Cancer Legislation, Medical Freedom Issues

I do want to start by thanking Frank. For the work he does with the Cancer Control Society and the Cancer Control Society itself. And what they do. But Frank also is a member of the board of directors of California Citizens for Health Freedom, which meets once a month via the telephone conference. And the board decides what I do. I take my program to them and they approve. Yes, we can work on this issue. We want to work on that issue and we want to proceed. Some of the issues that we've done in the past. But I'll point out first, the difference between Frank's organization, Cancer Control and California Citizens for Health is Cancer Control is a five or one C three organization, meaning it's a charity organization. And the donations that you make to them can be considered a charity donation. But most people don't make enough donations to meet what the income tax permits automatically. Fae are my organization, California Citizens Health Freedom is a five or one C four organization, which means that we are a community nonprofit, but we're not a charitable group.

But we are allowed to do legislative issues, otherwise we can work on legislative and get bills presented and put in her cancer control is not allowed to have staff and persons to that. Myself as the executive director of California Citizens or Health, I draw no salary. I'm a volunteer. The board helps to raise money to pay the expenses that I have, and we do have expenses for me to get to Sacramento. As you know, situation I had to give over the old truck that had been driving for years and get a better car so I can go payments to the car insurance.

Travel costs, gasoline costs, which is expected to go up. All takes time and energy.

In the capital, I'm visualized as a legislative advocate and not a lobbyist.

Under the law, a lobbyist has to receive a person is to lobby work, has to receive so much money and I don't get the level there.

But there are a lot of lobbyists that receive thousands and thousands of dollars a month. And they have an office.

They have staff. They have secretarial assistants that assistant to do that.

And that's what you're asking me to go against, right? To go against the Cancer Association. Which has a good reputation. But the American Cancer Association, the California. They. The Medical Society. California Medical Society is opposed to what we're doing. Is the drug industry puts all a lot of money against us. And it's illegal for them to say to a legislator.

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