WEBVTT - Scott Alan Meyers is Running for Congress 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.480 And we continue at one oh five in the afternoon 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:07.520 on the John Phillips Show, Mister Randy Weggs in Culver City. 0:00:07.760 --> 0:00:08.039 John. 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:11.520 After last night's debate, which was hosted on Next Star 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:15.920 stations including KTLA five, Fox forty and Sacramento and CRON 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:18.680 four in the Bay, KRON four put out a poll 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:23.160 asking people you watch the debate, who's getting your vote? 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:24.440 So who won the debate? 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:29.280 According to poll respondents, forty six percent of respondents who 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:33.919 watched that debate on Cronfoor's website said they like Mayheon. 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:38.599 Mayheon did an excellent job at that debate. There's no 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:39.479 disputing that. 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:45.159 In second place, it's Hilton at fifteen percent, then Styre 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:49.480 at twelve, then Bisarah at eleven, Katie Porter at eight, 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:53.960 Chad Bianco at six, and undecided at two. 0:00:57.160 --> 0:01:01.440 It's interesting that Biserah didn't finish dead last because everyone 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:05.960 that I talked to, Republican and Democrat, certainly felt that way. 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:08.280 Scrub it. 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:14.839 And by the way, we know that Nancy Pelosi hates 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:19.400 Javier Bessera and when he was named by the Biden 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:24.200 administration to be Secretary of Health and Human Services or 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:26.839 Grampy Joe Go ahead and correct me here. 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:28.360 Yeah, what is his actual position? 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:30.640 Joe for Secretary of Health and Educations? 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:34.040 Are I nominated Javier ba Karia? 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:40.400 And Nancy Pelosi was furious that no one called her 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:47.040 and asked her about Javier Besera before they did that. Well, 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:50.240 we finally found out what it was that he did 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:54.240 that offended her so much. Oh yeah, and this is 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:57.880 a Politico article that goes all the way back to 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:03.680 two thousand and nine. Here is what Politico reported, California 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:07.960 Democrat Javier Besserra has learned a lesson about calling out 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:12.880 Nancy Pelosi. Don't. In the run up to this month's 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:17.519 House vote on healthcare reform, Bessera suggested to the Congressional 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:21.920 Progressive Caucus that party leaders gave up too easily on 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:27.160 the favored robust public option that didn't sit well with 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:31.079 the speaker, and witnesses said she made her displeasure known 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:36.320 to Bessera and other top Democrats at a subsequent leadership meeting. Quote, 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:39.919 I understand I have tire tracks on my back because 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:44.560 Javier threw me under the bus. WHOA, That's what Pelosi 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:48.600 was quoted as saying. The speaker went on to accuse 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:52.440 Bessera of trying to improve his quote street cred with 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:55.079 progressives by undercutting her. 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:56.080 Quite frankly. 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:01.560 Bessara was back on the hot seat on Monday when 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:05.760 Pelosi demanded to know why seven members of the Congressional 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:10.160 Hispanic Caucus had voted for the anti abortion Stewpac amendment 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:14.920 before final passage of the healthcare bill, even after she 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:18.799 had acceded to the CHC's wishes and preventing an immigration 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:23.440 amendment from being considered on the floor. Besserah, a former 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:27.520 CHC chairman, expressed surprise at the number and replied that 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:30.040 he had tried to turn the votes of two Latino 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:33.520 lawmakers he knew would vote against her, according to sources 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:35.480 familiar with the exchange. 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:36.320 But when you do the scrub. 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:42.360 Attendees of Monday's meeting drew different inferences from Pelosi's line 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:46.240 of questioning, with one group seeing it as a second 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:50.200 rebuke of Bessera and another portraying it as the speaker 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:53.840 simply asking the member of leadership with the strongest connection 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:56.840 to the CHC what he knew about a vote that 0:03:56.920 --> 0:04:02.600 irritated her. We love everybody, yes, Pelosi, who used to 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:05.760 keep a favor file for her father. The former mayor 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:09.280 of Baltimore clearly has a mental list of those who 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:12.560 wronged her as she tried to collect votes for the 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:17.600 centerpiece of the democrats domestic agenda that Bessarah caught her 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:22.120 eye and her ire is noteworthy because he is a 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:25.520 protege of Pelosis, who won the post of Caucus vice 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:31.240 chairman in large part on the strength of her camp support. 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:34.640 But Sarah declined to comment directly when asked about Pelosi's 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:39.479 harsh treatment, looking startled by the question, but Sarah paused, grinned, 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:43.560 walked away, and called out quote it was a good vote, 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:47.240 referring to the eventual twenty twenty to twenty fifteen tally 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:50.599 on healthcare as he ducked into a Democratic Caucus meeting. 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:58.719 So Nancy Pelosi has had it in for him since 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:05.040 two thousand and nine, and she told the Biden people, 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:08.040 don't put him in there. It's not going to go well, 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:10.279 and it didn't go well. We also know that the 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:14.120 debate didn't go well for Besara last night because Bessarah 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:16.599 was the only candidate who didn't show. 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:18.040 Up to the spin room afterwards. 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:23.280 What do they call that? Sicilian amnesia? Were the only 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:26.520 thing that you remember are people who wronged you. Scrub it, 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:33.680 and Nancy hasn't forgotten. All right, It is our pleasure 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:36.760 to welcome our next guest to the program. He is 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:40.440 a candidate for the United States Congress. This is a 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:46.679 district that includes Hollywood, Burbank, Glendale, and the mid Wiltshire 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:50.359 portion of Los Angeles. The incumbent in that district is 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:54.760 Democrat Laura Friedman. Our guest is one of her Republican challengers, 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:58.359 Scott Myers. You can follow him on x at Scott A. 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:01.640 Myers La. Scott Myers Welcome. 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:05.719 Thank you so much, John and Randy for having me 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:10.240 on the most entertaining show. I take my headphones to 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:14.520 lunch every weekday, and I disappear listening to your show 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:18.000 every day. I had alone for that reason, but thank 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:18.760 you for having me. 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:22.400 Well, thanks so much for stopping by. So let's start 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:25.119 out with the first and the obvious question. Why should 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:27.320 you be the next congressman from Glendale? 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:35.880 Because we need a return to common sense on all issues. 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:39.520 I was at the Steve Hilton event on Sunday, the 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:42.240 rally on Sunday, A man asked me what issues are there, 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:46.000 mister Myers. I said to him, I was perplexed, and 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:49.839 I said, what issues aren't there? You know, the state, 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:53.120 the county, the city has broke, the roads are broken, 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:57.120 the freeways are broken. The homelessness is not getting any better. 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:02.159 We're wasting all this money. There's no transparent see where 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:05.600 we have a social agenda that's so dangerous to children 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:12.200 and grown women. And lour Friedman is on the wrong 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:16.160 side of all of those issues. You know, she was 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:21.680 the chair of the Transportation committee for four years as 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:27.120 an assembly woman until she went into Congress. That bullet 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:33.040 train went up two three four fold in projected cost 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:35.920 she was the chair. We're now at one hundred and 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:37.880 twenty eight billion or one hundred and twenty six billion 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:42.640 dollars projected completion cost. If you buy a ticket from 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:46.840 lax to San Francisco in time, you can buy that 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:49.400 ticket for one hundred and twenty six dollars or less. 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:53.840 It is equal to a billion plane tickets. This is insane, 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.480 and we need to cut federal funding on so many 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:01.640 projects that are wasting our money in this state. 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:08.560 And this is a district that historically elected Republicans. Jim Rogan, 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:12.240 who was famously part of the impeachment team of Bill Clinton. 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:16.160 Represented this district when he was in the House of Representatives, 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:22.040 and certainly the Burbank and Glendale and Hollywood of yesteryear 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:27.360 looked very different back then than the Burbank, Glendale and 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:30.640 Hollywood of today. It used to be cleaner, it used 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:33.840 to be safer, it used to be more affordable, and 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:35.600 now it's headed in the wrong direction. 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:40.360 Well, most of the district is actually in the city 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:45.760 of Los Angeles, and that has become a city that 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:49.120 for whatever reason from and I know I have my 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:52.080 suspicions as to the reasons, but it has become an 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:57.560 extremely left wing city. Look who's being elected there. You know, 0:08:57.640 --> 0:08:59.920 I was one of the five proponents of the nith 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:03.400 A remand recall in twenty twenty one. We were watching 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:07.240 her from the time that she was campaigning, and we 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:09.680 were trying to warn people, you know, this is not 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:13.040 a Democrat, this is a Marxist. You look at the 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:17.040 DSA Democratic Socialis of America website, you will find a 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:22.360 recommended reading list, including you know, the autobiography of Angela Davis. 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:28.400 The Communist Manifesto sought that Salolensky book Rules for Radicals 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:32.480 and now the new one Abolish Rent, a book that 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:36.600 advocates the abolishing of all rent. They want. These people 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:41.960 want government takeover of apartments. They want It's not just 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:46.080 corporate landlords that are their enemy. It's any landowner that 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:50.640 is obviously a target of these people on the far left. 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:56.640 Laura Friedman, she you know, she advocated, she supported the 0:09:56.640 --> 0:10:01.040 re election of George Gascone. She is one of the 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:06.520 assembly women voting for this bill, this Scott Wiener bill 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:08.679 a number of years ago. I think it might have 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:14.319 been her first term to reduce HI surreptitious HIV transmission 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:20.679 from a felony to a mere misdemeanors. She's all in 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:24.160 on the gender, on the genitals, scrambling of minor children 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:28.000 and boys competing against girls. She's against voter ID. Now. 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:30.360 One thing that you know this is for people that 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:34.240 don't know District thirty, they certainly know the name of 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:37.600 Adam Schiff. This is the district that was formally represented 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:41.160 by Adam Schiff before he went to the to the Senate. Now, 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:44.880 he was a liberal Democrat, but he wasn't a radical Democrat. 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:48.440 And I don't think that people understand in this district, 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:52.199 I don't think people understand how radical this woman is, 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:57.880 especially in those parts of the district. You know, Glendale, Burbank, Son, 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:01.680 Lent Tohunga, all the way up just before Palmdale, believe 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:06.280 it or not. And I think that discussion has to 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:08.839 be had. They have to know who this woman is. 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:12.720 She is not Adam Schiff. Fine, they're Democrats, fine, but 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:17.280 they don't realize that she is almost seamless, almost seamless 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:20.240 with the DSA if. 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:23.280 I'm not mistaken, and correct me if I'm wrong. When 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:27.200 she was on the city council in Glendale, one of 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:30.800 the issues that she took up were road diets, which 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:34.600 is the theory that if you eliminate lanes of traffic 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:37.600 that people will be forced to ride their bicycle to work, 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:40.240 or they'll be forced to ride the bus to work, 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:43.720 or walk to work, or do something other than ride 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:46.520 in their car to work, because you're going to create 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:51.520 all of these artificial choke points, these artificial congestion that 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:53.120 will make it so much of a pain in the 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:55.840 ass to commute by car to work that you're going 0:11:55.920 --> 0:12:01.480 to be begging for alternatives that you can certainly used 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:03.439 to get to wherever it is that you need to go. 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:06.000 And if I'm also not mistaken, when she was in 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:10.320 the state legislature, she launched the war on grass, where 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:12.720 she didn't want grass to be used in places like 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:17.560 hoa's or commercial property or alongside freeways, those sorts of 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:19.440 things she wanted to get rid of it. 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:25.120 She's yeah, well, she's known as the bike lady of Glendale, 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:29.160 who's never seen who's never seen on her bike. You 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:33.320 know this is again, this is where she's seenless with 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:37.040 the DSA they want. I think I think it's pretty 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:42.319 clear anybody really watching, is that the socialists want single 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:48.920 family homes gone. They want the nuclear family gone. You'll 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:52.000 actually find that on some of their writings. They think 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:57.200 it's a racist construct, as though people all over the 0:12:57.200 --> 0:13:05.720 world don't have nuclear families. These policies that she instituted 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:09.800 in Glendale are not popular in Glendale, and they also 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:13.960 have their sites set on Olive Avenue in Burbank. Watch 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:16.360 out for Burbank. Burbank may go the way of la 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:21.760 and Santa Monica after November. They want to make Olive 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:27.840 Avenue a single lane all the way up to Glen Oaks, 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:31.600 starting from just about a quarter half a mile from 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:35.880 Alameda Bach all the way through downtown Burbank a single 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:39.680 lane and making it a dedicated bus lane for buses 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:43.040 that aren't going to have anybody on it. Nobody wants 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:45.040 to take the bus. They keep on wanting us to 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:48.040 take the bus. I used to take the train from 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:51.760 the Hollywood and Vine station to the courthouse. I'm a lawyer, 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:55.760 the Red Line. I was in a suit and I 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:59.600 had a briefcase. There's no way I'm doing that now. 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:06.400 It's filthy, it's it's it's dangerous and filthy. And they 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:09.200 want us to be back on these on these buses 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:12.920 and trains. But no one in their right mind who 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:17.000 knows anything is going to take their family on these 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:18.920 on these on these types of rail. 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:24.600 It seems to me like their idea of equity. And 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:27.640 they spend a lot of time talking about equity and 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:32.040 inclusion and those things, but their idea of equity when 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:34.200 you look at a map of the County of Los 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:37.400 Angeles and you see the city of Los Angeles as 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:40.880 the bohemoth in the county, the largest city in the county, 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:43.760 the largest city in the state, and it does not 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:49.040 function in any realistic way. The smaller, independent cities do function. 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:52.240 People who live in Burbank like it. People who live 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:55.040 in Glendale like it. People who live in independent cities 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:58.400 in Orange County, they like it. But the idea of 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:01.760 equity that people like Laura Reaedman have is to take 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:05.880 Burbank and Glendale and make them more like Los Angeles, 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:09.520 as opposed to making Los Angeles more like Burbank and 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:12.320 Glendale and like the cities that actually function. 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:17.320 Absolutely, there's a there's this is this is happening in 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:22.480 in Burbank. There's the far left and they're fighting the 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:27.760 moderates who have a slogan saying, keep keep Burbank Burbank 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:33.840 or yeah, don't LA my Burbank. They Burbank's a jewel 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:37.240 compared to LA. Glendale's a jewel compared to LA. We 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:40.800 don't have we don't have encampments here? Well, why is that? 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:43.840 I mean, it's just it's similarly affordable to Los Angeles, 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:47.400 Glendale and Glendale and Burbank. Why are the no encampments here? 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:51.960 Why are the no encampments in extremely unaffordable Beverly Hills. 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:56.520 Last night's debate, it was all about class warfare. They 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:59.280 wanted to make it seem like people are in a 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:02.640 tent because they can't afford the price that a greedy 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:08.200 landlord is daring to charge the market price. This is 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:11.680 what this is what they are doing. And we, you know, 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:13.840 we in La. I live in the city of La. 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:16.320 You know, I don't know anybody that doesn't want to 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:18.920 live in a city that's not a jewel. I want 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:21.640 La to be a jewel. If it was a jewel, 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:25.480 well everything would be a lot more housing would be 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:28.760 a lot more expensive. But because it's such a squalid 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:32.640 place right now, with every road broken and the city 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:36.640 budget broken, with a fifty billion dollar lawsuit coming down 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:39.360 the pike because of the Palisades fire, I don't know 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:41.120 how we're going to get help. We're going to get 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:43.560 through that, We're going to have to have federal money. 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:47.680 And that's where I come in. You know, Laura Friedman, 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:51.600 all she does is bash Trump Trump Trump, Trump Trump. Well, 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:54.560 you're not going to get anywhere with that guy. If 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:57.280 you're going to bash him, you need to work with him. 0:16:57.400 --> 0:17:00.360 And we need someone who can bring in federal money 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:03.840 because the city's but it's only about thirteen billion dollars 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:06.359 a year. How are we going to get fifty billion, 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:10.600 and that's just the early price tag for LA's responsibility 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:17.160 over the Palisades fire. When I hear equity, my antenna 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:20.280 goes up because it's a hidden it's a hidden word. 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:22.760 It really means something else. It really means taking money 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:25.040 from people who have earned it and giving it to 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:29.040 people who who have their handout. And there's just too 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:31.000 much of that in the city of Los Angeles, and 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:33.439 it's too much in the psyche of our young people. 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:36.520 Big Daddy government should take care of me. Big daddy 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:39.639 government should be giving me an apartment at a price 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:43.920 where that I can afford. No, that's just not how 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:47.680 it works. You have a homeless person who comes from 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:51.320 whatever Iowa and pitches a tent on Sunset and Gower, 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:54.880 and so why is it that we feel the need 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:58.879 to give him are a free apartment? Is that how 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:02.439 things that's ever, how things work in this country. You 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:05.120 find find me in your proximity, and now you owe 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:09.360 me a home. But this is the mentality that is 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:14.800 that is infiltrated the average voter that it all sounds great, 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:17.120 and when they hear the word, when they hear finances, 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:19.720 they just they turn them. They turn their head away. 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:24.520 They they can't they can't absorb that. These everyone's throwing around, 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:28.040 you know, comments of billions of dollars and millions, hundreds 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:30.520 of millions of dollars, billions of dollars, and I think 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:32.600 people just turn away from that because they just don't 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:34.440 know how to process at all. They think it's all 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:37.240 going to be paid for somehow. But you know, we've 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:41.320 we've paid for this this, We financed this homeless problem, 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:47.680 and everything has come out of other other budgets, Bureau Sanitation, 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:52.440 street services, the police, fire. If you look at the 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:54.960 city budget, there's no pip, there's no piece of pie 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:57.879 in that pie chart for homeless. Homeless spending. It comes 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:03.200 from other from all other UH agencies, and we are 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:09.119 everything is broken, partially in large part because we have 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:13.200 taken so much money from all these other departments and finance, 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:20.399 these non governmental organizations, these very profitable nonprofits and the 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:23.280 City's e wrec So that's got to stop. And we've 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:27.359 been and the federal government has jurisdiction over this. We 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:31.119 give money to the city, we give money to our 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:36.920 education department. We can enforce Ada rules on our sidewalks, 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:41.160 we can say, hey, you can't put an encampment here 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:46.000 because the disabled people need to get you know, it's 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:47.560 in violation of ADA rules. 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:49.879 Well, there's no question about it, Scott, We're going to 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:52.520 have to leave it there amount of time. Scott Allen 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:58.959 Myers candidate for Congress in a district that encompasses Hollywood, Burbank, Glendale, 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:02.000 and mid Wiltshire. If you want more information, you can 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:06.320 follow Scott on x at Scott A. Myers LA. 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Maybe you want to go back and listen 0:21:13.320 --> 0:21:16.520 to us cover every candidate trudging their way through the 0:21:16.520 --> 0:21:17.840 Tijuana River and. 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:20.239 You can literally see it, smell it, and feel it. 0:21:25.320 --> 0:21:26.680 You can smell it right here. 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:30.760 All right, let's go back to last night's scubernatorial debate 0:21:31.280 --> 0:21:32.000 on Nextstar. 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:36.280 Now, this was interesting because this is probably the most 0:21:36.280 --> 0:21:40.040 interesting part of the debate was when the moderators at 0:21:40.080 --> 0:21:43.800 Nextstar ask what we call in the business now the 0:21:43.960 --> 0:21:48.959 Zavala question, and that is, how would you grade current 0:21:49.000 --> 0:21:53.760 Governor Gavin Newsom on humblessness. I think you know how 0:21:53.800 --> 0:21:56.879 the two Republicans are going to answer, but how the 0:21:56.920 --> 0:21:59.960 other four candidates answer is interesting. 0:22:01.800 --> 0:22:04.800 Frank, our next question tonight is about an issue we 0:22:04.840 --> 0:22:07.560 all see every day in California homelessness. 0:22:07.680 --> 0:22:09.600 In fact, you can't just see it. 0:22:09.800 --> 0:22:11.320 You can right here. 0:22:15.040 --> 0:22:17.000 And not just there. You can smell it all over. 0:22:17.440 --> 0:22:19.320 Can't help myself sometimes, Frank. 0:22:19.760 --> 0:22:22.280 Our next question tonight is about an issue we all 0:22:22.280 --> 0:22:26.320 see every day in California, homelessness. There are one hundred 0:22:26.359 --> 0:22:30.280 and eighty seven thousand people experiencing homelessness in the state 0:22:30.400 --> 0:22:34.280 right now. In a recent Inside California Politics poll, eighty 0:22:34.320 --> 0:22:37.840 six percent of those surveyed believe the homeless problem has 0:22:37.920 --> 0:22:40.159 stayed the same or is getting worse. 0:22:40.640 --> 0:22:43.720 Wait, Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom said it was getting 0:22:43.760 --> 0:22:49.639 better and it was her top priority and Gavin's. 0:22:49.280 --> 0:22:50.800 It's not a namsy pamsy thing. 0:22:50.880 --> 0:22:55.000 Do you remember Gavin Newsom in twenty nineteen, his entire 0:22:55.119 --> 0:22:58.840 state of the state was nothing but homelessness. 0:22:59.320 --> 0:23:00.560 How'd that work for us? 0:23:01.119 --> 0:23:01.560 Not great? 0:23:01.960 --> 0:23:05.080 We want to ask a question about Governor Newsom's performance 0:23:05.200 --> 0:23:08.560 on homelessness. What letter grade would you give him on 0:23:08.720 --> 0:23:12.440 handling the issue, and what, if anything would you do differently? 0:23:12.840 --> 0:23:14.560 Miss Porter. We're going to begin with you. 0:23:14.560 --> 0:23:18.080 You recently gave the governor a solid as. 0:23:20.040 --> 0:23:22.600 Good lord, and by the way, all the grades that 0:23:22.600 --> 0:23:24.840 they're quoting. That's from the interviews with Zabala. 0:23:25.040 --> 0:23:28.480 When it comes to his overall job performance, what grade 0:23:28.480 --> 0:23:31.520 would you give him on homelessness and what, if anything, 0:23:31.560 --> 0:23:32.760 would you do differently? 0:23:32.800 --> 0:23:33.880 You have sixty seconds. 0:23:34.080 --> 0:23:37.000 I'm a notoriously tough grader, but I would probably give 0:23:37.080 --> 0:23:38.520 him a bee on homelessness. 0:23:39.560 --> 0:23:40.879 Talk about great inflation. 0:23:43.280 --> 0:23:46.040 I don't think this has been an easy problem to solve, 0:23:46.400 --> 0:23:48.199 but I do give him a lot of credit for 0:23:48.280 --> 0:23:50.800 calling attention to the problem when he campaign date. 0:23:51.720 --> 0:23:54.760 You give him credit for bringing awareness to the thing 0:23:54.840 --> 0:23:57.840 that we see on our streets every day. Yeah, we 0:23:57.880 --> 0:23:59.639 don't need a guy in a suit telling us that 0:23:59.680 --> 0:24:01.080 they're every corner. 0:24:01.440 --> 0:24:04.240 I don't think this has been an easy problem to solve, 0:24:04.600 --> 0:24:06.399 but I do give him a lot of credit for 0:24:06.440 --> 0:24:09.280 calling attention to the problem. When he campaigned eight years ago, 0:24:09.320 --> 0:24:12.680 he was talking about housing when nobody else was. Our 0:24:12.720 --> 0:24:13.960 homelessness problem isn't. 0:24:14.200 --> 0:24:19.119 He promised to build three million homes and didn't. He 0:24:19.200 --> 0:24:22.640 made a lot of promises. He promised single payer healthcare. 0:24:24.480 --> 0:24:28.520 Our homelessness problem is a direct correlate of our housing problems. 0:24:28.560 --> 0:24:31.520 We're not going to solve homelessness without bringing down the 0:24:31.520 --> 0:24:33.720 cost of housing. That's why housing has been my number 0:24:33.720 --> 0:24:34.480 one issue. 0:24:34.680 --> 0:24:35.360 Here we go. 0:24:36.520 --> 0:24:40.160 She is so out to lunch on this and I'm 0:24:40.200 --> 0:24:43.520 sorry to use a food reference, but you get the idea. 0:24:43.800 --> 0:24:47.360 It is not a high cost of housing issue. People 0:24:47.600 --> 0:24:51.679