Speaker 1: And we continue at one oh five in the afternoon
Speaker 1: on the John Phillips Show, mister Randy Wings in Culver City.
Speaker 2: John, we are six days away from the end of
Speaker 2: the June primary and the state of California has about
Speaker 2: a ten percent ballot return rate. In the city of Oakland,
Speaker 2: that return rate is seven percent.
Speaker 3: I said, hell no, baby boy, let me get up
Speaker 3: on out of here.
Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is
Speaker 1: Jellphone number one. Eight hundred two two two five two
Speaker 1: two two. It is our pleasure to welcome our next
Speaker 1: guest to the program. She is a candidate for state
Speaker 1: Superintendent of Public Instruction. You can get her online at
Speaker 1: shawforca dot com. Sonya Shaw, Welcome.
Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you for having me. I'm excited to
Speaker 4: be here with you guys today.
Speaker 1: Why should you be the next state Superintendent of Public Instruction?
Speaker 4: Do we have enough time? I'm just kidding me. Look
Speaker 4: at the results of the current system we have and
Speaker 4: fifty billion dollars being spent and kids are only at
Speaker 4: forty seven percent for reading at grade level thirty seven
Speaker 4: for math. You have the state fighting parents for you know, parents'
Speaker 4: constitutional rights. You have boys and girls sports and locker rooms.
Speaker 4: You have the kids entering the UC system that need
Speaker 4: remedial math because you know they have they're so far behind.
Speaker 4: I mean, I can go on and on why me,
Speaker 4: but we do have the blueprint and Chino Valley I
Speaker 4: got into this fight six years ago. I've been the
Speaker 4: board president for Chino for four years. We have a
Speaker 4: five member board now that focuses on education. And we've
Speaker 4: also been identified in California even as a recovery model
Speaker 4: since COVID, so we have I have the you know,
Speaker 4: proven results. I'm a fighter. I dope back down from
Speaker 4: a fight when it comes to protecting our kids. And
Speaker 4: a nutshell, that's why you need me as the one
Speaker 4: leading the charge here in California.
Speaker 1: California ranks near the bottom of the nation in just
Speaker 1: about every category. And when you look at Southern states
Speaker 1: that people typically from places like this look down their nose,
Speaker 1: Yet their reading scores are starting to pop places like
Speaker 1: Mississippi and Alabama in part because they have fully embraced phonics.
Speaker 1: In California. For whatever reason, phonics has become a lightning
Speaker 1: rod issue where there are institutional forces that have been
Speaker 1: fighting that for years. Why is it that phonics are
Speaker 1: so controversial when we know that it works.
Speaker 4: Because it's simple, it's common sense. They fight against anything
Speaker 4: that's common sense, and it's not giving these third party
Speaker 4: a special interest groups money to try a program and
Speaker 4: continuously having our kids as an experimental, you know, plan
Speaker 4: for them. So truly it's something that works, it has
Speaker 4: the research. But we know that. You know, California, unfortunately,
Speaker 4: the majority of the legislators and those elected are in
Speaker 4: the pockets of those that are their donors, and this
Speaker 4: is phonics isn't one of them. So they try all
Speaker 4: these other things and have all these other people's hands
Speaker 4: into our kids. And the education system and the unions,
Speaker 4: I mean, they fight us relentlessly against these things, even
Speaker 4: in our own district. But fortunately we have enough of
Speaker 4: at least in our own district, the majority of great
Speaker 4: educators that have jumped on board, and you know, they're
Speaker 4: willing to do everything possible to get our kids up
Speaker 4: to par. But I would also say again it's the
Speaker 4: unions that fight relentlessly against common sense thinks here in California. Unfortunately.
Speaker 1: What's wild to me is that the university systems in California,
Speaker 1: the community college is although there's fraud going on there
Speaker 1: with phantom students that has been exposed. But by and large,
Speaker 1: our universities are pretty good. UCLA, you see Berkeley, world
Speaker 1: class institutions.
Speaker 3: You see San Francisco, the.
Speaker 1: Medical school, the law schools at Bolt and Hastings. People
Speaker 1: from all over the globe want to go to these universities.
Speaker 1: I graduated from cal State Fullerton. I received an excellent
Speaker 1: education there, and it was priced quite competitively, I mean
Speaker 1: compared to what people pay in other states for in
Speaker 1: state tuition. My Battery's degree was pretty cheap. Yet K
Speaker 1: through twelve I don't know of anyone, anyone in my
Speaker 1: own social network who lives in a big city, whether
Speaker 1: it be La or San Francisco, or Oakland or San Diego,
Speaker 1: who's willing to send their kids to the public school system.
Speaker 1: They all send their kids to private schools. They lie
Speaker 1: about their address, and they send their kids to a
Speaker 1: suburban school district that still functions. But no one is
Speaker 1: willing in my network to send their kids to LAUSD,
Speaker 1: for example. Why is it that we have these world
Speaker 1: class institutions for higher education and our K through twelve
Speaker 1: system is trash.
Speaker 4: I mean pretty much because of what's going on with
Speaker 4: the unions and pushing this into the university's even the
Speaker 4: curriculum is that way. So I mean, for me, I
Speaker 4: see the fraud and the abuse and the mismanagement of money.
Speaker 4: L EOSD San Diego. They're both in deficits. We continuously
Speaker 4: see this, but unfortunately the universities aren't what right now
Speaker 4: currently aren't what you experienced back when you were in
Speaker 4: the university system as well. I mean again, we did
Speaker 4: you know? I was on Fox recently and one in
Speaker 4: eight of our students are needing remedial maths because of
Speaker 4: what is being happened in the K through twelve system. Honestly,
Speaker 4: it's just the failure of everybody involved. And we've seen it.
Speaker 4: I've seen it six years ago. We're sounding the alarm,
Speaker 4: we're trying to fix it, but we're being fought against relentlessly.
Speaker 4: One of my opponents comes from San Diego Unified, and
Speaker 4: he claims that his district, San Diego Unified, is the best,
Speaker 4: and he even says best one of the best in
Speaker 4: the nation. You're telling me your friends and colleagues and
Speaker 4: circles have taken their kids out of, you know, places
Speaker 4: like San Diego Unified. It's because they continue to gat
Speaker 4: fight those people that you know and tell them it's
Speaker 4: the best when we've seen the results. I mean, unfortunately,
Speaker 4: these kids are coming out of the system and they
Speaker 4: don't even know how to read. So again, I just
Speaker 4: see it as a continuous downhill spiral unless we get
Speaker 4: involved and we get and we get people in there
Speaker 4: that are willing to get their hands, you know, in
Speaker 4: there and change these things and fight against the machine
Speaker 4: that has been built to, you know, bring upon this
Speaker 4: felure upon our kids. But unfortunately, not all kids have
Speaker 4: that benefit as well as parents being able to pull
Speaker 4: their kids out. I pulled my kids out six years
Speaker 4: ago for a brief time until I went back in
Speaker 4: high school. We changed our school board. But it's really hard.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm still trying to wake up people in
Speaker 4: our own community and tell them not to trust, and
Speaker 4: also to tell them to have those dinner table conversations.
Speaker 4: So we can't fix it with those people that are
Speaker 4: willing to fix it. But again, I think people are
Speaker 4: so busy that they don't even see exactly what's going
Speaker 4: on in their children's education every day until it's too late.
Speaker 3: Here's what I don't know understand.
Speaker 1: And I understand that unions exist to get more money
Speaker 1: for their members, better benefits for their members, and that's
Speaker 1: why they're here, and that's what they care about. But
Speaker 1: is there just no pride at all that exists in
Speaker 1: those circles. Because if I were a union leader and
Speaker 1: I understood that everyone in my district, every parent that
Speaker 1: lives in my community of means opts out of the
Speaker 1: system because the product is so bad and the only
Speaker 1: population that is left are people who have no other options,
Speaker 1: whether it be because of economic circumstances or whatever. I
Speaker 1: would be embarrassed. I wouldn't want to show my face
Speaker 1: in public. But they just don't seem to care at all.
Speaker 4: They don't care because at the end of the day,
Speaker 4: they're getting more money for failure. You see it, All
Speaker 4: the districts that are failing kids continuously get more money.
Speaker 4: It's in the legislation as well, I mean in the
Speaker 4: funding models. We just Ian knew some you know, he's
Speaker 4: even withholding some of our Prop ninety eight promised money.
Speaker 4: But at the same token, you see that all these
Speaker 4: grants are set up for districts that fail. They have
Speaker 4: no incentive to actually push kids in the right direction
Speaker 4: unless they're morally right, which we know look at the
Speaker 4: results of California. That's not by means anywhere near where
Speaker 4: we need to be here in California. I believe that
Speaker 4: as long as they get the money, they don't care.
Speaker 4: I mean, they're out loud and proud. They're taking kids
Speaker 4: for goodness States, even our vulnerable population, even our special
Speaker 4: needs kids, out to the picket lines to do dirty
Speaker 4: work of adults. This is just by design. I don't
Speaker 4: think that they care about the pride the results are there.
Speaker 4: I mean, wouldn't you be embarrassed. Unfortunately, we are losing
Speaker 4: a lot of great teachers, and we're also losing the
Speaker 4: opportunity for a lot of great potential teachers to sign
Speaker 4: up for this profession. And that's why you see the
Speaker 4: teacher shortage, because there is people that don't want part
Speaker 4: of it. My sixteen year old included grew you know,
Speaker 4: she she was growing up, she always wanted to be
Speaker 4: a teacher, and now she's like, mom, I don't want
Speaker 4: to be anywhere near being a teacher. And it breaks
Speaker 4: my heart because we would need people like her. But unfortunately,
Speaker 4: they see what's going on in the classrooms. They see
Speaker 4: the results of this generation that's growing up to hate America,
Speaker 4: and they're being pushed by the activists. What I call
Speaker 4: activists in the classroom. I don't call these educators. I
Speaker 4: call them activists in the classroom. This is by design.
Speaker 4: They're excited for this, and they again it deepening their pockets.
Speaker 1: It seems like we've jumped the shark to the point
Speaker 1: to where these districts are about the employees and the
Speaker 1: kids don't matter, and the kids are an afterthought, and
Speaker 1: the quality of education that they receive is something that's
Speaker 1: not particularly relevant. It's just making sure that we have
Speaker 1: the money to pay the salaries, that we have the
Speaker 1: money for the benefits, we have the money for new contracts,
Speaker 1: and as long as that happens, then everyone's happy and
Speaker 1: we're fine. But the districts are about the employees and
Speaker 1: not the kids.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 4: I see that too, and you know it's top down, unfortunately,
Speaker 4: and you see even with them wanting the pay the benefits,
Speaker 4: the ones that tenure, the ones that are you know,
Speaker 4: already cemented in there, they're getting this. But unfortunately, again
Speaker 4: we're going to not being able to retain our great
Speaker 4: newer teachers because they're being chopped off. We see districts
Speaker 4: all over California laying people off. I mean we see
Speaker 4: the sheets going through right now all the districts when
Speaker 4: they're doing their budgets for this next coming school year.
Speaker 4: It's absolutely horrifying. So at the end of the day,
Speaker 4: they're getting paid more, but how many teachers are they
Speaker 4: being able to retain? Not very many. I mean I saw,
Speaker 4: you know, LA Unified on the picket lines, one of
Speaker 4: the teachers saying he has forty two kids in the class. Well,
Speaker 4: they just gave a huge raise with you know, not
Speaker 4: living within their means, and guess what they're doing. They're
Speaker 4: laying off teachers. So you're creating that problem by continuously
Speaker 4: just feeding into the cycles. So you have those that
Speaker 4: are getting their pay, but you also have those that
Speaker 4: are being chopped off that are needed in the classroom,
Speaker 4: and the money, unfortunately, isn't going into the classroom. You
Speaker 4: have very little districts, you know, including ours, gratefully they're
Speaker 4: trying to do with what we have. But then again
Speaker 4: you have the bigger districts, you know, sucking it all
Speaker 4: up and asking for more money and then getting us
Speaker 4: the results that they do, requiring classes that have nothing
Speaker 4: to do with reading, writing, a math, and pathways to
Speaker 4: success as well. And that's where you know, we have
Speaker 4: people that are gratefully waking up. But I think it's
Speaker 4: almost at the point where we need a mass majority
Speaker 4: to wake up and stop voting in the same things.
Speaker 4: I mean, the union they put in what four point
Speaker 4: one million dollars in counting already into the selection. They
Speaker 4: want to buy every seat our school board seats are
Speaker 4: bought to by the unions, hundreds and thousands per seat.
Speaker 4: Parents need to wake up and demand that they get
Speaker 4: this voice at the table. Otherwise they're really just handing
Speaker 4: their kids over to a system that's created to fail them.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what it reminds me of.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of the bullet train, because people say, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: the bullet train's a boondoggle, it's a failure because there
Speaker 1: is no train, and Newsome and his press team snap
Speaker 1: at anyone who says that. They go, oh no, it's
Speaker 1: wildly successful. Look at all the people we've hired, look
Speaker 1: at all the jobs that we've created, and it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: but no one can use it because it doesn't exist,
Speaker 1: but from their point of view, it's just about the
Speaker 1: employees and just about making sure that people get paid,
Speaker 1: and whether or not the public can use it is
Speaker 1: just not something that's relevant.
Speaker 3: And that's how I see this.
Speaker 1: And part of the problem too, to go back to
Speaker 1: what we were talking about before, when people pull their
Speaker 1: kids out of the public schools and they put them
Speaker 1: in the private schools, the attitude is, Okay, this is
Speaker 1: such a dumpster fire. I don't have the time or
Speaker 1: the effort to be able to fix it. So I'm
Speaker 1: going to vote with my feet and I'm going to
Speaker 1: put my kids in a school that's actually functioning. The
Speaker 1: problem is they still have access to your tax dollars,
Speaker 1: so they can keep failing and failing and failing. But
Speaker 1: guess what, as long as they control the school boards
Speaker 1: and as long as they control the legislature and the governor,
Speaker 1: they're going to continue to be funded, whether or not
Speaker 1: they spend their districts in the insolvency. I mean, take
Speaker 1: Oakland Unified for example. I don't see how that district
Speaker 1: stays out of bankruptcy because they're a district that it
Speaker 1: has a declining enrollment. They have schools that probably should
Speaker 1: be shut down because there's nobody there, and they keep
Speaker 1: giving the teachers massive raises when there's no reason to
Speaker 1: justify that, and they don't have the money, they don't
Speaker 1: have the tax base, they don't have the financial support
Speaker 1: to fulfill their obligations with these contracts, and it seems
Speaker 1: like the attitude of the district and of the teachers
Speaker 1: is who cares, The state will bail us out.
Speaker 3: And if that's the attitude that they.
Speaker 1: Have, there's no physical responsibility anywhere.
Speaker 4: No, you're right, and the state has been bailing them
Speaker 4: out because you'll see all these you know, fancy little
Speaker 4: nice grants that they package up. They make them take
Speaker 4: it because they need the money and that's how they
Speaker 4: survive until the next grant comes along. Or you know,
Speaker 4: they're passing bonds for things that they should have the
Speaker 4: school boards of passing bonds on the onto the taxpayers
Speaker 4: again asking for more money when we had enough money.
Speaker 4: I mean, every single one of my opponents I've been
Speaker 4: in you know, conversations, debates, different kinds of you know
Speaker 4: things that we've all been on the same stage, so
Speaker 4: to say, as and they all say we need more money,
Speaker 4: I am mortified. That we're asking for more money for this.
Speaker 4: We have enough money. It just needs to be stopped.
Speaker 4: You know, we need to stop giving it to the
Speaker 4: wrong people and also stop you know, putting it into
Speaker 4: the failure continuously. You know. Again, well, I'll say that,
Speaker 4: you know, districts like ours, we we utilize the money
Speaker 4: that we get the right way, and we're trying to
Speaker 4: do the best, including fighting against when the union fights
Speaker 4: us on frivolous lawsuits for things that we were voted
Speaker 4: in and for like parents' rights, and making sure ideology
Speaker 4: is taken out of the classroom. But I mean, unless
Speaker 4: we unless we start which I am grateful that we
Speaker 4: have a movement going, start getting people to raise up
Speaker 4: and pay attention to these school board seats and the
Speaker 4: state superintendent seat. Look, the last sixteen months, I've done
Speaker 4: a lot of educating across California to show the importance
Speaker 4: of these quote unquote nonpartisan seats. But also in those
Speaker 4: rooms that I've been grateful to be in, I've gotten
Speaker 4: people to say they're going to run for school board.
Speaker 4: We need that, We need people in their own communities
Speaker 4: to be the voice. It's going to take time. This
Speaker 4: didn't happen overnight. Again, I wasn't involved in politics until
Speaker 4: it got slammed in my face and I saw what
Speaker 4: was happening to our kids, you know, when the schools
Speaker 4: were shut down. But I think there's enough right now
Speaker 4: where we can get people involved. We just have to,
Speaker 4: you know, not turn a blind eye to all these things.
Speaker 4: But you talked about private schools. Let's talk about one
Speaker 4: issue that is happening even in the private schools. First
Speaker 4: of all, though kids are growing up in the same
Speaker 4: communities and you know, prayfully it's staying in California if
Speaker 4: we can fix and make the changes that are needed
Speaker 4: to keep these kids here and they end up having families.
Speaker 4: But how about sports. The private schools are having to
Speaker 4: compete against the regular you know, school districts, and guess
Speaker 4: what we're doing. We're putting boys against those kids. So
Speaker 4: it is speeling over and people do need to realize
Speaker 4: although you might think that your kid is safe for
Speaker 4: a little bit of time, there's California laws that your
Speaker 4: kids are still going to have to face. And when
Speaker 4: they become eighteen and you know, they get a job
Speaker 4: and have to pay, there's still the consequences of what's
Speaker 4: happening if we don't start paying attention to what's happening
Speaker 4: into the public school system. I truly believe if we
Speaker 4: go back to the root of it, they want to
Speaker 4: control this generation and able to control it, you have
Speaker 4: to poison the minds of this generation, and that's what
Speaker 4: they're doing. They're making social activists instead of responsible adults.
Speaker 4: But you do see people fighting. I haven't given up.
Speaker 4: I'm not giving up. I know many people that aren't
Speaker 4: giving up. But we do need people to start paying
Speaker 4: attention and at least doing their a little bit apart.
Speaker 1: You mentioned that you were socialized into the world of politics.
Speaker 1: Based on the COVID nineteen shutdown of the schools, it
Speaker 1: seems to me that the state of California has not
Speaker 1: had the honest conversation that they need to have about
Speaker 1: what a massive mistake that was and what do we
Speaker 1: do to make sure that never happens again.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, one thing we can do is vote differently. We
Speaker 4: can't keep voting in the same people. Look the state
Speaker 4: superintendent seat right now, they're trying to take the complete
Speaker 4: authority away, and they have the means to take it away.
Speaker 4: They have the ability, they have the super majority of
Speaker 4: legislators that will follow along and they'll probably pass this bill.
Speaker 4: But we don't need just someone in their short term
Speaker 4: to promise all these things. You need a fighter exposing
Speaker 4: these things so we have another awakening of parents to
Speaker 4: realize their kids are in harm's way. That's what I
Speaker 4: plan to do, to be honest, And with that we
Speaker 4: can start exposing the legislators that are making the laws,
Speaker 4: you know, that are preventing districts like ours from doing
Speaker 4: what's right for kids. Then you'll have a state you
Speaker 4: know voice saying hey, this is what your current legislator,
Speaker 4: your assembly person, how about your assembly person's the burgh
Speaker 4: who called parents and refer to them as Nazis because
Speaker 4: they're protecting their daughters from wanting boys in their girls' sports.
Speaker 4: And you know, locker rooms. How many parents know that?
Speaker 4: How many parents even know boys and girls are allowed
Speaker 4: to each other's locker rooms here in California? I can
Speaker 4: guarantee you, I would say more than half don't even
Speaker 4: know that's a law. But I really think again, you
Speaker 4: need somebody in the communities that's loud enough and more
Speaker 4: aggressive enough not to back down when they're threatening lawsuits.
Speaker 4: I mean we've been through the lawsuits to say no,
Speaker 4: we're not going to do this. We're not going to
Speaker 4: harm kids. And we need a full team to start
Speaker 4: focusing and showing these communities that they've been lied to
Speaker 4: and you cannot believe these lies because look at what's
Speaker 4: happening to your kids, right I honestly see hope, But
Speaker 4: I also see that we can ease just hand it over.
Speaker 4: If we retreat, we're in a position where people just
Speaker 4: get comfortable. I don't think right now is the time
Speaker 4: to get comfortable. And you know, if we don't start
Speaker 4: working down ballot and we don't start working on those
Speaker 4: city council and school board seats, we're in deep water.
Speaker 4: I mean, these people know, and they've they've designed this
Speaker 4: to put people in those you know, special interest groups
Speaker 4: put people into these seats for reasons. Look at our communities.
Speaker 4: I come from Chino, which used to be a dairy
Speaker 4: cow farm land type of area. They're all gone, and
Speaker 4: now we have a community. I mean, although I love Chino,
Speaker 4: we want to save what's left. They're building high rises
Speaker 4: in this and that and the other in our small
Speaker 4: little community. This is what they're doing.
Speaker 1: I design candidate for State Superintendent of Public Instruction. You
Speaker 1: can get her online at shop Orca dot com. Sonya Shaw,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for stopping by.
Speaker 4: No thank you.
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Speaker 1: And right now, it's time to open up the California
Speaker 1: Crime Blodder.
Speaker 2: If the cash's dummy, we could.
Speaker 7: Make this stuff up if we tried, I said, hell no,
Speaker 7: very boy, let me get up on out of here.
Speaker 8: App.
Speaker 7: It's the California Crime Bloater, and the first edition of
Speaker 7: Today's Blotter takes us to a place that every radio
Speaker 7: station employee despises to Jim.
Speaker 2: There is a serial gym thief, somebody who was just
Speaker 2: caught by the US Marshals that was going into gym's
Speaker 2: up and down the state of California getting a day
Speaker 2: pass so she could break into the lockers.
Speaker 1: What could you possibly find in a Jim locker sweaty
Speaker 1: socks or people's wallets.
Speaker 3: It's true, I guess.
Speaker 2: Or they're car keys.
Speaker 3: Also true.
Speaker 2: You know my little Pilate studio, they make sure to
Speaker 2: lock the door as soon as the class starts because
Speaker 2: it'd be very easy for somebody to walk into all
Speaker 2: the little cubbies and steal someone's wallet and their keys
Speaker 2: from their shoe.
Speaker 1: You know, I know you're not supposed to do this,
Speaker 1: But when I go to the gym, what I do
Speaker 1: is I just have a picture of my driver's license.
Speaker 1: I don't even take my wallet with me because I
Speaker 1: don't want to leave it in the gym, and I
Speaker 1: don't want to leave it in my.
Speaker 2: Car and knock on wood. I haven't been pulled over
Speaker 2: yet on the way there. That's pretty smart.
Speaker 9: Four.
Speaker 2: Here is ABC seven in the Bay.
Speaker 10: Forty year old woman is accused of buying day passes
Speaker 10: to San Francisco gyms under a fake name so she
Speaker 10: could steal credit cards from people's.
Speaker 2: Locks How passable were these fake names? I would love.
Speaker 10: To see what she used so she could steal credit
Speaker 10: cards from people's lockers. Police say she did it over
Speaker 10: and over again at crime spree starting last November and
Speaker 10: running for months.
Speaker 6: She's wanted for burglary in more than half a dozen
Speaker 6: communities across the Bay Area. ABC's have an eyewitness news
Speaker 6: reporter JR. Stone, spoke with people at San Francisco gyms
Speaker 6: who say this arrest is just scratching the surface.
Speaker 9: In San Francisco's Marina District, there are more than a
Speaker 9: dozen fitness facilities within a mile of each other. Now
Speaker 9: we're from police that US marshals arrested a quote prolific
Speaker 9: Jim locker thief targeting some of those locations. A woman
Speaker 9: taken into custody this week in Sacramento.
Speaker 2: That's really crazy, say look at this. Women can be
Speaker 2: criminals too.
Speaker 3: Now here's what's odd.
Speaker 1: Why is it that the FEDS arrested this woman and
Speaker 1: not the local authorities.
Speaker 3: Good question, that's really crazy. And she was coming in
Speaker 3: and stealing from the locker rooms.
Speaker 9: The suspect had nine warrants out for her arrest involving
Speaker 9: burglary cases in Bay Area locations including San Francisco, El Crito, Berkeley,
Speaker 9: Santa Clara, Oakley, San Mateo County, and Contra Costa County.
Speaker 9: Police saying the suspect would obtain a day pass under
Speaker 9: a false name than burglarized lockers and steal credit cards.
Speaker 2: So you don't need to really do any kind of
Speaker 2: verification when you want to get a day pass at
Speaker 2: one of the these exclusive gyms.
Speaker 3: I think as long as they get their money, they
Speaker 3: don't care.
Speaker 2: They might want to start caring.
Speaker 9: Police think the suspect would obtain a day pass under
Speaker 9: a false name than burglarized lockers and steal credit cards.
Speaker 9: US marshals made that one arrest in this case, but
Speaker 9: multiple people here in the Marina District tell me that
Speaker 9: at least some of these burglary cases were two person
Speaker 9: operations that happened when a fitness class had either started
Speaker 9: or was about to start.
Speaker 2: Well, and that's where you know that a good portion
Speaker 2: of the membership is all going to be occupied and
Speaker 2: busy and not paying attention.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, because some of those classes can have thirty
Speaker 1: people in them.
Speaker 11: They came in, they looked a part, they wore leggings.
Speaker 2: Well, of course they're legit. They had their lilus on.
Speaker 11: They came in, they looked apart. They wore leggings, sports
Speaker 11: bra and then they came in act like they were
Speaker 11: going to work out. And as soon as the classes start,
Speaker 11: they just took the clients bags and their phones.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't they dead giveaway being that the person who checked
Speaker 2: in for the day pass checks out and doesn't have
Speaker 2: any sweat on them whatsoever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how come they aren't in the class either.
Speaker 9: Police, though have not said if they are looking for
Speaker 9: a second suspect, but did say the suspect arrested has
Speaker 9: stay away orders from multiple fitness businesses in San Francisco.
Speaker 2: Well, there's like when you got a little list on
Speaker 2: the computer, do not let this woman in. She's a
Speaker 2: scoff law.
Speaker 1: Put her picture up, hang it on the wall like
Speaker 1: she's bouncing checks.
Speaker 9: Has stay away.
Speaker 2: I don't care if she is wearing Lululemons. Don't let
Speaker 2: her in.
Speaker 9: Has stay away orders from multiple fitness businesses in San Francisco.
Speaker 9: Fitness patrons we talked with.
Speaker 8: I'm totally surprised, very surprised at the fact that something
Speaker 8: like that is happening.
Speaker 11: You know, a woman.
Speaker 3: On top of that, I felt.
Speaker 2: Very Hey, this is twenty twenty six. Girls can grow
Speaker 2: up to be whatever they want to be, including criminals.
Speaker 3: Hasn't that guy ever seen Bonnie and Clyde?
Speaker 12: I felt very safe.
Speaker 5: But it's good to know so that I can picture
Speaker 5: lock up my stuff because I don't always lock it.
Speaker 2: If well, why if you have an opportunity to lock
Speaker 2: a locker, why wouldn't you.
Speaker 1: Well, it is a gym story, so of course we
Speaker 1: need some kind of appearance from a dumb bell.
Speaker 13: Good to know so that I can picture lock up
Speaker 13: my stuff because I don't always lock it. If I'm
Speaker 13: running late, sometimes I don't, And yeah, just kind of
Speaker 13: like leave it on the floor somewhere, because these classes.
Speaker 3: Are okay, also dumb.
Speaker 5: See.
Speaker 2: I was under the impression that this burglar might must
Speaker 2: have some kind of skill with breaking locks or breaking
Speaker 2: into locks, or has some kind of master key. No,
Speaker 2: it turns out a whole bunch of people in the
Speaker 2: marina are putting their stuff in lockers or just throwing
Speaker 2: it on the floor and not locking it up.
Speaker 3: No, they act like they live in rural Finland.
Speaker 13: If I'm running late, sometimes I don't. And yeah, just
Speaker 13: kind of like leave it on the floor somewhere because
Speaker 13: these classes get pretty packed and stuff like that. That
Speaker 13: definitely makes any thing twice.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, I will always lock.
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Speaker 2: So there you go. The serial gym thief has been
Speaker 2: busted by US marshals. If it was my guest, the
Speaker 2: reason the US marshals are involved, she's probably been doing
Speaker 2: this in several different states. I love the fact that
Speaker 2: these women who were the victims of this crime don't
Speaker 2: care if they get their identity stolen. The only thing
Speaker 2: they care about is that they're not fat. And right
Speaker 2: now it's time to reopen the California crime Bladder. It's
Speaker 2: happened yet again.
Speaker 11: This wow, wow, what's up here?
Speaker 3: Dun dun dunk dunk dun dun dunk dun reached the
Speaker 3: Califonia Crime Bladder with Jun.
Speaker 2: And this edition takes us to the mall, this time
Speaker 2: with the mall. Now you read it wrong, damn it.
Speaker 2: Male thieves not mall thieves.
Speaker 3: I need to get glasses.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you just glance at it, it does
Speaker 2: look like it would say mall thieves. You know what,
Speaker 2: let's give Johnny a little mulligan.
Speaker 10: It's happened yet again.
Speaker 7: Ooh nice see time for the California crime blodder.
Speaker 3: And Randy.
Speaker 1: This edition of the Blotter takes us to Mountain View,
Speaker 1: where male thieves were caught.
Speaker 2: There we go, that's exactly what's happening. People are stealing
Speaker 2: the mail in Mountain View. I don't understand why people
Speaker 2: want to steal the mail unless you want to get
Speaker 2: all of my Tom Styre flyers.
Speaker 3: What about if you steal the mail at the mall?
Speaker 2: Could do that fromar here is kpix in the Bay.
Speaker 14: Well, it has not been a great month for the
Speaker 14: city of Mountain View. First, it was that water issue
Speaker 14: when people in one neighborhood were left without safe drinking
Speaker 14: water for almost a month. Imagine thankfully that is.
Speaker 2: And that's an expensive part of the bay. Yeah, no kidding,
Speaker 2: that's Google Town.
Speaker 14: Thankfully that has been fixed. But now another neighborhood in
Speaker 14: the city has its own problem. After a string of
Speaker 14: mail thefts. People living there can't get packages delivered to
Speaker 14: their door. Instead, they have to wait until the middle
Speaker 14: of the day on Wednesdays and Fridays to pick up
Speaker 14: their packages at a postal annex.
Speaker 2: Andrew, Okay, that's a massive pain in the ass.
Speaker 3: Oh can you imagine now?
Speaker 2: You would think about how much junk the average person
Speaker 2: orders blindly on Amazon what have you? Every single day
Speaker 2: and you've got packages coming to your door every single day.
Speaker 2: Imagine of instead of the packages getting dropped off regularly
Speaker 2: because of mail thieves, you have to pick up all
Speaker 2: of your junk at once on a Wednesday afternoon.
Speaker 3: And I gotta be honest.
Speaker 1: I order stuff from Amazon when I'm bored, and immediately
Speaker 1: after ordering it, I forgot that I ordered it. So
Speaker 1: when the package arrives, it's a great big surprise. Every
Speaker 1: day is Christmas and johnny'saas to pick up.
Speaker 14: Their packages at a postal annex. Andre and Nakano explains
Speaker 14: why coming up with a better long term solution has
Speaker 14: been so challenging.
Speaker 12: This is where thousands of Mountain View residents are coming
Speaker 12: to pick up their mail a postal annex on lae
Speaker 12: of Anita Street.
Speaker 5: It's Mike, uh, my life, no convenia. You know, I
Speaker 5: have to come here and pick my mail on certain
Speaker 5: time and location.
Speaker 12: Mail pickup is only available on Wednesday and Fridays between
Speaker 12: ten and one.
Speaker 2: Penny says, you can't do better than that. Again, this
Speaker 2: is a very high tax area.
Speaker 3: That's pathetic.
Speaker 12: Mail pickup is only available on Wednesday and Fridays between
Speaker 12: ten and one. Penny says she's been doing this for
Speaker 12: about two months now because a raration of mail thefts.
Speaker 2: Two months of weekly mail pickups.
Speaker 1: Now that they mail all the ballots to you instead
Speaker 1: of voting in person like we used to do, I
Speaker 1: wonder if voter participation is falling off a cliff in
Speaker 1: Mountain View.
Speaker 2: Well, I just few Well, you know, I could actually
Speaker 2: check that for you real quick. Let's go to the
Speaker 2: city of mountain View in our ballot tracker. City of
Speaker 2: mountain in the Bay Area. No, not, city of Oakland,
Speaker 2: mountain View, give me mountain View. Mountain View doing better
Speaker 2: than Oakland and better than La Ten of forty three
Speaker 2: thousand ballots that went out, forty five hundred went back.
Speaker 3: Okay, so maybe not.
Speaker 5: Well, just a few weird white people still mill.
Speaker 12: According to the Postal Office, thieves are targeting large mailboxes
Speaker 12: at apartment and condominium complexes, getting quick access to a
Speaker 12: large hall.
Speaker 2: Ye, you steal one master key, you get a whole building.
Speaker 3: Great.
Speaker 8: The issue is with that. First of all, the resident
Speaker 8: have their MIL student, credit card, stoleon, the bit CARLT
Speaker 8: student confinerential information like tax information, so so security things
Speaker 8: student as well.
Speaker 12: Or Reel says, this has been going on for a
Speaker 12: long time. He adds, they fix it.
Speaker 2: I will say MX sends your stuff FedEx for a reason.
Speaker 3: Those cards aren't getting lost.
Speaker 12: Oriel says, this has been going on for a long time.
Speaker 12: He adds, they fix the mailboxes quickly, but thieves are
Speaker 12: even faster at breaking into them again.
Speaker 8: So when we fix them, maybe a few days after
Speaker 8: they come back and they do exactly the same thing.
Speaker 12: Oriol says. They are working with apartment and condominium complexes.
Speaker 2: So you know they're going to target the same mailbox
Speaker 2: over and over and over again. So how do you
Speaker 2: not have security footage ready or a security guard ready,
Speaker 2: or the police ready.
Speaker 1: I think it's going on all over in Mountain View.
Speaker 1: Oriole's twin brother, Blue Jay, he had his mail stolen two.
Speaker 12: Oriole says, they are working with apartment and condominium.
Speaker 2: I'm proud of you, are you right now? Of that one?
Speaker 2: Very went over my head for a second, and then
Speaker 2: I realized what you were doing A stupid baseball joke.
Speaker 3: It was a bird joke.
Speaker 12: Oriole says they are working with apartment and condominium complexes
Speaker 12: to figure out a permanent solution. One idea has been
Speaker 12: to create some sort of enclosure to make it harder
Speaker 12: for the thieves to break in. Residents, though, are clearly
Speaker 12: frustrated and are hoping to get mail delivered to their
Speaker 12: homes soon.
Speaker 5: I warre it about this, like why why life change?
Speaker 2: Sounds like someone's car is getting broken into behind her
Speaker 2: as she's being interviewed for this spot. Maybe the car
Speaker 2: had a pile of mail in the passenger seat.
Speaker 5: I warre it about the this, like why why life
Speaker 5: change like this? I worry about the you know, the
Speaker 5: safety everything.
Speaker 2: Well, life change like this because Gavin let prisoners out
Speaker 2: of prison.
Speaker 3: That poor woman was at a lost words now.
Speaker 14: Back in February, Mountain View police say they arrested a
Speaker 14: married couple who they say they caught stealing more than
Speaker 14: fifteen hundred pieces of mail. But people say that has
Speaker 14: not stopped the problem.
Speaker 2: Really, a husband and wife male thievan Duo.
Speaker 1: Well, you know what they say, randy. Couples that steal
Speaker 1: mail together stay together.
Speaker 2: So there you go the growing inconvenience in Mountain View,
Speaker 2: Google Town. Why don't they send all the mail to Google?
Speaker 2: Google can figure this out. They can't get their mail
Speaker 2: unless they go to the postal annex once a week
Speaker 2: because of NonStop rampant male Thievan. I wonder if this
Speaker 2: is a profitable endeavor, because I don't know. Maybe in
Speaker 2: the nineteen eighties people used to send cards with money
Speaker 2: in it, and gift cards and those sorts of things.
Speaker 2: People would order things from the Sears catalog. All I
Speaker 2: get in the mail is junk junk and bills and
Speaker 2: mailers and did There's not a whole lot of things
Speaker 2: that go in the mail. Who's sending you a check?
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty six in the mail when we have Venmo,
Speaker 2: we have zell like. But if you figure, they wouldn't
Speaker 2: be doing this unless they figured out some way to
Speaker 2: make money.
Speaker 3: Off of it.
Speaker 1: The only thing I get in the mail now I
Speaker 1: get political advertisements. Well now that bed, bath and beyond
Speaker 1: is got under my mail has been cut in half.
Speaker 3: I get the Penny Saver.
Speaker 1: I get these random ads with coupons to places like
Speaker 1: Del Taco, and then I get advertisements for dentists and
Speaker 1: realtors where they all look like prostitutes. But that's it.
Speaker 1: There's nothing of value that's in that box. Sometimes I
Speaker 1: go a week and a half without even getting it
Speaker 1: because I know there's nothing in there that I'm interested in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sometimes I'll finally reach for the mailbox when I
Speaker 2: feel add that the post off the mailman has to
Speaker 2: stuff so much stuff in my tiny little box, because
Speaker 2: I know it's all useless junk.
Speaker 1: Well, when I go on vacation, I don't have anyone
Speaker 1: get my mail. And someone said to me on this
Speaker 1: last trip, are you worried that people are going to
Speaker 1: take your mail? And I said no, then it's their
Speaker 1: responsibility to throw it out, not mine.
Speaker 2: Ha