California Democrats Are In Shambles

KLA Harris is running a campaign that seems like they don't care if she wins from the vice presidential selection of Governor walls to the fact that she won't do interviews and she's offending the media which is not a good strategy when you're a candidate all of it looks like no one cares if she wins hello everyone welcome to the Steve Hilton show it's going to be a special episode today which I've just decided we're going to do why because Susan shell is with us um we haven't spoken for ages I don't know I've been traveling and for whatever reason it's been a long time feels like uh that Susan's been our guest and she always brings fantastic information about what's going on in California and of course now we have carela Harris um running around trying to get elected president without doing any interviews or um press conferences or anything else there's a national aspect to all of this as well because so much of what she represents is everything that's been going wrong here in California so Susan is going to help us understand a lot of these questions we got a lot of stories to get through and it's going to be the whole show today and when we get into these subjects wait till you hear the theory about why Gavin nuum is pushing the most insane socialist policy is all about the presidential election and how pissed off he is that KLA Harris is the candidate it and so the whole thing according to some is a scheme to try and sabotage carela Harris's presidential campaign we'll tell you all about it so great to see you Susan great to see you Steve um let's start with um a story that you know I in some ways to me it captures the total disfunction and the word I've been using is decadence of the ruling Elite here in count California the one party rule Gavin Nome as the governor the the legislature with a super majority and they are totally in shambles right now over particularly one policy area which is it's such a sort of massive own goal in a way because they're highlighting one of their biggest failures which is their climate extremism in particular with in respect of oil and gas and they're trying to have a special session to do some new policy I mean the whole thing they're arguing with each other it's all squabbling in Sacramento um it's totally chaotic and they're arguing over something that's a sort of disastrous policy anyway tell us what's been going on well this really it started a while ago in in 2022 the governor bragged that he had jammed his legislature I had to jam my own legislature he did this in New York at climate week festivities and he bragged about jamming the legislature to pass four critical climate bills and I don't think the legislature really appreciated that they do these things at the very 11th Hour of the session they introduce bills 72 hours before they're going to vote on them the bare minimum and no one has time for debate or analysis and it has these enormous consequences and boom it comes in if you remember the income based electricity rates was done that way that was another thing that was in a trailer bill at the very end of the budget process boom right to the governor's desk and signed it and nobody then after 6 months later everyone's like I didn't vote for that oh yes you did and that that is an example of how they've been doing energy policy in California and most recently the governor decided at the 11th Hour that he wanted to regulate inventories for the oil companies through the California energy commission which is a crazy proposal now why is he doing this he's already tried uh a what what was it a an excess profits tax and and that ended up being some regulatory thing through the California energy commission by the time it got through the Sausage Factory and that's more burdens that cause higher gasoline prices higher diesel fuel prices higher prices for everything in California that's moved by truck like food for example chickens don't walk to the grocery store sorry to say and this is this is how the energy prices got so expensive in California but of course Gavin Newsome doesn't want to take responsibility for the policies that are making energy more expensive in California he wants to blame the oil companies so his latest his latest Gambit for blaming them is to say well if they had enough inventory we wouldn't have these price spikes because inventory drops so his solution is legislation dropped at the 11th hour with no warning to anybody and out it comes and it says the California energy commission would be empowered by regulation to tell the oil companies when they can do maintenance and compliance activities on their refineries and how much they have to hold in inventory which is in saying and this whole thing the California energy commission will be advised by a panel of experts and who are the experts well they're appointed by the governor the assembly speaker and the Senate rules committee and we know how much they know about energy and policy so Chevron has an executive who writes a letter to the California energy commission a comment letter that's how this works when you have regulations you write comment letters which probably go in the trash but he leaked it to the media and Ashley Zavala at KCRA in Sacramento put it on Twitter and here's this letter from Chevron that explains exactly how dangerous this is that it will disrupt markets that it will cause safety problems to have Regulators who know nothing about refinery maintenance ordering when the refinery maintenance has to happen and by the way this is one more layer on top of the summer blend the winter blend all the other regulations that are exclusive to California that they have to comply with what they said is that it will not only affect California but it will affect Nevada and Arizona which which depend on oil from California refineries so this is overall an insane proposal the assembly was uh was not interested in passing it at the end of the session the Senate was willing to pass it at the end of the session but they didn't get it done and then the governor called a special session and strangely the assembly said okay fine we're in and the Senate said pound sand we're not doing it so you can't have legislation that's only passed by one house that's not at this moment unless they override that somehow with some Court decision that's not going to work so the Senate is obviously Holding Out for something I'm not sure what exactly this is all within the politics of the democratic party this is a family fight the Republicans have no role they don't have enough votes to block a sidewalk and this is a very interesting situation uh they've introduced I think the new legislation that they want for the special session but it's not going anywhere if the Senate won't play it's an amazing story there's so much to it that's why I'm so happy you laid it out so clearly and in such detail that I mean there's so many angles to it first of all the total insanity of the policy I mean this is what we've come to that and by the way the justification why are they doing this the theory is oh because gas prices are too high why are gas prices so high in California it's not the they they say the price gouging by the oil companies we have the same oil companies here as in the rest of the country but our gas prices are massively higher it's nothing to do with the oil companies it's to do with their policies I mean first of all the tax right so the gas tax is way higher here than anywhere else and then as you say all these other regulations and they're clamping down on domestic production here in California so that we're importing is all these factors all their policies have made gas more expensive yes combin it's the combination of their taxes that directly lift the price and the regulations that make it more expensive expensive to produce and distribute and so on so that's the first point it's their policies that have caused it now they're saying oh look at these terrible gas prices we have to do something about it and their solution is not to actually deal with the cause of the problem which is their policies it's to make it worse with even more stupid big government micromanagement of the private sector in a way that is so astonish I didn't even realize how bad it was I mean what you have a committee of politicians sit around deciding what happens in refineries it's just insane I mean and very dangerous very dangerous and it reminds me of I mean so much these days reminds me of 1970s Britain before Mrs Thatcher's economic and Union reforms this is what it reminds me of I mean in there in those days it was called corporatism and the and and the actual explicit idea that was in the the then labor government was this tripartite way of running the economy government unions business sitting around a table together making business decisions and we look at that we think well that's insane what are you talking about that's been swept away into history just sort of crazy socialism that that that dragged Britain's economy down to the point where it was known as the sick man of Europe and then in comes Margaret Thatcher with free market reforms and but this is what's happening here and so this is not and and do you remember we talked about this I'm sure and I said this is not the it's not going to end here what does this remind us of the fast food thing the fast food Council yes right and that's the same kind of thing wasn't it where you have the politicians and the unions and McDonald's having to sort of sit on a committee to run McDonald's restaurants in California that's true but now I can't remember what happened to that was that the initial proposal and then in the negotiations that part of it was dropped but McDonald's conceded the the increase in the minimum wage for fast food is that what happened there that's something like that I think what happened is the law passed the fast food industry qualified a referendum and negotiations began to pull the referendum off the ballot so that the voters wouldn't have the opportunity to defeat that law and the way they negotiated it out is they kind of stuck it to the franchisees one of the things in the law was the corporations would have liability for any labor violations at the local level and they took the corporate liability part out of it so the corporations were very happy with that but the franchisees who were not at the table for the negotiations were stuck with this higher wage and the liability and that was the deal that they made for a new piece of legislation and it was all done with non-disclosure agreements if you can believe that yes I remember but it's the same sort of mindset the same mentality which is oh yes it's perfectly normal and reasonable for politicians and bureaucrats to to be part of the management the daytoday management of a company that they R it's just it's so far left and it's so unbelievable to me that this kind of I mean is is absolutely you know straight out of the kind of old-fashioned 1970s socialist Playbook yes and one of the things that's really troubling in the energy industry is that they have a long Horizon for building energy infrastructure so it could take they said a decade to build a storage tank to meet these requirements it cost $35 million but interestingly what this Chevron executive Andy walls mentioned is the the Declaration the proclamation the executive order by the governor to stop the sale of gas powered vehicles by I think 2035 now when I hear something like like a a a Proclamation like that I think yeah yeah yeah politics never going to happen but interestingly energy investors have to take that into account Bond Underwriters have to take that into account that's going to be the law in California they they have to assume they can't assume that we're going to be sensible all of a sudden and repeal this nonsense they have to assume that stays so now they're penciling out how much money they can make back to pay for these Investments and they're thinking well that doesn't pencil out at all because they're going to stop the sale of gas powerered vehicles and here's how the sales are going to go and we're not going to be able to get our money back it is affecting long-term energy infrastructure Cal in California which is very hard to put back in the bottle once you get that Genie out it's how are you going to all of a sudden build something that takes 10 years so it's it's very troubling and so so is that another um factor in price Rises today where they're saying look we're still you I mean this is the point about all this you know like I said this time fine let's have an energy transition right transition to clean energy perfectly fine but you know when we've built up the capacity for some for for a sort of reliable alternative that's affordable and they're trying to sort of head this headlong Rush is so reckless and it's not just that we won't be ready so what what what what you're saying is that because this is going to really hit them the the the oil industry and the gas industry in not that far away I mean it's sort of decade away right they're they're they're sort of compensating for that hit that Financial hit later by adding to the price Rises now on so yet again it's the Democrat policies that are causing the price Rises you're shortening the period of time in which you can recoup the investment and making California quote uninvestable yeah yeah yeah that that uninvestable word that was um Kevin o I heard him talk about that recently Mr Wonderful as he's yes as he's know Kevin oier he's been a very very I've noticed he's been a very you know smart commentator on what's going on in California and he makes this point recently he's been very vocal on it keeps making this point said I Won't Back companies now in California it just doesn't make sense it's uninvestable um their policy I think use the word the Pol the Taxation and the regulation it's insane and this is insane we're just talking about it um there's another aspect to I I want to get into the squabbling the the sort of the fact that they're falling out with each other and the shambles I mean if this was Republicans behaving let's just imagine that this was happening at the at the federal level during the Trump Administration and you had you know the equivalent would be Donald Trump you know wants to do some kind of executive order and and command Congress to do something and um let's go back to the sort of names from the past just sort of put them in in ver so Kevin McCarthy because it's all controlled by the by the same party Kevin McCarthy says yes we'll have a session and Mitch mcconell says no way we're not doing it and everyone's just falling out with each other would be portray TR in the media as total shambles chaotic these people don't know how to run anything and yet it's going on right now in California and barely anyone's even covering it well interestingly the structure of our government is is designed to prevent crazy policies from becoming enacted by dividing up the power and separating those functions so that you have to have you have to have Buy in from two different houses that are elected on different length of terms the the Senators in California are four years the assembly members are two years the governor is four years and term limited uh after two terms so everybody has their own uh political considerations and that is a that's a good thing if it puts the brakes on stupid policies we need more breaks on stupid policies in California good point so let's just now I want to get into some of the the sort of the background to this because I've heard a couple of things that are just really interesting and show again to me it's also decadent this is like this is what you get with one party rule the arrogance of power it's never about none of this is about actually helping people it's about their push pushing forward either ideological priorities or the priorities of their interest groups their activists the union donors whoever it may be the these days that's it's all very kind of internal not like they're not sitting around think well how do I help people so what one of the explanations I heard was the Senate guy Mike Maguire in the California Senate he's fighting back against Nome on this because he was really pissed off at the way Gavin nuum tried to jam them on this crime legislation yes you remember this was a couple of months ago where that was another example yes right and they were trying to Scupper the reform uh ballot initiative was a reform Prop 47 which did get on the ballot in the end and did survive all their attempts to kill it it's on the ballot now prop 36 we'll talk about that near of the time um so they didn't succeed but part of the process was to have this package of bills that would invalidate it you remember all this the poison pill whatever and apparently the Senate leader Mike MCG was really annoyed about all of that and the thing he was most annoyed about was that Gavin new was you know whipping say you've got to do this you've got to pass these bills it's vital whatever and then suddenly literally overnight dropped it all because he had to I think I trying to remember he had to go to new he had to go to new hampsh to support Joe Biden he had to go he had to get on a plane and and go I think he was in New Hampshire and was he in Boston was he he was in several States right uh campaigning for Joe Biden and right in the middle of the Tim limited negotiations to get whatever it was he was trying to get done he was making everyone take tough votes he was pressuring everyone and then he got on a plane and he left he just lost interest in it I know and and so so that's one theory that he's just really annoyed this guy in the Senate Mike Maguire the leader of the uh Democrats in the stat said it just was so annoyed about all of that the next time Gavin comes and asks for something he says no sorry I'm not not doing it purely out of personal Peak can't r that out that's interesting that that's what it's come to that it's this sort of totally decadent it's just they've completely lost sight of what they're there to do which is Advance the public interest it's all about their personal feuds the second one which is an even more brilliant um personal Feud type thing and I don't know if this is true but it's just so delicious I I have to sort of you get your reaction to it somebody said to me this and I was in Sacramento yesterday we're taping this on Thursday morning and this is on on Wednesday I was up there we did an event with Gloria Romero Gloria is going to be joining us on the show next week who is the former Senate leader the former we've been talking about Mike Maguire right well that was years ago Gloria Romero she was the majority leader in the Senate Democrat for many years left the party join the Republican party she's on my organization golden together with very close colleagues and and you know I worked on this with her and we did the event together so I was there in Sacramento so I was hearing you know people talk about this special session thing and one of the theories is that the the the whole plan going back to the policy this is Gavin Nome deliberately screwing up the energy situation in the western states in order to cause a problem in Arizona and Nevada just as you said Susan it will you know the oil industry is saying look this is going to disrupt Supply not just in California but in neighboring Western States Arizona and Nevada of course vital swing states in the presidential election Gavin Nome Furious that Cara is the candidate and not him and desperate to stop her because his only hope of becoming president is if she loses so he's deliberately doing this in order to have a problem in AR own Nevada with gas prices so she loses the election that's the theory I heard well that's wild uh certainly it's the case that everyone who wants to be president in the Democratic party wants kamla Harris to lose that's just politics they want a clear field in 2028 that's in their interest so they're not going to say it of course but that's in their interest and that's always the case uh that they want to get rid of the people who are in front of them I think KLA Harris is doing a pretty fine job of losing the election on her own uh she's she's I watched her get off a plane and duck the media with her earbuds and then holding up the phone on top of the earbuds just to pretend that she was on the phone so she could just wave at the media and get on the plane without answering any questions it's it's so ridiculous the whole thing is such an insult to everyone's intelligence I mean it really is and the I mean the idea that you can have this I mean it's just astonishing really the the sheer kind of brazen shamess lessness of it that they really are going to try and go through with this to have someone become president without going through a primary without going through any kind of you know proper internal process or following their party procedures without doing an interview really should won that pathetic CNN thing no um press conference no policy platform nothing one debate that and they they really are going to try and go through that I mean I remember talking about um on Fox with you know shows after the CNN debate which was about a week ago wasn't it um and and and and people were say describing the F her first interview I said yeah and it could well be her last the only one that's not inconceivable at this point it's unbelievable well I have a theory that what the Democrats were trying to do is just Carnival Barker enough Democrats to the polls in California to get people to vote in the Congressional races I think all they're trying to do at this point is win back the house by a margin that they can sustain a few votes here and there and have enough power to continue their grift of lobbying and insider trading and the rest of the stuff that they get for having power if they lose the house the Senate and the white house there's a lot of Democrats that won't get their calls returned when they call for money and I I honestly think that that's what's going on here KLA Harris is running a campaign that seems like they don't care if she wins um from the vice presidential selection of of govern Governor walls who has so many problems politically um to the fact that she won't do interviews and and she's offending the media which is not a good strategy when you're a candidate all of it looks like no one cares if she wins and as you mentioned people like Gavin Newsome don't care if she wins they'd rather she didn't so they're not out campaigning for her yeah so the house that's very interesting and and it's true that there are really tight you know the the the tightest races and the highest number of them on this year are here in California you've got John I mean we're going to have these candidates on the show you've got John dwy David valo you've got Ken Calvert in Orange County um Mike Garcia they in La um just Northeast of La you've got Michelle steel you know there's a whole bunch of them Ste young Kim there's they really think I know I've heard from they believe that they're gonna win some of these back now the Republican party and the candidates you know they're feeling pretty confident we'll see but they this is I mean there's huge amounts of money pouring into these races MH and if you look back at Bernie Sanders support uh in California he almost won the California primary away from Hillary Clinton in 2016 you did very well here so those voters are the ones you would be targeting with these crazy communist policies that she's throwing out there she's going to lose swing state after swing state with policies like yes we're going to tax unrealized capital gains oh are you but that kind of a wealth tax proposal probably will bring out the Bernie S I think it's intended to bring out the Bernie Sanders voters in California in these congressional districts that's so just explain just why we're on that just explain that policy and what it would how it would actually affect real people oh it's insane well first of all they're starting out by saying it only affects people who are super rich so don't worry you're you're pretty little head about it but every tax policy starts on the super rich don't worry about it and then it comes all the way down that's what happened with income tax that's what happened with the Social Security withholding it went up and up and up on more and more income it starts on someone else and it comes to get the middle class because that's where the money is so what a wealth tax would do is it would tax you on the appreciated value of your assets even though you hadn't sold them and realized the gains so if your house has appreciated in California which is pretty common you know you could have bought a house for $500,000 and it could be worth a million to 10 years later they would be taxing you on the appreciated value of your real estate even though you didn't sell it and you don't have the cash to pay those taxes wait a minute they can't at what point not what annually or when is it assessed ta well the way the way they've proposed it in California and it was proposed as I think it was aca3 assembly Constitutional Amendment Three and then it had companion legislation the legislation said it only affects people with $50 million in assets but the Constitutional Amendment didn't say that the Constitutional Amendment says the legislature can Define wealth and tax it so they could tax the appreciated value of your real estate it would go through the Franchise Tax Board not the property tax system and it would be like an income tax and they would make you pay with a check you have to send them the money a tax on the appreciation of your assets potentially that kind of thing could hit 401K accounts and other Investments that you haven't sold every year so they assess the level exactly every year you have to do documentation to show what it's worth Madness it's it's communism and that's what the proposal is now who is that targeted at is that going to win Pennsylvania I don't think so but it will bring out the Bernie Sanders voters who think everybody who owns a house is Rich but this the thing about all of this stuff is just the sheer bureaucracy involved I me even if you thought it was a good idea I mean that you that everyone has to sort of document their and then the government's going to pour all over it and say well this portfolio of shares went up by so that's what they're talking about everything all your all your well in in the case in California this wealth tax proposal was all your Global assets so you have to go value things all around the globe I don't know currency valuations I don't know how you how you even do that uh it doesn't matter it's never going to happen uh in fact Gavin Newsome was pretty upset because the Wall Street Journal wrote an editorial saying this was being considered in California just as he was announcing his budget proposal I think in January and uh he was all just bent out of shape at the Wall Street Journal but that afternoon there was actually a hearing on the bill so the Wall Street Journal wasn't wrong now the Democratic chairman of the committee stuck a a pillow over its face and suffocated the thing sent it to some committee some what did they call it uh the suspense file which they didn't even have they didn't have a suspense file but she invented a suspense file and she shoved that wealth tax right into it and it's not been heard from from since but here's kamla har proposing it nationally just to be really clear because I mean even I mean I think I follow these things quite closely um so the tax on unre unrealized capital gains that is the wealth tax right that's a wealth tax but they're not calling it a wealth tax for some why aren't they called because there's also a separate you know you hear Elizabeth Warren for example talking about a wealth time I think she's even introduced legislation hasn't she I believe she did but this is diff why aren't they but it's the same point it's it is an actual wealth tax but they're not calling it that well that would be I'm sure a polling driven decision on what they call it and what people perceive from what they call it but it's an it's an insane policy it probably could never be successfully implemented even if it was enacted and it's it's communism to go and say you have something and we're taking it and we're going to give it to someone else that we select Everyone's entitled to that money this is the point I think it's very important to understand but with all this stuff and and it applies to the next one we're going to talk about which we've covered a bit but I think it's very important to to to for everyone to understand the point I'm going to make even if these things don't end up seeing the light of day but whatever procedural reason or whatever you know or someone in the system blocks it the fact that they're promoting them that they're pushing them forward reveals their mindset and their intent and the way they think about things and so if they are prepared to even propose these things that tells you something about how far left they've gone and that means that in more hidden ways if you put them in power in the sort of everyday administration of the government not necessarily a new bill or a new policy just the sort of daily decision making that all piles up and affects us in our daily lives that's the mindset that they're bringing to it you've got people who are really far left and really sincerely see no problem with these vast expansions and intrusions of of the of the role of government and so okay fine this particular Pro proposal not not going to happen now but all the other things that are going on that we never even see because they're sort of behind closed doors decisions on various things and the the the next policy I want to talk about a little bit in this category is the and we've discussed it before on the show it's such an outrage which is what is it ab-1 1840 which is the California bill and again as with so many things it starts in California doesn't end here other states are now considering it I I've noticed to give free taxpayer funded down payment assistance to illegal immigrants when we have the highest housing costs in the country only I mean the last time I looked at the numbers the med the typical house price the median house price in California over $900,000 only 15 % of people can afford that so so they again the direct result of democrat policies the environmental regulations the taxes they put on house house building they call it impact fees on and on we've talked about it before so they've made housing really expensive and say oh housing's so expensive people can't afford housing we'd better give them money to help them buy houses that we've made so expensive so where's the money come from higher taxes which of course makes everything else more expensive but the real outrate now they've extended this scheme to and this has passed the legislature hasn't it on the governor's desk illegal immigrants so was a pre-existing scheme and they've extended it to people who literally just showed up illegally it's amazing it's a very strange vote because there there is no money in the program so nobody's getting anything and also you have to meet the requirements for a Fanny May standard mortgage a first mortgage the way this works is your you're qualified for up to $150,000 of down payment assistance but it's a second mortgage and you have to pay it back and not only do you have to pay it back when you sell the house but you have to pay a share of your appreciation they call it the home buyer assistance shared appreciation plan it's got a name like that so here's how this works you have to meet the California Housing Finance Authority income limit which at the highest one I saw I think was or County $24,000 a year Well if you have household income of $24,000 a year before taxes you can afford according to Bank rates affordability calculator a home that's about $860,000 maximum 1.2 million good luck finding it but let's say you find it you can't exceed your income limit now you're going to pay the principal in interest which could be as much as 7 $7,300 a month and you're going to have to pay on top of that property taxes and insurance which is rising and then you know the little luxuries like electricity and water you have to pay all of that now what's going to happen to these home buyers illegal immigrant or not who get this assistance with the down payment and congratulations here are your keys and here's your first month's bill how long can they sustain that yeah since they have to meet income limits in order to even qualify for the program the whole thing is crazy it's another okay so it proves the point which is this is not about sensible policymaking that solves a problem it's about sending a message and the message they want to send with this and again this is what's important to remember even if it I mean it's waiting for Newsome to sign it right this is this particular one it's been pass but and even if he vetos it but this is how they think this is you know they don't see anything offensive about the idea that you've got because in the end you know it's going to be taxpayer money isn't it isn't that where the it ABS it absolutely is taxpayer California I heard something about well it's one of them saying it's not taxpayer money because it comes out of some fund no no no tax the money the money in the fund comes from the legislature which comes from your pocket so that's that's just you know spin that's so it's tax pay money so just in Broad terms here's what they're proposing even if it doesn't actually make sense in in well none of it makes this is what they're proposing you've got very you've got millions of hardworking workingclass low middle class middle class people in California who can't afford to buy a home they work incredibly hard one job two jobs three jobs and in particular you see this in the workingclass Latino community and I'm spending a lot of time there now and incred people have been here for you know decades working really hard to try and get that California Dream and they're paying their taxes and so what are the Dem Democrats doing taking that tax money from these incredibly hardworking people who are unable to buy a house which is their dream because they've made housing so expensive and they're going to take money from those people and hand it to illegal immigrants who've just got here that's their values I mean it's so you know it's so cruel and heartless actually they think a compassionate policy Oh we must treat you know undocumented people in a it's it's not compassionate it's the opposite it's cruel to to to say to people we don't care you work hard can't afford a house we're going to take your money we're going to give it to these people um who have arrived more recently illegally in order to buy the house that you can't afford that's right no it's a terrible policy uh but it's kind of a a hollow policy because it's very limited and it's um it's really not help it's not going to help anybody it's it only started in 2023 it's it's probably just GNA be completely tanked because it's it's totally impractical it's just but it shows where they're coming from this is my point you know I want to come back to this it's just like the the other one I think is in this category is the Shannon Grove Senator Shannon Grove's you know Valiant work to try and actually by the way this is Kamal Harris story here which is to reverse these downgrading of various offenses which happened I think that was prop 57 wasn't it they downgraded all these offenses from felonies and what they what the category of serious and violent crimes in order to have fewer people in jail this a strategy of ideology of decarceration and the whole category of them were sex crimes in for example things like you know sex trafficking of children and shanon Grove and she's been you know you know chipping away it these different things you know buying a miner for sex trafficking a minor all these things she's been she's introduced few bills in the last few years to UPG to make them what they should be which is serious and violent crimes and the Democrats blocked it in the legis year after and in the end the outcry was so great Gavin Nome could see the pr damage and at that time was still you know contemplating I guess a presidential campaign this year and said no no you just came down and said sorry you got to reverse this and forced them in the end to pass her bill but the fact that for so long that's what they were trying to do it reveals their mindset even if the outcome in the end was the right one the fact that they were even thinking like this tells you a lot about who they really are and what their values are absolutely and one one of the things that they've done that really hurts California taxpayers and not only taxpayers but it hurts everyone who's on the medical program is they expanded full scope medical not the restricted scope medical which is for pregnancy and emergencies which is what all the states provide full insurance full scope medical at California taxpayer expense exclusively no federal match to all undocumented immigrants in California and they said oh this is what it's going to cost it's going to affect this many people and this is what it's going to cost they have no idea what it's going to cost it's an entitlement program everyone who is here is entitled to sign up for it and then they can have whatever they need when they go for medical care and it's entirely on the California taxpayer and that's an example of what you're talking about so even if we had all the money in the world here's the problem there aren't enough doctors who will take those extremely low reimbursements I think it's fifth from the bottom on the list of the 50 states that California reimburses for medical care we have very high costs here so it's even worse than it looks doctors won't see enough medical patients for the 14 million people in California who are on this program which is supposed to be for the lowest income people who need the safety net of government health insurance 14 million people a third of the state are falling in that category wow and they expanded The Program full scope medicale coverage to all undocumented immigrants regardless of age or how long they've been here or anything it's amaz again just the recklessness of it and then and and and again the point is not that the alternative to that is the is the sort of cruel inhumane people are going to be dying in the street with no no there is a other states have this kind of basic back stop medical coverage right what do you get the restricted version restricted scope and that's that's court ordered that's from the Supreme Court you can't refuse Emergency Care Pregnancy Care different types of communicable disease treatment things like that uh that's part of restricted scope Medical paid by the taxpayers 50% by the states 50% by the federal government that's how it was but California pandering to the illegal immigrant vote I wonder who are they who are they pleasing with this policy they expanded it first to Children then to older people then to everyone in the middle and now every undocumented immigrant who walks into California can have full scope medical insurance just like a person who is working and in poverty who has lived here forever a citizen or or a permanent legal resident the same insurance and the doctors are not available so the weights are very long and the problem here is that it is taking away from people who most need these services and it's taking from the taxpayers to pay for this why are they doing it well we got some explanation that from Nancy Pelosi herself let's let's let's watch the clip that she was on with Bill Mah and Bill Mah was outraged about the policy we just discussed you know the home ownership one the down payment to put that to like come on this is this is too much isn't it this is like this is crazy billah was saying and here was her answer uh California is always in the lead maybe others will follow that lead but that's up to those States but we are very blessed here with beautiful diversity you vote for this law excuse me so you'd Vote for This law well I don't I'm not familiar with exactly what that is but making the American dream of home ownership available to all people is something we have to do for people who are now this is before you this is undocumented this is for the undocumented well what I would like to do is move them to documented so she just says it straight out I want them to be documented that's the answer and so you have KLA Harris saying and of course that's what she said in the in the when she was running for president last time that people shouldn't be it's basically legalizing illegal immigration she put a hand on they all agreed that so that's actually that what they think and so now because of course that's unpopular uh you have KLA Harris now I think this is it was one of the points put to her in the CNN interview but with absolutely no followup KLA Harris had this verbi about well no I I think if people you know there should be cons that was the term she there should be consequences but she didn't say what those consequences should be she didn't say whether or not she still believes that you effectively decriminalize illegal immigration so we still don't really know and Nancy Pelosi was very clear she does want to do that that's their position well that's really shocking and the people who are hurt by that policy are the people at the lower end of the income scale who depend on government assistance who depend on subsidized housing who depend on food stamps those people are hurt by bringing in 7 million 12 million we don't even know how many illegal immigrants and whatever category they they stamp on the paperwork to say oh well this is an asylum request or this is a parole program from some something from the 1970s that were reinterpreting and now we're we're going to say everyone's paroled into the United States and they have the right to be here for two years that was a widely widely expanded program by the Biden Administration That was supposed to be Case by case and now it's just huge uh they do these things they create this backdoor immigration reform essentially legalizing everybody but who is hurt by it the people who are here who depend on Government Services who find that everything's oversubscribed that the schools are too crowded that the housing isn't available this is the argument that be avilable exactly it's a really important argument sorry got you off Susan but it's it's so important and I think Republicans need to understand this and how they make these arguments because that superficially that's how the Democrats they as as I noted earlier they present these policies that are so Extreme as compassionate we need to be compassionate for these poor people from around the world need shelter and Asylum and we need to be compassionate but it's not compassionate because you've got people here who are struggling very much and they are the ones who are being hurt by this it's cruel It's a cruel and heartless policy it is not compassionate that's true and it hurts the people who are least able to cope with it poorest and the most vulnerable exactly um let's move on to something that I know and again it's been a while since we spoke um and all this the carela Mania has taken off and one of the things I saw you point out because you're so good at at being precise and accurate about all this all these things and I've been wanting to talk to you about this for a while which is the ballot initia going back to KLA Harris when she was State Attorney General in California and the and her role in ballot initiatives and of course the way it works and we've talked about this before is that the attorney general which is ludicrous by the way writes What's called the title and summary that goes on the ballot and describes what people are voting for um when we have a perfectly you know reasonable and obvious alternative which is the legislative analyst's office which is actually pretty independent and constantly puts out reports that are unhelpful to the Democrats in charge so you know they they really are pretty objective they could perfectly well do this but they don't the Attorney General a partisan elected politician writes these things so she did that one of the things that said is that she was the one Cara Harris who wrote this the the the the totally cynically misleading summary for Prop 47 that that legalized theft up to $950 and so on all the things that we talk about often she was the one that called it what is it the safe neighborhoods and communities neighborhoods and schools act I think all right but that's not quite right is it so tell us the ACT I want people to be well informed so tell us exactly what happened that was the title that was used by the proponents of the initiative measure and and that was the title that was used in the advertising the safe neighborhoods and schools act but actually what it was called on the ballot was something like affects criminal sentencing it was something very neutral like that but the summary that she wrote did make it sound very favorable and as as if it was only going to affect people who were being harassed for drug crimes that shouldn't that many people in California didn't even think should be crimes uh and they were being uh tagged with felonies for multiple offenses on on things like that she kind of made it sound like it wasn't any big change uh but but actually it was a very significant change to everything in California and it it created it created what many people perceive to be out of control retail theft and drug use and homelessness on the streets because of all of the above so which brings us to you know the the present day when we're now trying with you know we've had 10 years of dealing with the consequences hence prop 36 this year which is very important that it passes which undo some of the damage but going back to Carla Harrison ballot initiative so that's you know we now know the accurate um story on Prop 47 but actually there's some there's another initiative that isn't talked about so often to do with public sector unions yes where she had a really NE negative and and harmful role tell us about that there was a very important pension reform initiative that was going to be done that would have really helped California's long-term finances and she decided to give it a title and summary that made it sound like it was essentially kicking grandparents out of the house she just made it sound like oh this is going to destroy pensions the title in summary was so negative that she wrote that the proponents pulled the measure they wouldn't even go forward with it because it just they thought there's no way we can pass right she made it sound like like a terminal illness and it was a very thoughtful and reasonable pension reform and it was killed by kamla Harris's title in summary so the point there is that this issue of the massive fiscal favors done for the government unions in exchange for their political donations right is a huge factor in the high taxes we all pay because it's it's a bigger and bigger part of the budget paying out what I always describe as a luxury pensions and healthare where government unions get deals that just no one who's not in the in the government Union would would even imagine getting on pensions and Healthcare I mean they Way Beyond even I mean they went on and on about how Obamacare was so brilliant Way Beyond that you know and other neighboring states don't give these generous more than generous I mean it's just giveaway luxury pensions and Healthcare and of course it's the donate ations that she and other Democrats get in exchange that makes them do this it's totally corrupt but it's bankrupt in California it absolutely is and the way that the powerful unions and special interests do this the way that they own these politicians is in the primaries they essentially say I'll give you $10 million to run and if you don't do what we want I'm going to give the $1 million to somebody to run against you that's sort of the mechanism and and they control the they control the politicians through the donations and what's sad is that the donations are coming from the individual members of the unions who are essentially required to pay them there's a process for not paying it but it's very difficult and convoluted and complicated and there's a lot of pressure not to go along with that so they are paying out of their check to the unions and the unions are using the money to buy politicians for things that may be unrelated to the interests of the union members and that they may not even agree with and in fact the Supreme Court said said that they can withdraw from a public sector Union and not pay anything it used to be the case that they had to pay something equivalent to dues that was that was the Janice ruling wasn't it right that was the Janice ruling and they and the um the public I believe public sector unions have declined in membership following that decision but in California they're still extremely powerful and they control the government well totally control the government as as I hear when I'm in Sacramento and you talk to people about you know why can't we do this reform or that reform they say well the unions won't accept it and I say well so what I mean why you know why don't why doesn't anyone push back against the unions and I hear it all the time from actual legislators I've heard it from well because they run this place I mean it's just outrageous it's so offensive and these are the people that lectures about our democracy um last Point um I just want to get to with you it's an LA story but again it shows the TR what we have all the time now with Democrats here these extremists which is the Triumph of ideology over any kind of practicality or common sense this is about um is it renewable energy what's this LA Story the LA story is that the city council decided we should have 100% renewable energy in the city of Los Angeles for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power which is controlled by the city council it's a city-owned utility and the cost of this according to the rate payer Advocate is going to raise electricity bills by at least 7.7% per year by 2035 it's just going to go up and up and up they had one scenario where what's currently costing $144 would be up to $550 oh my goodness and was based on monthly usage of s 700 kilowatt hours I think they were taking averages and this doesn't include all the other charges that are on the bill this is just one portion of it but essentially this this fantasy of getting to 100% clean energy which can never happen is going to raise your bills while they try to get to 100% clean energy and actually are still using natural gas nuclear hydrop power other things that don't count as renewable in California it's just monstrous how expensive this is and are they going to do this or is this just an idea this is the law in Los Angeles they it they're going through with it and the rate payer Advocate said they should stop and reconsider the costs of this policy we'll see if they do it's just unbelievable I mean everywhere you look it's crazy and and again let's bring it back to the National picture for our national audience um this is the Cara Harris ideology in action all this stuff this is what she this is where she grew up politically this is what you're going to get if you vote for for KLA Harris for president this is and people really need to understand how farle and extreme it is they do and they need to take a look at what we're paying in California for gasoline diesel fuel electricity and see that the reason for this is policies like the green New Deal that K Harris supports this is the reason we're paying so much in California if it goes n if it goes National the whole country will be paying more for electricity and gasoline no one's going to be happy and it doesn't accomplish anything the thing that people really need to understand about these climate driven policies is that they're all for show they don't do anything for the climate they make no difference at all and if you pin a politician in California to the wall and tell them that they agree and they say yes but California must show world leadership leadership exactly it's all about that it's exactly right they well we have to sort of you know punish our citizens in order to look virtuous when we go to a conference in Geneva or something it's just outrageous have our picture taken in Paris we have to do literally literally that's what it's about leadership Californians are paying a very high price for politicians to have their picture taken in Paris and everybody needs to know that the policies they think they support are causing the problems that they're having great summary um so next time so just for our agenda because there's so much going on uh we haven't we haven't had time to get to it today I just want to make this point while we're talking about costs and taxes and so on at the exact time when we have all these massive increases in our costs both through policies that affect Energy prices and so on electricity we've just been discussing or directly through higher taxes at the exact same time that's happening and we and we have the highest taxes in the country this November on the ballot will be a whole bunch of new tax increases worse than tax increases because they they're bonds and that means that you pay the interest as well longterm so it's worse than just a straightforward tax increase plus a lot of the money is siphoned off to financial institutions in the wheeler dealing that makes these bonds happen and these bonds that they're talking about on the ballot um Statewide Regional some of them are local bonds tax increases they for things that you would think of sort of core functions of government some of its infrastructure schools there's a big one prop two for school building on and on these bonds you basically ta We already pay the highest taxes and now they're coming for more to pay for things well where's the money going where's the money gone that we've already given them an excellent point someone mentioned to me that the schools in Oakland have led in the water now I want to know why the schools in Oakland still have led in the water after the tens of millions or billions of dollars that have been spent on school modernization safety they've been trying to take the lead and the asbestos out of the schools since I think the 1990s maybe longer if they're still LED and ASB bestus in the schools who's going to prison for it because this shouldn't be happening with all the money that we have put into this where are the priorities for the spending and where is the accountability well you know we just answered that question I think in the conversation about government Union pensions and Healthcare that's where the money's going um it's so corrupt we'll get into it in detail because everyone needs to know this before they vote and of course with this ridiculous election season we now have the votes you're going to be voting pretty soon um we've just passed Labor Day you know election starts you know the ballots go out just in a few weeks here in California some parts of the country they're I think they're in the mail you know tomorrow um it's ridiculous anyway that's for another time because everyone needs to really understand about these bonds which are being completely you know msold um and we just can't have any more tax increases it's just it's just too much we need to cut taxes not raise them um all right Susan that's it that's all we have time for we can go on for another hour but it's been great to have this time to talk to you in detail about all these things so informative as always thank you Susan Shelly thank you great to be with you [Music]