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Speaker 1: She is the Professor of Political Science emeritus at California
Speaker 1: State University at Fullerton. Professor Barbara Stone, Welcome.
Speaker 4: Good afternoon, mister Phillips.
Speaker 1: Well thank you so much for joining us today. So
Speaker 1: let's start out by talking about the leadership shake up
Speaker 1: in Sacramento, where the Republican Party in California in the
Speaker 1: Assembly specifically, they specifically pick these people to lead the
Speaker 1: caucus who seem to act as an arm of the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party, an arm of the majority, where whenever the
Speaker 1: Democrats need their votes on something controversial, they make sure
Speaker 1: that there are a certain number of Republicans that provide
Speaker 1: them the votes that they need, so vulnerable Democrats can
Speaker 1: either abstain or vote know so it's not used against
Speaker 1: them when they run for reelection. Most recently it was
Speaker 1: Heath Flora out of the Central Valley who just got dumped.
Speaker 1: But there's been some variation of that type of person
Speaker 1: in that job at some point or another for a
Speaker 1: very long time. Before him. It was Marie Waldron, it
Speaker 1: was Chad Mays, it was Christian Olsen. They all kind
Speaker 1: of did the same thing. How is it that the
Speaker 1: Republican Party ends up with some version of that person
Speaker 1: in that position when certainly their voters aren't there.
Speaker 4: First of all, start with the fact that there are
Speaker 4: so few republic Lincoln's and Sacramento. Okay, so you somehow
Speaker 4: need to walk through what these people can and cannot accomplish.
Speaker 4: I guess I look at it. The Democrats love, as
Speaker 4: you just said, to be able to claim there was
Speaker 4: bipartisan support for this and relieve some of their members
Speaker 4: perhaps of having to vote for it a lot of times,
Speaker 4: and in the most recent case, John, I don't know enough,
Speaker 4: but they'll do it somewhere where. Yeah, it's a tax hike,
Speaker 4: but it's something that the members constituents probably want, or
Speaker 4: at least important people in their district probably want, and
Speaker 4: or they talk themselves into it and then they either
Speaker 4: hold on or they turn to Democrats, which several particular
Speaker 4: in San Diego have done. So I guess where I'm
Speaker 4: coming from and not explaining it well is when you
Speaker 4: have no power, you can either go the way of hey,
Speaker 4: look we're the resistance, or you can go, hey, there's
Speaker 4: a group and there are several members who will do this.
Speaker 4: Let's find things that are good enough that I can
Speaker 4: promote it so that the bipartisan stuff includes some Democrats.
Speaker 4: Or you can claim to yourself that you're accomplishing something
Speaker 4: by voting with Democrats, and particularly people who are about
Speaker 4: to be termed out. From their point of view, it's
Speaker 4: no big downside. The problem is John that we can't
Speaker 4: do anything because we don't have the numbers, and you
Speaker 4: get some interesting people up there.
Speaker 1: Do you think it would change if Republicans were to
Speaker 1: break the Democratic supermajority?
Speaker 4: Yes, now would you still have some people? Who knows
Speaker 4: because you and I both over the years watched a
Speaker 4: lot of these people. But at that point, I guess
Speaker 4: where I'm going is there's a point in collective action.
Speaker 4: How's that that, properly done could advance the common good,
Speaker 4: meaning the Republican party interests, And at that point it
Speaker 4: would make it, I think, much easier to stand up
Speaker 4: to it than if you just sit there and shoot man,
Speaker 4: you might as well not be there.
Speaker 1: We interviewed Steve Hilton for our Accountability podcast that's going
Speaker 1: to drop tomorrow, and it was a fascinating conversation that
Speaker 1: we had on any number of topics, any number of subjects,
Speaker 1: but one of the subjects that came up was electability.
Speaker 1: And according to Poles, he is trailing Javier Bessera by
Speaker 1: the usual amount that Republicans trailed Democrats and statewide contests,
Speaker 1: which is around twenty points, which is what the results
Speaker 1: were in the primary. If you add up what Hilton
Speaker 1: got with what Bianco got, and you add up all
Speaker 1: the Democrats, it's sixty forty or some version of that.
Speaker 1: And the question that I posed to him was, why
Speaker 1: is it that Republicans in other blue states like Maryland,
Speaker 1: like Massachusetts, like Vermont have been able to win top
Speaker 1: of the ticket statewide elections at the state level, not
Speaker 1: federal offices, but state offices. They've been able to win
Speaker 1: those elections cycle after cycle after cycle after cycle. Yet
Speaker 1: we're going through a drought here in California where Republicans
Speaker 1: haven't been able to do that. What is it that
Speaker 1: republicans running for statewide office in California can learn from
Speaker 1: those Republicans in Maryland, Vermont, and Massachusetts.
Speaker 4: Oh, John, I would guess without knowing is that the answer,
Speaker 4: unfortunately is probably not much much smaller states. We are
Speaker 4: a huge state, and to be able to reach the
Speaker 4: number of voters you would need, because you know, you
Speaker 4: talk about twenty percentage points, that's quite large, but that
Speaker 4: represents millions of people. It's not the same as, oh,
Speaker 4: look they're mad about something in Vermont's and we have
Speaker 4: the right, guy, So maybe we can win. It's just
Speaker 4: not And I think in this case it's our size
Speaker 4: militates against us. And I know the answer, of course,
Speaker 4: bring back Arnold. Oh well, because there you don't have
Speaker 4: to introduce him to voters. They all knew who he
Speaker 4: was and it was amazing the people that voted for him.
Speaker 5: Partly.
Speaker 4: Well, I don't think you can learn from those places, John,
Speaker 4: because it's too different. I might be entirely wrong. Now,
Speaker 4: is there something you can do well? The answer in
Speaker 4: an individual election is probably no. But overall, the Democrats
Speaker 4: in this state have gone so far out there that
Speaker 4: a reasonable, reasonable consistent message over time among candidates who
Speaker 4: are willing to work this constituency, that constituency might be
Speaker 4: able to build something, although sometimes it's hard, Like right now,
Speaker 4: we should be able to build something on public health,
Speaker 4: dear lord. And beyond that, law and order periodically pops up,
Speaker 4: and we do quite well when that's the issue on voters' minds.
Speaker 4: But you have to have somebody out there who's respectable
Speaker 4: that they'll vote for, and that gets exciting.
Speaker 1: Yesterday I had John Fla on the show and I
Speaker 1: talked to him about Boyle Heights because that was where
Speaker 1: Steve Hilton decided to launch his November campaign and he
Speaker 1: had Gloria Romero there with him, who is the Republican
Speaker 1: candidate for lieutenant governor, and I brought up the fact
Speaker 1: that Gavin has still not visited Ground zero for what
Speaker 1: is a public health emergency and an environmental disaster that's
Speaker 1: going on right in the middle of one of the
Speaker 1: biggest population center, well the biggest population center in his state.
Speaker 1: But not only hasn't Gavin been there, neither is Javier Bessera,
Speaker 1: who not only is running for governor, but used to
Speaker 1: represent that area in both the State Assembly and the
Speaker 1: United States Congress, and he hasn't shown up either. Now
Speaker 1: we know why they haven't shown up, because they would
Speaker 1: get cursed out in English and Spanish, the same way
Speaker 1: that Barbara Ferrer did, the same way that Karen Bass did,
Speaker 1: the same way that Hilda Slice did. And they don't
Speaker 1: want that video to exist on planet Earth because it
Speaker 1: will haunt them forever. That being said, Fleischmann said that
Speaker 1: he predicts that there will be no political fallout for
Speaker 1: them just ignoring this disaster, because he said, what matters
Speaker 1: right now in democratic politics is the performative and the
Speaker 1: ability to actually fix a problem or to go into
Speaker 1: a disaster and take your lumps, because that's what you're
Speaker 1: supposed to do, because that's the position that you have
Speaker 1: as governor or the likely to be next governor. He
Speaker 1: said there's going to be no fallout for them at all,
Speaker 1: and that's sad, but he doesn't think that that's going
Speaker 1: to happen.
Speaker 4: Your thoughts and John's a pretty smart guy. Yeah, I've
Speaker 4: listened to him for years. The one thing I would
Speaker 4: say is if he means this election, he is one
Speaker 4: hundred percent correct, Okay, because that's have I mentioned how
Speaker 4: huge the state is and Boyle Heights is actually a
Speaker 4: very very small corner of it. And even for City
Speaker 4: of la you've left them with the choice of Karen
Speaker 4: Bassi Nithii Raman. Really, however, and I actually believe this,
Speaker 4: and I've always believed it, that there are potential openings
Speaker 4: within Hispanic communities for people who believe what we believe.
Speaker 4: And it takes time to build, it takes people being there,
Speaker 4: it takes well give you an example. Now, this is
Speaker 4: gonna age me because when Dick Riridon was first running
Speaker 4: for mayor of Los Angeles. Don't ask me why, but
Speaker 4: I was at a meeting. It was women going to
Speaker 4: be for Arden, and actually at least half, if not more,
Speaker 4: of the women were Latinas far as I could tell,
Speaker 4: they were all Democrats, but they were there to help
Speaker 4: Dick Riardon. And I actually asked them how come since
Speaker 4: it didn't seem to make any sense he was a Republican.
Speaker 4: And their answer was because for twenty years, he has
Speaker 4: been in our community for twenty years, he has donated
Speaker 4: to our schools for twenty years. He has reached out
Speaker 4: to us and listened to us, and now we're giving back.
Speaker 2: In a state like.
Speaker 4: This, John, I'm not counting on any of our palls
Speaker 4: doing that kind of thing, but an effort somewhat like
Speaker 4: that is probably what's necessary. But I do believe that
Speaker 4: that's a constituency that over time you can break into. Now,
Speaker 4: of course, in Boro Heights you probably have a number
Speaker 4: of people there who are not voters, but that's okay.
Speaker 4: You reach out where you can reach out.
Speaker 1: What is your obligation if you are the elected governor
Speaker 1: in the state, and you know those people are really
Speaker 1: angry and they feel like they've gotten the short end
Speaker 1: of the sit stick, and they're getting sick, and they
Speaker 1: fear that they're going to have long term health consequences,
Speaker 1: and maybe they will, I don't know. It can't be
Speaker 1: healthy to stay there and breathe in smoke from a
Speaker 1: chemical fire for a very long period of time and
Speaker 1: then smell that disgusting stench that's been there ever since.
Speaker 1: They claim that their lungs are being filled with fluids,
Speaker 1: that they're bleeding from the nose, they have rashes all
Speaker 1: over their bodies, they're having all kinds of health problems,
Speaker 1: and they're showing up to Barbara Ferrer's health clinics and
Speaker 1: they're being given tile and all and told to go
Speaker 1: home and stop complaining. What is your obligation if you're
Speaker 1: the governor? Is your obligation to show up and take
Speaker 1: your lumps and have a public forum and let them
Speaker 1: scream at you, because that's your role as governor and
Speaker 1: that's just part of the job description and it's not
Speaker 1: a fun day, but it's part of what you sign
Speaker 1: up for. Or is it okay to just pretend like
Speaker 1: it's not happening.
Speaker 4: What do you do if you're governor, honey? You run
Speaker 4: for president? So then you figure where that am I wrong?
Speaker 4: And that's just not an image that man wants. For
Speaker 4: that Actually, for once in my life, I will quasi
Speaker 4: sort of the little defend Gavin because health at this
Speaker 4: level really is overwhelmingly local responsibility. And I'm sorry, the
Speaker 4: good social worker is the should be the lead on this.
Speaker 4: Don't tell me it's the city. The hospital is yours,
Speaker 4: the big docs are yours. Yes, the city is messing
Speaker 4: up all over the place because they have not a
Speaker 4: clue what to do. But this is I think overwhelmingly
Speaker 4: a county responsibility and they're missing in action. So Gavin
Speaker 4: is going to decide on what makes Gavin look good
Speaker 4: to the public, and being associated with this is not that.
Speaker 4: But somebody should be doing something evil to the La
Speaker 4: County Department of Health because they're the ones who should
Speaker 4: be in there hopping around.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Gavin. To borrow a phrase from Chick hern
Speaker 1: is the mustard off the hot dog. And I say
Speaker 1: that because you look at these numbers, these poll numbers nationally,
Speaker 1: and at one point in time, not that long ago,
Speaker 1: he was doing quite well in some polls, leading the
Speaker 1: Democratic pack, and now he's fallen way behind Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: and even some other people in recent polls. You look
Speaker 1: at the battle right now that he has going on
Speaker 1: with public workers where he's trying to force them back
Speaker 1: into the office. They don't want to do it. And
Speaker 1: he's going to war with the unions over that. He's
Speaker 1: going to war with the SEIU over the wealth confiscation tax.
Speaker 1: It's not a good look to run for president as
Speaker 1: a Democrat when the unions in your home state hate
Speaker 1: your guts. It seems to me like Gavin isn't looking
Speaker 1: as good as he was looking not that long ago.
Speaker 4: I honestly believe that Gavin only looked good because there
Speaker 4: was no competition. In fact, if you talk to Democrats now,
Speaker 4: which I know you do, and you go, well, who
Speaker 4: do you think could be a good dominee? And frankly
Speaker 4: or I sort of like they're in trouble John from
Speaker 4: that point of view, because they have no idea and
Speaker 4: Gavin sort of floated because he made a big point
Speaker 4: of being out there. Now, I'll make this comment. His
Speaker 4: name was resonating when he got publicity for fighting Trump,
Speaker 4: and if he can figure out a way to take
Speaker 4: that posture again, you watch it'll go up again. Because
Speaker 4: you have a whole lot of Democrats who actsolutely refuse
Speaker 4: to think beyond Trump bad, Trump bad, Trump bad, and
Speaker 4: here's our hero to go after Trump bad. I honestly
Speaker 4: think it was tied to that. Plus they didn't have
Speaker 4: anybody else.
Speaker 1: Professor Barbara Stone, Professor of Political Science Emeritus at California
Speaker 1: State University at Fullerton, Thanks so much for stopping by.
Speaker 4: Well, it's good to talk to you. John.
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Speaker 1: A new California ruling is making it more difficult to
Speaker 1: keep repeat nonviolent offenders in custody before trial.
Speaker 2: The judges are taking das that are doing great jobs,
Speaker 2: like Brooke Jenkins in San Francisco and making her job
Speaker 2: so much harder. For more on this, we go to
Speaker 2: a great in depth report from ABC seven in the
Speaker 2: Bay and one of my favorite reporters, LeeAnne Melendez.
Speaker 6: Shell theft, it's decreasing in San Francisco, as is the
Speaker 6: illegal resale of stolen goods on city streets.
Speaker 7: Of good news there, that's right, But those same offenders
Speaker 7: may find it easier to walk free because of a
Speaker 7: recent California Supreme Court decision.
Speaker 6: ABC seven Eye Witness does reporter Lee on Linda's here
Speaker 6: for an in depth look at a new hurdle in
Speaker 6: fighting crime. One step forward, two steps back here.
Speaker 5: Well, things are changing, or are they? So we are
Speaker 5: moving the ball forward when addressing retail theft. Those words
Speaker 5: coming from San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins. She, like others, say,
Speaker 5: there is still a lot of work to be done,
Speaker 5: but there's a new obstacle which has gone somewhat unnoticed
Speaker 5: until now.
Speaker 1: And Randy, we have talked about this at nauseum for
Speaker 1: public safety to be back in California, Yes, it's very
Speaker 1: important to make sure that we have good district attorneys
Speaker 1: and we get these Soros das out of office, people
Speaker 1: like George Gascon and Pamela Price and Chase A. Boudin.
Speaker 1: But you also need a police department that's willing to
Speaker 1: make the arrests. You need judges who are willing to
Speaker 1: keep people in jail, you need juries who are willing
Speaker 1: to convict. You need state lawmakers who are willing to
Speaker 1: put reasonable laws on the books. And if someone drops
Speaker 1: the ball, the whole thing falls apart.
Speaker 2: And in San Francisco, you've got a mayor that wants
Speaker 2: to enforce the law. He's not perfect, but he's a
Speaker 2: heck of a lot better than London Breed. You have
Speaker 2: a police department that is getting more and more the
Speaker 2: availability to actually do their job. Car break ins are
Speaker 2: way down in San Francisco. You have a district attorney
Speaker 2: who is one of the best in the entire state
Speaker 2: trying to really go after some of these repeat offenders.
Speaker 2: But it's the judges in San Francisco County specifically that
Speaker 2: are constantly throwing a wrench into the case. They're the
Speaker 2: ones that say, oh, yes, the Honduran fentanl dealers. They're
Speaker 2: definitely victims of human trafficking. Let's release them. Oh, the
Speaker 2: repeat thief that must just because of poverty, Let's release them.
Speaker 2: And sometimes the amount of time these people get released
Speaker 2: after doing the same crime over and over and over
Speaker 2: again is ludicrous.
Speaker 5: That in a single night, twenty two people were arrested
Speaker 5: in San Francisco for shoplifting. The video was provided by
Speaker 5: the SFPD Organized Retail Crime Task Force.
Speaker 2: They're stealing from a Whole Foods. What are they stealing
Speaker 2: that one stock of asparagus that's in water that costs
Speaker 2: eight dollars.
Speaker 5: Today, the consequences are more severe. Since December twenty twenty four,
Speaker 5: a district attorney can ask that a shoplifting or petty
Speaker 5: theft charge be filed as a felony. If that defended, that.
Speaker 2: Is Prop thirty six. By the way, that's the two
Speaker 2: aspects of Prop thirty six are the drug aspect and
Speaker 2: the repeat thievean aspect.
Speaker 1: And you go, why is this important. They're not violent,
Speaker 1: it's not like they murdered someone, it's not like they
Speaker 1: raped someone. They stole something from a retail store. Well,
Speaker 1: the answer is, if you let them out until the
Speaker 1: trial begins. Sometimes it takes months before those trials start.
Speaker 1: So how many more stores can they knock off? Well,
Speaker 1: they're out before the trial is resolved.
Speaker 5: It has two or more prior convictions for theft related offenses.
Speaker 8: We have filed well over one hundred of the sixty
Speaker 8: six to six point one cases, which is really telling
Speaker 8: us that there are people who are running around with
Speaker 8: prior convictions who are continuing to steal and we've been
Speaker 8: able to, one by one, you know, apply more serious
Speaker 8: charges to them.
Speaker 2: Let's not forget this is all happening in San Francisco,
Speaker 2: which has notably seen so many wallgreens closed because of
Speaker 2: retail theft, including the Walgreens where they had to chain
Speaker 2: up the frozen pizza and ice cream.
Speaker 1: Where you're supposed to get your blood pressure medications. In
Speaker 1: San Francisco, CBS and waited a really long line.
Speaker 5: Which matters the use of police Jones has also been
Speaker 5: instrumental even in pickpocketing cases.
Speaker 6: After confirming three separate pickpocket thefts, officers coordinated an arrest operation.
Speaker 2: Here's what okay, who's doing the SFPD's voiceover, Because that's
Speaker 2: a great voice.
Speaker 1: Sounds like the guy from unsolved mysteries.
Speaker 5: They told us back in March when we visited the
Speaker 5: Real Time Investigation Center.
Speaker 1: We're absolutely using that as a message to send out
Speaker 1: that if you come here to San Francisco, you're gonna
Speaker 1: get hell responsible for what you're doing.
Speaker 2: Hey, he didn't use the A word. Good for you.
Speaker 5: But despite these tougher laws, some suspects are released by
Speaker 5: the courts even though they have committed several offenses. Take
Speaker 5: the case of a man named Tyrese Boswell, arrested last
Speaker 5: December for eighteen thefts at a Walgreens.
Speaker 2: This is why we can't have nice things. Ghetto have
Speaker 2: the luck of the sock.
Speaker 5: He was then released by a judge, and, according to
Speaker 5: his complaint, Boswell was involved in seven additional thefts at
Speaker 5: another Walgreens.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 2: Story's not over.
Speaker 5: He was arrested in April and again released pending his
Speaker 5: court date. Court documents state that he then returned to
Speaker 5: the same Walgreens two more times and arrested a third time.
Speaker 5: He now remains in jail.
Speaker 2: So we need this guy to steal from the Walgreens
Speaker 2: over twenty five times before we actually realize that this
Speaker 2: guy should not be out.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised there's any place left for us to shop
Speaker 1: at in San Francisco.
Speaker 5: According to police, his thefts were totaled nearly forty thousand dollars.
Speaker 5: In case you're wondering, some of those stolen items are
Speaker 5: then illegally sold on these streets.
Speaker 2: In the mission.
Speaker 1: There you go, Today's show goes full circle.
Speaker 2: Seriously, who's buying the black market toothpaste?
Speaker 5: But all police can do is cite the person unless
Speaker 5: there's a warrant.
Speaker 2: And they used to not even be able to do that.
Speaker 5: Is what we saw. Police confiscated a bag full of
Speaker 5: items from a man whom admittedly had sold stolen goods
Speaker 5: many times in the Mission district. About any stolen stone,
Speaker 5: h Well, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, did you steal that Warrior's beanie?
Speaker 1: Well, I can tell you this, he wasn't stealing toothpaste
Speaker 1: for personal use.
Speaker 2: Looks like next time I he going to Walgreens, he
Speaker 2: might want to steal a brath.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got a rack fother party.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yes, yeah, stuff like that.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 9: But you know, uh so did they they took? They took,
Speaker 9: They took the most expensive stuff I had, Levi's.
Speaker 2: You know, you know how you can just tell by
Speaker 2: the way someone speaks, if they're a meth head, he's it. Yep.
Speaker 2: Regular people that don't do meth and fentanyl don't sound
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 9: And and they wrote me in infraction, they ran my name.
Speaker 9: They just tastle us if we have a warrant that'll
Speaker 9: take us to jail, you know, and and and and
Speaker 9: they they just don't give us room to operating.
Speaker 2: Jake, that's one of those moments where you just leave
Speaker 2: the microphone and let your guests do all the work.
Speaker 1: Everything you'll get is Goldpkins.
Speaker 5: And other district attorneys in the state are now concerned
Speaker 5: that the courts will not be able to keep some
Speaker 5: suspects in custody for committing non violent offenses like shoplifting.
Speaker 5: That's because in April of this year, the California Supreme
Speaker 5: Court ruled that jailing a person before their trial simply
Speaker 5: because they cannot post bail is unconstitutional.
Speaker 2: There there you go, everybody, If the person committing the
Speaker 2: crime cannot afford the bail, we cannot give bail. That's
Speaker 2: where we're at.
Speaker 1: Unreal.
Speaker 8: We cannot as a system hold them in court without
Speaker 8: being allowed to post bail that they can afford.
Speaker 4: To pay.
Speaker 5: An example of what could happen recently did when a
Speaker 5: man accused of torturing a kitten in San Francisco was
Speaker 5: released and was a no show for his arraignment. A
Speaker 5: few days later, Reno police raided home to arrest him
Speaker 5: for allegedly adopting more kittens and abusing them.
Speaker 2: So our laws are allowing cat abusers to get out
Speaker 2: so they can abuse more cats.
Speaker 1: This is insanity and it's so predictable. Who is looking
Speaker 1: at this and going, well, I didn't expect that to happen.
Speaker 2: Reno PD's got a lot of tats.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, haven't you watched Reno nine one one?
Speaker 8: Anyone who's committed nonviolent crime?
Speaker 2: And also quick question, how is torturing a cat not
Speaker 2: a violent crime?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're causing pain to a living thing, and.
Speaker 8: I mean nonviolent against another person, not an animal. Anything
Speaker 8: like that is going to be back out into the
Speaker 8: street most likely.
Speaker 5: So we're not advocating one way or another with regard
Speaker 5: to the State Supreme Court's decision.
Speaker 2: Sure we're not. We're being completely neutral in this story.
Speaker 1: We could read between the lines.
Speaker 2: We just stuck our microphone out and let the meth
Speaker 2: head do all the talking for us.
Speaker 5: Of course, this decision stems from a case where a
Speaker 5: man found a credit card card, used it to try
Speaker 5: to buy a seven dollars hamburger, was arrested. Bail was
Speaker 5: then set at seventy five thousand dollars. He couldn't pay it.
Speaker 2: How is that even possible?
Speaker 1: And you see these people that abuse kittens and we
Speaker 1: just let them out, but they're putting someone in who
Speaker 1: stole a seven dollars hamburger.
Speaker 5: Then he spent six months in jail waiting for his trial.
Speaker 1: Here's what I want to know, what did that guy
Speaker 1: do before he stole the hamburger? Because it could be
Speaker 1: a situation where he has been a career a hole
Speaker 1: and this was just the latest straw that broke the
Speaker 1: camel's back and they go, Okay, you're a problem child.
Speaker 1: This is what the bail's going to be.
Speaker 5: A lot of district attorneys in the state very concerned
Speaker 5: about the consequences of this ruling.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well that seems to be the extreme case. Yeah,
Speaker 6: seven dollars hamburger.
Speaker 2: And we're already seeing the supply every single day. If
Speaker 2: a Hondo, which is what they call the Honda and
Speaker 2: drug dealers that are setting Fountainyl and the Mission and
Speaker 2: Soma and the tenderloin. If they get arrested, they don't
Speaker 2: even get held because oh, they can't afford the bail.
Speaker 2: And of course we're not going to turn them over
Speaker 2: to ice because we don't do that in San Francisco.
Speaker 6: How how do these people keep getting released from jail?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 6: Is it an overcrowding situation?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 5: Well? I mean, you know, for the longest time California
Speaker 5: has said, well, you know, if it's a minor offense,
Speaker 5: then they shouldn't be in jail.
Speaker 2: And that how about twenty five different minor offenses all
Speaker 2: at the same Walgreens.
Speaker 5: That's why we came up with this six sixty six
Speaker 5: point one, which is if you commit more than one
Speaker 5: several and then you commit another crime, which is was
Speaker 5: before a misdemeanor now would become it will become a feunder.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 5: And they keep on coming.
Speaker 6: Yeah, thank you, Liam.
Speaker 2: So there there you go, another great report from Leanne Melendez.
Speaker 2: The das are sounding the alarm. California courts and the
Speaker 2: California Supreme Court say bail's not fair because the perpetrators
Speaker 2: can't afford it.
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Speaker 1: The minimum wage is set to go up yet again
Speaker 1: here in the state of California. For more on that,
Speaker 1: mister Randy.
Speaker 2: Wing, California's minimum wage is going up to seventeen forty
Speaker 2: an hour, and guess what, it's still not enough to
Speaker 2: afford anything. For more, here is CBS eight in San Diego.
Speaker 2: This is an.
Speaker 7: Effort that began ten years ago when the minimum wage
Speaker 7: was around ten dollars an hour.
Speaker 2: Every year we're seeing an increase fifty seventy five cents
Speaker 2: an hour.
Speaker 7: If you make minimum wage in California, that increase applies
Speaker 7: to you due to Senate Bill three, signed into law
Speaker 7: by then Democratic Governor Jerry Brown. The goal to help
Speaker 7: Californians keep up with inflation. Says bill co author former
Speaker 7: Assembly Speaker Bob Herzberg.
Speaker 2: Bear, he got in trouble for that, yep.
Speaker 9: Weighted, having to go back to the legislature and to
Speaker 9: create it over time increases that really reflected changes in inflation.
Speaker 2: He bought those glasses that make you look twenty years
Speaker 2: older than you really are.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he kind of looks like Mordy Seinfeld, doesn't He.
Speaker 7: SB three passed along party lines with the strong backing
Speaker 7: of labor unions.
Speaker 2: It was everything that passes passed with the strong backing
Speaker 2: of labor unions.
Speaker 6: Fought battle between the business community and labor organizations.
Speaker 7: At the time, labor unions had their fight for fifteen movement.
Speaker 2: Well, we're why past that because fifteen enough, hack twenty
Speaker 2: eight enough. I don't know how anyone affords to live here.
Speaker 7: Thank for fifteen dollars minimum wage via SB three, the
Speaker 7: legislature landed on a phase and approach to aout fifteen
Speaker 7: dollars an hour starting in twenty seventeen. When SB three
Speaker 7: took effect, the legislature raised the minimum wage year. By
Speaker 7: twenty twenty three, all California employers were paying fifteen dollars
Speaker 7: an hour. Since then, the governor.
Speaker 2: And don't forget that this is the base minimum wage
Speaker 2: for all jobs. But Gavin through his fast Food Council,
Speaker 2: passed a blanket twenty dollar an hour minimum wage for
Speaker 2: fast food workers, which is a lot of those entry
Speaker 2: level jobs. And then I think it's a twenty five
Speaker 2: dollar hour minimum wage for hospital workers. And don't forget
Speaker 2: the La City Council passing the thirty dollars an hour
Speaker 2: minimum wage by twenty twenty eight four tourism workers.
Speaker 1: And we know what happens when you do this. We've
Speaker 1: seen it in the fast food world where automation, which
Speaker 1: is going to happen anyway, is accelerated and many of
Speaker 1: these jobs are eliminated.
Speaker 7: Department of Finance has been tasked with calculating the annual
Speaker 7: Inflation Adjustment HONOR before August first of each year. SB
Speaker 7: three mandates the use of the United States Consumer Price
Speaker 7: Index for urban wage earners and clerical workers to calculate inflation.
Speaker 7: Increase are capped out three point five percent. This most
Speaker 7: recent increase to seventeen forty starting January first, is a
Speaker 7: three percent raise.
Speaker 2: Big picture this, I'd like a three percent raise.
Speaker 7: Yeah, good luck dates not losing a ton of money
Speaker 7: or having to invest a ton of money because of
Speaker 7: this minimum wage increase every year.
Speaker 10: No, no, not as we see it. This is really
Speaker 10: in terms of the net effect on the state budget,
Speaker 10: we would say very modest.
Speaker 2: Sex that guy trying to hide a hickey, what do
Speaker 2: you think he was doing?
Speaker 7: Kurstin with the non partisan Legiscat of Analyst's office, says
Speaker 7: part of the.
Speaker 10: Reason is that when their incomes change, their eligibility for
Speaker 10: health and social services programs change.
Speaker 7: Meaning fewer people enrolled in taxpayer funded safety net programs
Speaker 7: like medical and cal works as for which low wage
Speaker 7: workers benefit most. Kurstine says those and in home support
Speaker 7: of services and developmental services. Certain industries as well as
Speaker 7: local jurisdictions are excluded since they offer their own higher minimum.
Speaker 7: Is the biggest takeaway for California is that, oh yeah,
Speaker 7: I'm making more money starting next year.
Speaker 10: That's a reasonable takeaway. Again, it's an inflation adjustment, so
Speaker 10: they're kind of making from.
Speaker 2: A sub How many things are adjusted for inflation that
Speaker 2: are in fact inflationary, like the gas tax or this.
Speaker 1: Well, what's going to happen, and I've said it before,
Speaker 1: I'll say it again, is this is going to create
Speaker 1: all new issues which are going to relate to AI.
Speaker 1: And there's going to be pushback saying AI is eliminating
Speaker 1: all of these jobs. We need universal basic income because
Speaker 1: AI is taking over. Well, why do you think that's happening.
Speaker 1: The policies that Sacramento has given us are going to
Speaker 1: take the AI takeover, and it's going to put it
Speaker 1: on fast forward. It's going to make it happen faster,
Speaker 1: and many of these jobs are going to go away
Speaker 1: and they're not going to come back all right, we've
Speaker 1: got one more hour coming up up on The John
Speaker 1: Phillips Show, Don't You Go Anywhere,