April 25, 2025 • 32 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (04/25) - CA State Assemblyman Carl DeMaio fills in for John. Carl goes over a lot of what he has covered while filling in for John this week. Carl answers questions submitted by listeners on the Talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't f I am six forty. You're listening to the
John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio apps.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I want to make sure that you know that if
you missed one of the episodes, you can always go
back and listen on the iHeartRadio app through the podcasts.
But this week we talked about how California politicians get
all sorts of perks at your expense goodies. They're lining
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their pockets, They do insider trading on stocks, They take
campaign funds and go on lavish trips, tens of thousands
of dollars a year in travel expenses, five star resorts
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all around the world. Last year, the California legislature took
one point four million in gifts one hundred and twenty members.
That's eleven thousand and six, one hundred and sixty dollars
in free gifts per legislator. I did a self imposed
gift ban. I don't do gifts. Has anyone given you
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eleven thousand, six hundred and sixty dollars in gifts in
the last twelve months? In San Diego, Mayor Todd Gloria
has taken more than half a million dollars in gifts
since he was sworn in in two thousand and eight.
Half a million lobbyists spend over a billion dollars per
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cycle lobbying the legislature. That's more than eight million dollars
eight point three million dollars per legislator, or twenty seven
lobbyists per legislator. The politicians get to line up jobs,
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lucrative jobs, usually lobbying jobs, for when they leave office.
They're voting on bills for the very employers that they're
trying to seek employment with. And of course they vote
themselves all sorts of pension and salary benefits that no
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one else gets. That same Mayor Todd Gloria, he is
going to retire at age forty seven when his term ends. Yeah,
retirement age was set to zero for the politicians at
the local level in California. At age forty seven, he's
going to get one hundred and forty eight thousand dollars
a year, indexed for inflation. Every day thereafter. Every year,
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he's gonna get a hundred forty eight thousand. It's going
to go up every single year indexed for inflation. It
should be called public enrichment, not public service, because that's
what they're doing. I introduced a bill that was entitled
Ban the Perks for Politicians. They voted it down. We
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talked about doge California, the initiative I'm leading to shine
a light on the waste, fraud, and abuse and corruption
in the California state budget. Your taxpayer money being stolen,
money laundered to political groups, wasted and it's not just
high speed rail, it's all sorts of other wasteful programs
that are in there. We're going to continue our doge
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California efforts, even though the Democrats threw me off the
Budget Committee after only two hearings. When we were revealing
all this stuff, they got real upset. They thought throwing
me off the Budget Committee would shut me up. No, guys,
I can do press conferences, I can go on social media.
So we continue our efforts on doge California. More bombshell
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revelations are coming up. We talked about their money grab. Oh,
I know that doesn't narrow it down. Let me narrow
it down to the my Lidge tax tax money grab.
They want to impose a mileage tax on all drivers
on top of the highest gas tax in the country,
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on top of the highest car tax in the country.
They now want a mileage tax nine cents a mile,
or twelve hundred dollars for the average driver in California,
the average driver. If this mileage tax is approved and
they're going to get it, they're going to move forward
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on it. Okay, it's not a question of if they
do it, but one the average driver will be spending
forty five hundred dollars a year just in state taxes
to drive a car. Car tax, gas tax, mileage tax
forty five hundred dollars. That means you have to earn
like fifty five hundred dollars of earnings just to pay
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your car tax. The insurance crisis we just talked about
that today. They blame it on climate change, not it's
negligence by government at state and local levels who aren't
properly maintaining the lands, imposing a higher fire risk on
all of us. They won't let private homeowners defend their
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land by clearing defensive space. They allow homeless camps in
the canyons to start the fires. And of course they
have completely destroyed insurance in California through crazy regulations, and
they're profiting off of the rate increases. They get a
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gross receipts tax on premiums for insurance policies, which means
when the premium goes up by double, they get double
the revenue. And you wonder why they're not fixing the problem.
They're profiting off the problem. And the liberal media doesn't
ask the tough questions. They don't follow the money. They're
either too stupid or too disinterested. They want to cover
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up for these politicians. Now you know why the insurance
crisis has happened and why it's going to keep getting worse. Oh,
don't get me started on homelessness. We have a homeless
crisis in California because we don't enforce the law. We
coddle homeless people. We give them keys to million dollars
per pop units, subsidized condo towers that are drug dens.
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We give them needles to shoot up, but no treatment mandates,
no mental health mandates, no work requirements. They get a condo,
not a shelter bed. If this, if the military gets
to you know, is forced to sleep in bunk beds
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shelter style. Why is it that a hobo, the bum
gets a million dollar condo tower or these motel vouchers
are giving out of the at sixty five hundred dollars
a month. All the prostitutes are real angry because they
can't find a motel, a motel room. They're all taken
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up by the homeless people with all these hotel vouchers.
And why are we spending money million dollars per unit
condo towers for homeless because the developers give campaign contributions
to the politicians and the labor union workers have their
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paychecks when they're building these towers. The paychecks pay union
dues that also goes to politicians. Do you see the
money laundering scheme that they put together here? And finally,
yesterday we talked about their effort to ban gas cars
and do all these natural gas appliance bands in your home.
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No gas stove, no gas furnace, no gas water heater. Oh,
it has nothing to do with protecting the environment. No, no, no,
it actually hurts the environment. All that stuff will hurt
the environment. Document it hurts the environment. It's bad for
the environment. Costume a whole bunch more money. But they're
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doing it because they have this religious zelotry, this fanaticism,
that's the best way to describe it. They're fanatics and
they think, oh, natural gas is bad, Well, aren't you
the same yahoos that we're telling us thirty years ago
that natural gas clean natural gas buses were the way
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to go. Can't even keep your own rhetoric straight. So
we've covered a lot, plus obviously the voter ID initiative
that I'm leading, which you can help out with by
going online and signing up at voter id petition dot org.
That's where you signed the petition voter id petition dot org.
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But coming up, you've been giving me some questions and
raising some issues using the talk feature on the iHeartRadio app.
And we've got producer Ray and director Eric. They are
ready with the best selections. We're going to do rapid fire.
And I'm also going to let you know what the
cost of living penalty is in California, because we actually
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have a group that has added up all of the regulations,
all the taxes, all the higher costs in California. I
want you to take a guess how much more expensive
does it cost to live in California than an average
cost across the country for a middle class family. Afore
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you think it's like five thousand dollars more, could it
possibly be even ten thousand dollars more well coming up,
I'll tell you how much higher than even ten thousand
it is. That's all coming up. As Carl Demyo me
fills in for John Coblt.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
You're listening to John Coblt on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
We're talking about the the mess in California, and I've
been listening to Deborah Mark talk about Mayor Karen Bass
asking all LA residents to go out tomorrow and sweep
up the litter and the dirt in the city of
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La and make the city look so much more beautiful.
But by golly, that is that's gonna be a challenge,
you know. Karen Bass said, yes, go out there and
trim some trees and clean up some litter. Do you
think that's all that needs to happen out here? About
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getting some clorox bleach and a scrub brush and washing
down the excrement lined sidewalks? You know, what do you
do about the homeless folks just laying there the hypodermic
needles in the playgrounds. Has this woman even been out
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at about in La? This is nothing more than virtue,
single line. This is her saying, I care about LA
being cleaned up. If you really cared about La being
cleaned up, you'd actually do your damn job as mayor.
You would actually prioritize clean and safe neighborhoods over trips
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to Africa. This is all politicians, you know, pontificating and
show voting and pretending they actually care when they're absolutely
the root cause of the problem. Okay, let's get to
our talkback features. Some of you have been submitting questions
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and raising issues that you want me to respond to.
I've not heard these in advance, so maybe I'll get stumped.
I don't know, so go ahead and fire the first
one off. Hey, I was wondering, can you tell me
a little bit about Leno's Law? Leno's Law? Yes, I can.
I You know, by the way, when people say tell
me about ABE five seven, seventy seven to two, and
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I'm like, I don't know what the numbers are, you know,
what is it? What is it about? So I don't
know all the bills because they introduce comes. You know,
like four thousand bills a year are introduced in Sacramento,
and a thousand of them masks actually pass and the
governor signs most of them, so it's like eight hundred
new laws every year. My view is we should always
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get rid of three laws before you enact another law.
So anyway, Leno's law is named after Jay Leno, and
what it basically does is it says that classic cars
should be indexed each year. I think the last classic
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car cut off was like the nineteen sixties in state law.
And look, there's a lot of classic cars that are
from the seventies, eighties, nineties, even and so Leno's law says,
instead of having a fixed date for the definition of
a classic car, and if you have a classic car
you get certain advantages you don't pay the car tax,
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that we should index the date and move it forward
each year. I support Leno's law. If people want to
have a classic car, they should get a little bit
of a benefit. It's a hobby and it's a common
sense law. I actually met Jay Leno up in Sacramento
when he was up promoting the bill. He did a
press conference and it's got a lot of bipars and support,
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so hopefully we can pass it. The Democrats don't want
it because they don't want to give up the tax revenue.
That's why they don't want to index it because when
you give people a tax break, well it's less money
for them. Oh. The horror that we actually let people
keep their own money. Oh my goodness. Okay, do you
got one more? And we'll play it, but i'll answer it.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
On the other side, John Colebelt has talked about this
nuclear power and water desalination, and I'm wondering, what's the
realistic possibility that within the next five to ten years
California get nuclear power, which is much safer and water
desalination for the state.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Ah, two good topics. I'll tease it. We don't. We
don't need desalination. We don't. We don't need desalination, and
I'll tell you why. And on nuclear power, I'll give
you the bad news. It ain't coming back, even though
I support it. That's all coming up. As Carl Tomyo
fills in for John Cobelt.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
You're listening to John Coebelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Carl de Mayo filling in for John Cobelt. You'll be
back on Monday. We're taking your questions and issues on
the talk back feature on the iHeart Radio app. And
let's replay that last one, and I'll give the answer.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
John Colebelt has talked about this nuclear power and water desalination,
and I'm I'm wondering, what's the realistic possibility that within
the next five to ten years California get nuclear power,
which is much safer, and water desalination for the state.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Okay, So first, I'm going to break my answer into two.
Under California's current politics, We're not going to get another
nuclear power plant period, end of story. And we won't
even get a desalidation plant, even though the Democrats have
choked us off of all of our water and said
that we need water because it's scarce and it needs
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to go to the fishies, which is a lie approvable lie.
They won't allow us to approve a desal plant because
they say it it chews up fish in the ocean,
it's bad for the environment. So politically, you're never going
to see those two things in California. Oh but guess what,
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we don't need the dsal plant. We have more than
an enough water. There is no scarcity of water in California.
Don't get me wrong. There are years where we have
a drought and years where we have a lot of water.
Too much water. What we need are two things. We
need storage, We need more reservoirs. We need storage, and
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we also need to let the water flow. Only five
percent of water is consumed by human beings in the
state of California. That's for all of our parks, all
of our homes, all of our restaurants, all of our
hotels and golf courses, all of our industry. Five percent
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of water is by humanity. About forty percent of our
water is for food agriculture. But fifty five percent of
our water now is wasted. It's flushed out to the
Pacific Ocean by mandate. That's the big change. We waste
more than half of our water. We are also more
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water efficient than we've ever been. Ourgriculture in California has
reduced its water by twenty five percent since nineteen eighty
but increased its production of food by forty percent. They
should be given a Green Star, an environmental award, for
doing more with us. The same is true for human beings.
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We are far more water efficient. In San Diego. We
went from one hundred and sixty gallons per capita in
nineteen ninety to about fifty gallons per capita per day today,
we are more water efficient. That's great. It's not that
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the population has grown, no, no, no, we've had a
higher population, but we have saved a whole lot more water.
We've reduced human consumption. Now, this is a man made
water crisis, so we don't need the water deesel plants.
Just let it flow and store it in years where
we have plenty nuclear power. I'd love to have nuclear
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power because that would be a great way to have
zero carbon emissions, a reliable energy source, very cheap energy source.
But Carl, what about the nuclear meltdowns? When was the
last nuclear meltdown? This is a very safe industry, and
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there's a lot more other environmental impacts that might happen
with other forms of energy. But again, in the political
system out here, it won't happen. Let's you our next talkback.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
What are the chances of a Republican winning the governorship
in California in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Oh, it's possible. Not in twenty twenty eight, it's going
to be in twenty twenty six. So the governor's not
up in twenty eight, it's up in twenty six first,
but it is possible in twenty twenty six, and this
is the battle I'm fighting as chairman of Reform California.
I am not your ordinary of republic Can people say, well,
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you know, because you're the gay Republican whatever. There's a
lot of adjectives that describe me. Gay is one of them,
but irrelevant. My opponents have a lot of choice adjectives
that they use to describe me. No, I'm a fighter,
I'm conservative, I'm a populist. I actually think Republicans are
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to blame as much as Democrats are to blame for
the sorry state of our, of our of our of California,
because I can blame Democrats for lousy ideas and corruption
and lousy uh uh management because they're in charge and
it's their ideas that are causing damage. But I also
have to blame California Republicans for doing nothing but surrendering,
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going along to get along. They're as bad as the Democrats,
and so at Reform California, the group by lead, we
actually are recruiting fighters to go in the report looking
party to basically replace the sellout Republicans. And that's why
in the governor's race, we are very focused on recruiting
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and supporting the best fighter for the job. So the
first thing is we have to give Californians someone who's genuine, authentic,
a fighter with a plan, and all of the Republicans
need to run under the same platform. Like the contract
with America in nineteen ninety four, we need a contract
with California. We've got a contract on our website, Reform
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California dot org. It's called the Contract or Reform California.
So the first thing you need to do to win
is you need fighters who are genuine and authentic and
have a plan. Second, we need all of you, and
I'm looking at you, yeah, you, We need you in
the fight because we're never going to compete with the
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media or the money that the Democrats have, But we
can compete with a movement. Friend telling friend, neighbor telling neighbor,
coworker telling coworker. And the ace in the hole that
we have is the Reform California Voter Guide, which spells
out all the problems and then has a slate of
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candidates who are committing to a simple program a contract
to solve things. We also need your help to put
ideas on the ballot, because when you put ideas directly
on the ballot. Voters like our ideas like they do
with Prop thirty six or Prop thirteen. We're going to
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need your help to put voter idea on the ballot.
And so if you want to be part of this,
go to the website voter idpetition dot org and sign up.
If you want to be a volunteer to share the
voter guide, go to Reform California dot org and sign up.
But we need you to be part of the effort
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because we're not gonna have the money or the media.
We need a movement and you are the movement. And
you say, well, no one, no one is going to
miss me. I can't be effective. I guarantee you that
you can influence the vote of five people in your
circle of friends. I guarantee your friends, your family, your neighbors.
Just give them the darn voter guide. A lot of
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times people vote our way just because we give them
a simple, plain English voter guide that makes it all
easy for them. They agree with us on the issues,
they don't agree with the Democrats. They agree with us
on issues. They don't like our label, but they like
our ideas. That's where the nonpartisan, plain English Voter Guide
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really moves the needle, especially on school board, city council,
county board, sheriffs races. And so in the twenty twenty
sixth election, do I believe you can get a governor? Yes,
I do. I think we can win a lot of seats,
including the governor. Fifty eight percent, sorry, forty eight percent
of Californians say that they are willing to vote for
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a Republican for governor. That's the latest poll, which means
that there's an appetite for change, but it's going to
take everyone working together. And I do not have any
faith in the California Republican Party to get it done.
I would not donate to them if my last penny
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were on the table. Nope, do not donate to them.
You go find a candidate that you support. You go
find a ballot measure that you support. You only you
should never give to the party. You should only give
to causes and candidates that you believe in, that you
know are credible, are doing the right stuff. Because all
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those campaign consultants are going to profit on failure. They
have for twenty five years. They're going to continue to
do it until we cut off the money supply. All Right,
coming up. We got one more that we can probably
get to, maybe two plus I need to pay off
on how much more to Californians pay versus the national average.
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We got people saying, is it five grand for a
middle class family? Is it ten grand? No? No, no, no, no,
much higher than that? And I got the number and
where you can check out more as to wire costs
are so high.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A six.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
We might fail to get to one or two more
of the talkback features, but I want to give you
this number. The Transparency Foundation, a nonpartisan nonprofit, did a
study in two thousand and twenty four and it's doing
it every year now going forward, where they built a
household budget for the typical middle class family in California.
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They first had to figure out how much does it
cost to live in California for a typical middle class family.
And they did the basics, you know, rent versus mortgage,
health insurance, daycare, food, gas, car, auto insurance, all that stuff.
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They went through every single line item of the budget.
They even had taxes, and in this report they took
the cost in California for those items. And these are
all publicly available databases, by the way, and compared it
to what would be the average nationwide. The average family
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of four in California, that's middle class, are you ready for?
It has to earn one hundred and forty six thousand
dollars to be middle class one hundred and forty six
thousand to be middle class. Unfortunately, the average middle class
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household in California is about one so they're already underwater.
And the budget, the household budget that this group calculated,
showed that that middle class family would still have an
annual deficit of twenty eight thousand, eight hundred and thirty
three dollars and seventy two cents. That's a deficit. That's
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because in order to live here in California, they have
to pay a cost of living penalty of twenty eight
thousand and thirty seven dollars and twenty eight cents versus
what they would have to pay if they were just
paying the averages across the country, the average cost of
gas versus California, the average cost of healthcare versus California,
the average cost of food versus California in all the
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other states versus California. When you add it all up
twenty eight thousand and thirty seven dollars in twenty eight cents.
And then you might say, well, it's the housing caral.
Housing is a big piece of it, no doubt. It's
one hundred and eighty one hundred and eight percent higher
for homeowners, forty seven percent higher than renters national average.
But everywhere else, every category, not a single category, were
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things cheaper in California than the national average. Oh wait, wait,
there was one area that they didn't study that is
cheaper the street price of illegal drugs. Everything else, I'm
hearing music in my ear. Everything else is completely higher.
And again, we need to reduce costs if you want
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to have a better state. If California is going to
get fixed, the first thing you can do, the most
important thing you can do, cut the cost of living here.
The politicians are completely out of control when it comes
to mandates, taxes, fees, charges and whatnot. Let's go with
another talk back real quick and then we'll close it out. Coral.
Why are California state prisoners being released early? Ah? Good question. Well,
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California state prisoners are being released early because California Democrat
politicians believe that prisoners are victims. Criminals are victims, not
the crime victims themselves. No, no, no, the criminals are victims.
They're victimized by society and racism and income inequality. We
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failed them. No, they had the same system of everyone else.
But when all these other people can live by the rules,
play by the rules, not break the law, not kill people,
not steal from people, and they had the same quote
unquote racism or income inequality or bad luck, then maybe
it's the criminal making the bad decision. So there's a
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perversion that democrats have when it comes to criminal justice,
where they literally think that they should exist to serve
the criminal's interest versus punish the criminal and have some
sort of rehabilitation. So in twenty sixteen Prop. Fifty seven
past with a phony title of fake title, a dishonest title.
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Voters were duped into it that allowed for a quote
early release for good behavior. But these people don't behave well.
They can get in fights and break the rules and
still get out early. Gavin Newsom is released Are You
Ready for It? Ninety thousand criminals on early release since
he took office, ninety thousand on the streets, many of
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them recommitting crimes and you wonder why we have a
crime way that does it for me. Look, if you
want to continue the journey, just so you know, I've
got my own show on YouTube every day at five o'clock.
We do a new episode every day at five. It's
a twenty minute show. We cover the top story of
the day. Check it out Reform California dot org on
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YouTube on the Internet you can get it, but also
on YouTube Reform California, Caral Tomyo. Subscribe and follow that channel. Also,
I cannot get this voter ID initiative on the ballot
without the million signatures. Has to sign up, and I
need you to share the petition. If there's one thing
we can do in the next six seven months to
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really change the direction of California, get voter ID, to
fix our elections, to restore integrity. And that's only going
to happen if you sign that petition and get a
bunch of your friends to sign it as well. So
go to voteridpetition dot org. That's the website, voteridpetition dot org.
We are building our grassroots network across the state to
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get this done. And once we build this movement for
voter ID, we're not going to say, Okay, bye, Siya,
we did it, we got it done, Go go home.
We're never going to meet up again. No, we're going
to say, now that we've built this an accomplished voter
id and are a political movement statewide, why don't we
use this to throw the bumps out, to put good
people back into office, Put taxpayer protection on the ballot,
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put criminal justice reform on the ballot. This is how
we take back our state. I'll close on this. A
lot of your friends flee. You're probably thinking about fleeing
from time to time the state of California. I'm here
to tell you you do not have to flee. You
can stay and fight. The problem is that you've never
been given a plan, and there's never been an overall
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statewide effort for all of us to fight together. But
now we have that, and I'm inviting you to be
part of that, and yes, it can make a difference.
Give it a try rather than packing up and moving.
Give it a try. You do not have to be hopeless.
You can have hope of getting our great state back.
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It's been a pleasure to be with you sitting in
for John Gobilt. He's gonna be back next week. My
good friend I will also be joining as news warrants.
We uppear every so often on the show to give
updates from Sacramento. But again, don't give up, don't despair.
Let's take back this state from the real criminals that
have taken it over. And I include politicians since in
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that bunch, I'm Carl Tomayo, Chairman of perform California, California
State Representative. Let's check in with Mike Krozer in the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast.
You can always hear the show live on KFI Am
six forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday,
and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Can't f I am six forty. You're listening to the
John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio apps.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I want to make sure that you know that if
you missed one of the episodes, you can always go
back and listen on the iHeartRadio app through the podcasts.
But this week we talked about how California politicians get
all sorts of perks at your expense goodies. They're lining
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their pockets, They do insider trading on stocks, They take
campaign funds and go on lavish trips, tens of thousands
of dollars a year in travel expenses, five star resorts
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all around the world. Last year, the California legislature took
one point four million in gifts one hundred and twenty members.
That's eleven thousand and six, one hundred and sixty dollars
in free gifts per legislator. I did a self imposed
gift ban. I don't do gifts. Has anyone given you
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eleven thousand, six hundred and sixty dollars in gifts in
the last twelve months? In San Diego, Mayor Todd Gloria
has taken more than half a million dollars in gifts
since he was sworn in in two thousand and eight.
Half a million lobbyists spend over a billion dollars per
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cycle lobbying the legislature. That's more than eight million dollars
eight point three million dollars per legislator, or twenty seven
lobbyists per legislator. The politicians get to line up jobs,
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lucrative jobs, usually lobbying jobs, for when they leave office.
They're voting on bills for the very employers that they're
trying to seek employment with. And of course they vote
themselves all sorts of pension and salary benefits that no
(02:16):
one else gets. That same Mayor Todd Gloria, he is
going to retire at age forty seven when his term ends. Yeah,
retirement age was set to zero for the politicians at
the local level in California. At age forty seven, he's
going to get one hundred and forty eight thousand dollars
a year, indexed for inflation. Every day thereafter. Every year,
(02:39):
he's gonna get a hundred forty eight thousand. It's going
to go up every single year indexed for inflation. It
should be called public enrichment, not public service, because that's
what they're doing. I introduced a bill that was entitled
Ban the Perks for Politicians. They voted it down. We
(03:03):
talked about doge California, the initiative I'm leading to shine
a light on the waste, fraud, and abuse and corruption
in the California state budget. Your taxpayer money being stolen,
money laundered to political groups, wasted and it's not just
high speed rail, it's all sorts of other wasteful programs
that are in there. We're going to continue our doge
(03:26):
California efforts, even though the Democrats threw me off the
Budget Committee after only two hearings. When we were revealing
all this stuff, they got real upset. They thought throwing
me off the Budget Committee would shut me up. No, guys,
I can do press conferences, I can go on social media.
So we continue our efforts on doge California. More bombshell
(03:46):
revelations are coming up. We talked about their money grab. Oh,
I know that doesn't narrow it down. Let me narrow
it down to the my Lidge tax tax money grab.
They want to impose a mileage tax on all drivers
on top of the highest gas tax in the country,
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on top of the highest car tax in the country.
They now want a mileage tax nine cents a mile,
or twelve hundred dollars for the average driver in California,
the average driver. If this mileage tax is approved and
they're going to get it, they're going to move forward
(04:28):
on it. Okay, it's not a question of if they
do it, but one the average driver will be spending
forty five hundred dollars a year just in state taxes
to drive a car. Car tax, gas tax, mileage tax
forty five hundred dollars. That means you have to earn
like fifty five hundred dollars of earnings just to pay
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your car tax. The insurance crisis we just talked about
that today. They blame it on climate change, not it's
negligence by government at state and local levels who aren't
properly maintaining the lands, imposing a higher fire risk on
all of us. They won't let private homeowners defend their
(05:11):
land by clearing defensive space. They allow homeless camps in
the canyons to start the fires. And of course they
have completely destroyed insurance in California through crazy regulations, and
they're profiting off of the rate increases. They get a
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gross receipts tax on premiums for insurance policies, which means
when the premium goes up by double, they get double
the revenue. And you wonder why they're not fixing the problem.
They're profiting off the problem. And the liberal media doesn't
ask the tough questions. They don't follow the money. They're
either too stupid or too disinterested. They want to cover
(05:58):
up for these politicians. Now you know why the insurance
crisis has happened and why it's going to keep getting worse. Oh,
don't get me started on homelessness. We have a homeless
crisis in California because we don't enforce the law. We
coddle homeless people. We give them keys to million dollars
per pop units, subsidized condo towers that are drug dens.
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We give them needles to shoot up, but no treatment mandates,
no mental health mandates, no work requirements. They get a condo,
not a shelter bed. If this, if the military gets
to you know, is forced to sleep in bunk beds
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shelter style. Why is it that a hobo, the bum
gets a million dollar condo tower or these motel vouchers
are giving out of the at sixty five hundred dollars
a month. All the prostitutes are real angry because they
can't find a motel, a motel room. They're all taken
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up by the homeless people with all these hotel vouchers.
And why are we spending money million dollars per unit
condo towers for homeless because the developers give campaign contributions
to the politicians and the labor union workers have their
(07:26):
paychecks when they're building these towers. The paychecks pay union
dues that also goes to politicians. Do you see the
money laundering scheme that they put together here? And finally,
yesterday we talked about their effort to ban gas cars
and do all these natural gas appliance bands in your home.
(07:48):
No gas stove, no gas furnace, no gas water heater. Oh,
it has nothing to do with protecting the environment. No, no, no,
it actually hurts the environment. All that stuff will hurt
the environment. Document it hurts the environment. It's bad for
the environment. Costume a whole bunch more money. But they're
(08:08):
doing it because they have this religious zelotry, this fanaticism,
that's the best way to describe it. They're fanatics and
they think, oh, natural gas is bad, Well, aren't you
the same yahoos that we're telling us thirty years ago
that natural gas clean natural gas buses were the way
(08:29):
to go. Can't even keep your own rhetoric straight. So
we've covered a lot, plus obviously the voter ID initiative
that I'm leading, which you can help out with by
going online and signing up at voter id petition dot org.
That's where you signed the petition voter id petition dot org.
(08:54):
But coming up, you've been giving me some questions and
raising some issues using the talk feature on the iHeartRadio app.
And we've got producer Ray and director Eric. They are
ready with the best selections. We're going to do rapid fire.
And I'm also going to let you know what the
cost of living penalty is in California, because we actually
(09:16):
have a group that has added up all of the regulations,
all the taxes, all the higher costs in California. I
want you to take a guess how much more expensive
does it cost to live in California than an average
cost across the country for a middle class family. Afore
(09:36):
you think it's like five thousand dollars more, could it
possibly be even ten thousand dollars more well coming up,
I'll tell you how much higher than even ten thousand
it is. That's all coming up. As Carl Demyo me
fills in for John Coblt.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
You're listening to John Coblt on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
We're talking about the the mess in California, and I've
been listening to Deborah Mark talk about Mayor Karen Bass
asking all LA residents to go out tomorrow and sweep
up the litter and the dirt in the city of
(10:20):
La and make the city look so much more beautiful.
But by golly, that is that's gonna be a challenge,
you know. Karen Bass said, yes, go out there and
trim some trees and clean up some litter. Do you
think that's all that needs to happen out here? About
(10:40):
getting some clorox bleach and a scrub brush and washing
down the excrement lined sidewalks? You know, what do you
do about the homeless folks just laying there the hypodermic
needles in the playgrounds. Has this woman even been out
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at about in La? This is nothing more than virtue,
single line. This is her saying, I care about LA
being cleaned up. If you really cared about La being
cleaned up, you'd actually do your damn job as mayor.
You would actually prioritize clean and safe neighborhoods over trips
(11:27):
to Africa. This is all politicians, you know, pontificating and
show voting and pretending they actually care when they're absolutely
the root cause of the problem. Okay, let's get to
our talkback features. Some of you have been submitting questions
(11:48):
and raising issues that you want me to respond to.
I've not heard these in advance, so maybe I'll get stumped.
I don't know, so go ahead and fire the first
one off. Hey, I was wondering, can you tell me
a little bit about Leno's Law? Leno's Law? Yes, I can.
I You know, by the way, when people say tell
me about ABE five seven, seventy seven to two, and
(12:11):
I'm like, I don't know what the numbers are, you know,
what is it? What is it about? So I don't
know all the bills because they introduce comes. You know,
like four thousand bills a year are introduced in Sacramento,
and a thousand of them masks actually pass and the
governor signs most of them, so it's like eight hundred
new laws every year. My view is we should always
(12:33):
get rid of three laws before you enact another law.
So anyway, Leno's law is named after Jay Leno, and
what it basically does is it says that classic cars
should be indexed each year. I think the last classic
(12:55):
car cut off was like the nineteen sixties in state law.
And look, there's a lot of classic cars that are
from the seventies, eighties, nineties, even and so Leno's law says,
instead of having a fixed date for the definition of
a classic car, and if you have a classic car
you get certain advantages you don't pay the car tax,
(13:17):
that we should index the date and move it forward
each year. I support Leno's law. If people want to
have a classic car, they should get a little bit
of a benefit. It's a hobby and it's a common
sense law. I actually met Jay Leno up in Sacramento
when he was up promoting the bill. He did a
press conference and it's got a lot of bipars and support,
(13:38):
so hopefully we can pass it. The Democrats don't want
it because they don't want to give up the tax revenue.
That's why they don't want to index it because when
you give people a tax break, well it's less money
for them. Oh. The horror that we actually let people
keep their own money. Oh my goodness. Okay, do you
got one more? And we'll play it, but i'll answer it.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
On the other side, John Colebelt has talked about this
nuclear power and water desalination, and I'm wondering, what's the
realistic possibility that within the next five to ten years
California get nuclear power, which is much safer and water
desalination for the state.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Ah, two good topics. I'll tease it. We don't. We
don't need desalination. We don't. We don't need desalination, and
I'll tell you why. And on nuclear power, I'll give
you the bad news. It ain't coming back, even though
I support it. That's all coming up. As Carl Tomyo
fills in for John Cobelt.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
You're listening to John Coebelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Carl de Mayo filling in for John Cobelt. You'll be
back on Monday. We're taking your questions and issues on
the talk back feature on the iHeart Radio app. And
let's replay that last one, and I'll give the answer.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
John Colebelt has talked about this nuclear power and water desalination,
and I'm I'm wondering, what's the realistic possibility that within
the next five to ten years California get nuclear power,
which is much safer, and water desalination for the state.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Okay, So first, I'm going to break my answer into two.
Under California's current politics, We're not going to get another
nuclear power plant period, end of story. And we won't
even get a desalidation plant, even though the Democrats have
choked us off of all of our water and said
that we need water because it's scarce and it needs
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to go to the fishies, which is a lie approvable lie.
They won't allow us to approve a desal plant because
they say it it chews up fish in the ocean,
it's bad for the environment. So politically, you're never going
to see those two things in California. Oh but guess what,
(15:54):
we don't need the dsal plant. We have more than
an enough water. There is no scarcity of water in California.
Don't get me wrong. There are years where we have
a drought and years where we have a lot of water.
Too much water. What we need are two things. We
need storage, We need more reservoirs. We need storage, and
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we also need to let the water flow. Only five
percent of water is consumed by human beings in the
state of California. That's for all of our parks, all
of our homes, all of our restaurants, all of our
hotels and golf courses, all of our industry. Five percent
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of water is by humanity. About forty percent of our
water is for food agriculture. But fifty five percent of
our water now is wasted. It's flushed out to the
Pacific Ocean by mandate. That's the big change. We waste
more than half of our water. We are also more
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water efficient than we've ever been. Ourgriculture in California has
reduced its water by twenty five percent since nineteen eighty
but increased its production of food by forty percent. They
should be given a Green Star, an environmental award, for
doing more with us. The same is true for human beings.
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We are far more water efficient. In San Diego. We
went from one hundred and sixty gallons per capita in
nineteen ninety to about fifty gallons per capita per day today,
we are more water efficient. That's great. It's not that
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the population has grown, no, no, no, we've had a
higher population, but we have saved a whole lot more water.
We've reduced human consumption. Now, this is a man made
water crisis, so we don't need the water deesel plants.
Just let it flow and store it in years where
we have plenty nuclear power. I'd love to have nuclear
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power because that would be a great way to have
zero carbon emissions, a reliable energy source, very cheap energy source.
But Carl, what about the nuclear meltdowns? When was the
last nuclear meltdown? This is a very safe industry, and
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there's a lot more other environmental impacts that might happen
with other forms of energy. But again, in the political
system out here, it won't happen. Let's you our next talkback.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
What are the chances of a Republican winning the governorship
in California in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Oh, it's possible. Not in twenty twenty eight, it's going
to be in twenty twenty six. So the governor's not
up in twenty eight, it's up in twenty six first,
but it is possible in twenty twenty six, and this
is the battle I'm fighting as chairman of Reform California.
I am not your ordinary of republic Can people say, well,
(19:02):
you know, because you're the gay Republican whatever. There's a
lot of adjectives that describe me. Gay is one of them,
but irrelevant. My opponents have a lot of choice adjectives
that they use to describe me. No, I'm a fighter,
I'm conservative, I'm a populist. I actually think Republicans are
(19:22):
to blame as much as Democrats are to blame for
the sorry state of our, of our of our of California,
because I can blame Democrats for lousy ideas and corruption
and lousy uh uh management because they're in charge and
it's their ideas that are causing damage. But I also
have to blame California Republicans for doing nothing but surrendering,
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going along to get along. They're as bad as the Democrats,
and so at Reform California, the group by lead, we
actually are recruiting fighters to go in the report looking
party to basically replace the sellout Republicans. And that's why
in the governor's race, we are very focused on recruiting
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and supporting the best fighter for the job. So the
first thing is we have to give Californians someone who's genuine, authentic,
a fighter with a plan, and all of the Republicans
need to run under the same platform. Like the contract
with America in nineteen ninety four, we need a contract
with California. We've got a contract on our website, Reform
(20:32):
California dot org. It's called the Contract or Reform California.
So the first thing you need to do to win
is you need fighters who are genuine and authentic and
have a plan. Second, we need all of you, and
I'm looking at you, yeah, you, We need you in
the fight because we're never going to compete with the
(20:53):
media or the money that the Democrats have, But we
can compete with a movement. Friend telling friend, neighbor telling neighbor,
coworker telling coworker. And the ace in the hole that
we have is the Reform California Voter Guide, which spells
out all the problems and then has a slate of
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candidates who are committing to a simple program a contract
to solve things. We also need your help to put
ideas on the ballot, because when you put ideas directly
on the ballot. Voters like our ideas like they do
with Prop thirty six or Prop thirteen. We're going to
(21:33):
need your help to put voter idea on the ballot.
And so if you want to be part of this,
go to the website voter idpetition dot org and sign up.
If you want to be a volunteer to share the
voter guide, go to Reform California dot org and sign up.
But we need you to be part of the effort
(21:54):
because we're not gonna have the money or the media.
We need a movement and you are the movement. And
you say, well, no one, no one is going to
miss me. I can't be effective. I guarantee you that
you can influence the vote of five people in your
circle of friends. I guarantee your friends, your family, your neighbors.
Just give them the darn voter guide. A lot of
(22:14):
times people vote our way just because we give them
a simple, plain English voter guide that makes it all
easy for them. They agree with us on the issues,
they don't agree with the Democrats. They agree with us
on issues. They don't like our label, but they like
our ideas. That's where the nonpartisan, plain English Voter Guide
(22:36):
really moves the needle, especially on school board, city council,
county board, sheriffs races. And so in the twenty twenty
sixth election, do I believe you can get a governor? Yes,
I do. I think we can win a lot of seats,
including the governor. Fifty eight percent, sorry, forty eight percent
of Californians say that they are willing to vote for
(22:57):
a Republican for governor. That's the latest poll, which means
that there's an appetite for change, but it's going to
take everyone working together. And I do not have any
faith in the California Republican Party to get it done.
I would not donate to them if my last penny
(23:18):
were on the table. Nope, do not donate to them.
You go find a candidate that you support. You go
find a ballot measure that you support. You only you
should never give to the party. You should only give
to causes and candidates that you believe in, that you
know are credible, are doing the right stuff. Because all
(23:40):
those campaign consultants are going to profit on failure. They
have for twenty five years. They're going to continue to
do it until we cut off the money supply. All Right,
coming up. We got one more that we can probably
get to, maybe two plus I need to pay off
on how much more to Californians pay versus the national average.
(24:01):
We got people saying, is it five grand for a
middle class family? Is it ten grand? No? No, no, no, no,
much higher than that? And I got the number and
where you can check out more as to wire costs
are so high.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A six.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
We might fail to get to one or two more
of the talkback features, but I want to give you
this number. The Transparency Foundation, a nonpartisan nonprofit, did a
study in two thousand and twenty four and it's doing
it every year now going forward, where they built a
household budget for the typical middle class family in California.
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They first had to figure out how much does it
cost to live in California for a typical middle class family.
And they did the basics, you know, rent versus mortgage,
health insurance, daycare, food, gas, car, auto insurance, all that stuff.
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They went through every single line item of the budget.
They even had taxes, and in this report they took
the cost in California for those items. And these are
all publicly available databases, by the way, and compared it
to what would be the average nationwide. The average family
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of four in California, that's middle class, are you ready for?
It has to earn one hundred and forty six thousand
dollars to be middle class one hundred and forty six
thousand to be middle class. Unfortunately, the average middle class
(25:57):
household in California is about one so they're already underwater.
And the budget, the household budget that this group calculated,
showed that that middle class family would still have an
annual deficit of twenty eight thousand, eight hundred and thirty
three dollars and seventy two cents. That's a deficit. That's
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because in order to live here in California, they have
to pay a cost of living penalty of twenty eight
thousand and thirty seven dollars and twenty eight cents versus
what they would have to pay if they were just
paying the averages across the country, the average cost of
gas versus California, the average cost of healthcare versus California,
the average cost of food versus California in all the
(26:43):
other states versus California. When you add it all up
twenty eight thousand and thirty seven dollars in twenty eight cents.
And then you might say, well, it's the housing caral.
Housing is a big piece of it, no doubt. It's
one hundred and eighty one hundred and eight percent higher
for homeowners, forty seven percent higher than renters national average.
But everywhere else, every category, not a single category, were
(27:05):
things cheaper in California than the national average. Oh wait, wait,
there was one area that they didn't study that is
cheaper the street price of illegal drugs. Everything else, I'm
hearing music in my ear. Everything else is completely higher.
And again, we need to reduce costs if you want
(27:27):
to have a better state. If California is going to
get fixed, the first thing you can do, the most
important thing you can do, cut the cost of living here.
The politicians are completely out of control when it comes
to mandates, taxes, fees, charges and whatnot. Let's go with
another talk back real quick and then we'll close it out. Coral.
Why are California state prisoners being released early? Ah? Good question. Well,
(27:53):
California state prisoners are being released early because California Democrat
politicians believe that prisoners are victims. Criminals are victims, not
the crime victims themselves. No, no, no, the criminals are victims.
They're victimized by society and racism and income inequality. We
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failed them. No, they had the same system of everyone else.
But when all these other people can live by the rules,
play by the rules, not break the law, not kill people,
not steal from people, and they had the same quote
unquote racism or income inequality or bad luck, then maybe
it's the criminal making the bad decision. So there's a
(28:37):
perversion that democrats have when it comes to criminal justice,
where they literally think that they should exist to serve
the criminal's interest versus punish the criminal and have some
sort of rehabilitation. So in twenty sixteen Prop. Fifty seven
past with a phony title of fake title, a dishonest title.
(28:58):
Voters were duped into it that allowed for a quote
early release for good behavior. But these people don't behave well.
They can get in fights and break the rules and
still get out early. Gavin Newsom is released Are You
Ready for It? Ninety thousand criminals on early release since
he took office, ninety thousand on the streets, many of
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them recommitting crimes and you wonder why we have a
crime way that does it for me. Look, if you
want to continue the journey, just so you know, I've
got my own show on YouTube every day at five o'clock.
We do a new episode every day at five. It's
a twenty minute show. We cover the top story of
the day. Check it out Reform California dot org on
(29:46):
YouTube on the Internet you can get it, but also
on YouTube Reform California, Caral Tomyo. Subscribe and follow that channel. Also,
I cannot get this voter ID initiative on the ballot
without the million signatures. Has to sign up, and I
need you to share the petition. If there's one thing
we can do in the next six seven months to
(30:09):
really change the direction of California, get voter ID, to
fix our elections, to restore integrity. And that's only going
to happen if you sign that petition and get a
bunch of your friends to sign it as well. So
go to voteridpetition dot org. That's the website, voteridpetition dot org.
We are building our grassroots network across the state to
(30:32):
get this done. And once we build this movement for
voter ID, we're not going to say, Okay, bye, Siya,
we did it, we got it done, Go go home.
We're never going to meet up again. No, we're going
to say, now that we've built this an accomplished voter
id and are a political movement statewide, why don't we
use this to throw the bumps out, to put good
people back into office, Put taxpayer protection on the ballot,
(30:55):
put criminal justice reform on the ballot. This is how
we take back our state. I'll close on this. A
lot of your friends flee. You're probably thinking about fleeing
from time to time the state of California. I'm here
to tell you you do not have to flee. You
can stay and fight. The problem is that you've never
been given a plan, and there's never been an overall
(31:18):
statewide effort for all of us to fight together. But
now we have that, and I'm inviting you to be
part of that, and yes, it can make a difference.
Give it a try rather than packing up and moving.
Give it a try. You do not have to be hopeless.
You can have hope of getting our great state back.
(31:38):
It's been a pleasure to be with you sitting in
for John Gobilt. He's gonna be back next week. My
good friend I will also be joining as news warrants.
We uppear every so often on the show to give
updates from Sacramento. But again, don't give up, don't despair.
Let's take back this state from the real criminals that
have taken it over. And I include politicians since in
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that bunch, I'm Carl Tomayo, Chairman of perform California, California
State Representative. Let's check in with Mike Krozer in the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
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