Speaker 1: And we continue at one oh five in the afternoon
Speaker 1: on the John Phillips Show, Mister Randy Weggs in Culver City.
Speaker 2: John.
Speaker 3: After last night's debate, which was hosted on Next Star
Speaker 3: stations including KTLA five, Fox forty and Sacramento and CRON
Speaker 3: four in the Bay, KRON four put out a poll
Speaker 3: asking people you watch the debate, who's getting your vote?
Speaker 2: So who won the debate?
Speaker 3: According to poll respondents, forty six percent of respondents who
Speaker 3: watched that debate on Cronfoor's website said they like Mayheon.
Speaker 1: Mayheon did an excellent job at that debate. There's no
Speaker 1: disputing that.
Speaker 3: In second place, it's Hilton at fifteen percent, then Styre
Speaker 3: at twelve, then Bisarah at eleven, Katie Porter at eight,
Speaker 3: Chad Bianco at six, and undecided at two.
Speaker 1: It's interesting that Biserah didn't finish dead last because everyone
Speaker 1: that I talked to, Republican and Democrat, certainly felt that way.
Speaker 4: Scrub it.
Speaker 1: And by the way, we know that Nancy Pelosi hates
Speaker 1: Javier Bessera and when he was named by the Biden
Speaker 1: administration to be Secretary of Health and Human Services or
Speaker 1: Grampy Joe Go ahead and correct me here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what is his actual position?
Speaker 1: Joe for Secretary of Health and Educations?
Speaker 5: Are I nominated Javier ba Karia?
Speaker 1: And Nancy Pelosi was furious that no one called her
Speaker 1: and asked her about Javier Besera before they did that. Well,
Speaker 1: we finally found out what it was that he did
Speaker 1: that offended her so much. Oh yeah, and this is
Speaker 1: a Politico article that goes all the way back to
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine. Here is what Politico reported, California
Speaker 1: Democrat Javier Besserra has learned a lesson about calling out
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi. Don't. In the run up to this month's
Speaker 1: House vote on healthcare reform, Bessera suggested to the Congressional
Speaker 1: Progressive Caucus that party leaders gave up too easily on
Speaker 1: the favored robust public option that didn't sit well with
Speaker 1: the speaker, and witnesses said she made her displeasure known
Speaker 1: to Bessera and other top Democrats at a subsequent leadership meeting. Quote,
Speaker 1: I understand I have tire tracks on my back because
Speaker 1: Javier threw me under the bus. WHOA, That's what Pelosi
Speaker 1: was quoted as saying. The speaker went on to accuse
Speaker 1: Bessera of trying to improve his quote street cred with
Speaker 1: progressives by undercutting her.
Speaker 5: Quite frankly.
Speaker 1: Bessara was back on the hot seat on Monday when
Speaker 1: Pelosi demanded to know why seven members of the Congressional
Speaker 1: Hispanic Caucus had voted for the anti abortion Stewpac amendment
Speaker 1: before final passage of the healthcare bill, even after she
Speaker 1: had acceded to the CHC's wishes and preventing an immigration
Speaker 1: amendment from being considered on the floor. Besserah, a former
Speaker 1: CHC chairman, expressed surprise at the number and replied that
Speaker 1: he had tried to turn the votes of two Latino
Speaker 1: lawmakers he knew would vote against her, according to sources
Speaker 1: familiar with the exchange.
Speaker 4: But when you do the scrub.
Speaker 1: Attendees of Monday's meeting drew different inferences from Pelosi's line
Speaker 1: of questioning, with one group seeing it as a second
Speaker 1: rebuke of Bessera and another portraying it as the speaker
Speaker 1: simply asking the member of leadership with the strongest connection
Speaker 1: to the CHC what he knew about a vote that
Speaker 1: irritated her. We love everybody, yes, Pelosi, who used to
Speaker 1: keep a favor file for her father. The former mayor
Speaker 1: of Baltimore clearly has a mental list of those who
Speaker 1: wronged her as she tried to collect votes for the
Speaker 1: centerpiece of the democrats domestic agenda that Bessarah caught her
Speaker 1: eye and her ire is noteworthy because he is a
Speaker 1: protege of Pelosis, who won the post of Caucus vice
Speaker 1: chairman in large part on the strength of her camp support.
Speaker 1: But Sarah declined to comment directly when asked about Pelosi's
Speaker 1: harsh treatment, looking startled by the question, but Sarah paused, grinned,
Speaker 1: walked away, and called out quote it was a good vote,
Speaker 1: referring to the eventual twenty twenty to twenty fifteen tally
Speaker 1: on healthcare as he ducked into a Democratic Caucus meeting.
Speaker 1: So Nancy Pelosi has had it in for him since
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, and she told the Biden people,
Speaker 1: don't put him in there. It's not going to go well,
Speaker 1: and it didn't go well. We also know that the
Speaker 1: debate didn't go well for Besara last night because Bessarah
Speaker 1: was the only candidate who didn't show.
Speaker 2: Up to the spin room afterwards.
Speaker 1: What do they call that? Sicilian amnesia? Were the only
Speaker 1: thing that you remember are people who wronged you. Scrub it,
Speaker 1: and Nancy hasn't forgotten. All right, It is our pleasure
Speaker 1: to welcome our next guest to the program. He is
Speaker 1: a candidate for the United States Congress. This is a
Speaker 1: district that includes Hollywood, Burbank, Glendale, and the mid Wiltshire
Speaker 1: portion of Los Angeles. The incumbent in that district is
Speaker 1: Democrat Laura Friedman. Our guest is one of her Republican challengers,
Speaker 1: Scott Myers. You can follow him on x at Scott A.
Speaker 1: Myers La. Scott Myers Welcome.
Speaker 6: Thank you so much, John and Randy for having me
Speaker 6: on the most entertaining show. I take my headphones to
Speaker 6: lunch every weekday, and I disappear listening to your show
Speaker 6: every day. I had alone for that reason, but thank
Speaker 6: you for having me.
Speaker 1: Well, thanks so much for stopping by. So let's start
Speaker 1: out with the first and the obvious question. Why should
Speaker 1: you be the next congressman from Glendale?
Speaker 6: Because we need a return to common sense on all issues.
Speaker 6: I was at the Steve Hilton event on Sunday, the
Speaker 6: rally on Sunday, A man asked me what issues are there,
Speaker 6: mister Myers. I said to him, I was perplexed, and
Speaker 6: I said, what issues aren't there? You know, the state,
Speaker 6: the county, the city has broke, the roads are broken,
Speaker 6: the freeways are broken. The homelessness is not getting any better.
Speaker 6: We're wasting all this money. There's no transparent see where
Speaker 6: we have a social agenda that's so dangerous to children
Speaker 6: and grown women. And lour Friedman is on the wrong
Speaker 6: side of all of those issues. You know, she was
Speaker 6: the chair of the Transportation committee for four years as
Speaker 6: an assembly woman until she went into Congress. That bullet
Speaker 6: train went up two three four fold in projected cost
Speaker 6: she was the chair. We're now at one hundred and
Speaker 6: twenty eight billion or one hundred and twenty six billion
Speaker 6: dollars projected completion cost. If you buy a ticket from
Speaker 6: lax to San Francisco in time, you can buy that
Speaker 6: ticket for one hundred and twenty six dollars or less.
Speaker 6: It is equal to a billion plane tickets. This is insane,
Speaker 6: and we need to cut federal funding on so many
Speaker 6: projects that are wasting our money in this state.
Speaker 1: And this is a district that historically elected Republicans. Jim Rogan,
Speaker 1: who was famously part of the impeachment team of Bill Clinton.
Speaker 1: Represented this district when he was in the House of Representatives,
Speaker 1: and certainly the Burbank and Glendale and Hollywood of yesteryear
Speaker 1: looked very different back then than the Burbank, Glendale and
Speaker 1: Hollywood of today. It used to be cleaner, it used
Speaker 1: to be safer, it used to be more affordable, and
Speaker 1: now it's headed in the wrong direction.
Speaker 6: Well, most of the district is actually in the city
Speaker 6: of Los Angeles, and that has become a city that
Speaker 6: for whatever reason from and I know I have my
Speaker 6: suspicions as to the reasons, but it has become an
Speaker 6: extremely left wing city. Look who's being elected there. You know,
Speaker 6: I was one of the five proponents of the nith
Speaker 6: A remand recall in twenty twenty one. We were watching
Speaker 6: her from the time that she was campaigning, and we
Speaker 6: were trying to warn people, you know, this is not
Speaker 6: a Democrat, this is a Marxist. You look at the
Speaker 6: DSA Democratic Socialis of America website, you will find a
Speaker 6: recommended reading list, including you know, the autobiography of Angela Davis.
Speaker 6: The Communist Manifesto sought that Salolensky book Rules for Radicals
Speaker 6: and now the new one Abolish Rent, a book that
Speaker 6: advocates the abolishing of all rent. They want. These people
Speaker 6: want government takeover of apartments. They want It's not just
Speaker 6: corporate landlords that are their enemy. It's any landowner that
Speaker 6: is obviously a target of these people on the far left.
Speaker 6: Laura Friedman, she you know, she advocated, she supported the
Speaker 6: re election of George Gascone. She is one of the
Speaker 6: assembly women voting for this bill, this Scott Wiener bill
Speaker 6: a number of years ago. I think it might have
Speaker 6: been her first term to reduce HI surreptitious HIV transmission
Speaker 6: from a felony to a mere misdemeanors. She's all in
Speaker 6: on the gender, on the genitals, scrambling of minor children
Speaker 6: and boys competing against girls. She's against voter ID. Now.
Speaker 6: One thing that you know this is for people that
Speaker 6: don't know District thirty, they certainly know the name of
Speaker 6: Adam Schiff. This is the district that was formally represented
Speaker 6: by Adam Schiff before he went to the to the Senate. Now,
Speaker 6: he was a liberal Democrat, but he wasn't a radical Democrat.
Speaker 6: And I don't think that people understand in this district,
Speaker 6: I don't think people understand how radical this woman is,
Speaker 6: especially in those parts of the district. You know, Glendale, Burbank, Son,
Speaker 6: Lent Tohunga, all the way up just before Palmdale, believe
Speaker 6: it or not. And I think that discussion has to
Speaker 6: be had. They have to know who this woman is.
Speaker 6: She is not Adam Schiff. Fine, they're Democrats, fine, but
Speaker 6: they don't realize that she is almost seamless, almost seamless
Speaker 6: with the DSA if.
Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken, and correct me if I'm wrong. When
Speaker 1: she was on the city council in Glendale, one of
Speaker 1: the issues that she took up were road diets, which
Speaker 1: is the theory that if you eliminate lanes of traffic
Speaker 1: that people will be forced to ride their bicycle to work,
Speaker 1: or they'll be forced to ride the bus to work,
Speaker 1: or walk to work, or do something other than ride
Speaker 1: in their car to work, because you're going to create
Speaker 1: all of these artificial choke points, these artificial congestion that
Speaker 1: will make it so much of a pain in the
Speaker 1: ass to commute by car to work that you're going
Speaker 1: to be begging for alternatives that you can certainly used
Speaker 1: to get to wherever it is that you need to go.
Speaker 1: And if I'm also not mistaken, when she was in
Speaker 1: the state legislature, she launched the war on grass, where
Speaker 1: she didn't want grass to be used in places like
Speaker 1: hoa's or commercial property or alongside freeways, those sorts of
Speaker 1: things she wanted to get rid of it.
Speaker 6: She's yeah, well, she's known as the bike lady of Glendale,
Speaker 6: who's never seen who's never seen on her bike. You
Speaker 6: know this is again, this is where she's seenless with
Speaker 6: the DSA they want. I think I think it's pretty
Speaker 6: clear anybody really watching, is that the socialists want single
Speaker 6: family homes gone. They want the nuclear family gone. You'll
Speaker 6: actually find that on some of their writings. They think
Speaker 6: it's a racist construct, as though people all over the
Speaker 6: world don't have nuclear families. These policies that she instituted
Speaker 6: in Glendale are not popular in Glendale, and they also
Speaker 6: have their sites set on Olive Avenue in Burbank. Watch
Speaker 6: out for Burbank. Burbank may go the way of la
Speaker 6: and Santa Monica after November. They want to make Olive
Speaker 6: Avenue a single lane all the way up to Glen Oaks,
Speaker 6: starting from just about a quarter half a mile from
Speaker 6: Alameda Bach all the way through downtown Burbank a single
Speaker 6: lane and making it a dedicated bus lane for buses
Speaker 6: that aren't going to have anybody on it. Nobody wants
Speaker 6: to take the bus. They keep on wanting us to
Speaker 6: take the bus. I used to take the train from
Speaker 6: the Hollywood and Vine station to the courthouse. I'm a lawyer,
Speaker 6: the Red Line. I was in a suit and I
Speaker 6: had a briefcase. There's no way I'm doing that now.
Speaker 6: It's filthy, it's it's it's dangerous and filthy. And they
Speaker 6: want us to be back on these on these buses
Speaker 6: and trains. But no one in their right mind who
Speaker 6: knows anything is going to take their family on these
Speaker 6: on these on these types of rail.
Speaker 1: It seems to me like their idea of equity. And
Speaker 1: they spend a lot of time talking about equity and
Speaker 1: inclusion and those things, but their idea of equity when
Speaker 1: you look at a map of the County of Los
Speaker 1: Angeles and you see the city of Los Angeles as
Speaker 1: the bohemoth in the county, the largest city in the county,
Speaker 1: the largest city in the state, and it does not
Speaker 1: function in any realistic way. The smaller, independent cities do function.
Speaker 1: People who live in Burbank like it. People who live
Speaker 1: in Glendale like it. People who live in independent cities
Speaker 1: in Orange County, they like it. But the idea of
Speaker 1: equity that people like Laura Reaedman have is to take
Speaker 1: Burbank and Glendale and make them more like Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: as opposed to making Los Angeles more like Burbank and
Speaker 1: Glendale and like the cities that actually function.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, there's a there's this is this is happening in
Speaker 6: in Burbank. There's the far left and they're fighting the
Speaker 6: moderates who have a slogan saying, keep keep Burbank Burbank
Speaker 6: or yeah, don't LA my Burbank. They Burbank's a jewel
Speaker 6: compared to LA. Glendale's a jewel compared to LA. We
Speaker 6: don't have we don't have encampments here? Well, why is that?
Speaker 6: I mean, it's just it's similarly affordable to Los Angeles,
Speaker 6: Glendale and Glendale and Burbank. Why are the no encampments here?
Speaker 6: Why are the no encampments in extremely unaffordable Beverly Hills.
Speaker 6: Last night's debate, it was all about class warfare. They
Speaker 6: wanted to make it seem like people are in a
Speaker 6: tent because they can't afford the price that a greedy
Speaker 6: landlord is daring to charge the market price. This is
Speaker 6: what this is what they are doing. And we, you know,
Speaker 6: we in La. I live in the city of La.
Speaker 6: You know, I don't know anybody that doesn't want to
Speaker 6: live in a city that's not a jewel. I want
Speaker 6: La to be a jewel. If it was a jewel,
Speaker 6: well everything would be a lot more housing would be
Speaker 6: a lot more expensive. But because it's such a squalid
Speaker 6: place right now, with every road broken and the city
Speaker 6: budget broken, with a fifty billion dollar lawsuit coming down
Speaker 6: the pike because of the Palisades fire, I don't know
Speaker 6: how we're going to get help. We're going to get
Speaker 6: through that, We're going to have to have federal money.
Speaker 6: And that's where I come in. You know, Laura Friedman,
Speaker 6: all she does is bash Trump Trump Trump, Trump Trump. Well,
Speaker 6: you're not going to get anywhere with that guy. If
Speaker 6: you're going to bash him, you need to work with him.
Speaker 6: And we need someone who can bring in federal money
Speaker 6: because the city's but it's only about thirteen billion dollars
Speaker 6: a year. How are we going to get fifty billion,
Speaker 6: and that's just the early price tag for LA's responsibility
Speaker 6: over the Palisades fire. When I hear equity, my antenna
Speaker 6: goes up because it's a hidden it's a hidden word.
Speaker 6: It really means something else. It really means taking money
Speaker 6: from people who have earned it and giving it to
Speaker 6: people who who have their handout. And there's just too
Speaker 6: much of that in the city of Los Angeles, and
Speaker 6: it's too much in the psyche of our young people.
Speaker 6: Big Daddy government should take care of me. Big daddy
Speaker 6: government should be giving me an apartment at a price
Speaker 6: where that I can afford. No, that's just not how
Speaker 6: it works. You have a homeless person who comes from
Speaker 6: whatever Iowa and pitches a tent on Sunset and Gower,
Speaker 6: and so why is it that we feel the need
Speaker 6: to give him are a free apartment? Is that how
Speaker 6: things that's ever, how things work in this country. You
Speaker 6: find find me in your proximity, and now you owe
Speaker 6: me a home. But this is the mentality that is
Speaker 6: that is infiltrated the average voter that it all sounds great,
Speaker 6: and when they hear the word, when they hear finances,
Speaker 6: they just they turn them. They turn their head away.
Speaker 6: They they can't they can't absorb that. These everyone's throwing around,
Speaker 6: you know, comments of billions of dollars and millions, hundreds
Speaker 6: of millions of dollars, billions of dollars, and I think
Speaker 6: people just turn away from that because they just don't
Speaker 6: know how to process at all. They think it's all
Speaker 6: going to be paid for somehow. But you know, we've
Speaker 6: we've paid for this this, We financed this homeless problem,
Speaker 6: and everything has come out of other other budgets, Bureau Sanitation,
Speaker 6: street services, the police, fire. If you look at the
Speaker 6: city budget, there's no pip, there's no piece of pie
Speaker 6: in that pie chart for homeless. Homeless spending. It comes
Speaker 6: from other from all other UH agencies, and we are
Speaker 6: everything is broken, partially in large part because we have
Speaker 6: taken so much money from all these other departments and finance,
Speaker 6: these non governmental organizations, these very profitable nonprofits and the
Speaker 6: City's e wrec So that's got to stop. And we've
Speaker 6: been and the federal government has jurisdiction over this. We
Speaker 6: give money to the city, we give money to our
Speaker 6: education department. We can enforce Ada rules on our sidewalks,
Speaker 6: we can say, hey, you can't put an encampment here
Speaker 6: because the disabled people need to get you know, it's
Speaker 6: in violation of ADA rules.
Speaker 1: Well, there's no question about it, Scott, We're going to
Speaker 1: have to leave it there amount of time. Scott Allen
Speaker 1: Myers candidate for Congress in a district that encompasses Hollywood, Burbank, Glendale,
Speaker 1: and mid Wiltshire. If you want more information, you can
Speaker 1: follow Scott on x at Scott A. Myers LA. Scott
Speaker 1: Allen Myers, thanks so much for stopping by.
Speaker 6: Thank you so much, guys.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's go back to last night's scubernatorial debate
Speaker 1: on Nextstar.
Speaker 3: Now, this was interesting because this is probably the most
Speaker 3: interesting part of the debate was when the moderators at
Speaker 3: Nextstar ask what we call in the business now the
Speaker 3: Zavala question, and that is, how would you grade current
Speaker 3: Governor Gavin Newsom on humblessness. I think you know how
Speaker 3: the two Republicans are going to answer, but how the
Speaker 3: other four candidates answer is interesting.
Speaker 8: Frank, our next question tonight is about an issue we
Speaker 8: all see every day in California homelessness.
Speaker 2: In fact, you can't just see it.
Speaker 9: You can right here.
Speaker 1: And not just there. You can smell it all over.
Speaker 2: Can't help myself sometimes, Frank.
Speaker 8: Our next question tonight is about an issue we all
Speaker 8: see every day in California, homelessness. There are one hundred
Speaker 8: and eighty seven thousand people experiencing homelessness in the state
Speaker 8: right now. In a recent Inside California Politics poll, eighty
Speaker 8: six percent of those surveyed believe the homeless problem has
Speaker 8: stayed the same or is getting worse.
Speaker 3: Wait, Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom said it was getting
Speaker 3: better and it was her top priority and Gavin's.
Speaker 2: It's not a namsy pamsy thing.
Speaker 3: Do you remember Gavin Newsom in twenty nineteen, his entire
Speaker 3: state of the state was nothing but homelessness.
Speaker 1: How'd that work for us?
Speaker 2: Not great?
Speaker 8: We want to ask a question about Governor Newsom's performance
Speaker 8: on homelessness. What letter grade would you give him on
Speaker 8: handling the issue, and what, if anything would you do differently?
Speaker 7: Miss Porter. We're going to begin with you.
Speaker 8: You recently gave the governor a solid as.
Speaker 2: Good lord, and by the way, all the grades that
Speaker 2: they're quoting. That's from the interviews with Zabala.
Speaker 8: When it comes to his overall job performance, what grade
Speaker 8: would you give him on homelessness and what, if anything,
Speaker 8: would you do differently?
Speaker 7: You have sixty seconds.
Speaker 5: I'm a notoriously tough grader, but I would probably give
Speaker 5: him a bee on homelessness.
Speaker 1: Talk about great inflation.
Speaker 5: I don't think this has been an easy problem to solve,
Speaker 5: but I do give him a lot of credit for
Speaker 5: calling attention to the problem when he campaign date.
Speaker 3: You give him credit for bringing awareness to the thing
Speaker 3: that we see on our streets every day. Yeah, we
Speaker 3: don't need a guy in a suit telling us that
Speaker 3: they're every corner.
Speaker 5: I don't think this has been an easy problem to solve,
Speaker 5: but I do give him a lot of credit for
Speaker 5: calling attention to the problem. When he campaigned eight years ago,
Speaker 5: he was talking about housing when nobody else was. Our
Speaker 5: homelessness problem isn't.
Speaker 3: He promised to build three million homes and didn't. He
Speaker 3: made a lot of promises. He promised single payer healthcare.
Speaker 5: Our homelessness problem is a direct correlate of our housing problems.
Speaker 5: We're not going to solve homelessness without bringing down the
Speaker 5: cost of housing. That's why housing has been my number
Speaker 5: one issue.
Speaker 2: Here we go.
Speaker 1: She is so out to lunch on this and I'm
Speaker 1: sorry to use a food reference, but you get the idea.
Speaker 1: It is not a high cost of housing issue. People
Speaker 1: have scrambled their brains on drugs and they cannot function.
Speaker 1: They are addicts, they are mentally ill, and that's why
Speaker 1: they can't play nice in the sandbox. And for the
Speaker 1: life of me, I cannot figure out outside of taking
Speaker 1: money from developers, why in the world so many politicians
Speaker 1: purposely put their head in the sand and claim it's
Speaker 1: a housing issue. With all you have to do is
Speaker 1: open your eyes to realize it's not. Katie Porter lives
Speaker 1: in Irvine. There are currently eight hundred and twenty seven
Speaker 1: homes for sale in Irvine. They're not cheap, but there's
Speaker 1: plenty of them. Doesn't seem like a lack of housing
Speaker 1: to me.
Speaker 3: Actually, you know, it's pissing me off. A lot of
Speaker 3: these are cheaper than the freaking valley. Irvine's nice. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's boring, but it's nice. The valley's boring and it's
Speaker 3: not nice.
Speaker 5: It's the day I launched this race over a year ago,
Speaker 5: what I would do differently than Governor Newsom is fund
Speaker 5: homelessness prevention.
Speaker 3: And every study that we have on homelessness prevention, which
Speaker 3: is rental subsidies, has shown that there's not really a
Speaker 3: lot of outcome for that as well. No, if you
Speaker 3: are frying your brains on drugs, sure the government can
Speaker 3: pay your rent, will you destroy your unit, and they
Speaker 3: can prolong the agony, but you can't delay it forever.
Speaker 3: If someone's life is a mess, you need to fix
Speaker 3: the fundamental problem.
Speaker 5: It is so much more cost effective and so much
Speaker 5: more humane to prevent families from becoming homeless in the
Speaker 5: first place.
Speaker 3: This is a way to not address the current people
Speaker 3: that are on the street by saying, well, we're going
Speaker 3: to prevent the next generation. It's like, okay, you have
Speaker 3: all these gang bangers on the street that are in
Speaker 3: high school. Well, instead of dealing with them, we're gonna
Speaker 3: make sure we have pre k so the next generation
Speaker 3: won't become gang bangers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a nice way to dodge the problem.
Speaker 5: And making sure that if they do lose their home,
Speaker 5: that they're able to land in an interim housing or
Speaker 5: shelter situation. We can't solve this problem because the problem
Speaker 5: keeps getting worse. For every person we put into per
Speaker 5: and it's supportive housing, somebody else loses their home and
Speaker 5: takes their place.
Speaker 3: This is the other thing. No, no, no, these programs
Speaker 3: all work. There's just so many people falling into homelessness
Speaker 3: that we can't catch up.
Speaker 1: How about this, Why don't we put them all in
Speaker 1: subsidized housing over at UCI. I'm sure that Katie would
Speaker 1: love her new neighbors when they come over in a
Speaker 1: nice sun dress with a castle roll knocking on her
Speaker 1: front door asking if they could borrow a cup of
Speaker 1: math place.
Speaker 5: That's why Californias don't feel like we're making progress despite
Speaker 5: spending significant money.
Speaker 7: Miss Porter, Thank you very much, mister Maye.
Speaker 2: That was a terrible answer.
Speaker 1: It's what she thinks, though, and it's why she would
Speaker 1: be a complete train wreck as a governor of the state.
Speaker 7: Miss Porter, thank you very much. Mister Mayheon.
Speaker 8: You've given governor who some grades ranging from A to
Speaker 8: D depending on the issue. What grade would you give
Speaker 8: him on homelessness? And what, if anything, would you do differently?
Speaker 7: You have sixty seconds?
Speaker 9: Well, Frek, look, the assessment does depend on the issue,
Speaker 9: and I'm going to leave the letter grades to you
Speaker 9: and all the pundits out there. Let me tell you
Speaker 9: what we've done.
Speaker 2: Is I'll just say the letter.
Speaker 1: He doesn't want to seem critical of Galvin Newsom at
Speaker 1: this stage of the game because he understands the Democrats
Speaker 1: don't regard him as one of them, which means he
Speaker 1: has to soften the blow and he has to sand
Speaker 1: off the rough edges.
Speaker 9: Let me tell you what we've done in San Jose,
Speaker 9: because we've created a model for the rest of the state.
Speaker 9: We've increased trust in local government by forty percent, primarily
Speaker 9: because we have moved through You.
Speaker 1: Know what this answer is why he's not doing well.
Speaker 1: This is exactly what Rick Caruso did. Because you hear
Speaker 1: the question, you know who the person is, and you
Speaker 1: know that they understand the right answer, but they won't
Speaker 1: give it because their strategists told them not to. They're
Speaker 1: holding their punches and they're denying reality, and they're trying
Speaker 1: to soften a blow that shouldn't be softened. People need
Speaker 1: to wake up in this state and realize that what
Speaker 1: we're doing is not working. And he understands that Katie
Speaker 1: Porter is out to lunch. Katie porter doesn't know any better.
Speaker 1: This guy knows better. And for someone who knows better,
Speaker 1: who's going to give this answer and try to make
Speaker 1: Galvin Newsom look better than he actually is. Is why
Speaker 1: he's not getting any Republican crossover votes. This is why
Speaker 1: Republicans are going to vote for one of the two
Speaker 1: Republicans and not him. And it's also part of why
Speaker 1: Democrats aren't voting for him, in the sense that he's
Speaker 1: obviously giving an inauthentic answer. You know that over a
Speaker 1: couple of drinks in a bar. If you were to
Speaker 1: ask him how did Galvin Newsom do on homelessness? He
Speaker 1: would rip him fifteen ways from Sunday. But he's not
Speaker 1: going to do it in the debate. This is a
Speaker 1: dishonest answer.
Speaker 4: We have moved.
Speaker 9: Thousands of people indoors. I had to take on the
Speaker 9: establishment within my own party to change the way we
Speaker 9: were spending our money. We were spending a million dollars
Speaker 9: a door and taking years to build alternatives to the streets. Instead,
Speaker 9: we built basic, dignified shelter, invested in prevention, and when
Speaker 9: shelter was available, we required that people come indoors. We've
Speaker 9: reduced unsheltered homelessness in San Jose by nearly one third
Speaker 9: over the last four years. That's why trusting government in
Speaker 9: San Jose has increased. It's why fewer people are outdoors,
Speaker 9: and it's part of the reason that our streets are
Speaker 9: safer and cleaner. I'm proud of what we've done. All
Speaker 9: demand results from every city and every county in California.
Speaker 7: As governor, I'd like.
Speaker 3: To just mean girl them the way that Gavin says
Speaker 3: that he won't ever directly challenge La County, who opposes
Speaker 3: every single one of his executive orders for homelessness. But
Speaker 3: he'll never call out Holly Mitchell by name.
Speaker 1: No, but he goes after Huntington Beach like it's Texas.
Speaker 8: I'd like to clarify and ask you one more time
Speaker 8: to give a letter grade to help voters understand.
Speaker 3: The moderators came out looking the best at anybody.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they did a good job. Nicki Lorenzo, I'm more
Speaker 1: familiar with her than Frank Buckley, but Nicki Lorenzo is
Speaker 1: first class.
Speaker 3: Nicki Lorenzo hosts Inside California Politics and she's the anchor
Speaker 3: on Fox forty.
Speaker 2: She is great.
Speaker 3: Frank Buckley is one of the morning anchors on KTLA five, I'd.
Speaker 8: Like to clarify and ask you one more time to
Speaker 8: give a letter grade to help voters understand your assessment
Speaker 8: of Governor Newsom's job on this issue.
Speaker 9: You have fifteen seconds, all right, Frank Sentce you insisted. Look,
Speaker 9: I'll give him a B on care Court and Prop
Speaker 9: one and many of the important initiatives that he championed
Speaker 9: where I've been proud to stand with him. I'm going
Speaker 9: to give us all though a D on implementation. San
Speaker 9: Jose has led the way.
Speaker 2: You should have started with that, dude, Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 9: Few other places have, but we not delivered the results
Speaker 9: people deserve.
Speaker 7: Thank you very much for the letter grades, mister Besara,
Speaker 7: we haven't.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, scrub a dub dub scrub it.
Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is
Speaker 1: telephone number? What eight hundred two two two five two
Speaker 1: two two. Right now, we're going through the sound of
Speaker 1: last night's gubernatorial debate hosted by next Star.
Speaker 3: We are listening to all the candidates being asked to
Speaker 3: give a letter grade to Gavin Newsom's performance on homelessness,
Speaker 3: and it's time for the candidate. Everyone was curious about
Speaker 3: because he was surging in the polls. Scrub a dub dub.
Speaker 3: But when you do the scrub, Javier Bisera, how would
Speaker 3: you grade Gavin Newsom on his performance on homelessness?
Speaker 7: Thank you very much for the letter grades, mister Bessara.
Speaker 8: We haven't seen you issue a letter grade on Governor
Speaker 8: Newsom's overall performance.
Speaker 3: Which, by the way, uh, he's going on with Zavala
Speaker 3: this Sunday, so that should be a fun interview.
Speaker 1: Wait, Baka it is. Yeah, Oh that's going to be
Speaker 1: crash and burn.
Speaker 2: Oh boy.
Speaker 3: And she always posts on the YouTube page for Casey
Speaker 3: Ra the full thirty minute unedited interview.
Speaker 2: I can't wait. That's my meal prep.
Speaker 8: Showing what grade does he get on homelessness and what,
Speaker 8: if anything would you do differently?
Speaker 7: You have sixty seconds.
Speaker 10: Frank I would say that the governor has made efforts.
Speaker 10: We've seen him come down to Los Angeles actually go
Speaker 10: out and try to clean some of the streets.
Speaker 2: That was a stunt, a literal photoop.
Speaker 10: Frank I would say that the governor has made efforts.
Speaker 10: We've seen him come down to Los Angeles actually go
Speaker 10: out and try to clean some of the streets.
Speaker 3: It used to be his thing when he was pissed
Speaker 3: off at a mayor. So he would clean up La
Speaker 3: and make Garcetti go with him, or he'd clean up
Speaker 3: Oakland and make Shang go with him.
Speaker 1: That's what he would do. To punish Shang.
Speaker 4: On effort, I would give him an a.
Speaker 10: Oh, come on, on effort, I would give him an a.
Speaker 4: Here's what I would do. That's different, though, I would
Speaker 4: focus on accountability.
Speaker 1: He is the emptiest of all of the empty suits.
Speaker 3: Regardless of what your politics are, it is obvious that
Speaker 3: he was the worst candidate on.
Speaker 9: That stage, accountability, accountability, accountability.
Speaker 1: Not only did he come across as being ill informed,
Speaker 1: he came across as just being dim in general.
Speaker 3: That's the general consensus. How he's made it this far.
Speaker 3: Nobody knows why Jerry Brown appointed him to be ag
Speaker 3: Nobody knows why Biden appointed him to be the Health
Speaker 3: and Education secretary.
Speaker 2: Nobody knows.
Speaker 1: Well, what's so strange to me is that you look
Speaker 1: at Nancy Pelosi and you see a rich lady. You
Speaker 1: see a rich socialite with the makeup, the hair, the jewelry,
Speaker 1: the clothes. But if you take off the makeup, the hair,
Speaker 1: the jewelry, the clothes. What you have is a di
Speaker 1: Ale Sandro. What you have is a machine politician, an
Speaker 1: old timing machine politician, someone you don't cross. He crossed her,
Speaker 1: but Sarah crossed her, and she runs this state with
Speaker 1: an iron fist what do they call it? An iron
Speaker 1: fist wrapped in a Gucci glove. And even though he's
Speaker 1: on the wrong side of her, for whatever reason, this
Speaker 1: guy is just a cat with nine lives who keeps
Speaker 1: getting life fest after life fest after life fest. When
Speaker 1: his career should be over. They keep pushing him along.
Speaker 1: And I don't understand it at all. It's not like
Speaker 1: he's a MENSA member.
Speaker 10: I would make sure if we're sending billions of dollars
Speaker 10: down to the local communities, to our cities and our counties,
Speaker 10: that we would demand accountability for the dollar that we're
Speaker 10: going to give them.
Speaker 2: Cliche.
Speaker 10: We need to see results, and results are what you
Speaker 10: see on the streets. We need to pull folks up,
Speaker 10: help get them back on their feet, and that's what
Speaker 10: I would do.
Speaker 4: But what I will tell you is my principal job
Speaker 4: as governor.
Speaker 10: And I'm glad to hear other people are saying this
Speaker 10: is I'm going to keep you housed if you are
Speaker 10: in a home right now, renting your owning, if you
Speaker 10: lose your job unexpectedly, or you have a medical emergency,
Speaker 10: and now you're about to become homeless as a result
Speaker 10: at that now unaffordable expense.
Speaker 4: Tell me what you need. How can I help you
Speaker 4: keep your home?
Speaker 3: How long are we going to subsidize people's rent when
Speaker 3: they can't pay.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm sure from his point of view, forever.
Speaker 10: Because it costs me so much more money to pick
Speaker 10: you off off the streets, provide you with the assistance
Speaker 10: in the shelter than it does to keep you in
Speaker 10: the home that you're already paid for.
Speaker 2: Mister Visera, that was a uniquely terrible answer.
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom gets an a on homelessness according to this dope.
Speaker 8: Mister Visarrah, let me ask you a follow up question.
Speaker 8: You're saying that anyone who needs housing assistance you will
Speaker 8: help them. That means the government will help them. How
Speaker 8: much is that going to cost? And where does that
Speaker 8: money come from? You have thirty second?
Speaker 10: Yeah, Frank, we spend billions, tens of billions of dollars
Speaker 10: right now to try to pull people off the streets.
Speaker 4: Do you think it's working. It would cost us a fract,
Speaker 4: But you.
Speaker 1: Just gave Gavin An a yeah, justify your letter grade, then, Bud.
Speaker 10: It would cost us a fraction to them that amount
Speaker 10: to help someone who temporarily lost their job stay in
Speaker 10: the home if they for two or three months fall
Speaker 10: behind on the rent. They don't get kicked out because
Speaker 10: Bill try to.
Speaker 2: That's not the people on the streets. People like that.
Speaker 3: They either move, they sleep on a friend's couch, or
Speaker 3: they leave the state. The people that are on the
Speaker 3: streets are either crazy, on drugs or both.
Speaker 1: This debate could produce the worst case scenario for the
Speaker 1: Democrats because if it's universally understood that Mayhon did the
Speaker 1: best and that Besara did the worst, you're going to
Speaker 1: have one of your top three fall a few points
Speaker 1: in bisera, and you're going to have one of your
Speaker 1: single digit candidates move up a few points. And that
Speaker 1: leaves the Democrats exactly where they were when two Republicans
Speaker 1: finished in first and second.
Speaker 10: They don't get kicked out because we'll try to support
Speaker 10: them a zero interest loan.
Speaker 4: You can keep them in their home.
Speaker 10: I save a lot more money by keeping them in
Speaker 10: the house than watching them hit the streets and then
Speaker 10: try to find them and pick them up far more expensive.
Speaker 7: Mister Bevisarah, Thank you, nicky oh boy.
Speaker 1: The Democratic Party needed him to have a very good
Speaker 1: day and that they didn't get