April 24, 2025 • 33 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (04/24) - CA State Assemblyman Carl DeMaio fills in for John. Carl has only been a State Assemblyman for around 100 days and he is already pissing people off because he is calling out corruption. Carl talks about why he was kicked off the budget committee after only the 2nd hearing he took part in. Carl goes through 10 bills he has proposed in Sacramento that Democrats have killed.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
This is Carl Demayo filling in for John Cobelt. As
you know, I'm a state Assembly member up here in Sacramento.
I've only been on the job a little over one
hundred days. But apparently I'm already pissing off a bunch
of people. They don't like me, and that means I'm
doing probably something right. They've already thrown me off the
Budget Committee after only two hearings because we decided to
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walk in and read the budget as a committee member.
As a member of the budget Committee, I figured, hmm,
what should my first order of business be? And I figured,
I don't know about you, and I could have been
completely wrong. I figured I might want to open up
the budget and look at it line by line see
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where politicians are spending your taxpayer money. And we found
a whole lot of wasteful spending. And so know what,
my first hearing, I decided, Okay, now that I'm on
the budget committee, I should start asking why are we
spending this much? Why are we spending money on this
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program or that program? How much are we spending? And
they didn't like that. They didn't like it when I
asked the question, how can you say our budget is
quote balanced when we're spending seven billion dollars more than
we're taking in. That doesn't sound like balanced to me.
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I think most people when they're sitting around their kitchen table,
if they said, you know, are bills this year, they're
going to be one hundred thousand dollars, but thank god
that we're earning seventy thousand because we're now balanced. What
do you mean your budget is balanced because I'm taking
out of credit card and putting the rest on my
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credit card, maxing it out thirty grand in credit card debt.
See I'm balanced. No, oh, you're going bankrupt real quick.
You're in debt. You're spending more than you're taking in.
So they didn't like the fact that we just walk
through line by line the budget and started shining a light.
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At my first hearing, I also exposed the fact that
Gavin Newsom was, well, let's just say what it is.
He lied to the taxpayers. This isn't just one of
those oops I got it wrong, because there's a lot
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of the oops I got it wrong with Gavin Newsom,
but it never admits that he's wrong. He always sits
there there with that cheshire cat grin. You like my hair,
that's right. It takes a lot of gel, not a
combing in the morning, man, to look this, to look
this hot, look this attractive. Yeah, that's right, that's right. Man.
Like the gray Yeah, yeah, I figured it makes me
look distinguished and wise. Now it makes you look like
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a tool. So Newsom lied to the public a year
ago when he said, Hey, let's cover illegal immigrants and
give him free health care at taxpayer expense. It's gonna
save us money. You see, it's only gonna cost six
point five billion. Okay, wait, it's gonna save us money.
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It's only going to cost us six point five billion.
How do you square that, mister governor. Of course the
liberal media doesn't ask that sort of question, But that's
a sort of question I ask as again as a
new representative coming in, kicking the tires, looking at the books.
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Oh and by the way, I spent thirty years as
a government watchdog analyzing federal, state, and local government financial statements,
so I kind of know where the bodies are buried. Yeah,
they made a real bad error in putting me on
the budget committee. Guess they didn't look at my CV
or my resume or my background anyway. So I said, wait, wait, wait,
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you said we're going to save money a year ago
it would only cost six point three billion. Oh, he
said that the federal government would reimburse because all of
these illegal immigrants would be covered under Medicaid, or in
California we call it medical it's the program for low
income families that can't afford healthcare. Taxpayers say, look, you know,
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we don't want anyone to go without. We want to
get basic health coverage when they're poor. So we have
a Medicaid medical program, and a lot of those programs
expenses are reimbursed by the federal government. Oh but there's
this little thing called federal law, and the federal law
says you can't get a Medicaid reimbursement for someone who
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is quote ineligible to receive the federal benefit. And funny
thing about federal law, there's this provision in the federal
Medicaid Maid Statute that says you have to be a
US citizen to receive the coverage. And so California put
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in for all these reimbursements with the federal government in
the Joe Biden administration, and even Joe Biden's administration did
not approve the reimbursement, and so all that money hit
the books of the state budget to be paid for
by California taxpayers. And nobody asked the question. Nobody knew,
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nobody knew that this was happening until I showed up
at the budget committee hearing on day one and said,
how much are we actually spending on illegal immigrant health care?
And how much of that is in the general fund?
The general fund being how much are we having to
pay because the federal government won't reimburse answer? Not six
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point five billion. Nine point five billion, and all of
that except for a small percentage. And I would argue
that that small percentage ultimately will be put back in
the general fund. It's being put on the backs of
California state taxpayers. Get this because it costs US nine
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point five billion to cover illegal immigrants for free health
care at your expense, taxpayer expense, One out of four
dollars in the State of California budget general fund for
medical goes to an illegal immigrant. Let me repeat that, one
out of four general fund medical dollars in our state
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budget is handed to an illegal immigrant. Not a poor kid,
not a poor family, not someone who's disabled, but to
an illegal immigrant, free taxpayer funded healthcare. In my Assembly district,
a family of four going to covered California has to
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spend sixteen thousand dollars of their own money to get
the Bronze Plan health coverage. But an illegal immigrant is
getting it done for free, and one out of four
of our general fund medical dollars is being handed to
it an illegal immigrant. Now it's not just the cost
to taxpayers that is crushing. But recognize if any of
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you've been waiting in line to get an appointment in
any doctor's office in the state of California, and I
know the lines are long, recognize that an illegal immigrant,
not just one, many are in front of you in
line because of what Gavin Newsom has decided to do. Again,
let me just tell you, I'm not a mean guy.
I don't want someone to go without health insurance. But
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at the end of the day, it is not California
taxpayers burden obligation duty to pay for free health care
for everyone else in the world who comes here illegally
looking for handouts. That's not our obligation, it's not our duty,
it's not our responsibility, particularly when we are charging our
own citizens sixteen thousand dollars a year for crappy coverage. No,
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not doing it, not acceptable, No bueno. And then in
the next hearing, I asked about a program that was
funding COVID nineteen workplace education. Let me repeat that. In
the budget, I found a program that said we give
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education to California employees in the workplace to look out
for the dangers of COVID nineteen. You realize it's twenty
twenty five, right, COVID is so I don't know twenty twenty.
This is like saying we have a wagon wheel program
in California. We're regulating the production of wagon wheels. We've
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got bureaucrats that go and inspect wagon wheels. We haven't
made a wagon wheel in one hundred and fifty years,
So why do we have that program? Oh, it's still around,
But we still have a COVID nineteen program educating employees
on the dangers of COVID nineteen. Wash your hands and
keep social distance and put up those plastic barriers or whatever.
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The lord, they're out there educating employees on But then
I found out it was really not about COVID. That
was the name of the program coming up. What the
COVID nineteen workplace education program was really about, let me
just say it involves money laundering and politicians. And this
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revelation is what got me kicked off the Budget Committee
after my second hearing. It's all coming up as Carl
Demo sits in today for John c Belt.
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Coming up at two o'clock. California politicians want to ban
gas appliances. They're going to force their way into your
home and remove your gas stove, your gas furnace, your
gas water heater. Obviously they don't want you to be
driving a gas powered car either. What we're doing to
fight back. That's at two o'clock, and then three o'clock
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we're going to talk about this absurd judges order suspending
Donald Trump's executive order that requires that we only allow
citizens to vote in American elections. These people are insane.
These judges have to be removed from the bench. They're
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revealing just how derelict and duty they are, how extreme
they are. When you suspend an order that requires citizenship
verification to vote, you know that you've got something really wrong.
If you want, though, to make a difference on voter
ID in California, we have a bill that would require
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citizenship verification in California and voter ID. We need to
get a million signatures to put this on the ballot
in twenty twenty six and have a public vote. Go
to voter idpetition dot org and sign up voter idpetition
dot org voter idpetition dot org. At three o'clock, we're
going to talk about that judge's derelict decision on citizenship
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verification on voting and what we're doing to fight back.
But go to that website voter idpetition dot org and
share it with your friends and sign up. Okay, we're
talking about dose California. This is the effort I launched
when I got sworn in a little over one hundred
days ago to the California yet State Legislature. I'm a
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budget watchdog, a government reformer. I said, Okay, I've been dozing,
dozing government for thirty years. I'm gonna doze California. I
love what Elon Musk and Donald Trump's doing. Let's look
at where the waste, fraud, abuse and corruption is in
the state budget. My oh my, All you have to
do is literally throw a dart and you're going to
hit something good. So I was put on the budget
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committee started my doze efforts. My first hearing, I exposed
the medical fraud of illegal immigrants getting all this free
health care. It all comes back to you, the taxpayer.
You're footing the bill for all this we werelied to.
Now medical is insolvent. Gavin Newsom is now having to
take out emergency loans because it's run out of money.
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They can't pay doctors, nurses, hospitals, other healthcare providers. For
the poor people that rely on medical all of their
health coverage is now put at risk because we have
over extended our financial cap ability to cover all the
illegal immigrants in the state of California and give them
free health care, even though working class Californians have to
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pay sixteen thousand dollars for a family of four on
the covered California Exchange for a bronze plan. Do you
understand just how insane this is? This is criminal, but hey,
it's another day at the office in Sacramento for these
politicians giving away your money. Well, my next hearing. Okay,
so I was told after the first hearing, you better
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knock that off or we're gonna throw you off the committee.
And of course my response, see my hand, pick a finger,
I'm not gonna back down. I'm having too much fun
here baby shining a light, watching the cockroaches in the
greasy kitchen run from the spotlight. I love it. People
deserve to know what's going on with this budget, the corruption,
the wasteful spending. So second hearing, I found this COVID
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nineteen program. It's called the Workplace Education Program for COVID nineteen.
Of course, I'm wondering, what the hell are we doing
with a workplace education program on something that's again not
even happening anymore. It's basically your common cold. But then
I dug deeper because I said, well, how many staff
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are in this program? Like, oh, well, there's not a
lot of staff. We just give out grants and contracts.
I'm like, oh, who gets the money. Seventy three community
based organizations get the money. I'm like, okay, give me
a list of the organizations. Give me a list of
everyone who gets the money got the list. Then we
pulled the irs nine to ninety filings for all of them.
We went to their websites. We kind of investigated each
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of the organizations, and before very long, we realized the
money wasn't going to healthcare groups. They're not going to
you know, workplace safety groups. No, No, They're going to
political groups. Political groups that do ballot harvesting, political groups
that lobby on tax increases and other left wing policy proposals,
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Political groups that recruit and so port left wing candidates.
This is the money laundering scam, one of many, by
the way, this is just one program of many programs
that politicians use your taxpayer dollars to fund their political
groups on their side. And so I showed up to
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the hearing exposed it. The Democrat members were flipping out.
At five o'clock that day, I was taken off the
Budget committee. Apparently I made him feel too uncomfortable by
shining a spotlight on what they were doing with your money.
Oh it hasn't stopped me. I'm still doj in California.
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We have a whole list of waste, fraud and abuse
to share with you. Now, what are the other things
that they did is they threw me off the committee
and they said you'd better stop or we're gonna kill
all of your bills. We're gonna we're not gonna let
We're not gonna pass any of your bills. And again
I turned to them, I'm like, do you think that
that threat actually works with me? I don't. I don't
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expect you to pass my bills. My bills are about reform,
and if you are passing my bills, there must be
something really wrong with my bill. It must be inconsequential
at the best, or it's actually bad at the worst.
You're not threatening me by saying that you're gonna kill
all my bills. I expected that as as much as
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I expect the sun to come up in the morning.
If people are untethered from reality, you're not interested in reform.
I'm introducing these bills to show that you're willing to
vote down a popular idea because you're that extreme. So
coming up, let me tell you what other things we're
finding at DOGE California. And I'm gonna give you a
list of ten common sense bills that Democrats have killed
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in my first hundred days in office. All that coming
up as Carl Demyo me fills in for John Cobelt.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
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A very highlight list of waste, fraud and abuse that
we found through our DOGE California project, and we're continuing
to find more and more and more. I mean, I'm
just giving you some samplings, all right. We've got over
three hundred and sixty thousand, three hundred and sixty thousand
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state government employees and retirees who earned more than one
hundred thousand dollars in the state budget, three hundred and
sixty thousand, over one hundred thousand. We have a dentist
who just retired. He's going to get three hundred thousand
dollars in pension per year, indexed for inflation free healthcare.
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On top of that, and he just got paid out
one point four million dollars because he led his vacation
build up, because there's no cap on his vacation. Oh,
you don't get me started on all the state holidays
that we have the most generous state holiday package you
can imagine. Last week we voted to give on top
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of all this personal leave and vacation leave fourteen weeks.
I didn't vote for this. Fourteen weeks of paid, paid
family time off. Fourteen weeks paid family time off for
state workers. The mandate also will be applied to school districts.
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You know who get three months off during the summer
because schools shut down. Nope, they're still going to get
fourteen weeks paid. Oh, that's an unfunded mandate. They have
to fund that, and they get no money from the
state budget. It's always nice when you give away goodies
and force someone else to pay for it, which is
what they usually do. The private sector high speed rail
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project originally built as eight billion dollars. It would go
from La all the way up to San Francisco. That
was two thousand and eight. They lied. This is a
big scam. It's a boondoggle. It's only being used to
allow political contributors to drift. They get kicked by backs contracts,
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then they give donations to the politicians that keep the
high speed rail boondoggle, phony belonging project going. Anyway, it's
now one hundred and thirty eight billion dollars in counting. Oh,
and no end in sight. Now. The governor the other
day said, oh, we already are laying rail in the
high speed rail. Our doge California did an investigation on
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that and we found out that he's a liar. Oh sure,
they've got a small segment of rail that's less than
a quarter mile. But guess what, it's not high speed rail.
It is a service track to bring equipment and materials
into a site. So they built. You can't make this
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crap up. He's like, oh, high speed rail, it's already underway.
We're laying the first track. You are a liar. The
track is not high speed rail. It's a service trail
rail to bring stuff into the construction site and just
let it sit there as more people get to bill
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their time and consulting contracts to build tax payers, this
is insane. The state budget is absolutely filled with all
sorts of wasteful spending. But they're trying to raise your taxes.
They're out there saying they don't have enough money for this,
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that or the other thing. They're giving away the store
to illegal immigrants. They're raising taxes, but they're cutting the
essential things. And so it's my obligation to shine a
light on this and to bring it to you. That's
why I'm sitting in for John today. I said, hey,
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we'll just go through all the DOGE California findings. You know,
three hours a day. We'll definitely be able to absolutely
use three hours a day for the entire week. So
I got threatened by the Democrats shut up or we're
taking you off the committee. I didn't shut up. Then
they said, shut up and stop doing press conferences about
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your findings, or we'll kill your bills. And of course
I said, bring it on. You're not going to vote
for my bills anyway. This is not a real threat.
And so here are the bills that they have killed
thus far. And my view is this, always give someone
who's doing something wrong, Always give them an opportunity to
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do the right thing. That's why I introduce these bills.
And you can check out my bill package at demayoassembly
dot org, Demyoassembly dot org, d e m AIO Assembly
dot org. We cover a lot of it on my
other website, Reform California dot org as well. Here are
the ten bills that they've killed. Number one, I proposed
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that we repeal the sanctuary state law, allow law enforcement
to actually work with the federal government, and end funding
for illegal immigrant criminals, no funds to help them fight deportation.
We shouldn't be hiring them free lawyers. We don't hire
you a free lawyer if you're audited by the IRS,
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or if the state of California comes in and says, oh,
you're a small business, we're going to what we're going
to do right here is we're going to investigate you
for regulatory code compliance violations. They don't say, oh, by
the way, here's a free lawyer to defend you. No,
you got to get your own lawyer. You're hit with
a frivolous lawsuit, the PAGA lawsuits. Again, you're told to
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hire your own lawyer. I also in this bill AB
eighteen Assembly Bill eighteen said we would not give any
welfare to illegal immigrants. We're not going to give them
any medical, free health care at taxpayer's expense. Democrats killed
the bill. Second, I introduced an amendment to the budget
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to cancel the high speed rail project. Democrats unanimously voted
down the amendment to kill the high speed rail project. Again,
the project that will never get built, that is only
designed to be a conduit for money laundering. Call it
what it is, just like that COVID nineteen program I
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just told you about, that was funding seventy three political
groups of the Democrat Party with your taxpayer money to
do ballot harvesting and candidate recruitment and lobbying on left
wing policies. That's money laundering. High speed rail is money laundering.
Billions of dollars going to campaign supporters who then write
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checks the labor unions, and the contractors write checks to
the politicians campaign funds. We covered this yesterday in the
form of these housing first Towers projects. The LA project
I talked about that was six hundred thousand dollars per
unit for quote, affordable housing for homeless people, or the
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million dollars per unit projects that we're seeing up and
down the state. It built with labor unions, so the
union dues are taken out and given to the politicians
and the forms of campaign contributions. But more importantly, the
rich developers who get these government subsidies to build these
public housing welfare projects, they're giving massive campaign contributions to
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the politicians. That's why they're doing these programs. That's why
they have high speed rail, that's why they have that
COVID nineteen program. That's why they have the Homeless Forever program.
It's about them laundering money, your taxpayer money into their
campaign accounts. I gave him an opportunity to kill high
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speed rail. They voted it down unanimously. Coming up the
other seven bills that they killed, I mean, one of
which had to deal with stopping the placement of sexually
violent predators in residential communities next to schools and kids.
Democrats in California killed that bill this past week. Assembly
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Bill twenty two coming up, the ten common sense ideas
Democrats couldn't bring themselves to even vote for that are
supported by seventy eighty percent of Californians.
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Coming up at three o'clock, we're going to talk about
the judges striking down a bunch of Trump executive order
what we can do about. At two o'clock, we're talking
about California politicians wanting to ban your gas stove in
your kitchen, along with a whole bunch of other gas appliances,
including gas cars. What we're doing to stop that. But
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I'm going down some of the findings we have uncovered
and exposed as part of my Doge California efforts. This
is Carl to Mayo. I am Chairman of Reform California.
I'm a California state representative representing District seventy five in
the State Assembly, and I'm sitting in today for John
Clavelt while he's out on vacation. So Democrats, when I
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started my Doge California started basically punishing me. They took
me off the Budget Committee after just two hearings. Then
they said if I kept doing press conferences exposing what
was going on, that they would just simply kill all
my bills. And I said, bring it on, baby, because again,
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my job is to make sure the public knows what's
going on because they haven't had a media to hold
these politicians accountable in our state for decades. I think
the media is in on the scam as long as
they get taxpayer funding. And they do get taxpayer funding.
That's not just for them philosophical. They're not just left
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wing reporters. They also are in on the grift. So
here are the ten bills that I offered that Democrats
have already killed in the first hundred days. The first
one is repealing sanctuary state and ending welfare for legal immigrants.
Assembly Bill eighteen killed by Democrats. Second is an amendment
to the Budget Act that I offered canceling high speed
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rail killed by Democrats unanimously. Number three California Voter ID
a citizen's initiative, a statutory initiative at this point. Assembly
Bill twenty five to require voter ID to return ballots
and citizenship verification in order to REDGI to vote in California.
Killed by Democrats. So now we're taking that to the
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ballot using a citizen initiative. You can sign to get
that on the ballot at the website voter idpetition dot org.
That's voteridpetition dot org. But Democrats killed Assembly Bill twenty
five unanimously. Fourth bill they killed Assembly Bill twenty two
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Stop the Reckless Release Act. It would have stopped the
release of sexually violent predators into residential communities near children.
Democrats killed the bill. They said that these individuals have
served their time and they deserve to be released anywhere
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they choose. I disagree. Most common sense Californians vehemently disagree.
The mom who has to be worried about her children
when an SVP is placed down the street. I'm sure disagrees,
but not California Democrat politicians who put the rights of
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sexually violent predators first over our communities. They killed Assembly
Bill twenty two unanimously. Number five, we said the schools
are failing, so let's give parents education savings accounts. That's
Assembly Bill nineteen. This week they killed that bill. Can
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have the teachers' union have any sort of accountability or competition?
Can't have parents have a choice because all those rich
liberal billionaire kids they get to go to private schools.
But no, no, not poor kids. Number six, how about
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we allow police to remove squatters when they break into
people's homes and refuse to leave. That's Assembly Bill eight
ninety sevenimous defeated by Democrats that I authored. Number seven,
the Cap and Cut Insurance Reform Act, Assembly Bill five
six seven unanimously killed by Democrats party line vote. It
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would have shielded homeowners from having to pay double digit,
triple digit insurance rate increases. It would have suspended the
state's insurance premium tax because they're profiting when your insurance
premium increases. When it goes up by twenty percent, their
tax revenue goes up by twenty percent. Do you understand
why these politicians aren't going to solve this problem? Why
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they benefit from the rate increases, they get more money.
Why would they change anything about that deal? They won't.
Somebody Bill five to sixty seven, Somebody Bill five six
seven killed by Democrats. Number eight Balanced Budget Accountability Act.
This would implement a permanent doze California process. It's AC threeeen,
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not even given a hearing by Democrats. They don't even
want to vote that one down. They just didn't even
schedule it for a voter or a hearing. They killed
that just simply by burying the bill Number nine and
the Politician Perks Act Assembly built twenty six, also not
given a hearing because politicians don't want to have to
vote against banning gifts. They don't want to vote against
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banning's insider trading that they've been engaging in, banning them
from becoming lobbyists after they leave office, banning their pensions. No, no, no,
no no. They killed Assembly Bill twenty six that I authored,
the end the Politician's Perks Act. They killed it by
just simply not bringing it up for a vote and
coming in at number ten. Assembly Bill one two three eight.
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I authored this to ban the bans on natural gas
appliances and gas powered cars. My view is that unelected
bureaucrats at the California Air Resources Board should not be
the ones to decide what car you drive, what stove
you have in your kitchen, what water heater you get
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to use. That we shouldn't be banning these appliances. We
should let consumers decide. And if we are going to
ban something, then the legislature better be the one voting
on it and being held accountable at the ballot box.
Democrats killed Assembly built one two three eight. They won't
even give it a hearing. Coming up, let's talk about
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those natural gas appliances. Do you know that this is
not even good for the environment to ban natural gas appliances.
It's not practical, it's not affordable, and we've got a
plan to ban the bans. Coming up, We're going to
talk about natural gas and why apparently environmentalists and Democrats
hate it. It's all coming up with Carl Demio filling
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in for John coe Belt. But first news with Heather
Brooker in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
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You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
This is Carl Demayo filling in for John Cobelt. As
you know, I'm a state Assembly member up here in Sacramento.
I've only been on the job a little over one
hundred days. But apparently I'm already pissing off a bunch
of people. They don't like me, and that means I'm
doing probably something right. They've already thrown me off the
Budget Committee after only two hearings because we decided to
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walk in and read the budget as a committee member.
As a member of the budget Committee, I figured, hmm,
what should my first order of business be? And I figured,
I don't know about you, and I could have been
completely wrong. I figured I might want to open up
the budget and look at it line by line see
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where politicians are spending your taxpayer money. And we found
a whole lot of wasteful spending. And so know what,
my first hearing, I decided, Okay, now that I'm on
the budget committee, I should start asking why are we
spending this much? Why are we spending money on this
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program or that program? How much are we spending? And
they didn't like that. They didn't like it when I
asked the question, how can you say our budget is
quote balanced when we're spending seven billion dollars more than
we're taking in. That doesn't sound like balanced to me.
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I think most people when they're sitting around their kitchen table,
if they said, you know, are bills this year, they're
going to be one hundred thousand dollars, but thank god
that we're earning seventy thousand because we're now balanced. What
do you mean your budget is balanced because I'm taking
out of credit card and putting the rest on my
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credit card, maxing it out thirty grand in credit card debt.
See I'm balanced. No, oh, you're going bankrupt real quick.
You're in debt. You're spending more than you're taking in.
So they didn't like the fact that we just walk
through line by line the budget and started shining a light.
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At my first hearing, I also exposed the fact that
Gavin Newsom was, well, let's just say what it is.
He lied to the taxpayers. This isn't just one of
those oops I got it wrong, because there's a lot
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of the oops I got it wrong with Gavin Newsom,
but it never admits that he's wrong. He always sits
there there with that cheshire cat grin. You like my hair,
that's right. It takes a lot of gel, not a
combing in the morning, man, to look this, to look
this hot, look this attractive. Yeah, that's right, that's right. Man.
Like the gray Yeah, yeah, I figured it makes me
look distinguished and wise. Now it makes you look like
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a tool. So Newsom lied to the public a year
ago when he said, Hey, let's cover illegal immigrants and
give him free health care at taxpayer expense. It's gonna
save us money. You see, it's only gonna cost six
point five billion. Okay, wait, it's gonna save us money.
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It's only going to cost us six point five billion.
How do you square that, mister governor. Of course the
liberal media doesn't ask that sort of question, But that's
a sort of question I ask as again as a
new representative coming in, kicking the tires, looking at the books.
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Oh and by the way, I spent thirty years as
a government watchdog analyzing federal, state, and local government financial statements,
so I kind of know where the bodies are buried. Yeah,
they made a real bad error in putting me on
the budget committee. Guess they didn't look at my CV
or my resume or my background anyway. So I said, wait, wait, wait,
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you said we're going to save money a year ago
it would only cost six point three billion. Oh, he
said that the federal government would reimburse because all of
these illegal immigrants would be covered under Medicaid, or in
California we call it medical it's the program for low
income families that can't afford healthcare. Taxpayers say, look, you know,
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we don't want anyone to go without. We want to
get basic health coverage when they're poor. So we have
a Medicaid medical program, and a lot of those programs
expenses are reimbursed by the federal government. Oh but there's
this little thing called federal law, and the federal law
says you can't get a Medicaid reimbursement for someone who
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is quote ineligible to receive the federal benefit. And funny
thing about federal law, there's this provision in the federal
Medicaid Maid Statute that says you have to be a
US citizen to receive the coverage. And so California put
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in for all these reimbursements with the federal government in
the Joe Biden administration, and even Joe Biden's administration did
not approve the reimbursement, and so all that money hit
the books of the state budget to be paid for
by California taxpayers. And nobody asked the question. Nobody knew,
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nobody knew that this was happening until I showed up
at the budget committee hearing on day one and said,
how much are we actually spending on illegal immigrant health care?
And how much of that is in the general fund?
The general fund being how much are we having to
pay because the federal government won't reimburse answer? Not six
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point five billion. Nine point five billion, and all of
that except for a small percentage. And I would argue
that that small percentage ultimately will be put back in
the general fund. It's being put on the backs of
California state taxpayers. Get this because it costs US nine
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point five billion to cover illegal immigrants for free health
care at your expense, taxpayer expense, One out of four
dollars in the State of California budget general fund for
medical goes to an illegal immigrant. Let me repeat that, one
out of four general fund medical dollars in our state
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budget is handed to an illegal immigrant. Not a poor kid,
not a poor family, not someone who's disabled, but to
an illegal immigrant, free taxpayer funded healthcare. In my Assembly district,
a family of four going to covered California has to
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spend sixteen thousand dollars of their own money to get
the Bronze Plan health coverage. But an illegal immigrant is
getting it done for free, and one out of four
of our general fund medical dollars is being handed to
it an illegal immigrant. Now it's not just the cost
to taxpayers that is crushing. But recognize if any of
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you've been waiting in line to get an appointment in
any doctor's office in the state of California, and I
know the lines are long, recognize that an illegal immigrant,
not just one, many are in front of you in
line because of what Gavin Newsom has decided to do. Again,
let me just tell you, I'm not a mean guy.
I don't want someone to go without health insurance. But
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at the end of the day, it is not California
taxpayers burden obligation duty to pay for free health care
for everyone else in the world who comes here illegally
looking for handouts. That's not our obligation, it's not our duty,
it's not our responsibility, particularly when we are charging our
own citizens sixteen thousand dollars a year for crappy coverage. No,
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not doing it, not acceptable, No bueno. And then in
the next hearing, I asked about a program that was
funding COVID nineteen workplace education. Let me repeat that. In
the budget, I found a program that said we give
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education to California employees in the workplace to look out
for the dangers of COVID nineteen. You realize it's twenty
twenty five, right, COVID is so I don't know twenty twenty.
This is like saying we have a wagon wheel program
in California. We're regulating the production of wagon wheels. We've
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got bureaucrats that go and inspect wagon wheels. We haven't
made a wagon wheel in one hundred and fifty years,
So why do we have that program? Oh, it's still around,
But we still have a COVID nineteen program educating employees
on the dangers of COVID nineteen. Wash your hands and
keep social distance and put up those plastic barriers or whatever.
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The lord, they're out there educating employees on But then
I found out it was really not about COVID. That
was the name of the program coming up. What the
COVID nineteen workplace education program was really about, let me
just say it involves money laundering and politicians. And this
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revelation is what got me kicked off the Budget Committee
after my second hearing. It's all coming up as Carl
Demo sits in today for John c Belt.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Coming up at two o'clock. California politicians want to ban
gas appliances. They're going to force their way into your
home and remove your gas stove, your gas furnace, your
gas water heater. Obviously they don't want you to be
driving a gas powered car either. What we're doing to
fight back. That's at two o'clock, and then three o'clock
(10:35):
we're going to talk about this absurd judges order suspending
Donald Trump's executive order that requires that we only allow
citizens to vote in American elections. These people are insane.
These judges have to be removed from the bench. They're
(10:56):
revealing just how derelict and duty they are, how extreme
they are. When you suspend an order that requires citizenship
verification to vote, you know that you've got something really wrong.
If you want, though, to make a difference on voter
ID in California, we have a bill that would require
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citizenship verification in California and voter ID. We need to
get a million signatures to put this on the ballot
in twenty twenty six and have a public vote. Go
to voter idpetition dot org and sign up voter idpetition
dot org voter idpetition dot org. At three o'clock, we're
going to talk about that judge's derelict decision on citizenship
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verification on voting and what we're doing to fight back.
But go to that website voter idpetition dot org and
share it with your friends and sign up. Okay, we're
talking about dose California. This is the effort I launched
when I got sworn in a little over one hundred
days ago to the California yet State Legislature. I'm a
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budget watchdog, a government reformer. I said, Okay, I've been dozing,
dozing government for thirty years. I'm gonna doze California. I
love what Elon Musk and Donald Trump's doing. Let's look
at where the waste, fraud, abuse and corruption is in
the state budget. My oh my, All you have to
do is literally throw a dart and you're going to
hit something good. So I was put on the budget
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committee started my doze efforts. My first hearing, I exposed
the medical fraud of illegal immigrants getting all this free
health care. It all comes back to you, the taxpayer.
You're footing the bill for all this we werelied to.
Now medical is insolvent. Gavin Newsom is now having to
take out emergency loans because it's run out of money.
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They can't pay doctors, nurses, hospitals, other healthcare providers. For
the poor people that rely on medical all of their
health coverage is now put at risk because we have
over extended our financial cap ability to cover all the
illegal immigrants in the state of California and give them
free health care, even though working class Californians have to
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pay sixteen thousand dollars for a family of four on
the covered California Exchange for a bronze plan. Do you
understand just how insane this is? This is criminal, but hey,
it's another day at the office in Sacramento for these
politicians giving away your money. Well, my next hearing. Okay,
so I was told after the first hearing, you better
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knock that off or we're gonna throw you off the committee.
And of course my response, see my hand, pick a finger,
I'm not gonna back down. I'm having too much fun
here baby shining a light, watching the cockroaches in the
greasy kitchen run from the spotlight. I love it. People
deserve to know what's going on with this budget, the corruption,
the wasteful spending. So second hearing, I found this COVID
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nineteen program. It's called the Workplace Education Program for COVID nineteen.
Of course, I'm wondering, what the hell are we doing
with a workplace education program on something that's again not
even happening anymore. It's basically your common cold. But then
I dug deeper because I said, well, how many staff
(14:15):
are in this program? Like, oh, well, there's not a
lot of staff. We just give out grants and contracts.
I'm like, oh, who gets the money. Seventy three community
based organizations get the money. I'm like, okay, give me
a list of the organizations. Give me a list of
everyone who gets the money got the list. Then we
pulled the irs nine to ninety filings for all of them.
We went to their websites. We kind of investigated each
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of the organizations, and before very long, we realized the
money wasn't going to healthcare groups. They're not going to
you know, workplace safety groups. No, No, They're going to
political groups. Political groups that do ballot harvesting, political groups
that lobby on tax increases and other left wing policy proposals,
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Political groups that recruit and so port left wing candidates.
This is the money laundering scam, one of many, by
the way, this is just one program of many programs
that politicians use your taxpayer dollars to fund their political
groups on their side. And so I showed up to
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the hearing exposed it. The Democrat members were flipping out.
At five o'clock that day, I was taken off the
Budget committee. Apparently I made him feel too uncomfortable by
shining a spotlight on what they were doing with your money.
Oh it hasn't stopped me. I'm still doj in California.
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We have a whole list of waste, fraud and abuse
to share with you. Now, what are the other things
that they did is they threw me off the committee
and they said you'd better stop or we're gonna kill
all of your bills. We're gonna we're not gonna let
We're not gonna pass any of your bills. And again
I turned to them, I'm like, do you think that
that threat actually works with me? I don't. I don't
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expect you to pass my bills. My bills are about reform,
and if you are passing my bills, there must be
something really wrong with my bill. It must be inconsequential
at the best, or it's actually bad at the worst.
You're not threatening me by saying that you're gonna kill
all my bills. I expected that as as much as
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I expect the sun to come up in the morning.
If people are untethered from reality, you're not interested in reform.
I'm introducing these bills to show that you're willing to
vote down a popular idea because you're that extreme. So
coming up, let me tell you what other things we're
finding at DOGE California. And I'm gonna give you a
list of ten common sense bills that Democrats have killed
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in my first hundred days in office. All that coming
up as Carl Demyo me fills in for John Cobelt.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
You're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
A very highlight list of waste, fraud and abuse that
we found through our DOGE California project, and we're continuing
to find more and more and more. I mean, I'm
just giving you some samplings, all right. We've got over
three hundred and sixty thousand, three hundred and sixty thousand
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state government employees and retirees who earned more than one
hundred thousand dollars in the state budget, three hundred and
sixty thousand, over one hundred thousand. We have a dentist
who just retired. He's going to get three hundred thousand
dollars in pension per year, indexed for inflation free healthcare.
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On top of that, and he just got paid out
one point four million dollars because he led his vacation
build up, because there's no cap on his vacation. Oh,
you don't get me started on all the state holidays
that we have the most generous state holiday package you
can imagine. Last week we voted to give on top
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of all this personal leave and vacation leave fourteen weeks.
I didn't vote for this. Fourteen weeks of paid, paid
family time off. Fourteen weeks paid family time off for
state workers. The mandate also will be applied to school districts.
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You know who get three months off during the summer
because schools shut down. Nope, they're still going to get
fourteen weeks paid. Oh, that's an unfunded mandate. They have
to fund that, and they get no money from the
state budget. It's always nice when you give away goodies
and force someone else to pay for it, which is
what they usually do. The private sector high speed rail
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project originally built as eight billion dollars. It would go
from La all the way up to San Francisco. That
was two thousand and eight. They lied. This is a
big scam. It's a boondoggle. It's only being used to
allow political contributors to drift. They get kicked by backs contracts,
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then they give donations to the politicians that keep the
high speed rail boondoggle, phony belonging project going. Anyway, it's
now one hundred and thirty eight billion dollars in counting. Oh,
and no end in sight. Now. The governor the other
day said, oh, we already are laying rail in the
high speed rail. Our doge California did an investigation on
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that and we found out that he's a liar. Oh sure,
they've got a small segment of rail that's less than
a quarter mile. But guess what, it's not high speed rail.
It is a service track to bring equipment and materials
into a site. So they built. You can't make this
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crap up. He's like, oh, high speed rail, it's already underway.
We're laying the first track. You are a liar. The
track is not high speed rail. It's a service trail
rail to bring stuff into the construction site and just
let it sit there as more people get to bill
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their time and consulting contracts to build tax payers, this
is insane. The state budget is absolutely filled with all
sorts of wasteful spending. But they're trying to raise your taxes.
They're out there saying they don't have enough money for this,
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that or the other thing. They're giving away the store
to illegal immigrants. They're raising taxes, but they're cutting the
essential things. And so it's my obligation to shine a
light on this and to bring it to you. That's
why I'm sitting in for John today. I said, hey,
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we'll just go through all the DOGE California findings. You know,
three hours a day. We'll definitely be able to absolutely
use three hours a day for the entire week. So
I got threatened by the Democrats shut up or we're
taking you off the committee. I didn't shut up. Then
they said, shut up and stop doing press conferences about
(21:37):
your findings, or we'll kill your bills. And of course
I said, bring it on. You're not going to vote
for my bills anyway. This is not a real threat.
And so here are the bills that they have killed
thus far. And my view is this, always give someone
who's doing something wrong, Always give them an opportunity to
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do the right thing. That's why I introduce these bills.
And you can check out my bill package at demayoassembly
dot org, Demyoassembly dot org, d e m AIO Assembly
dot org. We cover a lot of it on my
other website, Reform California dot org as well. Here are
the ten bills that they've killed. Number one, I proposed
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that we repeal the sanctuary state law, allow law enforcement
to actually work with the federal government, and end funding
for illegal immigrant criminals, no funds to help them fight deportation.
We shouldn't be hiring them free lawyers. We don't hire
you a free lawyer if you're audited by the IRS,
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or if the state of California comes in and says, oh,
you're a small business, we're going to what we're going
to do right here is we're going to investigate you
for regulatory code compliance violations. They don't say, oh, by
the way, here's a free lawyer to defend you. No,
you got to get your own lawyer. You're hit with
a frivolous lawsuit, the PAGA lawsuits. Again, you're told to
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hire your own lawyer. I also in this bill AB
eighteen Assembly Bill eighteen said we would not give any
welfare to illegal immigrants. We're not going to give them
any medical, free health care at taxpayer's expense. Democrats killed
the bill. Second, I introduced an amendment to the budget
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to cancel the high speed rail project. Democrats unanimously voted
down the amendment to kill the high speed rail project. Again,
the project that will never get built, that is only
designed to be a conduit for money laundering. Call it
what it is, just like that COVID nineteen program I
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just told you about, that was funding seventy three political
groups of the Democrat Party with your taxpayer money to
do ballot harvesting and candidate recruitment and lobbying on left
wing policies. That's money laundering. High speed rail is money laundering.
Billions of dollars going to campaign supporters who then write
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checks the labor unions, and the contractors write checks to
the politicians campaign funds. We covered this yesterday in the
form of these housing first Towers projects. The LA project
I talked about that was six hundred thousand dollars per
unit for quote, affordable housing for homeless people, or the
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million dollars per unit projects that we're seeing up and
down the state. It built with labor unions, so the
union dues are taken out and given to the politicians
and the forms of campaign contributions. But more importantly, the
rich developers who get these government subsidies to build these
public housing welfare projects, they're giving massive campaign contributions to
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the politicians. That's why they're doing these programs. That's why
they have high speed rail, that's why they have that
COVID nineteen program. That's why they have the Homeless Forever program.
It's about them laundering money, your taxpayer money into their
campaign accounts. I gave him an opportunity to kill high
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speed rail. They voted it down unanimously. Coming up the
other seven bills that they killed, I mean, one of
which had to deal with stopping the placement of sexually
violent predators in residential communities next to schools and kids.
Democrats in California killed that bill this past week. Assembly
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Bill twenty two coming up, the ten common sense ideas
Democrats couldn't bring themselves to even vote for that are
supported by seventy eighty percent of Californians.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Coming up at three o'clock, we're going to talk about
the judges striking down a bunch of Trump executive order
what we can do about. At two o'clock, we're talking
about California politicians wanting to ban your gas stove in
your kitchen, along with a whole bunch of other gas appliances,
including gas cars. What we're doing to stop that. But
(26:15):
I'm going down some of the findings we have uncovered
and exposed as part of my Doge California efforts. This
is Carl to Mayo. I am Chairman of Reform California.
I'm a California state representative representing District seventy five in
the State Assembly, and I'm sitting in today for John
Clavelt while he's out on vacation. So Democrats, when I
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started my Doge California started basically punishing me. They took
me off the Budget Committee after just two hearings. Then
they said if I kept doing press conferences exposing what
was going on, that they would just simply kill all
my bills. And I said, bring it on, baby, because again,
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my job is to make sure the public knows what's
going on because they haven't had a media to hold
these politicians accountable in our state for decades. I think
the media is in on the scam as long as
they get taxpayer funding. And they do get taxpayer funding.
That's not just for them philosophical. They're not just left
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wing reporters. They also are in on the grift. So
here are the ten bills that I offered that Democrats
have already killed in the first hundred days. The first
one is repealing sanctuary state and ending welfare for legal immigrants.
Assembly Bill eighteen killed by Democrats. Second is an amendment
to the Budget Act that I offered canceling high speed
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rail killed by Democrats unanimously. Number three California Voter ID
a citizen's initiative, a statutory initiative at this point. Assembly
Bill twenty five to require voter ID to return ballots
and citizenship verification in order to REDGI to vote in California.
Killed by Democrats. So now we're taking that to the
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ballot using a citizen initiative. You can sign to get
that on the ballot at the website voter idpetition dot org.
That's voteridpetition dot org. But Democrats killed Assembly Bill twenty
five unanimously. Fourth bill they killed Assembly Bill twenty two
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Stop the Reckless Release Act. It would have stopped the
release of sexually violent predators into residential communities near children.
Democrats killed the bill. They said that these individuals have
served their time and they deserve to be released anywhere
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they choose. I disagree. Most common sense Californians vehemently disagree.
The mom who has to be worried about her children
when an SVP is placed down the street. I'm sure disagrees,
but not California Democrat politicians who put the rights of
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sexually violent predators first over our communities. They killed Assembly
Bill twenty two unanimously. Number five, we said the schools
are failing, so let's give parents education savings accounts. That's
Assembly Bill nineteen. This week they killed that bill. Can
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have the teachers' union have any sort of accountability or competition?
Can't have parents have a choice because all those rich
liberal billionaire kids they get to go to private schools.
But no, no, not poor kids. Number six, how about
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we allow police to remove squatters when they break into
people's homes and refuse to leave. That's Assembly Bill eight
ninety sevenimous defeated by Democrats that I authored. Number seven,
the Cap and Cut Insurance Reform Act, Assembly Bill five
six seven unanimously killed by Democrats party line vote. It
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would have shielded homeowners from having to pay double digit,
triple digit insurance rate increases. It would have suspended the
state's insurance premium tax because they're profiting when your insurance
premium increases. When it goes up by twenty percent, their
tax revenue goes up by twenty percent. Do you understand
why these politicians aren't going to solve this problem? Why
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they benefit from the rate increases, they get more money.
Why would they change anything about that deal? They won't.
Somebody Bill five to sixty seven, Somebody Bill five six
seven killed by Democrats. Number eight Balanced Budget Accountability Act.
This would implement a permanent doze California process. It's AC threeeen,
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not even given a hearing by Democrats. They don't even
want to vote that one down. They just didn't even
schedule it for a voter or a hearing. They killed
that just simply by burying the bill Number nine and
the Politician Perks Act Assembly built twenty six, also not
given a hearing because politicians don't want to have to
vote against banning gifts. They don't want to vote against
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banning's insider trading that they've been engaging in, banning them
from becoming lobbyists after they leave office, banning their pensions. No, no, no,
no no. They killed Assembly Bill twenty six that I authored,
the end the Politician's Perks Act. They killed it by
just simply not bringing it up for a vote and
coming in at number ten. Assembly Bill one two three eight.
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I authored this to ban the bans on natural gas
appliances and gas powered cars. My view is that unelected
bureaucrats at the California Air Resources Board should not be
the ones to decide what car you drive, what stove
you have in your kitchen, what water heater you get
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to use. That we shouldn't be banning these appliances. We
should let consumers decide. And if we are going to
ban something, then the legislature better be the one voting
on it and being held accountable at the ballot box.
Democrats killed Assembly built one two three eight. They won't
even give it a hearing. Coming up, let's talk about
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those natural gas appliances. Do you know that this is
not even good for the environment to ban natural gas appliances.
It's not practical, it's not affordable, and we've got a
plan to ban the bans. Coming up, We're going to
talk about natural gas and why apparently environmentalists and Democrats
hate it. It's all coming up with Carl Demio filling
(32:54):
in for John coe Belt. But first news with Heather
Brooker in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
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