March 4, 2024 • 30 mins
In this episode, Tudor discusses the border and immigration policies with Kate Monroe, a disabled US Marine Corps veteran and CEO of Vetcom. They talk about the importance of securing the border and taking action, the chances of winning in California, the dangers of manipulative and charming politicians, and the need for leadership and salesmanship in the Republican party. They also discuss the issues of veteran affairs, homelessness, and drug problems, and the importance of performance-based funding. The Tudor Dixon Podcast is part of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Podcast Network - new episodes debut every Monday, Wednesday, & Friday. For more information visit TudorDixonPodcast.com
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. While we know right
now the number one topic for most Americans is the border,
and I should say the wide open border and immigration policies,
especially after we've seen another tragic murder at the hands
of an illegal immigrant that was kind of came into
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this country under the Biden administration. Last week we saw
President Trump, we saw President Biden both at the border
talking about it. I think the most interesting part about this, Timmy,
is that we're back here because in twenty sixteen, this
was the message, and I believe build the Wall was
really the message that made President Trump win. That was
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the message that people said, my gosh, if we don't
have borders, what do we have as a country, If
we're not safe, what do we have as a country.
And yet here we are back in this situation. And
I was just listening because I knew we're doing this podcast,
and I'm just listening to all the coverage of Joe
Biden and Donald Trump being at the border, and it's
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just bizarre to me how much the mainstream media wants
to cover this up for him, because they're going, oh,
you know, he had this border bill that would have
passed had Trump not stopped it. Look, Trump was honest.
He said, why would we have a bad bill when
we can get him out of office? And I agree,
I mean, why pass something that becomes law if it's
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crap if you can get somebody into office that's going
to protect your border. And so when I heard this
story about a woman who's running for Congress in California
in the forty ninth district taking on a Democrat incumbent
Mark or Mike Levin, I was like, I like this, lady,
this is pretty impressive what she's doing. So capron Roe
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is actually a disabled US Marine Corps veteran and the
CEO of Vetcom. And what I saw was a woman
who said, I mean a lot like Donald Trump, forget this.
I'm not going to have an open border. I'm gonna
go down there and do something about it. So I
want to welcome Kate onto the podcast. Thanks for being
here with me today.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
So excited to be here. It's been a really big week.
And so the more coverage we can get on this
the better. So, you know, God bless you for this.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Well, I want to play something for the audience because
this is this was kind of a moment that I
think made you go viral, but for all the right reasons.
And it's I've seen a lot of shenanigans with people
who run for office, and this is not that. And
I want people to know this is not that. It's
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and I say that because oddly enough, when I was
running for governor, people would say, do a video, do
a video, but don't make it over the top because
you're not running for Congress. And I was like, since
when did Congress become a place where you like play
these over the top videos. I want people to know
that this is amazing that you went down there and
did this. I'm going to play it and then we'll
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talk about it. So here it is.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
What good is a wall if you can walk right
around corner of the wall. I'm standing in America right now,
and now I'm standing in Mexico. I'm gonna tell you
what if in Washington you don't want to come secure
this border, I will do it myself.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I will do it. So if you're just listening to this,
that is Kate down at the border in San Diego,
and there's a place where the wall just ends. It
just ends, and you can literally just pass back and
forth and I have been watching all of this, with
the that with razor wire and you know, the cork
decision and all of that, and in my mind every
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time I've seen it, I've thought, gosh, who would even
want to get close to that stuff? And there you
are down there and she is holding it in her hand,
and you actually secured the border yourself. So tell us
about that a little bit.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
You know, when you run for politics, a lot of
people will say, well, I stand for this, and I
stand for that, and when I get there someday, if
I get there, I'll do something about it. And I
just thought, why is everyone waiting forget even running for
an office? Is what are we waiting for? These people
are not coming. Whoever we're waiting to save us is
not the answer. We're a republic. The people are the answer.
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We're the solution. I wanted to inspire the everyday American
voter to realize, hey, you can get a box of
this on Amazon. It's really not that difficult. Now, there
are some difficulties down at the border. I'm not going
to lie. It's rough terrain to get down there. You
may need a dress, but it's not impossible. So that
was the first time. I went out and then I
found a bunch of veterans that had gone to again
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view the wall, and I said, hey, guys, why don't
you come with me. Let's close it. So we found
two more spocks where the wall just ends, and now
we have secured all three of us. I feel really
good about.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
And you were just out there again yesterday. I mean,
this is a passion of yours. You are in a
tough district in California. I mean Biden carried that district
by eleven points. Your opponent won by five percentage points.
But it's California, and I think for those of us
outside of California, we're all like, I mean, can you
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possibly winning California? Is the tide turning there? Because we
have also seen folks in LA that have said, I'm
sick and tired of all the crime. I don't know
what whether or not you're seeing an upticking crime in
San Diego. But what do you think the chances are
of being able to beat out a Democrat in California
these days?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I don't think that everyone on the ballot can beat him.
I mean we ran Brian Marriott against him three times,
and if you put up a candidate that isn't dynamic,
is not a good speaker, does not actually have solutions.
You're going to find yourself at a loss.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
They put him on the Veteran Affairs Committee, which is
very smart. The left is smart with the way that
they politic right. They played a long game and they
put him on the Veteran Affairs Committee, even though he
is not a veteran, and they did it so he
could take credit in this heavy veteran district for anything
that that committee does. But you're not going to stand
toe to toe with me, Mike Levin, no offense to you.
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I'm a Marine Corps veteran. The largest Marine Corps based
on planet Earth is in the district. The largest instance
of veterans in the country is in this district. And
I have a ton of support from the churches from
the Southern California American Legion Area five. Vice commander even
came out and endorsed me himself. I mean, I have
congressmen that have endorsed me. Congressman Ronnie Jackson, Congressman Keith's
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self came out. So I don't think everybody can beat him,
but I know that I can't. He will not do
well in a wordsmith battle with me. If he has
to go toe to toe with me, I will absolutely
annihilate him. And this is also the case too in California.
This is fifty to fifty voter Ridge. It's fifty to
fifty voter ridge. The only reason the Democrats to beat
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us is in California. They did a good sales job
to tell you, as a Republican, your vote doesn't matter.
We narrowly miss. If I can go secure the border,
you can go vote. If I can hold the razor wire,
you can hold the ballot.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Correct me if I'm wrong. But you are one of
the few and maybe the only state where you can
actually ballot harvest correct.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Correct youslutely can bala harvest YEP.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
And so I would say for those of you that
are in California, help out. I mean, this is the
thing that we've been saying to Republicans. Stop watching them
do the work and go how did they win? Go
help out. But the thing that I find unique about
you compared to Levin, I mean that being on the
Veteran Affairs Committee is ridiculous for someone who has not
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served and doesn't understand it. But not only did you serve,
you were also an intelligence analyst. And this is not
only a time where our border is not secure and
that puts US nationally in a national security challenge or disaster.
I would say I would go even farther and say
that this is a disaster that we have at the
border right now. But also this puts you in a
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position where you can understand things at a different level
on the world stage, as we look at Ukraine, as
we look at the Middle East, as we look at Iran,
and we see exactly what's going on in these other countries,
and we see I mean, I just see today that
we've got Primila Jayapaul and what's her name, el han Omar,
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who are congress women. This is the position that you
would like going to Cuba. I mean, as an intelligence analyst,
what do you think about when you hear these things?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I think it's scary that we have elected officials who
have enmity toward the United States like that, quite frankly
is scary. The fact that their focal points around the
world are not necessarily onto three massive wars that we
face is also crazy to me. I mean, I think
you know, I've been on a panel with my fellow
Republican candidates. I've seen the way that Mike Levin votes,
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and nobody including him, really understands the gravity of the
situation we face in our country by having such slow recruiting,
by having completely feckless leadership that has put our national
security risk at an all time high. I mean, we're
teetering at the brink of war with countries who could
do us massive harm right now, and we pretend it
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doesn't matter. We pretend we don't have a closed border.
The left wants Democrats supremacy at the costs of those
in our nation. Everyone needs to wake up. The twenty
thirty census will come out, and you'll realize why they
imported all these people here are why they can't even
pay attention to foreign policy. They're too busy trying to
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dominate the United States.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I think it's very scary that we see. I mean,
we started to really wake up to this intelligence disaster
when the balloon flies over the United States and Biden's like, oh,
you know what, pretty sure it was just a weather
balloon from China that happened to travel the entire length
of the United States and hover over our military basis.
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I mean, give me a break. How stupid can people
be if they actually believe that. But I will say,
and I've said this several times, when you listen to
the leftist media, when you listen to SEE and when
you listen to MSNBC, You're like, man, these people they
speak with authority, They are very clear when they make
these statements. It seems very legitimate. It is ridiculous to
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think that this balloon was anything other than an intelligence mission,
and potentially more because it was so large. You know,
we're talking about something that I think was the size
of three buses, and so this could have held weapons,
I mean, and it could have been a test to
hold weapons. There are so many issues with this spy
balloon that we have not discussed. And then we find
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out that China also is in cahoots with Cuba and
they have off the coast of Florida, they have a
spy base where they're watching the United States. And then
we have Ilhan Omar and Pamila Jayapaul coming out and
saying we want this terrorist or this designation for Cuba
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to be taken off and we want them to be
welcomed back into our good graces in the United States
and they're like holding Joe Biden hostage. You have this
similar situation in Michigan where you have Rashida Tualib who's like, look, Biden,
we're not voting for you. My community is not voting
for you. The people in my district are not voting
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for you, and we're going to convince other people not
to vote for you if you don't give our biggest
ally in the Middle East the middle finger and say
goodbye to them. These people are in Congress. When you
go to Congress, what do you do about these colleagues that?
How do you counteract this? Is there anything that you
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foresee being able to do to counteract this kind of behavior?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I definitely do. I have always said that on the
Republican side, we lack two main key things. We lack
leadership and we lack salesmanship. We're not as selling our ideas,
we're not as good at packaging them. And just to
give you an idea of why I know I'll be
good at this. I am the top one percent closer
and we'llultiple industries. I have built multiple sales training platforms.
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I'm one of the best sales people on Planet Earth.
I know how to sell ideas to the American public,
and I know how to provide leadership. What happened with
McCarthy that was a lack of leadership in the party.
You saw a very small caucus of people able to
unseat him. Essentially, they're like they rule with an iron
fist on the left there. Even if they hate each other,
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they'll snug in tight to get things done. But on
another note, they're not going to be voting for Biden.
If Biden's on the menu, I will have lost so
many bets with my friends. It's not going to be Biden.
There's absolutely no way he's going to make it. They've
already set a stage for him to not have the
wherewithal to run for his presidents. I think it's going
to be newsommer Michelle Obama, and they will vote for
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one of the two of those bad actors.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on
the Tutor Dixon podcast. President Trump called him Governor Newscomb,
which of course, you know he has to have something
name for him. But I think that that, I mean,
that's actually very fitting. I don't think people recognize how
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dangerous this man is.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
He is.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
He is very good at manipulating. He's very good at
coming off as a lover of the people, and he
wants to do what's right. He is a manipulator to
the highest level. And to your point, he sells ideas.
I mean, he could sell ice to people in Alaska.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
You know, like he's a lot like the devil, though,
isn't he. He's very beguiling, yes, but very careful when
somebody's that beguiling, and they're so good at lying. He
and his entire family just insidious evil people forget that
he was staged to take this role over the course
of decades. This family is basically like an oligarchy in
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our nation. And if you vote for people because they're handsome,
like you did with Obama and he was a good seeker,
to look at what will happen to your nation. You
have to stop just going wow, these people are pretty
put them in office. No, you need to listen to
what they're actually saying and then take a look at
what they have done. What a charming in California is
disgusting charming people.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
I mean Bill Clinton was very charming, Obama was charming.
Newsom is incredibly charming. I mean, I think that those
are the people that you have to be aware of.
And I would even go as far as saying that
is the plan with some of these other folks. They're
trying to do this with the women in their party. Now.
I think that it's been kind of a trend with
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the men and their party. But if you look at
Governor Whimer in Michigan, they do these social media videos
that are meant to make her adorable, you know, meant
to make people go, oh, she'd be like my friend.
I like her, I like Governor Barbie, I like the
fact that she talks to Professor Potato. All these weird,
bizarre things, not goobernatorial behavior. But young people are very
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easily manipulated. And one of the things that we rarely
talk about is that social media and these commercials that
come to them through their cell phones and their devices
are what really frame their worldview. That's where most young
people are. They're not even talking to their friends. And
yet that is a place where we are not. And
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you say you want to do things differently, and you
talk about being someone that sells ideas, I agree with you.
We do not have these people. And that was kind
of the charm of Donald Trump is He's like, I'm
a negotiator. This is what I've done my whole life,
Like I'm going to get things done, and he got
things done. So how do you take back some of
those places that we haven't been? And I know people
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are like, oh, we can't be on TikTok, we can't
be on Snapchat, we can't be in those places, but
the absence of us means there is a lot of
influence there.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I'm on those places every day. I mean, if you
take a look at my social media, my ex my TikTok,
I have thousands and thousands of viewers. I mean I think,
for you know, a day or two, I was probably
the most viral person in the country. Yeah, you have
to think. You have to think what.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Does for a good thing?
Speaker 2 (16:04):
And America said I want a secure border. I went
there and showed you that the border could be secure
and made content that people can consume. You have to
get if people are looking like this at content, well
you have to get in their path And I think
I've done a really good job getting in the pathway
of this younger generation to show them I'm your candidate.
I'm going to go get stuff done, and I'm going
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to provide you a way to interact with me that
you want to be interactive with.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
It's not just protecting the border. You work with veterans
every single day, and that's something that I mean, you
talked about the low recruitment, the low recruitment. We had
an article just last week that said recruitment is so
low they laid off like twenty seven thousand people. Well,
I don't what is happening. We have low recruitment, We're
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getting rid of people. Why have such a weak military?
What would you do about that?
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Well, recruitment faced a lot of issues. There was a
generation of people and there still is that there was
a high number of assaults. Well, when that generation of
people started talking to their kids and said you're not
safe in the military, that was one big reason that
there was less recruitment. Then, if you look at the
numbers on the GI bill, people don't use it, sixty
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percent of it goes to waste, and then most of
the other forty percent that uses it doesn't finish, so
they're not really getting anything out of it. And then simultaneously, knee, what.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Is that new? I mean, did people used to use
the GI built.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
No, they always thought they would, but other generations told
their kids, now, hey, it's worthless. I didn't use it,
you're not going to use it. And then we made
college free, so all the kids who would have gone
into the military for college, they're like, if college is free,
I'm not going to go do this hard thing to
earn something I can get for free. We also, during
COVID kicked a ton of people out, thousands and thousands
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of people that wouldn't get the COVID vaccine, and now
they're trying to beg them back back in. I mean,
we just do idiotic things with our military. So I
actually crafted the framework of the Veteran Entrepreneur Act. It
would let you use your GI bill funds to start
a business. I like about myself that I'm a business owner.
I think this next generation sees themselves as more entrepreneurial,
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and I wanted to provide that to them. But I
think a couple things have to happen. We have to
show and prove that we're willing to have a safer
military for people that get assaulted. Seventy percent of people
that go in the military get assaulted in some way
that number is ridiculous. And I know this because my
company people in the military. Yeah, I was assaulted as
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a virgin when I went into the Marine Corps. So
it's it's very ugly. It's a horrible thing that people
have to go to through. It changes the trajectory of
your life. And I have provided Congress, I've provided the Senate,
through many different people, a way for them to stop
letting people in the military that would assault other people.
They have to fix the GI Bill, they have to
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fix like the barracks are rotting. The Marine Corps barracks
are full of black mold and cockroaches. It's disgusting. I mean,
it's just there's so much that needs to be fixed.
But the real problem is a lack of patriotism.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
We are as a leadership if this many people are
assaulting people in the military. I mean, we think of
the military as this upstanding organization where leadership is key.
I mean, the rule of the military gets saves your life.
How can there be people and they're assaulting other people.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Well, because I think we don't do a good job
of vetting people. And when you let people into a
mob like thing like the military, whereas a group of people.
It can be a little bit like what would happen
in prison, And if you come from an oppressed childhood
and maybe an oppressed demographic, you may get in and
suddenly have power and start to oppress other people. It's
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just how psychology works. And that's why we need to
do a better job vetting people that get in. We
already have the software, we already, we have the test.
And I actually said this to a senator and I'm
not even going to say his name, but he and
I were having a drink and I said to him,
we need to do a better job stopping this. And
he said, don't you think that would hurt recruiting.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
I just thought, as an assault victim that that just
sounded so disgusting to.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Me, so disgusting.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
But that's who we put in office, That's who's there.
It's time to clean the slate of what's there and
get in new, fresh blood, fresh people who are not
going to try to sit there forever.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Yeah. Absolutely, tell us a little bit about vetcom.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
So. Vetcom was born out of an interesting path. I
got out of the military sort of suddenly I wasn't
really safe where I was. I had already been assaulted.
I got hit in the face with a softball plane
softball for the marine team, smashed my nose, my eye socket,
last rate in my face. I crushed my elbow, my
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ride ankle. I had had a pretty adverse time being
in the marine, and because I got out so quick,
I didn't get anything on my way out. I got nothing.
I got no disability compensation. And then about eleven years later,
ten years and a month actually, I tried to use
the GI bill and it expired one month previously. So
I served. All that happened to me, I got no compensation,
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and my GI bill was now unusable. So my husband
googled and he said, hey, there's a program where if
you get rated for disability compensation, you can go to school.
So okay, so I went and got raided. I waited
a year, it took forever, and my rating came back.
I successfully went to school, and I thought, Okay, that's
where I'm going to let it lie. Well, right around
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the time that COVID started, I opened a car dealership,
a really nice part dealership up in Ocean Side, and
I knew that I wanted to serve veterans in active
duty military. I knew that I could do, you know,
right by them, and so I put on the wall
veteran owned and operated on like one hundred foot banner. Well,
why don't you know? It was like a bat signal.
All the veterans, all the active duty came and I
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was trying to put together car deals for veterans and
they were short funds. So I would say, do you
have disability compensation? And everybody said no. So about two
hundred people later, after I help them through this process
while owning a car dealership, not while owning VETCOM, I
just said, is anybody rated? Like? Why is? Why are
people not getting these funds? And it turns out they
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either don't know that they can't, they tried and they failed,
or they just don't feel deserving. I didn't feel deserving,
even though all that stuff happened to me. I didn't
even feel like I deserved the funds. I'm not whatever
this hero thing is. And so I said, is there
a way to solve this problem? Because ten million people
who served collect nothing. So all this money that we
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send all these other countries, all the money we used
to not secure the border, right, we send it all
around and veterans aren't collecting it. So I put together
vetcom and last in the last three hundred and sixty
five days from right now, we've done nine hundred and
twenty four million in lifetime funds for veterans and their families.
We make all their claims, we prepare them for this
adversarial process. We're in the trench with them, and it's
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just it's been really fulfilling. We went from five employees
to fifty five in one year. Wowly traded company. The
thing I'm most proud of I've ever done in my
life is to help these veterans, especially the later age veterans,
you know in their eighties and nineties. You know where
they love us. Because I hugged a little guy the
other day, he's ninety two years old in my office
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and he said I was the first person to hug
him in three years.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Oh, that's actually makes me emotional.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
It's like so early here, I'm tired. It makes me
like crushed my spirit. I'm thinking this is somebody's grandpa
and I am the first person that hugged him. So
it just makes me feel good about the extra thing
that we provide to veterans.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on
a Tutor Dixon podcast. These two issues kind of go
hand in hand. The open border. We've seen Abbot busting
these migrants into sanctuary sanctuary cities. What they've you know,
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they said they wanted them, and now they now they
don't want them. Now they're like, oh my gosh, this
was actually not what we're expecting. But we already had
a homeless veteran problem now it's so we've a lot
of on this podcast. We've talked a lot about the
fact that there are moms and dads in these communities
that are going, well, wait a minute, we needed government assistants,
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we needed these these buildings, we needed these community centers
for our kids. And now they're going to migrant children.
They're going to migrants, they're coming into our schools unvaccinated.
But how is this affecting the money that would have
gone to veterans, the help that would have gone to veterans.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Well, I actually wrote an op ed about this. Homelessness
is one of the big areas of expertise that I have.
And what happens is the VA allocates funds that are
called Va hud Vash funds and this is meant to
help get veterans off the st get them into transitionary housing,
and get them on their way. Well, the VA people
think the VA administers this money. They don't. They give
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it to other organizations by way of a grant, and
then from the federal level down they tell these other
organizations to spend it on migrants. So it used to
be that veteran homelessness was going down twelve percent, but
this last year it went up seven. That's a nineteen
percent of delta, So it actually went up nineteen percent,
not seven nineteen percent. And that is just unconscionable to
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me that we even have homeless veterans. There's enough homeless
veterans in the in the in the United States to
fill like Petco Park, to fill a baseball stadium. Just
in San Diego, we have thousands of them on the street.
I mean, I actually had a different viral moment for
homelessness here in San Diego all over Fox because we
pretended we didn't even have a homeless problem. Meanwhile, two
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thousand people were in a four x four block radius
living in like third world country, you know. Standard. It
was just appalling to me. So I tried to find
areas where we get away with stuff and go and
put a spotlight on it so people have to take action.
If I have to gaslight you into doing the right thing,
trust that I will. I will absolutely put your name
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all over the TV and you will have to go
do the right thing.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
So before we let you go for the day, tell
me your main issues. Obviously we've talked about some of them,
but you have some work that you're doing on climate
and all kinds of different things. And you know, we
those of us listening from outside of the state of California,
are like, well, what is it like? What are your plans?
Everybody comes to Congress with a different perspective, So give
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us a quick overview of what you want to achieve.
What your biggest issues are.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Well, I mean, I think the main focal point of
what I would like to focus on is veteran affairs,
because veterans touch every family. Everybody either is one or
nose one that's very close to them. And the ripple
effect of all the funds that go to veterans affairs,
all the healthcare system that touches all the families, all
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the way down from all the retirees and everything else
needs a massive overhaul. I would like to work on that.
I would also like to provide direction on homeless, drugs,
and lawlessness. The homeless issue. People love to think it's
isolated here in California, and certainly it is. I've been
in San Diego, Oceanside, LA. I even flew to the
Tenderloin to go and see if they have the exact
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same problem we do, and they do. It's just it's
a lack of will if you will to prosecute people
for being on drugs. Eighty five percent of people I
talk to are either actively doing drugs or dealing drugs
while I'm talking to every four feet in a city,
you can get drugs if you're not already standing on
the top of a drug needle. It's absolutely disgusting. So
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solving that problem could happen with a base camp if
we turn law enforcement on at the same time, because
then you could provide people choices. You could say, you
are doing drugs and selling drugs, you're going to jail.
Go into base camp where you have a long enough
runway to get clean, where we can bucketize you and
figure out why you're homeless. That way, there is no
being homeless on the street. You want a camp, well
you're going to do it at infrastructured camping, at Base
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Camp and all these cities. I would also like to
work on all the money that goes out. I wrote legislation,
crafted it called performance space funding. Every time I ask
a crowd, have you ever paid a contractor to work
on your house? Of course everybody says yes I have.
I said, you just pay and pray? Do you give
them all the money up front hoping that they finish it?
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And everyone laughs because they know absolutely not. I wouldn't
do that, but that is exactly what we do with
every nickel. You wonder how we have a homeless industrial complex,
which just means all these horrible people that feed off
of capitalizing on homelessness. If in San Diego there was
performance space funding, there'd be about five people doing the
work because everyone else is just collecting funds and doing nothing.
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So I have an endless amount of solutions because Kate's
brand is I don't talk about problems. I don't have
solutions for I will go there and I will provide
them the leadership they need to make good and right decisions.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Wonderful all right, Well, give us your campaign website so
people can visit it.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Katefourcongress dot com f o R not the number four.
I was lucky enough to get Katefourcongress dot Com and
I can this is the last stretch, you know, the
fifth is our primary here in California. Any help that
you want to lend this lady all the way across
the country, I could certainly use it.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Wonderful. Well, we'll make sure people go there. Everybody. You
heard her. She needs help, get out there, help her
what you can do anything, you know, financial donations, those
are always incredibly helpful. But Kate Monroe, thank you so much.
We wish you well in your congressional run. Thank you
so much, and thank you all for joining us on
the Tutor Dixon Podcast. For this episode and others, go
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the Tutor Dixon Podcast. Have a blessed day,
Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. While we know right
now the number one topic for most Americans is the border,
and I should say the wide open border and immigration policies,
especially after we've seen another tragic murder at the hands
of an illegal immigrant that was kind of came into
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this country under the Biden administration. Last week we saw
President Trump, we saw President Biden both at the border
talking about it. I think the most interesting part about this, Timmy,
is that we're back here because in twenty sixteen, this
was the message, and I believe build the Wall was
really the message that made President Trump win. That was
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the message that people said, my gosh, if we don't
have borders, what do we have as a country, If
we're not safe, what do we have as a country.
And yet here we are back in this situation. And
I was just listening because I knew we're doing this podcast,
and I'm just listening to all the coverage of Joe
Biden and Donald Trump being at the border, and it's
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just bizarre to me how much the mainstream media wants
to cover this up for him, because they're going, oh,
you know, he had this border bill that would have
passed had Trump not stopped it. Look, Trump was honest.
He said, why would we have a bad bill when
we can get him out of office? And I agree,
I mean, why pass something that becomes law if it's
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crap if you can get somebody into office that's going
to protect your border. And so when I heard this
story about a woman who's running for Congress in California
in the forty ninth district taking on a Democrat incumbent
Mark or Mike Levin, I was like, I like this, lady,
this is pretty impressive what she's doing. So capron Roe
(01:47):
is actually a disabled US Marine Corps veteran and the
CEO of Vetcom. And what I saw was a woman
who said, I mean a lot like Donald Trump, forget this.
I'm not going to have an open border. I'm gonna
go down there and do something about it. So I
want to welcome Kate onto the podcast. Thanks for being
here with me today.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
So excited to be here. It's been a really big week.
And so the more coverage we can get on this
the better. So, you know, God bless you for this.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Well, I want to play something for the audience because
this is this was kind of a moment that I
think made you go viral, but for all the right reasons.
And it's I've seen a lot of shenanigans with people
who run for office, and this is not that. And
I want people to know this is not that. It's
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and I say that because oddly enough, when I was
running for governor, people would say, do a video, do
a video, but don't make it over the top because
you're not running for Congress. And I was like, since
when did Congress become a place where you like play
these over the top videos. I want people to know
that this is amazing that you went down there and
did this. I'm going to play it and then we'll
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talk about it. So here it is.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
What good is a wall if you can walk right
around corner of the wall. I'm standing in America right now,
and now I'm standing in Mexico. I'm gonna tell you
what if in Washington you don't want to come secure
this border, I will do it myself.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I will do it. So if you're just listening to this,
that is Kate down at the border in San Diego,
and there's a place where the wall just ends. It
just ends, and you can literally just pass back and
forth and I have been watching all of this, with
the that with razor wire and you know, the cork
decision and all of that, and in my mind every
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time I've seen it, I've thought, gosh, who would even
want to get close to that stuff? And there you
are down there and she is holding it in her hand,
and you actually secured the border yourself. So tell us
about that a little bit.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
You know, when you run for politics, a lot of
people will say, well, I stand for this, and I
stand for that, and when I get there someday, if
I get there, I'll do something about it. And I
just thought, why is everyone waiting forget even running for
an office? Is what are we waiting for? These people
are not coming. Whoever we're waiting to save us is
not the answer. We're a republic. The people are the answer.
(04:08):
We're the solution. I wanted to inspire the everyday American
voter to realize, hey, you can get a box of
this on Amazon. It's really not that difficult. Now, there
are some difficulties down at the border. I'm not going
to lie. It's rough terrain to get down there. You
may need a dress, but it's not impossible. So that
was the first time. I went out and then I
found a bunch of veterans that had gone to again
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view the wall, and I said, hey, guys, why don't
you come with me. Let's close it. So we found
two more spocks where the wall just ends, and now
we have secured all three of us. I feel really
good about.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
And you were just out there again yesterday. I mean,
this is a passion of yours. You are in a
tough district in California. I mean Biden carried that district
by eleven points. Your opponent won by five percentage points.
But it's California, and I think for those of us
outside of California, we're all like, I mean, can you
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possibly winning California? Is the tide turning there? Because we
have also seen folks in LA that have said, I'm
sick and tired of all the crime. I don't know
what whether or not you're seeing an upticking crime in
San Diego. But what do you think the chances are
of being able to beat out a Democrat in California
these days?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I don't think that everyone on the ballot can beat him.
I mean we ran Brian Marriott against him three times,
and if you put up a candidate that isn't dynamic,
is not a good speaker, does not actually have solutions.
You're going to find yourself at a loss.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
They put him on the Veteran Affairs Committee, which is
very smart. The left is smart with the way that
they politic right. They played a long game and they
put him on the Veteran Affairs Committee, even though he
is not a veteran, and they did it so he
could take credit in this heavy veteran district for anything
that that committee does. But you're not going to stand
toe to toe with me, Mike Levin, no offense to you.
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I'm a Marine Corps veteran. The largest Marine Corps based
on planet Earth is in the district. The largest instance
of veterans in the country is in this district. And
I have a ton of support from the churches from
the Southern California American Legion Area five. Vice commander even
came out and endorsed me himself. I mean, I have
congressmen that have endorsed me. Congressman Ronnie Jackson, Congressman Keith's
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self came out. So I don't think everybody can beat him,
but I know that I can't. He will not do
well in a wordsmith battle with me. If he has
to go toe to toe with me, I will absolutely
annihilate him. And this is also the case too in California.
This is fifty to fifty voter Ridge. It's fifty to
fifty voter ridge. The only reason the Democrats to beat
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us is in California. They did a good sales job
to tell you, as a Republican, your vote doesn't matter.
We narrowly miss. If I can go secure the border,
you can go vote. If I can hold the razor wire,
you can hold the ballot.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Correct me if I'm wrong. But you are one of
the few and maybe the only state where you can
actually ballot harvest correct.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Correct youslutely can bala harvest YEP.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
And so I would say for those of you that
are in California, help out. I mean, this is the
thing that we've been saying to Republicans. Stop watching them
do the work and go how did they win? Go
help out. But the thing that I find unique about
you compared to Levin, I mean that being on the
Veteran Affairs Committee is ridiculous for someone who has not
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served and doesn't understand it. But not only did you serve,
you were also an intelligence analyst. And this is not
only a time where our border is not secure and
that puts US nationally in a national security challenge or disaster.
I would say I would go even farther and say
that this is a disaster that we have at the
border right now. But also this puts you in a
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position where you can understand things at a different level
on the world stage, as we look at Ukraine, as
we look at the Middle East, as we look at Iran,
and we see exactly what's going on in these other countries,
and we see I mean, I just see today that
we've got Primila Jayapaul and what's her name, el han Omar,
(08:08):
who are congress women. This is the position that you
would like going to Cuba. I mean, as an intelligence analyst,
what do you think about when you hear these things?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I think it's scary that we have elected officials who
have enmity toward the United States like that, quite frankly
is scary. The fact that their focal points around the
world are not necessarily onto three massive wars that we
face is also crazy to me. I mean, I think
you know, I've been on a panel with my fellow
Republican candidates. I've seen the way that Mike Levin votes,
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and nobody including him, really understands the gravity of the
situation we face in our country by having such slow recruiting,
by having completely feckless leadership that has put our national
security risk at an all time high. I mean, we're
teetering at the brink of war with countries who could
do us massive harm right now, and we pretend it
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doesn't matter. We pretend we don't have a closed border.
The left wants Democrats supremacy at the costs of those
in our nation. Everyone needs to wake up. The twenty
thirty census will come out, and you'll realize why they
imported all these people here are why they can't even
pay attention to foreign policy. They're too busy trying to
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dominate the United States.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I think it's very scary that we see. I mean,
we started to really wake up to this intelligence disaster
when the balloon flies over the United States and Biden's like, oh,
you know what, pretty sure it was just a weather
balloon from China that happened to travel the entire length
of the United States and hover over our military basis.
(09:48):
I mean, give me a break. How stupid can people
be if they actually believe that. But I will say,
and I've said this several times, when you listen to
the leftist media, when you listen to SEE and when
you listen to MSNBC, You're like, man, these people they
speak with authority, They are very clear when they make
these statements. It seems very legitimate. It is ridiculous to
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think that this balloon was anything other than an intelligence mission,
and potentially more because it was so large. You know,
we're talking about something that I think was the size
of three buses, and so this could have held weapons,
I mean, and it could have been a test to
hold weapons. There are so many issues with this spy
balloon that we have not discussed. And then we find
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out that China also is in cahoots with Cuba and
they have off the coast of Florida, they have a
spy base where they're watching the United States. And then
we have Ilhan Omar and Pamila Jayapaul coming out and
saying we want this terrorist or this designation for Cuba
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to be taken off and we want them to be
welcomed back into our good graces in the United States
and they're like holding Joe Biden hostage. You have this
similar situation in Michigan where you have Rashida Tualib who's like, look, Biden,
we're not voting for you. My community is not voting
for you. The people in my district are not voting
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for you, and we're going to convince other people not
to vote for you if you don't give our biggest
ally in the Middle East the middle finger and say
goodbye to them. These people are in Congress. When you
go to Congress, what do you do about these colleagues that?
How do you counteract this? Is there anything that you
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foresee being able to do to counteract this kind of behavior?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I definitely do. I have always said that on the
Republican side, we lack two main key things. We lack
leadership and we lack salesmanship. We're not as selling our ideas,
we're not as good at packaging them. And just to
give you an idea of why I know I'll be
good at this. I am the top one percent closer
and we'llultiple industries. I have built multiple sales training platforms.
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I'm one of the best sales people on Planet Earth.
I know how to sell ideas to the American public,
and I know how to provide leadership. What happened with
McCarthy that was a lack of leadership in the party.
You saw a very small caucus of people able to
unseat him. Essentially, they're like they rule with an iron
fist on the left there. Even if they hate each other,
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they'll snug in tight to get things done. But on
another note, they're not going to be voting for Biden.
If Biden's on the menu, I will have lost so
many bets with my friends. It's not going to be Biden.
There's absolutely no way he's going to make it. They've
already set a stage for him to not have the
wherewithal to run for his presidents. I think it's going
to be newsommer Michelle Obama, and they will vote for
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one of the two of those bad actors.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on
the Tutor Dixon podcast. President Trump called him Governor Newscomb,
which of course, you know he has to have something
name for him. But I think that that, I mean,
that's actually very fitting. I don't think people recognize how
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dangerous this man is.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
He is.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
He is very good at manipulating. He's very good at
coming off as a lover of the people, and he
wants to do what's right. He is a manipulator to
the highest level. And to your point, he sells ideas.
I mean, he could sell ice to people in Alaska.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
You know, like he's a lot like the devil, though,
isn't he. He's very beguiling, yes, but very careful when
somebody's that beguiling, and they're so good at lying. He
and his entire family just insidious evil people forget that
he was staged to take this role over the course
of decades. This family is basically like an oligarchy in
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our nation. And if you vote for people because they're handsome,
like you did with Obama and he was a good seeker,
to look at what will happen to your nation. You
have to stop just going wow, these people are pretty
put them in office. No, you need to listen to
what they're actually saying and then take a look at
what they have done. What a charming in California is
disgusting charming people.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
I mean Bill Clinton was very charming, Obama was charming.
Newsom is incredibly charming. I mean, I think that those
are the people that you have to be aware of.
And I would even go as far as saying that
is the plan with some of these other folks. They're
trying to do this with the women in their party. Now.
I think that it's been kind of a trend with
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the men and their party. But if you look at
Governor Whimer in Michigan, they do these social media videos
that are meant to make her adorable, you know, meant
to make people go, oh, she'd be like my friend.
I like her, I like Governor Barbie, I like the
fact that she talks to Professor Potato. All these weird,
bizarre things, not goobernatorial behavior. But young people are very
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easily manipulated. And one of the things that we rarely
talk about is that social media and these commercials that
come to them through their cell phones and their devices
are what really frame their worldview. That's where most young
people are. They're not even talking to their friends. And
yet that is a place where we are not. And
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you say you want to do things differently, and you
talk about being someone that sells ideas, I agree with you.
We do not have these people. And that was kind
of the charm of Donald Trump is He's like, I'm
a negotiator. This is what I've done my whole life,
Like I'm going to get things done, and he got
things done. So how do you take back some of
those places that we haven't been? And I know people
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are like, oh, we can't be on TikTok, we can't
be on Snapchat, we can't be in those places, but
the absence of us means there is a lot of
influence there.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I'm on those places every day. I mean, if you
take a look at my social media, my ex my TikTok,
I have thousands and thousands of viewers. I mean I think,
for you know, a day or two, I was probably
the most viral person in the country. Yeah, you have
to think. You have to think what.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Does for a good thing?
Speaker 2 (16:04):
And America said I want a secure border. I went
there and showed you that the border could be secure
and made content that people can consume. You have to
get if people are looking like this at content, well
you have to get in their path And I think
I've done a really good job getting in the pathway
of this younger generation to show them I'm your candidate.
I'm going to go get stuff done, and I'm going
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to provide you a way to interact with me that
you want to be interactive with.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
It's not just protecting the border. You work with veterans
every single day, and that's something that I mean, you
talked about the low recruitment, the low recruitment. We had
an article just last week that said recruitment is so
low they laid off like twenty seven thousand people. Well,
I don't what is happening. We have low recruitment, We're
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getting rid of people. Why have such a weak military?
What would you do about that?
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Well, recruitment faced a lot of issues. There was a
generation of people and there still is that there was
a high number of assaults. Well, when that generation of
people started talking to their kids and said you're not
safe in the military, that was one big reason that
there was less recruitment. Then, if you look at the
numbers on the GI bill, people don't use it, sixty
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percent of it goes to waste, and then most of
the other forty percent that uses it doesn't finish, so
they're not really getting anything out of it. And then simultaneously, knee, what.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Is that new? I mean, did people used to use
the GI built.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
No, they always thought they would, but other generations told
their kids, now, hey, it's worthless. I didn't use it,
you're not going to use it. And then we made
college free, so all the kids who would have gone
into the military for college, they're like, if college is free,
I'm not going to go do this hard thing to
earn something I can get for free. We also, during
COVID kicked a ton of people out, thousands and thousands
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of people that wouldn't get the COVID vaccine, and now
they're trying to beg them back back in. I mean,
we just do idiotic things with our military. So I
actually crafted the framework of the Veteran Entrepreneur Act. It
would let you use your GI bill funds to start
a business. I like about myself that I'm a business owner.
I think this next generation sees themselves as more entrepreneurial,
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and I wanted to provide that to them. But I
think a couple things have to happen. We have to
show and prove that we're willing to have a safer
military for people that get assaulted. Seventy percent of people
that go in the military get assaulted in some way
that number is ridiculous. And I know this because my
company people in the military. Yeah, I was assaulted as
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a virgin when I went into the Marine Corps. So
it's it's very ugly. It's a horrible thing that people
have to go to through. It changes the trajectory of
your life. And I have provided Congress, I've provided the Senate,
through many different people, a way for them to stop
letting people in the military that would assault other people.
They have to fix the GI Bill, they have to
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fix like the barracks are rotting. The Marine Corps barracks
are full of black mold and cockroaches. It's disgusting. I mean,
it's just there's so much that needs to be fixed.
But the real problem is a lack of patriotism.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
We are as a leadership if this many people are
assaulting people in the military. I mean, we think of
the military as this upstanding organization where leadership is key.
I mean, the rule of the military gets saves your life.
How can there be people and they're assaulting other people.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Well, because I think we don't do a good job
of vetting people. And when you let people into a
mob like thing like the military, whereas a group of people.
It can be a little bit like what would happen
in prison, And if you come from an oppressed childhood
and maybe an oppressed demographic, you may get in and
suddenly have power and start to oppress other people. It's
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just how psychology works. And that's why we need to
do a better job vetting people that get in. We
already have the software, we already, we have the test.
And I actually said this to a senator and I'm
not even going to say his name, but he and
I were having a drink and I said to him,
we need to do a better job stopping this. And
he said, don't you think that would hurt recruiting.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
I just thought, as an assault victim that that just
sounded so disgusting to.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Me, so disgusting.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
But that's who we put in office, That's who's there.
It's time to clean the slate of what's there and
get in new, fresh blood, fresh people who are not
going to try to sit there forever.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Yeah. Absolutely, tell us a little bit about vetcom.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
So. Vetcom was born out of an interesting path. I
got out of the military sort of suddenly I wasn't
really safe where I was. I had already been assaulted.
I got hit in the face with a softball plane
softball for the marine team, smashed my nose, my eye socket,
last rate in my face. I crushed my elbow, my
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ride ankle. I had had a pretty adverse time being
in the marine, and because I got out so quick,
I didn't get anything on my way out. I got nothing.
I got no disability compensation. And then about eleven years later,
ten years and a month actually, I tried to use
the GI bill and it expired one month previously. So
I served. All that happened to me, I got no compensation,
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and my GI bill was now unusable. So my husband
googled and he said, hey, there's a program where if
you get rated for disability compensation, you can go to school.
So okay, so I went and got raided. I waited
a year, it took forever, and my rating came back.
I successfully went to school, and I thought, Okay, that's
where I'm going to let it lie. Well, right around
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the time that COVID started, I opened a car dealership,
a really nice part dealership up in Ocean Side, and
I knew that I wanted to serve veterans in active
duty military. I knew that I could do, you know,
right by them, and so I put on the wall
veteran owned and operated on like one hundred foot banner. Well,
why don't you know? It was like a bat signal.
All the veterans, all the active duty came and I
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was trying to put together car deals for veterans and
they were short funds. So I would say, do you
have disability compensation? And everybody said no. So about two
hundred people later, after I help them through this process
while owning a car dealership, not while owning VETCOM, I
just said, is anybody rated? Like? Why is? Why are
people not getting these funds? And it turns out they
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either don't know that they can't, they tried and they failed,
or they just don't feel deserving. I didn't feel deserving,
even though all that stuff happened to me. I didn't
even feel like I deserved the funds. I'm not whatever
this hero thing is. And so I said, is there
a way to solve this problem? Because ten million people
who served collect nothing. So all this money that we
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send all these other countries, all the money we used
to not secure the border, right, we send it all
around and veterans aren't collecting it. So I put together
vetcom and last in the last three hundred and sixty
five days from right now, we've done nine hundred and
twenty four million in lifetime funds for veterans and their families.
We make all their claims, we prepare them for this
adversarial process. We're in the trench with them, and it's
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just it's been really fulfilling. We went from five employees
to fifty five in one year. Wowly traded company. The
thing I'm most proud of I've ever done in my
life is to help these veterans, especially the later age veterans,
you know in their eighties and nineties. You know where
they love us. Because I hugged a little guy the
other day, he's ninety two years old in my office
(23:26):
and he said I was the first person to hug
him in three years.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Oh, that's actually makes me emotional.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
It's like so early here, I'm tired. It makes me
like crushed my spirit. I'm thinking this is somebody's grandpa
and I am the first person that hugged him. So
it just makes me feel good about the extra thing
that we provide to veterans.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on
a Tutor Dixon podcast. These two issues kind of go
hand in hand. The open border. We've seen Abbot busting
these migrants into sanctuary sanctuary cities. What they've you know,
(24:03):
they said they wanted them, and now they now they
don't want them. Now they're like, oh my gosh, this
was actually not what we're expecting. But we already had
a homeless veteran problem now it's so we've a lot
of on this podcast. We've talked a lot about the
fact that there are moms and dads in these communities
that are going, well, wait a minute, we needed government assistants,
(24:25):
we needed these these buildings, we needed these community centers
for our kids. And now they're going to migrant children.
They're going to migrants, they're coming into our schools unvaccinated.
But how is this affecting the money that would have
gone to veterans, the help that would have gone to veterans.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Well, I actually wrote an op ed about this. Homelessness
is one of the big areas of expertise that I have.
And what happens is the VA allocates funds that are
called Va hud Vash funds and this is meant to
help get veterans off the st get them into transitionary housing,
and get them on their way. Well, the VA people
think the VA administers this money. They don't. They give
(25:06):
it to other organizations by way of a grant, and
then from the federal level down they tell these other
organizations to spend it on migrants. So it used to
be that veteran homelessness was going down twelve percent, but
this last year it went up seven. That's a nineteen
percent of delta, So it actually went up nineteen percent,
not seven nineteen percent. And that is just unconscionable to
(25:30):
me that we even have homeless veterans. There's enough homeless
veterans in the in the in the United States to
fill like Petco Park, to fill a baseball stadium. Just
in San Diego, we have thousands of them on the street.
I mean, I actually had a different viral moment for
homelessness here in San Diego all over Fox because we
pretended we didn't even have a homeless problem. Meanwhile, two
(25:52):
thousand people were in a four x four block radius
living in like third world country, you know. Standard. It
was just appalling to me. So I tried to find
areas where we get away with stuff and go and
put a spotlight on it so people have to take action.
If I have to gaslight you into doing the right thing,
trust that I will. I will absolutely put your name
(26:12):
all over the TV and you will have to go
do the right thing.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
So before we let you go for the day, tell
me your main issues. Obviously we've talked about some of them,
but you have some work that you're doing on climate
and all kinds of different things. And you know, we
those of us listening from outside of the state of California,
are like, well, what is it like? What are your plans?
Everybody comes to Congress with a different perspective, So give
(26:38):
us a quick overview of what you want to achieve.
What your biggest issues are.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Well, I mean, I think the main focal point of
what I would like to focus on is veteran affairs,
because veterans touch every family. Everybody either is one or
nose one that's very close to them. And the ripple
effect of all the funds that go to veterans affairs,
all the healthcare system that touches all the families, all
(27:04):
the way down from all the retirees and everything else
needs a massive overhaul. I would like to work on that.
I would also like to provide direction on homeless, drugs,
and lawlessness. The homeless issue. People love to think it's
isolated here in California, and certainly it is. I've been
in San Diego, Oceanside, LA. I even flew to the
Tenderloin to go and see if they have the exact
(27:26):
same problem we do, and they do. It's just it's
a lack of will if you will to prosecute people
for being on drugs. Eighty five percent of people I
talk to are either actively doing drugs or dealing drugs
while I'm talking to every four feet in a city,
you can get drugs if you're not already standing on
the top of a drug needle. It's absolutely disgusting. So
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solving that problem could happen with a base camp if
we turn law enforcement on at the same time, because
then you could provide people choices. You could say, you
are doing drugs and selling drugs, you're going to jail.
Go into base camp where you have a long enough
runway to get clean, where we can bucketize you and
figure out why you're homeless. That way, there is no
being homeless on the street. You want a camp, well
you're going to do it at infrastructured camping, at Base
(28:11):
Camp and all these cities. I would also like to
work on all the money that goes out. I wrote legislation,
crafted it called performance space funding. Every time I ask
a crowd, have you ever paid a contractor to work
on your house? Of course everybody says yes I have.
I said, you just pay and pray? Do you give
them all the money up front hoping that they finish it?
(28:31):
And everyone laughs because they know absolutely not. I wouldn't
do that, but that is exactly what we do with
every nickel. You wonder how we have a homeless industrial complex,
which just means all these horrible people that feed off
of capitalizing on homelessness. If in San Diego there was
performance space funding, there'd be about five people doing the
work because everyone else is just collecting funds and doing nothing.
(28:54):
So I have an endless amount of solutions because Kate's
brand is I don't talk about problems. I don't have
solutions for I will go there and I will provide
them the leadership they need to make good and right decisions.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Wonderful all right, Well, give us your campaign website so
people can visit it.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Katefourcongress dot com f o R not the number four.
I was lucky enough to get Katefourcongress dot Com and
I can this is the last stretch, you know, the
fifth is our primary here in California. Any help that
you want to lend this lady all the way across
the country, I could certainly use it.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Wonderful. Well, we'll make sure people go there. Everybody. You
heard her. She needs help, get out there, help her
what you can do anything, you know, financial donations, those
are always incredibly helpful. But Kate Monroe, thank you so much.
We wish you well in your congressional run. Thank you
so much, and thank you all for joining us on
the Tutor Dixon Podcast. For this episode and others, go
(29:49):
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