WEBVTT - Stop Complaining, Start Voting: Roxanne Hoge’s LA Blueprint 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:06.059 Something's not right here. Crime is up all over the state. 0:00:06.140 --> 0:00:08.730 The homelessness in the city is out of control. 0:00:08.750 --> 0:00:11.369 The economy is sick. Taxes are high. 0:00:11.450 --> 0:00:13.910 Housing is expensive and businesses are leaving. 0:00:14.090 --> 0:00:19.160 California needs fixing. And John Phillips is just the man 0:00:19.180 --> 0:00:22.939 to lead the charge. It's the Fix California Hour with 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:24.740 John Phillips and Randy Wang. 0:00:25.180 --> 0:00:27.730 It is the Fix California Hour, and it is the 0:00:27.770 --> 0:00:31.430 John Phillips Show. But Johnny's on vacation this week, well-deserved. 0:00:31.470 --> 0:00:33.950 He hasn't taken a single day off since we launched 0:00:33.990 --> 0:00:40.940 this live video thing in July 1st of 2026. 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Our next guest is 0:01:18.490 --> 0:01:25.350 the current chair of the Los Angeles County GOP, Roxanne Hogue. 0:01:25.650 --> 0:01:27.940 Welcome to The John Phillips Show. 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:30.140 Hi, and thanks for having me. 0:01:30.740 --> 0:01:34.540 I found a Paisley shirt, but it's been really hard 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:37.580 to be on radio and have to get dressed for it. 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:40.839 I used to show up to this radio station in 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:44.940 a slobby T-shirt and shorts every single day, and now 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:46.450 I class it up to Macy's. 0:01:47.750 --> 0:01:52.770 I'm very impressed, but I, too, have Paisley, so we're twinsies. 0:01:53.370 --> 0:01:56.100 I appreciate that so much, Roxanne. 0:01:56.220 --> 0:01:56.440 Now. 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:00.220 We are just a little over two weeks away from 0:02:00.260 --> 0:02:04.540 the end of this election season. Early voting has been 0:02:04.580 --> 0:02:07.060 going on for a few weeks right now. And let's 0:02:07.100 --> 0:02:10.000 go ahead and look at the latest numbers here. It 0:02:11.060 --> 0:02:15.840 looks like we're at a 5% turnout of people that 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:19.880 can vote in this election in Los Angeles County. And 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.880 if you break that down by party, it looks like 0:02:23.370 --> 0:02:28.149 Republicans are turning out around the same rate as Democrats, 5% each. 0:02:28.250 --> 0:02:33.470 But that means, Roxanne, we've got nearly a million registered 0:02:33.510 --> 0:02:37.609 Republicans in Los Angeles County that have not voted yet. 0:02:38.030 --> 0:02:39.370 What is your message to them? 0:02:40.250 --> 0:02:43.970 My message to every Republican and not just Republican, everyone 0:02:44.370 --> 0:02:48.380 who is conservative leaning or common sense or what's known 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:50.880 as right wing today, your right wing if you like 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:55.120 cops to arrest criminals, all of those people. 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:57.300 Should be voting now. Here, let me tell you why. 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:00.360 Not only is it our regular, you know, 30 days 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:02.780 of voting and 30 days of counting nonsense. 0:03:03.250 --> 0:03:06.430 But this current ballot is like an SAT. 0:03:07.310 --> 0:03:09.650 We have a voter guide that helps it become an 0:03:09.730 --> 0:03:13.370 open book test, but I literally know. 0:03:13.230 --> 0:03:15.590 Everyone personally that I was voting. 0:03:15.370 --> 0:03:19.410 For, and it took me, I timed it, 13 minutes 0:03:19.770 --> 0:03:22.329 using the guide to fill in all the bubbles, because 0:03:22.410 --> 0:03:26.580 I had 64 different contests. I know you haven't voted yet, Randy, 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:29.300 but when you open your ballot, it'll be nine or 0:03:29.300 --> 0:03:30.200 10 pages. 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:35.090 It is, like you said, studying for the SATs because 0:03:35.110 --> 0:03:38.070 there is so much stuff on this. But like you said, 0:03:38.870 --> 0:03:42.010 the LAGOP actually has a voter guide that can break 0:03:42.070 --> 0:03:43.770 down a lot of these races for you. 0:03:43.780 --> 0:03:45.240 I'm going to pull it up on the screen right 0:03:45.300 --> 0:03:46.520 now because. 0:03:47.100 --> 0:03:49.339 it is one of the reasons that people do not 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:52.690 participate in the process is even though we've made it 0:03:52.890 --> 0:03:56.610 easier than ever to vote, the actual process of voting 0:03:56.650 --> 0:04:00.490 can be incredibly complicated when we're not only voting on 0:04:00.770 --> 0:04:03.170 who's going to be in the mayor and the city council, 0:04:03.230 --> 0:04:06.750 you're voting on local measures, statewide measures, you're voting on 0:04:06.810 --> 0:04:09.500 positions that you don't even know what they do. I don't, you, 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:11.780 I can't even tell you how many emails we get 0:04:11.860 --> 0:04:14.220 about questions about the judges and how do I vote 0:04:14.260 --> 0:04:14.900 for a judge? 0:04:14.980 --> 0:04:16.320 So it's, We've. 0:04:16.140 --> 0:04:19.200 Got all that. And here's the scary thing. 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:24.900 There are over 750 nonpartisan candidates in. 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:28.810 Races that are being run by the registrar. 0:04:29.050 --> 0:04:33.730 There's 70 ballot measures in L.A. That's before you get 0:04:33.750 --> 0:04:37.130 to you know, State Assembly, State Senate and all the 0:04:37.170 --> 0:04:39.010 statewide races and statewide measures. 0:04:39.270 --> 0:04:42.390 So just relax. We've made it easy for you. 0:04:43.150 --> 0:04:45.050 You put in your, the best way to get your 0:04:45.089 --> 0:04:48.070 custom ballot is to just enter your address. But since 0:04:48.110 --> 0:04:49.950 you're on screen, you can just put in a zip 0:04:49.990 --> 0:04:53.809 code and see what happens with any LA zip code. 0:04:54.210 --> 0:04:58.530 And it will lead you to our list of endorsements. 0:04:58.910 --> 0:05:01.190 We have endorsements. We have recommendations. 0:05:01.820 --> 0:05:08.060 And we have glaring, do not vote for DSA communists. 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:13.210 Anti-recommendations, anti-endorsements. So I've got the screen pulled up right here, 0:05:13.310 --> 0:05:15.210 and you can do this as well if you're looking 0:05:15.290 --> 0:05:19.050 for some advice on what Roxanne and the LAGOP say 0:05:19.110 --> 0:05:22.060 about the local races in Los Angeles County. I put 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:24.780 in my home zip code of the San Fernando Valley, 0:05:25.540 --> 0:05:28.640 and it instantly pulls up everything that is going to 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:33.380 be on my ballot. The statewide races, Pretty straightforward. LAGOP 0:05:33.420 --> 0:05:36.820 is endorsing Hilton and Romero and Michael Gates and Don 0:05:36.860 --> 0:05:41.050 Wagner and Herb Morgan. What's interesting is there isn't an 0:05:41.170 --> 0:05:43.410 endorsement for insurance commissioner. 0:05:43.470 --> 0:05:44.270 Tell us about that. 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:48.739 There is a big fat do not vote for Jane Kim, though, 0:05:49.020 --> 0:05:54.560 because she is DSA endorsed. Look, I personally got into 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:58.120 politics over the plastic bag ban, so as I said 0:05:58.140 --> 0:06:00.760 to Ben Allen, like, you're barking up the wrong tree here, 0:06:01.180 --> 0:06:04.220 but I voted for the guy, because guess what? I 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:07.790 am from a country, I fled it, I'm a legal immigrant, 0:06:08.190 --> 0:06:11.470 and they dallied with democratic socialism, and as I've said 0:06:11.490 --> 0:06:13.550 to your audience before the last time we were live 0:06:13.589 --> 0:06:18.010 at Pineapple Hill, Democratic socialism ends up with a knife 0:06:18.270 --> 0:06:22.490 or a gun at your neck. So sorry, folks, if 0:06:22.550 --> 0:06:26.030 we're adults, we have to make hard choices. Sometimes we 0:06:26.050 --> 0:06:28.550 tell the kids to go to bed and sometimes we 0:06:28.610 --> 0:06:32.070 vote for people that, you know, are not even our 0:06:32.070 --> 0:06:37.029 100 percent friends. They're not 50 percent friends. They're just 0:06:37.029 --> 0:06:40.730 40 percent friends. But the 100 percent enemies, we have 0:06:40.790 --> 0:06:41.550 to vote against them. 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:45.670 So the LA GOP says, hold your nose and vote 0:06:45.690 --> 0:06:47.830 for Ben Allen for more of the same, because if 0:06:47.910 --> 0:06:50.640 Jane Kim gets in there, it's going to be a disaster. 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:54.779 Look, it's like what Tracy Park said about Karen Bass. 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:57.760 There's a difference, and I know people get very worked 0:06:57.820 --> 0:07:01.370 up about this, but again, adults understand the difference. There's 0:07:01.410 --> 0:07:04.970 a difference between saying I wholeheartedly endorse someone and I 0:07:05.570 --> 0:07:09.190 am voting against someone else. And because of the way 0:07:09.210 --> 0:07:11.610 Top Two is structured and because of the way the 0:07:12.070 --> 0:07:14.830 charter city of Los Angeles, and I know you and 0:07:15.430 --> 0:07:17.630 John are sort of sick of the I'm going to 0:07:17.650 --> 0:07:21.320 write in Spencer Pratt, kids. I'm going to keep saying 0:07:21.380 --> 0:07:23.020 it because I'm a mom of four and I'm used 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:26.380 to saying things a thousand and one times. There is 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:29.740 no space to write in Spencer Pratt because there is 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:33.940 no ability to count a write-in vote. So writing in someone, 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:37.090 not voting in a race, or voting twice in a 0:07:37.150 --> 0:07:39.590 race do all do the same thing. 0:07:40.070 --> 0:07:42.670 They make it easier. 0:07:42.570 --> 0:07:46.770 For the really craptastic candidate endorsed by the DSA to 0:07:46.810 --> 0:07:47.210 get through. 0:07:47.310 --> 0:07:48.750 It makes them need less votes. 0:07:49.590 --> 0:07:53.220 We're speaking with Roxanne Hoge, the chairman of the LA GOP. 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:57.340 You can see their LA County voter guide at lagop.org, 0:07:57.400 --> 0:07:59.580 and you can follow her on X at Roxanne Hoge. Now, 0:07:59.960 --> 0:08:03.500 when it comes to some of the more down-ballot races, 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:06.300 Even I will admit, I haven't done all the research 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:08.400 on a lot of these candidates when it comes to 0:08:08.820 --> 0:08:12.690 members of Congress, Assembly, State Senate, what have you. How 0:08:12.730 --> 0:08:17.230 does the LAGOP go around vetting someone that gets an endorsement? 0:08:17.590 --> 0:08:20.190 If someone's looking at your voter guide, what are you 0:08:20.250 --> 0:08:22.470 looking for that makes you endorse somebody? 0:08:23.650 --> 0:08:26.770 So we have multiple layers, and some of those are, 0:08:26.930 --> 0:08:31.340 especially for endorsements, they're made clear by our bylaws. 0:08:31.380 --> 0:08:32.740 We are a political party. 0:08:33.140 --> 0:08:37.460 So we recommend people up to the state party, and 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:41.110 they do the endorsing of the statewide candidates and of 0:08:41.190 --> 0:08:46.550 the partisan races for state assembly, for state senate. Generally, 0:08:46.610 --> 0:08:50.270 there'll only be one registered Republican who made it. 0:08:50.309 --> 0:08:53.860 Through the top two. Luckily, we're not dealing. 0:08:53.540 --> 0:08:57.500 With the R versus R kerfuffle that's happening in Orange County. 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:02.220 So anyone that's endorsed is a guaranteed Republican and they 0:09:02.260 --> 0:09:05.170 sail on through. And then because LA is made up 0:09:05.230 --> 0:09:08.730 of 24 assembly districts, And we have seven elected members 0:09:08.790 --> 0:09:12.130 in each of those districts. They know the people that 0:09:12.150 --> 0:09:13.450 are running for city council. 0:09:13.490 --> 0:09:15.550 Those are the tough races. And by the way, that's 0:09:15.590 --> 0:09:16.910 how DSA got started. 0:09:16.970 --> 0:09:20.350 Did you know they really, they had their rebirth in 2017. 0:09:20.350 --> 0:09:24.820 They have been working on borrowing like ticks into they've 0:09:24.860 --> 0:09:28.000 recommended in Burbank City Council in a school district race. 0:09:28.380 --> 0:09:31.260 That's how they get their farm team going. So we 0:09:31.300 --> 0:09:34.480 made sure to go to common sense Republicans all around 0:09:34.500 --> 0:09:38.059 the county and say, okay, who is good and also 0:09:38.260 --> 0:09:41.900 who is least bad. And so there'll be some endorsements, 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:45.300 there'll be some recommendations. Obviously, we work really closely with 0:09:45.370 --> 0:09:49.710 Carl DeMaio and Reform California, Howard Jarvis, Susan Shelley. The 0:09:49.830 --> 0:09:54.310 one thing I say that I butt up against people 0:09:54.790 --> 0:09:56.910 in my own party is there's a lot of Eeyores 0:09:57.230 --> 0:09:59.540 that are like, I'm gonna maintain my purity and I'm 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:01.900 not gonna vote in this race or on this ballot. 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:03.380 Well, sorry, Charlie. 0:10:04.820 --> 0:10:07.460 The only way to have power is to wield it. 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:10.840 And it is imperative. I posted a video today with 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:14.780 Bill Simon, who ran for governor in 2002. And Spencer 0:10:14.820 --> 0:10:18.560 Pratt can tell you, 200,000 Republicans didn't even vote in 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:21.880 the city of LA election. So it is my mission 0:10:22.220 --> 0:10:24.710 to make it as easy as possible. And you don't 0:10:24.750 --> 0:10:26.520 have to be a Republican to look at our voter guide. 0:10:26.590 --> 0:10:29.570 It's free. It's in English. It's in Spanish. It's in Cantonese. 0:10:29.950 --> 0:10:33.110 I'm sure with AI, somebody could make it into their 0:10:33.230 --> 0:10:36.010 particular language. language that they want to speak, but we 0:10:36.050 --> 0:10:39.670 hit the top three. You got to vote and you 0:10:39.710 --> 0:10:43.010 got to vote in as many races as we found it. 0:10:43.530 --> 0:10:46.050 There were some races that, you know, Carl DeMaio, you 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:46.510 are doomed. 0:10:46.790 --> 0:10:47.050 Yeah. 0:10:47.170 --> 0:10:49.860 But we gave you as much information as we could 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:52.620 throughout this 4,600 square mile County as we could. 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:54.900 Now I want to see if I can take this 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:57.800 guide in at Google Gemini and translate it into Dothraki. 0:10:59.240 --> 0:10:59.740 Probably. 0:10:59.980 --> 0:11:01.120 Oh, and here's the other thing. 0:11:01.140 --> 0:11:03.439 Cause so many of, you know, People talk a lot 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:06.250 about the youth vote every year, and I have young 0:11:06.290 --> 0:11:06.870 adult kids. 0:11:07.190 --> 0:11:10.350 They're not excited to vote. Like, I'll nag them daily. 0:11:11.510 --> 0:11:12.730 It's old farts that vote. 0:11:13.250 --> 0:11:17.210 And so older people sometimes like something in writing, and 0:11:17.250 --> 0:11:19.210 it may be a little bit difficult to go from 0:11:19.250 --> 0:11:21.650 your phone or your laptop to your ballot, and it's 0:11:21.670 --> 0:11:24.740 hard to figure out. So you'll see in your recommendations, Randy, 0:11:24.770 --> 0:11:26.179 if you scroll to the top, there's a way to 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:27.900 just print out the whole thing. 0:11:28.620 --> 0:11:30.220 Oh, really? A print button? 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:30.320 Yeah. 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:33.960 A print button, but it only prints the races that 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:36.630 are on your ballot. That's the mistake, I think, so 0:11:36.650 --> 0:11:38.670 many other of our great, you know, we have friends 0:11:38.710 --> 0:11:41.089 with guides, we have lots of other people with guides, 0:11:41.450 --> 0:11:43.630 but it's like a CVS receipt. 0:11:43.929 --> 0:11:45.370 You've got to scroll. 0:11:45.010 --> 0:11:47.830 Through to try and find that one race that's on 0:11:47.870 --> 0:11:51.640 your ballot. This takes away all those questions. Now, you 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:53.400 put in a zip code, so you'll see a couple 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:57.140 congressional candidates, for example, because They don't know where the 0:11:57.260 --> 0:11:59.720 zip code is split. If you put in your address, 0:11:59.940 --> 0:12:03.030 you're only going to get recommendations that are actually on 0:12:03.070 --> 0:12:03.510 your ballot. 0:12:04.270 --> 0:12:06.810 We're speaking with Roxanne Hogue. We're looking through the L.A. 0:12:06.970 --> 0:12:09.589 GOP voter guide that you can check out at L.A. 0:12:09.650 --> 0:12:12.440 GOP dot org. Now, one of the questions that we 0:12:12.460 --> 0:12:15.440 get more than anything when it comes to the election is, 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:18.110 what do you do about the judges? How do I 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:20.150 know what to do about the judges? What do you 0:12:20.210 --> 0:12:23.410 say to voters out there that are totally confused about 0:12:23.450 --> 0:12:26.500 these dozens and dozens and dozens of judges we have 0:12:26.510 --> 0:12:29.459 to either vote for to keep or vote for new judges? 0:12:29.540 --> 0:12:30.100 What do you say? 0:12:31.380 --> 0:12:34.550 They're all there. I'm of the when in doubt, throw 0:12:34.570 --> 0:12:37.910 them out school. Again, we consulted with. 0:12:38.250 --> 0:12:41.990 Friends who are in the DA's office and I know 0:12:42.110 --> 0:12:45.810 our friend Elizabeth Parkohana had some thoughts, but we gather information. 0:12:45.870 --> 0:12:49.490 I had actually a committee from the LAGOP, which were 0:12:49.490 --> 0:12:53.050 200 members strong, that focused just on the 70 ballot measures. 0:12:53.620 --> 0:12:56.540 Because this stuff makes your head hurt. It really does. 0:12:56.559 --> 0:13:02.620 There's no way to do this on your own. People say, oh, well, 0:13:02.700 --> 0:13:07.089 I'll use Grok or I'll use Claude. But remember, it's 0:13:07.190 --> 0:13:12.370 garbage in, garbage out. So if they're scraping the vast 0:13:12.450 --> 0:13:15.270 amount of information that the left puts out, don't forget, 0:13:15.309 --> 0:13:19.010 the left are the ones who control big tech. And 0:13:19.220 --> 0:13:24.079 in other elections, they've helpfully put out vote, go vote 0:13:24.140 --> 0:13:28.179 reminders that somehow only made it onto the devices of 0:13:28.300 --> 0:13:30.040 people who are registered Democrats. 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:31.020 Imagine that. 0:13:32.090 --> 0:13:32.850 What a mess. 0:13:33.510 --> 0:13:36.469 Now, we've talked a lot about the statewide ballot propositions. 0:13:36.490 --> 0:13:38.990 We did a whole podcast with John Fleischman on those. 0:13:39.050 --> 0:13:40.709 But one thing we haven't covered a lot on this 0:13:40.750 --> 0:13:42.790 show yet, and I'm so glad that you have it 0:13:42.850 --> 0:13:45.100 on your voter guide, is people might not be aware 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:49.130 that There are several local county measures as well as L.A. 0:13:49.230 --> 0:13:52.449 city measures, and it looks like you're only supporting a 0:13:52.530 --> 0:13:54.929 couple of them. So what are the most important ones 0:13:54.970 --> 0:13:57.449 that people need to know in the city and county 0:13:57.470 --> 0:13:58.410 of Los Angeles? 0:13:58.730 --> 0:14:01.239 So here's the thing. Remember, the county of L.A. is 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:05.199 almost 10 million people. City is under half that. So 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:08.540 those 70 ballot measures, you're seeing just the city of L.A. 0:14:08.660 --> 0:14:08.800 Ones. 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:12.459 They have them all over the place. Everyone is trying to. 0:14:12.820 --> 0:14:19.650 to squeeze more money out of hardworking Californians for total boondoggles. 0:14:19.730 --> 0:14:22.430 And even, I love the fire department, they were at 0:14:22.490 --> 0:14:25.410 my park today putting out some homeless, you know, they 0:14:25.450 --> 0:14:29.390 used to be Garcetti fires, but some homeless encampment fire. 0:14:29.810 --> 0:14:34.790 But we cannot give another dime while the infrastructure and 0:14:34.820 --> 0:14:38.750 the budgets are terrible and badly run. 0:14:39.090 --> 0:14:41.880 So, um, you'll see. So those are the, I don't, 0:14:42.220 --> 0:14:44.580 I'm an old lady, Randy. I can't see. It's very small, 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:47.260 but you'll see which ones are good. 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:49.700 I'll zoom in for you. How's that? 0:14:50.260 --> 0:14:51.900 I'm like my mom. 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:52.240 What? 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:57.080 Um, God, I can't see a thing. Just, just no 0:14:57.100 --> 0:14:58.060 to any spending. 0:14:58.460 --> 0:15:02.080 Um, no to making it, um, harder for people to 0:15:02.140 --> 0:15:07.810 speak up. And there's very few yeses because, um, California 0:15:08.030 --> 0:15:10.670 and Los Angeles in particular is just. 0:15:10.550 --> 0:15:11.990 Run really badly. 0:15:14.110 --> 0:15:18.460 Now, Roxanne, probably the race that's getting the most attention 0:15:18.660 --> 0:15:22.380 in L.A. County is the Los Angeles mayor's race. You 0:15:22.420 --> 0:15:26.250 have listed on the voter guide. do not vote for 0:15:26.350 --> 0:15:29.450 Nithya Raman. It does not say do vote for Karen Bass. 0:15:29.490 --> 0:15:33.130 It just says, do not vote for Nithya Raman. Uh, 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:35.860 there's been some controversy over the last couple of weeks 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:38.560 on this show with a friend of the show, Daniel Gus, 0:15:38.580 --> 0:15:42.340 who is advocating for people to in protest of the 0:15:42.420 --> 0:15:45.960 choice between Bass and Raman overvote for both of them 0:15:46.380 --> 0:15:49.300 to cancel it out. Uh, what would you say to 0:15:49.460 --> 0:15:52.060 that strategy to the people out there that voted for 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:55.190 Spencer Pratt and are have no idea what to do 0:15:55.230 --> 0:15:55.990 in this election. 0:15:56.010 --> 0:15:59.840 I was with a bunch of friends in the Palisades yesterday. 0:16:00.210 --> 0:16:03.230 Many of them lost their homes. They're all voting for 0:16:03.260 --> 0:16:06.730 Karen Bass. Here's why. Again, it's not a vote for. 0:16:07.070 --> 0:16:08.270 It's a vote against. 0:16:08.810 --> 0:16:13.790 Let me explain the complete fallacy in Sweet Daniel's idea 0:16:13.830 --> 0:16:16.110 that he came up with and that I ran through 0:16:16.130 --> 0:16:17.090 the registrar to see. 0:16:17.510 --> 0:16:19.090 Overvotes, yes, they happen. 0:16:19.170 --> 0:16:22.550 They usually happen accidentally, and it leads to things like 0:16:23.290 --> 0:16:27.390 the Al Gore, you know, ooh, what did this voter intend? 0:16:27.430 --> 0:16:29.210 Do you remember the whole Florida debacle a. 0:16:29.210 --> 0:16:29.790 Few years ago? 0:16:29.810 --> 0:16:30.910 Hanging chads. 0:16:31.250 --> 0:16:32.229 Yep, the hanging chads. 0:16:32.580 --> 0:16:37.830 Suggesting that someone purposefully overvote or not vote at all, 0:16:38.230 --> 0:16:39.110 do the same thing. 0:16:39.170 --> 0:16:40.390 They are abstentions. 0:16:40.770 --> 0:16:45.050 And while abstaining may be good for alcohol and underage pregnancy, 0:16:45.410 --> 0:16:47.250 they are very bad in elections. 0:16:47.330 --> 0:16:47.930 Here's why. 0:16:47.950 --> 0:16:52.460 If, for example, because I'm an actor, so the math, 0:16:52.500 --> 0:16:53.960 I don't want to get the numbers too big. Let's 0:16:54.020 --> 0:16:57.520 pretend that there's only 100,000 voters voting in the city 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:01.160 of LA. In order to win, each candidate would need 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:08.790 50,001 vote. But if 80,000 people abstain. Then to win, 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:12.200 someone only needs 10,001 votes. 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.240 So every abstention, while it makes you. 0:17:15.260 --> 0:17:18.060 Feel good and high and mighty and I didn't contribute 0:17:18.100 --> 0:17:20.360 to this, oh, you contributed. 0:17:20.820 --> 0:17:22.840 Not making a choice is a choice. 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:25.830 Just ask all the people who voted for Jill Stein 0:17:25.850 --> 0:17:29.710 because they thought they hated Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton equally. 0:17:29.730 --> 0:17:33.330 Well, there you go. That is a compelling argument. 0:17:33.850 --> 0:17:37.370 Now, with Two weeks left to go. What are you 0:17:37.410 --> 0:17:41.030 and the LA County GOP doing to try to drive turnout? 0:17:41.070 --> 0:17:44.520 You know, we hear all the time complaining and hand-wringing over, 0:17:44.940 --> 0:17:48.820 you know, the DSA and the unions participating in ballot harvesting. 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:49.840 Why can't we do that? 0:17:50.830 --> 0:17:53.710 Two reasons. One is they have a gabillion dollars. 0:17:54.290 --> 0:17:56.350 And when I became chairman of the LA GOP, which 0:17:56.390 --> 0:17:59.609 is an unpaid volunteer position, everyone with me is a volunteer. 0:18:00.550 --> 0:18:03.730 We are the ATM for every politician, by the way, 0:18:03.810 --> 0:18:06.070 throughout the country and in D.C. And I would like 0:18:06.090 --> 0:18:08.950 to tariff their asses and make sure they send some money. 0:18:08.810 --> 0:18:09.850 Back to L.A. 0:18:10.170 --> 0:18:12.990 But let's leave that aside for a second. The truth 0:18:13.109 --> 0:18:14.690 is that actual. 0:18:14.390 --> 0:18:18.420 Republicans and conservatives, do you know anyone who fits that 0:18:18.460 --> 0:18:22.250 description who would hand their ballot to a stranger? Not I. 0:18:22.700 --> 0:18:25.629 So we're going to do ballot harvesting our own style. 0:18:25.690 --> 0:18:27.649 Steve had a great video about it, Steve Hilton, the 0:18:27.670 --> 0:18:32.209 other day. Have a BYOB party. That's bring your own ballot. 0:18:32.390 --> 0:18:34.980 Have your friends come over. Do not open the adult 0:18:35.020 --> 0:18:40.920 beverages until everyone has filled in all the dots using VoteDifferentLA.com. Man, 0:18:40.980 --> 0:18:44.300 it's hard, you know, following the... You can really mess 0:18:44.380 --> 0:18:47.220 up the filling in of the circles. So invite your 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:51.110 friends over. Help them out. Now, there are legalities. Like, 0:18:51.130 --> 0:18:54.490 you can't fill someone's ballot out for them, but unless 0:18:54.510 --> 0:18:57.570 they ask for assistance and they are in need of assistance... 0:18:57.450 --> 0:18:59.629 At the end of that party, they can sign the 0:18:59.670 --> 0:19:02.170 back of their ballot, and then you can sign it 0:19:02.330 --> 0:19:02.950 and turn. 0:19:02.750 --> 0:19:05.409 It in, but you have to turn it in within 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:07.780 three days. So do that. 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:11.220 Encourage all your friends to vote. But number one, don't 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:13.820 be Eeyore. Don't be one of these jerks that goes 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:17.320 around saying, yeah, you know, Republicans can't win, there's fraud, 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:18.000 we're never gonna. 0:19:18.260 --> 0:19:21.149 Guess what? You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. 0:19:21.690 --> 0:19:22.609 And we, L.A. 0:19:23.270 --> 0:19:28.030 County, We are responsible for 25% of the electorate in 0:19:28.050 --> 0:19:32.100 the state of California. We can win every statewide race 0:19:32.410 --> 0:19:36.080 if those candidates leave LA with only like 44% of 0:19:36.100 --> 0:19:39.560 the vote, but that's going to take 75% Republican turnout. 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:41.320 So remember that number. 0:19:41.660 --> 0:19:45.310 If you know 10 Republicans and any one of them says, 0:19:45.730 --> 0:19:48.250 I'm not voting or I'm not voting in this race, 0:19:48.810 --> 0:19:51.940 smack them, do the moon snap out of it. Take 0:19:51.980 --> 0:19:55.900 them to VoteDifferentLA.com and make sure they turn in their ballot. 0:19:56.180 --> 0:19:57.090 And the other thing is. 0:19:57.170 --> 0:19:59.570 The last thing I'll say before we get into the 0:19:59.770 --> 0:20:03.590 making fun of John for not being here, is don't 0:20:03.670 --> 0:20:06.040 wait till the last day. It is going to take 0:20:06.140 --> 0:20:10.090 people who are conscientious, which is again, conservatives. It takes 0:20:10.140 --> 0:20:12.990 people half an hour to an hour to actually read 0:20:13.010 --> 0:20:16.090 their entire ballot because of all the ballot propositions. 0:20:16.910 --> 0:20:17.750 Don't wait. 0:20:18.090 --> 0:20:20.330 If you wait till the last day to go in person, 0:20:20.890 --> 0:20:23.650 there's going to be a very long line and you're 0:20:23.670 --> 0:20:25.899 going to get very discouraged. So if you have a 0:20:25.980 --> 0:20:29.720 person who loves to vote in person, vote centers open 0:20:29.780 --> 0:20:33.160 on the 24th. Get your tushy down there then. 0:20:33.700 --> 0:20:34.500 Do not delay. 0:20:35.550 --> 0:20:41.710 Roxanne Hogue, chairman of the L.A. County GOP VoteDifferentLA.com. Roxanne Hogue, 0:20:41.730 --> 0:20:42.869 thanks so much for joining us. 0:20:43.810 --> 0:20:47.030 Thank you. And it's VoteDifferentLA.com or LAGOP.org. 0:20:47.490 --> 0:20:52.460 LAGOP.org, VoteDifferentLA.com. It's the John Phillips Show. It's Randy Wang 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:56.419 on The John Phillips Show. Johnny's on vacation. Please join 0:20:56.510 --> 0:20:58.899 us in the chat room and watch the show live 0:20:59.010 --> 0:21:04.530