Speaker 1: And we continue at one five in the afternoon on
Speaker 1: the John Phillips Show, Mister Randy Weggs in Culver City.
Speaker 2: You know what, I'm just gonna address this on the
Speaker 2: air because we get an email about this probably every
Speaker 2: twenty minutes. People keep wanting to know who's the guy
Speaker 2: that rates all the judge races on the ballot. Because
Speaker 2: there's so many judges you have to vote for it
Speaker 2: no matter what district you're in, no matter what precinct
Speaker 2: you're in. Craig Huey is the guy. The website is
Speaker 2: Craighuey dot com and he's got his California Voter Guide.
Speaker 2: HJTA has also been putting out judge recommendations. I know
Speaker 2: there's a lot of judges. Easy rule of thumb. If
Speaker 2: they work at the DA's office, they're probably okay. If
Speaker 2: they work for the Public Defender's office, do not make
Speaker 2: them a judge.
Speaker 1: I wonder if judicial candidates named Judy do better than
Speaker 1: other names.
Speaker 2: You think there's anyone that changed their name to Judy
Speaker 2: so when they get on the ballot, someone thinks that
Speaker 2: they're voting for judge Judy.
Speaker 3: It's worth a try.
Speaker 2: There was that guy and this is true, who changed
Speaker 2: his name to Barack Obama and is running for governor.
Speaker 2: Who do you think is going to do better, Barack
Speaker 2: Obama or Eric Swalwell, who is still on the ballot,
Speaker 2: Probably Smallwell. Eight hundred two two two five two two
Speaker 2: two is telephone number one. Eight hundred two two two
Speaker 2: five two two two. It is our pleasure to welcome
Speaker 2: our next guest to the program. He is a candidate
Speaker 2: for Congress in the city and County of San Francisco.
Speaker 2: You can get him online at.
Speaker 1: Ganiser Forcongress dot com and follow him on x at
Speaker 1: Ganiser David. David Ganiser, Welcome.
Speaker 4: Thank you, John. I really appreciate you having me on
Speaker 4: this afternoon. As you mentioned, I'm the longtime publisher of
Speaker 4: the Santa Monica Observer for twenty years and a Republican
Speaker 4: candidate for California's eleventh congressional district, Nancy Pelosi's former seat.
Speaker 4: When I was a student at Stanford, I was a
Speaker 4: Coastguard reservist who did search and rescue on San Francisco
Speaker 4: Bay out of the Presidio of California, which at the
Speaker 4: time had a Coastguard station called Fort Point. I'm a
Speaker 4: social moderate who supports gay marriage and who loves the city,
Speaker 4: and I believe that the government should focus on practical
Speaker 4: solutions that make life easier, not harder, for people. Without
Speaker 4: mentioning names, the three progressive candidates in our crowded field
Speaker 4: of eleven candidates would make life harder for California based
Speaker 4: on their legislative histories and their pronouncement, and based on
Speaker 4: progressive philosophy, which has a tendency to restrict things supposedly
Speaker 4: for the common good. So I felt that, after thirty
Speaker 4: eight years of Nancy Pelosi, that it was important for
Speaker 4: San Francisco to have a Republican alternative in this election.
Speaker 4: And I am that Republican alternative.
Speaker 1: Is it safe to say that the three left wing
Speaker 1: candidates that you just referenced are decidedly to the left
Speaker 1: of Nancy Pelosi.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's interesting that she didn't endorse Scott Wiener. They
Speaker 4: seem to have had a pre agreed upon contract where
Speaker 4: she would retire from Congress, he would run for her seat,
Speaker 4: and Christine Pelosi, her daughter, would run for the Senate
Speaker 4: seat vacated by Scott Wiener. The other two progressive candidates,
Speaker 4: Connie Chanan and Shaycott, Chakrabati are running to the left
Speaker 4: of Scott Wiener, which is interesting. They're trying to out
Speaker 4: left him, and Shycott has been endorsed by the squad
Speaker 4: Ilhan Omar and Rashida Talib. Interestingly, Shiko, who was the
Speaker 4: chief of staff for AOC, was not endorsed by AOC.
Speaker 4: People who've actually worked with him say that he's confrontational,
Speaker 4: difficult to work with, doesn't compromise. It wants revolutionary change.
Speaker 4: For a guy who made one hundred and sixty seven
Speaker 4: million being second from the top at Stripe, the second
Speaker 4: engineer at Stripe, it's curious that he would want revolutionary change,
Speaker 4: but he seems to, and he's offended a lot of
Speaker 4: people within the progressive movement. If you watch the campaign
Speaker 4: unfold for this seat, what you have noticed is a
Speaker 4: circular firing squad with the progressives all shooting at each
Speaker 4: other and even shooting at Nancy Pelosi, who's kind of
Speaker 4: a revered figure in San Francisco. Whatever else you can
Speaker 4: say about Nancy Pelosi and whatever else we on the
Speaker 4: right say about her i E Insider trading, she did
Speaker 4: deliver for San Francisco. She got bart stations, MUNI stations.
Speaker 4: She set up a semi federal government agency called the
Speaker 4: Presidio Trust, which manages the Presidio of San Francisco. As
Speaker 4: I mentioned earlier, I was a coastguard'sman working at Coastguard
Speaker 4: Station Fort Point there which is now a museum for Noah.
Speaker 4: The National Oceanographic and Aeronautic Administration, and other buildings at
Speaker 4: the Presidio which used to be barracks for army soldiers
Speaker 4: and have other military uses, are now rented to companies
Speaker 4: like Oracle. So the Presidio Trust actually has a forty
Speaker 4: six million dollar surplus this year and appears to be working.
Speaker 4: So Nancy Pelosi has a mixed legacy.
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi seems to have had a falling out with
Speaker 1: Scott Wiener. Scott Wiener has been involved in Democratic politics
Speaker 1: in San Francisco quite some time. He was on the
Speaker 1: Board of Supervisors. He's been representing San Francisco on the
Speaker 1: state legislature from Minny Moons. I want to read for
Speaker 1: you a portion of an article in SFST which interviewed
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi about the race to replace her, and have
Speaker 1: you react to it. Here is what they had to say.
Speaker 1: Quote when Schaeffer turns to Wiener, who is leading in
Speaker 1: the polls to succeed Pelosi. She sounds clearly pissed off
Speaker 1: that this is the case. Quote are you part of
Speaker 1: their campaign? She snipes at Schaeffer after he offers some
Speaker 1: praise of Wiener's legislative record, and she adds regarding the
Speaker 1: chronicles endorsement of him, quote you sound like the San
Speaker 1: Francisco Chronicle, which is totally irrelevant. Along with the Examiner,
Speaker 1: nobody cares about endorsements from the newspapers.
Speaker 3: End quote.
Speaker 1: Of the idea that Wiener is a quote master legislator,
Speaker 1: Pelosi dismissed that, first, saying that she had no legislative
Speaker 1: experience when she took the job, and adding, quote, I've
Speaker 1: never heard anybody say that anybody is a master legislator
Speaker 1: who's part of this race? End quote quote I talked
Speaker 1: to people. Spend your time with the public, Pelosi says,
Speaker 1: implying the public isn't so behind Wiener as the poll show.
Speaker 3: What do you make of that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Wiener on a personal level is snappish. There's a
Speaker 4: fourteen second video where he interacts with Nick Shirley, who
Speaker 4: is twenty three and doing an amazing public service as
Speaker 4: a young journalist exposing fraud throughout the country. And Scott
Speaker 4: Wiener did something that he frequently does in Sacramento. He
Speaker 4: called him a psychopath and a pedophile, and Nick Shirley
Speaker 4: is neither and he in terms of his legislative accomplishments.
Speaker 4: Let's go through housing. For example, there is Senate Bill nine,
Speaker 4: which changed our one zoning into our four zoning, and
Speaker 4: then Senate Bill seventy nine, which removed the height limitation
Speaker 4: within fifteen hundred meters of a transit station, and that
Speaker 4: can be a train station, but it can also be
Speaker 4: a bus station. So there's now no height limit. So
Speaker 4: if you have purchased R one property in the state
Speaker 4: of California, because of Scott Wiener, you now have to
Speaker 4: worry about somebody putting up a fifteen story building next
Speaker 4: to you. I would emphasize that there is still local control.
Speaker 4: There is a fight between Sacramento and the local governments
Speaker 4: in California over who actually has control. But this was
Speaker 4: the sort of change that Wiener does and that our
Speaker 4: state legislator does. Our state legislature does. They impose revolutionary
Speaker 4: change without any concern for how it affects people. Who
Speaker 4: have been invested, and this is why investment money is
Speaker 4: fleeing California. In San Francisco, there is a progressive measure
Speaker 4: called Measured D that I'm opposed to. That is a
Speaker 4: gross receipts tax on businesses and raises the gross receipts
Speaker 4: tax over one percent if the CEO of a company
Speaker 4: located in San Francisco earns one hundred times more than
Speaker 4: the average worker at that company. And while that might
Speaker 4: sound good, the effect is everybody is leaving San Francisco
Speaker 4: because they're afraid of Measure D and other such measures. Weener,
Speaker 4: by the way, has represented San Francisco in the Senate
Speaker 4: for twelve years in the California State Senate and it
Speaker 4: they've elected him twice. But it's interesting that he's not
Speaker 4: popular and will get less than fifty percent of the
Speaker 4: vote in this primary.
Speaker 1: But what do you make of the conflict between him
Speaker 1: and puls Because I've seen them at public events together.
Speaker 1: They certainly have a speaking relationship with one another, but
Speaker 1: he clearly did something to offend her. Do you think
Speaker 1: she's upset because he filed to run for that seat
Speaker 1: before she announced that she was retiring. Do you think
Speaker 1: she's upset with him because he put together an impressive
Speaker 1: enough campaign to scare her daughter out of the race
Speaker 1: so the daughter couldn't replace her in Congress.
Speaker 3: Or do you think there was.
Speaker 1: Some sort of personal interaction where he was snippy, as
Speaker 1: you described his personality as being, and he did something
Speaker 1: to her face that upset her, and she's had it
Speaker 1: in for him since then.
Speaker 4: I think all of those things. I think all of
Speaker 4: those things. To quote Shakespeare, agent love loves not to
Speaker 4: have years told. And Nancy was planning on running at
Speaker 4: eighty six for that seat this year and she was
Speaker 4: forced out, I believe by Weiener throw has hat into
Speaker 4: the wing into the ring before she had made that
Speaker 4: decision not to run, and that kind of forced her out.
Speaker 4: To be fair, she's pretty spry for eighty six. She's
Speaker 4: pretty on top of things compared to Joe Biden, who's
Speaker 4: actually a little younger than she is. And I think
Speaker 4: there's a lot of bad blood there. And for her
Speaker 4: to endorse Connie Chan was otherworldly because Connie Chan is
Speaker 4: regarded as an obstructionist, especially in Chinatown and the Chinese community.
Speaker 4: She's regarded as a person who didn't, for example, approve
Speaker 4: of renovation and rebuilding around the area of the Alexandra
Speaker 4: Theater in San Francisco. And Connie Chan also gave a
Speaker 4: questionable contract for city advertising for San Francisco city advertising
Speaker 4: to a publication newspaper that is published in her native
Speaker 4: Hong Kong called the singh Tao Daily, and that publication
Speaker 4: being published within Hong Kong is under the jurisdiction of
Speaker 4: the CCP. So I'm not accusing her of being a
Speaker 4: CCP agent. I'm not saying that at all, but it's
Speaker 4: questionable why she would have done that. And then it's
Speaker 4: questionable that Nancy Pelosi, who has supported over the years
Speaker 4: the government in Taiwan, would have endorsed her and not
Speaker 4: endorsed Shy Kott or Scott Wiener or one of the
Speaker 4: other Democrats in the race. There are nine of them.
Speaker 3: What's wild to me?
Speaker 1: And we played some of the sound of Connie Chan
Speaker 1: in her first interview after receiving the endorsement of Nancy Pelosi.
Speaker 1: Woman is not ready for prime time. She was having
Speaker 1: great difficulty answering the questions, and to the extent that
Speaker 1: she did, she used the most generic of terms. She
Speaker 1: really hasn't thought most of these issues through and she
Speaker 1: certainly can't express herself. Why in the world would Nancy Pelosi,
Speaker 1: who rose through the ranks to become Speaker of the House,
Speaker 1: who clearly has great political skills, get behind an amateur
Speaker 1: like this, who is certainly not at the level of
Speaker 1: most people in Congress.
Speaker 4: You know, I think that Nancy was reluctant to endorse
Speaker 4: anyone at all. She doesn't want to retire from her job,
Speaker 4: and she recognizes that she has to, and she did
Speaker 4: make that decision, and that was a tough decision to make,
Speaker 4: to be fair, But you're right that Connie's English could
Speaker 4: be a little better, and.
Speaker 1: She I don't even think it was a language thing.
Speaker 1: I think think that she is just not well versed
Speaker 1: on federal subjects, and she knows what she knows about
Speaker 1: local subjects, and she's an obstructionist. She doesn't want to
Speaker 1: build anything, she doesn't want projects being greenlit. We know
Speaker 1: all that, But it seemed to me that she was
Speaker 1: thrust in this race because it's the next step up
Speaker 1: the ladder, not because she has interest in federal issues
Speaker 1: or she thinks she has solutions to offer for problems
Speaker 1: facing San Francisco.
Speaker 3: At the federal level.
Speaker 1: It's just like, Okay, this is my chosen career and
Speaker 1: this is the next promotion that became available, right.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: You had a guest on John not that long ago,
Speaker 4: a former member of the Assembly, a Republican, who said
Speaker 4: that there are three reasons why people run for public office,
Speaker 4: and these cut across party lines. There are people who
Speaker 4: are trying to advance their careers. There are people who
Speaker 4: are ideological and have ideology that they want to bring
Speaker 4: to the fore. And then there are people who want
Speaker 4: to make life easier for their constituents. And he said,
Speaker 4: in his opinion, this is the only good reason to
Speaker 4: run for public office, because you want to make life
Speaker 4: easier for other people. Connie has not made life easier
Speaker 4: for people in her district. She is a county supervisor
Speaker 4: in San Francisco, and people know that in San Francisco.
Speaker 4: But back to your earlier question, I think Nancy felt
Speaker 4: she had to endorse someone. It was three weeks before
Speaker 4: the election and she hadn't endorsed anybody. Her endorsement, in
Speaker 4: my opinion, is the one endorsement that actually means something.
Speaker 4: In San Francisco, ilhan Omar and Rashida talib endorsing Shycott,
Speaker 4: Chakra Bodi will not get him that many votes that
Speaker 4: he wouldn't have gotten anyway. And if you come from
Speaker 4: the perspective that she needed to endorse someone, she hates
Speaker 4: Scott Wiener and everybody hates Shycott, so she endorsed Connie Chan.
Speaker 1: What do you think the odds are you're going to
Speaker 1: make the November ballot.
Speaker 4: I think the odds are really good, and they're precisely
Speaker 4: because of the Nancy Pelosi endorsement. And I'll explain why.
Speaker 4: If you go through the mathematics. The district is one
Speaker 4: of the bluest districts in the country. It's sixty three
Speaker 4: percent sixty four percent Democrat, seven percent Republican, and the
Speaker 4: remaining thirty or so percent is no party preference or independence.
Speaker 4: I think Scott Wiener is going to get the lion's
Speaker 4: share of the Democrat vote. Democrat in that district means progressive,
Speaker 4: and that because of the endorsement, Connie Chan and Shycott
Speaker 4: will divide the remaining Democrat votes and that I will
Speaker 4: get the lion's share of the remainder and it'll be
Speaker 4: enough to put me into the November runoff, I predict,
Speaker 4: and nobody has noticed this because of the circular firing
Speaker 4: squad that is going on in San Francisco. Everybody is
Speaker 4: enjoying the show of all the progressives firing at each other.
Speaker 4: But if you promise not to tell anyone that's my prediction.
Speaker 1: Let's say that you end up making the November ballot
Speaker 1: with Scott Wiener, and that Nancy Pelosi hates Scott Wiener
Speaker 1: as much as we think that she does.
Speaker 3: What do you think she does in that race? Just
Speaker 3: stay out of it.
Speaker 4: Yes, she's not going to endorse the Republican but yeah,
Speaker 4: you know interesting that the Democrat Party has over time
Speaker 4: moved to the left so far that an old school
Speaker 4: Democrat like Nancy Pelosi, who believes in strong defense and
Speaker 4: has confronted the CCP by traveling to Taiwan right before
Speaker 4: the twenty twenty election, it's interesting that she is now
Speaker 4: left out in the cold, left out high and dry
Speaker 4: by her own party. As the tide has receded and
Speaker 4: as the Democrat Party has shifted to the left. My
Speaker 4: understanding is that progressivism itself is divided between revolutionaries like
Speaker 4: Shyot and people who want moderate change. Over time, maybe
Speaker 4: like Connie chan and now they're all firing at each other,
Speaker 4: and that Nancy Pelosi is not a progressive at all.
Speaker 4: She is an old school Democrat in my view.
Speaker 3: All right, we're going to have to leave it there.
Speaker 1: David Ganiser candidate for Congress in the City and County
Speaker 1: of San Francisco. You can get him online at Ganazer
Speaker 1: Forcongress dot com and follow him on x at Ganiser David.
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Speaker 2: right now it's time to open up the California Crime Blodder.
Speaker 2: It's happened yet again.
Speaker 3: This Wow Wow, what's up here?
Speaker 5: Dundun Dunk Dundun dun rereads the Califonia Crime Blodder.
Speaker 3: With John and.
Speaker 1: The first edition of today's Blodder takes us to Santa Monica.
Speaker 2: A couple is just walking around in Santa Monica on
Speaker 2: the Third Street Promenade when crazy guy comes out of
Speaker 2: his car and starts screaming very anti Semitic things at them.
Speaker 2: I don't know how he knew they were Jewish. And
Speaker 2: then when you think it's all over, he goes back
Speaker 2: to his car and six his dog on the couple.
Speaker 3: Uh oh.
Speaker 2: For more on this insanity, here is CBSLA.
Speaker 6: An attack involving a baseball bat and a dog caught
Speaker 6: on camera. The man was arrested accused of true remember.
Speaker 2: When the only problem with Santa Monica was the parking.
Speaker 2: Now they have a whole big bag of problems.
Speaker 6: The man was arrested accused of turning his dog on
Speaker 6: a couple right outside the Third Street promenade cbsla's Utter
Speaker 6: Sowards is in Santa Monica.
Speaker 3: After talking to the couple's friend.
Speaker 7: That incident happened right behind me here at the intersection,
Speaker 7: right in front of the Third Street promenade, in broad daylight. Now,
Speaker 7: the victims they want to remain anonymous because they believe
Speaker 7: they were targeted. But locals I spoke to today say
Speaker 7: this is a part of a much bigger issue.
Speaker 5: But the bag.
Speaker 7: Scary scene in Santa Monica Sunday, A man armed with.
Speaker 2: Hey, that's a lot of esses.
Speaker 3: Almost Mark Brownworthy, a.
Speaker 7: Scary scene in Santa Monica Sunday, a man armed with
Speaker 7: a baseball bat appears to zero in on a couple
Speaker 7: who police say was trying to cross the street.
Speaker 2: How dare they try to cross the street?
Speaker 3: This guy sounds like a real a hole.
Speaker 7: He can be heard screaming profanities before getting out of
Speaker 7: the car and approaching them. The couple who says they're Jewish,
Speaker 7: tried writing down his license plate, but that's when things
Speaker 7: take a terrifying turn.
Speaker 2: So they're just walking crossing the street. Crazy guy gets
Speaker 2: out of his car and starts screaming at them while
Speaker 2: holding a baseball bat. You genociding blaps.
Speaker 1: Do you think this is a sane person who has
Speaker 1: a be in his bonnet with the Jews? Or do
Speaker 1: you think this is just a crazy, homeless person who's
Speaker 1: just shouting out whatever obscenities popped into his head.
Speaker 2: Well, he had a relatively new looking car that he
Speaker 2: jumped out of, so I don't think this was homeless.
Speaker 2: But it is also very possible to be crazy and
Speaker 2: racist at the same time.
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 7: The couple who says they're Jewish tried writing down his
Speaker 7: license plate, but that's when things take a terrifying turn.
Speaker 7: After returning to his car, he suddenly charges at them,
Speaker 7: along with his dog. Santa Monica police say one of
Speaker 7: the victims was.
Speaker 5: Bit this guy. He was using anti Semitic rhetoric.
Speaker 7: Because the couple asked to remain anonymous. We spoke to
Speaker 7: their friend who shared the video with us.
Speaker 5: He was using those words to justify his action against them.
Speaker 5: I won more accounting, buildy, How.
Speaker 2: Did he know they were Jewish?
Speaker 1: That's really odd unless they're Orthodox and they were walking
Speaker 1: around with the hats and the get up. How would
Speaker 1: you know what someone's religion is just by seeing him
Speaker 1: standing on this read.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's not really a Santa Monica move. That's uh,
Speaker 2: that's park Librea.
Speaker 5: His action against them, I won more accountability.
Speaker 7: Santa Monica police arrested Tarnay not far from the scene.
Speaker 8: It was crazy to watch, but it wasn't too His
Speaker 8: name is Tarnay.
Speaker 3: What a name?
Speaker 7: Tarnay? Not far from the scene.
Speaker 8: It was crazy to watch, but it wasn't too surprising.
Speaker 7: For people who live in the area. They were concerned
Speaker 7: hearing about the incident, but not shocked.
Speaker 8: It's just a bit unpredictable. You can't always have to
Speaker 8: have your heat on a swebl and you don't really
Speaker 8: know what's to come when you stop outside.
Speaker 2: And that's not what you should be saying about Santa Monica.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: Nowhere in the state of California should something like this
Speaker 1: be going on.
Speaker 3: It's a shame.
Speaker 2: This is a if you hear someone say this, you.
Speaker 8: Can't always have to have your heat on a swebl
Speaker 8: and you don't really know what's to come when you
Speaker 8: stop outside.
Speaker 2: You imagine they're talking about Oakland or Vallejoe, not Santa Monica,
Speaker 2: beach Town, the Pier, one of the jewels of La County.
Speaker 1: I wonder which university the anti Semitic attack or teaches at.
Speaker 8: You can always have to have your hat on a
Speaker 8: swivel and you don't really know what's to come when
Speaker 8: you stop outside.
Speaker 3: It's a shame.
Speaker 7: This is a beautiful city, but stats released by the
Speaker 7: city in March show overall crime is actually down.
Speaker 1: Now, this is what they always do, will the stouts
Speaker 1: say that crime is down. It just leads the news
Speaker 1: every single night, because you know, we can't lead with
Speaker 1: the weather.
Speaker 7: Crime is actually down. With big plans in the works
Speaker 7: to invest three million dollars to entice businesses to the
Speaker 7: Third Street promenade.
Speaker 2: And the way they're going to do that is with
Speaker 2: open drinking permits.
Speaker 7: Can't go wrong with that three million dollars to entice businesses.
Speaker 2: Am I just cranky and old school. I do not
Speaker 2: understand the appeal of instead of going to a bar
Speaker 2: having a nice cocktail that it is a nice glass,
Speaker 2: you now have to have it in a sippy cup
Speaker 2: so you can carry it around with you to the
Speaker 2: next bar.
Speaker 3: That has zero appeal to me.
Speaker 2: I just don't get how that entices people.
Speaker 7: Three million dollars to entice businesses to the Third Street promenade.
Speaker 9: And we have a lot of families, kids, and tourists
Speaker 9: coming around, so having a safe environment in neighborhood around
Speaker 9: Santa Monica is quite crucial for us.
Speaker 7: But one small business owner says crimes like this make
Speaker 7: her consider moving.
Speaker 2: I think it's se If crime is down, then why
Speaker 2: is half of the promenade empty.
Speaker 3: That's a very good question.
Speaker 5: I think it's not getting better.
Speaker 8: You should feel safe stepping outside to take a walk,
Speaker 8: to grab your groceries, to walk around with your girlfriend
Speaker 8: or family.
Speaker 7: When we reached out to Santa Monica Pete about whether
Speaker 7: this was being investigated as a hate crime.
Speaker 2: The said, I mean it's on video that what is
Speaker 2: being discussed sounds pretty hate crimey to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how is this even a wobbler crime?
Speaker 7: They said? The charges reflect right now they are in
Speaker 7: their investigative process, but more charges could be coming as
Speaker 7: they continue to investigate and talk to witnesses. Those victims
Speaker 7: are expected to be okay. Reporting in Santa Monica Hunter
Speaker 7: Sourd's CBS SLA.
Speaker 2: So there you go, a crazy, insane anti Semitic attack
Speaker 2: on the streets of Santa Monica where Psycho Guy recognizes
Speaker 2: two people crossing the street as Jewish, starts screaming genocide
Speaker 2: bleep at them, and then sends his attack dog on him.
Speaker 3: I love the.
Speaker 1: Fact that Newsom has time to criticize Texas and Florida
Speaker 1: anytime they do something that catches his eye. But this
Speaker 1: doesn't catch his eye, and he is totally silent. Eight
Speaker 1: hundred two two two five two two two is telephone number?
Speaker 1: What eight hundred two two two five two two two.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Jonathan Jonathan.
Speaker 10: Hello on you know, Chief Jim McDonald says that the
Speaker 10: that the crime has been going down for at least
Speaker 10: like that last eight months. I attend the commission meetings
Speaker 10: most Tuesdays, and that's all I hear is that crime
Speaker 10: is going down.
Speaker 1: Well, don't forget that the LAPD chief is unlike the sheriff.
Speaker 1: The sheriff works for the voters. The sheriff, right, but
Speaker 1: now he's not. Now he's the chief. The sheriff has
Speaker 1: to answer to voters. So the sheriff can say whatever
Speaker 1: it is that the sheriff wants to say, because no
Speaker 1: one can fire the sheriff but the voters. If you
Speaker 1: are the police chief, you work at the pleasure of
Speaker 1: the mayor, and if you are making the mayor happy,
Speaker 1: you're more likely to hang around longer. If you're upsetting
Speaker 1: the mayor, you're more likely to get your walking papers.
Speaker 1: The mayor is running for reelection and she's running on
Speaker 1: the platform that she is bringing crime in Lafe, Los
Speaker 1: Angeles down. If the police chief contradicts her, the police
Speaker 1: chief is going to be told to take a hike.
Speaker 10: Okay, well, John, do you think though? This is what
Speaker 10: I think, And that's why I went down there, because
Speaker 10: I also don't believe this. They've they've been saying this
Speaker 10: for you know, since twenty eighteen. They're bringing crime down.
Speaker 10: And what I noticed was crime was bad. Donald Trump
Speaker 10: twenty sixteen or seventeen got elected. Crime went down. Then
Speaker 10: we had Joe Biden, you know, the brain dead dude
Speaker 10: that had his wife as president, and then we got done.
Speaker 10: Crime went up. Then we got Donald John Trump a
Speaker 10: second time, crime's gone down. Really who brought crime down,
Speaker 10: as Donald John Trump the president, not the LAPD. They
Speaker 10: have not enough numbers to affect crime and literally the
Speaker 10: numbers that really would reflect the truth that people are
Speaker 10: not reporting crime because they don't want to wait forty
Speaker 10: five minutes for the police officer to get there because
Speaker 10: they have some where to go. And it's just it's
Speaker 10: just it's a little bit absurd. There's a lot of
Speaker 10: lies going down there. But I do want to say
Speaker 10: I support the police department. They're doing outstanding work. They
Speaker 10: have made outstanding progress, and I hope it keeps going
Speaker 10: and they do bring crime down. They help keep us safe.
Speaker 10: But I think some of the numbers sometimes are a
Speaker 10: little bit hard to believe when they attach that great
Speaker 10: work that Donald's doing to them, you know, rounding up
Speaker 10: and deporting didn't seem to go very well, but it
Speaker 10: did bring crime down, so right, thank you.
Speaker 1: For the call, sir, I appreciate it. Now let me
Speaker 1: pose an alternate theory here, just to think about. I
Speaker 1: think whoever's in the White House has less to do
Speaker 1: with crime in Los Angeles or in any big city
Speaker 1: or any state in the Union. I think what caused
Speaker 1: crime to spike in California was US passing Prop. Forty
Speaker 1: seven and fifty seven, because things were relatively normal before that,
Speaker 1: and prison realignment too. But the moment we started emptying
Speaker 1: the prisons, and the moment we decriminalized drug use and
Speaker 1: we decriminalized retail theft, and we handcuffed the prosecutors, and
Speaker 1: we handcuffed the judges, and we decided that it was
Speaker 1: racist to lock people up. That's when the criminals started
Speaker 1: moving to the streets and hanging out in the homeless
Speaker 1: encampments as opposed to being in prison where they belong.
Speaker 1: When they were in prison, and we could keep an
Speaker 1: eye on them and prevent them from doing things like
Speaker 1: robbing stores or stabbing people or fill in the blank,
Speaker 1: whatever crime it is that you want to put in there.
Speaker 1: Then things were relatively normal on the outside. But the moment,
Speaker 1: we took all the people who bring the chaos and
Speaker 1: we took them from being inside the prisons to living
Speaker 1: on the streets. That's why we deal with all the
Speaker 1: chaos that we're dealing with on a daily basis. All right,
Speaker 1: it's time to reopen the California Crime blodder If.
Speaker 2: Dummy, we couldn't make this stuff up if we tried.
Speaker 3: I said, hell, no, very boy, let me get up
Speaker 3: boat out of here. It's the California Crime Bloater and Randy.
Speaker 2: This one takes us to West Hills. Why are there
Speaker 2: so many of these stories in the valley? Home, Sweet Home,
Speaker 2: I gotta get out. A Dea busted up a meth
Speaker 2: lab in West Hills. Great from Here's KTLA.
Speaker 11: An early morning bust on a quiet street in West
Speaker 11: Hills leads to an arrest and the discovery of an
Speaker 11: alleged drug den DA agents and swamp teams stormed the
Speaker 11: home early this morning and quickly declared it unsafe filled
Speaker 11: with hazardous materials.
Speaker 3: Carlos Sailo was live in West Hills with the latest
Speaker 3: onbat Boss and the danger to the community.
Speaker 12: Carlos Mike, there's no threat to the public, but the
Speaker 12: home has since been read tagged and tonight the homeowner
Speaker 12: is accused of operating a secret drug lab. Within an
Speaker 12: early morning drug bus sent federal officers walking information through
Speaker 12: this West Hills neighborhood, waking up neighbors around four am.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine getting that wake up call no.
Speaker 9: Over a loudspeaker. I think it said something people that
Speaker 9: this address come out.
Speaker 12: This alarmed resident in the twenty four thousand block of
Speaker 12: Welby Way did not want to show his face on camera,
Speaker 12: but was surprised by this show of force, which included
Speaker 12: an armored vehicle.
Speaker 9: Everyone was wearing DA agent uniforms, some police people in
Speaker 9: hazmat suits, and they're like just pulling.
Speaker 2: You never want to wake up and realize that now
Speaker 2: your neighborhood looks like breaking bad.
Speaker 9: And they're like just pulling stuff out from the inside.
Speaker 12: Neighbors say the homeowner was taken into federal custody as
Speaker 12: Drug Enforcement Administration agencies countless items after raiding the home,
Speaker 12: some seen wearing hazmat suits. A red sign posted on
Speaker 12: the door reads a clandestine laboratory for the manufacturer of
Speaker 12: illegal drugs and or hazardous chemicals. Was seized.
Speaker 9: My neighbor said they overheard the agents talking about fentanyl,
Speaker 9: that they were possibly making fentanyl inside selling it.
Speaker 12: Authorities would knock confirm any details regarding the raid, but
Speaker 12: people who live on the street describe it as a quiet, peaceful.
Speaker 2: Neighborhood, or at least it was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't want one of your neighbors making fentanyl
Speaker 1: and selling it.
Speaker 9: We used to live in down Tunnel A and we
Speaker 9: moved out here because we wanted to be in a
Speaker 9: good neighborhood.
Speaker 2: I have a serious question, are there any good neighborhoods
Speaker 2: left in LA?
Speaker 3: Yeah? They just call it Orange County.
Speaker 2: So it's very surprising, definitely very surprising. You know what,
Speaker 2: the best neighborhood in the valley is Burbank, not the
Speaker 2: city of Los Angeles, Bingo, So it's.
Speaker 5: Very surprising, definitely very surprising.
Speaker 12: The homeowner apparently lived there with a young daughter. Some
Speaker 12: neighbors say they would hear confrontations from time to time
Speaker 12: when he.
Speaker 2: Was this a daddy daughter project.
Speaker 9: Maybe it's weird hours and you know he's having verbal
Speaker 9: arguments in the middle of the night. It's you do wonder,
Speaker 9: but I thought he was worked in construction. It's a
Speaker 9: nice neighborhood. You don't think it's gonna happen here, but
Speaker 9: you know it's it did.
Speaker 1: Maybe he caught his daughter shorten him.
Speaker 2: We don't get high off our own supply. How many
Speaker 2: times have I told you that