Andrew Sage

Let's talk about talking of things which are not as they seem.

California Attorney General.

Look at that, Harrison.

That is why they pay me the medium bucks.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta is warning... That's such a fake-ass name.

I'm sorry.

Garrison is wearing that hat for those not watching this podcast on top of their head in the fashion of a fez.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta is warning about election interference by the federal government.

The federal government has sent monitors to California, to a number of different counties in California, in order to monitor the elections that are happening here on the 4th of November.

To be clear, federal monitoring is not uncommon.

The Biden administration did it in more than 80 places in 2024, for example.

But Bonta seems convinced this monitoring is going to lead to election denial, election interference.

Here's Gavin Newsom talking on X about this.

I'm actually a lot more concerned with the stuff around, I think he's probably right, that we will see more federal agents around polling places in election time.

What California is doing in response is assigning monitors to monitor the federal monitors.

which will be interesting.

And it seems unusual, right, for the federal monitors to be monitoring things.

One of the things that's on the ballot this year is Prop 50, right, which would redistrict California.

It's gerrymandering.

It's a gerrymandering proposition to... It's revenge gerrymandering, to be clear.