Firing Line Radio Show 03-14-26

Welcome to the firing line with Rick Travis, legislative director of the California Rifle

and Pistol Association.

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And now here's your host, Rick Travis.

Good afternoon, patriots of this fine country celebrating its 250th year.

My name's Rick Travis, and I'm your legislative director with the California Rifle and Pistol

Association on CRPA's firing line radio.

And folks, if you're not a member, you're going to want to be a member because we are fighting

back.

And today we're going to cover a wide range of what we're doing here at the tailgate today.

Because we are on the move, we are pushing back, and we are covering a lot of ground,

the impacts just about every aspect of your Second Amendment rights.

So let's start off.

Many of you have been with us through this fight to save the deer on Catalina Island.

We have seen the number of issues that have come up from the Department of Fish and Wildlife,

from the Game Commission, from the Catalina Island Conservancy, all the misinformation,

all the fake news.

All the misdirected attitudes, and where has that landed us in the courtroom, folks?

The California Rifle Pistol Association, along with the Save the Deer Coalition, has joined

in arms with many hunting groups that you're familiar with from SCI to California Deer,

to the California Bowman Hunters, to groups that we normally wouldn't see with us all

on the same page.

Bringing what is called a California CEQA Challenge, CEQA CEQA, which has to do with

the California Environmental Quality, and there are multiple violations as we're alleging.

That lawsuit was filed this week, and here in Southern California, we are taking them to

tasks.

We are doing everything to preserve these deer.

Now, for some of you out there, you might be right, yes, and you can hunt them.

No, folks, not just so, there would be a hunting opportunity, but so there would be a stable

deer population there for generations, for hundreds of years to enjoy.

Now, some of you may have heard this lie.

Well, there's no way for the deer to have ever been there in the first place, Rick.

Well, that's funny, because we don't have to go back and look at 100, 200 years.

We don't have to dig up bones.

All you have to do is go down to South Orange County and watch what happens from time to

time when the mountain lions push the deer into the ocean, and they start swimming in

Catalina.

Well, they don't get that far.

Sometimes they don't, because lifeguards and others are able to go out with boats and

pull them back in.

But we have had deer in the middle of the channel where they couldn't even see the mainland.

They could only see the island still swimming when fishing boats and others have picked

them up.

So there's no evidence that they couldn't make it.

And we've also seen other wildlife in California in recent weeks and months make it quite the

distance.

So folks, it is completely possible for this to happen.

Now, what do we think is going to happen this lawsuit?

We don't know, but we'll be following it here on this radio show every week with updates

on the fight to save the deer for all people in California for generations to come.

But back to the Capitol.

What is going in the Capitol?

Well, this next week we have three bills.

We are sending information out.

If you haven't joined, join CRPA.org so you can be a part of these fights.

So you can weigh in with your legislators.

And the first bill we're going to talk about today is called Assembly Bill 1743.

It's by Assembly Member Wix.

It will be an Assembly Public Safety this Tuesday.

It's called Firearms Automated Firearms System Data Access.

Well, this has to do with going in to the civil procedure, the family code, the penal

code, the welfare institutions code.

And what they're trying to do is say that they're going to just clarify on the scope of ammunition

bands and civil proceedings.

But this applies to a broad category of disputes such as harassment, workplace conflicts,

campus issues where no violence or threat of violence has been found.

I'm going to say that again, where no violence or threat of violence has been found.

Now imagine, imagine being at work and a co-worker says something you don't like it, you get

snarky back, you have a verbal dispute.

Should you lose your right to drive your car?

Should you lose your right for freedom of speech?

Should you lose your right to protest?

To do anything this constitutionally protected?

And the answer from all of you should be, no, it was a verbal disagreement.

What the heck?

But anybody at your workplace hearing that could file and when it comes to your second

amendment, you could lose those rights just because you disagreed on what kind of coffee

was being used in the curic in the corner.

And when you're saying, oh, it couldn't get that ridiculous, it already has folks.

That kind of stuff has already happened.

But it doesn't only result in an immediate disarmament, it also could mean potential

criminal penalties.

And that could go on your whatever people are looking out online to find out if they

should hire you, if they should work with you, if they should have a contract, if they

should be your friend, plus it means there's problems with your due process, another constitutional

right, which this looks to be completely, completely unconstitutional.

There's a risk of abuse and overreach in that we have seen many, many people use these

strategically in family disputes, employment competitions for a different position.

And sometimes that neighbors, we had somebody that said, oh, in my neighborhood, the trash

cans should go lawn, trash, recycle.

My next door neighbor put recycle first.

He's crazy.

Really?

Sometimes I don't even think about which order I'm putting the trash cans out.

I just put them out, guys, it's Tuesday night and I just put them out.

I do not want to be judged on which order I put them in, especially when there isn't

a preset order.

It doesn't exist.

Just because a neighbor thinks they should go on a certain color combination doesn't

mean I'm crazy, maybe they're crazy.

Who knows?

But beyond that, there's no demonstrated public safety benefit.

Let's be honest, this is not about criminals.

In fact, there has been nothing shown in the testimony leading up to the testimony leading

up to these kinds of laws that shows that extending this to your ammunition, allowing your

ammunition to be taken away, is going to do anything to stop crying.

There is no study, nothing, but here's what's going to impact.

It's going to disproportionately impact law-abiding hunters, comparator shooters, collectors,

and self-defense practitioners because it's going to take away the things that they

use.

Now, when you say, well, why those groups, well, here's why.

You go into a neighborhood where you have an overly concerned individual who does not

like firearms, which is their right, and they see the hunter going out with their rifle

or their shotgun and they're playing one in front of family member and they're playing

in a pistol and they're loading up ammo.

To some people, that's a third world warlord, being ready to go to war.

No, it's somebody going to exercise, no different than when somebody takes baseballs, bats,

and everything else to a little league.

They're not going out for a gang banging session.

They're going out to practice.

You take more than one bat, you take more than one ball.

It's the same idea, folks.

And when you get to competitive shooters or collectors or people with self-defense

practitioners, we don't look at the martial artists that's taking a bunch of gear to go

to their local MMA gym.

We're like, oh, we're good for them.

They're going to get in shape.

But somebody takes a couple of range bags and again, all of a sudden, they're part of

a criminal element when they have done nothing wrong.

This is why it does like 1743, or sorry, 1753, have to be opposed, no matter what.

We've got to oppose these, all right?

So that is where we're looking at.

This is why we need to stop these, and we need to take these bills out as fast as we

can, because 1753 is a bad bill, all right?

It is only one of a couple of bad bills.

We also have, but we do have a good bill coming up, and I'm going to talk about this.

This is Assembly Bill, 1948.

It will also be in public safety that day.

And 1948 is clearly a bill that we want to support.

Why?

It will change what goes on with CCWs in California.

Now a lot of people are going to see a Democrat named her like, ooh, it's a trick trick.

Well, we're watching that to make sure it doesn't become a trick.

That's why we're supporting it unless it gets amended.

But right now, what this would do is it would allow your sheriffs to be able to have

for a first time issuance a three year, not a two year wait, and up to a six year renewal.

Now, people are like, yeah, but it still gives to share it for choice.

Part of that is because we want them to be able to spread all of you out.

So it balances things and keeps costs down.

We'll explain that more in detail in a moment.

But what I want you to realize is a lot of the negative stuff that has been out online

is simply because of a misunderstanding, not realizing what is at cost and what is in

play.

And we're going to talk more about that when we come back on fine line radio.

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Welcome back to firing line radio here at the Tillgate and we're talking about assembly

bill 1948.

This is the CCW bill by assembly member Ray Moset will be heard in public safety on Tuesday.

We want to support this bill.

Now, there has been controversy in social media about this bill is going to mess with your

ability to have a CCW. It's going to mess with the way that you're going to get it.

Let's do some clarity.

We helped write this bill.

What this bill is about and what it's not about.

What it's about is because right now in the status quo, it's a two or four year option.

And what I mean by that is there is no going to four years.

It's only two years.

You get the first time two years or you know it every two years.

That implies a huge cost of money.

Then we tried to get him to extend it a year ago if you remember to four years.

And there was controversy on that and the reason was is because many departments like

here in the Inland Empire, both San Bernardino and Riverside have tens of thousands of people,

which means there is a group of people renewing every year that takes up a lot of

department time going through that process and then you have the new applicants.

So how could we handle that?

Well, that either means hiring more people, which means an increase in cost, which none of us like

or breaking it down so that those people that are renewing aren't renewing as often.

And that has been the push behind us is to lower the cost all the way around.

The lower the cost of department because they're not paying to renew as often and lower the cost

to you because you're no longer paying as often to renew. So this is a good thing.

The problem is if you go to two to four years, all you've done is you created a roller coaster ride

when it comes to the department and comes to cost.

So what this bill does is allows sheriffs to go, oh, I'm going to take everybody who's doing 26

and say a third of them are going to be doing 27 and 30 and 29. And then after that,

it'll be six years. So anybody who, if this bill gets through, everybody is going to get more time

before they need to renew. And your initial isn't going to have to be renewed in two years,

it's going to be allowed to be renewed in three years. So you're going to have an initial license

of three years. So all the way around, this becomes a very positive bill. It allows people that

can afford to do this, to be able to afford to protect themselves, exercise their rights.

Now, in the event that we get a new national law that changes all this, yay. But if we don't,

this bill is a step in the right direction. And that's what we're looking at. We can't count on

a national law. That is what this community is done. They've always counted for somebody to

come from outside to rescue them. We have to start rescuing ourselves. And the fact that we have

Democrats working with Republicans to make this happen is huge. People, this is a co-bipartisan

sponsored bill. And we need to get behind it and support it because this is going to help all of

us. And so again, that's Assembly Bill 1948. It's an Assembly Public Safety this week. And we need

to be on top of it. But it's not just the Assembly we're fighting in. It is also the Senate.

Many of you know about firearm safety certificates. It's the certificate you get before you go out

there to work and buy a firearm. When you go to buy that firearm, you have to go take a test.

You have to keep the card with you. And we all know that criminals who are buying firearms,

you know, from the cartels and other groups. Yeah, they don't do FFCs. So the impact on FFC

stopping the criminal element minimal, if at all. Now the FFC, we have always has CRPA

believed in, you know, voluntary safety training for 150 years. We pushed that as the first two

words of our motto of be safe. And so we love voluntary firearm safety education. We provide it.

We work with a lot of other people. But this new this new deal would be anybody coming into the

state and people eventually would have to take it eight hour course, which means you're not going

to be able to do that the counter at your local firearms place. You're going to have to go somewhere

else to get it, which will be a deterrent to people, which is what they want. And it also requires

a life fire shooting exercise. So let's look at what this does. Shooting ranges and certified

instructors in the status quo already lack the capacity to handle everybody. And this day has

done everything it can to block new ranges and instructors from being brought together. So and

many rural areas have limited facilities. So this is going to take long wait times and deny people

access to a constitutional issue. Furthermore, it's going to there's no there's no cap on training

fees, which means some people who realize, Hey, the market will allow me to charge a whole lot of

money because I'm the only game in town. It's going to knock out first time buyers,

senior citizens, or people that have to travel a distance for these exercises. And again,

I always look for how does this bill solving anything? Well, there's no proven public safety benefit.

We have the strictest laws in the nation. And those laws have not prevented strategy in this bill

targets compliant owners rather than criminals. This is going after the law by me. It's not going

after criminals. Plus, there are constitutional concerns. In brewing, we have to show that this

has happened historically. And wait for it. Here's that silence. It's really bad on a radio.

Know what? It's also really bad inside of a testimony because there is no historical analog.

So this is already going to be unconstitutional. And again, I want you to think about a lot of the

people that have to do this. This is the first step to be able to get a firearm to have a CCW,

the first step to get a firearm to be able to put food on the table, the first step to get a

firearm because you want to take up the sport of competitive shooting. They are eliminating a lot

of people ever taking that first step. Furthermore, the way this is worded, you're an importer if you

move to California. And I know some of you would be like, why would you do that to yourself?

That's a great question. That's a subject matter for many other shows on this station. But

assuming that you are being transferred here because you work for SpaceX or you're in the

military or any other organization or maybe you came out here because you have family out here.

No one is seen at the crossroads when you drive across the border from Arizona, Nevada,

or Oregon, to California to go, hey, Bob, you have a firearm because if so, you have 60 days to get

this license. No, no one's going to do that, which means we're going to take law-biting citizens

who come from states that actually understand the Second Amendment, bringing their firearms that

could be family heirlooms that they've had forever never committed a crime being criminalized

simply because they crossed the border and didn't know about it. And again, this bill provides no

notification for people that ever know that they have to do it. Once again, it's a piece of

legislation to try to take a law-biting citizen and make them a criminal instead of going after

the existing criminals that have already done some of the most heinous acts here in California.

So this is what we're fighting this week. If this hasn't got your blood boiling, I don't know what

well. And that is why I thought, well, maybe there is something else that will boil your blood.

And that's why I brought on from the CRPA, our political individual who is responsible for

everything from political grassroots to analysis, Kurt Williams. Kurt, welcome to the show today.

Great to be here. Thank you so much. So Kurt, we had an important date that just went by

over the past weekend. What was that? Yes, that was actually last week on March 6. That was the last

day for cannons to file their paperwork if they want to run for office. So there are a few offices

though. Technically, that went past on the 11th. That did get the extended if the incumbent didn't

file. But now that those deadlines have passed, now we have now we're just waiting on the official

list from the Secretary of State to get to know those who those official cannons, maybe.

And I wanted to bring up something, Kurt. It was really interesting to me because prior to the

date, we had a lot of people that were running what appeared to be full-blown campaigns. I mean,

even on this radio station, I was told, oh, those people are running kind of, they appeared to be.

But many of them are no longer running for that office, they're either not running or they're

running from another office. So can you kind of help sort out that confusion to a lot of us?

Yeah, I can see that's why those deadlines are so important because technically, people can file

paperwork for whether it be for multiple positions or like you said, they can change positions.

Obviously, with the recent passage of Prop 50, every that kind of through all the, you know,

at least the congressional races, you know, into limbo, where we had a bunch of people jumping races,

switching districts and, you know, we kind of saw that in the last few weeks, especially with

some new cannons jumping in. And even, you know, representative Kylie switching his party from,

you know, Republican to independent. So you can see how a lot of this stuff in elections can sway

a lot of things, whether it be people running for offices, parties, you know, so on and so forth.

But that's where they have up until that date to decide that. So if people, you can file that

paperwork, but if you don't, if they don't come up with that filing fee, whether it be the signatures

in lieu of, which is basically, you know, in layman's terms, you can get signatures for the filing fee.

So whether you have the signatures or the filing fee, basically is, if you don't turn in your filing

fee by that deadline, any paperwork that you filed previously, any interest forms, committee paperwork,

it basically no envoy for that election season. So you can then adopt that point, you're no longer

running. So that's kind of where this stuff is always in flux and basically the past few months

is me even chasing, chasing around these candidates and finding out where they're actually going to be

running. So just to recap that part before we get into the next couple of segments on politics,

what you're saying is it's totally feasible for somebody to say they're running for dog catcher,

run a campaign, do a little cookouts, do a little meat and greets. But if they don't file that

paperwork by the deadline, which in this case, the paint on the situation is sometime between the

6th and 11th, then they can peel out and no harm, no foul. But that is why it's sometimes confusing,

because you think somebody's running for office and then all of a sudden you get into

March apron, you're like, wait, I thought they were running for office and they're no longer

there. Exactly. Or they started, you know, when they started the dog catcher and then next

so you know, late in the session or late in the season, they switched to cat, you know, to cat wrangler.

So yeah, obviously they just made up positions, but that's kind of where the confusion might

sometimes come. Alright, folks, we're going to be back here at the tailgate talking about

first, the more bigger political race that's here in California, and then we're going to get into

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Welcome back to firing line radio. In today, we are talking about all things politics in the

second half. The show we Pat Kurt Williams, who runs our political division at CRPA. He's the one

who puts out the endorsement list for the pack. He's the one that helps with the grading and post

that meets with candidates and groups up and down, coordinating these elections. So we're now

moved officially into the primary season, which runs from March 6th through I believe that June

2nd or 9th this year. June 2nd. June 2nd. So June 2nds today that your last chance to go vote. Of

course, polls will open sometime in May for people to start voting, depending on your location. So

Kurt, you know, we're not going to get into, you know, the governor's race today on the show because

that's still highly contentious. But let's talk about first and foremost, the proff 50, the federal

races for congressional districts. It's a thin margin as we all know in the House. Republicans

have a thin lead that just got thinner. As you mentioned in the last segment, when good old Kevin

Kylie, who was looked at as Republican stalwart went just kidding and became an independent.

Yep. Like so. Yeah, like they all is. We just kind of was kind of the aftermath of proff 50. So

enforcing with the Supreme Court striking down any, you know, appeals when it comes to proffosition 50.

That's where at least in the 26th session, we have, you know, the current maps to go off. So because

of that, you know, we had Kylie that was originally representing district three. He's now switched to

representing district trying to go for district six as an independent district. And so we see that

we saw that all throughout the state, you know, another example to keep it more even local within

inland empire. We saw with Ken Calvert race. He was originally the 41st, you know, representative.

Now because of the new alliance, he got pushed into the 40th district. So now we have two Republican

candidates, which granted both have been great. You know, when it comes to second amendment,

your second amendment, but we have two Republicans in Ken Calvert and young Kim who are going against

each other. Well, you know, Ken Calvert is a hundred percent two way and he's, you know, he's the man

that he's gotten that CRPA pack endorsement. And he, you know, we've loved the, we love the work with

him over the years. So, you know, and it's been, you know, such where proff 50 unfortunately kind of

turned a lot of these races where either Republicans going against each other or kicked Republicans out

into other districts where, you know, unfortunately, they're, you know, we're seeing the having to go against

each other and see where the, you know, eggs may lie. Yeah. So, you know, when we look at this,

we're obviously not looking at the, the U.S. Senate, we're looking at the U.S. congressional races.

And those races, when you look at them, folks, may not just apply to you in the, in an empire,

Orange County LA or other parts of work, but they affect us both nationally and throughout the

state. So like, while Kevin Kylie, who we mentioned, isn't down here in the south, he has other places.

Or if you look at stalwarts, like I think it's Gerald Ice, I forget his district number, but down in

San Diego County, Gerald Ice has been a long time supporter. He jumped out. Now there's a scramble

in that district of, you know, who's, I mean, there's obviously Candace that made the deadline.

But now, you know, where votes were looked like they were going now are up for grabs. And that also

has a greater impact. And we've talked about this before, you know, Kurt, people get excited. And so,

you know, you talk about a place where maybe, and we'll just use Kevin Kylie, where Kevin Kylie

had a really big following before they did the redistrict. And so when Kevin Kylie showed up,

he was able to bring a lot of support to Candace down downstream. So like, in that case,

it would be like to the local assembly, the local state Senate down to sports as supervisor,

city council people. But when Candace have to switch districts, that downflow doesn't happen.

Yeah, you know, you're absolutely right. You know, that's where sometimes, you know,

I think you can display it correctly. That doesn't slow down.

And as a result, folks, that means your vote counts many times more than it would have had this

not happen. Now your vote counts all the way down because if you don't watch who you're voting for

in the mythical things of dog catcher and cat wrangler, those are the people that become

boards of supervisors, congressional candidates, state candidates, and assembly candidates,

usually within one to two election cycles. And if the only thing you've allowed is the

opposition to what you believe is right to hold those seats, you're going to be hard pressed

to find anybody because the argument in the public square is, well, this person was a dog catcher,

then they became a city council member. So yes, they should go to Congress. This other person,

we don't know who they are because we've never seen them. And that puts you in a bad situation.

That's part of how California got into the situation. So folks, we got to fight back.

But it's not just there. We got to start looking at some of the other races. And I know one of

the most contentious areas is we have a super majority in both the Senate and inside the assembly,

which has caused us problems, but that super majority has narrowed. So both of those houses are in

play. So let's talk first about the assembly races because that's the bigger house. We got 80 seats,

all 80 seats are up for grabs. So let's talk about a couple of the critical ones here in the IE.

Yeah, I mean two of the major ones, especially in the IE area. I mean, you got Greg Wallace in

the 47th district. And then another one being Latisha Castillo being in the 58th district.

That one's going to be a juggernaut of a battle. You know, it's basically going to be a rematch between

Castillo and the Cervantes family. So there are another thing, another candidate too. That's in

that race, but with how the history being it, you know, many are being our guide. And without the

amount of money that candidates are raising more than likely in the general elections, going to come

down to Castillo and Cervantes. So people in the Inland Empire, whether it be in the Walt

in Fear and Wallace's district or Castillo's district, this is why it's so important to get out

and vote because we need to keep these candidates, you know, in the assembly. They've been great,

you know, they've been great candidates and great people to work with in regards to the second

amendment. So we got to be sure we keep those people in there and not have people as like Cervantes

or, you know, Wallace is the opponent. Yeah, and let's just talk about that. We are not telling you,

you know, what to do. We're trying to tell you like these are the people who fight for you and

fight for your second amendment rights. And like earlier, you know, we we talked about Assembly Bill

1948, which is Ramos. It's not in the IE, but Ramos is a Democrat who who obviously supports

the second amendment and is willing to work with us. We have many other Democrats up and down

to state who are willing to do it. So this is not a political party push by this program. This is,

hey, these are the people who support you and these are the people who well don't. And so if

you use the second amendment as a part of your guiding compass when it comes to going into the

voting booth, that's what we're talking about. Yeah. And so in the CRPA pack, you know, only

focuses on one single issue and a second amendment. Like so whether you're a Republican, Democrat,

Independent, Green Party, it doesn't matter. I mean, if you're strong on this second amendment,

you know, and you have a you have a viable chance of winning this winning the race,

you know, we're going to endorse you and be sure we can get you across the finish line. Because

the end of the day, that's what matters is preserving our constitutional rights in this second

amendment. Yeah, I want to talk to you about that real briefly because, you know, we don't

so endorse you because you're like, hey, and for the second amendment, there is actually a couple

of tests to figure that out. So if we could go into the first test, I understand Kurt,

is you send out a questionnaire that's not that small? Correct. Yeah. So it's kind of a two-pronged

process. So the first process is the CRPA questionnaire. CRPA being a not, you know, being a

non-profit that we are, you know, that state neutral. So that's where if not CRPA, only grades

at candidates. So A, you know, A through F grades. So that's where they get about a 25 to 30th question

questionnaire asking them everything from general questions of history of second amendment, their views

on, you know, local politics or local current issue when it comes to second amendment,

as well as hunting and conservation issues. So it's across the spectrum to kind of get a good idea

of where those, you know, where that candidate stays. And then so after they turn that in,

they get graded from the CRPA. And then once that grade is, you know, given, it then goes on

to the CRPA pack. The CRPA pack then has about a two-page questionnaire, you know, kind of more

detailed questions of, you know, what you believe in your second amendment views. And from there,

the pack reviews, you know, your, you know, the questionnaire answers along with some of your

detailed paragraph answers, you know, kind of formulate the endorsement. And then so at some

time where additional faults are needed, you know, additional meetings, you know, and that's where

we can kind of get that one-on-one communication and see if they're the right candidate, you know,

for the, for the job. And speaking of that, I know we have up the food chain, the lieutenant

governor who has a former record in the, the legislature, because that's where they served,

are now running through lieutenant governor. They've been questioned on the second amendment.

They have, to my knowledge, not filled out a questionnaire. And yet they have a voting record.

And so voting records also apply to people who have served in office. Do they not occur?

Absolutely. Yeah. And so a lot of time within, especially with incumbents, incumbents or just

people that previously, you know, were in the assembly or state senate, that's where we absolutely

use their voting records, you know, to, to grade them accordingly. So that's where some,

like, so that's where you're candidate for lieutenant governor, especially one that has an assembly,

you know, assembly pass voting history. We're going to definitely be relying on that in grade

accordingly. Right. So you mean here, somebody say, oh, yeah, I had firearms or grew up with them.

And you would think, oh, they'll get an A. But then when we look at their voting record and they

voted against the second amendment multiple times, they might get a CDRF. And so we're trying to

help you see beyond just words of a candidate, but to see where they've actually lied on the

second amendment. Again, this is just us giving the facts to you. So this is not something where,

like, in other politics, it might be a paid thing. We don't get paid to do this. We do this to

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This portion of the firing line is brought to you by CCWs safe. Welcome back to firing line

radio. I'm your host Rick Travis. Today with me is my partner in crime, Kurt Williams. We work

all the time on all things political and legislative. We're in the same divisional office at CRPA.

And so, Kurt, I am so glad you're here. We've talked about state politics, but let's talk about

politics on the local level here in Southern California, where this program has heard.

Yeah, I mean, so a lot of people have forget kind of, but obviously it's not a lot on the news now,

you know, especially here, like in state of California. But yeah, you know, we have a lot of local

races that are very important. And one thing I want to throw out there, a lot of the local races,

not all of them, so that's where it's very important to check with your local county and local,

you know, what's going to be on your ballot. But they're actually even a lot of local races that

the filing deadline will be in mid-August. So if you have, if there's local city council,

if you have a local fire district board, if you have a school board, a lot of those and majority

of those will be held in the November general election. So if you're still interested,

so we, even though we talked on previous segment about, you know, the filing deadline for these

state races and these federal races being in March, if you are still out there interested in

running for office, this is your time to do so and make a difference. And this is the where it

kind of was Rick was explaining earlier, where you can have that feeding system and kind of make

your way and work your way up the ladder to make positive change ultimately down the road. But

that's where the CRPA pack, I get the question all the time. We do grade candidates from all local

races. So from supervisor city council to school board to special districts, we grade all of them.

Like so if you're, if you're someone who's running for school board, if you're running for a fire

board, you know, or any type of, you know, transportation board, whatever the case may be and you

want the, and you want the support of the CRPA pack, absolutely fill out your questionnaire and

get in touch with us because we do track all, all races throughout the state. And that's something

to where we always, we are stalwart on being sure we get to a candidate all across the board.

You know, into these seats. And let's, let's take that. I mean, we have lots of different

candidates and they can go to our website at CRPA.org and look up to see who already has been graded.

And we'll be having endorsements coming down from the pack here in about a week. But, you know,

one of the things that I think is really important is there are two ways to help people get elected.

Obviously, there's voting. And everybody needs to go register vote. And people quit this

cred that your vote doesn't count because countless races we will tell you is decided by less than

half percent, half of one percent of the vote. Put that in real terms, that means one person in

every two to three tracks of homes in a urban society changes their vote or decides the vote and

flips the course of who gets elected. So to say that one vote doesn't count out of three tracks

of homes, that's just, that's a silliness. So don't be lazy. Exercise your guide given 250

year protected right of any election. The election of 26 should see people coming out in the

droves. If nothing else to say, this is a right that the forefathers gave to me and to utilize that

right. Okay. Now, second, let's get into where we're at on grass roots. So that is the other way

you can help get people elected. And that is not seen in your chair,

totally in your thumbs, going through your social media, doing a thumbs up or a heart emoji

and thinking that's moving the ball. Moving the ball is me actually going and saying down and

talking to our friends, talking to the people, put this show together saying, hey, have you heard

about this person? Have you heard about this person? I'm voting for this person because I found

this a reason to give my vote to actually get out of my chair and go do something. Kurt, what are

some of the different ways? Because you work with people across the spectrum and grassroots. And

I think people have this idea of grassroots means either I throw my ballot in the mail or drop

it off at a ballot center. Or I'm going to be working 90,000 hours in one week. There's like no

in between. So can you kind of explain here some of the ways people can do it and they're not going

to kill themselves, but they'll make a difference. Absolutely. And don't give me wrong. There are

great volunteers out there who probably do work 90 plus hours a week and thank them and we love

them for all their hard work. But yeah, a lot of people see people, those individuals and they

think that's what the expectation is. You know, any way you can get involved, whether it be an

hour a week, just go into your local CRPH chapter, go into any other or organizational meeting,

whatever local meetings are happening in your area, attend those meetings, get involved, you know,

whether it be giving your own opinion, suggestions, you know, we have a bunch of chapters

throughout the state that are holding candidate forms. That's a perfect way to get involved,

to be able to like, you know, flesh out answers from local candidates or to be able to support

that candidate. So I mean, whether be getting involved with CRPH chapters or volunteering at a

local voting booth, that's where if you want to technically, you know, I don't really want to

work for a campaign. I don't want to, you can very much volunteer for this, you can volunteer with

your local, you know, county or city and to have work at local voting booth or if you want to have

a voting booth out of your garage, you got to go through the proper paperwork, obviously. So

look up with your local counties to find, you know, to find the correct format, the correct, uh,

you know, process to do so. But those are just simple ways that we can all, we can all volunteer,

either our time, our efforts, our resources to be able to help candidates. And of course,

the biggest one is donations. You know, if you want to donate to a candidate, you want to donate

to a nonprofit or donate to a political action committee. And you know, if you have, you know,

if you're looking at candidate, you don't know like, you know, I'm not going to donate to all,

you know, 30 candidates in here, 40 candidates in this section. But hey, you know what, I want to

support a political action committee that, you know, focuses on a certain subject that's

absolutely in one, one great way to do that as well. So there's various ways whether, you know,

so, you know, but at the end of the day is getting involved. So if you want to volunteer, so I

recommend the very least, at least giving an hour, two hours a week, you know, because we all

have jobs, we all have families that we need to take care of. But this is one way, like, you know,

no matter what how old you are, you know, to get involved and make a positive change, because

like you said, by doing nothing, nothing changes. So this is one way that we have to be able to

get involved, take action, you know, and take our state back from, you know, this supermajority

that's unfortunately, you know, ruined the state for decades.

And you know, you brought up a good point, like, you know, when you're looking at your time,

all of us are like, you work 40, 50 hours a week, and then you've got, you know, meal preps,

and you should be doing something physically for yourself to keep yourself in shape and healthy.

You want to spend time with your loved ones and your family. And then people are like, oh,

now you guys are talking about this. Okay, so slow down. This, we're talking about this for a short

period of time. You're talking, you know, a couple of months before the primary, and then if things

go in the direction you were hoping, then, you know, for a couple of more months. But think about this,

those, you might talk about maybe a total of 30 hours during the selection cycle.

But 30 hours could make the difference in how your family, how your job, how you're right to

exercise your ability to worship and not have your place of worship closed down by a politician,

or not have, you know, your access to all sorts of different things from health care to good

schools be negatively impacted. Folks, if you do nothing, you're going to get what you're going

to get. But you know what, my attitude changed. And I will, I will close the show out with this.

My wife and I were talking 25 years ago when our daughter was very, very young about a local

college district. Our daughter was like in second grade. And we were talking about how the

college board was going in really bad directions. And my daughter was getting ready to go to bed.

And my wife said, well, what can we do? I said, I don't know. And my daughter looked at us and

said, well, if you guys don't do anything, then what kind of college is that going to be for me?

Because in second grade, she was looking at attending that college because it was just down

the street from us. Now we moved and she attended a different college, but that's not the point.

The point was when she went to bed and went to sleep, her mom and I went out and talked and said

she's got a really good point. And we both had full-time jobs. We had three kids. So we were going

through what families with multiple kids do. And we got involved. And we helped get that college

board over two election cycles changed. And that college board became a very good college board

and a very good college district here in Southern California that did a lot of amazing things

and it continues to do so. So my point is, yeah, did we have that time? No. That younger me and my

wife, what I told you, no, we don't have the time to do this. But we made the time to do it and it

made it better for other people. And it also helped our kids understand that you have to get involved.

It was a great civics lesson in a time period right now where we don't teach civics like we

used to. And so that's the other part of this. People are going to watch what you do. And when

they see what you're doing, they're going to get involved. And when we all get involved,

then we can make California better for everybody. Folks, that is our push this week here at the

tailgate. You see the kinds of bad legislation. You see the core cost. You don't want to pay for it.

You think this is dumb? The way we stopped this is we stopped in its track by voting out the

people that have done this firing them and hiring new people with the message, don't do that or

will fire you too. That is how the people, we the people are supposed to function in this 250-year-old

republic. And not a democracy, a republic. And I'll highlight that. We are a representative

republic. And we need to start acting like it. And that is our civic duty as each one of us

celebrates this 250 years. It's not just punching in doom scrolling, but actually doing something.

Let your feet walk in the right path. And as always, be safe, shoot straight and fight back for

your rights with the California Rifle and Pistol Association. We'll see you next week.

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