Larry Elder gives energetic campaign speech to San Diego County Republican Party

[Applause] oh okay there we go is that working now okay i wanted to present larry elder a cigar from liberty tobacco who is a strange republican he wanted to make sure i gave this victory cigar to him [Applause] [Music] wow you know i've been a politician officially for two weeks and three days i should say that i didn't run thank you god bless you i should say that i did run for office before third grade last night i beat william three four's up three rolls out of four they're still cleaning up the blood but when i was first approached by dennis prager i said hell no and the reason i said that is because i said they got all these new five and sacramento uh brilliant super majorities in the senate and sewer majorities and the assembly even if i vetoed a bill maybe over override i found out a bill has not been overwritten has been vetoed in 40 years so i can stop a lot of bad stuff from happening at the very least i can also declare a statewide emergency on homelessness [Applause] you know that 75 of black boys in california and our public school system cannot read at state level proficiency 75 and those and those levels are already low nearly half of all third graders cannot be at state level proficiency if you saw the movie boys and good princess high school two percent of the kids at credential high school are math proficient now who sends their kids to a school where only two percent of the kids are math proficient if they have an option out and i want to give parents choice in education [Applause] not the other way around and parents should have the option to put their kid in a public school if they choose to [Applause] do you know that 80 80 of the public school students here in california are black or brown the polls show that the majority of urban black and brown parents want choice yet they pull that lever year after year after year for the democratic party that has not given them the first step towards leaving poverty which is a quality high school education paula i looked at a study the other day where do public school teachers who have school-aged kids in their own kids nationwide around 11 percent of us send our kids to private school around six percent of black parents do 44 of philadelphia public school teachers with school-age kids put their own kids in private school 39 of chicago public school teachers with school-age kids put their own kids in private school nearly twice as many teachers lausd who have school-aged kids put their own kids in private school compared to those families who do not have teachers in them that's the equivalent of opening up a restaurant saying come on in eat the food but my staff won't what is that what is that and homelessness come on this country's never been more wealthy we can't figure this out and what what they're doing in sacramento is having a housing first policy building homes is substantially higher than what the private sector could build without dealing with the underlying reason why people are homeless in the first place many of them have mental illness many of them have substance abuse they need to be treated they need to be cared for but we need to build low-cost housing so that they have somewhere to go we cannot tolerate what's going on having people pitching tents and sleeping on sidewalks that's not going to be tolerated and don't get me started on water okay you got me started on water i was just up in kern county these farmers they're starving they're not getting enough water and the oil and gas people war on fracking these are middle class jobs that are being lost and we haven't added in any appreciable way to our water supply in 40 years when the state was half the size it is right now yet voters passed bond measure after bond measure after bond members setting aside billions of dollars for aqueducts for underwater storage half the water drains off the pacific ocean what is that i had i had the great fortune i had the great fortune to spend my 21st birthday in the eternal city of jerusalem you know jerusalem is a desert country dubai is a desert country they are water self-sufficient they have a little body of water nearby called the mediterranean we've got a little body nearby called the pacific ocean we can't we can figure this out these salination plants many of them private sector are being stopped by people filing lawsuits at the lawsuit but also we're going to stop that my father came to california in 1945. my father was a marine up guys tough guys he was a monford point marine they were the first black marines my father was a staff sergeant world war ii stationed on the island of guam the bombs fell my father goes back to chattanooga where he met married my mom tried to get him a job as a short order cook he was in charge of cooking for the covered soldiers and the staff sergeant and he was told to his face we don't hire leaders my father goes to the unemployment office lady said you went to the wrong door my dad goes through the door that says cover it only goes to this very same lady who sent him out he says to my mother this is bs i have been to california before the war as a pullman porter i'm going to come out to la and get me a job as a cook my dad comes out here walks around he's told you don't have any references you have no references i need references my dad said i need references to make ham and eggs well it's an unemployment office this time here's one door lady said i have nothing my dad said what time do you open she says nine what time you close she says fine my dad said i'll be sitting in that chair from nine to five until you find something i'll be sitting there the next day my dad sat there for a whole day next day sat there for half a day lady calls him up says i have something i don't know whether or not you're going to want and my dad said of course i'm going to want it i'm starting a family what is it she said is a job cleaning toilets and fiscal brand bread my dad did that for 10 years took a second job cleaning for clean toilets for another bread company called barbara ann went to night school three or four nights a week to get his ged cook for a family of the weekend the man never slept all the time and my father and i had a 10-year time we didn't speak to each other because he was so mean so grouchy and i thought he didn't really love us the one day i sat down for a five minute conversation it ended up being eight hours he told me about his life told me that he was kicked out of the house he was 13 years old by his mom's then boyfriend never to return a black boy jim throws out at the beginning of the great depression i defy you to find somebody who had a hand out like that comes out to california works the jobs i mentioned saves up his nickels and dimes it's a house that's still in the family it is now valued at 600 000 somebody somebody with an eighth grade education dropped out like my father could not duplicate his route from poverty to the middle class if he worked for jobs because the cost of living in california has gotten so outrageous for the first time for the first time in our state's history 170 years there's a net migration out of california and they're not the millionaires and billionaires that bernie talks about these are people between 50 and 100k who cannot get their first house that's the first reason that they cite for leaving california we're going to turn that around now my father told my brothers and me the following even though this man had every reason to be angry at america he was not he loved his country and my father said hard work wins [Applause] you get out of life if you put into it he said larry you cannot control the outcome but you are 100 in control of the effort and before you moan and groan about what somebody did to you or say to you go to the nearest mirror and say to yourself what could i have done to change the outcome and finally my father told my brothers and me no matter how good you are how hard you were sooner or later bad things are going to happen how you deal with those bad things will tell your mother and me if we raised a man my father was a lifelong republican and my father said about democrats democrats want to give you something for nothing and when you try and get something for nothing you almost always end up getting nothing for something and who would have thought just years after electing and re-electing the first black president would be talking about reparations and critical race theory are you kidding me are you kidding me 2007 gallup did a poll when obama was running against hillary for the nomination on the democratic side romney running against john mccain on the republican side what percentage of americans asked gallup in 2007 would never vote for a black president five percent what percentage of americans would never vote for a female 11 what percentage would never vote for a mormon twenty-four percent one percent would never vote for a man as old as john mccain would be 72 if he got elected president 42 obama had a lower threshold than these three white politicians did we're talking about here and when i hear this business about systemic racism i got grilled a lot by newspapers do you believe in systemic racism i said no do i believe that there are races in america 350 million americans yeah you're going to find some gallup did a poll 2002 eight percent of americans believe elvis is still alive six percent sick person believe you sent him a letter he's going to get it we got some nut cases out here and i said this i'll leave you two more thoughts i said this pick up your magic wand wave it over america remove every smidgen of racism from the hearts of white america now everybody white thinks like mother teresa do we still have the phenomenon of seventy percent of black children entering the world without a father married to the mother and by the way obama once said a kid raised not a father is five times more likely before commit crime nine times more likely to drop out of school 20 times more likely to end up in christmas how have we gone from having 25 percent of black kids going outside of wedlock in 1955 to 70 now is the welfare state with our welfare state we've incentivized women to marry the government and we've incentivized men to abandon their financial and moral responsibility do we still have the phenomenon but we still have the phenomenon of a 50 dropout rate in many of our inner city high schools and those who do graduate often cannot read write and compute at great level which means when they go to a tri-c or a four-year school they often have to take remedial math and english we still have that we still have the phenomenon that the number one cause of preventable death for young white men is accidents like car accidents or drownings the number one cause of preventable deaths for young black men homicide almost always at the hands of another young black man we still have a phenomenon where a young black man is eight times more likely to be murdered compared to a young white man if the answer to those series of questions is yes then i submit to you that systemic racism is not the problem and critical race theory and reparation are not the answer all right two final stories my girlfriend and i were up in santa monica uh this is about a month ago it's a true story not one word has been changed honestly and if you know santa barbara uh demographically it's not exactly what kind of i guess they haven't seen black panther have it so i'm getting ready to get on the 101 fill up my gas and i get out of my car as i'm getting out i hear somebody deep male voice hey want a banana so i'm from the hood and i'm looking up trying to assess the situation and it's a white guy next to an suv the trunk is open he's got a big bag of bananas in there and he's talking to a white homeless guy fishing through the garbage nearby so i said with the driver hey i thought you were talking to me i was already accused of systemic racism i said i'm still going to accuse you of systemic racism how come the only guy you offered the banana to is that white guy over there [Applause] so now the homeless guy is laughing and i said i don't even like bananas homeless guy is doubling over and left he goes you're a funny guy you're a funny guy i said i'm here all week two drink minimum throw something in the tip jar i get back in the car and i said my girlfriend did i just ask a homeless guy to give me a tip i'm gonna burn in hell i want to leave you with one sort of semi uh serious story i was in high school and i was studying a course called african american literature by the way i never used that term those of you who heard my radio show have you ever heard me use the term african-american never i'm an american who's black [Applause] african dash and eric i don't know what that means everybody could have a dash if they wanted to i'm an american who's black so i took this course and we read a poem by a black poet named county color goes like this while riding through old baltimore so small and full of glee i saw young baltimore and people looking straight at me now i was young and very small and he was known with vikrant so i smiled but he poked out his tongue call me i saw the hold of baltimore from may until september of all the things that happened there that's all that i remember well i was upset the teacher was upset the class was upset the teacher said things like he's always going to have a permanent scar in his psyche he's always going to feel like he's a second-class citizen he'll never feel part of america as i'm walking home i remember remember something my mom always told me my mom was always told my brothers and me nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission so as i'm walking home and then walking home i said let me read this poem to mom i don't know what her reaction was going to be but i knew me something different so i walk in my mother's in the kitchen stirring a big pot of greens and frying fried chicken wings my favorite i said mom we read a poem in class i want to get your reaction to it she goes how's it going i'm reading a tour and i said mommy goes like this well riding through all baltimore so small and full of glee i saw young baltimore and people looking straight at me now i was young and very small and he was nowhere bigger so i smiled but he broke down his tongue and called me i saw the whole of baltimore from may until september of all the things that happened there that's all that i remember my mom took the spoon out of the pot hit it on the side and said larry what a darn shame he allowed something like that to spoil his vacation how many wings do you want may god bless you may god bless the united states of america let's go into sacramento let's take this thing back [Applause] oh [Applause] foreign [Applause]

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Published: Tue Aug 10 2021