Dennis Prager Show - Larry Elder Explains the Recall Process in California
Aired: 2021-07-29
Duration: 08:02


=== Voter Recall Rules (03:03) ===

[00:00:00]  Just going to electelder.com or just going to dennisprager.com where we have a link to it.
[00:00:06]  I don't understand something, and I'm sure most of my listeners do, but I don't, Larry Elder.
[00:00:13]  And that is, why does Gavin Newsom have unlimited expenditures allowed and you don't?
[00:00:21]  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...
[00:00:30]  Only spend $9.7 million.
[00:00:33]  You cannot have that bio description and raise unlimited amounts of money if you want, but then nobody knows who you are.
[00:00:40]  John Cox, for example, has been able to spend unlimited amounts of money.
[00:00:44]  He's a very wealthy guy, and he did not sign that thing that would limit him to the $9.7 million.
[00:00:48]  But he's run for office before, and so people know who he is, and he didn't feel the need to do that.
[00:00:54]  But everybody else...
[00:00:55]  If they're going to know anything about you, you need to have that bio on the voting pamphlet.
[00:01:00]  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.
[00:01:05]  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.
[00:01:13]  I said, I think I will.
[00:01:14]  And it looked like, Dennis, I am going to, but now I'm handicapped because of the decision that I made earlier.
[00:01:23]  The PACs that are working to recall Gavin Newsom.
[00:01:28]  That's correct.
[00:01:29]  And they can spend unlimited amounts of money.
[00:01:31]  And are you allowed to give the names of those PACs?
[00:01:34]  One is called Rescue California and one is called Recall Governor Gavin Newsom.
[00:01:39]  But those are the two major ones that were behind the signature gathering to get this guy off.
[00:01:44]  So let me just explain, if I may, Larry, for one second, to people.
[00:01:49]  There is a two-prong process here.
[00:01:51]  First, people get to vote.
[00:01:53]  Do you wish to recall the governor of California?
[00:01:56]  If you do, then you have a list of people to vote for.
[00:02:00]  But if you don't want to recall the governor, and that wins, a majority of people vote not to recall the governor.
[00:02:08]  Nobody even gets to vote for Larry Elder.
[00:02:10]  That's correct.
[00:02:11]  And it's a two-step process.
[00:02:13]  It's real simple.
[00:02:14]  On the ballot is the very question that you mentioned.
[00:02:16]  Do you want to recall Governor Gavin Newsom?
[00:02:18]  That will be counted, of course, later on.
[00:02:20]  50% plus one has to vote to recall him.
[00:02:22]  Then the next question is, whom do you want to replace him?
[00:02:25]  Now, you could vote to recall him or not recall him or ignore that question and then vote for somebody to replace him.
[00:02:32]  So unless 50% plus one votes to recall him, it doesn't matter the number of votes you get to replace him.
[00:02:39]  I'm far ahead of my Republican rivals.
[00:02:42]  So I'm not worried that I'm going to be the one to get the greatest number of votes to replace him.
[00:02:45]  What I'm worried about is whether or not a 50% plus one will, in fact, vote to recall him.

=== 5% Increase in Teachers' Union Power (03:05) ===

[00:02:49]  And right now, that is neck and neck.
[00:02:52]  A new poll just came out, 47% want him recalled, 50% do not, right in the margin of error.
[00:02:57]  And that's a 5% increase on the side that wants him recalled just over the last two weeks.
[00:03:03]  Well, the very fact that you mentioned the teachers' unions and the SEI, whatever it is, SE, what is it?
[00:03:11]  S-E-I-U Union.
[00:03:12]  Yeah, S-E-I Union, right.
[00:03:14]  Service Employees International Union.
[00:03:16]  I think they're the largest union in the country.
[00:03:18]  Right.
[00:03:19]  Well, we can thank John F. Kennedy for allowing government work.
[00:03:23]  Dennis, I'm happy you mentioned that, because I mentioned that to some people talking about the power of the public sector unions.
[00:03:28]  I said, you know one of your heroes, FDR, when he signed the National Labor Relations Board Act?
[00:03:33]  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.
[00:03:40]  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.
[00:03:46]  Now they make more money and greater job security.
[00:03:49]  And can strike.
[00:03:51]  And can strike.
[00:03:52]  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.
[00:04:00]  And again, you're right, Jack Kennedy is the one that signed the executive order to reverse that.
[00:04:04]  And about the teachers' union, here's one other thing, too.
[00:04:07]  There are 300,000 public sector teachers in California, 300,000.
[00:04:12]  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.
[00:04:19]  That's 15,000.
[00:04:21]  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.
[00:04:30]  Now, if you just get a B in a college course, it could be anything.
[00:04:34]  It could be critical thinking.
[00:04:35]  You're qualified to become a public school teacher in California, and after two years, you get tenure.
[00:04:40]  Dennis, you and I have been in radio a long time.
[00:04:42]  We don't get ratings.
[00:04:43]  We get fired.
[00:04:44]  We don't have tenure.
[00:04:45]  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.
[00:04:53]  2.2.
[00:04:55]  Now, I'm in Los Angeles.
[00:04:56]  You're in Los Angeles.
[00:04:59]  Imagine if 5% of them were incompetent.
[00:05:02]  By that I mean planning evidence, engaging in racial profiling, or using excessive force.
[00:05:09]  Can you imagine?
[00:05:10]  We wouldn't put up with that.
[00:05:12]  But we're putting up with 5% of bad public school teachers?
[00:05:15]  It is outrageous, Dennis.
[00:05:17]  And again, most black and brown people living in the inner city, they want school choice.
[00:05:22]  teachers adamantly opposed to it because the teachers are not automatic union members, and they don't therefore get the automatic dues.
[00:05:28]  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.

=== Magic Wand Line Matters (02:24) ===

[00:05:42]  Of course, we say it on radio, but now he has a bigger forum, or at least another forum.
[00:05:47]  Talking about your forum to speak, why don't you tweet out your magic wand line?
[00:05:52]  Probably?
[00:05:53]  Tweet out your magic wand line.
[00:05:57]  I will.
[00:05:59]  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.
[00:06:14]  And you've got to use it because these will shake people up.
[00:06:19]  That magic wand question is unanswerable.
[00:06:24]  Anyone who thinks clearly.
[00:06:27]  Has to be persuaded by that powerful question.
[00:06:31]  Well, I appreciate it.
[00:06:32]  I appreciate it, Dennis.
[00:06:33]  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.
[00:06:43]  I mean, on the rare occasion that you have the moment to think about that, do you sort of get goosebumps?
[00:06:52]  It's almost overwhelming, Dennis.
[00:06:54]  I'm getting phone calls and inquiries out.
[00:06:58]  It's an international phenomenon if I can take this guy down.
[00:07:01]  And Dennis, people in the center are now increasingly being called racist.
[00:07:06]  It's no longer good enough just to be a good person.
[00:07:08]  If you're not an anti-racist, you're accused of being racist.
[00:07:11]  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.
[00:07:18]  So this is going to be beneficial, I believe, for the entire country if I'm able to do this.
[00:07:24]  First of all, I think it'll herald the Messianic Age.
[00:07:27]  But beyond that, you know, I think in religious terms.
[00:07:30]  But I'm smiling when I say it.
[00:07:33]  But I want you to initiate a series of debates with the Ibram X. Kendi's and the Ta-Nehisi Coates of the country.
[00:07:41]  Wouldn't it be an honor to debate the governor of California?
[00:07:44]  Larry, the amount of good you can do gives me the chills.
[00:07:49]  Folks, again, electelder.com or the two PACs that are working to unseat Governor Newsom.
[00:07:57]  Also, it's all up at dennisprager.com.
[00:08:00]  God bless you, Larry.
[00:08:01]  Thank you so much, Dennis.