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July 29, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show
07:49
Larry Elder: Who Knows How Many Businesses Were Destroyed Because of Newsom
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That they get to hear ideas and facts they never heard in their lives from you.
Another one, Dennis.
81% of blacks, according to a poll I read, want the police manpower to remain the same or to be increased.
I said, aren't you tired of these left-wing people talking about systemic racism, calling cops to pull back?
It's called the Ferguson effect.
Now they're calling it the George Floyd effect.
Crime goes up.
Those who are disproportionately hurt by this are black and brown people.
I said, aren't you tired of this?
And again, for the first time, I could tell that they were thinking, again, I don't know what they're going to do.
I don't know if they're going to vote for me.
And I said, the beauty of having a secret ballot is you can pull the lever for a Republican.
You don't have to tell your Democrat friends.
You don't have to tell your independent friends.
But I said, crime doesn't have a color.
Homelessness doesn't have a color.
The price of housing doesn't have a color.
And the way this man shut down the state.
While sitting up there at that French laundry restaurant with the very same people who wrote the rules and regulations, not wearing masks, not engaging in social distancing, while his own kids were enjoying in-person private education, and while he exempted his own business.
I said, aren't you tired of this?
And Dennis, I'm not just a lawyer or a talk show host.
I ran a small business for 14 years.
At its peak, it had a dozen people.
Most businesses, small businesses fail, and those that do succeed are often just going payroll to payroll.
This guy shut this state down in the most dramatic way compared to any of the other 49 states.
Who knows how many businesses were destroyed?
Who knows how many hopes and dreams were destroyed?
We're just now figuring it out because the bankruptcy courts have just now reopened.
But it turns out that only about half of the jobs pre-pandemic have been restored in California, as opposed to two-thirds statewide nation average.
And I said to them, aren't you tired of this?
Aren't you tired of being betrayed by the very people that you put into office year after year after year?
I thought, what's the first step towards leaving poverty?
A quality high school education.
One where when you do graduate, you can read, write, and compute at grade level.
You're not getting that.
And I'm the bad guy?
And I can tell, Dennis, again, they never heard this stuff before.
Never.
That's exactly right.
Are you getting invited to black churches?
I am, and I'm going to be speaking at some between now and the end of this campaign.
And I'm getting more and more black media.
There's a magazine in L.A. called the L.A. Focus.
It's a magazine that goes once a month to churches for free.
And I'm having an interview with the owner of that.
Her name is Elise Collins.
And again, people are hearing stuff they've never heard before.
As you know, in L.A., $150 million have been diverted from the LAPD budget for youth programs.
Why do they need youth programs?
For black people, for black youth programs.
Why do they need that?
Because of the breakdown of the family.
Why is there a breakdown of the family?
Because a nouveau liberal named Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1965 launched a so-called war on poverty.
At the time, 25 percent of black kids entered the world without a father married to the mother.
Now that number is 70 percent.
Forget about elder.
Obama said a kid raised without a father is five times more likely to be poor and commit crime, nine times more likely to drop out, 20 times more likely to end up in jail.
Now, they destroy the family, and then they want to pass a $150 million youth program to deal with the effects of what happens when you destroy the family.
And I said to this black newspaper, connect the dots!
Connect the dots!
Who's on your side?
It's so refreshing to hear you.
I made a big deal about this on my show.
You were lied about in the L.A. Times by a columnist named Guerrero.
I don't know if you saw the piece about you.
Of course I saw the piece.
Oh, no, no, no.
I mean, there's a lot about you, thank God.
I didn't know if you see it.
All right, so fine.
So you saw it.
Did you see where she said, you twist facts?
Yeah, and notice she didn't give an example.
No, she gave an example of your facts that are facts.
So she out and out lied in saying Larry Elder twists facts.
Right.
And, you know, Dennis, here's what I always say.
Somebody brought that up, and I said, pick up your magic wand.
I think I've told you this before.
I love this line.
Go ahead.
And remove every smidgen of racism from the hearts of white America.
Do we still have...
Do we still have a 50% dropout rate in many of our urban high schools, and where kids do graduate, they cannot often read, write, and compute at grade level?
Do we still have a situation where the number one cause of preventable death for young white men...
Accidents, like car accidents or drownings, and the number one cause of preventable death for young black men?
Homicide, almost always at the hand of another young black man.
If the answer to that series of questions is yes, I submit to you that systemic racism is not the problem, and critical race theory and reparations are not the answer.
That's why they would never debate you.
I mean, you know, I don't know how much I would give, but it would be a lot to have.
Governor Newsom appear on the stage with you.
I have reason to believe that he is not smug about winning, but I may be wrong.
What's your take?
Well, all I know is that just today, the teachers' union gave him $1.8 million, and a couple weeks ago, shortly after it was obvious I was going to enter the race, the SEIE union gave him $5 million.
One of the reasons I mentioned about going to electelder.com is because he can raise and spend an unlimited amount of money, estimated that he'll spend at least $50 million, maybe even as high as $100 million to defeat me.
I have expenditure limitations of $9 million, and I'm going to hit that.
And after that, I urge people to spend the money for the two political action committees that push this recall election, because I cannot spend as much money as he's spending.
And why would somebody outside of California care?
Two reasons.
As California goes, so goes the rest of the nation.
We have supermajorities in both chambers of our legislature, in the Senate and in the Assembly, and the Democrats in Washington, D.C. would love to get to that level.
The second reason is this.
I have a lot of friends who live in places like Texas and Florida, Washington State, and they say, why do Californians leave and bring their politics with them?
And the answer, Dennis, is because they haven't connected the dots.
not that they're stupid is that they're working they're trying to get the DP to buy a house and they don't realize that the connection between the left-wing people that they pull the lever for and why the houses are so expensive why the schools are so bad so even when Californians leave don't you want them to at least know why they're leaving so they don't pull the deed when they come to your state so for that reason it's in your best interest for me to for me to to what to beat this guy well it's like the question I keep posing
You see violent crime Going up to epidemic levels, and you vote for the party that made it possible.
That's right.
Just the other day, Barbara Boxer, the former senator of California, got mugged in Oakland.
Her cell phone was taken.
Three days or four days earlier, the black police chief of Oakland held a press conference, and he was complaining about the amount of money that's being diverted from the budget.
And so this is what's going on here, and these are the people that are on your side, and I'm the bad guy?
It's just absolutely insane.
And now he's imposing yet another coronavirus mandate.
Get this.
If you are a state worker and you haven't been vaccinated, they're going to test you once a week.
And while you're on at work, you have to wear a mask.
Now, the whole point behind getting vaccinated, and I've been vaccinated, is that you're protected against people who've not been vaccinated.
So you're going to tell somebody who's assumed the risk of not being vaccinated to wear a mask to protect himself or herself against and for.
Other people at work who've also decided not to get vaccinated, who've assumed the risk.
Right.
Hold on there, Larry Elder.
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