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Speaker 3: you man, I'm good. Thank you so much for stopping
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Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys. Awesome show.
Speaker 3: So when I grew up here in California, it the
Speaker 3: thought never occurred to me of moving to another place,
Speaker 3: because you live here where the weather's great, all the
Speaker 3: fun stuff is here, all the amusement parks, all the
Speaker 3: great things to do, the beaches, and you name it.
Speaker 3: California had advantages that dwarf the advantages of all of
Speaker 3: the other states that I had ever been to at least,
Speaker 3: and I just knew I would live here my whole life. Now,
Speaker 3: when you talk to nieces and nephews and the children
Speaker 3: and your friends and people who are growing up here
Speaker 3: right now, almost to a person, none of them plan
Speaker 3: on staying here. None of them plan on buying a
Speaker 3: house in California, even though in state tuition is relatively
Speaker 3: cheap and inexpensive at the UCS and the cal States.
Speaker 3: They don't have a desire to even stick around that long.
Speaker 3: They want to move on to other places with greener pastures,
Speaker 3: where they don't have a homeless problem, they don't have
Speaker 3: the retail theft problem. They can buy a house, they
Speaker 3: can raise a family, they have opportunities that just no
Speaker 3: longer exist in California. And it seems like instead of
Speaker 3: making things better, Sacramento just doubles and triples and quadruples
Speaker 3: down on all of the policies that make this place
Speaker 3: unaffordable and undesirable to live. And I know our population
Speaker 3: in decline right now. I don't see that changing anytime
Speaker 3: soon given the circumstances that we have. Your thoughts, it's
Speaker 3: a complete debacle.
Speaker 1: It's almost on purpose, as if right, because even to
Speaker 1: the cost of housing, for instance, I think somewhere around
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty five thousand bucks before you put
Speaker 1: a stick in the ground, it's what it cost you
Speaker 1: for these mandates. You know what is it called the
Speaker 1: Coastal Commission SEQUA. All these you tie into the sewer,
Speaker 1: tie into the electric grid. It cost you one hundred
Speaker 1: and forty five k before you put it one piece
Speaker 1: of wood in the ground. And that's why the price
Speaker 1: for housing is so expensive. But we're doing it to
Speaker 1: ourselves in California with all these rules and regulations, the
Speaker 1: water issues. I think you were going to talk about
Speaker 1: the high speed rail train. One tax after another, one
Speaker 1: hole to fill after another, and it never stops. The
Speaker 1: holes get bigger and bigger, and we never stopped paying
Speaker 1: for it.
Speaker 3: And the city's in particular because you go to Orange County,
Speaker 3: it's still relatively norm there. You go to portions of
Speaker 3: San Diego County, the Inland Empire, it's still relatively normal.
Speaker 3: But you go to Oakland, you go to Los Angeles,
Speaker 3: and it's like the day after the end of the world.
Speaker 3: Those the big cities in California just do not function.
Speaker 1: The zombie apocalypse, you know, I blame some of that.
Speaker 1: Actually I blame most of it on NGOs because it's
Speaker 1: become an industrial complex. You mentioned Oakland, that's up the
Speaker 1: street for me. I spent some time on skid Row
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, and it's like you're walking
Speaker 1: into a zombie movie. It's completely different landscape. It looks
Speaker 1: like a third world country. And we live, like you said,
Speaker 1: in one of the most beautiful states I think in
Speaker 1: the entire the country. We got oceans, we got mountains,
Speaker 1: we got skiing, we got boating, you name it, we
Speaker 1: got it here, great weather, great people. Unfortunately run into
Speaker 1: the ground.
Speaker 3: What is your prescription for cutting off these corrupt NGOs
Speaker 3: who are both bankrupting us and making our problems worse.
Speaker 1: Stop feeding them period. You know you're in.
Speaker 3: LA, right, John, Well, I'm in Riverside County.
Speaker 1: Yeah to me, that's LA right. So I'm North California.
Speaker 1: Got everything below me is LA all right? So, but
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's amazing. The homelessness went up three
Speaker 1: point one percent, is what Karen Bass is saying, but
Speaker 1: some some estimates are saying over seven percent because they
Speaker 1: changed the wording it's unhoused or under housed or whatever.
Speaker 1: Homelessness has increased. We spent I think what twenty four
Speaker 1: billion dollars on homelessness, and now you're seeing it rise.
Speaker 1: We are the most popular destination in the country for
Speaker 1: homeless people, and we've spent so much money fighting it.
Speaker 1: But that money goes to NGOs. It goes to people
Speaker 1: who give needles. Like I told you, I was on
Speaker 1: skid row two three weeks ago, and they're getting handed needles.
Speaker 1: Guys are walking around with a crack pipe out of
Speaker 1: their mouth, Like instead of a cigarette hanging out of
Speaker 1: his mouth, he's holding one of those little globe things
Speaker 1: in his mouth, just hanging out, walking rails, running for
Speaker 1: the police station Central District. And I was just shocked
Speaker 1: to see how pervasive it is. It's just crazy. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're paying for it and we're getting nothing, not one
Speaker 1: penny back out of it and no progress. So what's up?
Speaker 1: At what point do we say stop it? I don't
Speaker 1: want to spend any more money on this stuff.
Speaker 3: Well, the problem with them is that they're politically connected.
Speaker 3: I mean you look at the LA Mayor's race. Where
Speaker 3: did Nitthie Brahman come from. She came from one of
Speaker 3: those homeless services inngos. You look at this revolving door
Speaker 3: of people in elected office and people who work for
Speaker 3: these NGOs. Katie Hill, that congresswoman that had to leave Congress,
Speaker 3: she came from that world to so many people at
Speaker 3: the city level, the county level. They go back and
Speaker 3: forth and because of these tight knit relationships that they have,
Speaker 3: where you know, frequently you'll have an elected who directs
Speaker 3: money to one of these groups and they sit on
Speaker 3: the board and then they'll have money come back to
Speaker 3: them in the form of campaign contributions or essentially, the
Speaker 3: group will work to advance the political agenda the elected official,
Speaker 3: whether through voter outreach or whatever. And you go, okay.
Speaker 3: Unless some outside entity steps in and stops this, this
Speaker 3: is never going to end because it's mutually beneficial for
Speaker 3: the electeds and the people who run the NGOs, the
Speaker 3: people who get screwed, or the taxpayers, because the problems
Speaker 3: that the NGOs exist to solve only get worse because
Speaker 3: that's not their objective. Their objective is to keep it
Speaker 3: going forever because they're making the king's ransom off of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they are. And you got to think of those
Speaker 1: NGOs and on these political officials as well. You've got
Speaker 1: to think of them as a being a body. A
Speaker 1: body's job is to survive no matter what, right, So
Speaker 1: their only way to survive is to get more homeless people,
Speaker 1: is to get more drug addicts, is to get more
Speaker 1: whatever it is, right, that's their survival mechanism. So to
Speaker 1: get more bodies, I need to keep the homeless industrial
Speaker 1: complex going. I need to keep the people drugged up
Speaker 1: and ready to accept services only to the point where
Speaker 1: they get a little bit better. And I shove them
Speaker 1: back into the next NGO's pocket and see what they do.
Speaker 1: So in terms of fairness, I think the NGOs are
Speaker 1: running like a business, which is what they're supposed to do,
Speaker 1: but their customers are and the customers are unhoused and
Speaker 1: drug addicts, and we're the guys who are paying it.
Speaker 1: Where the pipe that pays these people, So that that
Speaker 1: has to stop, it really does. I don't know how
Speaker 1: you're going to stop it. Even Gavin Newsom's own deal
Speaker 1: right now with his wife right money coming into the charity,
Speaker 1: what do they call that? I think they have something
Speaker 1: like a kickback happening. But anyway, it is what it is.
Speaker 1: We have to stop the NGOs. We have to stop
Speaker 1: these non governmental organizations and these charities that they're just
Speaker 1: not working out.
Speaker 3: To my eye, much of what they're doing is money laundering.
Speaker 3: Yet they never they never seem to get popped for it,
Speaker 3: or if they do, it's a very rare occurrence. And
Speaker 3: it's when they get real gross with how they're doing
Speaker 3: it and they just get sloppy and not on the rest.
Speaker 1: God blessed Bill A. Saley. He's made some arrests and
Speaker 1: these are only blaytant cases that are getting arrested. I
Speaker 1: think that guy with a Hermeslofers and the house of
Speaker 1: in Greece that he bought, right, the kind that comes
Speaker 1: to mind. But get what do we get out of it?
Speaker 1: We got a range rover and his house and that's it.
Speaker 1: So he's in jail. What happened to all the money? Right?
Speaker 1: What happened to the hotel he bought that he never refurbished?
Speaker 1: For the homelessness? And on this homelessness thing, when we
Speaker 1: were on skid row, I saw some new construction going
Speaker 1: up and one of the guys comes up to me, Hey,
Speaker 1: what are you guys out here for? I said, well,
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to figure out where all the money
Speaker 1: is going for homeless. He goes, look at that building
Speaker 1: right there, they're building homeless shelters. Like, okay, let's do
Speaker 1: some quick math. Seven stories high, eight windows, I see,
Speaker 1: So that's fifty six Okay, let's multiply it by ten wide.
Speaker 1: That's five hundred and sixty homes. Potentially, you have one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty seven thousand homeless people in California. And
Speaker 1: let's just take let's put a quarter down in La Okay,
Speaker 1: let's just make it two hundred, and we'll make it
Speaker 1: a quarter of those guys fifty five hundred and sixty.
Speaker 1: That's not going to house anybody. And what do they
Speaker 1: do when they get housed too How long are they
Speaker 1: going to stay in those houses? And that's your money
Speaker 1: and my money going to pay for that building going
Speaker 1: up Number one, Number two for the staff to have
Speaker 1: has staff said number three for the services they provide
Speaker 1: to what end?
Speaker 3: What we're doing now is not sustainable. And usually what
Speaker 3: happens is the counterbalance to this is, Okay, when one
Speaker 3: party is in charge and they get too greedy and
Speaker 3: they push things too far, the voter step in and go, okay,
Speaker 3: we're going to take the power away from you and
Speaker 3: we're going to give it to the other party. But
Speaker 3: California is such a one party state now there are
Speaker 3: no consequences for bad behavior. There's no consequences for not delivering.
Speaker 3: And when we do vote them out, if they get
Speaker 3: to be, you know, too hot, we replace them with
Speaker 3: someone who's worse. I mean, in Oakland, we replaced Shang
Speaker 3: Tao with Barbara Lee, which I can't understand. In Los Angeles,
Speaker 3: it looks like We're going to replace kring Bass with
Speaker 3: Nythia Rahman, who's part of the DSAS, and you go topic, Okay,
Speaker 3: we're changing the personnel. We're changing the individuals in these offices,
Speaker 3: but we're either replacing them with someone who sees the
Speaker 3: world exactly the same way or someone who's going to
Speaker 3: take us to hell faster.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the road to hell. It's you guys in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: I really feel bad. I mean, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't want to talk about the elections or how many
Speaker 1: votes were cast or whatever, because you saw the graphs
Speaker 1: one day it's you know, Nythia Rama like this and
Speaker 1: is like this going up, and you know, Spencer Pratt's out.
Speaker 1: I don't understand where we're going to stop at this point.
Speaker 1: I think we got red jerseys and blue jerseys. We
Speaker 1: need to stop thinking about I'm on a red team
Speaker 1: or on a blue team. You need to think about you.
Speaker 1: You need to become a little bit more selfish and
Speaker 1: think about is my life better? I don't think so.
Speaker 1: How can I stop it? Maybe these other guys from
Speaker 1: the other party might help, right, And we have a
Speaker 1: lot of people who are Democrats. The blue jerseys, they're
Speaker 1: starting to wear purple now, but the purple guys are
Speaker 1: still voting to the red jerseys. They're still cheering for
Speaker 1: their own team. We got to stop cheering for teams.
Speaker 1: We've got to get people in office who actually want
Speaker 1: to affect change and change.
Speaker 3: You know, it's funny. I used to have a neighbor
Speaker 3: who is very part as a Democrat, but a very
Speaker 3: very smart lady, and we were talking about complaining about
Speaker 3: the failures of the state, very similar to the conversation
Speaker 3: you and I are just having. And she would have
Speaker 3: no problem participating in that conversation and acknowledge all of
Speaker 3: the problems that we brought up are real. And she
Speaker 3: doesn't like it too. And then you go, okay, well,
Speaker 3: why are you voting for Gavin Newsom if you're upset
Speaker 3: with the government services you're receiving. Yeah, And then the
Speaker 3: answer is always something performative that means nothing. Well, he's
Speaker 3: good on women's rights, Well, he's good on democracy. Okay,
Speaker 3: well he's good on the environment, And you go in
Speaker 3: every way where you can use the metrics to evaluate
Speaker 3: his performance, you yourself said he was a complete and
Speaker 3: total failure, but you're going to vote for him again
Speaker 3: because he's good on women's rights. Whatever the hell that means.
Speaker 1: I don't even know how you can substantiate that. Now,
Speaker 1: Gavin News was a special kind of guy. He's good looking,
Speaker 1: he looks great on camera. He always knows exactly what
Speaker 1: to say. The only time I've seen him couple times
Speaker 1: I've screw up is that last press conference he had
Speaker 1: where he was talking about his taxes being released, and
Speaker 1: also the other one where he's talking about is you know,
Speaker 1: Trump going after his wife. So you see him slip
Speaker 1: a little bit. As long as he's not moving his
Speaker 1: hands like I have right, I'll stop moving my hands.
Speaker 1: He's not moving his hands or slinking around like this.
Speaker 1: You can maybe see the inside of gavinus. But he's
Speaker 1: very slick and he's very polished. He knows exactly what
Speaker 1: to say. And here's the problem I'm talking these days.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about caveman. If I'm in a cave, this
Speaker 1: is my crib, and we hang out in this cave.
Speaker 1: We've got strawberries, we know those saber tooths are, and
Speaker 1: we know how to you know, harvest some peanuts or
Speaker 1: whatever so we can eat. Yeah, I'll give you some
Speaker 1: peanuts and I'll give you some strawberries if you come over,
Speaker 1: knock on my cave door and say, hey, we're starving
Speaker 1: over here. But at some point I'm going to run
Speaker 1: out of strawberries and nuts to give you guys, And
Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell you where the saber tooth
Speaker 1: is anymore because you've hunted them down. I'm out of strawberries.
Speaker 1: Stop asking me for more strawberries. You have to become
Speaker 1: a little bit more selfish. I think we'd all do
Speaker 1: you know, with the property taxes, the income taxes, with
Speaker 1: the gas prices we capentry, What the hell is all
Speaker 1: this money going to what? And we're not seeing any
Speaker 1: direct result of it. What's our budget this year? Three
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty two three fifty six billion, I think
Speaker 1: something like that. It's increased fifty percent over the past
Speaker 1: three four years. Has your life improved fifty to sixty percent?
Speaker 1: Are your roads any better? I just bought a car
Speaker 1: in January. I've replaced three rims already driving back and
Speaker 1: forth to the Los Angeles and San Jose, three rims
Speaker 1: on a brand new car. So as my road all
Speaker 1: that much better?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: Is my life better? No? We have the highest income
Speaker 1: tax thirteen point three. And by the way, there's a
Speaker 1: new bill on the November ballot that's going to make
Speaker 1: that a permanent fixture. That you was a temporary ten
Speaker 1: year deal that we had with the government. Now they're
Speaker 1: going to make it a permanent fixture. So we have
Speaker 1: to start thinking a little bit more selfishly, start thinking
Speaker 1: about my cave. And I don't have any more strawberries
Speaker 1: to give you, so can you please leave? Hang out later.
Speaker 3: Let's go back to the DSA for a moment, because
Speaker 3: they've been racking up wins all over the country New York, Colorado,
Speaker 3: even in some primaries. Here in California, we could end
Speaker 3: up with the DSA mayor. In Los Angeles, we have
Speaker 3: a growing DSA block on the La City Council. We
Speaker 3: have elections going on today in Michigan. There could be
Speaker 3: a candidate who's very DSA friendly win the Democratic nomination
Speaker 3: for US Senate. Incumbent Democratic members of Congress could lose
Speaker 3: their primaries to DSA challengers. That's entirely possible as well.
Speaker 3: What do you make of their ascendancy and how damaging
Speaker 3: do you think it would be if they start to
Speaker 3: gain traction here in California at the state.
Speaker 1: Start to gain traction. They've already traction. They have gained
Speaker 1: a lot. And some of this I blame on the economy, right,
Speaker 1: because if I'm a student, then I went to find
Speaker 1: out gender studies in South Africa or something like that.
Speaker 1: What It's some crazy, you know, degree that I got
Speaker 1: and I'm not going to get a job for it.
Speaker 1: I'm still spending my money on Lululemons. I'm going out
Speaker 1: to Starbucks. I'm sorry Phill's coffee because Starbucks doesn't cut
Speaker 1: it right, so I'm scaling my coffee. I'm still doing
Speaker 1: the same stuff I used to do. I call these
Speaker 1: Lululemons socialists, and they're still They're poor, they have no money.
Speaker 1: They went and got a four year degree from a nice,
Speaker 1: prestigious school, spent one hundred thousand bucks. Now they can't
Speaker 1: find work, and they're still doing the same stuff they
Speaker 1: used to do. Well. I think this is a pervasive
Speaker 1: disease in America. I related to a cancer almost. If
Speaker 1: we don't stop talking about the socialis some stuff, or
Speaker 1: start talking about the socialism stuff, how it has never
Speaker 1: worked in any economy, in any in any country, then
Speaker 1: we're going to be sucked into it, unfortunately, and you know,
Speaker 1: the stuff they're talking about is crazy. Stop the presidency.
Speaker 1: Was this, Stop the Congress or something like that, only
Speaker 1: oh no, it stop the Senate. I'm sorry, Stop the Senate.
Speaker 1: Stop the Congress. Install more. I think judges in the
Speaker 1: court they want to jacket up to twelve or fifteen
Speaker 1: I believe, or something like that. The stuff they want
Speaker 1: to do is develop a new country, not America anymore,
Speaker 1: not the stuff that we found in two hundred fifty
Speaker 1: years ago. They want to rewrite the constitution and the
Speaker 1: inner workings of how we do things. And once we
Speaker 1: go down that route, it's gonna be crazy.
Speaker 3: They want no police, they want no ice, they want
Speaker 3: no door, no jails. Prison is violence is something that
Speaker 3: they buy into. And it goes to show you what
Speaker 3: is wrong with the Democratic Party where they look at
Speaker 3: these people and they don't look at them as a
Speaker 3: threat to I guess the party itself, and they embrace them.
Speaker 3: And if they win the primary, okay, we'll all vote
Speaker 3: for you. How could you vote for someone who wants
Speaker 3: to get rid of the jails? How could they vote.
Speaker 1: For someone about how they're doing this, They're going into
Speaker 1: low level elections where there's not a lot of turnout,
Speaker 1: and then they're going to be able to get the vote.
Speaker 1: This is what they've been doing. I think, who's that
Speaker 1: Francesca chan I believe she wants to abolish Thanksgiving? Did
Speaker 1: you see that? Yeah, she put out a few years
Speaker 1: and abolished Thanksgiving. They got such radical ideas and they've
Speaker 1: infested the Democrat Party and they're saying good things. Now, No,
Speaker 1: that was something I meant in the past. It's not
Speaker 1: something I really believe in anymore. They told you what
Speaker 1: they believe in. If you don't trust them about what
Speaker 1: they told you, they're going to change their ways once
Speaker 1: they get into the Democrat Party. And unfortunately, Gavin Newsom
Speaker 1: was saying this, We're a tentive addition, not subtraction. Democrats.
Speaker 1: You're going to lose this country, the stuff where you
Speaker 1: grew up, where your kids grew up, where your parents
Speaker 1: grew up. This country's not gonna be the same once
Speaker 1: those guys get their feet in the door, unfortunately, and
Speaker 1: we need to see that again. Caveman principle, save your cave.
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Speaker 3: All right, We know that Karen Bass is facing an
Speaker 3: uphill battle for four more years as mayor of Los Angeles,
Speaker 3: and now the unions are starting to abandon her and
Speaker 3: get behind her dsa opponent, Nitya Rahman.
Speaker 4: Now, Bass still has the support of the majority of
Speaker 4: the unions and the LA Federation of Labor, but the
Speaker 4: Carpenters Union, who supported Bass in twenty twenty two, has
Speaker 4: decided to stick the knife in and endorse Nithia.
Speaker 3: She's not gonna like that.
Speaker 4: From more on this, We've got an NBC far end
Speaker 4: Conan Nolan, a.
Speaker 6: Big endorsement for LA Council Member Nithia Ramen today, who's
Speaker 6: running to unseat Mayor Karen Bass. Today, one major backer
Speaker 6: of Bass back in twenty twenty two is putting its
Speaker 6: support behind Ramen this time around.
Speaker 7: NBC Forest Chief Building Trades Union.
Speaker 4: One of the reasons that housing is so expensive, but
Speaker 4: we don't want to ever talk about that.
Speaker 3: One well, part of why they don't like her is
Speaker 3: because it's so difficult to build anything in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: And if you can't build anything in Los Angeles, there
Speaker 3: are fewer jobs for them.
Speaker 8: Cool reporter Conan Nolan is here to break it all
Speaker 8: down for us. Yeah, no, Hillo. Well, you know the
Speaker 8: day that organized labor used to be all on one page,
Speaker 8: they spoke with one voice. It's no longer the case,
Speaker 8: at least in the race for Mayor of Los Angeles.
Speaker 8: One very powerful union today switching sides from where they
Speaker 8: were just four years ago.
Speaker 2: We share your optimism for our city.
Speaker 4: It wasn't Oh, it was a long time ago, wasn't
Speaker 4: it optimism for the city. If you could only travel
Speaker 4: back in time and tell your former self what you
Speaker 4: were saying.
Speaker 8: I'm a welcome endorsement in her campaign for Marria.
Speaker 4: I do love that the builders didn't endorse the builder
Speaker 4: in the race.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that one made no sense.
Speaker 4: Twenty twelve, Let's see, should I endorse the guy that's
Speaker 4: actually built things that people like, like the grove in
Speaker 4: the Americana, Or should I endorse the lady who's known
Speaker 4: for nothing but being in Congress and doing nothing.
Speaker 3: Well and loving Fidel Castro.
Speaker 8: Oh there was also that Many two one that came
Speaker 8: with funding and a highly produced video announcement.
Speaker 2: The Southless Regial Council of Carpenters endorses Karen Bass as
Speaker 2: the next mayor of Los Angeles.
Speaker 4: I mean there will be a lot of work for
Speaker 4: these guys because she has helped burn down so much
Speaker 4: of the city.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, she should be the employee of the month.
Speaker 7: Now in the race for mayor four years later.
Speaker 8: The sixty thousand member Carpenters Union has switched sides today,
Speaker 8: announcing their backing of City councilwoman Nit the Orama, who
Speaker 8: used the opportunity to condemn city government for failing to
Speaker 8: address housing affordability.
Speaker 4: You're on the city council. You're in charge of the
Speaker 4: Housing and Homelessness Committee.
Speaker 1: I want to see cranes rising all over the city
Speaker 1: of Los Angeles.
Speaker 7: She's awful, but she's probably gonna win.
Speaker 3: Well, look at our choices, which one do you want?
Speaker 3: You want Jim Carrey or Jeff Daniels.
Speaker 1: I want to see well Caine union workers breaking round
Speaker 1: of tens of thousands of.
Speaker 7: New homes near transit and jobs. We need to cut
Speaker 7: the red tape you never heard that before train thousands
Speaker 7: of workers. We need to get to shock, you know.
Speaker 4: Actually, one of Nithia's big complaints about bass Is is
Speaker 4: that when bast first got into office, she signed that
Speaker 4: executive order that literally cut the red tape where we
Speaker 4: were just going to prove whatever development was proposed. And
Speaker 4: then somebody decides that a single family home in Sherman
Speaker 4: Oaks in Nythia's district should be torn down and a
Speaker 4: seven story building be replaced in there on a little
Speaker 4: small family cul de sac, and Karen Basque got yelled
Speaker 4: at by everybody, and she rescinded the executive order. Nythia
Speaker 4: will double down on that one.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, in.
Speaker 8: The ground the endorsement.
Speaker 4: She was the lone voice in support of SB seventy
Speaker 4: nine in the city of Los Angeles. But of course
Speaker 4: it's not that the city of LA was opposed to
Speaker 4: Scott Wiener's SB seventy nine. It's that the state zoning
Speaker 4: plan takes away the local zoning power, which means they
Speaker 4: no longer have a vehicle to get bribed in.
Speaker 3: Now, I do think that she was right in one
Speaker 3: thing that she just said. She said, if elected, she'll
Speaker 3: make sure that there are shovel ready, jobs, ready to go,
Speaker 3: and I do agree with her on that they'll just
Speaker 3: be for grave diggers because she's going to defund the cops.
Speaker 7: Is an outlier.
Speaker 8: Most labor unions, including the LA Federation of Labor, are
Speaker 8: strongly backing Mayor Bass for reelection.
Speaker 4: Heck, it was the LA Federation of Labor was one
Speaker 4: of the people on that secret tape with Nuri Martinez
Speaker 4: and Kevin da Leone and Gil Sadillo that we're trying
Speaker 4: to jerry Mander Nithia out of a job.
Speaker 8: She was in Koreatown today cutting the ribbon on a
Speaker 8: nineteen unit affordable housing project for veterans.
Speaker 1: This development is amazing.
Speaker 4: Oh boy, they're both bad.
Speaker 7: They are both bad. Karen Bass is worse.
Speaker 1: To do it.
Speaker 4: You said it the other day, better than I've ever
Speaker 4: heard it. Neither of them deserve to win. She deserves
Speaker 4: to lose with the neighbors.
Speaker 5: To do it with the community is the best way
Speaker 5: housing gets built citywise.
Speaker 8: The project was the direct result of the mayor's first
Speaker 8: executive directive to fast track the development of affordable housing,
Speaker 8: but she chose not to include a provision requiring union
Speaker 8: wages be paid to construction workers after she was told
Speaker 8: it would increase cost by upwards of twenty percent.
Speaker 4: Okay, now it's starting to make sense why Best didn't
Speaker 4: get that endorsement.
Speaker 3: Okay, this is all about that money.
Speaker 4: I mean, look, it's you can talk about impact fees,
Speaker 4: you can talk about permits, you can talk about the
Speaker 4: Coastal Commission. But one of the other reasons why it
Speaker 4: is so expensive to build here is because of minimum
Speaker 4: wage standards for union contractors when you're talking about building
Speaker 4: all of these developments, and we don't like to talk
Speaker 4: about that because while those are very powerful unions, it's
Speaker 4: just like how when we talk about how CA Aaron
Speaker 4: Bass has made zero effort to actually save production in
Speaker 4: Los Angeles. It's because all the ideas she's come up
Speaker 4: with she's doing in conjunction with the unions, including sag
Speaker 4: After and Iatzi, who I hate to say this because
Speaker 4: I'm part of the union, are part of the problem.
Speaker 8: Which is one of the reasons why the Carpenter's Union
Speaker 8: pulled their support.
Speaker 2: We know that Los Angeles needs to build, We get it.
Speaker 2: Mayor needs to make an executive decision in order to
Speaker 2: expedite the process. The plan that was put in place
Speaker 2: left workers out of the equation.
Speaker 8: Bernando Garra is with the Center for the Study of
Speaker 8: Los Angeles at Loyola Marrimount University. Bass had a complete,
Speaker 8: almost unified labor support.
Speaker 1: You know this crackstout you all. It says I have
Speaker 1: a major union supporting me, meaning.
Speaker 8: Mithia Rahman, and not only that, a union that had
Speaker 8: been disappointed because it previously supported Bass.
Speaker 4: They really thought when they spent money in twenty twenty too,
Speaker 4: they were going to get that money back tenfold and
Speaker 4: Karen Bass's executive order and now they're pissed.
Speaker 3: Well, what they want to do is gum things up
Speaker 3: because if they increase the cost to build that are
Speaker 3: already very expensive by twenty percent, we're not going to
Speaker 3: build any thing because we're not going to have the money.
Speaker 8: Yep Cappaign, spokesperson for the mayor, told NBC four today
Speaker 8: that workers are overwhelmingly supporting her reelection bid and that
Speaker 8: Nitthia Rahman has no accomplishment from her time on the
Speaker 8: city council.
Speaker 4: Only now Karen Bass has no accomplishment for her time
Speaker 4: on the mayorship. But yes, she's right, Nitthia Rahman has
Speaker 4: no accomplishments as a city council person.
Speaker 7: These are our two choices campaign rhetoric.
Speaker 8: But once again this is a feather in her cap
Speaker 8: organized labors behind the.
Speaker 1: Mayor, but not all of them.
Speaker 6: It's interesting right now Marbass is outpacing Nithie Rahman by
Speaker 6: a lot. I mean, we want to show you the
Speaker 6: numbers here, Bass reporting almost three times as much more
Speaker 6: raised in campaign funds in the month of than Rahmen.
Speaker 6: The question is will this union support you know, for us.
Speaker 4: That's pretty weak for the second largest city in the country.
Speaker 3: Well, who would give money to either one of them
Speaker 3: outside of people who have business in front of the
Speaker 3: city who expect to cash in on it.
Speaker 4: And if you're the building trades union, you already realize
Speaker 4: that you're not getting that money back.
Speaker 6: I'm me and raise more money. And does she need
Speaker 6: more money to win this race?
Speaker 8: She does, And the union said that four years ago
Speaker 8: they spent upwards of two million dollars.
Speaker 2: On behalf of karen backs.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 8: Now there are all sorts of things on a bet.
Speaker 7: Just another.
Speaker 4: Pocket of people to blame for Caruso not being the mayor,
Speaker 4: the building trade unions that spend two million dollars to
Speaker 4: put Bass in.
Speaker 8: Allot that the unions have to spend their money on,
Speaker 8: but if they spent anywhere close to that for Nitthi
Speaker 8: Rahma and that's a chuck of change. And the Ramen
Speaker 8: campaign was asked about that today and they said, listen, yeah,
Speaker 8: we're being outspent, but we make more use of more
Speaker 8: use out of the money we do get. And plus
Speaker 8: she has a social media campaign and we saw that
Speaker 8: in an grace from here of New York. That's extremely
Speaker 8: effective she has.
Speaker 4: If you've noticed, there has been one major I wouldn't
Speaker 4: call it a betrayal because you knew this was gonna happen,
Speaker 4: but it's definitely in the social media world. Something positive
Speaker 4: for Nythia's campaign is the sitting city accountant for the city,
Speaker 4: the Controller, Kenneth Mahea. He is endorsed Nythia going after
Speaker 4: Bass every single day and say what you want about
Speaker 4: that kid's politics. That kid knows social media better than
Speaker 4: anybody in LA politics.
Speaker 8: It's done right and that's also very cheap.
Speaker 5: Could that be beneficial to her here in Los Angeles completely?
Speaker 8: And she's really wrapped it up. I noticed the marriage
Speaker 8: office is ramped theirs up as well.
Speaker 4: So yes, Karen Bass put out a video today.
Speaker 3: And her can only imagine what's in that video.
Speaker 4: Well, Karen Bass loves to make these big proclamations that
Speaker 4: mean complete nothing about bringing back Hollywood, which a few
Speaker 4: months ago was Hey, we're going to lower permit fees
Speaker 4: to shoot at the Griffith Observatory by thirty percent. Today's
Speaker 4: big proclamation that's gonna save Hollywood and stop jobs from
Speaker 4: going to Toronto is we're gonna let you shoot at
Speaker 4: the sixth Street Bridge, the same sixth Street Bridge that
Speaker 4: has no lights.
Speaker 3: And it's all tagged up too.
Speaker 4: Yep, Well, maybe that's the kind of movie we need
Speaker 4: to shoot there.
Speaker 8: That's a way to get to people who are not
Speaker 8: watching television, for example. But once again, when you have
Speaker 8: a high profile campaign, a lot of people don't need
Speaker 8: to take the messages from the campaign. They have other
Speaker 8: ways of getting information about it and they make up
Speaker 8: their own mind that way.
Speaker 4: Did you see, by the way, that Nithia did a
Speaker 4: sit down interview with Josh Haskell of ABC seven where
Speaker 4: she was asked about the fact that during the primary
Speaker 4: she went on with that super socialist guy, Hassan Piker,
Speaker 4: and she was asked, why are you going on with
Speaker 4: a guy who is an obvious anti semi to what
Speaker 4: she said, Well, I think I should go on with anybody,
Speaker 4: including people I agree with, including people I don't agree with.
Speaker 7: So she think we should have Trish extend the invitation.
Speaker 3: Don't wait up for a response.
Speaker 7: I would love to just put out that challenge.
Speaker 4: I don't know if she would actually say yes, but
Speaker 4: she said, I will go on any show and talk
Speaker 4: to anybody. Do you think there's a chance in hell
Speaker 4: Nythia Rahman would actually come on and talk to us, No,
Speaker 4: and explain her policies.
Speaker 3: No, she went on with him because she agrees with him.
Speaker 3: Those two are two peas in a pod.
Speaker 4: You know what's another weird one was Tom Steyer went
Speaker 4: on that show and it was a strange hour.
Speaker 6: It'll be interesting to see the long term impact here.
Speaker 8: You yep, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 6: We are now just three months away from the general
Speaker 6: election in November, so for much more about the candidates
Speaker 6: who are running and the issues that are most important
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Speaker 4: There you go, Nthia versus Bad Nithea gets a big
Speaker 4: endorsement from the Carpenters Union, mostly because Bess promised them
Speaker 4: a bunch of money and then didn't follow through with it.
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Speaker 3: For an update on the condition of boil Hides. Mister
Speaker 3: Randy Wig.
Speaker 4: It's not good and now a bunch of people are
Speaker 4: luring up and suing Lineage. Why they're not suing the
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Speaker 9: Cleanup continues at the Lineage warehouse and boil Hids. More
Speaker 9: people are signing onto a lawsuit against the company, saying
Speaker 9: the disaster is impacting their health. The company says it
Speaker 9: made efforts to help neighbors and those impacted by that
Speaker 9: massive fire.
Speaker 5: Cbsla's Jeff Newinn went to Boil Heights to dig into we.
Speaker 7: Got the short straw.
Speaker 5: Today it's being done, what's been done and what the
Speaker 5: community still needs Coffin Coffin golfin Elvill Ruiz says she.
Speaker 4: Her every time we see these people, it's like, how
Speaker 4: is there not just a straight up evacuation as people
Speaker 4: are suffering from real symptoms on a daily basis.
Speaker 3: And an evacuation right away when the fire was.
Speaker 7: Going on well. Karen Bass said the smoke was safe.
Speaker 5: And her mother in law have been experiencing problems with
Speaker 5: their eyes and throats. Six weeks after the ball Heids,
Speaker 5: a warehouse fire and the smell of rock.
Speaker 4: And let's not forget this was a fire that LAFD.
Speaker 4: While they did a tremendous job, we're not prepared for.
Speaker 4: We didn't have the equipment to fight this fire. We
Speaker 4: had to get special water canon shipped to us from Texas.
Speaker 5: Food that's attracted large flies and rats hasn't gone away.
Speaker 1: The smell is so much.
Speaker 5: According to Lineage, more than sixty percent of the food
Speaker 5: waste has been removed.
Speaker 4: And that was yesterday's report, and today they're saying it's
Speaker 4: eighty percent.
Speaker 7: I don't know who to believe anymore.
Speaker 3: That's a big difference.
Speaker 5: More than twelve hundred grocery velleures of one hundred dollars
Speaker 5: each have been distributed.
Speaker 7: That'll do it well.
Speaker 4: You can't breathe, you're coughing up fluid, and the flies
Speaker 4: are going to give you all kinds of diseases.
Speaker 7: But here's a Ralph's gift card.
Speaker 3: Go eat something so you can throw it up.
Speaker 5: As well as one hundred and thirteen thousand dollars in
Speaker 5: cash assistance cards. The company says door to door outreach
Speaker 5: has been conducted at nearly eight hundred households, has anyone
Speaker 5: knocked on your door, Did they leave a tag on
Speaker 5: your door or anything like that.
Speaker 1: No, and I don't know anybody innocent.
Speaker 4: Whether it's the city, the county, or the company. They're
Speaker 4: all like, oh, we've done tons outrage. We're helping these people.
Speaker 4: It's very easy for the local news to find these people,
Speaker 4: and they're not getting help.
Speaker 5: It meant the office of Elimeor, Karen Baz says, in
Speaker 5: part Lineage has made promises to help the people of
Speaker 5: Ball Heights, and I expect the company to keep every
Speaker 5: one of those promises. In the meantime, Saint John Community
Speaker 5: Health has been providing three mobile clinics near the warehouse
Speaker 5: since the fire on June seventeenth. The teams have seen
Speaker 5: more than thirty three hundred patients. Saint John says more
Speaker 5: than eleven hundred of those patients, or about a third,
Speaker 5: presented health conditions directly related to toxic exposure, including smoke
Speaker 5: inhalation and acute respiratory distress.
Speaker 7: Way Karen Bass said the smoke was.
Speaker 3: Safe well, and so did the real doctor Barbara Ferrara.
Speaker 1: Wash your hands often and always before eating and after.
Speaker 6: Toileting the throats.
Speaker 1: Headaches just not feeling well. They've been trying to take
Speaker 1: their medicine whatever they could, but even that in itself
Speaker 1: hasn't been helping them, so they keep coming back.
Speaker 5: Lynage says one hundred thousand dollars have been donated to
Speaker 5: United Way two one one for temporary housing, but elvil
Speaker 5: Ruiz insists and no one has shown up at her door.
Speaker 4: Why is it so hard, whether it's this desasn ys,
Speaker 4: everything that we talked about with fire aid, to just
Speaker 4: directly give money to the people in need.
Speaker 3: Go back to the conversation we had with Brahmin. It's
Speaker 3: all about enriching these NGOs. They just need more excuses
Speaker 3: to give them more money.
Speaker 5: We asked her if it's possible someone did when she
Speaker 5: wasn't home.
Speaker 1: I have comeras outside my cameras, don't like.
Speaker 5: In a statement, a council member Isabelle Heraudo, who represents
Speaker 5: this district, says Lineage has not done enough and.
Speaker 7: Also you haven't done enough.
Speaker 3: If Isabelle yes, where is the criticism of Barbara Ferrara,
Speaker 3: Because in theory, as Barbara Stone said earlier today, the
Speaker 3: county should be taking the lead on this. They handle
Speaker 3: public health.
Speaker 7: The county can't do a damn thing.
Speaker 4: And what's by the way, speaking of the county, a
Speaker 4: lot of the people affected by this are an unincorporated
Speaker 4: East LA, which means Hill to Slease is your mayor,
Speaker 4: so good luck with that.
Speaker 5: Is a recovery package Tuesday to deliver immediate relief and
Speaker 5: enforce accountability.
Speaker 4: Hey, that's the name of our podcast. New episode drops
Speaker 4: tomorrow at three.
Speaker 5: In the meantime. To figure out where the mobile clinics
Speaker 5: are located, you can go to our website, which is
Speaker 5: CBSLA dot com. Be sure to click scene on TV
Speaker 5: in Ball Heights Jeff Newen, CBSLA.
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