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Speaker 1: Welcome, Hey John, thanks for having me. Good to be back.
Speaker 3: Well, thanks so much for stopping by. So, there was
Speaker 3: a big election last night in your neighboring state, the
Speaker 3: state of Michigan, or the way I see it, the
Speaker 3: DSA had a clean sweep where Abdul al Sayed won
Speaker 3: the Democratic nomination for US Senate over Haley Steves, a
Speaker 3: man who has said that the United States deserved nine
Speaker 3: to eleven. You had Rashida Talib, who is a proud
Speaker 3: member of the DSA, She won her primary for reelection.
Speaker 3: And then you had a Democrat, Shariit Theander, who is
Speaker 3: just a standards rank and file Democrat with very interesting
Speaker 3: eyebrows and hair, and he went down to a DSA candidate.
Speaker 3: What do you make of the fact that in a
Speaker 3: swing state that voted for Donald Trump two out of
Speaker 3: three times, the state of Michigan, the DSA is on
Speaker 3: the ascendancy and just the standard partisan Democrats just took
Speaker 3: a good swift kick to the.
Speaker 1: Crotch, isn't it interesting? And I think you're going to
Speaker 1: see the same thing happen in Minnesota this upcoming week.
Speaker 1: So we have a primary election here for both governor
Speaker 1: and US Senate in Minnesota. On the Democrat side, you
Speaker 1: have more of your stock Democrat candidate in Angie Crag
Speaker 1: and then you have our lieutenant governor, who's probably the
Speaker 1: most radical politician we have in the state except for
Speaker 1: Ilhan Omar, who is the DSA candidate. And I think
Speaker 1: this is a harbinger for what's going to happen here
Speaker 1: in Minnesota and actually what's going to happen in our
Speaker 1: neighboring state in Wisconsin. You do see this ascendancy of
Speaker 1: DSA candidates, But you got to keep in mind the
Speaker 1: Democrats gave these candidates, and these people really no outlet
Speaker 1: in their party. They haven't picked their own candidate for
Speaker 1: a long long time. They tried to keep them at bay.
Speaker 1: They tried to basically play the hits, say the right thing,
Speaker 1: And what's become very apparent is that that is not
Speaker 1: enough anymore. And just one note on shre Thanadar. I'm
Speaker 1: bummed that he lost because every now and again he
Speaker 1: would come up on my social media feeds and I
Speaker 1: would just get a big kick out of how is
Speaker 1: this guy in Congress?
Speaker 3: The Midwest is known for having a very polite sort
Speaker 3: of culture. In Minnesota, they call it Minnesota nice, and
Speaker 3: people they go to the Midwest, they get treated very well.
Speaker 3: People are very impressed with the manners, the yes ma'am,
Speaker 3: the no sir, that sort of thing. How do you
Speaker 3: think it's gonna play in Michigan where you have a
Speaker 3: candidate that goes you know, planes land on runways every day,
Speaker 3: it's not every day that they fly in the buildings.
Speaker 3: And you know, nine to eleven was something I think
Speaker 3: was a pretty good thing. How is that gonna fly
Speaker 3: in the nice Midwest?
Speaker 1: Yeah? What we call it in Minnesota, like you said before,
Speaker 1: is Minnesota nice, And what it really means is Minnesota
Speaker 1: or Midwestern passive aggressive. We're not always going to tell
Speaker 1: you the truth to your face, but when we're in
Speaker 1: the privacy of a voting booth, then we're gonna let
Speaker 1: our frustration out a little bit. I don't think it's
Speaker 1: gonna work. I don't think the country is ready for it.
Speaker 1: I think socialism is still a deeply unpopular concept. It
Speaker 1: just so happens that one party doesn't talk to working
Speaker 1: people anymore about what they actually want, and they think
Speaker 1: that Democrats the prescription here is that the DSA candidates
Speaker 1: by abolishing the Senate and praising nine to eleven and
Speaker 1: medicare for all, and we don't need a presidency anymore.
Speaker 1: That's not what I when I talk to working class
Speaker 1: voters in Minnesota, that's not even remotely what they're looking for.
Speaker 1: They're just looking at like a fair shake. So I
Speaker 1: don't think that it's going to invigorate this underground socialist
Speaker 1: base of America. I don't think there's enough people in
Speaker 1: the country who believe that. And I think, thank God, frankly,
Speaker 1: that l Sied is the candidate, because we're facing some
Speaker 1: headwinds on the national stage as the Republican Party. But
Speaker 1: to have these radical candidates be the answer, whether it's
Speaker 1: Minnesota or Michigan or Wisconsin, I think this is a
Speaker 1: godsend for us.
Speaker 3: John, do you think it's possible given the fact that
Speaker 3: standard rank and file Democrats seem to do well in
Speaker 3: statewide elections in those states where Amy Klovachar wins every
Speaker 3: time she comes up in Minnesota. You look at Michigan,
Speaker 3: Debbie Stabbinow string together a bunch of different wins when
Speaker 3: she was in the United States Senate in the House
Speaker 3: before that. Could you see a scenario where the Republican
Speaker 3: candidates win the US Senate seats in Minnesota and Michigan
Speaker 3: because the Democrats just pushed too far with these ideologically
Speaker 3: extreme candidates.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I think in Michigan you have a state
Speaker 1: that Trump has carried twice. Now this is basically a
Speaker 1: down the middle state. And when you have just your
Speaker 1: average stock Republican whose name is Mike Rogers. Okay, this
Speaker 1: is Joe America versus Saddam Hussein's cousin. If you've ever
Speaker 1: seen that meme before, and I just don't think it's
Speaker 1: going to play well in Michigan. And then in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: if this Peggy Flanagan is their nominee, this is a
Speaker 1: candidate who adopts every left wing position. She's famous for
Speaker 1: wearing a shirt that says protect trans kids with a
Speaker 1: knife on it, like a knife stabbing someone on it.
Speaker 1: And if she is the nominee for the Democrat Party.
Speaker 1: We're going to have a real puncher's chance, I think
Speaker 1: in Minnesota, because most Minnesotans they want to think of
Speaker 1: themselves as compassionate, generally center left, But to nominate a
Speaker 1: candidate like that, I think is a bridge too far.
Speaker 3: In California, the public employee unions are very, very, very powerful.
Speaker 3: The SCIU is arguably the most powerful entity in the state,
Speaker 3: maybe even more powerful than the teachers Union, which maybe
Speaker 3: two three years ago I would have told you is
Speaker 3: insane to think about, but I think it might be
Speaker 3: true now. And the institutions, the unions, and the environmental
Speaker 3: groups and all of those groups seem to have tight
Speaker 3: control over statewide primaries. Here where you get those standard Democrats.
Speaker 3: Javier Besserra is the Democratic nominee for governor. Before that,
Speaker 3: it was Adam Schiff for US Senate. They aren't DSA candidates.
Speaker 3: They're very partisan Democrats, and that's who the parties tend
Speaker 3: to like. It seems like your state parties in the
Speaker 3: Middle West and elsewhere, because it happened in Colorado and
Speaker 3: it happened in New York too, they're losing control of
Speaker 3: their own primaries. They're losing control of their own voters.
Speaker 3: How much panic is setting in within those institutions, the
Speaker 3: Democratic Party, the state parties, and the unions that they
Speaker 3: might not be the shot callers anymore.
Speaker 1: I can guarantee you that's a real phenomena in Minnesota
Speaker 1: for two reasons. So the chair, the longtime chair of
Speaker 1: the Democrat Party in Minnesota, the DFL, we call them
Speaker 1: the Democrat Farmer Labor Party. They've been that for fifty years.
Speaker 1: The chair of that party moved on to be the
Speaker 1: head of the DNC, Ken Martin. So you lost this
Speaker 1: continuity in leadership, this track record of success in leadership
Speaker 1: with him moving to the national stage. And then, because
Speaker 1: you're right, in Minnesota, it's very similar to California, where
Speaker 1: you do have the unions try to bolster the most
Speaker 1: electable Democrat candidate. What's transpiring among the Democrat base in
Speaker 1: Minnesota is they have now gone two election cycles in
Speaker 1: a row where they did not get any say in
Speaker 1: who their candidate was. The first being they didn't get
Speaker 1: to pick Kamala Harris here in Minnesota. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris would have won a primary contest in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: And two because Tim Walls, our governor, the former VP candidate,
Speaker 1: was so mired in controversy he basically stepped down and
Speaker 1: said I'm not running for reelection. Well, then Amy Klobashar
Speaker 1: got inserted into that. She became the de facto candidate
Speaker 1: for the Democrats. No one's going to challenge Amy Klobashar.
Speaker 1: So you have this frustration among the Democrat base leaking
Speaker 1: out now in this upcoming Senate primary, where I think
Speaker 1: Peggy Flan again, the more radical of these two candidates,
Speaker 1: is going to win, and I don't think it's going
Speaker 1: to be particularly close in Minnesota. I think she's going
Speaker 1: to win by five, six seven points.
Speaker 3: Well, it seems like they're losing control of their own
Speaker 3: primaries on a variety of levels. Because first, you have
Speaker 3: what the pitchforks and torches are doing, and clearly right
Speaker 3: now there's a level of anger within their own electorate
Speaker 3: that is scaring them. But you also have people like
Speaker 3: let's say Chuck Schumer, where if I'm Chuck Schumer and
Speaker 3: I'm trying to keep these seats in Minnesota and Michigan
Speaker 3: without having to worry too much about it, you go
Speaker 3: to the incumbent senators and you go, you're not retiring
Speaker 3: right now. I don't have enough bandwidth to defend an
Speaker 3: open seat in your state right now. You're going for
Speaker 3: one more term whether you like it or not, or
Speaker 3: you go in the case of Michigan, let's just say
Speaker 3: that Gary Peters is really done with politics and doesn't
Speaker 3: want to serve anymore. Okay. Then you go to Gretchen Whitmer,
Speaker 3: the governor who's won many state wide elections in that state,
Speaker 3: and you go, Okay, I don't have the bandwidth to
Speaker 3: defend an open seat with a bunch of lunatics running,
Speaker 3: You're gonna run. And they didn't have that power, and
Speaker 3: so they ended up with these chaotic primaries where they're
Speaker 3: losing control absolutely.
Speaker 1: And in Minnesota, I think what they thought was that
Speaker 1: if Amy Klobasher wants to step in and do the
Speaker 1: governor thing, that's fine. Minnesota is usually a safe seat.
Speaker 1: Will insert this moderate congresswoman Angie Craig into that seat,
Speaker 1: will funder to the gills, We'll make sure that it's
Speaker 1: not a competitive primary. Well that's not happening. And the favorite,
Speaker 1: the polling favorite right now next Tuesday in Minnesota is
Speaker 1: Michelle Tafoya Okay, we have a couple of other key candidates.
Speaker 1: We have our endorsed candidate, Adam Schwarzy, But right now,
Speaker 1: the polling favorite is Michelle Tafoya, the former NFL sideline
Speaker 1: reporter who's very moderate on a number of issues on
Speaker 1: things like abortion and some statements where she's opposed Trump.
Speaker 1: And if it is Michelle Tafoya against Peggy Flanagan in
Speaker 1: our general election, John the Democrat National Group, that Senate
Speaker 1: group is going to have to spend money in a
Speaker 1: general election in Minnesota. And I don't know when the
Speaker 1: last time they had to do that was maybe Norm
Speaker 1: Coleman or something like that, because it's been it's been
Speaker 1: twenty five years since outside money on the Democrat side
Speaker 1: has needed to try to defend a seat in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: and it's shaping up like they're going to have to.
Speaker 1: They got egg all over their face right now.
Speaker 3: Let's go back to that Michigan Senate race for a second,
Speaker 3: because I think there were a lot of dynamics in
Speaker 3: that race that kind of give us an idea as
Speaker 3: to how some of these future primary are going to
Speaker 3: play out, and maybe even the general election. Hailey Stevens,
Speaker 3: who was the Democratic Party's choice did very well with
Speaker 3: black voters, and she did very well with blue collar whites,
Speaker 3: people without college degrees. And you look at Abdul, he
Speaker 3: did extremely well with white people with college degrees. And
Speaker 3: the more educated you were, I guess the dumber your
Speaker 3: vote was, because the more educated you were, the more
Speaker 3: likely you were to vote for him. And it seems
Speaker 3: like whites with college degrees, specifically left wing whites with
Speaker 3: college degrees, have lost their freaking minds, and it's taking
Speaker 3: place in primary after primary after primary. They that's a
Speaker 3: group that's been radicalized. It's been radicalized in the way
Speaker 3: that they vote. It's been radical Look at Luigi Mangioni.
Speaker 3: He fitshed that category.
Speaker 1: Are the ones celebrating him.
Speaker 3: Who killed Charlie Kirk? You know, you name it. That
Speaker 3: crazy demographic seems to be hitting all the erogenous zones
Speaker 3: right now. What the hell is going on with whites
Speaker 3: with graduate degrees and their insane political views right now?
Speaker 1: Isn't it insane? I saw a chart. I saw somebody
Speaker 1: post a chart the other day of also comparing college
Speaker 1: education versus how you vote well. The affluent, I won't
Speaker 1: even say affluent, the people with bachelor's and master's degrees
Speaker 1: who also couldn't parlay those degrees into legitimate careers. They
Speaker 1: go into full time activism whether they know it or not.
Speaker 1: Their career or something adjacent to their career requires them
Speaker 1: to be political activists. And one thing you saw in
Speaker 1: Michigan that I found fascinating was that race was way
Speaker 1: closer than polling would lead you to believe. In some polls,
Speaker 1: Abdul was fifteen to twenty points ahead. And I think
Speaker 1: this is actually impacting the polling industry because these affluent
Speaker 1: white liberal especially women, are more responsive, it seems too polling.
Speaker 1: They are excited to get a polling call. So what
Speaker 1: I'm seeing the discourses is like, we actually have to
Speaker 1: adjust because we had this one demographic who's not only
Speaker 1: like politically engaged, but wants to answer a poll. I
Speaker 1: think it's the best case scenario for Republicans that it
Speaker 1: was as close as it was, because I think you're
Speaker 1: going to have a lot of people on the fringes,
Speaker 1: a lot of people who could swing either way, who
Speaker 1: are probably working class michigan Ers that say we're not
Speaker 1: going to vote for We're not going to vote for
Speaker 1: the socialist here but it is an interesting phenomena. It's
Speaker 1: people who are not earning enough money but have advanced degrees,
Speaker 1: went to an indoctrination factory, and they've made this their
Speaker 1: full time mission. It's their religion.
Speaker 3: John. I also think there's a sense of titlement because
Speaker 3: many of these people probably grew up in upper middle
Speaker 3: class homes where their parents had a nice house, their
Speaker 3: parents had a couple of cars, they had a pool,
Speaker 3: they had a yuard, they went on nice vacations, they
Speaker 3: were educated at elite institutions, and they have these useless
Speaker 3: degrees that they've collected that they cannot parley into a
Speaker 3: living that gives them a lifestyle they believe that they're
Speaker 3: entitled to. And because they're not living as good as
Speaker 3: their parents, they hate their boomer the boomers. They blame
Speaker 3: the boomers for them not being able to buy a
Speaker 3: home because the Boomers bought their home fifty years ago
Speaker 3: for eighty five cents in an onion and now they
Speaker 3: can't get into to a house in the city that
Speaker 3: they live in, certainly not any big city in the
Speaker 3: United States. And they're working these jobs that they think
Speaker 3: are beneath them, and they just don't see a bright future.
Speaker 3: So why not have the government provide me with the
Speaker 3: healthcare I want? Why not have the government provide me
Speaker 3: with a basic income. Why not have the government provide
Speaker 3: me with wiping out my student debt. The government should
Speaker 3: be the one that becomes my sugar daddy.
Speaker 1: Yep, yep. And we saw that with mom Domni's housing director.
Speaker 1: When he first got elected, it was uncovered that this
Speaker 1: young woman basically was a trust fund baby, had like
Speaker 1: grew up on a ranch, multiple parents, had multiple homes.
Speaker 1: This is the same lady who then went out and
Speaker 1: said that the private ownership of housing needs to be abolished.
Speaker 1: She was like that extreme on it. The real tragedy
Speaker 1: with these people is, to your point, their background means
Speaker 1: that the policies they advocate for that actually impact people
Speaker 1: who are trying to work their way up the ladder,
Speaker 1: they have no consequence to that. There's always a fallback
Speaker 1: for this demographic of people, and they're making decisions for
Speaker 1: people impoverty, people who are trying to work two jobs
Speaker 1: and work their way up. They're going to make life
Speaker 1: more unaffordable for the very same people that they claim
Speaker 1: that they're helping. Because they have they don't have. They
Speaker 1: don't have the real problems that actual people who are
Speaker 1: working class or in poverty have.
Speaker 3: Last question before you go, what's your prediction in the
Speaker 3: Democratic primary in your home state of Minnesota. Is the
Speaker 3: left wing candidate going to win or the standard Democrat
Speaker 3: can win? No?
Speaker 1: I think Peggy flanagain, the DSA candidate in Minnesota, is
Speaker 1: going to win. I think she is going to win
Speaker 1: by like I said before, five to seven percent. I
Speaker 1: do not think it will be as close as Michigan is.
Speaker 1: And then really the matchup, the odds on matchup is
Speaker 1: Michelle Tafoya versus Peggy Flanagan, and I like our chances
Speaker 1: if that's the case.
Speaker 3: Max Rymer, member of the Minnesota Legislature. You can get
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Speaker 3: All right. We mentioned before that the Accountability Podcast, the
Speaker 3: newest edition of the Accountability Podcast drops today at three
Speaker 3: and it's an exclusive extended interview with Steve Hilton, candidate
Speaker 3: for governor. And we told you that we would preview
Speaker 3: that interview by playing a portion of it today, So Randy,
Speaker 3: let's go ahead and listen to it.
Speaker 4: This airs on this channel at three o'clock, so make
Speaker 4: sure you tune in. But here's a little amuse boosh.
Speaker 3: A new poll that came out that showed you ahead
Speaker 3: of your Democratic opponent, Javier and Besserra in Orange County,
Speaker 3: which of course is a population center in southern California.
Speaker 3: The fall campaign just started. You just made your big
Speaker 3: launch over in Boyle Heights outside of Ground Zero where
Speaker 3: the environmental and public health disaster took place. On Gavin
Speaker 3: Newsom and Karen Bass's watch, how do you feel about
Speaker 3: the election right now? As we sit here in the
Speaker 3: doldrums of summer, staring at a calendar where fall is
Speaker 3: quickly approaching.
Speaker 8: Well, I'm feeling very excited about what's to come. Look,
Speaker 8: we all know the reality here. I've been aware of it.
Speaker 8: We've talked about it many times. Is twenty years since
Speaker 8: the Republican won in California. The GAP's been up till now,
Speaker 8: an unbridgeable twenty percent gap basically whoever's been running, that's
Speaker 8: been the outcome in all statewide races. And that's what
Speaker 8: that first poll, the pPIC basically showed it was the
Speaker 8: which was the other week, it was before the campaign started,
Speaker 8: before our campaign started, sixty one thirty six, And that
Speaker 8: was really, in a way, just adding up the totals
Speaker 8: that we saw in the primary. If you add myself,
Speaker 8: I got twenty five percent in the primary, Chad Bianca
Speaker 8: got about ten percent, that's thirty five. If you add
Speaker 8: up the Democrats, it comes to sixty five. The pole
Speaker 8: was sixty one thirty six, So it really just reflects
Speaker 8: where we were in the primary before the campaign. The
Speaker 8: Orange County pole is significant because, as he said, it's
Speaker 8: a large population center, third biggest county in the state,
Speaker 8: over three million people, and has been moving in a
Speaker 8: purple to blue direction honestly, and so that's encouraging that
Speaker 8: I'm just edging him. But we haven't really started. And
Speaker 8: there's two components to what we're doing. The launch of
Speaker 8: the Positive Campaign for Change in Boyle Heights, enough is enough,
Speaker 8: Let's fix California. That's the message. We were speaking also
Speaker 8: to the millions of Californians who understand that we need change.
Speaker 8: You are desperate the change from the insanity of the
Speaker 8: living expenses that are just off the charts, the housing cost,
Speaker 8: gas prices, electric bills, all of those things, chaos on
Speaker 8: the streets with crime and homelessness, the school results, et cetera.
Speaker 8: Of that, desperate for change. But also you've got millions
Speaker 8: of people who want the change but who can't stand
Speaker 8: President Trump. We know that in California. That's not a secret.
Speaker 8: And so there's a very important part of the message
Speaker 8: for me, which is to say, look, I get it.
Speaker 8: You may not like President Trump, you may not even
Speaker 8: be a Republican, but you know that we need change,
Speaker 8: and I'm your guy for that. And then the second
Speaker 8: part of the campaign is to show people who Besserah
Speaker 8: really is my opponent. He's not particularly well known, honestly
Speaker 8: in California, and once you dig into his support, it's
Speaker 8: very soft, which is our pathway to victory. When you
Speaker 8: look at the strength of support for each of us
Speaker 8: in a poll that we did, I've got thirty three
Speaker 8: percent solidly for me, He's got forty one percent, and
Speaker 8: there's twenty six percent who are really up for grabs
Speaker 8: and persuadable. And that's who we're aiming for. And we've
Speaker 8: got to also tell them that Besserah is not just
Speaker 8: a thirty six year career politician who would be absolutely
Speaker 8: no change for anything. In fact, in many ways worse
Speaker 8: than what we've got now. He's also completely disqualified in
Speaker 8: terms of his past experience, notably, as we've been focusing
Speaker 8: on in the last week. As HHS Secretary for Biden,
Speaker 8: he presided over an absolutely appalling scandal, the Migrant Kids scandal,
Speaker 8: where he was responsible for losing three hundred and nineteen
Speaker 8: thousand children and sending many, many thousands of children into
Speaker 8: the clutches of child sex traffickers and slave labor. And
Speaker 8: he did that directly in order to try and protect
Speaker 8: his political reputation because he didn't want the images of
Speaker 8: kids in his camps. This guy's disqualified. I think on
Speaker 8: that basis. So there's there's a lot more to come
Speaker 8: out on that and on the other things that make
Speaker 8: the Sarah not fit to be governorsed. So in a way,
Speaker 8: I'm feeling like we know what we've got in our loca,
Speaker 8: and I'm very excited about the weeks and months ahead.
Speaker 8: Is going to be difficult, but I know that we
Speaker 8: can win this.
Speaker 3: When people talk about your campaign, they always reference the
Speaker 3: fact that it's a long shot, But I always tell them,
Speaker 3: I always caution them and say, look, there are states
Speaker 3: that are bluer than California in the United States that
Speaker 3: have Republican governors. Larry Hogan did it in Maryland. The
Speaker 3: state of Vermont, which has a socialist Bernie Sanders representing
Speaker 3: that state in the United States Senate has a Republican
Speaker 3: governor right now. That's one of the most popular governors
Speaker 3: in the entire country. There have been other Republican governors
Speaker 3: in the Northeast, places like Maine and Massachusetts and elsewhere
Speaker 3: in recent cycles. There is a way to crack the code.
Speaker 3: There is a way to do it. Have you We've
Speaker 3: spoken to those individuals, to those Republican governors and blue
Speaker 3: states about their secret sauce.
Speaker 8: Yeah, a little bit. And in fact, I was at
Speaker 8: the Republican Governor's Association meeting just the other week and
Speaker 8: we had a few of those conversations, not with everyone
Speaker 8: that you mentioned, but some others who've been in that
Speaker 8: situation as well. It's an incredibly important point and the
Speaker 8: answer is very simple, and I'm looking forward to more
Speaker 8: of those conversations. The answer is what I've been doing.
Speaker 8: Actually in the campaign, you will see it written behind me.
Speaker 8: These are the messages we're on the road with, which
Speaker 8: is to be incredibly practical, positive and practical, not ideological,
Speaker 8: not deviceive, not even particularly partisan. And so you've seen
Speaker 8: from the beginning right right back to last year, my
Speaker 8: campaign has been very simple. Three dollar gas cut, utility
Speaker 8: bills in half, your first one hundred and fifty grand,
Speaker 8: tax free, starter homes for young families, et cetera. And
Speaker 8: these are things that have large majority support in California.
Speaker 8: I'm not, and I haven't weighed in on the issues
Speaker 8: that are more divisive, that you would consider more ideological.
Speaker 8: I'm just going to focus on what we can do
Speaker 8: to help people, in particular the people who like if
Speaker 8: I go back to that pathway to victory in the
Speaker 8: twenty six percent who are up for grabs and we
Speaker 8: can persuade and who those people are. The vast majority
Speaker 8: are working class Californians, regular working people, not college degrees,
Speaker 8: who are just really sick of the struggle of just
Speaker 8: surviving in California, particularly economically, and that's why our focus
Speaker 8: is very much on those practical cost of living things
Speaker 8: and the changes we can make to make life easier,
Speaker 8: in particular for working people in small businesses. That's why
Speaker 8: we launched the campaign in Boyle Heights, because it's a
Speaker 8: heavily working class Latino neighborhood that just sittypifies the way
Speaker 8: in which Democrats have let down that group in their
Speaker 8: years in power.
Speaker 4: So that's just a little taste of our forty minute
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Speaker 1: You?
Speaker 4: I am afraid of the bobbleheads that are going to
Speaker 4: get sent to this radio station now. The La County
Speaker 4: Board of Supervisors and the Lakitt City Council says, after
Speaker 4: two months of this disaster, we're starting to work on
Speaker 4: some relief for these people. Let's find out what this
Speaker 4: is about. Here is Fox eleven citting.
Speaker 2: County leaders try to bring more relief to Boyle Heights
Speaker 2: residents and businesses frustrated by the slow cleanup.
Speaker 1: Process.
Speaker 2: Nearly seven weeks after the Lineage warehouse fire, some still
Speaker 2: facing foul odors and financial losses. Fox Love is Rachel
Speaker 2: Aragon live now in Boyle Heights with What's being done? Rachel?
Speaker 3: Wait a minute, how did Seedorf get out of this?
Speaker 4: Well, you don't know this story, do you?
Speaker 7: So?
Speaker 4: Seedorf was off last week. He was doing an Ironman
Speaker 4: triathlon in Canada and he was about to fly back
Speaker 4: to Los Angeles from Calgary when west Jet decided they
Speaker 4: wanted to have a flight attendant strike and he could
Speaker 4: not get home. He had a rent a car and
Speaker 4: go all the way to Bozeman, Montana to get on
Speaker 4: a flight to get to Los Angeles. And he just
Speaker 4: got back yesterday, poor guy. And he did all that
Speaker 4: with his wife and a baby and all the equipment
Speaker 4: that you carry with you when you're doing a triathlon.
Speaker 3: Sounds like a tough trip.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 5: The eye glim moral relief could be on the way
Speaker 5: for residents and businesses in this very neighborhood. But some
Speaker 5: people we spoke to and heard from today say they
Speaker 5: should not have to wait nearly two months for their
Speaker 5: life to return.
Speaker 4: Back to normal, or to get the county to pay
Speaker 4: attention to them.
Speaker 1: There's less people.
Speaker 5: People don't really go out.
Speaker 9: We have to wear a mask.
Speaker 5: Parents in boil hines, contins like COVID, you know, find
Speaker 5: the impact of the toxics that sparked at the cold
Speaker 5: storage facility in June. Many try to find fresh share
Speaker 5: for the little ones to play.
Speaker 3: They don't really come out because of the smell.
Speaker 4: We're going to these poor people. It's almost two months
Speaker 4: of this well.
Speaker 3: You can smell it right here for another party because
Speaker 3: of the smell.
Speaker 9: Residents did not cause this disaster, but were forced to
Speaker 9: suffer its consequences.
Speaker 4: And you've done nothing about it. Isabelle.
Speaker 5: On Tuesday, council member Isabelle Hradu announcing a series of
Speaker 5: motions aim to provide immediate relief from odors and pests.
Speaker 4: And aim to provide immediate relief, meaning that it's going
Speaker 4: to go through the council committee process and in about
Speaker 4: six months they'll have relief for the residents of Boyle Heights.
Speaker 3: It's not immediate. These people have been dealing with this
Speaker 3: for a long time.
Speaker 5: Already celebrate the cleanup process.
Speaker 9: I'm also calling for a faster cleanup of the warehouse
Speaker 9: site by urging Governor Newsom and the State of California
Speaker 9: to deploy adition resources to bolster the current cleanup operations.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's the first time I've heard any local call
Speaker 4: out Gavin for doing nothing on this.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, he hasn't shown up. Are you going to
Speaker 3: follow up and call him out when he doesn't give
Speaker 3: you what you want?
Speaker 4: No, of course not.
Speaker 5: Then on the county level, Madam, Chair, Item fifteen is
Speaker 5: before you. The Board of Supervisors haas a motion Tuesday
Speaker 5: to provide a financial assistance of small businesses affected by
Speaker 5: the Lineage fire.
Speaker 4: I've spoken to some of these, Sure, we might give
Speaker 4: you cancer, but we're going to give you a five
Speaker 4: hundred dollars check this.
Speaker 9: This is in the area myself and heard firsthand about
Speaker 9: the thousands of dollars if Day have lost.
Speaker 5: But nearly seven weeks later, Boyle Heights residents like Victoria
Speaker 5: Burden say what they want most is urgency. The main
Speaker 5: thing that they want is this food gone. They want
Speaker 5: this factory gone, and they don't want it to be rebuilt.
Speaker 5: Mayor Karen Bez signing an emergency executive order barring city
Speaker 5: departments from processing Lineage rebuild plans until fire investigators make
Speaker 5: their findings public.
Speaker 4: And she sure likes to make Lineage the boogeyman here,
Speaker 4: But let's not forget that one of her top advisors
Speaker 4: is doing pr for Lineage. And also it's the strangest thing,
Speaker 4: but it's worth addressing. Why is nobody mentioning the solar
Speaker 4: panel company that started the fire?
Speaker 3: And how about Barbara Ferrer who should have been taking
Speaker 3: the lead as the fake doctor in charge of the
Speaker 3: county Department of Public Health.
Speaker 4: Oh, you just need some tile and all that'll do it.
Speaker 5: Wash your hands often and always before eating and after toileting.
Speaker 5: The clock is ticking on the August fourteenth deadline that
Speaker 5: best set for Lineage to complete it's cleanup. Lineage says
Speaker 5: as of Monday, the company has removed about eighty percent
Speaker 5: of the food waste, adding a statement every day, hundreds
Speaker 5: of workers, contractors, and experts are on site working around
Speaker 5: the clock to accelerate the cleanup, reduce odors, protect public health,
Speaker 5: and provide direct assistants to impacted residents.
Speaker 4: And one of the ways that local government could help
Speaker 4: speed this up is by giving them more access to
Speaker 4: more landfills. But uh County's slow roll in that one, and.
Speaker 5: A spokesperson for Governor Newsom sending us this statement saying.
Speaker 4: Quote the Okay, I know this wasn't ai, But if
Speaker 4: you're looking at the screen right now, did they find
Speaker 4: a file photo of Gavin Newsom that makes it look
Speaker 4: like he's smelling something bad?
Speaker 3: I think they did very good job.
Speaker 5: Governor understands how distresting the situation is for the Boyle
Speaker 5: Heights community. That's why he moved quickly to declare.
Speaker 4: It looks like he got a whiff of something stinky.
Speaker 3: He's smelling it right there.
Speaker 5: A state of emergency to support local efforts in Boyle Heights,
Speaker 5: where the City of Los Angeles remains the lead on
Speaker 5: response and recovery. The statement goes on to say, we
Speaker 5: expect the responsible party to work urgently with local and
Speaker 5: state agencies to accelerate cleanup and address the community concerns
Speaker 5: here in Boyle Heights.
Speaker 4: That's Gavin speak for. This is Karen Bass and Hilda
Speaker 4: solely his fault. Leave me alone.
Speaker 3: And you know what, He's not exactly wrong, but it's
Speaker 3: still in his state free life.
Speaker 5: In one line tonight, I'm Rachel evergone Fox eleven.
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