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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna warn you right now, this next segment
Speaker 1: may be very difficult to listen to, but it is
Speaker 1: very important that you listen to every single word of
Speaker 1: it because what is going on on the streets of
Speaker 1: Los Angeles City and Los Angeles County when it comes
Speaker 1: to the suffering of animals on our streets, specifically dogs,
Speaker 1: it needs to be discussed, and our politicians have ignored
Speaker 1: this for way too long. They want to pretend like
Speaker 1: it doesn't exist, but it's one of the beautiful things
Speaker 1: of the age that we're in now. It's really hard
Speaker 1: to pretend something doesn't exist when there is so much
Speaker 1: video out there on social media of the most unspeakable things,
Speaker 1: and the one person who's been really shining a light
Speaker 1: on this to the point where you're hearing Spencer Pratt
Speaker 1: reference the animal abuse on skid Row on almost every
Speaker 1: interview and debate that he's doing. It all comes down
Speaker 1: to Joey Tuccio, who has been on the streets every
Speaker 1: single week, not only trying to save those animals, but
Speaker 1: documenting the horrific abuses that our city and our county
Speaker 1: don't seem to care at all about. Joey Tuccio, you
Speaker 1: can follow him on Twitter at Joey underscored Tuccio, and
Speaker 1: you can check out his rescue's website at starts with
Speaker 1: onetoday dot com. Joey, Welcome to the John Phillips Show.
Speaker 2: Hey, thank you so much. I really appreciate it. And yes,
Speaker 2: a warning is always needed because what we talk about
Speaker 2: is pretty horrendous.
Speaker 1: Why don't we start off with what you've been uncovering
Speaker 1: in Compton.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I do a lot on the skid
Speaker 2: Row area, but I mean Compton, in my opinion, is worse.
Speaker 2: I mean, I've been going to Compton for years and
Speaker 2: there's people that I've been going to Compton way more
Speaker 2: than I have and just uncovering horrors that you couldn't
Speaker 2: even imagine. We just went recently and we just saw
Speaker 2: chained up piples, all down in alleyway, no food, no water.
Speaker 2: We saved one puppy that had to detox from the drugs,
Speaker 2: and seeing the video of this puppy shaking for hours
Speaker 2: was a thing of nightmares. Dogs that are being electrocuted,
Speaker 2: dogs that are being bred, and then the mom is
Speaker 2: being dumped in canals. I mean, it's horrific. And a
Speaker 2: few days ago I made a post calling out Emma Cherif,
Speaker 2: who is the mayor of Compton, and she blocked me.
Speaker 2: Instead of instead of bringing it up and talking about it,
Speaker 2: she blocked me.
Speaker 1: The mayor, instead of addressing a massive, legitimate concern about
Speaker 1: animal abuse that's happening on the streets of her city,
Speaker 1: decides the best thing to do is bury her head
Speaker 1: in the sand and block you on social media so
Speaker 1: she can't see the pictures. That's unacceptable.
Speaker 2: It's unacceptable, and I actually it might even be illegal.
Speaker 2: And she's blocking so many people deleting comments. So yesterday
Speaker 2: I called up her office and I said, why did
Speaker 2: she block me? And then all of a sudden, her
Speaker 2: assistant said, oh, Emma actually wants to meet you. And
Speaker 2: what I did is I declined the meeting and I
Speaker 2: said no with no more closed meetings. This has to
Speaker 2: be all public. She has to make a public statement
Speaker 2: on why animal abuse is running rampant in her district,
Speaker 2: which is Compton, why she's ignored it, and what she's
Speaker 2: doing yesterday to fix it. She still hasn't posted about it.
Speaker 1: No, it seems like ever reelected official thinks that the
Speaker 1: best course of action here, whether it's the City of
Speaker 1: la the County, the City of Compton, is to just
Speaker 1: completely ignore it, like they do not want to address
Speaker 1: this problem at all, and the suffering seems to be
Speaker 1: getting worse on a daily basis.
Speaker 2: We just went to skid Row yesterday or actually two
Speaker 2: days ago. We rescued two dogs, one dog that had
Speaker 2: so many parasites in her stomach because she was eating feces,
Speaker 2: another dog that was literally hyperventilating on the streets because
Speaker 2: it was so hot out. Meanwhile, counsel woman Hisabohado has
Speaker 2: ignored all my pleas for help and even ignored reporters.
Speaker 2: Council Member Nitthie Rahman has walked out of city hall
Speaker 2: meetings when rescuers like myself and Rebecca core has come
Speaker 2: asking for help. Karen Bass has ignored everything. They just
Speaker 2: keep on ignoring the problem.
Speaker 1: Well, and let's talk about Nithia for a second, because
Speaker 1: I saw that video where you actually were able to
Speaker 1: confront her outside of the debate she did with Karen
Speaker 1: Bass at the Sherman Oaks Homeowners So where Nythia Rahman,
Speaker 1: just of who is running for mayor against Karen Bass
Speaker 1: last week, randomly posted I have a plan to fix
Speaker 1: our shelter system in Los Angeles. And what you found
Speaker 1: out when you asked her why this is the first time,
Speaker 1: even though she's been in government for the last six years,
Speaker 1: she's paying attention to this.
Speaker 3: She told you.
Speaker 1: I believe the first time she ever visited an LA
Speaker 1: animal shelter was five days before.
Speaker 2: Yep, So I confronted her, and I mean I think
Speaker 2: confronts harsh. I mean I just said, Hi, my name's
Speaker 2: Joey Chuccio. I just want to talk about you know,
Speaker 2: I go to skid row and why are you so
Speaker 2: silent about this? And her response is well, I went
Speaker 2: to an LA City animal shelter five days ago and
Speaker 2: my friend schier Astrov, who runs the Animal Rescue Mission, said,
Speaker 2: when you're running for mayor and you've only been to
Speaker 2: a city shelter once, and she also does I mean,
Speaker 2: Snythia is part of the committee that oversees the budget
Speaker 2: and she's never been to a city shelter before. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's disgusting. And she chairs the homelessness committee, I mean,
Speaker 2: does she not know that a lot of these dogs
Speaker 2: that are going into the shelters that straining our system
Speaker 2: is because homeless people. Not all of them obviously, but
Speaker 2: you know, there's a large group of homeless people, especially
Speaker 2: on skid row and surrounding areas, that are breeding these
Speaker 2: dogs and ending up in the shelters. It was so discussed.
Speaker 2: When I asked why, she had no answer, she walked away,
Speaker 2: like everybody else does. They just walk away.
Speaker 1: Well, and we claim that we have all these regulations
Speaker 1: that we want to make sure we're going after backdoor,
Speaker 1: backyard breeders, and we're making sure that we're controlling this
Speaker 1: population that already we cannot support because we've cut the
Speaker 1: budget of our shelter system over and over and over again.
Speaker 1: And even when our electeds and law enforcement are presented
Speaker 1: with the evidence, they say there's nothing they can do.
Speaker 2: Yep, there was. And this next story is sad, so
Speaker 2: I apologize in advance. But there was a there currently
Speaker 2: is a dog on skid Row that's being bred over
Speaker 2: and over again. Somebody who lives on skid Row send
Speaker 2: meed the picture, so I went. We brought the dog
Speaker 2: and the puppies to the vet with the drug autic
Speaker 2: owners and I say that because I think they're despicable.
Speaker 2: These two people in particular are despicable. And then we
Speaker 2: got the dog back to that said told me that
Speaker 2: if the dog keeps getting bread, the dog's going to die.
Speaker 2: I went back the next day to tell the owners
Speaker 2: that they said she still has two to three litters
Speaker 2: left in her being confronted with the fact that this
Speaker 2: dog will probably die if she has one more litter.
Speaker 2: So animal services went because I demanded they do. I
Speaker 2: facetimed them and when they were there, because I was
Speaker 2: at my house at the time, they said there's nothing
Speaker 2: we could do and they left. Now was that that
Speaker 2: happens all the time?
Speaker 1: It is completely unacceptable. There are all kinds of law violations,
Speaker 1: animal cruelty that is documented on a daily basis, and
Speaker 1: for some reason, we've decided that the population on skid
Speaker 1: row or incompeted there a protected class and the law
Speaker 1: does not apply to them when they are hurting and
Speaker 1: killing innocent creatures.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's you know, it's also too we get calls.
Speaker 2: We don't just drive to content and skid row rubbing
Speaker 2: our hands together like what kind of mischief can we start? Today?
Speaker 2: A lot of times we get called from people living
Speaker 2: on skid row or living on contents, living in Compton saying,
Speaker 2: please help. My neighbor is literally abusing this dog, throwing
Speaker 2: water on the dog, electrocuting the dog. I can't say
Speaker 2: anything that I could get killed. That's what we hear
Speaker 2: all the time, is that we're afraid of our neighbors
Speaker 2: because if we tattle on them, we could get killed.
Speaker 2: So we have to go with independent rescuers and risk
Speaker 2: our lives to go because nobody else is helping.
Speaker 1: All while this is going on, and our current elected
Speaker 1: leaders are completely ignoring this issue. Almost every single candidate
Speaker 1: for mayor is ignoring this issue. That is except for one,
Speaker 1: because Spencer Pratt has taken what you have been doing
Speaker 1: and pushing out to his massive audience and also making
Speaker 1: these stories told on interviews, on television and on the
Speaker 1: debate stage, and he is actually getting the word out
Speaker 1: about this.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I mean we've done we don't normally do
Speaker 2: adoption events. It's not it hasn't been fruitful in the past.
Speaker 2: One of the last times we did an adoption event,
Speaker 2: three people showed up and it was very you know, disappointing.
Speaker 2: But then the last adoption event we had, Spencer was
Speaker 2: promoting it and talking about the horrors on skid Row.
Speaker 2: Over two hundred people showed up and it was so refractioning.
Speaker 2: We got dogs adopted, It raised awareness. I mean, it
Speaker 2: was so great. And meanwhile Karen Bass is saying there's
Speaker 2: no neglect on skid Row. Nithia Rumman, I don't think
Speaker 2: even knows where skid row is, and Spencer is the
Speaker 2: one that's shouting it out from the rooftops, and it's
Speaker 2: it's sad that nobody's taking this seriously. And as always,
Speaker 2: the ones that suffer and die are the animals.
Speaker 1: It's just of anything that you know, of the incompetence
Speaker 1: and the just lack of care that we see for
Speaker 1: so many differ, diferent issues in city Hall.
Speaker 3: For me at least. This is the litmus test.
Speaker 1: If you are not speaking out about this and you
Speaker 1: are in elected office and you're not trying to do
Speaker 1: something about this, or worse, you're pretending it doesn't exist.
Speaker 1: That disqualifies you from public office because you are not
Speaker 1: serving the public when you are allowing these crimes against
Speaker 1: animals to happen over and over and over again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and when people say, oh, you know, to me, oh,
Speaker 2: you just care about a single issue, which is animal abuse,
Speaker 2: and my answer is yes, that is something that I
Speaker 2: care truly a lot about. But also a lot of
Speaker 2: these people that are abusing animals, this is just one
Speaker 2: of the many things that they're doing that's criminal. We
Speaker 2: just fortunately saw I got a video of this guy
Speaker 2: punching an innocent Tuala in the face to the dog
Speaker 2: with yaiping. Read the video and viral. The police step
Speaker 2: in and they said, yeah, he has a laundry list
Speaker 2: of other crimes against him. One week later, somebody sent
Speaker 2: me a picture of that same abuser. He has another dog.
Speaker 2: That happens all the time. Ninety five percent of the
Speaker 2: abusers that we are lucky enough to remove the dogs
Speaker 2: from currently has another dog.
Speaker 3: It is just completely unacceptable.
Speaker 1: So Joey, what can if people are listening and they're
Speaker 1: moved by this, what can they do to help? What
Speaker 1: can they do to help with your organization and what
Speaker 1: you're trying to do every single week on skid row.
Speaker 2: Don't be silent anymore. And I know a lot of
Speaker 2: people out there have not been silent and screaming from
Speaker 2: the rooftops, but everybody needs to be loud. This also
Speaker 2: goes for the celebrities of Los Angeles. I mean there's
Speaker 2: so many times, you know, I'll ask some an A
Speaker 2: list celebrity to post about what's happening, and if they
Speaker 2: do respond, they'll say, oh, okay, I'll put it in my stories,
Speaker 2: which disappears in a few hours. And we can't. We
Speaker 2: have to stop with the narrative that, oh, it's too sad.
Speaker 2: I don't want my audience to see it because I'll
Speaker 2: lose followers. It's more sad that you could do something
Speaker 2: about it. When I say you, and I mean you
Speaker 2: always think, but like you know, anybody out there that
Speaker 2: raise awareness as well, and they don't do anything about it,
Speaker 2: that's more sad. So people have to scream from the rooftops,
Speaker 2: what's going on post about it, if you see animal abuse,
Speaker 2: post about it. The word has to continue to get
Speaker 2: out there, and not just skid Row, Compton, North Hollywood, Venice,
Speaker 2: I mean all over Los Angeles. It's quite literally a
Speaker 2: state of emergency.
Speaker 1: Now, what about for people that want to help out
Speaker 1: the rescue when it comes to fosters, Yeah, so.
Speaker 2: We always need fosters and adopters. That's how we can
Speaker 2: do this. So if anybody wants to foster or adopt,
Speaker 2: please visit Starts with One Today and fill out an app.
Speaker 2: We have a pretty intensive vetting process, so you'll fill
Speaker 2: out an application, we'll see which dog makes the most sense.
Speaker 2: We'll do an intro with our trainer with you, and
Speaker 2: if you have any other animals, we do a two
Speaker 2: week trial to make sure it's a good fit for
Speaker 2: everybody and the dogs obviously, and if it works out,
Speaker 2: then we move forward with the adoption. So we don't
Speaker 2: just throw a dog at you and we say okay,
Speaker 2: good luck. We take everything step by step. But we
Speaker 2: definitely need fosters in the southern California area, so please,
Speaker 2: please please if you could, that'll literally save a life.
Speaker 1: The website is Starts with One Today, dot com starts
Speaker 1: with one today dot com. If you can help out,
Speaker 1: you can foster, you can also donate to help out
Speaker 1: this organization that is saving lives every single day on
Speaker 1: skid row. Joey, I can never thank you enough for
Speaker 1: what you're doing every single day, not just helping these
Speaker 1: innocent creatures, but exposing the indifference of our elected officials
Speaker 1: of just the most unbelievable things that they do not
Speaker 1: care at all about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean thank you. I mean I could
Speaker 2: be shouting into an abyss for the rest of my life,
Speaker 2: but without people like you that's letting me tap into
Speaker 2: your audience like nothing will get done. So thank you
Speaker 2: so much as always. I think this is my second
Speaker 2: or third time talking with you, and I really really
Speaker 2: appreciate it. And more importantly, the dogs really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad follow them on social media, share those videos.
Speaker 1: The more people that see it, the more people won't
Speaker 1: be able to ignore it. Joey Underscore Tuccio, Joey Tuccio,
Speaker 1: thank you so much as always for joining us.
Speaker 2: Thank you. We'll talk soon.
Speaker 3: We will.
Speaker 1: That was really really important for us to do. I
Speaker 1: know it's hard to hear, but when you see these videos,
Speaker 1: when you hear these stories, you cannot ignore it. And
Speaker 1: for Karen Bass and Nthia Robin and almost every member
Speaker 1: of city government Isabel Harado to completely ignore what is
Speaker 1: right in front of our eyes, what is happening every
Speaker 1: single day, because of this nonsensical ideology that when you're
Speaker 1: committing animal abuse and you're homeless, well that's a crime
Speaker 1: of poverty. Well we can't issue citations to people that
Speaker 1: don't have an address. Crime is crime. The law is
Speaker 1: the law, and we should somebody. The district Attorney, by
Speaker 1: the way, has been asked about this and he claims, well,
Speaker 1: there's nothing he can do unless they bring him cases.
Speaker 1: But if somebody is preventing the arrests of all the
Speaker 1: animal abuse that's going on, whether it's at the City
Speaker 1: of la and skid Row or the County of la
Speaker 1: and the City of Compton, those people need to be
Speaker 1: thrown out of office immediately. The phone number to join
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Speaker 1: Let's go to Vince in Vacaville. Vince, Hello, Hello, howdy, Hi,
Speaker 1: how are.
Speaker 3: You doing doing great? How about you.
Speaker 4: Pretty goody. I want to comment on the uh stordash
Speaker 4: fraud that's been taking place. Yeah, and I want to
Speaker 4: let you folks know it's been going on for a
Speaker 4: good three to four years. It all started right after
Speaker 4: Biden took over and opened up the borders. We're a
Speaker 4: little town east of San Francisco, about sixty miles and
Speaker 4: overnight we got flooded out by a bunch of people
Speaker 4: from Venezuela and Columbia. And now that kind of subsided.
Speaker 4: But we have a bunch of people from the Middle
Speaker 4: East and they have fake ideas. They have driver's licenses
Speaker 4: that say no name given. They don't lots of them
Speaker 4: don't have any auto insurance. In order to be a
Speaker 4: door dasher, you have to have auto insurance, auto registration,
Speaker 4: social Security number, and a background check, and a lot
Speaker 4: of these people don't have any of that, you know,
Speaker 4: So doordasher's policy is actually bringing criminals straight up to
Speaker 4: your front door, because in order to deliver the food,
Speaker 4: they get your first name, last initial, and your address.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're they're totally right. That could be one way
Speaker 1: the criminals are actually case neighborhoods for break ins because
Speaker 1: they're actually just they're drivers even though they're not supposed
Speaker 1: to be. And I got to imagine it's extra frustrating
Speaker 1: as you're a legitimate driver and you have to compete
Speaker 1: with all these criminals for business.
Speaker 4: Oh absolutely. In fact, you know what, I'm a single
Speaker 4: dad living on my own, taking care of my son
Speaker 4: who's in college right now, and so I flipped. I
Speaker 4: take care of all the bills and such. And not
Speaker 4: only was I doordashing, I was working at a warehouse.
Speaker 4: So I was working at a warehouse forty hours a week,
Speaker 4: and in door dashing all the extra times I was
Speaker 4: putting in about seventy hours a week to make ends meet.
Speaker 3: As just unbelievable.
Speaker 4: And one of the things I've noticed too is a
Speaker 4: lot of these door dashers they steal people's food. I mean,
Speaker 4: it's it's bad enough that the restaurants have to pay
Speaker 4: a thirty percent feet to door dash, but these fake
Speaker 4: call them fake doordashers. They will go out, they'll pick
Speaker 4: up the orders, and as soon as they leave the store,
Speaker 4: they unassign themselves from the order, so it goes back
Speaker 4: into the system thinking it needs to be picked up,
Speaker 4: when in reality, it's already been picked up and the
Speaker 4: doordasher walks off with the food, or what they do
Speaker 4: is they place it at someone's door, take a picture
Speaker 4: of it, right, and they grab it before the customer
Speaker 4: even has a chance to get there.
Speaker 3: What do you think, in your opinion, is the reason
Speaker 3: that DoorDash doesn't seem to care at all about what's
Speaker 3: going on in their platform.
Speaker 4: They don't have enough people work in the platform because
Speaker 4: you can only have so many people get in here
Speaker 4: and work it. So when you have those late night orders,
Speaker 4: you know that people are ordering from like Denny's at
Speaker 4: one o'clock in the morning, most people are at home sleeping,
Speaker 4: So I think what they want to do is just
Speaker 4: flood the led to system, and in fact not In
Speaker 4: addition to I believe it's the currency rate. I've seen
Speaker 4: people here from South America show a lot of one
Speaker 4: hundred dollars bills on their phone to their family back home.
Speaker 1: It's just wild. We're out of time, Vince, But thank
Speaker 1: you so much. I'm so sorry that that's going on.
Speaker 1: But hopefully shining a line on this will get at
Speaker 1: least some attention paid to what's going on in the
Speaker 1: world of door dash. Thanks so much for the call.
Speaker 1: Can you think of anything more depressing than someone who
Speaker 1: doordashes Denny's at one am?
Speaker 3: I can't.
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Speaker 1: She is an anchor on Fox eleven weeknights at six
Speaker 1: o'clock eight to ten and does a lot of these
Speaker 1: long form interviews of different candidates in different offices throughout
Speaker 1: La City and La County on the Foxlocal app. You
Speaker 1: can follow her on social media at marloteas marloteas Welcome
Speaker 1: back to the show.
Speaker 5: Randy Wag or should I call you Ryan Long?
Speaker 3: You can call me that.
Speaker 2: Hi.
Speaker 5: Thank you for having me and what a perfect introduction
Speaker 5: to a lot of people because of my changing schedule
Speaker 5: and streaming versus on Fox eleven, it's hard to keep
Speaker 5: track of So you nailed it.
Speaker 2: Of course you did well.
Speaker 1: I got to say, I'm a big fan of what
Speaker 1: you guys are doing with the Foxlocal stream, where I'm
Speaker 1: sure you have been frustrated with the constraints of television also,
Speaker 1: where you've got to take commercial breaks every five to
Speaker 1: ten minutes. You can't really have a segment that's longer
Speaker 1: than ten minutes. And sometimes you really want to get
Speaker 1: in deep with a candidate, you want to really draw
Speaker 1: them out, and you're going to need fifteen twenty minutes
Speaker 1: to do that, which is why now you guys are
Speaker 1: just turning on the Fox Local stream and like, all right,
Speaker 1: let's go twenty minutes, here we go.
Speaker 5: Isn't it wonderful? I absolutely love it. So that's what
Speaker 5: the Fox Local stream is all about, these long format interviews.
Speaker 5: We do take breaks, but it's two minutes. I mean,
Speaker 5: every single break on the stream is exactly two minutes,
Speaker 5: so you don't have to wait long for.
Speaker 3: Us to return.
Speaker 5: But we have been using that stream to highlight the
Speaker 5: many candidates in the local offices, nearly all of them,
Speaker 5: for instance, for Mayor of Los Angeles. There are fourteen
Speaker 5: candidates and I have personally interviewed eleven of them thus far,
Speaker 5: and other colleagues have interviewed the remainder. So we've given
Speaker 5: a pl form to everybody who you're going to see
Speaker 5: on the ballot, which I'm so proud of. We've tackled
Speaker 5: the let's see LA City Controller race, LA County Sheriffs,
Speaker 5: the California Insurance Commissioner, and that's a race that of
Speaker 5: course has significant prevalence now because of the devastating wildfires.
Speaker 5: A lot of people are paid attention to that race,
Speaker 5: whereas in the past they wouldn't, So we've given the
Speaker 5: candidates a platform there. Also La City Attorney. We've invited
Speaker 5: those candidates on as well, So it's really a great space.
Speaker 5: And if you've missed them, and I know you've, you've
Speaker 5: caught a lot of them, which I appreciate you so much, Randy,
Speaker 5: your amazing friend and viewers, so thank you. If anyone
Speaker 5: listening wants to check out any of these candidates interviews,
Speaker 5: we have them posted on the YouTube page on the
Speaker 5: Fox Local app on Foxla dot com.
Speaker 1: Easily found there well, and I think it's real important
Speaker 1: within this stage where you know, everyone has their ballot
Speaker 1: at their home right now if they haven't filled it
Speaker 1: out yet, it really is important to do your research
Speaker 1: on so many different offices. I think you know, for instance,
Speaker 1: like you mentioned, people are just starting to realize how
Speaker 1: important insurance commissioner is, where that may have been an
Speaker 1: office where you just look at whatever letters next to
Speaker 1: their name or the quick bio and you don't think
Speaker 1: about it. But I think it's really important to look
Speaker 1: up and do research, not just with your interviews, but
Speaker 1: any interviews that are out there for a position that
Speaker 1: is as consequential as insurance commissioner, because we all learned
Speaker 1: the hard way just how important that job is.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent.
Speaker 5: And you know, I've heard from many of these candidates
Speaker 5: who a lot of people haven't heard of. Frankly, they're
Speaker 5: so grateful for the platform to be able to sit
Speaker 5: down and introduce themselves. And by the way, all the
Speaker 5: questions that we that I ask are ultimately the same
Speaker 5: for each camp. I mean, on these long format interviews,
Speaker 5: we start with who are you because it's interesting to
Speaker 5: learn about who they are, their background, you can really
Speaker 5: delve into it, which a lot of times obviously, then
Speaker 5: lends to their experience on why they are experienced for
Speaker 5: the said office. There are fourteen candidates for insurance Commissioner.
Speaker 5: I'm looking at my ballot right in front of me
Speaker 5: right now. We have interviewed several of them. Those we
Speaker 5: haven't have not either gotten back to us. I want
Speaker 5: to make that clear. We've given an opportunity for everybody
Speaker 5: we send an invite, and many of them don't get
Speaker 5: back to us or they can't join us. And if
Speaker 5: they can't join us in person at Fox eleven Studios,
Speaker 5: then they can join via zoom, which is another great
Speaker 5: avenue that we use all the time. Of course, nonetheless,
Speaker 5: it's how do you sort through?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 5: Do you know about Ben Allen? He's an insurance commissioner.
Speaker 5: I'm only naming him because he's the first one listed
Speaker 5: here on your ballot. We met Patrick Wolf is the
Speaker 5: San Francisco guy. He is running for insurance commissioner. He's
Speaker 5: a financial analyst. I sat down with him. It's just
Speaker 5: a great platform in order to get to know the
Speaker 5: candidates and not just their policy, so you get to
Speaker 5: know a little bit more about them. It's a much
Speaker 5: more relaxed interview setting than when you typically see these
Speaker 5: interviews that we do during the newscast. It's two, three,
Speaker 5: four minutes. Even a four minute interview is long considered
Speaker 5: a long time in a regular newscast, and so those
Speaker 5: are more it's a much more of a rushed setting
Speaker 5: because time is of the essence. But on these long
Speaker 5: format you can formats, you can really get into specific
Speaker 5: policy ideas and learn more about the candidate personally as well.
Speaker 1: Now, one of the races that you've been covering that
Speaker 1: I don't think has gotten a lot of attention, but
Speaker 1: it's another one of these positions that is very important.
Speaker 1: So it's good to find out who is running for
Speaker 1: this office, and that is La City Attorney, where the incumbent,
Speaker 1: heidefeldtz Soo, is actually facing a strong challenge from the
Speaker 1: left and the right, on the right from current Deputy
Speaker 1: District Attorney John McKinney, and on the left for Marissa Roy.
Speaker 1: So what can you tell us just a brief overview
Speaker 1: of the incumbent and the people that are running against
Speaker 1: her in the City Attorney's office.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, so.
Speaker 5: I sat down and the other one, by the way,
Speaker 5: there's four candidates for city attorney, and that is Ida Ashuri.
Speaker 5: Ida Asshuri was also featured on the stream. I didn't
Speaker 5: conduct that interview because I wasn't there that night. Nonetheless,
Speaker 5: I did interview the incumbent Feldstein Soto and Marissa Roy
Speaker 5: on the left and John McKenny on the right. John McKenny,
Speaker 5: you may your listeners may be very familiar with him
Speaker 5: because as you mentioned, he's deputy DA Deputy district attorney,
Speaker 5: where he has been for some twenty eight years. He's
Speaker 5: worked in that office almost three decades long. But he
Speaker 5: made a name for himself when he ran for a
Speaker 5: district herney. He ended up drawing his support behind Nathan
Speaker 5: Hawkman ultimately, who is now of course, are our DA.
Speaker 5: He has tried high profile murder cases and won, by
Speaker 5: the way, that's part of his platform.
Speaker 3: Uh and he UH.
Speaker 5: I asked him, you know why he is making another
Speaker 5: run for office and in this time for the city.
Speaker 5: And his answer is he just he just is frustrated
Speaker 5: and seeing a whole lot of wasted tax payer money.
Speaker 5: He says, going to UH lawsuits that should be handled differently.
Speaker 5: UH and that that's basically his reasoning. Muriser Roy Rory
Speaker 5: Pardon me deputy attorney general. She, as you said, is
Speaker 5: more to the left. She really wants to she she
Speaker 5: talked about UH taking on the Trump administration. That's part
Speaker 5: of her platform. More so UH to be city at Ernie.
Speaker 5: Heidie Feldstegn Soto, she was. She's fierce incumbent, and I
Speaker 5: say fierce in that she's she says, you know, a
Speaker 5: fighter for Los Angeles. She knows this job because she's
Speaker 5: been in it and she deserves another go round. She
Speaker 5: became the first female Oh gosh, Latina. I believe that
Speaker 5: was a part of her platform when she ran and
Speaker 5: was elected in the last cycle. So Heidi Feldstegin Soto
Speaker 5: trying to hold onto her position. But it's going to
Speaker 5: be interesting to see because name recognition plays a lot
Speaker 5: into this and Maursa Roy has been making the rounds,
Speaker 5: but a lot of people know who John mc kenny is,
Speaker 5: So it's going to be interesting to see how this
Speaker 5: plays out.
Speaker 1: Now, another race that is not getting nearly the amount
Speaker 1: of tention that you would think it would be getting
Speaker 1: is the race for La County Sheriff, where the incumbent
Speaker 1: Robert Luna, has seven different challenges against him, including the
Speaker 1: guy that he ran against in Wan last time, alex Vinawava,
Speaker 1: who wants his old job back.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's an interesting race. So seven candidates. I have
Speaker 5: interviewed every single one of them again on the Fox
Speaker 5: Local stream twenty minutes fifteen to twenty minutes a pop.
Speaker 5: So if you want to familiarize with these candidates, please
Speaker 5: check out my interviews on the Foxlocal app, foxlay dot com.
Speaker 5: That is an interesting race because that obviously what I
Speaker 5: find interesting is most of them are retired law enforcement.
Speaker 5: I'm looking at him right now. Detective law enforcement officer,
Speaker 5: Probation Operations chief, retired assistant sheriff sargent, retired sheriff captain.
Speaker 5: The interesting part that I'm getting to is they all
Speaker 5: know how much name recognition plays into this. So obviously
Speaker 5: alex Vinawava is the most highlighted opponents, challenger who wants
Speaker 5: his job back against Robert Luna. So they each have
Speaker 5: their own platform, they each have their own reasoning as
Speaker 5: to why they're making the run for it, but it's
Speaker 5: ultimately almost as if they're running against the Nueva in
Speaker 5: a sense, because they know that he is perhaps the
Speaker 5: strongest challenger, given he was the sheriff not long ago,
Speaker 5: and he has. When he was the sheriff, made a
Speaker 5: whole lot of headlines for better or worse. They say
Speaker 5: any price is a good press right, and so he
Speaker 5: is vehemently fighting to get.
Speaker 3: His job back.
Speaker 5: We'll see how that race plays out.
Speaker 1: All of these interviews for all these local offices. If
Speaker 1: you feel like you haven't done enough research on the
Speaker 1: candidates and you don't want to just look up a
Speaker 1: mission statement or a website, it's a really great way
Speaker 1: to learn about all these different candidates for all these
Speaker 1: different offices, so you can see who you want to
Speaker 1: throw your support behind. If you're going to be voting
Speaker 1: in these local races, it's important to know who you
Speaker 1: are voting for. And that's why I think it's a
Speaker 1: great idea to check out these interviews. You can download
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Speaker 1: I get them all on the YouTube page on Fox
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Speaker 1: at six o'clock eight to ten pm, and of course
Speaker 1: on the Fox Local stream. It's always such a pleasure
Speaker 1: to talk to you, and I love what you're doing
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Speaker 4: Okay, Well, we've at Talk to eleven.
Speaker 5: We really appreciate, appreciate, appreciate you Randy for bringing me
Speaker 5: on to talk about this, because we are really proud
Speaker 5: of the fact that we are giving all these candidates
Speaker 5: not just a few minutes, but a significant amount of time,
Speaker 5: and those interviews live on. So thank you so much
Speaker 5: for highlighting that.
Speaker 4: It means a lot.
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Speaker 1: can share them with your circle. We are in election season.
Speaker 1: We are in voting season, and the ballots came to
Speaker 1: everyone's house last week.
Speaker 3: Here we are a week later.
Speaker 1: How many people have voted in the state of California.
Speaker 3: Not a lot yet.
Speaker 1: It's early and in fact I'm wondering if when people
Speaker 1: are voting for governor, they're kind of waiting because they
Speaker 1: don't know who else is going to drop out or
Speaker 1: what other shoe is going to drop. In the crazy
Speaker 1: race for California governor up by shot, we're all on
Speaker 1: Katie watch because John's on vacation and that could mean
Speaker 1: that another Kdie video could drop because that's usually his luck.
Speaker 1: But when it comes to voting in the state of California. Now,
Speaker 1: this all comes from the PDI early vote tracker, Paul
Speaker 1: Mitchell's firm. Of the twenty two point eight million ballots
Speaker 1: that have gone out, well, about twenty three million ballots
Speaker 1: have gone out, three hundred and ten thousand ballots have
Speaker 1: come back, which means, as of May eleventh, yesterday, the
Speaker 1: turnout in the state of California is one point three percent.
Speaker 3: But it's early. We still got three weeks. Now.
Speaker 1: You want to break that down by party, The Democrats
Speaker 1: have returned one hundred and twenty seven thousand ballots about
Speaker 1: one point two percent. The Republicans have turned in about
Speaker 1: one hundred and eleven thousand ballots about one point nine percent,
Speaker 1: So it's pretty close. But when you look at the
Speaker 1: registration numbers. They sent out ten point three million Democrat ballots,
Speaker 1: five point seven million Republican ballots, and the no party preferencers,
Speaker 1: My people, we have voted, only seventy thousand returned out
Speaker 1: of six point nine million. They're almost seven million no
Speaker 1: party preferencers. And the one thing that unites a lot
Speaker 1: of no party preferencers is a lack of interest in
Speaker 1: voting in primary elections. Now, when it comes to the
Speaker 1: age groups, this shouldn't surprise you at all. Of the
Speaker 1: six point one million people that are in the demo,
Speaker 1: as they say, the eighteen to thirty fours, only twenty
Speaker 1: eight thousand have come back. Of the five point seven
Speaker 1: million voters that are between thirty five and forty nine
Speaker 1: my age group, forty three thousand have been returned point
Speaker 1: eight percent. Fifty to sixty four sixty five thousand of
Speaker 1: those five milli million voters one point three percent, and
Speaker 1: the course sixty five plus of the nearly six million
Speaker 1: voters one hundred and seventy two thousand, So the vast
Speaker 1: majority of the ballots that have come out three percent
Speaker 1: turnout rate among the elderly. If you break it down
Speaker 1: by race, white people one point eight percent, latinos point
Speaker 1: eight percent, Asian one point six percent, and Black one percent.
Speaker 1: I don't think they added Pacific Islander on here. So
Speaker 1: that is for the state of California. But what if
Speaker 1: you want to break down what it looks like for
Speaker 1: the City of Los Angeles, because you've got the big
Speaker 1: governor's race going on on the California ballot, but the
Speaker 1: city of LA does have this mayor's race, and this
Speaker 1: mayor's race is generating a lot of attention because Spencer
Speaker 1: Pratt is in this thing. The LA mayors race is
Speaker 1: getting national attention. Is that turning into votes? Well, here
Speaker 1: is the update for May twelfth today. Of the two
Speaker 1: point one million note yeah, about two point two million
Speaker 1: ballots that went out, thirty one thousand have been returned,
Speaker 1: a turnout rate of one point four percent. So let's
Speaker 1: break down those thirty one thousand people that already voted
Speaker 1: in the City of LA. When you break it down
Speaker 1: by party. Of the one point two million Democrats, fifteen
Speaker 1: thousand returned their ballots in week one, which is a
Speaker 1: turnout rate of one point three percent. Of the three
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty six thousand Republicans that are registered in
Speaker 1: the City of Los Angeles, and hope we every single
Speaker 1: one of them is listening to this show. Eighty three hundred,
Speaker 1: so a turnout rate of two point six percent, double
Speaker 1: what the Democrat return rate is, but the registration numbers
Speaker 1: are stacked against them. Now, one thing that Spencer Pratt
Speaker 1: has been pointing out when they ask him is that
Speaker 1: you know, wait, you're Republican. Democrats outweigh the Republicans by
Speaker 1: four to one in the City of Los Angeles. And
Speaker 1: he says, well, all my family are Democrats, all my
Speaker 1: friends are Democrats, and all the people that are going
Speaker 1: to vote for me are Democrats. It is a non
Speaker 1: partisan race. When it comes to the no party preferencers,
Speaker 1: which by the way, there are double the amount of
Speaker 1: NPPs that there are Republicans in the City of Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: They have a return rate just a little less than
Speaker 1: the Democrats at one point two percent seven thousand ballots
Speaker 1: out of the six hundred and sixty eight thousand. Now,
Speaker 1: when it comes to breaking this one down by age
Speaker 1: young people, of the six hundred and thirty six thousand
Speaker 1: people eighteen to thirty four, only three thousand have voted
Speaker 1: point five percent thirty five to forty nine one percent,
Speaker 1: fifty to sixty four one point six percent, but three
Speaker 1: percent of all the elderly sixty five plus fifteen thousand
Speaker 1: ballots have already been returned. You break it down by race,
Speaker 1: two percent of whites, zero point eight percent of Latinos,
Speaker 1: two percent of Asians, and one point two percent of blacks.
Speaker 1: And that is the turnouts that we have so far
Speaker 1: in the California governor's race and the LA mayor's race