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July 29, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show
08:02
Larry Elder Explains the Recall Process in California
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Just going to electelder.com or just going to dennisprager.com where we have a link to it.
I don't understand something, and I'm sure most of my listeners do, but I don't, Larry Elder.
And that is, why does Gavin Newsom have unlimited expenditures allowed and you don't?
Well, it's a little complicated, but if you want to get on the ballot and have a 500-word statement about you, you have to agree to...
Only spend $9.7 million.
You cannot have that bio description and raise unlimited amounts of money if you want, but then nobody knows who you are.
John Cox, for example, has been able to spend unlimited amounts of money.
He's a very wealthy guy, and he did not sign that thing that would limit him to the $9.7 million.
But he's run for office before, and so people know who he is, and he didn't feel the need to do that.
But everybody else...
If they're going to know anything about you, you need to have that bio on the voting pamphlet.
So that's what the condition is, and the condition is if you do that, you're limited to a certain amount of money to spend.
I contemplated not signing it, and my staff, my expert campaign people said, no, Larry, you're not going to be able to raise more than that.
I said, I think I will.
And it looked like, Dennis, I am going to, but now I'm handicapped because of the decision that I made earlier.
The PACs that are working to recall Gavin Newsom.
That's correct.
And they can spend unlimited amounts of money.
And are you allowed to give the names of those PACs?
One is called Rescue California and one is called Recall Governor Gavin Newsom.
But those are the two major ones that were behind the signature gathering to get this guy off.
So let me just explain, if I may, Larry, for one second, to people.
There is a two-prong process here.
First, people get to vote.
Do you wish to recall the governor of California?
If you do, then you have a list of people to vote for.
But if you don't want to recall the governor, and that wins, a majority of people vote not to recall the governor.
Nobody even gets to vote for Larry Elder.
That's correct.
And it's a two-step process.
It's real simple.
On the ballot is the very question that you mentioned.
Do you want to recall Governor Gavin Newsom?
That will be counted, of course, later on.
50% plus one has to vote to recall him.
Then the next question is, whom do you want to replace him?
Now, you could vote to recall him or not recall him or ignore that question and then vote for somebody to replace him.
So unless 50% plus one votes to recall him, it doesn't matter the number of votes you get to replace him.
I'm far ahead of my Republican rivals.
So I'm not worried that I'm going to be the one to get the greatest number of votes to replace him.
What I'm worried about is whether or not a 50% plus one will, in fact, vote to recall him.
And right now, that is neck and neck.
A new poll just came out, 47% want him recalled, 50% do not, right in the margin of error.
And that's a 5% increase on the side that wants him recalled just over the last two weeks.
Well, the very fact that you mentioned the teachers' unions and the SEI, whatever it is, SE, what is it?
S-E-I-U Union.
Yeah, S-E-I Union, right.
Service Employees International Union.
I think they're the largest union in the country.
Right.
Well, we can thank John F. Kennedy for allowing government work.
Dennis, I'm happy you mentioned that, because I mentioned that to some people talking about the power of the public sector unions.
I said, you know one of your heroes, FDR, when he signed the National Labor Relations Board Act?
He said that there ought not be public sector unions because he thought it was a conflict of interest for a public employee to negotiate his own raise.
And the quid pro quo is if you work for government, you're going to make a little less money, but you're going to have greater job security.
Now they make more money and greater job security.
And can strike.
And can strike.
He thought it was unfair for the public sector people to put a gun to the head of taxpayers and withhold their work until and unless they got paid.
And again, you're right, Jack Kennedy is the one that signed the executive order to reverse that.
And about the teachers' union, here's one other thing, too.
There are 300,000 public sector teachers in California, 300,000.
It is estimated by virtually every expert I talk to, at minimum, 5% of them are utterly incompetent, should never have been teachers in the first place.
That's 15,000.
And by the way, they just got rid of the so-called C-BEST test that required a series of tests to prove minimal competency.
Now, if you just get a B in a college course, it could be anything.
It could be critical thinking.
You're qualified to become a public school teacher in California, and after two years, you get tenure.
Dennis, you and I have been in radio a long time.
We don't get ratings.
We get fired.
We don't have tenure.
Now, out of that 15,000 that are incompetent, in any given year, 2.2 out of the universe of 300,000 public school teachers are fired.
2.2.
Now, I'm in Los Angeles.
You're in Los Angeles.
Imagine if 5% of them were incompetent.
By that I mean planning evidence, engaging in racial profiling, or using excessive force.
Can you imagine?
We wouldn't put up with that.
But we're putting up with 5% of bad public school teachers?
It is outrageous, Dennis.
And again, most black and brown people living in the inner city, they want school choice.
teachers adamantly opposed to it because the teachers are not automatic union members, and they don't therefore get the automatic dues.
That's why it's so important, my dear listeners, that Larry Elder have a national voice, obviously a statewide voice in the biggest state, because nobody in the politics at any rate is saying this.
Of course, we say it on radio, but now he has a bigger forum, or at least another forum.
Talking about your forum to speak, why don't you tweet out your magic wand line?
Probably?
Tweet out your magic wand line.
I will.
And I'll tell you now, I mean, you say things, you bring data that others don't, and you have a voice at the very least, at the very least through September, and hopefully well beyond that.
And you've got to use it because these will shake people up.
That magic wand question is unanswerable.
Anyone who thinks clearly.
Has to be persuaded by that powerful question.
Well, I appreciate it.
I appreciate it, Dennis.
No, no, listen, you know, Larry, the joy that it brings me to that, there's a very real chance you'll be the governor of California, Larry.
I mean, on the rare occasion that you have the moment to think about that, do you sort of get goosebumps?
It's almost overwhelming, Dennis.
I'm getting phone calls and inquiries out.
It's an international phenomenon if I can take this guy down.
And Dennis, people in the center are now increasingly being called racist.
It's no longer good enough just to be a good person.
If you're not an anti-racist, you're accused of being racist.
So this is going to strengthen people in the center who are sick and tired of these so-called progressives, pulling them in a direction that they don't like.
So this is going to be beneficial, I believe, for the entire country if I'm able to do this.
First of all, I think it'll herald the Messianic Age.
But beyond that, you know, I think in religious terms.
But I'm smiling when I say it.
But I want you to initiate a series of debates with the Ibram X. Kendi's and the Ta-Nehisi Coates of the country.
Wouldn't it be an honor to debate the governor of California?
Larry, the amount of good you can do gives me the chills.
Folks, again, electelder.com or the two PACs that are working to unseat Governor Newsom.
Also, it's all up at dennisprager.com.
God bless you, Larry.
Thank you so much, Dennis.
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