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Episode Date: April 16, 2026

Attorney and former gubernatorial candidate JOHN COX discusses Gavin Newsome political ambitions, and John has a plan to increase or representation in Congress, Open phones, D62 quiz and more follow.

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I know John Cox knows better John Cox of course ran against Gavin Newsom back in 2018 you supported his recall you probably could have well you literally wrote the book yeah you wrote the book on Gavin Newsom can you tell me about that John welcome back to the show thanks Bill yeah I mean I wrote the book because

I obviously have seen what he's done to California in the failed promises, but not only that, the failure to fix the obvious problems California has. And I can tick them off. You know, we have a water shortage, even though we have a lot of rainfall, especially in the northern part of the state. You know, they didn't build a reservoir at all. We have an energy shortage. We have to shut off our air conditioners in August of all times, Bill, because there's rolling

blackouts because we've decommissioned natural gas. electricity plants all over the state. We have a housing shortage that's legendary because of the regulations that are required to try to build a house. And I know because I'm in the building industry, I build and manage apartments for a living. We have a homeless problem that he said he was going to fix right away. And it actually got worse despite spending $25 billion on it during his seven years so far. First education system outside of Mississippi, which has passed us by, even though we spend 150 billion or so a year on our education system,

it's one of the worst in the country in terms of reading and math. You know, it's fascinating you bring that up because, you know, Oregon, of course, just north of California is very, is on a very similar trajectory. And, you know, Mississippi, though, is actually teaching its kids to read. more and around here we're babbling about getting into the science of reading. I imagine California doing the same thing. Well, no, no, you would think, but they're not. I mean, they just want to just put more money in the teachers' pockets and in the pensions and other things without demanding any kind of quality results. And that's sadly apparent with what goes on

here. You know, the cost of living in this state has exploded in California. our electricity rates are five times what they are in Texas, for example. Yeah, it's higher than even here in Oregon, and they've been going up. And I'm seeing here, what, diesel, $750 to $8 a gallon, depending on where you buy it. I mean, that's tough, John. That's tough for anybody. And they sell it to people saying that we're going to clean the air. But, you know, Bill, you know, most of the world's pollution, I mean most, like 80% of the world's pollution,

is coming from India and China who are building incredible numbers of coal-fired power plants. California's share of pollution is much, much less than 1 percent, and it's been getting cleaner and cleaner all the time because of things that have been done just generally in America with catalytic converters and things like that. So the extra cost that Californians and, frankly, Oregonians are paying for electricity and gasoline is truly, truly a waste of money. If we were really smart, we'd be producing natural gas in America in huge quantities,

freezing it into a liquid, sending it over to India and China so it competes with coal, and they would use it. Yeah. Instead of coal. Amazing stuff here. John, I wanted to talk with you about Gavin Newsom's presidential ambitions, though, because he's definitely on the Democratic Party short list, and you write about this. And the one thing I will say about Gavin, of course, you know, to me he's always felt he's felt very oily to me,

but he's kind of like the perfect look for California somehow. And so I'm not surprised that he's been very successful, even though he's not really helped the state. And people apparently still like him. Say what you will. He's a pretty skilled politician, isn't he, when it comes right down? Oh, undoubtedly. And, you know, I wrote this article for The Hill, and I called him a political magician because he's able to distract you with the flight of hand on one side while he's doing something

completely different on the other. And he thinks, I believe, and maybe he could be right, that he's going to be able to do that in enough of a fashion that he's going to be able to paper over all of the mistakes and all as a misled management of California and end up with the Democratic nomination. And, you know, this article is intended to warn people that he has failed miserably here. He is basically, Bill, and I think you can understand this, he's basically a tool of all these special interest groups that populate Sacramento. Sacramento is basically a cesspool of special interest money.

The environmental lobbyists, the big energy companies, the unions, the government unions, the trial lawyers are a big force in Sacramento. All of these groups have worked to prop up Newsom. He is in turn done what they wanted him to do on all of these fronts, you know, horrible standard of living in California, unless you're very, very wealthy, which, you know, frankly, a lot of people in California are. a much bigger middle and lower class in California that is really struggling. And Newsom is going to take that situation in Washington. I mean, he's going to give away the store to all these interest groups that keep him in power that support them. And, you know, the rest of the country is going to have to live with the unaffordability and the problems that develop from that morass in Washington. It's something that I wanted to warn people about.

John, what is it in the political psyche of the United States of America? And I would say here in Oregon, too, because the way you describe Gavin Newsom, you could say much of the same thing with Governor Kotech. And the challenge, of course, essentially owned by the public employee unions, a teachers union, especially SEIU, and all the rest of it. and arguably struggling to actually perform well for the state, but performing well doesn't seem to matter. These individuals get reelected anyway. And why is it that there seems to be such reticence to try something different when your state is in crisis, arguably in crisis, California, Oregon, Washington state? I mean, all the left, all the left coast states, really, are in crisis in one form or another. You ask that that is a beautiful question, Bill, because you're asking the absolute right question.

And here's the answer. Our politicians are elected under a mass media pay-to-play system. And what I mean by that is with the size of congressional district, state representative and state Senate districts in Oregon and California, campaigns for office are all about mass media, television. radio, social media, a lot of money. And government employee unions, they are all too happy to supply the money to get these politicians elected and reelected if those politicians turn around and give these interest groups what they want. And in most cases, Bill, what they want isn't what's good for the rest of us is good for

the rest of us. So what we have to do is we have to take a step back and say, what are we going to do about this? How are we going to get big money and mass media out of the control? You know, our founders created this country with three elements of government, a Congress that was supposed to be the people's house, that was supposed to be responsive to the people. But the trouble is that the country has grown in population so much, and the mass media has become so pervasive that the average voters just get inundated with all this media, and they don't ever get a chance to actually talk to their leaders and quiz their leaders and get

an idea of exactly, you know, what it is that's going on. Well, you kind of tune out. Your eyes glaze over, right? Your eyes glaze over and you tune out. Okay. Yeah. So how do you fix that? your listeners should go to

hear the people.org, H-E-A-R, hear-the-people.org. They will see that I've got a plan that I've been working on, and it's in my book, The Newsom Nightmare, but it's a plan to turn Congress back into the people's house. And the way to do that is pretty simple. You just subdivide congressional districts into a hundred little tiny districts.

call community district. Ah, I, okay, I see where you're going. In fact, I was just going to bring that up, you know, the whole issue. It's like, there is no way that the way the congressional districts are drawn right now, that anybody really has the ability to represent. I mean, how many, gosh, how many congressional districts are there? Why, we've got 425 Congress critters, right? 435, which was locked in in 1929.

And, you know, you're right, a congressional district, 750,000 people. you need millions of dollars to win a congressional seat. And there's no way that any one person can truly represent 750,000 people and really get involved into the issues that matter most to them because of the fact that, well, there's three quarters of a million people, right? Right. And you can't meet 750,000 people. 750,000 people can't talk to their representative directly or hold them accountable. So they do it through mass media, which is so impersonable and so unaccountable. So what this plan does is it subdivides those districts and the 100 little tiny ones.

These little tiny districts elect a representative. Those hundred people get together in one meeting and decide on one of their group to go to Washington, the other 99 stay home and continue to talk to their constituents. But the districts are so tiny that they can have a gift. and take. They know who the representative. Hey, you know, that's really interesting because I was going to wonder, boy, are you talking about taking, you know, 4,500 people or so and putting them in Congress, and that would be unwieldly, you know, at least physically. But on the other hand, given the fact that we can do

Zoom meetings these days, you could actually move some of that to online, couldn't you, technically? Oh, absolutely. So the 100 people that get elected in these tiny districts back in the big district, they can have a Zoom call with their guy in Washington, and they'll talk to them, and they'll say, here's what our constituents are saying, here's what we feel should be done in Washington, and the guy in Washington will be responsive. Now, the big deal is that the guy in Washington won't have to spend any time raising money, because you don't need any money at all or run in a district of only 7,500 people. You're going to actually meet all your constituents in a district that small. Essentially, what you're talking about then is really taking almost your state

or your U.S. representative, your Congress representative, congressional representative, would be essentially a city council ward almost, right? Yes. Yes. And you would have that direct contact with that person, and it would really make Congress a people's house. And the other part of it, Bill, is it gets the big money out because money won't be a factor in that kind of a campaign for only 7,000 people, you know, you're just not going to have to raise any money. And, you know, that means these interest groups like the unions or the big business groups on the other side, they won't have the power they do right now. That's really interesting. It's. a thought-provoking idea, John. And I've often wondered that or thought that a typical congressional

district is way, way, way too large to manage for anybody, really. Now, that being said, what do you do about the Senate? The thing about the Senate is that it was corrupted, I think, a long time ago with the 17th Amendment. I don't think it was ever truly passed legally. It's like the amendment that never happened, you know, the one that said that senators ended up being elected at large, which, of course, just means you have two super corruptibles, you know, in every state, is the way I tend to look at that. Do you want to take a look at that or try to take a whack at that? How would you help the Senate if at all?

Here's the thing. You're right. Our Senate positions, because they're statewide, cost millions, tens of millions. In California, you have to spend $100 million to get elected to the U.S. Senate. Get this reform. Here are the people. and again, have your listeners go to hearthepeople.org, orG, to learn about it. There's details, there's a video, there's all kinds of things there.

If we got that accomplished and so that every voter would have a local little community representative that they knew and who was plugged in to the whole political scene like that, if you're running for the Senate, what your first job would be would be, would be, instead of running a whole bunch of TV ads, you would go and talk to each one of these community representatives. So, you know, Oregon has how many congressional districts? Six. So that would mean that there's 600 of these community representatives all, all across Oregon in every single neighborhood. And so if I was running for the U.S. Senate in Oregon, instead of running $100 million with a TV ad, I actually would go and talk to all.

those 600 community representatives. And I would say, here's my position, here's what I'm going to do, here's my background, and rely on those 600 people then to communicate that to their voters. And so the voters would then have a more personalized approach. I think that would be far better than all these millions of hours of TV and radio ads. Yeah. Now, I'd agree. I would agree with you. I just don't think that it's been particularly helpful the way we do these elections. And Well, I remember talking with Greg Walden. Greg Walden was a former Congress critter here from Oregon's second district, which is where we live here in Southern Oregon. And he talked about, and even Cliff Benz, Cliff Benz, who is in there right now, it's like you get elected.

And the first thing you're having to do, and this is just about your survival, is to start getting on the phone every day. You know, you can't go a day without going out there and talking to donors because that's what it takes to get and keep the gig these days. They told me, I ran for Congress 25 years ago in Illinois, and they told me I would have to get on the phone. And even back then, I would have to raise 25 to 30,000 a day in order to be able to keep my seat. 25 to 30 grand a day. There's a problem with the system that you have to do that. And by the way, you know, you have to beg people for it. And the most they can give you, they've limited it to like $3,000.

So you have to then call literally hundreds of people. because most people are going to hang up on you. They're not going to want to give any money to a political candidate. So you're only going to get a certain number. And so it really, and really, Bill, and truly, people who give money to political candidates, you know, sometimes they have good motives. Sometimes they just want to, you know, they like a guy and they want to help them. But a lot of times they want something in return. Don't you, you know, I mean.

Yeah, it's a transactional relationship is what it is. Yes. And is that what our founders wanted, that our politicians would have a transactional relationship with donors that would basically be a pay-to-play political system? That's just not what we envisioned, I think. Boy, I'll tell you, with your plan, though, K-street, the K-street lobbyists, they would not like this, would they? Well, I always tell people lobbying would still exist, but it would be based upon the policies. You know, provide information in lobbying. It's in the First Amendment, petitioning your government. So, you know, you're still able to do it.

But it won't be accompanied by a check. It won't be a matter of, okay, I'm going to talk to you, but you first have to make a donation in my campaign fund. You know, that's so corrupt and unseemly. And it shouldn't be the way that government operates. government should operate based upon the best policies, not by who can write the biggest check to a political candidate. John Cox once again, and he has an op-ed in the Hill that I'm going to link to, which talks about Gavin Newsom, the political magician side of him, and also his book, which is the Newsom nightmare. We'll link to that also.

But the main thing we want to make sure you check it out and see what you think. It's HereThepeople.org. www. www.herethepeople.org. That's a very thought-provoking idea. And I think there's a real germ of a movement there, John. I think it's a good deal. Really do. Thank you. Wait until you see it. I'm doing a documentary now. It's going to come out in January next year. And people are going to see what their Congress has evolved into and they're not going to like it. But they're going to see that there's a way to do a tweet to this system so that we get the money out. and we get the voters back in. Yeah. John Cox, final question I have for you,

back when you were running against any twosom-newsum, which was one of my favorite nicknames for him, you know, back in the day. I hadn't heard that one. That's a good one, Bill. Oh, yeah. Well, I can't take credit for that. The old talk show host,

Michael Savage came up with that one, Any-Tusum-Nusom, and I always remember stuck in my head. You know, any-tusum-newsum. But back to this, what role did Larry Elder play? you know, the talk show host from L.A. in almost bouncing out that recall, because there was the recall ever that ran against, and you were involved in that process, weren't you? Tell me more. Larry is a nice guy, and he's a television personality, and how does he make a living? He gets endorsements from refinance companies and other people that sell stuff on Fox News, and he's a Fox News contributor. So I got the recall going, and I tried to make it all about the bad things that news,

have done to make life miserable for most people in California. Larry Elder jumped in because he saw an opportunity to get his name out there in the recall election, and he raised a whole bunch of money because he was on Fox all the time, and he turned it into a referendum on the president who is incredibly unpopular by a wide march. Oh, yeah. I mean, running as a mega guy would probably be really tough in California, certainly is in Oregon, too. I must say. And the recall was about Newsom's performance.

Yes or no, should it be recall. It really didn't matter who succeeded Newsom, whether it was Elder or me. It really made no difference whatsoever. You could have put a potted plant in there instead of Gavin Newsom, and it would have done a better job because Newsom was just giving the state over to the special interest groups. Elder turned it into a personality thing, and, you know, before you knew it, Newsom was running ads saying, you know, don't turn the state over the Donald Trump and all this kind of stuff. And people heard that, and they didn't focus on the problems that Newsom had failed to fix and the ones he had caused.

And so that's, that was all she wrote. Yep, and the problems are still there. Here the people. Yep. Here the people.org. John, great talk. I will have you back and appreciate the thinking on this. Thank you, Bill.

All right. Be well. 837. at KMED. 993KBXG. You're on the Bill Maher show, and I appreciate you waking up here.

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So you're really getting a lot of input from all over your district. It's intriguing. It's intriguing. And I think that it's a good idea, I think, there. Maybe we talk about that. Or maybe not. We could also talk about who gets beaten with the Master Chef cutting board. We've been having fun with this one.

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But I couldn't help but notice that it could be very useful for a pad or maybe a pickle. Is this like, Steve, is this about the size of a pickle paddle or like a pickle board or what is that pickleball? Is that, okay, yeah. I don't know. I don't understand the appeal of pickleball. But anyway, we'll set that aside here at the moment. But that is like the new hot thing to be doing. But yeah, you can win with this one for sure.

All right. Pat ends up writing with an entry here. So we're going to have 12 entries in here, and I'm going to just pick a winner in just a minute. Actually, we're going to have the random generator picket. See, Pat writes in, Bill, if I had that acacia paddle, I mean cutting board. See, it's a cutting board, but it has dual purposes. Could be used as a self-defense tool, too.

It's heavy, right? But she says, I would start in California with Newsome and work my way around the country. Next would be the trio in Oregon, Kotech, Wyden, and the Brainer. list, Merkley. I then head next to Washington State, Wack Bob Ferguson, off to Minnesota to smack Governor Walls, and so on and so on, to Washington, D.C. to Schumer. I'd be

really tired by the time I correct more people in D.C., so I'd have to sit down and have me a beer as in the famous words of Pocahontas. The paddle will be pretty worn out, so I'll have to get a new one. Yada, yada, yada, I could go on. By the way, I disagree with paddling Donald Trump,

even though he doesn't speak like a politician, he says what most of us are thinking. All right, Pat. We'll get you in there. So you are number 12. So who's going to be the winner here of the Acacia Master Chef? Well, a cutting board. Cutting board. I almost said paddle.

Of course, I don't know. Sometimes on those competition shows, don't you expect them to almost want to paddle each other? Yeah, that'd be interesting. They competed that way. So random generator, right, one through 12. We had 12 entries, and the winner is number four. Number four is Elaine. Elaine, congratulations, Elaine.

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Let me go to Calvin. Calvin, you're going to be first up this morning. Welcome. How are you doing? Real good, thanks. Hey, Calvin, it was 220 in the morning, April 15th, 1912. The British Ocean liner Titanic sinks into the North Atlantic, about 400 miles south of Newfoundland. Massive ship carried 2,200 passengers and crew had struck an iceberg two and a half hours before.

That's an interesting story in and of itself, but it was one of the largest and most luxurious ocean liners ever built, departed Southampton on its maiden voyage, a voyage, rather. The Titanic designed by Irish shipbuilder William Piri and built in Belfast and was thought to be the world's fastest in my leaving port. The ship came within a couple of feet of the steamer New York, but safely passed by, causing a general sigh of relief from the passengers. Now, on its first journey across the highly competitive Atlantic ferry route, the ship carried 2,200 passengers and crew.

The crew, about 900. Wow, 900 people to run that. It's a lot of folks there, right? But the passenger is about 1,300. The question for the wind this morning, Calvin, what percentage of the passengers on the Titanic Maiden Voyage were Americans? Was it, well, the maiden and only one, right? Was it A, 11%, B, 17%, C, 23%, was it D 37% or was it E 47%? One of those five, what do you think?

Let's go 23%. You're going to go with 23% right there in the middle, right? Yeah. Okay. Doesn't happen very often. Right there in the middle ended up being okay. Yeah, about 300 American passengers were on board, the maiden voyage representing about 13 to 14% of the roughly 2,200 passenger and crew, but they represented 23% of the total passengers. And most of the survivors, by the way, Calvin, were women and children. and about 75% of females on the on board, and 50% of children survived. And women and children were prioritized, but survival rates differed heavily.

And they had by class 97% of first class women were saved. Only about half of third class women survived. So that's the way that worked. I guess that's what you call privilege, right, Calvin? That pretty much would be. Yep, indeed. So Calvin, we're going to send you to Diner 62. Why don't you hang on, okay?

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enjoyed this one. Well, thank you very much. Very kind. Go ahead. I want to jump right on to something here. I'm going to give you an opportunity to keep me from calling you quite so often. Every time snipes are mentioned, I'm triggered because just like today, people will say there is no such thing as the snipe. Yeah, the snipe on, right? That thing. Right. Right. That was mentioned earlier. So here's the deal. I actually caught a snipe one time. and it was in a ditch, a very big ditch, like a canal. And his mama got killed, and I was there, and I saw the little guy, so I rescued it, took it home, put it in water with lots of moss, and washed it for days, eat bugs out of the moss before I turned it loose. Okay, now, now was this a, because, you know, Snipe,

There's all sorts of long-billed shorebirds that I think there are technically. So that's what you found? There is such a thing as a snipe then. In the freshwater, yeah. Yeah. Right out there on, it used to be called Cascade Ranches up by Lake Creek. So you're saying we should not then be talking about snipe hunts because you actually could engage in one. Well, you know, you can talk about all you want, but I'll give you the opportunity to remember to remind people that there really is a snipe.

Otherwise, I'm going to probably call and tell you this. Okay, very good. Well, normally when I think of a snipe, I'm thinking of like a concealed place, like a gunshot, like you're sniping. That's the first thing comes to my mind, right? Sure. All right. I appreciate the call. Thank you for Greg.

Or thank you, Greg, rather. Hi, KBD. Good morning. Who's this? Good morning, Bill. This Brad with us, L.M. Brad. It's on your mind.

Hey, now that I'm a senior, I'm in my 70s, I get targeted for all kinds of stuff. and a friend of mine gave me a heads up, a serious note on consumerism here in the Valley. There's a group of young guys that are going door to door trying to sell pest control. You know, I had that, that guy came up to me yesterday at my door, and I actually engaged with him. Yeah. Was a young fella? Yeah, young fella. And, of course, to me, the moment they start saying things like, well, you know, we're,

in the neighborhood and I said, guys, come on, that's the oldest scam in the book. You know, we're in your neighborhood. We're going to give you a neighborhood rate. Did he say that? Well, yeah, I live out in a country a little ways on Dark Hollow Road. Yeah. Those guys showed up on my property, and I wasn't home. My wife answered the door. They're really pushy, and they really, I think they target seniors. I think they do, too. Yeah. I agree.

And so... Just a heads up, brother. Yeah, just be very careful and just to deal with... with the people that, you know, just deal with your local businesses that you know to be, to be reputable. That's all I would say. All right? Absolutely. Thank you, buddy. All right. Thank you. Good point to wrap this up. All right. Now then, we've had so many things we've been giving away this morning. There was the Diner 62 quiz. There was the Master Chef paddle, I mean cutting board.

I love that. That was fun, wasn't it? Really talking about it. And now we're going to get you on the open road, except, you know, closer to town. annual Medford Rod and Customs Show. It's going to be this Saturday and Sunday at Rogue X, two days, featuring over 200 vehicles. You want to see all these fun-filled deal. It's a lot of fun. And by the way, this benefits local charities. That's the pinstriping brush bash that they're calling here. Photo opportunities, a bunch more. This is great family fun. All right. So I'm going to give a pair of tickets right now to call her 12. at 770 5633. 770 KMED.

All right. Call her 12, and we're going to get you, and you're going to have a great time this weekend. All right. 9 o'clock, this is KMED and KMED, HD1, Eagle Point, Medford. KBXG, Grants Pass.