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Garcia Discusses Political Topics Affecting Santa Clarita Live With KHTS

Congressman Mike Garcia, R-Santa Clarita, joined KHTS for an interview Wednesday that touched on current political topics affecting the Santa Clarita Valley, weighing in on former-President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial and Garcia’s opinions on California’s COVID-19 response.

In a live interview with Garcia on Facebook, the congressman discussed several political topics concerning his constituents, beginning with a discussion of the recent presidential election and its aftermath.

“The impeachment was truly political,” Garcia said. “There was no due process or due diligence underpinning any of either the accusations or the process itself.”

After the election results, the interview then transitioned to the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, with the congressman describing the events as devastating and heartbreaking to watch unfold.

“It was not the appropriate response, and frankly [to] anyone who is either behaving that way or supporting the folks that were behaving that way, the storming of the Capitol was about as bad a display of patriotism that we could have imagined,” Garcia said. “They need to be held personally accountable.”

When asked about sharp divides displayed within both Garcia’s own party as well as the Democratic party, the congressman described the divisiveness between political factions as detrimental to the nation.

The interview shifted to a discussion about COVID-19 and the state’s response to the pandemic, with Garcia, describing the country’s vaccine rollout as swift, but that the state’s response was relatively slow.

“[Governor Newsom] has a track record of not understanding COVID,” Garcia said. “He’s really been driving us into the ground, closing our businesses, closing our schools.”

The discussion shifted to the proposed recall of Newsom and Garcia’s main criticisms of the governor in terms of state response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“He has reversed several policies like capital punishment and he’s putting our small business community into the graveyard,” stated the congressman. ”We’ve got to get him out and hopefully get enough signatures to remove him in November.”

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The interview also included a discussion of local issues, including school closures and the congressman’s co-sponsoring of the Economic Recovery Act of 2021, a bill meant to support recently-unemployed veterans. 

“During the pandemic we’ve seen the unemployment rates of veterans almost double, and as a veteran myself this scares me,” Garcia said. “We’re offering technical training and vocational training specifically to veterans between the ages of 22 and 66.”

Garcia closed the interview with a reminder to his constituents regarding his continuing commitment to transparency with his district.

“You can count on me to communicate,” stated the congressman regarding public discussions with his district and his continuing goal to make his office as open to the public as possible. “My goal is to make sure everyone in our district knows what’s going on and where I stand on the issues.”


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Garcia Discusses Political Topics Affecting Santa Clarita Live With KHTS

10 comments

  1. Based on your own statement, Drumpf should be held accountable since he supported the insurrection.

    “It was not the appropriate response, and frankly [to] anyone who is either behaving that way or supporting the folks that were behaving that way, the storming of the Capitol was about as bad a display of patriotism that we could have imagined,” Garcia said. “They need to be held personally accountable.”

    Please stop with your political rhetoric

  2. ??????????

    Keep it up. We support you!

  3. “YOU, are a liberal MORON.”
    This comment is a personal attack and, as such, against “community standards.”

  4. Interesting interview. Misinformed, but interesting.

    When it comes to impeachment, there aren’t any protections for the president laid out in the Constitution.

    The House, which acts as a prosecutor, has the sole power of impeachment. The Senate, which acts judge and jury, has the sole power to try all impeachments. The Constitution says each house may determine the rules of its proceedings.

    Let that sink in. Rules are determined by each house.

    It’s easy to believe a presidential impeachment is like a criminal prosecution — evidence is gathered, a trial is held, and the president’s fate hangs in the balance. But impeachment is a political process, not a legal one. As a result, it has entirely different rules that make certain protections that are reserved for criminal defendants — like due process — irrelevant.

    The argument that due process was violated is wrong for two reasons: First, the clause does not apply because none of the interests protected by the due process clause are being denied here — the sanctions are removal and disqualification but not the deprivation of life, liberty, or property, which the clause protects.

    By claiming due process violations, Trump’s attorneys are invoking a specific set of rights and protections under the 5th and 14th amendments – they do not apply to impeachment.

    And yet, Trump got many of these protections anyway. He got even more than a defendant in court would get; his legal team was able to meet with Republican senators who were serving as jurors as well as victims.

    To suggest that due process requires that a president facing only loss of office get more rights than a criminal defendant facing loss of liberty or even life is not only constitutionally unsupportable, but ludicrous.

    For Mike Garcia to continuously float these absurd allegations just further illustrates his ignorance of rules of law and signals his sycophantic pandering to a man willing to burn down democracy because he didn’t win the election.

    • Interesting diatribe, but Mike wasn’t talking about impeachment,
      But thanks for the education, Iguess.
      Mike was talking about the need for folks to be held personally accountable for the insurrection,
      As well as covid.

      The real insurrection started before Trump ever took office. The agitators include the democrat and Republican politicians, the FBI, the CIA, antifa, the media the America communist party, big tech, billionaire globalists to name a few.
      This well-orchestrated treason seems to have doomed The Republic.

      “Liberalism is a mental disorder” To be tolerant of others is what they want but can’t live by,

      Let that sink in

  5. Perhaps a reread of the opening part of the article would refresh your memory:

    In a live interview with Garcia on Facebook, the congressman discussed several political topics concerning his constituents, beginning with a discussion of the recent presidential election and its aftermath.

    “The impeachment was truly political,” Garcia said. “There was no due process or due diligence underpinning any of either the accusations or the process itself.”

    Rioting, looting, killing on Capitol Hill was a choice. As are vapid insults. Yawn.

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About Tim Smith

Tim was raised in Santa Clarita and attended COC before transferring to UC Berkeley in 2017. After getting his B.A. in political science, Tim joined KHTS as a News Intern in 2021.