Episode 236 - Convo with Assemblyman Bill Essayli

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[00:00:31] I am your host Phil, as always with me, my trusted co-host, the best and fastest researcher

[00:00:36] in the West Camille.

[00:00:37] And tonight we're very excited to have Assemblyman Bill a sailing on of the 63rd district.

[00:00:43] He's been for a lack of a better term.

[00:00:47] I'm trying to think of a good way to say this politely and professionally.

[00:00:52] You've been sort of rocking the boat up there in Sacramento and we love it.

[00:00:57] So Assemblyman, thanks for coming on to the show.

[00:00:59] How are you tonight?

[00:01:00] I am so happy we are at a session.

[00:01:04] Yeah.

[00:01:05] I am doing very well.

[00:01:07] Thank you.

[00:01:08] Awesome.

[00:01:09] So for people who don't know who you are, want to tell us a little bit about yourself

[00:01:13] and introduce yourself.

[00:01:15] Sure.

[00:01:16] So as you said, my name is Assemblyman Bill a sailing.

[00:01:18] I represent the 63rd assembly district.

[00:01:22] We have 80 districts statewide.

[00:01:25] My district encompasses Western Riverside counties.

[00:01:28] That's like Corota, Norco, Eastphal, Riverside, Lake Elson or Menifey areas there.

[00:01:35] It is my first term in office.

[00:01:37] I've never served in public office before.

[00:01:40] I don't really see myself as a politician.

[00:01:43] So this is my first year in the legislature.

[00:01:45] My background is that of a prosecutor, both at a deputy DA level, Riverside and also as

[00:01:51] a federal prosecutor at the US Attorney's Office.

[00:01:55] So what prompted you to make the switch from prosecutor to jump into the political arena?

[00:02:02] What made you crazy enough to go to Sacramento?

[00:02:05] Well, on a different topic when you look at public safety issues in California, we are so

[00:02:10] far worse off now that we've been in decades when it comes to crime and public safety.

[00:02:15] And when you look at the root cause of that, it had to do with the bills and laws being

[00:02:19] passed in Sacramento to basically decriminalize a lot of laws we had on the books.

[00:02:26] And that has caused the mayhem you see out the streets.

[00:02:30] So but when you look at who's passing these laws, you have a bunch of activists and for

[00:02:36] a lack of better word idiots up in Sacramento who are passing these laws have no idea what

[00:02:42] the consequences of them are.

[00:02:44] A lot of them are kids.

[00:02:46] They're in their 20s.

[00:02:47] They've never had a real job.

[00:02:49] We've never been in the private sector and they're the people who are governing over us

[00:02:54] and ruining our lives.

[00:02:56] And so I had an opportunity to run for my hometown in Corona.

[00:03:01] We had a freshman Democrat who just got in.

[00:03:04] She voted for all the worst laws.

[00:03:07] She voted to raise the gas tax.

[00:03:09] And when she came up for re-election, there wasn't a single person willing to run against

[00:03:13] her.

[00:03:14] She was going to run unopposed.

[00:03:16] And that was really like a wake up call.

[00:03:17] She says, okay, well, if you're not going to do it, then who will?

[00:03:22] And if not now, then when?

[00:03:24] So it was really a time for choosing and I made the decision to step down as a prosecutor

[00:03:29] and run.

[00:03:31] I was not successful my first time.

[00:03:33] That was in 2018.

[00:03:34] But I was able to have another go at it in 2022 and I did get elected that time.

[00:03:41] And it's something that I feel like a lot of people who are interested in the political

[00:03:47] arena need to know because it's more common than I think you people realized is you run

[00:03:53] one time and you may not be successful, but you've gotten your name out there.

[00:03:58] And then you can run a second time.

[00:04:00] And now that your name's out there, that helps you the second time around.

[00:04:03] Did you find that when you were running?

[00:04:06] Absolutely.

[00:04:07] It's like anything in life, whether it's in sports or business.

[00:04:10] You know, imagine your first day at work.

[00:04:12] You're just like during the headlines, you're overwhelmed.

[00:04:15] You're learning where everything is.

[00:04:17] You're learning how things work.

[00:04:18] So the first time you run, it is like drinking out of a fire hose.

[00:04:21] You're learning how to get on the ballot.

[00:04:24] You're learning how to raise money.

[00:04:26] You're learning what issues to message on, how to reach voters.

[00:04:30] So these all these new skill sets that you're learning.

[00:04:33] And I'll be honest with you, I had no plans to run again.

[00:04:35] I moved on.

[00:04:36] I started my own law firm.

[00:04:37] I had moved on.

[00:04:39] And what happened was they redistricted.

[00:04:42] They re-drew the boundaries of all the districts.

[00:04:44] And so what was kind of a purple district for me became a solid red district.

[00:04:49] And because I had built up my name ID and credibility, people came to me and said,

[00:04:56] hey, this is, we want you to run for this seat.

[00:04:59] We think you'd be good for it.

[00:05:01] And you've already shown you've got the ability to run and raise money.

[00:05:05] And so the second time around, it was kind of offered up to me instead of me seeking

[00:05:11] it.

[00:05:12] And that's kind of how this works.

[00:05:13] So you've got to put your name out there.

[00:05:15] People when you work hard, people notice.

[00:05:18] And nothing bad will come of it.

[00:05:21] You'll make new connections, new friends, new business mentors.

[00:05:27] Only good things come out of it even if you don't win.

[00:05:31] And to that point for voters or supporters of Republicans in California, I know it's

[00:05:37] always disheartening.

[00:05:38] People see it's like Republicans that they see these races and it always seems like they're

[00:05:43] getting clobbered.

[00:05:45] But I think it's a lesson to emphasize with the listeners if there is a good candidate

[00:05:50] who's running, support them and make sure you support them really well.

[00:05:55] And they may not win this first time, but that bullies them for a second chance and

[00:06:00] support them again.

[00:06:01] So, you know, it's important that they have a good showing that first time around with

[00:06:07] your support so that if they need to run again, they start in a better leg going forward.

[00:06:13] Absolutely.

[00:06:14] And like I said, there's 80 assembly seats.

[00:06:16] I'm not going to lie to you and say they're all competitive and this is possible in every

[00:06:21] district.

[00:06:22] But you'd be surprised.

[00:06:23] I'd say about a quarter of them are what we would consider competitive, meaning it's

[00:06:27] not a runaway.

[00:06:28] It's within five points or something.

[00:06:31] And people don't realize a lot of assembly seats are one within a very small margin.

[00:06:36] We had Greg Wallace win in Palm Springs by 85 votes.

[00:06:40] 85.

[00:06:41] You know, it was frustrating as I run into voters and like, oh, why should I vote?

[00:06:46] My vote doesn't even matter.

[00:06:47] I'm like, well, if that's your mindset then they've already won.

[00:06:50] So we have another candidate who did not win David Shepard, an excellent Senate candidate.

[00:06:56] He lost by less than 20 votes.

[00:06:58] Wow.

[00:06:59] 20.

[00:07:00] So I know you look at like the big map and, you know, everyone looks at the presidential

[00:07:06] stuff and the Senate races, but on some of these more localized races, there are much

[00:07:10] more competitive than people think they are.

[00:07:12] Do we get to do the messy stuff?

[00:07:15] Can we get what?

[00:07:17] Is it a messy stuff?

[00:07:19] No, yeah, let's do it.

[00:07:21] Camille's chopping at the bitch.

[00:07:22] She's like, I just want to get into the messy stuff.

[00:07:24] Well, because we talked about it a few times, HR 51.

[00:07:28] Is that, am I saying that correctly?

[00:07:31] Yeah.

[00:07:32] House resolution.

[00:07:33] That act, because I know you were trying to get them to vote on that and I didn't see

[00:07:37] enough date.

[00:07:38] Maybe I should probably tell people what it is.

[00:07:40] So I'm sure as you've heard, we've had several lawmakers and candidates get DUIs this

[00:07:47] year.

[00:07:48] And I don't know what's going on.

[00:07:49] It's all over the state and they happen to be all Democrats, senators, assembly members,

[00:07:55] city council members.

[00:07:56] They're getting DUIs and it's not like they're barely over the limit.

[00:08:00] They're like double the legal limit out there driving.

[00:08:02] And what I said, it's basically, it's symbolic.

[00:08:05] They're drunk with power.

[00:08:06] They feel like the rules don't apply to them, the laws don't apply to them.

[00:08:09] They could do whatever the hell they want.

[00:08:11] So what I did to sort of bring attention to this and there needs to be some sort of consequence

[00:08:17] is I drafted a resolution, House resolution 51 because we do get to regulate ourselves

[00:08:21] as a body.

[00:08:22] And it said that if you get a DUI, you lose your state car.

[00:08:25] People don't realize when we go up to Sacramento, they hand us the keys to a car.

[00:08:29] It's a, it's a camera.

[00:08:30] It's not like fancy car, but it's a taxpayer taxpayer paid car.

[00:08:36] Taxpayers pay for the car.

[00:08:37] They pay for the insurance.

[00:08:38] They pay for the gas.

[00:08:39] And it's so we can drive it around when we're away from home.

[00:08:42] And I don't think that if you have a DUI, you should get that car.

[00:08:46] You should lose the car.

[00:08:47] And so that's what my resolution did.

[00:08:49] It just says that if you get a DUI, you lose your car for three years.

[00:08:53] And I couldn't even get a vote on it.

[00:08:55] It's sitting in the Rules Committee, which is the committee that has jurisdiction over

[00:09:01] this.

[00:09:02] I try to bring it for a vote in the Rules Committee and the Republican on the committee

[00:09:06] wouldn't even second my vote to call it for a vote because he didn't want to embarrass

[00:09:13] the Democrats.

[00:09:15] So I try to force a vote, a procedural vote on the floor and every Democrat basically voted

[00:09:22] against it.

[00:09:23] So technically, it's still there at sitting in the Rules Committee and I'm going to try

[00:09:26] again when we get back in January because we've had now another member, Wendy Carrillo

[00:09:31] in LA.

[00:09:32] She was twice the legal limit crashing in a park cars in the middle of the night like a

[00:09:36] drunk maniac.

[00:09:37] And she's now running for city council.

[00:09:41] So she was drunk with what was the drunk or driving while sneezing?

[00:09:44] That was her excuse.

[00:09:45] Yes, I forgot.

[00:09:48] There's video of her and she told the officer, she's, I'm sorry, I sneezed and that was

[00:09:52] your explanation for the collision.

[00:09:54] That's a hell of a sneeze to hit that many park cars.

[00:09:56] I thought you didn't like author a bill that we need support groups for people sneezing.

[00:10:00] So I was afraid to ask what was up her nose?

[00:10:06] You are like, like Phil said, quite a quite a fighter up there.

[00:10:11] And so like parental rights is a big thing for you.

[00:10:16] And you kind of like on Twitter, excuse me, have been going after all these Democrats who

[00:10:22] are saying such nonsense about like the unions are now trying to infiltrate the school boards

[00:10:27] and make decisions for them and stuff.

[00:10:30] What do you have coming up?

[00:10:32] Like can you tell us when you come back in session, if you're doing anything related

[00:10:36] to school board parental rights?

[00:10:40] So I think people are familiar with the bill.

[00:10:42] We did AB 1314 which basically said that if the school is going to transition your child,

[00:10:48] the least they can do is tell you about it.

[00:10:50] I mean, it's not really a controversial bill.

[00:10:54] But the Democrats wouldn't even let it have a hearing.

[00:10:57] They said it's too dangerous, too reckless of an idea.

[00:11:01] We can't even give it a hearing.

[00:11:03] But the real reason they didn't give it a hearing is because vulnerable Democrats didn't

[00:11:07] want to go on record.

[00:11:08] They don't really stand on parental rights because Democrats are a lot of things but they're

[00:11:12] not politically stupid.

[00:11:14] So they understand that parental rights is a really powerful issue.

[00:11:19] So some of the crazy ones in the deep blue seats say, yeah, they'll talk about this.

[00:11:25] But a lot of the vulnerable ones do not want to touch this with 100-foot poles.

[00:11:30] So what we did is we worked with a coalition and put a coalition together of parental rights

[00:11:35] activists.

[00:11:37] We made a school board policy.

[00:11:39] So what we've been focused on the last few months now is taking my bill in the version

[00:11:45] of a school board policy and passing it district by district.

[00:11:49] And we've had a lot of success.

[00:11:50] I think we're up to six or seven school districts now have adopted my bill and some version

[00:11:57] of it.

[00:11:58] It's being challenged in court which we welcome.

[00:12:01] We think this is a great legal issue for parents.

[00:12:04] It's a great constitutional issue.

[00:12:06] The Supreme Court has repeatedly said parents have a right to have a constitutional right

[00:12:11] to raise their children.

[00:12:13] And then what we're going to be focused on next year is I believe that this is the issue

[00:12:19] of 2024 as parental rights.

[00:12:21] The Democrats, all they want to campaign on is abortion and it's like, okay, we did that.

[00:12:27] You know, you got prop one and all that.

[00:12:30] We need to stop playing defense and go in offense.

[00:12:33] And we need to get this issue on the ballot and make this the issue of 2024.

[00:12:38] I do not believe Democrats win because they have better candidates.

[00:12:43] Democrats win because they message on better issues.

[00:12:46] They find the emotional, social, popular issues that really resonate and they go all in.

[00:12:52] That's why they love abortion, especially in California.

[00:12:56] So we need to do the same.

[00:12:57] But the Republicans, they're so afraid of social issues and messaging on anything other

[00:13:04] than what they consider safe.

[00:13:07] And to them right now, the only thing safe to talk about is fentanyl, crime, taxes, just

[00:13:14] the basic stuff which is not bad to talk about but I don't think it's moving voters.

[00:13:20] I haven't seen that move voters at the ballot box.

[00:13:23] So what we're going to be focused on is a ballot initiative that is going to do three things.

[00:13:29] It's going to codify my bill into state law, so basically a parental notification requirement

[00:13:34] at the school level for when schools transition the gender of kids.

[00:13:39] It's going to protect girls in sports.

[00:13:42] So that way a boy can't decide he wants to get a better record and switch to the girls

[00:13:46] team.

[00:13:48] And it's going to prohibit medical gender.

[00:13:54] I don't even like to use the word care but procedures for minors.

[00:13:59] Really what we're talking about here is preventing the sterilization of children because that's

[00:14:02] what the outcome is of what they call gender affirming care.

[00:14:07] These kids will be permanently sterilized, they'll never have children and let's say permanent

[00:14:11] lifelong decision.

[00:14:12] I don't think anyone should decide that before they turn 18.

[00:14:16] So it would do all three of those things.

[00:14:18] So we're focused on qualifying that getting that on the ballot for 2024.

[00:14:23] There's so much.

[00:14:25] I didn't want kids when I was a teenager.

[00:14:31] I'm now a mom before.

[00:14:33] I want them.

[00:14:34] I love them.

[00:14:35] Right.

[00:14:36] So yeah, no people change their mind about kids, especially as they get older.

[00:14:40] Right.

[00:14:41] Yeah.

[00:14:43] I was just going to say there's so much to unpack and good stuff that you said in there.

[00:14:47] The first I wanted to talk about is this idea that like all Democrats in California legislature

[00:14:55] are like, they're either Scott Weiner or Alex Lee.

[00:14:59] They're like, they're just so far left that they're like these Bay Area Democrats, Buffy

[00:15:03] Wicks, all of them.

[00:15:04] They just seem to like their voice is louder than any other Democrats in the legislature.

[00:15:11] And there's got to be more moderate Democrats in the legislature.

[00:15:16] Like you said, we're like, I don't want to touch this parental rights.

[00:15:19] I'm in a vulnerable district.

[00:15:21] So why is there not a opportunity for moderate Democrats and Republicans that kind of link

[00:15:28] hands and tell, you know, the Bay Area Democrats like go Pound Sand.

[00:15:32] We're not listening to you when we're not bowing to your extreme agenda.

[00:15:36] Why is there no opportunity to work like that?

[00:15:40] It's because the composition of the legislature is so out of whack.

[00:15:44] So out of 80 seats, the Democrats control 62.

[00:15:50] The only need 41 to pass anything.

[00:15:53] So even if you have 20 moderate Democrats, which is a lot, it's not enough to stop anything.

[00:16:00] So we have 18 Republicans, 62 Democrats.

[00:16:04] So the problem with having a supermajority is it really makes it hard to moderate anything

[00:16:10] because they have such big numbers.

[00:16:12] They can afford to lose a few people and still pass their agenda.

[00:16:15] And the problem is when you have a supermajority, it's very fascinating to watch this.

[00:16:20] The more power they have, it's almost like the more sensitive they are.

[00:16:24] They cannot handle any criticism, any dissent, even though they have all the power and

[00:16:30] all the votes.

[00:16:31] They have to prove their right all the time.

[00:16:34] And with the Democrats, it's always party first, always party over country, party over everything.

[00:16:41] And so they're very careful about never showing those divisions publicly.

[00:16:46] I hear they fight a lot behind the scenes but publicly they don't show division.

[00:16:53] So that's something the Democrats are very good at.

[00:16:57] So there is dissent but you're right, the people that dominate the narratives are the ones

[00:17:02] who tend to be from LA in the Bay Area.

[00:17:05] And they're just loud and they're very persistent.

[00:17:09] And you'll notice too, I mean, they'll have some bad ideas.

[00:17:12] And if they don't get it through one year, they'll bring it again the next year and

[00:17:15] the next year until they get it through.

[00:17:18] And they're very, very persistent.

[00:17:20] We were just looking at you, sorry, I kept it around to you.

[00:17:25] You would send me that last year.

[00:17:26] That was released of all the new chairs.

[00:17:29] And we will be on the list and we're like, there's not a single Republican.

[00:17:33] That was really.

[00:17:34] Well, no, never make a Republican chair.

[00:17:36] I mean, they'd never do that.

[00:17:37] But, but you know, and this is always a fallacy too that in, you know,

[00:17:43] we have this phrase called the third house, which is basically the lobbying arm of the Sacramento to the lobbyists.

[00:17:52] They've made this terrible calculation that in a competitive race, it is better to bet on a moderate

[00:17:59] Democrat than to try to get a Republican in there.

[00:18:03] And it's a strategy that's totally failed because every Democrat says they're a moderate until they vote.

[00:18:10] And they're no longer a moderate.

[00:18:12] It's very easy to say you're a moderate, but when it comes time to vote,

[00:18:15] they're not willing to stand up against their party.

[00:18:18] Why?

[00:18:18] Because their party exerts so much power.

[00:18:20] It's very hard to stand up against your party.

[00:18:23] They'll remove you as chair.

[00:18:25] They'll take you off the good committees.

[00:18:26] They'll kill your bill.

[00:18:28] They have a lot of tools they can use to punish you and people are afraid of it.

[00:18:32] I'll give you one quick example.

[00:18:34] If you remember last year, Gavin Newsom brought us back for a special session to deal with gas prices.

[00:18:41] And he wants to basically go after oil companies.

[00:18:43] He thinks the reason gas prices are high is because oil companies are colluding.

[00:18:48] And somehow they're only colluding in California, not any other state.

[00:18:51] It doesn't make any sense.

[00:18:52] There was one Democrat who didn't vote for their bill.

[00:18:57] And she's from the Bakers field with a big oil community.

[00:19:00] And she isn't a very vulnerable target.

[00:19:03] And see, you think they would let her off and basically say,

[00:19:05] yeah, you know what?

[00:19:06] We don't need your vote.

[00:19:07] Don't vote for it.

[00:19:08] No, because she didn't vote for it.

[00:19:09] They punished her.

[00:19:10] They took her off the committee because they cannot have dissent.

[00:19:14] They don't tolerate it at all.

[00:19:19] I was going to just kind of talk about,

[00:19:22] I think we've talked about this with like every assembly member or senators come on.

[00:19:28] Just the re-emphasize for the voters because I don't think it could be said enough.

[00:19:32] Breaking the super majority when people say,

[00:19:35] well, how do we turn California around?

[00:19:36] How do we change things?

[00:19:38] I always say the first step that should be the first goal number one, break the super majority.

[00:19:44] How much of a difference does that make just breaking the super majority in the legislature?

[00:19:49] Breaking the super majority would be massive.

[00:19:52] And to break it, we need 27 out of 80 seats.

[00:19:56] So right now we have 18.

[00:19:57] What it would do is it would give us tremendous leverage because not every bill is a majority vote.

[00:20:04] Some of the budget stuff they want to do,

[00:20:06] especially tax increases or constitutional amendments requires a two thirds vote.

[00:20:13] So if we have a seat at the table,

[00:20:15] it gives us a lot of leverage to negotiate and exert power and influence.

[00:20:19] Right now we're basically irrelevant.

[00:20:22] There's nothing.

[00:20:23] You know, and this really bothers me because I get into disagreements with some of my colleagues

[00:20:28] because they want me to basically get along better with some of the Democrats.

[00:20:34] Well, we have to work across the aisle.

[00:20:36] We have to be effective.

[00:20:38] Don't you want to pass a bill?

[00:20:39] Don't you want to get something done?

[00:20:41] And I just have to remind them, look, I was not elected to pass more laws.

[00:20:45] Nobody set me to Sacramento and said, please send us another law.

[00:20:50] We don't have enough laws.

[00:20:52] No, we're the opposition.

[00:20:53] We're there to stop the nonsense.

[00:20:55] But some of my colleagues, they have that backwards.

[00:20:58] They think passing a do nothing bill is like doing a good job.

[00:21:01] So yeah, we have got to break the super majority

[00:21:07] and we do that by beating Democrats at the ballot box.

[00:21:10] And for that, we have to have a strategy.

[00:21:12] And to be fair, I haven't seen one yet.

[00:21:14] I don't see a cohesive strategy.

[00:21:18] I have tried to get the party to basically embrace parental rights.

[00:21:23] They just they don't want to.

[00:21:24] I don't know why.

[00:21:25] I have ideas.

[00:21:27] We kind of talked about it.

[00:21:28] They don't like social issues.

[00:21:30] They won't talk about the safe stuff.

[00:21:33] But I don't, they just have this idea that if they raise enough money, they'll win seats.

[00:21:38] I just don't think money's enough.

[00:21:39] You got to have a strategy and a message that resonates with voters

[00:21:44] to give them a reason to vote for you or more importantly,

[00:21:46] to vote against Democrats.

[00:21:49] Well, the parental rights, I mean, I think it's a slam dunk

[00:21:52] because at the end of the day, I think most people,

[00:21:56] even if they are not Republican or their centrist

[00:21:59] or maybe they lean left, if their parents,

[00:22:03] I think when you touch upon that instinct,

[00:22:06] I'm not a parent myself, but I'm just saying

[00:22:08] I've seen the reaction.

[00:22:11] I think if you bring up parental rights and say to California voters,

[00:22:15] like look at this, these schools are trying

[00:22:19] to put a wedge between you and your children.

[00:22:21] They don't believe you know enough to raise your children.

[00:22:25] That kind of message to parents,

[00:22:28] I would think immediately wakes them up

[00:22:30] and gets them energized to vote against whoever's pushing that agenda.

[00:22:35] And I don't see, I'm shocked to hear that they don't want

[00:22:39] to go forward with that because that seems like a slam dunk issue

[00:22:42] in California that could be a turning point

[00:22:44] to kind of wake people up to what's going on.

[00:22:47] Yeah, they're, they don't know how to win.

[00:22:51] I don't know how to explain it.

[00:22:52] They've almost, they've resigned themselves

[00:22:55] to being in the minority and they're just trying

[00:22:57] to make the best of it.

[00:22:58] I honestly don't think a lot of them want to win

[00:23:01] because like, you know, we're talking about sports earlier.

[00:23:05] It's painful.

[00:23:07] It's painful to win.

[00:23:08] You got to work hard.

[00:23:09] You got to go to practice.

[00:23:10] You got to fight hard.

[00:23:11] You got to really want it out on the field

[00:23:14] and you're going to take punches.

[00:23:15] You're going to get hit.

[00:23:17] You're going to get bloodied and bruised.

[00:23:20] I don't think they have an appetite for it,

[00:23:21] to be honest with you.

[00:23:24] You were saying about me being different

[00:23:25] than some of the other assembly members

[00:23:27] up there are politicians.

[00:23:29] The reason I'm different is because

[00:23:30] I am not a career politician.

[00:23:32] I did not go through local elected office.

[00:23:34] I didn't go to city council and then work my way up

[00:23:37] to the assembly which people wanted me to do

[00:23:40] before I got up here.

[00:23:41] I'm an attorney by background.

[00:23:42] I still have my own law practice.

[00:23:44] That's where I'm in my law office right now.

[00:23:47] I don't need this job.

[00:23:50] So I can afford to take positions

[00:23:53] and, you know what?

[00:23:55] If I don't get reelected so be it.

[00:23:56] I go back to doing what I gotta do

[00:23:58] but a lot of people are very dependent

[00:23:59] on this position.

[00:24:01] This is the best job a lot of them will ever have

[00:24:06] and they don't want to lose it.

[00:24:08] Even if they're in the minority,

[00:24:09] it's better than not being in office.

[00:24:13] Okay, last point about that kind of want to bring up.

[00:24:17] I agree with you 110%

[00:24:20] and I think I've said this until I'm blue in the face

[00:24:22] on this show and on lives and on social media.

[00:24:26] At this point, the California Republican Party

[00:24:29] has nothing else to lose in terms of its numbers as a party.

[00:24:36] It's already a quarter, whether the quarter of the votes

[00:24:38] or voters 25% of voters are Republican.

[00:24:41] It seems like it's going down.

[00:24:44] You lose nothing by being bold

[00:24:47] and that's why I agree with you.

[00:24:49] Be bold.

[00:24:51] There's, there's, you have nothing to lose at this point.

[00:24:53] Either you stay in an irrelevant minority

[00:24:56] that doesn't do anything and has no power

[00:24:58] or you at least step up and say,

[00:25:00] we want to push for parental rights.

[00:25:02] We want to push for nuclear power.

[00:25:05] We want to push for reopening oil wells.

[00:25:07] We want to push like be bold in your solutions

[00:25:10] and you'll probably get more people to pay them

[00:25:12] be like, well, at least I know where they stand

[00:25:14] and I can agree with them or vote for them

[00:25:16] one way or another.

[00:25:18] But milk toast in middle of the road

[00:25:20] is I don't think it's a winning strategy.

[00:25:23] I don't think it is too,

[00:25:24] but look at the guy that just won an Argentina

[00:25:28] for a job.

[00:25:29] He's very bold, right?

[00:25:31] I mean, he is, he does not hold back,

[00:25:33] he's very bold is in your face.

[00:25:36] And by the way, did you see they got the results

[00:25:37] their election in like an hour

[00:25:39] for the whole country.

[00:25:41] Yeah.

[00:25:42] It's like yeah, that's the way you do an election

[00:25:45] and there's no room for shenanigans.

[00:25:50] You're right, but I think the other problem

[00:25:54] that you're maybe not including

[00:25:57] or having considered is the donor class,

[00:26:00] especially in Sacramento.

[00:26:01] That's the business community.

[00:26:03] Business community doesn't care about parental rights.

[00:26:06] Business community cares about special interests

[00:26:09] and they care about getting an amendment through

[00:26:12] that creates a loophole for their issue

[00:26:15] or making a bad bill a little bit less of a bad bill.

[00:26:20] And so they don't want to,

[00:26:22] they don't want to be involved in this.

[00:26:23] And so most of the money we get

[00:26:25] are from those business donors up in Sacramento.

[00:26:29] We call them the third house

[00:26:31] and they don't want to set the Democrats.

[00:26:34] They don't want us to go into parental rights

[00:26:36] because that makes the Democrats mad

[00:26:38] and they'll retaliate.

[00:26:39] And so there's a lot of dynamics to this.

[00:26:44] It's really important who you send up to Sacramento,

[00:26:48] especially in the safe Republican seats

[00:26:50] you have to send fighters.

[00:26:52] So when you have an open seat

[00:26:54] and I think there's gonna be a three or four open

[00:26:56] Republican seats, this cycle due to people turned out

[00:27:00] or moving to other seats,

[00:27:02] you have to make sure that in the primary

[00:27:04] you're getting the person through

[00:27:06] who's not a career politician, staffer,

[00:27:09] but is actually a fighter

[00:27:11] and wants to come up here

[00:27:12] and doesn't care about upsetting the Apple cart

[00:27:15] or ruffling some feathers.

[00:27:17] Because once they're in,

[00:27:18] they're very hard to get people out, as I'm sure you know.

[00:27:21] Yeah, I mean, I would say it's my opinion

[00:27:24] and you can tell me if I'm wrong or not.

[00:27:26] But I think there's a good core of Republicans up there

[00:27:31] in the legislature.

[00:27:33] You, I would say James Gallagher, Joe Patterson,

[00:27:38] Josh Hoover, Kate Sanchez,

[00:27:40] those are some like people I think who are,

[00:27:43] they've brought like fresh blood to the legislature.

[00:27:47] Joe Patterson has no filter, I love it.

[00:27:50] So I think in James Gallagher has no problem speaking

[00:27:53] as mine, I think there's more people who need to be like that,

[00:27:57] be like you who like just,

[00:27:59] there's an issue.

[00:28:00] I feel boldly about it.

[00:28:01] I need to, I need to at least say something

[00:28:03] because with the parental rights bill

[00:28:09] or was it the sex trafficking,

[00:28:11] the child sex trafficking bill?

[00:28:13] I mean, just look at the response to that.

[00:28:16] That was nationwide news

[00:28:19] about this child sex trafficking bill.

[00:28:21] And that was because people raised the alarm about it

[00:28:23] and said, well, what's going on here?

[00:28:25] Like this is something that I should all be paying attention to.

[00:28:28] And that public pressure got a lot of Democrats to back off.

[00:28:32] Also knows that Joan Soyer was removed as chair

[00:28:35] from public safety committee in that update.

[00:28:37] So yeah.

[00:28:39] Yeah.

[00:28:40] So I think that might have been connected.

[00:28:41] So yeah, I think it was a unique issue

[00:28:47] because I think you can't discount the sound of freedom

[00:28:52] was having a huge impact at the same time

[00:28:54] that was going down.

[00:28:56] So a lot of people were watching this movie,

[00:28:58] Sound of Freedom and they had no idea

[00:28:59] about the child sex trafficking epidemic

[00:29:03] that is global, frankly.

[00:29:05] And then you also have the nuance

[00:29:07] of Gavin Newsom wanting to be president.

[00:29:10] So he's very sensitive about his national image

[00:29:17] I think without those two factors,

[00:29:19] I don't know if SB 14 would have passed.

[00:29:22] But yeah, having the public uproar

[00:29:26] definitely had a huge effect in Sacramento.

[00:29:28] The problem is there's so much to get upset about.

[00:29:32] It's hard to get the public focused

[00:29:34] on specific bills and issues sometimes

[00:29:38] just because there's so many.

[00:29:39] But SB 14 was one of those that really captured

[00:29:43] the interest of the public in the media

[00:29:45] and it was like the perfect storm.

[00:29:48] We just can't rely on that model

[00:29:51] for every bill, we have 3000 bills this year.

[00:29:55] Some really bad ones got through.

[00:29:58] I mean, 665 is going to basically give the government

[00:30:01] a way to remove kids from your home

[00:30:03] if they think that you're a danger

[00:30:05] or it's in the kids' mental health benefit

[00:30:08] to have them out of there.

[00:30:10] It's really dangerous.

[00:30:12] I mean, we try and do a legislative roundup twice a year

[00:30:16] and we barely scratch the surface of what there is.

[00:30:20] Like we just bring up the most shocking bills

[00:30:23] that people should be aware of.

[00:30:24] But that doesn't, you know,

[00:30:25] there's thousands of bills that are going through

[00:30:27] the assembly.

[00:30:30] You brought up our esteemed governor, Gavin Newsom

[00:30:33] so I think it was a good segue into our next topic.

[00:30:37] Did you think that the way to solve homelessness

[00:30:40] in San Francisco was to have the dictator

[00:30:42] from China as you should be able to come over?

[00:30:44] Was that anybody's guess?

[00:30:46] You don't want to find so insulting

[00:30:48] about that whole episode is he was so smug

[00:30:52] and he didn't even hide it.

[00:30:54] He said, yeah, of course we did.

[00:30:56] We cleaned up the city because we had all these world leaders

[00:30:59] coming out of Chinese dictator.

[00:31:00] He was very smug about it.

[00:31:02] And when it shows you is like what?

[00:31:05] Daddy said it's like cleaning her house

[00:31:07] when guests come over.

[00:31:08] Yeah.

[00:31:09] And I think don't have homeless encampments in my yard,

[00:31:13] but.

[00:31:15] I don't know what they did with them.

[00:31:16] I don't think they just shoved them into

[00:31:18] some residential areas for temporarily.

[00:31:20] I don't know that there was a permanent remedy for it.

[00:31:25] But it shows you that if they want to do it, they can do it.

[00:31:29] It's not an issue of money.

[00:31:31] It's not an issue of court cases or laws in the way.

[00:31:35] It's a lack of will.

[00:31:38] So when they have the will to do it, they do it.

[00:31:41] And so why is the Chinese dictator more important,

[00:31:46] more special than the Californian average California person

[00:31:51] who's working hard paying taxes

[00:31:53] and trying to raise a family?

[00:31:54] Why does the Chinese dictator get more special treatment

[00:31:58] than we do in our own freaking state?

[00:32:01] So I find it's so insulting that he'll go out of his way

[00:32:05] for foreign dictators, but he wouldn't give us the same courtesy.

[00:32:09] Same thing with the 10 freeway shutdown.

[00:32:11] It showed you that if they want to do something,

[00:32:14] want to fix a highway or build a lane, they can do it.

[00:32:19] They don't want to.

[00:32:21] It doesn't fit their agenda and their narrative.

[00:32:23] And so that's really what it exposes.

[00:32:27] And you know, and that's why as a Republican,

[00:32:30] I don't sign on to any of these homeless bills and bonds and BS

[00:32:37] because that's not the issue.

[00:32:39] The issue isn't money or bond.

[00:32:44] We don't have people in power that actually want to fix the problem.

[00:32:49] Yeah.

[00:32:49] And even more insulting was they found out

[00:32:53] this was all done within San Francisco's budget.

[00:32:56] So they had the money to do this.

[00:32:59] It wasn't like they needed a special block grant from the federal government.

[00:33:02] They could have just done this.

[00:33:03] They could have just cleaned up the city and then figured this out with the homeless.

[00:33:08] So I think it's just kind of insulting

[00:33:13] and it shows you how smug they are

[00:33:17] and how I guess untouchable they feel

[00:33:20] California Democrats because they're like, yeah, whatever.

[00:33:23] We welcome GGPing with open arms who cleaned up the streets.

[00:33:27] What do you do about it?

[00:33:28] Are you going to vote us out in San Francisco?

[00:33:30] Like that doesn't change anything.

[00:33:32] Yeah, and so they are actually beat up at the ballot box.

[00:33:36] Totally start losing some seats.

[00:33:37] They're not going to it's going to get worse and will not get better.

[00:33:41] It's just the only thing they understand is raw power.

[00:33:44] And at the ballot box.

[00:33:46] It's the only thing that that's going to change things.

[00:33:48] So people I even tell Democrats,

[00:33:50] I might even if you're not a Republican vote Republican just to send a message

[00:33:55] and get some balance in the legislature.

[00:33:57] And I would be telling you the same thing if we had a super majority Republican legislature.

[00:34:02] I do not think supermajorities are healthy.

[00:34:04] They're not.

[00:34:05] You should not have a supermajority anything because like I said,

[00:34:09] it allows the extremes to basically run the show and you don't get any kind of modernization

[00:34:15] or you don't moderate any of the viewpoints when it's a supermajority.

[00:34:22] I have a theory and you can tell me if I'm completely off base or not.

[00:34:29] Ironically, we are kind of saved by the far left policies because Gavin Newsom wants

[00:34:38] to run for president so badly that he will shut down far left policies and veto those

[00:34:47] bills because of that.

[00:34:50] Now I'm scared the next governor whether it's well-ponta or the lieutenant governor who

[00:34:57] I can never pronounce her name because they don't have higher aspirations.

[00:35:04] Will be farther left and be more bold to pass these crazy far left policies.

[00:35:10] Is that a crazy theory that we're at least?

[00:35:14] No, it's a huge concern.

[00:35:18] I have the same concern.

[00:35:20] I say it now.

[00:35:21] Thank God Newsom is running for president because it's the only thing that's moderating our

[00:35:28] policies in California.

[00:35:30] He's the adult in the room right now.

[00:35:32] He's the only one that's vetoing crazy bills, not all of them but some of them and that's

[00:35:38] the best we have right now.

[00:35:40] If we get one of these other people up there who are much more progressive and are not

[00:35:46] restrained they'll sign all this stuff that's going to bankrupt the state and just drive

[00:35:51] us down out the whole deeper.

[00:35:53] I'm very, very worried about that and I don't see any prominent Republicans emerging that

[00:36:01] can be viable governor candidates.

[00:36:04] I mean we really need, I just the way California is it's so big you need someone with a huge

[00:36:09] name ID almost celebrity status that can win.

[00:36:12] I mean the last one was Arnold right?

[00:36:15] We need someone at that level that can step up and run.

[00:36:18] I don't know who that is maybe they'll emerge but we just can't hand this over to the Democrats

[00:36:25] Newsom leaves.

[00:36:26] And think about it too Jerry Brown was a kind of moderate to on fiscal stuff so we've had

[00:36:31] two somewhat moderate governors in a row.

[00:36:35] We haven't felt the full effect of a Democrat supermajority and a progressive governor.

[00:36:41] That is going to be a recipe for disaster.

[00:36:44] Yeah I just fear the day there's going to be a governor who's in Sacramento who has

[00:36:50] no qualms about signing off on every Scott Weiner bill and every Alex Lee bill and every

[00:36:54] Buffy Wicks bill and like some of those bills you look at are just like you roll your

[00:36:58] eyes and go okay where are we getting the money for why is this important it's either

[00:37:02] one of those two things.

[00:37:03] Why were we getting the money from raising taxes or two their social issues that most of

[00:37:09] the time we kind of go why is this important why does this have to be made law.

[00:37:15] So yeah by the or they're on constitutional or they're on constitutional and then you

[00:37:21] got to you know have a lot of resources to go to court and challenge it and get it struck

[00:37:26] down which the Democrats don't care they'll pass it again even after it's struck down

[00:37:32] and just tie it up for years.

[00:37:35] Well my fear as a gun owner is that if someone like Rob Bontagets and he's just going

[00:37:40] to tear apart the second amendment here in California he won't care.

[00:37:44] He'll have the ability and the backing of the governor's office to just absolutely shred

[00:37:50] any second amendment rights in this state and you know as good as like the firearms policy

[00:37:55] coalition is you know California gunners associations as good as they are they won't be able

[00:38:04] to match the power of the governor's office who has unlimited resources to fight these

[00:38:09] out in court forever so that's one thing I'm scared of.

[00:38:16] Shifting now speaking of the grace of God I want to go back to the issue with the sisters

[00:38:23] of perpetual indulgence actually at the trying to remember what their name was before I hop

[00:38:28] down there because I was like the sisters of what were they big perpetual something or

[00:38:32] other.

[00:38:34] I just like to say first off as a Catholic myself I was very appreciative of your of you

[00:38:44] standing up for me as a Californian in the legislature against the sisters of perpetual

[00:38:50] indulgence so I thought that was that was great to see that what was your what was going

[00:38:56] through your head when they invited these sisters there.

[00:39:00] Honestly I was disgusted because we are supposed to be a institution that stands for something

[00:39:06] some sort of decency and higher you know level of intellect and discussion.

[00:39:12] I mean we represent the people where the people's house and this is where we do our business

[00:39:16] and we decide policy we we govern it's a big deal into basically cheap in it and recognize

[00:39:25] a group that basically exists for this sole purpose of mocking a faith mocking Catholics.

[00:39:36] So disgusting and beneath what we stand for so you know I did my own little silent protest

[00:39:43] I think you saw it I just stood up and I had a little sign it said religious bigotry

[00:39:46] is bigotry and there was a lot of blowback for that and you know and people were upset

[00:39:53] and people in my party were upset why did that and why upset the democrats because you know

[00:39:58] they try to turn it into an anti LGBT thing I said I go there were a lot of other LGBT people

[00:40:05] being recognized that day that were worthy of recognition you had you know people who are

[00:40:10] in law enforcement and people involved in their community but these drag queen nuns

[00:40:15] who okay maybe they do an hour of community service a week and spend the rest of their time

[00:40:21] you know making fun of Catholics is not worthy of being recognized and so but why do they do it

[00:40:29] they do it to they do it to provoke us right I mean they they want a reaction from us

[00:40:37] and they do it because they can and they want to rub it in our face I just don't think we

[00:40:41] should participate in that you know what I did in response because all the media narrative

[00:40:45] was that the republicans walked out on the pride ceremony that's what the that's how they spun it

[00:40:51] so I said okay why don't we do this why don't we recognize a conservative gay person

[00:40:58] and see how they react and we did that I invited Rick Rinalt the first gay cabinet member

[00:41:06] ambassador Rick Rinalt who was appointed by president Trump we gave him an award and guess what

[00:41:11] the democrats stood up and walked out during his his award and so yeah so you know it's like

[00:41:21] to complete that game and we got some good press out of that but even that my party's like why are

[00:41:26] you doing this leave it alone don't provoke them I go no we have to make a point this is not see

[00:41:31] this is what they do they paint republicans as bigots and homophobes and we just sit by and we

[00:41:37] we like say oh no we're not what you have to do is flip the script and use their playbook against them

[00:41:43] and so okay let's let's have our own ceremony and see how they react and when they get up and walk

[00:41:49] out you call them homophobes and and that's what we did it was pretty effective actually

[00:41:56] but I think the best defense is offense and I wish people would embrace that a bit more

[00:42:02] yeah because I think it got it got people to notice the issue and I think it got people to pay

[00:42:10] attention to it and discuss it otherwise and I think that's part of the problem in California is

[00:42:18] there's so many people in California who feel like they just don't have a voice I feel like that

[00:42:24] there's so many you know just people who want to go to work who want to make a good living in a

[00:42:30] fort-a-home put their kids through a good school they're not into all this crazy progressive social

[00:42:38] issues they're not into the climate change they just they want to pay three dollars for a gallon

[00:42:43] of gas again and their voices are just they're not being heard anywhere and it's there's got to be

[00:42:52] millions more of the unheard in California than there is of these you know the showboat far left

[00:43:03] Democrats who make it all about social issues and all this stuff and I think politicians like

[00:43:10] yourself need to you know and you've done it and I think there needs to be more speaking up on

[00:43:16] their behalf and letting people like hey someone's standing up on my behalf so like I said as a

[00:43:22] Catholic when I saw you do that I said hey someone's standing up on my behalf in the legislature

[00:43:28] I felt represented and how many thousands of Catholics or millions of Catholics here

[00:43:34] in California said wow he's standing up for me and protecting me yeah and how many Hispanics are

[00:43:41] Catholic I mean one of the biggest voting block in state of California are Hispanics

[00:43:46] now they're predominantly Catholic so when they go vote they should know when you go see the D

[00:43:52] next to somebody's name they don't respect you or your family or your religion in fact that

[00:43:59] D stands for Diablo don't vote for them you know so it the problem today's people's attention spans

[00:44:07] are so small that you really have to make the election very simple and it's got to be a binary

[00:44:13] issue its Democrats are against parental rights Republicans are for parental rights so when you go

[00:44:20] vote that's the only thing you need to know and you can make that decision accordingly because very

[00:44:25] few people take the time to learn about each person they're voting for with their record is

[00:44:30] and then deciphering what's true what's not true and all this stuff a lot of people just vote based on

[00:44:35] party and what they think their head is that Republicans are racist and homophobes and hate women

[00:44:41] and Democrats love them but that's not true I mean obviously look at the policy but that's

[00:44:48] what people feel so until there's a alternative message and narrative that resonates we're going

[00:44:54] to continue to have the same results we do until people feel a sort of disgust and resistance

[00:45:02] to Democrats they're not going to vote for us I don't I don't think people vote for anything anymore

[00:45:08] I think they vote against things I just do it's just the way I feel I don't think anyone voted

[00:45:13] for Biden I think they voted in their mind against Trump yes yeah right so same thing they're

[00:45:19] not voting for these loser Democrats that are getting sent up there they're just voting against

[00:45:25] their Republicans right it's tribalism has really hurt our country because people just

[00:45:33] it's my tribe versus your tribe and I don't care who we send out there how bad they are

[00:45:39] I want someone to be to bring home a win for our tribe and that's the sad thing is that

[00:45:44] people just don't care they don't look at their own party and give it criticism I know

[00:45:50] Camille and I we constantly critique the California Republican Party and we get some backlash for it

[00:45:56] but I think being honest is the best way to start fixing and moving forward because otherwise

[00:46:02] how are we gonna how has anything gonna change if you just keep the status quo right and George

[00:46:08] Washington warned us about political parties he was very concerned but the effects they would have

[00:46:15] on the republic and we've seen that now I don't think the solution is to have a third party

[00:46:21] I don't know what the solution is because then you get a plurality but yeah this

[00:46:27] people are way too they defer way too much to the party that they belong to and just give them a

[00:46:33] free pass every time I wish there was just no letter next to their name and everyone actually

[00:46:39] had to go and research the candidate and then be like hmm you know it's interesting you say that

[00:46:44] because when you look at local racist city council and supervisor and sheriff and DA there is no

[00:46:50] letter next to their name we tend to get better candidates that's something you never like

[00:46:56] outspoken about you know like they want to make sure everyone knows who they are what part of

[00:47:00] they are even though they're supposed to be yeah but if you notice we get more Republicans elected

[00:47:06] at the local level because people vote for the person because there's no party next to their name

[00:47:12] so I'm not going to say anything today but that is an interesting observation that you've made

[00:47:22] yeah and local local makes all the difference real quick we have a couple minutes left

[00:47:27] I want to kind of just really quickly touch upon the idea of the Hispanic vote and that

[00:47:36] Republicans should absolutely be jumping on this lock stock and barrel I don't know why

[00:47:41] California Republicans don't invest more in reaching out to the Hispanic vote here in California

[00:47:47] because I just think it makes so much more sense for Republicans to reach out to Hispanics and

[00:47:54] Democrats especially after a lot of the issues like the Sisters of Perpetual Intelligence how do

[00:47:59] we not find that as an opportunity to see like a hard hitting ad we just put a montage of like

[00:48:08] the Sisters Gyrating on on you know on the Cross and the Dodger Stadium and then what's going

[00:48:15] on at the schools and these you know transgender boys who are beating up girls in the locker rooms

[00:48:22] and in sports and whatever put that montage together and let them know what the Democrat party is about

[00:48:28] and you know I'm kind of joking but I do think there needs to be some sort of campaign or slogan

[00:48:33] that like what is the D stand for next to the person's name it's I think Diablo is a good way

[00:48:40] to go D is for Diablo and make that a hard hitting ad and I think it would have a lot of

[00:48:48] effect and traction but if you're listening everyone go donate to him so we can make this up I think

[00:48:54] yes I mean yeah please we you know that you bring up an important point because I'm kind of losing

[00:49:00] some of my institutional donors and I'm relying more on the average person because I don't do the

[00:49:07] bidding a special interest and they've kind of figured that out so yeah if you have the ability to

[00:49:12] give to candidates like me even it's like $5 $10 it really does make a big deal and you can go to my

[00:49:19] website saly for assembly you can sign up for emails and you can help us out for like cup of coffee

[00:49:27] for ten which I'm sure it will be very helpful. Explain that you're not literally using that

[00:49:33] for coffee because then they're just going to call you. No no no I'm saying the cost of a cup of

[00:49:38] coffee you could just donate that amount you could you know do monthly donation but we use that

[00:49:43] to do ads and social media and you know in all kinds of stuff to reach out to voters so we can

[00:49:52] make a difference and then I will also be involved in some other races that I think are important

[00:49:59] especially some of these open races and I'm going to be backing candidates that I think are

[00:50:03] going to come up and and fight alongside with me so but I need resources to be able to do that

[00:50:10] effectively. So to finish up this might be a fun little exercise you've been elected governor

[00:50:19] of California. What are you doing your first month? Oh man don't stay quick. No

[00:50:30] well do I have all the powers he had during COVID? Unfortunately no there's no pandemic so you

[00:50:37] don't get unilateral dictator powers. I would probably convene a special session and

[00:50:47] probably do a package of like ten hard hitting bills right away to lower lower the gas tax

[00:50:57] restore reverse prop 47. I would love to get school choice on the ballot give parents the power

[00:51:05] of the purse over their child and let them decide if they want that money to go to a public school

[00:51:10] or private school. I would probably do a package of like five to ten hard hitting core issues

[00:51:17] enforce the legislature to vote on it. I would also probably bring out that veto pen

[00:51:24] and veto a lot of stuff and fire every single bureaucrat that I have the ability to fire

[00:51:35] in the state. That's probably like day one I'll probably do that. So okay that's a busy day one

[00:51:44] okay yeah you don't have time to waste you know and so you got to get these because a lot of

[00:51:50] decisions and policies and regs are done at the bureaucrat level it's not even at the

[00:51:55] it's not even at our level we're not voting on it you have these bureaucrats acting throughout the

[00:51:58] state and they're a huge problem so first thing I do is get them out and get a bunch of

[00:52:05] business people you know people who have experienced running stuff get them in there

[00:52:10] and get them going to work. People don't realize they're things like water the voters already

[00:52:15] proved the water bond like billions of dollars to build water infrastructure all they have to do

[00:52:21] is issue the permits but because the air so beholden and the environmentalists they won't even

[00:52:26] issue the permit we have the money we have the projects so something like that I don't need to pass

[00:52:31] a law we just have to issue the permits. Same thing on oil we have tons of oil in California they

[00:52:37] just need the permit to drill and to increase the supply and the state doesn't issue it there's

[00:52:43] so many things you could do at the administrative level I haven't given it any thought until you

[00:52:49] just said so right now. Well now you're gonna you're gonna go to bed tonight thinking about

[00:52:54] being governor of California it's gonna percolate in your head so. What would you do is

[00:53:00] governor of California? Well yeah Assemblyman with a final couple minutes thank you again for coming

[00:53:07] on taking the time I'd love to have you back on whenever you want to chat more about what you're

[00:53:12] doing up there and kicking butt up there tell people where they can find you and follow you and

[00:53:18] support you some more. Sure so my website is eSalee SS a y li for assembly.com people can go there

[00:53:29] follow us on the links to all our social media you can sign up for our newsletter our

[00:53:34] newsletter is really good we send about one a week and they're really hard hitting and they

[00:53:38] touch on issues going on in California. The other thing that you can do is go to this website on

[00:53:45] the ballot initiatives it's called protectkidsca.com and you can learn about the ballot initiative

[00:53:52] and then once it's qualified you could help us collect signatures to qualify on the ballot. So

[00:53:58] there's a lot people can do to get involved and you know I always say focus on your sphere of

[00:54:04] influence you need to like go out and campaign state why just talk to your talk to your family your

[00:54:10] friends your co-workers let them know what's going on hey did you know this is happening

[00:54:15] you know look there's an issue I think I think I should sign it you should sign it and then

[00:54:20] have them talk to their sphere of influence and that's how things happen I mean think about like

[00:54:24] when you watch a good movie and you tell don't you tell people you're like hey there's a really

[00:54:28] good movie you should see it so people always think politics has to be this like all consuming

[00:54:34] overwhelming thing and he's just it just needs to be a part of your of your daily conversation

[00:54:39] just like you check your tick-tock or your social media you should make sure and see what's going

[00:54:44] on at the political level and let people know about it too yeah and also isn't two days so everyone

[00:54:52] has the opportunity to tell other people all their closest people best time to talk politics is

[00:54:58] Thanksgiving also I think I think you can on on what I call these 80 20 issues like parental rights

[00:55:06] is incontroversial we have polling shows 80% of Californians are with us on it so I'm not saying

[00:55:12] to discuss abortion at the dinner table maybe don't just don't discuss the presidential candidates

[00:55:20] but things like what the schools are doing with kids you don't have to phrase it as political it

[00:55:26] could just be current events could you be yeah just a conversation starter to see what's going on

[00:55:31] and what people's feeling is on it is I was going to say something but I completely forgot now

[00:55:37] and now embarrassed that I got to buy it I didn't have a bite in moment yeah no excuse me well like

[00:55:44] I walk into this wall behind me right I'll remember it maybe I'll remember it something

[00:55:50] no I was going to say on the flip side when it comes to social media also don't get too obsessed

[00:55:56] with politics on social media because that's not the real world like social media on politics is

[00:56:01] a little sensationalized and you're not always getting the full story and there's local races that

[00:56:08] you should be getting involved in your community you should be getting involved in outside of arguing

[00:56:13] over Trump and Biden on social media so that was what I was going to say no that's so important

[00:56:20] you have the most power at the local level I mean the success we've had at school boards has been

[00:56:25] tremendous because you know what your school board member is your neighbor you can go talk to them

[00:56:30] you can call them they'll talk though answer your phone and have a conversation with you and

[00:56:35] they don't get elected by that they get elected by a few hundred votes so they're going to be more

[00:56:39] responsive to their constituents you have a lot of power at the local level and that's how our

[00:56:45] country was designed around most decisions were designed to be made at the local level but you're

[00:56:50] right the media and the politics they want you to focus on the national it's a distraction

[00:56:55] it's important but it shouldn't consume most of your bandwidth

[00:57:02] right yeah your day-to-day is governed by local politics not by what's going on three thousand

[00:57:07] miles away in DC so assemblyman thank you again for coming on I think you're a total people where

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