Speaker 1: And we continue at two oh five in the afternoon
Speaker 1: on The Giant Phillips Show Live from Las Vegas. Mister
Speaker 1: Randy Wings in Culver City.
Speaker 2: Greg writes in a Johnny Don't Like show at gmail
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Speaker 2: start siphoning gas like Al Bundy. You probably won't get
Speaker 2: prosecuted in Los Angeles. And if you do it with
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Speaker 2: Also less chance of getting stabbed in the neck on
Speaker 2: public transit.
Speaker 1: I just found out some Married with Children trivia. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: now you know that our good friend Doug McIntyre was
Speaker 1: a writer for Married with Children. He penned I believe
Speaker 1: at least one episode of that sitcom. However, what I
Speaker 1: didn't know is that the creators of Married with Children
Speaker 1: were huge pro wrestling fans. Oh I knew that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And the reason that the Bundys were named the Bundys
Speaker 1: was after King Kong Bundy. And the reason that Steve
Speaker 1: and Marcy Rhoades were named Rhodes was after Dusty Rhodes,
Speaker 1: another pro wrestler.
Speaker 2: Well, and if you watch the show, how many pro
Speaker 2: wrestlers guest starred on that show a ton of them.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no, it was a regular topic that would
Speaker 1: come up on that program. I love that show, by
Speaker 1: the way, it's a classic. Eight hundred two two two
Speaker 1: five two two two is telephone number. What eight hundred
Speaker 1: two to two five two two two. It is our pleasure
Speaker 1: to welcome our next guest to the program. She is
Speaker 1: a candidate in California's eleventh district. That is the district
Speaker 1: that is currently occupied by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,
Speaker 1: and it encompasses most of the city and county of
Speaker 1: San Francisco. You can find her online at Votemrie dot com. Marie,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna have to help me with the pronunciation
Speaker 1: of your last name, because otherwise I'm going to butcher it,
Speaker 1: of course.
Speaker 3: Thank you, John, Marie Urrabiel.
Speaker 1: Marie Hurrabiel. Okay, well, get it right at least in
Speaker 1: this interview. But thank you so much for helping me
Speaker 1: out with that, and thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 3: You bet, thank you so much for having me. What
Speaker 3: a pleasure.
Speaker 1: So you want to replace Nancy Pelosi in the Congress.
Speaker 1: You are a registered Democrat running in this San Francisco
Speaker 1: based district. So I guess my first question to you
Speaker 1: is what kind of stock picker are you? Because you're
Speaker 1: going to have to be pretty good if you're going
Speaker 1: to replace her, because she did better than Wren Boffett.
Speaker 3: Well. No, I actually was at an event a couple
Speaker 3: of nights ago where all of my it was a
Speaker 3: bunch of people in the tech industry, and they were saying,
Speaker 3: we're about to lose our gravy train because we just
Speaker 3: copy whatever Nancy Pelosi does. So I will, I will,
Speaker 3: I promise you, I will try to get really good.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, we'll be we'll be keeping track. Now,
Speaker 1: why is it that you should be the next congresswoman
Speaker 1: from San Francisco?
Speaker 3: Because I am the only person in this race who
Speaker 3: brings a common sense, pragmatic perspective. I have a history
Speaker 3: of fixing things in San Francisco. I've been a major
Speaker 3: force in moving us from a really big place where
Speaker 3: we were several years ago to a much better place,
Speaker 3: a much healthier place.
Speaker 1: And.
Speaker 3: Really reeling us back from the problematic policies that have
Speaker 3: caused us in San Francisco so many problems and so
Speaker 3: many problems at the federal level. You know that voters
Speaker 3: rejected in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: One of your opponents in this race is Scott Wiener,
Speaker 1: who is one of the most radical members of the
Speaker 1: California legislature. Virtually all of the stories that gain national
Speaker 1: attention and because of I guess the association with California excess,
Speaker 1: are usually authored by Scott Wiener. He's the guy particularly
Speaker 1: on subjects like housing, where he doesn't want us living
Speaker 1: in single family homes. He wants all of us living
Speaker 1: in very dense mixed use housing and writing public transit
Speaker 1: and those sorts of things. And I know he's originally
Speaker 1: from the East Coast, but the attitude that he has
Speaker 1: seems to be a very East Coast attitude. People don't
Speaker 1: come to California because they want to live above a
Speaker 1: Panda express. People come to California because they want the
Speaker 1: California dream. They want their own little slice of paradise.
Speaker 1: We love the weather, we love the views, We love
Speaker 1: the oceans, the bridges, the mountains, those sorts of things,
Speaker 1: and we like to be around that. And if we
Speaker 1: wanted to live in a concrete jungle, we'd live on
Speaker 1: the East Coast. But that's not what brings people to California.
Speaker 3: I agree, Yes, I agree. I will say he you know,
Speaker 3: we were experiencing in San Francisco definitely a housing crisis
Speaker 3: around twenty eighteen twenty nineteen, and I think, you know,
Speaker 3: we lost about five percent of our population in San
Speaker 3: Francisco over a couple of years. That's a pretty dramatic
Speaker 3: loss in a short period of time. And what I
Speaker 3: think has happened with Scott Laner is he has really
Speaker 3: taken the crisis that we had and continues to continues
Speaker 3: to talk about that what we should be doing instead
Speaker 3: is really looking at instead of just zoning things that
Speaker 3: are in a way that are not appealing to people,
Speaker 3: we should be recognizing that part of what makes California
Speaker 3: and San Francisco specifically so amazing and so beautiful is
Speaker 3: all of the rich tapestry of culture and diversity and
Speaker 3: beauty that we have all over the city and trying
Speaker 3: to build around that. So there are districts in San
Speaker 3: Francisco that are not as developed. But you know, Scott
Speaker 3: Wiener's plans really have only addressed the areas that are
Speaker 3: fully developed require demolishing before you can build, which is
Speaker 3: also inconsistent with his stated goal of growing of building
Speaker 3: as much housing as quickly as possible. And if you're
Speaker 3: in San Francisco, Scott Wiener has been in office for
Speaker 3: ten years. He's been part of city government for over
Speaker 3: twenty five years. He was an employee of the city
Speaker 3: and then became an elected official. Housing prices have gone
Speaker 3: up twenty percent since he came into office. Had not
Speaker 3: caused a lowering of prices or even a stagnation of prices.
Speaker 3: All of these policies of his have done actually really nothing,
Speaker 3: And so he claims that he's great on housing, but
Speaker 3: it's not really making a difference and it is causing
Speaker 3: harm to some communities.
Speaker 1: Right now, San Francisco is the epicenter of the AI industry.
Speaker 1: All of the cutting edge companies are in or many
Speaker 1: of them are in Northern California. Many of the people
Speaker 1: who work at those companies, even if the companies aren't
Speaker 1: headquartered in San Francisco, live and dine and entertain themselves
Speaker 1: in San Francisco. And right now that industry is screaming
Speaker 1: out saying that California is about to go off the cliff.
Speaker 1: We have a tax that is on the ballot in
Speaker 1: the Bay Area, the CEO tax that would specifically target
Speaker 1: the individuals that run those companies and punish them, separate
Speaker 1: them from everyone else, and punish them with new taxes.
Speaker 1: We're looking at a statewide initiative that's being pushed by
Speaker 1: the SEIU that would be a wealth confiscation tax. It's
Speaker 1: already driven a trillion dollars of wealth out of the
Speaker 1: state of California, some of that money coming from San Francisco.
Speaker 1: And you listen to these people, they have no intention
Speaker 1: of hitting the brakes anytime soon. And we know that
Speaker 1: there are people, certainly Scott Wiener among them in this
Speaker 1: race running for Congress in San Francisco, who buy into
Speaker 1: all of this insanity. And I don't believe the CEOs
Speaker 1: of these corporations are bluffing when they say, if you
Speaker 1: keep moving forward with this, we are going to move
Speaker 1: these companies out of state. Do you fear that if
Speaker 1: we don't throw the brakes on these things and bring
Speaker 1: back some moderation to California politics and government, that we
Speaker 1: will kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
Speaker 3: I absolutely agree with you on that, and I even
Speaker 3: before I decided to run, I was talking extensively about
Speaker 3: the the billionaire tacks for example, it is a terrible
Speaker 3: idea on every level. You are right. It has driven
Speaker 3: out over a billion dollars from our tax base already,
Speaker 3: and a lot of that actually came from San Francisco.
Speaker 3: There there were four billionaires who made up alone, you know,
Speaker 3: eight hundred billion dollars of wealth that just left the state.
Speaker 3: And then many others of course have left also. But
Speaker 3: we are, we are in real time killing the goose
Speaker 3: that laid the golden egg. And if we do not
Speaker 3: get a handle on things we are we are, we
Speaker 3: are going to be in big, big trouble. And I
Speaker 3: oppose the CEO tax I oppose the billionaire attacks. These
Speaker 3: are short sighted measures, totally missed the big picture, and
Speaker 3: they're being put forward largely by organizations that just do
Speaker 3: not have the thoughtfulness and the extensive understanding of how
Speaker 3: the economy works. They're looking for their little slice and
Speaker 3: they're destroying everything around them.
Speaker 1: How important is it? Because I know a lot of
Speaker 1: these people certainly feel the way that feel the same
Speaker 1: way as us about both of these initiatives, and probably
Speaker 1: on any number of other subjects. But it seems like
Speaker 1: there's been a hesitancy to get involved with their pocket
Speaker 1: books heavily in races like this one, or statewide races,
Speaker 1: or the initiative process or whatever, because they're upset in
Speaker 1: one or they're worried and in one party state about
Speaker 1: upsidetting the people who are in charge of state government.
Speaker 1: My attitude is, look, who cares if they don't like you,
Speaker 1: If they're out there trying to kill you anyway, you
Speaker 1: might as well belly up to the bar, bring out
Speaker 1: your checkbook, and make sure that the people who are
Speaker 1: arguing on behalf of sanity have the ability to get
Speaker 1: word out.
Speaker 3: I could not agree with you more, John, I mean
Speaker 3: that that is exactly what I'm looking at right now
Speaker 3: in my race, to be honest with you, is that
Speaker 3: people are afraid of going against the elected politicians. And
Speaker 3: you know, usually it's an incumbent. In this case, we
Speaker 3: don't have an incumbent. But Scott Wiener has been running
Speaker 3: for three years, so he's sort of, you know, he's
Speaker 3: kind of taking a little bit of that position that hey,
Speaker 3: I'm the guy in office and you need to vote
Speaker 3: for me, and.
Speaker 2: He is.
Speaker 3: He's a huge part of the problem. He's been in
Speaker 3: office for ten years and things only gotten worse and yet,
Speaker 3: and I will say I'm very fortunate. I do have
Speaker 3: a lot of support. I've only been in the race
Speaker 3: for six or so weeks. My first month, I raised
Speaker 3: four hundred and twenty thousand dollars, and one of my
Speaker 3: other opponents, who's been in for six months, you know,
Speaker 3: in the entire quarter, raised under three hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: So I I'm hitting the ground running. But it is time.
Speaker 3: This is the moment when people need to put their
Speaker 3: money where their mouth is. If you're tired of these
Speaker 3: entrenched insider politicians who pander to other insiders, you need
Speaker 3: to get involved and you need to elect people. You
Speaker 3: need to support people like me so that we can
Speaker 3: get elected the people who want to bring common sense
Speaker 3: back to our governance and who are tired of just
Speaker 3: how taling to the insider class and others who just
Speaker 3: want to take from us and don't want to have
Speaker 3: any responsibility or.
Speaker 1: Speak with Marie Hrabiel, who is a candidate for Congress
Speaker 1: in San Francisco. You can get her online at vote
Speaker 1: Marie dot com and follow her on x at Mhurrabiel Marie.
Speaker 1: A lot of federal office holders are hesitant to weigh
Speaker 1: in on local subjects because they don't want the blowback,
Speaker 1: I think is the number one reason. But state issues
Speaker 1: and city issues are different than federal issues. So okay,
Speaker 1: an argument could be made if you were to be
Speaker 1: elected as the next congresswoman from San Francisco, and let's
Speaker 1: just say, to take an example from the past, you
Speaker 1: have someone like Chase A. Boudin who is elected to
Speaker 1: be the District Attorney of San Francisco, who refuses to
Speaker 1: prosecute crime, who refuses to enforce the law, who refuses
Speaker 1: to do what prosecutors are put on the planet to do.
Speaker 1: Would you weigh in on a race like that on
Speaker 1: a recall election, or if he were to to throw
Speaker 1: his hat in the ring and run for that office
Speaker 1: again and warn the people of San Francisco as to
Speaker 1: what kind of danger that person is.
Speaker 3: Oh, you better believe it. Yes, absolutely, I think my
Speaker 3: entire track record supports that I would absolutely do that.
Speaker 3: I you know, I'm getting into this race not because
Speaker 3: I need a job. I have a perfectly fabulous life
Speaker 3: and I don't I don't need to be doing this.
Speaker 3: I'm doing it because this is my hometown. I love
Speaker 3: this place and I want to fix it, and I
Speaker 3: will be I will not be worried about my next
Speaker 3: job because I am not going to be interested in
Speaker 3: the next political job. I would rather back to the
Speaker 3: private sector after I do this. So I'm not going
Speaker 3: to be the person who is going to be worried
Speaker 3: about ruffling feathers. I'm going to be the person who
Speaker 3: is one hundred percent leaving the charge to demand more accountability,
Speaker 3: better policy, and just fixing what's wrong. And if there's
Speaker 3: someone who is up before election who does not meet
Speaker 3: those goals, or more importantly, who is antithetical to those goals,
Speaker 3: I will absolutely be speaking about it.
Speaker 1: So far, Nancy Pelosi has not endorsed a candidate to
Speaker 1: replace her in the United States Congress. Have you spoken
Speaker 1: to her since you've thrown your hat in the ring?
Speaker 3: I have not spoken to her since I threw my
Speaker 3: hat in the ring. I would love to speak with her,
Speaker 3: but I do know that she has said that she
Speaker 3: does not intend to endorse until after the primary, and
Speaker 3: so ideally I will make it through the primary, and
Speaker 3: at that point I think it would be wonderful to
Speaker 3: speak with her, and I really hope to have that opportunity.
Speaker 3: I will share a little to bit that I don't
Speaker 3: know her very well, but I know some of her
Speaker 3: family members. Her husband and I have both very active
Speaker 3: in the georgetownmunity and see each other a lot through that.
Speaker 3: But I also interned her for her when I was
Speaker 3: at Georgetown, and when she ran for the very first time,
Speaker 3: I was in school with her daughter, her youngest daughter, Alexandra,
Speaker 3: and I remember at the time wondering, like, what's your
Speaker 3: mom doing? You know, what is what is this? It
Speaker 3: was the first time I was aware of a congress person,
Speaker 3: and it is very surreal now to be in this
Speaker 3: race to feed her. She's been the only congress person
Speaker 3: I've I've had personally that I remember in my you know,
Speaker 3: cognitive life.
Speaker 1: When you interned for her a while back, what was
Speaker 1: she like? What was she like on a personal level?
Speaker 1: Could you look at her and go, Okay, you're going
Speaker 1: to be someday? Was she really intense? What was she
Speaker 1: like as a person back then?
Speaker 3: She's she's very gracious, She's a lovely person. I wouldn't
Speaker 3: say I thought she was very intense when I was
Speaker 3: interning for her, partly because I didn't. She was never
Speaker 3: very ant with me personally, but you know, she was
Speaker 3: very uh fierce and passionate in her beliefs and you know,
Speaker 3: very very driven. So you could see that she was
Speaker 3: going to get things done, you know. And and her
Speaker 3: her history prior to being in Congress was that she
Speaker 3: was a big fundraiser for the Democratic Party. She's a
Speaker 3: person who, you know, who goes after what she believes
Speaker 3: in and what she wants and she gets it done,
Speaker 3: which is very impressive and definitely worth emyl Did.
Speaker 1: You ever see her without the makeup and the hair
Speaker 1: done and the suits on and all of that, or
Speaker 1: was she always with her game face on?
Speaker 4: You know what?
Speaker 3: She was always with her game base on for sure.
Speaker 3: For sure. She you know, in that respect, she reminds
Speaker 3: me of my grandmother who just you know, never ever, ever,
Speaker 3: I think there's a Nancy is not as old as
Speaker 3: my grandmother, obviously, but I think there's very much a
Speaker 3: generation that was so just so beautifully put together all
Speaker 3: the time. And that's something else I would like to emulate.
Speaker 3: I really don't succeed all the time, but she's you know, she, Yes,
Speaker 3: she's one of those people who just you know, always
Speaker 3: looks great.
Speaker 1: Marie Harabiel candidate for Congress in San Francisco. She's running
Speaker 1: to replace Nancy Pelosi. You can find out more information
Speaker 1: on her in her campaign at Votemrie dot com and
Speaker 1: you can follow her on ex at Mharabia. Well, Marie,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for stopping by.
Speaker 3: Thank you have a great day. John take care.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the phones and welcome Thomas
Speaker 1: and San Joseer Thomas.
Speaker 6: Hello, Hey, gentlemen, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 6: It's it's absolutely crucial when you guys have these people,
Speaker 6: these quote politicians come onto the show because it gives
Speaker 6: everyone I hope you were listening, Uh, gives you an
Speaker 6: idea of what you're what you're going to be voting for.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 6: We're talking about people that are literally been caught doing
Speaker 6: insider trading, making billions, but they're but they're kind and
Speaker 6: and compassionate, loving people and uh in this person's eyes.
Speaker 6: And I have to share something with you, and you
Speaker 6: guys can I don't know if you can find us
Speaker 6: on the internet. I can send it to you. John
Speaker 6: I got all my receipts. But her daughter that this
Speaker 6: lady went to school with her daughter, and this is
Speaker 6: her daughter's words verbatim. They said, try to describe your mom, Nancy,
Speaker 6: and she goes, well, you know, I'm not going to
Speaker 6: do that, and they finally pushed her. She goes, Okay,
Speaker 6: put it this way. She'll cut your head off and
Speaker 6: you won't even know you're bleeding. This is how feels
Speaker 6: about her mother. And it was on a show, a
Speaker 6: national syndicated show like The View or something like that.
Speaker 6: I don't remember what it was, but I do have it.
Speaker 6: I have the clip, John, I can send it to
Speaker 6: you if you want it. But this is how her
Speaker 6: daughter feel of her mother. And I got a bunch
Speaker 6: of others of Nancy screaming at people and tell them,
Speaker 6: telling them not to talk to her because she's like
Speaker 6: above them and too good for them, and how dare
Speaker 6: you even like breathe the same air that I'm breathing.
Speaker 6: Kind of an attitude, So thank you for having read
Speaker 6: people on man.
Speaker 1: I read the Susan Page biography on Nancy Polo, and
Speaker 1: Susan Page, who is obviously a fan of Nancy Pelosi,
Speaker 1: otherwise you wouldn't be writing the book said that Nancy
Speaker 1: Pelosi was a quote iron fist and a Gucci glove.
Speaker 6: Oh, I just you can't make this stuff up. This
Speaker 6: is politics. These are politicians. They I can't think of that.
Speaker 6: There's a saying they can they can smile as they
Speaker 6: as they kill. They smile as they kill. I think
Speaker 6: that's in a song. And this is them. And when
Speaker 6: people talk this way, okay, look, they're smooth, they don't
Speaker 6: want to say anything negative. You know what you need
Speaker 6: to bring to people here in California right now? Like
Speaker 6: America needed Trump, California needs someone who stands up, speaks
Speaker 6: up in all the divisions, mayors of a chief of police,
Speaker 6: anything you can get them in. We need these people
Speaker 6: that will stand up and say you know that that
Speaker 6: so and so is crazy, and uh, you know this
Speaker 6: is this is how I want to approach it. We
Speaker 6: need to get back to basis with people that will
Speaker 6: just tell you what they need to do and you
Speaker 6: know what we need to do. But they're not gonna
Speaker 6: sit there and kiss the behinds of these obviously very
Speaker 6: powerful people because they're afraid of them. They're scared of them.
Speaker 6: So if this lady gets in people. Trust me, if
Speaker 6: Nancy wants something, she's gonna call this lady up or
Speaker 6: have her her Gucci handbag, call her and say, this
Speaker 6: is what you're gonna do. This is what you're gonna decide. Uh,
Speaker 6: this is what This is a measure that we're gonna
Speaker 6: put through and you are going to sign it. These
Speaker 6: people are just puppets, man, And when they talk like this,
Speaker 6: it's obvious and obviously she doesn't care. She doesn't care either.
Speaker 6: She has she sounds like a very smart lady, very
Speaker 6: well read, very educated. She doesn't need the money. She's
Speaker 6: got a great job, so she's you know, she's doing well,
Speaker 6: so she's not a dummy. But she's literally telling all
Speaker 6: of you that she's just going to be another puppet
Speaker 6: and why you'd vote for that, you know, call me crazy.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you for the call, sir. We appreciate it.
Speaker 1: All right. There's some drama going on right now in Elmonte.
Speaker 2: There are eighty eight small cities in the County of
Speaker 2: Los Angeles, and oh, if it were possible to cover
Speaker 2: all of them, it just isn't. It's not for us,
Speaker 2: it's not for the local TV stations. It's not even
Speaker 2: for the local newspapers, but every once in a while
Speaker 2: you get a story out of one of these little
Speaker 2: cities in La County, and it's pretty damn insane because
Speaker 2: the mayor of Almonte is currently running for a third term,
Speaker 2: despite the fact that she has had a very public
Speaker 2: feud going on with one of her constituents that is
Speaker 2: involved the mayor trying to get this woman fired, the
Speaker 2: mayor sending public works crews to paint her curb bread
Speaker 2: and apparently the mayor sending a gang member to intimidator. WHOA,
Speaker 2: let's find out what this is all about. We go
Speaker 2: to KTLA and to the very rarely discussed Almani years.
Speaker 7: The Almani mayor has been marred in a retaliation scandal
Speaker 7: involving a longtime resident. The mayor allegedly trying to get
Speaker 7: the woman fired, have the curbs painted red in front
Speaker 7: of her home, and reportedly sent a gang member to
Speaker 7: intimidate her.
Speaker 1: Thet whoam that serious business?
Speaker 7: The political drama.
Speaker 2: And this has all happened in the past, and she
Speaker 2: still wants to keep running.
Speaker 1: People get addicted to being elected.
Speaker 7: The political drama resulted in a lawsuit a city council
Speaker 7: censure and a public apology.
Speaker 8: Our Mary Beth McDade spoke to both the mayor and
Speaker 8: her alleged target about the fiery battle and the legal settlement.
Speaker 8: She joins US Live in studio Mary Beth Hear.
Speaker 1: And micah As.
Speaker 9: The mayor declares she's running for re election her pastor
Speaker 9: and has been engulfed in scandal. She faced public criticism
Speaker 9: for allegedly abusing her power and retaliating against a community
Speaker 9: volunteer who dared to criticize her. Now, the mayor has
Speaker 9: publicly called her actions a misstep, and whether this misstep
Speaker 9: will impact her run for a third term, only time
Speaker 9: will tell.
Speaker 10: Oh, she's asking for help.
Speaker 4: It was weird.
Speaker 10: Well that's the mayor of Amoni, right, Yeah, so she
Speaker 10: had all her girlfriends recording to me and I don't
Speaker 10: know why.
Speaker 1: Yes, small town politics, man is the absolute most vicious.
Speaker 1: It's real ugly and it just does not get the
Speaker 1: level of tension it deserves.
Speaker 9: In September twenty twenty three, a known gang member seen
Speaker 9: on video intimidating El Monty resident Gambi Laos.
Speaker 10: That's according to a lawsuit filed.
Speaker 2: Against the city by the way you could tell because
Speaker 2: of the music. It's may sweeps everyone.
Speaker 10: That's according to a.
Speaker 9: Lawsuit filed against the city, which would eventually lead to
Speaker 9: one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars settlement, a center,
Speaker 9: and apology from the mayor from running for mayor. Now
Speaker 9: Mayor Jessica and Kona is running for a third term,
Speaker 9: even though her first two terms she came under fire
Speaker 9: for that incident.
Speaker 1: That takes some gusto.
Speaker 2: You were censured, you had to pay one hundred and
Speaker 2: seventy five thousand dollars in a retaliation lawsuit to a
Speaker 2: constituent you were harassing, and you still think you're going
Speaker 2: to get re elected.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised she's not in Congress.
Speaker 9: Part of a retaliation scandal involving Laos.
Speaker 10: They censured her and then she gave her speech. She
Speaker 10: said she was unapologetic, she didn't do anything wrong and
Speaker 10: it was a misstep during a very contentious election.
Speaker 9: That misstep at a local park in twenty twenty two
Speaker 9: is what started at all the mayor running for a
Speaker 9: second two He yelled from her car at Laos, accusing
Speaker 9: her of campaigning for her competition. However, Leos wasn't campaigning
Speaker 9: for anyone that day, she was promoting a city program.
Speaker 9: She co founded.
Speaker 1: A screaming match at the park between the mayor and
Speaker 1: some volunteer yep.
Speaker 9: Leos, upset with the mayor's actions, sent her in the
Speaker 9: city council an.
Speaker 10: Email and then the letter.
Speaker 3: I told her she needed to do better.
Speaker 10: She can't be rolling around our city like Achola. And
Speaker 10: then the letter.
Speaker 3: I told her she needed to do better.
Speaker 10: She can't be rolling around our city like Achola when
Speaker 10: we voted for her to represent us.
Speaker 9: But that only made things worse. Leos tells us the
Speaker 9: mayor abused her power by trying to get her fired
Speaker 9: from her job by repeatedly calling her supervisors and sharing
Speaker 9: that email with them.
Speaker 1: This is so unbelievably catty.
Speaker 2: It is ridiculous. Where's the reality TV cameras when you
Speaker 2: need them?
Speaker 10: I got another meeting with my boss and he's like, hey,
Speaker 10: you know, the mayor keeps calling. Now she's having conference calls.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine your boss polsy and the mayor keeps
Speaker 2: complaining about you.
Speaker 1: I bet you it's the first time HR has heard
Speaker 1: about that at that particular company conference calls.
Speaker 10: Now she's crying on the phone, and I'm like, I'm
Speaker 10: on vacation. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: Well, you might be on vacation, but she's rolling around
Speaker 1: like a chola.
Speaker 10: He says no, like she wants something done. And now
Speaker 10: I have a zoom meeting with my boss's boss and
Speaker 10: she's basically telling me that because she's the mayor, she
Speaker 10: can keep Edison from getting a coach with permise.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, she works for Edison, and the mayor is
Speaker 2: calling Edison trying to get this lady fired.
Speaker 1: It sounds like she's gonna appeal all the way up
Speaker 1: to Thomas.
Speaker 10: Edison from getting a croachment permise. She can make it
Speaker 10: difficult for them to work in the city.
Speaker 11: So I never asked for them to do anything to her.
Speaker 11: I was simply in quresty her status in rural and
Speaker 11: Edison and her participation.
Speaker 2: Why why do you care what an average citizen is
Speaker 2: doing for the company they work for, because it's harassment
Speaker 2: her status in.
Speaker 11: Rural and Edison and her participation here in the city.
Speaker 9: Laos was not fired, but the bad blood between the
Speaker 9: two continued at city council meetings.
Speaker 10: You are actually a second you're a second warning and
Speaker 10: nobody should vote for you.
Speaker 1: These people are running the cities in California.
Speaker 2: There are eighty eight cities in La County, and we
Speaker 2: only have time to focus on the big ones. There's
Speaker 2: a lot of drama going on out there.
Speaker 9: The mayor had her ben from council meetings.
Speaker 2: It's when you actually deep dive into who is running
Speaker 2: these smaller cities. Some of them are run very very well,
Speaker 2: like the South Bay cities. But then you have places
Speaker 2: like Almonte where this is the mayor. Of course, we
Speaker 2: all know about the vice mayor of Cutahey, and of
Speaker 2: course you remember what happened with the city manager of
Speaker 2: Bell Robert Rizzo.
Speaker 1: No, these cities are like cities in Mexico that are
Speaker 1: just controlled by the cartels.
Speaker 9: The mayor had her ben from council meetings and from
Speaker 9: volunteering for the city, and Laos claims she even used
Speaker 9: public work screws to pay the curb red in front
Speaker 9: of Laos's home.
Speaker 1: That is cold. That right there is a slap of
Speaker 1: the phase.
Speaker 2: You're going to take city workers on a city dime
Speaker 2: and have them paint a curb red just to get
Speaker 2: back at somebody. Your piss stop at part of.
Speaker 1: Me, part of me sees the cattiness and the pettiness
Speaker 1: in this and the fact that she was willing to
Speaker 1: follow through with it, And I have a bit of
Speaker 1: respect for her because most people they while they might
Speaker 1: get the idea, someone eventually talks them out of it.
Speaker 1: But this woman told everyone who told her not to
Speaker 1: do it to go to hell her.
Speaker 10: The ex public works director put in a work order
Speaker 10: to have my curves painted so that it can minimize
Speaker 10: himount of space I had to park my cars, which break.
Speaker 1: I'm going to make your life a living hell. Let's
Speaker 1: put it a fire, Hydrid do what.
Speaker 9: Brings us back to that incident involving intimidation by a
Speaker 9: known gang member.
Speaker 11: With regard to the gang member, I didn't know who
Speaker 11: this man was. I certainly didn't send him over to him.
Speaker 1: Then what'd you pay one hundred and seventy five K for?
Speaker 1: If she's rolled around like a chola. I would love
Speaker 1: to see what this gang member look like.
Speaker 2: Well, maybe it's one of the gang members that Cynthia
Speaker 2: Gonzalez knows.
Speaker 11: I want to know where are at.
Speaker 2: That's what's going on in El Monty. Isn't tiny government fun?
Speaker 1: Let's go to ed in Lake County, ED.
Speaker 5: Hello, gentlemen, good afternoon. I'll talk to you. I wanted
Speaker 5: to broach the gas topics and the fact that I've
Speaker 5: been seeing these stickers. I don't know if you've seen
Speaker 5: them these. I did that stickers reminiscent of the Joe Biden.
Speaker 5: I did that sticker on my local gas pump, and
Speaker 5: I find that a little bit infuriating. Have you seen those? John?
Speaker 1: I have not. No.
Speaker 5: Oh, So here's the thing, I explained as I was
Speaker 5: peeling one off to a gentleman the other day, the
Speaker 5: fact that Donald Trump had instituted so much domestic refining
Speaker 5: of petroleum products in his first term as well as
Speaker 5: the beginning of this second term. If he had not
Speaker 5: done that, gas prices would be dramatically higher as we
Speaker 5: enter this necessary crisis ending a nearly fifty year adversary
Speaker 5: that's called this all kinds of horrendous names, obviously, And
Speaker 5: so I believe this gas thing is the only thrilling
Speaker 5: thing the Democrats have right now to complain about, because honestly,
Speaker 5: being in the construction industry, everyone I know is books
Speaker 5: for months. Everyone knows swamped with work. Everyone's making tons
Speaker 5: of money, this economy is booming. We're doing very well.
Speaker 5: There's now hiring signs everywhere that I look. And so
Speaker 5: the gas price thing, it's what rush is the great
Speaker 5: rush Limbaugh refer to as an eco Nazi, which is
Speaker 5: the term I believe he coined. And that's that's specifically
Speaker 5: what these people are. They're they're Nazis, and it's based
Speaker 5: on environmentalism. That's their main that's their juden, that's their
Speaker 5: that's the the environmentalist thing. That's their that's their chant,
Speaker 5: that's their Singhil Mother Nature. Today's their big day, right,
Speaker 5: the communist day. So we need to remember as a
Speaker 5: country that these people are weak. And so when I
Speaker 5: see the gas prices and I have these people going,
Speaker 5: oh oh, it's so much, I think, well, I drive
Speaker 5: one hundred and twenty miles a day, and I drive
Speaker 5: a Gesel truck. I'm paying seven to fifty five. And
Speaker 5: when I equate the fact that it's going to cost
Speaker 5: me an extra forty or fifty bucks for the week,
Speaker 5: and would I donate that willingly to destroy our greatest adversary,
Speaker 5: I would say absolutely, even though in Texas they're still
Speaker 5: paying about three three fifty. So that's right, That's just
Speaker 5: what I wanted to chime in on. So I appreciate
Speaker 5: have a great day.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the call, sir, We appreciate it. Let's
Speaker 1: go to John at Long Beach. John.
Speaker 4: Hello, Johnny and Randy. First, I want to congratulate you
Speaker 4: on your new three year contract you got. And second,
Speaker 4: can you imagine if Katie Porter was the mayor of
Speaker 4: el Monty and that lady came into the city council meeting,
Speaker 4: she might have got a hot pot of mashed potatoes
Speaker 4: port on her head.
Speaker 2: Well, we can imagine what that would sound like. It
Speaker 2: would sound something like my shot.
Speaker 10: She can't be rolling around our city like.
Speaker 4: What happened to the down ass kids.
Speaker 1: Neighborhood kids.
Speaker 10: The downass kids don't like it.
Speaker 4: There you go, have a great weekend, guys.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you,