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And I would advise 12 00:00:39,799 --> 00:00:43,920 the anonymous Democrat on the text line to go back 13 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:48,159 and listen to the two hours that I just spent 14 00:00:48,679 --> 00:00:54,320 using source material from the New York Times and axios 15 00:00:55,000 --> 00:01:00,640 talking to democrats and about democrats about the massive problems 16 00:01:00,679 --> 00:01:05,760 they are having in their popularity, and it is reflected 17 00:01:05,879 --> 00:01:12,400 in the absolute plummeting of their voter registrations. They are 18 00:01:12,519 --> 00:01:18,680 hemorrhaging voters. And I don't know how you can hear 19 00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:23,480 all of that reporting here, all of the data, the 20 00:01:23,879 --> 00:01:27,879 science right, the strategists and all of these consultants like 21 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:32,359 these democrats who do this for a living, and they 22 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:37,760 are sounding the alarm and saying this is a huge problem. 23 00:01:38,719 --> 00:01:44,000 We're losing voter registration. We're not registering Democrats in the 24 00:01:44,079 --> 00:01:47,120 numbers that we used to, and in fact, Republicans are 25 00:01:47,159 --> 00:01:53,079 outpacing us and they're overtaking us and this Democrat on 26 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:56,599 our text line. Here's maybe they didn't hear the whole 27 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:58,079 two hours, which is why I said go back and 28 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:00,280 listen to the podcast. Maybe you didn't hear all that, 29 00:02:01,359 --> 00:02:05,319 because otherwise I don't know how you hear all of 30 00:02:05,359 --> 00:02:11,719 that data and text me the following Democrats can win. 31 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:17,520 We just need Republicans to stop cheating racial jerrymandering. 32 00:02:17,719 --> 00:02:18,159 Speaker 1: Got it. 33 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:25,800 Speaker 2: With all due respect, Democrat Texter, stop being a dumbass. Okay, 34 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:28,639 you don't have to live like this. 35 00:02:31,199 --> 00:02:31,479 Speaker 1: Again. 36 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:34,039 Speaker 2: You don't have to listen to any of the I 37 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:38,199 think pretty awesome suggestions that I offered. You don't have 38 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:40,560 to take my advice on any of that stuff. In fact, 39 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:44,639 I prefer you don't. I would like nothing better than 40 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:48,479 to see the Democrat Party tossed into the dust bin 41 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:55,520 of history. You've got a terrible reputation. Awful people in 42 00:02:55,639 --> 00:03:00,319 American history were part of your party. They did terrible things. 43 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:04,759 You offer no good solutions, and you are populated by 44 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:07,680 communists and people that hate our country and what it 45 00:03:07,759 --> 00:03:14,360 stands for. I would be fine with you guys going away, 46 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:18,840 but if you but if you want to try to 47 00:03:18,879 --> 00:03:21,840 save the party, you probably should open your eyes and 48 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:25,479 ears to the data that is being presented to you. 49 00:03:26,879 --> 00:03:35,879 Racial jerrymandering, partisan jerrymandering, redistricting, none of that, absolutely, none 50 00:03:35,879 --> 00:03:40,599 of it has any impact on your voter registration numbers. 51 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:45,879 They are completely different things. The data I gave you 52 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:51,120 was about voter registration. That's why they're sounding the alarms 53 00:03:51,159 --> 00:03:55,759 inside your own party. They're saying the registration numbers North 54 00:03:55,759 --> 00:04:02,280 Carolina is about to flip from a Democrat Republican majority 55 00:04:02,319 --> 00:04:07,960 to a Republican Democrat majority by registration. Now the number 56 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:12,919 one actually is unaffiliated because we have open primaries. But 57 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:19,480 the Democrats have been above the Republicans since the Civil War. 58 00:04:22,519 --> 00:04:26,800 Why do you think that's changing. It's nothing you're doing, 59 00:04:26,879 --> 00:04:30,240 It's the Republican's fault. Like this is why I say 60 00:04:30,079 --> 00:04:34,399 they can't fix themselves. They just can't because they don't 61 00:04:34,439 --> 00:04:37,759 believe that the things they say and the policies they 62 00:04:37,759 --> 00:04:46,319 support are not popular. They refuse to believe it. I know, 63 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:49,040 like Republicans come up with ideas and I can tell like, oh, 64 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:51,839 that's not going to be a popular idea. Oh that's 65 00:04:52,439 --> 00:04:53,639 I don't know if. I don't know if the public 66 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:56,120 are going to get behind them on that right. But 67 00:04:56,199 --> 00:04:58,920 Democrats believe that every one of their policies is where 68 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:02,279 most Americans are, if not all Americans, and the only 69 00:05:02,319 --> 00:05:07,600 people that oppose them are racist. Voter registration is not 70 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:10,279 a product of redistricting. 71 00:05:10,759 --> 00:05:11,319 Speaker 1: Number one. 72 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 2: Number two, the most gerrymandered states are Democrat controlled, which 73 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:21,959 is why with the redistricting war that is now erupting, 74 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:24,560 Democrats are not going to come out of that ahead 75 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:29,399 because they've already jerrymandered the states they control to the 76 00:05:29,439 --> 00:05:33,879 point where they can't squeeze out any more seats. And 77 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:37,720 there are way more Republican states that if they proceed 78 00:05:37,759 --> 00:05:40,439 down this path as well, they can squeeze out way 79 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:45,639 more because the Democrat maps are way more unfair. And 80 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:50,279 by the way, the Texas legislature that just approved their 81 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:56,680 new maps, those aren't racial jerrymanners in fact, in fact, 82 00:05:58,199 --> 00:06:04,839 it's going to yield more Hispanic districts. Now they may 83 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:09,720 vote Republican but that's not a racial jerrymander. By the way, 84 00:06:09,759 --> 00:06:13,199 this same thing happened in North Carolina when Republicans drew maps. 85 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:16,240 I believe this would have been twenty twenty, but it 86 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:18,519 could have been twenty ten. I've lost track of all 87 00:06:18,519 --> 00:06:21,360 the different lawsuits and all the different times the Republicans 88 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:25,680 had to redraw lines based on constantly changing standards from 89 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:30,360 the courts. But the Democrats, I believe this was actually 90 00:06:30,439 --> 00:06:35,920 twenty ten when the Republicans drew their lines and Democrats 91 00:06:35,959 --> 00:06:41,720 sued claiming racial jerrymanders. The Republican maps actually yielded more 92 00:06:41,879 --> 00:06:46,639 black representatives and senators. Now, it came at the expense 93 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:52,360 of white Democrats, and that's why they sued. Yeah, that's 94 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:56,000 why they sued because it gave black Democrats more seats 95 00:06:56,199 --> 00:06:59,439 versus white Democrats, and the white Democrats didn't want to 96 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:04,040 lose their seat, so they got the maps tossed, which 97 00:07:04,079 --> 00:07:06,319 yielded less black representation. 98 00:07:10,079 --> 00:07:14,439 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll go Oliver youa. Let's talk to Chris real quick. Hey, Chris, 99 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:15,079 what's going on? 100 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:16,839 Speaker 3: What's up, Skinny Pete? 101 00:07:16,839 --> 00:07:17,759 Speaker 2: How you doing good? 102 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:18,199 Speaker 1: How are you? 103 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,000 Speaker 3: I'm hanging the top, doing better than I deserve. I 104 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:23,000 just wanted to kind of give a quick run down 105 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:27,120 to my personal experience as a party switcher. I registered 106 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:29,160 as a Republican as a kid when I was able 107 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:32,240 to first start voting, and was pretty disenfranchised by the 108 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:35,160 time I was in my late twenties early thirties and 109 00:07:35,199 --> 00:07:38,600 switched to independent, and fair enough for everybody out there 110 00:07:38,639 --> 00:07:41,120 that's like, I can't be associated with either party, like 111 00:07:41,199 --> 00:07:43,480 this is just neither one of them. They're both full 112 00:07:43,519 --> 00:07:47,680 of snakes and vipers and things. But it quickly, well quickly. 113 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:50,079 It took me about a decade to realize I was 114 00:07:50,079 --> 00:07:52,519 just kind of wandering in the desert as an independent 115 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:55,519 and I wasn't moving either party in the direction that 116 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:59,680 I desired. So as a guy who wants to keep 117 00:08:00,079 --> 00:08:03,160 boys out of girls locker rooms and believes in the 118 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:05,480 right to life and things like this, I decided I 119 00:08:05,519 --> 00:08:07,920 would go back to the Republican Party and start trying 120 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:10,920 to do my part to make it the party that 121 00:08:10,959 --> 00:08:13,279 I think it should be. And I would just love 122 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:16,720 to encourage others that are out there and have just 123 00:08:16,839 --> 00:08:18,680 gotten to the point where they don't want to associate 124 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:21,720 the Republican Party or the Democrat Party to consider it 125 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:26,360 and to consider joining the local executive committee or get 126 00:08:26,399 --> 00:08:29,519 involved and start trying to change it from the inside, 127 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:32,879 because there is no independent meetings, there is no independent structure. 128 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:35,080 There's nobody. You're in the desert wandering. 129 00:08:35,759 --> 00:08:36,639 Speaker 1: Yeah. No, it's true. 130 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:38,919 Speaker 2: People who want to actually affect change and make a 131 00:08:38,919 --> 00:08:41,759 difference have the opportunities to do so. But it means 132 00:08:41,799 --> 00:08:45,279 you have to actually get involved and turn up. You 133 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:47,279 got to show up at play rounds. Yeah, that's it. 134 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:49,919 It's like people who complain all the time about voting, 135 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:54,159 you know and election integrity stuff, and I asked them, okay, 136 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:55,919 well have you have you signed up to you know, 137 00:08:56,039 --> 00:08:58,720 volunteer or go work the polls, because you could do 138 00:08:58,799 --> 00:09:00,759 that and then you would be able to see the 139 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:03,200 system play out and you'd be eyes and ears if 140 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:05,759 there is any kind of chicanery, like you would be 141 00:09:05,799 --> 00:09:07,120 helping to correct these. 142 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:09,000 Speaker 1: Problems you have identified. 143 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:12,480 Speaker 2: So if people did that they got more involved, I 144 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:14,840 think it would you know, scratch the itch for them, 145 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:16,799 but yeah, it would also I think lead to some 146 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:17,720 positive change. 147 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:21,200 Speaker 3: And one last point, it's not just the number. You 148 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:23,000 can't just go by the letter like oh, it's a 149 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:26,000 numb Republican I'm cool, No, man, that Republican may be 150 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:28,559 worse than the Democrat. You got to look into their 151 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,320 track record, their history, and the only way to do 152 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:33,679 that is kind of to be part of that party. 153 00:09:33,759 --> 00:09:35,879 To get in and to get to the grassroots and 154 00:09:35,919 --> 00:09:38,399 to get involved and find these local stories and these 155 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:41,399 local you know people that know these you know, know 156 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:43,799 the folks as who they are and what they stand for. 157 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:48,080 So yeah, Cobara's County Citizens. If anyone's listening, join our 158 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:52,919 page Cabara's County Citizens against tax hikes and for government transparency. 159 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:55,200 Speaker 1: All right, Chris, I appreciate the call, buddy, Thanks so. 160 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:56,080 Speaker 3: Much, Thank you man. 161 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:57,720 Speaker 1: All Right, all right, so you've heard me. 162 00:09:57,679 --> 00:10:00,320 Speaker 2: Talk about Creative Video for almost a year. But did 163 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:03,039 you know they also offer a game changing app for 164 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:06,720 businesses that reward their teams with incentive trips. Well they do. 165 00:10:06,919 --> 00:10:09,600 It's called Incentive Trip Kit. If you want a business 166 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:12,399 or work at one that offers these incentive trips, this 167 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:15,720 is a must have. 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The Ninth Circuit 185 00:11:09,039 --> 00:11:13,960 Court of Appeals has granted the motion in the RNC case, 186 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:18,039 ruling that election day is one day and ballots arriving 187 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:23,080 after election day must not be counted under federal law. 188 00:11:26,399 --> 00:11:28,360 Still not tired of the winning, Just for the record, 189 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:32,960 Still not tired, all right, So let's talk redistricting. The 190 00:11:34,159 --> 00:11:36,679 Democrat on the text line claims that this is the 191 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:39,639 reason why Democrats aren't winning it's all because of redistricting. 192 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:47,639 And I you know, I do agree that the composition 193 00:11:47,679 --> 00:11:52,559 of the House of Representatives has been impacted by redistricting, 194 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:56,600 jerrymandering and such. It's because that's also tied to the census. 195 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:01,360 And we've gone over this before. But the Sense overcounted 196 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:05,559 six states, I believe it was, and they undercounted six 197 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:10,200 other states. And the states that they overcounted were Democrat states, 198 00:12:10,679 --> 00:12:15,559 giving them additional seats, and they undercounted red states which 199 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:18,639 cost them seats. So in fact, the Republicans should have 200 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:25,759 a larger majority than they have right now. So Texas 201 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:31,440 lawmakers yesterday passed a new congressional district map with the 202 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:36,519 intent to flip five Democrat held US House seats to 203 00:12:36,639 --> 00:12:41,919 Republican control in next year's midterm elections. Texas Republicans were 204 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:45,840 able to proceed after dozens of Democrat lawmakers on Monday 205 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:49,320 ended a two week walkout from the state House in 206 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:53,320 Austin that deprived the House of the quorum needed to 207 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:57,159 hold a vote. And for people who might be asking, 208 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:02,279 a quorum is the minimum amount of people needed for 209 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:06,480 a body to pass legitimate votes, right, that's the minimum 210 00:13:06,559 --> 00:13:10,759 number of people in attendance. The bill to redraw the 211 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:14,600 map passed along party lines eighty eight to fifty two. 212 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:19,240 It was a little bit different than the version that 213 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:23,360 was passed by the Senate. So they're going to go 214 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:27,159 back and they've got to hammer out an agreement on 215 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:30,799 a final version, and then that will go to the governor. 216 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:33,960 Greg Abbott, a Republican who has said he will sign it. 217 00:13:34,919 --> 00:13:38,480 House debate in Texas came on the eve of floor 218 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:44,000 action expected in California State Senate for a redistricting package 219 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:48,879 championed by Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom to redraw his state's 220 00:13:48,879 --> 00:13:53,000 congressional map to flip five Republican seats into the Democrat column, 221 00:13:55,039 --> 00:14:01,559 thereby negating the increased count out of Texas. Want to 222 00:14:01,559 --> 00:14:07,960 play a SoundBite for you. This is Senator Christopher Cabal 223 00:14:08,039 --> 00:14:16,360 Dawn c A baldn So his name is like CA 224 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:20,159 for like California Bald, which he is. 225 00:14:21,399 --> 00:14:24,360 Speaker 1: And then on so Cabal Dawn. 226 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:29,399 Speaker 2: Anyway, listen to what he says and see if you 227 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:33,399 can decipher where he gives away the game. And I'll 228 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:37,200 give you a hint. He's going to use a different 229 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:42,279 term than illegal alien. All right, that's your hint, So 230 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:44,879 be listening. See if you can hear where he gives 231 00:14:44,919 --> 00:14:45,480 away the game. 232 00:14:45,559 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 4: Okay, if a year from now or a month from now, 233 00:14:48,399 --> 00:14:50,759 or if a week from now, if your cousin is 234 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:54,480 kidnapped off the street, if UCLA closes down, if we 235 00:14:54,519 --> 00:14:57,240 announce that there won't be an election, if the census 236 00:14:57,840 --> 00:15:00,919 that we're relying on for the Commission's next stab at 237 00:15:00,919 --> 00:15:05,440 redistricting doesn't include one point five million Californians in it, 238 00:15:06,039 --> 00:15:08,399 if we have no democracy left, and we look back 239 00:15:08,399 --> 00:15:11,639 and said, if only we could have done something, Well, 240 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:13,799 the nice thing about this is that we are in 241 00:15:13,879 --> 00:15:16,360 a time machine. We can do something. We know what 242 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:18,919 is company coming because it's in pribs of twenty twenty five. 243 00:15:20,399 --> 00:15:24,240 Speaker 1: Did you catch it? He said? 244 00:15:24,279 --> 00:15:29,200 Speaker 2: One point five million Californians that's for some reason, would 245 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:31,840 not have been counted in the census in twenty thirty. 246 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:35,360 If for some reason, one point five million Californians don't 247 00:15:35,399 --> 00:15:41,320 get counted, why wouldn't they be counted? That's weird, right, 248 00:15:41,879 --> 00:15:45,639 are you saying the census isn't able to count? I mean, 249 00:15:45,679 --> 00:15:49,159 if anything, they over counted California last time around, So 250 00:15:49,399 --> 00:15:53,000 why would one point five million Californians not be counted. Oh, 251 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:59,000 he's talking about illegal aliens, which sort of gives away 252 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:01,279 the game as to why Democrats want there to be 253 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:03,879 open borders. As I went over in the first two 254 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:07,480 hours talking about the Democrat Party voter registration numbers circling 255 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:13,519 the drain. They're just bleeding voters. They and it literally 256 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:18,840 is happening in every single state, every single state where 257 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:23,879 voters register by party, Democrats are losing them and Republicans 258 00:16:23,919 --> 00:16:24,600 are gaining them. 259 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:25,440 Speaker 1: Right. 260 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:30,600 Speaker 2: So, if you have open borders and you could bring 261 00:16:30,639 --> 00:16:33,080 in a whole bunch of people, but they don't get 262 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:36,039 to vote, they don't get to register to vote theoretically, 263 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:38,440 but they're not registering to vote, but they get counted 264 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:43,840 in the census. Democrats get to keep more seats. That's 265 00:16:43,879 --> 00:16:46,759 the game, and it's been the game. And that's why 266 00:16:46,759 --> 00:16:53,000 Trump in twenty twenty and now is saying we should 267 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:58,200 not be counting illegal aliens. You get this thing changed, 268 00:16:58,320 --> 00:17:04,559 Democrats lose even more seats. Back to this piece, This 269 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:10,880 is from reuters dot Com. Newsom and his Democrat allies 270 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:14,640 in the state legislature are aiming to achieve fast track 271 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:19,440 passage of their newly drawn map by Friday, and that 272 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:21,279 would be in time to put it on the ballot 273 00:17:21,319 --> 00:17:25,559 for voters in a special election set for November fourth. 274 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:30,799 And the California Supreme Court turned down an emergency petition 275 00:17:30,839 --> 00:17:33,640 that was filed by four Republican state lawmakers that tried 276 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:37,519 to block the legislative action for thirty days, and the 277 00:17:37,559 --> 00:17:45,160 court said no. Other Republican states, including Ohio, Florida, Indiana, Missouri, 278 00:17:45,759 --> 00:17:50,400 are all moving forward with or considering their own redistricting efforts, 279 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:54,240 as are Democrat states such as Maryland and Illinois, which 280 00:17:54,799 --> 00:17:58,400 they have already jerrymandered the ever loving bejeebas out of 281 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:02,359 those states. You don't have any more seats to jerrymander, 282 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:10,319 like there's like nothing left to do. Remember remember Adam Kinsinger, 283 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:13,200 the Republican guy that would cry all the time and 284 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:16,200 his hatred of Trump. This was a guy who threw 285 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:18,359 his lot in with the Democrats, was on the j 286 00:18:18,519 --> 00:18:21,720 six Committee and all of that, and they rewarded him 287 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:27,079 by jerrymandering him out of his district in Illinois. We 288 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:29,839 talked about this when the Texas Democrats fled to Illinois 289 00:18:31,279 --> 00:18:34,279 complaining of jerrymandering. Yet going to a state that's one 290 00:18:34,279 --> 00:18:39,839 of the worst jerrymanders in America. If you guys want 291 00:18:39,880 --> 00:18:42,279 to embark on this war, I guess we're already in it. 292 00:18:43,599 --> 00:18:46,440 Let's see how it shakes out. Here's a great idea. 293 00:18:46,559 --> 00:18:49,319 How about making an escape to a really special and 294 00:18:49,359 --> 00:18:52,559 secluded getaway in western North Carolina. 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I assume you're saying, 323 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:33,680 why not send the troops to these other cities? Well, 324 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:37,319 those cities can actually call in National Guard and make 325 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:40,039 a request of their own governors. They can do that themselves. 326 00:20:40,279 --> 00:20:46,799 Here's the difference. Washington d C. Is a federal district. 327 00:20:46,839 --> 00:20:50,319 The president has the authority to do what he is doing. 328 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:55,440 There's your difference, glad, I could clear that up for you. 329 00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:58,160 Feel free to put your name on these texts so 330 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:00,640 I can identify your just buy your first name. 331 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:02,000 Speaker 1: You can give a fake name too, but. 332 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:07,119 Speaker 2: Unless you want to just be known as anonymous Democrat, John, 333 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:08,000 Welcome to the show. 334 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:12,759 Speaker 5: Hello John, Hey, how you doing, Petey? Quick? Just a 335 00:21:12,839 --> 00:21:15,359 quick comment. I used to live in California. I still 336 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:18,680 have a lot of friends out there, and this reapportionment 337 00:21:18,759 --> 00:21:22,559 of the congressional districts could really backfire on the Democrats 338 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,960 because they have diced and sliced those districts so much. 339 00:21:26,519 --> 00:21:28,519 And I can tell you, you know a lot of my 340 00:21:28,599 --> 00:21:30,440 friends out there. I still keep in touch with quite 341 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:33,599 a few people. They're all upset about what's going on 342 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:36,759 out there. And some of them were like raving liberals before, 343 00:21:36,839 --> 00:21:39,039 but now they're telling me that, you know, they won't 344 00:21:39,079 --> 00:21:41,400 tell anybody this because California is the king of the 345 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:44,400 cancel culture. But a lot of them voted for Trump 346 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:46,680 in the last election. And if you look at the 347 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:49,799 last election turnouts and that if they're basing all this 348 00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:53,799 reapportionment on old numbers in that they may be in 349 00:21:53,839 --> 00:21:56,519 for real surprise because rather than picking up seats, they 350 00:21:56,519 --> 00:21:57,720 may lose more seats. 351 00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:00,319 Speaker 1: You are, yeah, you are exactly right. 352 00:22:01,319 --> 00:22:04,599 Speaker 2: The problem that California's got is, like you said, sliced 353 00:22:04,599 --> 00:22:08,759 and diced already. And when you create a district that 354 00:22:08,839 --> 00:22:12,799 you think, maybe you know, more likely to be won 355 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:15,359 by a Democrat. Like let's say you're taking a district 356 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:20,319 that's a D plus seven, that's a safe seat for 357 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:24,920 a Democrat. Then you turn that into a D plus 358 00:22:25,279 --> 00:22:31,039 three or plus two. Now get you get a red 359 00:22:31,079 --> 00:22:34,200 wave election and you're screwed and you've lost. 360 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:38,000 Speaker 5: Oh yeah, oh yeah. And I don't think they've thought this, Sue. 361 00:22:38,039 --> 00:22:40,440 I think they just Gavin new some. I mean, what 362 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:43,720 people out there tell me is this whole thing is 363 00:22:43,759 --> 00:22:47,119 about Gavin Newsom running for president. Right as far as 364 00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:49,640 the people on the Palisades are concerns and everything else, 365 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:52,440 you talk to them, they they're afraid to go to 366 00:22:52,519 --> 00:22:55,240 these public meetings and speak out about lack of help 367 00:22:55,319 --> 00:22:58,880 and the blaze and getting building permits, and all of 368 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:01,240 us say, because if you go there, the first thing 369 00:23:01,279 --> 00:23:02,559 you have to do is, you know, you have to 370 00:23:02,599 --> 00:23:05,079 identify yourself. You have to say, hey, I'm Pete Calendar. 371 00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:07,640 I love at such and such an address. You say 372 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:11,039 anything against that council or anything, you'll get docts the 373 00:23:11,079 --> 00:23:13,680 next day and they'll come after your employer, right, those 374 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:15,440 people there writing down those numbers. 375 00:23:15,799 --> 00:23:18,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, it's yeah. This is again. It's the 376 00:23:19,079 --> 00:23:20,160 I talked about it last hour. 377 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:23,599 Speaker 2: The permission structure, and then and then that leads to 378 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:27,200 a preference cascade. When people feel safe to speak their 379 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:29,359 mind and realize they're not the only ones that are 380 00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:33,359 thinking these things. That creates the permission to say those things, 381 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:36,960 and more people then kind of flood through and say 382 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,559 me to me too. They stand on their desks and say, 383 00:23:39,599 --> 00:23:42,279 you know, oh, captain, my captain, there's another dead. 384 00:23:42,079 --> 00:23:43,240 Speaker 1: Poet society reference. 385 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:44,440 Speaker 5: Yep. 386 00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:48,079 Speaker 2: Yeah, so and that's why, like people think, and this 387 00:23:48,319 --> 00:23:51,920 the North Carolina Democrats, uh, sort of the poster child 388 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:55,559 for this. They drew the maps for a century in 389 00:23:55,640 --> 00:24:00,440 North Carolina, and you know, Republicans beat them on their 390 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:04,839 own maps in twenty ten because right, because Democrats had 391 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:08,839 done this for so long and they they made too 392 00:24:08,839 --> 00:24:14,319 many districts where they had diluted their own advantages that. 393 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:18,039 Speaker 1: The seats then flipped on them. So you know, better be. 394 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:21,000 Speaker 5: Careful Anyways, that's my that's my combat. Enjoy the soul. 395 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:21,799 Thanks you good one. 396 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:23,319 Speaker 1: Yes, sir, you too. I appreciate it. 397 00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:26,559 Speaker 2: No, it's a it's a very good Uh, it's a 398 00:24:26,599 --> 00:24:29,119 very good point. And there is a there is a 399 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:35,200 real risk for Democrat controlled states and Republican controlled states 400 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:38,039 if they've done this sort of thing too, Like, there's 401 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:41,119 not a whole lot that you can do if you've 402 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:44,759 already been you know, cutting these districts smaller and smaller 403 00:24:44,799 --> 00:24:48,359 and smaller because you're trying to capture you know, more 404 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:51,359 safe seats, but you don't have enough voters. And that's 405 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:53,440 a problem for the Democrats. That ties into the voter 406 00:24:53,519 --> 00:24:57,480 registration issue. If you've got the declining voters, you got 407 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:00,039 the declining support. Now you don't have as big a 408 00:25:00,079 --> 00:25:04,200 whol to slice and dice from Travis. 409 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:06,720 Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Hey, Travis, and. 410 00:25:06,839 --> 00:25:11,880 Speaker 6: Mister beat I had two points or observations are questions. 411 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:18,160 The first one is, I think one of the problems with. 412 00:25:19,079 --> 00:25:22,880 Speaker 7: Jerry managering their drawing districts is the idea that you're 413 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:24,759 just voting for the r or the deeds. 414 00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:26,799 Speaker 6: Well, that's already kind. 415 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:29,240 Speaker 7: Of happening in the primaries, because you're basically just voting 416 00:25:29,279 --> 00:25:30,880 for the guy with the most money or the best 417 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:33,400 connections who can present themselves as right because there's so 418 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:36,319 many people in the district. He has there millions of dollars. 419 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:38,200 So either you've got to have the back end of 420 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:39,599 the groups that can give you a name as a 421 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:41,440 conservative or as was a conservative. 422 00:25:41,519 --> 00:25:42,440 Speaker 6: And who are they, what are they. 423 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:44,240 Speaker 7: Based, what are their interests, you. 424 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:47,200 Speaker 6: Know where they're basing that on. So I think we're 425 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:48,200 going to have to at. 426 00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:51,759 Speaker 7: Some point in that future expand the number of seats 427 00:25:51,799 --> 00:25:51,960 in the. 428 00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:54,519 Speaker 6: House representatives because we just I don't think this is 429 00:25:54,559 --> 00:25:58,200 ever meant to function with one representative representing two hundred 430 00:25:58,200 --> 00:25:59,839 thousand people who never get. 431 00:25:59,759 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 7: To interact with them. 432 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:02,880 Speaker 6: You're so removed from the face of. 433 00:26:03,319 --> 00:26:05,279 Speaker 1: So what what size district would you prefer? 434 00:26:06,559 --> 00:26:10,279 Speaker 6: Well, I think it's seventy thouars. 435 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:13,359 Speaker 2: I mean those are state House seats and uh and 436 00:26:13,519 --> 00:26:14,640 state Senate seats. 437 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:16,799 Speaker 7: That's what it originally was. I believe. 438 00:26:18,039 --> 00:26:23,119 Speaker 6: There was much much the the person per representative. 439 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:25,440 Speaker 2: They have expanded you're you're right, You're yeah, they have 440 00:26:25,559 --> 00:26:29,119 expanded the House. I believe they've expanded it before. 441 00:26:29,519 --> 00:26:30,359 Speaker 1: I don't think there's. 442 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:33,400 Speaker 2: Going to be any I'm not sure about that. 443 00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:36,960 Speaker 1: I seem to recall that well, but I don't know. 444 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:37,559 Speaker 3: Now. 445 00:26:37,759 --> 00:26:39,680 Speaker 2: I will tell you right now, the population of a 446 00:26:39,759 --> 00:26:42,440 district is over eight hundred thousand people. 447 00:26:43,279 --> 00:26:47,279 Speaker 6: That's huge and I just don't anyway. So that's well. 448 00:26:47,319 --> 00:26:48,440 Speaker 1: But but you have states. 449 00:26:48,519 --> 00:26:51,519 Speaker 2: But you have states also that have more than a 450 00:26:51,599 --> 00:26:54,440 million people in them that have you know, two senators 451 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:57,720 that represent you know, two senates represent California, and they've 452 00:26:57,720 --> 00:26:59,400 got millions of people. 453 00:26:59,759 --> 00:27:01,680 Speaker 1: So again, like Y. 454 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:03,960 Speaker 6: It's supposed to be different. I mean, I know it was. 455 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:06,960 Speaker 2: Supposed to be represented by legislative appointments. Yeah, Travis, I 456 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:08,759 got a run. I appreciate. I know you had another comment, 457 00:27:08,799 --> 00:27:10,880 but I'm up against the break. I do appreciate the call. 458 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:12,920 All right, If you're listening to this show, you know 459 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:14,960 I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, 460 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,039 and I know you do too. And you've probably heard 461 00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:21,200 me say get your news from multiple sources. Why, Well, 462 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:23,920 because it's how you detect media bias, which is why 463 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:27,160 I've been so impressed with ground News. It's an app 464 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:30,559 and it's a website, and it combines news from around 465 00:27:30,599 --> 00:27:33,000 the world in one place so you can compare coverage 466 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:35,960 and verify information. You can check it out at check 467 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:40,440 dot ground, dot news slash pete. I put the link 468 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:43,559 in the podcast description too. 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Hello John, Welcome to the shoe. 481 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:23,519 Speaker 8: Good afternoon, be thank you for taking my car. 482 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:23,960 Speaker 1: Sure. 483 00:28:24,039 --> 00:28:28,079 Speaker 8: I believe North Carolina Democrats with in the news today 484 00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:31,079 the headline, they'd be better served to watch the even 485 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:34,279 news and the weathermend report about the riptides on the 486 00:28:34,319 --> 00:28:37,519 coast and figure out that they're in that same situation 487 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:40,400 and they keep swimming against that riptide they're getting further 488 00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:42,559 and further from shore and wearing themselves out. 489 00:28:43,759 --> 00:28:47,559 Speaker 2: I see what you did there, topical tied it into 490 00:28:47,599 --> 00:28:52,200 the news and a double meaning as well. John Well 491 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:52,880 played sir. 492 00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:56,119 Speaker 8: Thank you, sir, you have a great afternoon. 493 00:28:56,119 --> 00:28:59,440 Speaker 2: All right, you too. I appreciate it. Yeah, they are, Yeah, 494 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:06,000 they're getting and you try to tell them this, they're like, again, 495 00:29:06,119 --> 00:29:09,519 I spent two hours going over New York Times axios 496 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:12,279 with all of the quotes from all of these Democrat 497 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:17,319 data people and strategists and stuff, and they're all sounding 498 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:21,039 the alarm. And then you get the Texters that are 499 00:29:21,119 --> 00:29:23,039 like and you get some Democrats that are quoted in 500 00:29:23,079 --> 00:29:25,160 those pieces too, and they're like, oh, it's just the message, 501 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:27,799 or in the Texter's case, it's the jerrymandering. That's why 502 00:29:27,799 --> 00:29:32,359 we're losing. Yeah, you don't lose seven swing states in 503 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:36,279 a presidential race. You don't lose seven swing states because 504 00:29:36,279 --> 00:29:40,519 of jerrymandering. That's not how that happens. And anyway, the 505 00:29:40,599 --> 00:29:42,640 data on all of this is based on voter registration. 506 00:29:44,839 --> 00:29:48,880 So California now in order to try to combat what 507 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:51,200 Texas is doing, which by the way, not for nothing, 508 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:56,599 but Texas is actually allowed to do a mid decade redistricting. 509 00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:00,160 They're allowed to do it. They're following the law. You 510 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:02,720 may not like that, but they are following the law. 511 00:30:02,759 --> 00:30:04,559 There's nothing illegal about what they're doing. 512 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:05,559 Speaker 1: Now. 513 00:30:05,599 --> 00:30:10,519 Speaker 2: California, on the other hand, that's a bit different. See 514 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:16,079 California actually has a constitutional provision that says lawmakers are 515 00:30:16,119 --> 00:30:19,480 not allowed to draw maps, which, by the way, they did. 516 00:30:20,079 --> 00:30:28,240 The California Democrats drew themselves a map in secret, and 517 00:30:28,279 --> 00:30:30,720 now they're going to put this on the referen on 518 00:30:30,759 --> 00:30:34,079 a ballot for a referendum because they need voter approval 519 00:30:35,079 --> 00:30:40,880 to not go through their quote independent Redistricting Commission. Okay, 520 00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:50,119 that's what's constitutionally proscribed, independent redistricting commission. But they want 521 00:30:50,119 --> 00:30:53,640 to throw those maps out, so they need to go 522 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:58,200 to the voters to ask for it. California has already 523 00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:03,759 has an overwhelmingly Democratic delegation in Congress, reports Colmatters dot org. 524 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:05,119 Speaker 1: It's on the left. 525 00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:09,079 Speaker 2: Governor Newsom's plan could give his party five more seats 526 00:31:09,119 --> 00:31:10,839 and off set a Texas jerrymander. 527 00:31:11,039 --> 00:31:12,079 Speaker 1: And it could. 528 00:31:13,319 --> 00:31:18,920 Speaker 2: It might not because again, they've already jerrymandered it pretty well, 529 00:31:20,559 --> 00:31:26,799 and states like California, Illinois, New York, Maryland, they've already 530 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:32,920 jerrymandered to disproportionately advantage Democrats. And when you look at 531 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:37,440 their maps, they are insane. They you know it's there. 532 00:31:38,279 --> 00:31:40,319 People talk about jerrymandering like, oh, I'll know it when 533 00:31:40,319 --> 00:31:43,960 I see it, you know, because you look at some maps, 534 00:31:44,119 --> 00:31:46,359 and you wouldn't be able to tell just looking at 535 00:31:46,359 --> 00:31:49,519 the map that this is obviously a jerrymander. You could 536 00:31:49,519 --> 00:31:51,400 look at other maps, like the one in Illinois where 537 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:52,960 you got some part of it that starts in the 538 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,279 southern part of Illinois and then gets really really tiny 539 00:31:55,319 --> 00:31:58,200 and goes up and then turns left and then goes 540 00:31:58,279 --> 00:32:00,200 up again, and then turns right and goes up to 541 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:04,839 the top right. It's like this tiny little squiggle line. 542 00:32:05,119 --> 00:32:07,920 Maryland is no better, and they do that in order 543 00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:12,599 to disenfranchise Republican voters. So you have states where you've got, 544 00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:17,920 like California, forty percent of California, I believe was had 545 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:22,279 voted for Donald Trump, but they don't have forty percent 546 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:25,480 of the House seats. 547 00:32:26,599 --> 00:32:27,200 Speaker 1: And that's the. 548 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:30,799 Speaker 2: Proportional argument that Democrats have made in North Carolina for 549 00:32:30,839 --> 00:32:35,000 twenty years, that we need to look at proportional representation 550 00:32:35,319 --> 00:32:38,079 so whatever the presidential candidate gets, that's how many seats 551 00:32:38,079 --> 00:32:41,640 we should get. However many votes go what percentage of 552 00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:45,359 the votes go for a governor, then that's how many 553 00:32:45,359 --> 00:32:47,880 seats we should get. Whatever argument they need to make 554 00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:51,319 at any given time. But you look at their states 555 00:32:51,319 --> 00:32:55,359 that they control, and they don't reflect those values. They 556 00:32:55,359 --> 00:32:59,839 don't have a consistent standard. So it's just an argument 557 00:32:59,880 --> 00:33:03,039 that they make in a particular state. Like Mark Elias, 558 00:33:03,279 --> 00:33:06,960 the Democrat lawyer who sues North Carolina every other week 559 00:33:07,799 --> 00:33:12,960 and sues us on our redistricting maps, yet then defends 560 00:33:13,359 --> 00:33:17,359 the Maryland map which was thrown out, or sorry, the 561 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:20,039 New York map, which was thrown out as a gerrymander. 562 00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:25,240 They had to do another one. Republicans stand to lose 563 00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:30,720 more than half their seats in the state in California, 564 00:33:31,599 --> 00:33:35,440 so listen to that. The party, so they want to 565 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:39,240 redraw the districts in California, and California's got somewhere around 566 00:33:39,359 --> 00:33:45,119 I forget sixty House members, right, and Republicans are going 567 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:48,839 to lose five seats under the California map, five seats, 568 00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:52,839 and that means they would lose half their seats, which 569 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:55,559 means what they have ten, so they have ten out 570 00:33:55,599 --> 00:34:00,319 of sixty, but they vote Republican by like it's a 571 00:34:00,359 --> 00:34:04,000 sixty to forty split. Democrats don't give them forty percent 572 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:07,880 of the seats. Supporters, led by Gavin Newsom, can tend 573 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:11,639 they are saving democracy by stopping Trump from rigging the 574 00:34:11,679 --> 00:34:15,800 outcome of the midterms. Ultimately, California voters will likely decide 575 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:19,519 in a special election this November. Unlike Texas, where the 576 00:34:19,599 --> 00:34:24,840 legislature determines congressional lines, California voters in twenty ten gave 577 00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:29,159 that power to a bipartisan citizen commission. The commission draws 578 00:34:29,159 --> 00:34:33,519 a new map once each decade after the census. Newsom 579 00:34:33,599 --> 00:34:40,039 is proposing to temporarily suspend the democracy in order to 580 00:34:40,119 --> 00:34:45,679 save the democracy. You see, so temporarily override the commission 581 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:50,320 and create districts favorable to Democrats until the twenty thirty census, 582 00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:52,639 and then we'll totally go back to that old way 583 00:34:52,639 --> 00:34:55,000 of doing things and give Republicans more seats at that point. 584 00:34:55,159 --> 00:34:56,679 Speaker 1: Tour Okay. 585 00:34:57,519 --> 00:35:01,000 Speaker 2: Democrat officials drew a map in secret, they shared it 586 00:35:01,039 --> 00:35:02,239 to the public on Friday. 587 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:03,639 Speaker 1: The legislature. 588 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:06,039 Speaker 2: Three quarters of the members or Democrats planned to vote 589 00:35:06,079 --> 00:35:08,000 before the end of the week to put that map 590 00:35:08,039 --> 00:35:11,280 on the ballot, because they're on a tight time frame here, 591 00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,440 because the lines need to be in place by the 592 00:35:14,519 --> 00:35:16,400 end of the year, so you know, if you're going 593 00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:18,760 to run for office, you know what your district looks like. 594 00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:24,000 Newsom is looking at the November fourth special election to 595 00:35:24,079 --> 00:35:28,920 consolidate with the municipal elections which are already happening across 596 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:32,079 the state. Ballots have to be ready though, by late September, 597 00:35:32,119 --> 00:35:34,840 so they are on a bit of a time crunch here. 598 00:35:37,039 --> 00:35:40,840 A Politico poll found that nearly two thirds of California 599 00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:46,320 voters prefer retaining the state's independent redistricting Commission, So they 600 00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:48,920 got a bit of a heavy lift here. And there's 601 00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:51,000 going to be a ton of money that comes in 602 00:35:51,039 --> 00:35:55,440 from Charles Munger, longtime Republican donor, who poured twelve million 603 00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:58,400 dollars into the campaign to pass the independent redistricting and 604 00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:03,480 he is opposed to this reference. All right, that'll do 605 00:36:03,519 --> 00:36:06,039 it for this episode. 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