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one of the candidates you will be seeing
on your recall ballot is a 29 year old
YouTube millionaire his name is Kevin
pathrath you've been hearing a lot about
him right now and if he wins he would
become the youngest governor in
California's history Kevin joins us now
to talk about his campaign gubernatorial
candidate Kevin pafrath am I doing okay
with that you're doing great right down
the middle pafroth you nailed it I'm a
JFK style Democrat I'm right in the
middle as well you know I love it
because I'm on your website and one of
the very first things it says is Kevin
pathrath pronounced path rap so I do
like I do like the meet Kevin campaign
as well so you your YouTube channel is
called meet Kevin it's extremely
successful but now you're deciding to
punish yourself and put your hat into
the political Arena tell me why
I'm running to be governor of California
because I'm so worried that in 20 years
my children are going to look at me
they're three and five right now and in
20 years they're going to say Dad why
did you pick California to raise us in
and that's what I don't want I want
California to be exceptional I want my
children to be proud of the state in 20
years and right now the fact that we're
ranked 40th in schools we're the fifth
largest economy in the world but we
can't even help people not die on the
street due to homelessness it's
unacceptable we've got major Californian
problems and we've got a failed leader
running the state and that's why this
recall is happening it's not a
republican recall it's a Californian
recall we need a better leader that's
why we got to vote Yes on Kevin
pfeffrath yeah there you go so on your
uh website you have why yes on the
recall and I think this is really
compelling because you have all these
false claims that you say were made by
the governor and then you factually back
it up let's start with the first one
Governor claims we have 75.7 billion
dollars in Surplus suggesting California
is flush with money is that true
it's absolutely not look here's the
thing California Surplus was created
half by the federal government they
double counted this money and then the
other half was spent on vote buying
schemes like forgiving traffic tickets
to where now the LA time says we're
actually going into a 12 billion dollar
deficit Governor Newsom spending like
this money is going to keep coming year
after year but he doesn't understand the
finances of it I don't think he's even
paying attention because the reality is
this Surplus came from a boom in IPOs
initial public offerings in the stock
market which I study every single day
and the reality is the boom's over the
IPL boom is over we're not going to have
that massive windfall of money in 2021
you know when we do our reconciliation
next year like we did from the 2020
stock market but governor knows some
spending like this money is just going
to keep coming forever the reality is if
we keep going the way we're running this
state right now for 20 years we're gonna
be bankrupt are you getting any pushback
from the Democratic Party
the Democratic party is trying to
pretend I don't exist right now in some
part because they're suggesting oh just
vote Yes or sorry vote no other recalls
what they're suggesting keep Newsome and
then leave the second part of the ballot
blank I think this is Un-American to
leave part of the ballot blank everybody
should be filling in the second part of
the ballot they should get educated
about their options I believe they
should go to meet kevin.com and consider
voting for Kevin pafrath on the second
question but I think the reason the
Democratic party is a little confused is
because they're trying to call this a
republican recall but now we're leading
in the polls making it making sure
Californians know this is not a
republican recall it is a recall of a
failed leader Gavin Newsom and we just
need a new Centrist with real solutions
and that's what we have yeah you're very
bold because you are going out there and
saying hey we need this emergency plan I
guess if it if the recall actually goes
through but then you're also backing
that up with a lot of policies saying
you're going to do this you're going to
do that you brought up a poll there is a
recent poll has you in the as the the
front runner 27 percent Larry Elder at
23 percent the margin of error is 5.4 so
you're kind of neck and neck with with
elder what do you think is going to set
you apart other than the D after your
name
yeah absolutely well here's what we got
to remember is that uh Larry Elder
believes that he can go into Governor
government and just veto whatever the
Democrats do that was possible under
Arnold Schwarzenegger's governorship
when Democrats only had 60 to 64 control
in Congress now the assembly and Senate
have 72 to 75 percent control we've gone
so far to the left side in the assembly
and in the Senate that there's no way a
republican Governor is going to be able
to do anything so I personally believe
the Democratic party isn't even
concerned and this is why they're
potentially saying leave the second part
of the ballot blank I think they think
if a republican Governor gets in the
legislature is just going to run the
state Republican Governor is going to be
a lame duck for a year nothing's going
to get done in 2022 the Democrats are
going to say see should have had a
Democrat Republican couldn't get
anything done I don't want to gamble
with Californians lives for a year I
want to get stuff done in the next year
because we're running out of time we're
going to go bankrupt if we don't start
solving the issues we have homelessness
housing traffic crime water fire we got
to stop misleading Californians be
transparent with Californians and honest
with them and operate the state with a
business mindset while also respecting
government negotiations and politics
that we have you know it's interesting
you brought up that point because I've
said that to every gubernatorial
candidate I've talked to who is a
republican how are you going to work
with these very left uh State Assembly
and state state senate State Assembly so
how would you work with them if you are
more of a moderate you called yourself a
JFK Democrat how would you get anything
done
here's what we're going to do within the
first 60 days and the full plan for this
is on meet kevin.com but within the
first 60 days we're going to make sure
we have beds for 160 000 homeless
individuals everyone we're going to make
sure they get food mental health
education or or support substance abuse
support every dollar we spend on
substance abuse saves three dollars in
crime we're going to be efficient with
what we do and after 60 days of my
Administration nobody Sleeps on our
streets no more tense cities there no
nobody's getting locked up nobody's
going to jail but nobody's allowed on
our streets anymore we're gonna make
sure people have facilities they can go
there if they want but they cannot sleep
on my streets and after 60 days nobody's
sleeping on the streets anymore we
finally have cleaner and safer streets
that's going to be a massive win for
everyone's District in California now I
go to legislature and say look we've got
a much cleaner State we've started
dealing with the problems we have on our
streets now let's deal with the causes
of homelessness Let's Talk education
infrastructure crime policing and let's
have a massive infrastructure bill that
both Republicans and Democrats can get
behind let's take advantage of this this
a power that we have in California the
money that we do have and let's finally
do right with common sense solve our
fires solve our Water Crisis and do
things that make sense like teach
Financial education at schools all right
again you can see all this on
meetkevin.com where you do have a
hashtag hashtag stop the bull ship ship
stop the bull ship so all right Kevin
thanks so much for your time tonight I
appreciate it thank you for having me
thanks so much
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