[Music]
i'm going to ask you to stand
and you don't need to open your bibles
because um we're going to be going
through a couple of passages i'm going
to ask you to look to the screens if you
would and uh i'll read the odd numbered
verses if you would join in reading the
even numbered verses we'll go through
three passages to set up today
in a message that we are entitling
themed comeback california
what does that mean i guess i should go
over here
come back california what could that
mean well why is that in latin over here
regarding glory to god alone what's that
all about we're merging a couple of
things
we're merging the fact that california
was first visited by the gospel
in latin
by father sarah
back in the late 1700s 17
70s 1777
and he planted 21
missions up and down the state of
california
to propagate the gospel to the natives
the gospel was introduced to the west
coast of the united states at the same
time the colonial fathers were
establishing a revolution on the east
coast
two things happening on both sides of
this continent when we talk about come
back california that's what you're going
to hear about today california needs to
come back to its origin and its origin
is to come back to god
very very clearly to come back to its
original founding to god
we'll start first timothy chapter two
verse one i'll begin if you would read
verse two therefore
i exalt first of all that supplications
prayers and intercessions and giving of
thanks be made for all men
verse 3 for this is good
and acceptable in the sight of god our
savior
now we go to matthew 5 verse 13. i'll
begin verse 13 if you'd follow along
you are the salt of the earth but if the
salt loses its flavor how shall it be
seasoned it is then good for nothing but
to be thrown out and trampled under the
foot by men
nor do they light a lamp and put it
under a basket but on a lampstand and it
gives light to all who are in the house
and then one final verse and i'll read
it out louder let's just do it together
it's one verse
second chronicles 7 14. ready on account
of three one two
three if my people
my name will humble themselves pray seek
my face
and turn from their wicked ways then i
will hear from heaven and will forgive
their sin and heal their land
father we praise you lord and we ask you
god in jesus name
that you would do just that
lord to your glory may you reclaim
california
and all god's people said
amen you can be seated church
and uh to set the stage this
set the
mood for this morning and the dynamic of
what's going on i want to
publicly first of all challenge all of
you
to literally use your skills that god
has given you to be discerning
and to be wise
a lot of people are caught up in an
emotional fervor
over the events of the last
week or so
and emotion is driving the day
among the lives of some
let's remember
that the culmination of yesterday and
national history being made
is the fact that never before in the
history of the united states of america
for any office including the president
including the cia
including the fbi and the nsa
has one individual
been examined scrutinized with a
forensic background study and
investigation not once not twice not
three times not four times not five
times
not six times
seven times more than any other american
citizen in human history and whatever
accusations were levied against him were
proven to be completely false
ladies and gentlemen you need to know
that
yesterday at about four o'clock in the
afternoon eastern time
the shift of the united states supreme
court shifted pro-life
pro-family pro-america
and that shouldn't surprise any of us
we learned from then president john
adams
quote the general principles on which
the fathers that's the pilgrim fathers
achieved independence were the general
principles of christianity said adams i
will avow i then believed and now
believe that those general principles of
christianity are as eternal and
immutable that is unchanging as the
existence and the attributes of god
john adams
also said on june
in 1776 in his writings thoughts on
government
quote it is the duty of all men in
society publicly
and at stated seasons to worship the
supreme being
the the great creator and preserver of
the universe
and no subject shall be heard molested
restrained in his person liberty or a
state for worshiping god in the manner
most agreeable to the dictates of his
own conscience
or for his religious profession or
sentiments provided
he does not disturb the public peace or
obstruct others in their religious
worship
john adams again
said quote suppose a nation in some
distant region
should take the bible for their only law
book and every member should regulate
his conduct by the precepts there
exhibited what a utopia what a paradise
or would this region be
those were the opinions of john adams
but he wasn't alone
by no means
this next picture i want to show you in
setting up today
is quite to me inspiring
because a man in
from england
adopted when he heard about the
criticism
his own king in england began to mock
and ridicule the black robe regiment in
fact it was king george iii
in england prior to the revolutionary
period that saw the rise of liberty and
freedom in the hearts of his
colonialists his subjects loyal subjects
in america
that they began to burn within them
regarding the concept of liberty
and all critics agree that that concept
came from the pulpits and
king
george said that it's coming from those
of the black robe regiment there's the
there's the militia the armed militia of
america and then there's others that are
in the pulpit and they're armed with the
bible and he called them the black robe
regiment
it was a derogatory term but it so
caught the heart of a guy by the name of
george whitefield have you ever heard
about him george whitfield that he
started to come to america in fact he
spent just about as much time in america
as he did in england preaching and
george whitefield fell in love with
freedom
and he prided himself in being one of
those preachers and there he is done in
his black robe he was so short
he would stand upon an altar or barrels
laid one upon another that he might
preach to the crowds in one
moment
uh at harvard university
it was said that ben franklin estimated
that there is some 35 000 people
listening
to george whitfield preach by the way
there was one particular founding father
that so believed in what whitfield was
doing that he actually funded george
whitefield's crusades in the united
states or the colonies do you guys know
who that is
say it again
ben franklin
ben franklin pulled out his checkbook as
it were and funded the ministry ventures
of george whitefield
remarkable
what did they preach about what did they
say yes they gave the gospel which by
the way if you're a stranger here today
let's give it right
the bible says that jesus christ is god
in human skin that he came from heaven
to earth
he lived a perfect life because the
bible says he was born of a virgin and
he himself being god manifested in human
flesh
died on the cross for the sins of all
mankind
the bible says because death could not
hold him down because he was sinless
that on the third day jesus christ
according to the scriptures rose again
from the dead
and jesus christ after the culmination
of his earthly ministry the bible says
ascended back to heaven
he died for your sins and mine and
there's no salvation apart from jesus
that's what whitfield preached
that's what every faithful pulpit in
america preached
and that's what every pulpit in america
ought to be preaching today
that there's salvation and jesus in him
alone
but beyond that what did they preach
what did they say let's put the first
sermon up this should not surprise us
first sermon we see a sermon here notice
this a sermon
of the colonial period
a sermon preached before his excellency
john hancock
so john hancock is obviously
going to be in the audience that day of
the church and notice what it's about i
find this to be fascinating
this is a sermon preached by jonas clark
a remarkable patriot a remarkable
soldier a remarkable pastor and what was
he preaching he was preaching a message
on the election
on the election next slide
what do they preach here's a discourse
from the book of revelation and it's on
the occasion by the earthquakes in
november 1755.
the pastor which by the way i love this
man jonathan mayhew i mean i never met
him i'm going to meet him later in
heaven but i've read about him i feel
like i know him john jonathan mayhew
uh was one of those black robe regiment
pastors
and
he was so instrumental in creating the
atmosphere of the defense of liberty and
freedom
that king george iii
issued an edict that if you find if any
one of the
british
subjects or the british uh military
finds jonathan mayhew without trial he's
to be hung before the sun is set on that
day
why because he preached liberty and
faithfulness to god and not in
imposing government and king george iii
considered him a traitor to the crown of
england next slide what do they preach a
discourse on the good news from a far
country delivered july 24th and on the
day of thanksgiving to almighty god this
message was preached by the great
preacher charles chauncey
and he preached it from the first church
in boston and this is remarkable what
did he preach on he preached out of the
bible regarding the repeal of the stamp
act
he talked about pharaoh and he talked
about the egyptians being
taxed and labored to their almost to
their destruction they took listen
church they took issues of the day and
they took their biblical worldview and
they immediately put them together
because that's how you live your bible
that's how you live your life your
bible's not some old book it's the book
of the future it's the book of today the
bible has the answers for your life what
else did they preach what else do we see
this here's a sermon on judgment and
unrighteousness look at this the ungodly
con
condemned
in judgment a sermon preached at
springfield december 13 1770
by moses baldwin and what was it about
on the occasion of the execution of
william shaw
for murder and there the scripture
references given in genesis chapter 6 or
chapter 9 verse 6
regarding from the bible if you shed
someone's blood by by others your blood
will be shed you see how they brought
the culture together in the bible and
this is just one of tens of thousands of
sermons preached
that's very very important that we all
understand that before we go any further
today i want to set up this morning by
laying this out before you
our nation now had
won its liberty and its freedom from
england
but we were struggling to form a
government
we were not making any headway at all
on july 28 1787
benjamin franklin declared
a request for prayer
and i read this request
quote
in this situation of this assembly
groping as it were in the dark to find
political truth
and scarce able to distinguish it when
presented to us
how has it happened sir that
we have not hear the two once thought of
humbly applying to the father of lights
to illuminate our understandings
in the beginning of the contest with
great britain
when we were sensible or sensible of our
danger we had daily prayer in this room
for the the divine protection
our prayers sir were heard
and they were graciously answered
all of us
who were engaged in the struggle must
have observed frequent instances of
superintending
providence it's another reference to god
in our favor
i have lived sir a long time
and the longer i live the more
convincing proofs i see of this truth
that god governs in the affairs of men
if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground
without his notice is it probable that
an empire can rise without his aid
when franklin was done with that they
got up and they went across the street
and they prayed for hours and that
prayer meeting by the way is recorded in
our national archive
but my question to you this morning is
church
if franklin's request for prayer
is viable
and if his comment
regarding
that god governs in the affairs of men
then i have this question for you how
how does god govern
in the affairs of men because franklin's
statement is certainly
a biblical truth
how does it happen
this is how it happens i'm going to show
you this next slide
reminding you of the state that you're
sitting in
this is the preamble of the constitution
of the state of california
that constitution opens with this at the
very top
we the people of the state of california
grateful to almighty god for our freedom
in order to secure and perpetuate its
blessings
to establish this constitution
it wasn't only the fact that california
was founded by preaching the gospel
by the ventures of father sarah
in those 21 missions but when our
government was coming together as a
state they looked to god and they prayed
and they sought god
and finally one more reminder
a man was running for office
he was known in
hollywood he was known on the silver
screen
but his rise to power was just beginning
and i'm curious if you'll recognize his
voice
our foundry fathers
here in this country brought about the
only true revolution that has ever taken
place in man's history
every other revolution simply exchanged
one set of rulers for another set of
rulers
but only here
did that little band of men so advanced
beyond their time that the world has
never seen their likes since
evolve the idea that you and i
have within ourselves the god-given
right and the ability to determine our
own destiny
but freedom is never more than one
generation away from extinction
we didn't pass it on to our children in
the bloodstream
the only way they can inherit the
freedom we have known
is if we fight for it protect it defend
it and then hand it to them with the
well-taught lessons of how they in their
lifetime must do the same
and if you and i don't do this
then you and i may well spend our sunset
years telling our children
and our children's children what it once
was like in america when men were free
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well i have to tell you um california in
my opinion i was born and raised born in
san diego and then moved up
in orange county
i grew up in a home that was was known
as a reagan home
ronald reagan uh
i did not have a religious home growing
up in but
i knew that ronald reagan was important
i would hear god's name in other
contexts in our home but i would always
hear ronald reagan's name
and in my opinion california hasn't had
that much of a decent governor since
ronald reagan now that's kind of a harsh
criticism i know but i don't care about
your party affiliation democrat
republican alike have very much failed
us
uh since uh reagan has uh departed us as
governor and of course uh from this from
this world of ours from this nation
for the first time
in my living history
has a opportunity come to the
citizens of california to vote for a man
who loves the state of california so
much that he moved here because he loved
it
a man who is a businessman successful in
his own right educated hardworking
self-made man
who believes in his time when he decided
it's probably a good time to retire
decided i can't let this state continue
in the direction that it's going
and that means a lot to me today because
in this modern climate of getting
involved in front of the public view
what person in their right mind would
take it upon themselves to be exposed
to ridicule mock
and falsehoods
and yet john cox believes that
california is worth fighting for and so
do i
friends and family to this church give a
warm welcome to john cox
appreciate it thank you
thank you
thank you thank you
thank you
you can be seated welcome john that's a
great welcome thank you and ronald
reagan was from illinois too oh my
goodness of course yeah i completely
forgot about it you know we own them out
here though i know i know yeah we've got
reagan freeway rigging library reagan
reagan everything right reagan schools
but uh you guys um i'm gonna ask john
some questions up front and then we'll
talk about some policy things some
some uh issues that are facing him
facing all of us
but as i said a moment ago this is a
rare opportunity that's why john is here
today that's why that's why we've asked
him to come
uh he doesn't need to hear this but it's
one of the reasons why i and others are
going up and down the state of
california speaking to pastors it's a
it's a great opportunity or as you know
or do not know as a church
uh something's happened in the state of
california when
when pastors are asking
even in some of the most remarkable
demographics they're asking this
this guy to come and speak to them
about how to how does a pastor encourage
his church to vote a biblical worldview
so i'm excited about what's going on and
i'm excited about you guys meeting john
cox today and
and so here's what we're going to do
john i'm just going to ask you straight
up and feel free to stand or to sit
whatever's more comfortable for you
why in the world would you run for
governor in a state where everybody
is saying you can't break the stronghold
that's on this state it's impossible
that it's just not going to a lot of
people have given up on california a lot
of people are moving out of california
why are you taking this fight on well
you know as you said jack i love this
state uh i wake up every morning and
kiss the ground i mean this is the most
wonderful weather the most wonderful
national natural beauty and
you know california unfortunately has
been
taken over by a bunch of special
interest groups a bunch of people a
political class in sacramento that have
led this state downward and
it's affected the the cost of living
it's affected
our schools
uh the very quality of our lives the
ability to buy a home the ability to
afford a decent lifestyle we live in
fear of
water rationing and fires burning us out
and the political class just blames
other people but they don't look inward
and see what they have failed to do in
in the management of the state and
i just i moved out here
you know hoping to enjoy the wonderful
california lifestyle
and i just couldn't sit by and watch
this happen and i needed to get involved
and and that's why i'm doing this you
know i love about um what i love about
this is uh this is this is something
that is not formed as nature though
from from early on
john tell us a little bit about your
your upbringing and what i'm setting you
up for is this your upbringing when it
comes to being personally responsible
from home life all the way through to
your young life involvement in the
community tell us well you know my mom a
very dominant personality she she had
two master's degrees from berkeley right
here in california my older brother as a
matter of fact was born in san jose
uh she got divorced and moved back to
chicago to be with her parents which is
where they were from
and uh then she was date raped by my
real father and uh she told me that
later on she obviously had me
uh and uh
but my real father took one look at me
and left and uh you know i never saw him
again
and he didn't take responsibility for me
and
and that's why i'm pro-life
amen just pro-life
you know
to me you know it's about my faith but
it's also about taking
responsibility for what you do in life
and i address this to the men
every bit as much as to the women uh you
know
a child is a is a such a wonderful thing
and we need to take responsibility and
abortion is a way of avoiding
responsibility in my opinion and that's
right you know i i think that's true of
of men as well as women amen that's
excellent you um
tell us about how
that sense of responsibility because
growing up in a home where there's
absence which by the way my heart
resonates with you because
my biological father
when
found out that my mom was pregnant
he wound up
going to alaska and made it clear to her
that when i come back i'll be back in
about a year i want to make sure this
baby's gone that you take care of this
baby
and so for me interestingly enough you
live in san diego this was in san diego
for me
where um
you know she
she attempted an abortion and it's funny
because how things shape your life right
because hearing that early on at teenage
years
um i didn't understand all that but i
just knew that life is
very sacred and that god would have a
stand for life and so we really
appreciate your your view and you
mentioned the responsibility because you
know if there's something that i've
really felt my whole life it's it's
about taking responsibility and i've
done that in my community and my church
and
you know i think we you know it's not
about a burden taking responsibility
isn't about a burden
it's about a
self-affirming self-worth that that
helps you when you take responsibility
for others you're not just helping the
person that you're actually taking
responsibility for you're actually
helping yourself
you're actually
making yourself even more of a human
being and enriching your own life by
doing that i absolutely believe that
absolutely true
john on october 31st 1979.
yeah tell us what happened well you know
i was i was burning the candle at both
ends uh
i had already worked my way through
college
uh i always tell people i i finished
college in two and a half years because
i was paying for it
that'd do it yeah a couple of my
daughters took five years because i was
paying for it
but i was uh i got a cpa i was an
accountant and i was working as a cpa
during the day and i went to law school
at night i always wanted to be a lawyer
because
one of my elementary school teachers
told me i was good at arguing
my mom also told me that
and uh i'm sitting on the train i pulled
open my law books and i'm studying
feverishly because i had to study on the
train
and a man sat down next to me and he
could see the bags under my eyes and uh
kind of like they are now
he he
started to talk to me about uh my life
and i was telling him how tired i was
and he he ministered to me and and
brought me to the lord and he gave me a
bible
and it was october 31st 1979 and that
was the day of my rebirth in jesus
christ our savior
you went on from that influence in your
life the um
i love the story about what what your or
how your heart was moved
in compassion toward those that were
hurting especially more specifically the
elderly that you saw tell us about what
you did you know i was very involved in
my church uh when i was in chicago uh
i was president of the school board the
men's club and all the other things that
revolved around the church and
you know we were talking one day we were
talking about what we might do out in
the community and again it's about
living our faith and taking
responsibility for our community and we
heard about
this organization it's now called
rebuilding together it was then it was
called christmas in april uh it's uh
until the uh secularists got involved
now it's called rebuilding together
and it was started in midland texas by a
sunday school uh teacher who said the
same thing why don't we go and take care
of our community why don't we live out
our faith and to me that's what that's
what you know uh our faith teaches us
and so
we
formed a group we recruited a board and
we started this
charity in our community and it repairs
the homes of elderly low-income
low-low income elderly and disabled
people who let's face it you know
they're living on social security or
something and they can't afford to paint
their house they can't afford to fix
things they can't afford to you know do
the do the basic things for their home
that we take for granted that we're able
to do by you know ourselves or by hiring
people and so every year on the last
saturday in april we get together
every year we've had about a thousand
volunteers and we've done about 50 homes
and so now
in these last 26 years or so we've
repaired almost 1500 homes
with over 20 000 volunteers
that's great yeah
and i go back every year and participate
with all my friends back there uh
this year was the first year i missed it
because of the campaign it was right
before our primary and
my consultants wouldn't let me leave
california
and uh i'm going back next year sorry
i'll be the governor of california but
i'm still going to go back
participate
it's excellent so let me ask you some
questions and we'll kind of go through
these do the best we can
our
our property values are being threatened
some cities they have in fact
have been greatly impacted by this next
issue
uh
crime is on the rise because of this
and of course i'm talking about border
security yeah we have got illegal aliens
that have committed crimes
many of them having come across the
border numerous times
criminals
and
we've got
a particular party that's now in power
they
they think it's okay they think that
this is some form of a evolution of our
new
direction that it's just kind of the
price we have to pay to accommodate
john would you agree that we are 100
for
legal immigration
illegal
invasion of what's taking place is
bringing a lot of bad people in and
doing very very bad things well you know
what this jack a lot of people use a lot
of politicians use this as a way to
divide us and get us angry and scared i
mean i really don't believe they want to
solve this problem unfortunately
we have this you know the country to the
south of us is relatively not well
governed i mean let's face it i mean
uh they had 26 000 murders last year the
the drug war the gangs and all the money
that flow out of the drug war
pretty much runs rampant in in mexico
unfortunately and it affects all the way
down the central and south america as
well and
you know we don't have this problem you
know to the neighbor to the north we
have it to the south and
you know the first rule of government is
to protect us i don't want these gangs
operating here
so this this whole idea of a sanctuary
state i think is an absolute disgrace to
the idea that we want to protect people
in this state we want to make sure our
law enforcement gets a criminal element
out so that we can live our lives in
peace and security yeah amen church
listen this is important
this is important because
you have to now make it personal you
might say well i don't know if i liked
john's answer
well wait a minute
how about you would you go buy a home
in a sanctuary city right now would you
go decide if you're going to move
no not only will you not do that but
people are bailing out of san francisco
and los angeles for that very reason
businesses in san francisco under the
leadership previous leadership of gavin
newsom who's john's opponent property
values businesses have been leaving san
francisco
the streets are famously now filthy with
human waste and needles from drug users
in fact what about needles what about
what are they talking about doing well
you know the homelessness in san
francisco was really
such a tragedy and really it's affected
many states i mean you can see it here
even in riverside you know in san
bernardino
in my home city of san diego we had a
hepatitis a break out people died
uh and and it's a real health hazard as
well as a crime hazard
and the answer that they have in san
francisco apparently is to
give people clean needles they ban
straws thankfully
because no straws god knows that straws
are a human health hazard but uh
they're okay with hypodermic needles and
and now they want to do safe injection
centers and you know
i don't know about you but if my own
children were addicted to heroin i think
the last thing i would do
would give them a safe room to shoot up
in
i would get them cured i would get them
help i mean that's what a compassionate
society does
wow let's talk about uh and this is
sensitive this is a sensitive thing for
us i shouldn't say sensitive passionate
uh religious freedom specifically in
california has really
been under attack
uh
quite possibly more than any other state
in the union right now
uh for example this issue state the
state of california mandated upon us
uh certain things that have robbed
parental authority right we believe that
authority is a religious issue the
bible's very clear about the parents
having authority over the children
state of california and i let me quote
something here a moment ago or that i
read a little while ago
ninth circuit court of appeals parents
are becoming increasingly concerned
about the loss of their
right to educate their own children the
ninth circuit court of appeals said in
2005 quote there is no fundamental right
of
parents
to be the exclusive provider of
information regarding sexual matters to
their children close quote and the court
also insisted that parents quote their
parents writes do not extend beyond the
threshold of the school door
close quote that's a ninth circuit court
of appeals um we've we take as as
as uh faith-based people in the state of
california
we've been assaulted by our state
government regarding freedoms uh this
state has told us and every church in
california that that regardless of the
hobby lobby case that was won in the u.s
supreme court churches in california
will pay for elective abortions
and we have failed to comply with that
mandate by the governor's office we're
currently in a lawsuit
with the state of california on this
uh we're glad that it's i've been told
that we'll go to the supreme court
especially in light of yesterday's
change i'm very happy about that
so my point
my point is
john what role does the state of
california have over religious freedoms
well you know one of my favorite
expressions jack is that you will be
made to care
and that's what the state legislature
and the public officials the 9th circuit
are doing with parents uh
i believe as you do that parents have
dominion over their children
amen
i mean who's gonna care
who is really gonna care for your
children more than you as a parent i
mean nobody uh
and the reason that this has infiltrated
our public schools is is all about money
and values uh
you know
somebody asked willie sutton why he
robbed banks and he was a famous bank
robber
and he said really
that's where the money is
and and that's why the politicians want
to run the schools and want to run our
lives because that's where the money is
and it's all about power and control
and if they can
you know in inculcate and if they can
inject their values into the schools
that's one more element of power and
control
and i want parents to have control and
power over their jobs
not the politicians
this is a tough one california has
always been in its history
uh the very trend setter and all kinds
of things not only from fashion the
hollywood scene uh movie production
music and all of that stuff but going
way back i'm talking way back from
father sarah's day yes but by the way
remember this there's no other state in
the united states that has 21 missions
that were established to preach the
gospel no other state yeah but having
said that there's no other state
in the nation that had a gold rush like
california
there's no other state that has created
and established the aviation and space
technology industry but california
california the computer was born in
california
think about that silicon valley the
technology still continuing to be born
here
california had the greatest
public transportation highways in the
world at one point
california
california known what is california
known for also the the bread the salad
bowl of the nation
california exported more food out to the
nation and the world than any other
state california on and on it goes we
have sunk from being the fifth or sixth
largest economy among nations on the
earth and were sinking
and one of those things is that we were
the bastion of education
for great high level education
we we throw now more money at our
education system than i think than any
other state maybe maybe this maybe maine
or massachusetts is higher than us
we spend more money to educate one child
and yet the data shows that that
result is the opposite let me read this
to you california schools consistently
rank among the worst in the nation 29.2
percent of fourth graders in the state
of california are proficient in math
27.8
are proficient in reading and less than
30 percent of fourth graders in
california
are proficient in either both math and
reading
john what's your solution for
california's low performance in our
education system well you know
teaching my mom was a school teacher she
cared
about what she did and you know she
didn't
care for the fact that there might be
teachers that didn't perform that well i
mean there unfortunately some people
just aren't cut out for teaching and
unfortunately the system that's
developed here just protects
uh those those teachers and makes it so
it's impossible to fire uh or or
re-allocate or reassign a teacher
i want teachers paid like rock stars and
baseball players
yeah sure
i want
i want teachers to be treated like the
professionals they truly are
and not to be just protected at all
costs yes uh i'd love for there to be a
bidding war for good teachers wouldn't
that be great
wouldn't we know that our children are
getting the right education yes you know
one statistic jack is that fully half of
our public school children today
aren't reading to grade level in our
california schools
and my mom was a librarian she taught
reading and
she instilled and my brothers and i the
absolute need to be able to read i mean
that's the bedrock of our education and
the idea that half of our school
children aren't able to read the grade
level means that we're going to be
populating our prisons a lot more than
they should be that's for sure that's
right
horace greeley said go west young man go
west
because there was opportunity out west
and we've all been
affected by friends and family
that have said i'm leaving i'm leaving
california some have said i'm leaving
california because it's nuts
it's not what it used to be i understand
that some of you or some of them had to
leave because they're businesses like
toyota in los angeles up and left us
and took thousands and thousands of jobs
as you all know
this is continuing to escalate
it's a sad thing that a state so great
that a state that as you said earlier
has been so blessed with natural beauty
and the ability to do
amazing things
john
why would somebody that's here right now
or somebody that's watching they're on
the fence they're thinking well you know
what i mean i've
you know maybe i should just keep voting
the party line or maybe i don't know
john
tell them why
should they vote for you regarding
what's
what the crisis of california is from
housing to
jobs not being able to make it here
anymore the message of our campaign is
that help is on the way
and and that's truly the case because
you know most people are working i mean
uh thank god you know
we've gotten a great economy now uh
we're actually achieving levels of
growth that we haven't seen in a decade
around the country
and so most californians are employed
but they're finding that they can't
afford a truly decent lifestyle in the
state uh the cost of gasoline
the cost you know it's it's over four
dollars a gallon and i'm telling you
right now it's heading to five before
you know it
and the cost of housing i build
apartments for a living i got into the
real estate business uh 30 years ago
and i build apartments in other states
for a good one-fourth of what it costs
to build in california that's ridiculous
and the price of lumber isn't more in
those other or is it less in those other
states the price of appliances and
windows and roofing and bricks they're
not much less in those other states you
know what's different in those other
states is government that's right
california with the lawsuits the taxes
the delays the mandates have driven up
the cost of housing
to where people just can't afford to
live uh
i toured the sriracha plant in los
angeles as part of my bus tour that we
just got done
uh i'm sure you all like sriracha yeah
amen
i had sriracha ice cream
and it had a kick to it i'm gonna tell
you right now
and i'm listening to one of the workers
there
philippe and he was telling me
he has to drive 40 minutes to get to
work that's the first thing you all can
identify with that i'm sure
and he's burning four dollar a gallon
gasoline to do it and then on top of
that he's living in a one-bedroom
apartment with himself and four children
and he's paying
1500 a month for this one-bedroom
apartment
and i thought i said to him i said that
is a tough lifestyle why don't you leave
california and he said
what and leave my dodgers
i grew up a white sox fan so it's tough
for me although uh sandy koufax was my
hero when i was growing up all right but
uh but you know that's what's
that's
that's what's happening to this co you
know to the state people are just being
driven out the the cost of housing the
water costs the electricity i mean air
conditioning
they tell us well if
if you're if you're sad about your
electricity bill then just don't run
your air conditioner
really
that's what you want us to do we live in
this wonderful environment but it gets
hot here some days and you want us not
to
you know they're telling you by the way
that you're going to have to live with
water rationing in a few years did you
know that tell them i'm not sure if
they're aware of brown's edict about the
55 gallon 55 gallons do you know this is
all you're going to have
california is going to be renamed smelly
california
because you're not going to be able to
take a bath in this state in a few years
brown is promoting you showering every
other day
like he does
oh
now let's not get personal jack
have you met jerry brown i'm kidding no
i
thankfully i haven't met him yet here's
the here's the thing about water john
and i share john and i share something
about water we've watched israel
become the first water independent
nation on earth yes and they're listen
they're pulling water from the
mediterranean
okay the mediterranean
okay we have
the pacific
and listen
john can i make up this policy for you
right now
okay you guys
if the
if global warming's true and the caps
are melting then the seas are rising
if you're concerned about the seas
rising then have governor john cox build
desalinization plants to pull water from
the ocean and
and water california
this state is known for its technology
achievements we've got the brain power
we've got caltech we've got stanford
they can pull it off listen we could
drain water from the pacific without any
environmental impact in fact it helped
the caps the melting caps and we can
turn california anywhere we want into an
oasis how's that you know listen uh
i think it's a great idea
and you know let's let's also recycle
let's let's make sure that we keep our
valuable water but we also need to build
reservoirs in the north especially where
we have snowmelt and everything i mean
you know listen
we love this state it's grown
wonderfully we want our children to stay
here we want the state to be available
for our children we certainly i don't
feel it's my place to tell people not to
have children
that's god's bounty to us and we should
make sure that everybody has the ability
and the freedom to be able to have
children and in order to do that we're
going to need to provide for water and
for electricity and for all the
comforts and the wonderful things that
that we've been able to generate for
ourselves
john um
i don't know why maybe somebody does
maybe you know why it's the
san onofre nuclear power plant has been
decommissioned now it's going offline
um i forget how old it is but i remember
growing up as a kid driving up the five
freeway seeing that thing but there was
never
it was a great source of power
uh we had we didn't have any
uh
dangers with it
why in your opinion is california not
building more of those types of
fantastic proven industries exactly i
mean obviously i'm worried about a
nuclear reactor sitting on a active
fault of course
and frankly you know right next to the
ocean may not be the best place either
you know i mean but
a lot of countries of the world france
for one generates most of their
electricity from nuclear sources it's
the cleanest and energy it doesn't
produce any pollutants although you know
there is a waste problem and you know
they re-enrich it down to a small amount
and
you know they're able to deal with that
uh you know listen i i believe we've got
all these great sources we need to
explore all of them and i want to make
sure our environment is preserved i want
to make sure that we don't unleash
nuclear terrors around the state i'm as
concerned with that as everybody but i
think we can do it wisely and
effectively and intelligently and you
know the trouble is that
political leaders sometimes get people
scared because that's how they operate i
mean that's what gets people interested
in
and you know let's just look at what we
can do in terms of best practices and
providing for our best uh our our best
electricity very good we're almost done
you guys um you touched on it a moment
ago we don't usually get into
propositions here unless they threaten
us in a biblical sense there's so many
of them yeah
for us it started with prop 8 way back
when which threatened of course
proposition 22 that preceded it
there's a lot of
there's a lot of talk going on right now
in fact i had i happened to be in
sacramento on the day i
watched uh
the gentleman who was the creator of the
gas tax josh newman i saw the day that
he was being evicted from
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the state capitol he
he was moving his stuff out because
there was a uh a recall on him for this
reason
proposition six you talked about gas tax
proposition six is going to appear on
your ballot statewide everybody
and um what do you think it's gonna by
the way i think if i have this
it's yes on six
okay
yes on six i do not want gas tax okay
yeah it's kind of a negative yeah
exactly right tell us well you know
uh first of all
the
fact is that california spends a lot of
money on its roads
but
the uh the
agency that's responsible caltrans has
been analyzed and analyzed and
it actually is one of the worst managed
uh operations in the in the in the
country
it's been documented that it spends
twice what texas spends for example on
building or maintaining a mile of road
now part of that is the fact that our
roads are wider but part of it is the
fact that we have all the environmental
regulations and mandates which by the
way they wave
when it comes to sports stadiums that
are owned by a lot of wealthy people but
you know they don't waive them for
others or for housing which is a whole
other area
but you know we have to
you know pay taxes we don't like to pay
taxes uh
you put up a slide of the the stamp act
which our
founders rebelled against the king on
uh which was a minor tax compared to
what we pay
but we don't mind paying taxes as long
as our public officials use that money
wisely and efficiently
and that's not what they're doing with
with their roads they're spending way
more money than they need to and instead
of reforming caltrans they went and
passed this gas tax
and that's why
i am the leader of the effort to repeal
it because they they don't really use
our money wisely or efficiently and
that's going to end thank you john yes
and let me tell you you know this this
proposition system is a uh legacy uh
hyrum johnson uh
you know who ran i think the vice
president uh you know when teddy
roosevelt ran uh but you know it's a
it's a wonderful thing to be able to
petition and change our government
unfortunately
it's been distorted now where a lot of
interest groups are using it to get
things done that they couldn't get done
in the legislature but as you know jack
one of my main things that i want to do
as the governor of the state is i want
to change our legislature yes right now
it represents these interest groups i
want a legislature that represents us
yes please yes represents us truly
well
listen to what he's saying he needs a
legislature that's that's workable that
that's where you come in
you've got to vote
on november 6. you've got to get the
right people in office
and to give john the ability in
sacramento to get these things done and
so
some have said i happen to agree some
have said that california has hit rock
bottom
and that may or may not be true but i
can tell you this there's a stirring
that's taking place
something's going on
something that's going on up and down
the state
and
i
i can't imagine another candidate coming
along in the near future that
shares the same worldview values that
you have
a man of faith
and
a man worth praying for we're going to
pray right now together
but we live in a republic ladies and
gentlemen and because of neglect
under all of our watch
we have let others
send the wrong people to sacramento
and the bible says in proverbs 29 verse
2 that when the righteous are in power
the people rejoice
but when the wicked rule
the people groan
and california's groaning
it's not just us there are many others
waking up
to the fact that california is groaning
and i love what john said hope is on the
way listen we all know this as
believers
salvation is not going to arrive on air
force one
or sacramento
salvation is in jesus that's settled
but god has given us according to his
word the governments of the nations
we have the kind of government that we
will allow
we have allowed a great government in
california
to run amok and to run a mess
because we have been too busy
it's no longer i don't believe it's
apathy anymore i believe it's more of a
willful neglect problem
it's time now for all of us to register
to vote
and make sure that you vote on tuesday
november 6th we're going to pray for
john right now together
father we just thank you for our brother
god who has taken this mantle up to
stand
father for what's right
though he may be and we thank you for it
an outsider when it comes to sacramento
he's not a politician he's one of us
he's a businessman he knows how to
work and work hard
but lord up there in sacramento you can
feel
you can feel a tangible presence in that
place we're asking you lord
that you would remember what our
founders of this state wrote down in
that preamble
that we present this constitution to you
god
that we might be a governed people by
almighty god
so lord we're asking you
that we as a people will be pricked in
our hearts
to bring california back
not by revolution not by gun not by riot
but by voting
may we exercise our freedom that has
been blood bought
a freedom and a liberty that is a great
responsibility
we ask you to watch over john his wife
sarah and his kids
as we commend them into your hands in
jesus name and all god's people said
amen thank you john thank you jerry
appreciate it
thank you very much
thank you