BLAKPAC Chair George T. Farrel introduces the audience to BLAKPAC. George also discusses the mission of BLAKPAC to elect conservative leaders, what is the role of government, what is the job of a politician, what's wrong with Chicago's mayor's position on guns, how we beat COVID 19 and what needs to happen to become one America.
BLAKPAC Chair George T. Farrel introduces the audience to BLAKPAC. George also discusses the mission of BLAKPAC to elect conservative leaders, what is the role of government, what is the job of a politician, what's wrong with Chicago's mayor's position on guns, how we beat COVID 19 and what needs to happen to become one America.
Hello, my name is George Farrell. I am the Chair of blackpack bl AK Pac. blackpack stands for the black, Latin Asian knowledge political action committee. And we work to elect black, Latin, Asian, and other graces. We help to elect conservatives. That's our main goal is to elect conservatives. And when we say conservatives, we're talking about people who believe in traditional patrician traditional marriage who believe in the Second Amendment who believe they have the right to protect themselves, who want to start businesses, we're talking about small business owners, we're talking about people with families with children who believe in education, charter schools, and all those things. So we work to elect people who will represent those people. We also work to elect people who understand the purpose of government. This is very important, because you have to start with this the purpose of government It is to provide for infrastructure so that people can be successful. And what do I mean by that? Government is supposed to provide your roads, your sewers, your schools, and all the other infrastructure that goes with starting a business, maintaining companies, and everything else. So the purpose of government is not to rule over you. The purpose of government is to provide the infrastructure, the basis, the the boundaries, the lowest point for success are people who start their lives and be successful with the proper tool. That's the purpose of government. The idea to blackpack was started in 2015. But I'd always been involved in politics before this. So I grew up in Washington DC, in Washington, DC is a government military and education town. That's what that's everybody who works in Washington DC is either working for the government, the military, or an educational facility pretty much so when you Grew up in government. I started my political career as an intern for Claiborne Pell who started the Pell Grant. So as an intern, as an intern for Claiborne Pell, I was a student at Howard University. And I got involved in politics by watching it happen living in a government town. So I shouldn't went to work for the post office. But instead, I got involved in politics, started miles successful mortgage business in Silver Spring, Maryland, right outside of Washington, DC. And then I got to see what happens when government overstepped his bounds, because I had a very successful mortgage business, but the government stepped in and shut down the SNL industry. And that was amazing to me that they could take out an entire industry so that banks wouldn't have competition and then blame that industry for all the failures of the banking industry. So I watched my friends who owned banks go out of business just because they got money. To say they had to the government created an industry company called the RTC, which sucked up all these SFL assets, and then turned them over to North Carolina National Bank, which today is known as Bank of America. So when you see government overreach, you understand that government should not pick winners and losers should only provide the infrastructure. So that's when I really got involved in politics and making sure that people understand the purpose of government and the purpose of a politician not to pick winners and losers, but provide the basic infrastructure. So I got involved in politics, a very young age, Mary and Barry was mayor and I helped the next mayor and it goes from there and I've always also been a successful businessman. So I did all those things. But I didn't start blackjack until later, when I saw that a lot of blacks weren't being included in conservative politics. And that was disturbing to me because black black landed Asians have very conservative values. They believe in traditional marriage, they believe in starting businesses, and they believe in education, but they were not being representative in the conservative movement. So we started blackpack to make sure that blacks and Asians were represented in the conservative movement or the Republican Party. blackpack stands for the black Latin Asian knowledge political action committee because once blacks Latins and Asians understand their conservative values, they'll vote Republicans. It also stands for pretty much the largest. I hate the word minority because they're not minority. The largest group of voters in the south are blacks, Latin and Asians. 44% in Florida, all the way through Texas go through Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, you get to Texas and even Southern California, the largest block group of voters is blacks, Latin Asians voting together, and those are traditional. Those are traditional values we've been sold that we're that because you're black and Latin that you're not traditional, but it's Not true. We're very traditional leaving marriage. We believe in family, we be leaving the Second Amendment. And we believe in the right to educate our children. And we're pretty much the group that has brought all those groups together in a successful matter. And we've we've been elected Latins that we elected blacks, and we've liked it whites also. The Republican Party pretty much has token representation. They hate the word but it's true. They only have one black in the Senate, Tim Scott, one black in the house will hurt who's retiring. So it very well could be in 2020. No blacks in the Republican Party elected to the United States Congress. Tim Scott term doesn't run out till 2022. And he will be a token representation of blacks in the Republican Party. He does like to admit it, but he needs to step up and help other blacks get elected, so that we can all get more representation and have our voices heard. Blacks are, should be elected to more offices as Republicans Because they have they share republicans beliefs. So when I say that token, the republicans have been playing this game where they only have one black here and they say, oh, we're not racist. We got we know this one black guy like everybody has the one black friend. Well, that games not going to work anymore really needs to be blacks in leadership positions, not just cheerleader positions, but leadership positions that share their values and share their knowledge. And we're working to elect a lot of those blacks are on our web page, by the way, which I have not given out yet. www.bl KPAC dot g o. p is our webpage. If you go to our web page, you'll see every black, Latin, Asian that's running for congress this year on our web page, and we're pretty much the only group that has done that. And other groups are starting to copy us and come along and we're happy for them happy for a new journey pack. Happy for Elbert Guillory and all the other groups that are joining in to help us elect more minorities to office in the United States. This is a mental thing, we have to stop accepting these terms that limit us like my Lord. I don't like that term, cuz I know a lot of Mexicans, Asians, Filipinos, Chinese Venezuelans that are all conservative. But when we vote together, we're not minorities. And we have to understand that particularly in Florida, Georgia and Texas. I don't, you know, in 2024, neither Georgia nor Florida should have a white governor because they're not the majority, but we're brainwashed believe that we have to follow this mindset Will you also always have a white leader. So once we break that mindset and understand if this country truly is about equal opportunity, and United for all and justice for all, then blacks and Latins once they break their mindset that they're not a minority, they'll start electing people that represent them. And that's what we have to get to in the United States if the United States is going to survive as a country. I mean, for example, your governor in California, I don't know who he's representing. But he's not listening to the people of California, right. They're the people of California when they go back to work and get to work. What we found out it I guess I'll bring in what we're talking about is this covert disease. And I understand I'm afraid of it myself. But it's not killing more than 1% of the population when this disease was announced by false. It was we were supposed to have 3 million people did by this month. That was scary. I mean, he presented this thing that if we don't get this under control, we're gonna have 3 million people did well, we have 140,000 that's still I'm still sorry, and, and pray for those people. But that's not the plague. So you know, we have a medical society that can solve cancer that people you know, cancer used to be a death sentence in the 70s or 80s. When you heard somebody had cancer was a deaf So you started going down to your bucket list. What do you want to do now? This lung disease, which is what is a lung disease is not a death sentence. So we have to come up with a society that lives with it and controls it and does the best we can. And closing down the whole economy doesn't solve the problem, changing our habits, maybe wearing masks. So what I like to do is, is see us live with this disease, find ways to cure it or fix it or get over it as soon as possible is not a death sentence. But it is a hard disease to get over like a tough flu. And the flu does kill people if they don't take care of it. So we've got to do some changes in our lives but shutting down the country is not one of them. We need to survive this disease and move this country forward. We both have a friend that has survived cobit his whole family's his his husband, wife and children has survived this disease and they survived it early on in So we know it's not a deficit. And once I spoke with him, he said, You know, I knew I had this I tested positive. But we survived it. We stayed in the house, we stayed among ourselves. Our whole family got it, and we're fine now. So we need to get that message out. This is survivable disease, but you need to treat it as soon as you detect it, and don't wait till it gets bad. You may not have to wait for testing. If you feel sick, you're sick and you just do whatever is recommended. Once we get that together, where where we get the word out that this is viable disease, that's when we open the country. That's when we understand what's going on and how to survive it. So what I'm seeing now in the message we're not getting out is we never put out the notice that this number of people have survived this disease. We put out the number of people who catch it, but not the number of people who survive it. So first, we've got to flip that number and say this many people survived it is survival rate of madness. 790 8% and then people will understand, hey, if I catch it, I'm not gonna die. If I catch it, I can survive. And that's where we are. Now, once we get that message out, we can fix our economy and turn this thing around right now we got people, not even going to movies, the movie industry is devastated. Nobody's even shooting a movie. So it's got to be something that we understand we get some vaccines or treatments. And once we get those treatments and understand it, we beat another disease where America also beat these things. We have too much regulation in the United States when it comes to business. And I can say this because I do business all over the world, our organizations known all over the world, but we also have our School of Business that I work for, that sells products in all over the world, Philippines, Jakarta, India, India, and Pakistan. We're in China, we pulled out of China six months ago. We're in the Philippines, we're in South Africa. We're all over the globe. And I find it easier to do business in those countries where you deal with one government agency for the entire country, then to do business in the United States. When I do business here in California, I have to register for every single county as a vendor. That's just too much government. There are 63 counties in Florida, I have to register as a vendor in every in all 16 counties, even though it's online, it's very tedious. I have to register for a vendor in almost every county in every state to do business. That's just too much regulation. So one of the first things we have to do is either have state oversight, where the state gives you a business license and is good everywhere in every county. And I think we need to go through these counties and that's part of the problem. every county has a situation where they're handling it individually. Every city is hammering away. Every state is doing something different from the state next door. So we have no unified policy. So under a state of emergency which the President should be operating, all those little regulations need to go away so we can deal with this unified. And we're not doing that there's a lack of leadership or his wall, I will point out where he's wrong. He's not leading correctly on this pandemic, in the States, and counties are all doing their own thing. So we have this disjointed approach that's making this whole thing worse. Plus, we're not getting the information that we need. I want to know how many people are cured every day. I want to know how many people are getting out the hospital, not how many are in the hospital. I don't know how many people are getting out the hospital. And we're not giving that information to give people that notion that this can be successfully fought. You know, when you when you report that how many people have it. You're thinking, hey, how many people are sick, and that's the wrong way. That's the wrong news that we need to hear. And that goes to the news, the people who enjoy putting out bad news. There are some places where five or six people have died in a county, but you're reporting that you got 300,000 infected. Well, that's success. But we're not reporting to the success we're reporting as it were already failed. And that goes back to the CNN and all the other places that enjoy giving bad news. We have the right to bear arms and carry guns. Now, I don't want to some people go overboard with it. But people who are illegal or criminal shouldn't be the only one to have guns because when criminals know that law abiding citizens, so have guns, you have a high crime rate. I did a speech in Texas for a woman group. And one of the questions I asked one of the first questions I asked was, how many of you have a gun and I'm in Texas, and each woman said had a gun. I say how many guns you have. Each woman had three guns. Oh, there was one they had a little pretty one in their purse. They had another one they kept in a car and another one in their house. So if you're in Texas, you know not to mess with a woman in Texas, especially if you see him in booth because they're going to be ready to shoot you in our urban areas in our markets where we've taken guns and made guns illegal. Likewise, Chicago, which has 60 shootings a weekend is like a sport out there. How many people cannot pick off? And why is that because they've taken away the right to bear arms. You know, if these families are getting shot at in their front yard, if they had guns, these guys would think twice before just shooting up the block. So all we've got is we've got a criminal. We've created an element in our urban areas where we've outlawed store owners and how homeowners to have guns, so only the criminals have guns. And I saw something funny from the mayor of Chicago, blaming Trump for her gun trouble making. No you have a police department that doesn't even go All patrol, that's what your troubles cover again. And you're not going out over patrol because they're not getting the backup from the mayor, who is talking about eliminating her police department. So if you're a cop, why would you go out and put yourself in danger for a city that's not going back to you up? What we created now is the criminals know that the cops aren't coming out and they're just going out and random criminal sprees. And taking advantage of small families and young women and all this other stuff is really, really painful to watch something that can be fixed. If the mayor of Chicago had the will to do it. If she doesn't have the will to do it, is she's blaming it on the President and the President has nothing to do with her crime problem. She's the mayor of that city, the buck stops with her. A political action committee is a group that cannot coordinate with the candidates that they're working with but can help to get them elected by doing TV commercials, radio commercials, knocking on doors, getting out the vote. Maybe you Your people are getting out and voting for the candidate that best meets your guidelines. So our guidelines are conservative guidelines. We support candidates that support charter schools that support the second amendment that support low taxes. That's that's our three main things that we support. If we find a candidate that we like will support those candidates that will help get them elected. One of the first people elected to Congress in 2016 was Brian mass. He's a Mexican he's a congressman in Florida, in Broward County, Florida, or St. Lucie county on the east coast of Florida. He was elected in 2016. We also helped elect Karen Handel, who was the first woman ever elected to Congress from Georgia. There's never been a woman elected to Congress from from Georgia before. We did a lot of smaller races. We did a school board races which I think is the most important elective office I think school board is the most important elective office. And we're seeing that right now, as we try to get kids back in school. The things that school boards did is they fed kids through this crisis. They had box lunches ready to be picked up. For people who are out of work, who couldn't get their kids to school. They didn't have recreation centers, but they made sure everybody buddy ate. So I admire a lot of school boards that stepped up right away and started feeding kids, no matter what their income or their education level, a lot of our kids got fed by school boards. And that is something that was incredible. And I admire all those cool boards. That's why I think school boards at the local level are one of the most important elective offices that you can have. Because what would happen if we had school boards decided not to feed children. We'd have starving children. Let me put it in real perspective. I have a chart that shows how much the democrats have raised for minority candidates, which is why they beat us so badly compared to what Republic Americans have raised. Republicans just this year in every year raised $3 billion a year to elect minority candidates. The Republicans barely break a billion, maybe 100 million is what we'll spend on minority candidates. We're not spending anything to compete with a black lives matter, or the n double acp. And these guys are, are just raking in the money right now 3 billion a year can buy a lot of votes. And that's what the democrats are doing. You can buy a lot of mines. It gives you the resources to buy radio ads by television ads, to buy canvassers or pay cameras and knock on doors and go into different communities which were which is not competitive in a lot of communities. There's like Michael Jordan says, you know, he took the last shot in how many games but as Republicans and as conservatives, we haven't even taken the first shot in a lot of communities. So we're not even there. So it's hard for people either consider voting for us if we haven't taken the first shot. So you have You have all these groups, National Action Network, and not a lot of them that are well funded. If you go into black communities and tell us, Hey, why don't you go get abortions. And that's what these groups push, they push abortion or black communities. They push the take our Second Amendment rights. They tell us we don't need education, that we're wasting our time in school. And a lot of these groups don't believe in a nuclear family. As a matter of fact, the Black Lives Matter doesn't believe in the family. I don't know what they believe in because if there's no family, there's no country, there's tears, no society, without family. So they actually believe that that they should tear down the society and break it up with no families. We elected the first Asian ever to school board into Cobb County and in Georgia. Now, that was a major success because Asians had never been on a school board in Georgia, and that's where I suggested that they start and I started Congress, but suggest that we've had success with our training programs, we've trained over 60 or 70 candidates to run for office again, we push a lot of our candidates to run for, to run for local office is a four or five day training program that teaches you how to message how to how to interview, how to get your message out there, the proper materials to hand out. It goes and we actually do a lot of training, where we live training where we take people out, knock on doors, so that they can introduce themselves properly. We train them in how to do an interview how to how to do a commercial, and we train them in fundraising, we help them write a proper fundraising letters and all that. So our school for candidates is very, very inclusive. It is actually taught by people who've already weren't like a Jennifer Carol Elbert Guillory, so our school isn't taught by people who've never held office when we do a candidate school is taught by people Who are winners who've already run for office and can give you real life lessons. So that's, that's one of the things that we like to do. And we've done it with Asians and Hispanics and, and we also end up in our candidate schools and guys who have worked with me have actually ended up working in politics. So we've got a lot of folks who have come through blackpack, who actually have ended up working for congressman or working for different PACs. So that's the successful part of our Pac. So we started in 2014. And I thought about this the other day, the first time Jeb Bush ran for office for governor, Florida because Florida had been a democratic state up until Jeb Bush became governor. The first time he ran, he lost because someone interviewed them and said, What are you gonna do for black people? He said, probably nothing. He lost. The second time he ran. This was before Pac. I just happened to live in Florida and met Jeb Bush and thought he was a good guy. And I didn't like the current governor who was known as a heat coup. That was his nickname. He calls so you know, he calls himself a vehicle. You know, it's not going to be good for you. Oh, we helped Jeb Bush when the second time we won by getting him into the black business community. And as soon as he won, one of the first things he did was give Florida a&m or law school back. But one of the very first things he did was he had one of his staff members search me down, and he gave me a Jeb Bush watch. And at the time, I was wearing a Rolex. As a Wow. So, you know, this person sought me out and said, Hey, Jeff wants to give you this. He gave me a Jeb Bush watch with Jeb his name on it. I took that my Rolex off, start wearing my Jeb Bush wash. As I thought that was nice that he thanked us because he recognized but this was just something I was doing as a business person. The second governor that we helped before I did a pack was rick scott in Rick's guy had called call me right after he won the thankfully I'm thinking about it. I was thinking it I did this as a business person. If you're a successful business person in a black community you also pretty much a successful leader in the back there by looks for you for for guidance and advice. So, before I even started a pack, I was active in politics, but I knew the importance of having the proper government officials in decision making the ability now before Jeb Bush came to Florida, if you told me what Florida was, if I had to tell you describe Florida to you remember the old TV show show in the heat of the night. We care a lot O'Connor, who was Archie Bunker? That's what Florida look like. That's what most Florida towns look like. When I moved to Florida. All the blacks lived in a section of every town in Florida called the bottoms. I you could describe it as the bottoms because when as soon as you went to a black community in Florida, the palm tree stopped. You could tell you are in a black hole. community because there was no palm trees. And you knew to turn around. And that's not only St. Petersburg where I live. That was Orlando. That was Miami. And that was a Jacksonville. So all the black neighborhoods never even had palm trees, the thing you moved to Florida for, they didn't have. And it was like a warning sign to stay out of those neighborhoods. So the other thing that I did with Jeb Bush is we developed a thing called one Florida, a one Florida plan. And the purpose of that plan was to make Florida no matter what neighborhood you lived in, what matter what school, you went to more of the same resources for everybody. very successful program. And that's the power. That's the power politics when you have access. And you can say that to somebody said, well, there's two Florida's I see it every day. And we have two economies here. So we need a mindset where there is a one Florida or one California or one Nevada Before we get to a one United States, and that's the power of having access. So in that plan was very successful because all the schools in the black neighborhoods were rated F, all the schools in the white neighborhoods were rated a they weren't getting equal resources in Florida is now a better a better country because I had access and others had access to the government to explain these things to make it right, where the previous government he co was part of the problem. So are we really going to be one country? Are we really going to bring this together? Or should we just throw up our hands and forget about it? Our mission going for it is to have a more united country, a country where blacks Latin and Asians are more you right? It's a matter of fact, the other day I was thinking in my old County, which was Pinellas County, Florida, is there had never been a black person on the school board. I had the first black Person appointed Her name is Janice darling by Jeb Bush. And the other day, I'm looking at my old County. And there's three blacks now running for county commission never happened before where there's been three blacks running his county commission. But I can look back and say that, and I was joking to myself that I'd violated the Prime Directive. But I moved to Florida, which is All Star Trek. Because now I was thinking, wow, these guys never even thought they could run for office until I moved there and started working there and showing them the difference that it made being elected official. So now three of the people that I had been friends with are still friends with are now running for county commission in St. Pete City Council. I was just thinking that I had something to do with that by working with in politics and showing them the power politics to make their communities better. So it does make a difference when you get people elected. And I, it doesn't matter which one gets elected this county commission, because I know they're all going to do what's best for the county. They're all going to help businesses. They're all they all understand the purpose of businesses. And I think what it comes down to the church, maybe to come out of the church. So it's wonderful to see that influence that you can look back and say, Hey, I knew those guys may never even thought they could be politicians, or that they could be leaders. And now they're all community leaders, and they're all coming up. I think what's important is that we understand that the purpose of politics, purpose of the politician, purpose of government, provide for great infrastructure. The purpose of a politician is to go to your, to your budget, increase wealth in your communities. That's the purpose of a politician. And once we understand that we understand the importance of having good roads of having even a great park to play in which a lot of artists These don't have great parts. I mean, these things are right now I was just thinking, one of the great things about Florida is that even when you don't have any money you can get, you can go to a beach. And if that beach is clean, that takes your family mind off of, you know, there were lots of times when I took my family to the beach and we would just order $5 pieces and sit on the beach for six, seven hours it takes your family's mind off it is certain things that we should be doing as politicians during times like this, where we allow we have access to great recreation, great outdoors activities, even as for a few hours, that's important also, and I see a lot of communities that don't have great parks, but we need to have great safe parks where our families can walk and stroll and walk the dog. So even anything as basic as a park or beach is important, especially during times where people are going through cobit All we're getting is bad news every single day bad news every single day. We got to turn this country around, we got to make sure it's fair for everybody. And that's one of the things that blackpack is doing by making sure that the right people get in office.
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