＂They CONTROL The Politicians＂ - Steve Hilton EXPOSES Who’s REALLY Running California
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Who runs California? Is it the Governor, the unions, the money, the billionaires, the NGOs? Who's the most powerful institution or individual in California when it comes down to politics? What's the reason I m doing this?
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Who's the most powerful institution or individual in California when it comes down to politics?
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I'm going to answer it with a story, which is almost the reason that I'm doing this.
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It's the closest thing to an actual moment when I thought I'm going to go for it.
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but most of my career before then was in business and I worked a little bit in the government as
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well in the UK before moving here with my wife and my two sons in 2012. I was senior advisor
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to David Cameron in 10 Downing Street, responsible for implementing our policy reform program along
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with many other people in the team there. So the reason I'm saying that is most of my career has
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actually been doing things like trying to make change happen in the private sector, in government
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And so over the years of being on TV, it was an amazing opportunity.
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And so a few years ago, I got back involved in policy and politics in California.
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Housing costs actually is the number one reason people are leaving the state.
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You know, like hardly anyone can even imagine owning a home now in California.
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It's something like, you know, I mean, we have the lowest home ownership in the country.
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Anyway, so I started working on the issue, really learning about what's been driving it and so on.
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And it took me to try to get an initiative qualified for the ballot that would address two of the big drivers of this insane cost.
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One of them is a hidden tax on housing called impact fees, the development impact fees.
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The second is something that's talked about a lot, which is, by the way, this really does answer your question.
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Something called CEQA, the California Environmental Quality Act, passed in 1970.
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And it was all about, when it started out, regulating pollution from big factories and so on.
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But over the years, it's basically turned into a nightmare that blocks anything and holds up everything.
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And one of the main problems with CEQA, this law, is that they've given this what they call a private right of action.
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It means that anyone can file a lawsuit to enforce this environmental law.
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Normally with stuff like that, it's the DA or the Attorney General.
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70 percent of sequel lawsuits are used to block housing most of those are filed by unions
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in order to negotiate with developers what they call project labor agreements where you have
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union workers only or what they call prevailing wage which is two or three times higher than
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market rate wages etc yep so the second component of this ballot initiative was was ending this
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private right of action. So at a stroke, you stop all these nuisance lawsuits that block housing.
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Didn't raise the money to get it on the ballot. Then I started engaging with Sacramento. I thought
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maybe we can make it happen through the regular political process. And that's when I ran into
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the answer to your question, who runs California? I started having meetings with the legislators,
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one particular person. They said, you've got to talk to this person. They're really good on housing.
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This person really, the Democrat member of the state legislature,
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said, your plan is fantastic if we make this happen.
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And I'm not going to say their name because actually it was a private meeting.
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Because there's a lot of heavyweight private people.
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But a legislator, an elected, but anyway, I said, let's work together.
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I said, yeah, but you just told me it'd be transformational.
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We were in an office overlooking the state capitol, like this with their arm, like this.
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That's an elected member of the legislature saying the unions run this place.
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And you just think, what is this? It's ridiculous. And that's the most clear answer to your question,
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the unions. And when people ask me, how did California get like this? How do we go from
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having the most amazing opportunities anywhere, not just in America, but in the world? If we agree
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that America is the greatest nation on earth, which is what I think, California is the greatest
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state. There's something I always say, which is California means to America what America means to
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the world it represents everything that's amazing about our country ambition and opportunity and
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energy and hustle and all those things and yet it's been crushed that spirit's been crushed over
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the years and people say well how did it get i wrote a book last year it came out last year just
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before my campaign called caliphailia reversing the ruin of america's worst run state i tried to
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trace it back and my conclusion was it all started when the unions were given collective bargaining
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rights and over the years built up this incredible power this lock on policy it's the government
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unions not just government unions non-government unions as well and so they do run so unions run
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california basically specific give me a specific three unions is one going to be the teacher's
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union which means that now the education so let's look at the outcomes we spend nearly the most of
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any state um newsom brags about it he just did his budget last week 28 000 per student per year
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one of the highest in the country for the worst results pretty much we have now 47 percent meet
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basics of k-12 students meet basic standards in english with math it's 35 65 don't meet the
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standards when you look at latino and black kids it's even worse most money worse results why
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because the teacher unions have a lock on anything to do with education and they've completely
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distorted the system so it's not about education it's about indoctrination and that's not some
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exaggeration you go to their conferences and you see what their sessions are about and their
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training and all the stuff they're pumping out it's it's ideological indoctrination it's it's
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it's colonialism and gender extremism all this stuff meanwhile the kids don't get taught to read
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you've got techniques for teaching kids to read that work that we've seen work elsewhere
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Phonics, it's a technique for teaching kids to read,
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You know, it really is, it's not every single thing,
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but the best answer to your question is the unions.
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