WEBVTT - Can the GOP Break CA’s Supermajority? Prof. Barbara Stone’s Prediction 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.880 Some thing's not right. Your crime is up all over 0:00:03.960 --> 0:00:04.640 the state. 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:07.000 Is out of control. 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:10.800 The economy is six, taxes are high, housing is expensive, 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:16.160 and businesses are leaving. Leaving California means fixing, and John 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:19.239 Phillips is just the man to leave the charge. 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It is 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:28.680 our pleasure to welcome our next guest to the program. 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:32.040 She is the Professor of Political Science emeritus at California 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:36.160 State University at Fullerton. Professor Barbara Stone, Welcome. 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:39.280 Good afternoon, mister Phillips. 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:41.919 Well thank you so much for joining us today. So 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:45.920 let's start out by talking about the leadership shake up 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:50.960 in Sacramento, where the Republican Party in California in the 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:55.880 Assembly specifically, they specifically pick these people to lead the 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:59.640 caucus who seem to act as an arm of the 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:04.520 Democratic Party, an arm of the majority, where whenever the 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:09.280 Democrats need their votes on something controversial, they make sure 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:12.280 that there are a certain number of Republicans that provide 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:16.040 them the votes that they need, so vulnerable Democrats can 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:20.680 either abstain or vote know so it's not used against 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:24.600 them when they run for reelection. Most recently it was 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:28.320 Heath Flora out of the Central Valley who just got dumped. 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:31.880 But there's been some variation of that type of person 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:35.000 in that job at some point or another for a 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:37.880 very long time. Before him. It was Marie Waldron, it 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:41.000 was Chad Mays, it was Christian Olsen. They all kind 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:44.200 of did the same thing. How is it that the 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:47.560 Republican Party ends up with some version of that person 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:52.119 in that position when certainly their voters aren't there. 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:58.960 First of all, start with the fact that there are 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:04.600 so few republic Lincoln's and Sacramento. Okay, so you somehow 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:09.760 need to walk through what these people can and cannot accomplish. 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:14.760 I guess I look at it. The Democrats love, as 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:16.800 you just said, to be able to claim there was 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:20.960 bipartisan support for this and relieve some of their members 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:24.320 perhaps of having to vote for it a lot of times, 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:27.599 and in the most recent case, John, I don't know enough, 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:31.320 but they'll do it somewhere where. Yeah, it's a tax hike, 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:36.760 but it's something that the members constituents probably want, or 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:41.080 at least important people in their district probably want, and 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:45.440 or they talk themselves into it and then they either 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.719 hold on or they turn to Democrats, which several particular 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:53.520 in San Diego have done. So I guess where I'm 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:57.000 coming from and not explaining it well is when you 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:03.200 have no power, you can either go the way of hey, 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:08.520 look we're the resistance, or you can go, hey, there's 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:11.480 a group and there are several members who will do this. 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:14.520 Let's find things that are good enough that I can 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:18.320 promote it so that the bipartisan stuff includes some Democrats. 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:23.839 Or you can claim to yourself that you're accomplishing something 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:28.240 by voting with Democrats, and particularly people who are about 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:34.040 to be termed out. From their point of view, it's 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:38.039 no big downside. The problem is John that we can't 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:40.919 do anything because we don't have the numbers, and you 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:42.960 get some interesting people up there. 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:46.159 Do you think it would change if Republicans were to 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:48.360 break the Democratic supermajority? 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:56.120 Yes, now would you still have some people? Who knows 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:58.680 because you and I both over the years watched a 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:02.920 lot of these people. But at that point, I guess 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:05.640 where I'm going is there's a point in collective action. 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:12.400 How's that that, properly done could advance the common good, 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:16.760 meaning the Republican party interests, And at that point it 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:19.840 would make it, I think, much easier to stand up 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.640 to it than if you just sit there and shoot man, 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:24.000 you might as well not be there. 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:29.480 We interviewed Steve Hilton for our Accountability podcast that's going 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:33.479 to drop tomorrow, and it was a fascinating conversation that 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:36.680 we had on any number of topics, any number of subjects, 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:40.440 but one of the subjects that came up was electability. 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:45.840 And according to Poles, he is trailing Javier Bessera by 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:50.200 the usual amount that Republicans trailed Democrats and statewide contests, 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:53.800 which is around twenty points, which is what the results 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:56.120 were in the primary. If you add up what Hilton 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:58.320 got with what Bianco got, and you add up all 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:02.000 the Democrats, it's sixty forty or some version of that. 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:06.359 And the question that I posed to him was, why 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:11.200 is it that Republicans in other blue states like Maryland, 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:15.600 like Massachusetts, like Vermont have been able to win top 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:19.840 of the ticket statewide elections at the state level, not 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:23.760 federal offices, but state offices. They've been able to win 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:28.720 those elections cycle after cycle after cycle after cycle. Yet 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:32.240 we're going through a drought here in California where Republicans 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:35.760 haven't been able to do that. What is it that 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:41.200 republicans running for statewide office in California can learn from 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:45.480 those Republicans in Maryland, Vermont, and Massachusetts. 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:54.840 Oh, John, I would guess without knowing is that the answer, 0:07:54.920 --> 0:08:03.280 unfortunately is probably not much much smaller states. We are 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:08.920 a huge state, and to be able to reach the 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:13.040 number of voters you would need, because you know, you 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:17.960 talk about twenty percentage points, that's quite large, but that 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:23.520 represents millions of people. It's not the same as, oh, 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:26.600 look they're mad about something in Vermont's and we have 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:29.120 the right, guy, So maybe we can win. It's just 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:35.000 not And I think in this case it's our size 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:40.959 militates against us. And I know the answer, of course, 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:49.120 bring back Arnold. Oh well, because there you don't have 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:51.520 to introduce him to voters. They all knew who he 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:55.240 was and it was amazing the people that voted for him. 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:55.920 Partly. 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:02.280 Well, I don't think you can learn from those places, John, 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:06.360 because it's too different. I might be entirely wrong. Now, 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:09.200 is there something you can do well? The answer in 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:14.520 an individual election is probably no. But overall, the Democrats 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:18.440 in this state have gone so far out there that 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:26.079 a reasonable, reasonable consistent message over time among candidates who 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:32.240 are willing to work this constituency, that constituency might be 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:37.560 able to build something, although sometimes it's hard, Like right now, 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:40.000 we should be able to build something on public health, 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:48.440 dear lord. And beyond that, law and order periodically pops up, 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:52.840 and we do quite well when that's the issue on voters' minds. 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:55.679 But you have to have somebody out there who's respectable 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:57.520 that they'll vote for, and that gets exciting. 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:01.920 Yesterday I had John Fla on the show and I 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:04.440 talked to him about Boyle Heights because that was where 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:08.600 Steve Hilton decided to launch his November campaign and he 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:11.800 had Gloria Romero there with him, who is the Republican 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:15.040 candidate for lieutenant governor, and I brought up the fact 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:18.240 that Gavin has still not visited Ground zero for what 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:23.400 is a public health emergency and an environmental disaster that's 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:25.800 going on right in the middle of one of the 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:30.079 biggest population center, well the biggest population center in his state. 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:35.199 But not only hasn't Gavin been there, neither is Javier Bessera, 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.760 who not only is running for governor, but used to 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:42.560 represent that area in both the State Assembly and the 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:46.680 United States Congress, and he hasn't shown up either. Now 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.000 we know why they haven't shown up, because they would 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:51.640 get cursed out in English and Spanish, the same way 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:54.840 that Barbara Ferrer did, the same way that Karen Bass did, 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:57.680 the same way that Hilda Slice did. And they don't 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:00.840 want that video to exist on planet Earth because it 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:05.400 will haunt them forever. That being said, Fleischmann said that 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:08.440 he predicts that there will be no political fallout for 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:12.120 them just ignoring this disaster, because he said, what matters 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:15.880 right now in democratic politics is the performative and the 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:19.160 ability to actually fix a problem or to go into 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:21.640 a disaster and take your lumps, because that's what you're 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:24.880 supposed to do, because that's the position that you have 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:29.480 as governor or the likely to be next governor. He 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:32.440 said there's going to be no fallout for them at all, 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.079 and that's sad, but he doesn't think that that's going 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:35.520 to happen. 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:42.080 Your thoughts and John's a pretty smart guy. Yeah, I've 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:45.040 listened to him for years. The one thing I would 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:48.320 say is if he means this election, he is one 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:53.559 hundred percent correct, Okay, because that's have I mentioned how 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:56.960 huge the state is and Boyle Heights is actually a 0:11:57.120 --> 0:12:02.680 very very small corner of it. And even for City 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:05.319 of la you've left them with the choice of Karen 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:10.200 Bassi Nithii Raman. Really, however, and I actually believe this, 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:15.280 and I've always believed it, that there are potential openings 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:21.760 within Hispanic communities for people who believe what we believe. 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:28.800 And it takes time to build, it takes people being there, 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:35.240 it takes well give you an example. Now, this is 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:39.480 gonna age me because when Dick Riridon was first running 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:44.080 for mayor of Los Angeles. Don't ask me why, but 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:46.720 I was at a meeting. It was women going to 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:51.520 be for Arden, and actually at least half, if not more, 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:56.000 of the women were Latinas far as I could tell, 0:12:56.200 --> 0:13:00.600 they were all Democrats, but they were there to help 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:03.760 Dick Riardon. And I actually asked them how come since 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:06.760 it didn't seem to make any sense he was a Republican. 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:10.719 And their answer was because for twenty years, he has 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:15.040 been in our community for twenty years, he has donated 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:19.480 to our schools for twenty years. He has reached out 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:22.319 to us and listened to us, and now we're giving back. 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:25.360 In a state like. 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:28.839 This, John, I'm not counting on any of our palls 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:33.480 doing that kind of thing, but an effort somewhat like 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:36.720 that is probably what's necessary. But I do believe that 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:40.400 that's a constituency that over time you can break into. Now, 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:42.640 of course, in Boro Heights you probably have a number 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:46.960 of people there who are not voters, but that's okay. 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:48.560 You reach out where you can reach out. 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:52.800 What is your obligation if you are the elected governor 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:55.680 in the state, and you know those people are really 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:59.040 angry and they feel like they've gotten the short end 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:02.280 of the sit stick, and they're getting sick, and they 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:05.080 fear that they're going to have long term health consequences, 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:07.360 and maybe they will, I don't know. It can't be 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:10.880 healthy to stay there and breathe in smoke from a 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:14.120 chemical fire for a very long period of time and 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:17.320 then smell that disgusting stench that's been there ever since. 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:20.520 They claim that their lungs are being filled with fluids, 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:23.280 that they're bleeding from the nose, they have rashes all 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:27.040 over their bodies, they're having all kinds of health problems, 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:30.040 and they're showing up to Barbara Ferrer's health clinics and 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:32.120 they're being given tile and all and told to go 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:36.720 home and stop complaining. What is your obligation if you're 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:39.720 the governor? Is your obligation to show up and take 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:42.520 your lumps and have a public forum and let them 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:46.280 scream at you, because that's your role as governor and 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:48.360 that's just part of the job description and it's not 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:50.800 a fun day, but it's part of what you sign 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:53.880 up for. Or is it okay to just pretend like 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:54.800 it's not happening. 0:14:56.800 --> 0:14:58.960 What do you do if you're governor, honey? You run 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:04.360 for president? So then you figure where that am I wrong? 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:09.600 And that's just not an image that man wants. For 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:14.840 that Actually, for once in my life, I will quasi 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:20.840 sort of the little defend Gavin because health at this 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:28.920 level really is overwhelmingly local responsibility. And I'm sorry, the 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:32.960 good social worker is the should be the lead on this. 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:36.480 Don't tell me it's the city. The hospital is yours, 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:40.920 the big docs are yours. Yes, the city is messing 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:42.800 up all over the place because they have not a 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:46.320 clue what to do. But this is I think overwhelmingly 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:52.440 a county responsibility and they're missing in action. So Gavin 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:55.120 is going to decide on what makes Gavin look good 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:58.760 to the public, and being associated with this is not that. 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:05.200 But somebody should be doing something evil to the La 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:08.240 County Department of Health because they're the ones who should 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:09.760 be in there hopping around. 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:13.440 Speaking of Gavin. To borrow a phrase from Chick hern 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:16.280 is the mustard off the hot dog. And I say 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:20.840 that because you look at these numbers, these poll numbers nationally, 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:23.600 and at one point in time, not that long ago, 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.680 he was doing quite well in some polls, leading the 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:30.920 Democratic pack, and now he's fallen way behind Kamala Harris 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:35.080 and even some other people in recent polls. You look 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:37.160 at the battle right now that he has going on 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:40.520 with public workers where he's trying to force them back 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:42.400 into the office. They don't want to do it. And 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:45.280 he's going to war with the unions over that. He's 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:49.080 going to war with the SEIU over the wealth confiscation tax. 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.720 It's not a good look to run for president as 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:56.640 a Democrat when the unions in your home state hate 0:16:56.640 --> 0:17:01.600 your guts. It seems to me like Gavin isn't looking 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:04.240 as good as he was looking not that long ago. 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:12.280 I honestly believe that Gavin only looked good because there 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:18.240 was no competition. In fact, if you talk to Democrats now, 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:21.200 which I know you do, and you go, well, who 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:25.960 do you think could be a good dominee? And frankly 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:30.920 or I sort of like they're in trouble John from 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:35.120 that point of view, because they have no idea and 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:38.200 Gavin sort of floated because he made a big point 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:42.479 of being out there. Now, I'll make this comment. His 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:48.040 name was resonating when he got publicity for fighting Trump, 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:51.680 and if he can figure out a way to take 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:55.320 that posture again, you watch it'll go up again. Because 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:59.320 you have a whole lot of Democrats who actsolutely refuse 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:04.000 to think beyond Trump bad, Trump bad, Trump bad, and 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:08.960 here's our hero to go after Trump bad. I honestly 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:11.240 think it was tied to that. Plus they didn't have 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:12.160 anybody else. 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:18.200 Professor Barbara Stone, Professor of Political Science Emeritus at California 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:21.240 State University at Fullerton, Thanks so much for stopping by. 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:23.560 Well, it's good to talk to you. John. 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:28.119 Likewise, it's the John Phillips Show. If you'd like to 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:30.680 email the show, you can do so at Johnny Don't 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:33.760 Like show at gmail dot com. That's Johnny don't Like 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:37.720 Show at gmail dot com and Randy. You could watch 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:41.240 us perform the show live at Johnny don't Like dot Com. 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:44.080 Every single day from noon to three. We're doing this 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:47.240 on video at Johnny don't Like dot Com. 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Get notified every single time we do 0:21:04.440 --> 0:21:09.119 a live broadcast by going to Johnny Don't Like dot Com. 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:13.840 A new California ruling is making it more difficult to 0:21:13.960 --> 0:21:19.320 keep repeat nonviolent offenders in custody before trial. 0:21:21.000 --> 0:21:25.280 The judges are taking das that are doing great jobs, 0:21:25.359 --> 0:21:29.720 like Brooke Jenkins in San Francisco and making her job 0:21:30.119 --> 0:21:35.280 so much harder. For more on this, we go to 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:38.760 a great in depth report from ABC seven in the 0:21:38.760 --> 0:21:42.240 Bay and one of my favorite reporters, LeeAnne Melendez. 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:45.320 Shell theft, it's decreasing in San Francisco, as is the 0:21:45.359 --> 0:21:47.760 illegal resale of stolen goods on city streets. 0:21:47.760 --> 0:21:50.360 Of good news there, that's right, But those same offenders 0:21:50.359 --> 0:21:53.080 may find it easier to walk free because of a 0:21:53.119 --> 0:21:55.360 recent California Supreme Court decision. 0:21:55.560 --> 0:21:58.200 ABC seven Eye Witness does reporter Lee on Linda's here 0:21:58.240 --> 0:22:00.720 for an in depth look at a new hurdle in 0:22:00.760 --> 0:22:03.720 fighting crime. One step forward, two steps back here. 0:22:03.560 --> 0:22:08.040 Well, things are changing, or are they? So we are 0:22:08.160 --> 0:22:12.520 moving the ball forward when addressing retail theft. Those words 0:22:13.000 --> 0:22:17.440 coming from San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins. She, like others, say, 0:22:17.640 --> 0:22:19.760 there is still a lot of work to be done, 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:24.480 but there's a new obstacle which has gone somewhat unnoticed 0:22:25.080 --> 0:22:25.720 until now. 0:22:26.920 --> 0:22:30.960 And Randy, we have talked about this at nauseum for 0:22:31.280 --> 0:22:35.040 public safety to be back in California, Yes, it's very 0:22:35.040 --> 0:22:38.560 important to make sure that we have good district attorneys 0:22:38.560 --> 0:22:41.119 and we get these Soros das out of office, people 0:22:41.160 --> 0:22:44.120 like George Gascon and Pamela Price and Chase A. Boudin. 0:22:44.960 --> 0:22:48.119 But you also need a police department that's willing to 0:22:48.160 --> 0:22:52.680 make the arrests. You need judges who are willing to 0:22:52.880 --> 0:22:55.800 keep people in jail, you need juries who are willing 0:22:55.840 --> 0:22:59.159 to convict. You need state lawmakers who are willing to 0:22:59.200 --> 0:23:02.760 put reasonable laws on the books. And if someone drops 0:23:02.800 --> 0:23:05.240 the ball, the whole thing falls apart. 0:23:06.560 --> 0:23:09.920 And in San Francisco, you've got a mayor that wants 0:23:09.960 --> 0:23:12.320 to enforce the law. He's not perfect, but he's a 0:23:12.359 --> 0:23:14.959 heck of a lot better than London Breed. You have 0:23:15.000 --> 0:23:18.879 a police department that is getting more and more the 0:23:18.960 --> 0:23:22.800 availability to actually do their job. Car break ins are 0:23:23.000 --> 0:23:27.240 way down in San Francisco. You have a district attorney 0:23:27.440 --> 0:23:29.679 who is one of the best in the entire state 0:23:30.160 --> 0:23:33.400 trying to really go after some of these repeat offenders. 0:23:34.200 --> 0:23:38.800 But it's the judges in San Francisco County specifically that 0:23:38.880 --> 0:23:42.080 are constantly throwing a wrench into the case. They're the 0:23:42.119 --> 0:23:45.760 ones that say, oh, yes, the Honduran fentanl dealers. They're 0:23:45.760 --> 0:23:49.679 definitely victims of human trafficking. Let's release them. Oh, the 0:23:49.760 --> 0:23:53.440 repeat thief that must just because of poverty, Let's release them. 0:23:53.920 --> 0:23:57.000 And sometimes the amount of time these people get released 0:23:57.080 --> 0:23:59.720 after doing the same crime over and over and over 0:23:59.760 --> 0:24:01.680 again is ludicrous. 0:24:03.680 --> 0:24:07.720 That in a single night, twenty two people were arrested 0:24:07.760 --> 0:24:11.280 in San Francisco for shoplifting. The video was provided by 0:24:11.320 --> 0:24:14.560 the SFPD Organized Retail Crime Task Force. 0:24:14.640 --> 0:24:17.160 They're stealing from a Whole Foods. What are they stealing 0:24:17.200 --> 0:24:20.000 that one stock of asparagus that's in water that costs 0:24:20.040 --> 0:24:23.720 eight dollars. 0:24:24.680 --> 0:24:29.160 Today, the consequences are more severe. Since December twenty twenty four, 0:24:29.480 --> 0:24:32.760 a district attorney can ask that a shoplifting or petty 0:24:32.800 --> 0:24:37.240 theft charge be filed as a felony. If that defended, that. 0:24:37.280 --> 0:24:40.280 Is Prop thirty six. By the way, that's the two 0:24:40.359 --> 0:24:43.040 aspects of Prop thirty six are the drug aspect and 0:24:43.080 --> 0:24:44.680 the repeat thievean aspect. 0:24:45.160 --> 0:24:48.480 And you go, why is this important. They're not violent, 0:24:48.560 --> 0:24:51.000 it's not like they murdered someone, it's not like they 0:24:51.119 --> 0:24:56.120 raped someone. They stole something from a retail store. Well, 0:24:56.160 --> 0:24:59.280