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“Of that one billion total in 10 years, the actual amount spent on the purported benefit here Solar panel installation was seventy two million. Nine hundred and twenty eight million actually went to non-profits doing all, all the usual Democrat associated bulls…”

“Well, our number over the last five years total, our estimate was four hundred and twenty-five billion. So averaged over the years, it's about eighty billion a year. So that's, so it's around, you know, 20% or so.”

“Most of those lawsuits are filed by unions.”

“Gavin Newsom's political donations over the 16 years he's been running statewide, just as a proxy for Democrat politicians, by category. The number one category, government unions. Number two, trial lawyers. Number three, non-government unions.”

“CARB, the California Air Resources Board, which is obsessed with having all other businesses account for their carbon emissions right down the supply chain. Miraculously, the carbon emissions for the oil imports are only counted from when they're 12 miles off …”

“And that's one of the proposals I've got in my campaign, which is a grade for every school and a grade for every teacher. So we can reward the good ones and remove the bad ones.”

“I was the first on TV to lay out all the evidence showing that it was Fauci's experiments that were the origin of the pandemic.”

“They passed a law in 2016, the only state in America to do it implementing in legislation this approach called Housing First. Which says that you've got to, the number one thing is, and it sounds like a sensible thing, of course, give homeless people housing, …”

“If we increase the development footprint of California from five percent to six percent, which would still put us really low in, in terms of other states, you could have housing for ten million people in single family homes on quarter acre lots”

“We're the state with the highest unemployment rate in the country and the highest poverty rate in the country tied with Louisiana.”

“One of my Democrat opponents in the governor's race, Katie Porter. Actually, you know, we were doing a debate the other week in Fresno, and she just said, we're talking about affordability or whatever it was, and she said, well, I'm, I've decided I'm stealing …”

“If the billionaire tax proposal goes through, I mean, that absolutely puts You know, I think that's just a complete disaster for the tech ecosystem and what we've built in Silicon Valley over the years and all the job creation and wealth creation that comes wi…”

“The same exact floor plan, house, apartment building, industrial building, whatever it is, costs two or three times more to build. In other, in, in California than in neighboring states.”

“70% of CEQA lawsuits are used to block housing.”

“Our number one provider is Iraq right now. That's the number one source of oil.”

“We spend nearly the most of any state per student right now in this year. It's about 27,000, just, it's more than, just over 27,000 per student per year. In California, if you take the average out of the money, and we get some of the worst results in the count…”

“So a simple thing we can do that is completely within the governor's control is stop and reverse the prison closure program, which is what I've committed to doing.”

“And it turned out that about 70% of it, I said, what proportion of it is necessary for the implementation of what we're supposed to be here to do, the actual program of the coalition government? The answer is 30%. The rest of it was either implementing EU dire…”

“Lawyers, along with government unions, are the main funders of Democrat politicians in California.”

“Many restaurant owners I meet, they say they factor into their cost of doing business a million dollars a year for PAGA lawsuits.”

“The government unions, by the way, it's a billion dollars a year. So one billion dollars a year. To politics. Just from the unions.”

“They defined shelter as what they call permanent supportive housing, which is an apartment unit costing because of all the other Corruption and regulation involved in house building in California, 700,000 dollars, 800,000 dollars, a million dollars now in San …”

“The first Trump administration created a waiver from the IMD rule that states could apply for. Guess what? California hasn't applied for the rule.”

“You've got over a million housing units in California that have been approved by local government, gone through zoning, compliant with CEQA and all the other environmental rules, blocked by lawsuits.”

“70% of lawsuits under CEQA are used to block housing.”

“There are so many things I see in California today that are exactly like the UK in the seventies. You've got the massive dominance of the unions in policymaking. You've got a slurotic economy. You've got massively high taxation.”

“We had a really strong energy industry and infrastructure in California where we produced most of the oil and gas that we use, and we had refineries, about 40 of them around the state, mostly in the Bay Area, down in LA, that refined and turned it into product…”

“If you look at EVs, I mean, EV penetration, even with all the subsidies and so on, it's incredibly low in California. So you can't point, it's about four or five percent, something like that.”

“A lot of attention now on Mississippi, rightly so, because for one third of their spend per student than California, their results are spectacularly better.”

“Which is, there's a technique called phonics. It's a way to teach kids to read, and it's totally clearly established as the most effective. It's barely used in California schools at all. It's like in a very small proportion of schools, of public schools.”

“Over 80% of people who are homeless have drug or alcohol problems, addiction, or severe mental health problems.”

“Last year, even the, going back to our point about the legislature, even the Democrat legislature passed a bill called the Sober Housing Act, which would have taken a certain proportion of homelessness spending and allocated it to a shelter where you had a req…”

“Incredible freedom. No editorial control at all. Or guidance even.”

“I actually renounced my UK citizenship.”

“We have the highest gas prices in the country, as you know, the highest electric bills everywhere except for Hawaii housing costs the highest in the country”

“Chief executive magazine ranks us and has done for the last 10 years or so the 50th out of 50 for business climate.”

“If you look at the budget of the state of California, it's nearly doubled In the last 10 years.”

“So the rule is there is no Medicaid reimbursement to the states for any mental health care provided In a facility with more than 16 beds.”

“Right now, I'm leading in all of the polls on the Republican side.”

“So there's two, two crucial ways in which the bureaucracy enable this. Number one is that the, that if they don't, they're supposed to write these letters to the relevant cabinet committee, and they're supposed to respond. The time, if there's no response, it'…”

“So prop 36 last year kind of reversed most of that. That passed with 70% in every county. 70% statewide majorities in every county.”

“10 counties flipped from blue to red in, in November last year.”

“We have, like, barely half a student, less than half a students, Meet basic state standards in English.”

“If you look at the data on roughly what you could expect in terms of turnout in 20, 26, it's about 11.7, 11.8 million votes. It's based on the average of the last two midterms. So to win, you need about 5.9 million. Trump just got 6.1 million.”

“The average share of the vote for Republican statewide candidates in the last 20 years, since the last time Republicans won, is 41.7%.”

“About 40% of the state now, Latino, the largest group, it's only about 20 Three, 24% of the electorate.”