From the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack

Armstrong and Joe Gettie.

The Armstrong and Gettie show.

Can't cross this, I thought it was absolutely terrific.

The title is How to Be a Successful Politician in California.

Right now, you're listening around the country, you're thinking, I don't care.

Oh, this is so revealing about the way the politics works in a blue monolith of a state.

The subtitle of this by Edward Ring, who's really interesting guys written a couple of

books about California politics.

He's the, I think he was the, he co-founded the California Policy Center.

So he's a thinker about policy in politics.

How to be a successful politician in California early voting lets us know how many votes we need

and ballot harvesting lets us control how many votes we'll get.

And Ring writes the following conversation never happened.

It's for the reader to decide to what extent, however, this conversation reflects political reality

in Cal Unicornia today.

Two people in this conversation, the candidate and the government union operative, because

that's who owns the state of California.

The candidate says, says, surprise you contacted me.

I never thought I'd run for office.

I don't know how to run a campaign and I'm not well informed on any of the things I

might have to manage if I get elected.

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