00:01Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
00:04I rise after a contentious week, being in the elections committee on Tuesday, and one
00:09of the things I said in that committee was just stating the obvious.
00:16They feel one way about what is happening in Texas or what has happened in Texas, and
00:21we feel another.
00:23And I'm desperately trying to understand the other side.
00:27And it came to me that this is really just about power.
00:33They are okay with his power.
00:37We are not.
00:40What is happening in Texas, maybe happening in Ohio, Missouri, Florida, and others, doesn't
00:46scare the other side.
00:49You might say gerrymandering is wrong, but it doesn't scare you.
00:55It scares us.
00:57It scares me a lot.
01:00You are okay with his leadership.
01:03We are not.
01:05You are okay with his insane all-caps tweets that embarrass this country.
01:12I am not.
01:14You are okay with the rolling out of the red carpet for a murderous dictator on American
01:20soil.
01:21I am not.
01:22There are so many things about his power that scare me.
01:31And his attempts to increase it scare me even more.
01:37And that is why I am fine with what we Democrats are doing here today in California.
01:43Because as a member from Palmdale said earlier in another debate, gerrymandering is wrong when
01:53it's benefiting people.
01:56When you're doing it to wrongly benefit certain people, you shouldn't do it.
02:04And Texas is all too willing to redraw the lines without voter input to benefit Trump, whose power scares the hell out of me.
02:17They are not just enabling Trump, they are handing in the keys, the maps, and the sharpie.
02:32We are eight months in, eight months in.
02:38No disaster relief while California's homes literally burn.
02:43Cuts to Medicaid, I hear a lot about healthcare, cuts to Medicaid that the poorest of Californians,
02:51kids, seniors, people with disabilities, putting them at great risk.
03:00Public schools defunded, cruel, pointless immigration raids that should scare and really bother anyone if you have any empathy at all.
03:12Tariffs that tank small businesses that we all care about raise prices for working people, and that includes food prices.
03:22Courts stacked with extremists.
03:27These are your stupid prizes.
03:29The stupid prizes that I talked about the other day in committee.
03:33And it's going to get worse, and you're going to get more.
03:36And it's not going to be on us.
03:38Because we are doing everything we can in California to stop it.
03:44We're not doing this to the people.
03:47We're doing this with the people.
03:50And we are asking the people on November 4th to validate our fear of Donald Trump's power.
04:00Hey, what were you doing here?
04:06Ah !
04:08OK.
04:08Bye.
04:09Bye.
04:09Bye.
04:10Bye.
04:10Bye.
04:11Bye.
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