October 20, 2025 • 34 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (10/20) - CA State Assemblyman Carl DeMaio fills in for John. Carl is naming names when it comes to how poor the "No on Prop 50" campaign is being run. You should have to show your ID before you vote! A record has been broken!
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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 app.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Continue to use the iHeartRadio app send me your questions
and sound off on the issues we're talking about. We
just chatted about Prop fifty and the best way to
convince your friends to vote no even if they're leaning yes.
So check that out on the podcast when it's posted
if you missed it. We're gonna talk about California voter
ID this hour. We're in the middle of a signature
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drive to get a million signatures to put that on
the ballot.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
That's important, but.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I need your help because I can't do this alone
and there's an important role for you to play to
get those signatures. And then at three o'clock we're going
to talk about Gavin Newsom lying once again when his
mouth is moving.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
He is lying about somehow.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Shrapnel hit a car a vehicle on the I five
down across from Camp Pendleton this weekend and that justified
him creating a bridge gate like traffic nightmare for southern
California residents on the along that freeway. He's lying, and
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we have an easy way to prove it. Plus the
mayor of La asking for an investigation of ice in La.
Oh God, the only people she wants to investigate, the
only people that she would like to use law enforcement
to go after. Our other members of law enforcement trying
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to protect us. YEP, seems about right. Not the criminals.
But first, we were cut off in our conversation at
the last hour. I was just about to get to
the good part. I was about to name names. You've
seen the no on Prop fifty ads, maybe the few
that were run. They're not good and they're not running
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a good campaign. About sixteen million was given to the
state Republican Party and another group run by former House
Speaker Kevin McCarthy to lead and fund the campaign for
No Reform California.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Is doing all of our work with small.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Dollar donors giving five dollars at a time, average sixty
seven dollars a year, and tens of thousands of volunteers statewide.
So we are the grassroots. We squeeze a penny into
a dollar. But the grifters are these big committees in
the California Republican Party, really lousy ads and almost no
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real campaign. The person releading the McCarthy effort is a
woman named Jessica Patterson, the former chair of the California
Republican Party. She stepped down in March. So someone who
has failed abysmally at her job, because we became the
super minority under her watch, failed abysmally, didn't care about
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breaking the supermajority in Sacramento, and as a result, the
Democrats had the votes to put Prop fifty on the
ballot in the first place. Who do you hire to
fight Prop fifty? While the lady that helped make it
possible Jessica Patterson, and she has a gaggle of consultants, fundraisers,
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and political consultants who all get fifteen percent of every
dollar they touch. So the consultant gets fifteen percent, the
fundraiser gets fifteen percent. So out of sixteen million dollars,
my friends, how much are they getting at least five
million dollars of it for their own profit. This is insanity.
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It's a complete travesty, and it's why Republicans aren't competitive
in California is that you have a cabal of failed,
profit seeking, grifting political consultants and fundraisers who keep getting
hired and they keep failing. So my message to the
donors out there, but you know, the big guys that
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write big checks. You would never tolerate this in your business,
so why are you tolerating it in the business of politics.
And then, of course, the chair of the California Republican Party,
Corn Rankin almost as bad as Jessica Patterson.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Almost.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I think she probably wants to do the right thing,
but she's too arrogant and ignorant to be an effective chair.
She's very arrogant, and I have no problem with arrogant
people if they're competent. Hey, if they're really talented, then
maybe the arrogance is warranted. It's unnecessary, it's annoying. But
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she's arrogant and ignorant. At the same time, she sees
a conspiracy theory around every corner, and so she doesn't
want to work with the grassroots. She doesn't care about
the grassroots. She just wants the money for her budget.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
And she's being.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Paid north of four hundred thousand dollars a year salary.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Insane.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I think the chair of the Republican Party of California
should be a volunteer position, not paid.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
But I'm naming names.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
That's why I reform California we don't use fundraisers, we
don't use political consultants. Every dollar we raise goes directly
into the fight, and we rely exclusively on volunteers. They're
the power of our movement. They fuel our movement. I'm
speaking to you from San Jose.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
I'm at the gates of Hell. I'm in the Bay Area. No,
I'm not going into San Francisco. I will not step
foot in that infested, dangerous, contagious hell hole. But we're
we're doing seventy two events in thirty days to jump
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start a grassroots fight against Prop fifty and to jump
start the signature drive for California Voter ID. And we
had planned this way before Prop fifty was even a thing.
And so when Prop fifty happened, I said, well, since
we're already going to go out and deploy all these
volunteers statewide and do all these events and do a
bus tour, we might as well not just collect signatures
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for voter ID. We ought to also educate people and
why they should vote no on Prop fifty.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
But I'm going to need your help in order.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
We don't know what's going to happen with the fifty.
I think We're probably going to lose, but I'm hoping
we win and we can still win. And that's why
the last hour I covered the messaging you need to
use to convince your friend who's more of a moderate
or a liberal who might be voting yes, to convince
them to vote no. If you missed it, check it
out on the iHeartRadio app. But as you talk to
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them about Prop fifty, I need you to collect signatures
on something everybody agrees with, and that is the California
Voter ID initiative. And I want to turn our attention
to that because no matter what happens with Prop fifty,
our immediate next step needs to be the finish collecting
a million signatures for California Voter ID and put it
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on the ballot and pass it in this coming election.
Democrats may be able to rig the maps, but they're
not going to be able to rig the voting if
we get voter I D So I want to start.
I want to cover three things. Number one, what does
California Voter ID do. What's in the initiative Because a
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lot of you are going to say coral illegal immigrants
have driver's licenses, so voter ID is meaningless as long
as that have Ah huh, I agree, and that's why
my initiative solves that problem.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Really, yes, So the.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
First thing we're gonna do is we're talking about what
is in the California Voter D initiative.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
The second thing is, in.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Order to do California Voter ID, we need a million signatures.
And I want to talk to you about the campaign
we have underway to get one million signatures, how to
get one million signatures and your role in it.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
And third, I want.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
To tell you how this Voter I D Signature drive
is not just because we need to get voter ID
on the ballot, but it is a means to the end.
Have you ever seen the movie Karate Kid, You know,
the original one, not the cheap imitation knockoffs, but the
original nineteen eighties Karate Kid movie. Remember mister Miyagi's wax
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on wax off Remember that? And the karate Kid was
really frustrated, saying, why do I have to but you know,
wax this car by hand? And he said, nope, you
will not use electronic buffer. You will do it by hand.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
So the karate Kid dutifully.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Did it, broke his back doing it. He was really
exhausted doing it, but he did it, and that car
shined like it was brand new. But before long there
wasn't just a shiny car, but the process of shining
and buffing and waxing that car, the process itself developed
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a warrior, built muscle, built.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
The capacity to fight.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
And my friends, as I just told you, the professional
political consultants of the state of California have sold us out.
They are profiting and grifting on failure. They are not
going to win elections. They are not going to save us.
If we're going to save California, if we're going to
take back our state, it.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Will be you, the grassroots.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
But in order for us to do that, I need
to get you in the fighting condition.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
We need to take a movement.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
That I think is already there, that already exists, but
is slumbering, is depressed, ill equipped, doesn't have direction. I
need to animate that existing movement, equip it, train it,
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and then deploy it. Not just to get a million
signatures on California voter ID, which is the current task,
which is buffing the car. But I'm going to deploy
the army we build to get the signatures for voter
I d I'm going to deploy that army next year
to flip seats and we hope break the Democrats supermajority
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in Sacramento.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Does that make sense to you?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Are you intrigued? Are you interested? Coming up, we'll talk
about how it all works. First, what's in the California
Voter d Initiative. Second, how you can get involved in Third,
how it builds to something much greater taking back the state.
But I'm going to activate you right now. Go on
the website voter ID Initiative dot com. Voter ID Initiative
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dot com. Do three things on that website. Number one,
if you haven't yet signed the petition, download, print, sign
and mail it back cal go to voter ID Initiative
dot com. Uh. The second thing is I'm touring the state.
Join me at one of my events. List of events
are up there that you can activate by going to
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the event. And finally, don't just sign the initiative. Get
a petition kit request one. I will mail it to you.
I will pay the postage. Voter ID Initiative dot com.
Click under volunteer Voter ID Initiative dot com.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
So do those three things you're listening to John Cobalt
on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Carl Tomyos sitting in on AM six forty KFI and
John Cobalt is off this week and I'm keeping a seat.
Orm we're talking about the California Voter ID Initiative, which
is a.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Game changer in California politics. If we get it on
the ballot.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
With one million signatures that we need to collect on
the petition, we are going to get it passed and
we're going to start flipping seats, and with flipping seats,
you restore sanity at every level of government.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
But we got to get the million signatures.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
So I'm going to talk about what's in the initiative
in just a moment, but I need you to sign
the petition to put the initiative on the ballot. Go
on the website Voter Idinitiative dot com, Voter ID Initiative
dot com, or just go to Reform California dot org,
click under sign petition, download, print, sign and mail back
to me. We need a million wet signatures on this
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petition to put voter ID on the ballot. Voter ID
Initiative dot com. We have a lot in this initiative
but let me walk through why it is so profound
in what big impact it can have. First and foremost,
we start not with a voter ID. We start with
cleaning up the voter roles. The initiative requires that we
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audit every county's voter role in the off year, So
twenty twenty five, twenty twenty seven, twenty twenty nine, twenty
thirty one, every off year when we're not holding an election,
unless Gavin Newsom is trying to rig the election with
Prop fifty, we will audit the voter roles to make
sure that they are accurate and properly maintained. If not,
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the judges the courts can force remediation. Oh more importantly,
we require that before anyone is registered in the state
of California that their citizenship be verified. In order to
be registered as a voter in the state of California,
we mandate voter citizenship verification. This is a game changer,
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so that if legal immigrants somehow got on the voter rolls,
we get them off. And if they get a driver's license,
which is a bad policy, but it is the policy
until we can fix it, that they don't get automatically
roll enrolled as a voter, voter citizenship verification. So the
first part of fixing the problem with our bad election
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policies is to make sure that our voter roles are
accurate and the people on there are eligible.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
I think that's the most powerful part of this initiative.
I'm so excited about.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
It because it will clean up our voter roles. The
second thing, though, is the voter ID, and that requires
a government issued voto ID if you're voting in person
or if you want to vote by mail. And I
don't like mail in ballots, but voters in California do,
so that's why our initiative allows that practice to continue,
but we mandate verification of identity.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
How do we do that.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Each voter will have to select one of their government
dot com documents that they have as their voter ID
for that mail in ballot, and they would put the
last four digits of that government document on the envelope
instead of signing their signature. Because signatures are hard to verify,
people don't even remember what their signature was from.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Twenty five years ago.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
So this makes it a lot more simple and confident
to vote last four digits and do not worry if
you don't have a government ID. Or if you say, well,
I don't want to use my driver's license, I don't
want to use my Social Security card, I don't want
to use my passport, that's fine.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
We'll give you a free voter card and you can
use it just to vote.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
But we've thought of everything with this initiative. Any complaint,
any challenge, any critique, any criticism, we've done a reform
to answer. And that's why sixty nine percent of Californian
and support voter ID, seventy eight percent support citizenship verification.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
And audit voter roles.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Oh and don't worry about the Democrat politicians calling it
racist because.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
A greater number of non white.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Voters support voter ID than white voters by about two
percentage points. This gets on the ballot, it passes overwhelmingly.
Like we did with Prop thirty six, the make Crime
Illegal Again initiative from twenty twenty four, This is the
same deal. We get it on the ballot by collecting
a million signatures.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
It passes. But therein lies the challenge. We don't have.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
A bunch of big backers funding the campaign. We need
volunteers to collect the signatures and That means I need
you to not only sign the initiative, but I will
mail you a volunteer kit with petitions inside of it
to get. If you can get ten signatures from your
friends and family, twenty five would be ideal. It's easy
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to get the signatures. Again, with so many people supporting
voter idea, it's easy to get the signatures. But I
need you to activate because I can't do this for you.
No one is going to save you. We're going to
save ourselves working together. So if you want a better California,
if you want voter ID, get off the couch and
into the fight. Go to that website, voter id Initiative
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dot com. Sign it, mail it back to me, but
request a volunteer kit voter id Initiative dot com. I
will pay the postage and mail it to you.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Coming up, I mentioned that.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
There's a process to get the million signatures and how
you can play a part of that process. It's not
just getting the kit, but it's a couple other tips
that I want to give you. We can get the signatures.
I even got an initial count to share with you,
and I'm excited. But also, why is the process of
putting this on the ballot, getting the signatures. Why is
that the karate Kid wax On wax Off project for politics?
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Why does it lead to something bigger? I'll tell you why.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Come right up.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Carl Demayo filling in STATA semi member and chairman of
Reform California. You can hear us live on the iHeartRadio app,
and if you miss anything, you can catch up on
the podcast. After today's show at four o'clock, we will
post it. You can also use that app, the iHeartRadio App.
Ask me any question or sound off on any of
the topics that we're covering. We're talking about the California
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Voter Idea Initiative, and we need a million signatures to
put this game changing initiative on the ballot to restore
the integrity of our elections. If we get this passed
in California, it will flip seats.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
You flip seats, you.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Start changing policies, you start changing policies, you start improving California.
This is part of a comprehensive plan to take back
the state, but it ain't happening unless you get off
your duff and be a volunteer.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Activate.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
No one's coming to save you. You're gonna have to do
a little bit of work and save yourself. I liken
myself to the conductor of a symphony. My job is
to show up with the sheet music, the plan, and
I actually will pay for the instruments. I'll buy the
instruments and I'll lay them down the ground.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
I'll print the petitions.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I'll hire the lawyers to draft the California Voter i
D Initiative. I'll give you signs that say voter ID
sign here. I will make sure that we have mailers
that go out. I'll cover the cost of postage. So
I will give you the instruments. I need you to
pick up one of the instruments, whichever you want, and
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start playing some music. You do that by collecting signatures
on the California Voter i D Initiative. If you are
too busy, then go to the website voter ID Initiative
dot com and at least download, print, sign and mail
back your own petition. Ship in a contribution so that
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we can hire students to collect signatures at Voteridinitiative dot com.
But I really do think and I'm hoping. I just
have to implore you to try to get a few
signatures and you'll see how easy it is, and before
long you'll get ten to fifteen. Request a volunteer pack
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voter id Initiative dot com. I will mail it to you.
I will cover the postage. Now, how do you get
the signatures?
Speaker 3 (20:37):
You know what I do.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
I just put them in my glovebox. I put them
in my computer bag. I tell the ladies to put
it in their purse. Just keep it on you and
as you interact with people throughout the day in the
next couple of weeks, collect signatures.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
It is really that easy.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
If you would like, I will give you a sign
and you can put a table in front of a store.
Most people don't want a table in front of the stores.
But here's why I want you to know how easy
it is. If you're antisocial, you can do this. Here's
why voter id is so popular that if you just
put a card table in front of Vond's or Walmart,
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and you're sitting there with a sign that says voter
ID Initiative, sign here and I'll give you a massive sign.
If you come to one of my events and they're
listed online at voterid Initiative dot com. I'll give you
one of these signs. And yes, we're all in the
southern California area, so there's no excuse. We totally have
an event that you can make it to voter id
Initiative dot com.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
I'll give you a sign.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
You sit there, you don't have to say a single word,
and people will see the sign and they will come
up to you. That's how much hunger there is for
voter ID. This is so easy. It's like giving Rosie
O'Donnell a donut. Nobody's going to refuse you. It's a
seventy percent issue. Thirty percent are not four voter ID,
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but they're not animated enough to get upset about it.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
They just walk by you.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
But I really think that the easiest way to collect
signatures is just put it in your purse, put it
in your glove box, put it in your laptop bag,
in your truck, carry it around and you'll get.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Signatures in no time.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
What we do ask that you pay close attention to
is the instruction sheet.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
And I know that you're like Carl.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I can get people's signatures and get them to fill
out a form. Yes, but the politicians don't like what
we're doing. They don't like the fact that we're collecting signatures.
They make it as hard as possible. You have to
collect signatures one county at a time, so you have to, like,
for example, in San Diego County, I travel a lot
to Orange County and Riverside, so I keep three sheets
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of the petition with me. One is Riverside, one is
San Diego, and one is Orange County. And if someone says, oh,
I'm from San Clemente, great, sign my Orange County petition.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
And they're all the same petition.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
But you have to write at the top which county
you're going to be turning it into. And then finally,
a lot of you who are returning signatures are not
signing the declarator the circulator declaration to the back of
the form. You have to sign saying I am the
guy or gal that collected these signatures. If you don't sign,
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then the signatures are not valid. Someone has to say,
here are my signatures, and I yes, I collected them.
Why Because again, as they told you, the politicians are
trying to make it complicated. There's no value in all
the paperwork we have to fill out, but they're just
trying to make it hard.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Because they don't like what we're doing.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Please get signatures and turn them in November first, December first,
and we think we're going to be done by the
end of the year. But we will let you know
when turnins are in your instruction packet that I send
you if you sign up at voter id Initiative dot com.
All this stuff is explained, but I cannot impress enough
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if you don't activate and at least sign the petition,
if you don't chip in a contribution, if you're not
gonna volunteer, put five bucks in the tank. And if
you don't volunteer, then it's not gonna happen. Getting things
on the ballot in California typically costs ten million dollars.
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We're trying to do it on a shoe string budget
with volunteers, and we're gonna do it.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Coming up.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
I'm gonna give you our initial signature tally, and we've
just broken a record in the first two weeks. A
record has been broken. Do you not read into that
that this is gonna happen without your help? Because the
easiest signatures are always the first volley of signatures. Harder
part is getting the additional waves of signatures, which is
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why I need you to go to voter id Initiative
dot com sign contribute or volunteer. But coming up, I've
got the initial tally and how voter ID is the
wax on waxoff karate kid project of our political movement.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
All that and more.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Carl Tomayo in for John cobelt on AM six forty KFI.
I've got to say, the AWS outage today took down
the voter id Initiative dot com website and I was
so upset.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
I said, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
People are trying to sign the petition for voter ID,
they're trying to sign up to get a volunteer kit,
they're trying to chip in, and we're dead, we're dark,
we don't the site's not up. Well, we finally got
it back up and you can go to that site
right now. Voter id Initiative dot com, voter id Initiative
dot com, download, print, sign and mail back the voter
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I d petition. We need a million signatures. But more importantly,
I need you to take action. Volunteer, have me send
you and I will gladly pay the postage to send
you a volunteer kit with multiple petitions for the California
voter Ity Initiative, along with instructions how to and then,
of course, if you can't volunteer, chip in a contribution,
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help us hire some students to stand in front of
stores and collect signatures. Because if we don't do this
through the grassroots, it's not happening. And this is the
beginning beginning of our recovery in California. As we fix
the integrity problems in our elections, restore the integrity, we
have a shot to flip seats and therefore rebalance our
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political system.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
That's why I call.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
This the wax On wax Off project from Karate Kid.
The process of doing a million signatures is difficult, like
the process of waxing the car the karate Kid, but
it was an amazingly shiny car when the process was done.
But more importantly, the karate Kid built the fighting capacity
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through that project. You do understand why Republicans are a
super minority in the state. Oh well, there's a number
of reasons why they sold out. They weren't standing on principle.
They were the Party of No, rather than at least
offering alternatives. They stopped working hard, they stopped recruiting volunteers,
they stopped doing town halls.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
They stopped. Oh so if we.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Actually start doing that, put a good idea out there,
a seventy percent idea like voter ID, and take action,
file the initiative to get it on the ballot, and
then build an army of volunteers to collect a million signatures. Yeah,
every volunteer that we inspire, train and deploy is now
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a foot soldier who's not going to stop with the
million signatures. I'm not gonna stop with the twenty five
signatures that they collect. They will be more likely to
canvass their neighborhood for candidates in the March primary, in
the general, the June primary, and the November general election
next year. People don't know that there's a fight underway
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because there hasn't been a fight underway. But when we
build this volunteer army, and right now we have over
fourteen thousand, yes, fourteen thousand volunteers statewide collecting signatures. Now,
do you feel a little guilty that you're not doing it.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
You should.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
I'm like on the road up at four in the
morning in a bus an RV right now, I'm in
San Jose. Can you imagine I came to the Bay Area.
Do you see how committed I am? You need to
do your part. And I think a lot of people
when they see someone collecting signatures on voter ID and
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they know that it's a volunteer, not a paid ex
carnival worker collecting signatures, they they realized, wait a minute,
there's actually people fighting in California. Maybe there's hope. Maybe
I should fight too. You damn right, you should fight.
And so we're gonna build this army from fourteen thousand.
Our goal was ten thousand. We blasted past that goal
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on October first. Now we're at the fourteen thousand. I
think we're gonna be at twenty thousand by the end
of this month because we're getting hundreds of people on
my bus tour that we're doing tonight in San Jose.
We have almost five hundred people coming in San Jose.
I don't think the last time Republicans got five hundred
people in San Jose. It's probably when Reagan was governor.
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But we're seeing this energy of people coming waking up
from the slumber that they've been in to get involved
in the fight. So at the end of this process,
we're not just gonna have a million signatures. We're gonna
have an army, baby, an army of people who just
talked to a bunch of people to get signatures.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
They came out of their shell.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
They've talked about politics a seventy percent issue, of course,
But that army ain't going to be disbanded. We're going
to regroup, refocus, and go out on a new battle.
And we are literally breathing life into parts of this
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state that haven't had a Republican campaign active on the
ground in decades. Take a look at my list of
events that we're doing. It's exhausting just looking at the list.
I can tell you doing it. I am absolutely spent.
Voter id Initiative dot com. All the events are up there.
I'd love to see you at one of my events
coming up. Take a picture with you in front of
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the big bus. Give you a volunteer kit so you
can go home and collect signatures in the coming four
or five weeks.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
By the way, on.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Wednesday, I'm filing a notice with the Secretary of State
of California because we will have an official count.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
But right now, we are in the first two weeks.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Of the signature drive, and this is a record breaking number.
We've gotten over two hundred thousand signatures and we believe
we're going to be at two hundred fifty thousand by Wednesday.
This is a big, a big title wave of voters
wanting voter ID because they know that our elections cannot
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be trusted and they want to have confidence in our elections.
But these are the easier signatures. We need your help
as a volunteer. We need your signature on the initiative.
If you have not yet signed, go on that website
voter ID Initiative dot com. Chip in a contribution, download
the petition, print it, sign it, send it back, and yes,
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get a volunteer kit. I'll mail it to you, or
you can come to one of my events voter ID
Initiative dot com.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
One final point, you know who's not.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Helping us with the voter IDA initiative. The consultants I
just trashed at the beginning of this hour. The Republican
political consultants who do the least amount of work to
get the most amount of money for themselves and fail
in the process. They have bad mouthed us for two
years on this effort. They have undermined us at every
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single turn. Consultants like John Franklin of the New Majority,
bad mouthing us, trashing us.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
They're not going to be able to do it. Don't
waste your money, don't donate, don't volunteer. They cannot possibly
do it. And you know what, baby, We're doing it.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Because the grassroots are fed up with fat cats like
John Franklin. He sniffs a dollar, he starts breaking out
in a sweat because he wants a piece of it
for his own pocket.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
He doesn't care.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
About winning an election, he doesn't care about moving the needle,
cares about profiting. And so many of these other consultants,
they are a worthless bunch. And that's why Trump when
he ran in twenty sixteen and again in twenty twenty
and again in twenty twenty four, he basically was his
own political consultant, and he fired people if they didn't
do their job right as deservedly. So coming up, we're
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gonna talk about someone who needs to be fired and
that's Governor Gavin Newsom who lied about shrapnel hitting a
vehicle on the Fire Freeway that he shut down in
the Camp Pendleton military exercises. And another person that needs
to be fired, La Mayor Karen Bass, who held a
press conference today saying that we need to investigate ICE agents,
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you mean, the people that are trying to keep us safe.
All that and more coming up, but first to check
on news KFI AM six forties News Center with Deborah Mark.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
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, any time on demand on the iHeartRadio
app
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Continue to use the iHeartRadio app send me your questions
and sound off on the issues we're talking about. We
just chatted about Prop fifty and the best way to
convince your friends to vote no even if they're leaning yes.
So check that out on the podcast when it's posted
if you missed it. We're gonna talk about California voter
ID this hour. We're in the middle of a signature
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drive to get a million signatures to put that on
the ballot.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
That's important, but.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I need your help because I can't do this alone
and there's an important role for you to play to
get those signatures. And then at three o'clock we're going
to talk about Gavin Newsom lying once again when his
mouth is moving.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
He is lying about somehow.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Shrapnel hit a car a vehicle on the I five
down across from Camp Pendleton this weekend and that justified
him creating a bridge gate like traffic nightmare for southern
California residents on the along that freeway. He's lying, and
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we have an easy way to prove it. Plus the
mayor of La asking for an investigation of ice in La.
Oh God, the only people she wants to investigate, the
only people that she would like to use law enforcement
to go after. Our other members of law enforcement trying
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to protect us. YEP, seems about right. Not the criminals.
But first, we were cut off in our conversation at
the last hour. I was just about to get to
the good part. I was about to name names. You've
seen the no on Prop fifty ads, maybe the few
that were run. They're not good and they're not running
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a good campaign. About sixteen million was given to the
state Republican Party and another group run by former House
Speaker Kevin McCarthy to lead and fund the campaign for
No Reform California.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Is doing all of our work with small.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Dollar donors giving five dollars at a time, average sixty
seven dollars a year, and tens of thousands of volunteers statewide.
So we are the grassroots. We squeeze a penny into
a dollar. But the grifters are these big committees in
the California Republican Party, really lousy ads and almost no
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real campaign. The person releading the McCarthy effort is a
woman named Jessica Patterson, the former chair of the California
Republican Party. She stepped down in March. So someone who
has failed abysmally at her job, because we became the
super minority under her watch, failed abysmally, didn't care about
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breaking the supermajority in Sacramento, and as a result, the
Democrats had the votes to put Prop fifty on the
ballot in the first place. Who do you hire to
fight Prop fifty? While the lady that helped make it
possible Jessica Patterson, and she has a gaggle of consultants, fundraisers,
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and political consultants who all get fifteen percent of every
dollar they touch. So the consultant gets fifteen percent, the
fundraiser gets fifteen percent. So out of sixteen million dollars,
my friends, how much are they getting at least five
million dollars of it for their own profit. This is insanity.
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It's a complete travesty, and it's why Republicans aren't competitive
in California is that you have a cabal of failed,
profit seeking, grifting political consultants and fundraisers who keep getting
hired and they keep failing. So my message to the
donors out there, but you know, the big guys that
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write big checks. You would never tolerate this in your business,
so why are you tolerating it in the business of politics.
And then, of course, the chair of the California Republican Party,
Corn Rankin almost as bad as Jessica Patterson.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Almost.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I think she probably wants to do the right thing,
but she's too arrogant and ignorant to be an effective chair.
She's very arrogant, and I have no problem with arrogant
people if they're competent. Hey, if they're really talented, then
maybe the arrogance is warranted. It's unnecessary, it's annoying. But
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she's arrogant and ignorant. At the same time, she sees
a conspiracy theory around every corner, and so she doesn't
want to work with the grassroots. She doesn't care about
the grassroots. She just wants the money for her budget.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
And she's being.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Paid north of four hundred thousand dollars a year salary.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Insane.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I think the chair of the Republican Party of California
should be a volunteer position, not paid.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
But I'm naming names.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
That's why I reform California we don't use fundraisers, we
don't use political consultants. Every dollar we raise goes directly
into the fight, and we rely exclusively on volunteers. They're
the power of our movement. They fuel our movement. I'm
speaking to you from San Jose.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
I'm at the gates of Hell. I'm in the Bay Area. No,
I'm not going into San Francisco. I will not step
foot in that infested, dangerous, contagious hell hole. But we're
we're doing seventy two events in thirty days to jump
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start a grassroots fight against Prop fifty and to jump
start the signature drive for California Voter ID. And we
had planned this way before Prop fifty was even a thing.
And so when Prop fifty happened, I said, well, since
we're already going to go out and deploy all these
volunteers statewide and do all these events and do a
bus tour, we might as well not just collect signatures
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for voter ID. We ought to also educate people and
why they should vote no on Prop fifty.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
But I'm going to need your help in order.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
We don't know what's going to happen with the fifty.
I think We're probably going to lose, but I'm hoping
we win and we can still win. And that's why
the last hour I covered the messaging you need to
use to convince your friend who's more of a moderate
or a liberal who might be voting yes, to convince
them to vote no. If you missed it, check it
out on the iHeartRadio app. But as you talk to
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them about Prop fifty, I need you to collect signatures
on something everybody agrees with, and that is the California
Voter ID initiative. And I want to turn our attention
to that because no matter what happens with Prop fifty,
our immediate next step needs to be the finish collecting
a million signatures for California Voter ID and put it
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on the ballot and pass it in this coming election.
Democrats may be able to rig the maps, but they're
not going to be able to rig the voting if
we get voter I D So I want to start.
I want to cover three things. Number one, what does
California Voter ID do. What's in the initiative Because a
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lot of you are going to say coral illegal immigrants
have driver's licenses, so voter ID is meaningless as long
as that have Ah huh, I agree, and that's why
my initiative solves that problem.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Really, yes, So the.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
First thing we're gonna do is we're talking about what
is in the California Voter D initiative.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
The second thing is, in.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Order to do California Voter ID, we need a million signatures.
And I want to talk to you about the campaign
we have underway to get one million signatures, how to
get one million signatures and your role in it.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
And third, I want.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
To tell you how this Voter I D Signature drive
is not just because we need to get voter ID
on the ballot, but it is a means to the end.
Have you ever seen the movie Karate Kid, You know,
the original one, not the cheap imitation knockoffs, but the
original nineteen eighties Karate Kid movie. Remember mister Miyagi's wax
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on wax off Remember that? And the karate Kid was
really frustrated, saying, why do I have to but you know,
wax this car by hand? And he said, nope, you
will not use electronic buffer. You will do it by hand.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
So the karate Kid dutifully.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Did it, broke his back doing it. He was really
exhausted doing it, but he did it, and that car
shined like it was brand new. But before long there
wasn't just a shiny car, but the process of shining
and buffing and waxing that car, the process itself developed
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a warrior, built muscle, built.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
The capacity to fight.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
And my friends, as I just told you, the professional
political consultants of the state of California have sold us out.
They are profiting and grifting on failure. They are not
going to win elections. They are not going to save us.
If we're going to save California, if we're going to
take back our state, it.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Will be you, the grassroots.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
But in order for us to do that, I need
to get you in the fighting condition.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
We need to take a movement.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
That I think is already there, that already exists, but
is slumbering, is depressed, ill equipped, doesn't have direction. I
need to animate that existing movement, equip it, train it,
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and then deploy it. Not just to get a million
signatures on California voter ID, which is the current task,
which is buffing the car. But I'm going to deploy
the army we build to get the signatures for voter
I d I'm going to deploy that army next year
to flip seats and we hope break the Democrats supermajority
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in Sacramento.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Does that make sense to you?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Are you intrigued? Are you interested? Coming up, we'll talk
about how it all works. First, what's in the California
Voter d Initiative. Second, how you can get involved in Third,
how it builds to something much greater taking back the state.
But I'm going to activate you right now. Go on
the website voter ID Initiative dot com. Voter ID Initiative
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dot com. Do three things on that website. Number one,
if you haven't yet signed the petition, download, print, sign
and mail it back cal go to voter ID Initiative
dot com. Uh. The second thing is I'm touring the state.
Join me at one of my events. List of events
are up there that you can activate by going to
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the event. And finally, don't just sign the initiative. Get
a petition kit request one. I will mail it to you.
I will pay the postage. Voter ID Initiative dot com.
Click under volunteer Voter ID Initiative dot com.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
So do those three things you're listening to John Cobalt
on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Carl Tomyos sitting in on AM six forty KFI and
John Cobalt is off this week and I'm keeping a seat.
Orm we're talking about the California Voter ID Initiative, which
is a.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Game changer in California politics. If we get it on
the ballot.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
With one million signatures that we need to collect on
the petition, we are going to get it passed and
we're going to start flipping seats, and with flipping seats,
you restore sanity at every level of government.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
But we got to get the million signatures.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
So I'm going to talk about what's in the initiative
in just a moment, but I need you to sign
the petition to put the initiative on the ballot. Go
on the website Voter Idinitiative dot com, Voter ID Initiative
dot com, or just go to Reform California dot org,
click under sign petition, download, print, sign and mail back
to me. We need a million wet signatures on this
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petition to put voter ID on the ballot. Voter ID
Initiative dot com. We have a lot in this initiative
but let me walk through why it is so profound
in what big impact it can have. First and foremost,
we start not with a voter ID. We start with
cleaning up the voter roles. The initiative requires that we
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audit every county's voter role in the off year, So
twenty twenty five, twenty twenty seven, twenty twenty nine, twenty
thirty one, every off year when we're not holding an election,
unless Gavin Newsom is trying to rig the election with
Prop fifty, we will audit the voter roles to make
sure that they are accurate and properly maintained. If not,
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the judges the courts can force remediation. Oh more importantly,
we require that before anyone is registered in the state
of California that their citizenship be verified. In order to
be registered as a voter in the state of California,
we mandate voter citizenship verification. This is a game changer,
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so that if legal immigrants somehow got on the voter rolls,
we get them off. And if they get a driver's license,
which is a bad policy, but it is the policy
until we can fix it, that they don't get automatically
roll enrolled as a voter, voter citizenship verification. So the
first part of fixing the problem with our bad election
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policies is to make sure that our voter roles are
accurate and the people on there are eligible.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
I think that's the most powerful part of this initiative.
I'm so excited about.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
It because it will clean up our voter roles. The
second thing, though, is the voter ID, and that requires
a government issued voto ID if you're voting in person
or if you want to vote by mail. And I
don't like mail in ballots, but voters in California do,
so that's why our initiative allows that practice to continue,
but we mandate verification of identity.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
How do we do that.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Each voter will have to select one of their government
dot com documents that they have as their voter ID
for that mail in ballot, and they would put the
last four digits of that government document on the envelope
instead of signing their signature. Because signatures are hard to verify,
people don't even remember what their signature was from.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Twenty five years ago.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
So this makes it a lot more simple and confident
to vote last four digits and do not worry if
you don't have a government ID. Or if you say, well,
I don't want to use my driver's license, I don't
want to use my Social Security card, I don't want
to use my passport, that's fine.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
We'll give you a free voter card and you can
use it just to vote.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
But we've thought of everything with this initiative. Any complaint,
any challenge, any critique, any criticism, we've done a reform
to answer. And that's why sixty nine percent of Californian
and support voter ID, seventy eight percent support citizenship verification.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
And audit voter roles.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Oh and don't worry about the Democrat politicians calling it
racist because.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
A greater number of non white.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Voters support voter ID than white voters by about two
percentage points. This gets on the ballot, it passes overwhelmingly.
Like we did with Prop thirty six, the make Crime
Illegal Again initiative from twenty twenty four, This is the
same deal. We get it on the ballot by collecting
a million signatures.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
It passes. But therein lies the challenge. We don't have.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
A bunch of big backers funding the campaign. We need
volunteers to collect the signatures and That means I need
you to not only sign the initiative, but I will
mail you a volunteer kit with petitions inside of it
to get. If you can get ten signatures from your
friends and family, twenty five would be ideal. It's easy
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to get the signatures. Again, with so many people supporting
voter idea, it's easy to get the signatures. But I
need you to activate because I can't do this for you.
No one is going to save you. We're going to
save ourselves working together. So if you want a better California,
if you want voter ID, get off the couch and
into the fight. Go to that website, voter id Initiative
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dot com. Sign it, mail it back to me, but
request a volunteer kit voter id Initiative dot com. I
will pay the postage and mail it to you.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Coming up, I mentioned that.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
There's a process to get the million signatures and how
you can play a part of that process. It's not
just getting the kit, but it's a couple other tips
that I want to give you. We can get the signatures.
I even got an initial count to share with you,
and I'm excited. But also, why is the process of
putting this on the ballot, getting the signatures. Why is
that the karate Kid wax On wax Off project for politics?
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Why does it lead to something bigger? I'll tell you why.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Come right up.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Carl Demayo filling in STATA semi member and chairman of
Reform California. You can hear us live on the iHeartRadio app,
and if you miss anything, you can catch up on
the podcast. After today's show at four o'clock, we will
post it. You can also use that app, the iHeartRadio App.
Ask me any question or sound off on any of
the topics that we're covering. We're talking about the California
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Voter Idea Initiative, and we need a million signatures to
put this game changing initiative on the ballot to restore
the integrity of our elections. If we get this passed
in California, it will flip seats.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
You flip seats, you.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Start changing policies, you start changing policies, you start improving California.
This is part of a comprehensive plan to take back
the state, but it ain't happening unless you get off
your duff and be a volunteer.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Activate.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
No one's coming to save you. You're gonna have to do
a little bit of work and save yourself. I liken
myself to the conductor of a symphony. My job is
to show up with the sheet music, the plan, and
I actually will pay for the instruments. I'll buy the
instruments and I'll lay them down the ground.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
I'll print the petitions.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I'll hire the lawyers to draft the California Voter i
D Initiative. I'll give you signs that say voter ID
sign here. I will make sure that we have mailers
that go out. I'll cover the cost of postage. So
I will give you the instruments. I need you to
pick up one of the instruments, whichever you want, and
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start playing some music. You do that by collecting signatures
on the California Voter i D Initiative. If you are
too busy, then go to the website voter ID Initiative
dot com and at least download, print, sign and mail
back your own petition. Ship in a contribution so that
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we can hire students to collect signatures at Voteridinitiative dot com.
But I really do think and I'm hoping. I just
have to implore you to try to get a few
signatures and you'll see how easy it is, and before
long you'll get ten to fifteen. Request a volunteer pack
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voter id Initiative dot com. I will mail it to you.
I will cover the postage. Now, how do you get
the signatures?
Speaker 3 (20:37):
You know what I do.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
I just put them in my glovebox. I put them
in my computer bag. I tell the ladies to put
it in their purse. Just keep it on you and
as you interact with people throughout the day in the
next couple of weeks, collect signatures.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
It is really that easy.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
If you would like, I will give you a sign
and you can put a table in front of a store.
Most people don't want a table in front of the stores.
But here's why I want you to know how easy
it is. If you're antisocial, you can do this. Here's
why voter id is so popular that if you just
put a card table in front of Vond's or Walmart,
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and you're sitting there with a sign that says voter
ID Initiative, sign here and I'll give you a massive sign.
If you come to one of my events and they're
listed online at voterid Initiative dot com. I'll give you
one of these signs. And yes, we're all in the
southern California area, so there's no excuse. We totally have
an event that you can make it to voter id
Initiative dot com.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
I'll give you a sign.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
You sit there, you don't have to say a single word,
and people will see the sign and they will come
up to you. That's how much hunger there is for
voter ID. This is so easy. It's like giving Rosie
O'Donnell a donut. Nobody's going to refuse you. It's a
seventy percent issue. Thirty percent are not four voter ID,
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but they're not animated enough to get upset about it.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
They just walk by you.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
But I really think that the easiest way to collect
signatures is just put it in your purse, put it
in your glove box, put it in your laptop bag,
in your truck, carry it around and you'll get.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Signatures in no time.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
What we do ask that you pay close attention to
is the instruction sheet.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
And I know that you're like Carl.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I can get people's signatures and get them to fill
out a form. Yes, but the politicians don't like what
we're doing. They don't like the fact that we're collecting signatures.
They make it as hard as possible. You have to
collect signatures one county at a time, so you have to, like,
for example, in San Diego County, I travel a lot
to Orange County and Riverside, so I keep three sheets
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of the petition with me. One is Riverside, one is
San Diego, and one is Orange County. And if someone says, oh,
I'm from San Clemente, great, sign my Orange County petition.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
And they're all the same petition.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
But you have to write at the top which county
you're going to be turning it into. And then finally,
a lot of you who are returning signatures are not
signing the declarator the circulator declaration to the back of
the form. You have to sign saying I am the
guy or gal that collected these signatures. If you don't sign,
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then the signatures are not valid. Someone has to say,
here are my signatures, and I yes, I collected them.
Why Because again, as they told you, the politicians are
trying to make it complicated. There's no value in all
the paperwork we have to fill out, but they're just
trying to make it hard.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Because they don't like what we're doing.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Please get signatures and turn them in November first, December first,
and we think we're going to be done by the
end of the year. But we will let you know
when turnins are in your instruction packet that I send
you if you sign up at voter id Initiative dot com.
All this stuff is explained, but I cannot impress enough
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if you don't activate and at least sign the petition,
if you don't chip in a contribution, if you're not
gonna volunteer, put five bucks in the tank. And if
you don't volunteer, then it's not gonna happen. Getting things
on the ballot in California typically costs ten million dollars.
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We're trying to do it on a shoe string budget
with volunteers, and we're gonna do it.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Coming up.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
I'm gonna give you our initial signature tally, and we've
just broken a record in the first two weeks. A
record has been broken. Do you not read into that
that this is gonna happen without your help? Because the
easiest signatures are always the first volley of signatures. Harder
part is getting the additional waves of signatures, which is
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why I need you to go to voter id Initiative
dot com sign contribute or volunteer. But coming up, I've
got the initial tally and how voter ID is the
wax on waxoff karate kid project of our political movement.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
All that and more.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Carl Tomayo in for John cobelt on AM six forty KFI.
I've got to say, the AWS outage today took down
the voter id Initiative dot com website and I was
so upset.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
I said, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
People are trying to sign the petition for voter ID,
they're trying to sign up to get a volunteer kit,
they're trying to chip in, and we're dead, we're dark,
we don't the site's not up. Well, we finally got
it back up and you can go to that site
right now. Voter id Initiative dot com, voter id Initiative
dot com, download, print, sign and mail back the voter
(26:02):
I d petition. We need a million signatures. But more importantly,
I need you to take action. Volunteer, have me send
you and I will gladly pay the postage to send
you a volunteer kit with multiple petitions for the California
voter Ity Initiative, along with instructions how to and then,
of course, if you can't volunteer, chip in a contribution,
(26:25):
help us hire some students to stand in front of
stores and collect signatures. Because if we don't do this
through the grassroots, it's not happening. And this is the
beginning beginning of our recovery in California. As we fix
the integrity problems in our elections, restore the integrity, we
have a shot to flip seats and therefore rebalance our
(26:46):
political system.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
That's why I call.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
This the wax On wax Off project from Karate Kid.
The process of doing a million signatures is difficult, like
the process of waxing the car the karate Kid, but
it was an amazingly shiny car when the process was done.
But more importantly, the karate Kid built the fighting capacity
(27:11):
through that project. You do understand why Republicans are a
super minority in the state. Oh well, there's a number
of reasons why they sold out. They weren't standing on principle.
They were the Party of No, rather than at least
offering alternatives. They stopped working hard, they stopped recruiting volunteers,
they stopped doing town halls.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
They stopped. Oh so if we.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Actually start doing that, put a good idea out there,
a seventy percent idea like voter ID, and take action,
file the initiative to get it on the ballot, and
then build an army of volunteers to collect a million signatures. Yeah,
every volunteer that we inspire, train and deploy is now
(27:57):
a foot soldier who's not going to stop with the
million signatures. I'm not gonna stop with the twenty five
signatures that they collect. They will be more likely to
canvass their neighborhood for candidates in the March primary, in
the general, the June primary, and the November general election
next year. People don't know that there's a fight underway
(28:20):
because there hasn't been a fight underway. But when we
build this volunteer army, and right now we have over
fourteen thousand, yes, fourteen thousand volunteers statewide collecting signatures. Now,
do you feel a little guilty that you're not doing it.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
You should.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
I'm like on the road up at four in the
morning in a bus an RV right now, I'm in
San Jose. Can you imagine I came to the Bay Area.
Do you see how committed I am? You need to
do your part. And I think a lot of people
when they see someone collecting signatures on voter ID and
(28:55):
they know that it's a volunteer, not a paid ex
carnival worker collecting signatures, they they realized, wait a minute,
there's actually people fighting in California. Maybe there's hope. Maybe
I should fight too. You damn right, you should fight.
And so we're gonna build this army from fourteen thousand.
Our goal was ten thousand. We blasted past that goal
(29:16):
on October first. Now we're at the fourteen thousand. I
think we're gonna be at twenty thousand by the end
of this month because we're getting hundreds of people on
my bus tour that we're doing tonight in San Jose.
We have almost five hundred people coming in San Jose.
I don't think the last time Republicans got five hundred
people in San Jose. It's probably when Reagan was governor.
(29:38):
But we're seeing this energy of people coming waking up
from the slumber that they've been in to get involved
in the fight. So at the end of this process,
we're not just gonna have a million signatures. We're gonna
have an army, baby, an army of people who just
talked to a bunch of people to get signatures.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
They came out of their shell.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
They've talked about politics a seventy percent issue, of course,
But that army ain't going to be disbanded. We're going
to regroup, refocus, and go out on a new battle.
And we are literally breathing life into parts of this
(30:20):
state that haven't had a Republican campaign active on the
ground in decades. Take a look at my list of
events that we're doing. It's exhausting just looking at the list.
I can tell you doing it. I am absolutely spent.
Voter id Initiative dot com. All the events are up there.
I'd love to see you at one of my events
coming up. Take a picture with you in front of
(30:43):
the big bus. Give you a volunteer kit so you
can go home and collect signatures in the coming four
or five weeks.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
By the way, on.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Wednesday, I'm filing a notice with the Secretary of State
of California because we will have an official count.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
But right now, we are in the first two weeks.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Of the signature drive, and this is a record breaking number.
We've gotten over two hundred thousand signatures and we believe
we're going to be at two hundred fifty thousand by Wednesday.
This is a big, a big title wave of voters
wanting voter ID because they know that our elections cannot
(31:28):
be trusted and they want to have confidence in our elections.
But these are the easier signatures. We need your help
as a volunteer. We need your signature on the initiative.
If you have not yet signed, go on that website
voter ID Initiative dot com. Chip in a contribution, download
the petition, print it, sign it, send it back, and yes,
(31:50):
get a volunteer kit. I'll mail it to you, or
you can come to one of my events voter ID
Initiative dot com.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
One final point, you know who's not.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Helping us with the voter IDA initiative. The consultants I
just trashed at the beginning of this hour. The Republican
political consultants who do the least amount of work to
get the most amount of money for themselves and fail
in the process. They have bad mouthed us for two
years on this effort. They have undermined us at every
(32:21):
single turn. Consultants like John Franklin of the New Majority,
bad mouthing us, trashing us.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
They're not going to be able to do it. Don't
waste your money, don't donate, don't volunteer. They cannot possibly
do it. And you know what, baby, We're doing it.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Because the grassroots are fed up with fat cats like
John Franklin. He sniffs a dollar, he starts breaking out
in a sweat because he wants a piece of it
for his own pocket.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
He doesn't care.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
About winning an election, he doesn't care about moving the needle,
cares about profiting. And so many of these other consultants,
they are a worthless bunch. And that's why Trump when
he ran in twenty sixteen and again in twenty twenty
and again in twenty twenty four, he basically was his
own political consultant, and he fired people if they didn't
do their job right as deservedly. So coming up, we're
(33:22):
gonna talk about someone who needs to be fired and
that's Governor Gavin Newsom who lied about shrapnel hitting a
vehicle on the Fire Freeway that he shut down in
the Camp Pendleton military exercises. And another person that needs
to be fired, La Mayor Karen Bass, who held a
press conference today saying that we need to investigate ICE agents,
(33:42):
you mean, the people that are trying to keep us safe.
All that and more coming up, but first to check
on news KFI AM six forties News Center with Deborah Mark.
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