Speaker 1: It's the John Phillip Show, Mister Randy weggs across the glass. John.
Speaker 1: It is election day, which means all the candidates are
Speaker 1: trying to do everything they can to get that last
Speaker 1: bit of attention to maybe get somebody to decide to
Speaker 1: put their name on the ballot and put it in
Speaker 1: the box. Tom Steyer has spent two hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: million dollars running for governor, and I'm about to make
Speaker 1: a bold statement. The video he just put out is
Speaker 1: going to get more attention than all of those ads combined,
Speaker 1: because Tom Steyer had a big announcement this morning.
Speaker 2: I'm Tom Steyer. I never about to ride the team.
Speaker 3: WHOA it is Pride Month.
Speaker 1: Wasn't he and West Hollywood last night at a Pride event?
Speaker 3: I guess he learned a thing or two.
Speaker 2: I'm Tom Steyer. I never about to ride the team.
Speaker 1: Now, of course he's talking about the new D line
Speaker 1: on La Metro, but he knew what he was doing.
Speaker 1: Did Katie Porter put one of those ads out? Katie Porter,
Speaker 1: as far as I know, has not put out any
Speaker 1: ads about her riding the.
Speaker 2: D You can smell it right here.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: Rosie O'Donnell. Hasn't I feel bad for Katie? All the
Speaker 1: channels are putting out all their profiles on like the
Speaker 1: top candidates.
Speaker 3: Nobody's talking to Katie today.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, she is an afterthought at this point, our
Speaker 1: poor girl. She's about to go into the annals of history. Whoa, whoa, whoa,
Speaker 1: whoa whoa, I said, annals like Shang Tau before her.
Speaker 1: It's going to be like a year from now and
Speaker 1: we're gonna wonder what was this even about?
Speaker 2: Why do you have to watch porn in the living room?
Speaker 1: Where does Las Vegas have her right now? Because, like
Speaker 1: chick Hern used to say, the late Great Chick Hern,
Speaker 1: I don't know how they do it. They always call
Speaker 1: it correctly. Well, let's look up on Calsh because that's
Speaker 1: the big one.
Speaker 4: Here.
Speaker 1: The odds of advancing to the general election. Javier Barkeria
Speaker 1: at ninety three percent, Steve Hilton at seventy five percent,
Speaker 1: Tom Steyer at thirty six percent, Chad Bianco at one
Speaker 1: point eight percent, Katie Porter at point three percent. How
Speaker 1: about Tony Thurman? Is he a negative number? Tony Thurman
Speaker 1: is at less than one percent. Somebody, by the way,
Speaker 1: somebody still has money on Kamala winning this thing, and
Speaker 1: if you want to take up those odds, you can
Speaker 1: make a big payday. So they're saying that Besara is
Speaker 1: essentially in. He's north of ninety percent if we take
Speaker 1: all the polling that we've seen over the last month. Seriously,
Speaker 1: Besarah somehow got like all of the Swalwell support and then.
Speaker 2: Some scrub it.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, I don't know how or why that
Speaker 1: party didn't do a little introspection after Swalwell blew up,
Speaker 1: maybe questioning the way they evaluate candidates because they don't
Speaker 1: want to get stuck with a turkey. But no, they
Speaker 1: just jumped right from Swalwell to Besara and they said
Speaker 1: we're all in. By the way, this is a profile piece.
Speaker 3: This is not a gotcha piece, right.
Speaker 1: And Vegas has Steve Hilton as a heavy favorite to
Speaker 1: make the November ballot. Steve Hilton is a seventy five
Speaker 1: percent favorite. I mean, but every single this is just
Speaker 1: the gambling odds. The poles are all within the margin
Speaker 1: of error, so anything could happen. It could be Bessarah
Speaker 1: and Styre. It could be Hilton in Styre, could be
Speaker 1: Hilton in Bessarah Bianco's not getting in.
Speaker 3: There at one percent on the betting odds.
Speaker 1: Now, could we see a late surge in a specific
Speaker 1: demographic that decides to turn out today because of Tom Steyer.
Speaker 2: I'm Tom Steyer, I never about to ride the team.
Speaker 3: Remains to be seen. Okay.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's going to motivate anyone to
Speaker 1: do anything other than turn their television off, although that
Speaker 1: would be taken one for the team if his consultants
Speaker 1: said that's what'll put him over the finish line.
Speaker 3: Or only one more.
Speaker 1: Do you think Tom Steyer wears his sneaks when he
Speaker 1: rides the d he might I'm.
Speaker 2: Tom Steyer, I never about to ride the team.
Speaker 1: Holy hell, with all the money that he's paying those consultants,
Speaker 1: they let him say there. But at this point, those
Speaker 1: consultants have put their grandkids through college. He could do
Speaker 1: whatever he wants. How much do you think they hate him?
Speaker 1: Because they love the fact that they're making money off
Speaker 1: of this guy, and they're making a lot of it,
Speaker 1: and consultants have to work to eat. However, billionaires don't
Speaker 1: like to be told that they're wrong, So I'm sure
Speaker 1: every time you have a conversation with this guy, it's
Speaker 1: got to feel like a gauntlet of hell. Yes, but
Speaker 1: you're getting paid for it. And I'm sure because you
Speaker 1: got to remember who sty Or hired. He hired a
Speaker 1: lot of the Mom Donnie people, and so they might
Speaker 1: feel that this is an a Robin Hood esque act
Speaker 1: of all right, we're gonna fleece this guy for everything
Speaker 1: he has. Well, they did a pretty good job at
Speaker 1: that a big ass crisis. They got a bunch of money,
Speaker 1: and all he got was to ride the d and
Speaker 1: tour the Tijuana River.
Speaker 2: And you can literally see it, smell it, and feel it.
Speaker 1: Don't play those clips back to back. All right, So
Speaker 1: today is election day. If you want to vote, you
Speaker 1: have until eight o'clock. If you want to vote by mail,
Speaker 1: get it postmarked today. And apparently, Randy, a lot of
Speaker 1: people are waiting until the very last minute. There were
Speaker 1: a lot of people that were like, this ballot is
Speaker 1: ten pages long, and one page of it is sixty
Speaker 1: one governor candidates. Who the hell am I supposed to
Speaker 1: vote for? For the latest on the election, here is kpix.
Speaker 5: You began with some last minute twists ahead of tomorrow's
Speaker 5: California primary so far, just sixteen percent of Californians have
Speaker 5: turned in their ballots and a final poll.
Speaker 1: And that was the numbers as of last night. As
Speaker 1: of today, nineteen percent. Here's what I don't understand. I
Speaker 1: get it that most people aren't as a as I
Speaker 1: am about administrative tasks. However, I don't let anything sit
Speaker 1: in my house for more than a day. If I
Speaker 1: get a bill, I pay it that day before I
Speaker 1: go to bed, because I don't want to lose it
Speaker 1: and then have to pay a late fee. If I
Speaker 1: get a ballot in the mail, I fill it out
Speaker 1: immediately and send it in because I don't want to
Speaker 1: lose the ballot. Recently, I got a letter from Scotty
Speaker 1: Nell Hughes, our friend who does the show every so often.
Speaker 1: Her daughter graduated from high school, so you're supposed to
Speaker 1: send him a card with some money in it. I
Speaker 1: put it off to the side. Then my cleaning lady
Speaker 1: came and I couldn't find it, so I almost had
Speaker 1: an excuse to be cheap.
Speaker 5: And the hotly contested governor's race is showing a tight
Speaker 5: battle for the second spot. So the Emerson College poll
Speaker 5: released Saturday shows Democrat and former California Attorney General Javier
Speaker 5: Bessera in the lead with twenty eight percent. Democrat Taughtier
Speaker 5: has just narrowly moved ahead of Republican Steve Hilton by
Speaker 5: just one percent.
Speaker 1: That's in that poll, but there have been a lot
Speaker 1: of polls that are showing all three of them in
Speaker 1: different positions, So who knows what will happen to that.
Speaker 1: If you go by the betting markets, it's Besarah Hilton,
Speaker 1: but anything could happen.
Speaker 3: What position was Styre in when he was writing the D.
Speaker 2: I'm Tom Steyer, I'm about to ride the D.
Speaker 5: And now those top two Democrats are turning up their
Speaker 5: attacks on each other, with one even crying foul play.
Speaker 5: Are Max Darrow joining us live now from San Jose
Speaker 5: with more on this drama between the front runners as
Speaker 5: those last minute ballots are coming in. Hey they're Max.
Speaker 4: Hey, Juliette. It was a busy day here at the
Speaker 4: Santa Clara County Registrar of Voter's office as people dropped
Speaker 4: off their ballots or came here to vote. But there
Speaker 4: are a lot of people that still have not made
Speaker 4: up their minds as to who they will be backing
Speaker 4: here in the primary election.
Speaker 3: There's going to be people today that are going to
Speaker 3: flip a coin.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people, particularly Democrats, who have
Speaker 1: no clue what they're going to do. Still, if you
Speaker 1: decide between Bessara and Hilton, excuse me, you decide between
Speaker 1: Bessara and Styr by flipping a coin whose heads and
Speaker 1: whose tails?
Speaker 2: I'm Tom Steyer. I'm about to ride the team.
Speaker 1: I guess we have our answer, and that.
Speaker 4: Likely will be a determining factor and how tomorrow shakes
Speaker 4: out among all of the people casting their ballots. This
Speaker 4: trip to the Santa Clara County registrar a voter's office
Speaker 4: the day before the primary was actually late for so
Speaker 4: to Rea restart.
Speaker 6: This is the latest I've ever ever voted because there
Speaker 6: was a lot on the I had six five six pages.
Speaker 1: Enough to everyone assumed that someone else was going to
Speaker 1: get voted off the island. They wanted to make sure
Speaker 1: that they didn't waste their vote. Well, just wait until
Speaker 1: November when we have all the propositions. It's going to
Speaker 1: look like a menu at the cheesecake factory. You know
Speaker 1: who I blame for this. Michael Trujillo via Gosu's buddy
Speaker 1: who said that there was dirt on everybody coming out
Speaker 1: in May, and you know what, he was pretty much correct,
Speaker 1: certainly was Swallwell, boy, did we learn a lot? Yes
Speaker 1: we did. But there was all this talk about another
Speaker 1: Katie Porter video coming out. Ye out of my shop
Speaker 1: didn't happen. Well, did you need to put the video out?
Speaker 1: She imploded, from the old one, Poor Katie, I'm pulling
Speaker 1: in to the bakery. You know what you deserve it
Speaker 1: you get yourself a buttery croissant. It's going to be
Speaker 1: a tough day.
Speaker 4: Enough to include these sixty one candidates for governor.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see when the election is certified
Speaker 1: how many people in the state of California voted for
Speaker 1: the guy running for governor that changed his aim to
Speaker 1: Barack Obama for one election where he's going to get
Speaker 1: less than one percent.
Speaker 4: We've had to really do some.
Speaker 1: Many votes of Swallow getting probably more than Barack Obama.
Speaker 2: We've had to really do some research to get to
Speaker 2: the right person.
Speaker 4: Only two will advance to the general election in November.
Speaker 1: And I don't know what it looked like in Santa
Speaker 1: Clara County, but in La County you had a whole
Speaker 1: page that was governor candidates, and you had three whole
Speaker 1: pages of judges.
Speaker 3: I didn't have any of why.
Speaker 1: Actually I had one judicial race in Riverside County, but
Speaker 1: that was it.
Speaker 3: There's a lot in La County.
Speaker 4: Numerous polls show Democrat Javier Besserra is the front runner,
Speaker 4: Republican Steve Hilton and Democrat Tom Steyer our neck and
Speaker 4: neck behind him, likely duking it out for the number
Speaker 4: two spot. And the attacks are heating up in the
Speaker 4: home stretch, not between the Dems and Republicans, but between
Speaker 4: Steier and the Sarah political experts Carolina.
Speaker 1: If it actually is, and it's not likely, it's very
Speaker 1: likely that it's either styr and Besarah versus Hilton going
Speaker 1: into the general. But if it was a D on
Speaker 1: D race, that race is going to get ugly and
Speaker 1: even more expensive well, and Styre is going to spend
Speaker 1: whatever it takes to beat him, and Bessarah is backed
Speaker 1: by the Democratic establishment, so they would have to pony
Speaker 1: up the money. I don't think the Democratic Party wants
Speaker 1: a Stier versus Bessera race.
Speaker 3: No, they don't.
Speaker 1: They want to do exactly what happened when Adam Schiff
Speaker 1: elevated Steve Garvey.
Speaker 2: I call it the shift.
Speaker 1: Gift Shift got number one, Garvey got number two. Katie
Speaker 1: was out of the money and the campaign was over
Speaker 1: in June. And Garvey didn't even really campaign in the fall.
Speaker 1: Didn't they send him to Israel for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: He was pretty checked out unless there was an event
Speaker 1: at Dodger Stadium political experts.
Speaker 4: Caroline held me.
Speaker 7: So Stier is.
Speaker 6: Going after Bessera because he knows he needs to get
Speaker 6: Democratic and independent votes in order to make it into
Speaker 6: the number two slodes tomorrow. So less so about going
Speaker 6: against Steve.
Speaker 4: Hilton Steyer, who's used his personal fortune to launch a
Speaker 4: wave of negative ads against Besserah is now facing legal
Speaker 4: threats over this ad released over the weekend.
Speaker 8: If Bessara is indicted, that would give our governor's office
Speaker 8: to Donald Trump's favorite candidate.
Speaker 1: Any Actually, I don't even think that's true. I don't
Speaker 1: think Democratic voters care if he gets indicted for money
Speaker 1: laundering and tax evasion.
Speaker 3: That's nothing.
Speaker 1: I think they would have voted for Swallwell had that
Speaker 1: story broke after the primary and he won the primary.
Speaker 3: I sure would like to think that's not true.
Speaker 1: I guarantee you he either would have found religion and
Speaker 1: said that he's a changed man, or he would have
Speaker 1: called all of the accusers lying whores in it.
Speaker 4: The Stier campaign suggests Bessarah could face an indictment in
Speaker 4: relation to a corruption case involving his former chiefs staff
Speaker 4: and campaign manager.
Speaker 1: Bessara's campaign sent, I mean a possible indictment is the
Speaker 1: reason that Bonta didn't run.
Speaker 3: That is true.
Speaker 4: Besara's campaign sent a cease and assist letter to Stier's
Speaker 4: campaign and threatened a lawsuit if they don't pull the ad.
Speaker 6: Let's be clear, it's a false allegation. There is no
Speaker 6: evidence that be Sarah's about to be charged. In fact,
Speaker 6: there's a better evidence that Sarah was a victim in
Speaker 6: all of this.
Speaker 1: It's not a good look that the answer is, well, no,
Speaker 1: he wasn't in on it.
Speaker 3: He's just that dumb.
Speaker 1: If he is that dumb, where he had no clue
Speaker 1: that they were stealing the same amount of money each
Speaker 1: and every month out of an account that belonged to him,
Speaker 1: What do you think he's going to do with edd
Speaker 1: What do you think he's going to do with State funds.
Speaker 1: What do you think he's going to do with the
Speaker 1: bullet train? Oh, I know exactly what he's going to do,
Speaker 1: scrub it. What do you think Tom Steyer would do?
Speaker 2: I'm Tom Steyer. I'm about to ride the team.
Speaker 6: And I are putting this ad out and then Sarah
Speaker 6: having to respond to it and then all of us
Speaker 6: talking about it means that we are still thinking about
Speaker 6: this scandal in relation to Bessarah. So this it's a
Speaker 6: smart campaign move on the part of stire At, this
Speaker 6: last ditch effort to try to shift the needle right
Speaker 6: before election day.
Speaker 4: Steyer campaigned in Los Angeles. Today, his team is suggesting
Speaker 4: a late surge of voters will pay off in his favor.
Speaker 4: Bessarah thanked his supporters at a campaign event in Sacramento.
Speaker 3: We want to kick it up a year so we
Speaker 3: can get those votes out in voting.
Speaker 1: Okay, I am not ready for Bessarah. You have somebody
Speaker 1: who is simultaneously incredibly low energy and dumb. It's a
Speaker 1: bad combo. At least Gavin was somewhat entertaining to cover
Speaker 1: Besarah's going to be tough.
Speaker 4: Reester made up her mind about who she's behind just
Speaker 4: in time. She hopes others will do the same.
Speaker 2: Do vote. It's very important. Every vote counts.
Speaker 1: And since only twenty percent of people voted, your vote
Speaker 1: counts way more. She's so dramatic, like a soap opera
Speaker 1: actress from the eighties.
Speaker 4: So, assuming the polls ring true and it is Besarah
Speaker 4: who comes out on top in this primary.
Speaker 3: Election, that's not what I heard.
Speaker 4: Political expert Caroline Heldman says, depending on whether it's a
Speaker 4: Republican or a Democrat he will face off with in
Speaker 4: the general election, that race will look very different if
Speaker 4: it is Besarah versus Steve Hilton, the Republican. She thinks,
Speaker 4: because California skews heavily blue, it would be a pretty
Speaker 4: straightforward path for Besarah to get to Sacramento.
Speaker 3: If so, there you go.
Speaker 1: That is the latest on the state of the governor's
Speaker 1: race as where pretty much it's become a with sixty
Speaker 1: one candidates, but everyone's pretty much decided as a three
Speaker 1: way race between Bessarah, between Steve Hilton and this.
Speaker 2: Guy, I'm Tom Steyer to write the team.
Speaker 1: If he loses the election. What do you think Tom
Speaker 1: Steyer is going to do to blow off some steam
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Speaker 1: Good luck dialing. So during the break I opened up
Speaker 1: my phone and looked at X to see what Tom
Speaker 1: Steyr was up to. He was posting pictures at Jim
Speaker 1: Bar in West Hollywood with the drag Queen. I wonder
Speaker 1: what he was doing there.
Speaker 2: I'm Tom Steyr. I'm about to ride the.
Speaker 1: Team because you know that after you get from West Hollywood,
Speaker 1: in order to get back to the other side, you've
Speaker 1: got to take that train. Yes, you do, right there
Speaker 1: at Los Sianaga and Wiltshire. Is that so go all
Speaker 1: the way to Koreatown? Now what do you think he
Speaker 1: was doing in career tone?
Speaker 2: I'm Tom Steyer. I'm about to ride the team.
Speaker 1: Because you know you have to ride it if you
Speaker 1: want to get all the way to Union Station. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you get to ride it all the way there. Uh huh.
Speaker 3: I see all right.
Speaker 1: So today is the day that voters in LA will
Speaker 1: determine who is going to move on to the November
Speaker 1: ballot and ultimately will be the next mayor of Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: That is another three person race that could go any
Speaker 1: way possible. You have the incumbent mayor, mother ghost, Karen Bass.
Speaker 9: If you're feeling down, if you're feeling blue, let's get
Speaker 9: help for you.
Speaker 1: You have Spencer Pratt, who was on this show just
Speaker 1: a couple of days ago, yesterday actually, and you have
Speaker 1: LA City Councilwoman Nthea It's not so I and NBC
Speaker 1: four did profiles on each of the candidates. Let's first
Speaker 1: hear Karen Bass's pitched for another four years of this garbage.
Speaker 9: Oh you're so optimistic.
Speaker 3: Here's NBCLA.
Speaker 8: Karen Bass is running for re election, but the question
Speaker 8: on voters' minds should she get a second term. Her
Speaker 8: biggest competition tonight Nithiew Rahman, a former ally who served
Speaker 8: on the La City Council for the last six years,
Speaker 8: and then Spencer Pratt, a former reality TV star who
Speaker 8: blames Mayor Bass and for his home burning down in
Speaker 8: the Palisades fire. NBC fours Alex Rosier has been following
Speaker 8: the mayor's campaign. Today he joined us Live in Baldwin
Speaker 8: Hills with her message to voters, Alex.
Speaker 10: Jonathan and Colley, and the mayor certainly seems optimistic. She
Speaker 10: started her day to day campaigning in San Pedro, and
Speaker 10: we are expecting her here at the election headquarter.
Speaker 1: Okay, outside of it being an election, when's the last
Speaker 1: time Mayor Bass visited San Pedro.
Speaker 3: It's been a while.
Speaker 10: Pedro, and we are expecting her here at the election
Speaker 10: headquarters in Baldwin Hills a little later on tonight, so
Speaker 10: she helps with phone bank efforts. She's really trying to
Speaker 10: convince the voters that she deserves a second term as mayor.
Speaker 1: And it is interesting that an incumbent has to work
Speaker 1: this hard to convince voters to keep what we're doing going. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's go back to the conversation yesterday that we had
Speaker 1: with Spencer Pratt, and we were talking about Mayor Bass
Speaker 1: being in Ghana when the palisades burned, and I asked
Speaker 1: the question, do you think she was drunk? And he
Speaker 1: said it didn't matter because she's just as awful sober.
Speaker 1: How drunk do you think she was at that party
Speaker 1: in Ghana for a international affair and inauguration party. You're
Speaker 1: there as a representative. The whole point is to get loaded.
Speaker 1: They had to have an open bar. Oh yeah, and
Speaker 1: since it was a presidential inauguration, it had to be
Speaker 1: top shelf.
Speaker 3: I bet you she was blown a point too.
Speaker 10: Hey again, with one day till election day, Los Angeles
Speaker 10: Mayor Karen Bass stopped by a packed Pans restaurant in
Speaker 10: Westchester not Pans.
Speaker 1: Wait, is that in Westchester? I always thought that was Inglewood.
Speaker 1: It's like right on the border. I just know where
Speaker 1: it is. They have great breakfast. How about those chicken wings?
Speaker 10: Speaking with voters, confident that she'll be in the top
Speaker 10: two tomorrow and advance to November's general election.
Speaker 9: I would never just be presumptuous. Now I don't know
Speaker 9: that any candidate is. But on the other hand, I
Speaker 9: think I will be fine.
Speaker 10: Bass spend time today speaking.
Speaker 3: She didn't sound that confident. Why should she?
Speaker 10: Bass spend time today speaking of what she says are
Speaker 10: her successes, like fast tracking forty two thousand units of housing.
Speaker 1: She says they haven't been built. I wonder if you
Speaker 1: gave her a little true serum, maybe what she was
Speaker 1: drinking over in Ghana, and you go, hey, Karen, let's
Speaker 1: be honest, what is your real accomplishment?
Speaker 3: What did you really do these four years?
Speaker 1: It would be thirty seconds of silence, and then she'd go, well,
Speaker 1: I kill seven bums a day. How many nights do
Speaker 1: you think? She goes to bed cursing herself that she
Speaker 1: ditched her cushy job in Congress for this. Oh, she
Speaker 1: should have stayed there forever. She would have been celebrated.
Speaker 1: All you have to do is show up and vote
Speaker 1: the party line. You get to go on these international
Speaker 1: junkets all the time, stay in the finest hotels, eat
Speaker 1: the best food, drink the best wine. Why would you
Speaker 1: give that up for.
Speaker 10: This, like fast tracking forty two thousand units of housing,
Speaker 10: she says, the number of homone.
Speaker 1: That is how she doesn't say built forty two thousand
Speaker 1: units of housing. Nope, which, by the way, LA County
Speaker 1: lost fifty thousand people in population last year. Isn't that fun? Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't you think we'd be knee deep in open units?
Speaker 1: We do have a lot of vacance and burned down
Speaker 1: every day.
Speaker 10: She says, the number of homicides in the city are
Speaker 10: at a sixty year low.
Speaker 3: Okay, now do other crimes?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and homicides were at a sixty year low only
Speaker 1: because OJ died.
Speaker 10: And she says the number of homeless in Los Angeles
Speaker 10: continues to go down.
Speaker 1: No, not buying it. I drive these streets every single day.
Speaker 1: Doesn't look any better than it did four years ago.
Speaker 1: How dumb do you have to be to believe that.
Speaker 9: The bottom line is is that homelessness has gone down
Speaker 9: two years in a row.
Speaker 2: It had not happened.
Speaker 1: Before, though, she spoke, Wait, you've been in office for
Speaker 1: four years, good point, and the first two years we
Speaker 1: were under an eviction moratorium. So explain the spike in homelessness.
Speaker 10: Then, though she spoke of her record, she also talked
Speaker 10: about her top opponents, like former reality TV star Spencer Pratt,
Speaker 10: who's home burned in the palace.
Speaker 9: It's not just that he has no experience in city government.
Speaker 9: I don't know that he's ever held a job in
Speaker 9: his life rather than to be a reality TV star.
Speaker 3: Ooh, that's pretty cold.
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't know if i'd want to be running
Speaker 1: for office in oh, I don't know Los Angeles saying
Speaker 1: show business jobs aren't real employment. You may think that
Speaker 1: you're just attacking Spencer Pratt, but that is a direct
Speaker 1: shot at everybody below the line that works in the
Speaker 1: reality TV industry or that would like to work in
Speaker 1: the reality TV industry in LA. But really they're in Atlanta. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe she figures she can go ahead and say that
Speaker 1: because none of them live here anymore. Oh, they still
Speaker 1: live here, but they have to fly out for those jobs.
Speaker 9: And I think that he doesn't know the issues. He's
Speaker 9: operating out of anger.
Speaker 1: He seemed to know the issues better than you on
Speaker 1: the debate stage. And why is he angry? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you burned his house down. It would be so simple
Speaker 1: for her to just say I feel awful for what
Speaker 1: happened to Spencer Pratt and she won't do it.
Speaker 3: Nope.
Speaker 10: Bass also took aim at another challenger, council member, Nthia Rahman.
Speaker 10: Ramen's been critical of the mayor's handling of homelessness in
Speaker 10: the city.
Speaker 1: She's the head of the Homelessness Committee on the La
Speaker 1: City Council. I hope to god we do not end
Speaker 1: up with a Nythia Rahman Karen Bass runoff, because then
Speaker 1: we're going to have to get behind Karen Bass, because
Speaker 1: this woman is actually worse than her.
Speaker 10: Ramen says, in her district, the number of homeless dropped
Speaker 10: by more than fifty percent, and today the mayor took
Speaker 10: credit for it.
Speaker 9: She's reduced homelessness in her district. She claims credit for it.
Speaker 9: That's the work of Inside Safe.
Speaker 1: There's actually a deeper story to that. So I listen
Speaker 1: to a lot of random ass podcasts about any of
Speaker 1: one of our little characters that we feature on this show.
Speaker 1: And Amelda Padilla did a long form podcast with some
Speaker 1: guys from something called cult Media.
Speaker 2: The neighborhood Kids, the down ass kids don't like it.
Speaker 1: And Amelda talked for a very long time about how
Speaker 1: she's right on the border of Nithia's district. But because
Speaker 1: Nythia has Encino and Nythia doesn't respond to anyone that
Speaker 1: complains in Encino, all the Encino people call Amelda and
Speaker 1: they say, you got to do something about this homeless encampment.
Speaker 1: So Amelda calls Nythian and says, clean up this damn
Speaker 1: encampment or I'm gonna do it and you're gonna look bad.
Speaker 1: And that's when Nitthia called Karen bass to do an
Speaker 1: inside Safe. I'll tell you Amelda definitely has some shortcomings,
Speaker 1: but she's not the worst one on that council by far.
Speaker 9: Broken Windy theory. She's reduced homelessness in her district. She
Speaker 9: claims credit for it. That's the work of inside Safe.
Speaker 9: That's what we did out of the Mayor's office to help.
Speaker 1: Her, just like inside which to her numbers, was about
Speaker 1: fifteen hundred people for four hundred million dollars complete disaster,
Speaker 1: just like we help all.
Speaker 9: The members of the city council.
Speaker 3: No Bassi is proud of progress. Actually that's not true either.
Speaker 1: She has not done one of these projects in Council
Speaker 1: District seven because she doesn't like Monica Rodriguez and Monica
Speaker 1: Rodriguez doesn't like her. Who did she endorse this election? Nobody?
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 10: Bassi is proud of progress on several key issues. She
Speaker 10: says there is still work to do and she hopes
Speaker 10: voters give her the chance to continue this work as
Speaker 10: mayor in a second tour.
Speaker 9: And what our city needs is to move forward to
Speaker 9: make a city that is affordable, a city that is safe.
Speaker 1: Wait, you're in charge right now. Yeah, that means we'd
Speaker 1: get rid of you in a.
Speaker 9: City where people can live their lives without the.
Speaker 2: Fair of crime.
Speaker 1: Oh, come on, how many days in a row where
Speaker 1: there are robberies and burglaries in the San Fernando Valley?
Speaker 1: Even she got her gun stolen?
Speaker 10: And you're looking live at the Basque campaign headquarters tonight.
Speaker 10: This team very confident that they'll be in the top
Speaker 10: two advancing to the general election in November. But they
Speaker 10: have been working for not.
Speaker 1: Confident at all that they're going to win. Out Right,
Speaker 1: that says something. So that's what's going on with the
Speaker 1: bass campaign. Let's go to Vince in San Jose.
Speaker 7: Vince, Hello, Hey, John, thanks for taking the call of
Speaker 7: the program. Hey, I'm an election observer. In Santa Clara County.
Speaker 7: I was at ROV headquarters yesterday afternoon and I saw
Speaker 7: that kpix crew that was there. Their report is one bogus.
Speaker 7: That place was a graveyard. There were not people streaming
Speaker 7: in and out turning in ballots. And the worst thing
Speaker 7: of it all another gift from Gavin Newsom in the
Speaker 7: state legislature. The Voter's Choice Act is a huge failure.
Speaker 7: We have a twenty nine day voting period that we've
Speaker 7: got voted centers, hundreds of them around the county, and
Speaker 7: we've got.
Speaker 3: Uh oh, we just lost him. Little Cliffhanger there.
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Speaker 1: writes in from Long Beach at Johnny don't like show
Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. Hey guys, I know you come
Speaker 1: to the LBC for remotes. Any advice on who we
Speaker 1: should vote for down here. Also, if they fix Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: all the crime comes down here. I'm not here to
Speaker 1: tell anyone who to vote for, but I did interview
Speaker 1: Chris Sweeney, who's running for mayor down there, and he
Speaker 1: seems pretty common sense. And later on today we're gonna
Speaker 1: be back on the radio. We are gonna be here
Speaker 1: live in state wide from seven to nine pm. Will
Speaker 1: be live on KABC seven ninety in southern California, will
Speaker 1: be live on a ten KSFO in the Bay and
Speaker 1: nor Cal and we're going to be live on the
Speaker 1: big KMJ cover in the Central Valley, so we got
Speaker 1: full state wide coverage. John's gonna be here, I'm going
Speaker 1: to be here, Frank Motec's gonna be here, and Phil
Speaker 1: Teresi from kmj's going to be here. Some special guests
Speaker 1: we'll be calling in as well. The polls close at
Speaker 1: eight o'clock and we'll have all the results as they
Speaker 1: come in and coming up later on in the program.
Speaker 1: John Thomas, Republican political strategist, will be here, as will
Speaker 1: Steve Hilton, who is favored by Las Vegas to make
Speaker 1: the runoff. I think they have him at a seventy
Speaker 1: five percent shot at making it to the November ballot.
Speaker 1: Bianca's at like one percent. Yeah, we saw serious consolidation
Speaker 1: on both sides as we got closer to election day,
Speaker 1: where Vira Gosa whatever support he had, dropped down to
Speaker 1: one percent, Katie Porter went from double digits to single digits,
Speaker 1: and Chad Bianco went from double digits to maybe low
Speaker 1: double digits or single digits. And despite all the money
Speaker 1: and all of the influence from all the tech people,
Speaker 1: Mayheen didn't go anywhere. You know, for a moment there,
Speaker 1: I forgot he was running poor Mayheen, not saying that
Speaker 1: it would have moved the needle at all. But whoever
Speaker 1: advised him to not do this show weird advice. We
Speaker 1: invited him how many times, a bazillion times, and I
Speaker 1: guess he didn't want any association with anything that was
Speaker 1: regarded as right leaning. So he didn't do this show.
Speaker 1: He didn't do other programs that invited him on, we
Speaker 1: know invited him on. He stayed away from us, and
Speaker 1: he went and did Morning Joe on MSNBC that airs
Speaker 1: at three o'clock in the morning California time. It's so
Speaker 1: weird because when he was campaign for Prop thirty six,
Speaker 1: he came on this show, he did and he did
Speaker 1: a good job. I thought he had a pretty fine showing.
Speaker 1: But when he ran for governor, whoever it was it
Speaker 1: was advising him, was giving him horrific advice. He must
Speaker 1: have got Caruso's people, I think so. All right, we've
Speaker 1: got two more hours coming up on the John Phillips Show,
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