Speaker 1: And very happy Tuesday too. At twelve oh six in
Speaker 1: the West each the John at Phillips Show broadcasting live
Speaker 1: from the Land of Trees and PhDs, Claremont, California. Mister
Speaker 1: Randy Wang is right beside me.
Speaker 2: John.
Speaker 3: We are in Claremont because it's debate day in southern
Speaker 3: California at Pomona College at five point thirty. CBS is
Speaker 3: going to have a big debate with all eight top
Speaker 3: candidates participating, and we were invited by Julie Watts to
Speaker 3: be there, so we are broadcasting close by so we
Speaker 3: can quickly pack up, head over there and sit down
Speaker 3: and watch the debate live. But since we are in
Speaker 3: crunch time and the debate is tonight, there's another debate
Speaker 3: next week, and then another debate next week, and the
Speaker 3: ballots go out in the mail next week. It's time
Speaker 3: for everyone in this race who has any money to
Speaker 3: spend to spend it. And so Tony Thurman pulling at
Speaker 3: one percent, but we'll be on the debate stage tonight.
Speaker 3: He's got a new ad that he just put out
Speaker 3: on social media and it takes an interesting right turn.
Speaker 4: They say it's impossible to elect someone like me, the
Speaker 4: son of an immigrant orphaned at six. I lived in
Speaker 4: poverty off government chiefs. Then worked for three dollars an hour, became.
Speaker 1: A social was the government Chase swiss hey, government cheese
Speaker 1: makes an excellent case Ada.
Speaker 4: Then work for three dollars an hour, became a social
Speaker 4: worker and steak superintendent. I'm Tony Thurman, and as governor,
Speaker 4: I'll enact a billionaire's tax, single payer healthcare, two million
Speaker 4: housing units, will arrest ice agents who break our laws,
Speaker 4: and then tell Trump.
Speaker 3: Whoa We have heard a lot of political ad campaigns
Speaker 3: that will use the S word or the b S
Speaker 3: word Swawell, Porter Styre. This is an attempt to get attention.
Speaker 3: The first time I think ever in a political ad
Speaker 3: someone is using the F word.
Speaker 1: Now, wait, Randy, did you just hear that? What's that?
Speaker 1: I just heard a car backfire and I just saw
Speaker 1: a big plume of black smoke here in Claremont, which
Speaker 1: means Katie Porter is here and she's in the minivan
Speaker 1: out of my shot. Because this debate, unlike the last one,
Speaker 1: is going to include a lot of the candidates that
Speaker 1: have been left off stage.
Speaker 3: It is being called the most inclusive debate. It's why
Speaker 3: everyone at CBS was like, Betty Ye, why are you
Speaker 3: dropping out? We were going to put you on tonight's stage,
Speaker 3: but she dropped out and she endorsed stire.
Speaker 1: But there is.
Speaker 3: A new poll out for this debate that's conducted by
Speaker 3: CBS and you gov, and it shows some interesting changes
Speaker 3: in the race. For more on the pole that's leading
Speaker 3: to tonight's debate at Pomona College. Here is CBSLA lovely.
Speaker 5: Fanfare the California governor's raise heading into the June primary.
Speaker 5: Eight candidates and none with a strong lead, means anything
Speaker 5: can still happen. And all eight candidates accepted our invitation
Speaker 5: to debate tomorrow here on CBSLA.
Speaker 3: And apparently what we found out yesterday was Katie Porter
Speaker 3: was a holdout until yesterday Julie Watts broke on our
Speaker 3: show that Katie Porter was coming.
Speaker 1: No, Now, what was the hold up because she's been
Speaker 1: polling above two percent.
Speaker 3: Well, they don't say yes to all the debates. I
Speaker 3: think that was the situation. Maybe she was otherwise engaged,
Speaker 3: but she decided that she's coming.
Speaker 2: I'm reading for governor because I'm a leader.
Speaker 1: What did she have going on that was more important
Speaker 1: than debating her opponents on live television. Maybe, and I'm
Speaker 1: just putting this out there, maybe Katie Porter was apprehensive
Speaker 1: about this debate because one of the moderators tonight is
Speaker 1: Julie Watts.
Speaker 6: Well to those voters, Okay, so you I don't want
Speaker 6: to keep doing this, I'm gonna call it.
Speaker 7: Thank you.
Speaker 8: You're not gonna do the interview with them?
Speaker 9: Nope, not like this.
Speaker 10: I'm not not with seven follow ups to every single
Speaker 10: question you ask.
Speaker 1: Or maybe Katie was going to skip the debate because
Speaker 1: today is the day that Mattel is debuting their new
Speaker 1: mister Potato Head.
Speaker 11: I don't want to have an unhappy experience for you,
Speaker 11: and I don't want this all on camera.
Speaker 3: That might get brought up a time or two tonight.
Speaker 1: You think we're aiming to.
Speaker 5: Have the most inclusive, most impactful debate before ballots go
Speaker 5: out next week. CBSLA political reporter Tom Waite is in
Speaker 5: Pomona tonight where the candidates will face off, and Tom
Speaker 5: one thing that's shut.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, they're not actually in Pomona. Pomona College
Speaker 1: is part of the Claremont Colleges. It's in Claremont, not Pomona.
Speaker 1: You know how I know we're in Claremont, not Pomona.
Speaker 1: How do you know that? We haven't been shot at yet.
Speaker 5: CBSLA political reporter Tom Waite is in Pomona tonight where
Speaker 5: the candidates will face off, and Tom, one thing that's
Speaker 5: sure to come up is the high cost of California living.
Speaker 2: That is absolutely right, Rudeban.
Speaker 12: In fact, we have some new exclusive CBS News polling.
Speaker 12: We'll get to it in just a second. We asked
Speaker 12: voters about that. We're sitting right outside of Bridges' auditorium
Speaker 12: here on the Pomona College campus in Claremont, where.
Speaker 1: There he got it right. All right, thank you.
Speaker 2: The debate will happen earlier.
Speaker 12: I spoke with some of the moderators, including our own
Speaker 12: Pat Harvey.
Speaker 2: They're very excited.
Speaker 3: Oh I didn't know Pat's a moderator too.
Speaker 1: There you go. This is going to be an all
Speaker 1: stark ast. Pat's seen it.
Speaker 12: All to speak with these candidates and let them talk
Speaker 12: to voters.
Speaker 2: The debate stage is set.
Speaker 12: In less than twenty four hours, the top polling candidates
Speaker 12: vying to be California's next governor will battle it out
Speaker 12: here at Pomona College in Claremont. A new CBS News
Speaker 12: poll shows this race is very much up for grabs.
Speaker 12: Republican Steve Hilton leads with sixteen percent. Democrats in the
Speaker 12: next two spots Tom Steyer at fifteen percent, Javier Besera
Speaker 12: at thirteen percent.
Speaker 3: I don't remember who coined this phrase, but I saw it.
Speaker 3: They're saying with this poll, it's true. There's a becceleration
Speaker 3: going on. Acceleration that's a word, huh, because he has
Speaker 3: risen up in the polls ever since Eric Swalwell got
Speaker 3: caught with his pants down like.
Speaker 1: A phoenix from the ashes.
Speaker 12: Democrats In the next two spots, Tom Steyer at fifteen percent,
Speaker 12: Javier Besera at thirteen percent.
Speaker 1: Republican Chad tom Steyer is going to be wearing his
Speaker 1: old folks Home sneakers tonight.
Speaker 3: He only has sneak according to that interview he did,
Speaker 3: he only has one pair of sneaks and he's incredibly cheap.
Speaker 2: Republican Chad Bianco with ten percent.
Speaker 3: Well, so this poll has Bianco in fourth.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be that would be bad for the
Speaker 1: Republicans if he's pulling that far behind the first place finisher,
Speaker 1: the second place finisher, the third place finisher, because I
Speaker 1: am still of the belief that the best shot and
Speaker 1: only shot the Republicans have of winning the governorship is
Speaker 1: to have Bianco and Hilton finish in first and second.
Speaker 3: So if it's a Republican and a Democrat in the
Speaker 3: top two spots in June, the race is over. Well,
Speaker 3: if it's a Republican in the Democrat in November, it's
Speaker 3: going to be the Yankees versus the mud Hens. So
Speaker 3: you need to make sure that if you're going to
Speaker 3: win this thing, you box them out of the November ballot.
Speaker 12: Republican Chad Bianco with ten percent, Democrat Katie Porter at
Speaker 12: nine percent.
Speaker 3: Katie Porter's in fifth place.
Speaker 1: Well, I guess now we know nine percent of the
Speaker 1: California population is made up of angry Karens.
Speaker 10: You can smart right here.
Speaker 12: Democrat Katie Porter at nine percent, Matt Mahon, Antonia Via Ragosa,
Speaker 12: and Tony Thurman all polling below five percent.
Speaker 3: Matt Mayhan and Tony v are at four percent each
Speaker 3: in this poll no, and Tony Thurman is at one percent,
Speaker 3: which is why he decided to come out with an
Speaker 3: F bomb.
Speaker 2: AD.
Speaker 1: What types of men do you think are voting for
Speaker 1: Katie Porter? What was the name of that guy that
Speaker 1: Liza Minella used to be married to that she would
Speaker 1: beat up when she'd get drunk on vodka.
Speaker 12: Matt Mayhan and Tonia via Ragosa and Tony Thurman all
Speaker 12: polling below five percent. Twenty six percent of voters remain undecided.
Speaker 3: The number one vote getter in this poll is not sure.
Speaker 3: Twenty six percent of voters remain undecided.
Speaker 6: I read the data in this race as wide open.
Speaker 6: There's a couple of reasons for that. One is even
Speaker 6: the top candidates are clustered very closely together.
Speaker 2: The other thing is that there's so many undecided voters.
Speaker 6: In fact, the number of undecided is larger than any
Speaker 6: one candidate has in preference right now.
Speaker 3: What does that tell you about the field of candidates.
Speaker 1: Well, usually usually there's a candidate that everyone knows. Maybe
Speaker 1: everyone doesn't like them, but everyone knows them. We certainly
Speaker 1: had that with Jerry Brown, who was governor for two
Speaker 1: terms before he ran again. We certainly had that with
Speaker 1: Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was an internationally recognized movie star. We
Speaker 1: had Gavin Newsom, whose claim to fame was being mayor
Speaker 1: of San Francisco and being at the heart of the
Speaker 1: gay marriage bet. There's no one running for office this
Speaker 1: time around who has that kind of notoriety.
Speaker 12: CBS News Executive director of Elections and Surveys, Anthony Salvonto
Speaker 12: says the biggest issue for California voters affordability, was seventy
Speaker 12: percent of voters saying the cost of living is unmanageable.
Speaker 12: So I want to meet the thirty percent of voters
Speaker 12: that said cost of living is fine here. Yeah, even
Speaker 12: the rich people I know complain about how expensive it
Speaker 12: is to live here.
Speaker 3: Well, they got to buy Martiniz too.
Speaker 6: So many voters tell us they describe it as unmanageable.
Speaker 6: A lot of aspects of that, one of them is
Speaker 6: gas prices.
Speaker 12: CBSLA is teaming up with Pomoter College zend Our CBS
Speaker 12: stations across California to bring you the most inclusive debate.
Speaker 2: Yet in the campaign. Our Pat Harvey.
Speaker 3: Is We're the debate that invited Tony Thurman.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: Our Pat Harvey is one of the moderators.
Speaker 9: I'm hoping that they are able to discern from each
Speaker 9: candidate their views and the audience members will listen and
Speaker 9: then make their decision from what they hear on the stage.
Speaker 3: Here's the one discerning thing that you'll be able to
Speaker 3: take away no matter what. One of these people is
Speaker 3: a billionaire, and the rest of them are going to
Speaker 3: make sure you know it. So you think it's going
Speaker 3: to be pile on Tom Steyer tonight, of.
Speaker 1: Course it is.
Speaker 3: And Tom Steyer is not great at defending himself.
Speaker 1: No he's not.
Speaker 3: It was the last debate where he said, me paying
Speaker 3: more taxes isn't going to solve anything. I really do
Speaker 3: think that one of the problems that Tom Steyer is
Speaker 3: going to experience tonight is that there is a huge
Speaker 3: difference between how he's being portrayed in the ads and
Speaker 3: what you see on stage. On stage, he looks like
Speaker 3: a guy who's eating dinner at four o'clock and having
Speaker 3: jello for dessert. In the ads, he's this ass kicker
Speaker 3: who swear in right and left and he's going to
Speaker 3: bulldoze the Trump administration and he's going to revamp the
Speaker 3: healthcare system in California and he's going to do it
Speaker 3: all before lunch. And there's just a massive disconnect between
Speaker 3: how they're selling him and what you see on stage.
Speaker 2: We're in a big ass crisis.
Speaker 1: Maybe it should go back on real ninety two to three.
Speaker 9: So I'm hoping that they don't deliver a lot of
Speaker 9: talking points, but are very forthright and honest about what Well.
Speaker 3: You invited Antonio Viragosa on the stage, Pat, So get
Speaker 3: ready for Tony to say that he's a proven problem solver.
Speaker 1: No, you think Pat's gonna mix it up with one
Speaker 1: of the candidates. Could happen. She's seen it.
Speaker 9: All about what they say they can do to help
Speaker 9: Californians because this is all about affordability.
Speaker 12: With no major political stars on the ballot, the race
Speaker 12: wasn't making big headlines until Democratic front runner, former Congressman
Speaker 12: Eric Swalwell dropped out of the race amid rape and
Speaker 12: sexual assault allegations.
Speaker 1: And that is true.
Speaker 3: Up until that, no one was really paying attention to
Speaker 3: this race except for about six months ago.
Speaker 1: Out of my shot.
Speaker 3: Then, besides those two incidents, the average California voter was
Speaker 3: checked out.
Speaker 1: You think Eric Swalwell is going to be watching the
Speaker 1: debate tonight. He might be busy. Well, maybe he'll invite
Speaker 1: someone over make a couple of drinks. If he drinks
Speaker 1: the right one, he'll be able to stay up long
Speaker 1: enough to watch the debate. If he drinks the wrong one,
Speaker 1: he'll be passed out till noon tomorrow. Apparently a bunch
Speaker 1: of his donors are asking for refunds. I wonder why. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well they better go to Bevmo.
Speaker 12: Dropped out of the race amid rape and sexual assault allegations.
Speaker 12: For the remaining candidates, the debate stage is a crucial
Speaker 12: opportunity to connect with voters. Our poll indicates a strong
Speaker 12: performance on the stage could mean a critical boost.
Speaker 11: That's the beauty of these debates is you get those
Speaker 11: moments where you might get a little back and forth
Speaker 11: between the candidates. You might see how.
Speaker 3: Typically what the consultants will say is the best you
Speaker 3: want to come out of a debate is it's forgettable.
Speaker 3: You can only really get in trouble at a debate.
Speaker 1: Well, this is an atypical kind of election where we
Speaker 1: have at least all the Democratic candidates, with the exception
Speaker 1: of Virrigos in Mayhan and the Republicans, all the other
Speaker 1: candidates exclusively want to talk about Donald Trump. And so
Speaker 1: if you're talking about Donald Trump, you're not talking about
Speaker 1: the problems facing the state of California. So we don't
Speaker 1: get to have a robust conversation about all of our
Speaker 1: problems and the solutions that they have to offer. All
Speaker 1: we get is a season of the Hunger Games.
Speaker 11: Tempers flare, or how there also might they might also
Speaker 11: be kind to one another, the ways in which candidates
Speaker 11: might greet one another. Those are things that the voters
Speaker 11: are often looking for.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's what we're going to see tonight, candidates
Speaker 1: being kind to one another.
Speaker 3: They may shake hands beforehand, but it's passive aggressive at best.
Speaker 3: Could you imagine what it's going to happen when Antonio
Speaker 3: Vira goes it goes up to Katie Porter to shake
Speaker 3: her hand, She's going to smash a beer can on
Speaker 3: her forehead and burp.
Speaker 12: So the countdown is on for our CBS News California
Speaker 12: debate here in just less than twenty four hours. One
Speaker 12: little wrinkle here in the election, by the way, is that,
Speaker 12: of course we've seen some candidates like Eric Swallwell drop
Speaker 12: out of the race. Their names will still appear on
Speaker 12: the ballot. Reporting from Clairemont, I'm Tom Waite back to
Speaker 12: you in the studio.
Speaker 3: It is going to be interesting when all the ballots
Speaker 3: are cast. How many people, despite every piece of news
Speaker 3: that came out in the last month. Still vote for
Speaker 3: Eric Swollwell.
Speaker 1: Okay, I want to try something right now at eight
Speaker 1: hundred two two two five two two two one. Eight
Speaker 1: hundred two two two five two two two. We have
Speaker 1: consistently seen in the polls that the undecided number in
Speaker 1: this race is unusually high. Is that fair to say?
Speaker 3: Yes, in this poll it's twenty six percent. It's been
Speaker 3: just as high, and a lot of other polls Paul
Speaker 3: Mitchell will say the real number is somewhere around ten percent.
Speaker 3: But it sure seems like there's a lot of people
Speaker 3: that still have no idea who they're voting for when
Speaker 3: they get their ballots in a week.
Speaker 1: So asking you who you're voting for may not be
Speaker 1: the appropriate question. So here's the question that we have
Speaker 1: for you now at eight hundred two two two five
Speaker 1: two two two one eight hundred two two two five
Speaker 1: two two two Which candidate would you not vote for
Speaker 1: under any circumstances. The polls say you don't know who
Speaker 1: you like, but the polls also say you know who
Speaker 1: you don't like. Who would you never vote for never ever,
Speaker 1: never ever, never ever never in a million years. Who's
Speaker 1: going to be on that stage tonight. I want to
Speaker 1: hear it in your own words at eight hundred two
Speaker 1: two two five two two two one. Eight hundred two
Speaker 1: two two five two two two. And keep in mind,
Speaker 1: many of these candidates are currently en route to Claremont.
Speaker 1: They're in the car, they're listening to the radio, so
Speaker 1: they can hear the words that are coming out of
Speaker 1: your mouth. Feel like you're leading the audience in a
Speaker 1: very small way. Mention here, I'm saying this with complete sincerity.
Speaker 1: The late Great Dan Avy used to always say, always
Speaker 1: be sincere, even if you don't mean it. So here's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying to you. Be nice. You understand that.
Speaker 1: Be nice? Wait, please, now, if you aren't nice, there's
Speaker 1: nothing I can do to punish you. So this is
Speaker 1: all on the honor system. But just no, I want
Speaker 1: you to be nice because I said it myself. I'm
Speaker 1: not your mother, I'm not your father. I can't punish you.
Speaker 1: But just follow your better angels. That's all I'm gonna say.
Speaker 1: Who would you not vote for under any circumstance? Who's
Speaker 1: running for governor? Eight hundred two two two five two
Speaker 1: two two one eight hundred two two two five two
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Speaker 1: What could I say? I'm clairvoyant? All right? Which candidate
Speaker 1: ready for governor? Are you definitely not going to vote for?
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Speaker 1: Apparently the phone lines aren't working. We cursed it.
Speaker 10: You can smell it right here.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to the wealth confiscation tax.
Speaker 3: So the SEIU union that is backing the billionaire's tax
Speaker 3: says they have nearly double the required signatures and they're
Speaker 3: about to present them to the Secretary of State's office,
Speaker 3: which means that if they do get enough verified signatures,
Speaker 3: the billionaire tax may very well be on the November ballot.
Speaker 3: For more, here is ABC seven in the Bay.
Speaker 6: Supporters of the proposed tax on California billionaires say they've
Speaker 6: gathered enough signatures for it to qualify for the November ballots.
Speaker 13: And it's setting the stage for what will be one
Speaker 13: of the most expensive ballot measures this year in battles
Speaker 13: this year, ABC seven Eyewitness News, there's going to.
Speaker 3: Be so much money spent on this thing on both sides.
Speaker 3: Because if you remember when JJ Smith was doing those
Speaker 3: investigations of the hopeless people in San Francisco and the
Speaker 3: tenderloin getting paid five dollars to fill out a bunch
Speaker 3: of fake names on proposition ballots, that was for the
Speaker 3: anti Billionaire's tax initiative.
Speaker 1: Well, here's something to think about too. This is the
Speaker 1: SCIU sending out a trial balloon because if if this
Speaker 1: is successful, we know they are already pulling whether or
Speaker 1: not they can do this to millionaires too. They've been caught,
Speaker 1: they were caught red handed pulling on that very question,
Speaker 1: and the next natural place to go is to tax
Speaker 1: Californians on unrealized gains related to their homes, because if
Speaker 1: you think about it from the point of view of
Speaker 1: the unions, you have a lot of people who paid
Speaker 1: a small amount of money for a home that is
Speaker 1: now worth seven figures. And if they can go after
Speaker 1: you and say, now, wait a minute, you bought your
Speaker 1: home for four hundred thousand dollars and now Zillo says
Speaker 1: it's worth one point three we need a confiscation tax
Speaker 1: based on the actual value of that home. That's where
Speaker 1: they're going with this.
Speaker 3: And watch home ownership drop to zero in the state
Speaker 3: of California.
Speaker 1: If that's their move.
Speaker 13: Your ABC seven Eyewitness News political reporter Monica Man is
Speaker 13: here with this new development. Monica, Dan and.
Speaker 14: Chris Since supporters announced in an LA rally today that
Speaker 14: they have more than one point five million Californians signing
Speaker 14: on to the idea of a wealth tax.
Speaker 3: And I want to know when people were outside of
Speaker 3: the supermarket collecting signatures for this SEIU ballot proposal, how
Speaker 3: many people signed it saying I want to do it
Speaker 3: because I want to take away Tom Steyer's money.
Speaker 2: We're to big ass crisis.
Speaker 1: A lot of people hate him.
Speaker 14: And although the campaign is really just getting started, one
Speaker 14: opposition group tells me it's ready to deploy an eight
Speaker 14: figure budget to persuade Californians otherwise.
Speaker 1: It is this got my backfire.
Speaker 3: You think the billionaires are going to spend a billion
Speaker 3: dollars to stop the billionaire tax.
Speaker 15: It is this David versus Goliath battle.
Speaker 1: David has just wait. The SEIU is the David here.
Speaker 1: How these people see themselves? They must look at a
Speaker 1: funhouse mirror in the morning.
Speaker 3: Well, and the SEIU is, you know, putting this for
Speaker 3: specifically the SEI union that represents healthcare workers. Most of
Speaker 3: the legislature and Gavin Newsom opposed this because it's pretty
Speaker 3: much taking money that would go to the general fund
Speaker 3: and giving it directly to this union.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no, this is a money grab.
Speaker 15: It is this David versus Goliath battle. David has just
Speaker 15: won the first round.
Speaker 2: Supporter.
Speaker 1: You have to be very loud to be a union leader. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you have to wear a purple T shirt that's
Speaker 1: about two sizes too small too.
Speaker 14: It's round supporters of the California Billionaire Tax saying they've
Speaker 14: cleared a major hurdle in putting the proposal before voters.
Speaker 15: We are one step closer to the ballot and to
Speaker 15: keep the most important thing healthcare, hospitals, clinics and emergency
Speaker 15: rooms funded and union news.
Speaker 1: Just think about this for a second. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of people out there who likes sports, right, A lot
Speaker 1: of people watch the NFL, A lot of people watch
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. Now that that's being played, you know
Speaker 1: how you win the game. You essentially run your club
Speaker 1: like the Dodgers, where you go out, you find the
Speaker 1: best players, show Heyo Tani and the like, and you
Speaker 1: sign them the long term contracts and you lock them in.
Speaker 1: You don't want to go find the worst player on
Speaker 1: the mud Hens and put them in your starting lineup
Speaker 1: because you would lose every single game if you did.
Speaker 1: If you vote for this thing. You hear those two
Speaker 1: women that we just played in the clip, you're trading
Speaker 1: Elon Musk for them? In what sane world would you
Speaker 1: trade Elon Musk for those two.
Speaker 3: Well, in their defense, they're probably not microdosin ketamine. Well, listen,
Speaker 3: I'd trade a car that doesn't work for those two.
Speaker 15: And op for our California families in a Los Angeles
Speaker 15: rally Monday.
Speaker 3: Cutback labor leaders always with the chanting cut back, fight back,
Speaker 3: The chance is not supposed to be the same word.
Speaker 1: Cut back.
Speaker 14: Labor leaders announced they have nearly twice the number of
Speaker 14: signatures needed to qualify.
Speaker 4: We will continue to do everything in our power to
Speaker 4: make sure that California billionaires pay their fair share to
Speaker 4: keep our hospitals open.
Speaker 14: As written and dif approved, the measure would impose a
Speaker 14: one time five percent tax on residents with at least
Speaker 14: one billion dollars in assets.
Speaker 3: It's like an hoa special assessment.
Speaker 1: These dummies aren't even passingly familiar with how the state
Speaker 1: pays its bills. We are so dependent on the ultra
Speaker 1: ridge to make sure that the state has its money
Speaker 1: that it needs to fulfill its obligations because we are
Speaker 1: dependent on things like stocks and investments and everything that
Speaker 1: people pay capital gains taxes on. And it's rich people
Speaker 1: that really run up the score with those types of incomes.
Speaker 1: And if you chase them out, guess what, there's no
Speaker 1: one left to pay the taxes. If you really want
Speaker 1: to screw the budget and Sacramento, you take the richest
Speaker 1: one hundred people and you force them out of the
Speaker 1: state and then guess what, The obligation just doesn't go away.
Speaker 1: It just falls on the shoulders of everyone.
Speaker 14: Else, things like stocks and bonds, real estate, collectibles, and
Speaker 14: even cryptocurrency.
Speaker 8: Do you define the full stock of someone's wealth?
Speaker 14: Opponents say it'll be hard to measure.
Speaker 3: Wait, how are you going to assess the value of
Speaker 3: crypto which is so volatile it changes every two seconds?
Speaker 3: So glad you haven't gotten into that yet.
Speaker 8: Nope, How do you define the full stock of someone's wealth?
Speaker 14: Opponents say it'll be hard to measure and collect.
Speaker 8: These types of taxes have been tried across Europe. They
Speaker 8: were quite popular several decades ago, and countries have systematically
Speaker 8: repealed them because they don't meet the goals points vote.
Speaker 3: We'll just went to the one country in the EU
Speaker 3: that didn't have it.
Speaker 14: Points. Voters can expect to be hammered with by opposition campaigns.
Speaker 16: It might be a concept that they're in favor of,
Speaker 16: but if all the details aren't there, then they're going.
Speaker 2: To likely vote.
Speaker 3: Knows Roger Salazar is, now, how is the SEIU going
Speaker 3: to come after your money if it's all in a
Speaker 3: bank account in the Caymans.
Speaker 1: Well, the shady California is extremely inefficient at doing things
Speaker 1: like educating children, paving roads, those sorts of things. But
Speaker 1: if you owe them one dollar, they will figure it
Speaker 1: out and they will send a helicopter above your house
Speaker 1: where the state controller will descend from a cable down
Speaker 1: your chymney to get it.
Speaker 14: Roger Salazar is a veteran of California propositions and is
Speaker 14: against the ealth tax.
Speaker 16: You're going to get businesses leaving California, and if those
Speaker 16: businesses leave California, thousands of good paying jobs disappear, paycheck shrink,
Speaker 16: and community suffer.
Speaker 14: An analysis by Stanford's Hoover Institution estimates the proposal could
Speaker 14: cost the state twenty five billion in tax revenue. And would.
Speaker 1: The state's going to lose money on day one with
Speaker 1: this thing? Well, they don't care about that though, the SEIU,
Speaker 1: they could care less about the general fund. What they
Speaker 1: care about is that the money goes to their members.
Speaker 3: That's the thing that's the weirdest about this. It's not
Speaker 3: like this is any kind of other tax you've ever seen.
Speaker 3: It's a specific kind of tax that is going directly
Speaker 3: to the union that put it on the ballot.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent.
Speaker 3: I think ten percent is going to the teachers' union,
Speaker 3: so ninety percent.
Speaker 14: And would collect about forty percent of what supporters hope
Speaker 14: it'll generate. About half of voters say they'd vote in
Speaker 14: favor of the measure, according to a March You See
Speaker 14: Berkeley poll, And this issue is already becoming a litmus
Speaker 14: test or California's candidates running for governor and even other
Speaker 14: down ballot races. The state's current leader, Governor Gavin Newsom,
Speaker 14: has publicly opposed the billionaire tax. Now, the next step
Speaker 14: is for the Secretary of State's office to verify the signatures.
Speaker 3: And this is why you're going to see several initiatives
Speaker 3: on the ballot in an effort to do what happened
Speaker 3: with the sports gambling initiatives of twenty twenty two. Put
Speaker 3: so many of them on the ballot right next to
Speaker 3: each other that it's super confusing, and everyone just says, no,
Speaker 3: screw it.
Speaker 1: How greedy are these healthcare workers? Where they want to
Speaker 1: go after a broke state. They want to go after
Speaker 1: a state that does not have the money to pay
Speaker 1: its bills today, And then they look at the industry
Speaker 1: that allows the state to exist and the rich people
Speaker 1: who are the founders of these companies, and they say,
Speaker 1: we either want to completely soak you or we want
Speaker 1: to drive you out of the state. I thought we
Speaker 1: had a better relationship with the healthcare workers in this state.
Speaker 1: But maybe our relationship isn't as good as I thought
Speaker 1: it was. Maybe, just maybe we need to stop looking
Speaker 1: the other way when these people skim a little morphine
Speaker 1: out of Grandma's vial.
Speaker 3: Ultimately, when you talk about these big, powerful unions in
Speaker 3: the state of California, all that matters.
Speaker 2: Is we demand higher pay.
Speaker 3: And they're gonna get it no matter what money.
Speaker 1: It is all about the money for them. Hey, apparently
Speaker 1: the phone lines are back up and we have some
Speaker 1: people on the line who want to weigh in on
Speaker 1: the conversation. Let's begin with Steve and Fremont. Steve, Hello, Hey, Steve,
Speaker 1: are you there?
Speaker 7: I'm here?
Speaker 2: Are there?
Speaker 17: Hi?
Speaker 7: How you doing anyway? I'm must drop the phone. But
Speaker 7: as far as your question, anyone that's got the letter
Speaker 7: D after their name of a vote for They've created
Speaker 7: the mess in California, and I don't think they deserve
Speaker 7: another chance. And that's all I wanted to say.
Speaker 1: All Right, you're here. Let's go to Bobby in Burbank.
Speaker 18: Bobby, Hello, Hey, so thank you guys doing today.
Speaker 1: Good.
Speaker 18: Hey, So I signed that thing like twelve times to
Speaker 18: get them to you know, tax the rich. But I
Speaker 18: signed it with Lane's like Charles Manson. They guy signed
Speaker 18: Laine and Bobb it. I send him Menendez Brothers, you know,
Speaker 18: take them, check them.
Speaker 3: So what you're saying is that might be how they
Speaker 3: got to one point six million signatures.
Speaker 18: Oh but I didn't give the five dollars. They didn't
Speaker 18: give me a five dollars signature this time. They gave
Speaker 18: me five dollars before. No, I'm kidding they didn't.
Speaker 3: I wonder if anybody wrote down the name Ip Freely.
Speaker 18: Oh that a boy long dug Gong, you know, go
Speaker 18: across the board.
Speaker 3: Huge ass supports the billionaires, tax seymore.
Speaker 1: Butts I got them all.
Speaker 2: I was raised on this crap ty knit.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you for the call, sir, we appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Robert in Santa Clara.
Speaker 17: Robert, Hello, Yeah, it was b for all the d's above,
Speaker 17: of course, But Tom Steyer, I mean, you've got a
Speaker 17: rich guy's set for life and he's trying to, you know,
Speaker 17: just shrub ruin Prop thirteen for all the homeowners. I mean,
Speaker 17: that's pretty He's he's the rich guy who knows better,
Speaker 17: and he's going to equalize the state. Just kind of
Speaker 17: like warm buffet blowing under water dams up north. Now
Speaker 17: we can't have almonds or Montrela cheese made here. It's ridiculous,
Speaker 17: the scarcity oligarch. Yeah, but you know, you look at
Speaker 17: but Sarah and these other guys for death tacks from
Speaker 17: Kamala Harris and the Biden and open borders and sanctuary cities,
Speaker 17: all all the d's above, because that's what they want.
Speaker 17: Trump's bad, you know, open borders, sanctuary cities, can't have it.
Speaker 17: It's just not sustainable. I mean, we get mad about
Speaker 17: that because they think that it can happen some way.
Speaker 17: We're going to just let everyone come here, and we're
Speaker 17: already a critical mess. We haven't There's only so many
Speaker 17: dependents wherever they're from that we can carry at fifty
Speaker 17: bucks an hour and give them the suite of healthcare
Speaker 17: benefits at the going rate, let alone what the inflated
Speaker 17: rates are, which the SEIU wants to pay their people
Speaker 17: by taxing billionaires.
Speaker 1: What's wild to me is that the crowd who believes
Speaker 1: that billionaires shouldn't be allowed to exist, which is the
Speaker 1: burning crowd, is largely getting behind Tom Steyer. They're one
Speaker 1: hundred percent behind the billionaire in the race, the only
Speaker 1: billionaire in the race.
Speaker 17: Well, it's the mind virus of you know, everything should
Speaker 17: be equal. And you know, because I may have, like
Speaker 17: a drumming talent, that everyone should have the drumming talent
Speaker 17: that I have. You know, I mean take it up
Speaker 17: with God, you know, I mean, seriously, these people want
Speaker 17: you know, they're just infatile brains that just haven't quite
Speaker 17: realized reality, and they want to kill people who are
Speaker 17: different than them or are a little more successful and
Speaker 17: punish them. Who are you know, you got a house,
Speaker 17: You had a couple of houses you worked hard for.
Speaker 17: We've got to find a way that lay the level off,
Speaker 17: you know, share the sheep down. Everyone's got at the
Speaker 17: same amount of wool on their back, even though or whatever.
Speaker 17: You know, I'm saying, if you one kid smarter in
Speaker 17: a classroom, we can't have that. You know, we got
Speaker 17: to have everyone equally dumb. You know, no one can
Speaker 17: be bright. You know, some people are offended as some microaggression.
Speaker 17: It's ridiculous, you know. And the guy who tried to
Speaker 17: kill Trump was triggered. It's a good enough excuse. Is insanity,
Speaker 17: you know, the mind virus for these people are radical
Speaker 17: egalitarians and just they're nihilists, you know, they to opposet Trump,
Speaker 17: you know, and taking on an evil thing in your mind,
Speaker 17: and you know it's I mean to be opposite, and
Speaker 17: it actually is, like degenerate is insanity. But that's what
Speaker 17: you see everywhere.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you for the goll syrup. Let's go
Speaker 1: to D in San Jose. D. Hello.
Speaker 10: I agree with everybody who said with the D after
Speaker 10: their names. I would not vote for any of them.
Speaker 10: But I wanted to say something about the billionaire tax,
Speaker 10: and that is that they're really pushing it. I have
Speaker 10: a lot of friends that are pushing it on emotional
Speaker 10: basis when they haven't even read it. It's like when
Speaker 10: Pelosi said, we have to pass it to find out
Speaker 10: what's in it. Somewhere around I think it's page twenty
Speaker 10: seven five zero three ten. It talks about the fact
Speaker 10: that they have the ability to just amend it whenever
Speaker 10: they want to, with a vote within their legislation without
Speaker 10: even informing us. It could be a million. They could
Speaker 10: change it from a billionaire tax to one million, to
Speaker 10: five hundred thousand, to whatever they want to and it's
Speaker 10: just a way of taking away. Eventually, we're not going
Speaker 10: to have any homeowners, We're not going to have anything.
Speaker 10: It's ridiculous. And then I have something to say about
Speaker 10: the Esque about the SCIU. During the time of the occupies,
Speaker 10: we had to occupy San Jose and it was completely
Speaker 10: taken over by FDIU, and the whole thing was done
Speaker 10: in Spanish. I speak Spanish, so I understood what they
Speaker 10: were saying, and it was just a bunch of Marxists garbage.
Speaker 10: It was just completely unreal. But they had buses and
Speaker 10: all these people were coming out and they all have
Speaker 10: posters and whatnot, and their purple T shirts and all
Speaker 10: that jazz, and the SCIU just completely took over the
Speaker 10: entire occupy and all that was coming out of the
Speaker 10: speaker's mouth was just Marxist garbage, and none of them
Speaker 10: were speaking any English. And then one time we had
Speaker 10: a protest downtown San Jose and they were protesting something
Speaker 10: God knows what it was, and I thought, you know,
Speaker 10: how many people know what they're talking about because they
Speaker 10: were marching through the streets, protesting and chanting in Spanish. So,
Speaker 10: I mean, there's so many things about this whole issue.
Speaker 10: And I actually have met years ago people who the
Speaker 10: men was in Sciu. The woman was using her maiden name,
Speaker 10: she was getting the five hundred dollars for all of
Speaker 10: their children. They're driving around in an escalade, they're buying
Speaker 10: the houses, and they weren't even citizens. So the whole
Speaker 10: thing is just really a big mess.
Speaker 1: All Right, we're going to have to leave it there.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the call, D. We appreciate it.