October 22, 2025 • 27 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (10/22) - CA State Assemblyman Carl DeMaio fills in for John. Carl answers questions from listeners.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio apps.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I am thrilled to be here.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Plus update you on the No on Prop fifty campaign,
our fight against Governor Gavin Newsom's corrupt redistricting scheme. I
covered it earlier this week, and I want to just recap.
We are in the fight of our lives and we
need you to return your ballot now with a no vote.
Do not wait till election day. We need the votes
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now because I need you to also track your ballot
and verify that it was actually counted. If you wait
till election day, if it's not counted, there's.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Nothing you can do.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
And we got a report earlier that the postal centers
in rural areas are not guaranteeing delivery of mail or
postmarking of mail on time. The reason why this is
so crucially important is that it's the rural areas that
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are most opposed to Prop fifty because they're the ones
that are going to be silenced silenced by Gavin Newsom's
corrupt redistricting scheme. Return your ballot now, get your friends
to vote no now. Do not wait till election day,
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we do not have enough Republicans turning out, and I'm
worried that if we don't get more turnout, it's lost.
Right now, we're down by five points. I need maximum
turnout from Republicans to vote no, and then I also
need you Democrat and Independence to pause and consider. You
do realize that Prop fifty is redistricting by politicians. They
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drew the map for their benefit, not for the benefit
of voters. But they created districts that are safe for them,
which means there's no competition. In order to have no
competition and no threat that they'll ever be thrown out
of office, they literally take voters that they don't like
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and silence them by packing them into districts of voters.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Who absolutely are thrilled with them.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
So earlier we talked about San Francisco and how out
of control San Francisco is, how.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Liberal it is.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
But do you know what they did to the voters
up in Reading, California. They put the voters of Reading,
California in the same district as San Francisco Bay, three
hundred miles away. This is so unfair, it's so undemocratic. Oh,
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I know what you say, though, Becaul, I have to
stop Trump.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
He's evil.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
He's rigging in Texas, and so I need to rig
in California.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
What do you say about that, Carl, What do you
say about Texas?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Okay, first I can get into the complexities of Texas.
Texas did not choose to redistrict. The federal courts ordered
Texas to redistrict because their maps were found to be unlawful,
not consistent with the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Act.
You know who brought that lawsuit, Joe Biden in it
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boomeranged back on him. I also have said what Texas
is doing to draw their maps based on that court
order is wrong. It shouldn't be the governor of Texas.
It should not be the legislature, should be a citizen's commission.
I've been consistent, I'm not going to do something wrong.
If Republicans are doing something wrong, I'm gonna call them
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out on it. You're doing something wrong. But apparently yes,
voters know what they're doing is wrong. They think though
the ends justify the means.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Do you really think that.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Doing the wrong thing Do you think it ever reaches
a righteous outcome? I don't think so it's still wrong.
You are choosing to do wrong, and you learned in
kindergarten two wrongs don't make a right. Are you really
willing to silence the voters of writing California in so
many other communities, tell them that they don't get a voice,
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they don't get a representative, they don't get a district
of the communities in their geographic area. They get split up,
ripped apart, and thrown in with other people that have
no common ties or bonds. Are you really willing to
be that sort of person? Because if you are, then
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your criticism of Trump is actually it's not credible. You're
doing exactly what you're accusing Trump of doing. So don't
kid yourself. If you're gonna do Prop fifty, understand that
you are just drawing democracy for millions of Californians. Understand
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that that is what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
If you can sleep with yourself, if you.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Think that that's appropriate, then you're what's wrong with our democracy.
But I don't think a good number of the people
leaning towards Yes are bad people. I think they are
fair minded people, and they need to hear what I
just said. They need to take a pause because they
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know Prop fifty is wrong, but they think the ends
justify the means. But you know what you're doing is wrong,
and that is the reason why you should vote now.
I also want to give you an update before I
get to your questions on Voter ID this morning and
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the state capitol. I've been traveling the state in this
yellow bus.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I'm exhausted. I have been.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
We're in the middle of set seventy two events in
thirty days. We started October fourth, will end November fourth,
seventy two events in thirty days. We're up at four
o'clock in the morning to get on the road by
five five point fifteen in this bus, sleeping in travel hotels,
doing two to three rallies a day, setting them up,
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tearing them down. I'm exhausted, but my team is exhausted,
but it's important work. We're traveling to get the no
vote out on Prop fifty and to collect a million
signatures on the California Voter ID initiative. And today we
announced got two hundred and fifty thousand signatures on the
Voter I D petition in the first two weeks, which
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is record breaking. But as much as I'm thrilled about
that and appreciative of those who've signed and sent back
the signatures, we need more asap because we need a
million to qualify. The easiest signatures are always the first
two weeks, so I need you to continue to collect signatures.
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I need you to sign the petition. Go online right
now voter ide Initiative dot com. Voter ide Initiative dot com.
Sign the petition by downloading it, printing it, signing it
and mailing it back. If you can get additional signatures,
please request a volunteer kit at that website voter id
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Initiative dot com.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
And finally, as I mentioned.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Those seventy two events, we have a full list of
the events online at that website. I'd love to see you.
I'm going to be in the Bay Area tomorrow. Tonight
is Roseville, California. We'll be in Central Valley by the
end of the week, and then we're going to be
back in La this Sunday, Pasadena in an Empire Corona
this Sunday night, LA Orange County and Riverside the following week.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Join me at one of the events because I would
love to see you. Give you a No.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
One Prop fifty sign give you the petition case, get
your signature and give you an update on the find
meet you in person, take some pictures. Coming up your
questions for a sitting state legislature me Carl Demyo on
what's going on, how crazy it is in Sacramento. Bills
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that you may not like, ideas yet you might want
to see put into law. Ask me anything. I will
do my best to answer as many questions as possible.
Use the iHeartRadio app the talk back feature Carl Tobio
sitting in for John que Belt I AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
So let's talk about your questions. Use the iHeartRadio app
to submit your question to me and we'll get through
as many as possible. As a sitting state legislator, I
see a lot of corruption, a lot of bad things.
I'm trying to do my best to get good things happening,
and of course stop bad things from happening by voting
down bills. But it is a correct political system, and
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people are shocked when I tell them what's happening behind
the scenes, the story behind the story. So let's go
through each of the talkbacks as many as we can.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Let's go with the first one.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Come on, Carl, you can't expect Democrats and Sacramento to
interact with the serfs. We are just the peons, worker bees,
and we are supposed to follow their lead. They will
not interact with the serfs. We're scum.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
The listener absolutely is right. They consider us scum. They
look down on real people. They only pay attention to
people with money campaign contributions to fund their campaigns. That's
why this system serves the elites, the rich at your expense.
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The only way that we're going to change that system
is by empowering the grassroots.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
That's where Reform California comes in.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
I build an army of small dollar donors, we build
an army of volunteers. We want to recruit candidates who
are really change oriented and principled.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
We believe that the real problem.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
In California is not just the cost of living, the homelessness,
the crime, the grime, the failing schools, the job losses.
The real problem is we have a corrupt, broken political
system that serves the elites at the expense of the people,
and sadly, Democrat voters.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Don't see that. They don't see that.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
And even more sad, we've had a lot of incumbent
Republicans not fight, they have given up. They have been
the surrender caucus rather than the fighters. We're starting to
change that with more principal elected officials on the Republican side.
But the only way you hold the politicians accountable is
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by rising up and being a movement of force to.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Be reckoned with. That's what Trump did with MAGA nationally.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
That's why Trump Trump alone is not doing this. You
the Trump movement is doing this. And that's why if
someone doesn't have Trump support in a primary, all of
the Trump supporters, the movement he's built, go with the
person that does have Trump support. Next one, what can
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we do to overturn or fight Senate Bill seventy nine.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Senate Bill seventy nine.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Was one of the ten worst bills that I covered
during the one o'clock hour. If you missed it, the
podcast will be posted today after four o'clock on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Senate Bill seventy.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Nine allows a developer to buy a single family home,
tear it down, and then build a six story condominium
high rise on that same plot with no local control.
The city council, local residents will not be able to
stop it because the developers have bought the politicians in Sacramento.
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They've passed bills like SB seventy nine and of course
SB eight sorry SB nine and ten from previous cycles
that allow developers to buy single family homes and do
a duplex, a four plex, or a ten plex. And
in this case SB seventy nine, they've increased it to
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six stories high, as many units as you can possibly
cram in six stories high.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Absolutely insane.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
How do you stop it? You throw some politicians out
of office. And I know that it keeps coming back
to that. But you don't have to get all of
the politicians that are bad thrown out of office.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
See how politics works is that if you get one
politician out of office because of a bad vote on
a specific issue, the other politicians take note and back down.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
It only takes one dead body.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
It only takes one finger caught or found in the
chili at Wendy's to ruin people's views of whether they
should go to a restaurant. And by the way, the
Wendy finger in the chili was a hoax, but gave
it did great damage to them. But with politicians, if
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you throw one of them out, and that one of
the reasons why they were thrown out was that they
got a bunch of angry constituents rising up against them
about a bad vote on a bill called SB seventy
nine with a bunch of condo towers being built now
in their neighborhood, destroying the caliber of their neighborhood, bringing
density and that's not wanted. Then the other politicians take
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note and they realize, oh, that could happen.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
To me next.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
That's what Reform California's movement is all about, targeting and
throwing some of the politicians out of office to serve
as a disinfectant to the others. All right, keep those
questions coming. This is pretty fun the talkback feature on
the iHeartRadio app sound Off.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Ask a question.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
We will take up as many of the questions this
hour as possible. Plus, remember please go to the website
Voter ID Initiative dot com. Voter id Initiative dot com,
sign the voter ID Initiative and sign up for a
kit to get additional signatures in your neighborhood. It's Carl
DeMaio sitting in today for John Cobelt KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Six forty KFI and I want you to use the
iHeartRadio app. It's where you can have a talkback feature
and ask me a question. And I'm going to get
through as many of your questions as possible. Plus, I
want to update you on the California Voter ID initiative.
Let me do that real quick. We have two hundred
fifty thousand signatures on the California.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Voter ID petition. We need a million. And while I'm thrilled.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
That we have two hundred and fifty thousand that we were
able to announce today, which is, by the way, a
record breaking number for the first two weeks.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
We need a million.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
And that means I need you to sign the initiative
and I need you to get a volunteer kit. I
will mail you a volunteer kit. I will pay the
postage to mail you the petitions that you can circulate
with your friends, family, neighbors, coworkers. You can sign it
online at voterid Initiative dot com, download, print, sign and
mail back Voter ID Initiative dot com, or you can
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request that I mail you the vo volunteer kit at
voter id Initiative dot com, or just show up to one.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Of my events.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I'm in the middle of seventy two events in thirty days.
I'm exhausted. We travel the state in this yellow art
bus and we get up at four o'clock, five o'clock
in the morning, and we are up until eleven o'clock
at night, and then we.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Repeat it every single day.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
It's very exhausting, but it's very important that we get
these signatures as soon as possible. Plus, we're also campaigning
for no on Prop fifty to stop Gavenusom's corrupt redistricting scheme.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
You can get our full list.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Of events statewide online at that website VOTERID Initiative dot com.
So all of the things that we're talking about, if
you want to make improvements on all these things that
you're frustrated with, the best way to do that is
to get fair elections and throw the bums out. Voter
ID is needed. Voteridinitiative dot com.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
All right, let's go to another talkback.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
Hi, Carl, name is ERDM Chavis. I'm from renchokookum On, California.
My question for you is over Assembly Bill four ninety
five and what can we do as concerned parents to
protect our kids from being trafficked right from under our noses?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
So I covered this in the first hour as part
of our top ten worst Bills, and AB four ninety
five allows strangers to seize minor children from parents with
no permission. This is insane that they would even pass this,
but indeed this reckless bill is now law.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
And so there's two things we need to do, actually
three things.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
First, we need to sue and see if we can
get a court to overturn it, as you know, a
threat to parents' rights. The problem there is that people
will say, well, you need someone who had their child
taken using this bill, who has damages. Well, I don't
want a child hurt, you know. No one wants to say, oh,
well i'll either you know. You know, if you hurt
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my child, I get damages, but at least I get damages. No,
they don't want their child hurt in the first place.
No amount of money is going to compensate for a
hurt child. So we need to be proactive and see
if we can sue and get this overturned. But that's
a long shot in California's courts. So now I need
to suggest that we have to make an issue in
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the election to throw some bums out. But then finally
I announced I'm going to offer a bill to allow
parents to opt out of AB four so that no
one can then sign a document seizing your children.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
If other parents say, oh, I think it's great.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
If people want to sign a document seizing my child,
well I guess it's on them.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
But most parents are not going to be stupid.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
They're going to want to opt out and shield their
child from someone using this bad bill.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
So that's my next step on AB four ninety five.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
But the best way to do it is to raise
awareness and make this a controversial issue in the election.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Let's go to another talkback. Hey Carl, this is Greag
in Temecula. Keep doing the good work, man. We're all
pulling and praying for you.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Can you please explain to us how new your son
has the authority to put Prop fifty on the ballot
in the first place.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
How did he do that?
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Well, gathered Vanusum does not have the authority to put
Prop fifty on the ballot.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
We sued on that basis.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
But the California Supreme Court, they're not watchdogs, their lap dogs.
They do whatever the liberal politicians that appointed them want.
And the reason why we laid this out in our case,
and the justices didn't even have the professionalism the transparency
to rule on our merits. They just simply dismissed. They
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just said, we're not going to tell you why we're
not going to consider the case. We're just not going
to consider it and they're not going to take it
up later on, damage will already be done. But the
first thing is that the legislature was not allowed to
draw maps per the state constitution, but they did so anyway.
The legislature drew up maps when the state constitution said,
this is the only body of government that's allowed to
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draw maps is the Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
So these maps were drawn illegally.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Second, you're not allowed to redistrict mid decade under the
state constitution, but that's exactly what we're doing with this vote.
They have initiated a mid districting, a mid cycle regissearching. Third,
they were supposed to give the voters, the public seventy
two hours, sorry, thirty days thirty days before legislation was
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voted on. Every bill must be introduced thirty days before
it's considered by either chamber of the legislature. They failed
to do that. That's a violation of the state constitution.
And finally, fourth, the politicians putting together the legislation is
in essence redistricting, and the politicians were eliminated from that role.
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But every way you look at this and slice it,
dice it, it was illegal.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
But Mike makes right. In California, that's the notion of corruption.
They get away with it.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
The justices will not stand up to the people that
appointed them. The justices of the California Supreme Court are
as liberal as the politicians. They're in on the conspiracy.
They're in on the scam. So if you think that
we're going to be able to sue, it's not ever
going to happen unless it's a federal case, and there
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are some federal ways to challenge Prop fifty, but it's
a long shot. We've got to beat it at the
ballot box, which is why I've urged all the Republicans
to return their ballots with a no vote before election day.
Do not wait till election day. There's too many problems
with the mail and in person voting now in California.
Get it in early and verify your vote was counted.
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And then finally reach out to your Democrat and independent
friends and convince them that this is the wrong thing
to do.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Get vocal.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
You can influence votes, and now is the time to
do it. Last two weeks of the election. Use the
talkback feature. We've got a couple more questions. I want
to be able to answer the talkback feature on the
iHeartRadio app. It's the easiest way for you to get
your question answered. We've got a lot to get to
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coming up. We'll get our final questions in.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI A six.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
It's been wonderful sitting in warming his chair up for
the three days that he's been out. I appreciate all
of your questions and all of your support. You who
are collecting signatures on the California Voter Ide Initiative as volunteers,
thank you. You are going to change the state. Those
of you who have not signed the petition yet or
are not volunteering to get signatures, activate sign the petition
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and please if you can circulate and get five signatures.
That's all I need from each of you. Go to
voter ide initiative dot com. Voter idea initiative dot com.
If you can't volunteer, chip in a contribution, but get
engaged and get involved. Let's go to a couple of
our final talkback questions. I'll try to answer as many
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as we possibly can in the moments we have.
Speaker 7 (23:08):
Go ahead, Hello, Carl, my name is Ryan Barney, and
I just want to know is there a way to
reduce the taxes on Californian's the gas tax, the income tax?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Is there a way to reduce that? Oh? Yes, indeed,
I mean think about this. Politicians always say we don't
have enough money, we need more of your money.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Meanwhile, they're wasting your money. Billions of dollars for legal
immigrants and goodies and taxpayer handouts, billions of dollars of
grift in no bid contracts for their campaign contributors, all
the gold plated pensions for paper pushers that you can
possibly manage. Imagine salary hikes and pension spikes for all
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the government workers, all at your expense. There will never
be enough money that they will take from you to
satisfy their demands, which is why we have the highest
tax burden of any state in the nation. How about
we just index our tax burden to the average state.
We'd be saving everyone thousands of dollars and giving them
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cost of living relief. How do you reverse high taxes
You throw the politicians who raised your taxes out of office.
It gets back to you cannot sit on the sidelines
and just gripe and complain.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
You got to get engaged.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
And the strategy of reform California is we don't just
scream into the wind and say.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Let's vote against all the politicians.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
No, we pick a few of the weakest and we
take them out of office. You can't take every bad
politician out of office, but if you target and work
together and focus your anger and energy on just one
or two, you can end their career. I don't want
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to make this an analogy because a lot of liberals
will say I'm trying to endorse violence. I'm not endorsing violence,
But let me talk about how a gun used it works.
As a gun has only a certain number of bullets.
As soon as you fire the bullets, the gun has
no impact whatsoever. And what I want to do is
build a movement that in essence is a weapon against
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bad politicians, democracy wise, not physically, And every once in
a while you have to demonstrate that weapon by having
a dead body, a victim, a target taken out. Again,
I'm not endorsing violence. I'm talking election wise. I'm talking
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democracy wise. We use our votes, not physical violence or bullets.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
We use our votes.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
But that's how a gun works, and that's how a
political movement needs to work. That we will go after
a specific number of bad politicians and throw them out
of office.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
And we actually have a list.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
We have a list of sixteen target seats at Reform California.
We need seven out of the sixteen to win to
break the super majority. And that's why voter ID is
so important, because we believe that our ability to throw
bad politicians out of office is heightened if we have
a fair election. So, my friends, you want change in government,
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Stop writing letters, stop sending emails, Stop calling your politicians.
They don't care what you say. They really worry about
what you do. Send one politician a letter once a
year saying every time you vote against something that I support,
every time you screw me over, I'm walking another neighborhood
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and telling them to vote against you. Word of mouth marketing,
baby is what moves the envelope, moves the needle, and
that's what we're going to need in this movement. We're
not going to have the money that the politicians have
because the special interests will give them the money we
need the movement. You can continue to learn more about
this program by following me at my social media channels
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at Carl Demayo on x on Facebook, on Instagram YouTube.
Every day at five o'clock we have our Reform California
with Carl Demyo podcast. Please check it out, subscribe and
like those videos, and also sign up at Reform California
dot org.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Join the movement. We have a state to save. Let's
take it back together.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
It's been a pleasure sitting in for Junkle Belt on
AM six forty KFI. Carl Demyo signing off. Let's get
a check on news with Michael Krozer.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast.
You can always hear the show live on KFI AM
six forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday,
and of course anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app,
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio apps.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I am thrilled to be here.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Plus update you on the No on Prop fifty campaign,
our fight against Governor Gavin Newsom's corrupt redistricting scheme. I
covered it earlier this week, and I want to just recap.
We are in the fight of our lives and we
need you to return your ballot now with a no vote.
Do not wait till election day. We need the votes
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now because I need you to also track your ballot
and verify that it was actually counted. If you wait
till election day, if it's not counted, there's.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Nothing you can do.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
And we got a report earlier that the postal centers
in rural areas are not guaranteeing delivery of mail or
postmarking of mail on time. The reason why this is
so crucially important is that it's the rural areas that
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are most opposed to Prop fifty because they're the ones
that are going to be silenced silenced by Gavin Newsom's
corrupt redistricting scheme. Return your ballot now, get your friends
to vote no now. Do not wait till election day,
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we do not have enough Republicans turning out, and I'm
worried that if we don't get more turnout, it's lost.
Right now, we're down by five points. I need maximum
turnout from Republicans to vote no, and then I also
need you Democrat and Independence to pause and consider. You
do realize that Prop fifty is redistricting by politicians. They
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drew the map for their benefit, not for the benefit
of voters. But they created districts that are safe for them,
which means there's no competition. In order to have no
competition and no threat that they'll ever be thrown out
of office, they literally take voters that they don't like
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and silence them by packing them into districts of voters.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Who absolutely are thrilled with them.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
So earlier we talked about San Francisco and how out
of control San Francisco is, how.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Liberal it is.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
But do you know what they did to the voters
up in Reading, California. They put the voters of Reading,
California in the same district as San Francisco Bay, three
hundred miles away. This is so unfair, it's so undemocratic. Oh,
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I know what you say, though, Becaul, I have to
stop Trump.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
He's evil.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
He's rigging in Texas, and so I need to rig
in California.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
What do you say about that, Carl, What do you
say about Texas?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Okay, first I can get into the complexities of Texas.
Texas did not choose to redistrict. The federal courts ordered
Texas to redistrict because their maps were found to be unlawful,
not consistent with the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Act.
You know who brought that lawsuit, Joe Biden in it
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boomeranged back on him. I also have said what Texas
is doing to draw their maps based on that court
order is wrong. It shouldn't be the governor of Texas.
It should not be the legislature, should be a citizen's commission.
I've been consistent, I'm not going to do something wrong.
If Republicans are doing something wrong, I'm gonna call them
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out on it. You're doing something wrong. But apparently yes,
voters know what they're doing is wrong. They think though
the ends justify the means.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Do you really think that.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Doing the wrong thing Do you think it ever reaches
a righteous outcome? I don't think so it's still wrong.
You are choosing to do wrong, and you learned in
kindergarten two wrongs don't make a right. Are you really
willing to silence the voters of writing California in so
many other communities, tell them that they don't get a voice,
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they don't get a representative, they don't get a district
of the communities in their geographic area. They get split up,
ripped apart, and thrown in with other people that have
no common ties or bonds. Are you really willing to
be that sort of person? Because if you are, then
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your criticism of Trump is actually it's not credible. You're
doing exactly what you're accusing Trump of doing. So don't
kid yourself. If you're gonna do Prop fifty, understand that
you are just drawing democracy for millions of Californians. Understand
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that that is what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
If you can sleep with yourself, if you.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Think that that's appropriate, then you're what's wrong with our democracy.
But I don't think a good number of the people
leaning towards Yes are bad people. I think they are
fair minded people, and they need to hear what I
just said. They need to take a pause because they
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know Prop fifty is wrong, but they think the ends
justify the means. But you know what you're doing is wrong,
and that is the reason why you should vote now.
I also want to give you an update before I
get to your questions on Voter ID this morning and
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the state capitol. I've been traveling the state in this
yellow bus.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I'm exhausted. I have been.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
We're in the middle of set seventy two events in
thirty days. We started October fourth, will end November fourth,
seventy two events in thirty days. We're up at four
o'clock in the morning to get on the road by
five five point fifteen in this bus, sleeping in travel hotels,
doing two to three rallies a day, setting them up,
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tearing them down. I'm exhausted, but my team is exhausted,
but it's important work. We're traveling to get the no
vote out on Prop fifty and to collect a million
signatures on the California Voter ID initiative. And today we
announced got two hundred and fifty thousand signatures on the
Voter I D petition in the first two weeks, which
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is record breaking. But as much as I'm thrilled about
that and appreciative of those who've signed and sent back
the signatures, we need more asap because we need a
million to qualify. The easiest signatures are always the first
two weeks, so I need you to continue to collect signatures.
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I need you to sign the petition. Go online right
now voter ide Initiative dot com. Voter ide Initiative dot com.
Sign the petition by downloading it, printing it, signing it
and mailing it back. If you can get additional signatures,
please request a volunteer kit at that website voter id
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Initiative dot com.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
And finally, as I mentioned.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Those seventy two events, we have a full list of
the events online at that website. I'd love to see you.
I'm going to be in the Bay Area tomorrow. Tonight
is Roseville, California. We'll be in Central Valley by the
end of the week, and then we're going to be
back in La this Sunday, Pasadena in an Empire Corona
this Sunday night, LA Orange County and Riverside the following week.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Join me at one of the events because I would
love to see you. Give you a No.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
One Prop fifty sign give you the petition case, get
your signature and give you an update on the find
meet you in person, take some pictures. Coming up your
questions for a sitting state legislature me Carl Demyo on
what's going on, how crazy it is in Sacramento. Bills
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that you may not like, ideas yet you might want
to see put into law. Ask me anything. I will
do my best to answer as many questions as possible.
Use the iHeartRadio app the talk back feature Carl Tobio
sitting in for John que Belt I AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
So let's talk about your questions. Use the iHeartRadio app
to submit your question to me and we'll get through
as many as possible. As a sitting state legislator, I
see a lot of corruption, a lot of bad things.
I'm trying to do my best to get good things happening,
and of course stop bad things from happening by voting
down bills. But it is a correct political system, and
(09:03):
people are shocked when I tell them what's happening behind
the scenes, the story behind the story. So let's go
through each of the talkbacks as many as we can.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Let's go with the first one.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Come on, Carl, you can't expect Democrats and Sacramento to
interact with the serfs. We are just the peons, worker bees,
and we are supposed to follow their lead. They will
not interact with the serfs. We're scum.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
The listener absolutely is right. They consider us scum. They
look down on real people. They only pay attention to
people with money campaign contributions to fund their campaigns. That's
why this system serves the elites, the rich at your expense.
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The only way that we're going to change that system
is by empowering the grassroots.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
That's where Reform California comes in.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
I build an army of small dollar donors, we build
an army of volunteers. We want to recruit candidates who
are really change oriented and principled.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
We believe that the real problem.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
In California is not just the cost of living, the homelessness,
the crime, the grime, the failing schools, the job losses.
The real problem is we have a corrupt, broken political
system that serves the elites at the expense of the people,
and sadly, Democrat voters.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Don't see that. They don't see that.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
And even more sad, we've had a lot of incumbent
Republicans not fight, they have given up. They have been
the surrender caucus rather than the fighters. We're starting to
change that with more principal elected officials on the Republican side.
But the only way you hold the politicians accountable is
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by rising up and being a movement of force to.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Be reckoned with. That's what Trump did with MAGA nationally.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
That's why Trump Trump alone is not doing this. You
the Trump movement is doing this. And that's why if
someone doesn't have Trump support in a primary, all of
the Trump supporters, the movement he's built, go with the
person that does have Trump support. Next one, what can
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we do to overturn or fight Senate Bill seventy nine.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Senate Bill seventy nine.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Was one of the ten worst bills that I covered
during the one o'clock hour. If you missed it, the
podcast will be posted today after four o'clock on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Senate Bill seventy.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Nine allows a developer to buy a single family home,
tear it down, and then build a six story condominium
high rise on that same plot with no local control.
The city council, local residents will not be able to
stop it because the developers have bought the politicians in Sacramento.
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They've passed bills like SB seventy nine and of course
SB eight sorry SB nine and ten from previous cycles
that allow developers to buy single family homes and do
a duplex, a four plex, or a ten plex. And
in this case SB seventy nine, they've increased it to
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six stories high, as many units as you can possibly
cram in six stories high.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Absolutely insane.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
How do you stop it? You throw some politicians out
of office. And I know that it keeps coming back
to that. But you don't have to get all of
the politicians that are bad thrown out of office.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
See how politics works is that if you get one
politician out of office because of a bad vote on
a specific issue, the other politicians take note and back down.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
It only takes one dead body.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
It only takes one finger caught or found in the
chili at Wendy's to ruin people's views of whether they
should go to a restaurant. And by the way, the
Wendy finger in the chili was a hoax, but gave
it did great damage to them. But with politicians, if
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you throw one of them out, and that one of
the reasons why they were thrown out was that they
got a bunch of angry constituents rising up against them
about a bad vote on a bill called SB seventy
nine with a bunch of condo towers being built now
in their neighborhood, destroying the caliber of their neighborhood, bringing
density and that's not wanted. Then the other politicians take
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note and they realize, oh, that could happen.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
To me next.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
That's what Reform California's movement is all about, targeting and
throwing some of the politicians out of office to serve
as a disinfectant to the others. All right, keep those
questions coming. This is pretty fun the talkback feature on
the iHeartRadio app sound Off.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Ask a question.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
We will take up as many of the questions this
hour as possible. Plus, remember please go to the website
Voter ID Initiative dot com. Voter id Initiative dot com,
sign the voter ID Initiative and sign up for a
kit to get additional signatures in your neighborhood. It's Carl
DeMaio sitting in today for John Cobelt KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Six forty KFI and I want you to use the
iHeartRadio app. It's where you can have a talkback feature
and ask me a question. And I'm going to get
through as many of your questions as possible. Plus, I
want to update you on the California Voter ID initiative.
Let me do that real quick. We have two hundred
fifty thousand signatures on the California.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Voter ID petition. We need a million. And while I'm thrilled.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
That we have two hundred and fifty thousand that we were
able to announce today, which is, by the way, a
record breaking number for the first two weeks.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
We need a million.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
And that means I need you to sign the initiative
and I need you to get a volunteer kit. I
will mail you a volunteer kit. I will pay the
postage to mail you the petitions that you can circulate
with your friends, family, neighbors, coworkers. You can sign it
online at voterid Initiative dot com, download, print, sign and
mail back Voter ID Initiative dot com, or you can
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request that I mail you the vo volunteer kit at
voter id Initiative dot com, or just show up to one.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Of my events.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I'm in the middle of seventy two events in thirty days.
I'm exhausted. We travel the state in this yellow art
bus and we get up at four o'clock, five o'clock
in the morning, and we are up until eleven o'clock
at night, and then we.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Repeat it every single day.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
It's very exhausting, but it's very important that we get
these signatures as soon as possible. Plus, we're also campaigning
for no on Prop fifty to stop Gavenusom's corrupt redistricting scheme.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
You can get our full list.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Of events statewide online at that website VOTERID Initiative dot com.
So all of the things that we're talking about, if
you want to make improvements on all these things that
you're frustrated with, the best way to do that is
to get fair elections and throw the bums out. Voter
ID is needed. Voteridinitiative dot com.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
All right, let's go to another talkback.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
Hi, Carl, name is ERDM Chavis. I'm from renchokookum On, California.
My question for you is over Assembly Bill four ninety
five and what can we do as concerned parents to
protect our kids from being trafficked right from under our noses?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
So I covered this in the first hour as part
of our top ten worst Bills, and AB four ninety
five allows strangers to seize minor children from parents with
no permission. This is insane that they would even pass this,
but indeed this reckless bill is now law.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
And so there's two things we need to do, actually
three things.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
First, we need to sue and see if we can
get a court to overturn it, as you know, a
threat to parents' rights. The problem there is that people
will say, well, you need someone who had their child
taken using this bill, who has damages. Well, I don't
want a child hurt, you know. No one wants to say, oh,
well i'll either you know. You know, if you hurt
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my child, I get damages, but at least I get damages. No,
they don't want their child hurt in the first place.
No amount of money is going to compensate for a
hurt child. So we need to be proactive and see
if we can sue and get this overturned. But that's
a long shot in California's courts. So now I need
to suggest that we have to make an issue in
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the election to throw some bums out. But then finally
I announced I'm going to offer a bill to allow
parents to opt out of AB four so that no
one can then sign a document seizing your children.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
If other parents say, oh, I think it's great.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
If people want to sign a document seizing my child,
well I guess it's on them.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
But most parents are not going to be stupid.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
They're going to want to opt out and shield their
child from someone using this bad bill.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
So that's my next step on AB four ninety five.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
But the best way to do it is to raise
awareness and make this a controversial issue in the election.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Let's go to another talkback. Hey Carl, this is Greag
in Temecula. Keep doing the good work, man. We're all
pulling and praying for you.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Can you please explain to us how new your son
has the authority to put Prop fifty on the ballot
in the first place.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
How did he do that?
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Well, gathered Vanusum does not have the authority to put
Prop fifty on the ballot.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
We sued on that basis.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
But the California Supreme Court, they're not watchdogs, their lap dogs.
They do whatever the liberal politicians that appointed them want.
And the reason why we laid this out in our case,
and the justices didn't even have the professionalism the transparency
to rule on our merits. They just simply dismissed. They
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just said, we're not going to tell you why we're
not going to consider the case. We're just not going
to consider it and they're not going to take it
up later on, damage will already be done. But the
first thing is that the legislature was not allowed to
draw maps per the state constitution, but they did so anyway.
The legislature drew up maps when the state constitution said,
this is the only body of government that's allowed to
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draw maps is the Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
So these maps were drawn illegally.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Second, you're not allowed to redistrict mid decade under the
state constitution, but that's exactly what we're doing with this vote.
They have initiated a mid districting, a mid cycle regissearching. Third,
they were supposed to give the voters, the public seventy
two hours, sorry, thirty days thirty days before legislation was
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voted on. Every bill must be introduced thirty days before
it's considered by either chamber of the legislature. They failed
to do that. That's a violation of the state constitution.
And finally, fourth, the politicians putting together the legislation is
in essence redistricting, and the politicians were eliminated from that role.
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But every way you look at this and slice it,
dice it, it was illegal.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
But Mike makes right. In California, that's the notion of corruption.
They get away with it.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
The justices will not stand up to the people that
appointed them. The justices of the California Supreme Court are
as liberal as the politicians. They're in on the conspiracy.
They're in on the scam. So if you think that
we're going to be able to sue, it's not ever
going to happen unless it's a federal case, and there
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are some federal ways to challenge Prop fifty, but it's
a long shot. We've got to beat it at the
ballot box, which is why I've urged all the Republicans
to return their ballots with a no vote before election day.
Do not wait till election day. There's too many problems
with the mail and in person voting now in California.
Get it in early and verify your vote was counted.
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And then finally reach out to your Democrat and independent
friends and convince them that this is the wrong thing
to do.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Get vocal.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
You can influence votes, and now is the time to
do it. Last two weeks of the election. Use the
talkback feature. We've got a couple more questions. I want
to be able to answer the talkback feature on the
iHeartRadio app. It's the easiest way for you to get
your question answered. We've got a lot to get to
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coming up. We'll get our final questions in.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI A six.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
It's been wonderful sitting in warming his chair up for
the three days that he's been out. I appreciate all
of your questions and all of your support. You who
are collecting signatures on the California Voter Ide Initiative as volunteers,
thank you. You are going to change the state. Those
of you who have not signed the petition yet or
are not volunteering to get signatures, activate sign the petition
(22:46):
and please if you can circulate and get five signatures.
That's all I need from each of you. Go to
voter ide initiative dot com. Voter idea initiative dot com.
If you can't volunteer, chip in a contribution, but get
engaged and get involved. Let's go to a couple of
our final talkback questions. I'll try to answer as many
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as we possibly can in the moments we have.
Speaker 7 (23:08):
Go ahead, Hello, Carl, my name is Ryan Barney, and
I just want to know is there a way to
reduce the taxes on Californian's the gas tax, the income tax?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Is there a way to reduce that? Oh? Yes, indeed,
I mean think about this. Politicians always say we don't
have enough money, we need more of your money.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Meanwhile, they're wasting your money. Billions of dollars for legal
immigrants and goodies and taxpayer handouts, billions of dollars of
grift in no bid contracts for their campaign contributors, all
the gold plated pensions for paper pushers that you can
possibly manage. Imagine salary hikes and pension spikes for all
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the government workers, all at your expense. There will never
be enough money that they will take from you to
satisfy their demands, which is why we have the highest
tax burden of any state in the nation. How about
we just index our tax burden to the average state.
We'd be saving everyone thousands of dollars and giving them
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cost of living relief. How do you reverse high taxes
You throw the politicians who raised your taxes out of office.
It gets back to you cannot sit on the sidelines
and just gripe and complain.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
You got to get engaged.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
And the strategy of reform California is we don't just
scream into the wind and say.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Let's vote against all the politicians.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
No, we pick a few of the weakest and we
take them out of office. You can't take every bad
politician out of office, but if you target and work
together and focus your anger and energy on just one
or two, you can end their career. I don't want
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to make this an analogy because a lot of liberals
will say I'm trying to endorse violence. I'm not endorsing violence,
But let me talk about how a gun used it works.
As a gun has only a certain number of bullets.
As soon as you fire the bullets, the gun has
no impact whatsoever. And what I want to do is
build a movement that in essence is a weapon against
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bad politicians, democracy wise, not physically, And every once in
a while you have to demonstrate that weapon by having
a dead body, a victim, a target taken out. Again,
I'm not endorsing violence. I'm talking election wise. I'm talking
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democracy wise. We use our votes, not physical violence or bullets.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
We use our votes.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
But that's how a gun works, and that's how a
political movement needs to work. That we will go after
a specific number of bad politicians and throw them out
of office.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
And we actually have a list.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
We have a list of sixteen target seats at Reform California.
We need seven out of the sixteen to win to
break the super majority. And that's why voter ID is
so important, because we believe that our ability to throw
bad politicians out of office is heightened if we have
a fair election. So, my friends, you want change in government,
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Stop writing letters, stop sending emails, Stop calling your politicians.
They don't care what you say. They really worry about
what you do. Send one politician a letter once a
year saying every time you vote against something that I support,
every time you screw me over, I'm walking another neighborhood
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and telling them to vote against you. Word of mouth marketing,
baby is what moves the envelope, moves the needle, and
that's what we're going to need in this movement. We're
not going to have the money that the politicians have
because the special interests will give them the money we
need the movement. You can continue to learn more about
this program by following me at my social media channels
(27:16):
at Carl Demayo on x on Facebook, on Instagram YouTube.
Every day at five o'clock we have our Reform California
with Carl Demyo podcast. Please check it out, subscribe and
like those videos, and also sign up at Reform California
dot org.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Join the movement. We have a state to save. Let's
take it back together.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
It's been a pleasure sitting in for Junkle Belt on
AM six forty KFI. Carl Demyo signing off. Let's get
a check on news with Michael Krozer.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast.
You can always hear the show live on KFI AM
six forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday,
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