Transcript of questioning of State Assemblymember Tray Dahle (R-Redding) by members of the press, at the press conference for the opening of the Congressman Doug LaMalfa Memorial Revelation Center at Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry, Redding. August 26, 2022.
Pastor Kris Vallotton, President, Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry: Questions from the News Media for Assemblymember Dahle now, please!
P. Wayne Donaldson, Redding Record-Searchlight: Assemblymember Dahle, it’s been almost a year, can you tell us why Red Bluff still doesn’t have power?
Asm. Tray Dahle: Well, that's not a question about the good work of this school, does anyone have a question about the good work of the school?
PWD: Assemblymember, respectfully, sir, you haven’t made a public statement about the situation in Red Bluff. The people there have been without electric power for nearly a year. You are their representative, they deserve your opinion.
ATD: Well, I have made a statement, I asked PG&E to turn the power back on last year September. I am not here to dictate to companies their internal policies and procedures.
PWD: Yes, but since PG&E made the demand for the insurance premium payments in exchange for rebuilding and repowering the lines, you’ve said nothing, what do you think of that?
ATD: Well, if the City made a contract, they should keep it. The company is upholding their end of the bargain. Perhaps, here we are at the School of Supernatural Ministry, perhaps the City Council should declare prayer, and pray every day. It is known, here at the School of Supernatural Ministry, that God is in charge of all earthly action and intervenes supernaturally in human affairs. Perhaps if the Red Bluff City Council prayed and sent their tithe in, their blessing would be blessed back a hundredfold supernaturally. [Generalized chorus of “Amen” in background]
PWD: Yes, perhaps one year’s miracle, but the regularity of a fifteen million dollar insurance premium? That’s 75% of the town’s annual revenues, that’s not a miracle, that’s a regular occurrence.
ATD: Well, with more prayer, son, miracles become regular occurrences in the lives of mankind. Even so, child, is it not possible that the government of Red Bluff should do less? Should they not stop with their unnecessary activities? Should they not unleash the possibility of the private sector? Should they not let God come to the forefront?
PWD: But Assemblymember, do they not need firefighters? Do they not need regular garbage collection? Do they not need police? Even in a town of only 15,000, five million dollars doesn’t buy all that much government. And it’s the County Seat, it’s made governing a whole county of this state significantly more difficult, and likely more costly if they have to build all-new infrastructure for that like courts and a jail down in Corning. Do you support building a new courthouse and a jail in Corning?
ATD: Well, the County can adapt and use buildings that already exist in Corning, and can send the inmates to Butte, right? Butte has space and Oroville is right next door. Good Chinese food, too.
Misty Redmond, A News Cafe: Wait, Assemblymember…
ATD: Well now! No, not sorry, don’t take questions from fake news websites. Mr. Timothy?
Tim Timothy, Christianity Today: Well, Assemblymember, I did plan to ask you about the School of Supernatural Ministry, but are you really saying you’d let 15,000 of your constituents go without electric power because of a failure of their City Council in 1923?
ATD: Look here, if business can’t stay in business, this country is on the road to Godless heathenism, I would expect your kind of soft lefty liberalism from Christian Century, I guess I forgot your magazine was a socialist fishwrapper now too.
Kristen Lopez, Action News 12: Assemblymember, is this it for Red Bluff, then? Are you going to oppose any moves by your Assembly colleagues to subsidize Red Bluff repowering in the new year?
ATD: Well, I’m not introducing any bills this session in protest of the fact that there are so many bills. If someone else wants to waste your money and mine on bailing out cities that make poor choices, I’ll vote against it.
KL: Assemblymember, aren’t you worried that abandoning Red Bluff might hurt your re-election chances?
ATD: Well, we’re here at the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry, the spiritual and political center of this district. I’m a Republican and my opponent is a communist who hates Jesus. Dollars to donuts the good people of Red Bluff will appreciate my commitment to their self-reliance and will vote to re-elect me. And if they don’t, well, it won’t matter. There are enough folks under the Sundial Bridge who know I stand for their right to pray in public in defiance of the tyrannical mandates of Sacramento. Well, this is going to be a good year for Republicans in California, you mark my words. No more questions. Praise Jesus, and may God bless and forgive you all. Cut the redwoods for lumber.
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