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I have so much fun.

I want to call Sacramento fun.

But the silver lining of how painful it is to go up there and have to tolerate those people who are so corrupt, so dishonest, so incompetent, so out of touch.

Is that when you serve up a load of reality and truth, when you bring an alternative voice, when you challenge them oh they're just not used to it

and they just lose there you know what then when i capture it on video when i'm on the assembly floor

and they're lighting their hair on fire it reveals their true person. It reveals who they really are.

They're arrogant.

They are angry.

And they basically don't like to get challenged.

For some of them, they've never really heard a different point of view because they're so used to their Republicans being, well, some of them, they've never really heard a different point of view, because they're so used to their Republicans being, well, sellouts, rolling over.

And so when I look at what's going on in California politics, I see a state, California, that I once loved so much. And I used to be proud to be a Californian.

But it is in such bad shape today.

It's cost a living, a homelessness crisis, a crime wave, the worst schools, the worst roads,

they can't manage fire, corrupt politicians.

By every metric, our government has failed us, both political parties.

One party, the Democrats, have awful ideas. The other political

party has sold us out. So what do you do? What a lot of Californians have done is they've packed up

and moved. You know how hard it is to leave this beautiful state? Do you know how bad your government has to be for people to literally say the thing I used to be so proud of?

All my friends and family, my life's story is here, and I'm going to go to a place with mosquitoes and alligators and humidity and heat.

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