WEBVTT - The Final Debate of the Primary Season 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:04.760 It is the John Phillipshow. It's Randy Wang here. Johnny's 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:07.600 back on Monday. The phone number to join us is 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:11.160 eight hundred two two two five two two two one 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:14.400 eight hundred two two two five two two two. You 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:17.320 can email us at Johnny Don't Like Show at gmail 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:20.720 dot com, or my personal email address is Randy Wang 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:24.520 Radio at gmail dot com. Search for the John Phillips 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:27.720 Show and the KABC News Blitz wherever you can get 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:31.120 your podcasts, and subscribe to my substack if you want 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:33.159 to see the rundown for all the stories we're going 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:35.519 to try to get to today, I think I have 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:42.080 fifteen stories on there Randywang Radio dot substack dot com. Now, 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:46.880 if I went on what we were going to start 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:50.240 with just based on the emails, and sometimes we do that, 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:54.960 we would be spending the entire first hour making fun 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:59.320 of the fact that the State of California has ruled 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:03.480 that cars for Kids commercials are illegal because they are 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:09.039 flagrant false advertising. And we will get to that, but unfortunately, 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:13.560 we do have a governor's race to cover, and last 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:21.080 night was the final debate between the airing of the grievances. Candidates, 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:26.640 including on the right Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco and 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:32.760 on the left side, Antonio via ra Gosa, Kati Porter, 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:36.800 Javier Besserah. 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:38.360 By the way, this is a profile piece. 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:42.280 This is not a gotcha piece, right Tom Steyer. 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:44.960 And you can literally see it, smell it, and feel it. 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:48.639 And Matt Mahon. I don't have a drop for Matt Mahon. 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:53.600 It once again was not a very productive debate. I 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:55.480 think we are at a point where they did way 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:58.160 too many of these things. It's almost like a Tom 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:00.919 Steyer commercial. Once you've seen an enough of these things, 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:04.800 you can't stand it anymore. But it is the last 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:09.240 opportunity for the ninety five percent of Californians that have 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:12.800 not voted yet. Let's hear what these candidates have to 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:18.720 say on the issues affecting us, like affordability, housing and homelessness, 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:24.160 the climate, and education. Let's start with affordability. And I 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:26.600 think Katie's going to start us off. 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:29.520 Sorry for the noise, I'm cutting carrots, Miss Porter. 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:33.400 For many, like Grace, the California dream can feel completely 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:37.120 out of reach. How will you lower costs across the state? 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:38.440 You have one minute. 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:42.160 I have four concrete policies to lower costs. 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:45.040 All right, first thing, I will say it is the 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:48.760 first question, but she is answering the question that gets 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:49.520 you a point. 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:54.120 I have four concrete policies to lower costs. The first 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:57.799 is less expensive housing. That takes the biggest bite. 0:02:57.960 --> 0:02:58.880 Well, how do you do that? 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:03.200 Like, you know, even though we have not hit our 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:07.040 construction goals, there has been building. There has been nearly 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:10.720 a million houses built in the last ten years. There's 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:15.240 construction going on everywhere. When exactly do we hit this 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:20.040 magical milestone where the price of these homes starts coming down. 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:23.560 I just don't know when that's going to happen. We 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:27.560 have population decline as well. In the County of Los Angeles. 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:31.160 We lost fifty thousand people in the last year. So 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:35.119 at what point do we keep building and population goes 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:38.320 down that the price of homes goes down and for 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:41.840 certain homeowners do you even want that? 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:45.000 That takes the biggest bite out of most people's paychecks. 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:48.400 So it has to be our governor's top priority. If 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:52.040 we build faster, the same speed as our competitor states, 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:55.480 then housing costs here will be ten to twenty percent cheaper. 0:03:56.040 --> 0:04:00.000 Construction costs will be cheaper, but will that translate into 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:03.320 to lower purchase prices lower mortgages. 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:05.880 I don't know. It depends on what we're building. 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:09.720 Second, if housing isn't your biggest expense, it might be 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:13.720 because you have young children. Free childcare will make our 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:17.239 entire economy grow. It's not just something we do for kids, 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:21.000 it's something we do for everyone to help our economy boom. 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:24.240 And by the way, I listen to way too many 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:27.680 interviews from these candidates, and one thing that I did 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:31.280 not know is that part of the reason she likes 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:35.520 the idea of everybody gets childcare is apparently that's what 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:39.360 they do in Irvine. For Irvine schools. All the teachers 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:42.760 at Irvine schools get free childcare. They've got like a 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:45.320 dedicated room where you can dump your kids while you 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:46.799 teach somebody else's kids. 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:49.520 And you know what seems to be working for Irvine. 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:53.960 Look, I got to imagine that the cost of putting 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:57.960 your kids in a daycare is prohitively expensive, to the 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:00.560 point where it almost doesn't make sense to even have 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.400 that second job to have to pay for it. But 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:06.760 if we're all paying for it, how do we do that? 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:09.839 The state of California is already spending more than it's 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:14.440 ever spent, and we are always in some kind of 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:17.480 a budget deficit. There's not enough money for everything. How 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:19.479 do you pay for a program like this. I'm not 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:21.560 saying that you can't pay for a program like this. 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:27.039 New Mexico has unveiled a childcare for all plan. And 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:28.720 what do you do to make sure that we're not 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:31.599 going through the same thing we're going through with medical 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:34.680 and hospice fraud. How do you make sure that we're 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:38.040 not doling out money to non exist in daycares? A 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:40.479 lot of questions there, but I'm not totally against the 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:41.560 policy proposal. 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:46.360 Third free tuition at our state universities. This is something 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:49.440 California used to have. It's putting money right back in 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:52.360 the pocket of young families that we want to stay 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:53.320 here in our state. 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:56.640 Yeah, but if you're the admissions director at the UC's 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:59.960 and the CSUS, and you know, all the homegrown California 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:03.520 kids get to go for free, but all the imports 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:07.000 from China you can charge thousands and thousands of dollars for. 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:08.479 Which ones are you gonna want? 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:12.200 And last, again, I'm not totally opposed to that idea either, 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:14.680 but the question is how you pay for it, and 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:17.400 she's not going to get it into this, but what 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:19.560 she has talked about is one of the things that 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:23.880 she wants to do is change the corporate tax rate 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:26.719 for the state of California to be a progressive tax rate, 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:29.520 so if you're a smaller business, it would be under 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:32.240 the eight point seven percent it is. If you're a 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:34.400 bigger business that makes a lot of money, it would 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:38.240 be higher. Will that work, I don't know. I don't 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:41.320 know if anybody is ready for more taxes. That being said, 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:46.520 lowering the corporate tax rate for the smaller businesses maybe 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:48.040 that gets you some import. 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:51.640 And last an idea that I took from Republican Steve Hilton, 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:54.320 because I'll take good ideas even if they come from 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:59.520 that guy, is eliminating California state income taxes on those 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:01.679 earning less than one hundred thousand dollars. 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:02.120 Yeah. 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:03.040 I don't like that plan. 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:05.840 I don't like that plan from Hilton, and I don't 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:10.000 like that plan from Katie Porter. It sounds good, but 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:14.679 we'll get into another situation where if you're making ninety 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:17.640 nine thousand dollars a year, you're actually making way more 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:20.720 than somebody making one hundred and five thousand dollars a year, 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:24.400 and everybody should have some skin in the game here 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:28.920 in the state of California. But it does sound really attractive. 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:32.880 Your first hundred grand tax freew Does that mean that, okay, 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:35.080 if I make one hundred and ten, I'm only getting 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:38.400 charged for ten? Or am I paying for everybody else? 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:42.320 Thank you, miss Porter, mister Stier, the cost of tariffs 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:46.400 are hitting Californians. At the kitchen table, as governor, what 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:49.440 would you do to offset the impact of federal tariffs? 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:50.200 You have one minute. 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:56.040 So as I said, the biggest problem in California is affordability. 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:57.880 So we're not answering the question. 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:02.800 Even if the is it necessarily something that's the topic 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:07.520 you wanted to discuss. For me, a person who has 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:10.920 watched a lot of these debates, because everyone likes to 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:13.640 go to their stump speech, the one thing that I 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:17.600 do look for is who is directly answering questions and 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:19.920 who is going back to the talking points. 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:24.800 So as I said, the biggest problem in California is affordability, 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:29.040 and it goes to every part of this economy. It 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:33.920 goes starting with housing, it goes directly to healthcare, it 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:37.520 goes to the cost of gasoline at the pump, the 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:40.840 electricity that you pay in your house, And it. 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:42.440 Sounds like he's running out the clock with a whole 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:46.160 bunch of platitudes. What are you going to do if 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:49.240 you are wasting your sixty seconds telling us that it's 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:52.040 expensive to live here, We already know it. 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:54.959 And it very much goes to food. And in every 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:57.840 one of those there is a special interest that is 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:01.880 killing it by driving up costs for Californians. And in 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:04.000 every one of those, we're not going to get an 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:07.440 answer unless we make structural change and we take on 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.240 those special interests. And I am the person on this 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:13.280 stage in every one of those areas who is taking 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:15.680 them on. I am the person who will tax the 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:17.040 billionaires like me. 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:26.120 Somebody has a god complex. And once again it goes 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:30.360 to my long running theory that there is no such 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:36.240 thing as a normal billionaire. When you make that much money, 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:38.080 it makes you crazy. 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:40.040 We're at a big ass crisis. 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:46.120 Show me the normal billionaire, anybody, I don't think it's 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:46.520 a thing. 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:50.200 And the big corporations, so we can afford to make 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:53.440 the changes, so we can pay for healthcare, so we 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:56.559 can pay for great education. We need structural changes we 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:56.800 need to do. 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:59.320 We're spending twenty eight thousand dollars a year on the kids. 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:00.360 We need to spend more. 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:03.240 We need structural changes. We need to break the monopolies 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:07.079 and get lower costs across the board for Californians. 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:10.800 Thank Tom Steyer drives me crazy. But the one thing 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:14.439 I do like about his campaign, even though I don't 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:18.720 see it actually happening, I'm not against breaking up PG 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:22.000 and E and so cal Edison and SGG and E. 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:26.600 I'm not against breaking up the private utility monopolies that 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.679 our investor owned that get a guaranteed rate of return. 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:32.640 That just killed a bill in the Assembly that would 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:35.720 have allowed us to audit what they're actually spending all 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:39.839 of that wildfire resilience money on that, in tune, gives 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:43.760 them the cause to have the CPUC raise their rates 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:45.640 over and over and over again. 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:47.559 But that's the only. 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:49.800 Thing, thank you, mister mister Mahon. 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:52.280 Let's not forget one of the things that Tom Steyer 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:55.040 says is the way we're going to pay for all 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:58.000 my plans is by gutting Prop thirteen. And I'm going 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:01.560 to call a special election on day one to do that. 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:06.559 What happens then, mister Stier, if that doesn't pass. 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:12.760 As miss Porter stated, childcare costs have risen dramatically around 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:15.680 the state, and many Californians pay more for childcare than 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.640 they do for housing. What steps would you take as 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:20.720 governor to lower childcare costs? 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:23.080 You have one minute, Thanks go to. The answer is 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.000 to lower costs across the board. 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:29.079 Starting with Okay, so not really answered. The question was 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:32.160 specifically about childcare. But we're going to go to our 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:35.040 typical diatribe on how everything else is expensive. 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:37.960 Okay, mayheen, let's see what you got. 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.840 Thanks go to. The answer is to lower costs across 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:44.240 the board, starting with the issues we have the most 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:48.079 control over. I've called for suspending the gas tax and reforming. 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:50.000 It so that emil Okay, there's something that's a little 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:53.720 different there, though. If you're talking about how expensive it 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:56.920 is to keep your kids in daycare, and for some 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:59.600 of these daycares it is as much as tuition. To 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:04.800 call it, that is a little different than wiping off 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:07.040 sixty cents a gallon on the gasoline. 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:09.400 It's just a little difference. 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:11.440 Ev owners pay their fair share. 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:14.600 Oh he wants me to pay more. I already pay 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:17.120 more in car registration fees. 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:21.440 From maintaining our roads in San Jose. We've removed at 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:24.280 one time fees that make housing more expensive than it 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:27.360 should be in reform permitting, which has gotten thousands of 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:30.800 homes under construction. So the answer is to put more 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:35.440 money in people's pockets by bringing down costs. Tom Stier's 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:37.400 structural change sounds to me. 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:40.800 Mayheon has been kind of floundering in the between five 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:44.400 to eight percent, so he will be the role of 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:48.319 attack dog number one. Every single answer for Mayheon, he 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:52.760 will have to go after another candidate because well, maybe, 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:55.600 just maybe, then people will pay attention to the mayor 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:56.480 of San Jose. 0:12:56.880 --> 0:13:00.800 Tom Stier's structural change sounds to me more like socialism. 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:04.560 His plans literally would double the size of state government. 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:08.240 That's not going to drive affordability. Steve Milton is touting 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:11.480 his Donald Trump endorsements. You've got tariffs and wars driving 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:13.880 up costs. Nobody's talking about how they're going to pay 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:17.640 for anything. Let's bring down costs by building housing, making 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:18.520 energy more. 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:20.320 And again, to go back to the question that I 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:24.560 ask when Katie Porter was giving this answer at what 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:27.760 point have we built enough housing that the cost for 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:29.040 all of it comes down. 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:32.040 I just don't know when we get to. 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:33.880 That point making energy more. 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:35.679 I mean, it's not like there are no homes for 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:38.280 sale right now and there are no homes for rent 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:41.679 right now. Just you know, pull up whatever you use 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:44.760 to search for houses when you're looking to move out 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:48.280 of your neighborhood, and let's just look at Los Angeles 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:53.920 County homes on Zillow, and let's see how many homes 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:58.960 are for sale in the county. Well, I think I first, 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:02.600 you have to type in last Angeles correctly, los Angeles, 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:07.000 CA homes all right, in the city of Los Angeles, 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:11.000 there are ten thousand homes for sale right now, and 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:13.400 a whole bunch of them say new, which either means 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:15.719 they're newly on the market or they're new construction. 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:20.480 Making energy more abundant, reforming the gas tax, pulling down 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:24.480 the unnecessary costs that we've imposed through failed policies, that's 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:25.560 the fundamental answer. 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:27.880 Good mister Styer, you have thirty seconds and I will 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:28.760 come to you, mister helpman. 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:32.280 So let me say, if he thinks that the oil 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:35.000 companies are the good guys, that's news to me. I've 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:37.680 been fighting the oil companies and they are taking advantage 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:39.280 and ripping us off at the pump. 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:42.400 Well, I feel like I've heard that before. He's doing 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:45.080 Gavin Newsom's act from two years ago. 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:46.760 I'm sick and tired of being screwed. 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:48.800 And here's the thing. 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:53.400 Gavin Newsom made a whole big deal about the oil 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:57.920 companies ripping us off. He held two different special sessions 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:01.520 to hold the oil companies accountable. 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:04.520 I don't know why we're so damned sheepish. 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:10.320 And he, through those special sessions, created another bureaucracy, another 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:13.720 commission that's just supposed to look at the cost of oil, 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:18.560 in the cost of gasoline, and that commission did not 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:23.440 find that the oil companies were ripping us off. They 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:27.760 saw the cost of our regulations, the gas tax, but 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:31.960 also capin invest formerly known as cap and trade, and 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:37.480 the environmental regulations, the having to use ethanol, the low 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:41.320 carbon fuel standard, all of these different things. But what 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:46.520 they did not find was a massive amount of just 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:49.920 price gouging that would lead to now what Tom Steyer 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:55.080 is calling for, which is a windfall profits tax sounds great, 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:57.960 but we've already seen this movie. 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:59.880 As a result of this war in Iran, and that 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:02.520 it's a buck fifty a gallon that they are costs 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:04.640 even go off a penny if you think the electric. 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:11.440 By the way, Gavin Newsom yesterday at his May Revise presser, 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:18.000 he starts talking about gas prices and with a straight face, 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:22.360 Gavin Newsom says, well, you need to understand is gas 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:25.320 prices have actually gone up faster in other states than 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:30.240 they have in California, and that very well may be true, 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:34.520 but ours were already higher. We are hitting seven dollars 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:37.040 a gas for premium penny. 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:40.000 If you think the electricity of the electric monopolies are 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:42.120 doing us a favor and we should be nice to him, 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:44.600 let me say this, they're charging us twice as much 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:47.120 as everybody else in the United States of America. 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:48.800 Those are that and some of that could be PG 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:50.600 and he ripping us off, and some of it could 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:52.280 also be our regulations. 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:54.640 Those are the people who I'm going to be taking on, 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:57.280 the people who are using their market power to rip 0:16:57.280 --> 0:16:59.960 off Californians and make our costs go through the roof. 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:02.200 Thank you, mister Syrah, Mister Hilton, you have thirty seven. 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:05.080 I wonder how many people's electric bills. Tom Steyer could 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:07.640 have paid with the one hundred and seventy million dollars 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:10.360 he spent on this campaign, By the way, that would 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:14.639 be a way better use of his money, Like instead 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:17.760 of buying NonStop ads over and over and over again, 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:22.159 why don't you just you know, pay for someone's outstanding 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:25.680 electric bill, pay for someone's outstanding you know, be the 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:29.640 philanthropist you claim that you are. But no, no, no, 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:31.639 no no, it's all about an ego trip and the 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:35.520 god complex that is Tom Steyer. He alone can fix it. 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:39.240 In those sneaks, we're to big ass crisis. We're just 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:42.159 getting started here. It's about to get ugly because as 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:45.199 soon as Besarah talks, it's the time to pile on 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:48.200 the new front runner. We'll get into all that as 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:52.560 we cover the last debate of the twenty twenty six 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:57.760 primary season. For all these candidates for governor, you might 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:00.920 never hear from some of these voices. Again, I'm looking 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:04.880 at you, Antonio Vira Goosa. If you want to comment 0:18:04.960 --> 0:18:07.719 on last night's debate, did you watch this thing? I 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:11.159 listened to out laos meal prepping my Peruvian chicken thighs 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:16.919 and I was regretting listening to every second of it, 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:19.880 but I was so glad it's the last one. Eight 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:22.760 hundred two two two five two two two one eight 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:25.800 hundred two two two five two two two. Let's get 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:27.720 a Kirk in Buena Park Kirk. 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:33.200 Hello, Hello, Randie. Yeah, I just called it because something 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:35.320 that's bothered me. Yeah. I'm one of the lucky ones. 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:38.520 I was born and raised in southern California. Well, well 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:40.760 people have they never talk about it. Don't have to 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:45.320 realize not everybody gets to live at the beach. I 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:47.880 would love to live on the shoreline of Big Bear Lake. 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:51.320 I can't afford it. There isn't really any available. And 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:54.560 as far as affordable housing with the government, I'm surprised 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:57.200 they haven't come up with this notion. Remember with the 0:18:57.240 --> 0:19:02.040 westward expansion, you know, the uh whatever destiny. Whenever they 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:05.960 built a railroad, town sprouted up along the railroad line. 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:10.640 Start building out by the high speed rail. Businesses will follow, 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:14.200 Industry will develop because that's a lot of vacant land 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:15.480 out there. You know. 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:19.119 It said something that Steve Hilton talks about only six 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:23.800 percent of the state of California is developed. Only six percent. 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:26.199 It is a massive state, and whenever you drive up 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:29.239 the five freeway, you sure see a whole lot of 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:32.280 nothing here between Button Willow and San Mateo. 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:35.600 Yeah. I mean that's the thing is, Like I said, 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:37.840 it's not everybody gets to live at the beach. I 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:40.840 understand you're tired of being up to your hips and snow. 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:42.680 If you live in Minnesota, you want to go where 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:46.600 it's warm. Well, there's a certain saturation point, and I 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:47.640 think we've reached it. 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:50.920 Thanks so much for the call, Kirk aparitiate it. Let's 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:55.080 go to Kathy and Coasta Mesa. Kathy, Hello, Hi. 0:19:55.680 --> 0:19:58.400 I wanted to comment that it would have been nice 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:03.359 for somebody to ask these candidates how they feel or 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:09.840 do they support the meth Head Teeth Project, future fraud, 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:14.360 and you know, maybe you follow up questions that are 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:15.560 always telling. 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:18.200 You know, it's one of the things when you've got 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:21.119 one of another one of these debates with seven candidates 0:20:21.160 --> 0:20:23.639 on the stage, it's sixty seconds for every question and 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:26.520 then everyone attacks Besarah. We only got to like four 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:29.760 or five different topics, and there's so many more important things. 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:31.480 Thanks so much for the call. I appreciate it. 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:33.719 Let me just tell you if you're a look, if 0:20:33.760 --> 0:20:36.600 you're really curious about who you want to vote for 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:39.119 and you feel like you haven't learned enough from these candidates, 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:43.119 the long form interviews really do such a much better job. 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:47.199 And I'll give a perfect shout out. Ashley Zavala on 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:51.800 KCRA three has interviewed every single one of these candidates 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:54.800 for a half hour, like ten minutes of it goes 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:58.240 on her show on California Politics three sixty, which airs 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:02.560 on kra KTVU and five eleven but on the YouTube 0:21:02.640 --> 0:21:06.000 channel for KCRA. She has a thirty minute long form 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:11.160 interview with every single candidate, asking very relevant questions about 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:14.439 a whole bunch of different things. With that, let's go 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:19.520 back to the debate that aired on KPIX last night. 0:21:19.640 --> 0:21:22.160 Thank you, mister Styra, mister Hilton, you have thirty seconds. 0:21:22.560 --> 0:21:24.960 Let's hear what Hilton has to say about affordability, but 0:21:25.000 --> 0:21:26.240 they forgot to turn his mic on. 0:21:26.400 --> 0:21:26.639 Thank you. 0:21:27.080 --> 0:21:29.479 I love the way Matt talks about how he's going 0:21:29.520 --> 0:21:33.080 to lower cost when his city was recently rated the 0:21:33.080 --> 0:21:37.560 most expensive, the least affordable for housing in the world. 0:21:38.119 --> 0:21:40.760 That is true, That's why we're fixing it. 0:21:41.000 --> 0:21:41.639 While we're building. 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:43.840 That's why we're building housing. Steve, That's how it works. 0:21:43.920 --> 0:21:46.840 He's not fixing it because he's not fixing it because 0:21:47.119 --> 0:21:47.720 they're building. 0:21:47.720 --> 0:21:49.320 Housing are as high. 0:21:49.359 --> 0:21:51.080 This year as they ever were. 0:21:51.359 --> 0:21:52.440 All the plans he see. 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:56.080 That's why I go back to my original question, at 0:21:56.119 --> 0:22:00.600 what point do you build enough housing that the costs 0:22:00.640 --> 0:22:01.280