September 12, 2021 • 27 mins
California should be paradise. The weather is great. The scenery is beautiful. And there’s plenty to do for fun. But bad governance has turned this wonderful state into a wasteland of welfare, homelessness, and failed businesses. In short, the Democrats have destroyed California. For this podcast, Anna explains how, on Tuesday, Sept. 14, the people of California have a chance to remove the shackles of far-left authoritarianism. Indeed, they have a chance to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom and regain both their freedom and their prosperity. To preview the election and explain what’s at stake, Anna has on a very special guest: Jessica Patterson, chairwoman of the California Republican Party. They discuss Newsom’s failures, what Californians are thinking these days, and Larry Elder's chances of winning. Could Elder, a staunch conservative, actually become governor of the most liberal state in the union? He just might.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Up next, Luna Talks with Anna Paulina Luna part of
the gang which California should be a paradise. The weather
is great, the scenery is beautiful, and there's plenty to
do for fun, but bad governance has turned the whole
state into a wasteland of welfare, homelessness, and failed business.
In short, the Democrats have indeed destroyed California. But on Tuesday,
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the people have a chance to remove the shackles of
the far left authoritarianism. They have a chance to recall
Governor Gavin Newsom. Today we preview the election and explain
what's at stake. This is Luna Talks with Onto Paulina.
Welcome back, everyone to Sunday's episode of Luna Talks with Me,
your host on a Paulina Luna, and we are going
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to be covering for a majority of this episode California's
special election, meaning they're gubernatorial recall Gavin Newsom. We don't
want him. He's obviously crushed California's economy. But before we
get into that, I to really focus on what's really
happened in the headlines here in the last week or so,
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which is going to take us back to Larry Elder
for a second, if you don't know who he is,
and I remember first hearing him speak maybe about three
years ago at the Turning Point Student conference in Florida.
The man is absolutely incredible. His story, the fact that
his father literally fled you know, racism in the South
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and came to California, provided everything for his family, and
just his from where he comes from, his personal perspective,
and how he really shatters the narrative of identity politics.
You have to check him out. So that is my
pitch to you. He has a show, It's Larry Elder Show.
You really need to check him out. But I want
to talk about the fact that he is now and
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he has been for i want to say, the last
couple of months, the front runner of the California gubernatorial
which is a huge deal. Right. We know that Caitlin Jenner,
who was formerly known as Bruce Jenner, jumped in that
race and thought that, you know, they were going to
be able to make a huge splash, which is not
the case. California wants to elect a Republican and this
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is obviously a nonpartisan recall of a governor, which hasn't
been seen before, especially in California. I'm bringing that up
because we also know that Larry Elder was actually endorsed,
okay by a Hispanic Democrat who's very prominent in the
state of California. So much so though, because she realized
that the minute that she actually voted to recall Newsom
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that in the headlines you're saying, oh, it's this crazy
conspiracy and it's this far right movement to take over California,
when in actuality that wasn't even the case. We know
that Californians in general arts stick and tired of the
double standard that Gavin Newsom really subjected them too, especially
during COVID and the COVID lockdowns. We know that while
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they were shutting down the public school systems, he was
sending his kids to private school. We know that when
small businesses were closed, he was having private dinner parties.
And I think as a whole, in addition to the defunding,
the police movement, and just the nasty, nasty type of
environment that currently exists in all places of San Francisco,
which is supposed to be, you know, one of the
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most expensive bougie places to live in the country. People
are sick and tire, of it. So it was an
absolute nonpartisan recall of a governor and guess what, he's
in the lead. And because of that, we are seeing
some absolutely disgusting behavior from some of those And I
don't even want a blanket statement just all Democrats, because
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I can't say that all Democrats would agree with us.
But I can tell you that you know this guy
what he's been subjected to in California because of the
fact that he's standing up for Californians and really we
want to help change the state and really make California
what it was and bring it back to its former
glory even in the nineties. It's really sad what he's
been subjected to. I want to say it was on
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September eight. I'm sure all of you saw that viral
image and video of a woman in a guerrilla mask
trying to throw eggs and assault Larry Elder. And it
wasn't just that. I mean, he had his bodyguard team.
I guess someone had shot a pellet gun at them.
So you want to talk about blatant racism, I mean
when someone literally uses a guerrilla mask to attack a
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black man who's running for office, I think the implications
of that scream racism hate crime. But because of the
fact that he's a conservative and a very prominent outspoken
conservative that at that, and the fact that he is
a Republican, and then on top of that, he's now
running for office against you know, Governor Newsom, who's basically
the pet of the left. He is now just being
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completely ignored and they're not calling it a hate crime.
I don't even know if they're investigating, which is just
complete insanity. But then you had Bubba Wallace. Does anyone
remember that that wasn't about June of last year. He's
a NASCAR driver and he happened to go into his
I guess area where he kept his car at the
Talladega Speedway, and he said that he found a noose
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in his garage. And it turned out that it wasn't
a new so that it was a pull down, something
that's done commonly in some of those garages. But they
literally sent out the FBI to investigate that, and because
of the fact that Larry Elder is who he is,
they're going to completely ignore it, which is I think
a really big problem in this country is the double
standard that exists and these people that use these instances
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of made up racist stories to further their political agenda.
It really takes away from the fact that if there
are instances that take place, I mean, law enforcement should
obviously be investigating that. But if you're caught lying about
it and then you don't get punished for that, I
think that that's a gross, gross misrepresentation of what the
legal and the justice system should really be doing to
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these people. You know, whatever happened to Jesse Smilette, remember him,
He said that he was attacked by these maga wearing
Trump supporters that said this is Maga country. And then
we found out later on that he had fabricated the
entire story and that you had people. I'm pretty sure
Kamala Harris went out and on his defense and of
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course nothing happened to him. He made it up. It
was a fake cake crime. It did not happen. But
he wasn't held accountable for that. He should be. So
with that being said, if you get a chance, if
you're in California and you have not voted to recall
Gavin Newsom, you need to go in on Monday. That's
your day to do it. You want to recall this guy.
He's bad news he's bad for California, and it doesn't
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matter who it is. But at this point, I think
anyone's better than Gavin Newsom. I just hope you vote
for Larry Elder. Anyways, to kind of segue off of
those crazy headlines, let's talk about the fact that right
before the end of the newsweek, right, so we all
know that the news cycle pretty much goes till Friday,
and then usually over the weekend that news is actually
covered on you know, Monday or Wednesday. Right, So that's
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kind of how the new cycle works. But let's talk
about the fact that Biden actually on Friday afternoon drops
his crazy mandate, Okay, a mandate affecting over a hundred
million people. A hundred that's more people that voted for them, definitely,
but over a hundred million people. Basically requiring any business
doesn't matter how big or small, if you have over
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a hundred employees, that, according to Biden, you will now
be required to have either COVID vaccinations or that you
are going to have to show proof of weekly virus tests.
And that's according to the Associated Press. I mean, this guy,
and I can tell you that everything in the media
that they said Trump was is just one a d opposite.
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These people are losing their mind. They are drunk on power.
But I'm so glad to be in the state of Florida.
I'm so glad to have Governor Ronda Santis, and I
can tell you that we're not the only ones that
have strong leadership that. Thank god, there are those in
other states that say, you know what, we appreciate everyone's
ability to make their own health decisions. That's part of
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being in this country. I'm not going to argue either
which way, but for people to be able to choose
whether or not they want to put something into their
body is a very big deal, especially regards to medicine. Um.
You know, the states that are actually banning together to
reject this crazy mandate by Biden are actually rejecting it
on the notion that this is not constitutional. So the
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states that actually came together to reject this crazy mandate
are and all ulysses for you, Arizona, Alaska, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming,
both North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Alabama, Indiana, Tennessee,
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South Carolina, Georgia, and of course Florida. I'm really glad
I'm here, but I can tell you that I've received
thousands of messages from people all over the country, especially
people that have federal jobs, that are saying, we don't
know what to do, we don't want this. I mean,
the fact is is that most people have now already
had it. I'm one of them. But the fact that
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the government's going to now come in and then forced
you to do something after literally early remember lot cycle.
I mean, every single elected Democrat was saying, don't trust
any vaccinations that come out of you Republican leadership for
the most part, And of course we know that these
people are now completely changing their opinions, and of course
on this topic, I mean, you have to respect people's
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which is you can't force this. So this crazy mandate
that's coming out of of course now the Biden White House,
if that's what you even want to call it, I
don't think it's gonna actually work. I think that these
people have a good argument, especially from a constitutional perspective,
and I smell lawsuits coming, so stay tuned from more
on that one. I don't think that that is over yet,
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but I can tell you that this is definitely a
way to piss off more than half of America, and
that's for sure. So I am going to be bringing
on our next guest right after this quick commercial break.
Her name is Jessica Milan Patterson. She's Hispanic. She was
also elected the California GOP chairwoman in and twenty nine,
and not only has she done a phenomenal job for
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the state of California, but I think that in the
next couple of years or so, she may, at least
I hope she does, may consider a gubernatorial run herself.
But I want to bring her in. I want to
talk about the Hispanic about in California. I want to
talk about Larry Elder and how he's going to actually
help fix California. Stay tuned, we'll be right back after
this quick break. Welcome back from that quick break. I
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am here right now with Jessica Patterson. She is the
chairwoman of the California GOP. Jessica, thank you so much
for joining us today. You have an incredible story. If
you can't just introduce yourself real quick to our listeners, well,
thank you so much for having me. I am the
first woman, the first Latina, the first millennial to ever
be the chair of the California Republican Party. I was
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elected in February of nine. Just this past February, I
was re elected to another two year term. And in
the last cycle we picked up for congressional seats here
in California. We hadn't picked up and incumbent held democratsy
in California since nine. To put that in perspective, I
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was a freshman in high school. We didn't do it once,
we didn't do it twice, we didn't do it three times.
Four times. We bought more new Republican House seats to Washington,
d c. Than any other state in the country. And
now we're in incredibly unprecedented times. We haven't seen a
recall effort happen in California since two thousand three, and
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we're right on the cusp of recalling the worst governor
in our state's history. So what do you think I mean?
Because this is obviously nonpartisan, right, There's been Democrats, there's
been independence that are just really fed up and want
news about. But what is it like being on the ground,
because obviously you are a Republican, So what is it
like to kind of see everyone uniting behind this cost.
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It's been amazing. This was something that wasn't started in
the California Republican Party. These were non political people that
were just fed up up. We saw over twenty thousand
businesses this last year have to close permanently. Of the
jobs that we lost in this last year still haven't
come back. Our children had to finish a second year
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in remote learning because this governor wouldn't stand up to
the teachers union, all while sending his kids to in
person private school. And then when he asked us to
stay at home and not be with our families on Thanksgiving,
or if we did, to eat outside and cover our
mouths with our masks in between bites while he dined
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maskless at the French Laundry, one of the most expensive
restaurants in the world. Well, some Californians were on foodlines
for the first time in their lives. Some Californians needed
help from the government through the Unemployment Department. Here in California,
a million people were backlogged and still are backlogged at
our unemployment department. While we've sent out eleven billion dollars
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worth of fraud. The cool part of what we're seeing
here in Cali Fornia. Is that Californians are waking up
Californians of all political stripes. I tell this story about
my husband taking our daughters to get a speakeasy haircut
here in Ventura County and they went in through the
back door and they started check in at the little
check in station, and there was a sign there that
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said Merry Christmas to everyone except Gavin Newsom. These are
girls with tattoos and purple haird like not our normal,
uh typical voter turnout, but they all were sick and
tired of what Gavin Newsom had done to our state,
and they were ready for change. So it's exciting to
see what's happening here in California. And I truly believe
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that we're at a turning point. So, I mean, I
love the fact that you're I mean, I can just
tell on your first intro to that that you are
obviously your firebrand. And I love seeing that because I
feel like so many women, especially now we're finding or
well they're finding their voices. But to have leadership like you,
and especially you being a Hispanic woman, that's so important
is actually two younger women in California. How did you
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get involved in politics. I got involved when I was
in high school. UM. I grew up in a city,
a suburb of Los Angeles called Hasina Heights, and when
I was in high school, my parents moved us to Montabello,
which just right outside of East l a UM. But
the schools in Hassina Heights were better, and so my
mom took all five of us kids from Montabello to
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Hastana Heights every day, twenty minute drive. We're practicing Catholics,
so every day on the way to school there was
five of us kids. We all had to say a
decade of the Rosary. And you know, at the time,
I didn't completely appreciate it. I wanted to mostly get
through it and turn on Rick Dy's in the morning.
But as an adult, this is something that I am
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grateful that that gift that my mother gave me, and
it's something that I do with my own daughters. Now
we don't get through a full we do a decade
every morning, so by Friday they've done a whole Rosary.
But you know, these are the types of things. But
on that car ride to school, we would get off
the freeway, the sixty Freeway and Hassina Heights we would
exit get off turn on Colima and there was a
Republican headquarters. Both of my parents were Democrats. UM. My
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mom is probably what she referred to as a Reagan Democrat.
My dad, he was a teamster, shop steward. He was
a big labor guy. And so when they found out,
or when I asked them if I could volunteer at
the Republican headquarters, I think they were a little floored
by it. They were also completely open to it. They were,
you know, clearly, my mom is a very spiritual woman.
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She's a very faith driven woman, as you can tell
from her having us do the Rosary every morning. My
dad is to this day the hardest working person I know.
And it was really what they modeled for us in life,
more so what their political ideology was that led them
to raise five Republican children. Um. They both have since converted. Um.
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But it was, you know, getting started in that campaign
headquarters back in the nineties when I was in high
school that led to a career in politics. A woman
by the name of Martha House took me under her wing.
She made me feel like I was important to the
cause and empowered me to do more and like I
said it was, you know, twenty year career in politics
before I ran for a chair of the party. That's incredible,
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I mean to hear. And obviously mentorship is so important
from another woman especially, that is an incredible, incredible opportunity
that you had, and I only hope that more women
actually have the opportunity special in California moving forward, because
as we're seeing, California is a very important state, especially
in national politics. And I've now kind of started to
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see headlines really focusing on the recall efforts, so we
know that Monday is a really big day for you guys.
In regards to the Hispanic vote, how important is it?
And I think in the national scene, I mean, they're
talking about the Hispanic but will be the deciding factor
for this recall. What is your take on that the
Latino vote is critical. This is a governor who, according
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to exit polls in enjoyed sixty four percent of the
Latin vote. Right now, we're at about fifty of Latinos
are yes on the recall. If you took our surveys
and Espanol, it goes up another three percent. So we
have been working incredibly hard. You know, I think that
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our party had neglected many communities around our state for
too long. We ceded them to the Democrats and we
just let them have it. We didn't show up, but
in each one of these communities, they weren't living their
best life because of the policies that California Democrats have
been putting out there. But Democrats showed up and Democrats
made them feel like they cared about their problems. But
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if you look at any milestone, you know the things
that our community cares about the most. We want to
make sure we have a good job so we can
provide for our families. We want to make sure that
our kids are getting a good education so they have
a better life than we do. And we want to
make sure that our streets are safe. And California Democrats
have been failing on every single one of those issues.
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So we started showing up. We started empowering our local leaders.
We worked on engagement. I never used the word outreach
because to me, that means that implies you have to
reach out to someone. We already had conservatives in these communities,
but we needed to empower them and give them the
tools and resources that they needed to find out what's
happening in Sacramento, and how it's affecting your everyday life.
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You know, whether it's the agg overtime bill or the
gas tax because you have to commute to your job
so you can buy a house here. Um, these are
all things that affect their everyday lives, and Democrats were
voting for it and Republicans have alternative solutions. I'm so
glad you brought out the fact that I think our
party had neglected some some categories of voters, because I
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absolutely agree with that, and I feel like, sometimes, you know,
it's always good to hold people accountable but then offer
a solution, and I think that you guys are really
doing that, and if you could and if people could
replicate that, I think in other states, like in Texas
and New Mexico, I think that that would really you
make a huge change in regards to national politics and
especially presidential election. So glad you brought that up. I
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do want to ask you your opinion on some of
the candidates. I know that the California GOP has not
weighed in yet, but for the candidates that are running
and for those that might be listening that are from California,
I want to get into that in a quick minute,
but we do have to take a quick commercial break,
so everyone sits tight. We'll be right back. So the
candidates that are running, who is on the ballot that
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is a conservative end or a Republican, Well, we have
quite a few. And you know, when we first went
into this race, there was a huge concern that if
a legitimate Democrat got on the ballot, did we need
to consolidate and unified behind one candidate. So let me
first talk about the way the ballot works here for
the recall, which is happening Tuesday, September. We have the
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first question and the first question is yes or no
do you wish to recall slash remove Gavin Newsom from
the office of got yes or no? UM. Regardless of
how you vote on question one, you get to answer
on question too. So if you vote yes, you moved
to question two. If you won't know, you can move
to question to UM. Question two is the list of candidates.
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We've got about forty six candidates in this race. UM,
no serious or legitimate Democrat. The governor did a really
good job of bullying and UM threatening anyone who got
into this race on the Democrat side. Your your career
and politics will be over if you in Democrat circles
if you get into this race. So no legitimate Democrat
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got on the ballot. So once that happened, we were
in a position where we didn't need to endorse a
candidate because it's top vote getter. The top vote getter
doesn't need to be fifty plus one. Whoever gets the
most votes will be the next governor. So right now,
Larry Elder is the front runner in all of it.
Larry Elder the stage from South Central. I grew up
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listening to him driving to al State Northridge. Very well
known personality. Um, he's out there. He's consolidated, certainly a
ton of the Republicans and the people that are voting
yes on Question one. Then we've got a few other
candidates that are a little bit further behind. We've got
Kevin Faulkner, who is the former mayor of San Diego.
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We've got Assemblyman Kevin Kylie who's a current assembly member
from the northern part of our state. We've got Caitlyn Jenner,
who is a reality TV show uh star and former olympian.
And you've got John Cox, who was our nominee in
two thousand eighteen. He's a businessman and developer. UM. So
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there's a lot of great choices, and in fact, we've
had some really great debates that have been out there,
and I find it an embarrassment of riches. UM. Any
one of those candidates would be better than Gavines. That's
what it's like. They're like anyone but new awesome. So
what I'm looking forward to is Wednesday when a I
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start a governor's re election bid um and be working
with whoever is the next governor of California, because there
is still that In the last point, I think we
saw about who were undecided on question too, and those
are mostly people that are voting no on Question one,
so there is some room for these others to move.
But certainly Larry Elder is leading the pack right now.
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So I'm I'm really glad to hear that, right like
your boots on the ground for those that might not
be in California and we're watching kind of at the
edge of our seat, We're like, what's going to happen
in California. I'm glad that we can kind of share
that information with everyone. UM. I did see recently though,
it seems like things are getting very very, at least
for Larry, almost violent. So we saw over the last
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couple of days that he was attacked. And when you see, really,
I think the double standard that exists for minorities that
are conservative and Republican or Republican. I mean, it's it's
completely wrong in any instance for anyone to put on
a grilla mask and assault someone. But why is it
that you think that the media is so afraid of
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calling out the awful incident that happened to Larry this
past week. Yeah, I don't even know if it's fear.
I think that it's a bias and I don't think
that they want to call it out because it doesn't
fit their narrative. Um. You know, when Latinas are out
there in front for the Republican Party, you know why
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was why were all of those headlines when I was elected?
Because it didn't fit their narrative. It didn't fit their
narrative of Republicans in California are old, white, sometimes angry men,
right right. I think it's their bias that holds them
back from being, you know, holding accountable. We also saw,
you know, earlier this week we had Rose McGowan talking
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about how um. Gavin Newsom's wife called her up and
basically asked her, you know, how do we get rid
of your accusations of Harvey Weinstein? Oh my gosh, you know,
no one's covering that and talking about it. Um. These
are the types of you know, and it's multiple things.
When he lied about the fires here in California, he
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had told us that he had done all of this
prevention and prescribed burns. Are states literally on fire, and
it turns out he lied by the tune of six
hundred and nine percent. He overstated what he did. It
was a one day story. Nobody follows up with him.
He put out a strike force to fix our unemployment
department because there was a million people backlogged. It's been
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a year since that strike force was and it's still
a million people backlogged. They hold him accountable for nothing.
So what is your message then? When you see, you know,
you had former President Barack Obama run an ad for
Gavin Newsom, you have AOC going on her social pretty
sure she's going to be running an ad for gavinuston.
What is your message to those officials in Washington, d C.
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They're not even in California. They don't know what you
guys are going through. They didn't know what business owners
are going through. What is your message to them? So
I don't really talk to them because honestly, what they
do for me is just noise. What we did here
in California in twenty and what we saw is successful,
was focused on the issues that affect Californians. And that's
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what Gavin Newsome doesn't want to do. He doesn't want
to talk about his record, you know, he wants to
talk about the Boogeyman. He wants to talk about bringing people,
you know, everyone from Elizabeth Warren to Bernie Sanders here
to California to try and help save him. He had
Vice President Harris here last week. He has President Biden
coming on Monday. These two individuals should be working getting
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Californians and Americans that are stuck in Afghanistan. They should
be working on saving them, not saving Gavin Newsom's job.
So when we talk about things to Californians, it's why
doesn't he want to talk about his record? Why does
he want to nationalize? Everything is up? There is no
one else that is responsible. California Democrats of how supermajorities
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in both our legislative houses and the governor seat for
the last decade. There's no one else to blame. They
are Every single failure of California is at their feet. Well,
I think that if I'm not saying it right here
on this show, we might be hearing the next governor
of California in the next ten years here. So I
think you're just here. You're knocking it out of the park.
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I'm I'm a fan of you already. Well, I mean,
where can people go to follow your social media? I
assume you are on social media? How can they help
give to the California GOP give us your information? Yeah,
so website c OP dot org. You can volunteer, you
can donate, you can help us get through this final stretch.
We still need help with digital in these last few
days and text messaging that would be great help. You
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can follow my social media on Instagram and Facebook. On
c A g o P chairwoman on Twitter, I'm at
Milan Patterson. Well, thank you so much for joining us
today here on Luna Talks. You're always welcome back on
our show and we appreciate your time. It was your pleasure.
Thanks for having me before we go. I want to
thank Jessica Patterson again for such a fantastic and timely interview,
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the gang which California should be a paradise. The weather
is great, the scenery is beautiful, and there's plenty to
do for fun, but bad governance has turned the whole
state into a wasteland of welfare, homelessness, and failed business.
In short, the Democrats have indeed destroyed California. But on Tuesday,
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the people have a chance to remove the shackles of
the far left authoritarianism. They have a chance to recall
Governor Gavin Newsom. Today we preview the election and explain
what's at stake. This is Luna Talks with Onto Paulina.
Welcome back, everyone to Sunday's episode of Luna Talks with Me,
your host on a Paulina Luna, and we are going
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to be covering for a majority of this episode California's
special election, meaning they're gubernatorial recall Gavin Newsom. We don't
want him. He's obviously crushed California's economy. But before we
get into that, I to really focus on what's really
happened in the headlines here in the last week or so,
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which is going to take us back to Larry Elder
for a second, if you don't know who he is,
and I remember first hearing him speak maybe about three
years ago at the Turning Point Student conference in Florida.
The man is absolutely incredible. His story, the fact that
his father literally fled you know, racism in the South
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and came to California, provided everything for his family, and
just his from where he comes from, his personal perspective,
and how he really shatters the narrative of identity politics.
You have to check him out. So that is my
pitch to you. He has a show, It's Larry Elder Show.
You really need to check him out. But I want
to talk about the fact that he is now and
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he has been for i want to say, the last
couple of months, the front runner of the California gubernatorial
which is a huge deal. Right. We know that Caitlin Jenner,
who was formerly known as Bruce Jenner, jumped in that
race and thought that, you know, they were going to
be able to make a huge splash, which is not
the case. California wants to elect a Republican and this
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is obviously a nonpartisan recall of a governor, which hasn't
been seen before, especially in California. I'm bringing that up
because we also know that Larry Elder was actually endorsed,
okay by a Hispanic Democrat who's very prominent in the
state of California. So much so though, because she realized
that the minute that she actually voted to recall Newsom
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that in the headlines you're saying, oh, it's this crazy
conspiracy and it's this far right movement to take over California,
when in actuality that wasn't even the case. We know
that Californians in general arts stick and tired of the
double standard that Gavin Newsom really subjected them too, especially
during COVID and the COVID lockdowns. We know that while
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they were shutting down the public school systems, he was
sending his kids to private school. We know that when
small businesses were closed, he was having private dinner parties.
And I think as a whole, in addition to the defunding,
the police movement, and just the nasty, nasty type of
environment that currently exists in all places of San Francisco,
which is supposed to be, you know, one of the
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most expensive bougie places to live in the country. People
are sick and tire, of it. So it was an
absolute nonpartisan recall of a governor and guess what, he's
in the lead. And because of that, we are seeing
some absolutely disgusting behavior from some of those And I
don't even want a blanket statement just all Democrats, because
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I can't say that all Democrats would agree with us.
But I can tell you that you know this guy
what he's been subjected to in California because of the
fact that he's standing up for Californians and really we
want to help change the state and really make California
what it was and bring it back to its former
glory even in the nineties. It's really sad what he's
been subjected to. I want to say it was on
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September eight. I'm sure all of you saw that viral
image and video of a woman in a guerrilla mask
trying to throw eggs and assault Larry Elder. And it
wasn't just that. I mean, he had his bodyguard team.
I guess someone had shot a pellet gun at them.
So you want to talk about blatant racism, I mean
when someone literally uses a guerrilla mask to attack a
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black man who's running for office, I think the implications
of that scream racism hate crime. But because of the
fact that he's a conservative and a very prominent outspoken
conservative that at that, and the fact that he is
a Republican, and then on top of that, he's now
running for office against you know, Governor Newsom, who's basically
the pet of the left. He is now just being
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completely ignored and they're not calling it a hate crime.
I don't even know if they're investigating, which is just
complete insanity. But then you had Bubba Wallace. Does anyone
remember that that wasn't about June of last year. He's
a NASCAR driver and he happened to go into his
I guess area where he kept his car at the
Talladega Speedway, and he said that he found a noose
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in his garage. And it turned out that it wasn't
a new so that it was a pull down, something
that's done commonly in some of those garages. But they
literally sent out the FBI to investigate that, and because
of the fact that Larry Elder is who he is,
they're going to completely ignore it, which is I think
a really big problem in this country is the double
standard that exists and these people that use these instances
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of made up racist stories to further their political agenda.
It really takes away from the fact that if there
are instances that take place, I mean, law enforcement should
obviously be investigating that. But if you're caught lying about
it and then you don't get punished for that, I
think that that's a gross, gross misrepresentation of what the
legal and the justice system should really be doing to
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these people. You know, whatever happened to Jesse Smilette, remember him,
He said that he was attacked by these maga wearing
Trump supporters that said this is Maga country. And then
we found out later on that he had fabricated the
entire story and that you had people. I'm pretty sure
Kamala Harris went out and on his defense and of
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course nothing happened to him. He made it up. It
was a fake cake crime. It did not happen. But
he wasn't held accountable for that. He should be. So
with that being said, if you get a chance, if
you're in California and you have not voted to recall
Gavin Newsom, you need to go in on Monday. That's
your day to do it. You want to recall this guy.
He's bad news he's bad for California, and it doesn't
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matter who it is. But at this point, I think
anyone's better than Gavin Newsom. I just hope you vote
for Larry Elder. Anyways, to kind of segue off of
those crazy headlines, let's talk about the fact that right
before the end of the newsweek, right, so we all
know that the news cycle pretty much goes till Friday,
and then usually over the weekend that news is actually
covered on you know, Monday or Wednesday. Right, So that's
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kind of how the new cycle works. But let's talk
about the fact that Biden actually on Friday afternoon drops
his crazy mandate, Okay, a mandate affecting over a hundred
million people. A hundred that's more people that voted for them, definitely,
but over a hundred million people. Basically requiring any business
doesn't matter how big or small, if you have over
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a hundred employees, that, according to Biden, you will now
be required to have either COVID vaccinations or that you
are going to have to show proof of weekly virus tests.
And that's according to the Associated Press. I mean, this guy,
and I can tell you that everything in the media
that they said Trump was is just one a d opposite.
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These people are losing their mind. They are drunk on power.
But I'm so glad to be in the state of Florida.
I'm so glad to have Governor Ronda Santis, and I
can tell you that we're not the only ones that
have strong leadership that. Thank god, there are those in
other states that say, you know what, we appreciate everyone's
ability to make their own health decisions. That's part of
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being in this country. I'm not going to argue either
which way, but for people to be able to choose
whether or not they want to put something into their
body is a very big deal, especially regards to medicine. Um.
You know, the states that are actually banning together to
reject this crazy mandate by Biden are actually rejecting it
on the notion that this is not constitutional. So the
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states that actually came together to reject this crazy mandate
are and all ulysses for you, Arizona, Alaska, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming,
both North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Alabama, Indiana, Tennessee,
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South Carolina, Georgia, and of course Florida. I'm really glad
I'm here, but I can tell you that I've received
thousands of messages from people all over the country, especially
people that have federal jobs, that are saying, we don't
know what to do, we don't want this. I mean,
the fact is is that most people have now already
had it. I'm one of them. But the fact that
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the government's going to now come in and then forced
you to do something after literally early remember lot cycle.
I mean, every single elected Democrat was saying, don't trust
any vaccinations that come out of you Republican leadership for
the most part, And of course we know that these
people are now completely changing their opinions, and of course
on this topic, I mean, you have to respect people's
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which is you can't force this. So this crazy mandate
that's coming out of of course now the Biden White House,
if that's what you even want to call it, I
don't think it's gonna actually work. I think that these
people have a good argument, especially from a constitutional perspective,
and I smell lawsuits coming, so stay tuned from more
on that one. I don't think that that is over yet,
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but I can tell you that this is definitely a
way to piss off more than half of America, and
that's for sure. So I am going to be bringing
on our next guest right after this quick commercial break.
Her name is Jessica Milan Patterson. She's Hispanic. She was
also elected the California GOP chairwoman in and twenty nine,
and not only has she done a phenomenal job for
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the state of California, but I think that in the
next couple of years or so, she may, at least
I hope she does, may consider a gubernatorial run herself.
But I want to bring her in. I want to
talk about the Hispanic about in California. I want to
talk about Larry Elder and how he's going to actually
help fix California. Stay tuned, we'll be right back after
this quick break. Welcome back from that quick break. I
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am here right now with Jessica Patterson. She is the
chairwoman of the California GOP. Jessica, thank you so much
for joining us today. You have an incredible story. If
you can't just introduce yourself real quick to our listeners, well,
thank you so much for having me. I am the
first woman, the first Latina, the first millennial to ever
be the chair of the California Republican Party. I was
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elected in February of nine. Just this past February, I
was re elected to another two year term. And in
the last cycle we picked up for congressional seats here
in California. We hadn't picked up and incumbent held democratsy
in California since nine. To put that in perspective, I
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was a freshman in high school. We didn't do it once,
we didn't do it twice, we didn't do it three times.
Four times. We bought more new Republican House seats to Washington,
d c. Than any other state in the country. And
now we're in incredibly unprecedented times. We haven't seen a
recall effort happen in California since two thousand three, and
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we're right on the cusp of recalling the worst governor
in our state's history. So what do you think I mean?
Because this is obviously nonpartisan, right, There's been Democrats, there's
been independence that are just really fed up and want
news about. But what is it like being on the ground,
because obviously you are a Republican, So what is it
like to kind of see everyone uniting behind this cost.
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It's been amazing. This was something that wasn't started in
the California Republican Party. These were non political people that
were just fed up up. We saw over twenty thousand
businesses this last year have to close permanently. Of the
jobs that we lost in this last year still haven't
come back. Our children had to finish a second year
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in remote learning because this governor wouldn't stand up to
the teachers union, all while sending his kids to in
person private school. And then when he asked us to
stay at home and not be with our families on Thanksgiving,
or if we did, to eat outside and cover our
mouths with our masks in between bites while he dined
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maskless at the French Laundry, one of the most expensive
restaurants in the world. Well, some Californians were on foodlines
for the first time in their lives. Some Californians needed
help from the government through the Unemployment Department. Here in California,
a million people were backlogged and still are backlogged at
our unemployment department. While we've sent out eleven billion dollars
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worth of fraud. The cool part of what we're seeing
here in Cali Fornia. Is that Californians are waking up
Californians of all political stripes. I tell this story about
my husband taking our daughters to get a speakeasy haircut
here in Ventura County and they went in through the
back door and they started check in at the little
check in station, and there was a sign there that
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said Merry Christmas to everyone except Gavin Newsom. These are
girls with tattoos and purple haird like not our normal,
uh typical voter turnout, but they all were sick and
tired of what Gavin Newsom had done to our state,
and they were ready for change. So it's exciting to
see what's happening here in California. And I truly believe
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that we're at a turning point. So, I mean, I
love the fact that you're I mean, I can just
tell on your first intro to that that you are
obviously your firebrand. And I love seeing that because I
feel like so many women, especially now we're finding or
well they're finding their voices. But to have leadership like you,
and especially you being a Hispanic woman, that's so important
is actually two younger women in California. How did you
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get involved in politics. I got involved when I was
in high school. UM. I grew up in a city,
a suburb of Los Angeles called Hasina Heights, and when
I was in high school, my parents moved us to Montabello,
which just right outside of East l a UM. But
the schools in Hassina Heights were better, and so my
mom took all five of us kids from Montabello to
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Hastana Heights every day, twenty minute drive. We're practicing Catholics,
so every day on the way to school there was
five of us kids. We all had to say a
decade of the Rosary. And you know, at the time,
I didn't completely appreciate it. I wanted to mostly get
through it and turn on Rick Dy's in the morning.
But as an adult, this is something that I am
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grateful that that gift that my mother gave me, and
it's something that I do with my own daughters. Now
we don't get through a full we do a decade
every morning, so by Friday they've done a whole Rosary.
But you know, these are the types of things. But
on that car ride to school, we would get off
the freeway, the sixty Freeway and Hassina Heights we would
exit get off turn on Colima and there was a
Republican headquarters. Both of my parents were Democrats. UM. My
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mom is probably what she referred to as a Reagan Democrat.
My dad, he was a teamster, shop steward. He was
a big labor guy. And so when they found out,
or when I asked them if I could volunteer at
the Republican headquarters, I think they were a little floored
by it. They were also completely open to it. They were,
you know, clearly, my mom is a very spiritual woman.
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She's a very faith driven woman, as you can tell
from her having us do the Rosary every morning. My
dad is to this day the hardest working person I know.
And it was really what they modeled for us in life,
more so what their political ideology was that led them
to raise five Republican children. Um. They both have since converted. Um.
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But it was, you know, getting started in that campaign
headquarters back in the nineties when I was in high
school that led to a career in politics. A woman
by the name of Martha House took me under her wing.
She made me feel like I was important to the
cause and empowered me to do more and like I
said it was, you know, twenty year career in politics
before I ran for a chair of the party. That's incredible,
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I mean to hear. And obviously mentorship is so important
from another woman especially, that is an incredible, incredible opportunity
that you had, and I only hope that more women
actually have the opportunity special in California moving forward, because
as we're seeing, California is a very important state, especially
in national politics. And I've now kind of started to
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see headlines really focusing on the recall efforts, so we
know that Monday is a really big day for you guys.
In regards to the Hispanic vote, how important is it?
And I think in the national scene, I mean, they're
talking about the Hispanic but will be the deciding factor
for this recall. What is your take on that the
Latino vote is critical. This is a governor who, according
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to exit polls in enjoyed sixty four percent of the
Latin vote. Right now, we're at about fifty of Latinos
are yes on the recall. If you took our surveys
and Espanol, it goes up another three percent. So we
have been working incredibly hard. You know, I think that
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our party had neglected many communities around our state for
too long. We ceded them to the Democrats and we
just let them have it. We didn't show up, but
in each one of these communities, they weren't living their
best life because of the policies that California Democrats have
been putting out there. But Democrats showed up and Democrats
made them feel like they cared about their problems. But
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if you look at any milestone, you know the things
that our community cares about the most. We want to
make sure we have a good job so we can
provide for our families. We want to make sure that
our kids are getting a good education so they have
a better life than we do. And we want to
make sure that our streets are safe. And California Democrats
have been failing on every single one of those issues.
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So we started showing up. We started empowering our local leaders.
We worked on engagement. I never used the word outreach
because to me, that means that implies you have to
reach out to someone. We already had conservatives in these communities,
but we needed to empower them and give them the
tools and resources that they needed to find out what's
happening in Sacramento, and how it's affecting your everyday life.
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You know, whether it's the agg overtime bill or the
gas tax because you have to commute to your job
so you can buy a house here. Um, these are
all things that affect their everyday lives, and Democrats were
voting for it and Republicans have alternative solutions. I'm so
glad you brought out the fact that I think our
party had neglected some some categories of voters, because I
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absolutely agree with that, and I feel like, sometimes, you know,
it's always good to hold people accountable but then offer
a solution, and I think that you guys are really
doing that, and if you could and if people could
replicate that, I think in other states, like in Texas
and New Mexico, I think that that would really you
make a huge change in regards to national politics and
especially presidential election. So glad you brought that up. I
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do want to ask you your opinion on some of
the candidates. I know that the California GOP has not
weighed in yet, but for the candidates that are running
and for those that might be listening that are from California,
I want to get into that in a quick minute,
but we do have to take a quick commercial break,
so everyone sits tight. We'll be right back. So the
candidates that are running, who is on the ballot that
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is a conservative end or a Republican, Well, we have
quite a few. And you know, when we first went
into this race, there was a huge concern that if
a legitimate Democrat got on the ballot, did we need
to consolidate and unified behind one candidate. So let me
first talk about the way the ballot works here for
the recall, which is happening Tuesday, September. We have the
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first question and the first question is yes or no
do you wish to recall slash remove Gavin Newsom from
the office of got yes or no? UM. Regardless of
how you vote on question one, you get to answer
on question too. So if you vote yes, you moved
to question two. If you won't know, you can move
to question to UM. Question two is the list of candidates.
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We've got about forty six candidates in this race. UM,
no serious or legitimate Democrat. The governor did a really
good job of bullying and UM threatening anyone who got
into this race on the Democrat side. Your your career
and politics will be over if you in Democrat circles
if you get into this race. So no legitimate Democrat
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got on the ballot. So once that happened, we were
in a position where we didn't need to endorse a
candidate because it's top vote getter. The top vote getter
doesn't need to be fifty plus one. Whoever gets the
most votes will be the next governor. So right now,
Larry Elder is the front runner in all of it.
Larry Elder the stage from South Central. I grew up
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listening to him driving to al State Northridge. Very well
known personality. Um, he's out there. He's consolidated, certainly a
ton of the Republicans and the people that are voting
yes on Question one. Then we've got a few other
candidates that are a little bit further behind. We've got
Kevin Faulkner, who is the former mayor of San Diego.
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We've got Assemblyman Kevin Kylie who's a current assembly member
from the northern part of our state. We've got Caitlyn Jenner,
who is a reality TV show uh star and former olympian.
And you've got John Cox, who was our nominee in
two thousand eighteen. He's a businessman and developer. UM. So
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there's a lot of great choices, and in fact, we've
had some really great debates that have been out there,
and I find it an embarrassment of riches. UM. Any
one of those candidates would be better than Gavines. That's
what it's like. They're like anyone but new awesome. So
what I'm looking forward to is Wednesday when a I
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start a governor's re election bid um and be working
with whoever is the next governor of California, because there
is still that In the last point, I think we
saw about who were undecided on question too, and those
are mostly people that are voting no on Question one,
so there is some room for these others to move.
But certainly Larry Elder is leading the pack right now.
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So I'm I'm really glad to hear that, right like
your boots on the ground for those that might not
be in California and we're watching kind of at the
edge of our seat, We're like, what's going to happen
in California. I'm glad that we can kind of share
that information with everyone. UM. I did see recently though,
it seems like things are getting very very, at least
for Larry, almost violent. So we saw over the last
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couple of days that he was attacked. And when you see, really,
I think the double standard that exists for minorities that
are conservative and Republican or Republican. I mean, it's it's
completely wrong in any instance for anyone to put on
a grilla mask and assault someone. But why is it
that you think that the media is so afraid of
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calling out the awful incident that happened to Larry this
past week. Yeah, I don't even know if it's fear.
I think that it's a bias and I don't think
that they want to call it out because it doesn't
fit their narrative. Um. You know, when Latinas are out
there in front for the Republican Party, you know why
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was why were all of those headlines when I was elected?
Because it didn't fit their narrative. It didn't fit their
narrative of Republicans in California are old, white, sometimes angry men,
right right. I think it's their bias that holds them
back from being, you know, holding accountable. We also saw,
you know, earlier this week we had Rose McGowan talking
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about how um. Gavin Newsom's wife called her up and
basically asked her, you know, how do we get rid
of your accusations of Harvey Weinstein? Oh my gosh, you know,
no one's covering that and talking about it. Um. These
are the types of you know, and it's multiple things.
When he lied about the fires here in California, he
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had told us that he had done all of this
prevention and prescribed burns. Are states literally on fire, and
it turns out he lied by the tune of six
hundred and nine percent. He overstated what he did. It
was a one day story. Nobody follows up with him.
He put out a strike force to fix our unemployment
department because there was a million people backlogged. It's been
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a year since that strike force was and it's still
a million people backlogged. They hold him accountable for nothing.
So what is your message then? When you see, you know,
you had former President Barack Obama run an ad for
Gavin Newsom, you have AOC going on her social pretty
sure she's going to be running an ad for gavinuston.
What is your message to those officials in Washington, d C.
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They're not even in California. They don't know what you
guys are going through. They didn't know what business owners
are going through. What is your message to them? So
I don't really talk to them because honestly, what they
do for me is just noise. What we did here
in California in twenty and what we saw is successful,
was focused on the issues that affect Californians. And that's
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what Gavin Newsome doesn't want to do. He doesn't want
to talk about his record, you know, he wants to
talk about the Boogeyman. He wants to talk about bringing people,
you know, everyone from Elizabeth Warren to Bernie Sanders here
to California to try and help save him. He had
Vice President Harris here last week. He has President Biden
coming on Monday. These two individuals should be working getting
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Californians and Americans that are stuck in Afghanistan. They should
be working on saving them, not saving Gavin Newsom's job.
So when we talk about things to Californians, it's why
doesn't he want to talk about his record? Why does
he want to nationalize? Everything is up? There is no
one else that is responsible. California Democrats of how supermajorities
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in both our legislative houses and the governor seat for
the last decade. There's no one else to blame. They
are Every single failure of California is at their feet. Well,
I think that if I'm not saying it right here
on this show, we might be hearing the next governor
of California in the next ten years here. So I
think you're just here. You're knocking it out of the park.
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I'm I'm a fan of you already. Well, I mean,
where can people go to follow your social media? I
assume you are on social media? How can they help
give to the California GOP give us your information? Yeah,
so website c OP dot org. You can volunteer, you
can donate, you can help us get through this final stretch.
We still need help with digital in these last few
days and text messaging that would be great help. You
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can follow my social media on Instagram and Facebook. On
c A g o P chairwoman on Twitter, I'm at
Milan Patterson. Well, thank you so much for joining us
today here on Luna Talks. You're always welcome back on
our show and we appreciate your time. It was your pleasure.
Thanks for having me before we go. I want to
thank Jessica Patterson again for such a fantastic and timely interview,
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