Sheriff Bianco: California Is Being Distracted While Everything Gets Worse | DSH #1758

0:00Everything that they talk about in politics in California has nothing to do with California. They don't want to talk about the cost of living, they don't want to talk about the cost of gas, they don't want to talk about taxes, about regulation, about special interest, and activism and all those things. So instead we talk about we hate Trump, we hate immigration, we hate the federal government, all of these things that have nothing to do with the status of California. That's where the media cycle is and the push from politicians is let's fight president Trump instead of letting everyone be aware that California is up for election again and we've failed you. They're distracting, right? Yeah, 100% of distraction. So especially in California, so we don't talk about the failures of California. But people are waking up though, right? Over that. They are. And I think that's why the polls are showing me in the lead. Well, even with Trump's term, I think it was the most voted on the right in a while, right? In California. Numerous, I can't remember the number 12 counties changed to red in this last election. The highest that a Republican is received in California for many, many, many years. And you guys let illegals vote too. Unfortunately. Yeah, so that might be even more gross. And the good part about that is now that's

1:01all being exposed. Okay, guys got the sheriff on today made his way from Cali over to Las Vegas. Are you here often? You know, we we're here once in a while. My wife and I will come here for this time of year, especially we come here for NFR. Nice. So we do like coming here for this. And it's only a couple hours away. So yeah, NFR is a blast. I went for the first time last year. Yeah, it's we try and come out every year. I ruined it this year with the with all of the politics stuff going on. Yeah, you're we're going to miss it this year. But we talked about it when we came in, when we flew in this morning, we saw people getting off the planes in their cowboy hats and everything else. Yeah, I think it starts in a couple days. Yeah. Yeah. Your life must must be pretty crazy right now. It is. It is multiple things a day. And really for this, it worked out good that just we were we're getting on a plane anyway. So we just took a detour to Vegas in between where we were going tonight. So it worked out perfect. Yeah, I appreciate your time. I'm sure you're

2:02super busy right now. Big race, right? It is. Did you expect like to ever do this? No, never, never. That this certainly is it was never I would have never in a million years thought about doing this. And it truly was only in the last couple of years with things just going absolutely nuts in California. It was a slow progression over the decades that I've been there, three decades I've been there. But it's it's really been on a downhill trajectory since 2019, 2020. Yeah, a lot of people have been leaving Cali, right? Yeah. For the first time ever, people are leaving instead of instead of coming. Wow. And the numbers, the numbers don't even really show at they show that it's a that it's the numbers are going down. There's more people leaving than there are coming in. But it's even worse than you would believe or what they want you to believe because they're counting the people that are coming there illegally. And so they're making that that overall population, you know, they're saying it was only, you know, 400,000 or something that that left. But it was 600,000

3:05that came in illegally that they're counting. So it's it we've we've lost over a million people. And the bad part of that is is those are the people that are productive. Those are the people that own their businesses. Their businesses are leaving and their their employees are leaving and workers are leaving and our younger generation is leaving for a better cost of living. And that's the future of your state. So it's a we're in a we're in a rough spot in California right now. Yeah, when I lived there in Woodland Hills, the price of my apartment was the same as a house sleep house out here. Yeah, you know, yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, that's crazy. And when you when you think about well, that's where my kids are. The the the price of what they can rent what they're renting now in California, that's a massive house payment in other parts of the state. And so they're like, man, for what would be best for their family is not to live in California anymore. Yeah, I got a lot of people in the real estate friends that are buddies of mine. They say it's really difficult to get things done in California. They got to wait sometimes years to build. Yeah, it's we we just learned

4:06that on a on a on a national scale, really, unfortunately, in January with the burning down of the Pacific Palisades, those it was beautiful multi-million dollar homes that were all lost. And from the very beginning, just because of the over regulation of California government, they were saying that it would be between five and 10 years before they were able to build their home back. And I I've got lots of friends that build houses and they build houses, single houses and communities. And they say that they should be building houses 90 days. You've from start to finish 90 days, you can build a house in California's three to five years. Yeah, it's just and it's all regulatory, but a bad regulatory climate that politics has created in California. And we just need to get rid of it. We need to we need to get rid of all of the things that are preventing building from happening. Yeah, nothing's getting done out there, man. Even the homelessness issue, they got paid billions to try to fix that. It's gotten worse. Yeah. Well, it got worse and not only to get worse, but the money's gone and not accounted for it. They don't even know where it went.

5:08It's a lot of money. 10 billion, right? 25 billion. 25 billion that they can't account for wholly. And the sad part about that is, I mean, I could you could ask me, I'll let you do it next last year or even you could say in 2023, tell me where you spent your money. And I could go back in my records and tell you where every dime of my money went, but somehow they can't account for 25 billion dollars. It's it's we have to realize that California government has gotten so broken under a one party system, a one party rule that there is no more accountability. And it's it they they truly do operate like monopoly money. It's not their money. It's not it's not hurting them. It's not coming from them. They just want more of it. And if they need more of it, they just take more of it from taxpayers. Yeah. And when you have no concept of saving money or trying to fix something that's broken financially, it just gets worse and worse. And that's that's what we're

6:12seeing. We're we're truly banking on that pendulum of not only economy, but of politics in California. We went so far in one direction that was so far broken. We know we've come back and we're on our way back down to normalcy. We were we are banking for me in this campaign. I'm banking on us hitting the bottom of that pendulum right about the time of the June election. And then we'll just carry it into November because California knows that we're broken and we need a different change of direction. A new path forward to make sure that we're productive again to make sure that we basically have a California society again that can function 100 percent. I would love Cali to do well. You know, being neighbors. I want Cali to do well. You know, it helps me. Yeah. Absolutely. And there's a there's a very old saying about California that how goes California. So goes the rest of the country or something like that. So goes California. So goes the rest of the country. And it's very true. The unfortunate part of that is is decades

7:15and decades ago it was the it was the mass success that California had spread throughout the country. And then the horrific policies that politics has created over the last several decades has also crept across the country. And California has led that. And we need to we need to stop it. We need to turn it around. We need to realize that you don't go down the same path when you know the path is broken. You've got to change direction. You've got to you got to do something different course correction and and make those changes so we can we can start being successful again. Start being productive. Give people a chance. Yeah. And I think that that's where we are right now. Arnold might have to come out of retirement. Yeah. I he came he came out a little bit in the in this last we had a special election just now. And it was a it was a German jury man during election. And he did come out of retirement a little bit and tried to help that. But it was it was a little bit too little a little bit too late. There was the the mass push to get that

8:20thing passed that knew that it was a proposition on our own. 47. A prop 50. Oh 50. Prop 50. Just this last November. What was that one about? Jerry mandering. Oh, okay. It was it was they basically Jerry mandered the state. We were already Jerry mandered to begin with. But now it's just absolute complete. Wow. So we have you've got roughly the 45% somewhere around there are non liberal Democrats. If you just go off of registration. But when you look at our politicians in Washington. There aren't any. And now they just while there were a couple there were a handful. Now they've just Jerry mandered the election. So in this this midterm election, they've rigged it where theoretically on paper, there will not be a Republican representative in federal government anymore from California. That's not good. No, not at all. And it's a it's it's so dishonest unethical, immoral, anti-constitution, unconstitutional,

9:23anti-American. But yet they did it anyway. So it's a it's it's it's a rough patch that we're going to have to fix. It'll take probably a minimum until 2030 before it fixes itself. So it'll be it'll be something tough that we're going to have to deal with for a while, but it's California. We're resilient. We'll we'll keep fighting through it. What I've realized in politics, the most qualified person usually doesn't win unfortunately. No, you're exactly right. I I I've said this for years. We won't fix our political processes, our political environment until we get rid of the party. When you get rid of the D or the R after the person's name that you're voting for, that will force people to start having to vote for integrity, honesty, character, leadership, because those things don't come into play now. Right. It's just you either if you're a Democrat, you only vote Democrat. If you're a Republican, you only vote Republican. And I say it all the time, if Charles Manson in California, if Charles Manson ran

10:26for governor as a Democrat and he was the only person on the ballot, he would win. Because people in California, if you're a Democrat, you it doesn't matter who you vote for. Yeah, holds weight. Yeah. It's just oh, Democrat. That's what I vote for. And so now we have Charles Manson as a governor. And we have to get past that. We have to start voting for character. You have to start voting for someone that you actually can believe has the leadership ability to get things done that betters California, instead of some type of a political or even a personal agenda. Agreed. You're running as a Republican moment. I am. I am. And the thing about that is, is lots of people told me, oh, you're going to have to change. It's California. Change to be a Democrat or change to be an independent. I'm not changing for anybody. It's obvious who I am. I've been registered as a Republican since I was 17, 17 and a half. And I'm not going to change just to try and be the typical politician to get somebody's vote. We have politicians in California that routinely

11:26change their political party, just based on where they live and what they if they want to try and run and win. Wow. And that's not that's that's what I stand again. Yeah. It's it's it's be authentic. Be real. Be legitimate and let people know who exactly they're voting for. And I don't want them to vote for me because I'm a Republican. I don't want them to vote for me. If I wasn't a Republican, I want them to vote for me because they know that I have California's interest at heart, not my own. I'm doing this for Californians, not for me. If it's personal, it's time for me to retire and enjoy retirement. I know that I can make a difference in California. I know that I'm doing it for everyone else, not for myself. And I think that really in the end, the reason why I made that final decision to do this is I think people are ready for that. I mean, it's resonating. You're getting on some huge shows. You're getting a lot of views. So something's hitting off with these. Yeah. You know, the last three polls, I've been the top candidate. I'm leading the polls in

12:29California in the governor's race, the last three of them that have come out. And they're saying that that's the first time a Republican has led a statewide election in California since Ronald Reagan in 1967, 68. So it's been a long time coming. I think people for me and as we travel, people that are that don't particularly get involved with elections that haven't voted before. I mean, they're in their 40s and 50s and say that they've never voted before. And even some that are probably moderate Democrats have said, you know, I mean, not believe in everything that you talk about, but I know we need you as our governor. And I'm going to support you or we need to make sure that we get you in there because people are just saying that I am doing it for Californians. I'm not doing it for some special interest group. And I think that I think that that's what's going to pull us through in the end for sure. What are the biggest issues you want to tackle first? You know, the biggest thing that we have to attack, there can't be something number one.

13:33Because for me, public safety is always going to be number one. We can't, it doesn't matter what the cost of living is in California, if you're afraid to go outside of your house. That's why I left my car got broken into. It was a nightmare. So we have made over the last maybe like 12, 15 years in California. We have made crime not a crime. So with me as the governor, with a 32 year public safety background, crime will be made a crime again. We have to hold criminals accountable. But at the same time, that can't be my only mission because the thing that's driving people away from in California is the over regulation of businesses, business taxes and the cost of living. So those things have to be attacked immediately, lowering the cost of the house, lowering the cost of gas, groceries, everything in California is more expensive energy is more expensive than any other place in the country. And we just have to fix that. We know that it is only like that because of excessive business regulations imposed by the

14:34state. So if we can do away with those, then now we're making it a business friendly environment that's bringing more businesses, more workers, more employees, higher wages into the economy that stimulates it to begin with, how it should be stimulated. And then you're making the state work anyway. At the same time, making people feel like they're safe living in their homes or going outside their homes. And now you make California desirable place to live again. Yeah. Yeah. We said off camera average medium price for houses, 950,000 or no. Yeah. And the average for the country is 400. So it's over double the average of the country. Yeah. And it's because of regulation. It's government regulation. It's government fees. It's government red tape bureaucracy. And truly, if you really get down to it, it's a it's an appeasement of special interests through the regulatory process that is preventing growth. That's preventing homes from being built. They could they want to claim that there's a homeless crisis in California. Well, build more homes

15:36then. If the government would allow builders to just build more homes, then we would have more homes and the price would automatically come down. But when they make it so expensive to build a home, the builder can no longer build. So nobody's building now the I mean, it's economics, basic economics. You have to have a product if you're going to sell it. If there's if there's no demand, it's supply and demand type thing. And the demand is so high, there's no supply. So we've got to do something to change the supply. And if you get rid of the government red tape, now you have builders that are willing and capable and able financially to build homes. And now that to sell that with a whole bunch of people wanting to buy it, you got to be competitive. So now the price comes down. It's not. It blows my mind that they make it so difficult. I got friends that won't even touch California. Yeah, because of this. Yeah. It's sad. That's why businesses are leaving. Yeah, you're on muscloth. Yeah. You took tens of thousands of employees. He did. And and millions and millions, if not billions of dollars probably billions from the state and and took it to a business

16:42friendly state. Texas. I recently met with a a manufacturer, an owner of a manufacturing business in California. And he said that he missed the dinner meeting and he wouldn't have went anyway in the end. But the meeting was with that it was 20 business owners of manufacturing businesses in California. And they met with the governor of Oklahoma for a dinner. And after that dinner, 18 of those businesses are now moving to Oklahoma. No way. Yeah. That's a lot of loss revenue for California. Huge. It's huge. And that should be happening where me as the governor of California is having dinner with people in other states and saying come to California, we have a lot to offer you. But where we are now is every business. There's no business in the country that's saying, ah, let's move to California and be productive. It's not happening. Yeah. Our businesses in California are leaving because of the the environment that's been created there. And we just have to change it. Yeah. It's also, is it the highest state tax or second highest?

17:43It's nowhere the highest highest. Yeah. New York Second, I think. Yeah. Which wouldn't be an issue if the funds were being used properly. But right. I mean, there's a lot of people that say, I wouldn't mind paying my taxes if my tax money was being used as a benefit. And I believed in where we were spending our money. But when our tax money is just completely wasted on pet projects and disappearing and not knowing where it's going, being laundered basically now that we're seeing I mean, the things that we're learning now of where our tax money is going through these nonprofits and NGOs, and go back into the political cycle to get people reelected again. I mean, that's a failure of government right there on its face. And we, I mean, ethics, morals, everything about that is wrong. And we've just got to get to a place where we're using our money for what government was intended for. The number one role of government is public safety. Number two is infrastructure. My, my number three is education. I think we, it is, it is the government's role to

18:47make sure that we raise a generation that's going to be productive Americans, Californians because it's California. And so education is number three. But then with California, overall, it's that cost of living. It's what can you do to make sure that everyone's, that the money that people do have is being stretched further and being used, you know, for the best of them, not for someone else and for a special interest. There's plenty of plenty of people in California that are making major, major money off of taxpayers and we're suffering for it. We're paying the price of a few people getting mega rich off of taxpayer money. That's awful. Yeah. That's disgusting. And news, I'm just going to leave and run for president. Yeah. And he might win. It's looking like he's not going to win. I hope he doesn't. He's not going to win. There are, there are too many people in California that have been harmed that will never allow him to do the same thing to the country.

19:48There, there are far too many skeletons in his closet. There are far too many bad decisions. I mean, just as his time, we don't even have to go back to him being in San Francisco, just from the time of being governor, Lieutenant Governor is bad enough for eight years, but just the eight years of him being the governor, absolute disaster for California. And how anyone in the country would say, oh yeah, bring that on. I want that for the rest of us in the country. It's not going to happen. There's, there's what we are seeing now is he's trying to remake himself. He's trying to make the rest of the country believe that he is something that he's not because those of us in California know that he's just completely started his own show. He's going on podcast. He's rebranding for sure. Big time. Big time. But you can't hide from the truth and you can't hide from your past. Man, he's got quite the past. He does. And the beauty about technology now is it's at the, it's at your fingertips. Like I've used pick up your phone and you can find the truth about the

20:50things that he says truth always comes out. Yeah, you know, with California, that's what we're seeing now is everything that they talk about in politics in California has nothing to do with California. They don't want to talk about the cost of the living. They don't want to talk about the cost of gas. They don't want to talk about taxes, about regulation, about special interests and activism and all those things. So instead we talk about we hate Trump. We hate immigration. We hate the federal government. All of these things that have nothing to do with the status of California. But yet that's that's where the media cycle is and the push from politicians is let's fight President Trump instead of letting everyone be aware that California is up for election again and we've failed you. Right. They're distracting, right? Yeah. Yeah. With the ice rays, with the national guard, whatever it is. Yeah. It's all the distraction. 100% of distraction. So especially in California, so we don't talk about the failures of California. Yeah, but people are waking up that right over there. They are. They are. And I think that's why the polls are showing me in the

21:53lead. Well, even with Trump's term, I think it was the most voted on the right in a while, right? In Cali. Numerous. I can't remember the number 12 counties changed to red in this last election. The highest republic that a Republican is is received in California for many, many, many years. And you guys let illegals vote too. Unfortunately. Yeah. So that might be more. And the good part about that is now that's all being exposed. So we all know that that can't happen. That's illegal. I mean, it's you have to be a citizen to vote. Why would you want? Why would you allow? We'll pick New York. Why would you allow people from New York to vote in California elections? You wouldn't. Why would you allow someone from El Salvador or any other country, China to vote in American elections? You wouldn't. And the fact that we have been allowing that and denying it and trying to hide it. But now it's

22:54being exposed. People are just it's like, okay, enough is enough. We need we need we need legitimacy. We need honesty. We need integrity. And I think that's where we're that's that's what this election is going to be about. Yeah. That's off to you, man. Could you probably could have retired in a few years wrote off into the sunset? I could. I could. And it's actually it was a it I will admit that there was a brief period of time when selfishly I said I wasn't going to do it. My wife and I had talked about it for over a year. We prayed about it. Talked about it. With the kids made sure it was good with they were good with it. We explored the environment of California, whether it was going to be possible. And in the end, I became a little selfish. And I said, I'm not going to do it because I was looking at retirement is like, I don't have to do this. I can I can be like everyone else and leave California have a better life. Have more money. And I in the end, it was no. I'm not going to quit. I'm going to fight. I'm going to make a difference for

23:59everyone else in California. And that's why I chose to respect wasn't a specific moment that caused you to or just accumulation of excuse me. I think you know, I especially in interviews. I always say I'm never afraid of any question, but the problem with asking me as a question is I answer it. And I would never be not be honest. Yeah. And the reality of this this decision as I had said, no, to my wife. And I had told people my inner circle that I was not going to do it, decided against it. And my wife and I were very fortunate and able to go to the presidential inauguration. And we were sitting there. It was so cold and everything got canceled and pushed inside. Yeah, right. Yeah. And it was just bitter cold outside. And so we were sitting in the hotel, watching they had big screens all over the place. And we were watching the speech,

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27:10difference for a lot of people in California and that's what made me change. When he was done with his speech, I leaned over to my wife and I said, I'm going to do this and she's like, Oh, she's like that. But she knows why I'm doing this in the first place. We've had a great marriage, a great life and it's been 32 years of me being a cop of giving up of myself for other people. It's just nothing but public service and me trying to make other people's lives better. And sometimes it's at the sacrifice of my own family or at the detriment of my safety and that's I think that's just my makeup. And so doing this, knowing that I think she knew deep down she was we were set for retirement, enjoy life and all that stuff and then that, oh no, what are we under? We go again. Yeah. But she knows why and she knows what's in my heart and she knows the

28:15real reasons why I'm doing it and she's behind me. A lot of good woman by her side is game changer. It is. I just got married last month. Oh, very nice. It's very nice. It's changed my life having her with me. I think without her, man, it'd be rough. You have to have that not only a person to ground you, but you have to have that that confidant, that best friend, that person that whether it's good or bad, they take it all. Yeah. And they can help you through the good and the bad. And it's it's rare that you find that person, but everybody needs that person, especially with you being a copper 32 years, you've seen some stuff. You've been very stressed, you know, you can't imagine what you've been through as a cop in Cali. There's a lot. It's a you're seeing my every day is everyone else's worst day. I mean, you don't call 9-1-1 because you're happy. There's no good news. No. And so everything is an emergency. So even from the day I started in this job, everything is someone else's emergency that I'm expected to

29:21solve. Right. And to help them through their emergency. And as you as you progress through your career, especially if you're going to be successful and promote and then even get to the point where now in the sheriff, elected twice into that position, it's just more and more responsibility of solving more and more of other people's problems. And I think it's 32 years of on the job training is pretty much set me up to be the best person in this election to fix California, because everything is an emergency. We're in a crisis in every aspect in California. And it's it's something that I just don't even think about anymore. Oh, it's a problem. Go fix it. Give me the give me the issues. Tell me what I what I need to know. And now let's fix it. And that's just how I really attack anything. And it's just going to be at a bigger scale. Yeah, I love that. You know, if I'm voting for someone, I want someone that's been there. I'm not dealt with pressure. That's why when my son, I'm donny when I'm like, what is this guy dealt with?

30:21Yeah. You know what I mean? I know it's just a mayor, but he doesn't know how to run a budget. He doesn't know how to deal with high-pressure situations. I think that I watch that campaign. And unfortunately for campaigns with money and with with media, especially a media that's biased in favor of you or against you makes a huge difference. But the dishonesty, the the statements that were made that are just so I mean, maybe dishonest isn't the word. It's just disingenuous. It's he can't do that. Or there's no way he can make that happen. He's just throwing that out there to to play with people's emotions. We've become far too emotional in our decision-making instead of tactical or logical. Agreed. And we've lost that ability and gone to just all emotions. And when you play on emotions, I think that's what happened in New York. And I think they're going to regret it.

31:23I think they're going to in the next four years are going to be very telling there about public safety especially because he's he's not pro cop. He's not pro public safety. And you know, taxing more people that we have we were we were just in Florida and we were talking with a person who has his their best friend was a real estate agent in Florida. And they said that the week's leading up to that election, the amount of New York businesses and people that were in the Florida real estate market. There's no more homes available in Florida because everyone's moving from New York. Yeah. And it's a I think it's going to be very unfortunate because that's one of Denise and I's favorite cities. It's a great city. It's an amazing city. And it's unfortunately a place now where we don't want to go or we won't go. Yeah. And it's I feel bad for

32:25the people who are not able to leave there about what they're going to go through in the next couple of months. And if you or in the next couple of years and really that that whole California again, I mean, you look at San Francisco. San Francisco arguably is one of the most amazing cities in the world or at one point used to be. Yeah. Yeah. And bad politics and policy completely destroyed it. I mean, it's a it looks like a third world country now downtown. Businesses boarded up. Businesses all leaving residents that leave their windows down and nothing in their cars because if your windows are up, somebody's going to break into it and see what you have in there. Yeah. If you got a backpack in your backseat, it's going to be gone. And it's that's a fact of life for them. And it's it's something that that they've they've become accustomed to that is going to be now worse for New York. And it's it's it's it's good. It's not going to be fun to watch. Not at all. When you're living in a fearful state like that, it affects your lifespan

33:29actually. For sure. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, stress and anxiety stress and anxiety on your on your system is takes years and years off. Yeah. Yeah. And if you're if you are forced to live in that situation, and we have to realize that some people are some people can't afford to move or, you know, they can't leave their job or there's just no way they can they can get out of where they the situation that they find themselves and they don't have the opportunity to go somewhere else. It's unfortunate for them that they're stuck there. And they don't have a they don't have a government that's actually working to make their lives easier or better. A lot of people just don't trust the government these days. You know what I mean? Rightfully so. I mean, look what we're learning about our government. I mean, the what's what's been happening and the the money laundering, the unethicalness, the the and it's it's both parties. I mean, we're finding it's not you can't just say it's Democrats. If you hang on what news you watch, they talk about the unethical Republicans. They talk about the unethical Democrats. It's we've just gotten to a point where

34:32it's our own fault. One of my favorite quotes from history from one of our founding fathers is Thomas Jefferson. And he said that the government that you elect is the government that you deserve. And that's where we find ourselves right now. I mean, we deserve where we are because we elected those people into that position that are making these rules and laws and regulations that are negatively affecting us. So it's almost like we did it to ourselves. And we we need to start, we need to wise and up. We need to wake up and and start putting better people into these positions. Yeah, part of me wonders because money is such an important role these days in politics. Like if if we actually even have a say in that, if that makes sense because these guys just get so much funding, you're you're right. And what we've learned, you know, in the last year with the the government taxpayer money, how we're learning that it's being laundered through NGOs and nonprofits and these different entities back into the political system. You give somebody five million dollars

35:35and you get one million of that back into your political campaign that keeps you in power, that keeps those contracts or keeps that money flowing in that in that environment. I mean, that's just it blows me away. Yeah, I this is kind of a little little corny, but you know, Sacramento, I say all the time, Sacramento is the is the worst city in our state. We I mean, we look at San Francisco or Los Angeles and you see those pictures on the news of that environment, but the most corrupt city in our state is Sacramento. And who better to send into Sacramento than the guy with the badge, the handcuffs, and the gun and and and and start taking care of business and and making sure that people are held accountable for the for the bad things that they're doing to us in our state. What's going on over there in Sacramento? I haven't heard about this. And it's just the corruption government corruption. It's the it's the billions and billions and billions of money that's being laundered into back into the system. It's disappearing where people

36:35are getting rich, special interests are are winning out over regular Californians. It's just Sacramento is an absolute corrupt city. Wow. And it our capital building is absolutely beautiful, but if you go there, you can't go there at night. I mean, I go there and I carry a gun. So it's okay for me. I can walk down the street at night, but I don't want to like if I'm with my wife or something and we're walking to dinner, we'll just take an Uber because you're a sheriff saying this. Oh, absolutely. You can't just walk down the street. There was in the middle of the day, we were we were in Sacramento for a political event. We ate lunch at our favorite barbecue place there. We're walking back to our hotel and the it's it's it's noon. It's one between noon and one o'clock. And in the middle of an intersection is just some naked dude, just screaming and yelling at people. And there there were women walking and he's like approaching them. And now I I mean, I can't not do something. So now I've got to put myself in the middle in between him and these

37:38these girls trying to walk down the street. There's no law enforcement around. There's no, but the the the amount of psychotic homeless people that are in downtown Sacramento. It's it's it's crazy. It's I mean, no pun intended, but it's it shouldn't be like that. And you have you have a beautiful downtown city next to our capital where when you walk down the streets, the buildings are boarded up. The windows are boarded up. They're old businesses that have gone because they they can't function there anymore. There's the only the only thing going on in Sacramento currently is during business hours of government because afterward everything is shut down. I mean, there there's a couple of restaurants, but there's no stores. There's no there's nothing. It's awful. It's horrible for the representation of our beautiful state. And it's almost like, well, if this is your capital city right around your capital, if that's what you think of

38:40of California, what's the rest of the state? What why would you even be concerned about the rest of the state? That's right. That's how I look at it. There's no pride in our capital building. There's no pride in in taking care of the grass on the capital around the capital steps. There's tents on the sidewalk from homeless psychotic people in the block surrounding the capital. Wow. And nothing's done. They don't do anything about it. It's like, well, there's zero respect for the actual capital building. There can't be any respect for the rest of the state either. Yeah. And as silly as that sounds, I'll make sure that the downtown Sacramento area is pristine and it is taking care of them. We will care about our building. We will care about our government entity that is supposed to care about the rest of the state. If you can't take care of yourself, you can't take care of other people. Yeah. And that pride, kind of like a pride in ownership type of a thing that has to mean something. I went to San Diego last Christmas. I'm not sure if you

39:44spend a lot of time out there, but I got one of the nicest hotels. It was like almost a thousand a night five star hotel. And I couldn't even walk the street that the hotel was on. Yeah. There was that many homeless people on on some type of drug. I don't know what they were on, but it didn't feel safe, man. It's not safe, especially after dark. And the bad thing, we love San Diego. We're only we're an hour and a half away from San Diego. They're, you know, what the red light district down there is, is it's amazing. The restaurants and everything else. But my wife and I the last time we were in San Diego, the same thing. It was, it was for a flight. We were catching an early morning flight, but we spent a nice hotel. We'll walk just downtown. We'll go to a nice restaurant. And you're walking by people that are passed out with needles in their arms. The smell. Yes. I mean, we couldn't enjoy our dinner because it was kind of like an outdoor environment. The windows are open. It's got a patio. And inside the restaurant, the odor, the urine, the smell of urine was so strong, we couldn't even

40:47enjoy our dinner. And it's we need to start taking pride in California. And then it goes more toward the homeless issue of these people that are living on the streets. There is absolutely zero compassion from our government officials that are allowing this to happen. Where is the compassion for other humans to allow them to rot in their own skin, die on the street, live on the sidewalk. Where is the human compassion? It blows me away. We, when someone in my line of work, I know what drugs do to people. I know what drugs do to your brain. I know what drugs do to your body. And when you're under the influence of drugs, you cannot. You're incapable of making a rational decision. The state of where we are, we're I mean, we're free. We're America, there's freedoms in everything else. In order for us to help someone that is living on the streets,

41:47they have to want help. They have to they have to accept the help. And if you ask a crazy person on the street that's homeless, hey man, can I help you? Can I get you a job? Can I help you? Can I get you a place to stay? They look at you like your crew. I mean, the names that they're going to start calling you. It's like you get away. There's nothing wrong with them. They think that they're okay. And it's the drugs. It's psychosis. It's the alcohol. It's the mental illness. It's all of those things wrapped in together that's causing this issue. And we are allowing it to happen. And we're paying for it. California's our taxpayer money is paying for these people to be there. We are we are enabling this type of behavior. And we're making the homeless situation worse. It's exponentially worse every single year. We're spending more and more and more. And there's more and more and more every single year. Yeah, it's almost like money doesn't fix it, right? Well, money makes it worse. Money is is we've created an industrial complex. It is now the homeless industrial complex where taxpayer money is going to nonprofits and NGOs to buy up buildings,

42:51to make people rich, administer 99% of their cost is administrative. And then they help one person per year. And then they claim a success because they helped a person. Oh, my God. And they got millions and millions of dollars for it. There are some that have helped zero. They they haven't treated or helped anyone, but they're getting millions of dollars a year. They're living the life. But the problem's getting worse and worse and worse. And it's because we've created that problem. So all of those people that are making all of that money, including the politicians who are getting that money in return on the back end for their campaigns, donations. If you fix the situation, if you eliminate the homeless, all of that money's gone. So they don't even want it gone. They don't want it. Wow. So they're going to put money over human life basically. Absolutely. That's California politics. California politics are special interest in money is more important than Californians. That's just insane to me. Like I wouldn't be able to sleep at night.

43:54Yeah. It's a I think it's it's the type of person that you are. You're not in you're not in state government. Yeah. You would be doing a better job because you wouldn't be able to sleep at night. We're electing people that can do this on a daily basis and they sleep fine. They have they have no moral ethical compass that gives them that guilty feeling of man. I shouldn't be doing this. They I mean, you look you you look at our current governor. He is pure evil. I remember when he cleared out San Fran to meet the president of China. Oh yeah. Two days took him two days. That's it. He is pure evil in the amount of Californians that he has sacrificed that he has made millions if tens of millions of people's lives miserable for his own political benefit. That's evil. I agree. That's evil. And so you have he sleeps fine at night because he's evil. You wouldn't be able to do it. I couldn't do it. There's no way. I couldn't do it. It's not going to happen. My integrity.

45:00So my biggest fear in life and I don't even know if it's a fear in life. I mean, you want to do the right thing. You want to be moral. You want to be ethical and all of those things. But deep down for me, I can never do something that would embarrass my parents. I would never want to do something that would embarrass my parents. And now it's I can never do something that would not only embarrass but be hypocritical hypocritical to my kids. So I do things because it's morally correct and it's the right thing to do and all of that. But that moral compass is I can't not do it because I couldn't sleep at night. And we unfortunately, that's a that's a that's a rarity if at all in California. In politics, right? Yeah. That's so crazy to me. Do you know who you're running against? There's far too many people. I think there's 80. I think there's like 80 people that have said that they're running for governor. All of those don't mean anything.

46:01There's obviously there's there's prominent people that are running there. I think there's probably somewhere close to 10 very prominent Democrats. There's there's really on the Republican side, there's only two that have a remote chance at all. It's either myself, which I'm the one leading the polls. And then the other Republican is Steve Hilton. I like Steve, Steve and I get along great to see each other often. Did he start that Hilton hotels? No, no relation. No relation. He's relatively new to our country. He was recently a citizen. He's from England. He's from England. And so I like him. I like everything that he's saying, but he's basically just repeating the same things I'm saying. Yeah. And as far as as a past and a history and whether or not on the Republican side, someone capable of winning in California, I really am the only one that has that chance. I'm the only current elected official. I'm the only person on the Republican

47:03side that's even one in election before. So it's a history or resume, those types of things, hands down. I'm going to be the choice in California. But there's at least probably a dozen choices on the Democrat side. And I'm sure heavily funded some of them. I think they probably they all have decent funding right now. The way the Democrat machine works is as we get closer to the election, the Democrat machine will get behind one or maybe two. Yeah, I can solve it. And it put a lot of their money toward that candidate. And we don't I don't think we know yet who that's going to be. I don't think they know who it's going to be. Yeah. I hope they don't just outspend you honestly. I hope we know they're going to outspend us. But we we don't think it's going to matter. Really? We don't think it's going to matter. I think we're going to have plenty of money to get our own message out there. And the the thing about my campaign is everything that I've been elected to the office of

48:12sheriff. There's two and a half million people in our county. So we're one of the largest counties in California. And I'm the fourth largest sheriff's department in the in the country. Wow. So we're big. When it comes down to this election, I think people are going to be able to look and say, that's who we want. That's that's the that's the guy that's been doing it for longer. We can trust him. We can we can believe what he's what he's talking about. He's not the typical politician. Even though I've been elected to office, I'm not your typical politician. I'm not going to say something. I mean, not that not that you would. But in any person asking me a question, you're going to get the truth from me. I'm not going to think, oh my gosh, what's the crowd? What should I say to make this person happy? That's the typical politician and where we know they're all dishonest. And you don't get that from me. And it's I think that's my appeal. That's why people are are attracted to my campaign a little bit. And we're just very confident that the money that

49:16we're going to need, we're going to have and we're going to be able to get that message out. Everything bad about my life if there is anything. But I've already been through two major, major elections. There's nothing new that you can throw out there against me. And people see that. People know that where everyone that I'm running against has got some major skeletons, some major issues, some major flip flops, some major, you know, where do you stand? You've changed your, you can't change your beliefs. Why do you keep changing your mind and everything? So we're in a good environment for us to finally win in California. Can't wait, Matt. Yeah, you got a 32-year track record, too. You got results out there in the public. For sure. For sure. And it's resonating. And I'm very confident that that's going to work. We have the, there are 58 sheriffs in the, in the state. And they're all supporting me. Wow. That's huge. All of them. It's very, it's very huge. You got all the police officers supporting you. Yes. And we're working on fire for the most part. Fire departments are all supporting us also. They're still going through

50:18their official endorsement, committees and, and processes and everything else. But public safety is going to be number one in California. We all want to be safe, whether it's from criminals or from natural disasters, where the fire departments come in. And so that, that massive effort in this campaign from a ground crew of police and fire that's roughly about 300,000 people total in California, that's a pretty good ground game of trying to spread the message of, of getting something better in California. Yeah. And, and rallying behind one person. We got to get James O'Keefe at your election votes. Make sure they don't rig that shut. Yeah. We have to, we, I think we're all beginning to understand that, that election, the election process has been taken advantage of. And there's a lot of fraud going on. Mailing ballots have got to go. They got to go. They still have those in college? They do. Oh, no. It's a, it's a statewide mail-in ballots. And we're going to have to combat that this time by beating them at their own game. We won't be able to fix it until I win. And then when I win,

51:25that will be one of the first things that goes. You can't have a secure election when you don't even know who's voting. And it's got to be an in-person vote. Hopefully, on this next ballot, we're going to have a proposition on the ballot for ID to vote. So it'll be voter ID. You have to provide ID to be able to vote, which should be common sense mandatory. And then we'll get rid of the mail-in ballots. So you have to have vote in person too. And then, then we, then you really work toward a more secure, fair, true election. Well, Sheriff, thanks so much for your time. This was a really fun episode, man. I really hope you win. Thank you. I appreciate it. It looks like we're going that direction. And really, you know, so much as much as I'm doing it for California, I'm doing it for the rest of the country, particularly our neighbors. And all of you here in Nevada, because I don't, I don't want it spilling over into the past anymore. We already got a lot of people leaving Kali coming here. We don't want them to leave. And I'm hoping that I even steal a few of the people that you do have here that left from California for not because they

52:28wanted to, but because the politics really forced them out. We're hoping to bring those back too. Awesome. Well, we'll link your stuff in the video. Thanks for coming on, man. Absolutely. Appreciate it. Check them out, guys. And if you're in Kali, vote for him in June. See you next time. Peace. I hope you guys are enjoying the show. Please don't forget to like and subscribe. It helps the show a lot with the algorithm. Thank you.