Speaker 1: And we continue at two five in the afternoon on
Speaker 1: the John Phillips Show, Mister Randy Weggs and Culver City.
Speaker 2: Here we are, John, just a couple of days before
Speaker 2: the end of election season, and California voters are finally
Speaker 2: in the double digits with twelve percent of ballots return.
Speaker 2: The city of Oakland is at eight percent. Let's see
Speaker 2: how the city of la is doing, because they just
Speaker 2: put an update out about an hour ago. I get
Speaker 2: these updates texted to my phone. Let's go to the
Speaker 2: city of Los Angeles and see how many ballots have
Speaker 2: been turned in, because this is the race that everyone's
Speaker 2: paying attention to. With Spencer Pratt ten percent.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's just pick a few cities here and
Speaker 1: see which cities are performing better than others. Let's start
Speaker 1: out with Danville, which is an affluent, white collar portion
Speaker 1: of the East Bay in northern California. How are they
Speaker 1: doing compared to the state numbers?
Speaker 2: All right, in Danville, California, DA. And where is dan
Speaker 2: Where is Danville? I'm not saying Danville. Is Danville a city?
Speaker 3: It is? I mean I've heard n Creek that's nearby.
Speaker 2: All right, Let's try Walnut Creek all the way at
Speaker 2: the bottom of the list. You know, Danville might be unincorporated.
Speaker 2: Let's see Walnut Creek. You say Walnut Creek in the
Speaker 2: East Bay. Sometimes you have to click on it twice.
Speaker 2: Come on, give me Walnut Creek. Everyone, give me Walnut Creek.
Speaker 2: Walnut Creek is at nineteen percent of ballots returned, way
Speaker 2: above the average.
Speaker 1: Okay, so they're doing pretty good at Walnut Creek. Let's
Speaker 1: check a town in Orange County. How about Huntington Beach.
Speaker 1: That's a very politically active city, a big city in
Speaker 1: Orange County, certainly one that frequently pops up in the
Speaker 1: news on a regular basis.
Speaker 3: How is turnout there?
Speaker 2: Let's check in Orange County in Huntington Beach. The current
Speaker 2: turnout numbers are nineteen percent.
Speaker 1: All right, they're doing pretty good. Now, Let's check one
Speaker 1: in the Inland Empire. How about Rancho Mirage right outside
Speaker 1: of Palm Springs.
Speaker 2: All right, the city of Rancho Mirage got to hit
Speaker 2: it twice, because that's the way this app works. But
Speaker 2: we're scrolling down to the RS and we go to
Speaker 2: Rancho Mirage and we're at twenty nine percent.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's pretty good.
Speaker 2: All right, what portion of the electorate in Rancho Mirage
Speaker 2: is in sixty five plus.
Speaker 3: One hundred percent? And then me it's actually eighty percent.
Speaker 1: All right, So that's how turnout is looking statewide. And Randy,
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of polls just dropped, not just for
Speaker 1: the gubernatorial race, but the LA Mayor's race as well.
Speaker 2: And for more on these polls, we go to NBC LA.
Speaker 4: So new polls are sizing up races for California governor
Speaker 4: and LA mayor and the results take a look at
Speaker 4: this may surprise you. For the mayor's race, challengers Nithia
Speaker 4: Rahman and Spencer Pratch closed the gap dramatically on Mayor
Speaker 4: Karen bass.
Speaker 2: It's pretty much according to this latest poll. And there
Speaker 2: hasn't been a lot of polling in the LA Mayor's race,
Speaker 2: but the latest poll shows pretty much all three top
Speaker 2: candidates within the margin of each other, which is dangerous
Speaker 2: because a flip of a coin could cost you being
Speaker 2: on the November ballot. Well, and here's what's interesting, at
Speaker 2: least according to this poll, this poll has Karen Bassett
Speaker 2: like twenty five, and then Nitia and Spencer Prattle like
Speaker 2: a twenty two and twenty one. The other Socialist in
Speaker 2: the race, Ray Huang, who is the other DSA member,
Speaker 2: She's we got nine percent. So if she wasn't in
Speaker 2: this race, is it possible that Nythia would be the
Speaker 2: front runner.
Speaker 1: It also goes to show you what kind of uphill
Speaker 1: climb Spencer Pratt would have if he makes the November ballot,
Speaker 1: because he's going to have to go out and get
Speaker 1: votes that went to other candidates in the primary. And
Speaker 1: if other candidates in the primary who are generating support
Speaker 1: are to the left of Nythia Rahmen, that's going to
Speaker 1: be a tall order.
Speaker 4: We have Team Courage for more context and reaction to
Speaker 4: these new poll results. Want to check in with NBC
Speaker 4: force Cornan Nolan and the race for La mayor Conan
Speaker 4: to talk about it. Change here, Nythia Rahman, way up. Now,
Speaker 4: what does this tell you?
Speaker 5: Yeah, in that race and the race for governor are
Speaker 5: very interesting. These are two highly respected polls. In one
Speaker 5: that race for governor appears to be cementing. However, the
Speaker 5: other pole indicates the race for mayor of La has
Speaker 5: never been closer and could be an election day jump ball. Now, first,
Speaker 5: the survey, which is.
Speaker 2: Damned funny for a race that is an incumbents race.
Speaker 1: It goes to show you how everyone, well mostly everyone,
Speaker 1: seems to understand that Karen bass is a complete train wreck.
Speaker 5: Now, first, the survey from the Public Policy Institute of California.
Speaker 5: Former HHS Secretary Javier Vsera now in first place, three
Speaker 5: points ahead of Republican Steve Hilton, and more importantly for Vissera,
Speaker 5: eight points in front of rival Tom Steyer, the billionaire candidate.
Speaker 2: Two hundred and thirteen million dollars buys you third place.
Speaker 3: But all of these candidates, statistically speaking, are within the
Speaker 3: margin of era of one another, which means that race
Speaker 3: is right now a three way tie.
Speaker 5: Billionaire climate activists has spent over two hundred million dollars
Speaker 5: on his campaign. Styr seems to have stalled, which is
Speaker 5: why he released two more new negative campaign adds today
Speaker 5: in the effort to draw down Bessera's numbers.
Speaker 6: But in the race for mayor of la.
Speaker 2: You know, there's all these strategists who are you, coming
Speaker 2: up of all kinds of idiot theories and social media,
Speaker 2: and they're all pretty much saying, now, what Styer should
Speaker 2: have done instead of buying all these anti bisera ads
Speaker 2: is he should have bought a bunch of ads elevating Bianco.
Speaker 3: Oh, that was the play for him.
Speaker 2: If he would have done that, It's very possible that
Speaker 2: it could have been a double d.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: It goes to show you how Silicon Valley screwed up
Speaker 1: to because Silicon Valley should have done ads lifting Bianco up,
Speaker 1: and they should have done ads lifting Viera Gosa up
Speaker 1: and Mayhan. So you end up with a Democratic lockout
Speaker 1: on the November ballot. Once it became clear that Mayhan
Speaker 1: wasn't going to work out, they needed to pivot and
Speaker 1: move on to Plan B. And Silicon Valley never moved
Speaker 1: on to Plan B. They just kept doubling down on
Speaker 1: Matt Mayhan even when it became obvious that he wasn't
Speaker 1: going to get elected. But poor Mayhan, that common sense
Speaker 1: got you nowhere.
Speaker 5: But in the race for mayor of la it is
Speaker 5: stunned City Hall. This poll by the Center for Governmental
Speaker 5: Studies at UC Berkeley, sponsored by The La Times, support
Speaker 5: for Mayor Karen Bass seems to have stalled, and that
Speaker 5: Councilwoman Nitia Raman has recovered from her uneven debate performance.
Speaker 2: That's a very nice way to put it. You are
Speaker 2: in the room Conan, and.
Speaker 6: It's just a point behind.
Speaker 5: Spencer Pratt, the former reality TV star who has waged
Speaker 5: a remarkable viral video campaign, is within striking distance at
Speaker 5: twenty two percent, and if you factor in the three
Speaker 5: percent margin of air, frankly, all three may have a
Speaker 5: legitimate claim to first place.
Speaker 2: It is very possible. There are several different possibilities here. One,
Speaker 2: Karen Bass could be in the runoff but not be
Speaker 2: the top vote getter. But it is also very possible
Speaker 2: if you look at this poll, that Karen Bass could
Speaker 2: get knocked out on Tuesday because it could be Basen Ramen.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, you could be Spencer Pratt and Ramen.
Speaker 1: That is a possibility, and it's also a possibility that
Speaker 1: it could take us a month to realize that's what happened.
Speaker 3: That'll be fun, of course.
Speaker 5: The goal is to survive to the general election by
Speaker 5: finishing in one of the two top spots. Dan Schnerd
Speaker 5: teaches political communication at USC and cal Berkeley.
Speaker 3: Let's remember how boy everyone is doing statewide. Now.
Speaker 2: You can't just do one school, you gotta do two.
Speaker 2: You can't just do one radio station. You gotta do two.
Speaker 7: Let's remember how extraordinary a situation it is when an
Speaker 7: incumbent mayor an incumbent office holder is drawing less than
Speaker 7: thirty percent of the polls.
Speaker 2: Well, you say extraordinary, But this same scenario happened with
Speaker 2: Eric Adams up in New York very recently, like last year.
Speaker 1: Well, and it happened in LA with Jim Hahn. Remember
Speaker 1: when he ran for reelection and he was wildly unpopular.
Speaker 1: He did make it to the November ballot, but he
Speaker 1: got blown out by Via Ragosa when he ran in
Speaker 1: the general.
Speaker 7: Bass's poll numbers have not moved at all over the
Speaker 7: last several weeks, which means.
Speaker 2: Well, and if you start in a lowe number and
Speaker 2: you're the known entity, that's not good, no.
Speaker 1: Because people understand that she's a complete and total train.
Speaker 7: Wrack, which means that there is a very heart.
Speaker 2: It was different in twenty twenty two. Both Bass and
Speaker 2: Caruso were unknown entities, and she could claim that she
Speaker 2: had all this experience that would serve her in the job.
Speaker 2: But now we've had three and a half years of this.
Speaker 8: If you're feeling down, if you're feeling blue, let's get.
Speaker 2: Help for you and She could say all she wants
Speaker 2: that she's cut homelessness down, nobody believes it. She could
Speaker 2: say crime is down, nobody believes it. And under her
Speaker 2: watch the ten Freeway melted and the Palisades was destroyed.
Speaker 1: And no one went to jail for melting the freeway
Speaker 1: even though it was done on tape.
Speaker 7: Which means that there is a very hard ceiling on
Speaker 7: her level of support and a very broad dissatisfaction with
Speaker 7: her time in office. Bass is still a slight favorite
Speaker 7: to make it into the runoff against either Ramed.
Speaker 2: It would be as much as I don't want to
Speaker 2: see a Ramen versus Pratt, because I think Ramen would
Speaker 2: be a much more disastrous mayor than the one we
Speaker 2: currently have. There is something that would be so delicious
Speaker 2: about Karen Bass finding out that she's getting fired in November.
Speaker 3: In June.
Speaker 1: Well, and it also wouldn't be without president I mean,
Speaker 1: don't forget you mentioned Eric Adams. Okay, well, there was
Speaker 1: another complete disaster democrat mayor of a big city, Chicago,
Speaker 1: when that gremlin was mayor, and then she got voted out,
Speaker 1: But she got voted out by another socialist, Brandon Johnson.
Speaker 7: Against either rama On or Pratt, but it wouldn't be
Speaker 7: extraordinarily surprising this point if she were to finished third
Speaker 7: and missed the runoff altogether.
Speaker 3: This was Spencer Pratt. That would be a political earthquake,
Speaker 3: and by the way, she would deserve it.
Speaker 5: This was Spencer Pratt in front of Tom Yamas on
Speaker 5: nightly News.
Speaker 9: We're done with these experienced politicians and living under what
Speaker 9: that means.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, Pratt was doing a media blitz in New
Speaker 2: York yesterday. I think he did Fox and Friends and
Speaker 2: Jake Tapper and NBC News and probably five other things
Speaker 2: that I haven't seen yet. I don't have a big
Speaker 2: and we're like three days from the election. Where's Karen
Speaker 2: Bess She's nowhere to be seen.
Speaker 3: Did you see, by the way, that Bessarah had a
Speaker 3: rally in West Hollywood yesterday and they only had ten
Speaker 3: people show up. Yeah, I'm very dubious about all of
Speaker 3: this Besara support because you listen to him speak, there
Speaker 3: is nothing inspiring about him, not a thing.
Speaker 9: I don't have a big pitch because I'm doing it
Speaker 9: as an Angelina who's had enough.
Speaker 5: Well, once again, the talk has been who does mayor
Speaker 5: Karen Bass want as her fall opponent now. Based on
Speaker 5: this poll, Karen Bass is in the fight just to
Speaker 5: make the top two and to finish so she can
Speaker 5: fight to live, to fight another day in November.
Speaker 6: This race is a toss up back to.
Speaker 4: You, it certainly is Conan. Thank you so much for that.
Speaker 4: Lalita Lopez continues our coverage. She's out in West Hollywood
Speaker 4: tracking the governor's race. Lalita jaber Vesera held an event
Speaker 4: there today.
Speaker 3: He's leading. This is the event you were talking about
Speaker 3: ten people.
Speaker 1: There were more members of the media at his event
Speaker 1: than supporters who were showing up to hear him speak.
Speaker 4: Luita kabir Vesere held an event there today. He's leading
Speaker 4: the governor's poll and he's urging everyone to cast their ballot.
Speaker 2: Now and remember leading the same way that Karen Bass
Speaker 2: is leading twenty five. I know there's a lot of candidates,
Speaker 2: but still twenty five percent support means seven twenty five
Speaker 2: percent of the people that are pulled look at Besserah
Speaker 2: and they say nope, yeah, Annabel.
Speaker 8: That is really the main message out here with every
Speaker 8: vote is really really going to count. Take great.
Speaker 2: You think that guy's revving up on purpose because he
Speaker 2: sees the news van. Probably I'm going to turn on
Speaker 2: the YouTube, lad, and I'm gonna see my car reving
Speaker 2: up right behind her.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be a Nie slapper.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Annabel, that is really the main message out here.
Speaker 8: But every vote is really really going to count. Take
Speaker 8: for example, in the lasses.
Speaker 2: Seriously, you're revving your car like that with gas prices
Speaker 2: as high as they are, you are burning so much oil.
Speaker 3: Okay, back to the story.
Speaker 8: For example, in the last statewide primary election, only twenty
Speaker 8: eight percent of voters here in La County came out
Speaker 8: to vote. So really, every vote is really going to
Speaker 8: be crucial in this very close governor's race influencing book.
Speaker 3: That's right, the primary.
Speaker 2: Forget the governor's race, but the primary in La the
Speaker 2: one between Karen Bass and Rick Caruso and Kevin Dallyone's
Speaker 2: hot as hell and all the other people that were running.
Speaker 2: Only twenty eight percent people paid attention and voted in
Speaker 2: the June primary.
Speaker 1: Turnout is so pathetic in this state. And I keep
Speaker 1: saying this to Republicans. I understand that there are more
Speaker 1: Democrats than Republicans in this state, and that's the primary
Speaker 1: reason that Democrats win statewide elections. However, Republicans turnout is
Speaker 1: almost as bad as Democratic turnout. If Republicans would just
Speaker 1: fill out their ballots and turn them in, Republicans could
Speaker 1: win things here and there.
Speaker 2: I'll give you a perfect number that we have right
Speaker 2: now in the city of Los Angeles, a few days
Speaker 2: before the election is over. Of two point two million
Speaker 2: ballots that went out, two hundred and fifteen thousand have
Speaker 2: been returned. Ten percent of that is Democrats, fourteen percent
Speaker 2: of that is republic weekends, to which means of the
Speaker 2: three hundred and twenty six thousand Republicans that can vote
Speaker 2: in this election, only forty four thousand half.
Speaker 3: That's pathetic. With Spencer Proud out there busting his ass
Speaker 3: to try to save the city, the least you can
Speaker 3: do is fill out that ballot and turn it in.
Speaker 2: The no party preferencers don't pay attention anyway. Of these
Speaker 2: six hundred and sixty eight thousand of them, only forty
Speaker 2: five thousand have voted. And yes, I finally voted yesterday.
Speaker 8: So really every vote is really going to be crucial
Speaker 8: in this very close governor's race. Influencing voters. That is
Speaker 8: the first question I asked jo Ba said out.
Speaker 10: For me, it's not about talking about inflated promises. It's
Speaker 10: about talking how I have a record of experience. If
Speaker 10: I tell you I'm going to increase the number of
Speaker 10: homes and a housing that we build, is because I
Speaker 10: have experience doing these.
Speaker 3: He is so generic, he is so bland, He has nothing.
Speaker 1: I can't believe there are people who are voting for
Speaker 1: this because guess what, when an earthquake happens, when a
Speaker 1: fire happens, when there's a flood, this moron is going
Speaker 1: to be in charge of the state. So don't get
Speaker 1: upset when the next round of flood aid or earthquake
Speaker 1: aid or fire aid goes to nonprofits and buddies of
Speaker 1: his or people who are robbing him blind. And he
Speaker 1: doesn't even know about it, because guess what, there will
Speaker 1: be no money for you.
Speaker 8: Haavi Ebasetta says he has dealt with large butty.
Speaker 2: Does it benefit Gavin Newsom if he's running for president
Speaker 2: and whoever takes over for him as governor as a
Speaker 2: total disaster on day one.
Speaker 1: Well, it could cut both ways. He could be replaced
Speaker 1: by Bessera, and then California is going to be a
Speaker 1: dumpster fire and people are going to point at what
Speaker 1: kind of condition the state is in and say, why
Speaker 1: would you want the nation to look like that? And
Speaker 1: it could hurt him. He could also see it wasn't
Speaker 1: this bad when I was governor, So I did something right.
Speaker 2: I mean, if Gavin and Javier are sitting at the bar,
Speaker 2: Bessera's the ugly friend, that's true.
Speaker 8: Havevier. Bassetta says he has dealt with large budgets even
Speaker 8: greater than California's, and confronted the Trump administration in his
Speaker 8: past roles as US Secretary of Health and Human Services,
Speaker 8: former congressman, and former California Attorney General, all issues at
Speaker 8: the forefront on voters' minds today Today, he took his
Speaker 8: Basara tour to Mickey's Bar in West Hollywood, hosted by
Speaker 8: the advocacy group Equality California. Bassetta has a record of
Speaker 8: supporting the LGBTQ plus community, including.
Speaker 2: How many pluses showed up? How can this not make
Speaker 2: the report?
Speaker 1: Everyone on social media was commenting on the fact that
Speaker 1: ten people showed up.
Speaker 8: Voting against the Defensive Marriage Act as a congressman and
Speaker 8: defending LGBTQ plus and civil rights in court when he
Speaker 8: was the state's attorney general. Among the discussion in this
Speaker 8: current race, California law on transgender student athletes allowing them
Speaker 8: to compete based on their gender identity. I asked, but Sarah,
Speaker 8: if he supports this.
Speaker 10: We want to make sure that we protect people's rights
Speaker 10: under the law.
Speaker 2: I'm going to make sure, boy, we are really saying nothing.
Speaker 2: Of course, this is an issue that you don't want
Speaker 2: to touch with a ten foot pall.
Speaker 1: Okay, but he's on the wrong side of an eighty
Speaker 1: twenty issue. He's taking the position that transgendered athletes should
Speaker 1: be able to compete with women. Why in the world
Speaker 1: are you campaigning on this in the eleventh hour of
Speaker 1: an election, an issue that you know is unpopular, and
Speaker 1: this is what you're beating the drum on. And by
Speaker 1: the way, no one showed up to hear it. There
Speaker 1: were ten people there. How did that not make the report.
Speaker 10: We want to make sure that we protect people's rights
Speaker 10: under the law. I'm going to make sure I protict everyone,
Speaker 10: including transgender uh California's rights under the law, and that's
Speaker 10: the way it should be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he is the emptiest suit that I have ever
Speaker 2: seen in California politics.
Speaker 3: And that is saying something he's an off the rack suit.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, and Bassida is leading in that latest pool.
Speaker 8: But this is a very tight gubernatorial race. Many candidates
Speaker 8: they're vying for that position. You can find out more
Speaker 8: about them on our website NBCLA dot com.
Speaker 2: I mean, if we go in to report the results
Speaker 2: on Tuesday and we actually have results that we can
Speaker 2: report on Tuesday, and the number one vote getter is
Speaker 2: Javier Besera, with all the other people, forget Democrat or
Speaker 2: a Republican. There are plenty of qualified Democrats that were
Speaker 2: on that list. Well, then it's true the drop that
Speaker 2: we play all the time of the average California voter.
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Speaker 3: All right, Let's go to Dave and Whittier.
Speaker 12: Dave, Hello, Okay, can you hear me? Okay, yes, can
Speaker 12: you hear Okay? Three points. I believe that Gassia's only
Speaker 12: head because of the immigration issue. And then Steve Hilton
Speaker 12: becomes the nominee for the Republicans, his professional acumen in
Speaker 12: charisma will overcome that. I believe, you know, charisma equal
Speaker 12: is warmth and competence. He's like he's got that Ronald
Speaker 12: Reagan feel in a way. And then if he manages
Speaker 12: to get the three top issues that are important to
Speaker 12: the voters, which the Orange County Register says is affordability, taxes,
Speaker 12: and water supply, since we got it, I mean, we
Speaker 12: have a very good chance to overcome Bissarah immigration issue.
Speaker 1: All Right, I'm going to disagree with you on Beisera
Speaker 1: and the immigration issue. I don't think that's what put
Speaker 1: him in first place. I think what put him in
Speaker 1: first place was the collapse of Eric Swalwell. The Democratic
Speaker 1: partlready knows they don't like Tom Steyer, they don't like
Speaker 1: Katie Porter. They think that Antonio Viragosa is yesterday's news
Speaker 1: and Matt Mahon is too conservative for them and the
Speaker 1: party and the voters are looking for an establishment choice,
Speaker 1: someone that they could all get behind, who's just going
Speaker 1: to be a Joe Biden type of Democrat. And I
Speaker 1: think that Xavier Bessera fits that bill and that's why
Speaker 1: people are supporting him.
Speaker 12: Yeah. Attack Trump, Yeah, which is vacuous. And when you
Speaker 12: get read right down to the substance of thinks, you're
Speaker 12: absolutely correct. He moved up because of Aer s wall
Speaker 12: Well being taken out of the ring exactly.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you for the call, Sarah. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Chris in Westlake Village. Chris, Hello, Hi, guys.
Speaker 13: I'll go off that last caller, which is the Sarah.
Speaker 13: You know that there's many in the Biden administration you
Speaker 13: ordered on TV that said he was just varable in Washington,
Speaker 13: and I believe that he acts like he doesn't even
Speaker 13: want to be governor.
Speaker 14: I mean something. But you know Newsom, he got the
Speaker 14: two and a half billion. And then but Karen, she's
Speaker 14: supposed to be standing up for the people. How come
Speaker 14: she's not acting? Gavin, where's the money? Oh wait a minute,
Speaker 14: how come he didn't ask her where's the homeless money?
Speaker 14: Oh wait, well they both lost homeless money. You know,
Speaker 14: it's just crazy. So if Spencer Pratt is elected, he
Speaker 14: said that the first thing he's going to do is
Speaker 14: go sit at the desk and open the books. You
Speaker 14: invite the IRS, the FBI, maybe the DOJ, and then
Speaker 14: Steve Hilton. He says, if he's elected, he already is
Speaker 14: going after the fraud. He's going to cut the spending,
Speaker 14: cut the train, lower taxes and fees like the DMV.
Speaker 14: Then he's going to grow the car, I mean, reducing regulation,
Speaker 14: creating jobs, keeping businesses here, you know, and we just
Speaker 14: have to vote for both of them.
Speaker 1: That's it, all right, thank you for the call, sir.
Speaker 1: Let's go to David in Nevada. David, Hello, Hi.
Speaker 15: John, I Randy love your show. I had a couple questions.
Speaker 15: One was, what do you think, from what's your perspective
Speaker 15: on Newsom's endorsement of Karen Bass. Does it really make
Speaker 15: a difference in.
Speaker 12: Yeah, okay, well.
Speaker 1: Here's the way I look at it. I don't think
Speaker 1: that endorsement has anything to do with California politics. He
Speaker 1: is over California. I don't think he particularly cares what happens.
Speaker 1: That endorsement is about him trying to win a Democratic
Speaker 1: primary for president, because if she ends up not making
Speaker 1: it to the runoff and he didn't publicly endorse her
Speaker 1: and get behind a fellow Democrat, that's going to look
Speaker 1: bad in early voting states with large black populations. That
Speaker 1: will be used against him and they will say he
Speaker 1: had an ally in California that was on the ropes
Speaker 1: and needed his help and he wouldn't throw her a
Speaker 1: lifeline and she lost because of it. Why in the
Speaker 1: world should black voters turn out for Gavin Newsom? And
Speaker 1: I think he's afraid of that happening, which is why
Speaker 1: he endorsed her.
Speaker 15: That makes perfect sense. That doesn't the same logic apply
Speaker 15: to Basera for Hispanics.
Speaker 1: Well, I think with Besara he is inoculated because there
Speaker 1: are other Latinos in the race, Via ra Gosa among them.
Speaker 1: So he could say, look, I'm gonna pull Jerry Brown
Speaker 1: here and I'm not going to endorse my successor I'm
Speaker 1: going to wait until the primary is over and then
Speaker 1: I'll get involved. Also, they know that Besarah is a
Speaker 1: train wreck, and if they're publicly behind him and they
Speaker 1: go out and they vouch for him, and they say,
Speaker 1: the guy is going to be the best thing since
Speaker 1: slice bread and the slow motion train wreck happens that
Speaker 1: we know is going to happen. He's going to look bad.
Speaker 1: So for Besarah, he's just going to stay out of it.
Speaker 1: By the way, he's not the only one staying out
Speaker 1: of it. So is Kamala She did not endorse for governor.
Speaker 1: So is Jerry Brown. He didn't endorse for governor. Nancy
Speaker 1: Pelosi has not endorsed for governor. And when Joe Biden
Speaker 1: was asked if he would endorse Besera, who worked for him,
Speaker 1: he refused to do it too. None of them want
Speaker 1: to step on that rake.
Speaker 15: Makes makes perfect sense. One last thing, why why don't
Speaker 15: you think Kevin McCarthy ever sue was heading for governors?
Speaker 15: He's from Bakersfield, you know, the House speaker.
Speaker 12: You know why not?
Speaker 1: Because now that he's no longer House speaker, he's a
Speaker 1: lobbyist or he's in the p I have it sector.
Speaker 1: I guess I should say, I don't know if he's
Speaker 1: a registered lobbyist or not, but he's got to be
Speaker 1: making money handover fist. Why would you want to deal
Speaker 1: with this mess. If you could just sit back and
Speaker 1: just cash checks.
Speaker 15: Thanks for taking my call, guys, Love you guys.
Speaker 3: All right, thank you for the call.
Speaker 1: Here here with an update on illicit massage parlors in
Speaker 1: San Diego.
Speaker 3: Mister Randy Wang, the.
Speaker 2: City Attorney of San Diego, is looking to shut down
Speaker 2: some more massage parlors because, well, nobody goes there for
Speaker 2: a BackRub.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there has to be someone in recorded history
Speaker 1: who did.
Speaker 2: When you are a strangely named massage parlor in a
Speaker 2: strip mall with black bars on your windows and you're
Speaker 2: open till eleven o'clock at night, there is no legitimate
Speaker 2: business for you. For more on this, we're going to
Speaker 2: NBC seven.
Speaker 16: City attorney wants to shut down a massage business in
Speaker 16: Lenda Vista. A year long undercover investigation apparently turn up allegations.
Speaker 2: Really, the cops had to go undercover for a whole year.
Speaker 3: They had to be very very very thorough. How many r.
Speaker 2: And ts did they have to get before they realized
Speaker 2: what was going on?
Speaker 16: Apparently turn up allegations of prostitution and possibly human traffick.
Speaker 11: Here, and the operators and the landlord are also facing
Speaker 11: several building code violations. NBC seven's Dave Summers if it's.
Speaker 2: The prostitutions not bad enough, they don't have a mop sink.
Speaker 3: Just imagine what would happen if there was a fire
Speaker 3: in there.
Speaker 11: And NBC seven's Dave Summers explains why the city attorney
Speaker 11: says the number of these salons is growing.
Speaker 2: Well, because it's apparently very hard to shut them down,
Speaker 2: and we don't want to really enforce a lot of
Speaker 2: laws here, and because all of the prostitutes are victims,
Speaker 2: they don't want to testify against their pimps or their
Speaker 2: traffickers because they know that the pimps and the traffickers
Speaker 2: won't get much time, and when they get out, they
Speaker 2: get retaliated against.
Speaker 3: And they seem to have nasty tempers.
Speaker 6: This social media add for Comfy Spa may.
Speaker 3: Seem Comfy Spa.
Speaker 2: You're telling me somebody legitimately went to Comfy Spa because
Speaker 2: they had shoulder pain.
Speaker 1: Go ahead and put your feet up and enjoy yourself
Speaker 1: over at Comfy Spa.
Speaker 6: This social media add for Comfy Spa may seem perfectly normal,
Speaker 6: except perhaps for the operating hours nine am to eleven
Speaker 6: pm behind these closed doors.
Speaker 3: Nope, not legit.
Speaker 6: Behind these closed doors, though the San Diego City attorney
Speaker 6: says the offerings are quite the opposite. Illegal activity is unpredictable.
Speaker 17: It can the prostitution can bring all kinds of different
Speaker 17: additional criminal elements.
Speaker 6: City Attorney Heather Ferbert found this injunction against the operators
Speaker 6: of Comfy Spa and the landlord of this strip mall
Speaker 6: at fifty two oh one Linda Vista Road.
Speaker 2: Well, now everyone knows where the address is.
Speaker 3: This is great advertising for them.
Speaker 2: I guarantee you somebody listening in San Diego is going
Speaker 2: to go drive by there just to see what's up.
Speaker 6: The civil suit identifies the spa as a public nuisance
Speaker 6: which is a threat to the health, safety, and welfare
Speaker 6: of the public and its occupants.
Speaker 2: How is it this hard to shut down a known
Speaker 2: den of prostitution.
Speaker 3: Because the investigation takes forever, because every guy who works
Speaker 3: for the city has to let's just say, let's just
Speaker 3: not take their turn.
Speaker 6: It alleges since last February, the property developed a history
Speaker 6: of criminal and nuisance activity, including loun activities and prostitution
Speaker 6: related arrests.
Speaker 2: The cases so you already know that prostitutions going down there.
Speaker 2: You've already had arrest, the investigation is over. You can't
Speaker 2: shut the business down.
Speaker 1: No, because they have to go undercover about nine hundred
Speaker 1: times before they feel confident making that statement.
Speaker 6: The cases complaint driven. Undercover officers have made arrests for
Speaker 6: prostitution here and responded to a customer complaint of sexual
Speaker 6: assault leveled at one of the therapists. Business. Neighbor Dustin Pope says,
Speaker 6: the small always seemed suspicious.
Speaker 12: You'll see kind of older gentlemen sort of embarrassedly walking
Speaker 12: out of there.
Speaker 3: In the city with their head hell low. They've got
Speaker 3: the derby hat on, the sunglasses, they're hiding behind the newspaper.
Speaker 2: People don't walk into those rooms confidently, and they sure
Speaker 2: don't walk out of those rooms confidently.
Speaker 18: In the city attorney's estimation, these massage businesses are cropping
Speaker 18: up all over San Diego, and she attributes it to
Speaker 18: a number of things, including the fact that smaller community
Speaker 18: is to have a better budget to address the problem. Also,
Speaker 18: she says, since COVID prostitution and trafficking has gone inside
Speaker 18: to disguise their activities, maybe.
Speaker 2: In San Diego it's straight on the streets in LA
Speaker 2: and Oakland, Oh.
Speaker 1: In Oakland there are designated parts of town for prostitution.
Speaker 3: International Boulevard, you know, one closes down ten more open.
Speaker 7: You'll see that they're in almost every strip made.
Speaker 2: So shouldn't there then be I don't know, some liability
Speaker 2: attached to the landlord that is knowingly renting space to
Speaker 2: a criminal organization.
Speaker 3: Hey, they're good for the rent. What does the landlord care?
Speaker 2: Besides the same thing with all the illegal pod stores
Speaker 2: that the city says they can't shut down, which is
Speaker 2: why there's a ballot measure in the city of La
Speaker 2: called Measure CB, which would allow the city to send
Speaker 2: tax bills to criminal organizations.
Speaker 3: It makes no sense.
Speaker 6: Besides the alleged illicit activity. The injunction lists a number
Speaker 6: of building code violations. They include a half dozen massage
Speaker 6: rooms and what appears to be living quarters.
Speaker 2: A lot yes, because these are sex slaves and you
Speaker 2: are enabling it. And what appears to be these girls
Speaker 2: were probably brought here in a shipping container like the
Speaker 2: second season of The Wire.
Speaker 6: And what appears to be living quarters.
Speaker 17: A lot of instances with massage parlors where we see
Speaker 17: evidence of people living there we find that the women
Speaker 17: who are there are victims of human trafficking.
Speaker 6: We went inside.
Speaker 1: Do you think if the prostitutes live there when they
Speaker 1: go to sleep at night, they put the cucumbers on
Speaker 1: both eyes.
Speaker 6: And inside to get a look for ourselves, we were
Speaker 6: greeted by.
Speaker 3: One Yeah, I'd love to see that expense report.
Speaker 6: We were greeted by one of the employees who did
Speaker 6: not identify herself and didn't answer any of our questions
Speaker 6: about the allegations. This is the second such injunction from
Speaker 6: the City Attorney's office in as many months. Last April's
Speaker 6: civil suit alleging similar activities that the Osaka Oriental Spa
Speaker 6: in North Park was filed.
Speaker 17: Human trafficking, unfortunately, is a problem here in San Diego,
Speaker 17: and I think part of that is just locational and or.
Speaker 2: We don't want to put these people away in prison.
Speaker 1: What do you think HR said when they're going through
Speaker 1: the expense report and they're looking at this guy's expenses
Speaker 1: and they see eight hundred dollars at the Osaka Oriental Spa,
Speaker 1: it's for research.
Speaker 6: The inflow of people. We just have a lot of
Speaker 6: people coming through. Comfy Spa remains open for business, despite
Speaker 6: this latest litigation.
Speaker 2: Despite the arrest, despite everyone knowing it's a DNA prostitution,
Speaker 2: they can still operate their business. I do not understand
Speaker 2: we make it so hard for legitimate businesses to operate
Speaker 2: in this state, but illegally operating businesses have free reign.
Speaker 1: Well compared to the pot shops. They're pillars of the community.
Speaker 6: In Linda Vista. Dave Summers, NBC seven.
Speaker 16: And the injunction also alleges. From as early as December
Speaker 16: twenty twenty five through March of this year, SDPD officers
Speaker 16: found more than two hundred and fifty online advertisements, blogs,
Speaker 16: and user reviews for sex acts occurring at the property.
Speaker 3: Oh, if we only had more time, we'd be open
Speaker 3: up that yell page. Johnny five out of five stars.