PBT, Episode 58; Candidate for Riverside County Supervisor, ft. Eric Stalter

We sat down with Eric Stalter who is running for district 5of the Riverside County Board of Supervisors. This was an enjoyable conversation where we talked about life, his background, his views on fatherhood, the problems that he sees in Riverside County, and how he plans to address them. Please visit his website if you have any questions stalter4supervisor.com

Episode Transcript

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You ever wonder what is the truth?
Three things cannot be long hidden, the sun, the moon, and
the truth and the truth. All right, guys, welcome to

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another episode of Point Blank Truth Podcast.
Thank you so much for tuning in Today.
We have a special guest in the garage, Mr. Eric Stelter.
Eric, how are you, Sir? Thank you so much for joining
us. Good, Danny.
Thanks for having me. I appreciate it.
Yeah, You know, before we get into it, I, I saw your campaign
ad and I wanted to play that forthe listeners and then maybe we

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can talk about that a little bitif you don't mind.
Yeah, whatever you want. Awesome awesome awesome guys.
Check this ad out real quick. I thought this was super cool.
You don't really hear this from people running from politics, so
check it out. Hi, I'm Eric Stalter and I'm
running for Riverside County Supervisor in District 5.
I am not a career politician. I am a husband, a dad, a

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grandpa, and a long time advocate for families who feel
unheard and underserved by the very people and systems that
were supposedly put in place fortheir welfare.
For years I've stood on the front lines helping parents
navigate a broken system, fighting for transparency,
accountability and justice. I've seen up close what happens

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when everyday people are left out of the conversation, and I'm
here to change that. Because Riverside County
deserves more than just businessas usual.
We deserve representatives who show up to work, who listen and
take action. This is not about left or right,
it is about what's right. Safer communities.

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Smarter spending, honest representation and Government
Accountability. A county government that puts
its own citizens first and not special interests.
I'm running because I believe inus and our ability to build a
future where families can thrive, small businesses can
grow, and public systems that serve the people they were

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created for. So if you're tired of being
ignored, if you've ever said someone should do something, I'm
here to say I hear you and I am that someone.
I'm your huckleberry. But we need your help.
Visit the website, read the vision, ask questions and join
the movement. Because this campaign isn't just

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about getting me elected. It's about giving our community
the voice it deserves. We are on a mission.
My name is Eric Stalter, and I'masking for your trust and your
vote. Thank you.
Mr. Stalter, you're our huckleberry.
I love that, man. I love that.

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Great movie. So talk to us a little bit about
this. You're you're running for
Riverside County Supervisor District 5.
OK. What?
What areas does that cover and what exactly does the county
supervisor do? So that covers Calimesa Banning,

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Beaumont, Cabazon, Hemet, San Jacinto, Moreno Valley, Nuevo,
Reche Canyon, Cherry Valley. I'm forgetting I'm.
Forgetting a couple lakeside. Things like that.
So it's a huge area, over 500,000 people, you know, it's a
lot of people. There's 290,000 voters in our

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district, so it's, it's a big area.
What does a supervisor do? They appropriate funds, they
approve contracts. They, you know, they oversee
county programs, what 4748 programs, you know, on and on
and on. So it's a, it's a big job.
Yeah, it's a big job. Yeah, definitely.
What? What was it?
Have you, have you ran for anything in the past?

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Before? Is this your first time
campaigning? Yeah, this is my first time
campaigning. I've not run for any office
before. Yeah, you know we sat down on
these microphones before you andI I want to say I want to say
episode 31. I want to say that's what it
was. It was at the the make

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California great again event that David Serpa ran and you
were our first interview. I you know I knowing that I was
going to have you on I re listened to it.
We sat down, we only spoke for 14 minutes and you spoke to me
about the what's the organization that you.
Civil review board. Civil Review Board, Is that

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still a thing? Are you still in charge of that?
How's that been going? It's going great.
The Civil Review Board and you know, the Civil Review Board is
the vehicle is the mechanism that that gives me.
You asked me about running for office the first time.
You know, this is the vehicle, like I said, the mechanism that
gives me a unique perspective ongovernment and a unique ability

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to do exactly what I'm running for.
You know, the Civil Review Board's, an organization whose
purpose is to hold elected officials accountable to the
government that they are to the community that they were elected
to serve, excuse me, is to provide resources to the
community, you know, legislativeresources.
When we started the Civil ReviewBoard, it was designed for any
governing body. It was designed to mirror any

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governing body. So, but with the need, as you
know, in the school systems today, we decided to focus
directly on school systems. So that's where our focus is
currently. But it's to provide resource of
the community in form of education code training, like I
said, legislative resources, school choice referrals, legal
referrals, curriculum transparency, on and on and to

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raise community leaders, you know, people that are willing to
expose themselves to the community, get out in front of
the community, stand up for righteousness and for truth,
protect the children, protect the family and speak it man, say
it. Because if we do that, we'll get
to, we'll get to do in it, you know, so and then fourthly, it's
to work with teachers, students and staff in the system who

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expose hidden curriculum or behaviors that are not in the
best interest of the student or family.
So right now, we currently have 5 chapters.
Those five chapters serve the communities of 10 school
districts all the way from from Palos Verdes to Yucaipa,
Calimesa up to Cajon Valley. So we got a lot of people, a lot
of volunteers working very hard and working together to hold our

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elected officials accountable, our school board
representatives, again, particularly in this case.
So we've been doing this for about almost six years now.
It's, it's, it's a lot of hard work.
It's it's consistency. You know, holding your
government accountable is a participation sport.
We've all got to engage in this process and we have to do it

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with dignity. It's great that we're all bent
out of shape with something, butthere's got to be solution in
mind. If we don't carry solution in
mind and in heart, we'll never get there.
If we're always preparing for war, we're always going to be at
war. So, so our whole philosophy is
to seek that solution, have the solution based conversations
that lead to solution based activities.

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And that's why that's why, because this whole thing's given
me an opportunity not just to work with community, but to work
with pastors, to work with community leaders, to work with
city officials, to work with school board officials, to work
with administrators, all the wayup to the state legislative
level. So I have a very unique
experience in bringing these people together, putting things

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on the table and working throughthem towards the solution.
Yeah. That's incredible.
And you know, you know, it's funny is when we sat down last
time hearing you speak, it was like, that's like exactly what
what we're kind of trying to do in Temecula, like is, is keep
people informed, keep people in the loop.
Because, you know, I noticed that that's why people don't

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really get involved in local politics.
And I think it's the most important thing to get involved
in is people feel like, I don't really know what that looks
like. It's intimidating to go to the
school board meeting and they don't understand like there's an
agenda and this is the way it works and there's comments for
agendized items and when you speak to those items, they have
to be about those items. But then later on they will be

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public. It's like there's so many
nuances to to a school board meeting or City Council meeting.
And I noticed that that was the bridge that I struggled with in
Temecula is, is getting people to show up and understand like,
Hey, these are these meetings are for us.
And when we don't show up, we really don't be represented.

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We're really not being represented.
I mean, it, it's not enough to just do your due diligence the
day before the election and readthrough campaign ads and then go
and vote. And then, oh, I voted for that
guy, he won. Cool.
And then you go about your life.No, no, no, we have to show up.
We have to speak out. We have to support these people.
We have to make sure that the things they ran on are being
represented. And and I think that that's what

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our country's missing. Like just on a national level,
you go to any school board meeting, it's it isn't, there
isn't a full house just generally speaking.
Or you go to any City Council meeting, most of the seats are
empty. And I tell people all the time,
like in, you know, the, the 1800s, people were riding on
horseback, you know, to go to their City Council meeting,

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they'd ride 10 miles on horse. Let's see what policy they're
making. You know, I'm going to make sure
that my freedoms aren't being encroached on, you know, And now
it's like we kind of just forfeit the trust.
And I think that's why our country is where we're where we
are right now, especially in California.
Well, we're truly the frog in the boiling water is what it is.
We've we've, we've inserted ourselves there, we've allowed

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it to take place. We can't ignore that, that
we've, that we have collectivelyallowed from generation to
generation, our government overreach to just keep on going,
keep on going, keep on going and, and the water's boiling and
we're staying in it. And so now it's time to use

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that, that dignified behavior, that strength that God gave each
and every one of us. You know, our mission campaign,
our mission statement for the campaign is we are on a mission
to serve, to speak, and to act. And all of those things require
one thing, just one. They don't require knowledge.

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They don't require much of an education.
It's wonderful to educate ourselves.
We should continue to do that. I read books every single
morning because education is important.
But what I'm saying for this conversation is that those
things are not necessarily needed.
What we need is courage. What we need is consistency.
So when we go on our mission to serve, to speak and to act, we

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will accomplish something together.
Side of that is, like I said, generationally we haven't taught
you guys, the younger, the younger folks how important it
is to be civically engaged because we were lazy with it.
You know, that's my responsibility.
When I was going to school with my five children, three children
of my own, 2 stepchildren, when I was going to their school, I

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was going to play days, man. I wasn't going to board
meetings. I was going, you know, I was
going and having fun. I was doing what I was doing
with my kids and I wasn't thinking about the importance of
setting up for the next generation.
When you go to the park, your job is not just to go have fun
at the park, it's to clean it upso the next round of people that
come to the park have can have agood time too.
And we have failed the next generation in that.

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So that's that's something we got to get to.
I want to say that I, I, I thinkit's what you just said kind of
blows my mind a little bit. It's very rare to hear the older
generation take ownership of of like the missteps that and
again, it's not your fault, but just generationally, like I
agree with that where it's like my parents weren't really

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involved in my education. But again, there weren't as
many, there wasn't as much of A cultural influence on my
education where, where there is now.
You know, the public school system looks slightly different.
And, and I think that that's huge, especially because the,
the fact that you're, you're running for Riverside County

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supervisor and you're saying, Hey, I have some responsibility
on the lack of knowledge of thisnext generation and the lack of
engagement and wanting to be involved.
And also you're doing something about it because you started
the, the CRB, right, The CRB, right, Civil review board, you
started the CRB and it's still up and running.
I, I checked out the website a couple days ago and I'll,

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because I was curious. I'm like, man, this guy's got to
be busy running a campaign. And then as he.
We are and it's established, it's already in place.
Once I'm elected to continue on,all of our leadership is in
place. We're A5O1C3 nonprofit.
So all of that has been established.
We're ready to go. So once I'm elected, we just

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plug in the people to where where they need to be and we're
continuing on. And you know, I can do more
things than one. I can, you know, I can still
serve as a consultant or whatever I need to do on the
Civil Review Board on the side. My primary job, once I'm elected
is to serve my constituents, andthat's exactly what I'm going to
do. So talk to me a little bit about

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where you're from. What are you from?
California? What brought you out here?
You know, when did you come out here?
Talk to me a little bit. About it been here all my life.
I was the 1st of or the, yeah, the first of.
Well, there's seven. I have seven of us in our
family, brothers and sisters andour parents, obviously.
So 9 I was the first one born inCalifornia.

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I was born in Corona, raised in Yucaipa, Calimesa and my younger
brother, we were the only two born in California here.
So my, the 1st 5 to my sister were all born in New Jersey.
Yeah. So I never got to experience it,
but they did, you know, and and so I was first one here, like I

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said, born and raised here. I love California.
It is my home. I love Yucaipa Calimesa, it is
my home. I love Riverside County.
It's my home. You know, on my way here I was,
I was going down Washington. That's Vail Lake over there.
It used to be Vail Lake. My, my good friend and I used to
me as soon as we got our driver's licenses, we were

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coming from Calimesa over through Sunnymead and hunting
rattlesnakes all over Vale Lake.Man, that place was cool.
It was the greatest. So I, I love this area and you
know, look, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm a dad, you know,
I, I've got, like I said, three children of my own, 2 step kids.
I've been married to my wife for21 years now, just over 21

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years. You know, we have 8 grandkids
together. It's crazy.
I'm 56 and I got 8 grandkids, you know, 3 COVID babies.
So what were my kids doing during COVID?
So I've got 3 COVID babies, but they're, they, they make life
different grandkids, you know, they do and kids do too, but

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it's a totally different experience.
You know, I'll get to that later.
But you know, I'm a businessman.I, I'm a real estate broker and
investor and so business is important to me and the failure
of county government to support our businesses, the very machine
that feeds us, we don't take care of, we take advantage of

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from a government perspective. I was thinking about that on the
way down here. You know, our county government
is not set up to look after the needs of our vulnerable.
It is not set up to promote small business and development
from local developers and business owners.
It's not set up for that. It's it's set up to be quite

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honest, to make shady backroom deals.
Yeah, but we'll, we'll get into that.
You know, I kind of drifted in the conversation, but you know,
it is, it is what it is. Well, our last episode I, I
started this new segment called Dad's Talk because I think that
dad's, we don't really, we don'treally get our flowers in life,
you know what I mean? So I want to, I want to provide

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a platform where we sit down andI talk to guys who, and talk
about fatherhood and what that looks like and what our belief
is. So I, I always think about that
is like being a grandpa has to be something that's such a
unique experience because you know, it's like it's your, it's
your flesh and blood, but it's not necessarily your kid.
You're allowed to spoil them, you know, and, and you know,

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that's got to be something that's so rewarding.
And you have 8 grandkids. That's crazy.
I do and and it is totally, likeyou said, it's a different role
and, and to have your dad's houror dad's time, it's really,
really, really important. It's really important that we
understand our role as men that that we don't get weak.

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Sorry, man. Some people may not like this
conversation in going there. And, and I, as you were talking,
I pulled up a word that I'm going to share the definition of
may not be appreciated, but I'm going to do it anyhow.
Dads need to be allowed to show their strength as dads and as
protectors of their families. They need to allow their boys to

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to, you know, play in the mud and fall asleep in the dirt.
They, you know, there's this thing that that dads need to be,
I hate to say it, but feminized.You know.
Even even in the church, we're supposed to, we're supposed to
be weak. And you know, they talk about
the turn the other cheek thing. I'm no theologian, but my guess

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is back in the in the in the biblical days, turning the other
cheek didn't mean, oh, go ahead and hit me there too.
I think he was probably more of a dare than it was.
Yeah, yeah, I see. You know what I mean?
Like try it again. Yeah, like did you just hit me?
Yeah, do me a favor, do that on the this side.
Yes Yeah, even it out. What happens?
What happens if you? Yeah, so I think I never.

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Looked at it like. That I don't know, It's kind of
my take because I think that Godis a powerful God.
And. And I'm not saying we go out
with this violent nature. No, yeah, I'm saying go out
knowing. What was it, Peterson?
Yeah. He's got great, you know,
snippets on that stuff and it's very, very true.
You know, he, he talks about, hetalks about something That's one
of my favorite conversations where he says like, we have to

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be, we have to be capable of danger.
And, and then he talks about the, the biblical phrase the
meek shall inherit the earth. And then he explains that meek
we, we have the wrong representation of what that word
is in the context of that time, because he said a better

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definition of the meek shall inherit the earth is you should
know being meek means you know how to use a sword.
However you keep them sheathed, you know, and it's like, yes,
you should be capable of of great violence, but you should
have massive control over that, over your ability to do.

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That that's exactly right, 'cause then you're just
reckless. No, exactly.
But I do think that a man, a father, a dad, I do think that
we are supposed to have a certain strength about us and a
certain, a certain confidence. And weak dads raise weak men and
weak men are the worst of our culture.

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I mean, they're, they're, they're afraid, they're fearful,
they don't know how to act. They don't know how to deal with
stress. As a man, These are all things
that you have to learn. And then when you become a
father, you have to teach your, your sons how to do it and how
to deal with that. You know what I mean?
So I, I don't know, I, I, I feellike I'm, I'm, I'm stealing your
Thunder here. You're not stealing my Thunder
you pulled up. The the definition.

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No, it's, it's good. We'll get to it, but you're not
stealing my Thunder at all. Because I think these things are
important. There's there's the, the value
of dads and men. There's, there's also the, the
value and importance of a strongwoman in the home.
I mean, what is it in the Proverbs?
Again, no theologian, but we've gone somewhere.
And I like this. the IT, it talks about the wife, you know,
she considers a field and buys it.

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She plows it. She's, I mean, she's just this,
you know, figure of, you know, strength.
So there's, there's all kinds ofthings that we forget, I think
in, in the structure of the family and, and, and what we're
supposed to do. And I think back then it was
probably a lot more difficult tolive than it is now.
So I want to share a word with you that I that I often share

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with this is man, I'm running for office and this is going to
get me in trouble. Hey I I can clean it up later if
you want, you just let me know. Don't worry about it so.
There's there's a word that I share when I speak at men's
groups because I think this is important and I think it applies
to office. But again, where Dad's having a
conversation, this is the word pusillanimous.

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Pusillanimous. Pusillanimous.
Pusillanimous. We're.
Talking about man, we're talkingabout dads.
Yeah. Lacking courage, cowardly,
destitute of manly or courageousstrength and firmness of mind of
weak spirited spirit lists cowardly.

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So you can imagine what that is the root word for pusillanimous.
And, and so I, I think it's important that as men, we not be
pusillanimous and, and that we show courage through love and
through grace. And that is another reason why I
fully believe, and I won't accept people's arguments that,

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you know, have you been on City Council or a water board?
You know these are ridiculous arguments.
To me, yeah. Yeah, as if that is a that is a
requirement. Qualifier.
I mean, you want, you want to tell me that I have to have
experience in deceiving you and corrupting, you know, being
look, our government's broken. We've had the conversation,

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Everybody who knows that I'm notsaying anything that people are
going, Oh my gosh, it's broken. It's broken.
We know it and it's broken because we cycle through the
same people over and over and over again and we cycle through
their their proteges over and over and over again.
I don't care what party you're from.

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We cycle through the the professional political class and
then we complain that somebody doesn't have experience on City
Council or water board. So.
What is it we want? If we want change, if we want
our government to serve us, thenelect people who are going to

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change it and serve you right. Don't re elect the same
political class that's been giving us a snow job for how
long now? We're in this position because
we have allowed it. We can't sit around and blame
our politicians. We just have to replace them
and, and my experience, my qualifications, they're there,

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man. I will argue that there's To me,
it's a ridiculous argument to tosuggest that somebody ought to
have that experience. Yeah.
And if you look at our, the world that we're living in
currently, it feels like we've elected a lot of pusillanimous
men. It feels that way, you know, it

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feels that way. And, and, and when we use that
in the context of like being a dad, you know, a lot of those, a
lot of those men who are dads are, are dads in the term of
being more like a sperm donor. You know, we have, we have a lot
of people who become dads who don't step up to the plate, who
don't raise their kids, who aren't engaged, who, who just
don't care, you know, and yeah, I, I mean, I, I, I don't know

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how many politicians are dads that don't care.
But like, as, as a man, I look at like the family and, and who
you're raising and the, the people that you're bringing into
the world. You know, if you can't even do
that right, how can you lead? How can you make policy?
How can you represent the people?
Well, OK, I hear what you're saying, but I will push back a

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little bit, please. One is the school system.
We've allowed the school system to do damage to our children by
not by not staying engaged and involved.
So they've kind of intercepted our kids.
Even even the, the dads and momswith the best of intentions
have, have had their kids swallowed up by a corrupt
system. And, and so I want to be careful

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there, you know, because they, they have to, they have to have
support, you know, and, and there are a lot of
well-intentioned politicians whoare dads and love their children
very much and well-intentioned mothers who are politicians and
love their children very much. I think the problem is, is, is
their myopic nature, to be honest.

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I I'm just, well, to be honest, I hate that saying because it's
like everything. Else I said was a lot.
But and I got I could, you know,it's, it's, it's just terrible
habit to have, right? But we get myopic, right?
We get into a system that offerspower.
It offers, it offers some, you know, maybe a trip somewhere.
It offers, you know, some free dinners.

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It offers, you know, and it's kind of like that old Simpsons
cartoon years ago where Marge was like, you know, working to
make change. And, and then she got elected.
And after, right after she got elected, she's wearing minks and
jewelry and she's standing by the lake in Springfield and the
sewage is dumping in and she's making all kinds of excuses for
it, you know, and it's because she's bought and sold, man.

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And, and even even our comedy writers in in cartoons that are,
that are made for kids know thatour politicians are being bought
and sold. So let's change that.
Let's change that. Let's get men and women in those
positions who were willing to act like men and women who can

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make a decision on the fly on the spot and serve their people
and not have to go to some system that they serve.
Right. Yeah.
And and ask position to do this.Yeah.
I mean, they're they're all overthe place.
I mean when you go to a a countymeeting or you go to any
political event, you know, there's there's a dance that's

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going on and and we can easily change those things.
Yeah. I mean when it comes to small
business and development, we canchange those things with with
reduced regulations right then and there.
Yeah, get rid of some of these regulations and policies that
force people into, you know, oh,I want to build here.
So hey, you got to pay this guy off and he'll go change the

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zoning for you, you know, whatever the case is.
But you know, and then and then back to the dad things, right?
You got dad serving on on countygovernment.
If their dads, why aren't they? Why aren't they stepping up and
talking about what's going on inthe foster system?
Dude in the county foster system, which has been a
nightmare for how many years? Pick a number.

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I mean, you know Riverside County bought Harmony Haven and
that place is just nothing but problem after problem.
After problem after. Yeah, I'm not familiar with.
This at all? It's a mess.
The the foster system in Riverside County's a mess, you
know, And how many elected goingback to the elected professional
class politician, how many of them are going to tell you that

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the foster system's a mess? How many of them are going to
tell you that the vulnerable aren't being serviced?
How many of them are going to tell you that there's kids
staying in hotels in Palm Springs because they don't have
the room for them or in offices at the county buildings?
How many of them are going to tell you that those kids weren't
supervised properly so one of them set a fire in a hotel room?
How many of them are going to tell you that they then move

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those kids to another hotel roomnext door where they got popped
for stealing stuff out of the out of the gift store?
How many of them are going to tell you that the that the
credit card that was used to putthose kids there and this isn't
a one time situation? How many of them are going to
tell you that it was a county employees credit card card, not
a county credit card? So when we have when we have
these kinds of issues, you know,and then we want to play

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political games with the people,you know, spend their money,
create a problem so that we can create the solution to spend
more of their money, not servicethe children put put up, you
know, build, you know, situations of kabuki theater.
Am I speaking like a politician yet, man, or am I just speaking
like somebody who's kind of had it, you know, and, and I'm

(29:01):
really just here to to make a better way for not just my
family through the perks that the political life gives a lot
of these people, but for my neighbors, man, for my
constituents. But they make it, I'm telling
you, Danny, they make it difficult to run for office.
It's it's not an easy process, right?

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I mean, you get the warnings. Oh, they're going to come for
you, OK. I mean, yeah, OK.
Yeah, You know, what do you, what do you suppose?
You know, it's, it's crazy because I do see this new wave
of politician and we we we played your video earlier and

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this there's this new wave of not even politicians, of people
who are running for these positions who are not
politicians. And you can hear that in how
they speak. It's like you're, you forget
about political party. What are you going to do to fix
the issues? Let's talk about the issues.
So many people, so many people focus on like political party,

(30:05):
right? Like I talk about this a lot.
Is, is, you know, there's, there's a ton of people who
voted. I mean, how far back do you want
to go? There's when Trump first ran,
people voted for Trump because they didn't want Hillary.
You know, people voted for Bidenbecause they didn't want Trump.
And then there was a bunch of people who voted for Trump

(30:25):
because they didn't want Kamala.It's like we have people who are
voting based on who they don't want.
And it's because these politicians get into these
political jargoned topics. And it's like, man, just tell me
what the issues are that you seeand what you plan on doing to
fix them. And I see a lot of people who

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are campaigning right now where you watch their their your
campaign ads, you do your research, you have no idea what
side of the political aisle theystand.
And it's just like, it's impossible to not like these
people. It's impossible to look at them
and think like, man, these people are not.
These people really just want torepresent their constituents and
they want to do right by by who's putting them in the seat.

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Hey man, the greatest compliments I've ever had is
being called a right wing extremist and a Lib tard.
It's like, hey, this is wonderful, you know, just so
people know, if you want to knowif I mean, if you care, I'm a
registered Republican. But you know, that's not what
drives me. You know, what what drives me

(31:33):
is, is the need to to fix what'swrong in our communities.
And you know, you talked about Trump, you talked about the
political thing we have been. And I think it's very important
for people to understand this, both sides, Republicans,
Democrats, Libertarians, whatever party you come from,

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you come from the same world I come from.
You believe the same things. I believe.
You want your kids protected, You want your property
protected. You want to be able to, We all
shop at Costco, dude. How can we go to Costco and not
have problems with each other, but then go home and start
clicking away at the keyboard and saying, you know,
something's wrong with that guy?How can we do that?

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We've got to knock that crap off.
And what's happening is we have a government and media system
that is dividing us on purpose. They love the fact that we're
knocking heads with each other and not solving problems.
You know, there's a, there's a saying I shared with a friend of
mine the other day, a mutual friend.
And, and I told them you if you agree with somebody 100% of the

(32:40):
time, you're being manipulated. And if you disagree with
somebody, 100% of the time, you're being manipulated.
It's time to quit listening to the pundits.
It's time to quit listening to the people on the media who are
giving us a, a, a, a, you know, a, a story.
Every single one of us has watched those clips about all

(33:01):
the news pundits saying the sameexact lines and then blah blah
blah blah blah. I'm bruised, man, and all that.
Yeah, Yeah. Yeah.
That's true. Yeah.
You know, we've all watched that.
So we've got to come, you and me, your neighbor, my neighbor.
I don't care who you are, I don't care what you look like.
We are all human beings with thesame desires.
And we need to get on that boardon on board with that.

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We need to jump on that boat because they're not messing
around with us. And and we think that we're
going to be all self-righteous in our political views.
It's just ideology, man. It's just divisive ideology.
And so instead of getting on my soapbox, I'll tell you that
divisive ideology is not what I'm here for.

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I'm here to serve that 80% valuefactor.
Yeah, we can disagree on the stupid little things like what
color you paint your fence mightpiss me off, but who really
cares at the end of the day, Youknow, let's be good neighbors to
each other. And if your kid runs out into
the street, I'm going to make sure they don't get hit by a
car. I don't care what color your
fence is, but it's it's that kind of mentality that we let

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the system divide us and then westart saying stupid things like,
oh, well, you haven't had, you know, experience on City
Council. Well, no kidding.
You don't want me to have experience on City Council.
You want me to actually go into government knowing, knowing that
I'm going to stand for my people, my neighbor, you know,

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that's what you need to know. You need to know I'm capable of
it, and I am. The proof is in the pudding.
You need to know I'm willing to do it and I am.
The proof is in the pudding, youknow?
So let's, let's quit with this political class, professional
political class nonsense and start looking at the people and

(34:51):
start determining whether somebody is capable of serving
us. We're all capable of thinking.
Yeah, You know, I, I don't need the Republican Party, even
though I'm a registered Republican.
I don't need the Republican Party telling me who to vote
for. Yeah, I can figure that myself.
Totally, you know. Yeah, yeah.
And, and I, I, I really appreciate how number one,

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you're clearly very genuine and you're very passionate about
this. It's very clear that you love
you love your community and you want to represent the people who
are around you. And I think that that's the most
important thing. It's so funny how like, I just
put out a clip recently. I loved it.
It was a it was a really dope clip.
And I didn't, I didn't talk about politics.

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I literally say it's not about left versus right.
It's about the issues at hand and what it looks like for the
average Californian. And it's like people were in the
comments calling me racist. And it's like, there is nothing
that I said that can lead you tothat conclusion unless you are
just stuck in this echo Chamber of of information.

(35:58):
Yeah, yeah, it's and it and it'smakes me sad, dude.
You know, like I fought for thiscountry.
I went to another war and I would have died there if it
called for. I lost a lot of friends over
there. And then that war was pointless
because we gave that country right back to the enemy and we
talked about legitimizing that enemy as the legit government.
It's like, what are my friends died for?
What did I go over there for? What, you know?

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So it's like, I am very passionate about what our
country is supposed to be like. I I, I don't pull any punches
about the ugliness of our country and the history of our
country and how, how we. Are to acknowledge.
That yeah, we 100%. But I also hate how we don't
acknowledge how far we've come. We don't acknowledge how divided

(36:42):
we are. Not well, you know.
Do we sit around with the recovered drunk and talk about
how shitty he was when he was a drunk?
That's. True.
Do we do that do or do we celebrate his sobriety?
Do we, do we, you know, do we tell the, the, the kid who, who
dropped out of college and, you know, thought he was going to,

(37:05):
you know, make it in the, in thebig leagues that he's, you know,
oh, you made a stupid mistake. You know, you were, you blew
that, You know, do we sit aroundand tell them that or do we
celebrate that they chose a different career in life?
Do we, what is it that we're supposed to do?
Living in, in our mistakes is, is the wrong way to live.

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Learning from our mistakes is the correct way to live.
And anybody, in my view, anybodythat wants to argue this, this,
this, we're so bad thing really just is, is they're picking
their Peaches for their fuzzed up good.

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Because it's just, it's just ignorance, you know, and, and,
and we can't, we can't go too far with ignorance, man.
We've, we've got to look at the facts before us and we got to
make decisions and we got to serve our people.
You, you served in the Marines. Thank you very much for your
service. It's appreciated and it will

(38:08):
always be appreciated. And now what we have to do is
make sure that it continues to be appreciated by teaching our
children the, the you know, we get, we, we're teaching our kids
hate in, in, in, in everywhere. Again, the divisiveness, the,
the, the groups, the enough, enough, it's, it's again, you

(38:30):
want the same things. I want.
If you and your neighbor are being honest with each other,
you want exactly the same things.
And nobody cares who live what they're doing in their bedroom
next door. That's a.
That's a big old. Yeah, it's a facade.
Yeah. Yeah, I don't, Yeah, I I'm a
believer in live and let live, man.

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Like if whatever you want to do,a little bit of a libertarian.
Oh, I, I'm a registered libertarian.
I'm a registered libertarian, actually.
And it's, it's funny is I've never voted for a libertarian,
but I'm a registered libertarian.
I've, I've seen this quote. It said I just, I, I want, I
want all, I want all the gay people to be able to get
married, have as many guns and smoke their weed.
You know what I mean? It's like, that's like my

(39:11):
belief. That's like the best way to
describe like how I see it is like, live your life, man.
If that's how you want to live, then who am I to tell, you know?
Or who is anybody, for that matter?
To tell you and I'm telling you if I live next door to you I'm
going to look out for you we don't have to barbecue together
but I'm going to look out for you it's the way it works that's

(39:35):
the 80% now let's start assumingthat our our stop assuming I
apologize let's stop assuming that our leadership knows what's
best for us we know what's best for us you know you asked
earlier what I was running on and we've we've dude I could
talk to you for hours and you'd have to clip this thing up just

(39:55):
to. Get a. 4 hour piece, right?
We talk about safer communities.Oh, the cliche, everybody wants
safer communities, but how do weget safer communities, right?
We got to deal with the homelessness problem.
We've got to deal with that. We've got to acknowledge that we
have one. We've got to acknowledge that
there's there's some profits. In places being made more.

(40:18):
Than likely, yeah, absolutely atthe.
Expense of of of homeless people.
You know, I can't go making accusations, but it doesn't look
good. Well, I mean, you know, just
just on that topic alone is likethere are jobs that taxpayers
are paying for to fix the homelessness problem and those

(40:39):
positions are making 200300KA year.
And if they actually did their job, then that income goes away
for them. So there's actually no incentive
for those people in those seats to do their job to the best of
their ability. And, and I'm not attacking
anybody, but it takes somebody with a massively high moral and

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ethical belief to do what needs to be done because they are
basically getting rid of their income that they right now like
that. That's like one of the big
problems that we don't address and we don't talk about it.
We've got to. Address it.
We've got to address it. We it is not compassionate to
let homeless people wander around and poop on people's
porches, right? It's not compassionate because

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somebody's going to hurt that person when they catch them #1
they're out there using drugs, drinking.
You know, it's not compassionate.
They're they're stealing things from people because they need
it. That's not compassionate.
I mean, we the and, and the whole and everything is so
intertwined, right? Like we we have a homelessness
issue and we have a drug abuse issue and we have a mental

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health. Issue going back to public
safety, Fentanyl problem, drug abuse, drug addiction.
Where does that stuff come from?Come from family breakdown.
We've got family breakdown. Family breakdown causes people
to be lost and go places and anddo drugs and become homeless.
It causes the foster system to be overloaded with kids, which

(42:05):
is weird because if I'm if I'm correct in this statement, I
believe we have twice as many families that want to adopt them
than we do as kids in the system.
Yeah, isn't there, Isn't there alot of red tape to adopt?
Oh, you, dude. I mean, come on, we you can't
just be handing out kids to anybody, right?
Yeah, but let's be realistic. Think about this.
We don't need to be bringing these kids into the system that

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doesn't even take care of them. In fact, it does just the
opposite. It does just the opposite.
You know, and, and not putting them in loving homes and we'll,
we'll, we'll do that. How much time?
Are we? No, it's OK.
We're, we're, we're, we got about another 20 minutes or so.
OK, probably. So that, that's, that's some of
the issues in, in, you know, in safer communities.

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We've got to deal with those. You know, everybody wants to say
we need police, we need this, weneed that.
No man, we got to deal with the core problems.
You know, we, we got what, 4000 homeless people in Riverside
County? Is it that money?
Yeah. What are we doing with them?
We're spending a whole boatload of money.
Where's the money going? What's the outcome?

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What are the results? And, and what's The thing is, is
like, there's also no transparency with the, with the
taxpayer as to like, what is theplan?
What is the plan, right? Like I should be able to go to a
website and see like this is howmuch money is being spent and
what's being spent on is this plan.

(43:32):
Step one, phase one, phase two, you know, I'm in construction.
Everything that in construction,there's phases.
You can see it, you know, you can see it.
It's rough grading. Then underground sewer, you know
what I mean? It's like, so like there's no
transparency there. You know what I mean?
Like how, how do we, how like how do we address it?

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We. We've got to be transparent.
Well, a couple of ways. Number one is we got to reduce
the regulation. We got to reduce the things that
'cause this stack of paperwork to sell a 1984 Buick to my
neighbor. You know, we've got to, you know
that you cannot have transparency when you've got the

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government doing everything, when you've got the government
it with their fingers in everything.
Yeah. Well, everybody needs a slice of
the pie. It's like eat.
Anything from me Yeah, you know,look at look at we could take
other counties and States and inin other states.
I mean and these people are charged way less than we are.
I just talked to my buddy from Arkansas.
I know go in circles. Dude, no, it's OK.

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It's alright. I just talked to my buddy who
moved to Arkansas, paid I think he paid 4040 bucks or something
like that crazy for his registration.
Walked in, walked out 20 minuteslater with a smile on his face.
He was treated well, you know, and had.
Enough money for lunch. That's another problem we got to
talk about, right? Everybody talks about all the
government employees are so mean, so rude.

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We've got to we can't blame them.
We can't blame the employees. A happy employee makes a a happy
customer. So let's make our employees
happy. You know, let's go into the
county and let's say, hey, listen, hey, Mr. Administrator,
that's been flopped from position to position because you
can't quite get it right. And you're making, you know,

(45:22):
hundreds of thousands of dollars.
You know what? Your performance kind of sucks.
You're going to have to go, you know, and improve those
programs. Obviously, there's better ways
to improve programs. There's investigations, there's
research. There's all kinds of things you
need to do, right. There's auditing processes.
I'm not talking about going out and just chopping things off.
But we can't be blaming county employees.

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Yeah, it's funny blaming county leadership.
It's funny, like if you like, I've been to the EDD office, it
sucks. I've been to the DMV, it sucks.
It sucks for. The employees too, yeah, I think
about that as like, yeah, I justhave to come here a couple times
a year. They got to go every day.
Lying around the corner, yeah, you know, and be treated.
Poorly and yelled at me you. Know it's not their fault you

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didn't read the website you don't have three sources of
identification or whatever the hell they they require yeah
we've. Got a real system of, of, of, of
gosh, it's just, it's just not correct, you know, So, I mean,
moving on, we've got, we've got all those, those are public
safety issues, right? You can't, we can't just talk

(46:27):
about firing police. There's so many more things to
this, you know, and then you've got, you know, you've got the
other, the other part of that's efficient social services might
the the three things that I talkabout a lot safer communities,
efficient public social servicesor efficient social services.
And I talk a lot about the foster system and CPS and things
like that. But really, here's the deal.

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You know what, Danny, if, if we cannot as a community or our
government at the very least, which is who we're putting our
faith and trust in. If our government, those in
charge of the vulnerable, those children in the foster system,
if those in charge of those children in that foster system

(47:12):
refuse because it is a refusal to to properly look after them
and to do everything in their power to make sure that county
resources are put in place to keep those kids safe and loved
and housed, what are they doing right?
If they can't do that, what are they doing for us?

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What are the seniors getting? Are they getting scammed by the
by the county too? Just like they are all the calls
from wherever the calls come from, are they?
You just said transparency. How can you know?
What about the disabled? What about the veterans?
Yeah, yeah. What about the after school

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programs that our schools send to the county?
The county who's, who's in charge of those kids and what's
happening there? What about our, again, going
back to the businesses, how are the small businesses being
looked after? How are we taking care of the
engine that feeds us through thesmall business community?
We're not. We're taking advantage of it at

(48:19):
the county level. So all of those things are
important. And then you've got Government
Accountability and we've alreadytalked about a lot of those
things. Government Accountability is
important. It's important, you know, if if
we are not holding our, it's probably not something we want
to get into. But there's a lot of that going
on right now where they're just battling with each other.

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You know, some of them don't show up to a vote.
Show up, dude. Show up to the vote.
Yeah. Speak your mind.
Yeah. Why is it always 5 O votes?
Right. Yeah, that's a good point.
You know, there's, there's, there's, you know, people go in
and they speak to the county andthey say things at the podium.
It's wonderful. We need to keep doing that and

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more people need to keep doing that.
Five O vote. 5 O vote, 5 O vote,5 O vote.
Yeah. What do you think it is?
You think that there's right now, just because a lot of
special interest groups maybe are involved, everybody's kind
of greasing their palms. Like I know, like even to start

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a business in California in general, it's like what a
nightmare that looks like, You know, like all of the fees that
you have to pay everything, likeeven to just lease a building
and then all of the taxes on topof that.
And then there's like, I just bought a car and it's like I I
paid a state tax and then I paida county tax and then I paid a

(49:45):
city tax. And it's like, what, what is
this? Why?
Is it that we're OK with? Why is it that we'll spend so
much of our time arguing with each other rather than think
about exactly what you just talked about?
Why is it that the, the, the, the political class, the, the,
the professional politicians arenot struggling, but you and I

(50:06):
are? You know, I mean, everything we
buy or people buy, What is it? The average person is $400.00
away from bankruptcy. The average?
I think I'm closer to $200 the. Average Californian is like 400
bucks away from bankruptcy. That's.
Crazy. And our our county government
just got a 29% raise here here recently and they got a new

(50:32):
budget of almost $10 billion. Why?
Why, Why can't we spend the money we have wisely?
Why can't we say in this time ofneed, hey, you know what, we're
going to cut back. We're going to give back a
little bit to our constituents who have taken care of us.
We're going to, we're going to reduce the expense of, of, of

(50:53):
business ownership so that more people are, are empowered and
encouraged to go out and start abusiness and don't feel like
they got to give over 25% to theGestapo, you know?
Yeah. That that's what it feels.
Like, well, it is, it's what it is, man.
It's, it's the Gestapo. The county government should be
supporting local business. The county government should be

(51:15):
encouraging local business. If you're going to tax us, all
right, we should all chip in something, right?
We want roads, we want police. We want all these things.
We can't just expect it for free.
So let's, you know, we can have that whole, you know,
constitutional argument and all that stuff.
But if we want things, we got topay for them.
So let's figure out how to do it, but in such a way that we're

(51:37):
not paying people to tell us those things are being done when
they're not even even done. Yeah, go, dude, drive onto any
road in Riverside County. You're going to hit a pothole.
Yeah. Let me ask you, are you worried
at all about? Are you worried at all about
getting elected, getting the position, and then realizing

(52:02):
that the problems are much deeper rooted than you
originally thought? No, I already know they're much
deeper rooted. OK, OK.
Yeah, they're, I mean, we're talking about government.
Yeah, well, 'cause. And here's The thing is, you
know, I've had, I had a local politician on that, that I, that

(52:23):
I really supported. And then he got elected.
And then when he got in the seat, you know, he moved
differently. And, and I don't think he's
necessarily, I'm not trying to say that he's corrupt or
anything, but I think that he became Privy to the backroom
conversations, the reality of the situation that is regularly

(52:44):
hidden from the public. You know, it's like you become a
part of the broken machine and, and you don't want to skyline
yourself as like, oh, well, now I'm part of the broken machine.
You know, like there's, I think that there's a lot of and, and
maybe there's a little bit of ego involved in that.
And I'm sure and, and I don't know.
And, and I think that that is the fear with the everyday voter

(53:06):
of electing somebody who, who is, is just one of us, you're
one of us. You're going to go up there and,
and, and stand on business. But like, you know, I'm, I'm
just interested to hear your perspective of that of like, you
know, or do you, do you ever consider that it's like when you
get the position, maybe it's worse than you thought?
And how would you address that? No, I don't.

(53:28):
Again, I know that that that it is bad.
I know that we have a failed government and, and that, that
it runs deep. You know, I know that, you know
that most, most people know thatthere's a, there's a video out
and, and if you ever, you know, every now and then you go into a

(53:48):
social media for a right and, and you know, these reels come
up. And I always tell people, Danny,
I, I tell people and, and maybe it's a mistake in, in politics,
but I really don't care because it's the truth.
It's the truth. Every single human being you
know, including yourself, is corruptible.

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We all have one of us. We all have a price.
Yes, and, and we have to determine within ourselves that
we're not going to allow that tohappen.
I'm a married man. I've been married 21 years.
I love my wife. I'm still married.
Because I haven't cheated on herand she hasn't cheated on me.

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And why haven't we? Because we're corruptible
people, right? Why haven't we cheated on each
other? Because we keep our minds
focused on that man. We don't, we don't put ourselves
in situation that that could bring us harm.
We don't go driving down the street on a 2 hour trip with
with a person of the opposite sex.

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We don't we don't go to a bar with a person of the opposite
sex. We don't sit in an empty room or
a park somewhere with a person of the opposite sex.
We do everything we can to avoidthese things.
We're human. You know, when it when somebody
says, no, you, I'm good. OK, watch that one.

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Because you know what I'm telling you now, there's a video
like I was telling you of this young lady and her and she's
standing on the beach. She's got this big beach hat on.
And she's a very pretty young lady.
And and her husband says to her,hey, babe, could you cheat on
me? And she said, yeah, totally.
And he said, well, why don't you?

(55:33):
And she says, because I don't put myself in that situation.
She said, because I know that I'm a human with frailties and I
know that I'm capable of doing wrong, so I don't put myself
there. And what I say to people is I'm
not going to put myself there. And how do I ensure that I'm not

(55:55):
going to put myself there? I'm going to hold you
accountable. To hold me accountable.
Come to me, man. Call me and say, hey, what's
going on? Yeah.
You know, have they offered you anything?
Yeah, Danny, they have, you know.
Yeah, and you know, you take it.Of course not.

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Of course not. Good, Eric.
I'm proud of you. Yeah.
You know. This is this is what we got to
do. Yeah, I think that more
transparency is needed. And I think that one thing that
really helps you out is your involvement, like even though
you haven't sat in a City Council, is you know how it

(56:37):
works, you know how it goes. You've been training the
everyday person to go and hold these elected officials
accountable. You understand that process of
accountability and being held accountable.
And I think that, look, it's, I think it's really hard when you
get into a broken system, you know, it's like like on the

(56:58):
topic of cheating, you know, it's like, look, we're all
human, you know, and it's easy to cheat when you're not in that
situation. But I feel like getting elected
to a broken system is like, you know, spending a weekend in, in
a strip club, you know what I mean?
It's like, you know, the temptation is much different,
everybody. Is which I've never been, by the

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way. I've never been.
I've never seen the inside of a strip club.
That's the truth. That's great.
But again, and, and maybe it's abad analogy, but you get what
I'm saying is like, you know, I,I once you get into that world
and, and this is something a lotof people tell me, like, you
know, are you going to run for politics one day?

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I have no interest because I feel like it's just full of
snakes, You know, it's full of ugly, nasty people.
And I believe that there's more power in the American voter.
I believe that we, the people really do hold the power, but we
don't wield our sword enough. We don't understand the power
that we have. We don't go and get public.
Yeah, we we are, we're afraid ofyeah, we're afraid.

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We're afraid of hurting someone's feelings and cancel
culture. And maybe we get people upset at
us, you know, and it's it's it'ssad.
I think it's a sad place where. And I think that the power
really does hold with the people.
There's a lot of people who run for these positions because they
want power and, and, and we're the system is broken in that

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idea by itself is the fact that these people who are running for
these positions are running for the power and they're not even
really supposed to have the power.
Well, it's the people that are supposed to have the power and,
and they've invested that power,vested that power in me as an
elected representative, which which I fully intend to be.
That's where the responsibility comes in.

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That's exactly and, and, and to your point with the, the voters
in charge, but we got to have good people to vote for.
We got to have strong people to vote for.
This is an inside, outside thing.
We, we got to work it from the inside and the outside.
We can't be one or the other because then all we're doing is
fighting. We've got to figure out how to
get inside the government. We got to figure out how to

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change people's minds, and we got to figure out how to work
from the inside and the outside to collaboratively bring that
effort and that energy together.Yeah, yeah, I, I think that I
think that a big issue that we have is transparency.
I think that a lot of people getin these seats and then they're
like, I don't really want to skyline these people.

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I don't really want to know skyline the situation.
Yeah, you got to you. Know that's we're going to fix
it, like let the people know what's going on.
And there's a lot of like you were talking about like I've,
you know, I've been involved in,in this political world on the
local level for like, I don't know, like 3 years now.
And I see it, it's like there's a lot of backroom conversations
that happen that can't go public, that where there's

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legally binding things that can't, can't be publicly
discussed. And, you know, it's like, yeah,
I mean, I have to put a lot of trust in these people who I
already am iffy about. And I don't like the way I see
them moving on the dais or I seethe way things are going on, you
know? So I think that that's a big
part of it, right? Is what you said is like.

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We're infiltrating this system, everyday people infiltrating
this system and then providing the transparency back to the
people. Yeah, man, Who's who's?
I have a question for you. Yeah.
Whose sword did David use to chop off Goliath's head?
I have no idea. He used Goliath's sword.
Really. Yeah, dude, David used Goliath's

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sword to chop off Goliath's head.
I didn't know that. Yeah, he used the, he used the
weapon of the enemy to take off his own head.
And sometimes we have to use theweapon of the enemy to destroy
the enemy and. Amen.
And, and they've weaponized our government.

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And that's a fact. There are dirty people that have
weaponized our government. People are losing rights.
They're losing sleep. People are bitter, people are
angry because our government is doing these things to us and
we're walking along like lemmings to the edge of the

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Cliff. These are facts, man.
I don't care what party you belong to.
You're in the group that's goingoff the Cliff, you know?
We're all in this boat. We are.
We are again. We all shop at Costco.
So let's go to Costco and be nice to each other and then
leave Costco and go home to our neighborhoods and not care about

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really a whole lot, but keeping each other safe and happy and
cozy and warm and and working very hard, working very
diligently one with the other tomake sure that these non
partisan seats and government atcounty level and at all other
local levels are filled with people who give a damn about
their community and who are willing to step up and do the

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work. Again, capable.
A politician, a career politician, a professional
politician is not guaranteed to do the right thing for you.
I we're coming full circle. We're in this boat because we've

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trusted those for too long and, and now it's about educating
ourselves. It's about getting into the
government that we should have been learning about in school.
By the way, you know, you want people to get into government,
don't send them to City Council.Teach them in school what
government's all about so they can get into government from

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from graduating high school and college, so they can engage in
good governance. So they do know what a Republic
means and not a democracy. Well, they need to know what a
democracy means too. But you know my point, We live
in a Republic, not a democracy. But anyhow, getting back, you
know, we need to fix our county,and that's exactly what I'm here

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to do. You'll have the transparency.
You'll have the truth. I'm one of five, so I can't do
it, all right? I can't.
And even if I was one, I still have to.
I want to, you know, you got to have a smart staff, you got to
have good people around you. You got to have knowledge.
I'm not Superman. I don't know every damn thing.

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So I'm going to hire good, intelligent, smart, caring
people to serve their community.You know, and the things that
my, my, my peers on the board refuse to work with me on or
want to quiet me on. I got a bullhorn, man.
I got lots of them. I got 1 sitting right across the
table from me. I will use that.

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Amen. You know.
That's what we're here for, anyways.
So let's, let's save our county,dude.
That's, that's really all it boils down to.
You're looking at the guy who's willing to do the hard work to
put this county back on track because it needs to be so.
I love it. All right, man, wind on that,
Eric. All right, Thank you so much for
coming on. I really appreciate it.

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Any any last words man before weroll out?
Where can people follow you at What's what's your website put
that out there for? Us.
I appreciate that Stalter for supervisor.com.
stalterthe#4supervisor.com is the website.
Please. We are a grassroots
organization. We are, we're getting such great

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help. I have been told more than once
that, that and by 1 gentleman inparticular, an elderly man who's
been involved in campaigns for years.
And he said we have the, the most professional and most
dedicated and most active staff he has ever seen in a campaign.
So we're working it, man. We're working it really, really

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hard. And we're, we're, we're doing
everything we can to, to make sure that we do what we got to
do, right? But anyhow, Stalter for
supervisor.com, that's our website.
You can go there, learn about me.
You can donate there. You can, you can ask, you know
what, my phone number, 909-557-6102.
If you got questions, call me. I mean, I'm going to answer.

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If I don't answer, leave a message.
I'll, I'll call you back. But you know, I'm here to serve.
So if you've got something you want to tell me that you're not
being, you know, taken care of or you got a problem with
government, I'll talk with you. I mean, I can't talk all day,
every day, but I'll talk with you, you know, so you can go
there. I mean, what else you want to
know? Yeah.
That's great, man. Awesome dude.

(01:05:35):
Thank you so much and I wish youluck with your campaign and your
race. And yeah, hopefully we'll have
you on again soon. Yeah, let's do all right.
OK, cool. Thanks.
We'll see you guys later. See ya.