Herb Morgan for Controller and Michael Gates for Attorney General

WEBVTT
1
00:00:08.689 --> 00:00:14.550
This is the coalition to ban coalitions. I ain't a politician,
2
00:00:15.089 --> 00:00:19.089
but I've got views. Some folks want to ban cars.
3
00:00:19.530 --> 00:00:21.980
Some want to get rid of and to get cars.
4
00:00:22.070 --> 00:00:24.379
Why don't you do your thing and we'll do our
5
00:00:24.420 --> 00:00:25.100
thing too.
6
00:00:26.719 --> 00:00:29.100
Hello and welcome to the Republican View for the Monterey
7
00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:32.000
Bay Area. I'm your host, Jeff Gorman. In case you
8
00:00:32.039 --> 00:00:35.000
didn't recognize it, that opening song was from Hank Williams Jr.
9
00:00:35.060 --> 00:00:37.649
called Coalition to Ban Coalitions. I thought it was a
10
00:00:37.649 --> 00:00:42.740
pretty good theme song for the Republican Party. Anyway, this
11
00:00:42.780 --> 00:00:45.159
show is brought to you every week at 9 o'clock
12
00:00:45.240 --> 00:00:49.240
on this fine station by the Monterey County Republican Party.
13
00:00:49.850 --> 00:00:53.689
We often have the local political director of the Monterey
14
00:00:53.729 --> 00:00:56.469
County Republican Party on the show. He's taken a bye
15
00:00:56.490 --> 00:01:00.159
this week, and I have two interviews with statewide candidates
16
00:01:00.299 --> 00:01:03.359
to share with you. Before we do, I want you
17
00:01:03.399 --> 00:01:06.280
to know the Monterey County Republican Party is made up
18
00:01:06.319 --> 00:01:10.530
of volunteers, 100% local. We do coordinate with the state
19
00:01:10.590 --> 00:01:13.450
party and with our neighboring counties. There's a Republican Party
20
00:01:13.489 --> 00:01:15.530
up there in Santa Cruz, if you're in Santa Cruz listening.
21
00:01:15.950 --> 00:01:17.549
Thank you for joining us, and I hope you will
22
00:01:17.569 --> 00:01:20.299
get in touch with and support your Santa Cruz County
23
00:01:20.329 --> 00:01:24.180
Republican Party. Likewise, in San Benito County, Santa Clara, and
24
00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:27.819
San Luis Obispo counties, all the adjoining counties to Monterey County.
25
00:01:28.480 --> 00:01:31.819
We are partnering with them and all the county party
26
00:01:31.859 --> 00:01:36.129
structure is very locally driven. But this November, in fact,
27
00:01:36.349 --> 00:01:39.290
your ballot may be in your mailbox today or Monday
28
00:01:39.329 --> 00:01:43.390
or Tuesday, we are voting in the statewide election, the
29
00:01:43.450 --> 00:01:47.290
general election for the state of California, for governor, and
30
00:01:47.609 --> 00:01:50.930
most importantly, well, very importantly to today's interviews and quite
31
00:01:50.969 --> 00:01:54.290
importantly for the well-being of California, we are going to
32
00:01:54.329 --> 00:01:56.760
vote for the attorney general of the state of California.
33
00:01:56.780 --> 00:02:00.390
I'm going to be interviewing Michael Gates. He's a former
34
00:02:00.430 --> 00:02:04.730
city attorney and former U.S. Department of Justice official. But first,
35
00:02:04.769 --> 00:02:07.349
I want to share with you my interview with Herb Morgan.
36
00:02:07.390 --> 00:02:10.919
He is running for Comptroller of the state of California. Comptroller,
37
00:02:10.960 --> 00:02:13.199
if you don't know, is sort of like what you
38
00:02:13.259 --> 00:02:16.520
might think of as treasurer, except it's more the auditor
39
00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:20.479
and bookkeeper and person that makes sure people aren't stealing
40
00:02:20.539 --> 00:02:23.590
our money. And the current person in that position stinks
41
00:02:23.599 --> 00:02:26.990
and So we really want Herb to win. And here
42
00:02:27.449 --> 00:02:31.020
is my talk with Herb. Well, Monterey Bay listeners, we
43
00:02:31.060 --> 00:02:35.000
have a treat in store for you. This young man, well,
44
00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:37.840
maybe he's got a few years on him, but Herb
45
00:02:37.860 --> 00:02:40.620
Morgan is running for Comptroller of the State of California.
46
00:02:40.900 --> 00:02:43.319
A big job, actually. And we were talking offline a
47
00:02:43.340 --> 00:02:46.979
little bit about some of the things that the current
48
00:02:47.960 --> 00:02:51.379
controller may not have done and uh and more so
49
00:02:51.479 --> 00:02:53.439
herb welcome to the show and say hello to the
50
00:02:53.490 --> 00:02:55.419
monterey bay listeners.
51
00:02:55.469 --> 00:02:59.150
Hello monterey bay you know i i uh spent some
52
00:02:59.169 --> 00:03:02.169
time on the north end there i attended uc santa
53
00:03:02.189 --> 00:03:05.370
cruz back in the 80s oh wow and uh so
54
00:03:05.430 --> 00:03:07.770
it's a it's a fond memories for me and and
55
00:03:07.789 --> 00:03:09.909
we're gonna actually be down there doing some campaign stops
56
00:03:09.990 --> 00:03:12.689
later this week i'm in the city right now and
57
00:03:12.729 --> 00:03:14.210
we're just we're rocking and rolling here.
58
00:03:14.469 --> 00:03:17.969
So yeah you you are getting around the state. I
59
00:03:18.009 --> 00:03:20.289
know you were in Monterey.
60
00:03:19.849 --> 00:03:23.409
For what the black bear diner on Wednesday this week,
61
00:03:23.569 --> 00:03:26.650
meeting with the diehard Republicans in the Monterey city of
62
00:03:26.689 --> 00:03:27.439
Monterey area.
63
00:03:27.590 --> 00:03:28.360
Yep.
64
00:03:28.500 --> 00:03:28.780
Yep.
65
00:03:28.819 --> 00:03:32.120
We did that. And, uh, you know, let's say Saturday.
66
00:03:32.180 --> 00:03:35.979
So we've got two days before voting begins Monday. You
67
00:03:36.020 --> 00:03:38.360
can cast your ballots. Uh, they will be mailed.
68
00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:39.930
Most counties will mail them on Monday.
69
00:03:39.949 --> 00:03:41.930
So you might get them as early as Tuesday or Wednesday,
70
00:03:41.949 --> 00:03:44.389
depending on how slow the mail service is.
71
00:03:44.409 --> 00:03:49.960
Um, So it's a lot. We are traveling very aggressively.
72
00:03:49.979 --> 00:03:53.740
I put about 17,000 miles on the car in the
73
00:03:53.759 --> 00:03:56.620
last five months. And I think I'm going to get
74
00:03:56.639 --> 00:03:59.379
a handwritten thank you card from the president of Southwest
75
00:03:59.419 --> 00:04:00.240
Airlines this year.
76
00:04:02.360 --> 00:04:03.120
That's excellent.
77
00:04:03.699 --> 00:04:03.979
Excellent.
78
00:04:04.020 --> 00:04:06.159
Well, hey, that's what it takes. And a lot of
79
00:04:06.180 --> 00:04:09.240
people don't realize how hard it is to campaign. Even
80
00:04:09.300 --> 00:04:12.240
for a local office, it's quite a challenge. But logistically,
81
00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:15.580
to hit the state of California, 40 million people, it's roughly,
82
00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:19.639
equivalent to running for president of France or something, trying
83
00:04:19.660 --> 00:04:21.699
to run for a statewide office in California.
84
00:04:22.079 --> 00:04:23.980
So congratulations to you.
85
00:04:24.019 --> 00:04:28.079
And just so people know, because controller is not a
86
00:04:28.120 --> 00:04:30.319
common term. I mean, a lot of people probably don't
87
00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:34.560
encounter a controller in their lives much. So a controller
88
00:04:34.810 --> 00:04:36.459
is what probably a lot of people think of as
89
00:04:36.500 --> 00:04:39.170
a treasurer, someone that looks after the money, right?
90
00:04:40.050 --> 00:04:41.709
Yeah, they do think of it that way. But we
91
00:04:41.750 --> 00:04:44.550
have two constitutional offices in California. We have a treasurer
92
00:04:44.829 --> 00:04:47.990
and a controller. And in this instance, the treasurer is
93
00:04:48.029 --> 00:04:52.769
responsible for managing the banking relationships, issuing payments after the
94
00:04:52.850 --> 00:04:55.810
controller has signed off on them. But if a controller
95
00:04:55.870 --> 00:04:59.870
is doing their job well, you should never hear about them, right?
96
00:04:59.910 --> 00:05:01.829
Because the only time you hear about the controller is
97
00:05:01.889 --> 00:05:05.279
times like today where fraud is rampant. The job of
98
00:05:05.339 --> 00:05:09.259
the controller is the prevention of theft and fraud. It's
99
00:05:09.300 --> 00:05:12.120
the primary function. It's the duty outlined in the state
100
00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:15.860
constitution of 1879. And we all know about Nick Shirley.
101
00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:18.680
We all know about J.D. Vance and the fraud investigations.
102
00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:21.939
We know about First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Assele. We
103
00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:23.939
know about the arrests that have been happening on a
104
00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:28.959
weekly basis around daycare, hospice fraud, homeless fraud, education fraud.
105
00:05:29.120 --> 00:05:32.220
All of this we know about, but rarely do people
106
00:05:32.319 --> 00:05:36.589
understand whose fault it is. It's the fault of the
107
00:05:36.670 --> 00:05:41.149
financial control system breaking down, and the person who manages
108
00:05:41.269 --> 00:05:46.319
the financial control system is the state comptroller. The Constitution
109
00:05:46.339 --> 00:05:50.259
is just super clear on that. California is the poster
110
00:05:50.300 --> 00:05:53.199
child for government fraud, unfortunately.
111
00:05:54.060 --> 00:05:56.060
Yeah, well, I think we put Minnesota to shame if
112
00:05:56.120 --> 00:06:01.050
it ever hits the light of day. You mentioned that,
113
00:06:01.430 --> 00:06:05.589
of course, the assembly sets the laws and should be
114
00:06:05.990 --> 00:06:09.250
under checks and balances overseeing things. So tell the audience
115
00:06:09.310 --> 00:06:11.860
something you shared with me offline.
116
00:06:11.439 --> 00:06:12.100
Here a minute ago.
117
00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:14.060
Well, first of all, there is a controller in office
118
00:06:14.300 --> 00:06:15.100
right now, right?
119
00:06:15.569 --> 00:06:18.050
Yeah, there is a controller. She's the incumbent. That's my
120
00:06:18.089 --> 00:06:22.040
opponent in the race. And as we were doing research
121
00:06:22.100 --> 00:06:24.759
and going through a lot of data, looking at state spending,
122
00:06:24.800 --> 00:06:27.720
looking at the functions, how would we reorganize this office
123
00:06:27.740 --> 00:06:31.480
to better serve the needs of everyday Californians? We uncovered
124
00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:35.509
some things. And I guess the assembly was doing similar
125
00:06:35.569 --> 00:06:38.329
research at the same time. And there's this growing concern
126
00:06:38.350 --> 00:06:42.089
that the number one constitutional duty is not getting done.
127
00:06:42.689 --> 00:06:44.949
And that constitutional duty is simple.
128
00:06:45.870 --> 00:06:51.250
The state constitution says the controller shall pre-audit all state spending,
129
00:06:51.829 --> 00:06:54.730
which means when somebody puts in a request to have
130
00:06:54.769 --> 00:06:57.750
a check cut, the high-speed rail CEO wants to pay
131
00:06:57.750 --> 00:07:01.560
$ 30 million to a consultant, he puts in a request,
132
00:07:02.060 --> 00:07:04.899
and the state controller is the final authority who signs
133
00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:08.879
off on that disbursement. They shall do that. The constitution
134
00:07:08.939 --> 00:07:11.220
is not making an option. It's not a spot check.
135
00:07:11.379 --> 00:07:14.920
It is a shall be done. They're supposed to pre-audit
136
00:07:14.959 --> 00:07:19.459
every expense, ensure the legality, the compliance, et cetera. So
137
00:07:20.759 --> 00:07:24.120
my understanding, and I'm hearing this, is that perhaps she's
138
00:07:24.160 --> 00:07:28.870
not doing that. She's allowing the agency that requests the
139
00:07:28.889 --> 00:07:34.089
spending to self-attest that they did the pre-audit. Well, that's
140
00:07:34.829 --> 00:07:37.769
like asking your kid to grade their own homework. Of course,
141
00:07:37.810 --> 00:07:40.449
I got an A, Dad, right? It's ridiculous.
142
00:07:40.970 --> 00:07:42.649
You sound like someone with experience there.
143
00:07:43.230 --> 00:07:46.610
Yes, we know she's not checking the franchise tax boards
144
00:07:46.670 --> 00:07:49.990
do not pay list and the attorney generals shall not
145
00:07:50.050 --> 00:07:50.610
operate lists.
146
00:07:50.709 --> 00:07:53.920
We know she's not doing that. So what the assembly.
147
00:07:53.480 --> 00:07:56.360
Members did, eight of them signed onto a letter 14
148
00:07:56.360 --> 00:07:59.759
days ago, and they said, simple, this is our job oversight.
149
00:08:00.500 --> 00:08:01.920
Prove to us that you're doing the job.
150
00:08:02.079 --> 00:08:05.379
Tell us how many expenses were sent out in the
151
00:08:05.420 --> 00:08:08.560
last three fiscal years and how many of them had
152
00:08:08.579 --> 00:08:12.839
the proper pre-audit function done by you, the state controller.
153
00:08:13.290 --> 00:08:14.769
And if it was done by somebody other than the
154
00:08:14.790 --> 00:08:17.680
state controller, tell us why, show us the policy document
155
00:08:18.120 --> 00:08:22.920
that allows this. So 14 days, came and went, no response.
156
00:08:23.180 --> 00:08:27.480
That's what we know. And that's a big, big deal.
157
00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:33.409
That could potentially lead to impeachment of Malia Cohen if
158
00:08:33.470 --> 00:08:34.970
the assembly makes that decision.
159
00:08:35.029 --> 00:08:37.950
Obviously, I'm a citizen. I don't get to impeach anybody.
160
00:08:38.570 --> 00:08:41.629
But if somebody is literally not doing the job they've
161
00:08:41.649 --> 00:08:46.080
been elected to do, solely responsible for the fraud.
162
00:08:46.120 --> 00:08:48.519
Now, she doesn't commit a crime herself, right?
163
00:08:48.940 --> 00:08:54.720
But the crimes have happened because she's not qualified, doesn't understand.
164
00:08:55.370 --> 00:08:57.230
The rules and what you're supposed to do to get
165
00:08:57.269 --> 00:08:57.929
that job done.
166
00:08:59.850 --> 00:09:00.090
Wow.
167
00:09:00.590 --> 00:09:03.889
I race ahead because I'm pretty hardcore right wing and
168
00:09:03.909 --> 00:09:05.490
I definitely think we're being stolen from.
169
00:09:05.970 --> 00:09:07.149
I think she's aiding and abetting.
170
00:09:07.669 --> 00:09:10.629
But I guess we can't really say that until we
171
00:09:10.669 --> 00:09:12.379
can get some evidence in there.
172
00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:14.019
But there's Clearly problems.
173
00:09:14.059 --> 00:09:17.840
I mean, it defies common sense how such a wealthy
174
00:09:17.899 --> 00:09:23.179
state can have these budget problems, massive spending, even though
175
00:09:23.200 --> 00:09:25.080
we don't see the results.
176
00:09:25.100 --> 00:09:28.110
I mean, something's wrong, right, here in the state of California,
177
00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:28.610
it seems to me.
178
00:09:28.659 --> 00:09:29.070
It is.
179
00:09:29.409 --> 00:09:32.490
And it's very simple math to prove that there's something wrong.
180
00:09:33.110 --> 00:09:34.789
We're the richest state and the richest country in the
181
00:09:34.809 --> 00:09:37.009
history of the human race. Nobody's ever been wealthier than
182
00:09:37.049 --> 00:09:40.009
we are. Nobody's had more access to clean, safe water, food,
183
00:09:40.529 --> 00:09:46.269
luxury items, shelter. Transportation, vacations, insurance, everything. We have it
184
00:09:46.370 --> 00:09:50.399
here in California. We have a $ 4. 3 trillion economy. Our
185
00:09:50.460 --> 00:09:54.259
state government has decided to put a significant tax burden
186
00:09:54.340 --> 00:09:56.970
on that economy, more so than any other state, in
187
00:09:57.029 --> 00:09:59.970
order to provide, theoretically, more and better services.
188
00:10:00.419 --> 00:10:01.279
Than any other state.
189
00:10:02.279 --> 00:10:04.679
So if we tax at the highest rate, therefore spend
190
00:10:04.720 --> 00:10:07.740
at the highest rate, I think it's reasonable for us
191
00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:09.940
as citizens to say, okay, fine, if that's what our
192
00:10:09.980 --> 00:10:12.059
legislators do, but.
193
00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:12.759
What do I get for that?
194
00:10:13.299 --> 00:10:15.580
Do I get the best public schools, or do I
195
00:10:15.620 --> 00:10:17.960
get fourth and eighth graders who can't read as good
196
00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:21.279
as the kids in Mississippi who who spend 12,000 per
197
00:10:21.299 --> 00:10:24.309
year per kid while we spend 27,000 per kid.
198
00:10:25.570 --> 00:10:29.649
And do I get a great safe environment.
199
00:10:29.330 --> 00:10:31.870
Or are streets riddled with crime and fentanyl use and
200
00:10:31.909 --> 00:10:34.929
drug addiction and the tenderloin and all this stuff? Do
201
00:10:35.149 --> 00:10:40.870
I get top quality prison systems? Do I get clean air,
202
00:10:40.970 --> 00:10:45.320
clean water, safe roads, services for immigrants, services for healthcare?
203
00:10:45.629 --> 00:10:46.620
What do we get?
204
00:10:46.799 --> 00:10:50.820
And in every metric of state performance, California is ranked
205
00:10:51.000 --> 00:10:55.460
basically bottom five, if not the number 50 out of 50.
206
00:10:55.460 --> 00:10:58.710
Cost of living, place to retire, place to start a business,
207
00:10:58.850 --> 00:11:01.909
place to start a career. All of these things were
208
00:11:01.929 --> 00:11:05.830
ranked 50th out of 50, despite the most spending. So
209
00:11:05.850 --> 00:11:06.990
the conclusion is very simple.
210
00:11:07.029 --> 00:11:10.500
The money's there. We spend. We don't have a spending problem. Oh,
211
00:11:10.559 --> 00:11:11.600
California has a spending problem.
212
00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:12.019
No, we don't.
213
00:11:12.399 --> 00:11:14.360
We spend it great. We get the money out the
214
00:11:14.399 --> 00:11:17.970
door very quickly. We're very good at spending. What we're
215
00:11:18.070 --> 00:11:21.649
not good at doing is getting results. And so what
216
00:11:21.669 --> 00:11:25.379
we have is a fraud problem. The problem is fraud.
217
00:11:25.500 --> 00:11:30.200
Fraud is the problem. Everybody knows it. Everybody acknowledges it.
218
00:11:30.259 --> 00:11:35.820
In fact, the state controller's spokesman, deputy controller, head of
219
00:11:35.899 --> 00:11:41.210
communications and public relations, Bismarck Obundo. Bismarck is on video,
220
00:11:41.590 --> 00:11:44.149
in video, he didn't know he was being recorded, saying
221
00:11:44.830 --> 00:11:47.990
there's fraud everywhere. We have fraud in all of the agencies,
222
00:11:48.269 --> 00:11:53.480
all of the divisions. There's 100% fraud. And the undercover
223
00:11:54.100 --> 00:11:57.200
interviewer says, well, aren't you supposed to be the ones
224
00:11:57.240 --> 00:12:00.600
that audit to prevent the fraud? And he says, yes,
225
00:12:00.659 --> 00:12:04.200
that's the job, but we don't do the audits. We
226
00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:08.669
can't do the audits. The audits are just not getting done.
227
00:12:09.570 --> 00:12:13.230
This is the spokesman for Malia Cohen. So we know
228
00:12:13.289 --> 00:12:13.870
there's fraud.
229
00:12:14.129 --> 00:12:17.019
He admits it. We know the audits are not getting done.
230
00:12:17.320 --> 00:12:18.000
He admits that.
231
00:12:18.799 --> 00:12:22.570
J.D. Vance, the arrests, the HUD secretary is going ballistic
232
00:12:22.669 --> 00:12:25.230
on the homelessness stuff that's being stolen.
233
00:12:26.409 --> 00:12:27.509
And we have a solution, right?
234
00:12:27.590 --> 00:12:30.470
It's just put every transaction the day it happens, put
235
00:12:30.509 --> 00:12:32.830
it online in an open database so everyone can see it.
236
00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:37.240
Super cheap to build, super easy to implement. It's literally
237
00:12:37.259 --> 00:12:39.720
write a little piece of code called an API. I
238
00:12:39.740 --> 00:12:41.740
could tell Grok to write it for me right now.
239
00:12:42.360 --> 00:12:46.059
We take that API, I can require every agency receiving
240
00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:52.429
money to install that API. Meaning, because I have authority
241
00:12:52.490 --> 00:12:55.990
as controller to mandate the method of financial reporting, I
242
00:12:56.090 --> 00:13:01.149
mandate daily transaction level reporting into a public source database.
243
00:13:01.169 --> 00:13:03.269
That's what I mandate, they can't say no to me.
244
00:13:03.909 --> 00:13:07.309
So problem is fraud, solution is transparency. I call it
245
00:13:07.389 --> 00:13:09.250
radical transparency because I'm a radical.
246
00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:13.820
I think it's an easy fix. I think it's a
247
00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:16.440
very easy, very quick fix for state government, actually.
248
00:13:16.980 --> 00:13:17.379
That's good.
249
00:13:17.419 --> 00:13:20.899
Hey, so everybody listening to this show right now is
250
00:13:20.940 --> 00:13:23.379
fully aware the Republicans are the underdogs here.
251
00:13:23.399 --> 00:13:24.509
Yes, they are.
252
00:13:24.529 --> 00:13:28.269
And it's so frustrating. Last time we had statewide office
253
00:13:28.450 --> 00:13:31.809
elections was four years ago. And of course, there was
254
00:13:31.850 --> 00:13:34.389
a controller candidate then, your friend, Lonnie Chen.
255
00:13:34.850 --> 00:13:35.549
Yeah, he's great.
256
00:13:36.090 --> 00:13:38.970
He did very well. He had the highest performance numbers ever.
257
00:13:39.289 --> 00:13:42.149
So I think California people are aware. A lot of
258
00:13:42.190 --> 00:13:45.129
voters are aware. This is an important office, and this
259
00:13:45.190 --> 00:13:48.049
is one where a Republican should do well. So how
260
00:13:48.070 --> 00:13:50.049
have things been going? What kind of feedback are you
261
00:13:50.090 --> 00:13:51.049
getting on your campaign?
262
00:13:51.710 --> 00:13:53.750
Well, the feedback's been fantastic.
263
00:13:54.809 --> 00:13:56.870
Donors, all of you that are saying that have hit
264
00:13:56.909 --> 00:14:00.809
the HerbMorgan.com website and made a donation of any size,
265
00:14:01.169 --> 00:14:03.029
it is being spent very efficiently and wisely.
266
00:14:03.100 --> 00:14:03.750
So thank you.
267
00:14:04.480 --> 00:14:06.620
The bottom of our hearts for helping us do this,
268
00:14:06.799 --> 00:14:09.799
you know, get the word out, advertise, travel the state.
269
00:14:10.779 --> 00:14:12.100
But we also took some of.
270
00:14:12.100 --> 00:14:15.220
That donations, the donation revenue, and we commissioned a poll,
271
00:14:15.490 --> 00:14:18.490
a scientific research poll. We used a great pollster called Wolfson,
272
00:14:19.690 --> 00:14:21.950
one of the best, most reputable pollsters in the country.
273
00:14:21.970 --> 00:14:25.549
And we had them do a poll. And the results
274
00:14:25.730 --> 00:14:29.830
of which just came out last week. First off, the
275
00:14:29.850 --> 00:14:33.820
question is, is California headed in the right direction? Or
276
00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:37.039
have we gotten off on the wrong track? Now, that's
277
00:14:37.100 --> 00:14:40.250
a question a lot of pollsters ask. The highest I've
278
00:14:40.309 --> 00:14:44.629
ever seen is 58% say wrong track, which is pretty high.
279
00:14:45.789 --> 00:14:51.029
And when Lanhee Chen ran, fantastic candidate, only 44% said
280
00:14:51.070 --> 00:14:55.690
we were on the wrong track. Today, 64 and a half.
281
00:14:55.850 --> 00:14:58.490
Our poll came back 64 and a half. Now, this
282
00:14:58.509 --> 00:15:01.970
was not a Republican poll. 30% of the respondents were Republicans.
283
00:15:03.590 --> 00:15:07.620
Almost two-thirds of people, California, believe the state is on
284
00:15:07.700 --> 00:15:08.509
the wrong track.
285
00:15:09.059 --> 00:15:11.940
So this is super, this is a big deal.
286
00:15:12.720 --> 00:15:14.840
This is a big, big, big deal because that means
287
00:15:14.860 --> 00:15:18.039
you have the precondition that power can shift. It means
288
00:15:18.110 --> 00:15:21.289
people are willing to vote. The independents will vote for
289
00:15:21.309 --> 00:15:25.389
a Republican. Some Democrats might vote for a Republican as well.
290
00:15:26.320 --> 00:15:28.580
We then go on, and one of the questions we
291
00:15:28.620 --> 00:15:33.250
have is, thinking about California's finances, including the budget, government spending, debt,
292
00:15:33.690 --> 00:15:37.110
and overall management of the finances, how would you say
293
00:15:37.169 --> 00:15:39.889
California finances are currently being managed?
294
00:15:39.889 --> 00:15:41.220
62%, 62.3% say poorly.
295
00:15:41.240 --> 00:15:41.320
Aha.
296
00:15:41.340 --> 00:15:43.259
So remember, only 30% of the people in the poll
297
00:15:43.279 --> 00:15:43.820
are Republican.
298
00:15:43.820 --> 00:15:47.039
62.3% said it's being managed poorly.
299
00:15:47.039 --> 00:15:47.600
52% said very poorly.
300
00:15:56.039 --> 00:16:00.110
So we've identified an issue, which is our issue, that
301
00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:02.809
the other side agrees with us on, which makes the
302
00:16:02.870 --> 00:16:05.350
race winnable if I can get the word out and
303
00:16:05.389 --> 00:16:07.370
get my plan out and get people to know me,
304
00:16:07.789 --> 00:16:10.230
which is why when Jeff Gorman calls and says, do
305
00:16:10.250 --> 00:16:11.830
you want to get on the radio in 30 seconds?
306
00:16:11.889 --> 00:16:14.750
I say, yes, I will do whatever we have to do.
307
00:16:14.769 --> 00:16:18.860
That's really good. That's really good.
308
00:16:18.899 --> 00:16:23.179
So, yeah, that's I can't imagine, honestly, how it is
309
00:16:23.220 --> 00:16:24.860
California keeps electing Democrats.
310
00:16:25.269 --> 00:16:27.610
I pray for change. And that poll is very encouraging.
311
00:16:28.769 --> 00:16:31.029
It gets better because we then go on and say,
312
00:16:31.049 --> 00:16:34.629
what are the three highest priorities? Again, only 30% of
313
00:16:34.649 --> 00:16:38.070
the people that responded are Republicans, but 63% said, find
314
00:16:38.090 --> 00:16:38.889
the waste and fraud.
315
00:16:38.889 --> 00:16:41.590
57% said, protect the.
316
00:16:41.529 --> 00:16:46.559
Taxpayers from government mismanagement. And 44% said, increase transparency in
317
00:16:46.600 --> 00:16:51.639
state spending. We then went on and say, We went
318
00:16:51.740 --> 00:16:54.019
on and say, well, Herb Morgan, do you know who
319
00:16:54.039 --> 00:16:56.590
he is? He's endorsed by Sacramento Bee, he's endorsed by
320
00:16:56.639 --> 00:16:59.690
Orange County Register, Southern California News Group, et cetera, et cetera.
321
00:17:00.169 --> 00:17:03.009
And by the way, how would you feel about Herb
322
00:17:03.169 --> 00:17:08.630
Morgan's plan for radical transparency, published detailed information online showing
323
00:17:08.650 --> 00:17:11.630
where state government is spending the taxpayer money? I have
324
00:17:11.769 --> 00:17:16.859
never seen a poll response this high in any poll ever. 95.3%
325
00:17:16.859 --> 00:17:25.049
of people support that. So yeah, 95.3% of people support
326
00:17:25.089 --> 00:17:29.849
my idea. Only 30% of the people are Republicans. Therefore,
327
00:17:29.930 --> 00:17:33.039
we can win this race. So we then do what's
328
00:17:33.079 --> 00:17:35.519
called a push poll at the end. We told them
329
00:17:35.559 --> 00:17:38.140
some things about me, asked them if they liked my idea,
330
00:17:38.559 --> 00:17:40.500
and then we asked, OK, who would you vote for?
331
00:17:40.920 --> 00:17:43.740
So there's a little bit of bias in there. We
332
00:17:43.779 --> 00:17:45.579
wanted to know how.
333
00:17:46.039 --> 00:17:48.099
We're asking people to donate so we can get the
334
00:17:48.140 --> 00:17:50.339
word out. So then they donate, we get the word out.
335
00:17:50.740 --> 00:17:51.819
We want to be able to go back and say
336
00:17:51.859 --> 00:17:53.599
we have data that suggests we can win if we
337
00:17:53.619 --> 00:17:53.920
do this.
338
00:17:55.180 --> 00:18:00.759
So what does the poll say now? It says 48, 52.
339
00:18:00.759 --> 00:18:04.619
Herb's at 48. The incumbent Democrat is at 52.
340
00:18:04.619 --> 00:18:07.839
Remember, Lon, he got 45, the highest of any Republican
341
00:18:07.859 --> 00:18:11.099
in the last 20 years. So we don't want to
342
00:18:11.140 --> 00:18:16.119
just get 47, right? I get 50% plus a single vote.
343
00:18:17.140 --> 00:18:19.660
This is the closest of all of the statewide races.
344
00:18:20.240 --> 00:18:21.519
It is the most winnable.
345
00:18:22.119 --> 00:18:26.200
It will be our first step into regaining some power
346
00:18:26.220 --> 00:18:29.819
in the executive branch of government in California if we
347
00:18:29.839 --> 00:18:34.000
can get that 50% plus one. So what I ask everybody,
348
00:18:34.359 --> 00:18:38.519
everybody listening, I ask you, everybody who's interviewing me, is please, please, please,
349
00:18:39.019 --> 00:18:43.140
for the next five weeks, talk about fraud every day,
350
00:18:43.329 --> 00:18:46.369
all day. Go online, search for news articles, or go
351
00:18:46.430 --> 00:18:49.369
on your social media and type in California fraud. Whatever
352
00:18:49.450 --> 00:18:52.720
comes up, whatever story comes up, engage with that story.
353
00:18:53.099 --> 00:18:56.220
Don't just read it. Talk back, say something, repost it.
354
00:18:56.920 --> 00:18:59.220
And when you say something, say, hey, there's a candidate
355
00:18:59.740 --> 00:19:03.619
with a solution. It's at herb four, the number four,
356
00:19:03.640 --> 00:19:08.670
at herb four controller. And if people will do that,
357
00:19:10.230 --> 00:19:13.869
it's the equivalent of like the value to our algorithm
358
00:19:14.009 --> 00:19:18.250
and to their algorithm and to making fraud the central issue. Now,
359
00:19:18.289 --> 00:19:20.779
I'm telling this to all Republicans who are running for
360
00:19:20.819 --> 00:19:24.099
the Assembly, all Republicans who are running for the Senate,
361
00:19:24.779 --> 00:19:28.500
and I'm telling this to the other six executive office candidates.
362
00:19:29.720 --> 00:19:31.940
You want to win, you got to talk about fraud,
363
00:19:32.779 --> 00:19:35.059
number one, and you got to talk about radical transparency
364
00:19:35.099 --> 00:19:38.240
as a solution, number two. And one other thing that
365
00:19:38.279 --> 00:19:41.539
we don't want to talk about, Gavin Newsom.
366
00:19:42.720 --> 00:19:44.440
And I'll tell you why. Number one, he's not on
367
00:19:44.480 --> 00:19:44.920
the ballot.
368
00:19:45.660 --> 00:19:49.140
And number two, 52% of the people in our polls
369
00:19:49.180 --> 00:19:51.779
still like him. We don't want to talk about issues
370
00:19:51.799 --> 00:19:54.799
that are only 48%. We want to talk about issues
371
00:19:54.819 --> 00:19:58.779
that are 95%. That's how we get people to shift
372
00:19:59.200 --> 00:19:59.789
and vote with us.
373
00:20:00.460 --> 00:20:04.049
Yeah. No, fighting the last war is a common mistake.
374
00:20:04.069 --> 00:20:07.470
I mean, I say war because that's what we accuse
375
00:20:07.549 --> 00:20:10.009
generals of in history. You know, they're fighting the last
376
00:20:10.049 --> 00:20:12.359
war the french generals in world war ii didn't appreciate
377
00:20:12.710 --> 00:20:16.019
airplanes and tanks you know that yeah exactly gavin newsom
378
00:20:16.079 --> 00:20:20.039
is a has-been forget about this we got becerra oh
379
00:20:20.079 --> 00:20:22.519
my god we can talk about him but before we
380
00:20:22.559 --> 00:20:26.160
go there and maybe we won't go there but i've
381
00:20:26.359 --> 00:20:28.680
you know we hear that phrase fraud waste and abuse
382
00:20:30.109 --> 00:20:32.230
i there's a guy on the am radio on this
383
00:20:32.250 --> 00:20:35.509
station actually in the afternoons named jesse kelly and he
384
00:20:35.549 --> 00:20:38.250
says stop saying fraud waste.
385
00:20:37.970 --> 00:20:41.450
And abuse it's not waste It's not abuse. It's theft.
386
00:20:42.369 --> 00:20:46.380
To defraud someone is to steal from them. That's what
387
00:20:46.420 --> 00:20:48.900
you're doing if you're defrauding someone. You are taking something
388
00:20:48.960 --> 00:20:52.220
of theirs by lying to them. That's what we're doing.
389
00:20:52.259 --> 00:20:55.269
That's what audits are set up to track and eliminate.
390
00:20:55.609 --> 00:20:59.269
That's what you do with an audit. I just think
391
00:21:00.390 --> 00:21:02.809
this show is really aimed at the base. We do
392
00:21:02.849 --> 00:21:06.430
have independents listening. A lot of them are more conservative
393
00:21:06.470 --> 00:21:10.200
than the typical Republican, actually, and I think people should
394
00:21:10.220 --> 00:21:13.099
be very mad about how our government's been mismanaged and
395
00:21:13.140 --> 00:21:18.640
how we mismanaged for the self gain of people. And
396
00:21:18.779 --> 00:21:22.009
to think that there isn't theft going on. I just,
397
00:21:22.130 --> 00:21:23.690
I don't want to put you on the spot. I could,
398
00:21:24.619 --> 00:21:26.059
I could guess maybe you don't want to go down
399
00:21:26.079 --> 00:21:26.779
this road, but.
400
00:21:27.039 --> 00:21:29.339
Oh, I love going down this road. Are you kidding me?
401
00:21:29.539 --> 00:21:32.180
I could do a Senate filibuster right now where I
402
00:21:32.240 --> 00:21:35.319
start listing fraud that I've uncovered during the course of
403
00:21:35.359 --> 00:21:39.329
this campaign. You could leave this Zoom meeting running all
404
00:21:39.400 --> 00:21:43.470
night and sometime around lunch tomorrow, I'd finish.
405
00:21:44.069 --> 00:21:46.609
How long before you use the word embezzlement? Because that's
406
00:21:46.630 --> 00:21:51.029
another synonym for theft, right? I mean, it's fraud and embezzlement.
407
00:21:51.089 --> 00:21:51.769
They are theft.
408
00:21:51.970 --> 00:21:55.859
They are taking stuff from you For themselves. That's what's
409
00:21:55.900 --> 00:21:59.380
going on. And it drives me bonkers. So speaking of
410
00:21:59.420 --> 00:22:02.660
them taking property, you mentioned something else offline a little
411
00:22:02.700 --> 00:22:03.039
bit ago.
412
00:22:03.099 --> 00:22:04.559
I want to make sure we hit your points.
413
00:22:05.160 --> 00:22:08.450
What about disunified property?
414
00:22:08.890 --> 00:22:10.509
How do you want to call that now?
415
00:22:10.890 --> 00:22:13.930
So the state controller, Malia Cohen, her job, one of
416
00:22:13.970 --> 00:22:17.640
her jobs is to manage the office of unclaimed property.
417
00:22:18.400 --> 00:22:19.000
So what is that?
418
00:22:19.740 --> 00:22:22.200
Well, it's a little deposit you had on your cable
419
00:22:22.240 --> 00:22:24.660
TV box and you moved and they went to return
420
00:22:24.940 --> 00:22:27.180
your deposit, but you didn't give them a forwarding address.
421
00:22:28.059 --> 00:22:31.759
It's a forgotten bank account that maybe you closed out
422
00:22:31.799 --> 00:22:34.279
at Schwab, a brokerage account, but then a couple of
423
00:22:34.299 --> 00:22:37.119
dividends hit and you got about $ 93 sitting in an
424
00:22:37.160 --> 00:22:38.039
account and.
425
00:22:37.980 --> 00:22:39.079
They can't find you anymore.
426
00:22:39.900 --> 00:22:42.569
And so what happens is, and by the way, there's
427
00:22:42.609 --> 00:22:46.289
also large stock portfolios that have been taken because you
428
00:22:46.309 --> 00:22:50.279
failed to log in or your mail got returned. And
429
00:22:50.980 --> 00:22:54.259
in every other state, the state controller or the equivalent,
430
00:22:54.420 --> 00:22:57.660
their job is to return the property, to find the owner.
431
00:22:58.759 --> 00:23:02.079
In California, we have turned it into a revenue source.
432
00:23:03.119 --> 00:23:08.720
So unclaimed property is now the fifth largest stream of revenue.
433
00:23:08.369 --> 00:23:10.190
To the general fund of the state of California.
434
00:23:10.950 --> 00:23:13.710
And what Malia Cohen has done as your controller is
435
00:23:14.230 --> 00:23:17.910
she has treated herself and I guess elected herself a
436
00:23:17.990 --> 00:23:19.230
tax collector of sorts.
437
00:23:19.680 --> 00:23:22.009
Not a tax that was ever passed by.
438
00:23:21.890 --> 00:23:25.069
A legislature or passed by two-thirds of the citizens, but
439
00:23:25.109 --> 00:23:29.750
she simply escheats people's money. Now, it gets so bad
440
00:23:29.809 --> 00:23:33.519
because we found out that she's hired bounty hunters, these
441
00:23:33.599 --> 00:23:36.920
third-party firms that are bounty hunters who, if they go
442
00:23:36.980 --> 00:23:41.559
out and find, quote, abandoned property of Californians, and they
443
00:23:41.619 --> 00:23:43.960
take it and they bring it into the state, the
444
00:23:43.980 --> 00:23:46.579
state will sell it and record an IOU in that
445
00:23:46.619 --> 00:23:50.819
person's name And they pay a commission, a bounty, to
446
00:23:50.859 --> 00:23:51.839
these bounty hunters.
447
00:23:52.299 --> 00:23:55.440
It's a conscionable abuse of state power.
448
00:23:56.539 --> 00:24:05.630
This pool of IOUs has grown to $ 15 billion. In
449
00:24:05.650 --> 00:24:12.470
the last two fiscal years, Malia Cohen has taxed without representation.
450
00:24:12.509 --> 00:24:18.079
She's not an elected official, right? She has taken in $ 1. 3
451
00:24:16.440 --> 00:24:17.900
billion in each of those years.
452
00:24:19.339 --> 00:24:22.660
Sort of says, well, I'm going to do a post
453
00:24:22.720 --> 00:24:23.279
on a website.
454
00:24:23.299 --> 00:24:25.660
I'm going to write an editorial for the San Francisco Chronicle,
455
00:24:25.769 --> 00:24:27.789
and I'm going to try to return property to people.
456
00:24:28.690 --> 00:24:31.450
Or I did a big mailing, and we find out
457
00:24:31.470 --> 00:24:37.430
it went to 130,000 people. Well, there are 84 million.
458
00:24:38.690 --> 00:24:39.029
Million.
459
00:24:39.069 --> 00:24:40.809
Now, there's only 40 million people in the state, so
460
00:24:40.849 --> 00:24:42.069
you can do the math. A lot of people.
461
00:24:41.910 --> 00:24:46.089
Have 5, 6, 7, 10 pieces of unclaimed property. But
462
00:24:46.109 --> 00:24:52.190
there's 84 million entries. She did a mailing to 130,000, right?
463
00:24:53.069 --> 00:24:55.160
And think about this too. The state controller sits on
464
00:24:55.180 --> 00:24:57.539
the franchise tax board. He or she was the chairman.
465
00:24:58.420 --> 00:25:00.700
So think about it as the opposite. Think if you
466
00:25:00.900 --> 00:25:04.140
owed the state of California money, they would use the
467
00:25:04.180 --> 00:25:06.920
power of the badge and the power of the gun
468
00:25:07.630 --> 00:25:11.890
to find you and collect on the $ 86 that you
469
00:25:12.009 --> 00:25:12.569
owed them.
470
00:25:13.250 --> 00:25:15.710
And they would use the records of the franchise tax board.
471
00:25:16.210 --> 00:25:18.529
So my plan when I get in office, first off,
472
00:25:18.950 --> 00:25:21.130
we're going to change the name of that office from
473
00:25:21.329 --> 00:25:28.630
unclaimed property to property reunification. And if I can return $ 5, $ 10,
474
00:25:27.930 --> 00:25:33.920
$ 12 billion to Californians by connecting the franchise tax board
475
00:25:33.980 --> 00:25:38.920
records to the records of property reunification and not unclaimed property,
476
00:25:39.680 --> 00:25:42.180
and I can start returning by sending checks or just
477
00:25:42.200 --> 00:25:45.099
giving them credits on their next tax return, it's $ 4,
478
00:25:44.920 --> 00:25:50.059
it's $ 8, who cares? It's an actual economic stimulus to
479
00:25:50.079 --> 00:25:52.849
the state of California. So this has to be done.
480
00:25:52.869 --> 00:25:55.450
And I actually, you'll get a kick out of this
481
00:25:55.490 --> 00:25:59.269
because I've asked Elizabeth Warren, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts,
482
00:25:59.309 --> 00:26:03.210
I've asked her to endorse me for state controller because
483
00:26:03.849 --> 00:26:07.890
I never thought, now this is crazy, but Elizabeth Warren
484
00:26:07.930 --> 00:26:10.470
and Herb Morgan are on the exact same side of
485
00:26:10.509 --> 00:26:14.250
an issue and we agree. Elizabeth Warren is a big
486
00:26:14.349 --> 00:26:18.210
advocate for actually not stealing money from citizens and returning
487
00:26:18.779 --> 00:26:22.240
unclaimed property so i wrote her a letter i didn't
488
00:26:22.259 --> 00:26:25.779
get a response unfortunately where i asked i asked for
489
00:26:25.839 --> 00:26:30.309
her endorsement of my radical trans agenda because i'm going
490
00:26:30.329 --> 00:26:33.950
to put every transaction online government's going to be transparent
491
00:26:34.230 --> 00:26:37.470
we're going to transform our state i'm a radical just
492
00:26:37.549 --> 00:26:40.950
like those other republicans in the 1850s with their radical
493
00:26:41.009 --> 00:26:43.660
notion that people should not be enslaved They were called
494
00:26:43.779 --> 00:26:47.430
radical Republicans because they passed the 13th, 14th, and 15th
495
00:26:47.470 --> 00:26:48.789
Amendment to our Constitution.
496
00:26:49.109 --> 00:26:50.950
That's why I'm a Republican. I don't know about you.
497
00:26:52.029 --> 00:26:56.170
Actually, that is pretty much what it's about because anti-slavery
498
00:26:57.289 --> 00:27:00.519
is pro-freedom, and I'm a freedom guy. I actually, when
499
00:27:00.539 --> 00:27:03.000
I was a kid picking parties, I didn't think there
500
00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:06.500
was really slavery because I didn't own any real estate. But,
501
00:27:06.680 --> 00:27:08.880
you know, I tell people this, Herb, and this is
502
00:27:08.920 --> 00:27:10.859
an interview about you, but I like to share this,
503
00:27:10.920 --> 00:27:12.200
so embellish me here.
504
00:27:12.740 --> 00:27:14.960
Humor me. Real estate.
505
00:27:16.180 --> 00:27:18.680
Real sounds like tangible because that's the way we use
506
00:27:18.700 --> 00:27:19.349
the word mostly.
507
00:27:19.700 --> 00:27:21.589
But I think it's a Latin word. It means royal.
508
00:27:21.960 --> 00:27:24.250
When you own property in California, you have to pay
509
00:27:24.309 --> 00:27:28.250
royalties forever to the state of California. I find that
510
00:27:28.309 --> 00:27:31.650
to be a form of enslavement. I mean, it is
511
00:27:31.750 --> 00:27:35.650
patronage to the government. It drives me bonkers. So anyway,
512
00:27:36.289 --> 00:27:38.670
when I heard about the New Deal as the contrast,
513
00:27:38.849 --> 00:27:42.309
I think my high school civics teacher, his name was
514
00:27:42.809 --> 00:27:45.539
Juan Batista at Monterey High put it to us. You know,
515
00:27:45.559 --> 00:27:47.200
they do pre-registration at high schools.
516
00:27:47.680 --> 00:27:48.460
He put it to us.
517
00:27:48.940 --> 00:27:53.420
If you think freeing the slaves and pro-business is, you know,
518
00:27:53.460 --> 00:27:57.660
pro-freedom and free markets, if that's your thing, you're a Republican.
519
00:27:58.160 --> 00:28:00.579
If you think the government should help the little guy,
520
00:28:01.180 --> 00:28:03.839
New Deal type stuff, maybe you're a Democrat. That's kind
521
00:28:03.859 --> 00:28:06.740
of how he helped us pick. And I picked Republican. Now,
522
00:28:06.759 --> 00:28:09.599
my dad was a Republican. My mom was sort of
523
00:28:10.200 --> 00:28:11.500
not who I agreed with politically.
524
00:28:11.599 --> 00:28:12.140
I'll leave it there.
525
00:28:12.569 --> 00:28:15.910
And so I ended up being a Republican. But yeah,
526
00:28:16.460 --> 00:28:20.359
I'm with you on the radical Republicans. I actually, this show,
527
00:28:20.400 --> 00:28:22.559
when I first started it, I said I was a
528
00:28:22.700 --> 00:28:27.470
radically liberal conservative because I actually don't give the Democrats
529
00:28:27.529 --> 00:28:30.250
the term liberal anymore. I try to encourage people not
530
00:28:30.269 --> 00:28:33.119
to call them liberals because there's nothing really about them that's.
531
00:28:33.759 --> 00:28:34.640
Well, there's really not.
532
00:28:34.680 --> 00:28:37.000
And there's not much about us that's conservative when you
533
00:28:37.019 --> 00:28:39.859
think about it. And by the way, the Republicans were
534
00:28:39.920 --> 00:28:43.599
called the liberals for a very long time. And now
535
00:28:43.619 --> 00:28:46.799
they're called the classical liberals. People like Thomas Jefferson and
536
00:28:47.460 --> 00:28:50.150
Adam Smith and these folks were called the classical liberals.
537
00:28:50.230 --> 00:28:54.109
And the word conservative can mean somebody who confronted with
538
00:28:54.150 --> 00:28:56.029
new information still won't change their mind.
539
00:28:57.970 --> 00:28:59.730
So I've never really liked the labels.
540
00:29:01.759 --> 00:29:04.000
But I certainly know that I've taken a very long
541
00:29:04.259 --> 00:29:06.700
view of the history of our party. We were always
542
00:29:06.740 --> 00:29:08.880
on the right side of history, whether it was our
543
00:29:08.940 --> 00:29:12.930
founding and our anti-slavery movement, the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment,
544
00:29:12.990 --> 00:29:15.970
whether it was Eisenhower sending the troops into Little Rock,
545
00:29:16.029 --> 00:29:19.230
whether it was Susan B. Anthony advocating for the woman's
546
00:29:19.430 --> 00:29:23.490
right to vote. These were all Republicans. And the original
547
00:29:23.650 --> 00:29:27.039
advocates of civil rights, by the way, were also It
548
00:29:27.099 --> 00:29:30.119
was late in the game where LBJ got involved and
549
00:29:30.140 --> 00:29:33.140
decided to take credit for the whole thing. And we
550
00:29:33.160 --> 00:29:35.009
were more than happy to let anybody who wanted to
551
00:29:35.049 --> 00:29:37.569
help get credit. That was never the issue. The issue
552
00:29:37.609 --> 00:29:42.579
was making it happen and getting it done. And so unfortunately,
553
00:29:42.619 --> 00:29:44.539
the other side has done a very good job of
554
00:29:44.619 --> 00:29:50.240
marketing false imagery and information about our people and our values.
555
00:29:50.900 --> 00:29:54.200
So I really appreciate you, Herb, for many reasons. But
556
00:29:54.240 --> 00:29:56.180
not least, I did not know you went to UC
557
00:29:56.220 --> 00:29:58.160
Santa Cruz and you came out.
558
00:29:59.289 --> 00:30:00.809
A Republican. And I like that.
559
00:30:01.049 --> 00:30:04.529
I went to Berkeley very unpolitical as a freshman, as
560
00:30:04.569 --> 00:30:08.730
an 18-year-old. I had registered Republican. I kind of, even then,
561
00:30:08.789 --> 00:30:10.910
I questioned, like, why are we calling these people that
562
00:30:10.930 --> 00:30:13.829
want to raise our taxes liberal? Isn't a dollar bill
563
00:30:13.869 --> 00:30:15.970
sort of your freedom? Like, if you have money, you
564
00:30:15.990 --> 00:30:18.619
can do what you want. Why are the people in
565
00:30:18.660 --> 00:30:20.779
government taking away, why are we calling them the liberals?
566
00:30:21.480 --> 00:30:23.440
But I went off to Berkeley to study chemistry, of
567
00:30:23.480 --> 00:30:25.819
all things. And so, what do I care about politics?
568
00:30:26.019 --> 00:30:29.059
And I survived. I became the hardened Republican I am today.
569
00:30:29.809 --> 00:30:32.329
because of those challenges. And I assume kind of, it's
570
00:30:32.369 --> 00:30:34.730
the same. I think in the eighties, Santa Cruz was
571
00:30:34.799 --> 00:30:37.400
already pretty far down the communist rabbit hole.
572
00:30:37.900 --> 00:30:38.339
Oh gosh.
573
00:30:38.400 --> 00:30:40.119
We were, I didn't know. I was a kid.
574
00:30:40.140 --> 00:30:41.980
You know, when I got there as 18 years old,
575
00:30:42.140 --> 00:30:44.059
I went there because I like to surf.
576
00:30:44.500 --> 00:30:44.680
Right.
577
00:30:44.700 --> 00:30:46.359
And I wanted to go, I wanted to dig a
578
00:30:46.380 --> 00:30:49.319
longboard and go out and steamers lane at 18 years old.
579
00:30:49.380 --> 00:30:50.400
And I wanted to have fun.
580
00:30:50.460 --> 00:30:55.160
And you know, even though it was very far hard left,
581
00:30:55.200 --> 00:30:57.609
they were doing all that gender stuff and all that stuff,
582
00:30:57.869 --> 00:31:02.539
crazy ideas way back then. America's horrible. Reagan was horrible
583
00:31:02.640 --> 00:31:04.759
and all that. And I just listened and listened and listened.
584
00:31:04.819 --> 00:31:06.640
I just, you know, I said, thank you for making
585
00:31:06.680 --> 00:31:09.740
me a Republican because you people are, they're kind of irrational.
586
00:31:09.759 --> 00:31:11.740
It didn't make sense. It was illogical to me.
587
00:31:12.180 --> 00:31:14.660
But even back then though, I would say Santa Cruz
588
00:31:14.940 --> 00:31:19.329
had this reputation of free thought and they were still
589
00:31:19.349 --> 00:31:23.109
very respectful of the kids who were not buying in.
590
00:31:23.430 --> 00:31:23.670
Right.
591
00:31:23.789 --> 00:31:27.410
So, If you were a conservative kid in class and
592
00:31:27.450 --> 00:31:28.890
that's the way you were raised and you wanted to
593
00:31:28.930 --> 00:31:30.579
talk or you wanted to write your paper on that,
594
00:31:30.630 --> 00:31:34.440
I never felt the pressure or the ostracization that kids
595
00:31:34.480 --> 00:31:36.440
feel today if they want to speak up.
596
00:31:36.400 --> 00:31:37.460
And have a different opinion.
597
00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:42.019
It wasn't this just sort of abject hatred for anybody
598
00:31:42.059 --> 00:31:45.279
with a differing view. And so I actually think, at
599
00:31:45.339 --> 00:31:48.559
least in the 80s, yes, it was very left culture,
600
00:31:49.420 --> 00:31:53.250
but critical thinking was– not only allowed, but encouraged.
601
00:31:52.930 --> 00:31:56.529
By the professors I had back then. I think times
602
00:31:56.549 --> 00:31:59.170
have changed, unfortunately. Well, all right.
603
00:31:59.230 --> 00:32:02.190
Hopefully some Santa Cruz listeners have heard you. I know
604
00:32:02.210 --> 00:32:06.380
there's a blossoming Republican Party in Santa Cruz. It is
605
00:32:07.259 --> 00:32:12.200
actually coming around our time, I think. The state is
606
00:32:12.279 --> 00:32:16.140
floundering under Democrat rule, and we need new blood. So
607
00:32:16.339 --> 00:32:19.319
thank you, Herb Morgan, for stepping up. God bless you.
608
00:32:19.750 --> 00:32:25.410
Go to Herb's webpage or find him online. What are
609
00:32:25.430 --> 00:32:27.450
some ways people could find you? I really think even
610
00:32:27.470 --> 00:32:28.829
just 50 bucks or 100 bucks.
611
00:32:29.349 --> 00:32:30.170
Oh, yeah.
612
00:32:30.410 --> 00:32:32.549
Every little bit helps at this point. And it's all
613
00:32:32.589 --> 00:32:35.299
going to go to direct ads to no party preference
614
00:32:35.390 --> 00:32:37.059
and movable Democrats.
615
00:32:37.079 --> 00:32:41.460
We're going to target them with some great ads. HerbMorgan.com.
616
00:32:41.759 --> 00:32:45.259
Make your donation. Follow on the socials at Herb, the
617
00:32:45.319 --> 00:32:47.220
number four at Herb for Controller.
618
00:32:47.960 --> 00:32:49.480
Fantastic. Thanks again, Herb.
619
00:32:50.079 --> 00:32:51.539
Okay. Take care, Jeff. See you.
620
00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:54.660
You've been listening to The Republican View with me, your host,
621
00:32:54.940 --> 00:32:56.960
Jeff Gorman. The show is brought to you every week
622
00:32:57.019 --> 00:33:00.109
by the Monterey County Republican Party. We air at 9
623
00:33:00.109 --> 00:33:05.549
o'clock a.m. on Saturday at 1460 a.m. or 101.1 FM,
624
00:33:05.609 --> 00:33:09.369
power talk for the Monterey Bay Area. And that was
625
00:33:09.410 --> 00:33:12.670
Herb Morgan. He's running for statewide office of controller, which
626
00:33:12.809 --> 00:33:15.259
if you're concerned about fraud and the government stealing your
627
00:33:15.299 --> 00:33:19.309
money and using it for themselves, building themselves mansions, etc.,
628
00:33:20.269 --> 00:33:24.029
You will be interested to have a better controller. The
629
00:33:24.049 --> 00:33:26.029
controller we have now is not doing her job, as
630
00:33:26.230 --> 00:33:27.970
you just heard. If you didn't catch the full interview,
631
00:33:28.410 --> 00:33:32.009
please go to our podcast on Spreaker.com or on Apple Podcasting.
632
00:33:32.390 --> 00:33:33.509
Search The Republican View.
633
00:33:34.089 --> 00:33:37.680
Next up, I'm going to be interviewing Michael Gates, running
634
00:33:37.740 --> 00:33:42.240
for Attorney General. And if you thought stealing tax money
635
00:33:42.279 --> 00:33:45.240
was bad, wait until you hear about the current AG.
636
00:33:45.859 --> 00:33:50.279
Please enjoy listening to Michael Gates. Well, ladies and gentlemen,
637
00:33:50.299 --> 00:33:54.640
I'm happy to bring to you the candidate for attorney general,
638
00:33:55.440 --> 00:33:58.740
Michael Gates. He has been city attorney. I actually should
639
00:33:58.759 --> 00:34:02.500
know this. Are you currently city attorney for Huntington Beach?
640
00:34:03.079 --> 00:34:04.829
So I was the city attorney for a little more
641
00:34:04.869 --> 00:34:07.390
than 10 years. Then I resigned to take a job
642
00:34:07.789 --> 00:34:10.809
back in Washington, D.C. at the Department of Justice. And
643
00:34:10.829 --> 00:34:13.030
then after about a year there, I came back here
644
00:34:13.130 --> 00:34:14.909
to run full time for attorney general.
645
00:34:15.760 --> 00:34:16.079
Excellent.
646
00:34:16.159 --> 00:34:18.159
I remember speaking to you before the primary. I'm very
647
00:34:18.219 --> 00:34:21.059
glad to see you prevail and be in the top
648
00:34:21.099 --> 00:34:24.500
two and representing the Republican point of view, which really,
649
00:34:24.539 --> 00:34:26.519
I think, is the common sense point of view. I
650
00:34:26.539 --> 00:34:31.460
think I like to say Republican values are Hispanic values generally, family,
651
00:34:31.619 --> 00:34:33.639
right to self-defense, right to work.
652
00:34:33.820 --> 00:34:36.360
You know, those kind of things are what we're all about.
653
00:34:36.480 --> 00:34:38.679
So since we've got you for just a little bit
654
00:34:38.719 --> 00:34:46.469
here on the Monterey Bay's Republican channel, 1460 AM and 101.1 FM, So, Mr. Gates,
655
00:34:47.030 --> 00:34:50.699
Michael Gates for Attorney General. You know, this statewide election,
656
00:34:50.739 --> 00:34:52.920
we have a very different system in California.
657
00:34:52.940 --> 00:34:53.800
I know you know this well.
658
00:34:53.820 --> 00:34:55.639
And the audience, I think, knows it, but may not
659
00:34:55.699 --> 00:34:58.019
think about it this way. The president of the United
660
00:34:58.039 --> 00:35:00.619
States gets to pick his cabinet. Here in the state
661
00:35:00.639 --> 00:35:04.420
of California, we have executive officers that are directly elected.
662
00:35:04.579 --> 00:35:07.380
We have eight of them. Seven of them are partisan.
663
00:35:08.179 --> 00:35:10.619
And yours is a very important office. And I just
664
00:35:10.659 --> 00:35:14.320
spoke to Herb Morgan earlier. who's running for controller of
665
00:35:14.360 --> 00:35:16.760
the state of California. And I pointed out to him
666
00:35:16.780 --> 00:35:19.420
and he pointed out tons of fraud problems and the
667
00:35:19.460 --> 00:35:21.500
way you control fraud is audits and they're not being done.
668
00:35:22.500 --> 00:35:25.699
But I think people need to understand when we say fraud,
669
00:35:25.760 --> 00:35:28.170
what we mean is theft, right? I mean, to be
670
00:35:28.210 --> 00:35:33.230
defrauded means someone stole something from you. So what I
671
00:35:33.289 --> 00:35:37.010
really liked Chad Bianco, he's a law enforcement officer. I'm
672
00:35:37.050 --> 00:35:39.070
really looking forward to law and order in California.
673
00:35:39.110 --> 00:35:41.250
And that's, that's your job, right? Attorney general.
674
00:35:41.269 --> 00:35:41.409
Yeah.
675
00:35:42.000 --> 00:35:42.659
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
676
00:35:42.780 --> 00:35:46.860
So Bianco, Chad Bianco is a great man, a great
677
00:35:46.920 --> 00:35:51.099
sheriff for Riverside, was a great candidate for governor of California.
678
00:35:51.119 --> 00:35:55.250
And I think he has a bright future in politics personally.
679
00:35:55.269 --> 00:35:58.050
I think people really fell in love with him. I
680
00:35:59.510 --> 00:36:02.449
think the nature of the primary was just such that
681
00:36:02.789 --> 00:36:05.670
just so competitive, so many candidates that it was just
682
00:36:05.710 --> 00:36:07.980
it was a tough race, a tough environment to try
683
00:36:08.000 --> 00:36:10.219
to win. And so I give him all the credit
684
00:36:10.239 --> 00:36:12.039
for his fight. I gave him a ton of credit
685
00:36:12.099 --> 00:36:15.900
for really the reputation he has, the experience and the
686
00:36:15.940 --> 00:36:17.710
success that he's had as sheriff. And I do think
687
00:36:17.730 --> 00:36:19.769
he has a bright future. So anyway, so all that
688
00:36:19.789 --> 00:36:24.889
to say, I value his endorsement. He's a full-throated supporter
689
00:36:24.969 --> 00:36:27.230
of mine. He has already gone out on the campaign
690
00:36:27.250 --> 00:36:31.349
trail to help me. Messaging to California that we are lawless,
691
00:36:31.449 --> 00:36:33.960
we are a mess, we are a dumpster fire. And
692
00:36:34.000 --> 00:36:37.679
the quickest way to turn California around frankly, isn't even
693
00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:40.519
particularly the governor's race. It's actually the attorney general's race
694
00:36:40.579 --> 00:36:43.559
because of the amount of authority, as you mentioned, in
695
00:36:43.599 --> 00:36:49.039
the California Constitution, Article 5, Section 13, that designates the
696
00:36:49.119 --> 00:36:52.090
attorney general as the top law enforcement officer in the
697
00:36:52.119 --> 00:36:55.829
state on the one hand, but that means responsible ultimately
698
00:36:55.849 --> 00:36:58.530
for public safety for the entire state. But on the
699
00:36:58.610 --> 00:37:02.110
other hand, also the chief legal counsel, not only for
700
00:37:02.230 --> 00:37:05.409
all the state offices, like the governor and the legislature
701
00:37:05.590 --> 00:37:07.170
and the secretary of state and so on and so forth,
702
00:37:07.210 --> 00:37:11.559
but also responsible for all of the civil action. So
703
00:37:12.139 --> 00:37:14.860
if you wonder, does the attorney general have any authority?
704
00:37:15.019 --> 00:37:16.480
All you need to do is watch the news and
705
00:37:16.519 --> 00:37:18.980
see that Rob Bonta has been in the news. It
706
00:37:19.019 --> 00:37:21.059
seems every day of the week for this, that, or
707
00:37:21.079 --> 00:37:21.559
the other thing.
708
00:37:21.639 --> 00:37:21.840
Why?
709
00:37:21.900 --> 00:37:23.969
Because he's out there doing things on his own. He's
710
00:37:24.030 --> 00:37:26.309
the one on his own who sued Paramount and Warner
711
00:37:26.329 --> 00:37:28.630
Brothers over the merger and He's the one on his
712
00:37:28.789 --> 00:37:32.409
own who went and reworded Prop 39, which is our
713
00:37:32.449 --> 00:37:34.599
voter ID prop on the ballot here in November, to
714
00:37:34.639 --> 00:37:40.019
say that Prop 39 prohibits citizens from voting. Those are
715
00:37:40.039 --> 00:37:42.400
the first four words now of the new ballot title.
716
00:37:42.820 --> 00:37:44.960
And that's because of Rob Bonta. Rob Bonta has his
717
00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:47.840
fingers in everything. He's involved in almost everything that we're
718
00:37:47.860 --> 00:37:50.840
seeing in the news lately. And if anybody wonders how
719
00:37:50.880 --> 00:37:54.139
important the attorney general's race is or the attorney general is,
720
00:37:54.599 --> 00:37:57.059
Just look at what he's doing to mess up California.
721
00:37:57.179 --> 00:37:59.300
Think of how much good can be had. When I'm
722
00:37:59.340 --> 00:38:01.260
the Attorney General, I'm the law and order candidate. I
723
00:38:01.380 --> 00:38:03.340
uphold and defend the law. I'm a real lawyer and
724
00:38:03.380 --> 00:38:06.199
not a politician like Rob Bonta. I can actually get
725
00:38:06.280 --> 00:38:07.800
in and roll up my sleeves and do the work
726
00:38:07.820 --> 00:38:09.869
to turn California around to a law and order state.
727
00:38:10.329 --> 00:38:14.429
While Rob Bonta, as a career politician, has spent many, many, many,
728
00:38:14.469 --> 00:38:17.630
many years at fancy dinners with lobbyists and cutting deals
729
00:38:17.690 --> 00:38:21.510
with interest groups, I was in court every day day
730
00:38:21.550 --> 00:38:24.849
in and day out, fighting for everyday Californians. Of all
731
00:38:24.869 --> 00:38:27.389
of the work that I talk about having done, I
732
00:38:27.489 --> 00:38:30.269
personally did it. I wasn't just the city attorney delegating
733
00:38:30.309 --> 00:38:32.329
it or outsourcing it. I was the city attorney who
734
00:38:32.349 --> 00:38:35.969
was in court trying many multimillion dollar cases and arguing
735
00:38:36.010 --> 00:38:38.570
in federal district courts and arguing at the Ninth Circuit
736
00:38:38.590 --> 00:38:41.590
Court of Appeal. That's my history. That's my record. I've
737
00:38:41.630 --> 00:38:44.590
been in court fighting for everyday Californians. So we can
738
00:38:44.630 --> 00:38:47.449
rescue California right here. We just need the voters to
739
00:38:47.489 --> 00:38:48.070
help us do it.
740
00:38:49.059 --> 00:38:52.039
You're in Orange County, Huntington Beach is Orange County, which
741
00:38:52.440 --> 00:38:54.539
has been one of the more red counties. I think
742
00:38:54.800 --> 00:38:57.239
it and San Luis Obispo are the only coastal counties. Well,
743
00:38:57.579 --> 00:39:00.860
San Diego has been Republican not too long ago, but
744
00:39:01.320 --> 00:39:02.929
it's interesting to me. The reason I go to the
745
00:39:02.969 --> 00:39:06.510
county level is because there's county councils and county DAs
746
00:39:06.710 --> 00:39:10.269
all through the state, 58 counties, and the attorney general
747
00:39:10.329 --> 00:39:13.510
has a lot of oversight over those positions. So in
748
00:39:13.550 --> 00:39:17.110
a bad county, or LA now has a good district attorney,
749
00:39:17.150 --> 00:39:21.480
in my opinion, Nathan Hockman, but LA has many criminal
750
00:39:21.539 --> 00:39:24.780
fraud problems with hospice, Medicare fraud.
751
00:39:25.000 --> 00:39:29.010
It's a big deal. We have got a huge problem
752
00:39:29.349 --> 00:39:29.809
on our hands.
753
00:39:31.010 --> 00:39:34.769
We are systemically and culturally right now, lawless in California.
754
00:39:34.789 --> 00:39:37.769
And that's because of Rob Bonta, our attorney general. We
755
00:39:37.789 --> 00:39:40.289
don't even follow the laws or uphold and defend the
756
00:39:40.309 --> 00:39:42.869
law in our systems. So then out on the street,
757
00:39:42.909 --> 00:39:45.989
we have a culture of lawlessness and crime. And that's
758
00:39:46.030 --> 00:39:49.030
the problem. And so we need somebody like myself, who's
759
00:39:49.070 --> 00:39:51.320
a serious lawyer, who can get in there and do
760
00:39:51.360 --> 00:39:54.159
the work. When you talk about all of the responsibility,
761
00:39:54.280 --> 00:39:57.019
all of the sheriff's departments, all the district attorney's offices,
762
00:39:57.079 --> 00:40:00.639
which are, they all do fall under the purview of
763
00:40:00.679 --> 00:40:03.920
the attorney general. For me, I see that as an opportunity. Yes,
764
00:40:04.440 --> 00:40:06.179
obviously there can be a lot of headaches with all
765
00:40:06.199 --> 00:40:08.530
that personnel and all of those resources to try to
766
00:40:08.570 --> 00:40:10.789
manage them and steer them in the right direction. But
767
00:40:10.849 --> 00:40:12.909
I see it as an opportunity to actually work with them.
768
00:40:13.389 --> 00:40:15.969
Right now, Rob Bonta has made himself an enemy of
769
00:40:16.070 --> 00:40:19.750
public safety, an enemy of law enforcement, an enemy of
770
00:40:19.789 --> 00:40:22.630
the rule of law. And when sheriff's departments up and
771
00:40:22.650 --> 00:40:24.969
down the state of California and district attorney's offices up
772
00:40:24.989 --> 00:40:27.349
and down the state of California have an opportunity to
773
00:40:27.409 --> 00:40:29.889
work with me as the attorney general, they're going to
774
00:40:29.909 --> 00:40:32.969
have an ally. They're going to have a supporter. They're
775
00:40:32.989 --> 00:40:35.639
going to have a friend in Sacramento who wants to
776
00:40:35.719 --> 00:40:38.079
work with them to be tough on the law, to
777
00:40:38.159 --> 00:40:40.380
enforce the law, to make our community safe and to
778
00:40:40.420 --> 00:40:43.949
return to prosperity. So We're going to change the entire
779
00:40:43.989 --> 00:40:46.070
dynamic throughout the state of California. I see this as
780
00:40:46.110 --> 00:40:48.210
an opportunity to work with all the sheriff's departments and
781
00:40:48.230 --> 00:40:50.909
all the district attorney's offices. I also have a California
782
00:40:50.949 --> 00:40:54.469
Department of Justice that has thousands of employees, 1,200 of
783
00:40:54.510 --> 00:40:57.360
them are attorneys, and I will use those resources as
784
00:40:57.420 --> 00:41:00.079
well to work with the district attorney's offices and the
785
00:41:00.099 --> 00:41:03.019
sheriff's departments throughout the state of California. There are plenty
786
00:41:03.039 --> 00:41:06.019
of resources available to us to make California right again.
787
00:41:06.400 --> 00:41:09.179
The problem is we have a politician, a career politician
788
00:41:09.219 --> 00:41:12.289
in Rob Bonta, a crooked politician, one who has been
789
00:41:12.349 --> 00:41:15.670
covering for corruption and running interference on truth and justice,
790
00:41:16.170 --> 00:41:18.750
he literally is the bad guy. So when we think
791
00:41:18.789 --> 00:41:20.949
about trying to go after the bad guys in California
792
00:41:20.969 --> 00:41:23.010
and make California right again, he actually is one of
793
00:41:23.030 --> 00:41:25.000
the bad guys. He's one of the ones at the
794
00:41:25.039 --> 00:41:29.820
top who is literally proliferating and encouraging lawlessness throughout the
795
00:41:29.840 --> 00:41:31.800
state of California, and yet he's supposed to be our
796
00:41:31.820 --> 00:41:34.440
top cop. He's running from the law in his own right, right?
797
00:41:34.500 --> 00:41:38.690
He spent $ 500, 000 on criminal defense attorneys because the FBI,
798
00:41:38.730 --> 00:41:42.050
the federal agencies came and started asking him very difficult
799
00:41:42.070 --> 00:41:44.610
questions related to corruption, bribery, pay to play, and so
800
00:41:44.650 --> 00:41:47.230
on and so forth. And so he's running from the
801
00:41:47.269 --> 00:41:49.070
law in his own right, and yet he's our top
802
00:41:49.090 --> 00:41:52.030
law enforcement officer. It's completely ridiculous. We are living in
803
00:41:52.070 --> 00:41:56.769
an upside down world. California has been called a criminal enterprise,
804
00:41:57.309 --> 00:41:59.590
and I'm starting to believe that because of what I'm
805
00:41:59.630 --> 00:42:01.650
seeing in Sacramento and what I'm seeing with Rob Bonta.
806
00:42:02.130 --> 00:42:05.550
Well, gosh, that last statement you made about the criminal enterprise,
807
00:42:05.769 --> 00:42:09.070
I have long been concerned that people especially here in
808
00:42:09.110 --> 00:42:11.650
my hometown of Monterey or Pebble Beach or in the
809
00:42:11.710 --> 00:42:14.389
nicer parts of Santa Cruz, the.
810
00:42:14.329 --> 00:42:17.280
Cartels seem far away. They seem like, oh, they're not.
811
00:42:17.750 --> 00:42:22.329
I am convinced the drug cartels and the Chinese money launderers,
812
00:42:22.409 --> 00:42:24.889
they are here right among us. And if we don't
813
00:42:24.929 --> 00:42:27.909
have good law enforcement at the state level cooperating with
814
00:42:27.949 --> 00:42:31.389
the federal government, we will not get this problem under control.
815
00:42:31.429 --> 00:42:34.179
We'll continue to lose kids to drugs. I'm encouraged by
816
00:42:34.239 --> 00:42:37.570
President Trump closing the border, getting fentanyl off the street,
817
00:42:37.769 --> 00:42:41.269
erupting drug dealers and interrupting the supply chain of drugs.
818
00:42:42.010 --> 00:42:44.309
So the numbers are down. But the problem in California
819
00:42:44.369 --> 00:42:48.530
is still staggering. The problem with drug distribution and cartels. Anyway,
820
00:42:48.550 --> 00:42:50.090
I'd love to hear your thoughts on that. Before we
821
00:42:50.150 --> 00:42:53.750
move off of Bonta, people may not be familiar with
822
00:42:53.789 --> 00:42:55.780
this criminal case, but it was the Oakland mayor at
823
00:42:55.800 --> 00:43:00.119
the time was a family friend of both Rob Bonta,
824
00:43:00.139 --> 00:43:02.159
the attorney general and assembly woman.
825
00:43:02.679 --> 00:43:05.260
Is her name Mia Bonta? that wrote the Nick Shirley act.
826
00:43:05.280 --> 00:43:09.349
So it's a wicked, wicked web and $ 500, 000 in defense attorneys.
827
00:43:09.409 --> 00:43:13.630
That's almost unimaginable, you know, especially for a public official,
828
00:43:13.650 --> 00:43:16.530
how he survived that is crazy. So you got any
829
00:43:16.550 --> 00:43:17.110
more on that one?
830
00:43:17.550 --> 00:43:17.869
Yeah.
831
00:43:17.909 --> 00:43:22.429
So basically, um, Rob Bonta is, has more, um, friends
832
00:43:22.449 --> 00:43:24.489
who have been criminally indicted than you and I probably
833
00:43:24.510 --> 00:43:27.389
have family members. He literally has circle of friends. He
834
00:43:27.429 --> 00:43:30.809
keeps the company of criminals. The Duong family, which has
835
00:43:30.869 --> 00:43:33.760
many members, but you hear about the Andy Duong, you
836
00:43:33.780 --> 00:43:37.360
hear that name often. This was a criminal enterprise. They
837
00:43:37.400 --> 00:43:41.099
were running sex trafficking, drug trafficking, money laundering. There's a
838
00:43:41.119 --> 00:43:45.119
whole bunch of corruption and crimes associated with the Duong family,
839
00:43:45.159 --> 00:43:48.559
but also Sheng Tao, the former mayor of Oakland. And
840
00:43:48.659 --> 00:43:51.389
so all of this is connected, and Rob Bonta has
841
00:43:51.429 --> 00:43:55.340
been a friend of these individuals for years. including when
842
00:43:55.420 --> 00:43:59.179
Shengtao became mayor, Rob Bonta was there at the podium
843
00:43:59.219 --> 00:44:02.500
with her, swearing her in, administering the oath of office
844
00:44:02.539 --> 00:44:06.039
to Shengtao. So these are not casual contacts. These are
845
00:44:06.119 --> 00:44:10.079
literally many, many years friends with Rob Bonta. He has
846
00:44:10.119 --> 00:44:12.590
these connections, and that's why the FBI came knocking at
847
00:44:12.619 --> 00:44:15.989
his door, asking him a number of questions. That trial
848
00:44:16.260 --> 00:44:18.050
is set to go to trial, I believe, here on
849
00:44:18.130 --> 00:44:21.570
October 19th. We'll see if the judge keeps that or
850
00:44:21.610 --> 00:44:24.119
moves it, but That's not going to go well for
851
00:44:24.179 --> 00:44:26.389
Rob Bonta if that goes to trial and the evidence
852
00:44:26.449 --> 00:44:26.889
comes out.
853
00:44:28.610 --> 00:44:30.869
Really, I pray to God that that gets covered because
854
00:44:30.929 --> 00:44:33.710
I guarantee you a ton of voters have no idea. Yes.
855
00:44:33.949 --> 00:44:36.550
And it's one thing, you know, if a politician, politicians
856
00:44:37.010 --> 00:44:38.670
shake the hand of a lot of people and they're
857
00:44:38.690 --> 00:44:41.050
in photos with a lot of people. It's one thing
858
00:44:41.090 --> 00:44:43.860
if you have, you know, a politician appearing in a
859
00:44:43.900 --> 00:44:46.599
photograph with somebody who showed up at an event. But
860
00:44:46.699 --> 00:44:48.519
this is not the case with Rob Bonta. He has
861
00:44:48.559 --> 00:44:51.639
a very, very long, well-recorded history with the Duong family,
862
00:44:51.679 --> 00:44:54.590
with Andy Duong. and also Sheng Tao, and then also
863
00:44:55.389 --> 00:44:59.570
the former mayor of Artesia, Mayor Eileen Wang, who was
864
00:44:59.630 --> 00:45:03.150
the Chinese operative who was here to actually cozy up
865
00:45:03.210 --> 00:45:06.530
to government officials like Rob Bonta and try to influence
866
00:45:06.570 --> 00:45:09.849
them and then run intelligence back to China. So she
867
00:45:09.889 --> 00:45:13.820
was a Chinese agent planted here, sent here to actually
868
00:45:13.860 --> 00:45:15.639
do what she did with Rob Bonta, which is to
869
00:45:15.679 --> 00:45:18.400
cozy up to them, befriend them, and then run information
870
00:45:18.420 --> 00:45:19.539
and intelligence back to China.
871
00:45:20.460 --> 00:45:24.539
Another angle of foreign intelligence operations is propaganda, right? She
872
00:45:24.619 --> 00:45:28.750
was noted for writing pro-China propaganda from a position of
873
00:45:28.869 --> 00:45:30.769
mayor's office in the city of California.
874
00:45:31.090 --> 00:45:32.829
She's pled guilty to it. It's already over.
875
00:45:33.090 --> 00:45:37.010
It's unbelievable that Californians don't know how corrupt we have
876
00:45:37.030 --> 00:45:41.880
gotten by putting these people in office, especially the Bontas. Now,
877
00:45:42.550 --> 00:45:45.030
Nick surely fits into that. He's a young guy out
878
00:45:45.070 --> 00:45:47.969
there turning over rocks. And Mia Bonta had something to
879
00:45:48.010 --> 00:45:48.429
say about it.
880
00:45:48.429 --> 00:45:49.789
You want to cover that? Yeah.
881
00:45:50.070 --> 00:45:53.909
Mia Bonta is basically, some call her their opinion. She's
882
00:45:53.949 --> 00:45:56.760
a partner in crime. She's a bad actor. She was
883
00:45:56.800 --> 00:46:01.579
appointed to her assembly seat when Rob Bonta left that
884
00:46:01.619 --> 00:46:04.559
assembly seat because Rob Bonta got appointed by Newsom as
885
00:46:04.599 --> 00:46:08.889
our attorney general. So back in 2021. So ultimately, Newsom
886
00:46:08.909 --> 00:46:12.849
brought the entire Bonta family, it seems, into the corrupt
887
00:46:12.969 --> 00:46:16.590
political machine in Sacramento. And Mia Bonta has been doing
888
00:46:16.650 --> 00:46:19.679
her own dirty work, and Rob Bonta, the Attorney General,
889
00:46:19.739 --> 00:46:21.739
has been allowing her to get away with her own
890
00:46:21.800 --> 00:46:25.519
dirty work. So just a couple things. Rob Bonta has
891
00:46:25.579 --> 00:46:29.730
basically caused tens of thousands of dollars, taxpayer money, to
892
00:46:29.769 --> 00:46:34.789
be funneled directly to nonprofits that Mia Bonta benefits from.
893
00:46:34.909 --> 00:46:39.260
So money is flowing from our taxpayer pockets through Sacramento
894
00:46:39.429 --> 00:46:43.059
into nonprofits and ultimately into the Bonta family pockets, Mia
895
00:46:43.099 --> 00:46:46.619
Bonta and Rob Bonta alike. Basically, the laundering of taxpayer
896
00:46:46.639 --> 00:46:50.119
money for the benefit of politicians, right? In addition to that,
897
00:46:50.179 --> 00:46:51.820
we know too that she was the sponsor of the
898
00:46:51.840 --> 00:46:54.000
Stop Nick Shirley Act, right? So in addition to all
899
00:46:54.019 --> 00:46:57.510
of the self-dealing that they're doing, On the one hand,
900
00:46:57.570 --> 00:47:00.889
they're also passing bad legislation that attacks our constitutional rights.
901
00:47:01.570 --> 00:47:04.070
And yet it's interesting because Rob Bonto was born in
902
00:47:04.110 --> 00:47:07.489
the Philippines. He comes to America, benefits from America, gets
903
00:47:07.530 --> 00:47:10.380
an education here, becomes a career politician. And now he
904
00:47:10.429 --> 00:47:12.780
has the audacity to come to America and then try
905
00:47:12.820 --> 00:47:15.460
to take our constitutional rights away. So the Stop Nick
906
00:47:15.480 --> 00:47:20.699
Shirley Act is a violation of the First Amendment. It blatantly,
907
00:47:20.900 --> 00:47:25.579
patently violates First Amendment rights. And yet Rob Bonta didn't
908
00:47:25.619 --> 00:47:28.099
open his mouth, not a peep from him to his
909
00:47:28.179 --> 00:47:31.119
wife or to the legislature or to Newsom about how
910
00:47:31.280 --> 00:47:34.989
it violates First Amendment. So the Bontas are unfit for
911
00:47:35.070 --> 00:47:37.630
office from top to bottom. There's no issue, I think,
912
00:47:37.650 --> 00:47:41.809
that they're involved in that everyday Californians approve of. I
913
00:47:41.849 --> 00:47:43.849
think most people, if they looked at the record of
914
00:47:43.909 --> 00:47:46.469
Rob Bonta and Mia Bonta, whether it is the self-dealing
915
00:47:46.960 --> 00:47:50.500
the associations with corruption and crime, or the bad legislation,
916
00:47:50.559 --> 00:47:55.679
the bad acts as official state agents in office, officers,
917
00:47:56.719 --> 00:48:00.550
Californians don't agree with that. I mean, they absolutely disagree.
918
00:48:00.789 --> 00:48:02.730
So that's why we need a change here in California.
919
00:48:03.150 --> 00:48:07.070
Unbelievably criminal. It's just shocking. And it is culture.
920
00:48:07.150 --> 00:48:10.289
So you're talking about people coming to America, and we
921
00:48:10.369 --> 00:48:14.030
have had a culture here. We've certainly had corruption problems
922
00:48:14.050 --> 00:48:17.460
over the history of America. But The risk of losing
923
00:48:17.980 --> 00:48:21.659
our law and order culture is it's happening right in
924
00:48:21.699 --> 00:48:22.199
front of us.
925
00:48:23.159 --> 00:48:24.880
I think we've lost law and order. We need to
926
00:48:24.920 --> 00:48:27.639
restore it. I think the culture has headed down a
927
00:48:27.659 --> 00:48:30.340
path of lawlessness. We are lawless. I think it can
928
00:48:30.389 --> 00:48:32.269
get worse, but it can also get better with a
929
00:48:32.289 --> 00:48:35.190
change of leadership in Sacramento. You don't need to look
930
00:48:35.250 --> 00:48:39.010
any further than our children suffering in our schools. You
931
00:48:39.030 --> 00:48:42.750
can go to streets of Oakland, San Francisco, the downtown
932
00:48:42.769 --> 00:48:45.010
streets of LA, San Diego, and just see the amount
933
00:48:45.030 --> 00:48:47.969
of suffering that I was on skid row in downtown
934
00:48:48.110 --> 00:48:49.909
LA just a couple of weeks ago. And I, when
935
00:48:49.929 --> 00:48:51.869
I went there, I had been there before and I
936
00:48:51.909 --> 00:48:53.650
was no stranger to skid row. But when I went
937
00:48:53.670 --> 00:48:55.610
there this last time, I was expecting to see hundreds
938
00:48:55.650 --> 00:48:58.449
of people out on the street suffering. I saw thousands
939
00:48:58.489 --> 00:49:01.360
of people, thousands of people suffering out on the street
940
00:49:01.940 --> 00:49:04.800
of skid of LA. And here's another thing. There were
941
00:49:04.820 --> 00:49:07.340
children out there. There were newborns out there on the
942
00:49:07.360 --> 00:49:10.769
street and, and, and animals being subject to cruelty and,
943
00:49:11.179 --> 00:49:13.889
And these are all crimes. Everything that you see on
944
00:49:13.929 --> 00:49:16.300
Skid Row, whether it's the humans or the animals, these
945
00:49:16.440 --> 00:49:19.599
are all, this is all criminal activity. And I'm not
946
00:49:19.639 --> 00:49:24.599
talking about criminalizing homelessness or casting two white inets and
947
00:49:24.639 --> 00:49:27.539
suggesting that because there are drug dealers out there or
948
00:49:27.619 --> 00:49:30.199
drug users out there, that somehow everybody's a drug dealer
949
00:49:30.250 --> 00:49:32.289
or drug user. That's not what I'm saying. What I'm
950
00:49:32.309 --> 00:49:36.630
saying is the law already dictates, the law already mandates
951
00:49:36.949 --> 00:49:40.070
that you cannot subject an animal to cruelty. It already
952
00:49:40.119 --> 00:49:43.789
dictates and mandates that you cannot set up camp out
953
00:49:43.949 --> 00:49:47.750
on a street. You need to be in a shelter.
954
00:49:47.889 --> 00:49:51.309
You need to be in services. You cannot be take
955
00:49:51.429 --> 00:49:54.570
up residency out on the street. That's already the law.
956
00:49:54.610 --> 00:49:57.510
There's nothing new about that. There's nothing perverted about that.
957
00:49:57.550 --> 00:50:00.750
That has been decades old law here in California. So
958
00:50:00.789 --> 00:50:02.809
when I say everything out there that you see is criminal,
959
00:50:03.210 --> 00:50:06.809
it is. And why is it out there? Because leaders,
960
00:50:06.909 --> 00:50:07.940
political leaders allow it.
961
00:50:08.150 --> 00:50:08.489
Why?
962
00:50:08.659 --> 00:50:12.320
Because we are living in a culture of lawlessness. Anything goes.
963
00:50:12.619 --> 00:50:14.960
When you have somebody who walks into a store and
964
00:50:15.039 --> 00:50:17.139
counts up the price of everything that they have in
965
00:50:17.179 --> 00:50:19.719
their arms and they say, well, it's less than $ 9.
966
00:50:19.440 --> 00:50:19.579
50.
967
00:50:19.579 --> 00:50:22.239
I'm just going to walk out of this store, head
968
00:50:22.360 --> 00:50:26.630
held high, and basically declare to the security guard and
969
00:50:26.650 --> 00:50:29.730
to the store clerk that, hey, I'm allowed to take
970
00:50:29.789 --> 00:50:31.550
this stuff because it's less than $ 950. It's not a crime.
971
00:50:33.460 --> 00:50:37.429
That is shocking. That is a culture of lawlessness. These
972
00:50:37.489 --> 00:50:40.389
people have the audacity. They feel that they have the
973
00:50:40.469 --> 00:50:42.650
free will or the elbow room or whatever you want
974
00:50:42.670 --> 00:50:45.690
to call it to commit crimes in plain sight while
975
00:50:45.710 --> 00:50:48.349
being observed not only with the naked eye but also surveillance,
976
00:50:48.510 --> 00:50:50.800
and they don't give a damn. They're arrogant, and they
977
00:50:50.880 --> 00:50:53.360
literally believe that they're entitled to commit these crimes or
978
00:50:53.400 --> 00:50:57.320
take these belongings or engage in cruelty to animals or
979
00:50:57.360 --> 00:51:00.000
to children. We are in a terrible state right now
980
00:51:00.039 --> 00:51:02.300
in California, and I'm really, really hoping and praying that
981
00:51:02.360 --> 00:51:05.820
everyday Californians wake up to these realities and that they
982
00:51:05.860 --> 00:51:07.139
vote differently here in November.
983
00:51:07.599 --> 00:51:09.360
Well, just to hear you say it out loud gives
984
00:51:09.420 --> 00:51:12.980
me hope, Michael, because it's discouraging when the news doesn't
985
00:51:13.019 --> 00:51:16.739
even cover how stupid our culture has become.
986
00:51:16.840 --> 00:51:19.239
And like you said, the laws are there. They're not
987
00:51:19.280 --> 00:51:19.820
being enforced.
988
00:51:19.840 --> 00:51:22.710
That's why these executive positions like the Attorney General's office,
989
00:51:22.750 --> 00:51:25.349
which Michael Gates is who I'm speaking to on the
990
00:51:25.369 --> 00:51:28.369
Republican view. He is running for the Attorney General of
991
00:51:28.409 --> 00:51:30.449
the state of California. He's worked in the U.S. Department
992
00:51:30.469 --> 00:51:33.889
of Justice for Donald Trump. And he has I've been
993
00:51:33.929 --> 00:51:36.070
the city attorney in a very strong city in Orange
994
00:51:36.110 --> 00:51:37.420
County called Huntington Beach.
995
00:51:37.659 --> 00:51:40.199
I'm sure you've heard of Huntington Beach, but maybe not understood.
996
00:51:40.280 --> 00:51:43.579
How important that is to the California that I knew
997
00:51:43.639 --> 00:51:46.179
and loved growing up. I mean, it is a strong
998
00:51:46.280 --> 00:51:49.590
city holding out for the California that has zoning laws,
999
00:51:49.969 --> 00:51:52.289
the California that believes in law and order and doesn't
1000
00:51:52.309 --> 00:51:54.789
allow people to camp on the city streets and in
1001
00:51:54.829 --> 00:51:59.510
the parks, your children's playgrounds. So we can recover that.
1002
00:51:59.820 --> 00:52:01.440
But we have to, first of all, be able to
1003
00:52:01.500 --> 00:52:03.650
talk about it. And second, get the word out. So
1004
00:52:03.670 --> 00:52:05.349
I'm really glad to have you on the show today.
1005
00:52:05.989 --> 00:52:08.650
And maybe we'll have another minute or two to talk
1006
00:52:08.710 --> 00:52:10.789
more down the road in the next week or two.
1007
00:52:10.829 --> 00:52:13.949
Ballots should be hitting people's mailboxes this weekend or Monday.
1008
00:52:14.489 --> 00:52:16.570
So good time, folks, to remember there's a lot of
1009
00:52:16.610 --> 00:52:19.920
reasons to vote besides the governor's race, besides any particular proposition.
1010
00:52:20.239 --> 00:52:20.829
Although, what is it?
1011
00:52:20.860 --> 00:52:24.420
Prop 39? That's the one that will require voter ID.
1012
00:52:24.440 --> 00:52:27.000
We ask you to vote for that one. And there's
1013
00:52:27.019 --> 00:52:28.780
a wealth tax on there. Gosh, we could get into
1014
00:52:28.840 --> 00:52:31.849
the language in the wealth tax. I it's just petrifying
1015
00:52:31.869 --> 00:52:33.829
to me that people may pass a wealth tax to
1016
00:52:33.869 --> 00:52:37.150
get billionaires and then put themselves in this crazy position.
1017
00:52:37.210 --> 00:52:38.969
But anything else you want to share with us before
1018
00:52:38.989 --> 00:52:39.190
we go?
1019
00:52:39.849 --> 00:52:42.269
No, it's important for everybody to get out and vote.
1020
00:52:42.409 --> 00:52:44.590
If you're frustrated, don't sit it out. You got to
1021
00:52:44.610 --> 00:52:46.489
go out and just vote harder than you used to.
1022
00:52:47.190 --> 00:52:48.809
And that's what I've been telling people. If you sit
1023
00:52:48.829 --> 00:52:51.239
it out, then you're basically doing the bidding of the
1024
00:52:51.280 --> 00:52:52.909
bad guys. You can make it too big to rig.
1025
00:52:52.949 --> 00:52:55.599
You can take out your frustrations on our election system,
1026
00:52:55.840 --> 00:52:59.340
on voter fraud, on the fires in LA, on the corruption,
1027
00:52:59.420 --> 00:53:01.309
on the crime. Take your frustration out of the polls.
1028
00:53:01.349 --> 00:53:03.909
Do not sit home. If you sit home, you're doing
1029
00:53:03.929 --> 00:53:06.030
what they want you to do. They want to discourage you.
1030
00:53:06.050 --> 00:53:08.230
You have to make it too big to rig. And
1031
00:53:08.250 --> 00:53:11.389
I will tell you also this, Jeff, that this is,
1032
00:53:11.809 --> 00:53:14.269
while I am a Republican, I am running on everyday
1033
00:53:14.349 --> 00:53:17.880
California issues. I'm running on the 80-20 issues. My audience
1034
00:53:18.019 --> 00:53:20.880
are Democrats, they're independents, they're Republicans, and they love what
1035
00:53:20.900 --> 00:53:24.010
I'm talking about because I'm just talking about making California
1036
00:53:24.050 --> 00:53:26.969
safe again and return California, excuse me, to a law
1037
00:53:27.010 --> 00:53:30.800
and order state. This isn't particularly partisan. I don't expect
1038
00:53:30.860 --> 00:53:34.739
only Republicans to turn out for me. I expect independents, NPPs,
1039
00:53:34.780 --> 00:53:38.360
and even Democrats. My target audience right now, I'm really
1040
00:53:38.400 --> 00:53:41.840
focused on messaging because they don't often hear from candidates
1041
00:53:41.860 --> 00:53:44.840
like myself. I'm targeting the NPPs, the no party preference,
1042
00:53:45.219 --> 00:53:48.679
the independents, and also the Latino community because as I
1043
00:53:48.719 --> 00:53:51.460
have said, the Latinos are in particular, 40% of the
1044
00:53:51.480 --> 00:53:55.840
vote in California They can rescue California. There's enough Latino
1045
00:53:55.880 --> 00:53:57.980
voters out there that if they learn about candidates like
1046
00:53:58.019 --> 00:54:00.019
myself and they realize how fed up they are with
1047
00:54:00.059 --> 00:54:03.920
their high crime and high taxes and the corruption and
1048
00:54:03.960 --> 00:54:05.519
the fact that their little girls are being forced to
1049
00:54:05.559 --> 00:54:08.699
play with little boys in sports, things like that, things
1050
00:54:08.719 --> 00:54:11.250
that matter to them, they have an alternative in me
1051
00:54:11.309 --> 00:54:13.010
and they will have a fighter in me. So I'm
1052
00:54:13.090 --> 00:54:15.429
counting on the Latinos to turn out to vote for
1053
00:54:15.469 --> 00:54:18.170
me as well. So whether you're a Democrat Latino or
1054
00:54:18.230 --> 00:54:21.300
an independent Latino, whoever, I want your vote. I need
1055
00:54:21.340 --> 00:54:24.440
your vote. We can change California. And the numbers are there.
1056
00:54:24.500 --> 00:54:26.599
If we do this together, we can rescue California.
1057
00:54:27.119 --> 00:54:31.039
So help people get to your website specifically. What's your website?
1058
00:54:31.679 --> 00:54:40.440
Gates4AG. com. That's Gates4AG. com. G-A-T-E-S, the number four, A-G.com. And you
1059
00:54:40.460 --> 00:54:42.719
can check me out there. You can make a donation.
1060
00:54:42.760 --> 00:54:44.539
You can sign up to volunteer. There's a lot of
1061
00:54:44.559 --> 00:54:47.150
great ways you can help support the campaign. But I
1062
00:54:47.170 --> 00:54:49.110
just want everybody in the audience to know you have
1063
00:54:49.150 --> 00:54:52.369
got to get activated this November. If you are not activated,
1064
00:54:52.449 --> 00:54:55.820
if you are not voting or encouraging others to vote, frankly,
1065
00:54:55.860 --> 00:54:57.320
I'm just going to be honest with you. You're part
1066
00:54:57.340 --> 00:54:59.980
of the problem. In California, the only way to solve
1067
00:55:00.420 --> 00:55:03.579
this one party rule and this group think is for
1068
00:55:03.659 --> 00:55:05.920
those of us who love law and order, who want
1069
00:55:06.000 --> 00:55:08.219
safe communities, who want to protect our kids to get
1070
00:55:08.340 --> 00:55:10.550
out and vote and get our friends and neighbors to vote.
1071
00:55:11.250 --> 00:55:14.230
Well said, Michael Gates for Attorney General of the great
1072
00:55:14.429 --> 00:55:15.630
state of California.
1073
00:55:16.340 --> 00:55:17.920
It's going to happen. We are going to turn the
1074
00:55:17.940 --> 00:55:19.719
state around, Michael. So keep fighting.
1075
00:55:20.539 --> 00:55:22.679
We are out of time at the Republican View. Thanks
1076
00:55:22.699 --> 00:55:25.639
for listening. We'll be back next Saturday at nine. You
1077
00:55:25.679 --> 00:55:28.039
should get your ballot in the mail this week. If
1078
00:55:28.059 --> 00:55:30.400
you don't have it by next Saturday, we want you
1079
00:55:30.420 --> 00:55:33.360
to call the elections office. In the meantime, you can
1080
00:55:33.400 --> 00:55:36.239
go to MontereyRepublicans.org to see our voter guide. If you
1081
00:55:36.280 --> 00:55:38.280
have questions about your ballot or give our office a call, 831-324-0617.
1082
00:55:43.050 --> 00:55:45.789
And until next week, may God bless you and God
1083
00:55:45.829 --> 00:55:47.639
bless the United States of America.