this is a tough time for the people of california because they've seen so much in taxes. it's already an expensive area. what drove you away from the area? >> where will, exactly that. california now has the highest taxes in the nation. they just tripled the car tax and what the people who run california don't understand is that people don't work to pay taxes and increasing taxes and passing more laws isn't going to make what ails california better. >> kelly: you were at the top of the game out there politically. you were a force to be reckoned with, helping a lot of people in california from the republican party side. what do you think went wrong in california? what caused this kind of massive tax hikes causing people to have a mass exodus? >> well, california now has a very large government. it has government spending at almost 40% more as a share of the economy than does texas where i now live.