Speaker 1: In California's twenty twenty six midterm election, voters are going
Speaker 1: to be asked to vote on propositions four and five
Speaker 1: relating to recalls of politicians and possible public financing of
Speaker 1: politicians political campaigns coming up. I'll tell you in simple
Speaker 1: terms what propositions four and five do and explain why
Speaker 1: you should vote no on both of them. I'm Carl Tobio,
Speaker 1: chairman of Reform California and a California state representative, and
Speaker 1: we are doing explainer videos on every measure on your ballot.
Speaker 1: Before I get into propositions four and five and why
Speaker 1: we're urging a no vote on those, I want to
Speaker 1: direct you to our easy to use website, Election Guide
Speaker 1: California dot org. Election Guide California dot org. That is
Speaker 1: the plain English Reform California voter Guide, and we have
Speaker 1: one for every county. So when you go to that
Speaker 1: website Election Guide California dot org, type in your county
Speaker 1: and you will get a full, simple to understand digest
Speaker 1: of every measure on your ballot, including your local measures.
Speaker 1: So all fourteen statewide measures in any local measures on
Speaker 1: your ballot will be addressed in simple, plain English terms.
Speaker 1: Up there. Remember, politicians use false and misleading ballot titles
Speaker 1: on these measures to try to manipulate the vote. We
Speaker 1: need to make sure you know what you're voting on
Speaker 1: so you can make an informed decision. Also, many voters
Speaker 1: are frustrated that they don't have information on candidates running
Speaker 1: for office in their area, like judge or school board.
Speaker 1: We offer recommendations and endorsements of only the reform minded,
Speaker 1: common sense, tax fighting candidates for every office on your ballot,
Speaker 1: So check out that website Election Guide California dot org.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Propositions four and five. Both of these
Speaker 1: relate to campaigns and elections. Proposition basically says that it
Speaker 1: would reform the campaign finance system in California by allowing
Speaker 1: public financing of campaigns. The supporters of the proposition for
Speaker 1: say that the little guy can't afford to run a
Speaker 1: campaign for office. But the little guy is up against
Speaker 1: the special interests. Excuse me, but who are the big
Speaker 1: guys in California? Well, that would be the Democrats supermajority.
Speaker 1: And the Democrats who say they fight for the little
Speaker 1: guy are the ones getting the corporate money, the lobbyist money,
Speaker 1: the special interest money, the Union money. They are quite
Speaker 1: well funded. Who's supporting Prop forward the people who are
Speaker 1: in office already, not the little guy. No, little guy
Speaker 1: candidates drafted this measure, collected the signatures and put this
Speaker 1: on the ballot. No, this was put on the ballot
Speaker 1: by politicians, the big boys. So spare me the argument
Speaker 1: that somehow this is going to benefit little guy candidates.
Speaker 1: Is a measure. Prop four at its heart, is designed
Speaker 1: to get around the voter imposed ban on use of
Speaker 1: tax dollars for campaigns. Years ago, California voters wisely passed
Speaker 1: the Political Reform Act, And because they passed that measure,
Speaker 1: only voters can modify that measure. And so the voters
Speaker 1: said through the Political Reform Act that politicians should not
Speaker 1: use taxpayer money for elections, full stop. Taxpayer money should
Speaker 1: be going to public services, not political campaigns. The politicians
Speaker 1: have tried to open loopholes in this ban over the years,
Speaker 1: and the courts have struck them down. So that's why
Speaker 1: they have to put four on the ballot. You need
Speaker 1: to con the voters into giving them permission to raid
Speaker 1: your tax dollars for their campaigns. Right now, they're already
Speaker 1: using your tax payer money for campaigns. What they do
Speaker 1: is they give grants to non governmental organizations NGOs far
Speaker 1: left NGOs to provide therapy services or education in outreach services. Well,
Speaker 1: basically the contracts in grants have no deliverables. But these
Speaker 1: groups are very politically active, and they harvest ballots, and
Speaker 1: they recruit candidates, and they support candidates and ballot measures,
Speaker 1: so they're already getting around the ban. This would open
Speaker 1: up the door wide and say that they can give
Speaker 1: it directly to politicians for their campaigns. That is why
Speaker 1: we urge a no vote on Proposition for Before I
Speaker 1: go on for Prop four, The most infuriating and deceptive
Speaker 1: portion of this measure is when you look closely on
Speaker 1: the ballot title and label, they say will cost only
Speaker 1: a few hundred thousand dollars each year for the state
Speaker 1: to implement this measure that presumes that politicians spend zero
Speaker 1: money on public financing of their elections. You know the
Speaker 1: reason why they're passing this is so they can spend
Speaker 1: millions and millions, hundreds of millions of dollars of your
Speaker 1: tax payer money on their elections. So they're lying to
Speaker 1: you when they say it's only a few hundred thousand
Speaker 1: dollars for the cost of the measure. The next proposition
Speaker 1: is Proposition five. This would weaken citizens' right to recall
Speaker 1: politicians from office. The guy who wrote it is actually
Speaker 1: a failed politician who himself was recalled from office State
Speaker 1: Senator Josh Newman. I led the recall against him in
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, and we booted him out of office. He
Speaker 1: doesn't like that. It's always stuck with them that this
Speaker 1: is a bad, bad thing to have. Recalls shouldn't happen.
Speaker 1: He actually says that recalls are bad. So he's got
Speaker 1: Proposition five to gut our recall rights by basically saying,
Speaker 1: when we have a recall election, the voters should only
Speaker 1: be able to decide one thing, whether a candidate or
Speaker 1: an officeholder is recalled. They shouldn't be able to decide
Speaker 1: on that same ballot whether to replace that politician was
Speaker 1: someone of their choosing. So, in other words, we're limiting
Speaker 1: voter's choice for who represents them in an office. As
Speaker 1: a result of Proposition five, the lieutenant governor would remain
Speaker 1: governor rather than the voters deciding who gets to be governor,
Speaker 1: but for all other offices, the office would remain vacant
Speaker 1: in a recall, and we'd have to schedule a second
Speaker 1: election at millions and millions of dollars of cost to
Speaker 1: taxpayers for each election. This is insane. We should be
Speaker 1: able to continue the process for recalls where if someone
Speaker 1: is being recalled from office, we first vote on the
Speaker 1: ballot yes or no to recall them, and secondly we say,
Speaker 1: if they're recalled, here's who we want to take over
Speaker 1: a representation so that we don't have a a lag
Speaker 1: in representation if someone's recalled. Please don't weakend the recall
Speaker 1: provision in the state constitution. It's one of the only
Speaker 1: things we have the whole politicians accountable. So no on
Speaker 1: Prop four, No on Prop five. Please like this video
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Speaker 1: Prop four and five actually do. Share the video, and
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Speaker 1: guide to know what you're voting on until next time.
Speaker 1: I'm Carl Tomo, Chairmer of Reform California and a California
Speaker 1: state representative. Thanks for watching and I hope you enjoyed
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