[0:15] Aye, from NEPA Valley TV studios at 1600 Myrtle Avenue in NEPA Valley, California and streaming

[0:23] live online from the lakes of Minnesota to the hills of Tennessee across the plains of

[0:31] Texas and from sea to shining sea and from Detroit down to Houston and from New York

[0:37] to LA, it's on the edge with Doris Gentry. Tonight's guest, political educator, Kevin West,

[0:45] candidate for District One Supervisor, Garrett Hale. And joining us via Zoom, candidate

[0:51] for Governor of California, Christian Morales. I'm Lauren Moll and here's your host, Doris

[0:58] Gentry!

[1:00] Yay!

[1:03] And you're always so on it. I'm so proud of you. Thank you very much.

[1:06] Thanks Doris. I'm proud of you too.

[1:08] awesome awesome awesome so tonight we have a plethora of candidates and we have a

[1:14] governor candidate via zoom but you know what you might not know this he was

[1:19] live in Napa just this past week he came and presented himself in person to

[1:27] our Republican women's luncheon and I'm telling you you are in for a treat so

[1:32] So don't change the channel, because at 815 you will hear from Christian Morales.

[1:38] He is a dynamo, and I cannot wait for you to meet him here from him.

[1:45] But before we do, I want to introduce you to Garrett Hale, and Garrett, he has to be here

[1:53] at Doris.

[1:54] Running for District One, County Board Supervisor, and I've got news for you, Garrett's going

[2:01] to win this thing.

[2:01] Yeah, running absolutely running is true. I run I tell you I'm getting about four hours

[2:07] a sleep at day, but it's such a blessing to see so many people running running have a pair of

[2:11] the shoes have you run through huh I tell you what it's crazy right ready for office. I'm like

[2:17] what are you thinking? Why did you do this? What in the world? Why did you do this? Why are you

[2:23] running so many people in the community ask me to run and born and raised here in Napa. I really

[2:29] love nap I love the people and I'm you know my dream is that both cultures can

[2:33] come together. What do you mean both cultures for culture you

[2:37] Hispanic? Well yes on my mom's side I the my mom's family on her mother's

[2:43] side are from Guatemala, Mexico, Sena Loa as well. And you speak a spaniol.

[2:49] Say it by the love of love. So you have to you know in nap it's you know

[2:55] integration is really important. And being in construction for 37 years and having the

[3:00] heritage that I have, I really have been integrated in the Hispanic culture. And I see a lot

[3:05] of things that need still to be improved. And I'm doing what I can to integrate the

[3:11] two, the Hispanic community and the local, you know, born and raised community that it's

[3:15] here. And people ask me, oh, what are we going to do about racism and things like this?

[3:19] And I thought, well, if you didn't bring it from other cities, first of all, it wouldn't

[3:23] Quit talking about it. Most of it will be over. I said, do what I do. Invite them to your parties.

[3:29] Fair.

[3:29] Invite them, right? Easy. In fact, again, next Tuesday, we have a Latin Dance party

[3:35] and a big, big integration. People are so, so happy when the Hispanics have come out now

[3:40] to the Country Club Advancing. We did a big Cinco de Mayo and it was a great integration.

[3:45] And just the excitement that you can see people's face that we might finally have an opportunity.

[3:51] 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.

[4:03] Absolutely. Absolutely. You know, Kevin, I think you have some slides for us. Are we going to look at some pictures?

[4:10] 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.

[4:18] So, let's actually pull up a event that I know both of you and I went to recently.

[4:24] Let's go back to the one the nurses week slide.

[4:30] Okay, so the nurses day was just this week, this last week, and you and I went to that,

[4:37] and one of our candidates, Matt Hooper, Hooper for Super, was there, and actually was a huge sponsor of this event.

[4:43] I'm excited I'm doing this because guess who's a nurse in this room Doris. I'm a registered nurse

[4:49] You're a nurse. I was truly honored to be invited to that to that

[4:55] dinner early in ceremony. They had but really pleased to see one of our hosts or one of our hour candidates

[5:01] What are the primary house really?

[5:04] Page add the really yeah really supporting the nurses in our community. So

[5:09] that was fabulous and then we do have some slides from your events here I

[5:13] don't know if you have if you knew I had these but let's put it there we go so

[5:18] there's a thing good to my own you see some of there are definitely some

[5:23] Hispanic folks there and definitely some non-Hispanics folks there yeah that

[5:27] bull I love that bull and there's little kids crawling on that bull and that

[5:34] was what is that thing called as a mechanical ball mechanical

[5:39] ball. And I saw people being thrown off of that ball and it

[5:43] was so fun. Yeah, it was a fun fun part. You are that I mean

[5:50] if nothing else, we should elect you because you're just

[5:52] dad gunned fun. I know. Who those were some big trucks there

[5:57] who were we were. We were at Halario's. Halario's first start

[6:01] as hilarious auto repair. Uh-huh. And then his sons expanded with him to

[6:06] hilarious tires and wheels. Great. And they do lift kits. They do amazing

[6:10] work. Beautiful. They have trucks there. Oh, the shop is nice. You can eat off

[6:14] the shop. Like line green and hot pink and and and red. And once it started

[6:21] getting kind of dark, you can see all the way those trucks were all lighted up.

[6:26] Yeah. So I told my son, Romero. I'm like, oh, oh, I want

[6:30] that because knock it off, you cannot. Your car is a little infinity. You drive a

[6:38] grandma car. You cannot do this. I said, but if I did this to my car, it wouldn't

[6:44] be a grandma car anymore. And he goes, stop it. You can't do this to your car.

[6:50] Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, this guy's a little hurry. He just clearly do really good work. I

[6:54] would know. It's amazing. It's amazing to see those trucks up close. Yeah. And then we

[6:58] 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.

[7:18] I'm going to be 95 degrees on Tuesday, so I see this thing going way past 10 o'clock.

[7:25] But more excitement, integration.

[7:28] I'm doing a best dressed competition so that there's a participation and people can feel included.

[7:36] Politicians, do you that?

[7:39] I don't know.

[7:40] Okay, you are.

[7:41] I guess so.

[7:42] We are.

[7:46] So it's a Latin dance party.

[7:50] Absolutely.

[7:51] Well, this is it was something that that I'm doing and you know with you as well and others

[7:58] that I said you don't need to be done.

[7:59] This doesn't need to be part of the campaign.

[8:01] I'm doing it for the right reason.

[8:02] Yeah.

[8:02] Regardless.

[8:03] And so you just got the flyers, right?

[8:08] I did.

[8:09] There's still hot.

[8:09] There's still hot in the truck.

[8:11] there's the ink is still wet right yeah and we're putting the flyers out in all the Mexican markets

[8:17] and not 10 minutes ago it may be 15 let's give it 15 minutes time I dropped it right we're dropping

[8:26] the flyers in the Mexican markets and we get a notice from one of your competition that's running

[8:32] against you. And what did she say? Can I please come?

[8:40] It's good. You know, when I've been

[8:41] known, all the debates, I have not been attacked. I've never attacked. I'm not here to sling

[8:48] mine. And I've told all the other companies that I'm here to make Napa a greater place. I really

[8:55] love this community. And I'm here to help the people and be a voice of the people. And for that,

[9:00] I have never been criticized by any of my opponents, so it's always good to know.

[9:05] Why would you criticize the party guy?

[9:09] I know.

[9:10] The guy that has the parties, why would you sling that at the guy that throws the party?

[9:15] He's clearly not the normal politician if he's having parties like this for anybody who

[9:20] wants to come.

[9:21] Anybody who wants to come.

[9:22] Now I know why you're doing best dress because some of these Latin people show up in bikinis

[9:27] in many skirts and like friends. So best dress means at least I have some clothes on.

[9:33] Yes. Yes, it'll be appropriate. This will be a good thing. Yeah, I'm okay. I'm telling you,

[9:39] the sickle de miro was a blast. Oh, it was so much fun. I can't imagine this being any less.

[9:44] Okay, and so I had some soup for my very first time. Oh my goodness. So Christian Morales is on Zoom.

[9:55] We're going to have him in a minute.

[9:57] Let's see, in about three minutes.

[10:01] But I had a soup, but that had a harmony in it.

[10:06] OK, right?

[10:07] Absolutely.

[10:07] With harmony.

[10:09] And it had like chunks of meat in it

[10:11] in like this floating red broth.

[10:14] Those are pig's feet.

[10:15] No, tell me what it was.

[10:18] Don't, don't, don't, don't.

[10:21] Sun, oh, oh, because you know, he's Hispanic.

[10:24] and I quit adopted him just a couple of years ago.

[10:27] So for those of you who don't know,

[10:28] I've had 300 teen foster boys live in my home,

[10:32] and then I adopted one, so I stopped.

[10:35] He's the last one.

[10:36] He's proud of that.

[10:37] He always tells everybody, I'm the last one.

[10:40] There's no more, so anyway.

[10:43] So he brings me this bowl of soup,

[10:45] and it's called.

[10:46] Pasole, Pasole.

[10:48] I can't even say the word.

[10:49] It sounds like piss on me, or something.

[10:51] It's my wife's favorite soup.

[10:53] It is now my favorite soup, right? So on the

[10:58] 60 years old and I ate harmony, are you kidding me?

[11:04] It was the most delicious thing on earth.

[11:09] And I ate it there and I don't know who made it.

[11:13] Hello, Gio.

[11:14] Hilario's wife's mother.

[11:16] So his mother-in-law.

[11:17] The food was great.

[11:19] I went home and told my wife that she missed

[11:21] and she was very sad.

[11:24] This is one of her favorite things ever.

[11:25] Man, I wanted to go home and get baggies

[11:27] and come back and bring stuff.

[11:29] It's so nice. You know what people say?

[11:31] You're going into politics.

[11:32] I said no. I'm going in because the people of Napa

[11:36] asked me to run for office because the people of Napa

[11:39] know 37 years I've been in their homes.

[11:42] They can trust me.

[11:43] So they can now trust me.

[11:44] People in Napa are giving you their key code,

[11:47] their past code, their front door code.

[11:49] I move the Ferraris or Lamborghini's your name at trust is imperative and right now

[11:55] In that someone just I was talking to you this morning and

[12:01] Someone you filled out one of the the forms right that the

[12:06] Um

[12:08] One of the forms anyway you were talking to the lady and she goes oh yes

[12:14] I'm on so many forms and so many conference calls I know right because when you run for office

[12:19] But anyway, you're talking to this lady this morning.

[12:21] She goes, oh, would you be my electric, right?

[12:27] Didn't you just this morning something about keeping up

[12:30] a green and whether or not Garrett was a good candidate or not.

[12:33] And obviously, through my answers, I recently answered for

[12:36] they she felt confident enough to ask me to be her electrician.

[12:40] Great.

[12:41] So, you know, one is my heart.

[12:43] Yeah.

[12:43] I love people.

[12:44] I love Napa and we live in an amazing place.

[12:48] Great thing to make better.

[12:48] we do. So I think it's coming up on about time for us to introduce our Governor

[12:56] Candidate and do our flip over and I don't know how we do all this. I've got a

[13:02] whole crew of people here that are staring at me that know all this better than

[13:07] me. I don't know what we're doing but we're flipping over to our beautiful Governor

[13:12] Candidate, Chris Jim Morales. So how do we do that? There he is. Oh we did it. There he is.

[13:23] Thank you for having me tonight. I really appreciate it.

[13:27] There we go. So, Christian, you are amazing. I am so honored and humbled and so proud to have you with us this evening.

[13:36] And more humbled and proud that you were in Napa just last week.

[13:40] it. Yeah, no, it's been

[13:43] absolutely one of the most

[13:44] beautiful areas in California.

[13:46] And thank you for having me

[13:47] there and hosting me.

[13:48] I truly appreciate it.

[13:49] Tell us why are you running?

[13:51] What the heck?

[13:52] I mean, you're running for

[13:53] governor of the whole state at

[13:55] California. What is wrong with

[13:56] you? So unfortunately, things

[14:00] aren't going well. And I

[14:02] felt it was time for someone

[14:03] like myself to step into the

[14:05] race. And the reason I got into

[14:06] the race is I'll just cut to

[14:08] the chase. More than 300 companies, manufacturing companies that relocated out of the state since

[14:14] governor knew some startups, 10 years governor in January of 2019 and I as somebody that has worked

[14:20] in the manufacturing industry for more than 20 years and I've been privileged to work with some of

[14:25] the most privileged people that I've worked with over that time frame. I've seen the impact that's

[14:31] had in our community in the manufacturing industry and not just the manufacturing industry but

[14:35] We've had other industries that have decided to relocate their business, how to stay in.

[14:39] California is no longer the place to do business anymore in the country.

[14:43] And that's very unfortunate because we've always been the leader in innovation.

[14:48] And this should be the place that should be the place that people manufacture products.

[14:54] And it's impacted disproportionately the working class.

[14:58] And that's why I'm in this place.

[14:59] I'm here.

[15:00] 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.

[15:28] It's just, it is just wrong for us to be that, that, that, that, for in terms of performance

[15:35] as a state.

[15:36] And I would have stolen that myself, someone that immigrated to this country, I immigrated

[15:40] from a small country called Guatemala and Central America, fully bilingual out of running, fully

[15:44] bilingual campaign.

[15:46] So, all of that, I don't want to have to get out of Spanish.

[15:48] And I feel I'm the best person to communicate the values of conservatism, of being a conservative

[15:55] and a Republican here, and more importantly, Americanism to the state of California, to all

[16:00] California.

[16:01] At the end of the day, we're all in this together, and we all want what's best for our families

[16:05] and for ourselves, and what's best for California.

[16:09] Great question.

[16:10] This is Kevin.

[16:12] Big name.

[16:14] One of the things that we teach on the show and have taught all year long is the U.S. Constitution,

[16:18] and that's very clear about how government should work and the different branches and

[16:21] what they're supposed to do.

[16:22] I think we've seen with our current governor, Governor Newsom, that he's gone a little overboard

[16:29] with what he's supposed to be doing.

[16:31] Tell us what you think about the governor's role in the average citizen's life.

[16:36] So, I believe the governor should be an advocate for the people and making their lives better.

[16:41] Playing simple.

[16:42] And I believe there's an opinion that's obviously an overreach by the governor in terms

[16:46] of intruding.

[16:47] 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.

[16:59] It just seems like he's politically driven and I'm driven by any sort of basis in terms of science.

[17:06] 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.

[17:14] We should have been driven by science-based metrics and we should not be driven by a governor

[17:19] that's helped and I'm just trying to indoctrinate his personal beliefs on the rest of California's.

[17:27] Absolutely, excellently, excellently said and so now that you're running tell us what is your

[17:36] greatest accomplishment as you're running and you're going up and down the whole state of California.

[17:41] What do you feel like you're getting traction with?

[17:45] What's your success story?

[17:47] The women of California.

[17:49] Absolutely.

[17:51] I've had the privilege to speak to 25 summer Republican women

[17:55] and federated organizations throughout the state.

[17:58] And I tell the story of my mom, my mom who came,

[18:01] like my dad, from adjectivity.

[18:03] My mom came from a generation in Latin America

[18:05] where a lot of women just did not pursue a higher education.

[18:09] And my mom, you know, obviously she raised not just myself or my brother and my sister and that would have been satisfactory.

[18:16] Motherhood, of course, is an absolute thing, something that should be relished.

[18:20] But she wanted something better for herself once we came to this country.

[18:23] It was my dad pursued a PhD in genetics at Purdue University.

[18:27] She also wanted to pursue, to better herself.

[18:30] And she ended up pursuing the gradual work that she wanted to and she attained the master's degree from her university as well.

[18:36] 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.

[18:44] And that's why I've made the center point of point to at least Republican women federated events.

[18:49] 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.

[18:56] But I'm focusing on making my pitch to them, and just a reception that I've received,

[19:03] and them allowing me to make my pitch towards them about why I'm the best candidate in

[19:09] this race to represent the remote party, has been, I believe, my biggest success today.

[19:15] That is phenomenal.

[19:18] Gosh, I'm really God-snacked, I really appreciate it, so as far as the Republican issues, you might

[19:24] have heard today, or yesterday, that Elon Musk came out and said that the Democrat Party

[19:36] has left him, you know, he's still standing where he was standing, and the Democrat Party

[19:41] has moved away, and he will no longer be voting for a Democrat.

[19:45] He will be voting for a Republican, and we've been talking for a long time about the red wave.

[19:52] We see a red wave and we've been talking about the red waves coming and we think the red waves here.

[19:59] Can you talk about that?

[20:01] Yes, and I believe that most importantly here in California we cannot become complacent.

[20:08] Yes, our state is one of the bluest states in terms of registration rates.

[20:13] states, 47% of the state are registered as Democrats, 25% of the state are registered

[20:19] as independence, and 24% of the state are registered as Republicans.

[20:24] So, yes, the red wave is possible in California, but we need the right candidate, and I believe

[20:28] on that candidate that will be able to bring together not just the Republican base, the conservative

[20:34] Republican base, but more importantly, really attract and really rebrand the Republican party

[20:39] here in the state of California as the party of the future for the state.

[20:42] And what I mean by that is just simply, we're the party of being inclusive.

[20:46] We're inclusive to wanting to just get things back to normal, stop the madness and sacraman

[20:52] out, and just be able to advocate for just common sense of policies, to be able to have

[20:57] businesses be able to stay in the state of California, people to make their own decisions

[21:02] in terms of their medical needs, in terms of themselves and their families, and more importantly,

[21:06] making decisions based on their families, they believe in public choice, and a big believer

[21:12] because I'm a product of public educational choices

[21:15] my parents made that on my behalf

[21:17] and being able to make decisions on my behalf

[21:19] on the parents of California making the decisions

[21:22] on educational choice for their shoulder.

[21:24] I believe if I sell those points to the people

[21:27] of California, regardless of racial demographics

[21:30] in this city, where your status is

[21:32] in terms of socioeconomic status,

[21:34] we're gonna have red wave here in California.

[21:37] And I believe for someone like myself

[21:38] can really go into these communities,

[21:39] broke my sleeves and really drive home the message has not just myself being an immigrant,

[21:46] being a Latino immigrant, being a bilingual immigrant. Most importantly, as someone that's

[21:50] spent 20 years waiting to earn their U.S. citizenship when I took a pledge in 1999, I believe

[21:59] I'm someone that can really sell home the message to Californians that republicanism is the way to go

[22:09] So this is Kevin again, Christian, and one of the topics we're talking about as the

[22:16] foundation of the red wave that things have got to change right now is the huge amount

[22:21] of crime in California right now.

[22:23] Let me just give you a couple of examples.

[22:26] In LA recently, the president of the police union said, don't come to LA.

[22:32] We can't guarantee your safety.

[22:34] I know in our area here, we've had two murders recently at Safeways.

[22:40] We've had people shooting a person shooting at somebody on the road in the car.

[22:44] We've seen a lot of smashing grabs.

[22:47] I mean, we've got law right now that allows people to walk in and store the calculator, steal

[22:50] up to $950 worth of stuff, and they're not even going to be prosecuted.

[22:55] So what's your plan for dealing with crime right now?

[22:59] So, first and foremost, this is the first thing that I'm going to tackle when I get into

[23:03] office when I become a governor, starting next year. And I believe this is the most

[23:08] impending issue that every single Californian feels. And most Californians, if they don't feel

[23:14] safe, they have a means they're going to relocate out of the state or move to a safer area,

[23:18] which is very unfortunate. So, we have two district attorneys that are in the process of being

[23:24] and recalled Chessie Boudin in the San Francisco area and then here in Los Angeles County,

[23:30] George Gaston. Both of them have to get removed from office because they're not meeting their

[23:37] basic, they're not meeting their job requirements and what they're doing. So we need to send a strong

[23:43] message to not just district attorneys across the state, but also to go out on our Gavin Newsome

[23:50] that we're not at weed people as citizens of California,

[23:53] and I can accept this crime wage that is ongoing

[23:56] by them just basically delegating the responsibilities

[24:00] of, or the duties are the penalties

[24:03] from somebody that is committed to crime.

[24:06] So we need to be supportive of the police departments

[24:09] and I know the governor got a new,

[24:10] so I'm having a very supportive of the funding of the police

[24:13] and we need to obviously properly support them.

[24:15] So whatever financial measures that we need

[24:17] pass to support police to come across the state and me too.

[24:22] But most importantly, we need to communicate to these communities that has

[24:25] formed, disproportionately feel that they've been impacted by the police departments,

[24:29] that the police is not there to, in any way, make their lives

[24:34] less safe. They're there to protect people. And I believe someone like myself, again,

[24:39] can be that person, to be that messenger in these communities. I understand some

[24:44] communities have had interactions, negative interactions with police departments,

[24:47] But at the end of the day, these are the people that are here to defend us.

[24:51] And they need to be given the proper tools in order to defend us and be allowed to defend

[24:56] us.

[24:57] And our district attorneys need to be allowed to obviously penalize people who commit crimes.

[25:02] Because we're not going to survive this as society if we continue allowing what's going

[25:06] on currently here throughout our state.

[25:11] Well said.

[25:12] Absolutely.

[25:12] Absolutely. I can possibly agree with it. It's just absolutely what we need and we all

[25:19] are in total agree with that. I just am so impressed by your forthrightness and your

[25:26] willingness to run, your willingness to step out and to try your very best. So you have

[25:33] about two minutes here. If you want to give us a closing statement and kind of wrap up

[25:39] and summarize what your thoughts and ideas are and tell us what how you want to end this.

[25:47] Sure. And again, thank you for having me on this show. So my campaign slogan is for all voices.

[25:53] And I want to make that very clear from the onset. In the fact that I'm a listener,

[25:58] and in my 20 years of manufacturing, in the roles that I've had, I've had to be a listener,

[26:03] trying to get our situation, trying to improve our situations in our manufacturing sites

[26:08] that perhaps were under last legs in terms of whether or not we're going to keep the facility

[26:12] open or not.

[26:14] And I'm bringing this to the political arena because I think that's what's missing most.

[26:18] People as politicians and as myself, I need to go to these communities to listen to what

[26:24] is wrong with the current status quo of these communities.

[26:27] And I believe that someone like myself that is level headed, not bombastic, will be able

[26:32] to really rebuild the Republican Party to bring a win home come November because right now our

[26:38] registration rates have fallen. They've fallen 3% just as Governor Gavin Newsom has started despite

[26:44] all the things that Governor Gavin Newsom has done wrong. So I believe someone like myself will be

[26:49] able to really bring back the Republican Party, win over Democrats, win over disaffected Democrats,

[26:55] win over independence, and really bring us together to be able to bring forward a better future for

[27:02] for the state of California. And I'll finish with this. Immigration is going to be front and center

[27:07] here in a couple weeks after Title 42 is eventually resented. And as someone that is a product of

[27:13] immigration, legal immigration, I believe I am best set to be the face of what we can do, what is

[27:20] what is good immigration for the state of California. And that includes all the innovators in

[27:26] in Silicon Valley.

[27:28] And I believe I can talk to the best of it,

[27:30] but at the same time,

[27:32] be understanding empathetic to the rest

[27:34] of the immigrant community here in California

[27:36] and try to define solutions that will be best served

[27:39] for all of us here in California.

[27:41] Because at the end of the day,

[27:42] all of us are going to succeed together

[27:44] or we're gonna fail together.

[27:45] And I hope to be that captain

[27:47] to be able to bring forth

[27:48] the best of California going forward.

[27:50] And this nightmare of Governor Gavin News.

[27:56] Thank you so much, Christian. We are so honored to have you here with us tonight. We're

[28:02] going to cut now to Lauren Mall.

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[28:26] our YouTube channel. And now back to our doors, Gentry! Yay! So we had a wonderful time

[28:33] there visiting with Christian Morales who is running for Governor of the State of California.

[28:40] If you received your ballot, you might have noticed there are like two columns of people

[28:46] running for governor. I mean, there are a bunch of people running for governor. It's phenomenal.

[28:54] And, you know, it's hard to personally know these people. You read so many names and you read

[29:00] the bios and you're like, okay, who is that? But here's somebody who drove to Napa, who spoke in Napa

[29:08] last week who now came on our TV show and who exhibited some, you know, awareness of

[29:16] understanding of the Constitution of law enforcement, and I'm pretty smitten with this guy.

[29:22] Yeah.

[29:23] No passionate intelligence.

[29:25] This is your second time to hear it.

[29:27] What do you think?

[29:29] I'm impressed.

[29:31] Yes.

[29:31] Absolutely impressed.

[29:32] And of course, the opportunity for someone to hear first hand and meet first-hand a candidate

[29:38] And here, as you said, there's two columns of candidates there and not repeat candidates.

[29:43] We thought at least some of the candidates when we were going through the recall would

[29:46] be back on the ballot.

[29:48] But new candidates and the other ones, I don't know, they went off into the dust, but what

[29:53] What a solid guy, Christian.

[29:56] Solid guy with morals, ethics, he understands borders.

[29:59] I'm sorry.

[30:00] 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.

[30:28] We need to take your hand and help you.

[30:31] But there needs to be a method to say I am now a citizen.

[30:34] I am able to do this and move on with your work.

[30:37] So many people, of course they talked to so many residents

[30:40] that are here that have their EIN right away.

[30:43] They got you to pay your federal tax, right?

[30:46] So they're taking your money, but they won't register you

[30:49] and give you equity in the United States.

[30:51] But without equity, what are you?

[30:54] Right?

[30:55] You're just floating.

[30:56] Yeah, but they continue to get your vote because they keep you on the hook what we're gonna. We're gonna

[31:01] We're gonna so we're gonna get your vote because we're gonna eventually get your citizenship here

[31:06] But yeah 20 years across the board here over and over I can see that frustration

[31:11] I mean I completely understand why people are frustrated enough to end up with illegal immigration right because if you come here

[31:18] 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

[31:24] border and you've showed up a court when you need to show up a court and you're learning

[31:28] the language and you're working, you're paying taxes, you're doing all the right stuff.

[31:33] You need to be, you need to have a result there.

[31:34] Imagine our administrative costs to keep these citizens, future citizens, to be on the hook

[31:41] for 10, 20 years, billions, it's costing us taxpayers.

[31:46] So it's so counterproductive, but it's all about the votes.

[31:50] Well said counterproductive. So do you have another photo to show us or do we go through

[31:59] what you want? We have a few more event type things. We want to go through that we can.

[32:04] Let's go through that. One of the things you and I have talked about recently on the show

[32:07] quite a bit is that a lot of conservatives in Napa County feel isolated. They don't feel like

[32:12] there's anybody else who thinks the way they do. Well, we've shown several events already.

[32:17] this last couple of three weeks that people could have shown up and met some other people.

[32:21] And here we have some other things going on that people can go to and they can join other conservatives.

[32:27] One big one, I know you and I were very sad last week because something was going on during the showtime

[32:32] that we weren't able to go and see. And that's the 2,000 mules movie.

[32:36] Exactly.

[32:37] So we really wanted to go see Dinesh Tassuz's 2,000 mules movie.

[32:42] We got a great slide here.

[32:43] well I was very sad that it was only one night in the theater when we were

[32:48] actually on TV and I couldn't go but now there are seven more days in the theater

[32:52] and here's a scan me right here go ahead and pull your phones out and scan

[32:56] and you can go straight to the 2000 mules website it's 2000 mules.com and click

[33:02] in the upper right hand corner and it will show you what theater tell you which

[33:05] theaters and I mean each day there are like seven days. It's seven days right here in

[33:10] you can go on fan day and go and buy your tickets.

[33:13] In several showings per day and seven times a day.

[33:16] And multiple showings per day and it's showing

[33:18] for the next seven days that starts this Thursday.

[33:22] And for the next seven days it's showing right here in Napa.

[33:25] Yeah, yeah.

[33:27] So, and this one's near and dear to your heart.

[33:30] The Napa Valley, another slide here.

[33:32] Napa Valley Republican women federated.

[33:35] Second Thursdays, I know that just passed,

[33:37] but I just want people to know that every month

[33:39] And so at the next event in

[33:42] June, we're going to be

[33:43] meeting at the Napa Valley

[33:46] Country Club. And we have

[33:47] our big fashion show. Checos

[33:49] will be supplying the clothing.

[33:52] And we usually have 100, 120

[33:55] people show up for that. It's

[33:56] a really big deal. But more

[33:58] importantly, tomorrow night, we

[34:00] have a big event coming up.

[34:02] Yes, tomorrow night. Got a

[34:03] slide for that, too. So let's

[34:07] have from 5.30 to 7 p.m. We have the normal. It's normally the open meeting for the Republican

[34:15] Party here in Napa County, but we have some special stuff going on tomorrow night.

[34:18] Tomorrow night we have both sheriff candidates will be there as well as you can meet and talk

[34:26] in person to Garrett Hale in person and Brian Pritchard. So Brian and Garrett Hale will be there

[34:35] in person, Matt Hooper won't be able to join us, but Garrett Hale and Brian Pritchard will

[34:40] be there in person, as well as both of our sheriff candidates. So we have John Crawford

[34:48] and Oscar Ortiz, both tomorrow night. We're going to talk to them side by side, and we're

[34:58] going to be able to ask questions. And the questions are going to be put on cards and put

[35:04] into a basket and then read by our communicator, Steve Roseburg. So they won't be emotional,

[35:14] they won't be long drawn out speeches, they'll just be a question, you know, and it'll

[35:22] be very, very good. And we have captured a lot of attention for this event tomorrow night.

[35:29] We have quite a few guests that have already contacted me that will be coming, and I'm

[35:36] very happy Pastor Allen Galloway of First Christian Church is joining us and he's

[35:43] going to be in our opening prayer.

[35:46] And so it's going to be a very nice event, but I think it's so important to meet the candidates

[35:52] just like we experience just now with Christian Morales.

[35:56] That was wonderful.

[35:59] wonderful to meet him in

[36:00] person. Second desk to meet

[36:03] him on zoom. And be able

[36:04] to ask him questions here

[36:06] his heart. You know, and

[36:08] to see, right, that he's

[36:10] he's so focused enough to

[36:13] even target a local channel.

[36:17] And that speaks volumes.

[36:18] He's not in it for the

[36:19] glory. He's in it for the

[36:21] destiny. Exactly. Just like

[36:22] us. So yeah. So that's

[36:25] tomorrow night at Napa Valley Life on Trauer.

[36:30] Great. I've heard also that there's going to be a speaker for a few minutes there that

[36:35] his name is Kevin West. I heard he's a political educator.

[36:40] He's a political educator. So for those of you who enjoy watching me on TV, you will

[36:45] actually get to see me live tomorrow night and I will have a few minutes of speaking there.

[36:51] Yes, and you're going to be talking about election integrity.

[36:56] Exactly.

[36:57] Election integrity.

[36:58] See, focusing on what we can do is Republicans right now to really make a difference.

[37:03] I mean, the ballots are out, Doris, right?

[37:05] The ballots have been out for a few days now, so voting is on, and the election is just around

[37:10] the corner.

[37:12] So, we will be talking about election integrity and what people could do to make a difference

[37:17] while we got the red wave.

[37:19] So, may I share with you concern has erupted today to me that two ballot boxes were dropped

[37:31] off, one in the Walmart parking lot in Napa and one on Solano near the old Valergas which

[37:39] which is now the new grocery outlet on Solano Avenue, unmanned, unmonetured, just empty

[37:49] ballot boxes dropped off in the parking lots. So all these people are writing to me,

[37:54] going, I watched 2,000 mules. Who's monitoring these ballot boxes, you know? So I put it

[38:02] out on Facebook and said, all right, who wants to buy one of those cameras, those hunting

[38:09] cameras, you know, and let's put it up in the tree and let's watch the ballot boxes,

[38:17] you know, because if it's on public property, then it becomes public accessibility, public

[38:23] domain. You can monitor it. And who wants to sit there in their car with their headlights

[38:29] from one because most of these

[38:31] ballots were stuffed in 2000

[38:33] mules from one in the morning

[38:35] until five in the morning.

[38:36] Who wants to sit there in their

[38:38] car and drink coffee like a

[38:40] surveillance, you know.

[38:42] You don't have to sit in your car

[38:44] from one until five with your

[38:45] headlights on on that ballot box.

[38:49] Videoing it.

[38:50] Let the people know we're watching

[38:52] you. I'm watching you.

[38:54] Oh my gosh, I got a landslide

[38:57] If text messages and private emails and I said to everybody, well, did you post it on my Facebook?

[39:03] Oh, no, I didn't want people to know I was paying attention, you know, but I'm calling you privately and

[39:10] 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

[39:18] And you know a lot of people are watching

[39:20] in 2000 mules and they're like wanting to monitor these ballot boxes and sit there in their cars and watch them.

[39:29] So yeah, you know, we might not be able to help America, but we can help NAPA.

[39:34] We can. We can. Election integrity is a huge deal while we're on that.

[39:39] And we are certainly looking for volunteers for people to help with all aspects of election integrity,

[39:45] monitoring the polling sites and monitoring the boxes and working at their voter

[39:51] service centers. Is that what they're called here?

[39:53] Voter service centers. There's so many positions in times and slots that

[39:58] we have a schedule for. We just need people to start helping us out.

[40:03] So all those people are excited about helping with the ballot box issues.

[40:08] There's plenty of things we have to do for keeping our eyes on.

[40:11] And this is key. This is what changed of Virginia.

[40:13] So Virginia last year had a huge election and the top four offices went to Republicans

[40:19] in a state that normally goes to Democrats and it went to them because we had thousands

[40:24] of people showing up to say we are not going to, we are going to watch this election and

[40:28] we are going to be make sure that nothing bad happens during this election.

[40:32] And so that is what changed it there is thousands of people over the entire state watching

[40:39] What's going on and saying we're not going to let somebody steal this election here?

[40:43] 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

[40:51] So all right, well, let's turn it back over to Garrett

[40:54] We've got a little bit of time here. Let's talk about what are you doing? What what do you see yourself doing?

[41:00] You got about 20 days until the election what what is your focus? What are you doing and what do you want to do?

[41:06] What do you want to see happen in these next 20 days?

[41:10] How are we going to get you elected?

[41:11] Next 20 days, I'm still out there knocking door to door.

[41:14] I believe right up into the end.

[41:16] And a lot of people just naturally will wait,

[41:20] especially when we're so busy these days.

[41:22] They'll wait till the last minute,

[41:23] and like, oh, I got to drop it off today.

[41:25] That face-to-face time, it means a lot to me,

[41:28] and it means so much to the people at the door.

[41:31] To actually see the person here and out of their mouth,

[41:33] what you promise.

[41:34] And the different forums that I've been invited to and the responses that I'm writing online are they're from my heart

[41:41] It's not that I you know, I've when I've had them edited

[41:44] I've you know went to different people for consulting of you know, how should I answer this?

[41:48] There's only one way to answer it. First start with respect

[41:52] Second with common sense

[41:54] a lot of a lot of this is coming down to

[41:57] Further development further growth without resources. Well, you know, I wrote back to one about state of California

[42:03] And I said, well, if we were so blatant to say in our parks, in our state parks, in

[42:09] NAPA, hey, we want to further develop campfire abilities and issue more campfire permits in

[42:17] the NAPA Valley.

[42:17] We would have an uproar.

[42:19] It would be an insanity.

[42:20] People would think we were nuts.

[42:22] But yet we want to develop NAPA and further grow NAPA.

[42:26] When at the same time, we have these major water resource issues that were supposedly we

[42:31] We have 30,000 acre feet in one of our reservoirs.

[42:38] And supposedly we're only supposed to use 15,000 acre feet a year.

[42:42] That's where we can be replenished year to year.

[42:45] And the reports that are coming out is that we're starting to use upward of 21,000 acre

[42:49] feet of water.

[42:51] So then they're talking about further development, further growth.

[42:54] We want an extra thousand homes.

[42:56] 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

[43:06] Barracks out into the counties where the the winery owners or the vineyard owners they already own the real estate

[43:11] 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

[43:21] I said what's wrong with giving workers dignity and well

[43:23] So we want to cram them downtown where they can walk to the grocery store.

[43:26] I said, well, why can't they live like the wealthy people?

[43:29] They work the hardest for the wealthy people.

[43:32] They can drive to the grocery store once a week.

[43:34] It's not a problem.

[43:35] We all do it.

[43:36] Yeah.

[43:37] In addition, the workers will be there on the property.

[43:40] When there's additional work in the off season, they can work in the winery or they can work

[43:44] in local areas like they do landscaping, construction and whatnot.

[43:49] And most of all, I said, look, you're not going to change the culture.

[43:52] at an end of a day, especially days like today.

[43:55] Ninety plus degrees, the guys who are working,

[43:57] they're working like slaves sometimes.

[44:00] At the end of the day, they want to be here.

[44:01] It always turns into a six-pack or a 12-pack.

[44:05] Why put them in a situation where you've crammed them downtown

[44:08] Napa, and they've got to drive all the way,

[44:10] five, ten, sometimes 20 miles into town after they've had a few,

[44:14] when they could actually be at home enjoying their time

[44:18] with their families.

[44:19] And of course, it would be regulations,

[44:20] You know, the sheriff's department said, well, you know, county housing, you know, we might get more involved in the community.

[44:26] If they're in housing and they're in casitas in their own little community, how many would be in a vineyard estate property?

[44:32] Anyhow, 40-50 people, and they're working for the common good, they would feel like they have access to that.

[44:38] Well, they do that in other resort communities.

[44:40] Oh, absolutely.

[44:40] I made good work with Garrett all over the world.

[44:43] All the ski resort communities, all the other resort communities.

[44:48] they have the housing right on the property where the people work, they live,

[44:54] work and play, all the resources, all the water, all the sewer would be recycled 100% of it.

[45:00] 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.

[45:28] and they're inspected, they're beautifully built.

[45:32] I mean, they're basic, but they're safe and they're basic

[45:36] and they're secure, and it's a place to live.

[45:39] You know, 30% on average of these people's income.

[45:44] And most people's income is the right in town.

[45:46] Now they keep talking about affordable housing

[45:49] and we taxpayers have to give more money.

[45:52] There's already a system in place.

[45:54] If they're at work, they're there at work.

[45:55] cuts and cuts down. They now have money to go out in society, to purchase, go out to dinner

[46:02] and live like the rest of the human beings. And like you said, the same with workforce housing

[46:05] in the hotels, they can utilize the same system, the same water, same sewer, heat cuts down, air

[46:11] conditioning cuts down because it's all contained in one bill. So you want, for these next 20 days, you

[46:17] want to walk, you want to meet people, you think that's important. Very important. You want to

[46:24] continue to have coffee meetings with people and houses and things like that. And you want

[46:31] to continue getting your message out there. And what would you say is your main message?

[46:37] What is your message to the people of Napa?

[46:39] Solutions. I'm about solutions. As a business owner, I've always had to deal with time constraints

[46:45] and budget constraints. Two things that the county and Napa seems to never have to deal with.

[46:50] People apply for permits, they put their permitting in, and it should be, let's say even

[46:55] a two-week process for maybe a small remodel.

[46:58] It could be six, eight months.

[47:00] The bureaucracy costs in their astronomical, and we don't need to talk about our big development

[47:06] project up top of that, let's speak, the 15 years of administrative costs to the taxpayer

[47:14] to deal with this situation whether it was good or bad.

[47:17] It's time decay.

[47:18] And they don't seem to understand that it's our money, the citizen's hard-working tax

[47:22] money, that they're spending.

[47:25] So efficiency and solutions.

[47:28] And what about transparency?

[47:30] I've heard you and Matt Hooper talk a lot about trust and transparency.

[47:36] What are you thinking about that?

[47:39] And they say that, well, we have meetings every other Tuesday or supervisors meetings and people

[47:45] can come.

[47:45] I said, well, how can they come there at work?

[47:46] they're working so hard. I said, I like to see an electronic billboard down by

[47:51] where the clock tower used to be with all the initiatives, all the progress, all

[47:55] the costs. So people who are walking through the community on any time of the

[47:59] day would see it easily. And once you know about a topic, you're going to talk to

[48:05] your friend, neighbor, family, whatever about these topics and say, hey, did you

[48:09] realize that they're going to talk about this this week? Why did you know they're

[48:12] putting a six-story, you know, workforce housing, you know, and they're thinking about putting

[48:18] it right next to Silwata Country Club, I'm just making this up, but I'm just pushing,

[48:22] you know, it could be something. Get it at the beginning. Don't go through all administrative

[48:26] costs, then present it to the public to have the public deny it. Get them involved in an

[48:32] early point.

[48:32] This is my biggest frustration, as I've begun participating more in government around

[48:36] here is City Councils are always in the evening, and school boards are always in the evening.

[48:43] But the one thing that is not is the Board of Supervisors, and there's stuff going on

[48:47] there that I know I'm not pleased with, but I work, I have to support myself and my family.

[48:53] I can't leave work to go and look at a board meeting, I just can't do it.

[48:58] So it's the only meeting, I've looked at just about every council and board meeting in

[49:03] the county and it's the only one I know of that has actually happened during the day,

[49:08] during the Board Supervisors work day, and not during the evening when the actual citizens

[49:14] can come and participate.

[49:16] That's not transparency.

[49:18] That's not transparency.

[49:18] And it's not necessarily.

[49:19] And it makes sure you have to be divvied up.

[49:20] A lot of those POS meetings end up, you know, through the lunch break, they end up going

[49:24] all day.

[49:25] Yeah.

[49:25] And it's a 9 to 4.

[49:27] Yeah.

[49:28] Yeah, school boards go from five to one in the morning often.

[49:33] I mean, it's painful, don't get me wrong, but I can participate in a school board.

[49:38] I have to make decisions about sleep, but I can participate in a school board.

[49:42] I can't participate in a meeting that's gone under my work day.

[49:45] Yeah, and it does make perfect sense to have a meeting that goes from five to nine and

[49:51] we don't get our business done.

[49:53] So we can call a recess and reconvene on Thursdays.

[49:58] So the meetings on Tuesday, oh, we didn't quite finish.

[50:01] We'll call recess and we'll reconvene on Thursday.

[50:05] And now we'll meet from 5 to 9 because here's the thing.

[50:08] When you work for the county board of supervisors,

[50:11] that is supposed to be your actual job.

[50:15] That is your job.

[50:16] You're paid 90,000 a year and that is your job.

[50:19] So, if we work from 5 to 9 and we don't finish, we go back on Thursday from 5 to 9.

[50:27] If we don't finish, we'll carry it over to the next Tuesday from 5 to 9 and Thursday.

[50:33] And if we have to meet every Tuesday in Thursday from 5 to 9, we do that until we get caught

[50:38] up.

[50:39] But transparency is so important and trust.

[50:43] I think we lost trust.

[50:45] I mean, things have just eroded horrifically

[50:49] on this whole trust factor.

[50:51] People feel it is just a pay to play.

[50:53] I'm hearing people say recall the whole entire board

[50:57] is supervisors.

[50:59] And that is the travesty.

[51:01] When you've lost your trust that much that they want

[51:04] to recall, every member of the board,

[51:07] I mean, that just hurts.

[51:10] That's a soccer kick in the get.

[51:12] you know. Oh, my gosh.

[51:15] They're holding up the five

[51:16] minute sign. Now y'all keep

[51:17] talking too much. OK. So

[51:20] back to Garrett. What? You've

[51:23] been knocking on doors. OK.

[51:25] You've been knocking on

[51:26] doors for months. What's the

[51:28] number one issue? What's the

[51:30] number one thing? District

[51:32] district one homeless homeless.

[51:36] Next runner up is water, but

[51:38] that homeless comes every time at the door.

[51:40] What are you going to do about it?

[51:43] Because most people think they're going to ask that question and not get an answer.

[51:47] Because there hasn't been an answer.

[51:49] We've shoved them in homeless shelter.

[51:51] We've shoved them in the facility like the Nap Valley hotel, you know, at the end of

[51:55] cooms, and there's no system.

[51:59] There's no as I said.

[51:59] There's no A to Z.

[52:00] And I said, well, the problem is they're not even doing what I've done.

[52:03] I went out and talked to the homeless.

[52:05] 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

[52:12] 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

[52:19] From a hundred and something a couple years ago. So let's just say we had three hundred if I was able in my

[52:26] Crazy busy time to help four. There's actually a fifth in there, but it's just help

[52:33] Then I think as a community, we can address the mental health issues appropriately, give

[52:39] these people an opportunity to be taking care of them and see if they can be reestablished

[52:45] into society or if they need long-term care.

[52:48] And the majority of the people that have and want to work, see this whole idea of we can't

[52:54] force people to work.

[52:55] Okay, let's just change the direction.

[52:57] Can we work to give these homeless people dignity again by giving them a job, teaching them

[53:04] administratively at the college, or through the trade skills, you know, electrical or plumbing

[53:10] or whatnot?

[53:12] And I said, how come we don't have someone going up into our forests and doing forest mitigation?

[53:18] We could take the majority of the homeless people now that are capable.

[53:21] They could go Tuesday and Thursday and be on a hiking trip and be having fun, but actually

[53:26] be doing good for the community and feel like they're part of the community.

[53:29] There's so much we can do, but we have to have a full system to get them into the housing

[53:34] that we're currently building, South of Combs, with an educational program to get them

[53:40] out and get them into creative and get their respect back.

[53:42] So homeless is your number one issue.

[53:45] People are afraid, they don't want to walk at night anymore, because they're not accosted

[53:51] by homeless or are high on drugs, or you know what I mean.

[53:53] It makes them nervous.

[53:54] What they see in their eating downtown, you know, and they get people climbing trees and doing all kinds of crazy things.

[53:59] And then especially those down by the river, they look across the river and they see 10 cities.

[54:05] That is supposed to be a world-class town. We are world-class destination.

[54:11] We should be a world-class town and a world-class example, like the different things that Kevin's talked about as well.

[54:16] We can do it different and show the rest of the state and the rest of the country how to do it right.

[54:21] Yeah, then we need to fix our sidewalks and our roads to match our world-class belief system.

[54:29] We believe we're world-class, so let's take care of all those other things too.

[54:33] Absolutely.

[54:33] Oh my gosh, homeless and water, what are people worried about with water that we're using

[54:38] too much of it?

[54:39] Right, and they're talking about, they're talking about pushing through this huge development

[54:43] now of hundreds of acres of new grapes that will deplete water resource, which means that

[54:50] people that have tens of thousands of dollars of landscaping would have to stop watering

[54:55] up potentially.

[54:56] Oh my gosh.

[54:57] Die off.

[54:58] But there's things we can do with dry landscaping or what not to help.

[55:02] Wow.

[55:03] That's a situation.

[55:03] But yeah, water.

[55:04] And there's so much water waste.

[55:07] They say we only blow off at the fire hydrants, one tenth of one percent.

[55:11] So you think, oh, whatever, one tenth of one percent.

[55:13] Oh, no.

[55:13] We're talking about millions of gallons, there's one tenth of one percent of our entire water

[55:17] years.

[55:18] I did the quick calculations from their publications at City Water.

[55:22] It would be enough water for 250 homes for a year, what we blow off down the storm drains

[55:28] because there's sediment in it every year instead of giving it-

[55:32] That's from every fire hydrant.

[55:34] The total from all the fire hydrants that they do.

[55:37] Now we could give it to a company like Bingham, Bingham can store it, the city could give

[55:41] him the water.

[55:43] He's going to sell it back to the county and the county's going to generate tax revenue.

[55:47] We could actually build 250 homes knowing that we were recapturing the water supply.

[55:56] There's other things that we can do.

[55:57] And then that whole A-Bag and the housing allotment and the whole thing.

[56:01] I mean, I love the idea of just a moratorium on that until we figure out this water situation.

[56:08] I mean, we cannot build a thousand more homes and do we figure out what's going to happen.

[56:14] Governor's not going to drive a diesel truck on here full of water 24 hours a day.

[56:18] We got to figure out what we're going to do about water before we can build a thousand

[56:23] more homes, whether we did an American cannon or nap or a valley.

[56:27] We got to get the water situation figured out.

[56:30] We need more.

[56:31] Billions of dollars, right?

[56:32] Still sitting in the coffers.

[56:33] I think four billion plus, still sitting in the coffers for watershed improvement, dams

[56:40] and things like that.

[56:41] Yeah, then we've never built a single dam.

[56:43] know, but they're pushing on us to mitigate our water. Yeah, it's crazy. Okay. All right. So for

[56:49] a wrap up, we're going to give you one minute, Garrett Hale, to close down wrap up, talk about

[56:55] your campaign. Tell us the last thing you want to see here. This is your last chance. Your last

[57:01] thing you want to see. This is it. This is the last coming on last show. Exactly. The thing I

[57:07] really want to instill in people is how much I care about this community and that I'm running

[57:13] for office for the right reasons.

[57:16] The community has asked me to run.

[57:18] Community has asked me to watch over their tax dollars.

[57:22] And being a business owner for almost four decades, I understand the bottom line.

[57:27] And I understand through working with the city and county administration, how much ignorance

[57:33] and how much waste we have that can be fixed.

[57:37] Kevin, closing thought or comment?

[57:41] 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.

[58:09] who's being voted in. So let's help a brother out. Let's help a sister out and let's help

[58:14] those mama bears out. Get their votes in. Once you get your vote in, make it your job

[58:18] to find 20 people and get their votes in. Okay, I love it. Let's do that. All right, Lauren.

[58:25] Thank you to all our wonderful guests and our fantastic crew, camera people, Theresa Kona

[58:32] Mack, John Bishop, and Dan Forsman, and Director Romero Gentry.

[58:38] This is Lauren Ball speaking for On the Edge, a Doris Gentry production.

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