{"id":1184126,"date":"2022-01-03T16:19:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T21:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1184126"},"modified":"2022-01-03T16:19:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T21:19:55","slug":"exclusive-ric-grenells-three-pronged-plan-to-take-back-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-ric-grenells-three-pronged-plan-to-take-back-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive \u2014 Ric Grenell&#039;s Three-Pronged Plan to Take Back California"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-ric-grenells-three-pronged-plan-to-take-back-california%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1184126&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Grenell-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>Former Acting Director of United States National Intelligence Richard (Ric) Grenell returned to his home in California following his time in the Trump administration with a mission: to help build up the state\u2019s floundering conservative movement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>During an interview on <em>Breitbart News Saturday<\/em>,&nbsp;Grenell told Breitbart News\u2019 Washington bureau chief and host Matthew Boyle about how his organization,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fixcalifornia.com\/#about\">Fix California<\/a>, is currently enacting a three-pronged plan to take back the state from authoritarian leftists and to give long-quiet conservatives a voice in the Golden State.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cThe lay of the land when I came home was pretty awful, and our donors were supporting people outside of California \u2014 we had a whole bunch of people on the sidelines,\u201d Grenell said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Grenell, who has also been the ambassador to Germany, said his organization\u2019s plan involves tackling three \u201cpillars\u201d: election integrity, conservative engagement, and education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not asking people to storm the beaches of Normandy, like so many of our ancestors did before us. But we are asking people to stand up and stop being afraid of the cancel culture. They can\u2019t cancel all of us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>LISTEN:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Election Integrity<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Fix California is presently suing every single county in California demanding election officials \u201cclean up their voter rolls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got way too many people on the rolls who are residency violators who have not voted, and so if you are going to send people a ballot who don\u2019t know that ballot is coming, you are asking for trouble,\u201d he said.&nbsp;\u201cSomeone is going to pick that ballot up, and we have an aggressive political party, one party that controls that state of California. They have learned to manipulate all of these ballots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grenell said a lot of the manipulation is due to Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s emergency measures implemented during the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cGavin Newsom has now implemented emergency measures to send every single person on the voter roll a ballot. We had this recall election \u2014 the rules were you could print your ballot from home,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Grenell said he has seen the fallout of California\u2019s \u201cunacceptable\u201d election system up close. The parents of one of his friends were both sent ballots in a recent election \u2014 both of his friend\u2019s parents have reportedly been dead for more than 10 years.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cNow you can\u2019t tell me that L.A. County has a clean and fair election when they are sending ballots to dead people from 12 years ago,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThat\u2019s unacceptable. It\u2019s against the law. It\u2019s fraud,\u201d he added.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Grenell said so far, hundreds of thousands of ballots have been removed from voter rolls since president of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton\u2019s lawsuit and Fix California\u2019s subsequent lawsuits.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<h3>Conservative Engagement<\/h3>\n<p>According to Grenell, Fix California has found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/08\/12\/exclusive-trump-ally-grenells-fix-california-identifies-1-3-million-california-conservatives-not-registered-vote\/\">1.4 million conservatives<\/a> in California who are not registered to vote.&nbsp;The organization has also found millions of gun owners in California \u201cwho are afraid to register to vote, and they shouldn\u2019t be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re reengaging with conservatives in California. We\u2019re telling them to get off the sidelines,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are a state that when we flex our muscle, we can actually make change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To gather troops for the conservative war on leftism, Fix California has gone \u201ccounty by county\u201d finding conservatives and helping them register to vote. Grenell emphasized that conservatives cannot afford to \u201csit and listen and watch other people debate the issues,\u201d and said his organization is encouraging conservatives to get more involved in local and state elections.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cGet involved, stand up, and save your country. We are not going to have a country if people are just going to sit and listen to radio programs and be outraged in their car or at home. You gotta get involved,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He continued:&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The reality is, every great civilization has lasted roughly 250 years. Constantinople, the British empire \u2014 you can go through and just about predict that after roughly 250 years these great powers cease. And I\u2019m very nervous about a continuation of a society where we let politicians make the rules, and we show up every 2 or 4 years to vote. We can\u2019t do that anymore.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Education<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Grenell described the \u201cthird pillar\u201d as \u201cthe most radical education reform measure in the United States\u201d that will \u201cu<span>pend the way we fund education.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Fix California is aiming to put an option for school choice on the ballot in California in November 2022.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c[The ballot] will ask the voter \u2018Do you want the way we fund education \u2014 the $13,000 per student per year that the state gives for education \u2014 do you want that money to follow the student? Let the student pick the school? Create a total competition?\u201d\u2018 he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not just going to be for government schools, it\u2019s going to be for private schools, for any type of school that can get some type of accreditation.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis is going to be a bipartisan push to put California back in the lead, create competition, and let the kids and the families decide what\u2019s best for them and where to go to school,\u201d he continued.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Grenell said Glenn Youngkin\u2019s victory in the Virginia governor\u2019s race showed him how empowering parents to have a say in their children\u2019s education hits home with voters of all affiliations.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe lesson of Virginia for me is not that a politician did something \u2014 it\u2019s that a politician got out of the way and said to the parents, \u2018You\u2019re in charge, you\u2019re in charge of your kid\u2019s education,\u201d\u2019 he said, adding that he does not know any parents, regardless of their political beliefs, who are comfortable with giving strangers complete control over what their children learn in school.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Grenell said parents have told him that during the pandemic, \u201cWhat Zoom school gave [them] was a gift.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThey all got to watch what was going on, and I actually think it would be criminal for people who care about education reform to not put education reform issues on the ballot in the fall,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><em>Breitbart News Saturday airs on SiriusXM Patriot 125 from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Eastern.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><em>Katherine Hamilton is a political reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow her on&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/katherineeeeee2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Acting Director of United States National Intelligence Richard (Ric) Grenell returned to his home in California following his time in the Trump administration with a mission: to help build &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1184126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}