Mr. New York.

Mark Simone. On 710, W.O.R. Well, Liz Peek, the brilliant columnist, you can read her columns, Fox News, and make sure you check her website. There's great stories up there every day. Liz Peek.com, Liz Peake.com. Of course, you see her all over television. Liz Peek, how you doing? I'm terrific. Thanks for having me on Mark. Hey, uh, California primary. Steve Hilton got more

votes than anybody. What do you think? Does he have a chance? Yeah. Well, what I think is that he'll

be a contender in November. Thank heavens for that. Uh, you know, if you take his vote and line it up against the

combined votes for Tom Steyer and Tony Bajara, he probably is not ahead, and that's sort of

the Democrat establishment plus left-wing foot loops versus, you know, versus Steve Hilton. But,

look, I think he does have a chance why 70% of voters

in California say they want to change and Steve Hilton is talking to that desire for change he's

proposing common sense fixes to a lot of the things that ailed California mean, how can Democrats pretend to be the party of affordability

when every major city, except for ones in Hawaii,

that are the most expensive to live in, are in California.

There's no reason for that.

Hawaii is far away.

I get that.

California, no, it's right here. And yet it is outrageously expensive

because of bad policies, because of strangling regulations on businesses, because of permitting

inaccessibility, the fact that it's impossible to build. And high taxes. People kind of, like they have an out-of-body experience, they don't believe that high taxes

win their way into higher prices. Of course they do. It drives up the price of everything. So California

has $7 a gallon gasoline. Why? Taxes and fees and all the stupid things that they've done to make gasoline

practically extinct in the state of California. So do I think he has a chance? I'm ever

optimistic about the common sense of the American people. Mark, who knows? I mean, I think

you're going to have the public unions, public employee unions lined up aggressively against

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