Could Larry Elder be the next Governor of California? It looks like there's a good chance. That's an amazing development for California, they might go into shock, but we talked to Larry Elder. Also, we cover what an unbelievable rant in the house yesterday. We cover that and all the things that are going on with covid. Also a look at what I talked about on last night's television program as well. This is the most critical information you could know about what the Biden administration is doing that puts everyone that disagrees with them in a box.
00:00:00.000Holy cow. What a great program for you today. We have Larry Elder. We talked to him for about an hour today. Could he be the next governor of California? It looks like there's a good chance. That's an amazing development for California. They might go into shock.
00:00:19.700But we talked to Larry Elder. Also, we chip Roy. What an unbelievable rant in the house yesterday. We cover that and all the things that are going on with covid. Also, a look at what I talked about on last night's television program as well.
00:00:39.300That is so important. This is the most critical information you could know what the Biden administration is doing that puts everyone that disagrees with them in a box all on today's podcast.
00:01:04.200You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:01:10.080The host of the Larry Elder show. And now a California gubernatorial candidate, Larry Elder. Welcome to the program.
00:01:19.380Glenn, thank you so much for having me. I appreciate it.
00:01:21.240Oh, yeah. I mean, Larry, I have to tell you, when I first saw I just said this to Stu on air about 10 minutes ago, when I first saw that you were running, I was like, that's not going to work out well.
00:01:30.780You know, because I mean, you could be Ronald Reagan, but you're in California.
00:01:37.640And then I start to see the poll numbers and you're ahead, almost double ahead of anybody else.
00:01:44.640You're out. You're out. You're out raising funds for anybody else who is in the race.
00:01:54.660And that would be game changing for not only California, but for all of America.
00:02:00.020You know, Glenn, I think it will be game changing for all of America for a number of reasons.
00:02:06.180You know, this critical race theory, this reparation stuff, this race stuff you were just now talking about, training white kids to believe they're oppressors, training black kids to believe that they're victims.
00:02:15.540And people in the center are sick of this. People in the center are sick of people like this guy, Ibrahim Kendi, running around saying, just being a good person, just being a not racist is not good enough.
00:02:25.740You have to make sure that other people are not racist.
00:02:28.500This is the kind of stuff that's sickening people in the center.
00:02:31.180And so even people who are not Republicans are going to be, I think, buoyed by this candidacy.
00:02:35.960And about Ronald Reagan, a number of people, Glenn, have said, well, Elder, what is your experience?
00:02:40.680I said, what is the experience of the guy I'm running against, Gavin Newsom?
00:02:42.980And this guy was governor of mayor of San Francisco.
00:02:45.720He was lieutenant governor for eight years, had eight years to think about what he would do if and when he became governor.
00:02:51.740And for two years, we've seen a rise in crime, rising homelessness, declining quality of public schools and the draconian way this man shut down the state while violating the mandates with the very same professionals who drafted the mandates when he was sitting at that famous French laundry restaurant, not engaging in social distancing, not wearing a mask.
00:04:40.380No one with an eighth-grade dropout education could follow my father's path to the middle class here in California if he or she worked three jobs, let alone two.
00:04:49.680And that's because virtually every development project, every housing project in California is stopped by the environmentalists who claim it's going to have an adverse environmental impact.
00:04:58.500That's why there's a shortage of housing in California.
00:05:00.420That's why for the first time in our nation's history, middle-class people, I'm talking about people making between $50,000 and $100,000, are leaving California because they cannot get that first house.
00:05:10.020There's a magazine called CEO Magazine.
00:05:13.960And for 17 consecutive years, out of all the states, California has been determined to be the worst state in which to do business based upon taxes, based upon regulations, based upon the anti-business attitude that this legislature and these environmentalists have foisted down the throats of the American people.
00:05:31.080His name is Leo Haney, and he's a brilliant economist with UCLA, writes a lot about real estate.
00:05:36.000He says, because of the rules and regulations that we've had now for the past 30, 40 years, the average price of a home in California is literally 50% more than it otherwise would be.
00:05:46.500And that's why people are leaving for the very first time.
00:05:49.060And I think I can do something about that.
00:05:50.960So what is the biggest problem that you see the first thing that you would have to tackle in California?
00:05:58.580I think the first thing I have to tackle is homelessness.
00:06:00.640You go under a freeway overpass in L.A. and a lot of other cities here in California, homeless people on either side.
00:06:08.280Now, I don't blame all of this on Gavin Newsom because it preceded him, but he hasn't done anything about it other than to, quote, build more housing, meaning more government people building housing at a far higher cost than the private sector would do without doing anything about the underlying reason why people on the streets in the first place.
00:06:25.480Why are they on the streets in the first place?
00:06:27.380Well, maybe 10% of them, Glenn, we don't really know the percentage, are truly schizophrenic, meaning a danger to themselves or to others.
00:06:33.880They literally need to be physically picked up from the streets, removed for their own safety and for the safety of the rest of the homeless population.
00:07:23.320And, well, what the sheriff of L.A. County tells me, his name is Alex Villanueva, one of the people that I interviewed before I got pulled off the radio because of my FCC requirement running for office, he said they've taken away our stick.
00:07:36.160You have somebody on the street who's stealing in order to support the meth habit.
00:07:39.740And we can't say either you dry out in jail or you dry out in rehab, one or the other, because we cannot tell them they're going to go to jail because they're not going to go to jail.
00:07:47.920And you've seen all these videos of people literally stealing in front of people, in front of the security guards.
00:07:52.160Walking, walking out, not running, walking out.
00:07:55.920Now, as far as the mental illness part, churches need to be involved in that.
00:08:01.860We have missions in Orange County, for example, where they're getting people off the street, trying to give them some spiritual instruction.
00:09:39.440Let us get these people the kind of instruction that they need while the private sector is building low-cost housing.
00:09:44.340And I believe that if I do the combination of things I just now mentioned, I can eliminate this problem.
00:09:48.900So, Larry, one of the things that I think we all learned from Donald Trump was the system is so incredibly corrupt that there are career people that are just not –
00:10:15.400How are you going to deal with a Californian system of progressivism, socialism that is just bred now into the system?
00:10:28.960It's a massive, massive problem, Glenn.
00:10:31.060And I'm not deluding myself about that.
00:10:33.000We have supermajorities in the lower chamber of government called the Assembly, supermajorities of Democrats in the upper chamber called the Senate.
00:10:44.220And I know a lot of Republicans like term limits.
00:10:46.120What it does is just strengthen the staffers and strengthen the special interest groups.
00:10:50.280The politician comes in, knows that he or she is only going to be there for a few years, and has given a lot more power to the so-called special interests.
00:10:56.380What I intend to do, if I'm lucky enough to become governor, is to use a number of powers I have, even when dealing with the hostile legislature,
00:11:04.660not least of which is the ability to declare a statewide emergency.
00:11:08.480I'm going to declare one regarding homelessness to suspend the law that's called CEQA, the California Environmental Quality Act,
00:11:15.820that essentially allows anybody to stop anything for an indefinite period of time.
00:11:19.540And somehow, someway, Glenn, the legislature is able to waive a CEQA for, for example, the construction of the Sacramento King Stadium for a billionaire.
00:11:29.600But they can't waive it to build low-cost housing so that these homeless people, to the extent that we can get some of them self-sufficient,
00:11:35.420can get off the ground and go to these homeless places.
00:11:38.140Also, in education, I'm a product of the public education system.
00:12:27.780Imagine if we had five percent officers who were bad, who were corrupt, planning evidence, using excessive force, engaging in racial profiling.
00:13:09.600And the teachers who know the schools the best, the ones with school-age kids, they're not putting their own kids in public school.
00:13:15.460Philadelphia, 44 percent of the teachers with school-age kids have their own kids in private school, as opposed to 10 percent nationwide, 6 percent of black families nationwide.
00:13:24.42039 percent Chicago public school teachers, school-age kids, their own kids in private school.
00:13:28.740Here at the L.A. district, the public school teachers who have school-age kids are twice as likely to put their own kids in private school compared to families that don't have public school teachers.
00:14:51.620Well, let me give you one that will be jaw-dropping.
00:14:53.780Since the coronavirus pandemic has started, Gavin Newsom has overseen the release of 20,000 convicted felons, released because of the coronavirus under early release.
00:15:05.340Now, what could possibly go wrong when statistically the majority of criminals who are released from prison are going to reoffend?
00:15:10.980Just a couple of days ago, Barbara Boxer gets mugged for her cell phone in Oakland, and two days earlier, the Oakland police chief held a press conference where he complained about the defund the police movement and how many millions were being diverted from the Oakland Police Department.
00:15:49.460What we've done, the left has done, is incentivize women to marry the government and incentivize men to abandon their financial and moral responsibility.
00:15:59.680A kid raised without a father is five times more likely to be poor and commit crime, nine times more likely to drop out of school, and 20 times more likely to end up in jail.
00:16:08.200So what they do is they deal with the symptoms of the problem they caused.
00:16:11.060The symptom is a lot of young people are not working, are doing all sorts of bad things.
00:16:15.800So let's have a youth program for them.
00:16:17.300So systemically, what the left has done is destroy the family, they're destroying schools, they're calling the police systemically racist, the police are pulling back, it's called the Ferguson effect, or the George Floyd effect, and crime is going up.
00:16:31.880We have two left-wing DAs, one in San Francisco and one in L.A., both of whom got there because George Soros funded them, and both are facing recall elections because they're not prosecuting people to the fullest.
00:16:44.400So what could possibly go wrong when you reduce the chance of a bad guy being caught, being convicted, being put in prison, crime goes up, and the people who are hurt are the very black and brown people living in the inner city that the left claims that they care about.
00:16:55.700So I'm going to declare a public emergency on crime, on housing, on education, and I'm going to suspend some of the rules and regulations that are stopping bad teachers from being fired, that are stopping cops from doing their jobs, and that are causing the cost of living to go so high because you cannot build anything.
00:17:10.220One developer told me this, Glenn, I had a 10,000 housing project, I got sued.
00:20:55.520They are being boxed by their little community, their little city council, and just being forced out of business because they didn't do everything that little city council said they had to do to stay safe.
00:21:12.740Well, they couldn't and keep people employed and keep their restaurant.
00:22:51.100And based upon taxes, based upon regulations, based upon the power of the public sector unions, unfunded pension liabilities, the degree to which the business climate is friendly or unfriendly, CEO Magazine, for 17 years of existence, has rated California the worst state in which to do business for 17 consecutive years.
00:23:11.180And that is why, again, middle-class jobs, people making between $50,000 and $100,000 are leaving California for the first time in our nation's history.
00:23:18.800Can I say one more thing about the school system?
00:24:37.380And I said, don't you see the connection between these rich, elite white people who are Democrats and the fact that you can't get housing here?
00:24:44.240And one of the reporters told me before the interview started, he tried to buy a house, couldn't afford it.
00:24:49.660And you sit there and you vote year after year after year for Democrats that don't give you choice in school, even though black and brown parents, based upon the polls, say they want it, that are causing the cost of housing to go through the roof, even though you're trying to get that first house.
00:25:17.240I can talk about the connection between what these liberal people that belong, say, to the ACLU, most inner city people, from what I can tell, I haven't seen any polling data, want gang injunctions.
00:25:28.040And every time there's a gang injunction filed, the ACLU files a lawsuit to either trim it or get rid of it.
00:25:32.880Crime goes up, again, for the very people in the inner city that people like that claim that they care about.
00:25:37.440Tupac Secure once said, we need the police more than anybody else because of all the criminal element that's right there.
00:25:44.060Larry Elder, the Uncle Tom, or people in the ACLU who aren't concerned about crime at all because they're living up in the hills, they have private security, and they have guns.
00:25:53.640And I just ask you to rethink some of your assumptions.
00:25:56.560And I can just tell that for the first time they're hearing stuff they never heard before.
00:26:01.280And unlike the typical Republican here in California, I can talk to black and brown people about what the left is doing to them in ways more effectively than I think the typical Republican can.
00:26:09.340I will tell you, Larry, I think it is going to take a black man or a black woman to turn us around because you are the only ones that can really break through with any kind of credibility.
00:26:22.540And it takes somebody who is not a bomb thrower and is eloquent enough to be able to get people to rethink their assumptions.
00:26:31.980Larry, I wish you the best, and we'd love to have you on again.
00:26:57.240And if 50% plus one says yes, the second question is, who do you want to replace him?
00:27:01.720Now, you won't know the 50% plus one until they, of course, count the ballots.
00:27:05.480But you can either vote to replace him or not vote to replace him, and you can vote for somebody to replace him or not vote for somebody to replace him.
00:27:12.260So 50% plus one has to vote to recall him, and then whoever gets the greatest number of votes to replace him will win.
00:27:19.180So it's conceivable that I could win with 20, 25% or so of the vote altogether.
00:27:32.640The ballots go out on August the 14th.
00:27:34.840So come September the 14th, when the election actually takes place, it's almost going to be anticlimactic because by then most people will have voted.
00:32:53.740As well as enhancing engagement with financial institutions on domestic terror financing through existing provisions of the Bank Secrecy Act.
00:33:06.140So, if you are deemed a danger or a domestic terrorist, they can cut you off.
00:33:15.040They're working with the banks to stop your financing.
00:33:20.260The White House doesn't say exactly how the government is going to use the Treasury Department to spy on Americans in its war on domestic terrorism,
00:39:28.500If you're an unvaccinated right winger, to many on the left, you're a threat to national security that should be locked out of public places.
00:39:36.420Now, the U.S. Surgeon General didn't go that far.
00:39:39.060But how long is it going to be before the Surgeon General has a warning label on things that I believe or things that you believe?
00:40:11.140I said earlier in my comment, science, science, science, and science.
00:40:17.460On almost every subject that you can name, science is the answer.
00:40:22.080Whether it's the climate crisis, whether it's a health crisis, whether it's our preeminence in the world in technology, science, science, science, science.
00:40:32.420To say that wearing a mask is not based on science, I think, is not wise.