Full Transcript for Aric Nesbitt The Next Governor of Michigan?

that's that's really why I'm running for governor is that uh I believe in the individual. 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:03.280 I don't, you know, instead of the state, families, instead of government. 00:02:03.439 --> 00:02:08.240 And right now in Michigan, we're bottom 10, bottom 10 in education, 44th in reading. 00:02:08.319 --> 00:02:13.439 Three out of five fourth graders can't read at grade level, second slowest growth state in the in the nation. 00:02:13.599 --> 00:02:19.120 The average family in Michigan makes$9,000 less than the average family does nationally. 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:22.960 And that really wheezes families here in the state of Michigan. 00:02:23.039 --> 00:02:28.400 As I go around the state, I remember talking to uh a guy up in Gladwin, moved from Tennessee to Michigan. 00:02:28.479 --> 00:02:36.319 You don't meet too many of these folks that actually move from Tennessee to Michigan because Tennessee is a no-income tax state, right to work state, no statewide property taxes. 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:41.039 And he says he adds up his bills locally at energy and insurance and taxes. 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:47.439 And he figures he spends$5,000 more per year for the privilege of living in Michigan than in Tennessee. 00:02:47.520 --> 00:02:50.639 And I don't know about you, but as a farm boy,$5,000 is a lot of money. 00:02:50.800 --> 00:03:02.240 And so I run it for governor to eliminate the state property tax, peel the Green New Scam to lower the cost of energy, peel no fault to lower the cost of insurance, and increase incomes. 00:03:02.319 --> 00:03:04.400 And that's how you make sure everybody can make it in Michigan. 00:03:04.639 --> 00:03:04.719 Yeah. 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:07.840 $5,000, woof, man, that would pay a lot of bills these days. 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:08.800 And people need that. 00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:13.599 Uh, you know, it was seven or eight years ago, but still uh it definitely would help a lot of folks. 00:03:13.919 --> 00:03:14.479 Close enough. 00:03:14.639 --> 00:03:20.560 What what is the one hard truth that no one's willing to say out loud about what's going on in Michigan right now? 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:24.639 Well, I think it's it really comes down to education. 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:31.759 I mean, I, you know, instead of teaching the 26 letters of the alphabet, we're seeing these schools teaching 26 pronouns. 00:03:31.919 --> 00:03:48.319 And I I was just in Wayne County recently and talking to a parent actually over in the Gross Points, and they had a six year sixth grader, a 12-year-old, that uh refused to use a they-them pronoun in in class instead use the he him pronoun. 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:50.960 And the teacher sent him down to the principal's office. 00:03:51.039 --> 00:03:58.879 And God bless this kid when he gets uh got down to the principal's office and goes, I thought with President Trump and office that we didn't have to do this nonsense anymore. 00:03:59.039 --> 00:04:00.240 Is the next

governor in Michigan? 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:01.520 I'm gonna have that kid's back. 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:12.319 And we need to have that kid's back to make sure that every kid's able to read by fourth grade, to make sure that uh parents have a choice of where they send their kids to school. 00:04:12.479 --> 00:04:20.800 And also, I think the last 25 years, we've told a half a generational lie where uh the trades weren't an option, the college was the only option. 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:24.560 And I look at somebody like my brother, my oldest brother, 35 years ago. 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:27.360 He was one of those C average students, but boy, he was street smart. 00:04:27.439 --> 00:04:34.160 He could tear apart a transmission, rebuild it on a weekend, put it all back together uh without a bucket of bolts left over. 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:35.279 That was always my challenge. 00:04:35.360 --> 00:04:37.279 I usually have a bucket of bolts left over. 00:04:37.439 --> 00:04:43.759 But if you would have, you know, he spent his junior year doing diesel mechanics at the uh local vocational center. 00:04:43.839 --> 00:04:50.800 He spent his senior year at a farm implement dealership, and he had a job on day one without a day of college and without any college loans. 00:04:50.879 --> 00:05:01.920 And if you would have forced him to take two years of a foreign language just to get a D or algebra two just to get a D, that would have discouraged him, done not done anything for the economy, not done anything for the society. 00:05:02.079 --> 00:05:07.279 Instead, we had a program allowing him to find what his spark was, his best interest. 00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:16.240 I was talking to uh kid the other day, and I say kid because I remember when I was 22, I hate being called a kid, but uh talking to a 22-year-old, right? 00:05:16.639 --> 00:05:21.680 And he didn't know there was really other options besides just going straight to college. 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:22.160 Right. 00:05:22.319 --> 00:05:41.360 And he did five semesters, dropped out, had$35,000 of debt, went back, did some training as a med tech, graduated, graduated for a few-month program with being a med tech, is doing fine if it wasn't for that$35,000 of college debt that he has to pay off. 00:05:41.519 --> 00:05:52.959 And that's the challenge that we have right now is making sure that every kid is ready, ready to learn, making sure we find what each kid's spark is and building up that instructional support. 00:05:53.040 --> 00:06:01.519 And as I look at it, if if states like Mississippi, that's 49th in income, that's a lot poorer than even Michigan is, is able to do it. 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:08.319 Michigan is a top 20 spending state in education, shouldn't be 44th, we should be a top 10 uh state. 00:06:08.399 --> 00:06:22.160 And it's and it's about making sure that our kids are prepared because we know if they're not reading that fourth grade level by then, that they have a nearly 70% chance

of doing one of two things in life being on social welfare at some point or being in jail at some point. 00:06:22.319 --> 00:06:26.240 Boy, that paints a very dark and grim picture for the future of Michigan. 00:06:26.480 --> 00:06:27.279 Yes, it does. 00:06:27.439 --> 00:06:38.560 You know, and talking about that, you know, what's one specific policy from Lansing that is seems to be that's glaringly obvious, that's making life more expensive for Michiganders. 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:41.439 Well, overall, it's the state property tax. 00:06:41.519 --> 00:06:42.959 We need to repeal the state properties. 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:43.920 Yes, I agree. 00:06:44.160 --> 00:06:48.720 I've been to all 83 counties in the state of Michigan, only Governor Canada that's hit all 83 counties. 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:56.639 I did I started early and did that on purpose to listen to folks from Melvindale to Marquette to Muskegon to uh Port Huron. 00:06:56.800 --> 00:07:05.360 And and listening to those stories is that I hear is that it's just tough to make it in Michigan and the and the property taxes, we got to repeal the state property tax. 00:07:05.519 --> 00:07:18.800 The one thing I'm gonna pledge to folks that I'm gonna do, I'm gonna repeal the state property tax, repeal the personal property tax, to lower the cost for small businesses, and force the utilities to roll back their rates by a billion dollars. 00:07:18.959 --> 00:07:24.240 And that's how you make sure our families can finally start making in Michigan by lowering the cost of living. 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:25.199 And that's perfect. 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:26.160 My gosh. 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:31.360 Housing, you know, utilities, and then the dreaded thing in Michigan, car insurance. 00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:36.399 You know, every governor has promised or tried to fix car insurance. 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:42.480 You know, what can you do to, you know, like or just some principles, you know, to kind of help us get in that direction? 00:07:42.639 --> 00:07:44.720 I I, you know, I know everybody tried, right? 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:47.040 I don't think there's a lack of effort from wanting, right? 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:49.279 It's just I think a lot of people want to see where is that going? 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:56.079 No, there is because there's some groups and some special interest groups that actually make a lot of money off the current system. 00:07:56.319 --> 00:08:04.560 Trial lawyers, our healthcare system, some of these folks, instead of making sure that our drivers and seniors and families are first and foremost. 00:08:04.639 --> 00:08:11.519 And so I would say you repeal no fault and copy and paste either Ohio or Wisconsin's auto insurance laws. 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:16.240 I mean, heck, I was talking to a couple that uh moved from Illinois to Michigan. 00:08:16.319 --> 00:08:21.279 And Illinois is the most expensive state to live in in the Midwest. 00:08:21.439 --> 00:08:26.480 But they moved here and they said they're paying three times as much for their auto insurance than they were in Illinois. 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:41.840 And so you don't have to go too far for examples, is that you have to start off by eliminating no fault, provide that competition, hold the insurance companies accountable, root out the waste, fraud, and abuse in the system, and make sure that folks are able to pay their fair price. 00:08:41.919 --> 00:08:45.440 I've talked to too many people that can't afford insurance. 00:08:45.519 --> 00:08:48.960 And so they go without, and you see that too much of the time here in Michigan. 00:08:49.279 --> 00:08:56.960 Yeah, uh, my family, we ended switching a couple about a year or two ago because they had great rates, and then all of a sudden got a bill one day and it doubled. 00:08:57.039 --> 00:08:59.600 And I'm like, I don't I don't have anything that went on my record. 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:01.039 Why is I got good credit? 00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:02.000 Why is this doubling? 00:09:02.399 --> 00:09:03.600 It was just so puzzling. 00:09:03.759 --> 00:09:09.279 And when we called an insurance company, they were like, Well, if you go to somebody else, you'll probably get a better rate. 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:10.720 We can't give you a better rate though. 00:09:10.879 --> 00:09:13.200 But if you come back in a year or two, we can give you a better rate. 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:14.240 And I'm like, what? 00:09:14.399 --> 00:09:21.039 And and unfortunately, reform seven years ago, Whitmer refused to go far enough to actually repeal no fault and the lore of rates. 00:09:21.279 --> 00:09:24.720 And we know that Jocelyn Benson is actually going to do the opposite. 00:09:24.879 --> 00:09:30.559 It's gonna she's in bed with the trial lawyers, it's gonna mean higher insurance rates for Michigan families. 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:38.000 And and I was up in Menominee a little bit ago, you know, southern tip of the upper peninsula, right on the Wisconsin border. 00:09:38.159 --> 00:09:41.039 And I was going through these neighborhoods and I was talking to a local guy. 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:43.120 You know, why are there so many Wisconsin plates here? 00:09:43.200 --> 00:09:45.360 I know we're next door, but is that many people visit? 00:09:45.519 --> 00:09:54.000 He goes, No, a lot of people lie about their addresses and uh register their cars in in what in Wisconsin because the rates are so much cheaper. 00:09:54.159 --> 00:10:01.600 It's only a matter of time where these people and businesses actually move across the border to the other state, and that's lost opportunities for Michigan. 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:11.360 And so that's something that we need to take care of is lowering the cost of insurance, lowering the cost of energy by repealing the green, the green new scam that the Democrats passed a few years of property tax. 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:12.720 No, and I mean that's key. 00:10:12.799 --> 00:10:16.879 I mean, the

property tax will insanely fix a lot of people's lives. 00:10:17.039 --> 00:10:22.399 And I don't even think a lot of people who rent realize how much that that will help offset future increases on them. 00:10:22.720 --> 00:10:24.639 Hundreds of dollars a month for folks that rent. 00:10:24.879 --> 00:10:25.120 Yes. 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:32.000 Yeah, and that you know, that is something that I have I have looked into, you know, because I own my own house, thankfully, outright. 00:10:32.080 --> 00:10:34.240 And, you know, not a lot of people would be unlucky. 00:10:34.799 --> 00:10:36.960 This is the point, you can't rent the American dream. 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:38.720 You should be able to own the American dream. 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:45.120 And when the Democrats and when Jocelyn Benson and when Gretchen Whitmer talk about housing, what they talk about is more government subsidies. 00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:50.000 So they're gonna take more money out of your wallet, make owning a house less affordable. 00:10:50.080 --> 00:11:02.799 I mean, hell, two years ago, Governor Whitmer had a proposal for housing that would increase the real estate transfer tax, which would increase the amount of people would pay to buy a house and then put it into an affordable housing fund. 00:11:02.960 --> 00:11:06.879 That's the opposite of what you need to do to make housing more affordable. 00:11:07.039 --> 00:11:11.200 And as I look at the key elements is one, no free housing for illegal immigrants. 00:11:11.279 --> 00:11:15.279 I'm gonna join with President Trump to deport every criminal illegal from the state of Michigan. 00:11:15.440 --> 00:11:25.679 You got to get back to the trade so you have folks that can actually do construction and heating and air conditioning, plumbing, electrical work so so so that uh you actually can find folks to build. 00:11:25.759 --> 00:11:30.159 You gotta scrap the bureaucracy and unnecessary rules and regulations. 00:11:30.240 --> 00:11:43.679 You go up to the Home Builders Association Association of Michigan did a study, and they figured between federal, state, and local rules that the average new home costs$95,000 more because of government mandates. 00:11:43.840 --> 00:11:47.360 I don't know about you, but as a foreign boy,$9,000 is a lot of money. 00:11:47.519 --> 00:12:02.240 And so, as the next governor of Michigan, I'm gonna take a flamethrower to the bureaucracy and red tape coming out and lancing and make sure people actually get real relief so they can afford their house, afford housing, and actually own a piece of the American dream instead of just running. 00:12:02.480 --> 00:12:04.480 Yeah, no, I mean that makes a whole lot of sense. 00:12:04.559 --> 00:12:09.279 And geez, I didn't realize it was that much uh on top of just from the red tape on top of the price of a house. 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:09.840 Good lord. 00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:10.960 Yeah, it's insane. 00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:16.399 I was I was talking to a developer in Livingston County recently, and and he goes, uh, that seems awfully high. 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:19.440 Like, well, go back, do your paper, see what it looks like. 00:12:19.600 --> 00:12:23.279 And a few weeks later he came back, I come up to$91,000. 00:12:23.600 --> 00:12:25.120 I'm like, well, that's pretty damn close. 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:25.600 Right. 00:12:25.759 --> 00:12:27.519 I mean, that's that's good math railtime. 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:33.360 I think a lot of people are their jaws are gonna hit the floor as soon as they hear that number, and they might need a truck to pick them up. 00:12:33.919 --> 00:12:43.759 When I talk to somebody in northern Macomb County and in a new house uh is ranch style, 1600 square feet, three bed, two bath is running 400 grand. 00:12:44.080 --> 00:12:48.159 I mean, that that's out of reach for way too many working families. 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:55.360 And when the average family in Michigan makes$9,000 less than the average family does nationally, we have a problem, Michigan. 00:12:55.519 --> 00:12:56.799 We have a problem here in Michigan. 00:12:56.879 --> 00:13:06.879 We got to shake up the status quo, take it, you gotta take a blowtorch the bureaucracy in Lancy, and we got to start building again, start investing again, allowing free people to actually build it again. 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:08.080 Yeah, and that's key. 00:13:08.240 --> 00:13:10.080 You know, in and thinking of that, right? 00:13:10.159 --> 00:13:12.320 And we we talk about building the future. 00:13:12.559 --> 00:13:24.480 Why are so many young, talented people leaving the state when you have things like what Ford has done, you know, with the train depot that I don't think anybody ever expected to get, you know, refurbished and then somehow it happened. 00:13:24.720 --> 00:13:26.559 Yeah, it starts with opportunity. 00:13:26.639 --> 00:13:39.519 And one, the bleak picture we saw with education when three out of five fourth graders can't read a grade level, paints a very grim picture for the future of the state when we know set you know 70% will either end up on social welfare or in jail at some point. 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:44.159 I want to paint a very different picture, one where everybody can actually make it here in Michigan. 00:13:44.320 --> 00:13:46.879 And that starts with actually job creators. 00:13:47.039 --> 00:13:50.639 One, making sure that we can allow folks to invest and grow here in the state. 00:13:50.720 --> 00:14:07.039 And whether it's a manufacturer in Holland that is trying to replace their docks, they build boats and they're five years in,$2 million of engineering and legal costs, and they still don't have a permit from Whitmer's bureaucracy to build their docks. 00:14:07.440 --> 00:14:08.240 We have a problem. 00:14:08.399 --> 00:14:14.639 I mean, this is 700 employees that work, 700 people that work at this factory, fourth generation family business. 00:14:14.799 --> 00:14:19.120 We know that

North Carolina and Georgia will be doing backflips to get a company like this. 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:26.559 Or whether it's a restaurant owner in Adrian when I was doing my tractor town hall tour uh through the southern part of the state. 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:31.519 And and down there, the restaurant owner I was talking to says, I'm done. 00:14:31.600 --> 00:14:32.399 This is my last day. 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:33.840 I can't make it in Michigan anymore. 00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:41.440 I survived COVID, but the last few years with the new mandates and labor laws and taxes and property taxes, I just can't make it. 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:42.960 12 people are gonna lose their jobs. 00:14:43.039 --> 00:14:44.960 I'm moving back back to Ohio. 00:14:45.039 --> 00:14:46.559 Uh, and and and it's done. 00:14:46.639 --> 00:14:50.000 And you never hear about those reports on the front page of the paper. 00:14:50.159 --> 00:14:52.639 I'm gonna have her back as the next governor. 00:14:52.799 --> 00:15:04.000 I'm gonna make sure we repeal the state property tax and take a flamethrower to the bureaucracy and the red tape out of Lansing to make sure that job creators and our families can actually make it here in Michigan again. 00:15:04.159 --> 00:15:05.039 Yeah, and that's key. 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:08.879 You know, reading and math scores, they matter a lot. 00:15:09.039 --> 00:15:11.200 We were talking about Mississippi a little bit ago. 00:15:11.440 --> 00:15:16.799 What are like some of the like the key things that you know we can do in the state to really turn those around? 00:15:16.879 --> 00:15:24.080 And I think is not just as much as policy, I think it's that confidence that people are missing that really is a roadblock as well. 00:15:24.320 --> 00:15:27.360 And so, so it really starts with a few things. 00:15:27.519 --> 00:15:35.039 One is the last few years, what you've seen out of the Democrats and Lansing and Governor Wimmer is they repealed a third-grade reading law. 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:42.159 They repealed, she vetoed scholarships for fourth graders that are behind in reading from COVID shutdowns. 00:15:42.320 --> 00:15:43.519 And they shut down our schools. 00:15:43.679 --> 00:15:48.240 I mean, the average students in Michigan's three-quarters of grade level because of the COVID lockdowns. 00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:53.440 And so what I'm gonna do is governor is follow a model that actually works in other states. 00:15:53.600 --> 00:16:02.480 That model means that you have science-based phonics, you know, science-based phonics reading to make sure that it works. 00:16:02.720 --> 00:16:08.879 You got to build up that support with literacy coaches for our teachers, teaching that phonics-based science of reading. 00:16:09.039 --> 00:16:13.600 And then in third grade, if they're still behind, you do intensive tutoring. 00:16:13.840 --> 00:16:20.159 You provide some opportunities for those kids to really catch up on their reading scores. 00:16:20.320 --> 00:16:27.679 And then if they're not there, the final bit is that you just don't promote them to the fourth grade until they're able to read at that grade level. 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:32.960 And what we found is it works in other states, is that what we found is that it builds up success. 00:16:33.200 --> 00:16:42.720 And long term, it's going to make a world of difference for those kids to find that spark of what they're they want to do and how to make it actually in Michigan again. 00:16:42.879 --> 00:16:43.519 And that's key. 00:16:43.600 --> 00:16:45.200 I mean, those are very key things. 00:16:45.279 --> 00:16:52.799 And that really plays into, you know, we were talking about skilled trades earlier, you know, and with EVs coming down the pipeline and those jobs. 00:16:52.879 --> 00:16:56.159 Like, how do we look at that just from like your perspective? 00:16:56.240 --> 00:16:57.679 Because that's skilled trades are important. 00:16:57.759 --> 00:17:03.039 You know, we were talking about everybody being forced to go to college, you know, or being told that that's what they have to do, I shouldn't say. 00:17:03.440 --> 00:17:07.039 I mean, yeah, Mike Rowe said it pretty well last year in Dearborn. 00:17:07.279 --> 00:17:10.559 He he was speaking at the uh Mackkin Center's uh annual event. 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:17.440 And Mike Rowe put it bluntly, he goes, for every five people retiring from the trades right now, there's only two people replacing them. 00:17:17.599 --> 00:17:29.519 And if you're gonna rebuild our infrastructure, our manufacturing base and our economy, you got to get back to basics so that folks, these skilled tradespeople, can actually build things in Michigan again. 00:17:29.680 --> 00:17:56.880 And it starts with, and it starts with with high school by by making sure that everybody has their basics in reading, writing, arithmetic, but then all offering those options in 11th and 12th grade for folks to they want to go on and cut hair or do photography or become a welder, become a pipe fitter, go into construction, allow that to happen, allow allow 11th and 12th graders to actually work with their hands again and get involved and go out and explore. 00:17:57.039 --> 00:18:05.119 And so I think there's just a little different concept over the last uh 25 years where we've gotten away from actually people working with their hands. 00:18:05.200 --> 00:18:09.519 And these are jobs that can't be replaced with AI, jobs that can't be exported. 00:18:09.680 --> 00:18:17.599 And if we're going to be serious about making us energy abundant, we gotta have folks, you know, we gotta have folks that are willing to work with their hands. 00:18:17.920 --> 00:18:18.480 That's key. 00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:23.279 You know, and speaking of folks that work with their hands, public safety are police officers. 00:18:23.440 --> 00:18:30.960 You know, there's a huge distrust of authority across America right now, especially with the

police considering, you know, the public sentiment. 00:18:31.200 --> 00:18:43.039 How do we get back to that where it's the law enforcement can do their jobs in rural and in you know urban areas without this just this natural that has seemed to develop, this natural clash. 00:18:43.279 --> 00:18:52.160 Yeah, the the last eight years under Governor Whitman, the Democrats and Lansing, law enforcement's been kicked around, spit on, and really disrespected. 00:18:52.240 --> 00:18:54.640 And they were there as a masked police during COVID. 00:18:54.799 --> 00:19:05.839 And then you have these left-wing lunatics saying, hey, you know, what we need to do is uh is cashless bond, you know, no cash bonds for uh violent felons. 00:19:05.920 --> 00:19:07.440 I mean, that's ridiculous. 00:19:07.519 --> 00:19:12.880 Uh that we have to get back in and really say, law enforcement, we have your back. 00:19:12.960 --> 00:19:17.279 There's a place for social welfare workers, there's a place for law enforcement officials. 00:19:17.359 --> 00:19:21.759 And if I, as I travel the state, I've toured probably two and a half dozen jails around the state. 00:19:21.920 --> 00:19:31.519 And unfortunately, in too many of our counties, and I'd say just about every county, that the largest mental health institution in each of these counties is the county jail. 00:19:31.680 --> 00:19:32.720 That needs to end. 00:19:32.880 --> 00:19:38.000 Some people need to have long-term institutionalized mental health help. 00:19:38.319 --> 00:19:42.079 We got to bring back our some mental health hospitals to make sure people have their work. 00:19:42.160 --> 00:19:46.880 I remember I was talking to the sheriff up in Benz and kind of the pinky of the state. 00:19:46.960 --> 00:19:52.799 And he goes, you know, we drop off somebody, you know, at the hospital in Traver City and they beat us back home. 00:19:52.960 --> 00:19:56.960 And if we want a long-term bed, I have to have two troopers drive all the way down to Indianapolis. 00:19:57.119 --> 00:19:59.759 Seven hours down there, seven hours back, two-hour trip. 00:19:59.839 --> 00:20:01.039 There isn't as options here. 00:20:01.119 --> 00:20:03.200 As the next governor, I'm gonna make sure those options are there. 00:20:03.359 --> 00:20:09.359 There's a reason why I've had 20-some sheriffs endorse me is because they know I'm gonna have their back in law enforcement. 00:20:09.519 --> 00:20:17.200 And unfortunately, within Michigan, we still have two of the 10 most um dangerous cities in America, digging on in Detroit. 00:20:17.359 --> 00:20:18.960 That's gonna end as the next governor. 00:20:19.039 --> 00:20:34.000 I'm gonna join with President Trump to ban sanctuary cities, to make sure local law enforcement's working with state law enforcement's working with federal law enforcement, and make sure I have their their back and make sure prosecutors have the resources they need to be able to convict these criminals and put them away in jail. 00:20:34.240 --> 00:20:37.920 Yeah, I really like that you said the mental health. 00:20:38.079 --> 00:20:42.480 You know, there's a lot of, you know, we talk about public safety with the school shootings, this, that. 00:20:42.559 --> 00:20:44.400 There seems to always be one thing. 00:20:44.640 --> 00:20:48.160 The person had mental health problems long before that point. 00:20:48.319 --> 00:20:56.720 And it to me, it just reflected, I mean, the way you said that spot on to me is at a lot of the core of a lot of the issues that we have going on in terms of crime. 00:20:56.799 --> 00:21:02.799 There's a lot of people who, in the right situation, probably wouldn't be like that, you know, if they had the correct help. 00:21:02.960 --> 00:21:08.960 And unfortunately, over the years, the left believe, you know, a lot on the left believe there's not evil in this world. 00:21:09.119 --> 00:21:17.279 And I'm sorry with what I've seen on uh, you know, uh, you know, working with police and and prosecutors, there's real evil in this world. 00:21:17.359 --> 00:21:20.400 And sometimes people just need to be put away and have the key thrown away. 00:21:20.559 --> 00:21:20.799 Yes. 00:21:20.880 --> 00:21:25.599 No, most definitely you will never get an argument out of me, and I don't think out of any sane person on that one. 00:21:25.759 --> 00:21:28.720 I mean, there there is just some, there's some people that you could give them. 00:21:28.799 --> 00:21:34.160 I I use the analogy, you could give them a million dollars and they would be mad that you didn't give them a million one. 00:21:34.799 --> 00:21:37.119 You know, not happy that you gave them a million. 00:21:37.200 --> 00:21:39.359 They're mad, you know, and it's the same with crime. 00:21:39.440 --> 00:21:43.279 It's just some people just are the way they are, and we have to do our best to defend ourselves. 00:21:43.599 --> 00:21:45.359 Well, you see it with woke prosecutors. 00:21:45.440 --> 00:21:59.200 You saw that the Michigan State uh shooting where a woke prosecutor didn't follow through on some earlier uh um you know, crimes that happened and didn't do the full prosecution, and people are dead because of that. 00:21:59.440 --> 00:21:59.759 Yeah. 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:04.400 Young and that's that were never able to reach their potential are dead because of that. 00:22:04.559 --> 00:22:10.720 And that that those hands are on that prosecutor that that didn't do that work, that that uh didn't follow through. 00:22:10.880 --> 00:22:12.480 And that's a sh that's a shame. 00:22:12.559 --> 00:22:18.720 And then unfortunately, we have the Washana County prosecutor that refuses to prosecute some some crimes in Washington. 00:22:18.960 --> 00:22:22.160 He's running to be the state's attorney general, Eli Eli Savott. 00:22:22.319 --> 00:22:27.759 And this is the the point of the general election this fall in Michigan is that we're at a real turning point. 00:22:27.920 --> 00:22:36.160 And uh Republicans

have a real prosecutor of Eton County, Doug Lloyd running, ready to prosecute criminals and respect the rule of law. 00:22:36.319 --> 00:22:45.440 And the Democrats have a uh a woke prosecutor that believes in cashless bonds for violent felons and a revolving door policy that that's wrong. 00:22:45.519 --> 00:22:46.960 And it's on the ballot this fall. 00:22:47.039 --> 00:22:48.799 And this is the importance of this year's election. 00:22:49.039 --> 00:22:55.119 Yeah, people need to realize that midterms are just as important as presidential elections, if not more, really. 00:22:55.279 --> 00:22:59.279 And I w I wish that, you know, I had told you before I'm big on states' rights and state issues. 00:22:59.359 --> 00:23:05.440 And I, you know, I feel like the midterms are probably where a lot of things are, you know, the the devil's in the details, they always say, right? 00:23:05.599 --> 00:23:10.160 You know, and when thinking about that, you know, where I'm trying to think of the best way to put it. 00:23:10.400 --> 00:23:13.039 So what does public safety actually mean? 00:23:13.200 --> 00:23:14.880 Because you know, we were talking about this, right? 00:23:15.039 --> 00:23:19.680 Just as like a broader term, like putting that under an umbrella for people to kind of understand. 00:23:19.920 --> 00:23:23.200 Yeah, I mean, it it really starts with leadership at the top. 00:23:23.359 --> 00:23:34.799 And unfortunately here in Michigan, with what's been historically the premier state law enforcement agency in the nation, the Michigan State Police, is they've had corrupt, bad leadership for the last several years. 00:23:34.960 --> 00:23:39.759 It's more concerned with DEI in their in in the ranks than actual doing the job. 00:23:39.920 --> 00:23:49.599 Last year, the Michigan State Troopers Association did a poll of their of their frontline troopers, and 98.5% had no confidence with the leadership of the Michigan State Police. 00:23:49.759 --> 00:23:52.400 And the governor is able to fire him today, tomorrow. 00:23:52.480 --> 00:23:54.079 I've called on the governor to do that. 00:23:54.240 --> 00:23:55.119 She won't. 00:23:55.279 --> 00:23:59.359 And they're having real problems recruiting new state police officers. 00:23:59.519 --> 00:24:00.240 I mean, you know it. 00:24:00.400 --> 00:24:03.440 Historically, cops are the best recruiters for the profession. 00:24:03.599 --> 00:24:08.160 And unfortunately, you talk to a lot of them now in Michigan, is that they feel really disrespected. 00:24:08.319 --> 00:24:10.640 They feel spit on, the media's shit at them. 00:24:10.720 --> 00:24:14.400 And uh, and is as the next governor, I'm gonna lift them up, I'm gonna have their backs. 00:24:14.480 --> 00:24:14.960 And they know that. 00:24:15.200 --> 00:24:16.240 Right, and that's key. 00:24:16.400 --> 00:24:19.440 Uh, you know, you know, governing beyond gridlock, right? 00:24:19.519 --> 00:24:25.519 I I love the gridlock, and that's kind of talking about

that is if Democrats have a good idea. 00:24:25.680 --> 00:24:28.079 I know that's that's hard to think of sometimes. 00:24:28.319 --> 00:24:29.759 Will you work with them publicly? 00:24:29.839 --> 00:24:33.920 I because you know that's that's something that people in Michigan are always gonna want to ask. 00:24:34.160 --> 00:24:38.079 I mean, I'm gonna work with anybody that wants to truly lower costs for working families. 00:24:38.160 --> 00:24:40.160 That means eliminating the state property tax. 00:24:40.240 --> 00:24:45.359 That means repealing the green use scam to lower families' energy costs by$2,800 a year. 00:24:45.519 --> 00:24:54.319 That means repealing no fault to make sure that we have a competitive insurance market to lower the costs in half for people paying auto insurance. 00:24:54.480 --> 00:24:59.680 And I'm willing to work with anybody if it means to actually taking a flamethrower to the bureaucracy and red tape and Lansing. 00:25:00.079 --> 00:25:09.759 I mean, heck, if you could follow your pizza on a dominoes app, on whether it's in the oven or where it's at in the driveway, you should be able to follow where your permit is in the process on a basic app. 00:25:09.839 --> 00:25:13.920 And unfortunately, under the bureaucracy and red tape out of Lansing, it's just not working. 00:25:14.000 --> 00:25:16.960 Nobody's getting it, and we're having missed opportunities. 00:25:17.119 --> 00:25:18.559 And I'm willing to work with anybody. 00:25:18.640 --> 00:25:21.039 That means that every kid's able to read by third grade. 00:25:21.200 --> 00:25:24.000 Every parent's able to have choice of where they send their schools. 00:25:24.079 --> 00:25:34.480 And if it means that they're actually learning the ABCs instead of the woke nonsense we see, or it means protecting my daughter to make sure if she plays sports someday in high school, that she doesn't have to shower with another male. 00:25:34.640 --> 00:25:40.640 That's just some of the nonsense that 10 years ago, who thought it was even going to be a debate? 00:25:40.799 --> 00:25:48.559 And so this is a reminder that over the last several years, unfortunately, what we've seen from the left is continued violence, continued threats. 00:25:48.640 --> 00:25:53.920 I mean, just this last weekend, uh, there's another attempted assassination attempt on President Trump. 00:25:54.079 --> 00:26:03.680 Uh, you saw when Democrats brought in a podcaster or media influencer that uh, you know, Piker, that actually said America deserved 9-11. 00:26:03.759 --> 00:26:09.279 And this is somebody that uh somebody who could, I think, actually will win the Democratic nomination for the U.S. 00:26:09.440 --> 00:26:09.680 Senate. 00:26:09.839 --> 00:26:16.160 Hassan uh Abdul al-Saeed actually brought in the guy's name, Hassan Piker, to campaign with him. 00:26:16.319 --> 00:26:19.920 I mean, that there we people need to call balls and strikes right and wrong. 00:26:20.000 --> 00:26:29.359 And as the next

governor, I'm gonna work with anybody that's gonna lower costs, provide opportunities for working families and job creators, and make sure there's accountability and choice and education. 00:26:29.519 --> 00:26:35.839 But I'm also gonna oppose anybody that's gonna turn or not allow boys to be boys or girls to be girls as they're growing up. 00:26:36.000 --> 00:26:39.200 Right, no, and that's key, especially about Pike. 00:26:39.279 --> 00:26:40.319 I mean, that's just woof. 00:26:40.480 --> 00:26:47.200 That guy I had been reading, I I've read a little bit about it, but I haven't like gone too deep into detail, but I I've definitely gotten wind of some of it. 00:26:47.279 --> 00:26:57.359 And it's amazing to me how anybody, whether you're Republican or Democrat or really any Democrat, could have somebody sitting there, you know, and this isn't for me personally like attacking them. 00:26:57.440 --> 00:27:01.920 It's just going, you represent the American people, and this guy's saying they deserve something. 00:27:02.160 --> 00:27:07.839 How can anybody that is a politician or running for office honestly sit there and be like, I'm okay with that? 00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:16.960 The likely Democrat nominee for governor Jocelyn Benson, the current Secretary of State, worst Secretary of State ever, was on the board of the Southern Poverty Law Center. 00:27:17.119 --> 00:27:17.279 Yes. 00:27:17.519 --> 00:27:33.119 One where the Department of Justice just recently said they were financing racist groups such as the KKK, neo-Nazis, and fascists, groups that they said they were opposed to, but apparently they have financed to grow the hatred so that they have something to fight. 00:27:33.359 --> 00:27:34.799 This is ridiculous. 00:27:34.960 --> 00:27:48.319 And this is the kind of exposure that the new media, like what you're doing and podcasts and others, need to continue to uncover and bring to bring to light because unfortunately, the mainstream media continues to ignore what the Democrats do in their hypocrisy. 00:27:48.480 --> 00:27:49.680 I mean, can you imagine this? 00:27:49.839 --> 00:27:59.519 Can you imagine an environmental group pushing oil into a river and then do go doing a marketing campaign and saying, hey, we got to clean up this river? 00:27:59.680 --> 00:28:02.799 That's exactly what the Southern Poverty Law Center did with racist groups. 00:28:02.880 --> 00:28:04.160 It's wrong, it needs to end. 00:28:04.240 --> 00:28:08.160 And and and Jocelyn Benson needs to be held accountable because this happened when she was on the board. 00:28:08.400 --> 00:28:09.039 Yeah, no doubt. 00:28:09.119 --> 00:28:10.799 I I agree 1,000% on that. 00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:17.359 I I had done a story, I won't go too long into it, is on paid protesting with a company called Crowds on Demand. 00:28:17.519 --> 00:28:21.279 And I learned a lot about how a good chunk of some of that works. 00:28:21.440 --> 00:28:29.680 And then when I heard about this, I was like, oh man, everything that guy told me was it was like literally like a prophecy he had told me about, hey, this is how it kind of works. 00:28:29.759 --> 00:28:32.880 And then that came out and he pretty much called it. 00:28:32.960 --> 00:28:35.279 And I was very, very shocked, you know. 00:28:35.599 --> 00:28:38.400 And he he actually pushes for transparency. 00:28:38.640 --> 00:28:43.759 Things that any group that does something like that should have to publicly put on wherever it's at, who's giving them the money? 00:28:43.839 --> 00:28:44.079 Yeah. 00:28:44.240 --> 00:28:46.640 And I was like, I was like, okay. 00:28:46.880 --> 00:28:54.240 Uh, you know, a couple, you know, as we wind down here, just a couple um random quick questions, I guess you want to call it about Michigan. 00:28:54.400 --> 00:28:55.759 A little bit more lighthearted. 00:28:56.000 --> 00:28:57.920 Best underrated city in Michigan. 00:28:58.240 --> 00:29:00.880 Best underrated city in Michigan. 00:29:01.039 --> 00:29:06.240 What I love, so if you ever been to Houghton, it's just Houghton up in the upper peninsula. 00:29:06.319 --> 00:29:10.720 It's just the river around the lakes, going up to the Keweenaw, it's just it's just gorgeous. 00:29:10.880 --> 00:29:18.400 And and then going to the Cal Calumet City, it's it's just uh you could see how the old copper country really, really operated. 00:29:18.480 --> 00:29:22.319 And so I I really enjoy my time up there in the upper peninsula. 00:29:22.640 --> 00:29:24.880 I've uh I think I've been there once. 00:29:25.200 --> 00:29:27.359 Gosh, I don't know, I was probably eight or nine years old. 00:29:27.440 --> 00:29:28.960 I vaguely remember it. 00:29:29.200 --> 00:29:31.440 You know, spent a lot of time in the lower peninsula. 00:29:31.599 --> 00:29:38.559 What one key thing that's going to be on every Michigander's mind here, and I are the Lions going to make the Super Bowl soon? 00:29:38.720 --> 00:29:40.319 Can you make that happen for us? 00:29:40.559 --> 00:29:44.720 I can't change the weather, and I'm not a football coach, but I'll tell you one thing. 00:29:44.960 --> 00:29:54.720 The first hat that I got my now four-year-old, he was three years old last year, my son was a Lions hat, and I hope he hasn't uh doesn't go through life like I've had to have. 00:29:54.960 --> 00:29:57.200 So this is the year they're gonna do it. 00:29:57.359 --> 00:30:03.039 Let's win and not just make it to the Super Bowl, but actually bring home the, you know, uh bring home the rings. 00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:17.119 Yeah, I mean, Dan Campbell, I mean, literally, if there was ever a coach out there that was Michigan really in like an embodied person, he just matches the state and just the fact that, you know, I don't know if you know he used to play here in Detroit for several years. 00:30:17.359 --> 00:30:25.920 Yeah, no, he his attitude and his uh gumption to to never give up and really raise him up to that next level, God bless him,

and God bless it for staying. 00:30:26.079 --> 00:30:34.160 You know, so many coaches like that would have been picked up, but I I'm sure he's gotten a lot bigger offers, but uh he he seems committed to Detroit, and God bless him for that. 00:30:34.319 --> 00:30:36.400 Yeah, and here's one final question. 00:30:36.559 --> 00:30:38.559 What can Michigan do if they lead? 00:30:38.880 --> 00:30:40.559 Ah, I'm sorry I'll edit that. 00:30:40.720 --> 00:30:42.880 Michigan can lead again if they do what? 00:30:43.119 --> 00:30:44.640 They eliminate the state property tax. 00:30:44.799 --> 00:30:46.319 There we go, and that's what I love. 00:30:46.480 --> 00:30:49.920 You know, Senator, I really appreciate you giving us your time today. 00:30:50.160 --> 00:30:50.720 Well, thanks. 00:30:50.880 --> 00:30:51.920 Uh thanks for having me on. 00:30:52.079 --> 00:30:52.559 Thanks for taking. 00:30:52.720 --> 00:30:58.720 I'd like to just end real quick with something uh that America's celebrating 250 years as a country. 00:30:58.960 --> 00:30:59.839 Yes, we are. 00:31:00.079 --> 00:31:04.480 We're a young country with the oldest constitution in the world. 00:31:04.640 --> 00:31:05.680 And there's a reason for that. 00:31:05.759 --> 00:31:16.559 But as I travel around the state, this little white farm boy from southwest Michigan, uh, you know, President Trump showed there's a big coalition you need to grow around the state, very diverse state that we have. 00:31:16.640 --> 00:31:33.519 And I was sitting down with a group of Middle Eastern business owners in Wayne County, and one of them was about my age, came here when he was 12, immigrated here when he was 12, and and he and he grew his family's little two-car, you know, two-car garage shop into a multi-million dollar auto parts refurbishment business. 00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:34.640 He's very successful. 00:31:34.720 --> 00:31:37.279 And he and he goes, I couldn't have done this anywhere else in the world. 00:31:37.440 --> 00:31:47.599 And I pushed back a little bit on him, and I go, Well, there's other countries, the free market economic system, the rule of law, private property rights, the core that makes us succeed as a nation. 00:31:47.759 --> 00:31:54.160 And he goes, No, no, the problem is you go to Paris and there's four generations of Algerians, and they're still Algerian, they're not French. 00:31:54.240 --> 00:31:58.400 You go to you go to Berlin, there's four generations of Turks, and they're still Turkish, they're not German. 00:31:58.480 --> 00:32:00.559 And he looks me in the eye, he goes, I'm an American. 00:32:00.640 --> 00:32:01.680 My kids are an American. 00:32:01.839 --> 00:32:04.960 You and I might have a different religion, but I'm a capitalist. 00:32:05.119 --> 00:32:06.400 And I asked him, why is that? 00:32:06.559 --> 00:32:17.920 And he goes, it's those, it's it's those radicals 250 years ago that decided that the the individual is more important than the state, that families are more important than government, that's given us that opportunity. 00:32:18.000 --> 00:32:27.200 And as we go in and celebrate 250 years as a country, I think it's important to realize as I travel around the state, that most people just want government in the background. 00:32:27.359 --> 00:32:30.640 They want schools that work, roads that they can drive on. 00:32:30.799 --> 00:32:36.160 If they want to raise their families, how they see fit, not how the government sees fit. 00:32:36.319 --> 00:32:43.440 They want to be able, if they start a business, to have that opportunity that their dad or grandfather had to make it here in Michigan. 00:32:43.599 --> 00:32:44.960 That's why I'm running for governor. 00:32:45.119 --> 00:32:51.039 Is that everybody, no matter what walks of life or their backgrounds, can actually make it here in the state of Michigan. 00:32:51.200 --> 00:32:56.319 And so I appreciate you letting me tell that story and uh look forward to engaging folks around the state. 00:32:56.480 --> 00:32:57.839 Well, uh I appreciate that. 00:32:57.920 --> 00:33:01.839 And everybody, his campaign website and everything you need will be down in the description. 00:33:02.079 --> 00:33:02.960 Give them a check out. 00:33:03.039 --> 00:33:06.960 Remember, it's important that you know your leaders because that's how we decide our future. 00:33:07.119 --> 00:33:08.240 Thank you for tuning in, everybody. 00:33:08.319 --> 00:33:09.200 I hope you have a good day.