Leo Zacky: California's Anti-Business Policies Destroyed My Family's Farm

America Matters Host Leo Zacky, found on the Salem and Answer Network, Vice President of Zacky Farms, his family's poultry company, and a board member of the California Poultry Federation, spoke at CPAC 2025 in Washington, DC.

California, according to Zacky, went from a conservative stronghold to being run by a “political cartel” that seeks to destroy the middle class and small businesses at the benefit of a corrupt political system.

Zacky outlined his family's more than 90-year-old business being forced to relocate outside of California, not because of the government’s “mismanagement” or “incompetence”, as he puts it, but because of a deliberate strategy by a “political cartel” to destroy the middle class and small businesses.

California, where President Ronald Reagan was governor and once a conservative stronghold, has been co-opted by a “political cartel”. A corrupt political system that only benefits this “political cartel” and their cronies at the detriment of the middle class and small businesses.