00:00Mr. Speaker, permission to use a prop?
00:04We are not allowing props today, Mr. DeMaio.
00:06Then why have you become props to Governor Gavin Newsom's presidential campaign?
00:11That is what SB280 is, an unnecessary special election at a cost of a quarter billion dollars.
00:19Why? Because his campaign for president has been going down in flames,
00:25and he needs something to prop up his chances.
00:30Make no mistake about it, this is a political stunt, an unnecessary, costly special election,
00:37because Gavin Newsom needs chum in the water for political attention.
00:43You know it, and I know it, and you're allowing state taxpayer money to be used for it.
00:49My friends across the aisle say that this is no more than a special election like the recall was in 2021.
01:01But let me tell you why there's a big difference.
01:03The recall in 2021 was a citizen's right.
01:09You may disagree with it.
01:10I know you all likely voted against it.
01:13But it is a right of the citizens to collect signatures and place items on the ballot and trigger a special election.
01:19If you felt that this was necessary to overturn the 2010 citizen's initiative that took the power out of your hands to manipulate lines,
01:30and that's what you're doing here, that's what ACA 8 does,
01:34takes the power away from the citizen's commission, gives it right back to the politicians so they can do what they've done for the last 72 hours,
01:42go behind closed doors, and manipulate maps, and draw lines, and fashion congressional districts for themselves or their friends in the future.
01:52If you wanted to do all that, then you should have done a citizen's initiative campaign.
01:57You should have collected your signatures like the recall backers did.
02:00But you didn't.
02:02Because you have no problem spending precious, scarce state tax dollars in the middle of a budget crisis.
02:12You say that we have to defend dollars for California, but you have wantonly wasted money,
02:18for example, giving free health care to illegal immigrants at the cost of $10 billion and counting.
02:26$250 million applied to our state budget may not make up for your multi-billion dollar deficit, but it's a start.
02:36You know what $250 million would do?
02:38It would fully fund Prop 36 so that we could give power and tools to the prosecutors and the law enforcement agencies to arrest and punish criminals.
02:50Voters voted for Prop 36, but you refused to fund it.
02:54From the party that says, let the voters decide and let's do what the voters want.
02:59Baloney.
03:00You do what you want.
03:03Might makes right.
03:04And that's exactly what you've done for the last 72 hours by trampling over constitutional provisions and violating House rules.
03:13And you talk about a fair election.
03:16SB 280 shortens the timeline necessary for an election.
03:21But because you have an urgency clause there, might makes right.
03:27You change election law.
03:28And now you're going to slap a misleading ballot title on.
03:32You can't even win based on the truth.
03:35You say you trust the voters, but you don't trust them enough to tell them the truth.
03:38Because your ballot measure title, because we've seen it, we've seen your polling that the DCCC or someone paid for,
03:46retains the Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission.
03:51Are you proud of yourselves?
03:52Retains the Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission.
03:56You are eviscerating that commission.
03:58You are nullifying that commission.
04:00You are suspending the voice of the citizens and what they decided to grab the power back for yourself.
04:06And don't for a moment call it temporary.
04:09You know darn well that this is permanent.
04:12You will never give the power back to the people once you seize it back from them.
04:1630 seconds.
04:17And finally, you say that you're going to respect the vote of the people.
04:23Did you do that with Prop 36 by fully funding it?
04:25No.
04:26Did you respect the vote of the people who put Article 21 in our state constitution and said you shouldn't have the ability to draw maps?
04:34You're drawing a map in violation of the state constitution.
04:38You don't care about what the voters said.
04:40You're disregarding it from 2010.
04:41Oh, but they'll retroactively approve our decision here.
04:47Will they?
04:48Give them an honest ballot title.
04:49You'll see what these voters will do.
04:51Thank you, Mr. DeMaio.
04:55Thank you, Mr. DeMaio.
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