1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:01,760 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. 2 00:00:01,840 --> 00:00:04,560 Speaker 2: I feel like we should call this podcast if you 3 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:08,320 Speaker 2: vote Democrat, there is no moderation. There's no moderate in 4 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:11,640 Speaker 2: the Democrat Party. Do not be manipulated by believing that 5 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 2: there is a moderate. You guys have heard me talk 6 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:17,320 Speaker 2: about what happened in Virginia. You've heard me talk about 7 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:21,200 Speaker 2: the attorney general race in Virginia, and specifically because I 8 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:25,400 Speaker 2: was like mind blown that Jay Jones could win after 9 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:29,200 Speaker 2: we knew he sent text messages saying that when he 10 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:31,560 Speaker 2: was in the legislature I think was the speaker of 11 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 2: the House of Virginia, the state House, that he imagined 12 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 2: him and his family and his children being murdered. These 13 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:44,720 Speaker 2: messages came out, we were like, oh, no, one could 14 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:46,200 Speaker 2: possibly vote for this guy. 15 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:48,200 Speaker 1: Who could possibly vote. 16 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 2: For someone for the top law enforcement position in the state, 17 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:57,800 Speaker 2: the top law enforcement position in the commonwealth. It would 18 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 2: go to somebody who's like imagined a murder. But Virginia 19 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 2: is some sort. 20 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 1: Of special I guess. 21 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:06,600 Speaker 2: So we are asking his opponent in that race, the 22 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:11,000 Speaker 2: former Attorney General of Virginia, Jason Miaraz, thank you so 23 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:12,360 Speaker 2: much for joining me today. 24 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:14,280 Speaker 3: Great to be with you. Thanks so much for having me. 25 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 2: Absolutely, So we watched your race from Afar, and honestly, 26 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 2: when you're this involved in politics, you don't even feel 27 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:25,640 Speaker 2: like you're watching it from Afar because we're talking to everybody, 28 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:29,080 Speaker 2: and we felt like this information has to change it. 29 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 2: But you say that this came too late, and this 30 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:34,960 Speaker 2: is a great example of why early voting is such 31 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 2: a problem. 32 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:39,200 Speaker 4: Well, listen, it definitely had an impact. I ran about 33 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 4: nine points a head of the top of the ticket, 34 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:45,000 Speaker 4: so it definitely had an impact. But the reality is 35 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 4: we saw roughly about twenty percent one of five voters 36 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 4: even going to election day. We're not familiar with the 37 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:56,120 Speaker 4: tech scandal, and several hundred thousand people I have voted early. 38 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 4: The Democrats when they last had power of Virginia, change 39 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 4: your rule to allow forty five day no excuse early voting. 40 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 3: So five day, forty five days. 41 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 4: So it's no longer election day, it's election season starts 42 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:12,640 Speaker 4: forty five days in advance. Yeah, not even election month. Yeah, 43 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:16,080 Speaker 4: it's it's a month and a half. And so gosh, 44 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:18,080 Speaker 4: I think it was four hundred five hundred thousand people 45 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:22,640 Speaker 4: had already voted and it came out an early end 46 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:26,160 Speaker 4: of September early October, about about a month out. Uh, 47 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:28,920 Speaker 4: and then even then with the media coverage, it just 48 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:31,280 Speaker 4: shows that we were in a bifurcated society where people 49 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 4: get their information so early voting that type of note 50 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 4: ex husapsit valle and I would run into people that 51 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 4: have said, I feel kind of stupid. I voted for 52 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 4: your opponent early on, not knowing this. So I like 53 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 4: to say an informed electorate is a wise electorate. That 54 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:49,680 Speaker 4: there was a there was a percentage of the electorate 55 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:51,800 Speaker 4: that wasn't informed or they'd already cast their ballots. 56 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 1: If you're voting that early, can you spoil your vote? 57 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:55,880 Speaker 3: No, you can't. 58 00:02:56,120 --> 00:03:00,400 Speaker 4: And that's why, Uh, that's why it's I think it's 59 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:04,320 Speaker 4: important to have I mean, listen early apt toitee ballotings. 60 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 4: That's broadly legal, but this early, excuse forty five days 61 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:11,799 Speaker 4: election season, I think this is exactly Virginia was a 62 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:14,320 Speaker 4: little bit of an example of it, I think, and 63 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:16,799 Speaker 4: you know, we, like I said, we ran way ahead 64 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 4: of the top of the ticket, but it wasn't it 65 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:20,960 Speaker 4: wasn't enough. And I think part of what made it 66 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 4: so startling was that Jay Jones knew who these children were. 67 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 4: He mentioned about seeing these children die in their's mother's arms, 68 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 4: and you know, the speaker would bring his kids to 69 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:33,239 Speaker 4: the General Assembly and they'd be running through the halls. 70 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 4: These were actual children that he had met and he 71 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:38,560 Speaker 4: had seen, and the idea that he would wish death 72 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:40,600 Speaker 4: upon them, I think is what made it so startling 73 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:41,120 Speaker 4: in the race. 74 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:46,279 Speaker 2: There's two things. The fact that is just flat out psychotic. 75 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 2: I mean, anybody who could imagine children because children have 76 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 2: historically been off limits. I mean I remember when the 77 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 2: Bush children were in the White House and anybody who 78 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 2: picked on them they were in trouble. And even Chelsea Clinton, 79 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 2: I remember that there was a time when people were 80 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 2: picking on her and it was like, hey, kids are 81 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 2: off limits. That discussion has been had many many times. 82 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 2: It's not just that he would put that in writing, 83 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 2: but that he's also looking to be the person that 84 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:17,320 Speaker 2: puts bad guys that think those things in jail. 85 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:22,720 Speaker 4: Right, And there's other reports that he had said he 86 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:25,640 Speaker 4: would think that if a few cops were shot, maybe 87 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:28,400 Speaker 4: police would change their tactics. And so there was a 88 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:32,160 Speaker 4: lot that got out there, but it was a little 89 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:35,120 Speaker 4: bit of a shocking test case of why forty five 90 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:38,920 Speaker 4: day early voting made the electorate. Some people had voted 91 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:41,840 Speaker 4: not knowing fully the full picture, and you know a 92 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:44,359 Speaker 4: lot of people so weren't familiar. Just also goes to 93 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 4: show what happens when your down ballot. But the effect 94 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:51,800 Speaker 4: has been that Virginia has done a radical turn to 95 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:56,320 Speaker 4: the left that even though Abigail Spamberger had run as 96 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:59,920 Speaker 4: a moderate and a centrist voice that the Speaker of 97 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:03,919 Speaker 4: House had said, we're going to try to show restraint, 98 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:07,080 Speaker 4: I think we have seen from the bills introduced, they 99 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:10,160 Speaker 4: have done the opposite of that in Virginia, and they 100 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:14,360 Speaker 4: really look at California as the model instead of the 101 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 4: Virginia that we have left them, which is Aavilia with 102 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:22,360 Speaker 4: Virginia with it over a billion dollar surplus and driving 103 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:26,159 Speaker 4: a business climate that Governor Young can help implement. It's 104 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:30,359 Speaker 4: really been a stark left turn that takes people's breaths away. 105 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:32,159 Speaker 1: So they're calling her the White Witch. 106 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 2: And for people who don't know what that is in 107 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:37,720 Speaker 2: reference to if you've ever seen or if you've ever 108 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:41,200 Speaker 2: read any of the Chronicles of Narnia, the first book, 109 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 2: the first movie, she does very much in the movie. 110 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 2: She does resemble the woman who plays the White Witch. 111 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:51,800 Speaker 2: She comes out and she kind of she tells they 112 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:54,080 Speaker 2: brought the one brother, like this can be you can 113 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:57,920 Speaker 2: be in control of everything, and dupes him into believing 114 00:05:58,040 --> 00:05:59,720 Speaker 2: that he can have all these suites, he can have 115 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:00,280 Speaker 2: every thing. 116 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 1: She takes him to the palace and then she holds him. 117 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 2: Prisoner, almost like the story of the people of Virginia. 118 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:09,120 Speaker 2: Right now, I feel like because she comes out she 119 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 2: resembles this character in the movie, but she comes out 120 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:15,560 Speaker 2: in all white she I mean, here we are in 121 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:20,039 Speaker 2: this arctic freeze. It's just kind of perfect, perfect imagery 122 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 2: for the comparison of the White Witch. But she comes 123 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:27,480 Speaker 2: out and she really does pull this bait and switched 124 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:30,720 Speaker 2: just like the White Witch does in the movie. She Oh, 125 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:33,600 Speaker 2: I'm the moderate. I'm the moderate. She's no moderate at all. 126 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 2: I mean, she's like the Zoron mom Donnie of Virginia. 127 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 4: Well, I mean, I think what you've saying is this 128 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:43,279 Speaker 4: idea that and I think this is this is an 129 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:47,360 Speaker 4: example of the legacy media candidly failing at their job. 130 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:49,520 Speaker 4: If you looked at her voting record in Congress, despite 131 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:52,360 Speaker 4: her public pronouncement, she voted one hundred percent with Joe Biden. 132 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know anybody that votes what would 133 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 4: agree with Joe Biden one hundred percent of the time, 134 00:06:57,279 --> 00:06:59,440 Speaker 4: unless somebody that's far in the left. She voted for 135 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:04,320 Speaker 4: this absurd DC crime bill that lowered penalties on carjackers 136 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:06,640 Speaker 4: and violent criminals. That was such a radical piece of 137 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:10,080 Speaker 4: legislation Joe Biden even vetoed it when I finally got 138 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:14,120 Speaker 4: to his desk. She voted for trillions of dollars of 139 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:18,760 Speaker 4: debt spending that led to this inflation crisis. And despite 140 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 4: her public pronouncement that she was a quote unquote moderate 141 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 4: throughout he was, her voting record show she was very, 142 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 4: very left wing. And I do put that a little 143 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:31,440 Speaker 4: bit on the media that kept repeating that she was 144 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 4: somehow a moderate member of Congress. When he looked at 145 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:35,280 Speaker 4: a record, it was clear that wasn't the case. And 146 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:38,320 Speaker 4: now they are pushing, I think, get far left agenda 147 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:41,320 Speaker 4: that's going to totally destroy Virginia's business client And you've 148 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:43,360 Speaker 4: got to realize when Governor Yulkin and I came in 149 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:47,280 Speaker 4: for the first time since Calvin Coolidge had been president 150 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 4: in nineteen twenties, you had eight plus years of more 151 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 4: people moving out of Virginia than moving in Virginia. I 152 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 4: think that that is as big of a statement as 153 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 4: you can make about what people were thinking. Businesses were leaving, 154 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:01,800 Speaker 4: people were leaving, and no body was coming in. And 155 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:05,600 Speaker 4: because a smart policy both a billion dollars plus and 156 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:09,160 Speaker 4: regulations off the books, tax cuts and a budget surplus 157 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:12,600 Speaker 4: every year, Virginia now had net people moving in. We 158 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:15,120 Speaker 4: reverse this eight year trend that had been going on 159 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:18,320 Speaker 4: eight years by the way of previous Democratic governors. And 160 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:20,800 Speaker 4: it seems like they say, the only thing you learned 161 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:24,200 Speaker 4: from history is nobody learns from history. They're trying to 162 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:26,840 Speaker 4: implement the same policies that have been implemented in countless 163 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 4: to other states that have destroyed the business climate, raise taxes, 164 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:33,360 Speaker 4: made cost of living more expensive, skyrocket energy bills, and 165 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:37,120 Speaker 4: it causes people and businesses to flee. It's wash rents repeat. 166 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:42,079 Speaker 4: It is a great example why elections matter. And if 167 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:44,600 Speaker 4: a Democrat claims they were a moderate, actually looked at 168 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:47,480 Speaker 4: their record, not their rhetoric. I think that's the other 169 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:48,480 Speaker 4: message we've taken away. 170 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:51,400 Speaker 2: You make a really strong point. We don't have the media. 171 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:54,200 Speaker 2: We've been saying this for a very long time. Republicans 172 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:56,720 Speaker 2: don't have the media. But I think that the combination 173 00:08:56,840 --> 00:08:59,760 Speaker 2: of not having the media and having this forty five 174 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:04,679 Speaker 2: days in advanced voting, that's something that Republicans have got 175 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:08,480 Speaker 2: to take into consideration in the midterms. These rules have changed. 176 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:11,360 Speaker 2: They benefit the Democrat. We don't have the media, we 177 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:13,600 Speaker 2: don't have time to catch up in that last month, 178 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:17,679 Speaker 2: and that's Democrats across the country are winning elections in 179 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:21,239 Speaker 2: September and October because the money's not coming in. Republicans 180 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:23,400 Speaker 2: are putting money in at the last minute. That can't 181 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:24,200 Speaker 2: happen anymore. 182 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:27,960 Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I think what you have seen is they 183 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:31,520 Speaker 4: absolutely will change. The other thing that I think is 184 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:34,960 Speaker 4: important is people realize that when the left gets power, 185 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:39,200 Speaker 4: they have a very very different mindset of when you know, 186 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:42,679 Speaker 4: conservatives or Republicans get power. Because I think this is 187 00:09:42,679 --> 00:09:45,680 Speaker 4: a remarkable country. You know, my family fled Cuba with nothing. 188 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:48,560 Speaker 4: It is a remarkable country. It is truly the land 189 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:52,000 Speaker 4: of opportunity, and it's really based the bul work on freedom. 190 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:53,320 Speaker 3: And so I look at America. 191 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 4: Yeah, there's things we could be that can be absolutely 192 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:58,439 Speaker 4: fixed and improved, but I think this is a remarkable country. 193 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:02,040 Speaker 4: These are the more opportunit unities and prosperity, the more 194 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:05,440 Speaker 4: people different backgrounds than any country that has ever existed 195 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:07,880 Speaker 4: in history of the world. So you're not looking to 196 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:11,000 Speaker 4: use government to change every aspect of society. When the 197 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:16,719 Speaker 4: Left gets power, they view America's irrechrievably broken, racist, homophobic, picturophobia, 198 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 4: and they want to use every lever of government to 199 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:24,000 Speaker 4: change society because they think society is inherently bad and broken. 200 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:26,320 Speaker 4: And the example I use is when I was Attorney General, 201 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:30,560 Speaker 4: the Biden administration tried to use the school lunch program 202 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 4: for needy kids. This would be reduced lunch programs for 203 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:37,400 Speaker 4: needy kids in public schools. They tried to pass a 204 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:40,839 Speaker 4: regulation that would say, if you accept money in your 205 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:44,480 Speaker 4: school district for needy kids to have reduced lunches, you 206 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:47,400 Speaker 4: also have to adopt the Biden administration's view on transgendered 207 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:51,040 Speaker 4: athletes and sports. They use every lever of power to 208 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:55,560 Speaker 4: change society, picked on their social justice issue of the day, 209 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:57,520 Speaker 4: And I think it just goes to show you that 210 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 4: when they get in power and they have complete levers 211 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:02,640 Speaker 4: where there's no speed bumps, there's no checks and balance. 212 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:06,400 Speaker 4: It's what I call aggressive progressive. They go one hundred 213 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:08,600 Speaker 4: and eighty miles an hour. They do not look back. 214 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:11,559 Speaker 4: They don't know how to govern any other way because 215 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 4: their mindset is we need to fix, use government to 216 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 4: change and fix every aspect of society. It is such 217 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:20,600 Speaker 4: a different mindset. And I can't tell you the number 218 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:23,640 Speaker 4: of people I met in the business community that were 219 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:26,320 Speaker 4: supportive of May but also supportive of Abigail, And they 220 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 4: had this naive view that somehow, oh, if she gets cent, 221 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:32,960 Speaker 4: she's a moderate, she'll be fine. And now they're calling 222 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:35,600 Speaker 4: and texting me just a gas at what's on the 223 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:38,920 Speaker 4: table right now. And it's a little bit of I see, 224 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:39,680 Speaker 4: I told you so. 225 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:40,400 Speaker 3: I warned you. 226 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 4: That's just not They don't govern any other way, but 227 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:47,160 Speaker 4: one hundred miles an hour using government to implement left 228 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:47,920 Speaker 4: wing policies. 229 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:51,960 Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, I mean I experienced that same thing with 230 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:54,840 Speaker 2: right to work. People said, well, we never thought Whitmer 231 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:58,560 Speaker 2: would take away right to work, but she did. She 232 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:00,640 Speaker 2: said she was going to. That's the weird thing. She 233 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:03,000 Speaker 2: said she was going to, and yet you didn't believe her. 234 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:05,840 Speaker 2: Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on 235 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:12,880 Speaker 2: the Tutor Dixon podcast. Virginia is in a very interesting situation. 236 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:15,760 Speaker 2: You right now have a two point seven billion dollar 237 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 2: budget surplus, but you've got a governor who's literally out 238 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:23,720 Speaker 2: there saying that regardless of the surplus, she could raise 239 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:27,520 Speaker 2: the state tax rate from five point seventy five percent 240 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:30,080 Speaker 2: to thirteen point eight percent. 241 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:33,120 Speaker 3: It's just stunning. 242 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:37,959 Speaker 4: Don't forget that when Governor Yelkin was in office, there 243 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,560 Speaker 4: is always at least one branch was controlled by Democrats. 244 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:43,240 Speaker 4: It's really remarkable what he was able to do despite 245 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:47,240 Speaker 4: dealing with divided government. But even then he had to 246 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:50,920 Speaker 4: tell the General Assembly every year he's governor, the Democratic 247 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:54,320 Speaker 4: Assembly would introduce a budget with tax increases, even though 248 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 4: every year he was governor he had budget surpluses. So 249 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:00,400 Speaker 4: that's the other thing that I think most forgions are 250 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:03,480 Speaker 4: a little bit surprised about the governor. I used to 251 00:13:03,559 --> 00:13:05,960 Speaker 4: joke with Gwynn Youunkin that he should change his last 252 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:09,840 Speaker 4: name to don Vito because he signed more vetos than 253 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:14,440 Speaker 4: any governor ever. But I had this sinking feeling that 254 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:16,640 Speaker 4: once they got, if they were able to get all 255 00:13:16,679 --> 00:13:19,400 Speaker 4: branches of government, all of these vetos, that he would 256 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:22,160 Speaker 4: veto would become would be on the path to becoming law. 257 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:25,120 Speaker 4: And that's what we're saying, including to your point, these 258 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:28,800 Speaker 4: tax increases, and it's why you're saying these blue states 259 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:32,960 Speaker 4: lose population and people moving to red states, and Virginia 260 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:34,640 Speaker 4: is a purple state. We tend to be a state 261 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:38,240 Speaker 4: that swings the pendulum swings. I think there's a lot 262 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:40,960 Speaker 4: of Virginians right now looking at what's happening in Richmond 263 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:44,599 Speaker 4: with remorse and regret and with a lot of trepidation. 264 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:48,200 Speaker 2: You talked about the school lunches under Biden, and I 265 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:51,520 Speaker 2: think it's interesting because now you hear governors like Tim 266 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:53,920 Speaker 2: Walls and Gretchen Whitmer talking about, oh. 267 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:56,360 Speaker 1: We're giving free lunch to every kid now. 268 00:13:56,440 --> 00:13:59,200 Speaker 2: So that's great, but it is a way also for 269 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:02,840 Speaker 2: the federal govern to come in like that and say, hey, 270 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:05,520 Speaker 2: you rely on a certain amount of money from us 271 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:08,679 Speaker 2: to give these free lunches, which you've campaigned on. 272 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:11,320 Speaker 1: Now the schools must. 273 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:14,320 Speaker 2: Obey what we say, and that was that boys could 274 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:17,480 Speaker 2: be in the girls' bathrooms. Under Obama and Biden, that 275 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:20,000 Speaker 2: was a disaster for a lot of schools. I mean, 276 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 2: certainly in Virginia you experienced that it was a total disaster. 277 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 2: How do we protect ourselves from having a Democrat federal 278 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:35,040 Speaker 2: government one day coming back and destroying. 279 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:36,400 Speaker 1: Our schools again, putting our girls at risk. 280 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:37,880 Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you this. 281 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:40,600 Speaker 4: It goes to a larger issue that I've been talking 282 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:43,880 Speaker 4: about some time about people say, well, why is Washington broken? 283 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:47,400 Speaker 4: And my team did an analysis. In the Joe Biden years, 284 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:51,240 Speaker 4: over ninety five percent of every law and regulation implemented 285 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 4: on the American people was not an Act of Congress. 286 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:57,000 Speaker 4: It was not a bill, It was not something that 287 00:14:57,040 --> 00:14:59,880 Speaker 4: made its way through the congressional system where we had hearings. 288 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 4: It was either executive orders or regulations from unelected administrative bodies, 289 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:08,680 Speaker 4: whether it's OSHA, whether it's EPA, Department of Health. And 290 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:11,760 Speaker 4: the left has always love that system because it means 291 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:14,000 Speaker 4: they're not accountable. So the example I gave to you 292 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,920 Speaker 4: about the Joe Biden school lunch program, do you think 293 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:20,800 Speaker 4: any Democratic congressman from any type of swing district would 294 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:23,040 Speaker 4: want to vote for a bill that says you have 295 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:25,760 Speaker 4: to to get school lunch program, you have to tie 296 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:29,600 Speaker 4: to a radical left wing ideology on the trans issue. 297 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:32,040 Speaker 4: Of course, not what they can do is then step 298 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 4: back and say, well, that was a decision by the 299 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:39,480 Speaker 4: Department of Agriculture. Pick your government department. And so that 300 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:44,920 Speaker 4: is something that Congresses basically passes bills to fund the government, 301 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 4: but they don't really pass laws anymore. It's an unelected bureaucracy. 302 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:51,520 Speaker 4: And it's something that I know this administration has been 303 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:55,640 Speaker 4: trying to trying to get their arms around, is that 304 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:58,720 Speaker 4: you have so much being implement in America people. And 305 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:00,360 Speaker 4: this was brought to life for me. If you remember 306 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 4: the COVID nineteen vaccine mandate that said, if you're an 307 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:05,440 Speaker 4: employer with one hundred more employees, they have to be 308 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:08,680 Speaker 4: vaccinated with the COVID nineteen vaccine or they will be fired. 309 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:10,960 Speaker 4: And my point in that is that was not a 310 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:13,840 Speaker 4: bill or an Act of Congress. That was from OSHA, 311 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:16,800 Speaker 4: which is supposed to regulate where you put your your 312 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 4: ladder in your body shop. And I'll never forget a 313 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:21,960 Speaker 4: friend of mine who runs a trucking company said, you know, 314 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:24,280 Speaker 4: I have long haulers that have been with me for general, 315 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:26,560 Speaker 4: you know, for twenty thirty years. I'm gonna have to 316 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:28,960 Speaker 4: fire And he's like, I know, my Congressman, I know 317 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:31,240 Speaker 4: my Senator I know to call them. He's like I 318 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 4: tried to call OSHA. I called their main number. I 319 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:35,680 Speaker 4: called it eight thirty in the morning, and I was 320 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:38,080 Speaker 4: kept on hold until I left it five point thirty 321 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:40,560 Speaker 4: that night. Never got a hold of anybody to tell 322 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:43,600 Speaker 4: them this is not workable. And so that's the point 323 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:47,720 Speaker 4: democracy fails when you don't have representative democracy people can 324 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 4: reach out to. It's a larger question about the unelected 325 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:54,040 Speaker 4: administrative state. I think in this nation now the Supreme 326 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:57,720 Speaker 4: Court has recently and lower bright made a decision that 327 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:01,040 Speaker 4: reversed the previous one that should give, I guess some 328 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:05,240 Speaker 4: additional abilities for citizens and others to challenge these unelected regulations. 329 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:08,000 Speaker 4: But for years they were very hard to return. It's 330 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:11,360 Speaker 4: a big, big problem because everything's precedent, and the left 331 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:14,400 Speaker 4: gets power, they use that unelected administrative state to app 332 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:19,560 Speaker 4: absolutely pass lalls and regulation impact every aspect of American society. 333 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:23,040 Speaker 2: So I think we're looking at I think it's thirty 334 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:27,960 Speaker 2: six subernatorial racist this year in twenty six and probably 335 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:32,720 Speaker 2: the same amount of attorney general races. And one of 336 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:34,600 Speaker 2: the things that we talked about in Michigan, I know 337 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:36,719 Speaker 2: this is the case in many other states. I mean 338 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:40,600 Speaker 2: you're talking about it is that the governor has a 339 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:43,600 Speaker 2: lot of control over those agencies they are appointing who 340 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:47,159 Speaker 2: the heads of those agencies are. In our state, the 341 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 2: DNR has a ridiculous amount of control the DNR. If 342 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:54,280 Speaker 2: you break a DNR rule, it's a rule, but the 343 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:57,639 Speaker 2: fine is a misdemeanor. I mean, the punishment is a misdemeanor. 344 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:00,920 Speaker 2: So they can create a rule that ultimately has a 345 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:04,600 Speaker 2: legal enforcement to it that you can actually lose your 346 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:08,360 Speaker 2: concialed carry if you break one of the DNR's rules. 347 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:13,600 Speaker 2: There's multiple different categories that people fall in if they 348 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 2: if they break one regulation, or they come into a 349 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:24,840 Speaker 2: state like we have. Our environmental agency is called Eagle. 350 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:27,320 Speaker 2: Eagle will come in and put so many regulations in 351 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:30,359 Speaker 2: you can't start a business in the state. I've had 352 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:34,840 Speaker 2: people who created multi billion dollar businesses in the state 353 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:38,080 Speaker 2: of Michigan that say, as of today, I couldn't because 354 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:40,560 Speaker 2: the way I started would be over regulated to the 355 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:42,200 Speaker 2: point where I couldn't start that way today. 356 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:45,879 Speaker 4: I hear that all the time from business owners to 357 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:49,240 Speaker 4: say I couldn't create my business with today's regulatory climate. 358 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:51,000 Speaker 4: To give an example, you know, one of the things 359 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:53,560 Speaker 4: that Democrats often run on. It wasn't just a Virginia 360 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:56,480 Speaker 4: with Spamberger, but you're going to see this. They all 361 00:18:56,560 --> 00:18:59,760 Speaker 4: caught carbon copy affordability. But the reality is is they 362 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:03,080 Speaker 4: are implementing the policies that make it more expensive to live. 363 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:06,640 Speaker 4: They're pushing the Green New Deal and Reggie and other 364 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:10,119 Speaker 4: issues that add to your tax bill, right because wind 365 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:13,119 Speaker 4: and solar don't always go and it adds to your 366 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:16,359 Speaker 4: tax bill. They're the ones that have such restrictive environmental 367 00:19:16,359 --> 00:19:18,639 Speaker 4: policies that you can't build. I talk to a builder 368 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:23,600 Speaker 4: in Virginia and we are housing affordability goes to basics 369 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:26,320 Speaker 4: applying demand. He has had a piece of property since 370 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:30,560 Speaker 4: the George H. W. Bush administration in Virginia. He has 371 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:36,240 Speaker 4: gotten approval of the DQ and Richmond local zoning to 372 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:38,960 Speaker 4: build a neighborhood with two hundred single family homes, really 373 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:42,240 Speaker 4: starter homes people can start their America dream. He could 374 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:44,920 Speaker 4: not get the Army Corps engineer to give him a 375 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:48,560 Speaker 4: wetlanes permit, even though every other local and state had, 376 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:51,840 Speaker 4: even though the Supreme Court had ruled that the way 377 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:55,360 Speaker 4: the Army Corps interpreting this it was overbroad because when 378 00:19:55,359 --> 00:19:58,720 Speaker 4: he cleared the land, he created a ditch on the 379 00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:01,719 Speaker 4: property and anticipation to start building, and when it rained, 380 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:04,800 Speaker 4: there was water the ditch and they said, that's a wetland. 381 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:08,320 Speaker 4: You can't touch it. You see that all over the country. 382 00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:11,000 Speaker 4: So the very strict environmental rules that are making it 383 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:13,720 Speaker 4: impossible to build homes, and they go back and say, oh, 384 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:18,040 Speaker 4: it is because people quote unquote greedy and now it's rowdy. 385 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:20,200 Speaker 4: Is you're implementing a lot of policies and you can 386 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:23,159 Speaker 4: go that from energy to housing to a host of 387 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:25,840 Speaker 4: other issues where they actually make it more expensive. You're 388 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:30,560 Speaker 4: going to see governors around the country push the affordability mantra. 389 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:33,119 Speaker 4: But to remind them, it was under Biden where they 390 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:36,840 Speaker 4: sworted the trillions of dollars of inflationary spending that led 391 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:39,280 Speaker 4: to the inflation crisis that made it more expensive. It's 392 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:42,679 Speaker 4: their environmental policies that have restricted housing them it's housing 393 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:45,479 Speaker 4: more expensive. You can go down the list. I think 394 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:47,679 Speaker 4: that's what voters might hope when they look at their 395 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:52,600 Speaker 4: chief executives their respective state really way, not just the rhetoric, 396 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:57,240 Speaker 4: but what are the policies actually allowing people to live cheaper, freer, 397 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:00,320 Speaker 4: more productive lives. It is in those states that you 398 00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:03,920 Speaker 4: see around the country, like Florida, like Tennessee, like Texas, 399 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 4: like South Carolina, and not in the blue states where 400 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:07,480 Speaker 4: people are leaving. 401 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:12,800 Speaker 2: So Spamberger is talking about making special tax brackets for 402 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:15,520 Speaker 2: people who are making over six hundred thousand, over a 403 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:18,560 Speaker 2: million dollars a year. Those people would fall into a 404 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:21,439 Speaker 2: different tax bracket and have to pay more. This is 405 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:25,440 Speaker 2: something that I want to call attention to across the country. 406 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:27,960 Speaker 2: We have Democrats that are planning this in the state 407 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:31,480 Speaker 2: of Michigan as well. It's unconstitutional. They're calling it a 408 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:34,919 Speaker 2: surcharge instead of a tax to get around it. 409 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:35,879 Speaker 1: I'm not kidding. 410 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:41,879 Speaker 4: Oh that's n's that was like I saw a comedian 411 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:45,359 Speaker 4: joke about when Biden was trying to get college loans. 412 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:47,320 Speaker 4: Forget that he was going to have his home mortgage 413 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:50,240 Speaker 4: quote unquote identified as a college loans. 414 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:52,919 Speaker 3: Biden would would forgive it. 415 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:55,520 Speaker 4: But the reality is a lot of people that small 416 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:58,840 Speaker 4: business owners run as escorts and so's. It's going to 417 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:04,280 Speaker 4: crush small business. And if you look at a time 418 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:07,199 Speaker 4: and time again, people vote with their feet. You can 419 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:10,680 Speaker 4: look at California with this one time, quote unquote. I 420 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:12,679 Speaker 4: don't know if they're calling it a surcharge or tax, 421 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:17,639 Speaker 4: but you're seeing the entire tech industry flee California to 422 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:21,080 Speaker 4: other states to get away. Now, what I always try 423 00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:23,399 Speaker 4: to say is, don't forget why you left. Don't go 424 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:25,359 Speaker 4: to another state and end up voting for the same 425 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:28,560 Speaker 4: politicians that support the very policies that cause you to 426 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:30,520 Speaker 4: leave California. I mean, think about it. When I was 427 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:33,159 Speaker 4: a kid growing up in the eighties, California was like 428 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:36,520 Speaker 4: Florida today. To think why elections matter California. 429 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:37,920 Speaker 1: I tell people that all the. 430 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:42,440 Speaker 4: Time, bad leadership, a left wing monopoly in Sacramento. And now, 431 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:44,919 Speaker 4: despite being one of the most beautiful areas on earth, 432 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:48,240 Speaker 4: California is gorgeous, you have one hundred thousand people a 433 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:52,240 Speaker 4: year leaving the state. Not because suddenly California got cold 434 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:53,879 Speaker 4: or not beautiful. 435 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:55,520 Speaker 3: It was bad leadership. 436 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:58,920 Speaker 4: And I think whether it is in Michigan, whether it's 437 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:02,479 Speaker 4: in there's a governor's race in Florida this year, whatever 438 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:04,679 Speaker 4: the state is, people need to be mindful of that 439 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:08,720 Speaker 4: or Ohio is bad leadership at a state level can 440 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:12,399 Speaker 4: impact your life and your wallet in many ways. So 441 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:16,160 Speaker 4: much quicker than what happens in Washington, because we've seen 442 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:17,080 Speaker 4: it in Virginia. 443 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:20,080 Speaker 2: But they are very creative with how they were things, 444 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:22,840 Speaker 2: just like the surcharge I saw. I think it's Virginia 445 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:26,840 Speaker 2: that I just saw. One of your legislators is putting 446 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:30,320 Speaker 2: a bill together to ban assault weapons. And I put 447 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:34,480 Speaker 2: quotes around that because pretty much any any gun is 448 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:37,439 Speaker 2: considered an assault weapon under the description that they have. 449 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:42,880 Speaker 2: It's like anything that any automatic weapon that fires one 450 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:48,960 Speaker 2: shot or more and you can't have any There's I 451 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:51,399 Speaker 2: can't remember it was, I just saw it. This is 452 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:53,720 Speaker 2: Virginia right where I saw this, And this guy is 453 00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:57,000 Speaker 2: like not, he's an immigrant, so he came here with 454 00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:00,280 Speaker 2: this idea and now he got elected to office and 455 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:02,880 Speaker 2: it's not an American idea and he wants to ban 456 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:03,720 Speaker 2: all weapons. 457 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:08,919 Speaker 4: Well, and the bill, the bill also bans anybody with 458 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:11,600 Speaker 4: a magazine of more than ten rounds and what that 459 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:14,399 Speaker 4: does to think about this, The left constantly says, what 460 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:17,639 Speaker 4: we want to decriminalize. We want to decriminalize marijuana. We 461 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:20,399 Speaker 4: want to lower penalties over and over again by a 462 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:23,199 Speaker 4: stroke of a pen if you pass the law. In 463 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:26,639 Speaker 4: January February and Virginia goes into effect July one, then 464 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:29,840 Speaker 4: all of our laws go on to effect midnight twelve 465 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:33,120 Speaker 4: to one am July first of this year. It would 466 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:36,160 Speaker 4: create hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of innocent, law 467 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:40,040 Speaker 4: abiding Virginians that have never committed a crime. It would 468 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:42,560 Speaker 4: suddenly mean that they are now could be punished up 469 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:45,280 Speaker 4: to twelve months in jail for simply having a pistol 470 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:48,400 Speaker 4: with a magazine with twelve rounds, which I can't tell 471 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:53,320 Speaker 4: you the number of Virginians that have that. And the 472 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:56,160 Speaker 4: other thing that's amazing. I issue AG's opinion shortly after 473 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:58,040 Speaker 4: I left office once I heard this was coming down 474 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:03,199 Speaker 4: the pike. It is blatant only unconstitutional. There's already numerous 475 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:07,800 Speaker 4: Supreme Court jurisprudence that has shown this this is unconstitutional. 476 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:14,200 Speaker 4: But this is a matter of I think, really criminalizing 477 00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:18,920 Speaker 4: the law abiding while the law breaking get their penalties reduced. 478 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:21,840 Speaker 4: I mean, I was in Virginia when they abolish a 479 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:24,119 Speaker 4: death penalty and they said, oh, well, we're gonna have 480 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:26,600 Speaker 4: life without the possibility of parole. That's what they swore 481 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:28,960 Speaker 4: to us. Now they have a bill ending life without 482 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:33,600 Speaker 4: the possibility of parole. They're ending mandatory minimums for child pornography, 483 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:38,520 Speaker 4: child rapists, a variety of different different So they're lowing 484 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:41,720 Speaker 4: to penalties in almost every criminal category. Unless you're a 485 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:44,359 Speaker 4: law abiding citizen who's done nothing wrong and suddenly has 486 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:46,160 Speaker 4: a magazine with twelve rounds instead of ten. 487 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:49,040 Speaker 3: That's the absurdity of it. That's Virginia right now. 488 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:51,840 Speaker 2: Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on 489 00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:59,560 Speaker 2: a Tutor Dixon podcast. And removing mandatory minimums, What could 490 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:01,840 Speaker 2: possible sibly be the argument for that. I don't know 491 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:04,679 Speaker 2: anybody that's like, you know what, pedophiles shouldn't have to 492 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:05,880 Speaker 2: spend a long time in jail. 493 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:09,920 Speaker 4: This is the most remarkable thing is when I say 494 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:13,640 Speaker 4: there's nobody launched from history, there's truly, as scripture says, 495 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:17,399 Speaker 4: nothing new unto the sun. Every social justice reform I'm 496 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:19,480 Speaker 4: putting that in air quotes that they are claiming now 497 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:22,359 Speaker 4: to quote reform or justice system was tried in the 498 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:27,119 Speaker 4: nineteen seventies. Ending mandatory minimums, no cash bail, early release 499 00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:29,879 Speaker 4: of violent offenders. It was tried in the seventies, is 500 00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:32,399 Speaker 4: somehow new and innovative and enlightened. It led to a 501 00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:35,280 Speaker 4: crime explosion, and it took a good chunk of the 502 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:39,520 Speaker 4: eighties and the early nineties to bring back parole, pro abolition, 503 00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:43,040 Speaker 4: mandatory minimums, and from between nineteen ninety two in this 504 00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:46,000 Speaker 4: country at twenty eighteen, crime went down almost every year. 505 00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:49,440 Speaker 4: Why to get to win after violent repeat offenders? Roughly 506 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:52,399 Speaker 4: five percent of felons commit over fifty percent of the 507 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:56,680 Speaker 4: violent felonies. Five percent of felons commit over fifty percent 508 00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:58,920 Speaker 4: of the vinyl felonies. If you want to lower crime, 509 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:02,280 Speaker 4: you have to have thosealties for those violent felons. They 510 00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:04,679 Speaker 4: have forgotten that history, and now people are like, well, 511 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:07,679 Speaker 4: why have we seen a crime uptick between twenty twenty 512 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:11,320 Speaker 4: and two thousand and twenty fourth because they got rid 513 00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:14,119 Speaker 4: of the very policies that had kept so many Virginians safe. 514 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:16,639 Speaker 4: George Allen was a great governor in Virginia in the 515 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:20,440 Speaker 4: nineteen ninety ze implemented pro abolition. Prior to him implementing that, 516 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:24,280 Speaker 4: the average senence a Virginian serned rape for felony any 517 00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:28,000 Speaker 4: felony charge was fourth one fifth of their sentence. So 518 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:30,960 Speaker 4: you're convicted in a jury of twenty years for a 519 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:32,879 Speaker 4: rape charge, you're out in four or five years. That 520 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:35,520 Speaker 4: was the Virginia of the eighties and nineties. We got 521 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:38,000 Speaker 4: rid of pro abolition. You have to serve eighty five 522 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:41,320 Speaker 4: ninety percent of percentence crime went down because remember that 523 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:45,359 Speaker 4: small subset of repeat violent offenders. It is mind boggling 524 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:47,399 Speaker 4: to me that the party that says that they are 525 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:50,320 Speaker 4: the party of science don't look at the data and 526 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:53,439 Speaker 4: science when it comes to crime. It's about feelings and emotion. 527 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,120 Speaker 4: And this is too mean and harsh when the reality 528 00:27:56,240 --> 00:28:00,400 Speaker 4: is Virginians are alive today that weren't raped, murdered and 529 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:03,880 Speaker 4: rob because we kept repeat violent offenders off the streets. 530 00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:06,720 Speaker 4: Now they seem held bent on getting them, getting them 531 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:07,840 Speaker 4: out back on our streets. 532 00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:11,000 Speaker 2: There's been a really bizarre push on the Democrat Party 533 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:14,520 Speaker 2: to stand up for criminals and criminalize non criminals. 534 00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:16,199 Speaker 1: I mean, that's what you were just saying. 535 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:20,480 Speaker 2: With the number of Virginians that would be held liable 536 00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:26,200 Speaker 2: for having a gun, make them criminals, protect criminals, true criminals. 537 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:29,200 Speaker 2: I don't understand how this party is doing this. That's 538 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:33,119 Speaker 2: why I honestly cannot understand how they would not have 539 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:34,680 Speaker 2: put you back in office. 540 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:39,000 Speaker 4: Well, you know, the great irony is is that we would, 541 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:42,320 Speaker 4: we would check my boat approval and favorable image with voters, 542 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:44,360 Speaker 4: and it's still believed or not. Election day, I was 543 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,440 Speaker 4: still net positive with Virginia voters. It's just it's tough 544 00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:50,280 Speaker 4: when you're down ballot and and the you know, I 545 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:52,880 Speaker 4: did outperform the top of the ticket by nine plus points, 546 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:56,000 Speaker 4: but it was a tough environment. But listen, I like 547 00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:58,480 Speaker 4: to say, you can't have a comeback without a setback. 548 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:01,880 Speaker 4: So I think the pendulum will swing. And I'm proud 549 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:04,760 Speaker 4: of our record in Virginia. You know, it's amazing what happens. 550 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:06,840 Speaker 4: And you go after repeat violent offenders, you go after 551 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:09,560 Speaker 4: the fetanyl dealers. When I took office, you had the 552 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,200 Speaker 4: highest levels of addiction desks ever recorded. You had a 553 00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:15,400 Speaker 4: murder ate at a twenty year high. And Grevidry Dunklin 554 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:17,800 Speaker 4: was a great partner. We were the number one drop 555 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:20,080 Speaker 4: and addiction desks of any state in the country. My 556 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:23,080 Speaker 4: office prosecuted and got enough fetanyl off the streets that 557 00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:26,120 Speaker 4: would have taken the lives as seven million Virginians. Our 558 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:29,479 Speaker 4: murder rate drop thirty percent, violent crime double digits because 559 00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:33,160 Speaker 4: we went went after these repeat violent offenders. And so 560 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,280 Speaker 4: you know, We're proud of our record. We left Virginia 561 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:41,000 Speaker 4: a Virginia that was thriving, economically, safer and more prosperous. 562 00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,920 Speaker 4: We're saying some bad policies and I have a stinking 563 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:47,280 Speaker 4: feeling Virginians are We're already seeing that, but are not 564 00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:49,840 Speaker 4: pretty happy about what their direction to seeing the state going. 565 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:52,560 Speaker 2: Well, I've heard of a guy who made a pretty 566 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:55,040 Speaker 2: big comeback in politics, So I think it's possible. 567 00:29:56,040 --> 00:30:01,040 Speaker 4: Yeah, indeed, indeed. But Virginia, it is an amazing state. 568 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:05,680 Speaker 4: The people are amazing. But Virginia really unfortunate, is going 569 00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:07,680 Speaker 4: to be a test bet a bad policies. So for 570 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:10,680 Speaker 4: your listeners that I know from coast to coast, be 571 00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:14,440 Speaker 4: mindful your elections this year. If you're an election, whatever 572 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:17,160 Speaker 4: is on the ballot, get out, make sure that you vote. 573 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 4: Bring ten friends to go vote, because your state and 574 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:24,760 Speaker 4: the climate can change so quickly if people have apathy. 575 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:27,040 Speaker 4: And that's what I would tell for your listeners. I 576 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:30,240 Speaker 4: think the greatest threat to the Republic today is apathy. 577 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:32,880 Speaker 4: It's so many people that are like, well, you know, 578 00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:34,280 Speaker 4: do I really need to get Is it that big 579 00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:37,760 Speaker 4: of a deal. No, Just look at Virginia and when 580 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:41,840 Speaker 4: you think elections don't matter. We had a significant drop 581 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,880 Speaker 4: and turnout in some rural areas of Virginia this cycle too. 582 00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:49,120 Speaker 4: And think in some ways people didn't think that their 583 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,719 Speaker 4: second memorights are going to be assaulted, that their taxes 584 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,920 Speaker 4: were going to be going up. And I think it's 585 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:58,000 Speaker 4: mindful for whether it's Ohio or Florida or pick your state, 586 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:02,680 Speaker 4: be involved, get engaged, reject apathy. I think that is 587 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:07,320 Speaker 4: a great threat to our republic, is an apathetic public. 588 00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:08,280 Speaker 1: I agree. 589 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:10,720 Speaker 2: Well, thank you so much for coming on and sharing today, 590 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:12,880 Speaker 2: Attorney General Jason Miaras. 591 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:14,200 Speaker 1: We appreciate you coming on. 592 00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:15,160 Speaker 3: Great to be with you. 593 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:16,800 Speaker 1: Thank you absolutely, and. 594 00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:19,240 Speaker 2: Thank you all for joining us on the Tutor Dixon podcast. 595 00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:21,280 Speaker 2: You can get it wherever you get your podcast, but 596 00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:24,840 Speaker 2: you can also watch on Rumble and YouTube at Tutor Dixon. 597 00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:26,640 Speaker 2: But make sure you join us next time and have 598 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:29,400 Speaker 2: a blessed day.