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- speaker-0: Hello, everybody. Welcome to another episode of the Orange Report, California Views, Orange County News. I'm your host, Kira Davis. Of course, you can follow us right here on Axatkira Davis or at Orange Report OC, all across our platforms. So you see, I've got another person in this box with me today. That is my good friend and and ⁓ candidate for state superintendent of public instruction here in California, Sonia Shaw. Sonia, welcome to the program. speaker-1: I'm excited to be here, Kira. speaker-0: I am so happy to have you here. We have so much to talk about. I want to get started, but I want to read your bio just really quick for people who are just getting to know you because we do have a national audience. ⁓ and I'm gonna read right from her website. Sonia never planned to run for an office. She's a cheat donator who overcame a challenging childhood. She was ⁓ content as a soccer mom cheering on her two daughters from the sideline. But when California sideline parents during debates over closures and mandates Which is when I ran for school board, she could no longer stay a spectator. Starting out by attending local school board meetings to advocate for her daughters. And I'm reading you this, people, I'm reading this to you because Sonia is you. So if you're thinking, ⁓ I could never do what she does, I'm reading this to you. You can't. Sonia's fight for our children grew into a movement, and she was elected the Chino Valley Unified School Board President in 2022, where she championed parental rights and has won landmark battles. against our state, including the Attorney General Rob Bonta. ⁓ and Sonia is now running for the state superintendent of public instruction. So there you go. Sonia, tell us a little bit, expand on that a little bit. You guys, you and I have known each other since 2022, since all of this went down. I was running for school in school board in my area. You were running in yours and you won. ⁓ but tell us about that moment in time because when I was ⁓ you know, thinking about getting in, it was just all mama bear stuff. I just was like, I can't take this anymore. I need to do something. Tell us about you. speaker-1: It's so true. I mean, we were all looking up to each and every one of us that were just a voice, ⁓ including you, Kira. Our mom group was like sharing your videos. ⁓ my she's like us. And that was the most beautiful part is we were all coming together organically to fight the same mission to protect our kids. ⁓ some of us knew more than others and some of us understood the agenda that was attacking our children more than others. ⁓ but the most beautiful part is we were linking arms. I always say that we were linking arms, fighting the good fight. moms like you inspired so many like myself to get involved and just to get out there and not be afraid of the outcome. ⁓ on because our kids', you know, future is at stake and we've all seen that. ⁓ you know, and so I just started attending the school board meetings not even knowing that I was supposed to be a paying attention to these elections. And I'll be the first one to ⁓ you know, admit, but also use that as a testimony to wake up and start paying to attention to your local ⁓ city councils and school boards because they make the most important decisions about our lives and it impacts us on our daily living, you know, and how everything plays out. And then when we found out, which a lot I think a little bit before we did, ⁓ in Chino, the special interest groups were already in control of our school board, and that was terrifying. To see, you know, in in a district where I grew up and I trusted and I volunteered and pour my heart and gave my most beautiful, precious gifts for most part of the day, you know, Monday through Friday, my daughters entrusted them. I didn't know there was an agenda and I didn't know these people were elected to make these decisions. All that to say when of like myself and myself, and you know, ⁓ my mainly moms, we say that all the time. Newsome poked the wrong bears, the mama bears. ⁓ when we've seen a problem, we don't give up, we don't give in. And when I finally plead with our school board enough, I looked him at the eye in the eyes and I told the three out of the five that were on the wrong side of history, You're done. We're done. We're not playing around anymore. We're gonna learn what it takes to run elections and we're gonna do it. And look at, you know, over two elections we now five people out of five. That care about our children and want to protect education and more importantly, protect parents' rights and make sure a good teachers are supported. speaker-0: Yeah, Sonya, you completely flipped the board. And ⁓ that is an amazing testimony to what the power of the mama bear spirit. I really think that that really is responsible for igniting not just your race, but just the mama bear p spirit, period. For igniting this liberty movie that we're seeing now in California. Hang on one second, Scott. Is there something going on with the sound here? Sonia's dropping in and out. speaker-1: Yeah, and you're dropping in and out. speaker-0: Not sure why, but maybe this is a internet issue. All right, well j we're just gonna push through it though. speaker-1: Maybe it's just us. speaker-0: It might just be us and then the recording will probably even it out, pull it together. So sorry about that, Sonia. It's okay. You know, technology wins at the end of the day. Let's let's talk a little bit about what you did, Sonia, when you became the school board president. Because I think a lot of people may have s I in fact I know a lot of people have seen clips of you. They probably don't know it's you, but they've seen clips of this crazy school board president who's hollering at the state superintendent. Or hollering at, you know, crazy activists, ⁓ getting a lot of heat, getting sued by our state. Tell us what happened to you when you took the presidency of the board, because it wasn't like we went in there and you everyone was like, Yay, Sonia's here. Now we can finally do everything right again. And it's not like the battle ends when you win the election. No. speaker-1: I think it got a little thicker, to be quite honest. ⁓ first of all, they told us we can't. And I every time they tell you you can't, it's like what how we raise our kids. If someone tells you you can't and you know it's in the best interest of yourself or the people that you know in my in my ⁓ position you're supposed to be representing, you just show them how ⁓ and I think that really takes the mom spirit in you to be like, no, you are hurting children. ⁓ so again, I'll go back to prior to sitting on the board, I was watching and becoming aware of the legislative process. ⁓ and assemblyman Philip Chen, he was the only one that opened his door in our area and he kind of walked us through the whole entire process and he showed moms like myself how it works, what they're doing. ⁓ so I started paying attention to bills. That's when all the grassroots were coming together, all the grassroots parent organizations that were popping up because we wanted schools to open and focus on reading, writing, and math. during the l you know, those long, prolonged school closures that brought us all together. ⁓ but with that, I was seeing bills like tampons and boys' restrooms, ideologies legislated to be in the classroom and I was terrified. I was like, What is this? Who are these people and why do they want to do this to kids? And so with that, when I became the school board president, I used to beg my school board to be the voice and And write us ⁓ opposition letter because we're never in ⁓ you know, offense, we're in defense over here in California, unfortunately, ⁓ when it comes to protecting our kids. But I would beg them, even when Biden was ⁓ trying to pervert Title IX and change the word sex to gender, which we knew what would that would do. I I even have a video of me at the school board pleading, please go on. Everybody can log in as an individual, but you can all log in as districts and organizations and say this is wrong. And they wouldn't so when I became the school board president, right out the gate, there was an assemblyman who now is a US attorney named Bill Astelli. And he brought a bill. And I always say Bill brought the bill that wok up California and sent it across the nation because it literally just did that. ⁓ and I'll get to why. Bill's bill was offense, finally. It was saying he saw the writing on the wall, he saw what his fellow legislators were the majority of them, I mean, were doing. And ⁓ he saw what was going the the thing from parents, right? And pushing this gender ideology into the curriculum. This is not something we made up. This is a law in California. And I still tell parents, if you don't believe me, just go look up the laws. ⁓ and his bill said something simple. If a kid were to identify as the opposite sex, I really do not like the word gender. I feel like that's an ideology that's a religion to them. ⁓ it's sex, male and female, but if a kid were to identify as the opposite sex, the parents would be notified. That's it. Bill's bill was not thing insane, but he saw the right. Yeah. And so when he brought that bill, I said, you know what, brand new school board member, let's make a resolution and support it and let's be the ones willing to go testify as, you know, the experts in a school district, blah, blah, blah. You know how that works when you go up there to Sacramento, ⁓ instead of all the special interest groups testifying and taking away parents' rights. speaker-0: Nothing crazy. speaker-1: ⁓ I brought the resolution and next thing you know it, we're in San Bordino County, a little school district. I mean, we have about ⁓ on average, you know, a little over twenty thousand kids that we represent. But there's an assembly member from Riverside County in our school board meeting. And, you know, it was kind of cool when our legislators locally ⁓ are closing the door in our face. Here we have a legislator thanking us for bringing a resolution that supported his bill. And he said, you know, he had bad news though, they wouldn't give it a hearing. And Kira, I'm sure you're like me with that whole word of democracy, but yet there is none of that if we even put that in there because they everything be hidden from the public. They don't want hearings because then it brings it out and then people become aware of things. So for them not to give it a hearing, regardless of them having the majority, means what? They're trying to hide it. I mean, come on. It's kind of funny hiding secrets, not funny, but funny, ⁓ from parents and then hiding a hearing, right? They don't want a hearing. speaker-0: Yeah. speaker-1: So with that said, he said, The good news is I'm an attorney. And guess what? You can make your own policy and you don't need the law. There is no law that would violate you in your own po and I was like, in that moment, it went off in my head, why are we wasting time on a resolution? Although I like the law and we still would support, you know, the bill if it were to go through. We quickly got to work. And that's where a lot of us, including yourself, became closer because a coalition was formed. ⁓ California Family Council kind of ⁓ brought us all together and we're talking about, you know, group leaders, ⁓ non religious leaders, religious leaders. You're I was so I know California loves the word div diverse. It was diverse since that so many people, including Bill Iseli, attorneys, Aaron Friday, Jennifer Kennedy, all these amazing people that we've seen in this fight come together. and we were working on a mindful policy that we hopefully would bring across every school board and give them the opportunity to do the right thing. And of course, Newsom heard of that. And he heard of the time we were gonna have our board meeting. So he sent down his little Tony Thurman to our board meeting to bully us, even call before and try to tell our superintendent to poll it, which by the way, ⁓ California school board members need to realize they are the boss of the superintendent. speaker-0: I want to ask you about this and I'm gonna stop you right here 'cause girl, I have the Tony Turman clip. We're gonna play that, but 'cause people need to see it. But I wanna ask you about this because the school board I ran for ⁓ did not flip the year I ran, but it flipped it two years later. So it is a conservative or Republican leaning school board, which is what it's supposed to be nonpartisan, but that's what we want for parental rights. And we were very excited to start doing some of the things like getting some parental notification policies. We were looking to what you were doing, the ⁓ us activists here, and we were saying, Great, we can't wait. And our school board has consistently held off on it is 2026. Now we ha we still don't have anything like it. But one of the issues that I hear from not only our school board members, but members across the the state, this isn't just them, ⁓ is that they feel They're scared of Rob Bonta and Newsom and they feel like, well, if we put these policies or we pass these resolutions, we're gonna get a lawsuit and our school district just can't afford it. And we're scared of of the law. We we don't want the I don't know what they think the state really could the state's not gonna shut down any public school, but I don't know what they think the state is gonna do. Speak to that, Sonia, to some legislature. Some some legislators, excuse me, who may be out there sitting on school boards feeling a little nervous and feeling like, Well, that's Sonia. That's a she's a firebrand, but we can't do that here. We'll get in trouble. speaker-1: Yeah, well, first of all, we were all elected during that time for a reason and that's to protect kids. And if it's not us, then who? And if Sonia can do it, then I say anybody can do it because I'm a mom who cares with a heart, who is not afraid to lose the seats, right? We can't be afraid to lose the seat. Too much is at stake for our kids. And when people know where you stand, they will get behind you, they'll decide they will even get in front of you when people come to attack you. That's how a leader should work. They should never be afraid of the seat. They should actually be igniting other people to fight the good fight, in my words. ⁓ so with that, ⁓ nobody should be afraid right now because we have a Supreme Court ruling. We have our ruling locally, you know, in our courts over here. but a Supreme Court ruling, that's the ruling of the land. ⁓ and that is the highest ruling that we should, you know, be able to Okay. And well, let's go back to why they shouldn't be afraid. ⁓ we were sued within five weeks with taxpayer dollars, and luckily Liberty Justice came to our rescue, offered pro bono ⁓ help. But during that time, we had a injunction on our policy because it called out what we saw. Because remember, policies in California actually said you have to keep secrets in regards to this. So we actually spelled it out. We were transparent like we should be. We had an injunction. Okay, cool, whatever. We don't give up. We believe in Parents saying we knew parents have a God given constitutional right. So what we did is we went back to the drawing board and we said, okay, parents are going to be notified of any unofficial or official record change. That includes a child saying they want to be called something different. That's an unofficial record change. So if there's a will, there's a way in California. Trust me, there is. I've worked around their incredibly unethical system many times and we've had the wins here because we're just not willing to give our kids on a silver platter. So with that, we went through the long-laying battle, but being we passed another policy that still protected parents' rights to know. In court, California court, I kept hearing Tony Thurman scream, Newsom scream, the legislators, even the the law that they made in response to districts like ours, AB nineteen fifty-five, the C what I call the secrecy law, they were all coming and saying kids have a right to privacy from their parents. And we knew that's not true. ⁓ so even in California, even with the judge who's appointed. And probably obviously, in my opinion, not on the right side of his he did rule kids do not have a right to privacy from their parents, period. Dot our current policy was never touched. Anyone can adopt that. Obviously, we want it in court. ⁓ so I don't see why people would be afraid at that moment because you have a ruling that cu you can use in your favor. Plus, they had the backing of Liberty Justice to back them for free if they were to get in trouble. So you had two guarantees. Now. Let's take it a step further. You had two amazing, beautiful teachers who refused when they were stack of secret identity gender plans from their district. And they said, No, heck no. I mean, we have Jessica Tappia, you know, who did her own thing in her district, which we love her. And then you had Elizabeth Mirabelli and Lori West, who took this fight all the way to the Supreme Court. And we were actually our district was a whistleblower's because in the law that they made in response to us. There was a secrecy training that they were forcing upon teachers. That was Tony Thurman and the rest of them, and telling us to defy the order of our federal ⁓ government, including our president, that said parents have a speaker-0: stop you right there be what you just said and I think people need to hear this that our teachers our public school teachers were being forced to take and and still are actually being forced to take secrecy training. I don't know if you saw that video the other day Sonia that came out it was a he was a ⁓ a trainer in a school he was in a high school LGBTQ and he he was standing in front of the kids telling him look You know, let me tell you something. It's gonna be hard for you to hear. You can't trust your parents. Your parents are the enemy. They cannot be trusted. This gay LGBTQ, he was there for the alphabet program for Pride Month, I think, telling I mean this is this is not just a notion. It's a lot more than a notion in a state like California. It's the law. speaker-1: Yep. It's the law. They push it. They scare people. They fire people when they don't ⁓ you know, go along with it. ⁓ and you know, again, Elizabeth Mirabelli and Lori West deserve all the support in the world. They gave up their careers to protect parents' rights and more importantly to protect the children. They knew it was wrong. ⁓ you know, one was even a PE teacher like Jessica Tapia. Yeah. ⁓ speaker-0: We had her on the show. speaker-1: Yeah, and it and it ties them into letting boys and girls go into each other's locker rooms and sports teams that you've seen many of us on the front lines of fighting against, they are relentless at destroying ⁓ the lives of children. And Elizabeth and Lori said no. And when the training came out from the state, from our state superintendent, California Department of Ed and ⁓ Newsom and the legislators. ⁓ I asked for our s our superintendent, you know, because again, we are the boss. I said, Give me your login, logged into there. I was mortified. I will continue to expose expose a lot of it online, but you know, people just don't pay attention daily. ⁓ mortified by what they were doing. And one of the modules was how to keep secrets from the parent. And right away in my gut, I ended up calling. ⁓ you know, a cu a few friends, Greg had just ⁓ from California Family Council heard about this too from somebody else who took it. And we went to ⁓ Thomas More Society, another great firm that is protecting, you know, parents' rights that ⁓ was repres representing the two amazing teachers. And we gave up and we said, Here, go show it. They're lying in court. My opponent is actually testifying on behalf of the California Department of Ed in this case, saying that California Department of Ed has gotten everything right. They should be holding the secrets. And I'm over here like, I swear I would give up Everything and I have, you know, technically I've offered to give up everything to fight this fight because they're relentless. They come after your life. These people have followers that just do not care. ⁓ and at the end of the day, we got that huge from the court that said, No. But here you have the state doubling down and still trying to do backdoor deals to keep secrets from parents. You still have activists in the classroom keeping these secrets ⁓ you know, from the parents. Well, I think speaker-0: Need, I think we need to ask Sonia why. I do think people need to start asking the question because what you just said is so very real. First of all, I want to reiterate what she said. She said Lori and ⁓ I'm sorry. I'm sorry Maribelli. I can't remember her first name. ⁓ they they gave up everything, they gave up everything. So I don't want to hear any school board official saying I'm scared of X, Y, or Z. What are you there for? These women gave up everything to protect our kids. If you had even the slightest idea of what Sonia Shaw has been through while she fights for our kids and her kids, you would be ashamed. You would be ashamed to just sit there and not I just I don't understand people in this job, Sonia, who don't have the passion. for children. And that really burns my buttons. And I'm I talk a lot about school boards on here and bravery. So I wanted to reiterate you saying you what you just said there about what you're willing to give up. But the other thing, the other aspect of this is that ⁓ this the state is the it's your opponent, right? Your opponent is testifying on behalf of the state saying we've done everything right. They've done nothing right. The state has been working on this and this is why you people need to be attention paying attention now. The state's been working on this since 2000 since 2012. In 2013, Kira Davis was on Fox News talking about the gender transition program and the gender ⁓ and the transgender ⁓ lessons coming to school and everyone thought it was ridiculous. That was 2013. Everyone thought we were crazy. We're talking about Hey, they have lessons on masturbation for your kindergartners, you know, and everyone's like, That's crazy. There's no way that's happening. Yeah. So it took over a decade for that to matriculate up all the way up and then into the classroom. So these things take time. So when you have a person like Sonia here, you know, saying, Hey, this stuff is happening, you need to listen because what you don't want is 10 years down the road, you've not listened to her, and now you're in a new You're in a new era. But Sonia, why do you think they work so hard to get our kids? Because if they're willing to defy it's one thing if you're like, hey, we're making law. This is the law. This is how it is. But it then it's quite another when you're willing to defy the Supreme Court of the United States, the president of the United States, the Department of Education of the United States. If you're willing to sue parents, if you're willing to pull kids out of class to go march, to go protests, if you're willing to pull funding, these people are willing to get violent. They send death threats. They you know, you've had your family threatened. Lots of people in working on the regular moms, not even people in media like me, like just regular moms, have had their lives and livelihood threatened. I don't think enough people are asking why. Why are they fighting so hard for your to to get your children away from you? speaker-1: Money. Control and money. I public record requests since I was just a mom before I was on school board. I followed the money. I see the organizations. They talk about 80 organizations ⁓ support this bill. And you're like, let me go pull the funding. ⁓ member PRISM is a training that required teachers to keep secrets. The one that I was talking about, it's actually called Prism. I asked for the public records. I wanted to see the training, I wanted to see the emails, and I wanted to see the receipts. Pulled it. Every organization that's been fighting us on parents' right seat at the table and their pockets deepen from these ideologies being pushed into the classroom, including our governor's wife, who profits off of videos being put into the curriculum, into the classroom shown to your kids about confusing them and showing them about different kinds of, you know, boys can be girls and girls can be boys and this and that and how you have to be supportive. And then you go into the medical part. It's all money. They want to put clinics on campuses. Our governor candidate. I mean, we don't have too long to go into this, but I remember being a brand new school board member in DC, California School Board Association. We had an event out there to go advocate and and you know appeal to our legislators on things that have to do with education. This is before Becerra decided to run for governor and he was, you know, part of what is it called? I don't know his official title, ⁓ the health of HHS. And he was over there. speaker-0: Director of HHS. Yeah. speaker-1: You school board members in California need to have gonas and you need to let me in. We have money put on campuses. And I'm over here like, ⁓ my dear Lord Jesus, these people are relentless. They work tirelessly to like put it on our app. Why do you need a clinic on a campus, a school? Like, we can't even teach kids to read, write, and math. And now we need to have clinics on campuses, but people need to look at the bigger pic picture and say it's not, it's not happening. Yes, it is. In the bigger districts it already did. San Diego Unified has clinics on campuses. LA Unified has clinics on campuses. Riverside looks like it's about to start those things cut into the grants that do all these things, you know, and having these clinics. They try to do it in Chino Valley with our previous board. Like, heck no. ⁓ but at the same token, people need to realize this is a bigger agenda. It's about control and it's about money. Your kids become money, and if they control them and they're not gonna be like Kira, Sonia, and this mom, this dad. Fighting the good fight, then guess what? They have control of us. They don't like us because we don't just get busy with our normal day-to-day. We challenge them with what they're doing to destroy our children. They don't want. I can't tell you, Karen, you probably know this. I go into interviews where I know they're gonna do a hit piece on me. And they always go, somebody of your caliber, it's really interesting. You got this far. And I'm like, why? Why? Because I'm a person in my community, I meet all the qualifications to run for the elected offices that I'm running for. Why are you so surprised? Because the machine that was built was told, told people like myself, you can never challenge it. You can never get in. Well, guess what? Again, we're going to continue to show you we're going to get in. We're going to break down the machine and we're going to represent the people that we should be representing, which is our communities and not the special interest groups that keep these really bad wicked people into office, right? speaker-0: Yeah. This is ⁓ this is a a big this is I'm calling it the death of the expert class, which is, you know, we've been told the left has been telling us for particularly the left, but then but it's everybody, to be honest, it's everybody. It's the elite class, which is telling us you've gotta be an expert in X, Y, and Z. ⁓ even when I ran for school board, people were saying that. And like, what is more cliche than a school board mom? You know, but even when you run r run for school board, people like you're not qualified. Well, you know, I've had kids for, you know, twenty years. I think I'm pretty qualified to do it, but ⁓ I do want to be it's a business. speaker-1: Right, Kira? And they look at it as a business. Why wouldn't we want to look at it as a business and have somebody actually direct towards reading, writing, and math? People need to ask themselves why are they so against pushing the basics and making sure kids are ready and we don't have universities screaming, California kids are not ready. That's happening. You can't deny it. The professors are signing and and gathering together saying California kids need remedial math. Remedial reading. I mean, you talked about elite. Well, the elite want their kids to succeed, but if they dumb our kids down and they make them not be able to challenge things, the elite does. They're always in power. They're always in positions. They're always having businesses that the rest have to just follow behind. No. That's not the way that it should be. That's not the way our founders set it up. That's not the way that God had set it up. ⁓ I refuse. I mean, we can both go back to living our normal mom lives. I can go back to being on Every soccer game sideline that I so desperately don't want to miss, but I know my kids won't have a future. Their kids won't have a future. It's gone too far. Like you have to start getting involved. At the very least, turn in your darn ballots. Enough with this sitting on the sidelines. You know, Spencer, they would have done a lot more if he had gone to the general, but the very fact that we had over a hundred thousand Republicans sit on the sideline and not turn in their ballot, shame on you. You're part of the problem. And I will call it out, you will call it out. Stop sitting on the sideline. You have too many people giving everything. The least you could do is turn in your ballot. We have people like Carl DeMaio, Tony Stri our Senator Tony Strickland, Carl DeMaio's and a for getting you know election integrity on the ballot. Turn it in. Stop making excuses. Cause when you will get involved. speaker-0: When we had That's right. And we had ⁓ LA G O P chairwoman Roxanne Hogue on the show a few weeks ago. And she basically another firebrand, I only have fire brands on the show. She basically said the same thing. ⁓ this is ⁓ it's a lot of it's turnout, and we understand there are other factors, but you really can't control those other factors. The only thing you can control is your ballot. Now, there are people working on and you know, election integrity, and that work is going on. Including by Bill Asaley, who's been mentioned a few times on this podcast. So that work is going on, but your work is to get to the ballot box. Well, speaking of the November election, Sonia, ⁓ you are really blazing a trail out there here in California. This is a position that a lot of people don't even know exists. I be honest, I didn't know it existed until 2022 when when all this stuff started happening. And I was like, what's going on? A lot of people don't know this exists. Some people might know the current. Superintendent of public instruction. Some people, maybe like a few hundred, Tony Thurman, who ran for governor, ⁓ I think he was polling highest at like point five percent. But you national listeners will know him as the black guy who was complaining that he couldn't get on the stage because of racism. But in reality, he was polling at point six percent. Like, it's a pay. ⁓ That's right. It's a pay I mean, it was just ridiculous. But ⁓ there is a ⁓ just a beautiful moment that needs to be, you know, isolated and framed in our meme hall of fame whenever that's coming to America. But one of the I think Sonia did it was sort of like a ⁓ like a movie moment, like the thing you dream of. If I could be in charge, if I was the president, if I was the senator, I would do this. So I want to set this up and I want to play this and then I'll have you comment on it. So yeah, this is ⁓ number five, Scott. ⁓ so Tony Thurmond, I'll set it up for us. Tony Thurmond is our public, ⁓ our superintendent of public instruction. Now that position holds ⁓ it heads up the education department holds a lot of authority with curriculum, what's going on with schools and school board and administration administrative type stuff. And ⁓ And ⁓ and Tony Thurmond has done nothing like every other Democrat in that position. But as Sonia ha now, she has set up this whole podcast, she has set up what she was doing when she got in there. The the thing the steps she immediately took immediately put her on the radar. People were upset, so upset the governor sent Tony Thurmond down to to little Sonia's meeting, just little local school board meeting. ⁓ this guy never goes anywhere. You never see the superintendent of public instruction. He's never anywhere. He shows up and he want not only does he want demand to speak, which he has his ⁓ pub allotted public time, he wanted more time to speak 'cause he's special. But Sonia did not give it to him. So we're gonna play this clip. Go ahead and s and play it, Scott. speaker-1: Not only may fall outside of the laws that respect privacy and safety for our students, but may put our students at risk because they may not be in homes where they can be safe. Time time and I learned something from a previous board president. Nice, be respectful. I'm gonna do a point of order, which I learned from a previous board president. Tony Thurman, I appreciate you being here tremendously. But here's the problem we're here because of people like you. You're in Sacramento proposing things that pervert children. You had a chance to come and talk to me, Tony. By all means, you had a chance to come talk to me. Why was it so important for you to walk with my opponent? You are the very reason why we're in this. May may I have as a point of order as the board of order this is not your meeting, you may have a seat because if I did that to you in Sacramento, you would not accept it. Please sit. You're not gonna blackmail us. You already sent us a blackmailing letter on previous You'll not bully us here in Chino. Please see. speaker-0: Turn up order. Bueno, bueno, bueno. ⁓ speaker-1: Break. speaker-0: Thank you, Scott. I loved how at the he was like point point a warder. Like he demanded it. What's his meaning? As if this was his meaning at all. You are nobody, sir. You just got here. Hilarious. speaker-1: said when he said point of order, I was like, ⁓ no, no, no, no. We've been in Sacramento, they cut your mic, they take time when you justify, play games and I'm like, and you're gonna demand a point of order? No. We don't do that to you. speaker-0: mean point of order, sir. You are not on this school board. You are here is a regular attendee. By the way, how do you like it? A minute ain't that long, is it, son? speaker-1: Yeah, and I was in Tony's inbox for I I wanna w the sense, you know, the shutdown. So what that's two years prior to me even taking that seat. So and he down and walked my opponent the only time she walked. ⁓ the previous board president. So of course people don't get the context, but I was being I ⁓ I was really thanking him in all seriousness, but I was also being kind of a punk with just saying, Come on, like you are you joking me? Like speaker-0: It was you weren't being a punk. You were you were deli that was justice. That is these are your rules, guys. So you're gonna live by these rules. But that's a perfect example of the arrogance and the entitlement of the typical California politician. Just people are ⁓ they just really feel like They that you do you do not matter. You do not matter to them. They feel like they are kings and queens. And that was Tony Thurman acting like a king. And ⁓ I think it's hilarious that he decided he was gonna run for ⁓ governor. I'm gonna guess that he's just looking for a different type of position. Let's talk though, Sonia. We're running out of time here this hour, but let's talk since you mentioned it about Tony's job and and ⁓ him coming and acting like he's running the meeting and he's not. But Scott, let's bring up let's see, let's bring up number three. I want to talk about this story, Sonia. ⁓ the reason why Tony showed up and the reason why Sonia said, ⁓ you walked with my appoint ⁓ opponent, why did you do that? Is is because Sonia was dangerous from the start and that's what it looked like to them. And when it looked like she was going to win, they've been easily walking into these positions for years without a battle. So that's what scared them. So as it turns out, now that Sonia has declared her candidacy and now she's won the primary, she's a Republican non nominee for public instruction soup. Gavin Newsom all of a sudden says, you know what, we don't really need this position. I'm thinking about just making it more of a figurehead position. We're going take the powers away. And we're gonna ⁓ put it under the auspices of the governor's office. Let me just read a little bit really quick, Sonia, and then I'll get your reaction. Governor Newsom passes the biggest power. I'm reading from California Post, biggest power grab in California history over state superintendent role. ⁓ Republican candidate for the position, Sonia, has accused Newsom of orchestrating a sweeping power grab and leaving the office. She wants to run powerless. Newsom Couldn't win at the ballot box, so he changed the rules. He just ran through one of the biggest power grabs in California history, she told the California Post. This isn't education reform. ⁓ California's children deserve better leaders ⁓ with better answers. The measure was fast tracked. So again, here in California, we don't do anything fast when it when it comes to legislation that can help the people, nothing is fast. But this was fast, fast as Prop 50, allowing it to move. through the legislature as part of the budget process rather than the committee hearing process. ⁓ and the legislation has drawn criticism. Newsom slipped this into the budget process and rushed it through Sacramento before the public could fully scrutinize it. That should alarm every Californian, regardless of party. Sonia, I was absolutely astounded by this move. We have talked a little bit about this ⁓ in a few times we've seen each other over the past months and to me it's absolutely astounding that watching you rise which to me tells me you're gonna win but then watching your rise and watching them go, ⁓ okay, we're gonna change the office then, not only does this feel it's ⁓ like a type of cheating and it kind of is, but it's really gross because it is Democrats going, California is blue, can only be blue, can only be one run by one party. And that's the way it is. And we are going to make sure that no other party wins despite what the people say. The people want you in this position the way that it is now. And I think they're gonna vote for that in November. And yet that this is what the governor has done, and they are fast tracking it. A, congratulations on being that big of a threat. But B, as a voter and a mom, I think it's disgusting. I think it's disgusting and pathetic. Your thoughts. speaker-1: March twenty twenty five five or April, I came out and said I was for state superintendent. ⁓ they saw the writing on the wall. They threw in their long I mean, they even threw a speaker of assembly into the race. They threw all their legislators. I think we had what, four legislators in the race. ⁓ they threw the best that they could, even including one that gets paid to be a consultant to Tony Thurman, who's been part of the failure, ⁓ my opponent now, ⁓ that the teachers union spent six million last minute to just get them second place. speaker-0: Six million. speaker-1: polling when we first got in and they started to see that building movement too big. I I mean we always talk about that too big to rig, right? We just gotta keep building the movement. I'm building a movement alongside all of you guys with getting school board members re-elected, school board members candidates to run all across California. They know that. They see it. We haven't been quiet about it. ⁓ so January, you know, Newsom had mentioned something about it and we were like, ⁓ he's gonna wait to see what happens. April, he they propose a bill, sidetracked that bill all the way fast forward to June, the primary. We won first place in the primary, and then he guts and amends a budget trailer bill, which is totally not even giving public the chance to come out and say something and passes it with the majority of the crazy legislators that are on the wrong side of history. It's the most egregious attack on our con our state constitution and the will of the voters. I've said it over and over. It's the biggest power grab in California history, but they're not done yet. He talked about breaking the glass. We already see others that threaten him. Now they're looking at their positions that are elected positions and taking their authority away. ⁓ people need to again follow the money. The state superintendent has the ability over grants. That's where the money is. That's where they're, you know, these special interest groups go. ⁓ and now they want to give it to a governor appointee. Again, this is not reform. They've had how many decades since we've been to the moon to change education? And all they've done is send our kids on a downward spiral of failure, taking parents out of the equation and building a machine parents like they are just up against something they can't even compete with. ⁓ and now all of a sudden they do all of this, the writing's on the wall. They know we're coming for that seat in November. They know that school board members are coming for those seats. They know we're building a movement that affects God forbid, you know, God sends one of us to heaven. That movement's gonna continue. And that's my plea to California. Do not let this movement stop. This movement is too big. Too much has been sacrificed. Too many people are giving their all. They know that. We need to understand that and fight not to give our kids ever to this egregious failure ⁓ that they're putting out, you know, them on. we have the most money in education, $150 billion a year. And you will just hear them crying. More and more and more from taxpayers who are just trying to provide for their families. A hundred and fifty billion dollars a year, more than half of our kids cannot read. Less than, you know, thirty-seven percent can do math at grade level. This is again by design. This is a and a national push. And that's why, Kira, you and I have been vocal when we get national spots on me to tell the rest of the nation, do not give up on California. You have the most biggest, most aggressive, you know, moms and dads fighting on the front line. That is preventing all of that to going to them at a fast track, you know, because this is a national agenda and it really truly is, because you and I are both also friends with people, mm, parents and school board members in the Redis of Red States where they have a good governor, they have good legislators, and guess what? Their school boards are already being hijacked by special interest groups. Yeah. Yeah. They're trying to scream to the communities, wake up, guys, and no one's paying attention because they have this false sense of ⁓ you know, cover over them. ⁓ we're doing something bigger than just California. I really do believe that in my heart. And so does Newsom. They know that. So does Bonta, our attorney general, who should be getting criminals. But they're even all soft on crime when it comes to those that do egregious things on children who do the most v like I I d I have no words that are in the English vocabulary without bad or speaker-0: ⁓ Yeah. speaker-1: And they're letting them go. Come on, like, shouldn't that be enough to wake up every person, regardless of par party line? ⁓ they talk about how we're, you know, causing division. No, we're bringing unity. We're bringing people that don't usually pay attention, like myself six years ago, to pay attention to these people who are destroying their lives. ⁓ I'm excited though, because if they see that, they know that we're gonna win it in November as long as we get everybody to show up, pitch in. I I can Tell you, once we get somebody like me in that position and the rest of the school board members re-elected and new school board candidates elected, it's game on because those legislators will have the spotlight on them. They are not going to wiggle out. They're not going to get away with putting things like this, you know, behind the scenes and other things that parents don't even know exists. ⁓ you're gonna have a state superintendent literally screaming at the rooftops of California saying enough already and standing in their way. They see it coming. And I'm I mean again, I am so excited for this opportunity. I know we can win this. We're going to win this as long as we all come together. ⁓ and Kira, let's show them what these moms ⁓ they told us we can't. We're gonna show them we will. speaker-0: They haven't even seen the beginning of it because now a lot of us are like me, now my kids are adults. Like I just got the last one out of high school. So now I really don't have anything to lose. Like you really they really haven't seen anything. I haven't forgotten what we went through, you know? I mean, a lot of times the parents age out of the system and that's how they continue to play all these shenanigans because parents have aged out and they're like, I don't have the energy for it. I'm moving on. But I don't have to move on. ⁓ and so they have no idea. But the other piece to this is that if Sonia gets to go to Sacramento with a golden ticket, so we've got Steve Hilton for governor, Gloria Romero, Lieutenant Governor, Michael Gates for A G, let's her Morgan for controller. Let's say these people get in. If she if she wins with she is going to win, but if she wins with a gov a Republican governor. That changes the game then no matter what Newsom does with this position. Now that Republican governor can either change it back or he can, you know, right all the wrongs with the grants. Either way, Sonia, I feel like this will be a great position for you to be a spokesperson in, if nothing else. I don't I understand the money party, right? That's important. I get the money part. They're taking away the power of controlling these grants and that shifts culture. So there are other ways you're gonna have to work with that. But I think they're really missing the piece, which is you've got ⁓ you're gonna have a big bullhorn. speaker-1: Yep. And they can't outwork us, Kira. They can outfund us, but they cannot outwork us. No one can outwork a mom or a dad with a heart to protect the kids. And that's the truth. ⁓ you know, I get up and I ask God every single day, where do you want send and when he tells me to rest, I'm like, Okay, God, I'm I'm rested. Please send me back in. ⁓ and you know, again, I'll I'll bring it back to we are building something so great, they see it. And don't think that we're gonna let them get away with this. I have met them in court. We have won them in court. ⁓ and I'm already exploring, you know, those legal avenues to challenge them once we get this position. So they're not gonna get away with it. ⁓ again, we're looking at, you know, the unconstitutional part of it. And we'll tell you with Michael Gates alone, him and I have spoken about this and then the boys and the girls sports ⁓ thing. You have a state superintendent giving guidance guidance to the district, and you have a attorney general that says, No, we we're not gonna let this happen. And you have the federal government to back us up. I mean, can you imagine what's gonna happen? It's gonna end on day one. Let's be done with this and move on so we can focus on reading, writing, and math. We don't have all these, ⁓ you know, our girls being attacked parents, you know, feeling like they don't have a seat at the table. ⁓ again, they see the writing on the wall. I'm yeah more than excited. We have look, the the the finish line is right here. And it's not a finish line for us because we're gonna continue no matter what. Yeah. And look at you, even though you know, God didn't want you in the position of school board, look at how you're supporting and you're bringing awareness through your platform. We all have that ability to do something. And I and I tell people that all the time. Stop saying that you don't matter, you can't, or that person is better at this. We'll have a and that's the truth. I know I'm a fighter and I know that I am willing to get in there. ⁓ they can threaten me out. I mean, just last week we had a phone call into the district and I was kind of giggling but not giggling with one of the chief of staffs of, you know, assembly men, ⁓ Philip Chen, ⁓ Allie. We become good friends and we were catching up at lunch and I'm like, how crazy is it to like say this out loud? I have to call my family and say, Okay, ⁓ you know, Madison and Brooke, you just gotta be a little bit more alert. There's it's in our family again. Like of course my family ta has taken all the precautions. I have a C C W. Don't worry, we're not stupid. speaker-0: Great American. speaker-1: How dumb is it? I mean, how sad is it and how bizarre is it to have to even be in that position as a mother to have to call your kids and say, hey, there's another cycle willing to make it public that they want to do something to us. But I tell people all that to say, guys, if they want somebody like me out, what have I done? Protect parents, make sure, you know, at least in our own district, and also pr you know, be the voice of the girls in other districts who have come to it. speaker-0: Right. speaker-1: Me, Sophia, and Jessica Tapia, ⁓ when their the boys are in their sports and and locker rooms, when I have girls crying that they've been sexually harassed. And I have girls, you know, we have the junior hire up there in Placentia Yor Belinda, and that they're now being federally investigated because this beautiful, amazing, strong, you know, child. Why are we allow allowing children to fight this? I have no idea. But she ends up ⁓ you know, somebody ends up in my inbox with her story that she refuses to allow. These ⁓ this boy to go into their restroom and their junior high. And she was in the principal's office constantly, like, look, you gave me the nurse's office, but that doesn't take care of all of my other, you know, ⁓ fellow girls that are being faced with this. And my heart is like, Thank you, Jesus, for courageous people. But how did we come to a point in society where we let kids fight this fight? Yeah. Enough. Yeah. speaker-0: We're gonna answer for that big time. Like we're gonna have to stand before God and answer that question. It is it blows my mind to even I just these girls are fighting the fight. I don't know. Sonia, we're creating a whole generation of fierce women. That's what we're doing. Yeah, we are. Yeah. Because they're they're becoming fighters because they have to fight. All right, we're running out of time, but before we let you go, Sonia, ⁓ I do have a couple of questions I like to ask all my guests. ⁓ these questions. one question I I have for every guest is is do you have a book? Is there a book or an article that you've read, could be at any point in your life that changed your mind about something. Doesn't matter what the topic is, but like made you think differently or maybe even changed your life. We always exclude the Bible because that seems like, you know, a no-brainer. But and if you haven't read the Bible, you should read it. It will change your life. But Sonia, you've read the Bible I already know. So we're excluding that. Is there a book or an article or anything that comes to mind? speaker-1: There is. ⁓ when I was in the corporate world, ⁓ back, you know, when right out of high school and ⁓ I was managing a department and I was reporting directly to the vice president, I remember him telling me like, you know, when you come down and you're like, No, this can't happen and we have to solve this. I remember him like saying he loves my passion, but he said, I need you to read this book and I'm like, Okay, what is it? And it was it's all like ⁓ don't sweat the small stuff, it's all small stuff. And I remember reading Book and it's so cool because we've my husband and I ⁓ were very close to him during that 2008, you know, economy crash. Unfortunately, we both lost our jobs during that time because we were in construction and he was my boss. ⁓ it it was so cool, but we kept this relationship and I reminded him two days ago on the phone, do remember that book? Because I had called him something about, you know, my cabinets in my house. And he goes, ⁓ look what you're dealing with now. He goes, That that's all small stuff. Remember that? And I'm like, Dude, that book kept in my head. Wow. ⁓ because we're dealing with this. Looking down below, that was all just regular small stuff. Okay, whatever you, you know, you fall down, you get back up again. ⁓ but with the bigger picture of what we're dealing with, it just put things in perspective for me. And it helped me like kind of look at things like, okay, is this a heel or is this something that, you know, we can fight and not have to like lose sleep over, right? ⁓ so you know, a a missing A broken cabinet or something is something you could just deal with, fix it on the side and just on. But, you know, our girls in the locker rooms and, you know, all these things that are going on that I, you know, do not like in the education system, those are the big things. So again, I like that book. I reference it all the time. I just ⁓ that's great in perspective. speaker-0: Wow. Fantastic. Don't sweat the small stuff. I love it. Okay. And last question. If let's just say I wave my magic wand and tomorrow you get to be Queen of California, but just for one day. But you can change one thing. You can change anything you want in the state. It can be a law, it can be the way people are. It can be the regions. You can change anything you want. But you've got one day to do it and you only get one decision, Sonia. What are you doing? speaker-1: Okay. It's hard because I wanna be silly but I also wanna be serious, so I'm gonna give my speaker-0: Michael Gates had a really a hard time with this question. He gave me something very serious. I wanted him to ban people who don't put their shopping carts back, but he was being very like attorney general about it. So Yeah. speaker-1: So of course I would just on day one, the the serious stuff, ⁓ I would ban obviously and in girls' locker rooms, sports teams, but if we're gonna go like silly route, ⁓ the the right lane, the slower lane, can we please have it legal to put them all there and then lane where you're actually going the speed limit at least, put them in the left lane. ⁓ because you know, getting behind a big old semi, I mean I I respect the fact that they get ⁓ food on the table and everything. But being stuck with them on the fast lane when it's like two of ⁓ I'm all, ⁓ my lord, I if I was a legislator, I would make them all go the one lane designated for them. So again, that's silly, but it's just one of my pet peeves when people I mean, I think it's like a common thing, right? That we're supposed to know right lane slow, left lane a little bit faster. speaker-0: We're supposed to. But to be fair, Sonia, we have a lot of people driving in California who don't have a legal driver's license. So I think a lot of it is just people who aren't who never took a test and really generally speaker-1: I would legislate everybody to have to take a course like how we did in high school. Remember we ⁓ driver's ed? We'll go back to everybody has to take driver's ed, no backdoor deals on your license because of all safe. speaker-0: One. I like that one. ⁓ and our assembly member Kate Sanchez, who's ⁓ my assembly member, she actually has a bill right now. I don't know where it's sitting in committee. Who knows how far it'll go, but she has a bill right now that she proposed to ⁓ align the traffic lights in every California city so that you're catching the greens instead of right now the way it is, you're like you're stopping at every red light. Yeah. So she wants to time. the traffic lights correctly. I think that's amazing. ⁓ and so I hope that Kate gets to be Queen of California for one day so she can do that. But yeah, no, I approve of yours. And of course, as as superintendent, state superintendent, you would do a lot more of the legal things in that one day. But I also approve of your left lane policy as well, Sonya. Yeah. speaker-1: Putting shopping back. Please. Unless unless your kids are in the car and I get it, there's no rack. I I'm totally a hundred percent for that. You might mom Moms get exemption. speaker-0: Moms get exemptions. Yeah, they do. All right, Sonia, before I let you go, tell everybody where they can find you, where they can find your campaign and donate to Sonia's campaign. Don't forget you don't have to be in California to donate her campaign. ⁓ and just so you know, everybody, Sonia actually does have enough money to run. It's just in your pocket right now. So but otherwise she's fully funded. So get it out of your pockets so she can ⁓ get that to the appropriate places. Tell everybody where to find you. speaker-1: I agree. Shaw for CA.com on the upper right, there's a donate link. I'm telling you, anywhere from five dollars to, you know, those that may have to give up half of a Starbucks string, because I think they're a lot more than that. ⁓ but then obviously to those that can max out, the max out for me is 9800. We have a few of those and I appreciate everything in between as well. ⁓ just knowing and showing that we will pay the people who are contributing to letting us win and get voters to understand our messaging. ⁓ that's on everybody. I need all hands on deck. I cannot compete with the unlimited funds of the union, but I can utilize the money that's given to me. I appreciate it and we use it well. ⁓ clearly we won first place, you know, compared to the six million that they had. ⁓ but we don't have a long time to do it now. We don't have 15 months to raise money. So please, all hands on deck. You could find me obviously here at the real Sonia Shaw because I think there was another Sonia Shaw fix that. ⁓ but ⁓ also Instagram, Sonia Shaw twenty twenty-six. Facebook is the same thing, Sonia Shaw twenty twenty six. Follow and as Kira probably says this many times, share. Share, reshare, send it to your friends, send it to your circle. And please, in November, you can collect your neighbors' ballots, sign, they sign, and turn it in if you don't think that they're going to turn it in. ⁓ we don't like the fact that that is legal, but they do it. They collect all the union workers' ballots and they tell ⁓ how to vote. And that's who's elected because they're working harder than us in that sense. So please just go to your neighbors. You all have a circle and you have a gift. I always tell people, pray to God, give them your yes. He will show you where he wants you in this battle. And we all come together and it's a beautiful thing and we're all fighting the same fight, ⁓ linked arms. And that is my most, you know, ⁓ plea that I would ever give to you is just please give them your yes and and be utilized in this fight to protect our children here in California. You don't want to miss out on the celebrations, but we also need you in the time where we need off. The blood and the sweat and the tears from those of us that are on the front line to push us back in there and lift us up and pray for us and pray for our families. speaker-0: It's not gonna be easy, everybody. I know it feels like it should be because we've been living under duress for so long, but they're not gonna give this power up easily. So it does take a battle. It does take people who are willing to try and then try again. ⁓ and so of course, Sonya will we appreciate you, we support you and ⁓ fully endorse you, of course, on the Orange Report and I personally do as well. That's not a surprise. I want to thank you so much for coming on the show today. Sorry everybody for the technical difficulties, but it'll be worked out in the ⁓ replay, no worries. But everybody sees Sonia. Look, if you can't vote for her, I feel sorry for you if you can't vote for her in California, because it's not often we get a great politician, somebody you feel really good about checking that box for. Sonia's one of those people, but you can again support her. And so your dollars are gonna go so far in a state where they just have endless tax dollars and endless union money. to fight. Sonia, God bless you out there. I will see you out on the campaign trail. speaker-1: Thank you, can't wait, let's do this. speaker-0: All right, everybody, and that's our show for today. ⁓ I'm taking off this week. I'm gonna be at speaking up, Sony. I'm going to the Teacher Freedom Alliance conference in Dallas. Yeah. So I'm speaking on a panel there. So we'll be taught my panel is ⁓ anti-union, you know, how to get out of the union. So be speaking there. So we'll be a little sporadic in our broadcast this week, but we will be getting content out to you until we meet again, everybody. Don't forget that sunlight is the best disinfectant. So bring on the sunshine. Peace. Bye, Sonia. Bye.