21:02
We need to build a donating machine that people do every
00:21:06
year. It's part of your business plan
00:21:08
to donate. So we can push back because the
00:21:10
Democrats are organized. Their unions are organized.
00:21:13
They have an endless supply of money and remember politics is
00:21:16
about name identification. It's something I'm struggling
00:21:19
with right now. Nobody in California knows who I
00:21:21
am. As you mentioned earlier, it's
00:21:24
because why did Donald Trump win because everybody who Donald
00:21:28
Trump was, why did Gone on Schwarzenegger win?
00:21:30
Because everybody knew who the Terminator was, it's really a
00:21:33
factor in winning races, his name identification and it takes
00:21:36
money to do that. I cannot I can tell you the
00:21:39
Democrats are very good at it. They're very, they know what the
00:21:44
polls are and they know what to say.
00:21:45
I'll give an example Kevin McCarthy and McCarthy, who was
00:21:49
assemblymember Sacramento, who I'm in his district.
00:21:52
So I see his fliers my neighbors, share them with me.
00:21:55
There are a few Republicans I have in Sacramento and his
00:21:57
fliers saying, He stands up for Public Safety.
00:22:00
Its total lie, he votes against public safety all the time, but
00:22:06
he put it on a flyer because have the money to put on a fire
00:22:09
and people believe what they read.
00:22:11
And if you have plenty of that to put out, you can get elected
00:22:14
and people go. I'm for Public Safety and so
00:22:16
they'll vote for him and it's not true, but the fact is the
00:22:20
Republican running against past exposed that lie and it takes
00:22:23
money to expose that lie. And and that's that's the
00:22:26
situation Republicans are in Nia.
00:22:30
So I want to jump right into policies because you know we
00:22:35
want to be mindful of your time and there's a lot to get to.
00:22:37
So we're going to try and hit all the hot button stuff as well
00:22:40
as get to questions and comments from the chat.
00:22:43
Let's first talk about water because you come from an
00:22:46
agricultural area you know a lot about water you would send
00:22:49
something in an another interview that floored me.
00:22:52
And I am not shocked because of the stat I'm shocked.
00:22:57
That we allow this to happen about how much water we actually
00:23:02
had, and how much we were, just kind of throwing away.
00:23:06
Can you talk about that? Gavin Newsom came out just last
00:23:09
week and said, we've been in a seven-year drought, that's a
00:23:11
total lie. Number one, the wettest year and
00:23:14
this, in the history of our state was 2018, since we've been
00:23:18
keeping records 2018, remember the orbital Dam Spillway broke,
00:23:23
right? I'm close to or below right now.
00:23:25
I'm in Orland actually it's not. It's 10 miles from It broke.
00:23:29
That was the wettest year in recorded history.
00:23:31
Actually, Shasta Orville and Folsom dams were 105 percent of
00:23:35
full. How can they be that way?
00:23:36
Because there's a free board. You don't the, the dam has some
00:23:40
free board. They actually went above what
00:23:41
they normally do to hold back water because the value is
00:23:43
flooding, they were 105 percent of whole here, we are three and
00:23:47
a half years later and we don't have any water, it's because
00:23:49
they let the water out. It's how we manage our water in
00:23:52
California. California was designed.
00:23:54
We have floods and droughts. It's not the new, but they're
00:23:57
letting the Her out and it goes into the ocean.
00:23:59
Once it's the salt water, we can't use it anymore.
00:24:02
We need to hold it back. We need to use our reservoirs as
00:24:05
a system and, and an ability to be able to capture that water
00:24:10
and use it for later dates. We need more water system since
00:24:13
it's been 35 years since we built any real infrastructure in
00:24:16
California and that population has doubled.
00:24:19
So we need to build more water storage, the waters there and
00:24:22
just goes the ocean. When you capture site's,
00:24:24
Reservoir is a great opportunity here in Northern Californians,
00:24:27
1.2 million. Nacre feet was funded in prop
00:24:30
one. Not one shovel dirt has been
00:24:31
moved to build the reservoirs off stream storage.
00:24:34
The other thing I want to talk about water is that there's a
00:24:36
watershed above those dams, millions of Acres that we have
00:24:40
stopped fire for the last 80 years, fire naturally occurred
00:24:44
in California. Every ten years, the forest
00:24:46
would burn and kill the little trees in the brush and left us
00:24:49
with a beautiful horse with Big Trees old growth trees, Meadows.
00:24:53
And now we have a in some cases that thousand trees per acre.
00:24:56
It's because we stopped There's nothing to thin them out.
00:24:59
Now we have all these trees and all this Fuel and then lightning
00:25:01
strikes, that trees are stressed, they die from drought
00:25:04
because there's too much there to overcrowd.
00:25:06
It's like, weed in your garden, need to go out and thin the
00:25:08
forest allow those trees to stay alive after fire.
00:25:10
Which sequester carbon mind, you a lot new rumored.
00:25:14
What we breathe out? They breathe in, it's nothing
00:25:16
new. But when the forest is hot Burns
00:25:19
as hot and intense. As it does, it devastates and
00:25:21
sterilize, the ground takes 50 years for that Porsche to grow
00:25:23
back. So we need to thin our forest,
00:25:25
we can actually get more water on the force and we can have a
00:25:28
Sequestering force. That is sequester's.
00:25:29
Carbon one last point on the environment here.
00:25:33
Gavin Newsom talks about climate change and tailpipe.
00:25:36
Emissions, 41 percent of emissions, come from tailpipes.
00:25:40
Oh he's going to make you drive electric car, that's not true.
00:25:44
Forest fires the biggest emitting of carbon in California
00:25:48
even though we're and when we produce one percent of the
00:25:51
world's carbon, we don't count forest fires.
00:25:53
I did a Bill said, we need to count the carbon for forest
00:25:56
fires at died in the first committee because they Want to
00:25:58
count that because that means we have to focus on the biggest
00:26:01
emitter which is forest fire by thinning our pores.
00:26:03
Unfortunately that's two that's sad because Californians are
00:26:07
thinking they're saving the environment by trying to drive
00:26:10
up their electric rates, their gas rates and put you in
00:26:12
electric car. When the biggest emitter is
00:26:14
forest fire and we don't do anything about it and every time
00:26:17
there's a fire, they do more regulations on your car isn't
00:26:19
going to make it any difference. So those are the differences
00:26:22
between me as an environmentalist and most of the
00:26:25
legislators environmentalist. I would say in this is, you
00:26:31
could tell me if this is realistic or not.
00:26:33
I think we should have enough infrastructure to have a water
00:26:38
savings account of, like five years.
00:26:42
So, we should know like, how much water on average California
00:26:44
uses and we should be able to have the infrastructure to say,
00:26:48
okay, let's say five years so that we can weather the drought
00:26:52
the wet seasons and I put think that's enough time that in five
00:26:56
years you're probably going to get a couple of what years were
00:26:58
probably going to get. We'll try years but I don't see
00:27:02
why that's impossible. I would think that's realistic
00:27:05
for California to do something like that.
00:27:07
Is there just not the willpower in Sacramento, the most say, the
00:27:10
system is already in place. We need to add reservoirs above
00:27:14
the reservoirs. We have, there's plenty of
00:27:15
opportunities for that, there's off stream storage as well.
00:27:17
There's groundwater, we can store in the ground as well, but
00:27:21
there's just a lack of really good policy and planning to do
00:27:23
that. And, you know, it's really hard
00:27:26
to regulate people. When there's an abundance of
00:27:28
Something when we're in a constant crisis, you can't
00:27:30
really get regulated when there's a constant prices for
00:27:33
electricity, when there's a constant crisis for fuel when
00:27:37
there's a constant crisis for Wildfire, we're in a crisis and
00:27:40
that's easy to regulate you. If we fix problems, there's no
00:27:43
crisis. We're in a constant crisis under
00:27:45
this leadership. And that's the problem.
00:27:50
One thing people always talk about California is they call it
00:27:54
a fuel Island right that we can't get gasoline and we're
00:27:58
just kind of out here on our own and I think of that as in terms
00:28:02
of gasoline and in energy together.
00:28:05
But when I look at how much Bountiful resources, California
00:28:10
has when it comes to oil or technology, we should be in my
00:28:17
opinion, we should be the huh. Of all energy and fuel on the
00:28:21
western coast of the United States.
00:28:23
We should be sending out so much energy that work in and Nevada,
00:28:29
and Arizona, Idaho. They're buying energy from us,
00:28:33
that's what I think, but it seems like, we, we live in this
00:28:37
scarcity mindset where no, no, we can't have nuclear power
00:28:41
because that's dangerous or with.
00:28:43
No, we have to live off wind power, because that's the only
00:28:45
thing or solar power, something like that, we can't have Oil
00:28:49
because oil is evil. Do you support like a an all of
00:28:53
the above? Which is what I so I think we
00:28:56
need to do like an all-of-the-above sort of energy
00:28:58
and fuel policy when it comes to California.
00:29:01
Yeah. Well, number one, we use 1.8
00:29:04
million barrels of oil, every single day, every single day,
00:29:07
California is 1.8 million. We have 1200 oil wells, in
00:29:11
California, waiting to be permitted at the desk.
00:29:13
The definition, they did 10 Wells last year, it's pathetic,
00:29:17
we're importing, 24 percent of our oil.
00:29:19
From Ecuador destroying the rainforest, by the way, he says,
00:29:22
he's for the environment, it's called global warming.
00:29:24
Means it's Global if you're ruining the rainforest or not
00:29:26
sequestering carbon there we're burning that oil here.
00:29:29
Why don't we produce it in California when we can do it?
00:29:31
More environmentally friendly with Californian jobs and it
00:29:34
California tax basis. Well, number two, they're
00:29:38
focused on wind and solar which are intermittent, they're not
00:29:41
constant. There's a thing called
00:29:43
geothermal. Most people don't even know
00:29:45
about it. That's hot water in the ground.
00:29:47
There's great places. As in Imperial County, there's
00:29:50
places in San Francisco. There's places up north where I
00:29:53
live, that we can tap into that. You just basically pump the hot
00:29:55
water out, make electricity with the water back down.
00:29:58
It reheats actually because the Earth is warm and it's a cycle,
00:30:02
it's works. When the sun's not shining the
00:30:04
winds not blowing, nobody talks about it.
00:30:06
It's a great resource. We should tap into that, I will
00:30:08
do that as Governor. Make sure.
00:30:10
We tap into that, it's clean energy source.
00:30:12
The other thing we need for our grid is, we need Transportation
00:30:16
lines, electricity lines. So Remove power from one place
00:30:20
to the other, we overproduce in some spots and under produce
00:30:23
another spots. We just simply need to build a
00:30:25
line. Californians pay, which you
00:30:27
probably aren't aware of a billion dollars a year in rates,
00:30:31
electricity rates to pay other states to take our energy.
00:30:34
When we over produce. Remember you put one electron in
00:30:37
one has to come out? There is no storage.
00:30:39
You talks about battery storage. It's a joke, it's not real.
00:30:43
We don't have the battery capacity.
00:30:44
It'll take mountains of batteries to store the amount
00:30:47
that we need to actually, We run our state.
00:30:50
I mean this state uses almost 50 thousand megawatts every hour
00:30:54
and I'm telling you there isn't enough battery storage to offset
00:30:58
that for even an hour and it would take years to get there.
00:31:02
We need to build 10, power plants, the same sizes as
00:31:05
Diablo, the last nuclear power plant in California, which they
00:31:08
just turned back on, by the way, to service, 30 million electric
00:31:13
cars. So, Gavin, Newsom is plan is
00:31:15
really not environmentally friendly.
00:31:17
We have, we're destroying other Used to get the rare earth
00:31:20
minerals that we need for batteries were destroying the
00:31:22
rainforest and Ecuador and we're really not changing global
00:31:24
climate change. We're just making Californians.
00:31:27
Think that they're getting something that they're that is
00:31:29
not helping the environment. We produce one percent of the
00:31:32
emissions, worldwide before the fifth largest economy.
00:31:35
So, what are we done? We've exported all of our jobs
00:31:37
to China, like, where they make concrete, they ship it in here,
00:31:41
they make it with coal fired power plants with slave labor
00:31:44
and Californians are paying for that.
00:31:46
And we're feeling good about the environment.
00:31:48
But we're really not, Not change anything that's wrong.
00:31:50
Easy to change. We, those products that we use
00:31:52
to be manufactured in California, by Californians will
00:31:55
drive up our tax base, will get California's, good paying jobs
00:31:58
and their and the resources needed.
00:32:00
And at the same time we will drive down our emissions for
00:32:03
climbing Is there anything you could do on day one regarding
00:32:10
energy is yelling Governor? Yes, make sure that Chaldean
00:32:15
commits. Those Wells do executive orders
00:32:17
to move the transmission. Cut the transmission lines in
00:32:19
place. Absolutely there's a lot we can
00:32:21
do So the other thing I know we have special Blends for
00:32:26
California, gas. That's why the fuel went up 80%
00:32:29
in the last week, they, you know, they need to do make, we
00:32:33
only use a certain type of oil and gas in California Special
00:32:37
Blend. You can't get it from Nevada, or
00:32:40
Montana, or anywhere else, we make it here.
00:32:43
So we have a finite resource and when they do great, it's have to
00:32:47
shut down their plants. And that's why the it's going
00:32:49
out. And Gavin Newsom is talking
00:32:50
about taxing them more. The biggest tax base, On oil is
00:32:55
California itself to a dollar Twenty Eight a gallon.
00:32:58
I think it is total in taxes, is already taxed and so The
00:33:02
Californians are reaping, the benefit.
00:33:04
The California is the state of those taxes right now.
00:33:07
And that's why, you're paying a dollar, two dollars a gallon
00:33:10
more. Well, that was what was funny
00:33:13
about what Newsome just recently did with this grandstanding
00:33:16
about, oh, it's because the oil companies are going to windfall
00:33:20
of profits and I want to tax them But he doesn't want to call
00:33:24
a special legislative session to actually impose the tax.
00:33:28
But then he's while he's saying that in the background, he's
00:33:31
secretly going to the oil content.
00:33:33
The the refinery saying, by the way, can you switch to the
00:33:36
winter blend as fast as possible?
00:33:37
Because I know that our regulation on summer blend
00:33:41
versus Winter Blend, makes it more expensive so he's already
00:33:43
implicitly admitting that. Yes, our regulations make gas
00:33:47
more expensive, not your windfall profits, or whatever.
00:33:51
He wants to blame on the big evil oil.
00:33:53
Open, he's just keep in mind, it's all about.
00:33:56
Gavin, Newsom, it's not about you.
00:33:58
It's about him running for president.
00:33:59
Knighted states. He'll do whatever he has to do
00:34:01
to keep the lights on because he's in a bad way.
00:34:04
But in the end of the day, he's punishing Californians.
00:34:07
You can't afford to live here. If you're on an hourly wage or
00:34:09
you're a fixed income, you're getting pummeled by the cost of
00:34:13
gasoline. The cost of electricity, the
00:34:15
cost of a little bit, we're in the trucking business.
00:34:18
In the last eight months, every single truck takes $200 a day
00:34:22
more and Diesel, the cost went up that much.
00:34:24
So that's a thousand dollars a week.
00:34:26
It's four thousand dollars a month and we have to raise our
00:34:28
price. So we can compensate for the
00:34:30
diesel. And that means every product
00:34:32
that we all goes up. So a loaf of bread, a gallon of
00:34:34
milk, a two-by-four, everything you need to live, it's got to go
00:34:38
up. That's why you're seeing
00:34:39
inflation. Go up.
00:34:40
The fastest way to give people in California.
00:34:42
So we leak is push down the cost of energy and all those things
00:34:46
that we have to make go cheaper. And achieves up in your store.
00:34:49
We try to do the gas tax holiday $0.54 equates to sixteen hundred
00:34:54
dollars per family. A year, we ask for that last
00:34:57
year. At this time, by the way, we
00:34:59
have plenty of money in the budget, 100 1 billion dollars to
00:35:02
back, fill the budget with that tax to fix our roads.
00:35:06
And, you know, they turned it down.
00:35:08
Why is that? Because they want to give you a
00:35:09
check here in the next couple days for a couple hundred
00:35:12
dollars to buy your vote. That's what it's about.
00:35:14
It's not about taking the pain away from people.
00:35:17
It's about Buying your vote telling you.
00:35:19
They're helping you and fooling the people once again.
00:35:22
My wife is actually in the trucking industry and she has to
00:35:26
deal with this all the time. And her higher-ups, give her
00:35:29
credit for having to deal with all the zany and crazy
00:35:33
California regulations because nobody else wants to do what she
00:35:36
does. But she's constantly faced with
00:35:40
California coming out and saying, okay, now trucks have to
00:35:43
adhere to this standard and then all of a sudden they go, okay,
00:35:47
well how do we get to that standard?
00:35:49
What are the specifics and the state of California goes?
00:35:52
I don't know you just got to be there in 10 years.
00:35:54
So good luck and that seems to be.
00:35:57
The thing is it's good. If it's feel good, it looks good
00:36:01
to pass a law but then they never fill in the details of how
00:36:06
anybody's going to get there. And then businesses likely just
00:36:09
throw up their hands and say well we're not going to invest
00:36:11
in California anymore because it's not worth, it will take our
00:36:14
money and go to Idaho or Texas or somewhere else.
00:36:18
Yes, you're absolutely right. I'm in the trucking business.
00:36:21
It's frustrating to do they make you change it without
00:36:23
compensating you. It's a takings of private
00:36:25
property in my opinion, and we've been fighting that.
00:36:28
That's what's driving up the cost for Californians.
00:36:30
At the end of the day, it just continues drive with cost and
00:36:32
that's across the board. Doesn't matter if it's in
00:36:34
trucking, or if you have a lawn mowing business.
00:36:37
Now you got to get electric wheat, blower that you're gonna
00:36:42
have to figure out a charge while you're out working, it's
00:36:44
just crazy. So, I want to do leave some time
00:36:49
for questions, but also we talked about, I want to play a
00:36:52
little game with you and you agreed.
00:36:54
So, I give you credit for being bold enough to play this game.
00:36:57
I was looking at all the list of state agencies in California,
00:37:01
and there's a lot, you can look this up.
00:37:04
It's on the California government government website.
00:37:08
I'm not going to ask you every single one.
00:37:11
I highlighted some for you, and I'll probably even Pare that
00:37:14
down for time sake. Gross of the game.
00:37:17
Are I'm going to ask you the name of the state agency.
00:37:20
You either can choose to reform. It abolish it or leave it as is.
00:37:28
And then we're going to do it like lightning round style.
00:37:30
Give a quick, like one minute Summary of why you think it
00:37:33
should be based on your choice? Let's start off at the top the
00:37:38
air resources board age, majorly reformed, I would appoint a new
00:37:44
commissioner. I'd bring back the power to the
00:37:46
Nature. I think there is room for some
00:37:49
that we could use there's some laws that come out that are good
00:37:52
for the most part, totally needs reformed The California Coastal
00:37:57
commission out of control doesn't allow development need
00:38:01
to have some say in there. Another agency that has too much
00:38:06
power. We need to bring real that back
00:38:08
in and give it to the legislature.
00:38:11
The office of digital Innovation.
00:38:14
Abolish it and start over. We have not done one thing to
00:38:18
help streamline the DMV the EDD. They talk about it, they don't
00:38:22
do it. We need to get Silicon Valley
00:38:24
folks in here. And but then put a program
00:38:26
together. We should have an app for all
00:38:28
those things where we don't have to go and stand in line.
00:38:31
And then by the way, get ripped off by 32 billion dollars
00:38:34
because Gavin Newsom did it require employer's to make sure
00:38:38
people were actually unemployed? It's crazy.
00:38:41
Yeah, that always baffles me that in the state that Brags
00:38:47
about being Silicon Valley, in the home of Technology.
00:38:50
Our state government is like still stuck in like the 1990s,
00:38:53
like, it's like just trying to get anything done in the state
00:38:56
government is really archaic. Alright, California Department
00:39:02
of Education. Start over start over, just
00:39:06
abolish it and start over. I mean, it's a CTA is Gavin.
00:39:10
Newsom has biggest supporter, they own him, we need to empower
00:39:14
parents give parents The right to choose where their children
00:39:18
go to school, the money should follow the kit, the kids, and
00:39:21
that would be a great start. That's a battle that will be
00:39:25
fought at The Ballot Box I believe someday soon.
00:39:29
I think Californians are ready for 50 students, didn't show
00:39:32
up to La Unified School District.
00:39:33
This year 27 last year. That's a good indication.
00:39:37
That parents they didn't leave their looking for something
00:39:39
better and the one thing that was awesome about covid.
00:39:42
The only thing was parents realize what Horrible education,
00:39:47
their children getting and they're pushing back, thousands
00:39:49
of not less than that. But a lot of a lot of people
00:39:53
running for School Board of never, a school board are
00:39:55
getting involved in their kids education.
00:39:58
It's awesome. We need that.
00:39:59
We did Empower parents and stop the legislature from teaching
00:40:03
things, like gender identity at the age, third grade where we
00:40:09
need to be teaching them, Reading Writing and arithmetic.
00:40:11
Not the, we need to teach the ABC's, the 123's or not the
00:40:14
birds, and the bees and parents, Stand that they're showing up.
00:40:18
I think that's what's going to be a big factor in this race.
00:40:20
Quite frankly, is that parents have had enough and they're
00:40:23
looking for something different and they're frustrated.
00:40:26
And, you know, it's just it's insane to think that our schools
00:40:29
have gone so far to away from actually educating our children.
00:40:34
You know, you can do whatever you want when you're 20 years
00:40:36
old, I have no, I know, I don't have a problem that I don't be
00:40:40
telling our children that, you know what, gender, they should
00:40:43
think they should be or it confusing them at a young age.
00:40:46
Yeah, I think that's inappropriate and most parents
00:40:48
do and you're going to see a backlash for that.
00:40:54
So everyone watching, get your questions ready we got a couple
00:40:57
more of these so line up your questions for Senator Dolly just
00:41:01
so he's ready to go, the California Film commission.
00:41:07
Well actually there I don't think we need that but we did do
00:41:11
a film tax credit to keep keep filmmakers here in California,
00:41:16
which I think is appropriate. What I think we should do that
00:41:17
for every business. Give them a tax break so they
00:41:19
can stay, maybe it's a good. In that.
00:41:21
Yeah, one great lobbying idea, but we should do it across the
00:41:25
board, but yeah, I don't think we need a commission.
00:41:28
The department of food and agriculture.
00:41:31
Yeah, we definitely need that. It needs some reform, though.
00:41:35
Obviously, I work in that area. It's, I'm regulated by the
00:41:39
Californian, partner food nags. Or the make sure that I'm
00:41:42
selling see. That is germinates and the
00:41:47
supplier knows that it's pure. So I think there's a definitely
00:41:50
a place for that. There's obviously, there's areas
00:41:53
that we could do some work in there as well too.
00:41:58
Health and Human Services Agency?
00:42:00
Yes, I guess I think we need that.
00:42:02
It needs some reform to need to be able to help people.
00:42:05
Who have mental health issues more, we need more Commish
00:42:09
clinicians and less bureaucrats at the top.
00:42:12
That's the problem with homelessness is that Gavin
00:42:15
Newsom started bureaucracy from the top, and we actually need to
00:42:17
fund counties and cities. They're the ones that do the
00:42:19
work on the ground, and we give them the tools, they do better
00:42:22
at the local level. Okay, this should be an easy
00:42:26
one, the high speed, high speed, rail Authority, man.
00:42:30
I hate that thing. I've railed on it, that's kind
00:42:34
of a pun every year. They change, they change
00:42:38
administrators every three years.
00:42:39
I've been their tenured, we got three new administrators and the
00:42:41
last one is always the problem. It's a boondoggle.
00:42:44
They've spent over ten billion dollars, it was supposed to be
00:42:48
completed by 2020. We haven't laid one foot a
00:42:51
tractor talking about it being a single track.
00:42:54
Diesel engine running, it. It's not going to save the
00:42:55
environment. It's a waste.
00:42:57
I say I did a speech on the floor.
00:43:00
I said, you know, I'm a farmer sometimes you don't get a very
00:43:02
good scanned and you need to just plow your crop down.
00:43:05
We need to do that with a high-speed rail, no matter how
00:43:07
much money put in it. It's not going to give us a
00:43:09
return. It's not going to be wanting to
00:43:11
travel on and by the way, probably Transportation.
00:43:14
People don't travel on it. For one main reason, it's not
00:43:17
safe, you can't get on public transit.
00:43:19
About getting a cost of I-70. That's why people don't use it.
00:43:22
They're not going to use it. If we don't make it safe, And
00:43:24
that's what we need to do. Abolish build reservoirs and
00:43:28
give give people their money back.
00:43:31
I think if this is just me my opinion personally, I think
00:43:37
Republicans in California should run on a platform that if enough
00:43:41
legislators are elected, we get a governor.
00:43:44
There should be a full-scale investigation into where the
00:43:47
heck all that money went to like that.
00:43:50
Forget, January 6 and whatever dog.
00:43:52
And pony show. They want to show out or
00:43:54
whatever. This committee on gas prices.
00:43:57
Is that only met twice since June?
00:44:00
This should be be a real investigative committee and our
00:44:02
legislators should be going, where the heck did all those
00:44:06
billions of dollars, go and follow the trail.
00:44:10
The biggest fraud of all time was the EDD thirty two billion
00:44:15
dollars. I believe it was a lot more than
00:44:16
that. It was stolen in California,
00:44:18
businesses weird, have to pay that back.
00:44:21
It's crazy. And Gavin Newsom single-handedly
00:44:24
did that. He did not make the EDD.
00:44:28
There's a part of the form. I know this because A player,
00:44:31
when you lay somebody off, they fill out the form, they contact
00:44:35
the business, was this person laid off, you say, yes, they get
00:44:38
their benefits during covid. They just printed checks to
00:44:41
whoever sent in an application and they took that off of the
00:44:45
form. That's on him.
00:44:47
That's 32 billion. Plus dollars, California have to
00:44:50
pay that back. That is the biggest fraud in
00:44:52
history. They should throw him out
00:44:53
office, just for that. Businesses are going to stop in
00:44:56
California for for probably decades to pay that huge.
00:45:00
Outback. And it's and it also drove up
00:45:02
inflation. Was it just dumped?
00:45:03
All that money to our system, people that didn't deserve the
00:45:06
funds. So my last question is, before
00:45:11
we, before we play transition to the audience's, you spoke a lot
00:45:16
about how there's lots of things we can improve within the
00:45:19
Republican party. And the truth is, we do have a
00:45:21
lot of demoralize Republicans. We had the lowest turnout for a
00:45:24
primary and so what's your message to those on how they can
00:45:29
Vault, get involved with the party?
00:45:30
How to reform it make it better and just how to get involved
00:45:33
with the process with but the Civics and, you know, getting
00:45:36
involved with politics. So number one Republicans are
00:45:39
good at pointing out the faults of other Republicans were good
00:45:42
at killing Republicans off. That's been a fact.
00:45:45
So you don't, it's like to go to war your enemies out of head of
00:45:48
you and why you're going to work?
00:45:50
Somebody's stabbing. You supposed to be on your team?
00:45:52
It happens a lot in Republican party.
00:45:54
We need to get on the same page. We need to get, you know, I
00:45:57
people the word Rhino i-i'll take the worst Republican you
00:46:01
ever can think of the one you dislike the most over any
00:46:05
moderate Democrat. There's no such thing as a
00:46:07
moderate Democrat to get to the capital Well, they're squeezed
00:46:09
by their party and they fall in line and then they sell them, he
00:46:13
don't worry about, will find you to get elected and it happens.
00:46:15
So I want the our party to unify.
00:46:18
I want to stop bickering, amongst ourselves, I want us to
00:46:21
get out and vote. You know, the biggest fraud to
00:46:23
talk about election fraud, the biggest fraud was two and a half
00:46:25
million. People didn't vote the recall.
00:46:27
Republicans get out the vote, go get your neighbors and their
00:46:30
ballot harvesting, they hate forward Harvest.
00:46:32
I'm a farmer. I love Harvest.
00:46:34
It's the best time of year. Let's go Harvest.
00:46:36
Those ballots. It's legal to do in California.
00:46:38
I think it's Constitution or not, doesn't matter today
00:46:41
California. Get your neighbors ballot.
00:46:43
Take it in, turn it into the clerk and let's take back
00:46:46
California. We I wouldn't be running if I
00:46:48
didn't think we could win. I know the system has some
00:46:50
flaws, there's no doubt, but we have to, we have to show up, and
00:46:55
we have to vote. And this is the perfect year for
00:46:57
it. Joe Biden is horrible and
00:47:00
they're not energized in a, in a midterm election, the party
00:47:04
that's in control of the White House which is the Democrats
00:47:06
right now, typically always lose seats.
00:47:08
This is our opportunity to turn out all we have and we can take
00:47:13
back their not excited about anything.
00:47:15
They have nothing to be excited about as the worst polling in
00:47:17
the history of our nation as a gut, as a president, and Gavin
00:47:21
Newsom, donor for that job. So right now is the time to
00:47:23
unify as Republicans get out to vote.
00:47:26
There's one thing I can stress and this whole thing, please
00:47:29
take your ballot. Go get your neighbors ballot,
00:47:32
and take it to the polling place and turn it in vote.
00:47:37
So I had one more agency and it's probably gonna be real real
00:47:40
quick one Department of Motor Vehicles.
00:47:43
Yeah, it needs a complete overhaul.
00:47:46
We need to take the engine out. Throw it away and put a new one
00:47:48
in excellent. Yeah, no one wants to wait.
00:47:51
Any 304 over lunch? I will tell you this, when I
00:47:53
become governor, I'm going to make it on an app.
00:47:55
So you don't have to go there and stand in line.
00:47:57
I just went in my real ID and I had to go three times to get it.
00:48:00
Right? And I'm a state legislature.
00:48:03
That's that's, I like that idea. Never have to step foot in a
00:48:06
DMV. Alright, let's let's get to the
00:48:08
question portion Camille, as if elected governor, what is the
00:48:11
first executive orders? You would implement or Bill you
00:48:15
would veto? Well, I there's a whole list of
00:48:18
bills that we don't know which bills are going to come, but I
00:48:22
could tell you that, you know, a lot of these bills that came in
00:48:25
the last go-around, I would have vetoed, you know, the one about
00:48:28
the Oil. Well setback, we're going to
00:48:30
lose six thousand wells in California.
00:48:32
The next couple of years I would have vetoed that bill.
00:48:35
I would have vetoed the the gender identifying Bill last
00:48:40
year. Koli would have, you know that?
00:48:42
I mean I would probably use my veto pen more than it's been
00:48:44
used in a long time, but as far as executive orders, I really
00:48:48
don't think it's the proper thing.
00:48:49
I think there is wearing a emergencies, we should use
00:48:53
executive powers, I would do that for transmission.
00:48:56
We aren't electricity problem and I would do that for
00:48:59
transmission lines, for sure. And I would do that to
00:49:02
fast-track the ability to put on new In California.
00:49:07
So we can drive down the cost of electricity and fuel.
00:49:12
Alright. Another question, can you work
00:49:15
with pro-freedom legislators to decriminalize the exercise of
00:49:19
second amendment in California? So question always comes up for
00:49:23
Republicans I guess we're good because California so many
00:49:29
regulations regarding the 2nd Amendment.
00:49:31
Would you work to kind of get rid of that stuff.
00:49:34
So look number one I voted. I have a really great voting
00:49:38
record when it comes to the second movement.
00:49:39
I don't want to penalize law-abiding citizens anymore
00:49:42
Plenty regulations. I'm a firearm owner myself with
00:49:45
many of them and I don't vote for that.
00:49:48
I want to get the Firearms out of criminals hands.
00:49:51
We up felons running around, we know have firearms that
00:49:54
shouldn't have them. That's the first thing I would
00:49:56
do is Governor is make sure we fund local agencies, local
00:50:00
sheriff's to go out and get those guns out of the hands of
00:50:03
felons that we know are out there.
00:50:04
The ones causing the crime, not law-abiding, citizens.
00:50:08
Let's see. What is the most pressing issue
00:50:13
facing California today? That's a big question.
00:50:15
First day in office. What is your focus?
00:50:19
Drive down the cost of inflation.
00:50:21
The biggest thing people are faced with today is putting food
00:50:24
on the table, surviving in California.
00:50:26
And we do that through the policies.
00:50:27
I talk about an energy number one out of the gate.
00:50:30
Number two crime, we would I would appoint a parole board.
00:50:34
I would fire the Pro Bowl. That Gavin Newsom has a place.
00:50:37
I would appoint a parole board that will make people serve
00:50:38
their sentences or not be let out early.
00:50:41
And we have to have we have to have actually tough on crime
00:50:44
policies. Cannot have a society where you
00:50:47
have lawlessness Exactly. We have, there's no punishment
00:50:50
for Crime. I'll work every day to put
00:50:52
criminals back in jail. This one, I think it's right up
00:50:56
your alley. How you rebuild our California,
00:51:00
Agriculture? To make it robust again.
00:51:03
Excuse me. How will you help with water and
00:51:05
are suffocating electrical grid? Number one, build more storage
00:51:10
for water the grid. Again I talked about
00:51:13
transmission and getting on sources that aren't intermittent
00:51:16
like wind and solar something that like geothermal that works
00:51:19
and that time when the winds not blowing this Asana and it's
00:51:23
clean. Let's say Anthony cabassa who
00:51:28
you know very well is watching. He said, what's your favorite
00:51:32
football team and favorite baseball team and what's your
00:51:34
favorite hobby? Actually I really don't have my
00:51:40
I was a Seattle Seahawks fan only because my brother was a
00:51:43
Raiders fan and they used to beat the Raiders way back in the
00:51:47
day on Monday Night Football, they stunk for years.
00:51:50
So that's just a rival between me and my brother.
00:51:52
He's a big Raiders fan. I don't really have a favorite
00:51:56
team. I watch, I love the I played
00:51:57
football when I was in high school and played, baseball and
00:52:01
played Sports, my son's, a wrestler, but so I don't have a
00:52:05
team of baseball. Been a Giants fan because I'm
00:52:07
from Northern California. But I've been to as many Dodger
00:52:11
games as I have Giants games. And so I like watching both and
00:52:15
I love the Rivalry between the two cities, it's awesome.
00:52:18
My favorite pastime is really just spending time with my
00:52:20
family. I you know I'm a farmer and I've
00:52:23
been elected for all these years and been away a lot and so I
00:52:26
love to just get this barbecue. I have a trigger.
00:52:30
I love to smoke me and cook for my family.
00:52:33
We always get the corn hole out, have a little tournament, get
00:52:35
our neighbors over That's my downtime is just spend time with
00:52:38
my community and my family. What's your go to me because I'm
00:52:44
a fellow smoker as well. What's your go-to me that you
00:52:47
have family coming over? You want to impress them?
00:52:49
All what's your go-to me is a pulled pork?
00:52:51
Is it a brisket? A tri-tip?
00:52:53
What is it? I make a mean tri-tip but I'm
00:52:57
really the I'm getting good at the brisket and I'm really
00:53:00
starting to perfect that and I'm pretty good at making turkeys.
00:53:04
I love to smoke them. Completely smoke them.
00:53:07
So put it on super smoke and smoke it till it's done.
00:53:11
And then It rest for a day, actually, throw in the fridge.
00:53:14
Let that smoke soak in and then peel it out, make sandwiches and
00:53:17
just eat it. That loss the best off the try
00:53:21
that. Yeah, I'm I haven't.
00:53:22
I tried brisket once and I don't think I cooked it to the right
00:53:26
temperature. Wasn't quite fall off the bone,
00:53:29
where it wasn't quite pull apart yet, but I'm gonna drag it
00:53:34
marinate it for a while. And in the fridge, throw a can
00:53:37
of seven up in your marinade, just try it, I know it sounds
00:53:40
crazy. Throw a can of 7Up in there, let
00:53:42
that roll around or Coke. It breaks it down a little bit,
00:53:45
put other your marinated and then smoke that baby and you
00:53:48
love. Try that now, how will you less
00:53:52
and homelessness? Would you be open to work with
00:53:54
someone like shellenberger Michael shellenberger, who ran
00:53:57
for governor as well? Yeah, I met with him.
00:54:00
I've talked with him, homelessness, is, is a
00:54:04
complicated issue? As you know, I've talked about
00:54:07
drug addiction, that's number one, number two, other things.
00:54:09
I talked about the other thing I want to do.
00:54:11
As partner with faith-based communities, they have done a
00:54:14
great job of actually getting people off of drugs and on a on
00:54:19
a pathway forward are unfortunately our government
00:54:21
does not partner with faith-based communities with
00:54:23
money, it's unfortunate because they actually have way better
00:54:26
results and there's many examples throughout our State
00:54:29
faith-based Community folks, that actually help people in a
00:54:34
more productive way with a lot less money funds that we do at
00:54:38
the state level. So I want to partner with them
00:54:40
and we might have to run that through The legislator to get it
00:54:42
down, but that's something I will champion.
00:54:46
So we want to be mindful of your time.
00:54:48
You got a lot to do, you got a lot of traveling to do.
00:54:52
Thank you for coming on, obviously open invitation.
00:54:55
If you want to come back on and we can continue because there's
00:54:58
so many topics to get to why don't you tell everybody where
00:55:02
they can learn more about you? If people want to get involved
00:55:04
in the campaign, there were a couple questions about people
00:55:06
wanting to volunteer and help out with the campaign.
00:55:09
Why don't you let people in the viewers know all about drawing
00:55:13
all social media platforms? You know, Facebook Instagram, we
00:55:18
have a website Brian daily.com. You can we have docu-series, you
00:55:23
can see me on the farm, we have some videos, we have a lot of
00:55:26
stuff on there. You have campaign sidekick, if
00:55:28
you want to make calls and you want to get out the boat, we
00:55:31
have a team that does that as well.
00:55:34
So code go to our website. That's a place to start.
00:55:37
We have people that do that for us and just get mainly.
00:55:41
I want you to donate if you can donate 10.
00:55:44
Any bucks makes it, you know, a thousand people give you ten
00:55:47
bucks as ten thousand dollars and that's real money.
00:55:50
And it makes a big difference. We're focusing on Latino
00:55:54
Community where there are a lot of to Latinos coming out to us
00:55:58
or and people are doing their own videos in Spanish.
00:56:01
It's awesome. We're getting a lot of traction,
00:56:03
they're excited about that. But yeah, go to go to my
00:56:06
website, get out the vote, I just beg and plead with you to
00:56:10
go out and vote, get your neighbors to vote donate.
00:56:13
If you can. And just Tell somebody do your
00:56:15
part. I'm doing mine.
00:56:17
We're in a position to take back this state.
00:56:20
I know it's a long shot, but so was it for David?
00:56:23
When he beat Goliath, at the end of the day?
00:56:25
You got to go to work. He put some rocks in a sling and
00:56:27
that's what made the difference. So I thank you for having me on.
00:56:31
It's been awesome. It's good to see you Cynthia
00:56:33
again, leftist, book forward to meet you in person pill, Yeah,
00:56:38
hopefully soon. Well, with that Senator, thank
00:56:42
you for coming on best of luck in your travels and in your
00:56:45
campaign as always. If you want to come back on
00:56:47
we're more than happy to have you on and have a great night.
00:56:51
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