My Full Campaign Speech.

hi

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ah san diego wow

thank you

hopefully nobody has covet on their

hands okay

all right hey everyone meet kevin here

my name is kevin paprath and i'm running

for governor to replace

gavin newsom

when i announced my candidacy i knew i

had to hold a rally here in san diego

70 miles of most beautiful beaches

attractions downtown san diego

and the san diego padres

some fans in here okay okay

now i want you to know and you've been

good about this so far but this is an

audience participation

rally so forget smashing the like button

we need claps

and if if you do really well then the

best highlights get to go on youtube

so if you hear something you like you

clap if you hear something you don't

like

clap anyway

now san diego is amazing but we've got

some issues

we're going to talk about issues we're

going to talk about solutions here

because that's what i like to do

talk about the problem then we talk

about the solutions in just 2019

2020 under the last year of your prior

mayor and under the leadership of

governor devin newsom homelessness

doubled

in san diego it's not just san diego

california one of the most beautiful

most traveled states in the country is

having the same problems

but the good news is i know californians

together are more capable than any other

state in this country we've got the

resources the intelligence

and spirit to solve our problems we've

also got the money to solve our problems

we can solve our any problem that we

face unfortunately we've just

lost our edge and my goal is to bring us

back on course

you know what my dream is people always

ask me this they're like hey

kevin what's your dream what's your

vision what why do you wake up and do

this stuff every day why

well my family is german they work very

hard and know this

california is the fifth largest economy

in the world

well guess who's number four it's

germany

deutschland and under my leadership i

will make california the fourth largest

economy in the world so i could finally

kick the german's bots

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so we've got a lot of similar problems

here throughout california you already

know a lot about them

homelessness taxation traffic housing

schooling policing

some massive human problems we've got

sadly a lot of these problems

in fact almost all of them are made

worse by broken politics and policies

that we have in california

now let me ask you in california in the

last

24 years 24 years has homelessness

gotten better or has it gotten worse

the last 24 years in california has

crime gotten better or worse

and in the last 24 years in california

has red tape bureaucracy and taxation in

our lives

gotten better or worse

well guess who's been in leadership in

california for the last 24

years gavin newsom

and that's why it's time to end his

reign

see part of the problem is in california

we have

governments that are obsessed with

five-year plans

consider one that san francisco has they

have a five-year plan

to provide one tent to each homeless

person

at a cost of five thousand dollars a

month

folks would you be homeless with 60 000

a year in your pocket

come on it's broken it doesn't make

sense and now suddenly right before an

election governor gavin newsom was

getting recalled

and newsom's announced a bunch of new

five-year plans but what i want to know

is where were these five-year plans

three years ago

or 24 years ago so far in the last 24

years all we've gotten is click bait

it's time to end that now at the same

time

my friends and contractors many of you

have the same issue i've talked to many

of you

are leaving california many people are

leaving california

oppressive business regulations too many

taxes

people say texas is better florida's

better

so even our truckers are losing their

ability to compete

which leads to more expensive gas in

california we've got the most expensive

gas right now that we've had in the last

seven years in the state

businesses are leaving i have to wait

six weeks to get a ceiling permit

a ceiling fan permit excuse me for a

ceiling fan six weeks

why is governor gavin newsom failing our

state

and then how can we make it better and

that's what we're going to talk about

problems and solutions and so in the

last 24 years we already know we

answered the question

traffic homelessness taxation have all

gotten worse and i want you to know

that if gavin newsom or ask yourself

this answer this maybe

if gavin newsom is re-elected to finish

his last one year of his term here

do you think any of the issues we listed

are going to get better

and this is why this is an opportunity

for change

see governor gavin newsom says our

population isn't declining fast

it's not that big of a deal no worries

he says in fact he was quoted you can

google this

saying i don't mind if tesla leaves he

says

tesla wasn't bluffing building their

next facility in austin texas

tesla's shanghai facility puts our

fremont facility to shame

it's no surprise china's kicking our

butts

texas is doing it florida's doing it

vegas is doing it

at the same time we just lost a

representative in congress but

apparently the population declining

isn't a big deal he says

avenue says it's not a big deal folks

we've lost 2.3 million taxpayers in just

the last

10 years and that's a rate that's

accelerating

because of covet coven is making this

decline

worse people realize they don't have to

live in california

they choose to live in california but

lately

they've been choosing to leave and see

here's the problem with

what gavin newsom tells us he says ah

population decline isn't that bad

you know why he says that he says that

because

children and students come here children

are born here

and students come here but see the thing

is children and students

they take from the economy it's not

until they're 18 that they give back to

the economy

and the people who are leaving are the

people contributing to the economy the

adults and people over 18.

so you actually look at the numbers

start realizing

we're going to have a lot of problems in

california that are just going to get

worse

and worse under the current leadership

that we have consider this

an architect who leaves you know

sometimes i hear folks say ah well we

want less population anyway really

you know if an architect leaves our

state guess who's hurt

it's our restaurants our dry cleaners

our farmers markets our doctors our

dentists they all end up with one less

customer

see an econ 101 which i don't think

governor newsom paid much attention to

there's something called the multiplier

effect and that's in economics called

the velocity of money

every dollar that's spent circulates the

economy five to six times we know this

one dollar creates lots of jobs and

profits when people leave

we don't just lose one dollar we lose

all of those five to six dollars

companies are leaving oracle hewlett

packard coinbase amazing magnets we saw

tesla elon musk joe rogan

they're all leaving so let me ask you

something i want to know from you

do we want a worse economy or a stronger

economy

that's what i thought we don't want a

click-bait economy

we want a real economy and a stronger

economy

here's some clickbait for you our

current governor tells us that we have a

78 billion dollar surplus

he doesn't tell you that more than half

of that

is federal money that's going to our

schools it's going to our schools anyway

whether or not

he's around so that means we don't

really have a 78 billion dollar surplus

we have a 30-something billion dollar

surplus

but the sad thing is because there's a

recall election coming up

governor gavin newsom has gone on a

little bit of a spending spending spree

doing things like forgiving traffic

tickets and instead of having a 30

something billion

surplus we're actually going 12 billion

dollars more into debt

folks if we have a surplus should we be

going into debt

doesn't make sense so how about instead

of a governor who's trying to buy votes

we talk about real issues which we're

going to talk about a little bit

and we solve our state consider this

at the peak of coven one third

during which one third of california's

restaurants

went bankrupt many families struggled

without their

or with their children not being able to

go to child care or go to schooling

a lot of lockdowns a lot of students

lost a year of schooling

many of us were forced to stay locked

down or keep our businesses closed

but guess what at the same time governor

gavin newsom got to do

he got to send his children to a private

school that was open

and go dining with lobbyists at the

french laundry

he didn't even bring a mask at the same

time

governor newsom made more money from his

hospitality business

in 2020 than he has ever had before

while the same time one-third of

california businesses are going bankrupt

folks is that right this seems a little

unjust to me

should people who go into politics

be getting into politics to make things

more convenient for themselves or should

they be helping the california people

people not themselves

this is par for the corps of course with

uh gavin newsom folks

we already know this we know he believes

the rules are for thee and not for me

why

because right now i can't even make this

stuff up

governor gavin newsom is suing his own

administration

he's suing his own administration

because he missed a deadline

in a law that he himself signed into law

he is now claiming that the law he

signed into law

is unconstitutional and he wants special

treatment because he missed the deadline

his argument is oh well i just want to

be the same as all the other candidates

even though he missed the deadline in

his own law

now maybe that'd be fair i mean it

sounds fair i mean well all candidates

should be treated equal right

we'll get this california's campaign

finance law says that i can raise 32

400 per individual donor the governor

can raise unlimited amounts of money

that doesn't sound fair in fact you know

what else doesn't sound fair

is one third of our businesses going

bankrupt while at the same time

netflix is open filming any videos they

want

because they got a special exception

from governor gavin newsom

and surprise surprise with no campaign

finance contribution limits there's no

32

400 donation limit for the for governor

gavin newsom

one person gave him three million

dollars and that person

was the co-ceo of netflix three million

dollar donation from the co-ceo

of netflix but now governor gavin newsom

is claiming his own laws are

unconstitutional because things aren't

fair

because he missed his own deadline this

is the kind of governor we have right

now

it's not fair what about all the family

businesses that were shut down

or the disproportionate amount of

hispanic-owned restaurants that went

bankrupt because of governor gavin

newsom's policies

folks what did i just describe to you

does that sound fair

i don't even want to know what governor

newsom plans for covet 2.0

i'll tell you what i would do no

lockdowns

no more lockdowns vaccines are a choice

and we actually have proper education

that ventilation

and hepa filtration helps prevent kovid

we don't need lockdowns

see folks i've just lost faith in this

governor

the other day governor gavin newsom

tweeted and usually i'm one of his first

replies and it doesn't say first i'm

trolling him okay

so anyway the governor tweeted that

because california is roaring back

we can forgive 5.2 billion dollars of

rent

sounds great 5.2 billion dollars of rent

forgiveness that's a lot of money

but he didn't tell you that 2.6 billion

of that came from donald trump when

donald trump signed the 600

stimulus check 2.6 billion dollars came

to california for rent relief

in december

did governor gavin newsom tell you that

donald trump gave him 2.6 billion

dollars for rent relief

exactly i can't tell you but what about

the other money

i said 5.2 billion well

another 2.2 billion dollars came from

joe biden with the 1400

stimulus check so 4.8 billion dollars

for this california roaring back rent

relief money that we all of a sudden

have 4.8 billion

over 92 percent of the money actually

came from the federal government

not from gavin newsom we are roaring

back not because of gavin newsom we are

roaring back in spite

of gavin newsom

but the governor didn't tell us then

and here's what's worse and i want to

ask you does this sound fair

of that 4.8 billion dollars that we've

had since december and february

5.2 billion dollars total california's

contributing a tiny little bit

how much of that 5.2 billion dollars do

you think has gone out to tenants

folks less than 2.3 percent

let me ask you something if we're in an

emergency

a rent an eviction crisis

which they keep kicking the can down the

road on the eviction moratorium because

they can't figure their act out get this

if we're an emergency and people are

suffering

i want to ask you should people have to

wait 12

months which is probably what's gonna

take it's already been seven months and

they're now estimating it's gonna take

12 months to get this money out the door

should people have to wait 12 months for

rent relief

that was given to them by the federal

government since december

it's ridiculous imagine i make a video

going

stimulus check passed you'll get it in

12 months

there'd be a lot more riots

folks i believe that we should do

everything possible to help californians

we should stop but nothing i don't care

if that means we have to use blockchain

to send money if it's cheaper faster and

more efficient we stop at nothing to

solve the problems that we have in our

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state

but the governor is too afraid of change

so instead of change

he's drowning us and more problems

which is kind of ironic because we're in

a drought right

you just get asked to conserve water too

do you see that

now 15 conservative water don't have

enough water

at the same time our governor is

squandering money on things like

forgiving traffic tickets right before a

recall election

the governor apparently is blind to the

fact that

we could build a water aqueduct

from los angeles to boston states could

hook up to this

along the way for 5.2 billion

which is a fraction of the supposed

surplus that we had

which just went out the door to buy

votes

and then we could have cheaper and

cleaner

water and as much of it that we need i

was just in fresno

they are bleeding farms dry in fresno

to send water down south california

won't be the agricultural capital of the

world anymore

this keeps happening question for you

should the

fifth largest economy in the world

prioritize having enough water in our

state

should it be the governor's

responsibility to fix the water shortage

i will fix the water shortage

now for those of you who don't know me

i've been a real estate broker financial

educator investor

my wife lauren shout out to lauren over

there meet lauren

hey gabe can we get pictures of these

beautiful people not from a mile away

please

get in there and get some beautiful

photos of these people

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now look folks as property managers

lauren does our property management

every month we have to watch every

nickel and dime we have to monitor our

expenses and we have to

make sure we're as efficient as possible

we have beautiful well-maintained

properties we've never had an eviction

and when there are problems we work with

our tenants so there's a problem we find

a solution we make it happen

not just ignore our problems we solve

things

now i know running a government is

different than running a business but

let me ask you

is there anyone who's going to outwork

me in fixing california

folks when california is led by me we

will have affordable housing

we will have clean and safe streets we

will have a low crime we will have no

more homeless

crisis and not to mention we'll be able

to continue enjoying the best climate in

the world because we won't have to leave

now i i know this might cause some

feathers to get ruffled

but i want everybody to be clear in this

recall election yes i

am running as a democrat but i am

bringing

big and bold solutions i realize i'm a

realist i think you know this

about real solutions what's the reality

the reality is

if a republican governor gets elected

and they have a one

year term to prove themselves which is

all you get you get like a one year free

trial

which is actually how all politics quite

frankly should be shouldn't politicians

have a one year trial before we have

another election

but if a republican governor gets in i

realize the leadership

in california is at in my opinion a

level of pettiness

that there will get there will be

nothing done

folks you think nancy pelosi and mitch

mcconnell get along

so so you think democrats in california

who have a super majority are somehow

going to work with a republican governor

it's not going to happen

caitlyn jenner tweeted i'm a veto

everything that democrats do

caitlyn jenner do you know what a super

majority means it means it's veto proof

it means you have no power so folks look

i've been a registered democrat since

i'm 18 but i think you know i'm not far

left i'm not far right

i'm just straight down the middle i'm

about solutions and i believe i'm not

running as

a democrat or republican i'm running as

a californian to solve our problems

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and this recall election is crucial

because it's our best chance

to get an upset and vote out our current

governor

to vote for a new leader to vote for new

change

this is why i need your vote now we're

going to talk about solutions but i want

to ask you

can i count on you to vote yes on recall

and yes i'll meet kevin pafran for

governor

we gotta get that weenie baby out

all right let's talk about solutions

solution number one tell me how this

sounds

no homeless on our streets in 60 days

now we gotta solve homelessness it takes

time to solve

homelessness we're not going to end

homelessness in 60 days but nobody's

going to be on our streets anymore

leading to

unsafety or lack of safety needles poo

pee in our streets leading people not to

come visit california anymore

that ends after 60 days

we're going to do this by tasking our

national guard with providing a service

for californians we're going to

compassionately serve

our homeless community we're going to

build trust with our homeless community

so they actually believe their

government is actually going to help

them again

but on day one we will be everywhere

homeless are

providing food bathrooms and clean

showers for every homeless person on the

streets of california

on day one we're also going to begin

construction of 80 new emergency

facilities so that way there's no more

excuse

there's no living on our streets because

why we have 80 emergency facilities able

to house 2 000 individuals each that's

about the size of a high school and each

of those facilities will include

services for mental health detox

education food and cleanliness

and medical support because guess what

that's what all californians deserve

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let me ask you this okay just just

picture this for a moment do you think a

homeless person with mental health

issues

which by the way 70 of people who become

homeless become homeless economically

and then they end up with mental health

problems and substance abuse problems

but do you think a homeless person with

mental health and substance abuse

problems who hasn't had a shower in

three weeks and has no insurance card

is going to be able to call an uber to

drive them to a doctor get a referral to

a mental health professional and a

therapist and

somebody who's actually going to be

willing to take care of them

to help them solve their problem week

after week do you think a homeless

person in that situation is actually

going to be able to get help

no no come on it's ridiculous

it's san francisco spending five

thousand dollars a month per homeless

person on a tent

and los angeles thinks it's a good idea

to just hand out cell phones to people

come on folks so it's broken all right

all right look when we have centralized

support for people we can actually

solve the things that cause homelessness

but it's not just a matter of housing

people and providing those solutions for

the people or homeless now

we can actually prevent homelessness in

the future

so first after 60 days nobody's gonna be

on our streets anymore we're gonna have

our facilities

nobody's gonna be dying on our streets

anymore consider this just a little bit

of background

we have a gun violence epidemic in

california things have gotten worse

which is weird because

gun control has apparently gotten more

stringent yet gun violence has gotten

worse

surprise surprise criminals aren't using

the california roster guns or california

compliant weapons gee

but guess what a more and this is a

travesty more

homeless people die on our streets than

people die of gun violence yet we also

have a gun violence epidemic that means

a lot of homeless people are dying on

our streets they're not living on our

streets they're dying on our streets

should people be dying on the streets in

the fifth largest economy in the world

folks with me as your governor people

stop dying on the streets and within 60

days nobody's

living on our streets anymore because

they're not living on our streets

they're dying on our streets

no one lives on our streets after 60

days

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now the next thing we're going to do is

we're going to massively reduce

crime through community style policing

and integration with our future schools

which we'll talk about our schools in a

moment

the first thing we got to do is we got

to focus on community policing

reintegrating trust with law enforcement

and transparency with law enforcement

we need better training and better

social work at our law enforcement

agencies

i spent 3000 hours working

for law enforcement and when i walk into

a briefing of 60 officers and i hear

that only two are able to go to training

because the department can't afford to

train everyone

i'm not surprised we have problems

folks i just also had an interview

with a swat officer and say he said that

cops are frustrated right now

they want to enforce the laws but

because of things like

ab47 or prop 47 less individuals

or essentially sorry excuse me here this

was written poorly

people are getting let out of jail

even if they're violent offenders and

you know how that works

the laws that were written into place

say that

only non-violent individuals are allowed

to get out of jail but get one guess

what the swat officer told me he told me

you know how the rule is actually

written it's written such that

if you were a violent person who beat

someone

you went to jail for beating somebody

and then you got out and then you went

into a walgreens in broad daylight and

stole everything in the makeup aisle

because you weren't violent in that

walgreens you're deemed non-violent and

you go back out on the street with a

ticket

folks is that the kind of criminal

justice system we should have in

california

doesn't make sense so how about

instead of running a broken criminal

justice system with laws that mo

don't make sense we fix what's broken

and instead of defunding the police we

actually fund the police we enforce the

laws the way they're written and we

do it better with stronger community

policing is that what we want

our politician leaders have corrupted

what would ordinarily function

you do a crime you do the time i'm going

to fix this

we're going to ensure that we have the

safest streets in california

so we could actually show off the most

beautiful streets of california

and get more tourism to california not

less

folks consider this right now we are

paying 156

000 per year for people to sit in jails

156 000 a year shouldn't we be focused

on

maybe figuring out how we can prevent

people from going into jails as well

so we don't spend 156 thousand dollars a

year that would make sense right

it'll be reasonable well consider this

if we actually educate our prisoners

with future schools maybe folks could

actually get out of jail

and look forward to a career rather than

crime how does that sound people getting

out of jail and being able to have a

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career

because here's what happens if we don't

do that status quo

the chicago medical association used to

hold all of their massive conventions

for their medical association it's big

chicago big big area

they used to hold all their conventions

in san francisco

but after years of coming to san

francisco seeing homelessness get worse

and crime go unpunished guess where they

decided to go

las vegas taking their business to las

vegas

i want to ask you do we want to see our

californians going to las vegas or do we

want them here in california

i want to kick texas and vegas in the

butt and i want californians here in

california and i want visitors to come

to california

now here's one how many of you out there

knew

that i had billboards who see my

billboards okay i want one person right

that's not a lot of people right you

want to know why

because you're not in california they're

in texas

you know what they say say send

californians back to california

and vote for me kevin and donate to me

kevin

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let's talk about future schools my plan

of future schools includes

paying people two thousand dollars a

month for individuals over eighteen

to go to a future school now if you

immediately feel like wait maybe it's a

universal basic ain't gonna not two

thousand dollars a month if you go to

school but not just any kind of school

let's talk about this it's forty eight

thousand dollars for two years okay

hold that number in the back your mind

future schools are going to combine

college trade school high schools and

financial education

folks at 16 will have the choice to go

to these future schools as well we won't

pay 16 17 year olds to go but they'll

have the choice

and so that way at 18 people who started

at 16

will have the opportunity to graduate

debt-free

for free and with a career at 18. how

does that sound

you know i asked the other day in uh at

one of the rallies

in fresno i asked hey how many how many

people in the room have

learned about options trading in school

in high school

and uh nobody raised their hand and all

of a sudden

one person raises their hand and they

say

tell me where where please tell me where

have you learned options trading at

school

oh well i'm actually from china

come on come on folks

all right let me give you three examples

here look here are three high demand

skills

that future schools will teach amongst

many many dozens of other opportunities

that we're gonna have we'll actually

provide

licenses and skills and careers so

people at 18 don't graduate wondering

how many minimum wage jobs am i going to

get to try to survive

a computer programmer in california

makes 71 thousand dollars to 120 000

as a starting salary now last time i

said that somebody came up to me

afterwards saying like kevin you're

wrong

it's actually two hundred thousand

dollars oh my god okay it's a lot of

money okay

tell us where you work an electrical

engineer in california makes between

forty three thousand

and a thousand dollars as a starting

salary

nursing california between fifty seven

thousand and ninety one thousand dollars

now i wanna ask you do you think any of

those three careers any people in those

three careers

are they on welfare food stamps or

medi-cal

are welfare food stamps and medi-cal

expensive when one-third of californians

are on medi-cal

and so wouldn't it sound like we would

save

more than 48 000 if people actually have

careers

when we can get people off with dignity

and when they're ready

off of medi-cal and welfare and food

stamps because they actually have the

skills and abilities to have a

real career

forty eight thousand dollars is less

than a third of what we spend

on a prisoner in jail for one year i

went to future schools they'd come out

and have a career to look forward to

saves us a lot of money it sounds like a

good investment to me

we'd make a lot of money back in

california

but here's another thing did you know

that california right now

is ranked 40th in schooling

and i want to know should the fifth

largest economy in the world

be in the bottom 20 percent of schools

in this country

with me as your governor we're going to

fix that

we will reduce crime poverty end

homelessness

and our mental health crisis we're going

to give people their dignity

back do we want to give people their

dignity back

the next thing that we got to do is

we've got to make housing affordable and

that doesn't mean just plowing in and

building new houses where there are

already a lot of houses there's plenty

of land in california

plenty of land median home price right

now though in california is

eight hundred thousand dollars

how is somebody supposed to build well

even if you get a wedge deal you can't

afford that

but folks i want to know why do we have

a lack of affordable home options for

people in california does anyone know

why we

don't have affordable homes in

california our options we now

building regulations that mean we don't

have enough homes in california

we have a lack of homes econ 101. i know

gavin newsom was sleeping during it but

come on

the state of california builds just 80

000 new homes per year

just to keep up with our housing needs

we should be building 300 000 homes per

year

to get ahead my proposal is

making sure we can build 500

000 homes per year housing units per

year

now first thing people here when they

hear that is like wait a minute 500

where are you going to put a half a

million homes kevin that's a lot

well did you know there are 482 cities

in california

california is big that's just about

on average a thousand homes per city

obviously more in certain areas and less

and others

but we accomplish that by increasing the

efficiency of our building and safety

department

speeding up approvals and speeding up

the redevelopment of existing and unused

commercial spaces

that are rotting away that should be

providing homes and spaces for people to

live in

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folks somebody eating an air person came

over to me

to come into my house and he goes kevin

i just lost another

worker going to arizona to start his own

heating and airshop

why kevin we just want to

replace broken furnaces it's just not

that hard the furnace is already there

but now our city the particular city

that i live in and this this

hodgepodge is happening throughout the

state of california but just as an

example

my city which is now having different

rules from everyone else

is saying in order to replace a furnace

in an attic where there's already a

90-pound furnace there in order to

replace that furnace with people who

weigh 150 to 230 pounds

not worried about the people going in

but worried about a 90-pound furnace the

city now says you have to submit

engineering plans to the planning

department and wait six weeks to get

approval to replace the furnace does

that make sense

and we license the engineer and we don't

even give the engineer the cal

state of california licenses the

engineer test the engineer

make sure the engineer has insurance but

doesn't let the engineer

sign off like if you're gonna have an

engineer do it let him come out there

and sign off on it

why why have a bureaucrat spend six

weeks deciding if that's okay

makes no sense

so i want to ask you when i mentioned

the ceiling fan permit earlier

is it fair to wait six weeks to install

the ceiling fan with a permit

it's ridiculous so why don't we have

enough housing it's because the

california

government is in the way

it doesn't mean we want less safety we

want more safety but we can have more

safety and better standards in

california

by actually having a governor who leads

here's an example

how about a state of emergency that

instantly

raises building standards a tiny little

bit makes

all building standards uniform through

the entire state of california so we can

actually build homes immediately

with one standard while still

maintaining design for local areas but

design's not going to take more than a

few days to verify okay it's not that

hard

how about we actually have a governor

that fixes the housing crisis and lets

homes be built

now energy is also really important but

the cool thing is

we can also build new communities that

are net negative in california we've got

lots of sun we've got lots of wind

but one of the problems we have is

california is so broken we could have

solar and wind farms

but the california government can't

figure out how to get transmission lines

from those solar and wind farms to

cities

so we have blackouts so how about

when we build new communities we build

those

next to massive solar and wind farms

to where we create net negative

communities and then when we build new

roads connecting those communities to

our big cities

we build the transmission lines under

those new freeways

we can solve our problems in california

and we can end

blackouts do we deserve a power grid

that actually works

so when we start fixing the things that

are broken in california and we start

saving money by doing logical common

sense things we stop wasting money we do

things

like a common sense governor would do

we get rid of the income tax on the

first 250 000 how about that

about we actually make california

competitive again

so people will leave to vegas and

florida and texas and they stay here

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another thing that we're going to do is

we are going to

legalize all gambling in california

not just card rooms we're gonna work

with the tribes we're gonna work with

everybody and we're gonna actually build

casinos because guess what i want how

does this sound how does this sound

right here

how about instead of people going to the

las vegas strip

they come to california strips with new

casinos new resorts new restaurant new

entertainment new jobs and new revenues

[Applause]

then people coming in again but what

about gambling addictions come on man

into

the gambling indications well here's an

idea then how about you solve mental

health

problems and you solve gambling

addictions instead of telling people how

to live their lives

see i just personally feel we need less

of the government telling us how

we want to live our lives or should live

our lives if people want to drive for

uber

and they want to be a 1099 or w2 how

about you just let them pick

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so when we fix the problems in our state

and when we make things better there's

something really special

that i want to do because right now

we've got florida that's really

bothering me i just went to florida

somebody came over to me and said kevin

i guess what we just did we repaved our

roads

the mayor of miami is running billboards

in san francisco

encouraging people to move to florida

the mayor of fort lauderdale just signed

a deal with elon musk to build tunnels

in fort lauderdale

you know like oh they're so close to the

water table i figure it out

you don't need excuses you figure

problems out you solve things don't tell

me it's not possible

florida can do it i know we can do it

but i told you i wanted to do something

when we solve our problems we start

fixing our state

i'm gonna start running billboards down

in miami and they're gonna be bigger

than this mayor's

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we're going to make california

competitive

again

see here's the other thing one of the

reasons our taxes are so high

is because we spend money on frivolous

projects

you know the high-speed rail which is

not gonna help any of you here in san

diego

the high speed rail is expected to cost

a hundred

billion dollars i took 100 billion

dollars

just as a sample i could waive income

taxes for the first three years on all

people making less than 250 000

that's how much money 100 billion is

would you rather have

three years of no state income tax or

the high speed rail that doesn't even

help but you solve a problem

folks the high speed rail costs 125

million dollars

per month in hilly areas it cost

200 million dollars per mile

but because gavin newsom wants his choo

choo train

we're spending 10 to 20x on what we

should for transportation because

tunnels cost

just 10 million dollars a mile

and so we're gonna build tunnels

we're going to build tunnels where we

actually need them consider this

when we have traffic we know where the

traffic is we know where the freeway

interchanges are we know where the

traffic is

how about instead of building a train

that isn't going to help the majority of

californians

how about instead of that we build

tunnels where we have a lot of traffic

and we stop being the traffic capital of

the world how about

tunnels that go in the direction of

traffic so variable style tunnels

they go one way with rush hour then they

go the other way with rush hour it's

easy to do

it's done throughout the world it's not

done in california and then you make

these

tunnels optional toll roads because

you're building them under existing

freeways which means there's no

regressive taxation it's an option

if you want the freeway to take the

freeway if you want the tunnel take the

tunnel

and when people pay the toll it not only

reimburses the cost of the tunnel but it

actually gives california the money it

needs to start fixing its roads

and so let me ask you what makes more

sense 125 million dollars a mile

building a choo choo train in areas we

don't need it or 10 million dollars a

mile in tunnels where we actually need

to solve traffic

rail or tunnels what makes more sense

oh man here's another good one how about

this how many years do you think because

this is the argument we always hear oh

but the high speed rail isn't going to

help the economy and the environment

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folks how do you know how many years

does anybody know how many

years it's going to take the high-speed

rail to break even economically and

environmentally because it also

you know you get the little caterpillar

truck well the big caterpillar trucks

building

train tracks that that puts out a lot of

diesel into the environment it costs

a big environmental cost to build this

stuff uh how many years is it going to

take to economically and environmentally

break even on the high speed rail

over 70 years to break even

that's ridiculous that's not a return on

your investment

that's uh hopefully if the thing doesn't

break down maybe one day in 71 years

our kids will get a return on their

money maybe

so at the same time contractors who are

working on the high speed rail

one particular who's dianne feinstein's

husband is donating to gavin newsom's

campaign

you know what else is intolerable

as fires how about we follow the advice

of cal fire and actually properly fund

cal fire

and fix and prevent wildfires

[Applause]

preventing wildfires with controlled

burns which are actually better

for our environment because we can

control them we do them in smaller areas

we can protect endangered species

controlled burns cost

32 an acre fighting wildfires

cost hundred dollars an acre

folks what makes more sense fifteen

hundred dollars an acre or thirty two

dollars an acre

now controlled burns are a smart thing

to do

here's the thing i'll tell short story

here at the end of 2017

i received one of those emergency alerts

on my phone those amber alert things

i had like four hours of sleep that day

and i just fallen asleep

and the last thing you want is an amber

alert when you have four hours of sleep

waking you up

i wasn't very happy it was pretty

annoyed

quickly silenced my phone went back to

sleep

uh lauren said it was something about

fires and i'm like your fires come on we

we

we've kind of become so numb to fires

like just let me sleep

so about 10 minutes later another alert

came through

this time i got pretty angry because i

literally just fell asleep again

the lord said no no no this is this is

serious come on

it's just more clickbait come on lauren

so i get up

go to the bathroom uh which is where we

have a window

uh to the entire hillside let me grab

the little cord and i look back at

lauren

come on amber live this is a joke i pull

the cord

entire hillside is orange it's engulfed

in flames outside my window

fire was moving very fast

clients that i sold property to lost

their homes

in this fire firefighters lost their

lives

in this fire and at the same time

not to mention the ptsd many of our

ventures went through in this thomas

fire

npr a publication which leans slightly

left always good to check

the bias of your publication so lean

slightly back

at the same time fires like this are

happening

npr just released an expose

on governor gavin newsom saying governor

gavin newsom

misleads california overstating his

fire prevention work by 609

folks is that right is it right to be

the governor and say you're going to

fix the fire crisis we have

and then overstate the actual work you

did by 690

i didn't even get 690 on amc okay

come on so we want to remember

we got to stop wasting our money we got

to bring

honesty back to california makes sense

people are leaving

my friends just left me to vegas

but you know what uh tell me tell me

tell me what you think about this

instead of leaving i'm not leaving

i'm going to fix california instead and

together we're going to fix schooling

we're going to fix homelessness

we're going to end people dying on our

streets we are going to

fix crime fix traffic and stop wasting

money so we can eventually

lower our taxes because we deserve that

how does that sound

oh

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any donation helps we're up against big

donations from gavin newsom

but the most important question i have

for you

is on september 14th or before that with

your mail-in ballot

can i count on you san diego to vote yes

on recall and yes on meet kevin pafrath

for governor