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Will Rollins: “Ken Calvert sent homophobic mailers across Riverside County…”

Featuring: Will Rollins, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. House California, District 41

The Pride of California: Will Rollins and Derek Marshall

Published June 14, 2024 | Video Starts at 1:12:54

… United States Congress in 2012, and also the first out gay man from California in US Congress ever, he ran against Calvert twice. And in one of those early campaigns, Ken Calvert sent homophobic mailers across Riverside County, outing Mark before Mark was out, even to his own family. And unfortunately, it won him the election. And then Calvert went on to vote year after year against equality, voted against letting us serve in the us military, voted against … (1:12:54–1:13:05)

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Asserts that Ken Calvert sent homophobic mailers outing Mark Takano.

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“I specialized in counterterrorism.”
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“I had wanted to work in national security since I was a kid.”
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“I went to Dartmouth, I took Arabic, I applied at the CIA.”
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“I went to law school in New York at Columbia.”
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“I was clerking for a judge who told me that if I was interested in national security, I should apply to the US attorney's office.”
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“I took her advice, applied, got hired.”
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“I was hired under the Obama administration in 2016.”
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“We saw a huge rise in the threats from domestic terrorism, whether it was neo Nazis attacking Charlottesville or QAnon conspiracy theorists…”
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“January 6, for me, was the catalyst.”
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“Ken Calvert voted to decertify the election and then voted against the committee to investigate the attack and called for dropping charges.”
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“Everybody [in California] automatically gets a mail-in ballot.”
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“The mail in ballots end up going the other direction. They define mail in to include the ones that republicans dropped off on election day.”
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“The first case that I tried at the department was against the number two opiate prescriber in the state of California.”
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“Got to go after MS 13, the Sinaloa cartel, fentanyl dealers, and got to put away a guy who was selling essentially missile guidance chips to…”
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“We raised over 1.9 million in the first quarter. That was the number one red to blu ray in the entire United States.”
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“We just had a poll that came back a few weeks ago that shows us with a one point lead over Calvert at the cold, open question.”
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“We just got endorsed by a police union that had previously endorsed Ken Calvert in 2022.”
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“Former Republican assembly leader supports our campaign. Former Republican sheriff in Riverside county endorsed our campaign in 2022.”
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“Yesterday was the anniversary of the worst massacre of LGBT people in United States history.”
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“Calvert went on to vote year after year against equality, voted against letting us serve in the U.S. military, voted against letting us…”
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“Louisiana's anti-LGBT rules [caused] the pediatric surgeon [to leave] the state with his family.”
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“Louisiana legislature didn't see it that way. And now they've lost one of the critical care providers that the state had in place because of…”
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“Every FBI field office in the United States [should have] a task force that is exclusively committed to hate crimes investigation.”
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“We strengthen our hate crimes rules to give federal law enforcement the investigative tools and resources necessary to make sure that they…”
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“The vast majority of Americans believe that this should be a country where you can achieve whatever you want and live the American dream, no…”
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“Our state [California] has taken some really aggressive steps to protect the right to vote.”
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“Every single person in the state [California] is automatically registered to vote when they get a driver's license.”
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“This is going to be the first presidential election since COVID that is going to result in every single registered voter in California…”
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“We had about 50% voter turnout in 2022.”
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“We want to get it [voter turnout] to 70% to 80% in the presidential year, at a minimum.”
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“We really want a national standard embodied in things like the Freedom to Vote act and the John Lewis Voting Rights act.”
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“We've got to make sure we codify those federal voting Rights act pieces of legislation that were introduced by the last democratic majority.”
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“The Supreme Court's decision to gut vote section five of the Voting Rights act.”
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