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Hilton: CA solar fund gave $928M to non-profits, only $72M to solar
“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…”
Hilton: California wastes $80B annually, 20% of state budget
“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.”
Hilton: Labor unions file most CEQA lawsuits blocking housing
“Most of those lawsuits are filed by unions.”
Hilton: Gavin Newsom's top campaign donors are unions and trial lawyers
“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.”
Hilton: CARB only counts imported oil emissions within 12 miles offshore
“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 …”
Hilton proposes assigning grades to every California school and teacher
“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.”
Hilton: California has the highest unemployment and poverty rates in the US
“We're the state with the highest unemployment rate in the country and the highest poverty rate in the country tied with Louisiana.”
Hilton: Katie Porter publicly adopted his plan for zero tax under $100K
“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 …”
Hilton: California's proposed billionaire tax would destroy Silicon Valley's tech ecosystem
“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…”
Hilton: Building housing in California costs 2-3x more than neighboring states
“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.”
Hilton: 70% of CEQA lawsuits are used to block housing
“70% of CEQA lawsuits are used to block housing.”
Hilton: Iraq is California's top provider of imported oil
“Our number one provider is Iraq right now. That's the number one source of oil.”
Hilton: California spends $27K per student while most fail basic standards
“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…”
Hilton commits to reversing California's prison closure program if elected
“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.”
Hilton compares current California conditions to 1970s United Kingdom
“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.”
Hilton: California oil refineries dropped from about 40 to seven
“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…”
Hilton: EV penetration in California is only about 4% to 5%
“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.”
Hilton: Mississippi beats CA school results at one-third per-student spend
“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.”
Hilton: Phonics is barely used in California public schools
“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.”
Hilton: Over 80% of unhoused Californians suffer from addiction or mental illness
“Over 80% of people who are homeless have drug or alcohol problems, addiction, or severe mental health problems.”
Hilton: Gavin Newsom vetoed legislation directing homelessness funding to sober shelters
“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…”
Steve Hilton states he renounced his United Kingdom citizenship
“I actually renounced my UK citizenship.”
Hilton: California has top gas prices, housing costs, and second-highest electric bills
“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”
Hilton: Chief Executive magazine ranked California last in business climate for 10 years
“Chief executive magazine ranks us and has done for the last 10 years or so the 50th out of 50 for business climate.”
Hilton: California state budget has nearly doubled over the past decade
“If you look at the budget of the state of California, it's nearly doubled In the last 10 years.”