WEBVTT - Ramin Breaks Down The Statewide Propositions 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.300 Something's not right here. Crime is up all over the state. 0:00:06.370 --> 0:00:09.090 The homelessness in the city is out of control. The 0:00:09.150 --> 0:00:10.350 economy is sick. 0:00:10.410 --> 0:00:11.610 Taxes are high. 0:00:11.670 --> 0:00:15.950 Housing is expensive and businesses are leaving. California needs fixing. 0:00:17.590 --> 0:00:20.370 and John Phillips is just the man to lead the charge. 0:00:20.890 --> 0:00:25.000 It's the Fix California Hour with John Phillips and Randy Wang. 0:00:25.500 --> 0:00:28.560 It is the Fix California Hour on The John Phillips Show. 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:31.600 Johnny's on vacation back on Monday. It's Randy Wang here, 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:35.080 and we're broadcasting live on the radio at 790k ABC. 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:38.260 We're broadcasting live on 810k SFO in the Bay Area, 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:42.680 and we're broadcasting on video every single day at johnnydontlike.com 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:46.480 as well as johnnydontlike.com. And huge shout out to Spencer Pratt, 0:00:46.500 --> 0:00:50.240 who reposted our live video on his X feed today. 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:53.940 We did open the show talking about Spencer Pratt's review 0:00:54.380 --> 0:00:58.870 of Karen Bass's appearance on with KFI's John Cobelt. And 0:00:58.980 --> 0:01:02.170 I would like to proudly say that the John Phillips 0:01:02.210 --> 0:01:05.310 show is now the only radio show in L.A. that 0:01:05.370 --> 0:01:09.809 Karen Bass won't do. And I happen to think that 0:01:09.950 --> 0:01:14.319 is a badge of honor. Uh, we're supposed to have 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:17.179 Ramin Ekitar on here from Ramin Real Talk. 0:01:17.300 --> 0:01:19.800 If he pops on, we will throw him into the show. 0:01:20.300 --> 0:01:28.990 But for now, let's get into the California governor's race because, well, 0:01:29.550 --> 0:01:32.830 you've got another decision to make besides the LA mayor's race. 0:01:32.890 --> 0:01:36.720 And that is who you want for governor. You've got 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:40.339 Steve Hilton with all kinds of policy proposals and And 0:01:40.380 --> 0:01:42.679 you have scrub-a-dub-dub Becerra. 0:01:42.780 --> 0:01:43.319 Scrub it. 0:01:43.860 --> 0:01:47.340 Let's hear what the candidates have to say on homelessness, 0:01:47.700 --> 0:01:50.410 and I will stop this video and pivot as soon 0:01:50.450 --> 0:01:53.970 as Ramin dials in, but here is ABC7 in the Bay. 0:01:54.050 --> 0:01:58.210 The race for California's governor, housing, and homelessness are, of course, top. 0:01:58.060 --> 0:01:58.980 Of mind for voters. 0:01:59.180 --> 0:02:02.660 Democrat Javier Becerra and Republican Steve Hilton, they have as 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:05.700 you would expect, vastly different ideas for fixing these issues. 0:02:05.810 --> 0:02:09.430 ABC7 Eyewitness News political reporter Monica Madden spoke with the candidates. 0:02:09.510 --> 0:02:09.850 Monica. 0:02:10.310 --> 0:02:12.870 Ama and Larry, both candidates say encampments really need to 0:02:12.910 --> 0:02:15.590 be cleared, but Hilton has set a sweeping deadline to 0:02:15.730 --> 0:02:20.290 end mass homelessness, while Becerra is emphasizing prevention, housing, and treatment. 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:24.040 ABC7 asked both what they'd do and how they'd measure 0:02:24.060 --> 0:02:24.660 the success. 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:27.780 Oh yeah, did you see this? 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:31.760 Steve Hilton's latest commercial was literally him walking through Skid Row. 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:34.530 So I guess he has good insurance. 0:02:35.340 --> 0:02:37.850 Doing the same thing and expecting different results. 0:02:38.070 --> 0:02:41.770 Republican Steve Hilton thinks he can drastically reduce the number 0:02:41.790 --> 0:02:44.730 of people living on California streets. Do you think it's 0:02:44.770 --> 0:02:47.710 realistic to have no more encampments in California? 0:02:47.790 --> 0:02:48.470 Yes, it is. 0:02:48.750 --> 0:02:51.550 In a Monday interview, Hilton told me he knows it's 0:02:51.610 --> 0:02:54.410 a lofty goal, but says it's time for the state 0:02:54.450 --> 0:02:55.590 to set the bar higher. 0:02:55.910 --> 0:02:58.740 And so it's not just possible, it's essential. 0:02:59.130 --> 0:03:03.070 He's proposing a network of homeless recovery sites with shelter, treatment, 0:03:03.190 --> 0:03:04.150 and other services. 0:03:04.550 --> 0:03:05.110 Interesting. 0:03:05.430 --> 0:03:08.810 That was the same idea that our buddy Spencer Pratt 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:10.690 had when he was running for mayor. Put out this 0:03:10.750 --> 0:03:14.859 fantastic 10-minute video saying that he had private investors ready 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:17.600 to go because what you do need to do is 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:20.460 take these people out of the city to somewhere where 0:03:20.500 --> 0:03:23.060 they can get the help that they need until they 0:03:23.100 --> 0:03:25.200 are ready to re-enter society. 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:28.900 Gotta love that. And if it doesn't work, well, at 0:03:28.940 --> 0:03:30.090 least they're not where I am. 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:33.350 With the capacity to serve thousands of people at once. 0:03:33.370 --> 0:03:36.990 I mean, what we need are gigantic, you don't have 0:03:37.010 --> 0:03:39.750 to call them mental hospitals, but let's just call them... 0:03:40.070 --> 0:03:44.440 mental hospitals. We need gigantic treatment facilities. And for all 0:03:44.460 --> 0:03:47.460 the money that we're wasting on putting people up in 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:51.540 motels in Los Angeles or the SROs in the Tenderloin, 0:03:51.940 --> 0:03:54.580 we should be putting those people in treatment. If we 0:03:54.660 --> 0:03:57.720 don't have enough treatment beds, that's where the money should 0:03:57.740 --> 0:04:00.600 be going. Building more treatment beds. 0:04:01.690 --> 0:04:04.930 Down near San Diego uses unused military space. This is 0:04:05.090 --> 0:04:08.740 federal land. We're not talking about building apartment buildings. This 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:11.100 is temporary shelter, but it's the most important. 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:13.560 Something that Union Rescue Mission has talked about for years 0:04:13.620 --> 0:04:15.650 and years and years. It takes a lot of money 0:04:15.660 --> 0:04:17.890 and a lot of time to build new motels and 0:04:17.930 --> 0:04:21.729 apartment buildings. You can build emergency structure, the kind that 0:04:21.830 --> 0:04:25.080 FEMA puts up after a hurricane. In a few hours. 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:29.060 Get the Army Corps of Engineers down here. Let's create Bumsylvania. 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:32.169 One point is it's safe and clean and away from 0:04:32.210 --> 0:04:34.930 the conditions that have kept people trapped in homelessness. 0:04:35.250 --> 0:04:38.770 But it's a problem that's plagued California politicians for decades, 0:04:39.010 --> 0:04:41.500 with the state spending in the tens of billions of 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:44.080 dollars over the years. Do you think that leaders right 0:04:44.100 --> 0:04:45.620 now just aren't trying hard enough? 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:47.560 I think that this is one of the things that 0:04:47.580 --> 0:04:50.020 you get from one party rule. So they kind of 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:52.810 give up trying to deliver results because they don't feel 0:04:52.850 --> 0:04:54.489 that pressure from the voters. 0:04:54.790 --> 0:04:57.630 At a Monday housing event in the East Bay, ABC7 0:04:57.770 --> 0:05:01.710 asked Democrat Javier Becerra what measurable results voters should expect 0:05:01.850 --> 0:05:02.810 if he's elected. 0:05:03.029 --> 0:05:06.380 All right, let's get for some concrete policy proposals. Steve 0:05:06.390 --> 0:05:09.620 Hilton wants to build treatment villages. What does Baccaria want 0:05:09.750 --> 0:05:10.120 to do? 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:12.700 We have to do everything we can to prevent them 0:05:12.740 --> 0:05:14.500 from falling into homelessness. 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:19.680 So what usually this means is rent subsidies. And there 0:05:19.700 --> 0:05:22.000 was a big study done on Measure A funding in 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:24.700 the city of Los Angeles and the county of Los Angeles. 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:29.680 And it showed that emergency rent subsidies had little to 0:05:29.820 --> 0:05:32.339 no effect on the homeless population. 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:35.669 It costs so much more money to pull you off 0:05:35.700 --> 0:05:39.630 the streets, clean you up, sober you up, get you 0:05:39.670 --> 0:05:43.729 retrained than it does to help you survive that unexpected 0:05:43.790 --> 0:05:44.590 loss of a job. 0:05:44.870 --> 0:05:46.950 Adding he wants accountability for states. 0:05:47.010 --> 0:05:49.779 Hey, that's the name of our podcast. Check out our 0:05:49.820 --> 0:05:52.460 newest episode at the Tijuana River. 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:55.099 Did I just mute it? 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:56.100 Here we go. 0:05:58.100 --> 0:06:01.500 If you're working and you're helping address homelessness, then we'll 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:03.860 scale you up. If you've gotten money from us, but 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:05.540 you didn't do anything, we're going to have to close 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:05.839 you down. 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:08.880 I would love to see that in action because the 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:10.900 one thing that we don't do in the state of 0:06:10.940 --> 0:06:14.080 California is stop funding things that don't work. 0:06:14.190 --> 0:06:14.810 Or I don't know. 0:06:15.190 --> 0:06:17.969 How about we stop funding things that are actively making 0:06:18.029 --> 0:06:21.830 the problem worse? Do you know the organization, the nonprofit 0:06:22.210 --> 0:06:28.890 Homeless Healthcare Los Angeles just celebrated their 40th anniversary? 40 0:06:28.890 --> 0:06:33.690 years of an organization that gets paid your money, whether 0:06:33.750 --> 0:06:38.240 it's city dollars, county dollars, state dollars, or probably federal dollars, 0:06:38.650 --> 0:06:41.600 to pass out pipes and needles in front of Skid 0:06:41.660 --> 0:06:43.039 Row and MacArthur Park. 0:06:43.779 --> 0:06:49.039 Currently, there's an estimated 180,000 unhoused people in California, which 0:06:49.100 --> 0:06:51.960 is down about 3% from 2024. 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:54.110 So all the money that we're spending is doing nothing. 0:06:55.220 --> 0:06:58.480 And a recent PPIC survey found nearly 8 in 10 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:02.560 Californians are concerned about homelessness in their local communities. But 0:07:02.660 --> 0:07:05.440 the share who say that they're very concerned has fallen 0:07:05.500 --> 0:07:09.870 to 37%, which is a significant drop from 2019. Back then, 0:07:09.950 --> 0:07:12.470 it was closer to 60% of Californians who said that 0:07:12.510 --> 0:07:14.070 they were concerned about this as their top issue. 0:07:14.190 --> 0:07:18.150 Well, I think a lot of that is we're getting desensitized. 0:07:19.550 --> 0:07:22.430 This stuff was really outrageous 10 years ago, but now 0:07:22.570 --> 0:07:25.070 it's just so common to see. You know, the first 0:07:25.130 --> 0:07:29.070 time you see somebody fentanyl folded, it is quite shocking. 0:07:29.150 --> 0:07:31.580 I remember exactly where I was because I've never seen 0:07:31.620 --> 0:07:34.040 it in Los Angeles because everyone's in a tent, but 0:07:34.340 --> 0:07:37.600 there aren't really as many tents in San Francisco. So 0:07:37.860 --> 0:07:41.940 I was walking up Stockton Street. No, not Stockton Street. 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:44.590 I was walking near Stockton Street up Knob Hill to 0:07:44.630 --> 0:07:47.970 go to Juniper Bakery on a Sunday morning. And I 0:07:48.050 --> 0:07:52.250 saw somebody straight up folded over in a position that 0:07:52.390 --> 0:07:54.750 could not be comfortable. And I'm like, once you see 0:07:54.790 --> 0:07:58.190 that once it's shocking, but once you see that the 0:07:58.230 --> 0:08:01.780 second time or the third time or the 78th time, 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:03.619 that's just a fact of life. 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:06.860 It feels like it's getting better in the city of 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:09.780 San Francisco. I'm not sure what the situation is. 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:12.920 Well, let me tell you what the situation is in LA. 0:08:12.980 --> 0:08:13.240 Yes. 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:16.260 It's getting better in San Francisco, except for the tenderloin, 0:08:16.300 --> 0:08:19.470 the Soma and mission has gotten worse. L.A. 0:08:19.510 --> 0:08:20.790 Has gotten worse all over. 0:08:21.670 --> 0:08:23.770 But it seems like this is going to be an 0:08:23.810 --> 0:08:28.570 issue in the national election for president, especially if Gavin Newsom, 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:30.250 as we expect he will, runs for president. 0:08:30.270 --> 0:08:32.400 Oh, you can already just picture what the ads would 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:35.360 look like with showing videos of some of these encampments 0:08:35.420 --> 0:08:36.380 in California. 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:42.020 Seriously, the 2028 primary, the people that will be running 0:08:42.100 --> 0:08:45.550 against Gavin Newsom if he decides to run. They're just 0:08:45.570 --> 0:08:48.610 going to have a field day with all the things 0:08:48.650 --> 0:08:52.430 that Gavin Newsom has under his hat. Homelessness and the 0:08:52.510 --> 0:08:56.460 bullet train just being the top two. The rest of 0:08:56.480 --> 0:09:01.520 the country ain't buying what California's selling, Gavin and Kamala. 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:04.059 Soundbite of Newsom, they kind of write themselves, but I 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:06.439 think that goes to the issue of this is a 0:09:06.460 --> 0:09:08.800 problem that a ton of money has been spent, and 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:11.000 really it's still a visible issue here in the state. 0:09:11.300 --> 0:09:12.300 I know you'll keep an eye on it. 0:09:12.300 --> 0:09:12.739 Thank you, Monica. 0:09:13.350 --> 0:09:13.530 All right. 0:09:13.550 --> 0:09:15.230 And if you'd like to know more about them. 0:09:15.330 --> 0:09:21.750 So that's what Becerra and Hilton have to say about homelessness. Becerra, 0:09:21.970 --> 0:09:24.510 who has a very comfortable lead right now for some 0:09:24.570 --> 0:09:29.089 insane reason, has felt comfortable enough to do yet another interview. 0:09:29.929 --> 0:09:34.250 This time he sat down with KTVU Fox 2. And 0:09:34.429 --> 0:09:37.790 let's see how this one went. Because his interview last 0:09:37.850 --> 0:09:42.780 time on ABC 10 said, did not go well. Here 0:09:43.380 --> 0:09:44.580 is Javier Baccaria. 0:09:44.780 --> 0:09:45.699 Secretary, thanks for the time. 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:46.260 Of course. 0:09:46.420 --> 0:09:48.280 On the heels of this debate, ballots go out this week. 0:09:48.300 --> 0:09:49.680 Just tell me how you're feeling about your campaign. 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:52.380 The way I've always felt, if you leave it up 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:54.410 to the voters, they'll make the right call. I think 0:09:54.429 --> 0:09:56.950 they want someone who actually knows how to handle an 0:09:56.990 --> 0:09:59.610 office as big as the governor's office. They want someone 0:09:59.630 --> 0:10:02.089 who's actually balanced budgets as big as the budget of 0:10:02.110 --> 0:10:04.170 the state of California. They want someone who's dope. 0:10:04.210 --> 0:10:06.829 Well, if the idea is you want Becerra because he's 0:10:06.890 --> 0:10:11.370 run a big office before, he's talking about HHS. And 0:10:11.490 --> 0:10:14.910 everyone who we work with at HHS says Becerra is dummy. 0:10:15.500 --> 0:10:16.540 So how does that work? 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:19.319 With emergencies, they're looking for someone who knows how to 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:22.280 take on the biggest menaces that they're out there, uh, 0:10:22.330 --> 0:10:23.689 whether that's Trump or whether it's. 0:10:23.890 --> 0:10:25.010 Uh, there's the first one. 0:10:25.050 --> 0:10:27.050 I'm going to just warn you, you know, you do you, 0:10:27.510 --> 0:10:30.420 I don't want to judge anybody, but if you're thinking 0:10:30.460 --> 0:10:33.699 of playing the Baccaria Trump drinking game, where you take 0:10:33.740 --> 0:10:36.420 a shot every single time, he says the T word, 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:40.059 you're going to get hammered and it's early. Now, if 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:42.140 you're watching us on the East coast and it's already 0:10:42.179 --> 0:10:44.760 happy hour, you know, go for it, enjoy yourself, but 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:46.420 just pace yourself. 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:49.380 It's a marathon, not a sprint. 0:10:49.890 --> 0:10:50.429 Wildfires. 0:10:50.730 --> 0:10:56.410 And I'll put my future in the hands of voters. 0:10:56.870 --> 0:10:59.910 Secretary Steve Hilton said during that debate that you've been, quote, hiding. 0:11:00.550 --> 0:11:02.790 Why not do more debates? Why not do more forums 0:11:02.910 --> 0:11:04.610 to sort of show voters who you are? And what 0:11:04.630 --> 0:11:06.130 do you say to voters that say, I still don't 0:11:06.150 --> 0:11:07.390 know who Javier Becerra is? 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:10.960 Oh, there's enough written about me that you could find 0:11:11.020 --> 0:11:12.720 out who I am, what I've done. 0:11:13.660 --> 0:11:16.160 And despite that, he's still up over double digits. 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:18.900 Over the course of time, it's hard to hide when 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:21.699 you have cast thousands of votes as a member of 0:11:21.780 --> 0:11:25.470 Congress for 24 years when you served as the chief 0:11:25.490 --> 0:11:28.150 law enforcement officer for the state of California as attorney general, 0:11:28.530 --> 0:11:29.190 when you've served, you. 0:11:29.150 --> 0:11:30.230 Know, it's interesting, right? 0:11:30.309 --> 0:11:34.750 This is an election across the country where incumbency and 0:11:34.850 --> 0:11:39.990 longtime politicians are getting their butts handed to them. They're 0:11:40.010 --> 0:11:43.510 getting thrown out on the street. Karen Bass is a failure, 0:11:43.550 --> 0:11:46.470 but also there is this national movement of getting rid 0:11:46.610 --> 0:11:50.830 of incumbents. And despite that, Hey, we have a choice 0:11:50.890 --> 0:11:54.770 between an outsider and an ultimate incumbent, somebody who was 0:11:54.809 --> 0:11:58.050 in the assembly forever, someone in the Congress forever, has 0:11:58.110 --> 0:12:00.950 been in some sort of elected or appointed office for 0:12:00.970 --> 0:12:02.460 the past 30 years. 0:12:03.460 --> 0:12:05.760 And California voters are like, yeah, that guy. 0:12:06.740 --> 0:12:08.720 In the cabinet of a president, as I did as 0:12:08.740 --> 0:12:11.500 Secretary of Health and Human Services, there's a record there. 0:12:12.140 --> 0:12:13.980 And I'm not going to try to run on promises 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:16.619 because not everyone delivers on their promises. I'll run on 0:12:16.660 --> 0:12:18.590 a record. And people want to know who I am. 0:12:19.410 --> 0:12:23.429 Look at the record. It's out there. Internet, you'll find it. 0:12:24.890 --> 0:12:27.229 I don't need to debate because you can Google me. 0:12:28.030 --> 0:12:33.270 That is quite the closing argument from Javier Becerra. 0:12:33.290 --> 0:12:35.470 Do a Google on YouTube. 0:12:35.610 --> 0:12:36.530 Thanks, Georgie Porgy. 0:12:37.190 --> 0:12:38.730 I know you've seen the polls that have you up 0:12:39.270 --> 0:12:42.309 double digits in this race. Also in those polls, 52% 0:12:42.309 --> 0:12:47.120 of likely voters say California is moving in the wrong direction. 0:12:47.460 --> 0:12:51.000 And that's why I do not understand if so many 0:12:51.090 --> 0:12:54.810 people who are in the same polls that say California 0:12:55.590 --> 0:12:58.410 is kind of a mess right now, we're definitely moving 0:12:58.450 --> 0:13:01.510 in the wrong direction. Then why are we voting for 0:13:01.610 --> 0:13:04.230 more of the same forget party? And that's the thing. 0:13:04.309 --> 0:13:08.309 And it's, it is really unfortunate. You know, some analysts 0:13:08.330 --> 0:13:11.370 have said Steve Hilton is the right candidate in the 0:13:11.450 --> 0:13:14.590 wrong year because if it was a good year for Republicans, 0:13:14.910 --> 0:13:17.710 Steve Hilton would have a really good shot. But unfortunately, 0:13:17.770 --> 0:13:20.770 people care more about the letter next to the name 0:13:21.210 --> 0:13:23.500 than what the person stands for or what they say 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:25.340 that they're going to do or if they have any 0:13:25.460 --> 0:13:29.360 actual plans for it. Because if you just went by 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:34.750 the numbers on policy proposals or straight-up intelligence, Steve Hilton 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:35.890 would run away with this thing. 0:13:36.350 --> 0:13:38.070 But that's not where we are. 0:13:38.450 --> 0:13:44.320 And unfortunately... As the incumbent administration, the Republicans in Congress, 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:47.020 the president, they have failed to deliver on a lot. 0:13:47.540 --> 0:13:49.620 And unfortunately, that's going to hurt Hilton. 0:13:50.230 --> 0:13:52.209 What do you do differently than Governor Gavin Newsom? 0:13:53.030 --> 0:13:55.570 Oh, good question. What do you do differently than Newsom? 0:13:56.150 --> 0:13:59.590 Because he couldn't answer this when Alex Michelson asked him 0:13:59.630 --> 0:14:00.630 about six months ago. 0:14:00.790 --> 0:14:01.050 Newsom. 0:14:02.830 --> 0:14:03.570 Build more homes. 0:14:04.890 --> 0:14:07.800 Protect people's health insurance so they can access a doctor 0:14:07.820 --> 0:14:09.340 when they need that person. 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:09.739 Um. 0:14:10.500 --> 0:14:13.140 Make sure that we work to build our schools so 0:14:13.179 --> 0:14:15.230 our kids are actually moving on to the next grade 0:14:15.690 --> 0:14:18.929 and ready to learn at that next level. Making sure 0:14:18.970 --> 0:14:21.850 that we deal with the safety that everyone expects when 0:14:22.250 --> 0:14:23.490 your kids are walking the streets. 0:14:24.630 --> 0:14:27.380 Boy, these are the most generic things that is a 0:14:27.500 --> 0:14:31.140 non-statement of anything that he says he's actually going to do. 0:14:31.580 --> 0:14:34.780 Do all the basic things that people expect. And that includes, 0:14:34.820 --> 0:14:38.610 of course, addressing this energy crisis where today we're paying 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:42.320 more for gasoline Than we could have ever imagined. It's 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:48.180 about time that. Donald Trump. Learned that people don't like 0:14:48.220 --> 0:14:51.160 this war in Iran. That's reckless. That's illegal. And has 0:14:51.620 --> 0:14:52.750 increased the price of gasoline. 0:14:52.770 --> 0:14:52.930 What? 0:14:53.250 --> 0:14:54.070 Two bucks a gallon. 0:14:54.390 --> 0:14:54.710 Okay. 0:14:55.110 --> 0:14:57.190 Let's say that everything you said there is true. 0:14:57.370 --> 0:14:57.750 And yes. 0:14:57.810 --> 0:15:00.410 The war has increased gas prices across the country. Two 0:15:00.470 --> 0:15:03.150 bucks a gallon. What's the governor of California going to 0:15:03.170 --> 0:15:03.770 do about that? 0:15:04.860 --> 0:15:05.240 Anything? 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:09.920 No? So what can the governor of California do? Oh, 0:15:09.970 --> 0:15:12.810 gas tax and cap and invest and stop spending money 0:15:12.870 --> 0:15:15.670 on the bullet train? Nah, we can't do that because 0:15:15.690 --> 0:15:17.510 the building trade unions that are going to put him 0:15:17.550 --> 0:15:19.190 into office need their payday. 0:15:19.490 --> 0:15:22.590 For Californians, gasoline was already high in California. We didn't 0:15:22.630 --> 0:15:23.890 need Donald Trump to start a war. 0:15:24.050 --> 0:15:24.359 Three. 0:15:24.740 --> 0:15:28.340 Increase the price of gasoline by another $ 2. 0:15:27.540 --> 0:15:30.280 Those things that you listed, building more homes, keeping people safe, 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:32.800 are those things you think that governors and Democrats have 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:34.820 not done in his time in the legislature? 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:37.400 We need to do more and we need to do 0:15:37.450 --> 0:15:41.050 everything better. regardless of who was there or who wasn't there. 0:15:41.630 --> 0:15:43.170 We just need to do more. We got to do better. 0:15:46.570 --> 0:15:51.460 He is able to say absolutely nothing with so many words. 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:53.980 We need to do more and do better because we 0:15:54.020 --> 0:15:57.140 need to do more and do better. This is the guy. 0:15:57.160 --> 0:16:01.830 I just wish we were at a point in our 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:08.540 politics where we could recognize that There is a clear 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:13.230 choice here between someone who has ideas and someone who 0:16:13.300 --> 0:16:13.950 does not. 0:16:15.630 --> 0:16:19.550 You've talked about cutting red tape, regulations to lower gas prices, 0:16:19.590 --> 0:16:22.350 speed up housing production along these lines. What do you 0:16:22.390 --> 0:16:24.370 do in the first hundred days in terms of cutting 0:16:24.690 --> 0:16:25.190 red tape? 0:16:26.210 --> 0:16:29.750 So we want to make sure that there's a date 0:16:29.790 --> 0:16:31.510 certain by which if you're going to build a home, 0:16:32.210 --> 0:16:34.550 you know you're going to go. You should not be 0:16:34.590 --> 0:16:38.010 held up for years and years not getting... the permit 0:16:38.050 --> 0:16:42.540 you need, getting the licensing taken care of. Whatever it 0:16:42.700 --> 0:16:45.780 is that lets you put shovel in ground, I want 0:16:45.820 --> 0:16:48.340 to make sure that we're helping give you a date 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:51.220 certain when that happens. Time is money, and I don't 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:54.060 need you to spin your wheels waiting to get your permit. 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:55.320 Secondly. 0:16:56.140 --> 0:16:57.280 So are you going to get rid of CEQA? 0:16:57.560 --> 0:16:59.840 Because that's what usually holds up all this stuff, is 0:16:59.960 --> 0:17:02.560 anyone being able to sue anybody over anything. 0:17:03.730 --> 0:17:04.460 Oh, no, he's not. 0:17:04.980 --> 0:17:08.859 So this is, again, more generic nothing. Oh, we're going 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:10.340 to go faster. We're going to build more. 0:17:10.660 --> 0:17:11.899 And I hope people will vote for me. 0:17:11.900 --> 0:17:15.200 This is the inspiring message that is the most powerful 0:17:15.260 --> 0:17:17.090 governorship in the entire country. 0:17:17.290 --> 0:17:21.770 Prop 1, Proposition 1 would provide us with the resources 0:17:21.830 --> 0:17:25.930 we need to build those houses, to build those rental 0:17:26.010 --> 0:17:30.030 units that people are waiting for. There are some 40,000 0:17:30.030 --> 0:17:32.070 housing units that are ready to go. 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:34.720 So what we need is more and more and more 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:38.179 subsidized housing. If you want to know anything about Prop 1, 0:17:38.180 --> 0:17:41.949 check out our accountability podcast with John Fleischman. That episode 0:17:41.970 --> 0:17:47.270 has over 120,000 views and was so popular that the 0:17:47.290 --> 0:17:49.530 John Kobelt show tried to rip it off today. 0:17:49.550 --> 0:17:53.880 I keyed, I keyed. 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:56.060 He can do whatever he wants. We have a lot 0:17:56.100 --> 0:17:58.820 of the same guests on the shows. It's just very interesting. 0:17:59.420 --> 0:18:01.040 They're like, yeah, we're going to do a voter guide 0:18:01.060 --> 0:18:02.460 episode with John Fleischman. 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:06.720 They just need a little help with financing and prop 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:10.909 one will help us provide that financing that kickstart the 0:18:10.950 --> 0:18:14.690 construction of those 40,000 units. Do that. Then I'll help 0:18:14.770 --> 0:18:17.169 make sure that if you're just shy, a little bit 0:18:17.190 --> 0:18:20.070 of money for that down payment will help. We've got 0:18:20.550 --> 0:18:21.889 a down payment assistance program. 0:18:21.950 --> 0:18:23.930 You know, this is why I was so excited to 0:18:24.010 --> 0:18:27.970 talk to Ramin today, who I guess got overbooked or 0:18:28.369 --> 0:18:30.630 maybe he, Didn't realize that we were on the air 0:18:30.670 --> 0:18:31.170 this time. 0:18:31.270 --> 0:18:31.590 I don't know. 0:18:31.730 --> 0:18:34.189 Maybe he'll come on another time. But Romaine put out 0:18:34.210 --> 0:18:37.149 this great video explaining why Prop 1 is a terrible 0:18:37.230 --> 0:18:41.560 idea and the Proposition 37 with the down payment assistance 0:18:41.820 --> 0:18:45.700 will actually raise the prices of homes and gives you 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:49.040 a second loan that is at a higher interest rate 0:18:49.260 --> 0:18:53.119 that is now due to the state of California. You know, 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:56.060 we could try so many other ways to lower the 0:18:56.160 --> 0:19:00.220 actual cost, but if we're just increasing the financing, this 0:19:00.310 --> 0:19:03.489 reminds me of what happened to my generation when they 0:19:03.530 --> 0:19:05.189 told us all we have to go to college and 0:19:05.210 --> 0:19:08.449 get all these loans. Everyone got into debt, and the 0:19:08.530 --> 0:19:13.970 price of college went through the roof. I think we've 0:19:14.030 --> 0:19:18.510 seen enough. This is the guy who is currently leading 0:19:18.550 --> 0:19:22.369 in the polls. I wonder why he won't debate Steve 0:19:22.390 --> 0:19:28.010 Hilton anymore. It's Randy Wang on The John Phillips Show. 0:19:28.570 --> 0:19:31.729 It's The John Phillips Show. 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