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Speaker 1: I was just talking about Steve Hilton, and no, we

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Speaker 1: didn't hear from him yesterday. That's because, like I said,

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Speaker 1: he's on the road. He's got a lot to do

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Speaker 1: with this campaign, and he's got probably gonna be taking

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Speaker 1: a few days off here and there. And as soon

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Speaker 1: as I get my headphones on there we go, Hi,

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Speaker 1: I canna hear myself. Now he'll be joining us now.

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Speaker 1: I did mention the cal Doze that he put together,

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Speaker 1: launched it to expose the billions of waste and fraud.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna be hearing from somebody else on this a

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Speaker 1: little bit later, doctor Oz. But he talks about Steve

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Speaker 1: talks about accountability, something that we really need in this state.

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Speaker 1: For real. I don't care who's in charge. For real,

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Speaker 1: here's Steve Hilton.

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Speaker 2: We are announcing the California Department of Government Efficiency. Why

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Speaker 2: do we need cal Doze? We need cal Doze because

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Speaker 2: Gavin Newsoon and the Democrat machine in California are stealing

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Speaker 2: our money. It is our money, it is our tax money,

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Speaker 2: and it is going billions of dollars of it into

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Speaker 2: fraud and corruption and waste and government bureaucracy and bloat.

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Speaker 1: No more, We are.

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Speaker 2: Going to put a stop to it. That is what

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Speaker 2: Calto's will do. We will stop the fraud, we will

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Speaker 2: stop the corruption, we will protect taxpayer money.

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Speaker 1: We Ever since Steve has grown that beard, he's turned

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Speaker 1: into a tough guy. You're seeing him with the beard.

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Speaker 1: Looks good, you know. He mentioned on the program last

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Speaker 1: time he was on it was intended to be a

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Speaker 1: temporary thing. Now he tells me the wife and kids

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Speaker 1: have gone from hating it to absolutely loving it, and

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Speaker 1: so he's gonna keep it, just like the Vice president.

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Speaker 1: A couple of beardies. So the initiative that Stevo's talking

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Speaker 1: about his model obviously after Elliot, not Elliot Elon Hello

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Speaker 1: in the Department of Government Efficiency on the federal level

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Speaker 1: that was launched last year under President Trump. This is

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Speaker 1: going to take very much like that kind of a

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Speaker 1: wrecking ball to the Democrat led state government here in California,

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Speaker 1: probably more so than what Donald Trump did in the

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Speaker 1: FED and what's going on in Minnesota, because there's much

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Speaker 1: more fraud people are saying here, and it's going to

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Speaker 1: open up the Golden State all of the books. It's

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Speaker 1: going to torch the bureaucracy. The way I see it

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Speaker 1: and it's going to expose the waste and fraud, I hope.

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Speaker 1: According to Steve as he's talking to the media, he says,

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Speaker 1: this is about accountability, accountability. Californians pay the highest taxes

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Speaker 1: in America and they get the worst results. We have

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Speaker 1: the highest poverty level, We have the highest costs in housing,

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Speaker 1: talked about that the day before yesterday, and people leaving.

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Speaker 1: Ten million people have left California in the last ten years,

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Speaker 1: almost exactly to the calendar ten years. We have the

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Speaker 1: highest energy costs, which when you have that, you know,

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Speaker 1: tied to the highest costs for housing. Who I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: want to live here anyway, even though it's real pretty

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Speaker 1: and we got lots of sunshine. That's what bugs me

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Speaker 1: is the cost of energy. We have so much that's

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Speaker 1: available to us in this state, the energy cheap, and

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Speaker 1: we don't have it. Remember, we can't get to it.

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Speaker 1: When natural gas was the savior for the left, right,

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Speaker 1: we've got to get rid of all this other stuff.

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Speaker 1: And look at all this natural gas that's sitting under

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Speaker 1: the San Joaquin Valley and out there on the ledge

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Speaker 1: with with Monterey. We've got so much, so much, and

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Speaker 1: then when the time came to make that decision, all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, natural gas was the enemy of the left.

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Speaker 1: It was bad news for the Democrats and they still

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Speaker 1: haven't explained why. And unfortunately they're in control because there's

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Speaker 1: so damn many of them up in Sacramento. But here

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Speaker 1: we go, you know, with California Doge Steve is saying,

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Speaker 1: you know, all of these high profits that have been

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Speaker 1: made from a number of these people, and he wants

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Speaker 1: to expose them to on an individual basis. This was

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Speaker 1: it wasn't an accident that they got so wealthy. It

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Speaker 1: wasn't an accident that they did so well. This is

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Speaker 1: off the back of the California taxpayer. So a key focus,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to get too far into this because

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Speaker 1: it's really kind of gets into the weeds, but a

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Speaker 1: key focus of the project is going to be how

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Speaker 1: to identify or to reduce the or eliminate the size

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Speaker 1: and the scope of these state agencies. It suck all

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Speaker 1: this money up, that's the problem. It's time to roll

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Speaker 1: back the back of the bureaucratic and regulatory structures that

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Speaker 1: drive up the costs and that you know, we've got

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Speaker 1: to end the redundancy too. As well. Hilton said that

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Speaker 1: he's released policy proposals and that if elected, he would

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Speaker 1: be enacting a state hiring freeze. He'd be eliminating fifty

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Speaker 1: thousand state employees. He'd be revising the contracts of twenty

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Speaker 1: one public sector unions. Those are a problem. If I

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Speaker 1: have the time, I can explain why Hilton, who used

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Speaker 1: a you know, muss Ai tool called groc oh boy

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Speaker 1: to I can say plenty about groc to create his

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Speaker 1: cal Doge logo, and he said he believes that the

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Speaker 1: fraud in California dwarfs the fraud in Minnesota. Many people

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Speaker 1: have said this. That know, he blasted the Democrats for

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Speaker 1: allowing the state's bloated budget. Gavin Newsom announced, you know

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Speaker 1: that plans for the three hundred and forty eight point

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Speaker 1: nine billion dollars in overall spending this month. He doesn't

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Speaker 1: want this to grow out of control. Steve doesn't, nor

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Speaker 1: do I. Californias now spend about almost one hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty billion dollars more than it did before Gavin Newsom

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Speaker 1: took office in twenty nineteen. Now, obviously things are going

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Speaker 1: to go up. That it just happens, that's the way

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Speaker 1: it is like it or lumpet, and we're not able

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Speaker 1: to do either. It's just lumpet most of the time.

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Speaker 1: And this is something that has been blurred very well

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Speaker 1: by the current govenor. It's not transparent at all as

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Speaker 1: to how these particular little mini unions and all of

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Speaker 1: these organizations, especially some of the coastal commissions, are able

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Speaker 1: to suck up some of this money. This is what

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Speaker 1: you get, Steve said, after sixteen years of one party rule,

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Speaker 1: this is all about corruption and fraud. And that's easy.

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Speaker 1: Even if the Republicans were in charge for sixteen years,

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Speaker 1: I think the outcome would still be pretty much the same.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's a political machine that takes money from

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Speaker 1: working Californians and hands it to political insiders, a consultants,

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Speaker 1: activist front groups. Yes, cal Doze, I'm getting excited here

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Speaker 1: is expected to end those systems then replace them with

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Speaker 1: accountability and reform. Yeah. This is something that another one

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Speaker 1: of the regulars is going to be talking about this

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Speaker 1: afternoon on the Ray Appleton program here at KMJ, and

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Speaker 1: that is going to be Tom del Pacaro. He's going

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Speaker 1: to be talking about a lot of his stuff about

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Speaker 1: where this money is going why this money is going

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Speaker 1: Why do they have so much money and we don't

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Speaker 1: on one side of the political spectrum. So he'll be

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Speaker 1: joining us at one o'clock this afternoon, and we'll go

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Speaker 1: after this one in a big way and probably get

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Speaker 1: into the weeds a little bit with Tom. All Right,

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Speaker 1: I get very nervous about a lot of this stuff,

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Speaker 1: especially when we're talking about we've seen so much money,

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Speaker 1: so much money dug out of Minnesota, and when you

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Speaker 1: hear that it's probably three times more in California, three

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Speaker 1: times more than what we've heard is going on in Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: That is just freak and terrifying. And Tom says, a

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Speaker 1: lot of the goals and a lot of the targets

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Speaker 1: are the same as they were in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: They're lighting out just exactly the same, but something as

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Speaker 1: different as the political machines behind them on both sides. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's the issue today. And when I say that, it

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Speaker 1: leaves something that's very, very wide open