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This is the Jody Jones Show on Powertong ninety six seven.
And Hey, I'm fourteen hundred.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Good afternoon, and welcome to the Jody Jones Show. I'm
Jody Jones with my co host Fring fanlining him.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Hey, guys, what's up this week?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Is self described socialist Doran Mamdani won the Democratic primary
election in New York. That might seem like a far
off headline, but make no mistake the pology, the policies
and ideology he represents are already making their way into California.
And we have the man that said that, Assemblyman David
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Tany Paul. He is going to explain that statement and
I agree with him. One. David, how are you doing, buddy?
Speaker 5 (01:23):
I'm doing well. How are you doing?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I'm doing good, man, Thank you for coming on.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Hey, dude, how are you doing?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Brother?
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Hey good to see. Good to hear from that.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Apparently you got a translate problem on.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, you know, David, Yeah, are you talking about Yeah? Yeah,
you know, I like you know what you said about
you know, socialism, you know spreading, it's spreading across America
and into California. You know, want you to expand on
that right now.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Yeah. It's actually something I think about fairly easily, is
that there's a lot of I mean, there's history behind it,
and they people can vote their way into socialism and communism,
but you're always going to have to shoot your way
out of it. And I'd prefer to stop that before
we get into it. That these altruistic ideologies always end
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up in. I mean, essentially, we look at the USSR,
we look at what's happened to Cuba, we look at
what's happened to Venezuela. We look at what happened to
so many other areas that it's time to prevent it. Now,
it's time to get in front of it. One of
my favorite things that I love to listen to is
actually Thomas Soul and he's a political philosopher, and he
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talks about how history is a graveyard for a lot
of bad policies, and it's unfortunate that policy makers love
to be grave diggers. And you know what we're seeing
right now is this rise in moral superiority that they
believe that they can do it better than all of
those who have already tried it before they just never
had enough money or they never had enough resources to
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do it. And what we're seeing now with Mondami in
New York is already here in California. We are more
left than New York in New York City and those areas.
And we do have members here that are part of
the Socialist Party of America, that are part of the
Communist Party and have communist ideologies here in the state legislature.
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And we've got to call it out now, and we
have to actually build the bench too, to set up
that our ideologies are better. We allowed AOC and Bernie
Sanders to walk up and down Central Valley here in California,
And what did we do to prevent that. Nothing. I'm
not going to sit back and do nothing. We're going
to work on calling this out and we're going to
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work a lot on highlighting these issues.
Speaker 6 (03:43):
That's really important that we do that. Now, I got
a question for you, what do you think? I mean,
I know what California looks like now. I knew what
it looked like when I was a kid, and I'm
sixty three years old. What do you think a socialist
California would look like from where we shit right now.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Well, it's something that I actually truly fear, is that
Gavin Newsom's really bad. The next person is probably going
to be worse. And with Mondani's rise in popularity now
as a major city, I can tell you this, the
socialists and the communists and those individuals that believe in
that ideology now feel energetic. After having felt beaten in
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the November election, Kamala Harris is starting to poke around
a little bit more, especially being up here in Sacramento.
I keep hearing that she is now feeling more energetic
and not only that she just posted online for the
first time in a long time, So we know that
they're kicking the tires on who can be more progressive
and who can be more far left. I can tell
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you what a socialist agenda will look like in California
is I believe that they'll try to implement a wealth text.
I believe that they'll try to implement more penalties on
a lot of our local businesses that our businesses cannot
accept right now that we see the failures that are
happening to insurance. If you think your insurance is bad
right now, it's going to collapse in the The only
way that they correct it or try to pull us
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out of it is government run insurance, which we all
know is going to be less services, not cheaper, and
it's just going to be more and more expensive. That
government ownership over a lot of the programs, entities and
businesses that we need and thrive on here will fall
under the state government. That is already what they are
doing with regulatory agencies like CARB, with regulatory agencies like DWR,
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And look at all the expansions of powers that they've done,
even with Abe nineteen fifty five that they've centralized our
school boards under the Department of Education to ban parents
from having to say and to ban local elected officials
from deciding what their kids want. We're already seeing it
here in California. Imagine now somebody who's confident that they
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can push the bounds in the limits.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Yeah, you know that maybe nineteen fifty five. I was
actually going to ask you about that, and you touched
on it. So you know, I can't believe that these
bills are passing, but you know, they have a super majority.
And sometimes does it feel like you're just fighting you
we're out of Quicksand I.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Would say not not always, and not only because I
believe that I represent some of the most amazing people
in the world here in the Central Valley, the farmers,
the families that took care of me. So you know,
it may be an uphill battle right now, but the
only way to start an avalanche is with the snowball,
so might as well get it going.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
I think that's a great idea. And I I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
I feel like we shent you there to make fringe
and I think you're failing so far.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Well, I do have a new record. I am the
fastest legislator to be kicked off of committees.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
And that's something else, you know, and.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Then it's look, I'm going to speak the hard truth.
I'm going to talk about it. And when I told
everybody in my campaign that we were going to send
a bulldog to Sacramento, the part that's most surprising to
me is that, you know, now everybody was like, well,
you told this, you're going to do that. We're just
surprised you're doing it. And I was like, well, I
prefer to be one of the one of the guys
who actually lives by what they say.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Kind of like President Trump. Right, think about it, he
told everybody what he was going to do when he
came in, and he's doing it. And that reacts surprise, now.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Right, You're exactly right on that. That is it is
a surprise that people actually do what they say. You
know that it catches people off guard, and you know,
there's a lot of social pressures that they try to use,
even up here in Zacramento. You know, they'll tell me like, hey,
you're not going to be invited to this dinner or
you're not going to get to this, and I look
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at them and I'm like, you do know that twenty
percent of utility rate payers right now can't afford their utilities.
You do know that people are struggling losing their homes wildfires.
Do you really think I am shallow enough or care
that I won't be invited to all of these fancy
things when you know I've lived the American dream in
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the sense of my mother immigrated here from Tonga. I'm
a business owner, first person to graduate from college. I
sponsored my mother's immigration. I take care of my family now.
All of that is because the people in our district,
in our area took care of me to help me
get to this point that this is my chance to
go back and to repay them for giving me a
blessed life that I'm not going to let a fancy
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dinner determine or sway me in any type of way.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
That's because you are an upstanding person. David, Hey, you
know what the budget was? It just passed yesterday or
when was that.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Yeah, we had a couple more trailer bills is what
they call it on the budget both yesterday and Friday.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
So I know they're kind of saying it's a win
for California. What do you think.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
It is a I don't know how do I describe
this that is radio appropriate.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I'm thinking it's not a win for California. Is that
kind of what I'm getting here?
Speaker 5 (09:00):
We are simply floating this state. So when Governor Newsom
leaves this state and it collapses after he leaves, he
can say that it's not his fault. Does it happened
after his tenure? But one of the most threatening questions
that I've made able to ask both the director or
a Department of Finance d LAO and different organizations is,
with the current spending that we are on today and
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with the seven point five billion dollars that we are
borrowing from the Rainy Day Fund to float the budget
right now, can we even vote on this exact same budget,
this exact same budget in three years. And the answer
was unequivocally no, because we're using we're draining forty percent
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of the Rainy Day Fund this year. Next year, if
we wanted to do the same seven and a half
billion dollars next year, it would make up seventy percent
of the Rainy Day Fund, and then the following year
there's not even seven point five billion dollars in the
Rainy Day Fund and all of those projections are on
if spending days the exact same, which we all know
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is not possible. And so when I'm kicking up dust
here and I'm asking these questions, it's in reality that
we are simply floating the budget now and we're leveraging
the future of future Californians. And it is something that
I believe is so eerily, it's so irresponsible because in
the future we will have to cut programs, and they
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just don't want to have the hard conversation now.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
I think it's important to remind people, and I believe,
and I've learned this through life, that a bill that
can't be paid won't be paid. And you can make
all the promises in the world, but if you lack
the ability to actually fulfill those promises, what you're really
doing is lying. And you're lying in piecemeal forms so
that you really don't feel like you're telling an untruth
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because I'm telling it the way I believe it right now.
But you know darn well this won't happen. Tell me
here in the valley versus other districts. Do we as
a people have an appetite for the kind of sacrifice
that it's going to take Do you think the valley does,
do you think other places do? Or do these people
just have a pollenic view of this thing.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
See that's the part why I keep talking about a
lot of this feels like we're mopping the deck of
the Titanic, and I would much rather build the boat.
And that's why I try to get in front of Mandani.
And the rise of socialism is because once we start
cutting programs, once people start once all of this grant
funding really dries up, now people are going to start
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being angry and they're going to start trying to blame
something and find something, because that's how it's been throughout history.
And if the socialists are the ones who get to
capture the message behind that and say, see, the government
didn't do enough to take care of you, and it's
these greedy corporations and it's the billionaires and it's all
of this that are causing all the problems, they're going
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to create a movement and rise on that end. But
I want to start working with people to say, no,
it's not that it is the over taxation. It is
the over regulation, and it is the government that believes
that it knows better. But when we look at the
track record of our own government, that should be proof
enough to say that this state is eerily mismanaged. Is
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not only taking all of our funds and all of
our dollars and wasting it. When we look at the
track record of fifteen point seven billion dollars the high
speed rail, what do we have to show for it?
Not controlled by billionaires, not controlled by the most wealthy,
controlled by the state of California, concrete and rebar and
almost twenty billion dollars has been spent. That's not capitalism's fault.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Hey, David, we're going to take a break. When we
come back, we're going to hit that talking point about
gas tax and all that. I want everybody to understand
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Speaker 3 (15:47):
Fighting every day to protect the values that make California worth,
fighting for freedom, opportunity and local control. Assemblyman David Tangy Paul, David,
you said that, and I love it, man.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Well, I appreciate it. I'm just trying to live by it.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Talking about gas and oil and I want everybody out
there to understand what's really going on.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Well, the easiest way to summarize it is twenty percent
of our refinery capacity is going to be gone by
April of next year. Philip sixty six is gone because
they have basically given the bird to California. They said,
you guys, your regulations everything. Nope, we're out. We're done.
There's nothing you can do to get us back. We're
shutting down the refinery. I don't care Venetia. There's still
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a chance they want to stay in California. But the
more rules, regulations and everything else that they keep implementing.
I mean, they were issued a fine of almost eight
hundred million dollars for potential damages that they could have
caused due to climate change and I mean breathing air essentially,
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and so they're just nobody can operate in this standard.
And one of the questions I was able to ask
is that is there anywhere in the world it has
more stringent standards than California when it comes to these regulations.
Not a single Nordic country, not a single country in Europe,
not even one of the only areas that we actually
can produce gas that can be used in California out
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of this state is actually from Singapore and we have
to barge it in on massive barges that actually use
coal to bring it in, and then now we can
consider it clean California gas.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
You know, David, I want to ask you, why is that?
Why is that, and how why can't we fix.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
That because we feel good by not doing even though
it makes no impact.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
You know, I live for a short period of time
in Hawaii, and I know right now in Hawaii there
and they don't produce any gasoline, they don't refine any there,
their gas is actually about eleven cents cheaper. Now. Wisconsin
also doesn't drill for oil, they don't refine it.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
They're under three bucks. But I believe if I pay four.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Fifty eight, I get some really good gas, right, will
my car run better?
Speaker 8 (18:09):
Well?
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Exactly. And I actually think part of the biggest push
was let's increase gas prices because then it will incentivize
people to buy electric vehicles. I think it's this created
essentially created government inflation on prices. I mean, we have
to look at it. Right now, the largest take home
on our gas prices here in California is the government.
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It's not the oil companies, it's not the convenience store
owners or the gas stations. It is the government. California
now takes over a dollar now with the new gas
text that was implemented to day, sixty five cents of
every single gallon. In addition to the additional regulations and
rules in place that California puts on goes immediately to
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the state of California, and that is larger than all
of the profits per gallon sold.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
Well, that definitely makes a lectricity look cheap in the
eyes of the uneducated. And I can see where people
are instantly going to say, well, do you will to
go electric with our cars, get solar on the house,
do all this kind of stuff, and they this basically
is tantamount to a government sanctioned monopoly.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
It's one of the saddest things that I've seen is
how much law there is being used to create stagnation
and scarcity simply through policy, and by doing that you
drive the prices up and everything you benefit certain sectors
over others. I mean, the easiest way to think about
it is that even though we are the quasi environmental
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friendly state, we don't even consider large scale hydroelectrical facilities
that produce over thirty megawatts clean and renewable, So it
doesn't make any sense. And they do that because they
specifically want to create scarcity, so that way it drives
investments for communities and people have to pay more for it.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
You know what, sure is funny, David, how when President
Trump's in office oil goes down every time. When he
was in twenty twenty, it went down. I mean it
was down to like record lows.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Right April thirteenth, twenty twenty. I took a picture before
Donald Trump left office later that year, and the gas
station off of the forty one and pretty much in
between Avenue twelve and fifteen, it was two dollars and
thirteen cents on April thirteenth, twenty twenty. I wonder what
it is today.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Well, we all know that, especially if it starts with
the number four and it's got a big number behind it.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Yeah, it's truly amazing. But you know, here's what I
always say. You know, you could talk a big game,
but actions always always speak louder than the words. And
when President Trump gets into office, his actions always do exactly.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
But that's part too. I look at what President Trump
did on the federal side, and I look at what
we need to do as Californians here in the state
of California. You know, if he's going to go and
handle it on the federal level, we need to create
a movement. We need to create enough people that are
just tired of California can't And something I speak about
often is that we don't need any more California refugees.
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We need some California rebels willing to fight for this
state and make it a better place, something they're proud
of for their kids and their grandkids to grow up in.
And until the people here start to come together, it's
not just going to be me, It's going to be
all of us together. And I think that's the general
purpose of what we're trying to do today.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
You know, David, and I know for a fact you
know the people you represent know that you're fighting for them.
You won office on that and on the things that
you everything that you ran on. You are absolutely fighting
for it. Man. There's no smoke and mirrors with you.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
I got a question for you, sir, before you answered,
forgive me, what other districts do you see as being
vulnerable that are right now democratic that perhaps could be
flipped where you since there's a groundswell of unhappiness with
the policies as they.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Are actually right here in the valley. Pretty much every
single seat in the Central Valley that is not held
by a Conservative or a Republican is actually up up
for grounds. So that's Assembly District twenty seven Assembly district,
I believe down in the Bakersfield area as well in
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a couple of the Senate seats, those are all a
lot of them are actually going to be open and
vacant seats to run in, so no incumbent in that
as well. Quite a few of them actually went President
President Trump, whether it's plus five plus six points. And
the biggest thing that I tell everybody is just we
need balance because we have crazy controlling California and there
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are twenty Republicans to sixty Democrats, and there are ten
in the Senate Senate Republicans to thirty senators on the
Democratic side. The biggest thing that we can do for
a change, it's not governor, it's not lieutenant governor, it's
not any of that. There is a veto proof majority
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in this legislative body, and we only need to pick
up three seats in the Senate and seven seats in
the Assembly. That is very possible, especially with the issues
that are coming down the line, to bring us back
to balance. So that way we can have an actual
reasonable conversation. Because I can tell you right now the
way that the majority party treats US is more of
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a glorified advisory board, and whenever they don't want to
talk to us, they'll kick you off the committees. They'll
make it to where we can't. I can't be on
the insurance committee because when We'recardo Lara is coming to
speak to us, I'm going to make sure that I'm
asking the hard questions because right now seniors can't pay
there insurance because their insurance is now more expensive than
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the mortgage they did on their home. So we need balance.
We need to get back to that. I'm willing to
work with anybody and everybody that prioritizes Californians first.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
You know, David, I think it's real scary with voting
in California. And I think until we get rid of
same day registration and mailing ballots to everybody on you know,
the list and voter ID I always say this, when
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we get rid of those things and we add IDs
and and the way it's really supposed to be, because
that's not racist to ask for an ID when you vote.
I think when we do that, we will pick those
seats up. I mean we're close to picking them.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
Up now, which is why I am actually working on
the voter ide initiative as well with some of my
other colleagues. Because that ballot initiative that we are working
on to get on the ballot, we need an army
of supporters that actually wants to bring back reasonability and sensibility.
Not only is voter ID not racist, We're one of
the only countries in the world that doesn't have it
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as mandatory. And here's how when anybody who tries to
bring up the argument of it's racist, you have to
ask them, do they believe that Mexico is racist? Because
Mexico not only requires ID, they also require biometrics, so
you have to put your thumb print on your ballot.
And not only that, they also ban alcohol for twenty
four hours on their day of voting to make sure
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that everybody is cognitively there.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Thank you, David. Thank you very much for fighting the
good fight, fighting for our communities, fighting for the victims,
fighting for the conservative way of life. And with that,
God bless you and God bless America.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Thanks folks, good things, God bless.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
God bless guys.
Speaker 8 (25:46):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
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Speaker 3 (00:44):
Good afternoon, and welcome to the Jody Jones Show. I'm
Jody Jones with my co host Fring fanlining him.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Hey, guys, what's up this week?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Is self described socialist Doran Mamdani won the Democratic primary
election in New York. That might seem like a far
off headline, but make no mistake the pology, the policies
and ideology he represents are already making their way into California.
And we have the man that said that, Assemblyman David
(01:12):
Tany Paul. He is going to explain that statement and
I agree with him. One. David, how are you doing, buddy?
Speaker 5 (01:23):
I'm doing well. How are you doing?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I'm doing good, man, Thank you for coming on.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Hey, dude, how are you doing?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Brother?
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Hey good to see. Good to hear from that.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Apparently you got a translate problem on.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, you know, David, Yeah, are you talking about Yeah? Yeah,
you know, I like you know what you said about
you know, socialism, you know spreading, it's spreading across America
and into California. You know, want you to expand on
that right now.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Yeah. It's actually something I think about fairly easily, is
that there's a lot of I mean, there's history behind it,
and they people can vote their way into socialism and communism,
but you're always going to have to shoot your way
out of it. And I'd prefer to stop that before
we get into it. That these altruistic ideologies always end
(02:16):
up in. I mean, essentially, we look at the USSR,
we look at what's happened to Cuba, we look at
what's happened to Venezuela. We look at what happened to
so many other areas that it's time to prevent it. Now,
it's time to get in front of it. One of
my favorite things that I love to listen to is
actually Thomas Soul and he's a political philosopher, and he
(02:37):
talks about how history is a graveyard for a lot
of bad policies, and it's unfortunate that policy makers love
to be grave diggers. And you know what we're seeing
right now is this rise in moral superiority that they
believe that they can do it better than all of
those who have already tried it before they just never
had enough money or they never had enough resources to
(02:59):
do it. And what we're seeing now with Mondami in
New York is already here in California. We are more
left than New York in New York City and those areas.
And we do have members here that are part of
the Socialist Party of America, that are part of the
Communist Party and have communist ideologies here in the state legislature.
(03:20):
And we've got to call it out now, and we
have to actually build the bench too, to set up
that our ideologies are better. We allowed AOC and Bernie
Sanders to walk up and down Central Valley here in California,
And what did we do to prevent that. Nothing. I'm
not going to sit back and do nothing. We're going
to work on calling this out and we're going to
(03:41):
work a lot on highlighting these issues.
Speaker 6 (03:43):
That's really important that we do that. Now, I got
a question for you, what do you think? I mean,
I know what California looks like now. I knew what
it looked like when I was a kid, and I'm
sixty three years old. What do you think a socialist
California would look like from where we shit right now.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Well, it's something that I actually truly fear, is that
Gavin Newsom's really bad. The next person is probably going
to be worse. And with Mondani's rise in popularity now
as a major city, I can tell you this, the
socialists and the communists and those individuals that believe in
that ideology now feel energetic. After having felt beaten in
(04:21):
the November election, Kamala Harris is starting to poke around
a little bit more, especially being up here in Sacramento.
I keep hearing that she is now feeling more energetic
and not only that she just posted online for the
first time in a long time, So we know that
they're kicking the tires on who can be more progressive
and who can be more far left. I can tell
(04:41):
you what a socialist agenda will look like in California
is I believe that they'll try to implement a wealth text.
I believe that they'll try to implement more penalties on
a lot of our local businesses that our businesses cannot
accept right now that we see the failures that are
happening to insurance. If you think your insurance is bad
right now, it's going to collapse in the The only
way that they correct it or try to pull us
(05:02):
out of it is government run insurance, which we all
know is going to be less services, not cheaper, and
it's just going to be more and more expensive. That
government ownership over a lot of the programs, entities and
businesses that we need and thrive on here will fall
under the state government. That is already what they are
doing with regulatory agencies like CARB, with regulatory agencies like DWR,
(05:27):
And look at all the expansions of powers that they've done,
even with Abe nineteen fifty five that they've centralized our
school boards under the Department of Education to ban parents
from having to say and to ban local elected officials
from deciding what their kids want. We're already seeing it
here in California. Imagine now somebody who's confident that they
(05:48):
can push the bounds in the limits.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Yeah, you know that maybe nineteen fifty five. I was
actually going to ask you about that, and you touched
on it. So you know, I can't believe that these
bills are passing, but you know, they have a super majority.
And sometimes does it feel like you're just fighting you
we're out of Quicksand I.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Would say not not always, and not only because I
believe that I represent some of the most amazing people
in the world here in the Central Valley, the farmers,
the families that took care of me. So you know,
it may be an uphill battle right now, but the
only way to start an avalanche is with the snowball,
so might as well get it going.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
I think that's a great idea. And I I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
I feel like we shent you there to make fringe
and I think you're failing so far.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Well, I do have a new record. I am the
fastest legislator to be kicked off of committees.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
And that's something else, you know, and.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Then it's look, I'm going to speak the hard truth.
I'm going to talk about it. And when I told
everybody in my campaign that we were going to send
a bulldog to Sacramento, the part that's most surprising to
me is that, you know, now everybody was like, well,
you told this, you're going to do that. We're just
surprised you're doing it. And I was like, well, I
prefer to be one of the one of the guys
who actually lives by what they say.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Kind of like President Trump. Right, think about it, he
told everybody what he was going to do when he
came in, and he's doing it. And that reacts surprise, now.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Right, You're exactly right on that. That is it is
a surprise that people actually do what they say. You
know that it catches people off guard, and you know,
there's a lot of social pressures that they try to use,
even up here in Zacramento. You know, they'll tell me like, hey,
you're not going to be invited to this dinner or
you're not going to get to this, and I look
(07:40):
at them and I'm like, you do know that twenty
percent of utility rate payers right now can't afford their utilities.
You do know that people are struggling losing their homes wildfires.
Do you really think I am shallow enough or care
that I won't be invited to all of these fancy
things when you know I've lived the American dream in
(08:02):
the sense of my mother immigrated here from Tonga. I'm
a business owner, first person to graduate from college. I
sponsored my mother's immigration. I take care of my family now.
All of that is because the people in our district,
in our area took care of me to help me
get to this point that this is my chance to
go back and to repay them for giving me a
blessed life that I'm not going to let a fancy
(08:23):
dinner determine or sway me in any type of way.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
That's because you are an upstanding person. David, Hey, you
know what the budget was? It just passed yesterday or
when was that.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Yeah, we had a couple more trailer bills is what
they call it on the budget both yesterday and Friday.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
So I know they're kind of saying it's a win
for California. What do you think.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
It is a I don't know how do I describe
this that is radio appropriate.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I'm thinking it's not a win for California. Is that
kind of what I'm getting here?
Speaker 5 (09:00):
We are simply floating this state. So when Governor Newsom
leaves this state and it collapses after he leaves, he
can say that it's not his fault. Does it happened
after his tenure? But one of the most threatening questions
that I've made able to ask both the director or
a Department of Finance d LAO and different organizations is,
with the current spending that we are on today and
(09:22):
with the seven point five billion dollars that we are
borrowing from the Rainy Day Fund to float the budget
right now, can we even vote on this exact same budget,
this exact same budget in three years. And the answer
was unequivocally no, because we're using we're draining forty percent
(09:42):
of the Rainy Day Fund this year. Next year, if
we wanted to do the same seven and a half
billion dollars next year, it would make up seventy percent
of the Rainy Day Fund, and then the following year
there's not even seven point five billion dollars in the
Rainy Day Fund and all of those projections are on
if spending days the exact same, which we all know
(10:07):
is not possible. And so when I'm kicking up dust
here and I'm asking these questions, it's in reality that
we are simply floating the budget now and we're leveraging
the future of future Californians. And it is something that
I believe is so eerily, it's so irresponsible because in
the future we will have to cut programs, and they
(10:29):
just don't want to have the hard conversation now.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
I think it's important to remind people, and I believe,
and I've learned this through life, that a bill that
can't be paid won't be paid. And you can make
all the promises in the world, but if you lack
the ability to actually fulfill those promises, what you're really
doing is lying. And you're lying in piecemeal forms so
that you really don't feel like you're telling an untruth
(10:53):
because I'm telling it the way I believe it right now.
But you know darn well this won't happen. Tell me
here in the valley versus other districts. Do we as
a people have an appetite for the kind of sacrifice
that it's going to take Do you think the valley does,
do you think other places do? Or do these people
just have a pollenic view of this thing.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
See that's the part why I keep talking about a
lot of this feels like we're mopping the deck of
the Titanic, and I would much rather build the boat.
And that's why I try to get in front of Mandani.
And the rise of socialism is because once we start
cutting programs, once people start once all of this grant
funding really dries up, now people are going to start
(11:36):
being angry and they're going to start trying to blame
something and find something, because that's how it's been throughout history.
And if the socialists are the ones who get to
capture the message behind that and say, see, the government
didn't do enough to take care of you, and it's
these greedy corporations and it's the billionaires and it's all
of this that are causing all the problems, they're going
(11:57):
to create a movement and rise on that end. But
I want to start working with people to say, no,
it's not that it is the over taxation. It is
the over regulation, and it is the government that believes
that it knows better. But when we look at the
track record of our own government, that should be proof
enough to say that this state is eerily mismanaged. Is
(12:20):
not only taking all of our funds and all of
our dollars and wasting it. When we look at the
track record of fifteen point seven billion dollars the high
speed rail, what do we have to show for it?
Not controlled by billionaires, not controlled by the most wealthy,
controlled by the state of California, concrete and rebar and
almost twenty billion dollars has been spent. That's not capitalism's fault.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Hey, David, we're going to take a break. When we
come back, we're going to hit that talking point about
gas tax and all that. I want everybody to understand
what's really going on here. Okay, you don't want to
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Speaker 3 (15:47):
Fighting every day to protect the values that make California worth,
fighting for freedom, opportunity and local control. Assemblyman David Tangy Paul, David,
you said that, and I love it, man.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Well, I appreciate it. I'm just trying to live by it.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Talking about gas and oil and I want everybody out
there to understand what's really going on.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Well, the easiest way to summarize it is twenty percent
of our refinery capacity is going to be gone by
April of next year. Philip sixty six is gone because
they have basically given the bird to California. They said,
you guys, your regulations everything. Nope, we're out. We're done.
There's nothing you can do to get us back. We're
shutting down the refinery. I don't care Venetia. There's still
(16:33):
a chance they want to stay in California. But the
more rules, regulations and everything else that they keep implementing.
I mean, they were issued a fine of almost eight
hundred million dollars for potential damages that they could have
caused due to climate change and I mean breathing air essentially,
(16:53):
and so they're just nobody can operate in this standard.
And one of the questions I was able to ask
is that is there anywhere in the world it has
more stringent standards than California when it comes to these regulations.
Not a single Nordic country, not a single country in Europe,
not even one of the only areas that we actually
can produce gas that can be used in California out
(17:16):
of this state is actually from Singapore and we have
to barge it in on massive barges that actually use
coal to bring it in, and then now we can
consider it clean California gas.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
You know, David, I want to ask you, why is that?
Why is that, and how why can't we fix.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
That because we feel good by not doing even though
it makes no impact.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
You know, I live for a short period of time
in Hawaii, and I know right now in Hawaii there
and they don't produce any gasoline, they don't refine any there,
their gas is actually about eleven cents cheaper. Now. Wisconsin
also doesn't drill for oil, they don't refine it.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
They're under three bucks. But I believe if I pay four.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Fifty eight, I get some really good gas, right, will
my car run better?
Speaker 8 (18:09):
Well?
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Exactly. And I actually think part of the biggest push
was let's increase gas prices because then it will incentivize
people to buy electric vehicles. I think it's this created
essentially created government inflation on prices. I mean, we have
to look at it. Right now, the largest take home
on our gas prices here in California is the government.
(18:33):
It's not the oil companies, it's not the convenience store
owners or the gas stations. It is the government. California
now takes over a dollar now with the new gas
text that was implemented to day, sixty five cents of
every single gallon. In addition to the additional regulations and
rules in place that California puts on goes immediately to
(18:53):
the state of California, and that is larger than all
of the profits per gallon sold.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
Well, that definitely makes a lectricity look cheap in the
eyes of the uneducated. And I can see where people
are instantly going to say, well, do you will to
go electric with our cars, get solar on the house,
do all this kind of stuff, and they this basically
is tantamount to a government sanctioned monopoly.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
It's one of the saddest things that I've seen is
how much law there is being used to create stagnation
and scarcity simply through policy, and by doing that you
drive the prices up and everything you benefit certain sectors
over others. I mean, the easiest way to think about
it is that even though we are the quasi environmental
(19:38):
friendly state, we don't even consider large scale hydroelectrical facilities
that produce over thirty megawatts clean and renewable, So it
doesn't make any sense. And they do that because they
specifically want to create scarcity, so that way it drives
investments for communities and people have to pay more for it.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
You know what, sure is funny, David, how when President
Trump's in office oil goes down every time. When he
was in twenty twenty, it went down. I mean it
was down to like record lows.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Right April thirteenth, twenty twenty. I took a picture before
Donald Trump left office later that year, and the gas
station off of the forty one and pretty much in
between Avenue twelve and fifteen, it was two dollars and
thirteen cents on April thirteenth, twenty twenty. I wonder what
it is today.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Well, we all know that, especially if it starts with
the number four and it's got a big number behind it.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Yeah, it's truly amazing. But you know, here's what I
always say. You know, you could talk a big game,
but actions always always speak louder than the words. And
when President Trump gets into office, his actions always do exactly.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
But that's part too. I look at what President Trump
did on the federal side, and I look at what
we need to do as Californians here in the state
of California. You know, if he's going to go and
handle it on the federal level, we need to create
a movement. We need to create enough people that are
just tired of California can't And something I speak about
often is that we don't need any more California refugees.
(21:18):
We need some California rebels willing to fight for this
state and make it a better place, something they're proud
of for their kids and their grandkids to grow up in.
And until the people here start to come together, it's
not just going to be me, It's going to be
all of us together. And I think that's the general
purpose of what we're trying to do today.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
You know, David, and I know for a fact you
know the people you represent know that you're fighting for them.
You won office on that and on the things that
you everything that you ran on. You are absolutely fighting
for it. Man. There's no smoke and mirrors with you.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
I got a question for you, sir, before you answered,
forgive me, what other districts do you see as being
vulnerable that are right now democratic that perhaps could be
flipped where you since there's a groundswell of unhappiness with
the policies as they.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Are actually right here in the valley. Pretty much every
single seat in the Central Valley that is not held
by a Conservative or a Republican is actually up up
for grounds. So that's Assembly District twenty seven Assembly district,
I believe down in the Bakersfield area as well in
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a couple of the Senate seats, those are all a
lot of them are actually going to be open and
vacant seats to run in, so no incumbent in that
as well. Quite a few of them actually went President
President Trump, whether it's plus five plus six points. And
the biggest thing that I tell everybody is just we
need balance because we have crazy controlling California and there
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are twenty Republicans to sixty Democrats, and there are ten
in the Senate Senate Republicans to thirty senators on the
Democratic side. The biggest thing that we can do for
a change, it's not governor, it's not lieutenant governor, it's
not any of that. There is a veto proof majority
(23:21):
in this legislative body, and we only need to pick
up three seats in the Senate and seven seats in
the Assembly. That is very possible, especially with the issues
that are coming down the line, to bring us back
to balance. So that way we can have an actual
reasonable conversation. Because I can tell you right now the
way that the majority party treats US is more of
(23:42):
a glorified advisory board, and whenever they don't want to
talk to us, they'll kick you off the committees. They'll
make it to where we can't. I can't be on
the insurance committee because when We'recardo Lara is coming to
speak to us, I'm going to make sure that I'm
asking the hard questions because right now seniors can't pay
there insurance because their insurance is now more expensive than
(24:03):
the mortgage they did on their home. So we need balance.
We need to get back to that. I'm willing to
work with anybody and everybody that prioritizes Californians first.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
You know, David, I think it's real scary with voting
in California. And I think until we get rid of
same day registration and mailing ballots to everybody on you know,
the list and voter ID I always say this, when
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we get rid of those things and we add IDs
and and the way it's really supposed to be, because
that's not racist to ask for an ID when you vote.
I think when we do that, we will pick those
seats up. I mean we're close to picking them.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
Up now, which is why I am actually working on
the voter ide initiative as well with some of my
other colleagues. Because that ballot initiative that we are working
on to get on the ballot, we need an army
of supporters that actually wants to bring back reasonability and sensibility.
Not only is voter ID not racist, We're one of
the only countries in the world that doesn't have it
(25:09):
as mandatory. And here's how when anybody who tries to
bring up the argument of it's racist, you have to
ask them, do they believe that Mexico is racist? Because
Mexico not only requires ID, they also require biometrics, so
you have to put your thumb print on your ballot.
And not only that, they also ban alcohol for twenty
four hours on their day of voting to make sure
(25:31):
that everybody is cognitively there.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Thank you, David. Thank you very much for fighting the
good fight, fighting for our communities, fighting for the victims,
fighting for the conservative way of life. And with that,
God bless you and God bless America.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Thanks folks, good things, God bless.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
God bless guys.
Speaker 8 (25:46):
Thank you.
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!