Only 40% of LA Republicans Voted and They're Still Complaining | Roxanne Hoge

GuestRoxanne Hoge, Chair of the Los Angeles County Republican PartyGuest BioRoxanne Hoge is the Chair of the Los Angeles County Republican Party, the largest Republican county party in the United States. A legal immigrant from Jamaica and a U.S. citizen, Hoge is a former business owner, actress, and SAG member who has run for California State Assembly and the LA County Board of Supervisors. She has appeared on Fox News, CNN, and OANN, and writes for the California Globe. She ran the LA County GOP's voter turnout operation through recent election cycles including the successful campaign to replace George Gascon with Nathan Hochman as District Attorney.Show SummaryOnly 40% of registered Republicans in LA County voted in the June 2026 primary. In this episode of State of Gold, host Jon Slavet sits down with LA County GOP Chair Roxanne Hoge to ask why Republicans keep complaining about a system they refuse to show up for.Hoge makes a blunt case: Everything most people call voter fraud, from ballot harvesting to bloated voter rolls, is already codified in California law. The left has been building this architecture since 2011, starting with driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants, then Motor Voter automatic registration, and now a system that pushes voter registrations to anyone who interacts with state government. She wrote to both Attorney General Rob Bonta and the Department of Justice asking for election monitors and got no response from Bonta, just hate mail.The conversation then turns to LA's taxpayer-funded campaign matching system, which has quietly grown from a voter-approved 1:1 match in 1990 to a 6:1 ratio today. Raise $100,000 and the city hands you $600,000. Hoge argues the system is nearly impossible to use without public sector union ground operations, and that Mayor Karen Bass made a political mistake by publicly touting it. Hoge also calls for outlawing public sector unions entirely, warning that unfunded pension liabilities are "coming like a train, unlike the bullet train, a train that will actually hit us." The episode closes on the LA City Council's push for non-citizen voting and why Hoge believes California's best-run cities share a common thread: Conservative leadership at the local level.Chapters00:00 - Cold Open: "Voter Fraud Is an Excuse for Not Doing the Work" 00:16 - Welcome: Roxanne Hoge on Republican Voter Turnout in LA County 00:30 - Voter Fraud vs. Voter Apathy: The Real Reason Republicans Lose 01:17 - Charlie Brown and the Football: Why Conservative Wins Get Reversed 02:22 - Gascon Out, Hochman In: Proof That Turnout Works 02:56 - Ballot Harvesting, Motor Voter, and the Legal Framework of "Fraud" 03:42 - The Open Letter to Rob Bonta and the Unsecured Ballot Box on Skid Row 04:34 - Election Monitors and the DOJ: What Hoge Asked For 04:59 - Automatic Voter Registration and How It Harms Legal Residents 05:40 - 200,000 Missing Republican Voters: Fix Your Own House First 06:08 - The Basketball Analogy: Stop Whining About the Refs and Play 06:32 - LA's 6 to 1 Taxpayer-Funded Campaign Match: How We Got Here 08:24 - Karen Bass Broke the First Rule of Fight Club 08:40 - DSA-Backed Candidates and the Stakes for Non-Democrats 09:11 - The 88 Cities of LA County: Where Common Sense Still Wins 10:09 - Queen for a Day: Outlaw Public Sector Unions 10:50 - The Sword of Damocles: Unfunded Pensions Coming Like a Train 11:31 - Non-Citizen Voting: The LA City Council Push 11:54 - Incrementalism: From School Board Votes to Full Franchise 12:54 - Pre-Registering 16-Year-Olds and Boiling the Frog 13:21 - Would Non-Citizen Voting Pass? The Exodus Problem 14:28 - Support the LA GOP: lagop.org and Every Dollar Goes to TurnoutConnect with Roxanne HogeX:  https://x.com/RoxanneHogeLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roxanne-hoge-42323193/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goplosangeles/Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/LosAngeles.GOPYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GOPLosAngeles/videosEnjoyed the episode? Subscribe to our podcast, leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and join the conversation on Instagram and LinkedIn with the hashtag #stateofgoldpodcast Connect with State of GoldX: https://x.com/realjonslavetLinked In: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stateofgold/aboutInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/stateofgoldpodcast/?hl=enWebsite: www.stateofgold.com