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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This week is self described socialist Doran Mam Donnie won
the Democratic primary election in New York. That might seem
like a far off headline, but make no mistake, the pology,
the policies, and ideology he represents are already making their
way into California. And we have the man that said that,
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Assemblyman David Tany Paul. He is going to explain that
statement and I agree with him one hundred percent. David,
how are you doing, buddy?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I'm doing well. How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I'm doing good? Man, Thank you for coming on.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Hey, dude, how are you doing?
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Brother?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Hey, good to see, good to hear from that.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Apparently you got to transl a problem.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
On that, you know, David.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, I like you know what
you said about.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
You know, socialism, you know, spread that's spread across America
and into California. You don't want you to expand on
that right now.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah. It's actually something I think about fairly easily, is
that there's a lot of countries. I mean, there's history
behind it, and they people can vote their way into
socialism and communism, but you're always going to have to
shoot your way out of it. And i'd prefer to
stop that before we get into it, that these altruistic
ideologies always end up in. I mean, essentially, we look
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at the USSR, we look at what's happened to Cuba,
we look at what's happened to Venezuela, we look at
what happened to so many other areas that it's time
to prevent it. Now, it's time to get in front
of it. One of my favorite things that I love
to listen to is actually Thomas Soul and he's a
political philosopher, and he talks about how history is a
graveyard for a lot of bad policies, and it's unfortunate
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that policy makers love to be grave diggers. And you
know what we're seeing right now now is this rise
in moral superiority that they believe that they can do
it better than all of those who have already tried
it before they just never had enough money or they
never had enough resources to do it. And what we're
seeing now with Mondami in New York is already here
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in California, we are more left than New York. In
New York City and those areas, and we do have
members here that are part of the Socialist Party of
America that are part of the Communist Party and have
communist ideologies here in the state legislature, and we've got
to call it out now, and we have to actually
build the bench too to set up that our ideologies
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are better. We allowed AOC and Bernie Sanders to walk
up and down Central Valley here in California, and what
did we do to prevent that. Nothing. I'm not going
to sit back and do nothing. We're going to work
on calling this out and we're going to work a
lot on highlighting these issues.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
That's really important that we do that. Now, I got
a question for you, what do you think? I mean,
I know what California looks like now, I knew what
it looked like when I was a kid, and I'm
sixty three years old. What do you think a socialist California.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Would look like? From where we shit right now.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Well, it's something that I actually truly fear, is that
Gavin Newsom's really bad. The next person is probably going
to be worse. And with Mondani's rise in popularity now
as a major city, I can tell you this, the
socialists and the communists and those individuals that believe in
that ideology now feel energetic. After having felt beaten in
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the November election, Kamala Harris is starting to poke around
a little bit more, especially being up here in Sacramento.
I keep hearing that she is now feeling more energetic,
and not only that, she just posted online for the
first time in a long time. So we know that
they're kicking the tires on who can be more progressive
and who can be more far left. I can tell
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you what a socialist's agenda will look like in California
is I believe that they'll try to implement a wealth text.
Believe that they'll try to implement more penalties on a
lot of our local businesses that our businesses cannot accept.
Right now that we see the failures that are happening
to insurance. If you think your insurance is bad right now,
it's going to collapse. And the only way that they
correct it or try to pull us out of it
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is government run insurance, which we all know is going
to be less services, not cheaper, and it's just going
to be more and more expensive that government ownership over
a lot of the programs, entities and businesses that we
need and thrive on here will fall under the state government.
That is already what they are doing with regulatory agencies
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like CARB, with regulatory agencies like DWR. And look at
all the expansions of powers that they've done, even with
ABE nineteen fifty five, that they've centralized our school boards
under the Department of Education to ban parents from having
a say and to ban local elected officials from deciding
what their kids want. We're already seeing it here in California.
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Imagine now somebody who's confident that they can push the
bounds in the limits.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah, you know that maybe nineteen fifty five. I was
actually going to ask you about that, and you touched
on it. So you know, I can't believe that these
bills are passing, but you know they have the super majority.
And sometimes does it feel like you're just fighting you
were out of quicksand.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Oh yeah, I mean I would say not always, and
not only because I believe that I represent some of
the most amazing people in the world here in the
Central Valley, the farmers, the families that took care of me.
So you know, it may be an uphill battle right now,
but the only way to start an avalanche is with
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the snowball, So might as well get it go in.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
I think that's a great idea, and I I'm sorry,
I feel like we shent you there to make fringe
and I think you're failing so far.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Well, I do have a new record. I am the
fast legislator to be kicked off of committees.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
And that's something else, you know.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
And then it's look, I'm going to speak the hard truth.
I'm going to talk about it. And when I told
everybody in my campaign that we were going to send
a bulldog to Sacramento, the part that's most surprising to
me is that, you know, now everybody was like, well,
you told this, you were going to do that. We're
just surprised you're doing it. And I was like, well,
I prefer to be one of the one of the
guys who actually lives by what.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
They say, kind of like President Trump.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Right, think about it, He's he told everybody what he
was going to do when he came in, and he's
doing it, and every acts surprised.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Now, right, You're exactly right on that. That is it
is a surprise that people actually do what they say.
You know that it catches people off guard, and you know,
there's a lot of social pressures that they try to use.
Even up here in Sacramento. You know, they'll tell me like, hey,
you're not going to be invited to this dinner or
you're not going to get to this, And I look
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at them and I'm like, you do know that when
percent of utility rate payers right now can't afford their utilities,
you do know that people are struggling losing their homes wildfires.
Do you really think I am shallow enough or care
that I won't be invited to all of these fancy
things when you know I've lived the American dream in
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the sense of my mother immigrated here from Tonga. I'm
a business owner, first person to graduate from college. I
sponsored my mother's immigration. I take care of my family. Now,
all of that is because the people in our district,
in our area took care of me to help me
get to this point that this is my chance to
go back and to repay them for giving me a
blessed life that I'm not going to let a fancy
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dinner determine or sway me in any type of way.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
That's because you are an upstanding person.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
David.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Hey, you know what the budget was? It just passed
yesterday or.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
When was that Yeah, we had a couple more trailer
bills is what they call it on the budget both
yesterday and Friday.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
So I know they're kind of saying it's a win
for California. What do you think.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
It is? A I don't know, how do I describe
this that is radio appropriate?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I'm thinking it's not a win for California. Is that
kind of what why I'm getting here?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Uh, We're we are simply floating this state. So when
Governor Newsom leaves this state and it collapses after he leaves,
he can say that it's not his fault because it
happened after his tenure. But one of the most threatening
questions that I've been able to ask both the director
or a Department of Finance, the LAO and different organizations is,
with the current spending that we are on today, and
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with the seven point five billion dollars that we are
borrowing from the Rainy Day Fund to float the budget
right now, can we even vote on this exact same budget,
this exact same budget in three years. And the answer
was unequivocally no, because we're using we're forty percent of
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the Rainy Day Fund this year next year. If we
wanted to do the same seven and a half billion
dollars next year, it would make up seventy percent of
the Rainy Day Fund. And then the following year there's
not even seven point five billion dollars in the Rainy
Day Fund. And all of those projections are on if
spending days the exact same, which we all know is
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not possible. And so when I'm picking up dust here
and I'm asking these questions, it's in reality that they are.
We are simply floating the budget now, and we're leveraging
the future of future Californians. And it is something that
I believe is so eerily it's so irresponsible, because in
the future we will have to cut programs, and they
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just don't want to have the hard conversation now.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
I think it's important to remind people, and I believe,
and I've learned this through life, that a bill that
can't be paid won't be paid. And you can make
all the promises in the world, but if you lack
the ability to actually fulfill those promises, what you're really
doing is lying, and you're lying in piecemeal forms so
that you really don't feel like you're telling an untruth
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because I'm telling it the way I believe it right now.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
But you know darn well this won't happen.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Tell me here in the valley versus other districts, do
we as a people have an appetite for the kind
of sacrifice that it's going to take. Do you think
the valley does? Do you think other places do? Or
do these people just have a pollenic view of this thing?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
See that's the part why I keep talking about a
lot of this feels like we're mopping the deck of
the Titanic, and I would much rather build the boat.
And that's why I try to get in front of Mondani.
And the rise of socialism is because once we start
cutting programs, once people start once all of this grant
funding really dries up, now people are going to start
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being angry and they're going to start trying to blame
something and find something, because that's how it's been throughout history.
And if the socialists are the ones who get to
capture the message behind that and say, see, the government
didn't do enough to take care of you, And it's
these greedy corporations and it's the billionaires, and it's all
of this that are causing all the problems they're going
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to create a movement and rise on that end. But
I want to start working with people to say, no,
it's not that it is the over taxation. It is
the over regulation, and it is the government that believes
that it knows better. But when we look at the
track record of our own government, that should be proof
enough to say that this state is eerily mismanaged. Is
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not only taking all of our funds and all of
our dollars and wasting it. When we look at the
track record of fifteen point seven billion dollars to high
speed rail, what do we have to show for it?
Not controlled by billionaires, not controlled by the most wealthy,
controlled by the state of California, concrete and rebar and
almost twenty billion dollars and spent. That's not capitalism's fault.
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When we look at the state of affairs when it
comes to what has happened in the estimates on undocumented
and illegal immigrant healthcare. They told us it would cost
five hundred million dollars. The actual cost is nine point
six billion dollars. Only government, can you be off by
twelve hundred percent?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
That's a rounding error. That's a rounding error.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Yeah, yeah, it's a mathematical niche there, you know, Oh
my lord.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
It's trying to call out the lives and that's my
part and not allow other institutions. And also we just
have to be prepared to catch it when California collapses.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
That's one hundred percent correct, man. And you know, I
can think of no better person to fight for the
communities than you, David. You're you're a sharp, intelligent young man.
You're the new breed of Republicans that's coming up, and
you're strong and you don't give up. And that's what
I like about it about you. So gas tax that
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January July first kind of hit today.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Right, they're going, they're going down, right, We're gonna have
cheaper gas in July. Is that what I'm understanding.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yeah. The only thing that's kind of bailing us out
on the gas portion of it is that on the
federal side, we're seeing increases in our oil reserves, which
is helping even though we're seeing the strangulation and the
rising of taxes here. You know, it would be a
double whammy. If President Biden was still in office, or
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you know, Kamala Harris would have tried to be an office,
it would have been a double whammy. But the only
reason why we're seeing relief right now is because on
the federal side they're doing good with our oil reserves
and keeping barrel prices low. But on the state side,
we've got some major issues coming next year realistically with
Phillip sixty six and also Valero in the city of Venetia.
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Both of those refineries are going to close down, and
when both of those refinery shutdown, will lose twenty percent
of the state's refinery capacity. To be here, I was
in front of a group of both oil producers climbing individuals.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
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Speaker 1 (14:25):
I'm Jody Jones with the Frank Van Lanningham.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Great to be here, Thanks Trevor.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Fighting every day to protect the values that make California
worth fighting for freedom, opportunity and local control. David, you
said that, and I love it.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Man, Well, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I'm just trying to live by it.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
You know, when we went into our break, man, we're
talking about gas and oil, and I want everybody out
there to understand what's really going on, and I think
we can't. We don't have anybody better growth than you
to to explain it.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Man, Well, the.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Easiest way to summarize it is twenty percent of our
refinery capacity is going to be gone by April.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Of next year.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Philip sixty six is gone because they have basically given
the bird to California. They said, you guys, your regulations everything, Nope,
we're out. We're done. There's nothing you can do to
get us back. We're shutting down the refinery. I don't
care Benetia, there's still a chance they want to stay
in California. But the more rules, regulations and everything else
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that they keep implementing. I mean they were issued a
fine of almost eight hundred million dollars for potential damages
that they could have caused due to climate change and
I mean breathing air essentially, and so they're just nobody
can operate in this standard. And one of the questions
I was able to ask is that is there anywhere
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in the world it has more stringent standards than California
when it comes to these regulations. Not a single Nordic country,
not a single country in Europe, not even one of
the only areas that we actually can produce gas that
can be used in California out of this state is
actually from Singapore and we have to barge it in
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on massive barges that actually use coal to bring it in.
And then now we can consider it clean California gas.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
You know, David, I want to ask you, why is that?
Why is that?
Speaker 4 (16:26):
And why can't we fix that?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Because we feel good by not doing even though it
makes no impact. Wow.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
You know, I live for a short period of time
in Hawaii, and I know right now in Hawaii there
and they don't produce any gasoline, they don't refine any there,
their gas is actually about eleven cents cheaper. Now Wisconsin
also doesn't drill for oil, they don't refine it. They're
under three bucks. But I believe if I pay four
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fifty eight, I get some really good gas. Right, well,
my car run better?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Well exactly. I actually think part of the biggest push
was let's increase gas prices because then it will incentivize
people to buy electric vehicles. I think it's this created
essentially created government inflation on prices. I mean, we have
to look at it right now. The largest take home
on our gas prices here in California is the government
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it's not the oil companies, it's not the convenience store
owners or the gas stations. It is the government. California
now takes over a dollar now with the new gas
text that was implemented to day, sixty five cents of
every single gallon, in addition to the additional regulations and
rules in place that California puts on goes immediately to
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the state of California, and that is larger than all
of the profits per gallon sold.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Well, that definitely makes electricity look cheap in the eyes
of the uneducated. And I can see where people are
instantly going to say, well, too, you will to go
electric with our cars, get solar on the house, do
all this kind of stuff, and they this basically is
tantamount to a government sanctioned monopoly.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
It's one of the saddest things that I've seen is
how much laws there is being used to create stagnation
and scarcity simply through policy, and by doing that you
drive the prices up and everything you benefit certain sectors
over others. I mean, the easiest way to think about
it is that even though we are the quasi environmental
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friendly state, we don't even consider large scale hydroelectrical facilities
that produce over thirty megawatts clean and renewable, So it
doesn't make any sense. And they do that because they
specifically want to create scarcity, so that way it drives
investments for communities and people have to pay more for it.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
You know what sure is funny, David, how when President
Trump's in office, oil goes down every time. When he
was in torn it went down. I mean it was
down to like record lows right.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
April thirteenth, twenty twenty. I took a picture before Donald
Trump left office later that year, and the gas station
off is a forty one and pretty much in between
Avenue twelve and fifteen. It was two dollars and thirteen
cents on April thirteenth, twenty twenty. I wonder what it
is today?
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Well, we all know that.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Especially I think it starts with the number four and
it's got a big number behind it.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yeah, it's it's truly amazing. But you know, here's what
I always say. You know, you could talk a big game,
but actions always always speak louder than the words. And
when President Trump gets into office, his actions always do.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Exactly. But that's part two. So I look at what
President Trump did on the federal side, and I look
at what we need to do as Californians here in
the state of California. You know, if he's going to
go and handle it on the federal level, we need
need to create a movement. We need to create enough
people that are just tired of California can't And something
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I speak about often is that we don't need any
more California refugees. We need some California rebels willing to
fight for this state and make it a better place,
something they're proud of for their kids and their grandkids
to grow up in. And until the people here start
to come together, it's not just going to be me,
It's going to be all of us together. And I
think that's the general purpose of what we're trying to
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do today.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
You know, David, and I know for a fact you
know the people you represent know that you're fighting for them.
You one office on that and on the things that
you everything that you ran on, you are absolutely fighting
for it.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Man. There's no smoking mirrors with you.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
I got a question for you, sir, before before you answer,
forgive me what other districts do you see as being
vulnerable that are right now Democratic that perhaps could be
flipped where you since there's a groundswell of unhappiness with
the policies.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
As they are actually right here in the valley. Pretty
much every single seat in the central Valley that is
not held by a Conservative or a Republican is actually
up up for grounds. So that's Assembly District twenty seven,
Assembly District, I believe down in the Bakersfield area as well,
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in a couple of the Senate seats, those are all
a lot of them are actually going to be open
and vacant seats to run in, so no incumbent in
that as well. Quite a few of them actually went
present President Trump, whether it's plus five plus six points.
And the biggest thing that I tell everybody is just
we need balance because we have crazy controlling California. And
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there are twenty Republicans to sixty Democrats, and there are
ten in the Senate Senate Republicans to thirty senators on
the Democratic side. The biggest thing that we can do
for a change, it's not governor, it's not lieutenant governor,
it's not any of that. There is a veto proof
majority in this legislative body, and we only need to
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pick up three seats in the Senate and seven seats
in the Assembly. That is very possible, especially with the
issues that are coming down the line, to bring us
back to balance so that way we can have an
actual reasonable conversation, because I can tell you right now,
the way that the majority party treats us is more
of a glorified advisory board. And whenever they don't want
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to talk to us, they'll kick you off the committees.
They'll make it to where we can't. I can't be
on the Insurance committee because when We'recardo Lara's coming to
speak to us, I'm going to make sure that I'm
asking the hard questions because right now seniors can't pay
their insurance because their insurance is now more expensive than
the mortgage they did on their home. We need balance,
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we need to get back to that. I'm willing to
work with anybody and everybody that prioritizes Californians first, you.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Know, David, I think it's real scary with voting in
Californian and I think until we get rid of same
day registration and mailing ballots to everybody on you know,
the list and voter ID I always say this when
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we get rid of those things and we add IDs
and in the way it's really supposed to be, because
that's not racist to ask for an ID when you vote.
I think when we do that, we will pick those
seats up. I mean we're close to picking them up now.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Which is why I am actually working on the voter
ide initiative as well with some of my other colleagues,
because that ballot initiative that we are working on to
get on the ballot, we need an army of supporters
that actually wants to bring back reasonability and sensibility. Not
only is voter ID not racist, we're one of the
only countries in the world that doesn't have it as mandatory.
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And here's how when anybody who tries to bring up
the argument of it's racist, you have to ask them,
do they believe that Mexico's racist? Because Mexico not only
requires ID, they also require biometrics, but you have to
put your thumbprint on your ballot. And not only that,
they also ban alcohol for twenty four hours on their
day of voting to make sure that everybody is cognitively there.
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Speaker 1 (24:32):
It is also Super Tuesday. Every time I hear that,
I kind of think of Hillary Clinton and it's cringey,
you know, but I kind of like it's Taco Tuesday.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
It absolutely is. I love Taco Tuesday. Hard to find
them for a buck anymore. If you're lucky, you'd get
a two dollars taco.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Hey, here's a pretty good story. President Trump visited Florida
and Alligator Alcatraz.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Hey, you know, we had a lot of protesters down there.
I'm thinking, were they really paid protesters or were they
actually protesters? Because they were actually protesting the right way.
They were on the side of the road, holding signs up.
They weren't, you know, stopping traffic. So were they the
paid writers or really Floridians that's down there protesting or
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was it just because it's Florida and they know Florida's
don't take care of business.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
So were there only a few people or was it swamped?
That's pretty good what I did.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Yeah, I see what you did right there, so, you know,
And and the alligators. Man, I don't know if you
know this about alligators, but when they clamp on you,
they they drowned you and they twist.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
My wife does that with the covers. Yeah, every time
we jump into bed, she alligators. She spins and spins
and then I'm sitting there shivering by myself and there
she has like a burrita.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Hey, do you know why they twist like that? Because
they don't chew.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
I just read it, you know, so they Yeah, they
don't to They just swallow their their food. So they
rip and they tear, They tear off body parts. Yeah,
like you can get gender affirming care from an alligator.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Have you ever seen, like, you know, a documentary about
alligators when they're feeding and there's a bunch of alligators
and one snaps on another's leg and they twist and
they ripped off and another alligator like, actually, nothing's going on.
It's like is going on here?
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Have you ever I've hunted alligators and actually we just
hunted them to take pictures of them and hold them.
And do you know how they bring them in? No,
with marshmallows. I kid you not, those big staypuff marshmallows. Yeah,
you go out in an airboat. You chuck those things out.
Up come the alligators. They start eating them. The guide
would jump out of this airboat, flat bottom thing and
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grab one of those suckers and pull it up and
get on the boat with it.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Hey, I wonder if the guards and Alligator Alcatraz are
going to have you know, buckets of marshmallows the other
staypuff and throw them, you know in the in the
mars right by the you know, the the gates. I
don't know, but uh, what a great idea, right, I mean, it's.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Well, it's inexpensive real estate.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
Disney once upon a time went into the swamps and
built an empire. A lot of people have built built
a lot out of these swamps. You just fill them
up with sand and go for it. It can be done,
and you need to put it where One you have
a governor who's amenable to the idea.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
You're obviously California.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
It ain't gonna happen, you know, although we have a
lot of desert and that could create you know, really
good jobs. But two, you need cheap real estate, and
so they're not going to put it in New York
City Martha's Vineyard or anything like.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
That's great place, you know, and it's going to hold
probably around three thousand.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Migrants.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
That's about like an avanol prison right over here. Yeah,
you're not big, not big, you know.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
I like what President Trump said, there's only one way
out of Alligator Alcatraz, and that is deport That's right, deportations, so.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Or snake plisk and could get out of there.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Yeah, you know, it's it's it's actually absolutely great idea.
I mean, they're taking a runway an airport and they're
turning it into something that we can actually use. And
it was a workable as a used you know, as
a working airport.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
Well, you need a place to put these people humanly,
where you can look after them and till their cases
adjudicated or something happens. These are people that one you
don't you don't want to just simply release them back
into the United States where they Obviously these are.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Not good people.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
And to be sure, these are the worst of the
worst that they're putting there. They're not picking up an
orange picker, They're not picking up a construction worker and
putting them in Alligator Alcatraz.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
It's not happening like that.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
These are people with deportation orders, these are criminals, These
are the bad ones, to be sure.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
I think It's kind of funny because the people that's
opposing it are basically saying it's going to disrupt the
ecosystem down there, But that.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
These he's saying, these people aren't good enough to be
around alligators.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Is that what he's saying.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
I don't know. I don't. I don't really kind of
get that.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
Have those people even been there? I don't know they
spend any time there? Are these people? Didn't they just
google it.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
I'm not intelligent enough to understand that.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
But you know, I don't see how that's going to
impact the ecosystem down there. I mean, it's not like
people's killing alligators or killing any kind of or or
introducing any kind of indigenous jody.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
These are humans, and I'm going to tell you all
humans drink water, eat food, use the restroom. All humans,
they sleep somewhere. So where to put these people? Do
you think that somehow if you put them in Florida,
or if you put them in New York City, that
somehow they're going to be less impactful to this earth.
They're still going to breathe, eat, poop, do it all.
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So I don't see the argument. I really don't.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
You know, you hear a lot of you know, arguments
and and just them crying about where you housing them. Well,
that's actually a very nice facility that they built. Well
it's not the four seasons, you know, well none of
them are the four seasons, but you know, for humane reasons,
it has you know, clean rooms, clean bed you know,
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and you know what, the guards are gonna eat the
same food as if people be in house there the immigrants.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Have you ever eate an alligator? Maybe that's what they're
gonna eat.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
I don't know, maybe sticky.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Maybe that's where they get the ecosystem that's gonna kind
of because they're going to be, you know, crawling the
alligators up and using them for food.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Maybe I don't know. This whole thing's in.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Python's down there.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
You know. Have you ever ate snake?
Speaker 3 (30:41):
I have?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
I have too, But it was barbecued when it was
so it had that barbecue taste.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
It wasn't like everything with a bunch of barbecue saus
tastes like barbecue.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
Taste like chicken.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
I kind of it is.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
I'm not a full disclosure, I'm not a big reptile eater.
You have eaten a lot of different kinds of reptiles
just to say I.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Have I don't even like frog legs.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Oh, they kind of gross me out.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Have you ever seen him cook?
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Yeah? It's not pretty.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
They look like.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Human like legs when they're cooking and they're moving, and
you're like, what is that? There's no way I'm going
to eat that.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Yeah. I struggle with that. If I have to gag
it down, I don't want to eat.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Oh my god, My oldest brother, Rocky, the one was
it was killed. He loved frog legs and he always
would play with me, you know, he'd always mess with me.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Hey Joe.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
He'd call me Joe. He hey Joe, look frog legs
and he would just eat him. Like, oh my god,
what do you How do you do that.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Is?
Speaker 1 (31:31):
I'm like, that's gonna give you words.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
At least worms, Yeah, at least worms.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
No.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I think it's great what what they're doing down there
in Florida, you know, and it's it's it's nice to
see a governor that actually wants to help his his citizens,
his his people. And look at their gas what what's there?
What do you think their gas prices are down there
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in Florida?
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Around three bucks? Yeah, rastek shack around three dollars.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Man.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
That's again, they don't screw around like we do.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
And again, when it's cheaper to buy gas in Hawaii
and that gas has to be put on a boat
and floated all the way over there, they have no refining.
That has to be the most expensive way to get
fuel to people that I can possibly imagine. And Wisconsin, again,
they don't refine, so we lose two refineries, yet it's
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still gonna be fifty percent cheaper over there.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Ryan just told me, little voice in my head, I
call him Ryan. Three dollars and six cents on average. Right,
isn't that crazy? It's amazing.
Speaker 5 (32:42):
Yeah, I can see why people would want to go.
But I'm going to tell you as for me, Jody,
I'm staying right here in this valley. This is my home.
You're not gonna run me out of here. I'm not
gonna let a blue haired fact checker run me out
of my state. This is my state, not yours, say,
and you got to take it from me. It's gonna
get rough.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
You know, when you see a governor like Ron DeSantis,
it's it's awesome. I mean, I love when he talks
and how about when he debated the governor of California. Oh,
Evan Knewsome right on hand, and he wouldn't that just.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
That was a show. I honestly, both of them wanted
it was. It was great, It was great, It was great.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
It was great.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
But we both know that DeSantis was not on the menu.
And this is while Trump was going through his legal
troubles and they were sort of warming him up in
the bullpen because we didn't know at this time. Remember
Trump was on trial for his life. Trump was on
trial to hold his business together. They were throwing everything
at him, trying to bankrupt him when they weren't trying
to kill him, and uh, we had no choice but
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to bring in somebody else and start warming them up.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
There was that needed to happen.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Desantos de Santis played the poop card as he did
when he pulled it out. I was like, I can't
believe he just did that, and I I just I can't.
I remember laughing, and it was it was kind of
a I don't know, I was it was.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
It was a poop show.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Yeah, it was a poop show. But you know, I
knew that was gonna happen, and and all of Californians.
Knew that was gonna happen. We knew what DeSantis was
going to do with Newsom. And when I say, when
I say that they're all smoking mirrors, he had facts
right in front of him and he's laughing about it,
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saying no, that that's not true, and Handy He's like, yeah,
it's true.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
It's Ryer's facts.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
But your diehard Democrats, you got to remember when you
tell somebody something that is true empirically true, not subjectively true,
not your truth, his truth, or any of that junk,
but righteously true. And this person believes the exact opposite
because he's been lied to for so long.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
They are going to fight you with everything they have.
They're going to resist like this.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
It is Super Tuesday with Trevor on The Valley's Power Talk.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Well, I'm Jody Jones and with Frank Van Landingham.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Great to be here, Thanks Trevor.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
You know, we just had David Tangyepaul on the last
hour and he is just a firecracker. He's assemblyman out
out of this area, out of the Fresno area, and
every time I talk to him, he's become a friend
of mine and he is. He's an awesome guy, and
I know he has a bright future in front of him.
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We just had some breaking news. President Trump said Israel
agreed to a sixty day cease fire, and that's huge.
It's a start anyway, So you know, we all we're
all praying about that. Net and Yahoo will be in
Washington at the White House on Monday and hopefully they
can get it worked out to where there's no more
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war over there.
Speaker 6 (35:53):
The Assistant Trevor Jerry Show on The Valley's Power Talk
This week is self described socialist Doran Mam Donnie won
the Democratic primary election in New York. That might seem
like a far off headline, but make no mistake, the pology,
the policies, and ideology he represents are already making their
way into California. And we have the man that said that,
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Assemblyman David Tany Paul. He is going to explain that
statement and I agree with him one hundred percent. David,
how are you doing, buddy?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I'm doing well. How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I'm doing good? Man, Thank you for coming on.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Hey, dude, how are you doing?
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Brother?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Hey, good to see, good to hear from that.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Apparently you got to transl a problem.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
On that, you know, David.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, I like you know what
you said about.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
You know, socialism, you know, spread that's spread across America
and into California. You don't want you to expand on
that right now.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah. It's actually something I think about fairly easily, is
that there's a lot of countries. I mean, there's history
behind it, and they people can vote their way into
socialism and communism, but you're always going to have to
shoot your way out of it. And i'd prefer to
stop that before we get into it, that these altruistic
ideologies always end up in. I mean, essentially, we look
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at the USSR, we look at what's happened to Cuba,
we look at what's happened to Venezuela, we look at
what happened to so many other areas that it's time
to prevent it. Now, it's time to get in front
of it. One of my favorite things that I love
to listen to is actually Thomas Soul and he's a
political philosopher, and he talks about how history is a
graveyard for a lot of bad policies, and it's unfortunate
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that policy makers love to be grave diggers. And you
know what we're seeing right now now is this rise
in moral superiority that they believe that they can do
it better than all of those who have already tried
it before they just never had enough money or they
never had enough resources to do it. And what we're
seeing now with Mondami in New York is already here
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in California, we are more left than New York. In
New York City and those areas, and we do have
members here that are part of the Socialist Party of
America that are part of the Communist Party and have
communist ideologies here in the state legislature, and we've got
to call it out now, and we have to actually
build the bench too to set up that our ideologies
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are better. We allowed AOC and Bernie Sanders to walk
up and down Central Valley here in California, and what
did we do to prevent that. Nothing. I'm not going
to sit back and do nothing. We're going to work
on calling this out and we're going to work a
lot on highlighting these issues.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
That's really important that we do that. Now, I got
a question for you, what do you think? I mean,
I know what California looks like now, I knew what
it looked like when I was a kid, and I'm
sixty three years old. What do you think a socialist California.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Would look like? From where we shit right now.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Well, it's something that I actually truly fear, is that
Gavin Newsom's really bad. The next person is probably going
to be worse. And with Mondani's rise in popularity now
as a major city, I can tell you this, the
socialists and the communists and those individuals that believe in
that ideology now feel energetic. After having felt beaten in
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the November election, Kamala Harris is starting to poke around
a little bit more, especially being up here in Sacramento.
I keep hearing that she is now feeling more energetic,
and not only that, she just posted online for the
first time in a long time. So we know that
they're kicking the tires on who can be more progressive
and who can be more far left. I can tell
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you what a socialist's agenda will look like in California
is I believe that they'll try to implement a wealth text.
Believe that they'll try to implement more penalties on a
lot of our local businesses that our businesses cannot accept.
Right now that we see the failures that are happening
to insurance. If you think your insurance is bad right now,
it's going to collapse. And the only way that they
correct it or try to pull us out of it
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is government run insurance, which we all know is going
to be less services, not cheaper, and it's just going
to be more and more expensive that government ownership over
a lot of the programs, entities and businesses that we
need and thrive on here will fall under the state government.
That is already what they are doing with regulatory agencies
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like CARB, with regulatory agencies like DWR. And look at
all the expansions of powers that they've done, even with
ABE nineteen fifty five, that they've centralized our school boards
under the Department of Education to ban parents from having
a say and to ban local elected officials from deciding
what their kids want. We're already seeing it here in California.
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Imagine now somebody who's confident that they can push the
bounds in the limits.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah, you know that maybe nineteen fifty five. I was
actually going to ask you about that, and you touched
on it. So you know, I can't believe that these
bills are passing, but you know they have the super majority.
And sometimes does it feel like you're just fighting you
were out of quicksand.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Oh yeah, I mean I would say not always, and
not only because I believe that I represent some of
the most amazing people in the world here in the
Central Valley, the farmers, the families that took care of me.
So you know, it may be an uphill battle right now,
but the only way to start an avalanche is with
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the snowball, So might as well get it go in.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
I think that's a great idea, and I I'm sorry,
I feel like we shent you there to make fringe
and I think you're failing so far.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Well, I do have a new record. I am the
fast legislator to be kicked off of committees.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
And that's something else, you know.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
And then it's look, I'm going to speak the hard truth.
I'm going to talk about it. And when I told
everybody in my campaign that we were going to send
a bulldog to Sacramento, the part that's most surprising to
me is that, you know, now everybody was like, well,
you told this, you were going to do that. We're
just surprised you're doing it. And I was like, well,
I prefer to be one of the one of the
guys who actually lives by what.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
They say, kind of like President Trump.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Right, think about it, He's he told everybody what he
was going to do when he came in, and he's
doing it, and every acts surprised.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Now, right, You're exactly right on that. That is it
is a surprise that people actually do what they say.
You know that it catches people off guard, and you know,
there's a lot of social pressures that they try to use.
Even up here in Sacramento. You know, they'll tell me like, hey,
you're not going to be invited to this dinner or
you're not going to get to this, And I look
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at them and I'm like, you do know that when
percent of utility rate payers right now can't afford their utilities,
you do know that people are struggling losing their homes wildfires.
Do you really think I am shallow enough or care
that I won't be invited to all of these fancy
things when you know I've lived the American dream in
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the sense of my mother immigrated here from Tonga. I'm
a business owner, first person to graduate from college. I
sponsored my mother's immigration. I take care of my family. Now,
all of that is because the people in our district,
in our area took care of me to help me
get to this point that this is my chance to
go back and to repay them for giving me a
blessed life that I'm not going to let a fancy
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dinner determine or sway me in any type of way.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
That's because you are an upstanding person.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
David.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Hey, you know what the budget was? It just passed
yesterday or.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
When was that Yeah, we had a couple more trailer
bills is what they call it on the budget both
yesterday and Friday.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
So I know they're kind of saying it's a win
for California. What do you think.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
It is? A I don't know, how do I describe
this that is radio appropriate?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I'm thinking it's not a win for California. Is that
kind of what why I'm getting here?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Uh, We're we are simply floating this state. So when
Governor Newsom leaves this state and it collapses after he leaves,
he can say that it's not his fault because it
happened after his tenure. But one of the most threatening
questions that I've been able to ask both the director
or a Department of Finance, the LAO and different organizations is,
with the current spending that we are on today, and
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with the seven point five billion dollars that we are
borrowing from the Rainy Day Fund to float the budget
right now, can we even vote on this exact same budget,
this exact same budget in three years. And the answer
was unequivocally no, because we're using we're forty percent of
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the Rainy Day Fund this year next year. If we
wanted to do the same seven and a half billion
dollars next year, it would make up seventy percent of
the Rainy Day Fund. And then the following year there's
not even seven point five billion dollars in the Rainy
Day Fund. And all of those projections are on if
spending days the exact same, which we all know is
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not possible. And so when I'm picking up dust here
and I'm asking these questions, it's in reality that they are.
We are simply floating the budget now, and we're leveraging
the future of future Californians. And it is something that
I believe is so eerily it's so irresponsible, because in
the future we will have to cut programs, and they
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just don't want to have the hard conversation now.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
I think it's important to remind people, and I believe,
and I've learned this through life, that a bill that
can't be paid won't be paid. And you can make
all the promises in the world, but if you lack
the ability to actually fulfill those promises, what you're really
doing is lying, and you're lying in piecemeal forms so
that you really don't feel like you're telling an untruth
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because I'm telling it the way I believe it right now.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
But you know darn well this won't happen.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Tell me here in the valley versus other districts, do
we as a people have an appetite for the kind
of sacrifice that it's going to take. Do you think
the valley does? Do you think other places do? Or
do these people just have a pollenic view of this thing?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
See that's the part why I keep talking about a
lot of this feels like we're mopping the deck of
the Titanic, and I would much rather build the boat.
And that's why I try to get in front of Mondani.
And the rise of socialism is because once we start
cutting programs, once people start once all of this grant
funding really dries up, now people are going to start
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being angry and they're going to start trying to blame
something and find something, because that's how it's been throughout history.
And if the socialists are the ones who get to
capture the message behind that and say, see, the government
didn't do enough to take care of you, And it's
these greedy corporations and it's the billionaires, and it's all
of this that are causing all the problems they're going
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to create a movement and rise on that end. But
I want to start working with people to say, no,
it's not that it is the over taxation. It is
the over regulation, and it is the government that believes
that it knows better. But when we look at the
track record of our own government, that should be proof
enough to say that this state is eerily mismanaged. Is
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not only taking all of our funds and all of
our dollars and wasting it. When we look at the
track record of fifteen point seven billion dollars to high
speed rail, what do we have to show for it?
Not controlled by billionaires, not controlled by the most wealthy,
controlled by the state of California, concrete and rebar and
almost twenty billion dollars and spent. That's not capitalism's fault.
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When we look at the state of affairs when it
comes to what has happened in the estimates on undocumented
and illegal immigrant healthcare. They told us it would cost
five hundred million dollars. The actual cost is nine point
six billion dollars. Only government, can you be off by
twelve hundred percent?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
That's a rounding error. That's a rounding error.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Yeah, yeah, it's a mathematical niche there, you know, Oh
my lord.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
It's trying to call out the lives and that's my
part and not allow other institutions. And also we just
have to be prepared to catch it when California collapses.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
That's one hundred percent correct, man. And you know, I
can think of no better person to fight for the
communities than you, David. You're you're a sharp, intelligent young man.
You're the new breed of Republicans that's coming up, and
you're strong and you don't give up. And that's what
I like about it about you. So gas tax that
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January July first kind of hit today.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Right, they're going, they're going down, right, We're gonna have
cheaper gas in July. Is that what I'm understanding.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yeah. The only thing that's kind of bailing us out
on the gas portion of it is that on the
federal side, we're seeing increases in our oil reserves, which
is helping even though we're seeing the strangulation and the
rising of taxes here. You know, it would be a
double whammy. If President Biden was still in office, or
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you know, Kamala Harris would have tried to be an office,
it would have been a double whammy. But the only
reason why we're seeing relief right now is because on
the federal side they're doing good with our oil reserves
and keeping barrel prices low. But on the state side,
we've got some major issues coming next year realistically with
Phillip sixty six and also Valero in the city of Venetia.
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Both of those refineries are going to close down, and
when both of those refinery shutdown, will lose twenty percent
of the state's refinery capacity. To be here, I was
in front of a group of both oil producers climbing individuals.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
This is Super Tuesday with Trevor Carey on out Valley
Eastpour Talk Jo.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I'm Jody Jones with the Frank Van Lanningham.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Great to be here, Thanks Trevor.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Fighting every day to protect the values that make California
worth fighting for freedom, opportunity and local control. David, you
said that, and I love it.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Man, Well, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I'm just trying to live by it.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
You know, when we went into our break, man, we're
talking about gas and oil, and I want everybody out
there to understand what's really going on, and I think
we can't. We don't have anybody better growth than you
to to explain it.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Man, Well, the.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Easiest way to summarize it is twenty percent of our
refinery capacity is going to be gone by April.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Of next year.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Philip sixty six is gone because they have basically given
the bird to California. They said, you guys, your regulations everything, Nope,
we're out. We're done. There's nothing you can do to
get us back. We're shutting down the refinery. I don't
care Benetia, there's still a chance they want to stay
in California. But the more rules, regulations and everything else
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that they keep implementing. I mean they were issued a
fine of almost eight hundred million dollars for potential damages
that they could have caused due to climate change and
I mean breathing air essentially, and so they're just nobody
can operate in this standard. And one of the questions
I was able to ask is that is there anywhere
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in the world it has more stringent standards than California
when it comes to these regulations. Not a single Nordic country,
not a single country in Europe, not even one of
the only areas that we actually can produce gas that
can be used in California out of this state is
actually from Singapore and we have to barge it in
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on massive barges that actually use coal to bring it in.
And then now we can consider it clean California gas.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
You know, David, I want to ask you, why is that?
Why is that?
Speaker 4 (16:26):
And why can't we fix that?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Because we feel good by not doing even though it
makes no impact. Wow.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
You know, I live for a short period of time
in Hawaii, and I know right now in Hawaii there
and they don't produce any gasoline, they don't refine any there,
their gas is actually about eleven cents cheaper. Now Wisconsin
also doesn't drill for oil, they don't refine it. They're
under three bucks. But I believe if I pay four
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fifty eight, I get some really good gas. Right, well,
my car run better?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Well exactly. I actually think part of the biggest push
was let's increase gas prices because then it will incentivize
people to buy electric vehicles. I think it's this created
essentially created government inflation on prices. I mean, we have
to look at it right now. The largest take home
on our gas prices here in California is the government
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it's not the oil companies, it's not the convenience store
owners or the gas stations. It is the government. California
now takes over a dollar now with the new gas
text that was implemented to day, sixty five cents of
every single gallon, in addition to the additional regulations and
rules in place that California puts on goes immediately to
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the state of California, and that is larger than all
of the profits per gallon sold.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Well, that definitely makes electricity look cheap in the eyes
of the uneducated. And I can see where people are
instantly going to say, well, too, you will to go
electric with our cars, get solar on the house, do
all this kind of stuff, and they this basically is
tantamount to a government sanctioned monopoly.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
It's one of the saddest things that I've seen is
how much laws there is being used to create stagnation
and scarcity simply through policy, and by doing that you
drive the prices up and everything you benefit certain sectors
over others. I mean, the easiest way to think about
it is that even though we are the quasi environmental
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friendly state, we don't even consider large scale hydroelectrical facilities
that produce over thirty megawatts clean and renewable, So it
doesn't make any sense. And they do that because they
specifically want to create scarcity, so that way it drives
investments for communities and people have to pay more for it.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
You know what sure is funny, David, how when President
Trump's in office, oil goes down every time. When he
was in torn it went down. I mean it was
down to like record lows right.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
April thirteenth, twenty twenty. I took a picture before Donald
Trump left office later that year, and the gas station
off is a forty one and pretty much in between
Avenue twelve and fifteen. It was two dollars and thirteen
cents on April thirteenth, twenty twenty. I wonder what it
is today?
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Well, we all know that.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Especially I think it starts with the number four and
it's got a big number behind it.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yeah, it's it's truly amazing. But you know, here's what
I always say. You know, you could talk a big game,
but actions always always speak louder than the words. And
when President Trump gets into office, his actions always do.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Exactly. But that's part two. So I look at what
President Trump did on the federal side, and I look
at what we need to do as Californians here in
the state of California. You know, if he's going to
go and handle it on the federal level, we need
need to create a movement. We need to create enough
people that are just tired of California can't And something
(20:06):
I speak about often is that we don't need any
more California refugees. We need some California rebels willing to
fight for this state and make it a better place,
something they're proud of for their kids and their grandkids
to grow up in. And until the people here start
to come together, it's not just going to be me,
It's going to be all of us together. And I
think that's the general purpose of what we're trying to
(20:28):
do today.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
You know, David, and I know for a fact you
know the people you represent know that you're fighting for them.
You one office on that and on the things that
you everything that you ran on, you are absolutely fighting
for it.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Man. There's no smoking mirrors with you.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
I got a question for you, sir, before before you answer,
forgive me what other districts do you see as being
vulnerable that are right now Democratic that perhaps could be
flipped where you since there's a groundswell of unhappiness with
the policies.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
As they are actually right here in the valley. Pretty
much every single seat in the central Valley that is
not held by a Conservative or a Republican is actually
up up for grounds. So that's Assembly District twenty seven,
Assembly District, I believe down in the Bakersfield area as well,
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in a couple of the Senate seats, those are all
a lot of them are actually going to be open
and vacant seats to run in, so no incumbent in
that as well. Quite a few of them actually went
present President Trump, whether it's plus five plus six points.
And the biggest thing that I tell everybody is just
we need balance because we have crazy controlling California. And
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there are twenty Republicans to sixty Democrats, and there are
ten in the Senate Senate Republicans to thirty senators on
the Democratic side. The biggest thing that we can do
for a change, it's not governor, it's not lieutenant governor,
it's not any of that. There is a veto proof
majority in this legislative body, and we only need to
(22:17):
pick up three seats in the Senate and seven seats
in the Assembly. That is very possible, especially with the
issues that are coming down the line, to bring us
back to balance so that way we can have an
actual reasonable conversation, because I can tell you right now,
the way that the majority party treats us is more
of a glorified advisory board. And whenever they don't want
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to talk to us, they'll kick you off the committees.
They'll make it to where we can't. I can't be
on the Insurance committee because when We'recardo Lara's coming to
speak to us, I'm going to make sure that I'm
asking the hard questions because right now seniors can't pay
their insurance because their insurance is now more expensive than
the mortgage they did on their home. We need balance,
(23:01):
we need to get back to that. I'm willing to
work with anybody and everybody that prioritizes Californians first, you.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Know, David, I think it's real scary with voting in
Californian and I think until we get rid of same
day registration and mailing ballots to everybody on you know,
the list and voter ID I always say this when
(23:26):
we get rid of those things and we add IDs
and in the way it's really supposed to be, because
that's not racist to ask for an ID when you vote.
I think when we do that, we will pick those
seats up. I mean we're close to picking them up now.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Which is why I am actually working on the voter
ide initiative as well with some of my other colleagues,
because that ballot initiative that we are working on to
get on the ballot, we need an army of supporters
that actually wants to bring back reasonability and sensibility. Not
only is voter ID not racist, we're one of the
only countries in the world that doesn't have it as mandatory.
(24:04):
And here's how when anybody who tries to bring up
the argument of it's racist, you have to ask them,
do they believe that Mexico's racist? Because Mexico not only
requires ID, they also require biometrics, but you have to
put your thumbprint on your ballot. And not only that,
they also ban alcohol for twenty four hours on their
day of voting to make sure that everybody is cognitively there.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
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Speaker 1 (24:32):
It is also Super Tuesday. Every time I hear that,
I kind of think of Hillary Clinton and it's cringey,
you know, but I kind of like it's Taco Tuesday.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
It absolutely is. I love Taco Tuesday. Hard to find
them for a buck anymore. If you're lucky, you'd get
a two dollars taco.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Hey, here's a pretty good story. President Trump visited Florida
and Alligator Alcatraz.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Hey, you know, we had a lot of protesters down there.
I'm thinking, were they really paid protesters or were they
actually protesters? Because they were actually protesting the right way.
They were on the side of the road, holding signs up.
They weren't, you know, stopping traffic. So were they the
paid writers or really Floridians that's down there protesting or
(25:23):
was it just because it's Florida and they know Florida's
don't take care of business.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
So were there only a few people or was it swamped?
That's pretty good what I did.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Yeah, I see what you did right there, so, you know,
And and the alligators. Man, I don't know if you
know this about alligators, but when they clamp on you,
they they drowned you and they twist.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
My wife does that with the covers. Yeah, every time
we jump into bed, she alligators. She spins and spins
and then I'm sitting there shivering by myself and there
she has like a burrita.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Hey, do you know why they twist like that? Because
they don't chew.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
I just read it, you know, so they Yeah, they
don't to They just swallow their their food. So they
rip and they tear, They tear off body parts. Yeah,
like you can get gender affirming care from an alligator.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Have you ever seen, like, you know, a documentary about
alligators when they're feeding and there's a bunch of alligators
and one snaps on another's leg and they twist and
they ripped off and another alligator like, actually, nothing's going on.
It's like is going on here?
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Have you ever I've hunted alligators and actually we just
hunted them to take pictures of them and hold them.
And do you know how they bring them in? No,
with marshmallows. I kid you not, those big staypuff marshmallows. Yeah,
you go out in an airboat. You chuck those things out.
Up come the alligators. They start eating them. The guide
would jump out of this airboat, flat bottom thing and
(26:44):
grab one of those suckers and pull it up and
get on the boat with it.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Hey, I wonder if the guards and Alligator Alcatraz are
going to have you know, buckets of marshmallows the other
staypuff and throw them, you know in the in the
mars right by the you know, the the gates. I
don't know, but uh, what a great idea, right, I mean, it's.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Well, it's inexpensive real estate.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
Disney once upon a time went into the swamps and
built an empire. A lot of people have built built
a lot out of these swamps. You just fill them
up with sand and go for it. It can be done,
and you need to put it where One you have
a governor who's amenable to the idea.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
You're obviously California.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
It ain't gonna happen, you know, although we have a
lot of desert and that could create you know, really
good jobs. But two, you need cheap real estate, and
so they're not going to put it in New York
City Martha's Vineyard or anything like.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
That's great place, you know, and it's going to hold
probably around three thousand.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Migrants.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
That's about like an avanol prison right over here. Yeah,
you're not big, not big, you know.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
I like what President Trump said, there's only one way
out of Alligator Alcatraz, and that is deport That's right, deportations, so.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Or snake plisk and could get out of there.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Yeah, you know, it's it's it's actually absolutely great idea.
I mean, they're taking a runway an airport and they're
turning it into something that we can actually use. And
it was a workable as a used you know, as
a working airport.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
Well, you need a place to put these people humanly,
where you can look after them and till their cases
adjudicated or something happens. These are people that one you
don't you don't want to just simply release them back
into the United States where they Obviously these are.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Not good people.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
And to be sure, these are the worst of the
worst that they're putting there. They're not picking up an
orange picker, They're not picking up a construction worker and
putting them in Alligator Alcatraz.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
It's not happening like that.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
These are people with deportation orders, these are criminals, These
are the bad ones, to be sure.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
I think It's kind of funny because the people that's
opposing it are basically saying it's going to disrupt the
ecosystem down there, But that.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
These he's saying, these people aren't good enough to be
around alligators.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Is that what he's saying.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
I don't know. I don't. I don't really kind of
get that.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
Have those people even been there? I don't know they
spend any time there? Are these people? Didn't they just
google it.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
I'm not intelligent enough to understand that.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
But you know, I don't see how that's going to
impact the ecosystem down there. I mean, it's not like
people's killing alligators or killing any kind of or or
introducing any kind of indigenous jody.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
These are humans, and I'm going to tell you all
humans drink water, eat food, use the restroom. All humans,
they sleep somewhere. So where to put these people? Do
you think that somehow if you put them in Florida,
or if you put them in New York City, that
somehow they're going to be less impactful to this earth.
They're still going to breathe, eat, poop, do it all.
(29:53):
So I don't see the argument. I really don't.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
You know, you hear a lot of you know, arguments
and and just them crying about where you housing them. Well,
that's actually a very nice facility that they built. Well
it's not the four seasons, you know, well none of
them are the four seasons, but you know, for humane reasons,
it has you know, clean rooms, clean bed you know,
(30:18):
and you know what, the guards are gonna eat the
same food as if people be in house there the immigrants.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Have you ever eate an alligator? Maybe that's what they're
gonna eat.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
I don't know, maybe sticky.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Maybe that's where they get the ecosystem that's gonna kind
of because they're going to be, you know, crawling the
alligators up and using them for food.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Maybe I don't know. This whole thing's in.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Python's down there.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
You know. Have you ever ate snake?
Speaker 3 (30:41):
I have?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
I have too, But it was barbecued when it was
so it had that barbecue taste.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
It wasn't like everything with a bunch of barbecue saus
tastes like barbecue.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
Taste like chicken.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
I kind of it is.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
I'm not a full disclosure, I'm not a big reptile eater.
You have eaten a lot of different kinds of reptiles
just to say I.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Have I don't even like frog legs.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Oh, they kind of gross me out.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Have you ever seen him cook?
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Yeah? It's not pretty.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
They look like.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Human like legs when they're cooking and they're moving, and
you're like, what is that? There's no way I'm going
to eat that.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Yeah. I struggle with that. If I have to gag
it down, I don't want to eat.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Oh my god, My oldest brother, Rocky, the one was
it was killed. He loved frog legs and he always
would play with me, you know, he'd always mess with me.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Hey Joe.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
He'd call me Joe. He hey Joe, look frog legs
and he would just eat him. Like, oh my god,
what do you How do you do that.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Is?
Speaker 1 (31:31):
I'm like, that's gonna give you words.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
At least worms, Yeah, at least worms.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
No.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I think it's great what what they're doing down there
in Florida, you know, and it's it's it's nice to
see a governor that actually wants to help his his citizens,
his his people. And look at their gas what what's there?
What do you think their gas prices are down there
(31:58):
in Florida?
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Around three bucks? Yeah, rastek shack around three dollars.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Man.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
That's again, they don't screw around like we do.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
And again, when it's cheaper to buy gas in Hawaii
and that gas has to be put on a boat
and floated all the way over there, they have no refining.
That has to be the most expensive way to get
fuel to people that I can possibly imagine. And Wisconsin, again,
they don't refine, so we lose two refineries, yet it's
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still gonna be fifty percent cheaper over there.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Ryan just told me, little voice in my head, I
call him Ryan. Three dollars and six cents on average. Right,
isn't that crazy? It's amazing.
Speaker 5 (32:42):
Yeah, I can see why people would want to go.
But I'm going to tell you as for me, Jody,
I'm staying right here in this valley. This is my home.
You're not gonna run me out of here. I'm not
gonna let a blue haired fact checker run me out
of my state. This is my state, not yours, say,
and you got to take it from me. It's gonna
get rough.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
You know, when you see a governor like Ron DeSantis,
it's it's awesome. I mean, I love when he talks
and how about when he debated the governor of California. Oh,
Evan Knewsome right on hand, and he wouldn't that just.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
That was a show. I honestly, both of them wanted
it was. It was great, It was great, It was great.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
It was great.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
But we both know that DeSantis was not on the menu.
And this is while Trump was going through his legal
troubles and they were sort of warming him up in
the bullpen because we didn't know at this time. Remember
Trump was on trial for his life. Trump was on
trial to hold his business together. They were throwing everything
at him, trying to bankrupt him when they weren't trying
to kill him, and uh, we had no choice but
(33:47):
to bring in somebody else and start warming them up.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
There was that needed to happen.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Desantos de Santis played the poop card as he did
when he pulled it out. I was like, I can't
believe he just did that, and I I just I can't.
I remember laughing, and it was it was kind of
a I don't know, I was it was.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
It was a poop show.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Yeah, it was a poop show. But you know, I
knew that was gonna happen, and and all of Californians.
Knew that was gonna happen. We knew what DeSantis was
going to do with Newsom. And when I say, when
I say that they're all smoking mirrors, he had facts
right in front of him and he's laughing about it,
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saying no, that that's not true, and Handy He's like, yeah,
it's true.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
It's Ryer's facts.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
But your diehard Democrats, you got to remember when you
tell somebody something that is true empirically true, not subjectively true,
not your truth, his truth, or any of that junk,
but righteously true. And this person believes the exact opposite
because he's been lied to for so long.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
They are going to fight you with everything they have.
They're going to resist like this.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
It is Super Tuesday with Trevor on The Valley's Power Talk.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Well, I'm Jody Jones and with Frank Van Landingham.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Great to be here, Thanks Trevor.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
You know, we just had David Tangyepaul on the last
hour and he is just a firecracker. He's assemblyman out
out of this area, out of the Fresno area, and
every time I talk to him, he's become a friend
of mine and he is. He's an awesome guy, and
I know he has a bright future in front of him.
(35:29):
We just had some breaking news. President Trump said Israel
agreed to a sixty day cease fire, and that's huge.
It's a start anyway, So you know, we all we're
all praying about that. Net and Yahoo will be in
Washington at the White House on Monday and hopefully they
can get it worked out to where there's no more
(35:52):
war over there.
Speaker 6 (35:53):
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