1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: And very happy Wednesday to you. At twelve oh seven. 2 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:06,400 Speaker 1: In the West, it's the John Phillip Show, Mister Randy 3 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:07,640 Speaker 1: Wags in Culver City. 4 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 2: John, we have a brand new La Times UC Berkeley, Paul. 5 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 2: When it comes to the race for governor of California 6 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:20,080 Speaker 2: coming in first place, Steve Hilton with seventeen percent, second 7 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:24,600 Speaker 2: place Chad Bianco with sixteen percent, and tied for third 8 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:31,080 Speaker 2: place at thirteen percent each are Eric Swallwell and Kat Parter. 9 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 3: I'm pulling in to the bakery. 10 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:37,840 Speaker 1: It's going to turn into a cage match between those two. 11 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:43,159 Speaker 2: Tom Steyer is down in fifth place at ten percent, 12 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 2: and then it's a big jump Besserah at five Viragosa 13 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:51,960 Speaker 2: and Mayheon at four, Betty Yee and Tony Thurmond at one. 14 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:56,720 Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see if Matt Mayhon starts to 15 00:00:56,760 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 1: gain any traction now that he's starting to spend money 16 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 1: and do all the shows. Not this one, but he 17 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:05,200 Speaker 1: did show up on The Daily Show and others. 18 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's an interesting strategy, right, campaign for governor of 19 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:13,039 Speaker 2: California in New York. I don't understand that. 20 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:18,959 Speaker 1: I guess they figured it worked for that freak in 21 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:23,120 Speaker 1: Texas when he went on with Stephen Colbert and that 22 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 1: turned into a big controversy, and they're hoping that the 23 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:29,160 Speaker 1: same thing will happen to them. But I don't know 24 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 1: who's voting in California that's watching those East Coast shows. 25 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:38,120 Speaker 2: Well, and he didn't just go on the Daily Show. 26 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 2: Mayhn also went on Morning Joe, which I think, what 27 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:43,800 Speaker 2: comes on at three am over here? 28 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:48,480 Speaker 1: Nobody's watching that. No, that is for the East Coast audience. 29 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 1: And I don't understand why a candidate for office in 30 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:56,120 Speaker 1: California flies all the way to New York City to 31 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 1: do a national show that's on at three am here 32 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:02,440 Speaker 1: and there. The state of California, the largest state in 33 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 1: the Union, like we're a suburb of Guam. 34 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 2: We've been trying to get Mayhn on this show. He's 35 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:12,040 Speaker 2: come on in the past, and this is a statewide 36 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:17,360 Speaker 2: LA and San Francisco and Best Us in Fresno radio show. 37 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 2: What are you going to do? 38 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two? Is 39 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 1: the telephone number one? Eight hundred two two two five 40 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:29,720 Speaker 1: two two two. Well, if you woke up this morning 41 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:32,080 Speaker 1: like I did, and you opened up your phone and 42 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 1: you started looking at social media. You noticed a theme 43 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 1: real fast. Caesar Chavez is a Chico molo. 44 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:44,960 Speaker 2: There have been a lot of allegations in the last 45 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 2: forty eight hours about the historic labor leader Caesar Chavez 46 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:55,400 Speaker 2: as we're going into celebrating Caesar Chavez Day, and those 47 00:02:55,440 --> 00:03:00,200 Speaker 2: allegations just exploded a few hours ago with delor' A 48 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 2: Squerta openly admitting that she was raped by Caesar Chavez 49 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:07,960 Speaker 2: and he fathered two of her children. 50 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,920 Speaker 1: And she's just one of many on the list that 51 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:14,960 Speaker 1: they know of. Apparently there was a lot going on 52 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:15,840 Speaker 1: in those fields. 53 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 2: This is rocking the southern California area and the Bay 54 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 2: area including San Jose, pretty much anywhere where there's a 55 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:30,120 Speaker 2: whole bunch of stuff named after Caesar Chavez. This story 56 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 2: is from earlier this morning, so it does not have 57 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 2: the Dolores Squerta allegations. But here is the reaction to 58 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:39,680 Speaker 2: some of the other things that are going on when 59 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:43,920 Speaker 2: it comes to everything that we are learning about Caesar Chavez. 60 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 2: Here is ABC seven in the Bay. 61 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 3: In San Jose, where the family home of Cisar Chavez 62 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 3: is a cultural landmark. 63 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 2: Many earth and that might be going away. Go buye 64 00:03:57,240 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 2: Jock and paint. 65 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:02,200 Speaker 3: Many are devastated by allegations about Chavez during his time 66 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 3: as president of the United farm Workers Union. 67 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 4: He lived there for a couple of years, and this 68 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 4: place is like a sacred site to me. He's one 69 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 4: of my big time heroes. You know, these allegations are 70 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:16,560 Speaker 4: very serious, and I don't want that to be part 71 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 4: of his story. 72 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 2: You know, I think it is now. Oh yeah, you know, 73 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 2: people used to just say Harvey Weinstein was a great 74 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:27,839 Speaker 2: movie producer. You know, if this guy watches Nick Knight 75 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:31,800 Speaker 2: on a regular basis, nobody tell him what happened to 76 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:35,160 Speaker 2: Bill Cosby. Just let the man enjoy his television of. 77 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:35,720 Speaker 4: Who he is. 78 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:40,840 Speaker 3: UFW's statement references allegations it calls deeply troubling involving alleged 79 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:44,280 Speaker 3: abuse of young women or minors. UfW says it will 80 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:47,520 Speaker 3: not be taking part in any Cessar Chavez Day activities. 81 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:50,359 Speaker 3: That quote, we have not received any direct reports and 82 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:53,720 Speaker 3: we do not have any firsthand knowledge of these allegations. However, 83 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:56,599 Speaker 3: the allegations are serious enough that we feel compelled to 84 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:57,719 Speaker 3: take urgent steps. 85 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:00,839 Speaker 2: Yeah, it'd be really hard to be Mark on Caesar 86 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:04,360 Speaker 2: Chavez Day with everything that we're learning right now. Okay, 87 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 2: I don't believe that for a second, because Dolores Wuerta 88 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:13,800 Speaker 2: certainly knew about it. Certainly all the other victims knew 89 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:18,600 Speaker 2: about it. Those victims talked to one another, and in 90 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:22,160 Speaker 2: the letter, Delores Wuerta said that she decided to deify 91 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:26,360 Speaker 2: this guy anyway, knowing that he was a monster, because 92 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:27,919 Speaker 2: she didn't want it to hurt the movement. 93 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:33,960 Speaker 3: Larasa Historical Society founding board member Ramon J. Martinez says 94 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 3: allegations have service in the past, including in a twenty 95 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:40,919 Speaker 3: fourteen biography titled The Crusades of Cesar Chavez by former 96 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 3: La Times reporter Miriam Powell. 97 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:46,920 Speaker 5: In twenty fourteens, she wrote about how Caesar's wife discovered 98 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 5: some indiscreet letters to an eighteen year old and they 99 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:56,440 Speaker 5: had smirital difficulties. 100 00:05:56,600 --> 00:06:00,200 Speaker 2: Says ARCHI might be a little more than that. Yeah, no, no, cause. 101 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:03,760 Speaker 3: Says our Chavez is honored and remembered throughout the city 102 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:06,240 Speaker 3: of San Jose. From the plaza that says our Chavez 103 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 3: Park in downtown San Jose. 104 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:09,839 Speaker 2: All right, what are we going to rename that as? 105 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:12,360 Speaker 2: Name it after down notts. 106 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:15,920 Speaker 3: Plaza that says our Chavez Park in downtown San Jose 107 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 3: to the Arch of Dignity here at San Jose State University, 108 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:24,480 Speaker 3: retired SGSU Mexican American Studies Professor doctor Gregorio Moritores says 109 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:27,440 Speaker 3: it's important to remember Chavis's work for the rights of 110 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:30,480 Speaker 3: farm workers while the troubling allegations are investigated. 111 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:35,360 Speaker 1: KEITHA Of course, boy, they're still laying it on thick 112 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 1: with this guy, aren't they. 113 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:40,359 Speaker 2: Sure he may have been a monster, but he was 114 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:41,599 Speaker 2: an important monster. 115 00:06:42,279 --> 00:06:46,400 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, It's important to remember Chavis's work for the 116 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:49,919 Speaker 3: rights of farm workers while the troubling allegations are investigated. 117 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:53,040 Speaker 2: Heitha thinner, like a lot of us are sinners. M 118 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 2: most of us don't send that way. Yeah, how many 119 00:06:56,520 --> 00:07:00,120 Speaker 2: people did he rape? Again? How many mulligans? Is is 120 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 2: this guy willing to give him? 121 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:03,800 Speaker 6: Well, we need to look at basically at what he 122 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:06,800 Speaker 6: did as a labor leader and as a person who 123 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:08,960 Speaker 6: really cared for farm workers more than anything. 124 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 2: It doesn't matter what he did while he was head 125 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:15,480 Speaker 2: of that movement to people that were in the movement, 126 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:18,600 Speaker 2: the fact that he started the movement is all that matters. 127 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:21,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, who caresuly raped? He got them a four oh 128 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:21,680 Speaker 1: one K. 129 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:26,000 Speaker 3: The Cessur Chavez Foundation said in a statement, we are 130 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:28,320 Speaker 3: deeply shocked and saddened by what we are hearing. 131 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:31,440 Speaker 2: In point, what are they going to rename themselves as, Oh, 132 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:33,240 Speaker 2: that's going to be quite a debate. 133 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 3: In partnership with the UfW, we are establishing a safe 134 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:39,840 Speaker 3: and confidential process for those who wish to share their 135 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 3: experience of historic harm and if they choose to participate 136 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:45,640 Speaker 3: in efforts towards repair and reconciliation. 137 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:49,080 Speaker 2: So there you go. That's at least some of the 138 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:53,120 Speaker 2: reaction over the last forty eight hours. Again, that story 139 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:59,360 Speaker 2: was produced before the Dolores Huerta allegations, and at that point, 140 00:07:59,920 --> 00:08:02,520 Speaker 2: I don't know how there's going to be a Caesar 141 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:05,920 Speaker 2: Chavez day going forward. Here's the thing. 142 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:11,280 Speaker 1: Whenever they lay it on real thick with someone, you 143 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 1: know there's an alternate reality. You know, there's an alternate story. 144 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 1: You know they're overcompensating for something. And while most of 145 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 1: us didn't know that he was accused of doing all 146 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 1: of these things, it was obvious the guy was a thug. 147 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:32,680 Speaker 1: You find me a union organizer that's not a thug. 148 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:38,920 Speaker 2: What are you talking about? N That's what you want, 149 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 2: by the way, if you're in the union, you want 150 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:44,400 Speaker 2: a fighter. Yeah, you want someone. 151 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:47,480 Speaker 1: Want someone blood, you know what, someone that's going to 152 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 1: roll over to management. 153 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:51,839 Speaker 2: You want someone that's going to kick them in the. 154 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:55,160 Speaker 1: Crotch as hard as they can, gouge them in the eyes, 155 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:56,840 Speaker 1: slash their tires, put. 156 00:08:56,720 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 2: Sugar in their guess take, and get you as. 157 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,679 Speaker 1: Much money as possible. So what you want is the 158 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:08,000 Speaker 1: opposite of AFTRA pretty much. You think Jimmy Hoffel was 159 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:12,280 Speaker 1: a saint. How about that witch that runs the teachers 160 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:15,320 Speaker 1: You'ldgen Randy Winingarden. What do you think you'd find in 161 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:21,800 Speaker 1: her basement. That's who these people are now. The fact 162 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:24,640 Speaker 1: that they bent over backwards to make him christ like, 163 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:28,520 Speaker 1: and if you went to fourth grade in California, you 164 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about. All they did was talk 165 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:37,000 Speaker 1: about how wonderful Caesar Chavez was and how important he 166 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:41,640 Speaker 1: is and what a great man he was, and how 167 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:45,360 Speaker 1: he cares for people. And the evil farmers in the 168 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:50,679 Speaker 1: Central Valley hate the people. But Caesar Chavez gave up 169 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:54,880 Speaker 1: his life for the farm workers because he cares about 170 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:56,040 Speaker 1: humanity so much. 171 00:09:57,440 --> 00:09:58,440 Speaker 2: That's what we were told. 172 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:03,959 Speaker 1: And the entire time this guy was a monster behind 173 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:09,880 Speaker 1: the scenes, and they're renaming things, or they were probably 174 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:17,200 Speaker 1: not anymore now, but they were renaming things after Caesar Chavez. 175 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:21,480 Speaker 1: They were taking down schools, they were taking down street names, 176 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:25,239 Speaker 1: they were taking down I don't know, parks and monuments 177 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 1: after people like the Founding Fathers, who they have under 178 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:32,840 Speaker 1: a microscope. From their point of view, the Founding Fathers 179 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:37,240 Speaker 1: can do nothing right. They created a country that's been 180 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:40,920 Speaker 1: around for what two hundred and fifty years whatever, and 181 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:44,360 Speaker 1: it's working out, and we are certainly more successful than 182 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 1: anyone on the globe. Yet they hate those people and 183 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:51,400 Speaker 1: they want to take down everything that's named after them, 184 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:54,600 Speaker 1: and they want to rename it after people like Caesar Chavez. 185 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 2: There's a whole list on Wikipedia of all the things 186 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:00,640 Speaker 2: that are named after Caesar Chavez, and it. 187 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:07,440 Speaker 1: Is long, oh, especially here in California. But with them, 188 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:13,240 Speaker 1: with the woke crowd, everything is Hitler versus Bambi. That's 189 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:14,440 Speaker 1: the way they see the world. 190 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:21,319 Speaker 2: And either they don't know their history or they're wilfully ignorant. 191 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:24,959 Speaker 2: They wanted to name an aircraft carrier after Harvey Milk. 192 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:34,200 Speaker 2: I suggest they do some reading first, because Caesar isn't the. 193 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:40,079 Speaker 1: Only one who likes him young, so did Harvey Milk. 194 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:44,520 Speaker 1: How about the Indians? Oh my god, that's the in 195 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:48,120 Speaker 1: crowd now. If only everyone could be like the Indians, 196 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:51,720 Speaker 1: if it weren't for Cortes, if it weren't for Columbus, 197 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:55,520 Speaker 1: everything would be working out just fine over here. And 198 00:11:55,559 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 1: you hear them talk about the Indians back in the 199 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 1: old days, and they have the idea that these Indians 200 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:06,320 Speaker 1: were just driving around in preuses, shopping at hull fodes 201 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:11,240 Speaker 1: and putting solar panels on their tepees. And they seem 202 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:17,120 Speaker 1: to really believe that. Well, how about the virgins that 203 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:23,839 Speaker 1: were sacrificed? What do you think about that? Have they 204 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:26,080 Speaker 1: just not read books as to what life was like 205 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:26,840 Speaker 1: when they were here? 206 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:30,120 Speaker 2: I mean, these are California schools. There's not a lot 207 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:31,000 Speaker 2: of reading going on. 208 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 1: That's true, that's true, But oh boy, would they be 209 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:39,560 Speaker 1: surprised what they'd find out. I wish we could do 210 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 1: a Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure sort of thing where 211 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:44,600 Speaker 1: we could take these fools that are taking the founder's 212 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:48,160 Speaker 1: names off all the buildings and put them in history 213 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:52,199 Speaker 1: whenever it was that. They think that everything was great 214 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:56,360 Speaker 1: and just let them get a little flavor, Let them 215 00:12:56,400 --> 00:13:01,240 Speaker 1: get a little taste of that, because what they have 216 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:05,280 Speaker 1: in their mind is in no way related to reality. Frequently, 217 00:13:06,679 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 1: and that's what happened with Caesar Chavez, and now that's 218 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:16,440 Speaker 1: coming back to bite them, and now they're all going 219 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:18,080 Speaker 1: to pretend to be surprised. 220 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:20,760 Speaker 2: That's another part of this. 221 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:23,920 Speaker 1: It's like when Joe Biden, they finally figured out that 222 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:27,440 Speaker 1: he was senile, if only there was some kind. 223 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:33,360 Speaker 2: Of suggestion that something was off with him. That was 224 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:38,640 Speaker 2: the attitude that they had. But Delores Huerta in the 225 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:42,640 Speaker 2: note put out there that they kept quiet about it, 226 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:47,080 Speaker 2: or they kept it I guess within the organization because 227 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:47,800 Speaker 2: of the cause. 228 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:53,000 Speaker 1: I know she's a victim, and I know she's going 229 00:13:53,080 --> 00:13:57,800 Speaker 1: to get a pass, but that is an odd attitude 230 00:13:57,800 --> 00:13:58,120 Speaker 1: to have. 231 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:02,200 Speaker 2: To me, well, especially when we're talking about incidents like this, 232 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:06,000 Speaker 2: staying silent means that more people could be victimized. I 233 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:09,079 Speaker 2: mean not now, obviously he's long dead, but when he 234 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:12,120 Speaker 2: was in charge of the movement, by staying silent, other 235 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:14,600 Speaker 2: people could have been victimized or were victimized. 236 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:17,439 Speaker 1: But they knew he was a rapist when they were 237 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:21,200 Speaker 1: pushing for the holiday, and they all went out and celebrated. 238 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:26,800 Speaker 1: They put his name on everything, and they bullied all 239 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:30,200 Speaker 1: of these school districts, people who knew he was a rapist, 240 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:34,280 Speaker 1: bullied these school districts and bullied these cities and counties 241 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:40,520 Speaker 1: into taking names off buildings from people who did wonderful 242 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:48,440 Speaker 1: things to replace them with this criminal. It's just wild 243 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:51,440 Speaker 1: to me. It's wild to me how you could do that. 244 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:52,640 Speaker 2: Now. 245 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:56,480 Speaker 1: I get people cope with trauma in different ways, and 246 00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:59,880 Speaker 1: certainly these are people who were involved in politics and 247 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:01,240 Speaker 1: involved in organization. 248 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 2: They care about it very deeply. But let me tell you. 249 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:11,560 Speaker 1: If I were in that position, I don't think I 250 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:12,720 Speaker 1: would have done the same thing. 251 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:15,640 Speaker 2: I don't think I would have. 252 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:21,160 Speaker 1: I know the partisan poll is really strong, and certainly 253 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:25,760 Speaker 1: the pro union poll is really strong, But how could 254 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:28,400 Speaker 1: you show up to all these ribbon cutting ceremonies for 255 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:34,280 Speaker 1: a guy you know as a creep you have personal knowledge, 256 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:38,920 Speaker 1: and how could you create all of these organizations that 257 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 1: are named after him when you know the guy was 258 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:50,160 Speaker 1: a predator. I don't get it, but I will predict this. 259 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:53,480 Speaker 1: There's going to be a lot of name changing going 260 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:58,880 Speaker 1: on in this date that I can promise you. It's 261 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:01,720 Speaker 1: the John Phillips Show. Eight hundred two two two five 262 00:16:01,880 --> 00:16:03,920 Speaker 1: two two two is a telephone number. 263 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:04,560 Speaker 2: Let's go to. 264 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 1: Dave and San Juan Capistrano. Dave, Hello, Hey guys. 265 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:10,720 Speaker 7: Hey, I grew up in East LA. 266 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:11,600 Speaker 2: Uh. 267 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:16,960 Speaker 7: My dad cried when they changed Brooklyn Avenue to Caesar 268 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:20,080 Speaker 7: Savis because he thought he was a communist. And it's 269 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:23,840 Speaker 7: actually well known throughout the Latino community that he was 270 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:26,440 Speaker 7: always doing weird stuff. Everyone just kind of shut up. 271 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:29,800 Speaker 7: And on the side note, my wife's family owned farmland 272 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:34,200 Speaker 7: up in Bakersfield, and he specifically was targeting my wife's 273 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:37,840 Speaker 7: family farm and harassed my wife's mom when she was 274 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:41,440 Speaker 7: frightening with her and uh almost turned over the car. 275 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:44,680 Speaker 7: So yeah, people need to really really think about Caesar 276 00:16:44,760 --> 00:16:45,440 Speaker 7: Savas as some. 277 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:45,960 Speaker 3: Kind of hero. 278 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:51,000 Speaker 1: I was talking to someone who's alumni for You See Davis, 279 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:54,640 Speaker 1: and he was telling me that you See Davis of 280 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:58,240 Speaker 1: course as a big agricultural school. It's in Sacramento, the 281 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:02,520 Speaker 1: Sacramento area. Certainly that's a dominant industry in that part 282 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:05,280 Speaker 1: of California, and so they spend a lot of time 283 00:17:05,320 --> 00:17:09,199 Speaker 1: and energy and resources trying to create new inventions that 284 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:14,160 Speaker 1: will facilitate agriculture in California and beyond. And they said 285 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:17,240 Speaker 1: that he was always causing the university problems, that he 286 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 1: didn't want them coming up with anything that would make 287 00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:23,119 Speaker 1: it easier to pick the crops in the Central Valley 288 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:25,439 Speaker 1: because he thought it would get rid of jobs, and 289 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:28,159 Speaker 1: he put all kinds of pressure on the university to 290 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:29,120 Speaker 1: kill the research. 291 00:17:31,119 --> 00:17:33,399 Speaker 7: Yeah, of course, someone like what's happening now in the 292 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:36,960 Speaker 7: ports to try to give her to some of the 293 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:41,000 Speaker 7: ports jobs through innovation, and the unions are trying to 294 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:43,240 Speaker 7: stop that, which is understandable to trying to save jobs. 295 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:44,960 Speaker 2: But oldest game in the book. 296 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:48,640 Speaker 1: All right, we've eight hundred two two two five two 297 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:51,920 Speaker 1: two two. Is the telephone number one eight hundred two 298 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:54,720 Speaker 1: two two five two two two. If you'd like to 299 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:56,920 Speaker 1: email the show, you can do so at Johnny don't 300 00:17:56,960 --> 00:17:59,840 Speaker 1: like show at gmail dot com. That's Johnny don't like 301 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:04,240 Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. And Randy, you're monitoring the mail bat. 302 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:07,000 Speaker 2: Bob and Sandrafel writes in at Johnny don't like show 303 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:10,480 Speaker 2: at gmail dot com. Guys. When Army Street was renamed 304 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:14,480 Speaker 2: for Chavez by San Francisco Proclamation, all the merchants and 305 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:18,240 Speaker 2: residences had to change their addresses and business cards at 306 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:21,160 Speaker 2: their own expense to reflect the change. In San Francisco 307 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:25,040 Speaker 2: refuse to contribute funds. Will California pay for all the 308 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:28,400 Speaker 2: name changes or will it fall outside of Newsom's budget. 309 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:31,520 Speaker 2: Prisons could handle the workload if they would simply increase 310 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:36,520 Speaker 2: the prison population. Great show, guys, Yeah, that's a very 311 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:37,240 Speaker 2: good point. 312 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:42,040 Speaker 1: It costs a fortune to reprint all of your materials 313 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:44,239 Speaker 1: when they change the name of the street, and now 314 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:46,520 Speaker 1: they're going to do it again. How about all the 315 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:52,119 Speaker 1: dozens of Caesar Chavez elementary schools. Well, maybe Newsom will 316 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:56,600 Speaker 1: name some of those streets after Charles Manson because his 317 00:18:56,680 --> 00:19:04,240 Speaker 1: parole board let some of them out. MM and Randy, 318 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:08,000 Speaker 1: we're on Saturdays on KMJ in the Central Valley. 319 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:10,879 Speaker 2: I know you're wondering why do they keep plugging this. 320 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:14,960 Speaker 2: I'll tell you why, because we're on in the Central Valley. 321 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:17,879 Speaker 2: It's on Saturdays at noon, but we're still on in 322 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:20,960 Speaker 2: the Central Valley and that is very exciting. So we 323 00:19:21,119 --> 00:19:25,000 Speaker 2: give the Fresno and Bakersfield people a little taste of 324 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,520 Speaker 2: what you get fifteen hours a week of they get 325 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:30,640 Speaker 2: one hour. 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Good luck, Darling. 341 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:25,240 Speaker 2: All right. 342 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:29,280 Speaker 1: We know that the insurance crisis in California is crippling 343 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:34,680 Speaker 1: many businesses and homeowners, and the California Insurance Commissioner, Ricardo 344 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:38,040 Speaker 1: Laura doesn't seem to have any interest in doing anything 345 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:38,600 Speaker 1: about it. 346 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:40,800 Speaker 8: Tail basing is rarely comfortable you. 347 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:46,600 Speaker 1: And neither does Governor Gavin Newsom. But there are members 348 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:50,879 Speaker 1: of the legislature who now believe they can contribute to 349 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:55,040 Speaker 1: making life easier for California business owners and homeowners. 350 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:59,360 Speaker 2: For more on a package of legislation meant to address 351 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:07,119 Speaker 2: the insurance crisis. Here is ABC ten in Sacramento. With 352 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:09,919 Speaker 2: this record breaking heat wave in California and much of 353 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:12,480 Speaker 2: the West, weather related events are once again top of 354 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:14,000 Speaker 2: mind for state officials. 355 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:18,400 Speaker 9: For California, this means droughts and wildfire season. ABC ten 356 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:21,879 Speaker 9: State Matters political reporter Jenny Hudd joins US Now to 357 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:24,800 Speaker 9: break down the proposals tackling those concerns. 358 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:28,159 Speaker 8: Jenny Well, Republicans say the state is at a tipping 359 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:29,000 Speaker 8: point and that. 360 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:32,120 Speaker 2: The lessons No, we tipped over already. Oh yeah, we're 361 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:32,760 Speaker 2: in the ocean. 362 00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:33,320 Speaker 3: Well. 363 00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:36,040 Speaker 8: Republicans say the state is at a tipping point and 364 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:38,920 Speaker 8: that the lessons learned from the historic Los Angeles wild 365 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:42,400 Speaker 8: wildfires entail more needs for wildfire prevention. 366 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:45,159 Speaker 2: California has a problem. 367 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:47,919 Speaker 6: This is the luck of the Irish day where our luck. 368 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:59,840 Speaker 8: Is run out. Hackey, California Senate Republicans, Tuesday afternoon, and 369 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:04,439 Speaker 8: produce their wildfire risk Reduction and insurance Affordability package. You know, 370 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 8: we'd like to work with our Democratic colleagues to condense 371 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 8: combined but to bring real solutions to Californians. A big 372 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:15,400 Speaker 8: emphasis on wildfire prevention, especially by homeowners themselves. To create 373 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:19,520 Speaker 8: more defensible space, the buffer between a structure and the surrounding. 374 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:21,359 Speaker 10: Area that gives us the opportunity to get in and 375 00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:24,040 Speaker 10: hopefully you control the fires and push them around the 376 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:26,160 Speaker 10: homes and not burn down for our residents. 377 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:29,600 Speaker 2: Although I got to say, we have regulations like that 378 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:32,680 Speaker 2: in certain areas like Orange County, and it's actually becoming 379 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:36,199 Speaker 2: an incentive for insurers to drop you quicker. Uh oh, 380 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:40,560 Speaker 2: because they changed the regulation where you needed to be. 381 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:44,960 Speaker 2: You had to be a thousand feet away from a 382 00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:48,080 Speaker 2: forest area to five hundred feet away, and no, it 383 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:50,359 Speaker 2: went from five hundred feet to one thousand feet and 384 00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:53,800 Speaker 2: a whole bunch of homeowners started getting dropped. Uh oh. 385 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:56,720 Speaker 6: For our residents. Now is the time to act, clear 386 00:22:56,840 --> 00:22:58,960 Speaker 6: defensible space, harden your homes. 387 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:02,840 Speaker 8: Several bills seeked incentivize homeowners to do just that. Senator 388 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:06,440 Speaker 8: Marie Albaradogill is proposing state income tax credits for those 389 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:09,200 Speaker 8: who make their homes more fire safe, like through fire 390 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:12,960 Speaker 8: resistant roofing, ember resistant events, and defensible space. 391 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:15,720 Speaker 6: Making it much more affordable to reduce ignition risk. 392 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:19,680 Speaker 2: Which we're gonna make it affordable by making you pay 393 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:21,919 Speaker 2: through the nose to change the way your home is. 394 00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:25,439 Speaker 1: Okay, here's the problem with this. And if people harden 395 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:28,440 Speaker 1: their home and they make it more resistant to fire, 396 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:31,600 Speaker 1: that's great. That will help protect you if there's a 397 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:37,200 Speaker 1: fire in your community. However, the problem is if State 398 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:41,480 Speaker 1: Farm goes to the insurance commissioner and says, the materials 399 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:45,000 Speaker 1: cost a fortune. I don't care if they've hardened their home. 400 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:48,119 Speaker 1: We want a rate hike. He's going to give it 401 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:51,120 Speaker 1: to him. And if he continues to give it to him, 402 00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:54,600 Speaker 1: which he will, that means your premiums are going only 403 00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:56,000 Speaker 1: go on one way up. 404 00:23:56,400 --> 00:24:00,119 Speaker 2: We're not seeing anything in this package about making it 405 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,159 Speaker 2: so if you harden your home, the insurance companies have 406 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:06,640 Speaker 2: to give you a discount. You know, like you're a 407 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:09,879 Speaker 2: good driver and you don't get tickets, you have a 408 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:13,160 Speaker 2: lower rate on your car insurance. We're not talking about. 409 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:17,280 Speaker 6: That making it much more affordable to reduce ignition risk. 410 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:20,639 Speaker 6: Which are often coupled with insurance discounts. 411 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:22,920 Speaker 8: If a home is quote unquote hard end, they say 412 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:25,119 Speaker 8: that can help with insurance too, which has been a 413 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:28,400 Speaker 8: key concern as major insurers like State Farm pull out 414 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:31,879 Speaker 8: of California and even the Fair Plan, California's insurer of 415 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:35,920 Speaker 8: loss Resort is underwater and seeking major premium increases amid 416 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:36,719 Speaker 8: a surgeon demand. 417 00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:40,679 Speaker 2: Let's not forget that. Ricardo Laura said his package to 418 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:44,639 Speaker 2: give all the insurers everything they've ever wanted, including expedited 419 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:48,359 Speaker 2: rate hikes, including State Farm after the whole debacle in 420 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 2: southern California, was to get people off the Fair Plan. 421 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:54,359 Speaker 2: And now there's more people on the Fair Plan than 422 00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 2: ever before. I'm very kind of sketch. 423 00:24:56,880 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 1: And here's the wild part. So now we have evidence 424 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:02,520 Speaker 1: that what he's doing is not working. In fact, it's 425 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:06,200 Speaker 1: pushing us in the wrong direction. They will not change 426 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:08,920 Speaker 1: what they're doing. They're just doubling and tripling down. 427 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:14,720 Speaker 2: Also helped to build household resilience. Okay, who gave her 428 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:16,080 Speaker 2: the bad microphone? 429 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:19,080 Speaker 1: I don't know, but she sounds like she's making a 430 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:20,879 Speaker 1: pa announcement on a cruise ship. 431 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:23,320 Speaker 2: I'm going to lower the volume just because this hurts. 432 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:27,359 Speaker 11: Also helped to build household resilience without relying solely on 433 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:28,760 Speaker 11: straight utility grids. 434 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:32,399 Speaker 2: Thanks for that. 435 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:36,000 Speaker 8: Alvarado Gill is also proposing tax credits for those that 436 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:39,400 Speaker 8: have backup power systems like a generator or solar battery, 437 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,120 Speaker 8: and for the California Department of Forestry and Fire. 438 00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:44,239 Speaker 2: Wait a second, you're gonna get a tax credit if 439 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:46,680 Speaker 2: you have one of those backup batteries that when they 440 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:49,320 Speaker 2: all melted and the palisades led to all the toxic 441 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:52,800 Speaker 2: debris that was making it so much harder to clean 442 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:53,520 Speaker 2: up that area. 443 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:57,480 Speaker 1: Well, to be fair, everything that they own turned into 444 00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 1: toxic debris, including their electric cars. 445 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:03,880 Speaker 8: And for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection 446 00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:07,720 Speaker 8: cal Fire to prioritize areas with high insurance costs due 447 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:08,960 Speaker 8: to higher wildfire risk. 448 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:13,560 Speaker 2: Okay, that one's pretty good. Clear the forests that are 449 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:17,080 Speaker 2: the most expensive. Yeah, that makes sense. 450 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:19,399 Speaker 3: I think if they know that there's going to be 451 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:23,800 Speaker 3: available robust, affordable insurance on the back end, that will create. 452 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:27,880 Speaker 2: That's not happening anytime soon, No, that will. 453 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,480 Speaker 3: Create a whole other incentive structure to encourage people to 454 00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:32,000 Speaker 3: do that work and in hardening their home. 455 00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:34,639 Speaker 8: Even this is bipartisan and there's just so many of 456 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:36,600 Speaker 8: the same topics being thrown around. 457 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:39,640 Speaker 2: We know we're in this together, we need to work together, and. 458 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:42,399 Speaker 8: So Democratic State Senator Ben Allen is behind two of 459 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,200 Speaker 8: the Republican bills, One that would give state income tax 460 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:48,560 Speaker 8: credits on payments to repair or rebuild homes, and one 461 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:52,560 Speaker 8: that would require state agencies to routinely identify regulations that 462 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:56,440 Speaker 8: can be suspended post disaster to expedite the rebuilding process. 463 00:26:56,600 --> 00:27:00,320 Speaker 2: The family need. Okay, that's an interesting one. You could 464 00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:03,879 Speaker 2: just get rid of those regulations all together, like I 465 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:06,640 Speaker 2: don't know, take the private right of action out of sequa. 466 00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:08,880 Speaker 2: That would work. 467 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:11,120 Speaker 7: The family needs to be able to rebuild. 468 00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 8: We ask Governor Newsom about the Republican proposals and where 469 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:19,320 Speaker 8: by partisanship is possible. His office declined to comment on 470 00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:23,160 Speaker 8: pending legislation, but said he's invested in wildfire risk reduction 471 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:26,480 Speaker 8: like forest management and how's work to stabilize. 472 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:27,320 Speaker 2: The Well, when are you going to start doing that? 473 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:33,680 Speaker 1: Here's the issue. Newsom will not move on this. He's 474 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:37,280 Speaker 1: not engaged in this. If he was actually here doing 475 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:41,119 Speaker 1: his job and maybe taking his meetings with these members 476 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,800 Speaker 1: of the legislature. Maybe they could come up with some 477 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:46,960 Speaker 1: sort of program. He is phoning it in, he is 478 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:50,640 Speaker 1: running for president, he's not here doing his job, and 479 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:51,920 Speaker 1: he doesn't care. 480 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:56,080 Speaker 8: And how's work to stabilize whole insurance? Though many still 481 00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:59,400 Speaker 8: say with that increased wildfire risk, they no longer qualify 482 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:01,600 Speaker 8: for or can and ford that insurance. 483 00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:05,000 Speaker 2: Chris Laura, Okay, Jenny, thank you. So there's the latest 484 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:08,560 Speaker 2: package of bills. Will they really address the insurance crisis? 485 00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:14,080 Speaker 2: Maybe a little eight hundred two two two five two 486 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:17,440 Speaker 2: two two is a telephone number one eight hundred two 487 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,960 Speaker 2: two two five two two two. As I mentioned earlier 488 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,760 Speaker 2: this week, I was in Arizona over the weekend to 489 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:28,320 Speaker 2: watch the Angels play spring training baseball, and I noticed 490 00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:31,600 Speaker 2: when I was there how much cheaper gasoline is than 491 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:34,680 Speaker 2: the state of California, which is why on my way 492 00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:39,240 Speaker 2: back to California, I stopped at Courtzite to top it off, 493 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:42,080 Speaker 2: because why not, it's so much cheaper than what I 494 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:47,480 Speaker 2: would pay at home. Well, recently NBCLA did an investigation 495 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:51,120 Speaker 2: as to why gasoline is so much more expensive in 496 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:54,720 Speaker 2: California than in other states, and it's exactly what you 497 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:58,200 Speaker 2: think it is. For more, here's NBCLA is. 498 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:01,760 Speaker 11: Today across southern California. In Ellie County, the average price 499 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:04,440 Speaker 11: where a gallon of regular is five dollars and sixty 500 00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:07,560 Speaker 11: three cents. In Orange County it's five dollars and sixty 501 00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:11,440 Speaker 11: cents and five dollars fifty one cents in Riverside. Of course, 502 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:15,160 Speaker 11: those prices are much higher than the rest of the country. 503 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:16,680 Speaker 11: I'm sure you know that. I'm sure you've been talking 504 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:19,520 Speaker 11: to family members somewhere else in part because of the 505 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:23,080 Speaker 11: California gas tax. Now some lawmakers in Kennada. 506 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,680 Speaker 2: It's so weird. But I honestly, when I'm out of town, 507 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:29,040 Speaker 2: whether it's in Dallas or Santa Fe, I take a 508 00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:30,320 Speaker 2: picture of the gas station. 509 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:34,320 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, when you see how cheap gas is in 510 00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:37,360 Speaker 1: other places, you want to buy it and just, I 511 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:40,800 Speaker 1: don't know, fill up one of those kiddie pools with 512 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:41,480 Speaker 1: it and just. 513 00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:48,120 Speaker 2: Sit in cheap gasoline. This is a true story. But 514 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:51,840 Speaker 2: when we were in Santa Fe in January, I think 515 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 2: the gasoline at the allsops on Pasarea Peralta was two 516 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,120 Speaker 2: dollars and fifty cents a gallon, and my wife is 517 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,120 Speaker 2: driving around in my parents' car that stays at the house, 518 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:05,160 Speaker 2: and she's like, well, the tanks got three quarters full, 519 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:07,560 Speaker 2: but I just want to fill up to see what 520 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:08,120 Speaker 2: this is like. 521 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,960 Speaker 11: In part because of the California gas tax. Now some 522 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:20,000 Speaker 11: lawmakers and candidates for governor are trying to change that. 523 00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:23,560 Speaker 11: Nbcfours Conan Nolan is in the newsroom to explain conin 524 00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:26,440 Speaker 11: You know, I heard this proposal this morning and thought, wow, 525 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:28,720 Speaker 11: this would be so helpful right now. 526 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:32,400 Speaker 2: But it could. Yeah, but the Sacramento Legislature doesn't do 527 00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:35,520 Speaker 2: things that help us never. 528 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:39,920 Speaker 11: But we see an impact, And what are the chances 529 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,040 Speaker 11: this actually goes through a. 530 00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:44,600 Speaker 12: You would see an impact be the chances are not 531 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:49,320 Speaker 12: very likely. The California Legislature Democrats dominated, they're unlikely to 532 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:51,800 Speaker 12: change the rules when it comes to the gasoline tax. 533 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:55,240 Speaker 12: In the past, they've offered a refund for low income Californians, 534 00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:57,800 Speaker 12: but the tax itself stays in place. 535 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,200 Speaker 13: It didn't take long for the surge at the pump 536 00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:04,440 Speaker 13: to become an issue in the campaign for governor. 537 00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:07,920 Speaker 7: Now I'm calling on our state leaders to temporarily suspend 538 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:11,239 Speaker 7: our gas tax and provide relief to those who need up. 539 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:11,600 Speaker 3: Mostly. 540 00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:14,360 Speaker 2: Yep, there will never this will never happen. I'll tell 541 00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:16,840 Speaker 2: you why. And we've had so many people not just 542 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,600 Speaker 2: now in the governor's race, but in the legislature on 543 00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:23,360 Speaker 2: the Republican side tout for this. You can never temporarily 544 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:25,640 Speaker 2: get rid of the gas tax because when you bring 545 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:28,880 Speaker 2: it back, that's a seventy cent hike, so you just 546 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:30,480 Speaker 2: have to get rid of it entirely. 547 00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:34,959 Speaker 1: Well, this is one of these issues we're Sacramento I 548 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:40,800 Speaker 1: think has us by the short hairs because Democratic voters 549 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:44,120 Speaker 1: don't seem to be upset with the cost of gasoline. 550 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:48,760 Speaker 1: We've had opportunities to repeal the gas tax they voted down. 551 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:53,120 Speaker 1: We certainly have cap and trade legislation that they support 552 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:57,120 Speaker 1: that makes gas more expensive. And if you're all worked 553 00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:01,400 Speaker 1: up over global warming, then and forcing people out of 554 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:05,360 Speaker 1: their cars with things like high gasoline prices and road 555 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:10,200 Speaker 1: diets is something that will advance your agenda. Unless and 556 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:14,920 Speaker 1: until Democratic voters in California are offended at the cost 557 00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:17,480 Speaker 1: of gasoline, nothing's going to change. 558 00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:21,200 Speaker 13: Democratic gubernatorial candidate Matt Mayhan, the mayor of San Jose, 559 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:25,000 Speaker 13: and fellow candidate Antonio Viragosa, the former mayor of Los 560 00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:29,240 Speaker 13: Angeles calling on the California legislature to cut gas prices 561 00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,680 Speaker 13: by for the time being, at least eliminating the state 562 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:33,800 Speaker 13: excise tax. 563 00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:34,560 Speaker 3: We have the. 564 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:38,240 Speaker 10: Highest gas prices in the United States of America, and 565 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:38,640 Speaker 10: with this. 566 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:41,560 Speaker 2: Even mister Peanut wants to get rid of the gas tax. 567 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:45,360 Speaker 1: But you notice it's all the candidates who are at 568 00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:48,360 Speaker 1: the bottom of the polls. You don't hear Eric Swallwell 569 00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:52,280 Speaker 1: saying that you don't hear America's Sweetheart, Katie Porter saying 570 00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:54,360 Speaker 1: that you don't hear Tom Steyer saying that. 571 00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:58,760 Speaker 2: Well, if the gas stations had croissants, maybe she'd have 572 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:03,800 Speaker 2: something to say about it. I'm pulling in to the bakery. 573 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:06,600 Speaker 2: She sounds so angry, saying that too. 574 00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:10,120 Speaker 10: We have the highest gas prices in the United States 575 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:13,040 Speaker 10: of America, and with this decision to go to war 576 00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:15,280 Speaker 10: in Iran, gas prices are going up. 577 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:19,240 Speaker 13: Economists Severn Bornstein of the Energy Institute at the Hoss 578 00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:23,080 Speaker 13: Business School says gas sold in California is normally at 579 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,440 Speaker 13: least a dollar and a half more expensive than the 580 00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:26,160 Speaker 13: rest of the nation. 581 00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:29,280 Speaker 14: About a dollar of that is due to the higher 582 00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:33,920 Speaker 14: taxes we have the environmental fees we have, and the 583 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:36,920 Speaker 14: fact that we use a cleaner burning gasoline, which has 584 00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:40,080 Speaker 14: helped clean up air quality quite a bit in California. 585 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:43,120 Speaker 2: Here's what I don't understand about the cleaner burning fuel, 586 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:45,880 Speaker 2: which is one of the reasons we can't import gasoline 587 00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:49,440 Speaker 2: from I don't know Texas. Texas doesn't use that, and 588 00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:52,120 Speaker 2: Texas's air is cleaner than Californias. 589 00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:55,840 Speaker 1: They call it the summer blend, like it's some sort 590 00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:58,360 Speaker 1: of seasonal Starbucks variety. 591 00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,040 Speaker 2: And also, I always feel I need to point this 592 00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:04,120 Speaker 2: out because when I learned the number, it just doesn't 593 00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:07,160 Speaker 2: seem like it really is that big of a deal. Here, 594 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:11,439 Speaker 2: the gas tax raises only eight billion dollars a year, 595 00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:13,680 Speaker 2: and it goes down every year because more and more 596 00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:17,080 Speaker 2: people are getting fuel efficient vehicles or electric cars. Eight 597 00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:20,680 Speaker 2: billion is a pretty small fraction of the three hundred 598 00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:24,640 Speaker 2: and fifty billion dollar budget. You could wipe that thing out, 599 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:27,360 Speaker 2: find plenty of ways with the existing money that we 600 00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:30,440 Speaker 2: have to pave the roads that we're not paving, and 601 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:33,680 Speaker 2: everyone would be happy. So why wouldn't we do that? 602 00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:37,120 Speaker 2: Because California Going to California. 603 00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:40,080 Speaker 14: And the fact that we use a cleaner burning gasoline, 604 00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:42,879 Speaker 14: which has helped clean up air quality quite a bit 605 00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:44,080 Speaker 14: in California due. 606 00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:46,279 Speaker 13: To the disruption of oil markets as a result of 607 00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:48,920 Speaker 13: the war with Iran, the average price in the state 608 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,600 Speaker 13: as a Monday is an eye popping five point fifty 609 00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:55,719 Speaker 13: two per gallon. Of that, approximately sixty one cents is 610 00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,200 Speaker 13: the state excise or gas tax. 611 00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:00,239 Speaker 2: Which, by the way, if you're wondering how it got 612 00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:03,200 Speaker 2: that high, it's because when the gas tax was passed 613 00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:07,040 Speaker 2: in the Jerry Brown days, it was tied to inflation, 614 00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:11,359 Speaker 2: which is interesting because it also causes inflation. But it 615 00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:13,800 Speaker 2: goes up every single July. 616 00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:17,720 Speaker 1: And we have had opportunities to repeal the gas tax 617 00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:19,680 Speaker 1: and we voted down consistently. 618 00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:23,120 Speaker 2: Well. If you remember when the repeal the gas tax 619 00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:26,080 Speaker 2: was on the ballot in i want to say twenty eighteen, 620 00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:31,000 Speaker 2: it was titled the Defund Roads and Bridges. 621 00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:37,839 Speaker 13: Act, which is used for road repair and Caltrans projects. 622 00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:41,759 Speaker 13: Most of the legislature opposed the gas tax suspension, as 623 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:44,240 Speaker 13: they see it as robbing the state of needed revenue, 624 00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:47,239 Speaker 13: and a statement Governor Gavin Newsom's office referred to gas 625 00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:51,080 Speaker 13: taxes as fixed costs that do not fluctuate with the market. 626 00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:53,480 Speaker 2: It's not a fixed cost. It goes up every year. 627 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:57,000 Speaker 2: Does he even know what that word means? 628 00:35:57,560 --> 00:35:58,480 Speaker 13: And have nothing to do? 629 00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:01,520 Speaker 2: Kevin also usually his line for this, because he gets 630 00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:04,520 Speaker 2: asked about this every year, is there's no guarantee the 631 00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:08,359 Speaker 2: oil companies will pass that savings on to you. He 632 00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:10,960 Speaker 2: also thinks they're kaluting against one state. 633 00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:13,800 Speaker 13: And have nothing to do with the price spikes that 634 00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:17,400 Speaker 13: Americans are experiencing. But with no end in sight for 635 00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:20,600 Speaker 13: the war and continued crisis in the world's most consequential 636 00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:24,200 Speaker 13: oil transit choke hold the Strait of Hormuz, pressure for 637 00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:28,080 Speaker 13: the state to do something may only increase thirteen. 638 00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:31,320 Speaker 7: Gallons eighty eight dollars. I don't know how California's can afford. 639 00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:33,239 Speaker 2: Boy, am I glad I don't have to deal with that. 640 00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:38,759 Speaker 2: You're saving so much money.