WEBVTT - Michael Gates On Rob Bonta's Corruption 0:00:01.280 --> 0:00:05.480 Something's not right here. Crime is up all over. 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:08.320 The state, the homelessness and the city is out of control. 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:11.280 The economy is sick, axes are high. 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:13.640 Housing is expensive, and businesses are leaving leaving. 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:18.760 California needs fixing, and John Phillips is just the man 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:22.479 to lead the charge. It's the Fix California Hour with 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:24.440 John Phillips and Randy. 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:28.880 Wag and we continue at what o five in the 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:32.720 afternoon on the John Phillips Show. 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Michael Gates, welcome. 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:32.360 Thank you for having me. 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:36.080 All right, I want to start out by talking about 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:39.039 a subject that, for the life of me, I cannot 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:40.959 figure out why it's not on the front page of 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:47.760 the newspaper. So we've been covering the the saga that's 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:52.720 going on right now in Oakland, where former Oakland Mayorsheng 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:56.880 Tao had her home rated, along with the owners of 0:01:56.920 --> 0:02:01.919 California Waste Solutions and others, and they're now being charged 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:05.240 with crimes. Some of them involved in this are already 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:08.560 cutting deals right now with the Feds, including a councilman 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:12.919 in San Leandro. And all of this was sparked after 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:19.400 a whistleblower came forward and said that Andy Dong had 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:26.040 images and videos of politicians in compromising situations that he 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:29.600 was using to blackmail to get what he wanted. That 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:33.200 was in the initial letter. This has been reported Mario 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:35.640 Warrez is the name of the guy who wrote the letter. 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:41.080 We recently this week had a bombshell report in the 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:46.200 San Jose Mercury News that authenticated the fact that there 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:53.040 were images and videos of politicians in compromising situations found 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:57.920 on his telephone when the FBI rated his house and 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:01.320 took his computers and took his phone. They said that 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:04.239 that was in fact proven to be true, although they 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:08.040 did not name which politicians were found on his phone 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:12.800 in those compromising positions. We know that the Attorney General 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:17.000 of California, Rob Bonta, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:21.800 on a white collar criminal defense law firm when he 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:24.920 was asked to go in front of the FEDS and 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.919 tell them what he knows about what's going on in 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:32.760 that investigation. All of this leads to the obvious question, 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:41.360 are there compromising photos and videos that exist regarding Rob Bonta, 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:45.040 the Attorney General of California, that have been used to 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:49.839 blackmail him into doing something that he otherwise would not do. 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:54.120 It seems like an obvious question to me at this point, 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:57.560 given the fact that everything that I just said has 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:01.680 been in various newspapers on any number of occasions. It's 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:05.119 not like we're guessing, it's not like we're speculating. These 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:09.080 are proven facts. Why has that question not been asked 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:12.000 because it seems like that is the six sixty four 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:13.720 thousand dollars question in this race. 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:17.280 Yeah, so that's a great question, and I'm glad you 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:19.000 know the history. A lot of voters don't know the 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:23.080 history of Oakland and the crooked politics there and the 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:27.919 players involved. Rob Bonta absolutely is involved. He has connections. 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:31.120 Not only are they just loose connections and political connections, 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:34.080 but these are longtime friends of his. So Rob Banta 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:37.080 has been seen partying if you look at the photos 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:39.040 and the videos in the past, he has been seen 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:42.520 partying with Andy Dwong and members of the Duong family 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:45.799 along with his wife Mia for years they were friends 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:50.080 and political allies. Andy Dwong made or funneled approximately one 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:53.360 hundred and sixty thousand dollars of campaign contributions to Rob 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:57.560 Bonta's campaigns. And then Chang Tao who's been federally indicted. 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:00.320 As you mentioned, Andy Dwong was federally indicted too. Chang 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:03.240 Ta mayor former mayor of Shang Tao, was federally indicted. 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.320 He Rob Bonta has known her for years. In fact, 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:08.719 he was at her swearing in ceremony. He was the 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:11.000 one that swore her in when she was elected to office. 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:15.239 So these are really, really bad connections. These are bad actors. 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:18.320 And I actually put a post on my social media. 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:21.960 It was generated by AI, but it's basically Rob Bonta 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:25.080 depicted with former Mayor Shang Tao, Andy Blong and then 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:28.520 former Mayor Aileen Wang, and the caption above his head 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:31.360 is I have more friends who have been federally indicted 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:34.480 than you, and so not to make too light of it, 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:37.000 it's a serious situation, but he has a number of 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:40.120 friends who have been federally indicted. I don't know anybody personally. 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:42.240 Many of my friends are associates who have ever been 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:44.960 federally indicted. Yet Rob Bonta has a long list of 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:46.919 people who've been federally indicted. And then, as you said, 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:49.160 he spent over half a million, or nearly a half 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:52.720 a million dollars on white collar, very high profile criminal 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:55.679 defense attorneys, not simply just to answer a few questions, 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:59.760 but to literally sit down and be scrutinized and interrogated 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:02.120 by the FBI. This is Rob Bant, to our top 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:04.680 law enforcement officer in the state of California who is 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:09.360 interrogated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. So this guy 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:11.560 has got a lot of problems, a lot of baggage, 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:13.480 and I know it's going to catch up with him 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:15.800 in this election. I do believe that there's going to 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:18.400 be a lot of compromising evidence that comes to light. 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:20.599 It could be the videos, it could be other things. 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:23.800 I have heard a lot of information about these things 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:27.320 from reliable sources myself, but because I can't verify it myself, 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:30.080 I won't divulge it. But I will say that there's 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:31.600 going to be a lot that comes to light when 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:34.000 the when these cases go to trials, So former Mayor 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:37.320 Chantal and Andy Duong, these trials are going to occur 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:40.880 in early October, and so it remains to be seeing 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:43.680 what comes to light from the trials. There are going 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:45.680 to be public trials. All of the evidence there is 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:48.560 going to be made public, and if it implicates Robant, 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:50.440 that he's going to have to answer for that. I 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:54.280 also have faith in our system that the federal investigation 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:57.760 and the federal questioning that too alone independently may reveal 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:00.120 some of the contents of the videos and some the 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.000 images that you're talking about. But this is all very 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:05.159 very concerning, and I think as long as voters in 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:07.760 California learn about this, and thank you for bringing it up, 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:10.400 they're going to have a pretty important choice to make 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:12.760 here in November. Are they going to continue with somebody 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:16.840 who's mired in corruption and associated associated with federal crime, 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:20.480 federal criminal behavior associated or are they going to elect 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:23.880 somebody like myself who has a clean record and as 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:26.520 is actually the law and order candidate, who literally just 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:28.960 wants to become Attorney General to fight for everyday Californians 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:31.440 and return California to law and order. In the state 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:34.200 of California, we certainly can't depend on our current Attorney 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:37.200 General Robanta to return California to law and order. He's 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:40.920 running from the law in his own right. So California 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:43.160 needs to change. But thank you for educating the voters 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:45.200 and the public on what's going on here. It's very 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:45.840 very serious. 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:50.000 It's an odd position to be in for you to 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:53.080 let alone him because typically in these races, you know 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:57.000 you're running for attorney general, you'll debate on what you 0:07:57.040 --> 0:07:59.400 think about Prop thirty six, or what you think about 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:01.920 the death, or when you think about you know, any 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:05.800 number of subjects. But if he is being blackmailed by 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:10.440 criminals and criminals are getting something in return for it, 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:14.720 that's do not pass, go, do not collect two hundred dollars, 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:18.720 go directly to jail. You cannot have an attorney general 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:23.520 who is crooked and being manipulated by criminals. And it 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:26.360 just seems like we have so many dots that are 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:29.480 out there that anyone with two brain cells can connect. 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:33.000 And the fact that at least to my knowledge, he 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:36.320 hasn't been called to the carpet on this yet. I mean, 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:38.480 why is this not on the front page of the 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:42.120 La Times, in the San Francisco Chronicle and the Sacramento 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:45.319 b I mean, it seems like there is a massive, massive, 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.160 massive story out there if someone's willing to tell it. 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:52.600 Well, and frankly, you're really hitting on something very important. 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:55.360 First of all, the media is covering through Robonta. We 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:58.760 have seen a coordinated effort by the media outlets to 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:02.319 cover for him, to protection, to not expose a lot 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:05.880 of a lot of this critical information. But notably to 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:08.439 your point too, you know, Remember, Rob Bonta is going 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:10.760 to run for governor. If you go back to October, November, 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:13.800 and December of this last year, he was actually probably 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:17.199 the front runner for governor because everybody else, all the 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:19.960 other high profile names had decided not to run for governor. 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:22.320 So everybody who's looking to Rob Bonta to run, it's 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:25.160 because of this very story, exactly what you're talking about 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:28.400 right now, that Rob Banta decided not to run for governor. 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:31.800 He bowed out and he's sticking with the attorney general's 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.640 race and he's running for reelection. But this is why 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:38.239 this race can be won. I can beat Rob Bonta. 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:40.800 All of this baggage is going to come to light. 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:43.000 The voters will learn about it. They're hearing about it 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:46.640 on shows like yours. But when we start running commercials 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:49.200 and we start running ads, we are going to educate 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:52.440 the public. All of this is going to be made known. 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:55.640 He is going to be to be He's going to 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:58.719 effectively be exposed to the public. All of this is 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:01.200 going to come out garantee it. And so that's why 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:03.720 when people say, you know, can we win in California? 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:05.520 Can we win a state wide race? Can we really 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:08.560 turn this state around. I say, yes, this is the election. 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:11.240 We have sixty five percent of respondense to post date 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:13.520 at California is headed in the wrong direction. That means 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:16.839 change is coming. People are change oriented. When that number 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:18.680 is that high at sixty five percent, we have voter 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:20.720 idea on the ballot which is going to drive turnout. 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:22.880 We have a candidate like Rob Bonta who's running for 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:26.000 reelection and he doesn't he's disqualified. And when you say, 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:29.040 you know, what is he doing? How is he doing this? 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:32.080 He has been not only beholden to people who are 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:36.040 blackmailing him, but he's also beholden to Newsom. Newsom appointed 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:38.839 him to office in twenty twenty one. Rob Bonta did 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:40.880 not earn this spot in twenty twenty one. Had he 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:43.200 been subject to the voters, they would not have elected 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:45.560 him because nobody knew about him and he had a 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.719 terrible record ten years prior in the legislature. He was 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:52.880 a terrible legislator. So he is beholden to Newsom too, 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:55.960 which is why ever since twenty twenty one he's been 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:59.319 running cover for corruption and running your interference on truth 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:02.720 and justice and in criminal justice as well. Because he 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:06.240 owes his political fortunes to Newsom, and so this is 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.160 a bad situation. It's a bad dynamic, not only like 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:12.439 you said, the potential blackmail or blackmail from people out 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:15.199 in the public who can hold something over his head, 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:19.760 but also Newsome, who literally put him there in this spot. 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:22.240 And so Rob Bante is compromised in any way. You 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:24.920 look at it every direction, and that's why we need 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:28.800 to elect a new leader to Sacramento for the attorney 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:31.600 general's position. I need to get elected. I'm the only 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:33.720 one who can turn California around and return it too 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:35.800 a law and order state. You can't have somebody who's 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:39.480 running from the law be responsible for returning California to 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:41.360 a law in order state. And so that's why we 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:43.960 need to elect me as the attorney general. 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:48.160 Earlier this week, we had Seneca Scott on the program, 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:51.600 who hosts the Gotham Oakland podcast, who's been breaking stories 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:57.360 related to the Shantau indictment and other political stories that 0:11:57.480 --> 0:12:00.720 come out of the city of Oakland. He has a 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:05.160 fear that what is being debated right now on the 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:08.480 other side of the aisle is not will this story 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:11.680 become public? I think at this point the toothpaste is 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:14.280 out of the tube. There's enough that's already out there 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:17.600 where people are going to be familiar with the details, 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:19.280 and it's not going to be a very good look 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:23.120 for Rob Bonta, and he might face trouble himself in 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:27.480 any number of theaters. That being said, the worry that 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:32.000 Seneca brought up was that this would happen, that this 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:35.920 would story would break after the election and not before 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:39.400 the election. Because if the story breaks after the election, 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:43.559 then whoever is elected to be the next governor of California, 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:45.720 which right now the poll say it would be Bisarah, 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:48.560 would be the one who gets to appoint the next 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:52.800 attorney general. And instead of allowing someone like you to 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:56.160 be in that office, so you can look at these 0:12:56.240 --> 0:13:00.520 nonprofits and you can audit these nonprofits and all of 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:03.559 the public money that is being stolen that is going 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:07.400 to the benefactors of the one party rule that rules 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:10.760 Sacramento right now, all of that could be at risk 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:14.360 of collapsing if someone like you were to be elected 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:17.840 to that office. They can't allow that to happen. But 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:22.040 if the story breaks after the election, Bonda wins but 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:25.880 Sarah appoints, then they can put someone in who will 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:29.440 not do those things and will protect the system as 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:30.079 it exists. 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:33.000 Now, well, there is a real sense of urgency and 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:37.000 I'm hoping that with pressure from media like yours and 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:40.600 other sources, that this other media will be forced frankly 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:42.360 to start reporting on it. We do need to get 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:45.800 it out. My campaign will be prepared to get the 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:48.439 stories out as we can. But in addition to all 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:50.959 of the corruption that you mentioned that it will continue 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:53.800 if Robonta gets re elected. I mean, just look at 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:56.160 voter id We have a voter Idea initiative on the 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:59.760 ballot in November, that's Prop thirty nine. It will pass 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:03.280 in November because it has over seventy percent supporting California. 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:06.960 That's independence, Democrats and Republicans all supporting it. Right, So 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:09.000 it will pass and it will become the law of 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:12.840 the land. When it passes, it will be challenged, and 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:16.719 so it will be in court under challenge. Who's responsible 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:19.160 to show up to defend the law of the land 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:22.320 or defend voter ad when it gets challenged, it's the 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:25.960 Attorney General. Rob Bonta has already expressed that he hates 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:29.720 election integrity measures. He sued Huntington Beach my city for 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:32.200 having its own voter ID law. He shut down the 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:35.880 investigation in Riverside by Sheriff Bianco into the special election 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:39.240 Prop fifty. My point is this, not only will the 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.960 corruption continue, but we won't even get what we want, 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:45.080 what we voted for, because voter ID will pass in 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:47.840 November and then it will be challenged. Rob Bonta will 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:49.520 not show up to court to defend it, and then 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:51.760 it will fail. And how do I know this because 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:54.280 Kamala Harris did the very same thing with Prop eight 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:57.800 back in twenty ten when it passed overwhelmingly the ballot box. 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:01.360 The voters passed the traditional marriage at marriage equals a 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:03.680 man plus a woman. It was challenged, it went to court, 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:06.040 she did not show up to defend it, and then 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:08.000 it failed. That was the law of the land that 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:11.080 failed because she didn't defend it. Rob Bonta will be 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:13.280 guilty of the same thing. He will not show up 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:16.240 to court to defend voter ID in November. So there's 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:20.240 a whole lot at stake, John, I mean, yes, the corruption, Yes, 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:25.640 the crimes potentially that are committed in Sacramento to the 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:28.880 detriment of the taxpayer, but also the laws. Our Prop 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:31.080 thirty six is not enforced, our voter ID will be 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:34.200 lost even after we pass it. I mean, this is very, 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:37.160 very critical. I don't know if people totally realize how 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:39.760 important the attorney general's race is. They're all focused on 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:42.000 the governor's race. I'm telling you right now, ladies and gentlemen, 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:45.120 we need Hilton then as governor, but we really need 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:48.520 Bonta out as our attorney general because there is so 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:51.400 much at stake. Even our laws, what we pass at 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:54.560 the ballot box will be at risk. It will be 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:57.520 taken from us when or if Rob Bonta is our 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:00.680 attorney general again. So this is for all. If we're 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:03.920 going to rescue California, we need a new attorney general desperately. 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:06.200 I can get all of the work that I need 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:08.200 to get done to return California to a long order 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.920 state even if Besera happens to be our governor. Because 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:14.360 I have independent authority under the California Constitution as the 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:17.640 top legal officer in the state of California, I can 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:20.760 return California to a law order state in spite of 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:23.640 the governor or the legislature. But if we have Rob 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.640 Bonta as our Attorney general. There's no hope to return 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:29.800 California to a law order state. The corruption will continue 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:31.400 and the lawlessness will continue. 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:35.160 Let's go back to Voter ID for a moment, because 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:39.040 Rob Bonta is trying to rig that election by purposely 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:43.040 giving it a title and summary that is not what 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:46.640 it actually is. He's trying to trick people into voting 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:49.880 against what they believe in. Can you speak to that. 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:55.720 Yeah, So, actually Rob Banta approved a valid title in 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:58.480 September of twenty twenty five, and it was pretty vanilla. 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:01.720 It was pretty neutral, isn't designed to influence the voter 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:04.240 one way or another. And that was approved by Rob 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:08.119 Bonta already again in September twenty twenty five, and so 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:10.320 it was a done deal. And that's back when he 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:13.159 thought maybe there wouldn't be enough signatures or it wouldn't 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:16.600 qualify for the ballot. But now that it has qualified, 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:19.280 and now that he has seen that there's a lot 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:22.439 of support in California to actually support Voter ID and 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:26.199 to pass Voter ID, he rewrote the title at the 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:29.760 last minute. And now the first four words say prevent 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:34.520 citizens from voting. So the title has been rewritten for Prop. 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:37.120 Thirty nine, which is the voter ID law. To literally 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:43.040 start by saying prevents citizens from voting. That's entirely misleading. 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:46.080 And now it's subject to litigation. But this is exactly 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:49.160 how bad this guy is. Right, he couldn't let lying 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:52.480 dogs lie. He actually had to stir up trouble by 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:55.399 rewarding the ballot title of Prop. Thirty nine or the 0:17:55.480 --> 0:18:01.520 voter ID proposition to try to discourage voters, dissuadevoters, confuse voters, 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:05.760 which is classic attorney general art, to try to put 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:08.720 their thumb on the scale of the outcome of the 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:11.760 proposition at the ballot box. That's got to end. When 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:14.520 I'm attorney general, I'm just going to call us betas bade. 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:16.919 The proposition is going to be labeled what it is. 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:18.639 I'm not going to deceive the voters. I'm not going 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:20.480 to put my thumb on the scale. I'm not going 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:23.439 to try to confuse voters. The attorney general has an 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:27.040 awesome responsibility, and that is to be straight with the voters, 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:29.560 transparent with the voters, and to enforce the law as 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:32.880 it's stated on the books. Rob Bonta does anything but that. 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:35.879 We have a lawless Attorney General right now in Prop 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:40.560 thirty nine, and this new ballot title scandal is the 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:44.359 latest example of how bad he is for California and frankly, 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:47.879 how much contempt he has for Californians. I see on 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:51.240 my social media posts all the time. Clearly our state leadership, 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:55.120 including Rob Banta, hates us every day Californians. Because if 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:58.159 he didn't hate us, he wouldn't do half of the 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:01.480 stuff that he's doing. So this guy is terrible for California. 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:04.240 He's got to go. I am a real lawyer. I've 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:07.440 tried many multimillion dollar cases in trial myself. I've done 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:11.640 election integrity litigation on myself. I've done First Amendment litigation myself. 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:14.600 I have tried many cases. I have argued in various courts, 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:17.520 including courts of appeal. California has an opportunity to have 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:19.800 a real lawyer as the Attorney general once and for 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:22.720 all and do away with these career politicians that have 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:24.119 contempt for us. 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:28.560 Michael Gates, candidate for California Attorney General. You can get 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:33.080 them online at Gates forag dot com. Michael Gates, thanks 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:34.120 so much for stopping by. 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:35.680 Thank you for having me. 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:39.080 It's the John Phillips Show eight hundred two two two 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:42.120 five two two two. He is the telephone number one 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:45.399 eight hundred two two two five two two two. If 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:47.239 you'd like to email the show, you can do so 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:50.360 at Johnny Don't Like show at gmail dot com. 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