Speaker 1: And very happy Wednesday to you. At twelve oh seven
Speaker 1: in the West, It's the Giant Phillips Show. Mister Randy
Speaker 1: wgings in Culver City, John.
Speaker 2: Just twenty four hours after Betty Yee announced that she
Speaker 2: was dropping out of the governor's race. She has made
Speaker 2: her choice for who she's endorsing, and she has decided
Speaker 2: to endorse this guy.
Speaker 3: And you can literally see it, smell it, and feel it.
Speaker 1: Boring. Betty gets behind the billionaire.
Speaker 2: Betty Yee looked at all of the candidates, some people
Speaker 2: that she has worked with for a very long time,
Speaker 2: and said, I'm going with Tom Steyer.
Speaker 3: We're the big ass crisis.
Speaker 1: I guess he's her Enviro sugar daddy, and they taped
Speaker 1: a little video together.
Speaker 4: So Tom, today, I am just really really pleased to
Speaker 4: give my endorsement to you to become our next governor
Speaker 4: of California.
Speaker 3: Like many Californians, I've looked up to Betty E for years.
Speaker 2: You had no idea who she was till you started
Speaker 2: running against her.
Speaker 1: This is a man who claims he paid such little
Speaker 1: attention to what was going on in Sacramento that he
Speaker 1: couldn't give Gavin News him a grade on his performance.
Speaker 2: We'll get to the interview later. He sits down with
Speaker 2: KTLA and they ask him about his homeless program and
Speaker 2: it sounds a whole lot like inside Safe and they say, well,
Speaker 2: that's what Karen Bass has been doing and it hasn't worked.
Speaker 2: And he says, well, I haven't really been paying attention
Speaker 2: to what Eli's been doing.
Speaker 1: On that.
Speaker 3: I believe him, not just because she's a progressive leader,
Speaker 3: not just because she has a brilliant mind, is incredibly effective.
Speaker 3: I've looked up to Betty because her values are incredibly deep,
Speaker 3: incredibly consistent.
Speaker 2: How many incredibly times are you going to incredibly say incredibly?
Speaker 2: I love the fact that they're all singing her praises
Speaker 2: now while for the last two months they've all been
Speaker 2: advocating for her to get run over by an eighteen wheeler.
Speaker 3: And I want to be that kind of person, you know.
Speaker 4: I think people confuse the fact that if you have
Speaker 4: progressive values that you can't be pragmatic and deliver that
Speaker 4: they act are.
Speaker 2: One What about Tom Steyer's platform is pragmatic?
Speaker 1: Not one bit of it.
Speaker 2: I mean some of the things emotionally I love, like
Speaker 2: he wants to break up PG and E. How do
Speaker 2: you do that?
Speaker 1: The only thing that's in his platform that's doable is
Speaker 1: big asses that.
Speaker 4: They actually are one and the same. And if you
Speaker 4: couldn't really intertwine those, that's impact. That's called impact. And
Speaker 4: so I look at.
Speaker 2: Is that him laughing at something that she said that
Speaker 2: wasn't funny.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's choking on a pretzel.
Speaker 5: That's impact. That's called impact.
Speaker 2: Or does he just make noises when other people are talking.
Speaker 1: He's a strange guy when you see him sitting for
Speaker 1: an interview. He's got a bobblehead.
Speaker 2: I've said it before and I will say it till
Speaker 2: I'm blue in the face. There's no such thing as
Speaker 2: a normal billionaire.
Speaker 5: That's impact. That's called impact.
Speaker 4: And so I look at what you've done in terms
Speaker 4: of your values.
Speaker 2: What he's done. He's never been in elected office. What
Speaker 2: he's done is fund a whole bunch of campaigns, some
Speaker 2: of them are part of the reason it's so expensive
Speaker 2: to live here. And also what he's done is made
Speaker 2: a whole bunch of money off of private prisons in
Speaker 2: big oil and then said I hate private prisons in
Speaker 2: big oil.
Speaker 1: Wasn't Kevin dally Oon one of his sugar babies too.
Speaker 2: Oh really, I don't remember that. It is hot as hell.
Speaker 1: No, Kevin dally Oone was the apple at de I
Speaker 1: for a while. So was stire funding Kevin daly Oone's
Speaker 1: incredibly misguided bid to take down Feinstein. I believe so.
Speaker 2: Didn't work out.
Speaker 4: And so I look at what you've done in terms
Speaker 4: of your values, where you've decided to put your emphasis
Speaker 4: and your resources in time as just delivering some of
Speaker 4: the biggest impacts with respect to standing up our democracy
Speaker 4: and getting young people involved, certainly with respect to our
Speaker 4: climate and the climate crisis that we're facing. I support
Speaker 4: you because you have such bold ideas.
Speaker 5: That I know you're gonna be able to deliver.
Speaker 1: Her.
Speaker 2: No, he's not. If this guy becomes governor, I'd love
Speaker 2: to see him try to take down PG and E,
Speaker 2: but I don't see it happening.
Speaker 1: Boy for the smart one in the race, she really
Speaker 1: sold out, didn't she.
Speaker 2: No one, what did he promise her? What job did
Speaker 2: he promise her in the administration?
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe chief of staff.
Speaker 3: No one knows how our government works and how it
Speaker 3: works both at the state level but also at the
Speaker 3: county and city level better than Betty.
Speaker 2: So shouldn't you be dropping out and then endorsing her?
Speaker 1: You think if you actually believe that.
Speaker 3: No one knows how our government works?
Speaker 2: How about this? Tom Steyer says that this person sitting
Speaker 2: next to me, who was also running for governor, more
Speaker 2: qualified than I am, knows this state better than anybody,
Speaker 2: But I alone can fix it.
Speaker 1: Mediocrity rises to the top.
Speaker 3: No one knows how our government works and how it
Speaker 3: works both at the state level but also at the
Speaker 3: county and city level, better than Betty. So I am
Speaker 3: really hoping.
Speaker 2: Maybe you should ask Betty about how it is political
Speaker 2: suicide to go after Prop thirteen.
Speaker 3: So I am really hoping what has been a long term,
Speaker 3: strong relationship will be a very practical partnership.
Speaker 2: What do you think any dinners were in this relationship?
Speaker 2: They play pickleball together? Have they ever spent any time
Speaker 2: socially with each other?
Speaker 1: I can't imagine him being fun to hang out with.
Speaker 1: If you were to have dinner with him, don't you
Speaker 1: think he would start lecturing you about everything before the
Speaker 1: salad got there.
Speaker 2: It would not be a very fun experience. That I
Speaker 2: can say for sure.
Speaker 3: So I am really hoping what has been a long term,
Speaker 3: strong relationship will be a very practical.
Speaker 2: Part Boy, the longer he speaks, the more grating that
Speaker 2: voice gets.
Speaker 1: Imagine that voice for four years will be a vis
Speaker 1: I know we're.
Speaker 2: Not supposed to be superficial in deciding who should be governor,
Speaker 2: but I can't listen to that for four years?
Speaker 1: Would you rather listen to that? Or Katie Porter and
Speaker 1: the little girl voice?
Speaker 2: Katie Porter? It's like even when RFK was running for president?
Speaker 2: Can you listen to that every day for four years?
Speaker 3: Will be a very practical partnership, And if we're actually
Speaker 3: going to get done with the things in California that
Speaker 3: have to get done, having her expertise and her wisdom
Speaker 3: to make sure that we're doing it in a practice.
Speaker 2: He's so smart, she's so qualified, But I'm better than
Speaker 2: her because I'm rich.
Speaker 1: If he were to be elected and he were to
Speaker 1: appoint her to be chief of staff something like that,
Speaker 1: the moment one of his hair brain ideas doesn't happen,
Speaker 1: She's getting the boat.
Speaker 3: To make sure that we're doing it in a practical
Speaker 3: way so it can actually happen. Is something that honestly
Speaker 3: is irreplaceable.
Speaker 4: California should feel very comfortable that where we're headed in
Speaker 4: this near term, and I'm just really pround to support and.
Speaker 2: The video just kind of ends. It's a very strange situation.
Speaker 2: They're like sitting on a bench together and there you go.
Speaker 2: Tom Steyer, who was wearing his signature sneakers, has been
Speaker 2: endorsed by Boring Betty Yee.
Speaker 3: We're a big Ass Crisis.
Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two Easy
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Speaker 1: two two on the topic of the gubernatorial election, Tonight,
Speaker 1: Randy is going to be a big night.
Speaker 2: It's the first debate in the part of this campaign
Speaker 2: where people are just starting to pay attention. This one
Speaker 2: is going to be carried on Next Star media station.
Speaker 2: So if you're in southern California, it's going to air
Speaker 2: on KTLA, if you're in the Bay Area, it's going
Speaker 2: to be on KRON four. In fact, four is hosting
Speaker 2: the debate. It will be taking place in San Francisco.
Speaker 2: It will also be on Fox forty in the Sacramento market,
Speaker 2: Fox five in San Diego. And that's all the Next
Speaker 2: Star stations I can name off the top of my head,
Speaker 2: if that merger had gone through and Next Star had
Speaker 2: bought Tanga, I guess it would also be on ABC
Speaker 2: ten in Sacramento, which I don't know how that's going
Speaker 2: to work regardless. Here's a preview from KRON four of
Speaker 2: tonight's debate.
Speaker 5: Crown four is your.
Speaker 6: Local election headquarters and tomorrow nights KRONFO is hosting a
Speaker 6: debate with the top candidates and the race for California governor.
Speaker 2: The race for me, this is the race where they
Speaker 2: had a last minute pull because the person who was
Speaker 2: going to be on that stage was Eric Swelwell and
Speaker 2: that's the one that showed the Bakaia bump for the
Speaker 2: first time. So Javier Sarah will be on that debate stage.
Speaker 1: You know the best part of this debate starting at
Speaker 1: seven o'clock at night. What's that unless Eric Swollwell major drink,
Speaker 1: all of us can stay awake for it.
Speaker 6: The race remains wide open, according to a recent Inside
Speaker 6: California Politics poll, and our Teresa Stassio joins us here
Speaker 6: live in the newsroom to share what voters should be
Speaker 6: listening for tomorrow night. Hi Teresa, Well, Hi there, Justine
Speaker 6: big moment you.
Speaker 2: Should be listening for a lot of passive aggression, and
Speaker 2: for certain candidates, a lot of outright aggression.
Speaker 7: Out of my shop.
Speaker 1: Well, since Katie Porter is going to be there, someone
Speaker 1: might actually get hit.
Speaker 8: Well, Hi, they're justine big moment here. Political experts telling
Speaker 8: us that the debate is going to be quite significant.
Speaker 8: They expect fireworks, especially between certain candidates.
Speaker 2: Katie Porter has been waiting for a very long time
Speaker 2: to be on a debate stage. Not a forum where
Speaker 2: you're not allowed to talk about the other candidates, but
Speaker 2: a debate stage with Tom Stettle. It has not happened.
Speaker 2: This is her time to take down Tommy.
Speaker 1: But the two of them don't belong on a debate stage.
Speaker 1: They belong in a steel cage.
Speaker 2: Where's the octagon when you need it? Where's Thunderdome?
Speaker 8: One day before the top six candidates take center stage
Speaker 8: at kron.
Speaker 9: Four, most of politics, ninety ninety five percent of politics
Speaker 9: is about timey.
Speaker 10: It'll be also interesting to see if Matt Mahon can
Speaker 10: do anything.
Speaker 2: Sure, No, I don't know about that. I think is
Speaker 2: tailed like that.
Speaker 11: I'm sure that they are all.
Speaker 2: The machine has decided that BACHERIEA is our plan B
Speaker 2: the machine doesn't like Mayheon, the machine doesn't like Porter,
Speaker 2: and the machine likes tom Steyer's money, but they do
Speaker 2: not like tom Steyer.
Speaker 1: Wait, plan B, he's like plan Z. Plan A was kammlo,
Speaker 1: Plan B was the Senator Alex Padilla, Plan C was Flallwell,
Speaker 1: he's d.
Speaker 11: Anything.
Speaker 12: I'm sure that they are all practicing one liners and jobs.
Speaker 2: How many times in the mirror has Steve Hilton said
Speaker 2: BLM Bianco in the last twenty four hours?
Speaker 1: Oh my god? And this is where they're all going
Speaker 1: to be amateur comedians, where Katie Porter, I'm sure, has
Speaker 1: a whole team of writers working on snappy one liners
Speaker 1: that she thinks will lead the news.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, a pool, Well that's how these debates work.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: They expect way more people to watch this debate in
Speaker 2: clips than the people that will watch it live on
Speaker 2: television or streaming on YouTube.
Speaker 1: I don't know, the thought of Katie Porter entertaining me
Speaker 1: with riddles makes me want to burst into flames.
Speaker 12: Oh.
Speaker 8: A pool from Inside California Politics and Emerson College, released
Speaker 8: last week shows Republican Steve Hilton leading the way among
Speaker 8: voters Riverside County sheriff. Republican Chad Bianco and climate activist
Speaker 8: Democrat at Tom Steyer are tied for second. Former California
Speaker 8: Attorney General Javier Bsera and Democratic former Orange County congress
Speaker 8: Member Katie Porter both received ten percent of votes.
Speaker 2: Hey, by the way, we talked about this before the show.
Speaker 2: I don't know what's coming, but there was an open
Speaker 2: letter from many Katie porter former staffers talking about how
Speaker 2: great she is.
Speaker 1: Makes you wonder what they know is coming.
Speaker 2: You're out of my shop.
Speaker 8: Santa Is Mayor Democrat Matt Mahon received the sixth most
Speaker 8: votes on TiO.
Speaker 2: He got fifth place, which was a far cry from
Speaker 2: the other candidates, but five percent was the threshold. So
Speaker 2: there will be no Tony V. There will be no
Speaker 2: Tony T. And Tony A got out of the race
Speaker 2: months ago.
Speaker 8: On Tuesday, these political experts revealing their predictions and points
Speaker 8: of interest.
Speaker 9: After the Swallwall episode, the races dynamically changed, and that
Speaker 9: means that some candidates have more at stake than others
Speaker 9: headed into this debate. It means that this debate and
Speaker 9: any subsequent debate or debates over the next month.
Speaker 2: Yeah, get ready for a debate marathon because we've got
Speaker 2: the next Star debate tonight. Next Tuesday, there will be
Speaker 2: the debate hosted by CBS News that John and I
Speaker 2: were just invited to attend so that one might get
Speaker 2: real interesting. And then the week after that, you've got
Speaker 2: the Alex Michaelson debate that's going to air on CNN nationally.
Speaker 1: It's a debate at palooza or so become hugely important.
Speaker 8: Sonoma's state political professor David McEwan sharing his perspective, mayhean
Speaker 8: needs to move the needle and there could be sparks
Speaker 8: between the leading Democratic candidates Styer and Porter.
Speaker 1: When he superior.
Speaker 2: I mean, I would love I know what Katie Porter's
Speaker 2: going to say about Stire. Does Styer have things ready
Speaker 2: for Porter?
Speaker 1: Well, billionaires have very thin skins, so if she he
Speaker 1: gets under his skin, who knows what will come out
Speaker 1: of his mouth directed at her.
Speaker 9: When he's appeared in public, like in previous debates, he's
Speaker 9: been kind of vanilla. It hasn't been a lot of
Speaker 9: sizzle to that, and his candidacy hasn't had a lot
Speaker 9: of verve, and man, you've got to grab some verv
Speaker 9: You've got to get some personality out there, and you've
Speaker 9: got to drive things together.
Speaker 2: Verv is one of these words that strategists in the
Speaker 2: political sphere of makeup.
Speaker 1: And he has no personality. So what is he supposed
Speaker 1: to do.
Speaker 9: Let's see if he steps out or if he's still
Speaker 9: cautious and not quite looking for prime time. A lot
Speaker 9: of California doesn't know who he is.
Speaker 10: So there'll be some swiping back and forth.
Speaker 8: John Dettis the county here, we.
Speaker 1: Know John Dennis, He's a regular.
Speaker 8: John Dettis, the county Chairman's Association, President of the California
Speaker 8: Republican Party, agrees Mayhan must do something to connect with voters.
Speaker 8: He also thinks that Trump endorsing Hilton will get a
Speaker 8: lot of attention.
Speaker 1: Is that what this debate's going to be about, one
Speaker 1: hundred percent? Although if you're a Democrat talking about Trump,
Speaker 1: you're just going to blend in with the crowd.
Speaker 10: From the Trump uh pejard of, you know, slinging that
Speaker 10: at at Steve. I think I'm going to look for that.
Speaker 10: I'm also going to look to see if and I
Speaker 10: expect that maybe even from Tom Steyer might be.
Speaker 12: Kind of flirting with a candidate, thinking oh, maybe this
Speaker 12: is the person I support.
Speaker 11: They washed them?
Speaker 2: Can we not use the phrase flirting with a candidate?
Speaker 1: One off our listeners.
Speaker 2: Did that win Winter Chicking Dinner, just referencing that we're
Speaker 2: going to get emails asking for people to play that tape.
Speaker 12: Flirting with a candidate, thinking, oh, maybe this is the
Speaker 12: person I support. They wash them in the debate and
Speaker 12: they go, yes, Oh my gosh, for sure, I love
Speaker 12: this candidate. This is who I want.
Speaker 2: I don't know if anyone's going to have that takeaway
Speaker 2: from anybody on that stage.
Speaker 1: Boy that's optimistic or make.
Speaker 12: Me negative and they see a candidate do something where
Speaker 12: they're like, oh okay.
Speaker 11: So maybe not.
Speaker 1: I'm not so sure about that. I think the angry
Speaker 1: Karens that support Katie Porter are going to be perfectly
Speaker 1: happy with her performance.
Speaker 11: I call it the shift gift. Oh okay, so maybe not.
Speaker 2: They're gonna hear Javi aer Bakaria talk about scrubbing it.
Speaker 11: Oh okay, so maybe not.
Speaker 8: Melissa Michael Sendean of Arts and Science.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna save that.
Speaker 1: I like it.
Speaker 2: It's sometimes I need these drops just for me.
Speaker 11: Oh okay, so maybe not.
Speaker 8: Melissa Michael Sendan of arts and sciences and political science
Speaker 8: professor at Menlo College says that she will be watching
Speaker 8: closely for that moment.
Speaker 12: There's gonna be a lot more eyeballs on those snippets
Speaker 12: of the then there is on the actual debate.
Speaker 11: I think a lot of Californians will to.
Speaker 2: Me, who's got the patience for an hour and a
Speaker 2: half with these people?
Speaker 1: Oh, you and I are going to watch it.
Speaker 2: I got a think tonight. I'm going to watch it afterwards.
Speaker 11: But a lot more Californians, well, you.
Speaker 2: Know, it's great about watching it afterwards. I can fast
Speaker 2: forward when I know this isn't going anywhere.
Speaker 12: But a lot more Californians will be consuming news about
Speaker 12: the debate on TikTok, on Instagram, on reels. They're going
Speaker 12: to be getting little snippets. The candidates are going to
Speaker 12: cut it up for ads.
Speaker 8: So that social media is going to be really important,
Speaker 8: justin that gotcha moment, of course, one of the key
Speaker 8: points in this debates and candidates continue to try and
Speaker 8: count on voters to gain traction in the news room,
Speaker 8: Teresa Stasio back to you.
Speaker 2: I love the way this whole thing is previewed. It's
Speaker 2: about all these people going after each other and getting
Speaker 2: really ugly. None of it is about policy.
Speaker 1: No, no, we live in a state that has a
Speaker 1: million and one problems. We don't get to have a
Speaker 1: discussion as to who has the solutions to fix them,
Speaker 1: but we do get a season of the Hunger Games.
Speaker 1: What are you going to do? It's what we have.
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Speaker 1: And Randy, you're monitoring the mail bag.
Speaker 2: William writes in at Johnny don't like show at gmail
Speaker 2: dot com. Guys, is there a drinking game that can
Speaker 2: be played with tonight's debate?
Speaker 1: And what would that game consist of?
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sure there's some mannerisms of the candidates that
Speaker 2: you can if you really want to get hammered, just
Speaker 2: drink every single time one of the candidates says before
Speaker 2: they say the thing they're going to say, Well, what
Speaker 2: I have said.
Speaker 1: Is now wait a minute. There's only so much room
Speaker 1: with the Betty Ford Center.
Speaker 2: How about if Katie Porter mentions the mini van or
Speaker 2: the whiteboard.
Speaker 1: You don't think she's going to have the whiteboard out there?
Speaker 2: Well, we know she brought one to the California Democratic
Speaker 2: Convention and that stunt got her fifth place.
Speaker 1: And she also dropped some f bombs too.
Speaker 2: Do you think there will be any cursing at this debate?
Speaker 1: If there is, it'll be from her.
Speaker 2: Get out of my shop.
Speaker 1: And Randy. If you want to go back and listen
Speaker 1: to an old episode, we received a number of emails
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Speaker 1: we got this great email. I wish we had time
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Speaker 2: Maybe we will later on in the show, but it's
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Speaker 1: All right? So we receive a number of emails from
Speaker 1: listeners saying that they receive their voter guide in the
Speaker 1: mail and they're flipping through the voter guide and they
Speaker 1: see Katie Porter there with an explanation as to who
Speaker 1: she is and why she's running. But they don't see
Speaker 1: Steve Hilton, or they don't see their preferred candidate. Why
Speaker 1: is it that Katie's in there and the rest of
Speaker 1: them aren't. Well, Randy, we now have an answer.
Speaker 2: ABC ten got as many emails about this, as we did,
Speaker 2: and luckily they did a deep dive in a short
Speaker 2: little rap that will explain it to all of you
Speaker 2: as to how you get on the official voter guide,
Speaker 2: and it's complicated. For more, here is ab in Sacramento.
Speaker 7: Well, the June primary election is now just six weeks away,
Speaker 7: and this little guys probably which.
Speaker 2: Means that voting starts in two weeks.
Speaker 1: Hard to believe, isn't it.
Speaker 7: This little guy is probably already popping up in your mailbox.
Speaker 7: This is the voter information Guide. And look, we had
Speaker 7: a viewer reach out to our team asking why a
Speaker 7: candidate Tom Steyer does not have a candidate statement. So
Speaker 7: our team was.
Speaker 2: Who asked that Tom Steyer, We're to big ass crisis.
Speaker 1: You bought everything else in the state, why not that
Speaker 1: guide too.
Speaker 2: Well, there's a very specific reason that Tom Steyer is
Speaker 2: not on the voter guide, let's continue, does.
Speaker 7: Not have a candidate statement. So our team was wondering
Speaker 7: the same question. So I want to bring in aby
Speaker 7: Stents Genie new Win because this is something we really
Speaker 7: wanted to look into. And our team actually learned a
Speaker 7: lot along the way that we didn't know so hopefully
Speaker 7: you find this story just as interesting as we did. Genie,
Speaker 7: what can you tell us?
Speaker 15: Well, Alex, I think you'll notice that there are multiple
Speaker 15: gubernatorial candidates that I don't have a candidate's statement. They're
Speaker 15: in that voter guide, And what we discovered is that
Speaker 15: it's actually optional to have a statement. So if you
Speaker 15: choose to have one, well, you got to read the
Speaker 15: fine print. As the June primary election approaches, state and
Speaker 15: county officials are prepping the necessary materials to send to voters.
Speaker 16: Voters in Sacramento County should be receiving unless they elect
Speaker 16: to receive one of them online, two separate voter information
Speaker 16: guides in the mail. One comes from us with all
Speaker 16: the local election information.
Speaker 2: Can I choose to receive all my political junk mail online?
Speaker 17: Too?
Speaker 1: Fat chance?
Speaker 2: Although I got to say, I know we're still a
Speaker 2: few weeks out, there hasn't been a lot of direct
Speaker 2: mail hitting my house outside of one big flyer for
Speaker 2: Tom Steyer.
Speaker 1: You know, come to think of it, the same is
Speaker 1: true with me. All I get or adds for Royal Caribbean.
Speaker 2: Maybe, just maybe, the candidates in this race have realized
Speaker 2: that there is no bigger waste of money than direct mail.
Speaker 16: And another comes from the state with statewide information.
Speaker 15: Now, this here is the official voter information guide for
Speaker 15: state wide offices for the upcoming primary election.
Speaker 2: You can see that, and it was really weird too.
Speaker 2: It was Isaac Bryan says you should vote for Tom Steyer.
Speaker 1: Who the hell cares what Isaac Bryan has to say.
Speaker 15: You can see that all the candidates are listed in here,
Speaker 15: but not all of them have their candidate information statements,
Speaker 15: and the Secretary of State's office says there is a
Speaker 15: reason for that. There are voluntary campaign spending limits for
Speaker 15: certain offices that candidates cannot exceed if they want to
Speaker 15: have a statement in the guide. Gubernatorial candidates must not
Speaker 15: spend more than eleven million, seven hundred and sixty seven
Speaker 15: dollars for the primary.
Speaker 1: So Tom Steyer was disqualified on day one. Yeah, tom
Speaker 1: Steyer has spent over one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 2: Yes, and he keeps inject Every Friday night. Rob Pyres
Speaker 2: posts another injection of tom Steyer's own money, because why not.
Speaker 2: He did say he was going to give all of
Speaker 2: his away before he dies. What he did not say
Speaker 2: was he was giving it all away to consultants.
Speaker 1: I bet you. I bet you when you look at
Speaker 1: the spreadsheets. When it's all said and done, Tom Steyer
Speaker 1: will have spent at least eleven million dollars on tampons
Speaker 1: in the men's room and his campaign offices.
Speaker 15: Gubernatorial candidates must not spend more than eleven million, seven
Speaker 15: hundred sixty seven dollars for the primary and stay under
Speaker 15: nineteen million, six hundred eleven dollars for the general election.
Speaker 2: So if Tom Starr advances to the general which is
Speaker 2: definitely a possibility, he will not be in that voter
Speaker 2: guide either.
Speaker 1: He'll just be everywhere else.
Speaker 15: Those who accept these terms are allowed to purchase a
Speaker 15: candidate summary for the voter guide. Legislative analyst Chris mccayley
Speaker 15: says the US Supreme Court ruled spending limits are a
Speaker 15: violation of the First Amendment's freedom of speech.
Speaker 14: So all they can do is make those spending limits volunteering,
Speaker 14: and so one incentive to accept it is inclusion of
Speaker 14: that statement in the ballot guide that goes to every
Speaker 14: registered voter.
Speaker 11: It's also not.
Speaker 15: Cheap to have a candidate statement. According to the Secretary
Speaker 15: of State Candidate statement guidelines statements for the primary election
Speaker 15: is twenty five dollars per word.
Speaker 1: Per word. That's pretty pricey.
Speaker 2: How exactly did they price that out? Where if you're
Speaker 2: putting your campaign in the official state voter Guide, you
Speaker 2: have qualified for the ballot, you have gotten your signatures,
Speaker 2: you're in this thing to go. The Secretary of State
Speaker 2: is charging you twenty five dollars per word, even like
Speaker 2: the Yearbook Committee at Stanford doesn't charge that.
Speaker 1: That's price gouging.
Speaker 15: According to the Secretary of State candidate statement guidelines, statements
Speaker 15: for the primary election is twenty five dollars per word.
Speaker 2: For up to what if you just have a really,
Speaker 2: really really long word that has no spaces.
Speaker 1: It'd be hard to read, especially for the older people
Speaker 1: who vote.
Speaker 15: For up to two hundred and fifty words, even though
Speaker 15: all candidates running for.
Speaker 2: Govern Wait, so, how much is Shirley making on this
Speaker 2: twenty five dollars a word times two hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: So if you need, if you want to do the
Speaker 2: full thing, it costs you about six grand, which compared
Speaker 2: to how much it costs to advertise, is pretty damn cheap.
Speaker 2: Sounds like it, except for radio. Advertising on radio is
Speaker 2: pretty damn cheap call our sales department.
Speaker 15: Even though all candidates running for governor do appear listed
Speaker 15: in the guide, mckayley says it's up to the voter
Speaker 15: to do the extra research.
Speaker 14: Voters will want to look at the individual candidate's websites.
Speaker 2: Average California voter, are you clicking on Tom Steyer dot com.
Speaker 7: No, I don't know enough to give you any good information,
Speaker 7: but good luck finding someone who does.
Speaker 2: No one's going to the website. You know who goes
Speaker 2: to the website? Me when I'm interviewing a candidate for
Speaker 2: local office to find out what their campaign's about. That's it.
Speaker 2: That's for every office. Nobody's going to your website except
Speaker 2: somebody that might be interviewing you.
Speaker 14: Voters will want to look at the individual candidate's websites,
Speaker 14: and they have not only thorough information about the candidate's background,
Speaker 14: but most of them have policy statements and even specific
Speaker 14: positions on different public policy issues facing California's voters.
Speaker 2: And it is interesting some of the candidates they have
Speaker 2: like a paragraph on this issue and a paragraph on
Speaker 2: this other issue. You got a Steve Hilton's website, there
Speaker 2: is like a twenty five page booklet on every single issue.
Speaker 1: He needs an editor. Huh.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean he had a policy organization. He has
Speaker 2: thought a lot about these, but it is for the
Speaker 2: average I really find it interesting. But for the average
Speaker 2: Californi you voter, it's what the kids call a TLDR.
Speaker 2: Too long, didn't read.
Speaker 15: NA State is in the process of mailing out voter
Speaker 15: guides in Sacramento County. Officials will start mailing out the
Speaker 15: guides starting this Friday.
Speaker 7: Alex, all right, GENNI thank you so much, and we
Speaker 7: do want to give you some key election dates to
Speaker 7: keep in mind. You might actually want to take.
Speaker 5: A photo of this.
Speaker 7: On May fourth, vote by mail ballots will be sent
Speaker 7: to registered voters. Early voting sites will also open on
Speaker 7: this date. May eighteenth is the last day to register
Speaker 7: to vote for the primary election. Between May nineteenth and
Speaker 7: June second, voters can conditionally register and vote a provisional ballot.
Speaker 7: Election day is Tuesday, June second. Polls will be open
Speaker 7: from seven am to eight pm.
Speaker 2: There you go. If you're wondering why your preferred candidate
Speaker 2: does not have a statement on the official voter guide,
Speaker 2: it's because you can only have spent so much money
Speaker 2: and it costs you money.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Chris in San Francisco. Chris, Hello, Hey.
Speaker 18: John, I just want to throwful of buzzwords, no pun
Speaker 18: intended for tonight's drinking game debate.
Speaker 2: All right, what you got, Chris?
Speaker 18: Transparency, accountability and at the end of the day watch
Speaker 18: for those three Oh.
Speaker 2: We are going to get a hammer tonight.
Speaker 18: Chris, you'll be drunk in the past thirty minutes.
Speaker 1: I hope no one's drinking moonshine.
Speaker 17: Thanks guys, great show.
Speaker 2: You might want to water down your vodka.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Morris in La Morris.
Speaker 17: Hello, Yeah, good afternoon. It shows a bad time to
Speaker 17: put the debate on because I watched Jeopardy Real Fortune,
Speaker 17: and that's more educational, more interesting. I watched the debate,
Speaker 17: especially with Katie Boyer, so, uh, they choose at bad time.
Speaker 17: I think a lot of people that are watched rather
Speaker 17: Jeopardy Will Fortune than to watch the debate, And I think,
Speaker 17: you know, it's a wasted time. It doesn't prove anything.
Speaker 17: As a tax payer, I've never gotten anything out of
Speaker 17: the system. Uh, all I hear is the social services
Speaker 17: for the homeless for the needing pree? Is it pree
Speaker 17: children's lunches. It's clearly they forget nothing is free. The
Speaker 17: taxpayer is paying for that, and I don't like paying
Speaker 17: for it. There's nothing free out there. That's all we
Speaker 17: hear about. And to me, it's a waste the TV time,
Speaker 17: waste the airspace, and rather airtime, and I just rather
Speaker 17: watch Jeopardy and the Wheel of Fortune, especially Jeopardy. So
Speaker 17: in fact, they were saying the last part of the
Speaker 17: debate is going to be digital only. What they were
Speaker 17: saying is not gonna be on TV or whatever. So
Speaker 17: it's just a waste of time. But teach his only guess.
Speaker 17: You want to watch it, you watch it, and nothing
Speaker 17: else is going to be new, even whoever wins. I
Speaker 17: don't think any any change is going to take place.
Speaker 17: I doubt it. I doubt anything. Ever, as long as
Speaker 17: I've been a California nothing has ever changed, has been
Speaker 17: one of the same, just a waste of taxpayer money.
Speaker 17: And when you when you go to most of the
Speaker 17: issues on the ballot is taxpayer funding for one bar
Speaker 17: of them, one program or another. I got a letter
Speaker 17: in the mail the other day from the City of
Speaker 17: Los Angeles DWP wanting to vote for the new street lighting,
Speaker 17: and I'm going to vote involved. Of course, they need
Speaker 17: more money for the street lighting. Now instead of pressing
Speaker 17: the individuals really doing taking justice for the individuals that
Speaker 17: are stealing the copper table, make the taxpayer pay a game.
Speaker 17: So it's all about the same.
Speaker 1: So thank you for the call Wars finally vote it
Speaker 1: off ramp. Let's go to Jeremy in Huntington Beach. Jeremy, Hello, Hello.
Speaker 18: Well, first off, I'd like to say that, although I'm
Speaker 18: not going to watch the debate tonight, I would pay
Speaker 18: good money to see Katie Porter and Tom Steyer in
Speaker 18: a cage fight. But my I'm I'm pretty I'm pretty.
Speaker 1: Sure that would be like a pitbull take it on
Speaker 1: at Chihuahua.
Speaker 18: Yeah, I know Styer wouldn't have a chance, but it
Speaker 18: would still be enjoyable.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 18: This this this particular group. Every year we have some
Speaker 18: extremely horrible Democratic candidates in my opinion, but this particular
Speaker 18: group this year I think will actually ensure a Republican
Speaker 18: victory for the first time, and you'll sense the governator.
Speaker 18: But of them all, to me, Porter and Stier are
Speaker 18: the two worst. They have to put on this really
Speaker 18: ridiculous you know, pretense of that they have some moral
Speaker 18: high ground. And this is one reason so many people
Speaker 18: are turned off to politics is because, you know, such
Speaker 18: there's such an amount of lies and trying to pretend
Speaker 18: that they're sudden they're not. You know, if if they
Speaker 18: weren't lying about the big things, then you can lie
Speaker 18: about the small things, you know, like well I didn't
Speaker 18: know that that was the last biscuit in the ten
Speaker 18: or I didn't go on a date with her nine
Speaker 18: months ago. But when you lie about the big things,
Speaker 18: it's uh, it turns people off. That's right for the big.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the call, sir, I appreciate it. Eight
Speaker 1: hundred two two two five two two two is the
Speaker 1: telephone number? What eight hundred two to two two five
Speaker 1: two two two. Let's go to Pete in Vacaville.
Speaker 19: Pete, Hello, Hey, Hello, Yeah, I was thinking about that
Speaker 19: drinking game. You know, if it's uh going to be
Speaker 19: up to the Democrats at this time, it's always going
Speaker 19: to be the word.
Speaker 20: The keyword is going to be Trump. Now, every time
Speaker 20: you hear that word Trump or the current at uh
Speaker 20: president administration, then you got to take a sh Then
Speaker 20: you're gonna be on a vendor for sure, But that's
Speaker 20: about all they're going to be talking about. I think
Speaker 20: the only two candidates are going to be talking about
Speaker 20: California issues are the two top Republican candidates. So stuck
Speaker 20: up is it's going to be a drinking night.
Speaker 2: Someone might get liquor poisoning if we use that.
Speaker 18: Word true that you know.
Speaker 2: Well, we're going to look up hospital records the night
Speaker 2: after the debate and we're going to see if there
Speaker 2: was an increase and people going to the er to
Speaker 2: get their stomach pumped.
Speaker 1: Oh, the drunk tanks are going to be full tonight.
Speaker 1: It seems like they have those services where you can
Speaker 1: get liquid ivs. You can get those ivs brought to
Speaker 1: your house and if you get too drunk, they can
Speaker 1: bring you back to life. Don't they have those like
Speaker 1: driving around Vegas now in these mobile vans where you
Speaker 1: can either come out to the van and they'll pick
Speaker 1: you up and IV you up, or they'll come straight
Speaker 1: to your hotel room. Because of course, who just drinks
Speaker 1: a little in Vegas? Oh, they're all over the strip.
Speaker 1: Talk about a walk of shame. Imagine getting out of
Speaker 1: one of those vans and walking right in your hotel lobby,