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Aye, from NEPA Valley TV studios at 1600 Myrtle Avenue in NEPA Valley, California and streaming

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live online from the lakes of Minnesota to the hills of Tennessee across the plains of

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Texas and from sea to shining sea and from Detroit down to Houston and from New York

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to LA, it's on the edge with Doris Gentry. Tonight's guest, political educator, Kevin West,

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candidate for District One Supervisor, Garrett Hale. And joining us via Zoom, candidate

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for Governor of California, Christian Morales. I'm Lauren Moll and here's your host, Doris

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Gentry!

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Yay!

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And you're always so on it. I'm so proud of you. Thank you very much.

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Thanks Doris. I'm proud of you too.

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awesome awesome awesome so tonight we have a plethora of candidates and we have a

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governor candidate via zoom but you know what you might not know this he was

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live in Napa just this past week he came and presented himself in person to

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our Republican women's luncheon and I'm telling you you are in for a treat so

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So don't change the channel, because at 815 you will hear from Christian Morales.

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He is a dynamo, and I cannot wait for you to meet him here from him.

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But before we do, I want to introduce you to Garrett Hale, and Garrett, he has to be here

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at Doris.

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Running for District One, County Board Supervisor, and I've got news for you, Garrett's going

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to win this thing.

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Yeah, running absolutely running is true. I run I tell you I'm getting about four hours

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a sleep at day, but it's such a blessing to see so many people running running have a pair of

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the shoes have you run through huh I tell you what it's crazy right ready for office. I'm like

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what are you thinking? Why did you do this? What in the world? Why did you do this? Why are you

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running so many people in the community ask me to run and born and raised here in Napa. I really

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love nap I love the people and I'm you know my dream is that both cultures can

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come together. What do you mean both cultures for culture you

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Hispanic? Well yes on my mom's side I the my mom's family on her mother's

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side are from Guatemala, Mexico, Sena Loa as well. And you speak a spaniol.

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Say it by the love of love. So you have to you know in nap it's you know

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integration is really important. And being in construction for 37 years and having the

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heritage that I have, I really have been integrated in the Hispanic culture. And I see a lot

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of things that need still to be improved. And I'm doing what I can to integrate the

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two, the Hispanic community and the local, you know, born and raised community that it's

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here. And people ask me, oh, what are we going to do about racism and things like this?

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And I thought, well, if you didn't bring it from other cities, first of all, it wouldn't

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Quit talking about it. Most of it will be over. I said, do what I do. Invite them to your parties.

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Fair.

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Invite them, right? Easy. In fact, again, next Tuesday, we have a Latin Dance party

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and a big, big integration. People are so, so happy when the Hispanics have come out now

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to the Country Club Advancing. We did a big Cinco de Mayo and it was a great integration.

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And just the excitement that you can see people's face that we might finally have an opportunity.

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And I'm running on my campaign with the Hispanic community that if we all work together for the same opportunities, and we can all share the same dreams one day.

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Absolutely. Absolutely. You know, Kevin, I think you have some slides for us. Are we going to look at some pictures?

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I do, actually. Yeah. So yeah, we can. Yeah, let's go and look. In fact, we were talking about the two events that you're talking about. We have some slides for those.

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So, let's actually pull up a event that I know both of you and I went to recently.

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Let's go back to the one the nurses week slide.

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Okay, so the nurses day was just this week, this last week, and you and I went to that,

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and one of our candidates, Matt Hooper, Hooper for Super, was there, and actually was a huge sponsor of this event.

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I'm excited I'm doing this because guess who's a nurse in this room Doris. I'm a registered nurse

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You're a nurse. I was truly honored to be invited to that to that

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dinner early in ceremony. They had but really pleased to see one of our hosts or one of our hour candidates

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What are the primary house really?

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Page add the really yeah really supporting the nurses in our community. So

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that was fabulous and then we do have some slides from your events here I

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don't know if you have if you knew I had these but let's put it there we go so

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there's a thing good to my own you see some of there are definitely some

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Hispanic folks there and definitely some non-Hispanics folks there yeah that

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bull I love that bull and there's little kids crawling on that bull and that

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was what is that thing called as a mechanical ball mechanical

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ball. And I saw people being thrown off of that ball and it

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was so fun. Yeah, it was a fun fun part. You are that I mean

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if nothing else, we should elect you because you're just

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dad gunned fun. I know. Who those were some big trucks there

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who were we were. We were at Halario's. Halario's first start

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as hilarious auto repair. Uh-huh. And then his sons expanded with him to

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hilarious tires and wheels. Great. And they do lift kits. They do amazing

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work. Beautiful. They have trucks there. Oh, the shop is nice. You can eat off

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the shop. Like line green and hot pink and and and red. And once it started

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getting kind of dark, you can see all the way those trucks were all lighted up.

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Yeah. So I told my son, Romero. I'm like, oh, oh, I want

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that because knock it off, you cannot. Your car is a little infinity. You drive a

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grandma car. You cannot do this. I said, but if I did this to my car, it wouldn't

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be a grandma car anymore. And he goes, stop it. You can't do this to your car.

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Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, this guy's a little hurry. He just clearly do really good work. I

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would know. It's amazing. It's amazing to see those trucks up close. Yeah. And then we

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have another slide for you. We're talking about a dance coming up. So let's bring up a slide about that dance. Great. So well you tell us the events here will tell us. Yeah, it's coming up next Tuesday. Yeah, Tuesday from five to 10 or or whenever we shut it down. And another.

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I'm going to be 95 degrees on Tuesday, so I see this thing going way past 10 o'clock.

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But more excitement, integration.

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I'm doing a best dressed competition so that there's a participation and people can feel included.

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Politicians, do you that?

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I don't know.

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Okay, you are.

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I guess so.

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We are.

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So it's a Latin dance party.

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Absolutely.

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Well, this is it was something that that I'm doing and you know with you as well and others

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that I said you don't need to be done.

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This doesn't need to be part of the campaign.

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I'm doing it for the right reason.

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Regardless.

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And so you just got the flyers, right?

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I did.

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There's still hot.

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There's still hot in the truck.

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there's the ink is still wet right yeah and we're putting the flyers out in all the Mexican markets

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and not 10 minutes ago it may be 15 let's give it 15 minutes time I dropped it right we're dropping

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the flyers in the Mexican markets and we get a notice from one of your competition that's running

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against you. And what did she say? Can I please come?

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It's good. You know, when I've been

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known, all the debates, I have not been attacked. I've never attacked. I'm not here to sling

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mine. And I've told all the other companies that I'm here to make Napa a greater place. I really

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love this community. And I'm here to help the people and be a voice of the people. And for that,

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I have never been criticized by any of my opponents, so it's always good to know.

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Why would you criticize the party guy?

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I know.

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I know.

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The guy that has the parties, why would you sling that at the guy that throws the party?

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He's clearly not the normal politician if he's having parties like this for anybody who

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wants to come.

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Anybody who wants to come.

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Now I know why you're doing best dress because some of these Latin people show up in bikinis

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in many skirts and like friends. So best dress means at least I have some clothes on.

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Yes. Yes, it'll be appropriate. This will be a good thing. Yeah, I'm okay. I'm telling you,

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the sickle de miro was a blast. Oh, it was so much fun. I can't imagine this being any less.

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Okay, and so I had some soup for my very first time. Oh my goodness. So Christian Morales is on Zoom.

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We're going to have him in a minute.

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Let's see, in about three minutes.

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But I had a soup, but that had a harmony in it.

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OK, right?

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Absolutely.

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With harmony.

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And it had like chunks of meat in it

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in like this floating red broth.

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Those are pig's feet.

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No, tell me what it was.

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Don't, don't, don't, don't.

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Sun, oh, oh, because you know, he's Hispanic.

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and I quit adopted him just a couple of years ago.

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So for those of you who don't know,

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I've had 300 teen foster boys live in my home,

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and then I adopted one, so I stopped.

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He's the last one.

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He's proud of that.

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He always tells everybody, I'm the last one.

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There's no more, so anyway.

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So he brings me this bowl of soup,

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and it's called.

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Pasole, Pasole.

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I can't even say the word.

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It sounds like piss on me, or something.

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It's my wife's favorite soup.

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It is now my favorite soup, right? So on the

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60 years old and I ate harmony, are you kidding me?

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It was the most delicious thing on earth.

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And I ate it there and I don't know who made it.

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Hello, Gio.

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Hilario's wife's mother.

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So his mother-in-law.

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The food was great.

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I went home and told my wife that she missed

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and she was very sad.

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This is one of her favorite things ever.

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Man, I wanted to go home and get baggies

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and come back and bring stuff.

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It's so nice. You know what people say?

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You're going into politics.

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I said no. I'm going in because the people of Napa

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asked me to run for office because the people of Napa

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know 37 years I've been in their homes.

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They can trust me.

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So they can now trust me.

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People in Napa are giving you their key code,

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their past code, their front door code.

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I move the Ferraris or Lamborghini's your name at trust is imperative and right now

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In that someone just I was talking to you this morning and

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Someone you filled out one of the the forms right that the

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One of the forms anyway you were talking to the lady and she goes oh yes

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I'm on so many forms and so many conference calls I know right because when you run for office

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But anyway, you're talking to this lady this morning.

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She goes, oh, would you be my electric, right?

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Didn't you just this morning something about keeping up

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a green and whether or not Garrett was a good candidate or not.

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And obviously, through my answers, I recently answered for

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they she felt confident enough to ask me to be her electrician.

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So, you know, one is my heart.

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I love people.

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I love Napa and we live in an amazing place.

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Great thing to make better.

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we do. So I think it's coming up on about time for us to introduce our Governor

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Candidate and do our flip over and I don't know how we do all this. I've got a

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whole crew of people here that are staring at me that know all this better than

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me. I don't know what we're doing but we're flipping over to our beautiful Governor

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Candidate, Chris Jim Morales. So how do we do that? There he is. Oh we did it. There he is.

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Thank you for having me tonight. I really appreciate it.

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There we go. So, Christian, you are amazing. I am so honored and humbled and so proud to have you with us this evening.

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And more humbled and proud that you were in Napa just last week.

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it. Yeah, no, it's been

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absolutely one of the most

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beautiful areas in California.

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And thank you for having me

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there and hosting me.

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I truly appreciate it.

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Tell us why are you running?

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What the heck?

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I mean, you're running for

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governor of the whole state at

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California. What is wrong with

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you? So unfortunately, things

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aren't going well. And I

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felt it was time for someone

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like myself to step into the

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race. And the reason I got into

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the race is I'll just cut to

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the chase. More than 300 companies, manufacturing companies that relocated out of the state since

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governor knew some startups, 10 years governor in January of 2019 and I as somebody that has worked

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in the manufacturing industry for more than 20 years and I've been privileged to work with some of

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the most privileged people that I've worked with over that time frame. I've seen the impact that's

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had in our community in the manufacturing industry and not just the manufacturing industry but

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We've had other industries that have decided to relocate their business, how to stay in.

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California is no longer the place to do business anymore in the country.

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And that's very unfortunate because we've always been the leader in innovation.

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And this should be the place that should be the place that people manufacture products.

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And it's impacted disproportionately the working class.

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And that's why I'm in this place.

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I'm here.

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I invite for the working class of this state, and more importantly for all Californians that want to continue living in the state. And the current status, the sex pool of Governor Gavin Newsom should not be accepted across the board, every single measurable metric that we track from poverty rate, when we have the highest poverty rate, the highest unemployment rate, the second highest unaffordable unaffordability rate in terms of housing.

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It's just, it is just wrong for us to be that, that, that, that, for in terms of performance

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as a state.

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And I would have stolen that myself, someone that immigrated to this country, I immigrated

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from a small country called Guatemala and Central America, fully bilingual out of running, fully

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bilingual campaign.

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So, all of that, I don't want to have to get out of Spanish.

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And I feel I'm the best person to communicate the values of conservatism, of being a conservative

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and a Republican here, and more importantly, Americanism to the state of California, to all

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California.

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At the end of the day, we're all in this together, and we all want what's best for our families

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and for ourselves, and what's best for California.

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Great question.

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This is Kevin.

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Big name.

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One of the things that we teach on the show and have taught all year long is the U.S. Constitution,

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and that's very clear about how government should work and the different branches and

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what they're supposed to do.

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I think we've seen with our current governor, Governor Newsom, that he's gone a little overboard

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with what he's supposed to be doing.

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Tell us what you think about the governor's role in the average citizen's life.

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So, I believe the governor should be an advocate for the people and making their lives better.

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Playing simple.

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And I believe there's an opinion that's obviously an overreach by the governor in terms

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of intruding.

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how we live our lives on a daily basis from the vaccine man base that were mandated prior to them getting approval by the CDC to just how he conducts his business.

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It just seems like he's politically driven and I'm driven by any sort of basis in terms of science.

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And that's very unfortunate because at the end of the day that has impacted a lot of California and this is unfortunately who believe obviously like myself and medical freedom.

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We should have been driven by science-based metrics and we should not be driven by a governor

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that's helped and I'm just trying to indoctrinate his personal beliefs on the rest of California's.

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Absolutely, excellently, excellently said and so now that you're running tell us what is your

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greatest accomplishment as you're running and you're going up and down the whole state of California.

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What do you feel like you're getting traction with?

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What's your success story?

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The women of California.

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Absolutely.

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I've had the privilege to speak to 25 summer Republican women

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and federated organizations throughout the state.

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And I tell the story of my mom, my mom who came,

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like my dad, from adjectivity.

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My mom came from a generation in Latin America

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where a lot of women just did not pursue a higher education.

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And my mom, you know, obviously she raised not just myself or my brother and my sister and that would have been satisfactory.

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Motherhood, of course, is an absolute thing, something that should be relished.

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But she wanted something better for herself once we came to this country.

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It was my dad pursued a PhD in genetics at Purdue University.

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She also wanted to pursue, to better herself.

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And she ended up pursuing the gradual work that she wanted to and she attained the master's degree from her university as well.

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And I tell that story because there's a lot of people that come to this country that share my mom's history in terms of wanting to better herself as a woman.

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And that's why I've made the center point of point to at least Republican women federated events.

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And I've mentioned this statement. At the end of the day, women in California are going to decide whether or not I advance past the primary election or not.

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But I'm focusing on making my pitch to them, and just a reception that I've received,

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and them allowing me to make my pitch towards them about why I'm the best candidate in

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this race to represent the remote party, has been, I believe, my biggest success today.

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That is phenomenal.

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Gosh, I'm really God-snacked, I really appreciate it, so as far as the Republican issues, you might

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have heard today, or yesterday, that Elon Musk came out and said that the Democrat Party

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has left him, you know, he's still standing where he was standing, and the Democrat Party

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has moved away, and he will no longer be voting for a Democrat.

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He will be voting for a Republican, and we've been talking for a long time about the red wave.

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We see a red wave and we've been talking about the red waves coming and we think the red waves here.

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Can you talk about that?

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Yes, and I believe that most importantly here in California we cannot become complacent.

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Yes, our state is one of the bluest states in terms of registration rates.

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states, 47% of the state are registered as Democrats, 25% of the state are registered

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as independence, and 24% of the state are registered as Republicans.

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So, yes, the red wave is possible in California, but we need the right candidate, and I believe

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on that candidate that will be able to bring together not just the Republican base, the conservative

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Republican base, but more importantly, really attract and really rebrand the Republican party

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here in the state of California as the party of the future for the state.

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And what I mean by that is just simply, we're the party of being inclusive.

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We're inclusive to wanting to just get things back to normal, stop the madness and sacraman

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out, and just be able to advocate for just common sense of policies, to be able to have

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businesses be able to stay in the state of California, people to make their own decisions

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in terms of their medical needs, in terms of themselves and their families, and more importantly,

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making decisions based on their families, they believe in public choice, and a big believer

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because I'm a product of public educational choices

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my parents made that on my behalf

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and being able to make decisions on my behalf

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on the parents of California making the decisions

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on educational choice for their shoulder.

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I believe if I sell those points to the people

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of California, regardless of racial demographics

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in this city, where your status is

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in terms of socioeconomic status,

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we're gonna have red wave here in California.

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And I believe for someone like myself

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can really go into these communities,

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broke my sleeves and really drive home the message has not just myself being an immigrant,

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being a Latino immigrant, being a bilingual immigrant. Most importantly, as someone that's

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spent 20 years waiting to earn their U.S. citizenship when I took a pledge in 1999, I believe

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I'm someone that can really sell home the message to Californians that republicanism is the way to go

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So this is Kevin again, Christian, and one of the topics we're talking about as the

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foundation of the red wave that things have got to change right now is the huge amount

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of crime in California right now.

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Let me just give you a couple of examples.

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In LA recently, the president of the police union said, don't come to LA.

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We can't guarantee your safety.

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I know in our area here, we've had two murders recently at Safeways.

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We've had people shooting a person shooting at somebody on the road in the car.

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We've seen a lot of smashing grabs.

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I mean, we've got law right now that allows people to walk in and store the calculator, steal

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up to $950 worth of stuff, and they're not even going to be prosecuted.

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So what's your plan for dealing with crime right now?

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So, first and foremost, this is the first thing that I'm going to tackle when I get into

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office when I become a governor, starting next year. And I believe this is the most

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impending issue that every single Californian feels. And most Californians, if they don't feel

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safe, they have a means they're going to relocate out of the state or move to a safer area,

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which is very unfortunate. So, we have two district attorneys that are in the process of being

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and recalled Chessie Boudin in the San Francisco area and then here in Los Angeles County,

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George Gaston. Both of them have to get removed from office because they're not meeting their

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basic, they're not meeting their job requirements and what they're doing. So we need to send a strong

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message to not just district attorneys across the state, but also to go out on our Gavin Newsome

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that we're not at weed people as citizens of California,

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and I can accept this crime wage that is ongoing

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by them just basically delegating the responsibilities

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of, or the duties are the penalties

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from somebody that is committed to crime.

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So we need to be supportive of the police departments

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and I know the governor got a new,

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so I'm having a very supportive of the funding of the police

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and we need to obviously properly support them.

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So whatever financial measures that we need

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pass to support police to come across the state and me too.

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But most importantly, we need to communicate to these communities that has

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formed, disproportionately feel that they've been impacted by the police departments,

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that the police is not there to, in any way, make their lives

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less safe. They're there to protect people. And I believe someone like myself, again,

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can be that person, to be that messenger in these communities. I understand some

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communities have had interactions, negative interactions with police departments,

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But at the end of the day, these are the people that are here to defend us.

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And they need to be given the proper tools in order to defend us and be allowed to defend

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us.

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And our district attorneys need to be allowed to obviously penalize people who commit crimes.

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Because we're not going to survive this as society if we continue allowing what's going

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on currently here throughout our state.

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Well said.

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Absolutely.

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Absolutely. I can possibly agree with it. It's just absolutely what we need and we all

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are in total agree with that. I just am so impressed by your forthrightness and your

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willingness to run, your willingness to step out and to try your very best. So you have

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about two minutes here. If you want to give us a closing statement and kind of wrap up

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and summarize what your thoughts and ideas are and tell us what how you want to end this.

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Sure. And again, thank you for having me on this show. So my campaign slogan is for all voices.

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And I want to make that very clear from the onset. In the fact that I'm a listener,

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and in my 20 years of manufacturing, in the roles that I've had, I've had to be a listener,

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trying to get our situation, trying to improve our situations in our manufacturing sites

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that perhaps were under last legs in terms of whether or not we're going to keep the facility

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open or not.

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And I'm bringing this to the political arena because I think that's what's missing most.

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People as politicians and as myself, I need to go to these communities to listen to what

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is wrong with the current status quo of these communities.

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And I believe that someone like myself that is level headed, not bombastic, will be able

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to really rebuild the Republican Party to bring a win home come November because right now our

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registration rates have fallen. They've fallen 3% just as Governor Gavin Newsom has started despite

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all the things that Governor Gavin Newsom has done wrong. So I believe someone like myself will be

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able to really bring back the Republican Party, win over Democrats, win over disaffected Democrats,

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win over independence, and really bring us together to be able to bring forward a better future for

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for the state of California. And I'll finish with this. Immigration is going to be front and center

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here in a couple weeks after Title 42 is eventually resented. And as someone that is a product of

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immigration, legal immigration, I believe I am best set to be the face of what we can do, what is

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what is good immigration for the state of California. And that includes all the innovators in

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in Silicon Valley.

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And I believe I can talk to the best of it,

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but at the same time,

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be understanding empathetic to the rest

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of the immigrant community here in California

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and try to define solutions that will be best served

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for all of us here in California.

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Because at the end of the day,

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all of us are going to succeed together

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or we're gonna fail together.

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And I hope to be that captain

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to be able to bring forth

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the best of California going forward.

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And this nightmare of Governor Gavin News.

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Thank you so much, Christian. We are so honored to have you here with us tonight. We're

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going to cut now to Lauren Mall.

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our YouTube channel. And now back to our doors, Gentry! Yay! So we had a wonderful time

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there visiting with Christian Morales who is running for Governor of the State of California.

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If you received your ballot, you might have noticed there are like two columns of people

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running for governor. I mean, there are a bunch of people running for governor. It's phenomenal.

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And, you know, it's hard to personally know these people. You read so many names and you read

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the bios and you're like, okay, who is that? But here's somebody who drove to Napa, who spoke in Napa

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last week who now came on our TV show and who exhibited some, you know, awareness of

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understanding of the Constitution of law enforcement, and I'm pretty smitten with this guy.

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Yeah.

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No passionate intelligence.

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This is your second time to hear it.

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What do you think?

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I'm impressed.

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Yes.

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Absolutely impressed.

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And of course, the opportunity for someone to hear first hand and meet first-hand a candidate

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And here, as you said, there's two columns of candidates there and not repeat candidates.

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We thought at least some of the candidates when we were going through the recall would

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be back on the ballot.

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But new candidates and the other ones, I don't know, they went off into the dust, but what

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What a solid guy, Christian.

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Solid guy with morals, ethics, he understands borders.

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I'm sorry.

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Language, culture. 20 years he tried to become an American citizen. That process has got to be fixed. I understand that we have concerns about the number of people coming across the border right now. But once you've come across the border the right way, once you've done what we've asked you to do, there needs to be a way to become a citizen, right? You can't keep living alone. You need to learn the language, and we need to help you.

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We need to take your hand and help you.

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But there needs to be a method to say I am now a citizen.

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I am able to do this and move on with your work.

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So many people, of course they talked to so many residents

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that are here that have their EIN right away.

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They got you to pay your federal tax, right?

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So they're taking your money, but they won't register you

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and give you equity in the United States.

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But without equity, what are you?

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Right?

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You're just floating.

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Yeah, but they continue to get your vote because they keep you on the hook what we're gonna. We're gonna

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We're gonna so we're gonna get your vote because we're gonna eventually get your citizenship here

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But yeah 20 years across the board here over and over I can see that frustration

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I mean I completely understand why people are frustrated enough to end up with illegal immigration right because if you come here

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And you still can't become a citizen. You're doing the right things. You've come you've you've you've followed the right path to get across the

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border and you've showed up a court when you need to show up a court and you're learning

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the language and you're working, you're paying taxes, you're doing all the right stuff.

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You need to be, you need to have a result there.

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Imagine our administrative costs to keep these citizens, future citizens, to be on the hook

447
00:31:41,780 --> 00:31:46,120
for 10, 20 years, billions, it's costing us taxpayers.

448
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:50,820
So it's so counterproductive, but it's all about the votes.

449
00:31:50,820 --> 00:31:59,960
Well said counterproductive. So do you have another photo to show us or do we go through

450
00:31:59,960 --> 00:32:04,020
what you want? We have a few more event type things. We want to go through that we can.

451
00:32:04,500 --> 00:32:07,860
Let's go through that. One of the things you and I have talked about recently on the show

452
00:32:07,860 --> 00:32:12,880
quite a bit is that a lot of conservatives in Napa County feel isolated. They don't feel like

453
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:17,320
there's anybody else who thinks the way they do. Well, we've shown several events already.

454
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:20,540
this last couple of three weeks that people could have shown up and met some other people.

455
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:27,440
And here we have some other things going on that people can go to and they can join other conservatives.

456
00:32:27,740 --> 00:32:32,300
One big one, I know you and I were very sad last week because something was going on during the showtime

457
00:32:32,300 --> 00:32:36,260
that we weren't able to go and see. And that's the 2,000 mules movie.

458
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:37,200
Exactly.

459
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:41,880
So we really wanted to go see Dinesh Tassuz's 2,000 mules movie.

460
00:32:42,180 --> 00:32:43,200
We got a great slide here.

461
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:48,120
well I was very sad that it was only one night in the theater when we were

462
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:52,620
actually on TV and I couldn't go but now there are seven more days in the theater

463
00:32:52,620 --> 00:32:56,480
and here's a scan me right here go ahead and pull your phones out and scan

464
00:32:56,480 --> 00:33:02,160
and you can go straight to the 2000 mules website it's 2000 mules.com and click

465
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:05,780
in the upper right hand corner and it will show you what theater tell you which

466
00:33:05,780 --> 00:33:10,620
theaters and I mean each day there are like seven days. It's seven days right here in

467
00:33:10,620 --> 00:33:13,620
you can go on fan day and go and buy your tickets.

468
00:33:13,860 --> 00:33:16,700
In several showings per day and seven times a day.

469
00:33:16,700 --> 00:33:18,820
And multiple showings per day and it's showing

470
00:33:18,820 --> 00:33:21,960
for the next seven days that starts this Thursday.

471
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:25,680
And for the next seven days it's showing right here in Napa.

472
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:26,540
Yeah, yeah.

473
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:29,740
So, and this one's near and dear to your heart.

474
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,580
The Napa Valley, another slide here.

475
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:34,520
Napa Valley Republican women federated.

476
00:33:35,860 --> 00:33:37,700
Second Thursdays, I know that just passed,

477
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:39,460
but I just want people to know that every month

478
00:33:39,460 --> 00:33:42,120
And so at the next event in

479
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:43,560
June, we're going to be

480
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:46,260
meeting at the Napa Valley

481
00:33:46,260 --> 00:33:47,660
Country Club. And we have

482
00:33:47,660 --> 00:33:49,880
our big fashion show. Checos

483
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:51,720
will be supplying the clothing.

484
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:55,000
And we usually have 100, 120

485
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:56,600
people show up for that. It's

486
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,820
a really big deal. But more

487
00:33:58,820 --> 00:34:00,420
importantly, tomorrow night, we

488
00:34:00,420 --> 00:34:01,920
have a big event coming up.

489
00:34:02,340 --> 00:34:03,940
Yes, tomorrow night. Got a

490
00:34:03,940 --> 00:34:07,460
slide for that, too. So let's

491
00:34:07,460 --> 00:34:15,040
have from 5.30 to 7 p.m. We have the normal. It's normally the open meeting for the Republican

492
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:18,160
Party here in Napa County, but we have some special stuff going on tomorrow night.

493
00:34:18,420 --> 00:34:26,220
Tomorrow night we have both sheriff candidates will be there as well as you can meet and talk

494
00:34:26,220 --> 00:34:35,540
in person to Garrett Hale in person and Brian Pritchard. So Brian and Garrett Hale will be there

495
00:34:35,540 --> 00:34:40,760
in person, Matt Hooper won't be able to join us, but Garrett Hale and Brian Pritchard will

496
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:48,860
be there in person, as well as both of our sheriff candidates. So we have John Crawford

497
00:34:48,860 --> 00:34:58,540
and Oscar Ortiz, both tomorrow night. We're going to talk to them side by side, and we're

498
00:34:58,540 --> 00:35:04,460
going to be able to ask questions. And the questions are going to be put on cards and put

499
00:35:04,460 --> 00:35:13,880
into a basket and then read by our communicator, Steve Roseburg. So they won't be emotional,

500
00:35:14,380 --> 00:35:22,280
they won't be long drawn out speeches, they'll just be a question, you know, and it'll

501
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:29,500
be very, very good. And we have captured a lot of attention for this event tomorrow night.

502
00:35:29,500 --> 00:35:36,520
We have quite a few guests that have already contacted me that will be coming, and I'm

503
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:43,460
very happy Pastor Allen Galloway of First Christian Church is joining us and he's

504
00:35:43,460 --> 00:35:45,460
going to be in our opening prayer.

505
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:52,340
And so it's going to be a very nice event, but I think it's so important to meet the candidates

506
00:35:52,340 --> 00:35:56,340
just like we experience just now with Christian Morales.

507
00:35:56,340 --> 00:35:56,980
That was wonderful.

508
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:00,300
wonderful to meet him in

509
00:36:00,300 --> 00:36:03,180
person. Second desk to meet

510
00:36:03,180 --> 00:36:04,700
him on zoom. And be able

511
00:36:04,700 --> 00:36:06,900
to ask him questions here

512
00:36:06,900 --> 00:36:08,960
his heart. You know, and

513
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:10,620
to see, right, that he's

514
00:36:10,620 --> 00:36:13,360
he's so focused enough to

515
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:16,820
even target a local channel.

516
00:36:17,180 --> 00:36:18,260
And that speaks volumes.

517
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:19,620
He's not in it for the

518
00:36:19,620 --> 00:36:21,140
glory. He's in it for the

519
00:36:21,140 --> 00:36:22,860
destiny. Exactly. Just like

520
00:36:22,860 --> 00:36:25,460
us. So yeah. So that's

521
00:36:25,460 --> 00:36:28,760
tomorrow night at Napa Valley Life on Trauer.

522
00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:35,120
Great. I've heard also that there's going to be a speaker for a few minutes there that

523
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:40,840
his name is Kevin West. I heard he's a political educator.

524
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:45,780
He's a political educator. So for those of you who enjoy watching me on TV, you will

525
00:36:45,780 --> 00:36:51,140
actually get to see me live tomorrow night and I will have a few minutes of speaking there.

526
00:36:51,140 --> 00:36:56,720
Yes, and you're going to be talking about election integrity.

527
00:36:56,980 --> 00:36:57,140
Exactly.

528
00:36:57,480 --> 00:36:58,180
Election integrity.

529
00:36:58,300 --> 00:37:03,000
See, focusing on what we can do is Republicans right now to really make a difference.

530
00:37:03,240 --> 00:37:04,880
I mean, the ballots are out, Doris, right?

531
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:10,900
The ballots have been out for a few days now, so voting is on, and the election is just around

532
00:37:10,900 --> 00:37:11,360
the corner.

533
00:37:12,020 --> 00:37:17,640
So, we will be talking about election integrity and what people could do to make a difference

534
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:19,000
while we got the red wave.

535
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:31,960
So, may I share with you concern has erupted today to me that two ballot boxes were dropped

536
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:39,740
off, one in the Walmart parking lot in Napa and one on Solano near the old Valergas which

537
00:37:39,740 --> 00:37:49,880
which is now the new grocery outlet on Solano Avenue, unmanned, unmonetured, just empty

538
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:54,720
ballot boxes dropped off in the parking lots. So all these people are writing to me,

539
00:37:54,820 --> 00:38:02,220
going, I watched 2,000 mules. Who's monitoring these ballot boxes, you know? So I put it

540
00:38:02,220 --> 00:38:09,800
out on Facebook and said, all right, who wants to buy one of those cameras, those hunting

541
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:16,780
cameras, you know, and let's put it up in the tree and let's watch the ballot boxes,

542
00:38:17,020 --> 00:38:23,320
you know, because if it's on public property, then it becomes public accessibility, public

543
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:29,020
domain. You can monitor it. And who wants to sit there in their car with their headlights

544
00:38:29,020 --> 00:38:31,720
from one because most of these

545
00:38:31,720 --> 00:38:33,500
ballots were stuffed in 2000

546
00:38:33,500 --> 00:38:35,240
mules from one in the morning

547
00:38:35,240 --> 00:38:36,680
until five in the morning.

548
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:38,940
Who wants to sit there in their

549
00:38:38,940 --> 00:38:40,620
car and drink coffee like a

550
00:38:40,620 --> 00:38:41,820
surveillance, you know.

551
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:44,180
You don't have to sit in your car

552
00:38:44,180 --> 00:38:45,980
from one until five with your

553
00:38:45,980 --> 00:38:48,660
headlights on on that ballot box.

554
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:50,260
Videoing it.

555
00:38:50,820 --> 00:38:52,420
Let the people know we're watching

556
00:38:52,420 --> 00:38:54,060
you. I'm watching you.

557
00:38:54,780 --> 00:38:57,420
Oh my gosh, I got a landslide

558
00:38:57,420 --> 00:39:03,560
If text messages and private emails and I said to everybody, well, did you post it on my Facebook?

559
00:39:03,980 --> 00:39:10,220
Oh, no, I didn't want people to know I was paying attention, you know, but I'm calling you privately and

560
00:39:10,220 --> 00:39:18,260
People are telling me well, I'll buy the game cameras and my husband's gonna take a ladder out there and go put some game cameras up

561
00:39:18,260 --> 00:39:20,900
And you know a lot of people are watching

562
00:39:20,900 --> 00:39:28,760
in 2000 mules and they're like wanting to monitor these ballot boxes and sit there in their cars and watch them.

563
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:34,480
So yeah, you know, we might not be able to help America, but we can help NAPA.

564
00:39:34,620 --> 00:39:38,520
We can. We can. Election integrity is a huge deal while we're on that.

565
00:39:39,720 --> 00:39:45,140
And we are certainly looking for volunteers for people to help with all aspects of election integrity,

566
00:39:45,140 --> 00:39:50,260
monitoring the polling sites and monitoring the boxes and working at their voter

567
00:39:51,540 --> 00:39:53,520
service centers. Is that what they're called here?

568
00:39:53,720 --> 00:39:58,900
Voter service centers. There's so many positions in times and slots that

569
00:39:58,900 --> 00:40:02,880
we have a schedule for. We just need people to start helping us out.

570
00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:07,640
So all those people are excited about helping with the ballot box issues.

571
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:10,660
There's plenty of things we have to do for keeping our eyes on.

572
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:13,560
And this is key. This is what changed of Virginia.

573
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:19,080
So Virginia last year had a huge election and the top four offices went to Republicans

574
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:24,260
in a state that normally goes to Democrats and it went to them because we had thousands

575
00:40:24,260 --> 00:40:28,900
of people showing up to say we are not going to, we are going to watch this election and

576
00:40:28,900 --> 00:40:32,380
we are going to be make sure that nothing bad happens during this election.

577
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:39,320
And so that is what changed it there is thousands of people over the entire state watching

578
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:43,460
What's going on and saying we're not going to let somebody steal this election here?

579
00:40:43,660 --> 00:40:50,380
Okay, it's going to be a fair election and that is that was what Virginia was all about the the winds we had last year in Virginia

580
00:40:51,820 --> 00:40:54,520
So all right, well, let's turn it back over to Garrett

581
00:40:54,520 --> 00:41:00,240
We've got a little bit of time here. Let's talk about what are you doing? What what do you see yourself doing?

582
00:41:00,240 --> 00:41:06,780
You got about 20 days until the election what what is your focus? What are you doing and what do you want to do?

583
00:41:06,780 --> 00:41:10,200
What do you want to see happen in these next 20 days?

584
00:41:10,500 --> 00:41:11,660
How are we going to get you elected?

585
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:14,460
Next 20 days, I'm still out there knocking door to door.

586
00:41:14,740 --> 00:41:16,640
I believe right up into the end.

587
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:20,080
And a lot of people just naturally will wait,

588
00:41:20,240 --> 00:41:21,860
especially when we're so busy these days.

589
00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:23,460
They'll wait till the last minute,

590
00:41:23,620 --> 00:41:24,840
and like, oh, I got to drop it off today.

591
00:41:25,420 --> 00:41:28,040
That face-to-face time, it means a lot to me,

592
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:31,200
and it means so much to the people at the door.

593
00:41:31,780 --> 00:41:33,840
To actually see the person here and out of their mouth,

594
00:41:33,860 --> 00:41:34,560
what you promise.

595
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:41,840
And the different forums that I've been invited to and the responses that I'm writing online are they're from my heart

596
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:44,040
It's not that I you know, I've when I've had them edited

597
00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:48,680
I've you know went to different people for consulting of you know, how should I answer this?

598
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:51,320
There's only one way to answer it. First start with respect

599
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:54,440
Second with common sense

600
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:56,920
a lot of a lot of this is coming down to

601
00:41:57,780 --> 00:42:03,980
Further development further growth without resources. Well, you know, I wrote back to one about state of California

602
00:42:03,980 --> 00:42:09,140
And I said, well, if we were so blatant to say in our parks, in our state parks, in

603
00:42:09,140 --> 00:42:17,200
NAPA, hey, we want to further develop campfire abilities and issue more campfire permits in

604
00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:17,860
the NAPA Valley.

605
00:42:17,860 --> 00:42:18,980
We would have an uproar.

606
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:20,580
It would be an insanity.

607
00:42:20,740 --> 00:42:21,780
People would think we were nuts.

608
00:42:22,340 --> 00:42:25,700
But yet we want to develop NAPA and further grow NAPA.

609
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:31,880
When at the same time, we have these major water resource issues that were supposedly we

610
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:37,980
We have 30,000 acre feet in one of our reservoirs.

611
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:42,240
And supposedly we're only supposed to use 15,000 acre feet a year.

612
00:42:42,720 --> 00:42:44,540
That's where we can be replenished year to year.

613
00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:49,540
And the reports that are coming out is that we're starting to use upward of 21,000 acre

614
00:42:49,540 --> 00:42:50,280
feet of water.

615
00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:54,380
So then they're talking about further development, further growth.

616
00:42:54,660 --> 00:42:56,080
We want an extra thousand homes.

617
00:42:56,080 --> 00:43:05,160
And I'm I'm I'm some reason I'm the only one that's pushing to push some of this housing housing not farm worker

618
00:43:06,300 --> 00:43:11,820
Barracks out into the counties where the the winery owners or the vineyard owners they already own the real estate

619
00:43:11,820 --> 00:43:20,220
So there's no real estate cost. We can do a zero cost permitting so that they could develop those what I call casitas and give these workers dignity

620
00:43:21,060 --> 00:43:23,400
I said what's wrong with giving workers dignity and well

621
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:26,620
So we want to cram them downtown where they can walk to the grocery store.

622
00:43:26,980 --> 00:43:29,140
I said, well, why can't they live like the wealthy people?

623
00:43:29,460 --> 00:43:32,020
They work the hardest for the wealthy people.

624
00:43:32,460 --> 00:43:34,240
They can drive to the grocery store once a week.

625
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:35,480
It's not a problem.

626
00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:36,200
We all do it.

627
00:43:36,500 --> 00:43:36,660
Yeah.

628
00:43:37,180 --> 00:43:40,200
In addition, the workers will be there on the property.

629
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:44,600
When there's additional work in the off season, they can work in the winery or they can work

630
00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:48,440
in local areas like they do landscaping, construction and whatnot.

631
00:43:49,020 --> 00:43:52,400
And most of all, I said, look, you're not going to change the culture.

632
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:54,880
at an end of a day, especially days like today.

633
00:43:55,460 --> 00:43:57,440
Ninety plus degrees, the guys who are working,

634
00:43:57,820 --> 00:43:59,360
they're working like slaves sometimes.

635
00:44:00,340 --> 00:44:01,760
At the end of the day, they want to be here.

636
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:04,140
It always turns into a six-pack or a 12-pack.

637
00:44:05,240 --> 00:44:08,220
Why put them in a situation where you've crammed them downtown

638
00:44:08,220 --> 00:44:10,440
Napa, and they've got to drive all the way,

639
00:44:10,740 --> 00:44:14,280
five, ten, sometimes 20 miles into town after they've had a few,

640
00:44:14,940 --> 00:44:18,200
when they could actually be at home enjoying their time

641
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:19,280
with their families.

642
00:44:19,580 --> 00:44:20,940
And of course, it would be regulations,

643
00:44:20,940 --> 00:44:26,020
You know, the sheriff's department said, well, you know, county housing, you know, we might get more involved in the community.

644
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:32,460
If they're in housing and they're in casitas in their own little community, how many would be in a vineyard estate property?

645
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:38,040
Anyhow, 40-50 people, and they're working for the common good, they would feel like they have access to that.

646
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:40,340
Well, they do that in other resort communities.

647
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:40,900
Oh, absolutely.

648
00:44:40,900 --> 00:44:43,340
I made good work with Garrett all over the world.

649
00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:48,140
All the ski resort communities, all the other resort communities.

650
00:44:48,140 --> 00:44:54,040
they have the housing right on the property where the people work, they live,

651
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:59,960
work and play, all the resources, all the water, all the sewer would be recycled 100% of it.

652
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:28,200
We're going to put right back into the vineyards. So we have a zero impact on our water. If we have a thousand people downtown, it's going to be a thousand people impacting our water. And so it's going to go straight down the drain out to the sea. I've seen this model work. I have family who live in Georgia who own quite a few acres, and they have exactly this model for transient workers. They have a barracks for them, and they stay right on their property. And if you want them to work for you, you have to provide it. It's the regulation.

653
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:31,920
and they're inspected, they're beautifully built.

654
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:36,100
I mean, they're basic, but they're safe and they're basic

655
00:45:36,100 --> 00:45:39,560
and they're secure, and it's a place to live.

656
00:45:39,980 --> 00:45:44,200
You know, 30% on average of these people's income.

657
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:46,700
And most people's income is the right in town.

658
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:49,240
Now they keep talking about affordable housing

659
00:45:49,240 --> 00:45:51,240
and we taxpayers have to give more money.

660
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:53,640
There's already a system in place.

661
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:55,880
If they're at work, they're there at work.

662
00:45:55,880 --> 00:46:02,040
cuts and cuts down. They now have money to go out in society, to purchase, go out to dinner

663
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:05,920
and live like the rest of the human beings. And like you said, the same with workforce housing

664
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:11,720
in the hotels, they can utilize the same system, the same water, same sewer, heat cuts down, air

665
00:46:11,720 --> 00:46:17,540
conditioning cuts down because it's all contained in one bill. So you want, for these next 20 days, you

666
00:46:17,540 --> 00:46:24,040
want to walk, you want to meet people, you think that's important. Very important. You want to

667
00:46:24,040 --> 00:46:31,160
continue to have coffee meetings with people and houses and things like that. And you want

668
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:36,780
to continue getting your message out there. And what would you say is your main message?

669
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:39,440
What is your message to the people of Napa?

670
00:46:39,780 --> 00:46:44,940
Solutions. I'm about solutions. As a business owner, I've always had to deal with time constraints

671
00:46:45,260 --> 00:46:50,200
and budget constraints. Two things that the county and Napa seems to never have to deal with.

672
00:46:50,720 --> 00:46:55,960
People apply for permits, they put their permitting in, and it should be, let's say even

673
00:46:55,960 --> 00:46:58,400
a two-week process for maybe a small remodel.

674
00:46:58,560 --> 00:46:59,680
It could be six, eight months.

675
00:47:00,240 --> 00:47:06,940
The bureaucracy costs in their astronomical, and we don't need to talk about our big development

676
00:47:06,940 --> 00:47:13,820
project up top of that, let's speak, the 15 years of administrative costs to the taxpayer

677
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:17,020
to deal with this situation whether it was good or bad.

678
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:18,380
It's time decay.

679
00:47:18,380 --> 00:47:22,640
And they don't seem to understand that it's our money, the citizen's hard-working tax

680
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:24,080
money, that they're spending.

681
00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:28,460
So efficiency and solutions.

682
00:47:28,660 --> 00:47:30,180
And what about transparency?

683
00:47:30,460 --> 00:47:36,340
I've heard you and Matt Hooper talk a lot about trust and transparency.

684
00:47:36,900 --> 00:47:38,620
What are you thinking about that?

685
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:45,200
And they say that, well, we have meetings every other Tuesday or supervisors meetings and people

686
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:45,580
can come.

687
00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:46,900
I said, well, how can they come there at work?

688
00:47:46,900 --> 00:47:51,540
they're working so hard. I said, I like to see an electronic billboard down by

689
00:47:51,540 --> 00:47:55,700
where the clock tower used to be with all the initiatives, all the progress, all

690
00:47:55,700 --> 00:47:59,760
the costs. So people who are walking through the community on any time of the

691
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:05,460
day would see it easily. And once you know about a topic, you're going to talk to

692
00:48:05,460 --> 00:48:09,100
your friend, neighbor, family, whatever about these topics and say, hey, did you

693
00:48:09,100 --> 00:48:12,840
realize that they're going to talk about this this week? Why did you know they're

694
00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:18,400
putting a six-story, you know, workforce housing, you know, and they're thinking about putting

695
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:22,120
it right next to Silwata Country Club, I'm just making this up, but I'm just pushing,

696
00:48:22,240 --> 00:48:26,760
you know, it could be something. Get it at the beginning. Don't go through all administrative

697
00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:32,180
costs, then present it to the public to have the public deny it. Get them involved in an

698
00:48:32,180 --> 00:48:32,540
early point.

699
00:48:32,900 --> 00:48:36,600
This is my biggest frustration, as I've begun participating more in government around

700
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:42,940
here is City Councils are always in the evening, and school boards are always in the evening.

701
00:48:43,260 --> 00:48:47,060
But the one thing that is not is the Board of Supervisors, and there's stuff going on

702
00:48:47,060 --> 00:48:52,780
there that I know I'm not pleased with, but I work, I have to support myself and my family.

703
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:57,940
I can't leave work to go and look at a board meeting, I just can't do it.

704
00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:03,680
So it's the only meeting, I've looked at just about every council and board meeting in

705
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:08,420
the county and it's the only one I know of that has actually happened during the day,

706
00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:14,320
during the Board Supervisors work day, and not during the evening when the actual citizens

707
00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:15,300
can come and participate.

708
00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:17,340
That's not transparency.

709
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:18,660
That's not transparency.

710
00:49:18,700 --> 00:49:18,760
That's not transparency.

711
00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:19,300
And it's not necessarily.

712
00:49:19,300 --> 00:49:20,580
And it makes sure you have to be divvied up.

713
00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:24,940
A lot of those POS meetings end up, you know, through the lunch break, they end up going

714
00:49:24,940 --> 00:49:25,340
all day.

715
00:49:25,660 --> 00:49:25,800
Yeah.

716
00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:27,420
And it's a 9 to 4.

717
00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:28,100
Yeah.

718
00:49:28,100 --> 00:49:32,940
Yeah, school boards go from five to one in the morning often.

719
00:49:33,220 --> 00:49:38,500
I mean, it's painful, don't get me wrong, but I can participate in a school board.

720
00:49:38,540 --> 00:49:42,140
I have to make decisions about sleep, but I can participate in a school board.

721
00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:44,800
I can't participate in a meeting that's gone under my work day.

722
00:49:45,740 --> 00:49:51,820
Yeah, and it does make perfect sense to have a meeting that goes from five to nine and

723
00:49:51,820 --> 00:49:53,480
we don't get our business done.

724
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:57,980
So we can call a recess and reconvene on Thursdays.

725
00:49:58,020 --> 00:50:01,040
So the meetings on Tuesday, oh, we didn't quite finish.

726
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:04,900
We'll call recess and we'll reconvene on Thursday.

727
00:50:05,300 --> 00:50:08,020
And now we'll meet from 5 to 9 because here's the thing.

728
00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:11,180
When you work for the county board of supervisors,

729
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:14,520
that is supposed to be your actual job.

730
00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:16,440
That is your job.

731
00:50:16,660 --> 00:50:19,960
You're paid 90,000 a year and that is your job.

732
00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:27,460
So, if we work from 5 to 9 and we don't finish, we go back on Thursday from 5 to 9.

733
00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:33,360
If we don't finish, we'll carry it over to the next Tuesday from 5 to 9 and Thursday.

734
00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:38,040
And if we have to meet every Tuesday in Thursday from 5 to 9, we do that until we get caught

735
00:50:38,040 --> 00:50:38,380
up.

736
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:43,820
But transparency is so important and trust.

737
00:50:43,820 --> 00:50:45,600
I think we lost trust.

738
00:50:45,980 --> 00:50:49,640
I mean, things have just eroded horrifically

739
00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:51,460
on this whole trust factor.

740
00:50:51,460 --> 00:50:53,200
People feel it is just a pay to play.

741
00:50:53,780 --> 00:50:57,320
I'm hearing people say recall the whole entire board

742
00:50:57,320 --> 00:50:58,240
is supervisors.

743
00:50:59,100 --> 00:51:01,260
And that is the travesty.

744
00:51:01,460 --> 00:51:04,920
When you've lost your trust that much that they want

745
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:07,780
to recall, every member of the board,

746
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:10,420
I mean, that just hurts.

747
00:51:10,740 --> 00:51:12,780
That's a soccer kick in the get.

748
00:51:12,780 --> 00:51:15,060
you know. Oh, my gosh.

749
00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:16,120
They're holding up the five

750
00:51:16,120 --> 00:51:17,660
minute sign. Now y'all keep

751
00:51:17,660 --> 00:51:20,160
talking too much. OK. So

752
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:23,540
back to Garrett. What? You've

753
00:51:23,540 --> 00:51:25,140
been knocking on doors. OK.

754
00:51:25,140 --> 00:51:26,140
You've been knocking on

755
00:51:26,140 --> 00:51:28,600
doors for months. What's the

756
00:51:28,600 --> 00:51:30,760
number one issue? What's the

757
00:51:30,760 --> 00:51:32,260
number one thing? District

758
00:51:32,260 --> 00:51:35,080
district one homeless homeless.

759
00:51:36,540 --> 00:51:38,220
Next runner up is water, but

760
00:51:38,220 --> 00:51:40,800
that homeless comes every time at the door.

761
00:51:40,860 --> 00:51:41,800
What are you going to do about it?

762
00:51:43,020 --> 00:51:47,140
Because most people think they're going to ask that question and not get an answer.

763
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:48,700
Because there hasn't been an answer.

764
00:51:49,240 --> 00:51:51,480
We've shoved them in homeless shelter.

765
00:51:51,640 --> 00:51:55,620
We've shoved them in the facility like the Nap Valley hotel, you know, at the end of

766
00:51:55,620 --> 00:51:59,060
cooms, and there's no system.

767
00:51:59,200 --> 00:51:59,840
There's no as I said.

768
00:51:59,920 --> 00:52:00,660
There's no A to Z.

769
00:52:00,780 --> 00:52:03,420
And I said, well, the problem is they're not even doing what I've done.

770
00:52:03,720 --> 00:52:05,060
I went out and talked to the homeless.

771
00:52:05,060 --> 00:52:12,980
I've hired homeless to two of the homeless people I have ended up having full-time jobs in Napa one became a schoolteacher moved to China

772
00:52:12,980 --> 00:52:19,980
Another on his own fly fishing company. That's four people. They say we have two to three hundred homeless that it's it's grown

773
00:52:19,980 --> 00:52:26,800
From a hundred and something a couple years ago. So let's just say we had three hundred if I was able in my

774
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:32,740
Crazy busy time to help four. There's actually a fifth in there, but it's just help

775
00:52:33,680 --> 00:52:39,140
Then I think as a community, we can address the mental health issues appropriately, give

776
00:52:39,140 --> 00:52:45,600
these people an opportunity to be taking care of them and see if they can be reestablished

777
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:47,900
into society or if they need long-term care.

778
00:52:48,240 --> 00:52:54,120
And the majority of the people that have and want to work, see this whole idea of we can't

779
00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:54,980
force people to work.

780
00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:57,320
Okay, let's just change the direction.

781
00:52:57,320 --> 00:53:04,520
Can we work to give these homeless people dignity again by giving them a job, teaching them

782
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:10,320
administratively at the college, or through the trade skills, you know, electrical or plumbing

783
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:11,320
or whatnot?

784
00:53:12,060 --> 00:53:17,660
And I said, how come we don't have someone going up into our forests and doing forest mitigation?

785
00:53:18,300 --> 00:53:20,880
We could take the majority of the homeless people now that are capable.

786
00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:26,160
They could go Tuesday and Thursday and be on a hiking trip and be having fun, but actually

787
00:53:26,160 --> 00:53:29,420
be doing good for the community and feel like they're part of the community.

788
00:53:29,680 --> 00:53:34,580
There's so much we can do, but we have to have a full system to get them into the housing

789
00:53:34,580 --> 00:53:40,100
that we're currently building, South of Combs, with an educational program to get them

790
00:53:40,100 --> 00:53:42,060
out and get them into creative and get their respect back.

791
00:53:42,260 --> 00:53:44,820
So homeless is your number one issue.

792
00:53:45,580 --> 00:53:51,240
People are afraid, they don't want to walk at night anymore, because they're not accosted

793
00:53:51,240 --> 00:53:53,540
by homeless or are high on drugs, or you know what I mean.

794
00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:54,420
It makes them nervous.

795
00:53:54,420 --> 00:53:59,700
What they see in their eating downtown, you know, and they get people climbing trees and doing all kinds of crazy things.

796
00:53:59,840 --> 00:54:04,420
And then especially those down by the river, they look across the river and they see 10 cities.

797
00:54:05,240 --> 00:54:10,220
That is supposed to be a world-class town. We are world-class destination.

798
00:54:11,260 --> 00:54:15,580
We should be a world-class town and a world-class example, like the different things that Kevin's talked about as well.

799
00:54:16,080 --> 00:54:21,140
We can do it different and show the rest of the state and the rest of the country how to do it right.

800
00:54:21,140 --> 00:54:28,980
Yeah, then we need to fix our sidewalks and our roads to match our world-class belief system.

801
00:54:29,240 --> 00:54:33,140
We believe we're world-class, so let's take care of all those other things too.

802
00:54:33,140 --> 00:54:33,440
Absolutely.

803
00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:38,680
Oh my gosh, homeless and water, what are people worried about with water that we're using

804
00:54:38,680 --> 00:54:39,620
too much of it?

805
00:54:39,860 --> 00:54:43,460
Right, and they're talking about, they're talking about pushing through this huge development

806
00:54:43,460 --> 00:54:50,700
now of hundreds of acres of new grapes that will deplete water resource, which means that

807
00:54:50,700 --> 00:54:55,580
people that have tens of thousands of dollars of landscaping would have to stop watering

808
00:54:55,580 --> 00:54:56,180
up potentially.

809
00:54:56,380 --> 00:54:57,180
Oh my gosh.

810
00:54:57,260 --> 00:54:57,620
Die off.

811
00:54:58,580 --> 00:55:01,980
But there's things we can do with dry landscaping or what not to help.

812
00:55:02,780 --> 00:55:03,180
Wow.

813
00:55:03,400 --> 00:55:03,700
That's a situation.

814
00:55:03,780 --> 00:55:04,340
But yeah, water.

815
00:55:04,640 --> 00:55:06,780
And there's so much water waste.

816
00:55:07,140 --> 00:55:11,220
They say we only blow off at the fire hydrants, one tenth of one percent.

817
00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:13,120
So you think, oh, whatever, one tenth of one percent.

818
00:55:13,380 --> 00:55:13,680
Oh, no.

819
00:55:13,740 --> 00:55:17,840
We're talking about millions of gallons, there's one tenth of one percent of our entire water

820
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:18,100
years.

821
00:55:18,100 --> 00:55:21,960
I did the quick calculations from their publications at City Water.

822
00:55:22,540 --> 00:55:28,340
It would be enough water for 250 homes for a year, what we blow off down the storm drains

823
00:55:28,340 --> 00:55:32,080
because there's sediment in it every year instead of giving it-

824
00:55:32,080 --> 00:55:33,860
That's from every fire hydrant.

825
00:55:34,120 --> 00:55:37,160
The total from all the fire hydrants that they do.

826
00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:41,940
Now we could give it to a company like Bingham, Bingham can store it, the city could give

827
00:55:41,940 --> 00:55:42,500
him the water.

828
00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:47,760
He's going to sell it back to the county and the county's going to generate tax revenue.

829
00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:55,000
We could actually build 250 homes knowing that we were recapturing the water supply.

830
00:55:56,120 --> 00:55:57,400
There's other things that we can do.

831
00:55:57,440 --> 00:56:01,200
And then that whole A-Bag and the housing allotment and the whole thing.

832
00:56:01,500 --> 00:56:08,220
I mean, I love the idea of just a moratorium on that until we figure out this water situation.

833
00:56:08,460 --> 00:56:14,240
I mean, we cannot build a thousand more homes and do we figure out what's going to happen.

834
00:56:14,240 --> 00:56:17,700
Governor's not going to drive a diesel truck on here full of water 24 hours a day.

835
00:56:18,180 --> 00:56:23,480
We got to figure out what we're going to do about water before we can build a thousand

836
00:56:23,480 --> 00:56:27,440
more homes, whether we did an American cannon or nap or a valley.

837
00:56:27,880 --> 00:56:30,380
We got to get the water situation figured out.

838
00:56:30,620 --> 00:56:31,100
We need more.

839
00:56:31,660 --> 00:56:32,620
Billions of dollars, right?

840
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:33,680
Still sitting in the coffers.

841
00:56:33,820 --> 00:56:40,800
I think four billion plus, still sitting in the coffers for watershed improvement, dams

842
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:41,420
and things like that.

843
00:56:41,580 --> 00:56:43,440
Yeah, then we've never built a single dam.

844
00:56:43,440 --> 00:56:49,780
know, but they're pushing on us to mitigate our water. Yeah, it's crazy. Okay. All right. So for

845
00:56:49,780 --> 00:56:55,220
a wrap up, we're going to give you one minute, Garrett Hale, to close down wrap up, talk about

846
00:56:55,220 --> 00:57:01,260
your campaign. Tell us the last thing you want to see here. This is your last chance. Your last

847
00:57:01,260 --> 00:57:06,880
thing you want to see. This is it. This is the last coming on last show. Exactly. The thing I

848
00:57:07,940 --> 00:57:13,160
really want to instill in people is how much I care about this community and that I'm running

849
00:57:13,160 --> 00:57:15,580
for office for the right reasons.

850
00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:18,500
The community has asked me to run.

851
00:57:18,980 --> 00:57:21,580
Community has asked me to watch over their tax dollars.

852
00:57:22,340 --> 00:57:27,320
And being a business owner for almost four decades, I understand the bottom line.

853
00:57:27,820 --> 00:57:33,640
And I understand through working with the city and county administration, how much ignorance

854
00:57:33,640 --> 00:57:36,040
and how much waste we have that can be fixed.

855
00:57:37,540 --> 00:57:39,420
Kevin, closing thought or comment?

856
00:57:41,200 --> 00:58:09,400
We're in the red wave and you're going to, you're tired of hearing me, you're tired of hearing me say this, I know this, but we're in the red wave and there are things that people can do and that is one vote if you have not voted yet, then there's still time to register, but if you, if you're watching the show and you're in Napa County and you're not voting, you're wrong, and if you voted, there's plenty of people out there who need help getting their ballot in, because you know what happens, it ends up being on the kitchen table, five days after election day ends, and you wonder who it is.

857
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:14,020
who's being voted in. So let's help a brother out. Let's help a sister out and let's help

858
00:58:14,020 --> 00:58:18,840
those mama bears out. Get their votes in. Once you get your vote in, make it your job

859
00:58:18,840 --> 00:58:24,120
to find 20 people and get their votes in. Okay, I love it. Let's do that. All right, Lauren.

860
00:58:25,900 --> 00:58:32,140
Thank you to all our wonderful guests and our fantastic crew, camera people, Theresa Kona

861
00:58:32,140 --> 00:58:38,020
Mack, John Bishop, and Dan Forsman, and Director Romero Gentry.

862
00:58:38,340 --> 00:58:43,080
This is Lauren Ball speaking for On the Edge, a Doris Gentry production.