Michael Gates 100224

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I have another wild Robert F. Kennedy story involving sex,
but you'll have to wait.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Oh, you're such a tease. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
It's involved in follows vaccines. Oh now, apparently he was
handing out injections. You'll see Michael Gates, the city attorney
from Huntington Beach. The city of Huntingdon Beach keeps pissing
off Gavin Newsom, and Newsom keeps trying to squash new

(00:31):
laws and housing plans that Huntington Beach has. He doesn't
like anything that the city leaders do, and so city
Attorney Michael Gates has a lot of work. And the
latest is over two new laws Gavin Newsom signed, one
about voter id and one of them about a library
book review board. Let's get Michael Gates on.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
How are you? Michael good?

Speaker 3 (00:53):
We should have a weekly segment because there's a lot
going on and I'm always on your show, but I
enjoy it every time.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Well, thank you very much for coming on.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Have you ever spoken personally with Gavin Newsom because he
has it out for your city?

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Clearly I have not, neither him nor Attorney General Bonta,
and he does have it out. But because it's we
it's because we dare to govern for ourselves really on
common sense, common sense policies that.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Are good for our community.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
And you know, I guess how dareus?

Speaker 1 (01:22):
You know, there is so many cities where crime is
raging and the vagrants are out of control, and there's
there's all you know, there's all kinds of shoplifting and
shootings going on, and you think he would be worried
about those cities. Instead, he's after Huntington Beach and you
guys are are peaceful and orderly.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
I I don't, yeah, go ahead, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
No, I mean it's and it's because we are actually
actively governing for ourselves in spite of the elitists in Sacramento,
you know. And he literally just signed in the law
a new well signed a new bill into law to
basically make voter ID throughout the state of California illegal

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for cities to adopt voter ID laws at the local level.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
And that is in.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
Direct response to Huntington Beach that just adopted a voter
ID law basically went to the voters in the primary
here just this past March, and the voters passed overwhelmingly
are election integrities measures, which.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Is to have voter idea.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
In municipal elections, to have twenty more in person pulling
places available to voters, and to have surveillance of ballot
drop boxes. And so these are just common sense measures
that are meant and designed to build confidence in the
system in the process. But New some like you said,
casting these laws really indirect response to Huntington Beach. It's

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almost like they're looking to see what hunting To Beach
is going to do next, so they can pass another
law in response to it. But they're not going to
squash us. And John, I can tell you, I mean,
this is a constitutional right for Huntington Beach to do this.
It's in Article eleven, section five of the California Constitution
that a charter city like Huntington Beach can control its
own elections. It says that they're in black and white.

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So for him to be passing these laws is purely symbolic,
and it's designed to scare the other four hundred and
eighty one cities in the state of California that you
dare not even think about doing what Huntington Beach is doing.
It's designed to scare and intimidate, and we aren't going
to be intimidated and we're going to win this in court.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
This has been authored by State Senator Dave Minn says,
no governing body overseeing elections, including charter cities, can require
voter identification at voting centers. So they've tried to make
it specifically really aimed at you at your city because
you're and you're saying this is unconstitutional on its.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
Face, unconstitutional on its face. And that's the same concept
with their library books policy. And this all started about
eight months ago where the city of Huntington Beach basically
learned that there were a bunch of inappropriate books in
the children's section of our library, and so our city
council said, you know enough of that, let's move those

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books to the adult section. If those inappropriate books that
with sexual content are to ever be in the hands
of children, it's going to require parental consent. And I
can't believe this, but the state Newsome and Bonta took
exception to that, and now they're passing new laws basically
saying you can't ban books, which you know, it's obviously

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not a book banned, it was a relocation and it
requires parental involvement children.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
They want to dictate what shelf the books.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
Are on well, and what books that the libraries procure.
And here's the interesting thing. Every library picks and chooses
the books that go on the shelf. How do we
know that because there aren't thirty million copies of books
in every life bry Like, if you ever, if a
library ever took an approach that it would say it

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couldn't say no to any book, then it would literally
have thirty million copies. Just do a search on how
many books exist.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
In the world.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
It's like thirty million different types of books. So we
know just the fact that there's only thirty thousand or
fifty thousand books on a library's shelves in a city library,
we know that librarians say no to some books because
we don't have millions of books. Right, So yeah, common
sense tells you, right. And and what they can't. What
the state cannot do is tell a charter city, which

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also has a right to tax and spend its own
dollars and commit them to what it wants. New sum
can't tell Huntington Beach with Huntington Beach dollars what books
it has to buy and put on certain shelves. Like,
this whole thing is absurd, and I know you spend
a lot of time covering the absurd coming out of Sacramento.
This is absolutely absurd, and we're going to fight this too.

(05:56):
I mean, we are a charter city and we you know,
one of the few perks we get to decide what
goes on our library bookshelves.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
Explain briefly the listeners what a charter city is. They
may not know.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
Yeah, there's one hundred and twenty one charter cities in
the state of California out of four hundred and eighty two.
A charter city is one where the people of the
community get together and say we want to adopt a charter.
Just like the people of the state of California adopted
the state constitution, a charter city people can get together
and adopt a charter if this basically declares independence from Sacramento.

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It declares independence from Sacramento over certain functions of local government.
And now Newsome is trying to set all that aside
or clearly violate the constitution. Say, you know, we're going
to ignore that charter city authority and we're going to
try to micromanage you. Charter city Huntington Beach in spite
of the Constitution.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
And this is how you point out this is legal,
and it's very common. As you said, there's one hundred
and twenty one cities that have their own charter right.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
And you get to even dictate your form of government.
Charter cities often have seven member city councils with an
elected city attorney an elected clerk. General law cities don't.
So I've been encouraging everybody who will listen to me.
If you are in a general law city, go to
your city council, propose a charter, put it on the
ballot in November, adopt that charter, and become a charter city.

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Because the more charter cities we've had, we can get
one hundred and twenty one charter cities to turn into
three hundred charter cities in the next couple of years.
And we start standing up against the dictates, the mandates
of Sacramento, we're going to start get winning a lot
more of these battles. But so long as Huntington Beach
is the only one fighting these fights, it's going to
take a lot longer. I'm not saying we're not going

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to be successful. We are because the constitution is on
our side, the law is on our side, and we
have absolute determination. We're going to see this all the
way through. We are not going to be deterred. We're
not going to be intimidated. They can pass as many
laws as they want, and we'll see them in court.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
On the book situation, what kind of books were being
put in the children's section, and this was by the librarians.
They were putting these these these books with with sexual materials.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
If I could give you an example, that's striking. If
you were to take photos of the images, the depictions
in the children's books and put them on Facebook, Facebook
would censure you.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
Oh it's very explicit sexual post down.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
They were. They were obscene, they were you know, some
call them pornographic lude, sexually explicit.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
There was a lot of uh, you know, homosexual uh
uh sex content.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
There was Wait, when did it.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
Be controversial that you don't want explicit sexual photographs in
a children's book?

Speaker 3 (08:42):
Well, and books that were teaching children how they can
experiment with their bodies using foreign objects.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
I mean it was, it was.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
It was gross and obscene, But normally I know, and
that's what I would joke to people right now. Like
in most states, this is a crime, not in California.
But here's the thing. Huntington Beach was uber responsible with
this by saying, look, these are inappropriate. We're just going
to put them in the adult section and require parental
consent to give them, to give children access. We didn't

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take them completely out of the library. We didn't put
them in a vault.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
No, you put the dirty stuff on the dirty adult shelf.
It's still accessible.

Speaker 3 (09:22):
And require parental notification of parental consent. The fact that
these things were available to children in the children's section,
where every parent would assume that it's safe for children
to be without monitoring and micromanagement and supervision. These books
were available to those children. Shocking, absolutely shocking.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
One more thing, just to go back to the voter
ID law for a second, Huntington Beach wants to require
that you show voter ID and knew some passes of
law that says, no, what is the argument against voter ID?
Most people I know are baffled by this issue. Thirty
six states require voter ID. What what's the problem.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
Well, so I'll call it the feigned narrative is like, oh,
it results in voter suppression, and you know it disenfranchises
to certain people. But what these individuals don't realize is
that whole thing has been debunked over and over and
over for years.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
Well, they tried that in Georgia a few years ago.
Remember they have a voter idea. It was called racist.
Joe Biden said it was Jim Crow two point zero
and and the black turnout actually went up.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
I know. And if you were signing your kid up,
and John you probably know this from your own experience.
If you sign your kid up for a little league,
you have to show three proofs of residency and present
a birth certificate so that they can verify that that
child's not out of your district. And so even children
are having to prove their residency.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
And date of birth. It's not even just adults to play.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
Baseball when they're eleven years old, because parents were bringing
ringers in from outside the district or over.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
Age kids exactly exactly. So the notion that you have
to show idea or prove yourself is pervasive throughout our society.
You can't even leave the house each day without doing it.
And the fact that they're saying that it can't be
done or it's wrong or somehow, but all right.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
You know what my theory is, they want to be
able to facilitate ballot harvesting, right because they want to
get people voting who don't have ideas. I think that's
the purpose of these anti voter id laws. Well, Michael Gates,
thank you, because you provide the governor at a lot
of work.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
You're keeping his days busy.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
You're also bringing us a hell of a lot of
material over the years, so keep at it.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
I just I want you to know I appreciate you
giving this kind of stuff coverage because it's when when
people start to wake up and there's an awareness about this,
and they realize maybe they can be empowered in their
cities and they can do something and they can talk
to their city council members. That's when we're really going
to start to make a difference. But in the meantime,
I'll spend my time in court fighting these battles, and

(12:13):
I'm happy to do so because we're.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
On the right side of this.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
I don't think people want to believe how absurd it
is out there, but it is all right. Thank you
very much. Michael Gates, City Attorney for Huntington Beach. We've
got more coming up. Yes, I will get to the
second RFK junior sex.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
Story of the hour, citing stuff.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
This is about more affairs, has to do with vaccines.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
I'm not making these things up here. Everybody in public
life is nuts.