California

“There were a number of propositions that were on the ballot last November that were fairly, you know, extreme progressive, I would call them, and they all failed.”

“From August on something like 95% of private schools were open, while in California, basically no public schools were open.”

“If you're going to complain about, you know, the, you know, what's going on in San Francisco or California, then you should also be trying to do something about it in any way you can, but don't just complain that San Francisco has too much homelessness or Cali…”

“Had he not been governor of Florida, and even if we had a Republican legislature as a backstop, you know, we would have been much more like New York or California during the pandemic than Florida.”

“Originally Prop. 13 the goal was proposed by Howard Jarvis and others with the goal of limiting property taxes, and it failed in 1972 by about a two-to-one vote. Overwhelming rejection of Prop. 13. People of course had problems with local property taxes, but t…”

“California was the fastest growing state in the nation for decades and surpassed New York as the single largest state in the country in around 1960. And it was a very welcoming environment for builders. The, one of the main reasons people moved over there is b…”

“Serrano v. Priest upset the entire the sort of shape of local funding in California. If you were building new sort of housing and developments in your area, or if merely you were increasing the property tax funding in your local schools, you got the benefit. E…”

“California has Actually, exceptionally dense cities. They have cities about 7008 thousand people per square mile, which is very high relative to the rest of the U.S., which is more like three to 4000 people per square mile. and yet it has housing prices that …”

“California passed a law in 2016 that basically makes it a right for somebody to have an ADU in their backyard, and since that law passed, permit applications have increased 17 x in the state of California. Eight other states have also copied California's laws.”

“Once you become a large employer in a state, like you actually end up existing sometimes for your own sake as a large employer. That's very powerful. This is why you have the really powerful healthcare interests and education interests. Like it's, you know, I …”

“There was intrastate deregulation of airlines in both California and Texas. Before we went to the national level, this was done at the state level, and national policy policymakers could see this is how this stuff is working, and they're, you know, they were a…”

“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”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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 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 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, …”

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

“We have a project to build a new city in California. We've bought, you know, four times the acreage of Manhattan in Solano County.”

“There's substantial reforms to Medicaid that protect the program, but also allow us to get illegals off the program to deal with what is essentially a money laundering scam where a state will have Almost a fake tax on a healthcare provider, use that to cause t…”

“And that's one of the reasons why like Annalise Exynian's regional advantage is so key about the not having, you know, anti-competes is because it allows that spinoff from a large company to go do that. And I think that's one of the things that made California…”

“So Aurora, a company headquartered in California, but of course, you know, in, in modern regulatory environment, Where are we driving our first, you know, heavy duty trucks? Texas, right?”

“There's no reason in the world why we should accept the idea that illegal immigrants are counted in the census. California has way too many representatives than it should have because we count illegal immigrants.”

“Our house we have out in California, five of the neighbors got hit last year by cartels.”

“Cause you know, in our view, coming from California, I know a lot of these things were grifts where they'd hire all of their friends, all of their family, you know, even their aunt Sally, everyone's working for the nonprofit for two, three, 400 K. And it's obv…”

“During the buy administration, the cartels in the very nice area hit five of the houses right around it.”

“Turns out, four hundred and thirty million dollars of fraud in Minnesota. Then we go to California, nine billion dollars of COVID era fraud.”

“Well, I think we're not announcing it yet, but some of my friends and I hired some very prominent investigative Journalist people to go looking for more fraud in California.”

“I think there was an article I was in recently that interviewed 21 people who'd had ties to California who were very successful, and I was the only one willing to go on the record.”

“I think Texas will be first. I think California will eventually catch up.”

“The Woodside might not allow it. They're like the, it's like always like the last places to allow things. It's like these little communist, like strongholds of California.”