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Will Rollins: “What's broken is the campaign finance system.”

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

Will Rollins at a DSRC Town Hall - 8.17.2022 - Wildomar, CA

Published August 28, 2022 | Video Starts at 47:58

Selfishly, after having run for nine months, it is brutal running for Congress, you guys. But look, two years for House Rep. I think is. I think that's fair. It's just What's broken is the campaign finance system. because what we shouldn't have happened is people like me needing to spend 90% of their time fundraising to be competitive. That is absurd. (47:58–48:01)

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“Ken Calvert...gotten hundreds of thousands of dollars from the oil and gas industry.”
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“Ken Calvert...bought up vacant parcels of land, earmarked federal highway transportation dollars for a new development near his own real…”
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“Ken Calvert...used his franked mailing privileges in May...to promote his own record before that June 7 primary.”
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“I spent the last five years as a federal prosecutor where I specialized in counterterrorism and counterintelligence cases.”
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“I'm the only candidate in this race who spent the last five years working day and night to protect every single person who lives in this…”
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“I started my job in September of 2016.”
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“It was against a doctor who was prescribing opioids in exchange for cash.”
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“He was using Medicare beneficiaries, our tax dollars, by the way, to write the prescriptions.”
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“I worked on some really difficult gang violence cases involving MS 13, the Sinaloa cartel.”
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“A drug dealer who was conspiring with a flight attendant to bring millions of dollars of cocaine on commercial jets from LaX to New York.”
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“Against a Ponzi scheme organizer who defrauded hundreds of seniors out of their retirement savings.”
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“Against a guy who operated a fake lottery scam. Again, defrauding seniors.”
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“There's been a huge rise in the threats that this country faces from domestic extremism.”
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“An incident like January 6, which led to 140 police officers being injured.”
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“Ken Calvert called for dropping charges against the people who attacked our capital.”
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“Ken Calvert said that the FBI is infiltrated by rot.”
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“She [Shereena Kharani] has endorsed me.”
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“Let's create a modern and revitalized version of the fairness doctrine.”
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“Require transparency in advertising.”
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“This kind of technology is something that the Russians, the Chinese, the Iranians are all too eager to exploit.”
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“Accountability for big tech.”
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“Those same rules that apply to small business owners have to apply to the largest multibillion dollar corporations.”
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“They are not above the law, just like anybody else.”
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“Roughly four [companies] control the oil market in the United States.”
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“Shell posting $9 billion in record quarterly profit recently and keeping a margin of 20%.”
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“Ken Calvert just did [vote] against the price gouging legislation.”
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“Ken Calvert...violated state law when they got access to [a parcel of land].”
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“You refuse to take corporate pacs, and you honor that pledge.”
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“90% of [Republicans] want the same thing that we all want on [banning corporate campaign contributions].”
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“Some of the first pieces of legislation that I hope to sign on to are things like what Katie Porter has introduced...around banning…”
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“Some of her legislation around banning stock trades and making it illegal and leveling that playing field.”
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“My opponent voted against red flag laws.”
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“70% of voters in this district believe that the government should stay out of our bedrooms, by the way, and that women should have the right…”
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“We are all between that $70 to $100,000 years and $100,000 median income in the county.”
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“When we're paying 20% to 30% a year in taxes and people like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are paying zero.”
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“Democrats have a couple thousand vote registration advantage [in this congressional district].”
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“We came within 2000 votes combined of Calvert.”
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“We have got to start meaningfully investing in upgrading our water infrastructure.”
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“Riverside county is one of the most vulnerable places in California that's going to have to deal with an ever increasing drought.”
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“80% of our water usage is often coming from agriculture.”
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“The number one thing that we can do for homelessness in Riverside county is increase the supply of affordable housing.”
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“Developers have not been able to meet the demand for affordable housing.”
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“When you pair treatment with affordable housing in proximity, you see much better results.”
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“The Desert AIDS project, which has affordable housing, pairs that with a treatment center right across the street, 200 yards away, and their…”
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“Women's reproductive freedom is on the line this November.”
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“Mitch McConnell [is] already talking about a national abortion ban.”
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“Kevin Calvert voted, joined the lawsuit to overturn Roe, and it got overturned.”
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“Ken Calvert have voted to allow child predators to sue to prevent their victims from getting an abortion.”
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“He just voted against the bill that would have made it a federal law to protect contraception access across the United States.”
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“He voted against the legislation just a couple of weeks ago that was designed to allow women the freedom to leave states where abortion is…”
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“Every time you refresh the registrar, there are more and more democrats in this congressional district.”
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“Voted against things like expanding Bundy Road in Menifee.”
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“Voted against things like expanding the I 15 corridor.”
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“Voted against capping costs for seniors at $2,000 a year for medication.”
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“Voted against allowing Medicare to negotiate directly for prescription drugs.”
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“In 2017, FHA was scheduled to basically reduce, help reduce mortgage premiums.”
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“Trying to make sure that FHA actually does meaningfully reduce mortgage premiums and expands access.”
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“Orange county just saw its first median home price crossed a million bucks for the first time in history last year.”
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“The 2017 tax cuts, because with the salt deduction being taken off the table and with the mortgage interest deduction being capped at a…”
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“My opponent voted for [the 2017 tax cuts] and ended up screwing all of us because we've got homes that are much more expensive.”
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“Two years for House Rep. I think is fair.”
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“People like me needing to spend 90% of their time fundraising to be competitive.”
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“Ken Calvert who's been there for 30 years.”
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“I think filibuster, we've got to get rid of that. And look, I think that this, this is a relic of Jim Crow in a lot of ways.”
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“It is something that has been used again and again and again to beat back crucial progress on things like voting rights.”
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“Republicans have won the popular vote one time since 1988. George W. Bush, 2004.”
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“That is remarkable that they have a six three majority on the courthouse, and that is just not reflective of the will of the american…”
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“I would support doing is looking at something like having federal circuit judges have a minimum of ten years experience and then randomly…”
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“I think we should absolutely look at it, because the issue is the american people's faith in the court as an institution has diminished…”
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“Mitt Romney ran in 2012, paid about two or 3% on 200 million plus in income.”
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“We've got to look at how we make billionaires and millionaires pay their fair share.”
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