WEBVTT - Susan Dyer Reynolds on the state of San Francisco 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:04.920 It is the John Phillipshow. Johnny is on vacation, so 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:08.639 it's Randy Wang here. John's back on Monday. Eight hundred 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:11.400 two two two five two two two. Is the telephone 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:14.760 number one eight hundred two two two five two two two. 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:17.360 You can email us at Johnny Don't Like show at 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:20.079 gmail dot com. You can also email me. My email 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:24.720 address is Randy Wang Radio at gmail dot com. Search 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:27.120 for the John Phillipshow wherever you get your podcast, and 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:29.240 while you're at it, you can subscribe to my solo 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:32.560 show I do at five o'clock on KABC seven ninety 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:36.160 every single day, the Newsplitz with Randy Wang. 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Susan dire Reynolds, 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:12.000 Welcome back to the John Phillips Show. 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:15.400 Hello, Randy, good to be with you again. 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:19.360 So it looks like Mayor Lurry's having a pretty good week. 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:22.240 The poll comes out showing that he's the most popular 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:24.800 mayor in the country, and he holds a press conference 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:28.200 today saying that, hey, look at this, the homeless numbers 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:30.440 are moving in the right direction. What do you make 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:30.720 of that? 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:37.360 Well, honestly, he has really good pr You know, he 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:39.720 pays three hundred and fifty thousand dollars of his own 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:42.679 money a year for what I call his baby pr team, 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.399 and they follow him around and do really cool Instagram videos. 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:48.360 I definitely think he's a breath of fresh air. You know, 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:51.160 in La, you guys are looking at Spencer Pratt for 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:54.280 the very same reasons people are tired of career politicians. 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:57.080 They're they're wanting the common man that feels the same 0:01:57.120 --> 0:01:59.840 things they feel. Although you know, in his case, he's 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:04.240 Larry is a billionaire inheriting the Levi's fortune from his 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:07.800 mother at some point. But I do think that his 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:11.639 everyman sort of personality kind of sways people into thinking 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:14.760 things are better, But if you're on the streets of 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:18.800 the city or you follow for example, JJ Smith, you 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:22.040 see the reality. And you know, I just did a 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:26.560 databased article about how there have been over forty nine 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:29.880 hundred drug overdose deaths in San Francisco in the past 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:34.000 five years, the majority happening indoors inside permanent support of 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:37.840 housing about thirty percent. The rest are scattered in different 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:42.640 parts and outside or hospitals. But the thirty percent is 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:45.760 a big number, and so we need more sober housing, clearly, 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:48.720 But then we have to address the hardcore homeless, the 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:51.600 drug tourists that come there for the drugs. They don't 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:53.840 want help, they don't want housing. And he's going to 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:56.240 have to get a lot tougher before that gets resolved, 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:58.600 and that means going after the dealers, and that's something 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:02.000 he's very reluctant to do. He also kind of lies 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.320 a lot. I mean, he says things. I did a 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:07.040 story called Laurie's Big Lie where he talks about, you know, 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:09.160 we no longer let people die on the street and 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:12.200 don't hand out paraphernalia. And I did a story with 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:15.000 JJ Smith where he went out and saw, you know, 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:18.080 people handing out paraphernalia by a park giving massages to 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:21.680 drug addicts. So the very same nonprofits that are allowing 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:24.760 people to die are still getting to hand out free paraphernalia, 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:27.320 and they're still getting you know, millions and millions and 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:29.360 millions of dollars. That hasn't changed. 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:32.800 Well, and that's what's so wild is he promised that 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:35.280 he was going to cut out this nonsense. San Francisco 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:38.480 is facing a huge budget deficit, and you would think 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:42.200 those programs are the first ones to cut. 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:46.640 Yes, you would think, But yet they just reapped a 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:50.160 number of these organizations. In fact, that the top three 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:54.240 organizations that have had the most deaths over the past 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:57.000 five years. In our report, which is a series called 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:01.840 Housing First, morg Second, you can see that they all 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:05.440 got re upped in the past year multimillion dollar contracts. 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:08.320 And the excuse is, well, Health Right three sixty is 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:11.640 so big it's hard to replace them. But in the meantime, 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:14.160 you know ten or Long Housing Clinic. You know, Randy 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:17.400 Shaw has been a poverty primp for decades, you know, 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:20.640 making millions off of the homeless and then standing there 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:24.240 saying he wants more done about drug addicts. When the 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:26.840 clients for the drug addicts live in his building and 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:29.360 are allowed to do drugs. That's still the problem is 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:33.719 that housing first is a California thing. It allows drugs 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:37.240 to be used. San Francisco's changed that San Jose. Matt 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:41.080 Mayhan the mayor, and Santase has done an incredible job. 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:43.839 I love that the Chronicle and the New York Times 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:46.919 are spewing, you know, oh, what a great mayor. You 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:50.400 know Danielurias. Well that's because the Chronicle did the poll 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:53.560 and they endorsed him and they love him. But the 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:55.840 fact is that Matt Mahan and Santase, and by the way, 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:58.160 I live both in the Silicon Valley and San Francisco, 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:02.320 so I see both. Matt Mahon has housed one third 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:05.680 of the homeless, but not just throwing them into these SROs. 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:09.200 He puts them in places that have job training and skills, 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:12.560 you know, learning skills, you counseling for their past traumas 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:16.080 they have to get, you know, into drug treatment. And 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:18.960 he has about an eighty nine percent success rate. He's 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:22.440 the best mayor in all of California, and yet he 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:25.640 gets almost no credit, whereas Lurie, you know, has a 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.960 big PR team that he pays for, and you know, 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.680 he gets splashed across the New York Times, the Chronicle. 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:34.640 Oh he's so popular. But you know, I can tell 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:36.960 you that I've gotten some of those, you know, polls, 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:41.440 and they're very skewed toward Daniel Lurie. And I just 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:43.360 think that a lot of this is a bunch of ball, 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:44.680 to be honest. 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:47.840 Well, and the situation with the SROs, which has been 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:51.080 a disaster before Lurie, but it really hasn't changed. And 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:54.120 a lot of this is state law, but it really 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:57.760 has gotten to a point where it's not even like, 0:05:57.880 --> 0:05:59.800 you know, a crazy thing to say that if you 0:05:59.880 --> 0:06:02.120 go into one of those SROs you're coming out in 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:02.800 a body bag. 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:06.200 It's well, you know, and I know you know who 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:09.440 JJ Smith is. But if you watch him when he's 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:12.400 standing by the medical examiner van and they bring out 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:14.719 a body and they open up the van at seven 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:17.159 in the morning, there's room for four people, and there's 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:20.720 usually already three bodies in the van. So it's a 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:23.479 still a crisis. People are still dying at the rate 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:26.279 of two persons per day in San Francisco. You know, 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:29.680 you know, I was, you know when I was there 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:34.760 last week walking around. Did neighborhood look better? For sure, 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:39.880 North Beach, you know, the Marina, But when you go 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:44.320 to the tenor loin, the mission is a disaster, just 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:47.120 worse than I've ever seen it because they've kind of 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:50.160 all been pushed that way. The other thing I'm doing 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:54.000 an article on, and it's also very you know, la relevant, 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:57.839 is the sheer amount of animal abuse and torture and 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:01.120 breeding that goes on in these SROs and very similar 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:03.880 to skid Row or Joey Tucco's doing an amazing job, 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:07.680 and Spencer Pratt has shined a huge light the amount 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:11.480 of abuse and suffering that these officials just ignore. And 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:13.520 in San Francisco we just tried to pass the Spaean 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:16.880 neoter law. But what happens is they all get scared 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:19.680 of the giant SPCA here, which is a you know, 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:24.120 multimillion dollar nonprofit that just does marketing and says very 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:27.440 few dogs. And then you know, the homeless coalitions all 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:30.520 chime in, Oh, it's so prejudiced against the homeless having pets, 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.080 and you have all this you know, dumb stuff for 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:37.240 these people that even the AKC weighed in. I mean, wait, 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:39.520 aren't you supposed to be about purebread dogs. I mean, 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:42.760 I rescued a pure bread Staffaire bull terrier last year. 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:45.840 She's twelve, and like yesterday, she had to have sixteen 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:48.680 teeth removed because it's part of her breed. And here, 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:51.720 here they're breeding all these horrible things into these purebread dogs, 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:54.120 and they want the homeless to breed their dogs. I 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:56.400 don't understand. So there's a lot of things in San 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:59.240 Francisco going on that are very similar to LA and 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:02.840 I don't see the officials doing anything where those kind 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.040 of things are concerned. I mean, we had a drug 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:09.240 addic strangle his pitbull in front of the SRO where 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:12.600 he was living. I mean, in what civilized city does 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:13.200 that happen. 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:17.560 It's just wild, and you know, obviously it's it's almost 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:20.960 it's definitely worse here in Los Angeles. But it seems 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:24.160 that no matter whether you're talking about San Francisco, La Compton, 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:29.080 what have you, elected officials will not even admit that 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:32.040 there is a problem with the animal abuse that's happening, 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:36.679 like you said, in government subsidized housing in the SROs. 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.000 And for as much as we're trying to control our 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:42.240 pet populations. The fact that we're not even requiring the 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:45.360 animals that are in these SROs to be spade and neutered. 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:48.000 We know what's going to happen. We know they're being bred. 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:50.680 It's a business model for these people. It's it's just 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:52.160 completely unconscionable. 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:56.640 And you see it. You know, honestly, skid rose is 0:08:57.000 --> 0:09:00.160 obviously a human disaster too. But when people say, oh, 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.040 they're just these poor people that need their pets, now, 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:04.960 these are these a currency for them, They're a commodity. 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:08.200 And the level of I mean, there is someone in 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:10.559 San Francisco named kun al Modi who is the kind 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:14.199 of the homeless star for Lori. He is trying very hard. 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:16.120 He was the one that brought the spey and neuter 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:20.520 along with Matt Dorsey a supervisor. But the level of 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:26.000 idiocy amongst officials. I had a supervisor named Alan Wong 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.840 who was appointed by Lourie after his disaster with the 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:32.360 pet cemetery lady that you had the pet store. When 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:35.000 she had to step down, he appointed this guy, Alan Wong, 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:37.640 and he tells me that he just thought that spaying 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:39.880 and neutering a dog was mean to the dogs, that 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:41.960 the dogs shouldn't have to suffer. And I've said, are 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:46.120 you kids, really? I think you're a supervisor. Do your homework. 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:49.200 I just feel there's a big push toward non politicians 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:52.000 because people are sick and tired of politicians that get 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:54.480 appointed to these positions, are elected and they really don't 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:57.640 know anything. So why are you there? If you can't 0:09:57.640 --> 0:09:59.440 make thing better, don't be there. 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:02.920 We're speaking with Susan Dyer Reynolds. You can follow her 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:05.480 on social media at Susan d Reynolds and of course 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:08.120 the website is the voicesf dot org. 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:08.360 Now. 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:10.480 I was up in San Francisco last week and I 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:14.640 had a wonderful time. I was actually very pleasantly surprised 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:17.240 of how clean Union Square is looking now and not 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:20.320 a car breaking to be seen. North Beach was gorgeous, 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:22.840 of course, the west Side, Golden Gate Park, Cole Valley. 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.160 We had a ton of fun, and it sure seems 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:28.559 that the good neighborhoods they're looking a lot better right now. 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:31.080 But when you look at all the videos from JJ 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:33.479 and all the other people that are down in the Tenderloin, 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:36.680 the Tenderloin is as bad as ever. And I don't 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:39.200 know if this new Reset Center is really going to 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:40.000 change anything. 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:45.800 Well, we'll find out. One of our writers, woman named 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:48.840 Amber Richmond, who started writing for us, a young woman 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:52.600 who was an addict and has been clean since December, 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:56.600 writing about her stories in the Boys. She is working there, 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:59.959 So you know, I'm hoping that it'll be a success, 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:01.760 but on such a small scale. 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:02.439 No. 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:05.840 And the other thing is that you know, I interview 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:08.800 I've been interviewing the homeless in San Francisco for decades, 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:10.880 and the thing I hear from them all the time 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:14.000 is they just want to do drugs. They don't want help, 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:16.800 they don't want to get clean. Every time JJ offers, 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:20.320 you know, someone's substance treatment, you see the videos, what 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:22.960 do they say, No, I like doing drugs. I'm not 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.640 ready now, I'm not ready. I don't want to go 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:28.319 to treatment. So even when they're offered it to them, 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:30.480 they don't take it. So I just don't see how 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:34.120 effective it's going to be. In Sama's they cuss you, 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:37.520 they check your warrants, they put you in jail, and 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:40.160 then you either accept help or they put you on 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:42.880 a bus and you go go home to wherever you're from. 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:46.560 San Francisco says, they do that, but you know there 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:50.120 are people still getting seven almost seven hundred dollars a 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:52.400 month that just step off the bus. And you know, 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:54.960 JJ just interviewed a woman who crossed the bridge from 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:58.720 Oakland and got into housing within four months, and she says, 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:00.760 oh yeah, and I love drugs and doing drugs. I'm 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:03.000 here for the drugs. Those people, You're never going to 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:05.319 be able to help them with something like a reset center. 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:07.560 The only thing that's going to help those people is 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:09.880 throwing them in gin jail. You know, I asked Matt 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:12.280 Mahon when I toured one of the facilities in Santase, 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:15.720 which was clean and sparkling outside and in why I 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:17.920 didn't see the drug addicts outside like I do in 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:20.720 San Francisco. And he said, because I won't allow it. 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:26.640 I want enforcement, And without enforcement, you can't achieve what 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:28.079 he's achieved. In Santase. 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:29.760 You will not see. 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:32.240 People doing drugs or selling drugs in public, and if 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:34.680 you do, they will be arrested, they will get stay 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:38.160 away orders. And you know the problem with San Francisco 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:41.120 is the whole sanctuary city myth that you know it's 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:45.120 there to protect these working immigrants when in reality, they 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:48.680 don't have the butt, but we won't accept it for 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:52.840 drug dealers, you know, and criminals and murderers and rapists, 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:55.800 like they just won't say it, and it's like it's 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:59.440 politically incorrect to say it. And I don't understand that, 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:03.520 because no one should want someone slinging sentinel in their neighborhood. 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:07.280 And until until Laurie toughens up on that, I don't 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:08.480 see it changing well. 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:10.320 And I remember it was just a couple of years 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:13.800 ago when Matt Dorsey tried to change San Francisco's sanctuary 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:17.240 city law to make an exception for the illegal alien 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:21.079 Honduran drug dealers that are out there every single day 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:24.959 dealing in public in the tenderloin in Soma in the mission, 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:28.199 and he got shot down and called a racist for it. 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:33.080 Yep, that's right, And nobody stood up for him in 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:36.320 that in that scenario, and he's continued to try to 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:40.160 get that passed and push things like sober housing and 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:44.000 dealing and dealing with the dealers no pun intended. But 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:47.160 I haven't heard LORII ever say, and I've written multiple 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:50.160 times about this, I've never heard him say, and we 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:53.079 will put the dealers in jail and we will deport them. 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:57.240 And and everybody knows the drug the drug users, they'll 0:13:57.280 --> 0:13:59.120 just say it out right, Oh, I get my drugs 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:02.840 from the hondos. They call themselves hondos. Everybody knows that 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:05.559 the Hondurans run the tender Win. And you know, there's 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:08.600 been an increase in murders in San Francisco, which Laurie 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:12.240 doesn't like to talk about, but homicides are up. And 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:15.839 I heard from both an emergency room nurse and doctor 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:18.200 that they're seeing a lot of more of what they 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:22.440 call them this homie drop offs, where they basically pull 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:24.520 up in a car, shove the person out and drive off. 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:29.240 A lot more stabbing shootings in the emergency room. And 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:33.760 it's game related and drug territory related. So this is 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.440 just not something that you can gloss over and say 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:39.360 homelessness is down and look at us, we're clean and shiny. 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:42.280 Parts of San Francisco look a lot better. I think 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:45.520 Danie Lurie is popular because he is a cheerleader and 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:47.720 he does great you know Instagram. I call him the 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:52.320 instamare Matt and Mayhem and Santase is more nose to 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:56.440 the grindstone, get it. Done. He's not flashy. He grew up, 0:14:56.560 --> 0:15:01.800 you know, middle class in Watsonville, California, different ILKs than Danie. 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:04.240 Lurie was born with the golden swoon in his mouth. 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:07.240 You know, I got to ask you, I want to 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:09.720 pick your brain on this because you cover both mayors, 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:12.040 and you know, Matt Mahon has been going up and 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.920 down the state thamas is as he's trying to run 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:18.120 for governor, and he has put out a very common 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:20.680 sense message. Here's what I've done in San Jose. I 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:23.280 want to bring the state wide. Why do you think 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:25.760 that's not resonating with primary voters. 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:29.800 I think one of the things that he got into late, 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:32.840 you know, he got in pretty late in the race 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:35.760 when people had made some choices. I think another is 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:38.400 that he's not known, as you said, he's not known 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:42.160 in southern California, and he doesn't have a big brand yet, 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:44.280 and he doesn't have a big PR team like Daniel 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:47.320 Lurie does to push his name to the national media. 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:50.200 Many times, Daniel Lurie wants to be in the New 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:53.240 York Times. He's there just like that. So you know, 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:55.680 you have to have a sadly a PR team for that, 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:58.800 and I don't think he's picked the right campaign advisors. 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:02.160 I think they've made some mistakes making him sound a 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:06.200 little bit more liberal than he actually is. I'm not 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:09.000 saying that he's a conservative by any means, but he's 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:12.800 not this you know, bleeding heart left wing you know, 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:16.840 sanctuary for drug dealers. That some of his you know, 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:19.440 the things he said, have come off that way. I 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:22.800 think he did get rid of someone that was given 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:25.960 over to him by Billala Mamood, who is a really 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:29.480 far left in my opinion, supervisor in San Francisco that 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:32.560 beat the impressed in the socialist But other than that, 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:35.120 he's not much better. And I just don't think he's 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:38.160 selling the message hasn't been sold the way the way 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:40.440 he sells himself, just when he's in Santase, the way 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:42.480 he sells himself is how he should be selling himself 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:45.160 to everyone, and he's not come across that way. I've 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:47.520 even been angry with him in a couple of the 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:49.760 things he's put out where he just comes across like 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:52.760 the run of the mill, you know, liberal dude. 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:58.600 Yeah, the campaign definitely has had its issues, and I 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:01.000 think you pointed them out exactly what some of the 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:03.280 problem is, you know, we have invited him to come 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:06.119 on this show so many times, and he came on 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:07.960 the show in the past when he was promoting Prop 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:10.439 thirty six, and no problem, Like, you don't have to 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:12.720 do this show, but it sure seems like, you know, 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:16.560 doing radio that's broadcast in southern California northern California would 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:18.399 be an interesting way to get your message out. But 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:21.320 we get Stonewall, which I find very interesting. 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:24.679 That is. I mean, you know, he follows me on 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:27.199 X so maybe I'll tag him and say, you know, 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:30.080 go on with Randy because he does need to be 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:32.960 heard in LA if he's going to win LA. I 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:37.239 think people forget what a big chunk of property La is, 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:40.440 you know, everybody is. So when they're in the Bay Area, 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:42.160 they think, you know, we're the be all and end all, 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:45.640 but southern California is vast and he's just not very 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:50.439 well known there. It frightens me a little too that 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:56.520 California voters are so apathetic and they look at the Sarah, 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:59.159 they recognize the name and they'll just click the box 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:00.760 because they wrecked the name. 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:04.120 Yeah, that one might be biting voters in the ass. 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:07.439 If this Dana Williamson, thing gets any more interesting. Susan 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:10.800 Dire Reynolds, thank you so much as always for joining us. 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:13.439 Make sure that you bookmark the Voice of San Francisco 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:16.320 the voicesf dot org, and you can of course follow 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:19.600 her at Susan d Reynolds. Susandire Reynolds. Thank you so 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:21.400 much as always for joining us. 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:24.000 Thank you for having me. Randy talk to you next time. 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:28.520 Johnny's on vacation, well deserved. He'll be back on Monday. 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:31.520 When am I taking a vacation? I mean I get 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:33.359 to work when I'm in Santa Fe. So I have 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:36.320 actually taken a day off all year, but at some 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:40.040 point I will, you know, got to bank those days. 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:42.720 But he'll be back on Monday. The phone number is 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:45.560 eight hundred two two two five two two two. You 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:48.119 can email our show at Johnny Don't Like Show at 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:50.880 gmail dot com. If you want my personal email address, 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:54.680 it's Randy Wang Radio at gmail dot com. 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As we're in 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:31.399 voting season, there are a lot of people in the 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:35.320 Democrat primary that are still freaking out about the very 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:40.400 small but still possibility that it could be two Republicans 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:43.920 going into the runoff in June. Now that seems less 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:47.560 likely every single day, as Javier Bessera is going up 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:50.320 in the polls and Chad Bianco is going down in 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:54.520 the polls. But it's still a possibility, and that's why 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:57.399 there are some strategists that want to make sure that 0:19:57.560 --> 0:20:02.840 this never ever ever has happens again, which is why 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:08.520 they are now looking at collecting signatures for a ballot 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:14.280 measure in twenty twenty eight that would repeal California's top 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:19.480 two jungle primary system. For more on this, we go 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:24.000 to KCRA three and the wonderful Ashley's of All You 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:26.159 know we would love to get Ashley on the show sometime, 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:29.240 but I think she's usually either at the capitol or 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:32.280 filing her reports when we're on the air. But we 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:34.800 love her as an effort on We really do love 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:38.439 highlighting our local voices, whether it's in broadcast journalism or 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:41.479 independent journalism. That's one of the things that we really 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:43.760 love to do here because there are some great people 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:45.440 covering this great state. 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:49.600 There's an effort underway to ditch California's open primary election system. 0:20:49.440 --> 0:20:52.399 And it's because of this year's governor's race. California is 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:54.960