WEBVTT - Jon Fleischman's Voter Guide Part 2 0:00:01.370 --> 0:00:04.500 Everything the mainstream media left out. 0:00:05.300 --> 0:00:13.760 Delivered just right. It's the John Phillips Show. And we 0:00:13.820 --> 0:00:18.970 continue at 2.05 in the afternoon on the John Phillips Show. 0:00:19.410 --> 0:00:23.690 Broadcasting live today from South Lake, Texas. Mr. Randy Wags 0:00:23.730 --> 0:00:24.979 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. 0:00:25.590 --> 0:00:29.110 Johnny, we're broadcasting live on the radio, 790 KABC in 0:00:29.170 --> 0:00:33.190 Los Angeles, 810 KSFO in the Bay Area, and on YouTube, 0:00:33.330 --> 0:00:36.110 on video, every single day with a lively chat room 0:00:36.510 --> 0:00:38.570 at johnnydontlike.com. 0:00:40.210 --> 0:00:45.979 So last week, we put out our most watched podcast ever. 0:00:46.979 --> 0:00:51.100 It was last week's edition of the Accountability Podcast. We 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:56.060 had John Fleischman on as a guest from sodoesitmatter.com. And 0:00:56.100 --> 0:00:59.940 we went through all of the ballot initiatives. Well, after 0:00:59.980 --> 0:01:03.500 that aired, we got a bunch of emails from people saying, great, 0:01:04.140 --> 0:01:07.709 we love the content about the ballot initiatives, but can 0:01:07.730 --> 0:01:10.670 you do the rest of the ballot? So we figured, 0:01:11.150 --> 0:01:15.550 why not? We did the initiatives. Now let's do the races. 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:20.200 Here is part one of the podcast that is going 0:01:20.220 --> 0:01:24.699 to air on YouTube today at 2.59 p.m., For everyone 0:01:24.740 --> 0:01:27.740 watching right now and listening on the radio, here's a 0:01:27.740 --> 0:01:31.860 little preview. The full episode goes live at 2.59. We 0:01:31.900 --> 0:01:33.860 need you to watch it, like it, and share it 0:01:33.900 --> 0:01:38.289 with every voter in your phone. Here is that conversation. 0:01:40.950 --> 0:01:43.110 All right. Well, let's go ahead and start out with 0:01:43.130 --> 0:01:46.830 the top of the ticket in this November's election, and 0:01:46.870 --> 0:01:49.910 that would be the battle for governor. Gavin Newsom is 0:01:49.950 --> 0:01:53.950 termed out. He cannot run for reelection. The Democratic candidate 0:01:54.050 --> 0:01:57.090 in the race is former Secretary of Health and Human 0:01:57.160 --> 0:02:02.940 Services Javier Becerra against Republican former Fox News commentator Steve Hilton. 0:02:03.820 --> 0:02:06.920 Yeah, so if you're a conservative, a lot of these, 0:02:07.060 --> 0:02:09.359 I think as we look at all of these races, 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:12.640 you know, just kind of bear in mind that there's 0:02:12.660 --> 0:02:15.020 a lot of stark contrasts. There's a couple of races 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:19.120 where those contrasts are not quite as sharp. But in 0:02:19.150 --> 0:02:21.290 a race like this one, it's an easy vote for 0:02:21.950 --> 0:02:25.070 Steve Hilton. Steve actually thinks state government is too big, 0:02:25.130 --> 0:02:27.780 spends too much, and is wasteful. And believe it or not, 0:02:27.860 --> 0:02:30.480 I think Xavier Becerra is lining up to be worse 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:34.440 than Gavin Newsom. For all of Gavin Newsom's faults, his 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:39.300 vanity oftentimes causes him, on occasion, to do something that 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:41.040 we kind of go, well, I'm glad he did that. 0:02:41.780 --> 0:02:44.810 It's occasional, but it happens. With Becerra, he won't tell 0:02:44.889 --> 0:02:47.470 anybody where he stands on anything. He will get in 0:02:47.510 --> 0:02:49.370 the back rooms. He will cut all of the deals 0:02:49.410 --> 0:02:52.450 with the special interests. Doesn't care how he looks. And 0:02:52.530 --> 0:02:55.369 he will just be a God awful governor. So, um, 0:02:55.590 --> 0:02:58.490 the odds are long in California to elect Steve Hilton, 0:02:58.870 --> 0:03:00.890 but they become a little bit less long for every 0:03:00.930 --> 0:03:01.609 vote that he gets. 0:03:01.810 --> 0:03:03.130 So cast a vote for Steve. 0:03:03.669 --> 0:03:06.989 I always tell people that Becerra is acting as the 0:03:07.030 --> 0:03:10.810 California Biden. He's hiding in the basement during the campaign. 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:14.630 He's not really doing the things that candidates typically do 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:19.919 actively showing up for interviews, participating in multiple debates, those 0:03:19.980 --> 0:03:23.250 sorts of things. And we also don't know who's going 0:03:23.270 --> 0:03:25.369 to be in charge of state government. I don't think 0:03:25.410 --> 0:03:27.829 it's going to be Becerra. I think he's the figurehead 0:03:27.850 --> 0:03:31.110 of the coalition. And if you vote for Becerra, you're 0:03:31.150 --> 0:03:35.370 essentially voting for the teachers union, the SEIU, and whatever 0:03:35.450 --> 0:03:38.120 version of Dana Williamson he can drag out of a bar. 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:40.120 100%. 0:03:41.350 --> 0:03:44.000 All right. Let's move on to the lieutenant governor's race. 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:49.320 This seat is also open because the incumbent, Eleni Konolakis, 0:03:49.380 --> 0:03:54.410 is termed out. The Democrat is longtime Democratic elected official 0:03:54.430 --> 0:03:58.050 in California, Fiona Ma, who is currently the state treasurer 0:03:58.450 --> 0:04:03.110 against the former Senate majority leader and Republican, Democrat turned Republican, 0:04:03.230 --> 0:04:04.050 Gloria Romero. 0:04:04.970 --> 0:04:08.330 Yeah, well, this is another easy vote. Gloria is a 0:04:08.430 --> 0:04:15.330 former Democrat state Senate, I believe, majority leader who has 0:04:15.370 --> 0:04:19.050 switched parties. She became a Republican. She came across first 0:04:19.110 --> 0:04:22.210 because of her passion for the education issue, but applying 0:04:22.230 --> 0:04:25.289 the lessons learned about how the unions have destroyed public 0:04:25.330 --> 0:04:30.210 education in California, she's pretty much become a dyed-in-the-wool conservative. 0:04:30.690 --> 0:04:34.200 And Fiona Ma, you know, she's a former Board of 0:04:34.260 --> 0:04:37.200 Equalization member, former Assembly member, formerly a. 0:04:37.220 --> 0:04:40.100 San Francisco supervisor. By the way, that's a strong hint for. 0:04:40.020 --> 0:04:43.930 You that if somebody's a former San Francisco supervisor, they're crazy. 0:04:44.529 --> 0:04:46.910 But this is really something I was watching. She did 0:04:46.930 --> 0:04:48.840 an interview with John Slavitt over on the State of 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:52.180 Gold podcast. And she literally said in her interview that 0:04:52.220 --> 0:04:55.279 before she was elected to office as a CPA, she 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:58.640 would counsel her clients to go move to Nevada to 0:04:58.700 --> 0:05:02.839 avoid California's oppressive taxes. But now that she's in office, 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:06.640 she doesn't encourage people to do that anymore. So, you know, it's, 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:07.700 you know. 0:05:08.260 --> 0:05:09.120 Funny how that works. 0:05:09.580 --> 0:05:13.460 Yeah, exactly. So Gloria Romero for sure for lieutenant governor. 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:17.260 I have heard from any number of people that personally, 0:05:17.420 --> 0:05:21.039 Fiona Ma has her head screwed on straight. But publicly 0:05:21.180 --> 0:05:24.900 and politically, she does whatever the Democrats are doing at 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:26.279 any given moment in time. 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:29.330 Well, like I said, I've watched a few interviews with her. 0:05:29.390 --> 0:05:31.970 I've met her a few times. What's the polite way 0:05:32.010 --> 0:05:34.409 to say this? Not the sharpest tool in the shed. 0:05:35.050 --> 0:05:39.750 So she may be appropriately qualified to be the lieutenant 0:05:39.770 --> 0:05:40.710 governor of California. 0:05:41.390 --> 0:05:41.770 All right. 0:05:41.830 --> 0:05:45.200 Let's move on to Secretary of State. where Democrat Shirley 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:49.040 Weber is running for re-election. She has a long history 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:53.820 of major screw-ups, including trying to kick Larry Elder off 0:05:53.860 --> 0:05:56.630 the ballot, which the court said, no, you can't do that. 0:05:57.029 --> 0:05:59.070 She tried to kick Vince Fong off the ballot, the 0:05:59.110 --> 0:06:01.650 man who ultimately ended up taking over the seat that 0:06:01.670 --> 0:06:06.630 was once held by Kevin McCarthy. Christina Pascucci, I got 0:06:06.650 --> 0:06:07.309 that right, Randy? 0:06:07.730 --> 0:06:08.150 You did. 0:06:08.230 --> 0:06:10.660 For the first time, you actually said her name correctly. 0:06:10.700 --> 0:06:11.960 He always thinks it's Claudia. 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:16.420 Christina Pascucci was a candidate for U.S. Senate. She left 0:06:16.500 --> 0:06:19.620 off her occupation from the ballot, so instead of it 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:23.840 saying TV news reporter, people thought she was unemployed and 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:26.320 really didn't give much of an apology or even try 0:06:26.350 --> 0:06:30.130 to fix it. She's running against Don Wagner, who comes 0:06:30.150 --> 0:06:32.409 from the Orange County Board of Supervisors and is the 0:06:32.450 --> 0:06:33.469 Republican in the race. 0:06:34.270 --> 0:06:36.510 Yeah, and again, this is an easy decision. 0:06:37.390 --> 0:06:40.230 We could explore and look at Shirley Weber's entire career 0:06:40.290 --> 0:06:43.400 to realize how... bad of a public official she is. 0:06:43.740 --> 0:06:46.480 But just right now, what she's doing is the Secretary 0:06:46.500 --> 0:06:50.120 of State in her lies about Prop 39 and what 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:52.979 she says it does versus what it actually does is 0:06:53.020 --> 0:06:56.260 totally crazy. Hint, I'm sure there's a link here to 0:06:56.290 --> 0:06:59.270 go see our sister podcast on the ballot propositions and 0:06:59.290 --> 0:07:03.570 you can learn about Prop 39, which is the ballot 0:07:03.589 --> 0:07:10.870 measure for ballot security and requiring a tightening up of 0:07:10.930 --> 0:07:13.660 our ballot system. But She's just been out there lying 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:15.730 about it, saying that it does things it doesn't do 0:07:15.790 --> 0:07:18.310 and that it's going to make election administration more difficult 0:07:18.350 --> 0:07:21.190 in California when it's actually going to do the opposite. 0:07:21.230 --> 0:07:24.690 So Don Wagner, I have known forever and ever and ever. 0:07:25.250 --> 0:07:26.830 He's a fellow Orange County, and I knew him when 0:07:26.850 --> 0:07:29.000 he was on the community college board. Then he went 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:31.600 to the state legislature. He was mayor of the city 0:07:31.620 --> 0:07:33.660 of Irvine for four years and has been on the 0:07:33.700 --> 0:07:36.880 board of supervisors as a conservative voice there. So he'd 0:07:36.900 --> 0:07:39.180 be a great, great secretary of state, and he's taken 0:07:39.220 --> 0:07:40.340 his campaign very earnestly. 0:07:41.010 --> 0:07:43.160 And of course, this is a position that doesn't just 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:46.480 deal with elections. They also deal with business licenses. And 0:07:46.500 --> 0:07:49.340 there was a great investigative report this year from CBS 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:54.080 News showing how many fraudulent businesses are created every single year, 0:07:54.580 --> 0:07:59.030 scamming people, moving money overseas. And they went to ask 0:07:59.050 --> 0:08:01.430 the secretary of state for an interview. She wouldn't do 0:08:01.590 --> 0:08:04.270 one and then said it's not her responsibility to check 0:08:04.310 --> 0:08:06.670 if people filing for business licenses are real. 0:08:07.770 --> 0:08:08.050 Yeah. 0:08:08.590 --> 0:08:11.450 And this is a good chance to remind people. John 0:08:11.540 --> 0:08:13.940 usually does the history, but I'll step in. We have 0:08:13.980 --> 0:08:16.980 a rich history here in California where people get elected 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:20.900 and then someone bounces from office to office. Like Rob 0:08:20.940 --> 0:08:24.290 Bonta became attorney general, not because of an election, but 0:08:24.330 --> 0:08:25.989 because he got appointed by Gavin Newsom. 0:08:26.070 --> 0:08:26.630 And guess what? 0:08:26.770 --> 0:08:30.850 Shirley Weber, just like Bonta, was plucked out of obscurity 0:08:30.870 --> 0:08:33.600 in the state legislature and dropped in as secretary of state. 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:36.300 So this is somebody who did not have to go 0:08:36.340 --> 0:08:39.720 through any kind of a robust process to get elected 0:08:39.740 --> 0:08:42.280 to this office. It was the usual process, which is 0:08:42.340 --> 0:08:46.300 Democrat insiders tap somebody. And now she's in that office. 0:08:46.500 --> 0:08:49.980 And kind of like your question, like John was saying 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:52.660 about who's going to be running, who's going to be 0:08:52.700 --> 0:08:55.540 running the state instead of the governor. Well, I can 0:08:55.580 --> 0:08:58.380 tell you, Shirley Weber is not running the administration of 0:08:58.420 --> 0:09:01.220 elections in the state of California. Somebody else is doing 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:04.760 it because she's in the not sharp, tool in the 0:09:04.780 --> 0:09:07.420 shed drawer with Fiona Ma. 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:10.020 And one of the things that drives me crazy about 0:09:10.110 --> 0:09:14.270 her is she puts her academic credentials in the logo 0:09:14.450 --> 0:09:18.390 of the office. How insecure do you have to be 0:09:18.429 --> 0:09:18.970 to do that? 0:09:18.990 --> 0:09:23.250 Yeah, exactly. So again, Don Wagner for sure is the 0:09:23.290 --> 0:09:23.960 right vote there. 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:29.440 All right, let's move on to State Controller where Malia Cohen, 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:33.560 the Democrat, is running for re-election against Herb Borgen, the Republican. 0:09:34.900 --> 0:09:38.319 Yeah, so Malia Cohen, and if you haven't heard of her, 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:43.420 she's only been your state controller since 2023, right? And 0:09:43.900 --> 0:09:45.719 she was on the Board of Equalization, which we'll be 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:47.449 talking a little bit about the Board of Equalization in 0:09:47.470 --> 0:09:52.330 a little bit. And once again, I hate to disparage 0:09:52.390 --> 0:09:54.790 the fine people in the city and county of San Francisco. 0:09:55.170 --> 0:10:00.660 This is another former San Francisco supervisor, right? Just kind 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:02.580 of like, it's like, you know, we can't seem to 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:07.060 get enough bad exports from this tiny little city that, 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:12.000 you know, has an oversized influence. Malia Cohen is, you know, 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:14.760 just straight out of central casting from the special interest. 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:17.620 So you want a controller that is going to be, 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:21.170 I don't know, actually being a watchdog and watching over 0:10:21.230 --> 0:10:25.050 the spending and looking for waste, fraud, and abuse. And instead, 0:10:25.110 --> 0:10:28.230 you get someone who, again, represents the very special interests, 0:10:28.250 --> 0:10:31.859 the unions. It's literally the fox guarding the hen house, 0:10:32.420 --> 0:10:34.820 or in this case, the fox guarding the fox den. 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:38.120 I don't know what you want to call it. What 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:40.500 we have here is Herb Morgan. Herb is an actual 0:10:42.929 --> 0:10:46.620 founder of an investment firm. He actually understands finance, and 0:10:46.660 --> 0:10:49.520 he's got a detailed plan. Go find his website, Herb Morgan. 0:10:49.540 --> 0:10:51.900 Look him up. He's got a really detailed plan about 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:53.240 going into this office. 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:57.110 If you're going to have one office, you want governor, right? 0:10:57.230 --> 0:10:58.770 But if you're going to get a second office or 0:10:58.790 --> 0:11:00.870 you're not going to get governor, this is the office 0:11:00.890 --> 0:11:02.950 you want because this is the office that has the 0:11:02.990 --> 0:11:06.070 ability to hold the single-party state accountable. 0:11:06.830 --> 0:11:10.250 So I would strongly urge a vote for Herb Morgan. 0:11:10.790 --> 0:11:12.700 And it's amazing that some of the things he's done 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:16.589 just as a candidate... He created with like just a 0:11:16.730 --> 0:11:20.240 simple website on his own dime, something that would show 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:22.560 you all kinds of different audits that would take the 0:11:22.700 --> 0:11:25.819 actual controller years and years and millions of dollars to do. 0:11:26.220 --> 0:11:28.970 If you have somebody that actually wants to implement technology 0:11:28.990 --> 0:11:30.809 into that job, we could be a hell of a 0:11:30.850 --> 0:11:32.790 lot more transparent than we say we are. 0:11:33.190 --> 0:11:36.510 Yeah, I guarantee you Malia Cohen views the inefficiency of 0:11:36.550 --> 0:11:38.250 the office as a feature, not a fault. 0:11:38.429 --> 0:11:39.860 The unions, no one, no one. 0:11:40.420 --> 0:11:42.599 In the single party system is interested in having a 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:46.630 fully functional state controller's office with an auditing function. 0:11:46.990 --> 0:11:48.250 So no, none of them are. 0:11:48.929 --> 0:11:52.490 And the controller's office, if people have never dealt with them, 0:11:52.809 --> 0:11:54.610 the time you might deal with them is if you 0:11:54.650 --> 0:11:56.600 get that letter in the mail in March saying that 0:11:56.620 --> 0:12:00.250 the state owes you money, but, Unlike several other states, 0:12:00.290 --> 0:12:02.469 thanks to some great work from Julie Watts, where they 0:12:02.510 --> 0:12:04.470 just send you the money they owe you, you have 0:12:04.510 --> 0:12:07.180 to go to a website, find it, and claim it, 0:12:07.350 --> 0:12:09.290 and then maybe they'll send you a check. Now, that 0:12:09.309 --> 0:12:12.069 being said, I get $ 600 this year from that. 0:12:13.390 --> 0:12:15.220 Well, there you go, Randy. 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:17.540 John, Randy, when he tells you he needs a raise, 0:12:17.580 --> 0:12:19.520 he's just kidding. He's got that money. 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:20.199 He's good. 0:12:20.820 --> 0:12:24.739 I spent that on last night's dinner. Right. All right, 0:12:24.780 --> 0:12:27.780 let's move on to the state treasurer's race that includes... 0:12:27.830 --> 0:12:31.930 The current lieutenant governor, the Democrat in the race, Eleni Kanellakis, 0:12:31.980 --> 0:12:35.280 who is the daughter of a billionaire, a housing developer 0:12:35.300 --> 0:12:38.800 in the Sacramento area, who's held just about every ceremonial 0:12:38.940 --> 0:12:41.319 office you could hold. She was the ambassador to Hungary 0:12:41.740 --> 0:12:44.870 and then became lieutenant governor, was in the governor's race, 0:12:44.900 --> 0:12:48.170 dropped out, now she's running for treasurer, and she's running 0:12:48.350 --> 0:12:50.470 against Republican Jennifer Hawkes. 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:51.760 Yeah. 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:54.320 If there was anybody who ever came across as somebody 0:12:54.380 --> 0:12:57.120 who is running for offices to make her daddy proud, 0:12:57.140 --> 0:13:00.480 this would be Eleni. Um, she's just literally, I mean, 0:13:00.500 --> 0:13:03.580 when she dropped out of the race for governor and 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:06.090 then just decided to drop into the treasurer's race, it 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.550 was just like so obvious that she was office shopping. 0:13:08.610 --> 0:13:08.949 She does. 0:13:08.990 --> 0:13:12.950 She likes having an office. Um, I don't know her personally, 0:13:13.130 --> 0:13:15.210 so I couldn't tell you if she's obviously her dad 0:13:15.270 --> 0:13:17.730 is pretty smart to have a huge, huge real estate 0:13:17.890 --> 0:13:21.450 empire like he does. Um, But I can tell you this, 0:13:21.670 --> 0:13:25.170 that she is absolutely liberal. She has signed on and 0:13:25.190 --> 0:13:27.890 been on board with every single thing that her boss, 0:13:28.030 --> 0:13:31.300 Governor Newsom, has been on board with. And she will 0:13:31.340 --> 0:13:33.860 be absolutely terrible. The brush of freth air would be 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:37.680 Jennifer Hawks. Jennifer is the Republican candidate. She's a retired 0:13:38.059 --> 0:13:42.000 business executive. So she comes out of the Silicon Valley. 0:13:42.580 --> 0:13:44.700 So not everything out of the Silicon Valley is bad. 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:46.500 I've had a chance to talk with Jennifer. 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:48.860 She's bright. She's smart. 0:13:49.510 --> 0:13:53.510 And again, as the state treasurer, like the controller, you 0:13:53.670 --> 0:13:56.270 have an ability to understand and get into the weeds 0:13:56.330 --> 0:13:58.260 on how all this money is being spent. By the way, 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:01.220 go try to look at a California state budget and 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:04.360 figure out within that budget what actual spending has been authorized. 0:14:04.420 --> 0:14:07.540 It's almost impossible to read, which is why you need 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:12.970 a state treasurer who's capable and competent. So she will 0:14:13.710 --> 0:14:18.360 provide independent financial oversight. Again, not part of the mobbed 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:22.460 up special interest group that just runs sacramento so jennifer 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:24.400 hawks would be our pick. 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:28.840 The next office is the office of attorney general where 0:14:29.220 --> 0:14:32.320 many people listening to this would look at california politics 0:14:32.380 --> 0:14:36.260 and say gavin newsom is the most corrupt politician statewide 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:39.380 elected in your state i would argue with them and 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:43.630 say no it's our attorney general rob bonta who is 0:14:43.700 --> 0:14:46.360 caught up in not just the drama going on right 0:14:46.420 --> 0:14:49.580 now in the city of Oakland, where the former mayor 0:14:49.620 --> 0:14:53.820 of Shanghai, California Waste Solutions, a big benefactor of Rob Bonta's, 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:57.060 are now on trial for corruption. But he's also a 0:14:57.110 --> 0:15:01.410 guy who solicits donations from people that he's investigating. And 0:15:01.450 --> 0:15:04.110 you look at the behavior coming out of that office, 0:15:05.070 --> 0:15:09.550 it usually coincides with donations coming from some interest groups, 0:15:09.590 --> 0:15:13.360 whether it's the Indian casinos or the Netflix people wanting 0:15:13.380 --> 0:15:18.260 to block the big merger in Hollywood. He is 100% 0:15:18.260 --> 0:15:21.880 pay to play. The Republican in that race is Michael Gates, 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:24.800 who is the Republican city attorney from the city of 0:15:24.860 --> 0:15:27.620 Huntington Beach. What's your take on that race? 0:15:28.180 --> 0:15:31.490 Yeah, so first of all, we can't emphasize enough how 0:15:31.590 --> 0:15:37.650 insidious it is to have somebody lacking in moral, upstanding 0:15:37.670 --> 0:15:39.590 moral values in the office of attorney general. 0:15:39.650 --> 0:15:41.240 It's really, A travesty. 0:15:41.260 --> 0:15:43.610 There's so much going on in this state that needs 0:15:44.110 --> 0:15:47.230 somebody who has clarity in the difference between right and 0:15:47.270 --> 0:15:50.350 wrong in that office. And we simply don't have it again. 0:15:50.810 --> 0:15:53.070 Plucked from obscurity by Gavin Newsom. 0:15:53.090 --> 0:15:54.150 This is, you know, Mr. 0:15:54.210 --> 0:15:58.910 Identity Politics. There was some sort of news story where 0:15:59.030 --> 0:16:02.750 the Filipino community was slighted right before this appointment. And 0:16:02.770 --> 0:16:04.800 Gavin Newsom responded to it by saying, well, we're going 0:16:04.820 --> 0:16:08.160 to appoint one to be state attorney general and plucked 0:16:08.220 --> 0:16:08.920 out of obscurity. 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:09.300 He was. 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.080 And he's been absolutely dreadful. 0:16:12.740 --> 0:16:15.540 You didn't talk about all the big controversies having to 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:18.120 do with his major donor friends in the city of Oakland, 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:22.330 where he's been caught up in a criminal dealing there. 0:16:22.430 --> 0:16:24.130 We don't know how it all ends up, but I 0:16:24.170 --> 0:16:24.730 can tell you this. 0:16:25.150 --> 0:16:26.370 In his earlier this. 0:16:26.290 --> 0:16:29.090 Year in a campaign report, Bonta reported spending a half 0:16:29.130 --> 0:16:33.530 a million dollars in billings to a firm, Wilson Sonsini 0:16:33.570 --> 0:16:36.820 Goodrich Rizzotti, a law firm in the Bay Area, which 0:16:36.860 --> 0:16:40.780 has a vibrant white collar crime practice when he was 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:42.750 asked about it, he said, oh, well, I was named 0:16:42.830 --> 0:16:45.990 as interest as a party and I was being deposed. 0:16:46.610 --> 0:16:48.150 And so those were my fees. 0:16:48.550 --> 0:16:50.350 And I could tell you as somebody who's watched this 0:16:50.370 --> 0:16:54.320 stuff very closely, 10, 20, even $ 30, 000 in fees for 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:56.540 a high priced lawyer to sit you through a deposition. 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:57.320 Yeah. 0:16:58.020 --> 0:16:59.080 Half a million dollars. 0:16:59.740 --> 0:17:01.860 That means you've got a lot more going on and 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:04.940 you're spending a lot more time with lawyers. In the meantime, 0:17:04.980 --> 0:17:07.510 the brush of fresh air is Michael Gates. Michael for 0:17:07.570 --> 0:17:10.750 many years was the, elected city attorney in Huntington Beach. 0:17:10.810 --> 0:17:13.750 He stepped away from that position to spend the first 0:17:13.790 --> 0:17:18.440 year of Trump's second term working in the U.S. Department 0:17:18.460 --> 0:17:21.400 of Justice's Civil Rights Division. Over there is the number 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:24.320 two person. And then he came back to California where 0:17:24.380 --> 0:17:27.899 he's running to bring some moral clarity to the office 0:17:28.090 --> 0:17:29.130 of attorney general. 0:17:29.790 --> 0:17:32.669 I've known Michael for a long time. He would be fantastic. 0:17:32.770 --> 0:17:36.070 And on day one, you would see big differences coming 0:17:36.109 --> 0:17:38.910 out of that office, most significant of which, And get this, 0:17:38.990 --> 0:17:42.050 and I know it's controversial, an attorney general focused on 0:17:42.130 --> 0:17:42.830 fighting crime. 0:17:44.190 --> 0:17:46.870 So vote yes on Michael Gates, for sure. 0:17:47.369 --> 0:17:51.750 I would also add this to Bonta's portfolio. The county 0:17:51.790 --> 0:17:57.360 of Los Angeles ended up dumping their horrendous Soros-funded district attorney, 0:17:57.400 --> 0:18:02.840 George Gascon, as did Alameda County with Pamela Price. The 0:18:02.900 --> 0:18:06.790 attorney general in California is a very powerful office. where 0:18:06.970 --> 0:18:10.250 when those two individuals refused to do their job, at 0:18:10.330 --> 0:18:13.429 any given moment in time, the Attorney General could have 0:18:13.450 --> 0:18:17.290 stepped in and said, okay, if you're refusing to prosecute crime, 0:18:17.930 --> 0:18:20.050 our office is going to do it, and we're going 0:18:20.070 --> 0:18:23.389 to keep the people of L.A. County and Alameda County safe. 0:18:23.990 --> 0:18:27.270 He refused to do that. He provided cover for George 0:18:27.310 --> 0:18:31.970 Gascon and Pamela Price and all of their wacky Soros ideas, 0:18:32.619 --> 0:18:36.070 and put public safety in jeopardy in two of the 0:18:36.109 --> 0:18:40.350 most populated counties in California because of his extreme ideology. 0:18:40.369 --> 0:18:44.300 Yeah, every Sunday he sends out a free newsletter from 0:18:44.340 --> 0:18:47.600 the California Department of Justice. It usually has five or 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:50.300 six items in it. They usually throw one little item 0:18:50.340 --> 0:18:52.780 in there that he could say he's fighting actual crime, 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:55.719 and then all the rest of it is social justice 0:18:55.780 --> 0:18:57.800 and all the other things that he's doing that have 0:18:57.859 --> 0:18:59.320 nothing to do with actual crime. 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:01.840 So, again, vote for Michael Gates. 0:19:02.790 --> 0:19:04.790 And one other thing I want to add to this. 0:19:04.850 --> 0:19:08.490 If you go back to that Oakland investigation, the initial 0:19:09.590 --> 0:19:13.550 whistleblower complaint or letter that was sent to the FBI 0:19:14.270 --> 0:19:20.850 alleged that California Waste Solutions had incriminating videos of Rob Bonta, 0:19:21.270 --> 0:19:25.189 and they were using those videos to blackmail him. 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