Mailbag and Media Industry Decline

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We're Armstrong and Getty. It's always an action packed week, Jill Biden on her increasingly disastrous book tour, plus Trump and BB, Friends or Foes, and all the news that happened around the country and around the world. We talk about a lot of stuff. We do 20 hours of live radio every week. If you want more, you can look for the Armstrong and Getty podcast, Armstrong and Getty on Demand. That's what it's called. Even today, she still thinks her husband would have made a good president if he had stayed in the race. Of course he would have made a good president. He made a good president the four years he was there. I mean, to me, he was the best president. What a waste of freaking time. Uh that's Dr. Jill Biden on her interview yesterday, and she's gonna do a bunch more, and I hope somebody at some point presses her on these issues. But you know, I suppose in reality, what is she supposed to say? What is she gonna say there as the wife of an old man in his final days of life, maybe? She's supposed to say, Oh, clearly he would have sucked. His brain doesn't work. You know, come on. Well well that raises the question though. Well, then why are we going through this exercise at all? Well, I was gonna say anybody who buys a that old bad is gonna lie to us. Why am I watching this? Anybody who buys your book and reads it, never talk to me. Stay away from me. You're not the sort of person I ever want to engage with as I can't imagine anyone buying that book and reading it. Fine . Oh Michael Michael's halfway through it, Jack. I should have said something. He's been loving it. You know , so I've been debating whether to bring this up or not. But it's it's it's pretty interesting . So uh I'd been mentioning that journalist Mark Alperna does a TV show uh every afternoon on YouTube or a bunch of other platforms. He has a Democrat and a Republican on um every day and he has been incensed about this whole thing from from the beginning, the media coverage. He he calls it the biggest media cover up in our nation's history. The fact that they did not report on what everybody could see and acted like it wasn't happening. But the Democrat on there said look , I fooled myself. He said, I look back on it and I think, how could I be so blind to that? I saw all this stuff on TV and I and I just convinced myself that it it's is not as bad as everybody's saying or this is uh uh you know Trump people trying to make it worse than it actually is or he's got a stutter or everybody misspeaks every now and then he said, I myself don't know how I blinded myself to this. I find it disturbing. And so the reason I bring that up, I it's not a politics thing. I just just for everybody, all human be ings in their own lives, are we apparently that cap able of deluding ourselves if we want a specific thing to be true or not true? Apparently. Uh some more than others. Yeah. Uh it's disturbing that somebody who's at least arguably accomplished enough and articulate enough and bright enough to be on that sort of forum uh would be uh self-delusional like that. That's disturbing to me. Well, it depends how invested you are. Think about if you've ever known anybody talking about their husband or wife or kids and they're laying out the story, and you think, whoa, I mean that they're a train wreck, and how do you not recognize that this is like a serious problem? It's because you want an outcome so much. And maybe if you're in politics you w you want an outcome like you want your husband to not be as bad as he seems, or wife or kids or whatever. Yeah, yeah. I just think it varies from person to person. It's probably like uh you know, the the spectrum of virtually any human emotion or psychological function from you know logic to complete delusion you have you know self delusion and rationalization on a scale. Some people don't do it at all, some do. I I think that's Well you have that Orwell quote, uh Orwell saying that the hardest thing to do is to see something that's right in front of one's nose. So he famously is one of my intellectual heroes, obviously, and uh a brilliant, brilliant man, but he was a dedicated socialist and then, you know, realized oh yeah, this doesn't work in among human be ings. It's uh prone to disaster and torture and uh totalitarianism and the rest of it. So uh and I don't think it's a discredit to somebody like Orwell, for instance, that they fell for something that could never work. Well in spite of his brilliance. It's not a discredit for it turns out we're all capable of duting ourselves if we want a particular outcome bad enough of whatever it is. And that's a disturbing thing to think about. What what do you really want to be true or not true? And you're just not dealing with the facts on. I don't know what where are you on a scale of one to ten? That's what I'm trying to tell you repeatedly. I think some people are not very prone to that at all. And some people are very, very prone to it. Well you'd have to think that George Orwell wasn't very prone to it, yet he it had to be a why would you think that 's independent of intelligence? It's a it's a tendency like height or being a warrior or being cheerful versus being kind of uh dore and uh and uh an introvert. I also think it probably'd be something that it's impossible for you to diagnose yourself. Uh agreed. You have no idea yourself to where you would be on that scale. Well, I no, I I gotta disagree with that too. And I certainly I've never thought about this in depth, so I stand ready to be corrected. I think if you're on the brutal realist end of things, y your diagnosis is better because you tend not to um to d self delude. I don't know. The self delusional cannot diagnose themselves as delusional because they're or delusional is too strong a term, but you know what I mean. So then the question would be how much of the media and political class were in the self delusion thing 'cause they wanted a particular outcome so bad and how many people knew exactly what they were doing, but they're just flat out lying. Yeah, I assumed it was uh ninety-eight percent cynicism by the political class who just figured they could get the softheads to go along with it. If that guy's being sincere, sure seems like you're it's fascinating again and and somewhat terrifying, or at least a little scary. Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. When he was like whispery and forgetful and would wander around and had to be guided and his speeches were either angry sputtering or or like just slow paced whist you didn't notice that decline. This is a articulate crazy, you know, making stuff up, Joe Biden, and then uh um uh Joe Biden you didn't notice that. So the Jill Biden interview, which you probably didn't watch, was an embarrassment of journalism. It's one of the most embarrassing things that's ever happened in the history of journalism. The fact that they did not bring receipts and drill down on various things that she was denying. I mean I suppose on one level you could it would seem a little cruel, but I mean you are a journalist talking to somebody who's written a book about this about a very important topic. You could have shown clips and say this happened you know three years before the debate. Explain this on the whole you never saw him like that before or after. I mean Yeah, I just I think your problem here is you're asking hockey night in America to talk about golf. That show is an old bat talking in gent le tones for the entertainment of old bats who are getting ready to go to church in the morning. It's not journalism. Okay, well, let's hope that in the coming days, as Jill Biden continues to go out there and hawk this book, that she runs into some journalists that are gonna like really push her on that. Because the most ridiculous thing she says of all the ridiculous things is I never saw him like that before or after. We did. How come you didn't? Well yeah you,'re right. He'd have been a great president his second term. That's pretty ridiculous too. I can't believe that they are so I mean this is Louis XV stuff. They are so tone deaf to the whole thing, Jill Biden, that she does the interview in front of their one of their homes, because they have many homes. Oh I had just recently watched uh Jerry Seinfeld uh Comedians and Cars with Coffee with Eddie Murphy. And he goes to Eddie Murphy's house and picks up Eddie Murphy, and Eddie Murphy walks out of this house and it's like hol y crap, that's a house? Yeah. Jill Biden has the same sort of house as Eddie Murphy. Why is that? And multiple times during the interview, I mean it's like she walked out of an art museum or something at home. I mean, who has a house that looks like it? It has just the front. I can't imagine what it looks like going back and then the yard behind it and the property and everything like that. And that's one of several houses. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's not their beach home. Um, and several times during the interview they talked about after a lifetime of public service, and you know, Joe Biden's been in public service his entire life. He's dedicated his life to how did he dedicate his life to public service? And you're standing in front of Eddie Murphy style house. Eddie Murphy made like a billion dollars as a movie star. Why does Joe Biden have the same house as Eddie Murphy? He bought a hundred shares of Apple stock in nineteen ninety one. It was a good move. Why does everybody just accept the fact that people we know what their salaries are? You can look 'em up. You have friends who make that much money, and they don't have houses like that. No, and nobody questions it. It's so weird. Yeah. Well, not only do they not question it, they they they parade it openly. Could I mean Joe could have said, No, I tell you what, why don't we meet at the uh University of Delaware Library or something like that? Exactly. Or his or his childhood home and talk about his beginnings or something like that. But not in front of this house to make it clear that we became ungodly wealthy as him being in the government since he was in his t early twenties. Spent it all though, apparently, because they're widely known to be broke at this point. Yeah. Well they thought it was going to come in for quite some time, but that jig is up, as I heard the dispatch right yesterday . Uh history is not going to be kind to the Bidens. And they it is well deserved . Jack Armstrong and Joe Freddy. This is the best weekend talk show in America . Armstrong and Getty here for HIMS. There are all kinds of great weight loss approaches that fit into your world out there. 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To get started and learn more, including important safety information, Wagovi Clinical Study Information and Restrictions, visit HIMS.com . This July 4th, come celebrate at America's Block Party, hosted by America 250. America's Block Party is a can't miss 4th of July concert happening at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Experience music performances from major artists, patriotic tributes, and the kickoff to Giving Forth, helping to make July 4th the largest day of giving in American history. It's more than just fireworks. Learn more about this landmark celebration at America250 .org . Are you ready? I mean, I was born for this clearly. I'm gonna prove to everybody this is this is for real and I'm ready to run the city. Spencer Pratt, I was born for this. I love the disco music throbbing in the back . Oh, it was the big uh what a celebration party at their campaign headquarters as he's trying to become the mayor of Los Angeles. I don't have a lot of stomach for the big polit ic political races today, personally. Part of it might be from watching uh our old friend David Drucker on MSNBC this morning. David Drucker who us,ed to write for the Washington Examiner, now works for the Dispatch. Every once in a while he's on MSNBC. And we uh we like David, super smart guy, but show biz not his thing. Uh he's like uh just the just the facts, ma'am, just the facts , and uh, and often takes the air out of the room. But anyway, they're building up the whole Steve Hilton, you know, is is gonna make the the top two for governor in California and Pratt and this and that and what does it mean and Trump and blah blah blah. And he said, uh, you just look at the numbers, it's pretty simple. Both the Democrats are gonna run away with it in the generals, so uh and I thought, you know what, you're probably right. So I'm not sure there's that much more to talk about. Well, wow, yeah. It'd be really, really to overcome just the demographics of what things are. LA is seven points more blue than the state, which is quite blue. Oh wow, wow, wow. Although you made the point yesterday, uh perhaps you've forgotten your own wisdom, that uh often it takes a few cycles before uh the electorate says, you know, I that guy wasn't so bad and he was right about this, that, and the other. And they they drift from hardcore D voter no matter how bad it gets to uh to being willing to make another choice. So I think a great deal of absolutely terrific messaging is gonna take place during the campaign. And whether Steve Hilton, for instance, triumphs or not, uh there's gonna be a lot of truth telling in and I think that's a good thing. Over the next five months Well the other thing that's worth mentioning if you're talking about those big California races is that the uh uh absolutely laughable ridiculous third worldly California voting system that is the I mean uh old man Maduro wishes he'd come up with a system that ridiculous. Uh i it takes weeks weeks to count the ballots to know who won in a close race. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was following some of the well, yeah. Nate Silver, the great pollster saying it's an embarrassment to democracy worldwide that California , the home of, you know, the highest tech everything in the world is the worst in the world in terms of getting results from their elections. Anywhere in the world. How embarrassed the Democratic Party insists on blanketing the entire state with paper mail out ballots so that everybody can harvest up plenty of votes, voted for by whom? I don't know, we'll check the signatures allegedly maybe a little bit, I don't know. It's uh it's corrupt and unwieldy and and embarrassing. Let me do a quick tease before I tell you a story to keep you around. I just got a whole bunch of insider information on that new world screw new world screw worm virus thingy. Oh. That' yous want to know. It going to drive people away, not keep them right. You need to know. I got to pay off the ultra processed food thing, too. So I went to vote in person yesterday in California. I hadn't voted in person in years. Geez, long time, maybe 20 years. And um I went to a uh random polling place. It happened to be the junior high not far from where I live. And uh walked in there in late afternoon, wasn't very busy. Kind of followed a woman into the parking lot because I didn't know exactly where I was going, a young woman in a nice car, looked to be about, I don't know, early twenties. She got in line in front of me, and uh I thought, well, this is gonna be fast, turned out not to be fast because they had one person checking people in said, uh do you have a ballot with you? And she said no. And um okay, well let me look up your uh name and address. So uh if you could give me your name, she did, and your address. She said, I don't know my address . And um boy. And this is a well dressed I don't know if she's in college, probably in college in the town I live in, probably like close to graduating or graduate student. Uh dry again, driving a nice car, um that clearly her parents got for her. I don't know my address. Uh and the polling worker just looked at her kind of like, what do I say to someone who says I don't know my address? Um wow. You're supposed to teach your six-year-old that so they can tell the police if they get lost. Yeah, I know. And I thought to myself, I don't know if there's ever been a moment in my life since I was six, roughly, that I didn't know my address. But so the polling worker said, um, how about a previous address? What was your previous? Because you could have, if you just moved, possibly not remember your new address. Maybe. But you'd think you'd remember your previous address. She said, I don't know that either. So you don't know where you live now or where you lived before now. That is like start with your first name and build from there. Do you know that? Do you know where you are? Do you know why you're here? Um and I just thought that was so funny. And then the poll worker says Um it starts with an A 'cause she's got it on the the iPad in front of her, you know, hoping that the the the voter will get you know it'll spark something in her memory and she's like, oh yeah, I know what street I live on, so that she can confirm it's actually the human being that she says she is. Because they will not ask for an ID. That is absolutely off the table asking for an ID. Obviously, if you asked for a driver's license, you know what would have on there? The freaking address. Eighty percent of Americans say that would be perfectly fine. In fact, it should be required. California, you don't dare. Including Democrats. So if you just uh got out your driver's license, I know you got one. I saw you drive in in your mom and dad's car. Um it would have a picture of you, your name and your address, but they refused to ask that. I heard somebody say yesterday that they tried to offer one time and everybody was like, No, no, put that back in your pocket. Like they were so horrified by the idea of anybody even having their ID out. Wow, it's like a cult. I know it's so weird. So it starts with an A , and then the girl just kind of looked at her like, I I don't I got nothing. And then sh and then finally the poll worker just said the name of the street. Um so is that where you lived? She said it might be. And then so they just checked her in and she went and voted . She should not be voting. I don't think she was like uh, you know, lying or trying to pull off anything. I think she just is a person. And I thought, well, she I'm sure she's dialed in on the issues. Of course, it's quite possible that she knows way more about some of these socialist issues than I do. She just doesn't know her own address. Wow. I thought that was pretty funny. Then there was a 90-year-old she should not be allowed to vote. Sorry. There's a really, really nice 90-year-old poll worker in there that was slowing everything down. He was a person you gave your ballots to after you filled them out. So you went in there, you got your ballot, you got a big magic marker, you fill out your ballot in a private little booth. You bring out and you hand it this guy. This guy was a million years old and super nice in his volunteering his time, but just so slow. He'd he'd grab one ballot and it it if you're old enough, it was like Tim Conway and Carol Burnett uh sixty years ago on television. Just shuffle over really, really slow to where you put the ballot. Then he'd slide it in the hole and he'd miss a couple of times and he'd get it in there and he'd turn around for the next one and the line is getting longer . No, would you like a I voted sticker? And people would say yes and then he'd have to turn around again and shuffle over to where the stickers are. Jack Armstrong and Joe Freddy. This is the best weekend talk show in America. This July 4th, come celebrate at America's Block Party, hosted by America 250. America's Block Party is a can't miss 4th of July concert happening at the Los Angeles Memorial Colise um, experience music performances from major artists, patriotic tributes, and the kickoff to Giving Forth, helping to make July 4th the largest day of giving in American history. It's more than just fireworks. 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Was that uh designed to try to convince the Iranian leadership, whoever's making the decisions that he's not desperate. Look, I don't even care. I'm bored with the whole thing. I don't even care. Yeah, I don't take it at his word. I th I it's posturing, I think. But does anybody feel a threat from him at this point? I doubt it. I'd be not significant. Anyway, apparently Trump was pretty angry that Netanyahu was continuing to attack Hezbollah because he thinks it's throwing off the whole us ending the war with Iran thing, and he was on the phone with Netanyahu yesterday, and here's a little reporting from MS Axios has some new reporting on that call between President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu. The president reportedly lashing out at Netanyahu during expletive laden conversation, that's according to U.S. officials, and a third source briefed on the call. According to one U.S. official, Trump told Netanyahu he was effing crazy, and that the Prime Minister would be in prison if it were not for Trump, likely referring to the Israeli leaders' years long corruption trial. The President added to the Quote Everybody hates you now. You're effing crazy. You'd be in prison if it weren't for me. I'm saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this . What the F are you doing? He said. Now I thought it was interesting. Mark Howprin's reporting was this is like the fifth president because Netanyahu has been prime minister a few times and longer than anybody in Israeli history. So he's worked with I think four or five presidents. And uh and uh they've all ended up frustrated by BB Netanyahu and cussing at 'em, all of 'em. So the unique thing here is that somebody leaked out the private phone call, not that somebody was cussing at BB Netanyahu. 'Crump did I mean, uh I wish I knew more about the context of when they did it, because I agree with what you're saying about the leaking. I feel like that's a different topic. Um but all of those presidents contributed to what led to October third. And that is the idea that you could Seventh seventh, sorry, uh twenty three. I knew that was wrong when I said it I was like, wait a minute, one of those numb anyway, uh October seventh. Uh the idea that you can negotiate with Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, and uh and get them to be good actors if you, you know, uh cut the right deal. They're completely wrong. And I think BB knew that at the time. But uh putting that aside, uh I I happen to agree with, for instance, the well, the Wall Street Journal's news piece on this is entitled Trump Pushes to End Lebanon Conflict in Hope of Unlocking a Deal with Iran. Their editorial board's headline is Iran gets Trump to rescue Hezbollah. And I happen to agree with that. I I think Trump Trump is willing to subordinate anything to his personal interest, his ego, and his desired reputation as the greatest deal maker who's ever lived. He's willing to subordinate Israel in a second to getting what he sees as the big win or avoiding the big loss in a way that I think is really, really unhealthy. BB has become completely convinced that there is no living with Hezbollah and Hamas and Iran. They made that clear on October 7th when they were pretending for years saying publicly, look, we we've given up the terrorism game. We just want to govern. We just want to bring peace to the territories. We're nice fellows. Then the moment they saw the opportunity, they get slaughtered, raped, tortured, burned, and took thousands of Israelis hostage. And and BB and the Israeli people said, Nope, that's over. We're gonna beat you now. And anything that gets in the way of that beating, I am against. So Trump watches a lot of Morning Joe, MS NBC. So he knows that a constant refrain on MSNBC is BB Netanyahu runs a corrupt government, and the moment he leaves office he's going to be charged with all kinds of things and, he's probably going to end up in prison. So that's on Trump's mind because they talk about that weekly on MSNBC. How true that is, I don't know because I don't follow internal Israeli politics, but uh it certainly could be. So that's what Trump was talking about . You'd be in jail, I saved your ass, etc. etc. Um by by uh uh getting you re-elected campaigning for you, basically. Uh but what's interesting is the media, the same media that loved the story whenever that was a month or so ago, that Netanyahu came to the United States, told Trump what to do, that he wanted Trump to go to war against Iran and Trump did it. We're dancing to Israel's tune. Uh we are a puppet of Israel and the Jews which fed the left and the right wing uh anti Israel people and everything like that. That same crowd last night I was watching it was saying, and this is the way Trump talks to an ally. So okay. You're not happy no matter what happens. Either you're dancing to his tune or you're not being nice enough to him, which is it? Yeah, that's an excellent, excellent point. Uh Iran , you know, they are the living proof of uh you know Sung Tzu and and other military geniuses saying you sh you must never ever underestimate your enemy. If anything, overestimate him. And I I don't think Trump and I could be wrong. There could be stuff going on behind the scenes uh that that it completely blows what I'm about to say out of the water. And if it does, I will manfully come to you good people and admit it . I think brutal religious zealot negotiators are playing Trump . They're playing Trump against Netanyahu . They're trying to rescue their uh their surrogate, their proxy, Hezbollah, by saying, Look, Donald, we would rush to the table and settle this whole nuke thing. If only that mean B would stop beating up on Hezbollah. Please make him stop, and then we'll make a deal with you. And they don't have a single effing intention of doing that . God, I've been watching this for decades. Yikes. Uh I'll bet Trump hasn't is part of it. Has not been following like the Palestinian conflict and all that over the many, many years. Um what about people who say Iran's gonna come out of this in a stronger position than when the war started. That doesn't make any sense to me, but I hear people saying it all the time. Yeah. They have a the shred of truth in it, in that the Iran's realized, wow, we really can control the straight inform es and screw up the world economy. That was always true. That was always true. They just didn't know it, apparently. Or didn't dare do it. Um , they're not stronger , quote unquote. They can't project any power. They can barely defend themselves. So it's ridiculous. For what it's worth, and I think most of you know this, I, Joe, am not Trump deranged at all. When he's right, he's right. When he's wrong he's wrong. I hope I'm wrong , but I feel like uh he's getting played. I don't know why he doesn't go back to bombing. What's the main thing keeping him from bombing the crap out of him? He's desperate to open the straits and get the world economy humming again and gas prices to And the the if we were to restart the kinetic effort to bring Iran to heel, uh that would postpone that. So back when back when he said, you know, we're gonna wipe a civilization off the face of the earth and all that sort of stuff and I never bel ieved that he meant that. But w was he never ever going to start bombing him really hard again? Was that never really on the table? I don't know. I I just think his the number one legacy he wants to leave behind is that he's the greatest deal maker to ever walk the Yeah. Well and he sees a giant opportunity. Like I said yesterday, and I do think this is true. We'll find out. I think what he's got going for him is I don't think people pay much attention to this and we have short memories. So he could walk away from this and you know, to my mind, why did we do it? Wasn't a very good we didn't do blah blah blah but but nobody's gonna care. Nobody's gonna pay any attention. I don't think he's gonna get hurt by that in the polls really. They'll try to make a big deal out of it, but most people don't care. They they most people, the average person would think it's over, cool, good. Not care about the result at all. That's not good. I don't like that. You should care about the result or whether they get a nuclear weapon, but I don't think most people care. Meanwhile, if the IRGC leadership was listening, they would be texting right now saying, fellas, we've manipulated every US president since we took power in nineteen seventy nine. And we're manipulating this one, and guess what? We're gonna manipulate the next one. Ha ha . Well, they're gonna get a nuke then . That is gonna be a big moment. I truly thought Donald J. was finally the president who was going to do something about it. Well remember something. After the Epic Fury began, George Will in the Washington Post, who couldn't hate Trump more ? Said the return of American deterrence. He was so happy that we'd let the world know, no more pushing us around. I'm not sure that's the way the world's gonna feel if we walk away from this. Yeah. The next two weeks to me will be uh what's the term they use in fancy pants circles? It will be uh declarative, definitive, uh something like that. Big F and deal. Yes, that's what I was going for. Uh because if two weeks from now we're having the same conversation, that's I think everything you need to know . Jack Armstrong and Joe Freddy. This is the best weekend talk show in America . This July 4th, come celebrate at America's Block Party, hosted by America 250. 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A couple of quotes from some of my favorite works of fiction. First of all, Tolkien in the Return of the King. In this hour I do not believe that any darkness will endure. And then uh William Goldman wrote this for the Princess Bride. We'll never survive. Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has. Oh, what a wonderful movie. Rob Reiner. Too bad his son was a crazy drug addict. Oof. Mailbag. Robus and O Mailbag at Armstrong and Getty.com. Kids don't do the hard drugs ever, ever, ever , ever, ever . Let's see, Brian from Santa Rosa writes, I finally got my mom who died in nineteen ninety-nine off the voter registration rolls in Cal Unicordia. However, my brother has at least four ballots mailed to four different addresses, including mine. It's frustrating sometimes to have values because I know which way he votes, and it's the direct opposite of me. Same with two of my daughters who Blah blah blah. I've told them every vote counts, vote every time you get a chance . One person, one vote. So much easier to be a Democrat, especially in California. So I got a ballot uh that I could drop off. If I had dropped that off yesterday, would they have caught that I are that I voted in person and through the mail ? It seems unlikely. No idea. Uh let's see. Uh David writes, uh David in Sacramento. Why the F do we even pay attention to polls? Which polls? All of them. What you can't buy any election in California? Sorry, Tom Steyr. Now please go away. Buy an island where you can perform all your silly environmental wishes. I have a wee bit of hope for our state. Not much, but a wee bit. Tom Steyr, the billionaire, who looks like it's not gonna make the top two, spent two hundred billion dollars of his own money to try to become governor of California