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I know you're not a football fan, but the Pac-12 playing in their conference-only schedule this year because of COVID-19.

I guess they're going to be protected inside the conference somehow, but if they played somebody outside of the conference, they'd be completely infected with the disease.

I've spoken as a true BYU fan who's very pissed off.

Lost three games because of the Pac-12 and seven overall, but

there's a group of players, 13 have signed this demand list, but there's apparently hundreds of players who are on board with this, and they're not going to be able to get to the base.

Well, let's hear the demands.

They've got to be reasonable.

Oh, they are.

They're completely reasonable.

And I think the Pac-12 can deliver on all these things.

But they will not play football until these demands.

are met and they include health and safety precautions.

Okay.

Completely reasonable.

Totally reasonable.

Totally reasonable.

They don't want to get COVID-19.

I don't blame them.

The elimination of what players described as excessive salaries.

I can only think that means the coaches and the administrators.

Okay.

So just we'll change the salary structure of the entire conference.

Okay.

So no more millionaire coaches,

I assume.

I don't know how much is okay for them to make.

50,000, 60,000.

I don't know.

Now,

do they extend this out if they are going to be

basketball and no, they want a profit-sharing arrangement in which 50% of each sports conference revenue would be distributed evenly among the athletes.

So they can receive millions and excessive salaries, but the coaches and administrators cannot.

And this is part of the systemic racism, I assume.

Exactly right.

And just

this college college.

I mean, this is college, right?

Yes.

This is college.

This is not business.

Yeah, right.

Okay.

All right.

Because one's one's paying to go there and the other is being paid to coach or to teach, right?

I mean, just I just want to make sure I have this system down.

It's confusing because it is sports.

Well, but the athletes don't, of course, pay to go there.

They're on scholarship and they're on

to go over there for free.

So it's

for free.

That doesn't count as compensation, right?

No, that doesn't count.

Neither does the education.

That doesn't count.

Okay, got it.

All right.

That doesn't count.

And there's one more little thing that they want, and that's an end to racial injustice in sports and society.

So

I think the Pac-12 has been withholding their ability to end racial injustice in society, and I'm pissed about it.

I haven't thinked the same thing.

Now, finally, somebody has just asked for it.

Right.

You know, it's been up on that shelf the whole time, and it's like, oh, thank God, somebody finally

said, okay, now we'll end it.

Now, Pat, I know you're not necessarily a representative in this particular negotiation, but if you could kind of put your negotiating hat on for just a moment,

what if we were able as the PAC, as the PAC-10,

two or 12, to get to just eliminate racial injustice in sports?

But it was left in

other elements of society.

Like, for example, I don't know, you know, maybe in another country, maybe

in a different part of the economy completely, it still existed in small places, but not in sports at all.

It was completely cured.

Would that be okay?

If it's gone in all packed 12 cities and states,

I think that's enough.

Okay.

Okay.

All right.

But outside of the sport in those

cities and counties and states.

Yeah.

Well, no, it has to be cleaned out in the societies.

Like in Los Angeles, where USC and UCLA reside, it has to be completely eliminated from Los Angeles.

But you're saying it would be okay, let's say, in Vermont

to have some societal racial racial

issues.

But it'd be all right.

But not in sports.

It has to be gone in Vermont sports.

But it's okay to have it in society in some places.

Well, see, this is why it doesn't, this is why it breaks down because you get into this particular thing.

If it's, I mean, Pat just said it's got to be gone in all of society in those places where sports is played.

Well, sports is played everywhere.

So that's why you can never compromise on it.

But I could compromise

in just the Pac-12 conference schools, though.

If you're just in those cities and those states, I think we could make some sort of, we could come to some sort of arrangement there.

But I'm wondering if, what if they just come up with the profit-sharing thing and equally distribute the conference's wealth among the athletes?

Will that be enough

before they've ended the racism?

How can I take a wild stab at this one and say yes?

Yes.

Yes.

That's kind of what I'm thinking.

Would you say, I mean, if you had to say, would you say they preferred the distribution of the wealth over the getting rid of racism throughout society?

Oh,

I wouldn't go out on that.

Oh, okay.

That seems a little too far.

Yeah, that was too far.

Or not far enough.

One of the two.

Let me ask you this.

Is ending racial injustice in sports and society, I mean, that would be nice, but is it enough?

I don't think they should play until the Pac-12 conference also ends hunger and poverty.

Why would you play if those two things are going on?

I don't know.

I mean, maybe they should consider.

Is that at the expense of education?

Because our education system is pretty piss-poor right now.

I mean,

they're just going to higgledy-piggledy

and injustice and hunger and poverty, but do nothing about our schools?

Maybe we should add that.

No, you're right, Glenn.

That's not enough.

Maybe we should add that.

And so, and when you're talking about getting rid of all of racial injustice throughout all, you know, I would assume all universities would have to get rid of this.

So, all races.

Is this internationally, too?

That's a good question.

Is that international, Pat?

Well, if it's in society, I'd say that's international.

Okay, so it has to be a society.

So, if, I guess, my question would be: if they have to get rid of all races need to be treated equally, right, throughout all of society.

So, do we need to get rid of like affirmative action programs?

No, no, no, no, no.

That's part of the

part of racial justice.

It is.

Yes, that's part of racial justice.

We need more of those.

We need more of those.

All right, no, that makes a lot of sense.

We need more more of like the Chinese system where

those who are racially insensitive or, you know, just racially wrong are sent.

Oh, like a camp.

Like a camp, for instance?

Yeah, like a summer camp, except it lasts your whole life.

Or at least

until you come around to the right attitude.

Right, well, you'll probably die.

And there's also no canoeing in this camp.

There's no canoeing?

No canoeing.

What a crazy thing.

No, you still make bracelets and license plates and things, but you don't get to go

canoeing.

All right.

Thank you very much, Pat.

Appreciate it.

Hey, by the way, did you see that the NHL,

all the players stood and they're playing for some

inexplicable reason in the summer?

It's an inexplicable reason, Pat, that we don't understand why the National Hockey League had to suspend their season.

Can you think of a way to explain it?

Somebody got a cold, I think, or something, or a flu.

Terabo.

Hang on just a second.

Hang on just a second.

Hang on just a second.

Do you think that

because, I don't know,

you know, some TV show is missing a season that they're going to make all those seasons up?

No, they're just going to, when it, when it is cured, then they will start making new seasons.

That's what they'll do.

So, why is it different?

Why you think you think the new TV season would just start in the middle of the summer?

No, they would wait until fall.

You've missed your season, you've missed your opportunity.

Play in the winter when you're supposed to.

It makes no sense.

It's confusing to a lot of people.

You know, it's interesting nowadays, and look, it's a new development, but a lot of hockey is played indoors now, where they can actually control the temperature.

It's also

in warm weather environments where the ice would melt outside.

Very true.

Hold the events indoors and therefore are able to hold the events.

Ha!

Weird.

Yeah.

And have they cured social justice yet?

Have they cured all racial inequalities?

That's up to the Pac-12.

That's not the NHL's job.

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So I work,

most emergency physicians work at more than one place, and I do, and I've actually been fired from both.

And it's exciting, fun times living in America in 2020.

They told me that I appeared in an embarrassing video.

and therefore I would no longer be welcome to work there.

That's exactly what I want to share with you, which I haven't said to anybody else, I said to them, you really ought to place me on administrative leave till the whole thing quiets down and things will go back to normal.

Not only do they decline that, okay, they said that if I didn't go quietly into the good night, they would pull the contract for the whole group of doctors.

Wait, wait, wait.

Wait.

You mean they would...

Any doctor that stood with you,

how would they do that?

Right, so emergency doctors work

like as a group for hospitals.

So the group is always vulnerable to losing the contract with the hospital.

So they've said to the hospital, the hospital has said to the group, if she doesn't go, we're going to pull the contract from the group.

Oh my gosh.

Right, they're going to pay attention to the patients.

Well, that's putting the patients first.

It's like

that's putting the patients first.

Yeah, it's really terrible.

It's just really, I mean, it's just really terrible.

They didn't even object to what I was doing.

They objected to some other people on the video.

Then they said that if I don't go quietly and I make a fuss, then they're going to have all the doctors in the group, you know, have to go.

Like they'll just get a whole new doctor group as if it's so easy, which it's not.

Do you care to do you care to say the hospital's name?

Nope.

I don't.

And the reason is, not only do I want to protect my friends, I don't think it's unique.

I think this could have been any hospital USA.

Wow.

So it's a good thing that you hired a really good attorney last week before this happened.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know, I want to tell you that a lot of people have said, how am I doing?

And I said, you know what?

This is fine.

Bring it on.

You know, I want to continue to live in America.

I want my children to continue to live in America.

I don't want them to grow up in a place that's like China.

When you're getting to the point that you not only that I can't speak as a scientist, as a doctor, for what I know to be absolutely true, you then want to cancel me.

You want to cancel my colleagues.

This is not okay.

I'd much rather fight than not fight.

So for everybody who's wondering how I am, I'm doing just fine.

And I want everybody to know that there are literally millions and millions of Americans who are on our side.

Millions.

I believe it's the majority.

So I want to talk to you about hydroxychloroquine, but I have a limited amount of time with you today.

So

I've kind of Sophie's choice.

It's a much more interesting subject.

My life is not that interesting.

Hydroxychloroquine.

No, no, no.

No, wait, wait, wait, wait.

I also wanted to ask you about what came out from the CDC director

this weekend, where they said we've got to put schools back in place.

The CDC warned quoting of a significant public health consequence if schools don't reopen.

And yet, if you're reopening, you're made to feel like you're

a rooter for the plague.

Let's actually understand that there's actually no scientific debate whatsoever if schools should open.

None.

There's no scientific debate.

There's no serious person who thinks that schools shouldn't reopen.

Now, there are some governors and policymakers.

There's pressure brought to bear on school districts, but there's no actual scientific debate.

So it's going to come down to parents pressuring their local school districts to act in a responsible fashion.

So why is this happening, Simone?

That's the one thing I can't get my arms around other than

this is a plan to destroy our children, our families, our country.

Why?

Why is this happening?

I'll tell you that I think that in any group of people, you'll have the people that will always work and always be productive, some people that will never work and never be productive.

You have a lot of people in the middle who could be persuaded to go on one side or the other.

And I think the left is determining, they're taking that middle group and kind of putting them in the group that is encouraging them to become government dependent.

Right?

Because there's a lot of people in the middle who are like, well, yeah, it's not so bad.

I'll just, you know, hang out here, not earn that much, but I'm okay.

Right?

So they're taking that middle group and making them comfortable with the dependency state.

I don't have a better answer.

That's truly frightening.

Why do you say that?

Why do you say that?

I resent it because

not only are you hurting people's physical health, that's for sure, you know, when you're not as wealthy a people, you're not as healthy a people, and you miss all kinds of problems, but also it makes people very unhappy not to be productive.

It's a requirement of the human condition.

I didn't say you have to have paid work, but you must be productive.

All the time in the emergency department, I see young, especially men, young men, I work in inner cities a lot who don't have a particular goal in life, and they're quite miserable at their core.

Women, it's a little bit different because often if they don't have a particular productive focus, they'll have children and that becomes a focus, which is a healthy focus.

But the young men, especially, flail, flail in life.

If they're not working and don't have a job and they're 21 years old, they're not happy.

And they're 25 years old and they're 28 years old, and it's kind of over for them.

And that's what we're doing to a whole generation.

I can speak to that very much, very strongly as an emergency physician.

We have the CDC.

This is the second time they have warned that schools must open up.

They're saying there's a really significant public health consequence of school closure.

7.1 million kids get their mental health services at school.

They get their nutritional support from school.

We're seeing an increase in drug use disorder as well as suicide in adolescent individuals.

We're seeing suicides at a record rate now that school is out.

How do we fight the media and how do we fight

the haters?

When you stand up, you see what happens.

So this is the thing.

I've participated in one school district, one region in California that did fight to stay open.

And I can assure you, it wasn't LAUSC.

It comes down to the local parents putting up a tremendous fuss.

They shouldn't have to do this, but they do.

And when they do,

they have a lot more success.

And I also don't think that parents should be participating in school districts that are ignoring what's best for children.

They can go out and do these things called micro schools.

That's where five families get together, ten families get together, they pull their kids, they hire someone like a college student who's home anyway, and they supervise online

school programs.

And in the afternoon, they go out and do something so that they engage socially.

But they should not be putting their tax dollars into a school system that is absolutely not serving them.

That's what parents should do.

Okay, so wait a minute, wait a minute.

So you use the school's online learning, but you have it supervised by some college students?

You do an online learning program, so you're technically like homeschooling, right?

There's a ton of options, tons and tons.

And then you do it just

within your community.

You have five or ten families that get together and do it.

And the advantage of that is you've now taken your tax dollars away from the local schools.

So the local schools will finally start listening.

You know, if a third of the class or half of the class doesn't show up, they lose their money and they'll start responding to the parents.

I would never participate in a school district that was holding my child hostage to something other than my child's welfare.

I'm amazed at any parents do that.

So

the

doctors that are

risking their license and everything else for hydroxychloroquine, I am on hydroxychloroquine right now.

Everyone in my family has had COVID.

I either have and it didn't affect me at all, or I haven't had it.

I'm the only one in the family that started taking it

before symptoms started.

Is there a a chance that this is

helping me?

Because

I have immune disorder and everything else, and I'm the only one after four weeks that

doesn't have it.

So I hear this all, I'm just laughing because it's ludicrous.

I hear this all the time.

Yes, if it was just you, Glenn, then we would say we don't know.

But we see this all the time.

All the time.

I don't know what to say.

The the science is there you know my website as you know got taken down but it's up and it will be better than ever with all the information people can decide for themselves and you know of course what do you access to you

what do you think about Fauci he came out this weekend during a congressional hearing I think it was on Friday and he said that the Henry Ford health system study that found hydroxychloroquine cut COVID-19 death rates significantly was a flawed trial he said it was published a non-controlled retrospective cohort study that was co-founded by a number of

confounded by a number of issues, including the fact that many people who received hydroxychloroquine were also receiving cortical

steroids, which we know from another study gives clear benefits, blah, blah, blah.

So the study is flawed.

The Henry Ford Health System in Detroit said, no, it's not.

It was peer-reviewed.

We did 2,500 patients.

13% of those treated with hydroxychloroquine alone died compared to the 26% that were not treated with hydroxychloroquine.

Do you believe, have you seen the study from Henry Ford?

And do you believe it?

Yes.

Yes.

No, the Detroit Henry Ford study was one of the very best studies that were done at this time.

And it was really an excellent study.

And I find it ironic that he would say that a month after it's been published.

And I would share with you, listeners, something interesting.

That study was was so promising for hydroxychloroquine that it was delayed about six weeks before it's published.

Now isn't that something?

Usually when something comes out about COVID it comes out at lightning speed.

It comes out within days before it's published because it's big news.

So the Detroit scientists were not able to do a press release about it until it was accepted into a journal.

A journal didn't accept it for about six weeks and then when they did they did a press release the Friday before July 4th.

I'm going to give you all of that.

It was a very solid study.

I don't understand if Bauci believed that, why he waited a month to say that.

It was an excellent study.

And let me share with you that the ones that were retracted were fraudulent when you look at how they were done.

It wasn't possible to have been done.

And others have used lethal or toxic doses of hydroxychloroquine.

Let me emphasize that the only findings, the only studies that found hydroxychloroquine didn't benefit were studying the drug late in the disease or using lethal or toxic dosages of the drug or using the drug in monotherapy without zinc.

All of the negative ones.

Hydroxychloroquine was one of the only ones that did a late study properly.

And they found 50% cut immortality.

And when it's done early,

it cuts mortality almost basically to zero.

Well, I'd be interested to see how what happens with me because I've been sleeping right next to my wife.

She's got it horribly.

She had it for five or six days, had a high fever and everything else.

Before, you know, and I didn't have anything, we both got home.

We started taking all of the same medications.

I've been taking it now for over a week, and I feel fine.

She does not feel fine.

It's interesting to watch.

Doctor, thank you so much, and best of luck to you.

We'll talk to you.

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program.

Lauren Culp is with us now.

He is currently the chief of police in Republic, Washington.

Before that, he served as a narcotics detective.

He served

in the military, then he ran a construction business for 20 years, and then he got into police work.

And he is running in the Washington state primary tomorrow.

He is leading the Republican field.

And what chance do you have, Lorraine,

in a state like Washington State?

Are there enough people that still believe in common sense in Washington?

Good morning, Glenn.

It's great to be with you.

Yes, I believe there are enough people that believe in freedom and liberty.

And that's the message that I'm spreading all over the state.

You know, we've got a bunch of people that have been in politics forever running against me, and I'm leading the pack by a long ways.

I saw your platform,

addiction mental health, individual freedom, liberty, smaller government, lowering taxes, support for veterans and police, reducing over-regulation.

You are a man out of time right now.

Yes, sir, I am.

And the message, though, is resonating not just with conservative-minded people, but with Democrats, believe it or not.

They are sick and tired of what the far left is doing, what our governor, who is a far leftist, what he's doing to our state.

You know, the homelessness, the drugs, the crime, the riots, the lockdown, they're getting sick and tired of it.

You know, a lot of Democrats own businesses.

They don't like the lawlessness.

You know, they want law and order just like everybody else.

And I'm spreading this message to 400 to 2,000 people multiple times a day.

I usually do two to four rallies,

live events,

all over the state.

And I've got 400 to 2,000 people showing up at my rallies.

None of my other competitors are doing that.

And the message is resonating across the political aisle because I explain about our Constitution.

I explain about the rule of law and that citizens are in charge, not the elected public servants.

And

it's blown up.

I mean, it has absolutely blown up.

You know, nobody wants to deal with a governor who acts like our nanny or our dictator, you know, telling us that we have to stay home and go broke.

You know, and they're fining people.

You know, he's weaponized departments in the state government that are not law enforcement, but they're going out and finding people

tens of thousands of dollars.

There's a barber right in Snohomish County that the state has fined him $90,000 because he cuts one person's hair at a time.

But you can go to a big box store or an abortion clinic or a pot shop here in Washington and be among hundreds of people.

It's absolutely lunacy.

So how are the, how are the, because I grew up in Washington state and Seattle's always been crazy and they've had a statue of, who was it, Stalin or Marx for a long time.

But it wasn't this crazy.

But there were towns like when I was there, Sumner and Puyollop and

Mount Vernon and Skagit County, all these areas that I grew up in that were farmers and

they were common sense.

But this is in a time when Bellevue wasn't crazy either.

How

the state seems to be overrun with Marxist.

That's a wrong perception?

Well, they are definitely the loudest, and they're the ones that the media panders to and puts on TV all the time.

But

we, the people, you know, the farmers, I'm in Skagit County as I'm speaking to you right now.

I had a rally in Skagit County, had about 450, 500 people at it last night.

The common people, you know, the people that work for a living, that make things in this country, that build businesses.

They're all across the political spectrum, right?

Democrat, Republican.

But the message of individual freedom and liberty is loud and clear, and those folks are standing up this time.

We have a really good shot of getting rid of Jay Inslee, because like I said, even Democrats are sick and tired of what he's doing.

You know, they come to my rallies, they email me, and the message that I have of getting our government back within the confines of the Constitution and the rule of law,

once that happens, then everyone is protected equally under the law.

That's the way our country was set up.

It doesn't matter your skin color.

It doesn't matter your age, your sex, your education, or anything.

Everyone is protected equally under the law.

And that's what's so great about a republic, which we are founded as.

So what should Inslee be doing right now other than, you know,

knowing that a major portion of

his state, Seattle, was under attack and they had actually lost several city blocks.

I mean, it was amazing when he didn't know that

during that press conference.

But what should he be doing right now?

If you were governor, what would you be doing to stop the madness?

Well,

I talk about this all the time at my rallies, Gwen,

to the audience.

I tell them that, you know, what he did is totally wrong.

You know, he's violating our constitutional rights.

And Washington State has some specific

amendments in it.

Article 1, Section 7, says that no citizen shall be disturbed in their private affairs.

And I'm amazed that a lot of people have never even heard that before because we're not taught about the Constitution and the rule of law in school.

But that will change when I become governor.

But Jay Ensley's trampling on everyone's rights.

And what I would do immediately, if I took over right now, I would open everything.

You know, I would have never decided who's going to win and who's going to lose.

I would have never issued his stay home, go broke order.

I would have had press conferences with the medical professionals to explain to the citizens what's going on, what we should do to protect ourselves, what might happen if we don't, and make sure that supply chain is as open as possible for the medical supplies that were needed, and then let free individual citizens decide what's best for themselves, their family, and their business, because that's how you are a governor over free Americans, and that's what we are.

We just need to stand up and take our freedom back from this tyrant that's sitting on you right now.

That assumes that people are responsible enough anymore.

I mean, our government doesn't trust the American people.

That's the reason we have these lockdowns and these debates over masks and everything else, because they keep changing their mind on what we're supposed to do, et cetera, et cetera, instead of just giving us the information and allowing us to do the right thing, expecting us to do the right thing because we're Americans and we always do.

Are the people of America

responsible enough anymore?

Well, I I've gotten asked that a couple of times.

You know, I've had people make the comment, well, I don't trust my fellow citizens enough to just give them advice and expect them to do the right thing.

And my response to them is, well, you don't trust your fellow citizens to do the right thing, yet you travel down a state highway at 60 miles an hour with nothing between you and your fellow citizens other than a five-inch strip of yellow paint.

We have to take back our rights.

We have to stand up for ourselves.

And the governor is put in place to run the executive branch of the state government.

Not every aspect of our lives, not every aspect of our businesses.

We are free Americans, and we just need to stand up and realize that and take back our freedoms.

What do you do about?

I mean, the city of Seattle is now teaching anti-white propaganda.

What do you do?

Does the governor, is he able to stop that?

What do you do about the

schools that

have just gone crazy with Marxist?

Well,

that's pretty simple.

I mean, on its face, what we're going to do when I'm governor is allow parents to have a choice where their children are educated, whether they want to go to a different school district or they want private school, home school, and I want the money to follow the child.

That will create competition between all the schools.

You know, just like in the private sector, if you own a business and someone opens a business down the road, you have to raise your standards.

You have to be better than your competition.

So, by allowing parents to decide where their children are going to go to school and having the money follow the child, that's going to create competition all across the board in our education system.

And parents will be in charge, and they should have been in charge all along of where their children are going to be educated.

And the city of Seattle educating the city workers

that you're inferior if you're white?

Right.

Yeah, the city of Seattle has gone off the deep end.

They're total Marxists, total socialists that are running the city of Seattle.

It's absolutely sickening.

But apparently the people of Seattle keep on voting them in.

And

if they do not follow state law, like these riots, you know, Chas and Chop or whatever the heck they're calling it now,

when that got out of hand, our governor, Jay Inslee, sent in the National Guard when the local law enforcement and the state patrol called for backup.

But he disarmed them before he sent them in there to a violent situation.

You know, they were burning and

they were murdering people.

There were assaults, all kinds of crimes.

And our governor sent our young men and women into a violent situation without the ability to protect themselves or other people.

I will not do that.

I've been in the military.

I've served.

I have trained.

I went to Drill Sergeant School at Fort Leonard, Missouri, where I helped to train civilians into soldiers.

I know the training that they have.

I will never ever send our young men and women into a violent situation without the means to protect themselves and other people.

And they would have gone in there and helped local law enforcement to shut those rights down.

You have been outspoken against 1639, which is Washington initiative to

take guns away from citizens.

Washington has some of the strictest gun control, and you said you would not enforce that.

If you're governor, what do you do with guns?

Yes, sir.

I stood up for citizens' rights back in 2018 against that anti-gun initiative.

Before there was an election, nobody was even thinking about a run for the governor's office.

And that led me to being on the national news, and I wrote a number one best-selling book called American Cop.

It went to number one and that led me to being invited around the state to Republican Party Lincoln Day dinners and sportsmen shows talking to citizens groups about our rights and responsibilities and that led to people asking me to run for governor.

You know I'm not the establishment pick.

I'm not the party pick or the media pick.

I was asked by citizens to run.

And that's why I threw my hat in the ring to help to take this state back.

I've got two grown sons and seven grandkids that live right down by Olympia, Washington.

And if I didn't, you know, at the age of 59, I felt, and I talked to my wife, Barb, of 43 years about this.

If I didn't jump in with both feet and try to help to turn this state around, I would regret it for the rest of my life.

And I do not like to live with regret.

So that's what has led me down this path to running.

You know, besides, I'm the only military veteran that's running.

Ran my own business for over 20 years and realized my childhood dream at the age of 49 and became a police officer.

There's a lot at stake here in this state, but I believe we can turn it around this time.

Lauren Culp, he is running for governor of Washington State.

The primary for the GOP is tomorrow, and we wish you the best of luck, Lauren Culp.

Thank you very much, Lawrence.

My website is culpforgovernor.com.

Got it.

C-U-L-P for governor.com.