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Will Rollins: “You don't have to raise $10 million to win a congressional…”

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

Normal people need to run for office with Will Rollins, Candidate for Congress [CA-41]

Published June 12, 2024 | Video Starts at 35:53

A lifetime ban on lobbying by former members of Congress. Ending Citizens United to get massive corporate money and independent expenditures out of politics so that You don't have to raise $10 million to win a congressional seat. I mean, the incentives are so screwed up for people to run for Congress. And I know this firsthand, having done it for as long as I have. (35:53–35:57)

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Asserts that the current system requires raising $10 million to win a congressional seat.

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Will Rollins

“I'm running in California's 41st district.”
Normal people need to run for office with Will Rollins, Candidate for Congress [CA-41] | Uploaded June 12, 2024 | 12:59-13:03
“This is a brand new congressional district that was created in 2022.”
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“It's got a huge chunk of the Inland Empire, which is Corona, Lake Elsinore, Menafee, big cities like that.”
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“Then it goes all the way out to the Coachella Valley. So Palm Springs, Rancho Mirage, Palm Desert, La Quinta, Indian Wells.”
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“It's a 50 50 split in registrations, almost identical number of registered Republicans and registered Democrats, and then there are about…”
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“I ran in 2022, had a job in law enforcement. Before running for office, I was a federal prosecutor, and I worked in counterterrorism and…”
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“Where they did get to know me, in the Coachella Valley, which is where I live with my partner Paolo in Palm Springs, we did really well. We…”
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“If you care about women's reproductive freedom, if you care about the freedom to choose your own leaders, if you care about, you know…”
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“One of the only benefits of losing once is, you know, where all the Democrats are that didn't show up in the midterms.”
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“There are tens of thousands of [Democrats who didn't vote in 2022] in this congressional district.”
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“More and more people in the Inland Empire and in Riverside county are getting fired up to flip this district.”
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“I really have to spend so much time in the western part of our district this cycle, because that is the part of the community and the…”
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“Just got to go to the Corona Chamber of Commerce event last week and speak to all their members.”
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“That's an organization that, you know, people think of as, like, a republican leaning crowd.”
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“I start talking to them about my story, my work in law enforcement, working for a republican governor right out of college, even though I've…”
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“Helping the FBI catch bad guys is a lot more fun than asking people for money.”
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“There are these people called trackers, and they follow you around. They're paid by big, you know, partisan organizations or independent…”
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“They ask you these outrageous questions and try to get you to react.”
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“I think we do it, too.”
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“In places like Corona, a studio apartment is $2,000 a month.”
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“We need people in the House of Representatives that are actually going to try to fight rising costs.”
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“My opponent voted to make it harder for us to deduct the interest on mortgages.”
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“Your member of Congress, if you're living in our district, voted to make it harder for you to deduct those state and local taxes.”
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“He's also a huge real estate owner in the district.”
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“He's raised rents on his tenants.”
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“A member of Congress doing that who's also made $20 million since he was first elected in 1992, in part by using earmarks to benefit his own…”
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“Fox News did a seven-minute documentary talking about this guy's use of earmarks to benefit his own real estate.”
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“We just had the last Congress that passed a bill to cap the cost of out-of-pocket prescription drugs at $2,500 per year and to cap the cost…”
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“The 91/71 exchange in Corona that's going to create six-figure jobs for apprentices.”
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“It's funded by, in part by the bipartisan infrastructure bill that, again, you know, my opponent voted against.”
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“For 32 years, he again has a huge increase in net worth, $20 million on 170,000. That's the congressional salary.”
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“Banning members of Congress from using their positions to enrich themselves, banning members of Congress from trading stocks.”
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“Term limits. So we don't have the same people representing us in Congress for three plus decades.”
Normal people need to run for office with Will Rollins, Candidate for Congress [CA-41] | Uploaded June 12, 2024 | 35:37-35:44
“A lifetime ban on lobbying by former members of Congress.”
Normal people need to run for office with Will Rollins, Candidate for Congress [CA-41] | Uploaded June 12, 2024 | 35:43-35:47
“Ending Citizens United to get massive corporate money and independent expenditures out of politics.”
Normal people need to run for office with Will Rollins, Candidate for Congress [CA-41] | Uploaded June 12, 2024 | 35:47-35:53
“We have to get more normal people into our government or we're going to be in deep shit.”
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“Term limits are helpful.”
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“We so desperately need new leadership in all different kinds of levels of our government.”
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“We need a majority that actually wants to end Citizens United and end this broken campaign finance system that we have.”
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