1 00:00:02,520 --> 00:00:08,400 Speaker 1: This is Let's be clear. Who's Shannon Dorny. Hello, let's 2 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:11,240 Speaker 1: be clear listeners. I'm Rachel Darvish. I'm one of the 3 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:15,680 Speaker 1: thousands of people affected by the Pacific Palisades fires that 4 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:19,360 Speaker 1: continue to burn. I'm honored to have been invited to 5 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:22,639 Speaker 1: host this episode of Shannon Doherty's podcast. I've been a 6 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,919 Speaker 1: lifelong fan of hers. She was such a strong voice 7 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:30,600 Speaker 1: for women in all communities. She was never afraid to 8 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:34,639 Speaker 1: speak up. I'm not afraid to speak up either, especially 9 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:37,599 Speaker 1: when it comes to the shortfalls of the government. I'm 10 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:41,000 Speaker 1: a lawyer. I'm not a celebrity. I'm a lawyer and 11 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:44,840 Speaker 1: a mom and a resident of this town that has 12 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:49,400 Speaker 1: been ravaged by an apocalyptic fire. If you've been following 13 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:52,800 Speaker 1: the news, you may have seen a viral exchange between 14 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:56,639 Speaker 1: me and the Governor of California, Gavin Newsom. If you've 15 00:00:56,640 --> 00:00:58,680 Speaker 1: been following the news, you may have seen a viral 16 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:01,279 Speaker 1: exchange that I had with the governor of California, an 17 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:04,720 Speaker 1: unplanned viral exchange with the governor of California, and when 18 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:09,280 Speaker 1: he visited my town of Pacific Palisades. This was not planned. 19 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:11,800 Speaker 1: I was in the middle of a live interview when 20 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:15,320 Speaker 1: I saw the governor and decided to ask him how 21 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:18,720 Speaker 1: he was going to help me. I've lived in Pacific 22 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:23,520 Speaker 1: Palisades since since I can remember. I was born in 23 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 1: the USALE Hospital and my parents had come here from 24 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:32,400 Speaker 1: me Ron fifty years ago. So our first our first 25 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 1: experiences were at the USALA campuses, and then we immediately 26 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:39,640 Speaker 1: moved to Pacific Palisades where we had a home in 27 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 1: the Alphabet streets. That home is gone, so my childhood 28 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 1: home is gone. I was able to see that firsthand. 29 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 1: You never know what that is going to feel like 30 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 1: until it really happens. And I haven't lived in that 31 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 1: home since I was six years old, but wow, what 32 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:03,400 Speaker 1: a feeling that was to see the beginning of my 33 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 1: life in Pacific Palisades. I was erased. Part of the 34 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: reason I wanted to raise my daughter in the Palisades 35 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 1: was because of the experiences I had at that home 36 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:17,720 Speaker 1: seven one to nine Island Street. I mean, the memories 37 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 1: were probably the best, going up and down the street 38 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:25,080 Speaker 1: Fourth of July with our with our neighbors, something that 39 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 1: you only find in a small town like Pacific Palisades. 40 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:32,079 Speaker 1: We don't have that in other towns in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, 41 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:34,840 Speaker 1: the status of my home at this at this moment, 42 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 1: so unfortunately, the first home I lived in burned down 43 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:43,080 Speaker 1: in the alphabet streets. Over the years, we moved a 44 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:46,360 Speaker 1: few times. I'm not sure the status of a couple 45 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:48,520 Speaker 1: of the other ones, but the house I'm living in 46 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 1: at the moment is standing, which is a total miracle 47 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:56,919 Speaker 1: considering our neighbor and the person across the way was 48 00:02:56,960 --> 00:03:00,160 Speaker 1: also burned down. I've had a couple of chances to 49 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 1: to now experience the community right now and devastation. I 50 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 1: don't think you have seen it. I don't think you 51 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: will see it because it can be categorized probably as 52 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:17,680 Speaker 1: the worst fire I think in the history of the country, 53 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 1: but it's not even going to do it justice because 54 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 1: of some of the the aspects of it being on 55 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:31,959 Speaker 1: such a grand scale. We have now experienced a lot 56 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 1: of natural disasters in California, and I think the unease 57 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 1: I'm feeling, not just having been in this experience, is 58 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:46,120 Speaker 1: I don't know what's next, considering I don't trust how 59 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 1: my government is handling my situation. So the fear I 60 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:54,240 Speaker 1: have is I'm sort of living in a no man's 61 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:58,120 Speaker 1: land right now. Like everyone else, if we could go 62 00:03:58,160 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 1: back to the moment I had to I spotted the gun. 63 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 1: You can only imagine the feeling of standing in front 64 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:06,600 Speaker 1: of your daughter's preschool that you had just dropped her 65 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:10,880 Speaker 1: off at. I had just dropped Chloe off at Methodist Preschool. 66 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:15,000 Speaker 1: I'm wearing the T shirt for the school. Dropped her 67 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:20,000 Speaker 1: off at nine am, went home and tried to sort 68 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 1: of do what I do every morning after I drop 69 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:24,800 Speaker 1: her off. And this was the first day back to 70 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 1: school after three weeks of holiday for the kids, so 71 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:30,599 Speaker 1: they were so excited to be back in school, and 72 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:32,359 Speaker 1: I was kind of happy to get back to a 73 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:35,480 Speaker 1: schedule again. And I mean within just a few moments, 74 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:37,480 Speaker 1: I got a notification of a fire, and as soon 75 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:41,719 Speaker 1: as I put my pen down, put the laptop down, 76 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:45,440 Speaker 1: and walked out to the front of the house, devastation 77 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 1: was at my doorstep. And there are no feelings, no 78 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 1: words that can describe what it feels like to one 79 00:04:55,880 --> 00:05:01,240 Speaker 1: hundred percent, one hundred percent be certain that your house 80 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:06,679 Speaker 1: isn't going to be standing. That was what I felt 81 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 1: when I walked out the front door, and I said, 82 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:13,560 Speaker 1: let's roll. We can't we can't risk it going down 83 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:19,240 Speaker 1: that hill after grabbing some artwork that my mom had 84 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:25,479 Speaker 1: done and some basics for my daughter. We had to 85 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 1: sit in about four hours of traffic to get down 86 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:35,680 Speaker 1: the hill down to Sunset Boulevard. In the meantime, all 87 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 1: you can think about is the fire is right behind you, 88 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:42,120 Speaker 1: and there's not a single fire truck going up the hill, 89 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:46,279 Speaker 1: and there's not any space for a fire truck to 90 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:49,719 Speaker 1: go up the hill. Having lived there my whole life, 91 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:51,320 Speaker 1: I knew that this was going to be a major 92 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:54,479 Speaker 1: disaster because there are no other ways really to get in. 93 00:05:56,120 --> 00:06:00,719 Speaker 1: We saw that Palisades Drive was another disaster where people 94 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:04,360 Speaker 1: were abandoned their cars. Fortunately on the Ambonita our way down, 95 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:11,760 Speaker 1: that didn't That didn't happen. We had such great people, neighbors, 96 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:15,920 Speaker 1: local employees who were there for the day, day workers, 97 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:20,600 Speaker 1: they were directing traffic. I mean, you better believe our 98 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 1: community came together so beautifully to get us down that 99 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:33,599 Speaker 1: hill again without a single without a single government official appearing. 100 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:37,040 Speaker 1: We didn't see a police officer, we did not see 101 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:41,400 Speaker 1: a fire truck. I all I know is I kept 102 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:44,880 Speaker 1: hearing from people up and down this line of cars 103 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:48,039 Speaker 1: there's no water, they're saying there's no water. They're saying 104 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:52,320 Speaker 1: there's no water. And the last thing I remember was 105 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:55,400 Speaker 1: we turned We tried to turn on our hoses before 106 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:57,040 Speaker 1: we left so that we can leave them for the 107 00:06:57,080 --> 00:07:00,920 Speaker 1: fire department when they got there. And I'm not even 108 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:03,520 Speaker 1: sure there was water in our hoses for them to 109 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:07,280 Speaker 1: use at that point. That's why when I was in 110 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:12,080 Speaker 1: front of Methodist Preschool and I spotted the governor, no, 111 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:17,280 Speaker 1: I had no control over my desire to approach him. 112 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:18,960 Speaker 1: I had to know. And this is the guy we've 113 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:22,800 Speaker 1: elected to take care of us sky we elected to 114 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:27,280 Speaker 1: understand us through the good and the bad. We give 115 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 1: him a lot of good. Our state is very wealthy. 116 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 1: Our state is the fifth best economy in the world. 117 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 1: Our state rules, our city rules. It did, But those 118 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:44,280 Speaker 1: are questions we need to dress down the line. Every 119 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:47,520 Speaker 1: time I watched the clip with the governor, I get 120 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:52,040 Speaker 1: more and more uncomfortable. It's a reminder of who to 121 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:55,240 Speaker 1: trust and who not to trust. I think I didn't 122 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:59,760 Speaker 1: necessarily vote for the governor. I didn't not vote for him. 123 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:05,680 Speaker 1: Whether he is my elected official by my vote doesn't matter. 124 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 1: He's there. I got to take them for what he 125 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:11,600 Speaker 1: is and at that moment, and every time I keep 126 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:14,640 Speaker 1: watching this video, I am reminded that my governor lied 127 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:16,720 Speaker 1: to me, and he lied to me to my face 128 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:19,440 Speaker 1: in front of cameras. So you know, down the line, 129 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:20,960 Speaker 1: if he wants to say he didn't lie, I think 130 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 1: we have the evidence to the points to the contrary. 131 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 1: After the viral moment, I did exchange information with the 132 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 1: Governor's office, and I've read some reports that the governor's 133 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:36,679 Speaker 1: office has assisted me in some ways, and I can 134 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:39,840 Speaker 1: guarantee you that I've gotten zero assistance from the governor's office. 135 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 1: I have requested that the governor include me in any 136 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 1: communications or interactions with the President. That's never happened. I 137 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:51,240 Speaker 1: don't believe him. So I was asking for somebody who 138 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:55,200 Speaker 1: has some credibility to be present when he's having these 139 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:58,280 Speaker 1: conversations with the White House. I'm a mom. I want 140 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:00,120 Speaker 1: to know. I've got There's so many of us out 141 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:02,360 Speaker 1: there that are wondering what the heck we're going to 142 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:04,440 Speaker 1: do with our kids. We are they going to go 143 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 1: to school? Are they going to go to school? Every 144 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:09,360 Speaker 1: single school in our in our town burned down, And 145 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 1: when the governor is looking at me, telling me he 146 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:14,840 Speaker 1: has four kids, and that somehow that is that is 147 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:18,440 Speaker 1: the reason I'm supposed to believe him that he feels 148 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:21,320 Speaker 1: for me with while he's wearing aviator sunglasses and I 149 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 1: can't even see his eyes. I wonder if he would 150 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:30,440 Speaker 1: be different if his house had burned down. I wonder 151 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:34,720 Speaker 1: if it really takes, you know, personal personal loss to 152 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:39,080 Speaker 1: be able to commiserate with someone or at least be 153 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:42,439 Speaker 1: able to show your your concern, because I didn't get 154 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:45,600 Speaker 1: any of that from him, And now here we are, 155 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 1: what week a week later, almost, and the clip may 156 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:53,040 Speaker 1: be viral, but there's nothing. There's nothing that's come out 157 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:56,400 Speaker 1: of it for me as far as what kind of 158 00:09:56,400 --> 00:10:00,320 Speaker 1: answers I'm able to get. The most recent communicat I 159 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 1: had with the Governor's office included me requesting that I 160 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:09,120 Speaker 1: be present when the President elect visits, because I believe 161 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:13,400 Speaker 1: the governor had extended an invitation to him. And my 162 00:10:13,559 --> 00:10:17,319 Speaker 1: response was the response that I got was that they 163 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:19,960 Speaker 1: don't even know if he's coming. So I have a 164 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,840 Speaker 1: couple of responses, but all I've gotten really are copy 165 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:25,840 Speaker 1: and paste you know, would you like to go to 166 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:31,600 Speaker 1: this shelter? Sort of offers from them every time I 167 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 1: watch the video clip, it reminds me of, you know, 168 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:38,679 Speaker 1: the difference between being a man and a woman in 169 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:42,600 Speaker 1: this society. I I don't know if the governor would 170 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 1: have lied to a man to his face. Would he 171 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:47,320 Speaker 1: have Is that something he might have done? I don't know. 172 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:50,440 Speaker 1: I felt very vulnerable at that moment. Here I am 173 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 1: standing in front of my children's preschool and this man 174 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:57,720 Speaker 1: is looking at a mother and lying to her. Still 175 00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:01,040 Speaker 1: sits with me. I also did request the governor contact 176 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 1: me personally. That's never happened to date. There are a 177 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 1: lot of misconceptions about Pacific Palisades, but I'd like to 178 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:24,520 Speaker 1: share something really dear to me. When I was about 179 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:26,720 Speaker 1: ten years old, there was something in the Pacific Palisades 180 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 1: that we'd do every October Halloween ish, and it's called 181 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:33,560 Speaker 1: Moonlight Madness. And they would shut down the streets that 182 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:36,360 Speaker 1: were around the village in the Palisades, which is currently 183 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:40,240 Speaker 1: the Cruso built Village, and all the stores would be 184 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:43,480 Speaker 1: open and we would be the streets would close, stores 185 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:45,800 Speaker 1: would open late till ten PM, and we'd walk around 186 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:49,920 Speaker 1: and there was this beautiful shirt that one of the 187 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:52,679 Speaker 1: stores sold that I bought as a ten year old 188 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:56,920 Speaker 1: and it said, if you're rich, you live in Beverly Hills. 189 00:11:57,240 --> 00:12:01,080 Speaker 1: If you're famous, you live in Malibu. But if you're lucky, 190 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:04,120 Speaker 1: you live in Pacific Palisades. And we had been so 191 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:07,920 Speaker 1: lucky for so long. We will continue to be lucky. 192 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:12,280 Speaker 1: There is a misconception that everybody in Pacific Palisades is rich. 193 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:16,440 Speaker 1: You don't know the struggles that I'm listening to that 194 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:20,679 Speaker 1: I'm personally going through in order to know what our 195 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:25,960 Speaker 1: next move is a lot of people in Pacific Palisades 196 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:31,160 Speaker 1: were dropped by their insurance company just prior to this incident. 197 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 1: We have a letter that is informing us that we 198 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:43,200 Speaker 1: will be dropped as of March. So where does that 199 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:47,920 Speaker 1: put us at the moment? Ensured? But as of March, 200 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 1: obviously we will join the ranks of the others that 201 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:58,840 Speaker 1: have to go towards the California Fair Plan for additional coverage. 202 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:04,520 Speaker 1: What's the goal for me and my neighbors. We need 203 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:06,600 Speaker 1: to come back and we need to come back strong. 204 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:11,280 Speaker 1: We have a future in this city. We built it 205 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:14,080 Speaker 1: and we can build it again. We just need the 206 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:18,200 Speaker 1: government to do the right thing. I think one of 207 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:21,640 Speaker 1: the things I've whittled down at this point is is 208 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:25,120 Speaker 1: that I'm not interested in necessarily name calling as much 209 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:30,320 Speaker 1: as I want to. But what we know is that 210 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:34,320 Speaker 1: there are two people that are sort of irrelevant to 211 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:39,400 Speaker 1: the solution. And when you have a governor who is 212 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:46,480 Speaker 1: making deals with electric companies that cause fires in order 213 00:13:46,520 --> 00:13:48,960 Speaker 1: to help them out of bankruptcy so that they don't 214 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:54,520 Speaker 1: pay they're victims. It scares me. It scares me to 215 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:57,680 Speaker 1: think what we're going to be getting, what we're entitled 216 00:13:57,679 --> 00:14:00,560 Speaker 1: to to be able to recover from this, because this 217 00:14:00,679 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 1: is going to break a lot of people. So don't 218 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:07,120 Speaker 1: get it in your head that we're sitting here able 219 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:11,480 Speaker 1: to get through this with any sort of ease. That's 220 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:15,560 Speaker 1: not the case. I'm not a Democrat or a Republican, 221 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:21,800 Speaker 1: and I hope that in any disaster situation, people can 222 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 1: consider themselves human beings before they can consider themselves member 223 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 1: of any party. Democrats are helping Republicans, Republicans are helping Democrats. 224 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:36,280 Speaker 1: That's the reality of this situations. It's the beauty of it, 225 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:38,840 Speaker 1: and I hope that this is a lesson for the future. 226 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:43,000 Speaker 1: Karen Bass promised us that she would not be taking 227 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:47,080 Speaker 1: international trips that was a promise that she made, an 228 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:53,280 Speaker 1: election promise, startening to know that she violated that with 229 00:14:53,360 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 1: a trip to Africa in the midst of her burning down. 230 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:06,240 Speaker 1: So it was West Africa versus West Los Angeles. And 231 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 1: I don't know what part of how quickly she made 232 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:11,320 Speaker 1: it back was supposed to make me feel better when 233 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 1: this was a storm brewing that she knew about well 234 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:21,720 Speaker 1: before she left. We have questions here about LEDWP. We 235 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:25,040 Speaker 1: have questions here about Karen Bass personally, personally, whether she 236 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:28,400 Speaker 1: has liability or not. Obviously we know about immunity that 237 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:30,600 Speaker 1: she would be that she would be protected from. But 238 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:36,880 Speaker 1: these decisions that were made were the were the reasons 239 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:41,200 Speaker 1: why this fire was not controlled in the way that 240 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:44,000 Speaker 1: it could have been. When you have fire hydrants that 241 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:49,640 Speaker 1: are empty, when you have aqueducts that are empty, and 242 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:53,760 Speaker 1: when these have been empty for long enough where somebody 243 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:58,520 Speaker 1: should have known better, what can you do other than 244 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:01,840 Speaker 1: sit and write it out. I guess and and hope 245 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:06,200 Speaker 1: that and hope that these poor firefighters can fight fire 246 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:14,480 Speaker 1: without water. That's what we did. We watched television all night, 247 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:21,000 Speaker 1: hoping and praying that somehow the miracle of no water 248 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:27,200 Speaker 1: would would solve this fire. We deserve better. Guys, deserve 249 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:30,440 Speaker 1: so much better than to know that you're your mayor 250 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:36,560 Speaker 1: left town knowing that the major aqueduct was empty, knowing 251 00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:40,320 Speaker 1: that the water pressure in these hydrants would be affected, 252 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:45,880 Speaker 1: and not and knowing this for a long time, knowing 253 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:49,320 Speaker 1: that her budgetary cuts would have affected the manpower that 254 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 1: we need to fight these kind of fires. We've called 255 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:56,520 Speaker 1: these the Polisades Fire and the Eaten Fire, and we've 256 00:16:56,560 --> 00:16:59,720 Speaker 1: labeled them by the communities that they've been that they've 257 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:04,480 Speaker 1: start it in. I submit to you that we need 258 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:08,679 Speaker 1: to give the governor and the mayor the legacies that 259 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:12,639 Speaker 1: they deserve. Why don't we name them after them? These 260 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:17,920 Speaker 1: major catastrophic events deserve the legacy of the Newsome name 261 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:21,840 Speaker 1: and the basqu name, so that Californians and Los Angeleans 262 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:25,000 Speaker 1: don't make the same mistakes again. We need to turn 263 00:17:25,040 --> 00:17:27,320 Speaker 1: the state around. And it doesn't mean voting for a 264 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:31,640 Speaker 1: different party. It doesn't mean voting for a different anything. 265 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:34,800 Speaker 1: It means voting for a different person. And we need 266 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:38,800 Speaker 1: better options. I think a lot of people think their 267 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:42,399 Speaker 1: civics duties and when they graduate from high school or 268 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:45,080 Speaker 1: after sixth grade or whenever it is they teach au civis. 269 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:50,120 Speaker 1: I don't even remember, to be honest, but I think 270 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:52,560 Speaker 1: we need to realize that you've got to pay attention, 271 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:55,240 Speaker 1: and if you don't, and if you fall asleep, these 272 00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:57,520 Speaker 1: are the kinds of things that seem to happen to us. 273 00:17:57,560 --> 00:18:01,679 Speaker 1: So me, you, all of us, let's not make the 274 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:04,879 Speaker 1: same mistakes twice, because we can do better and we 275 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:09,320 Speaker 1: can hopefully get rid of irrelevant people that are not 276 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:13,600 Speaker 1: helping us move forward. One of the things I will 277 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:17,280 Speaker 1: never forget is when I read that Shannon Doherty had 278 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:21,359 Speaker 1: said when she was diagnosed with stage four cancer. I 279 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:24,400 Speaker 1: remember her saying that she would wake up some days 280 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:27,560 Speaker 1: and say why me? And then some days she would 281 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:35,679 Speaker 1: wake up and say why not me? Wow? Can you 282 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:41,359 Speaker 1: say that? It takes a lot. It takes a lot 283 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:43,920 Speaker 1: for someone to be able to say something like that, 284 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:50,199 Speaker 1: And it's an honor to be able to speak to 285 00:18:50,359 --> 00:18:56,720 Speaker 1: you on a platform where somebody would be able to 286 00:18:57,119 --> 00:19:06,080 Speaker 1: self sacrifice like that, Why not me? I became a 287 00:19:06,119 --> 00:19:10,159 Speaker 1: mother a little bit later in life than maybe I 288 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:13,479 Speaker 1: was supposed to, But when I did, it woke up 289 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:16,080 Speaker 1: something and meet it. I'd never even k you existed, 290 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:21,200 Speaker 1: and now my biggest concern is where does my daughter 291 00:19:21,280 --> 00:19:25,360 Speaker 1: go from here? We all know children are the future, 292 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:30,600 Speaker 1: and if we mess up this generation, I don't think 293 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:33,080 Speaker 1: we're going to have an earth anymore with their I 294 00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:35,760 Speaker 1: don't know how much planet there's going to be left 295 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:43,240 Speaker 1: to burn by mismanagement and incompetence. So my concern is 296 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:45,359 Speaker 1: that my daughter stay in school. I'm concerned that she 297 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:48,480 Speaker 1: interacts with her friends. I'm concerned that she's not worried 298 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:51,240 Speaker 1: about why a house or why a house may burn down, 299 00:19:51,359 --> 00:19:55,160 Speaker 1: or why the aqueducts aren't full, or why the fire 300 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:59,320 Speaker 1: hydrants weren't able to get enough water to help her 301 00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:02,840 Speaker 1: friends home not burned down. I have to tell her 302 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:06,560 Speaker 1: why we can't play at Brennan's house. I have to 303 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:11,439 Speaker 1: tell her why we can't go to Amalia's house. I 304 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:13,560 Speaker 1: have to tell her why we can't go to Charlotte's house. 305 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:15,959 Speaker 1: And I don't want to have to tell that to 306 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:18,399 Speaker 1: any three year old, that we can't go to your 307 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:21,439 Speaker 1: friend's house because it burned down, and we can't go 308 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:24,200 Speaker 1: to our house because it almost burned down. We can't 309 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:27,520 Speaker 1: go to our house because it's dangerous and toxic to Gobert. 310 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:30,640 Speaker 1: We'll make it work. Adults will make it work. We'll 311 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:33,800 Speaker 1: find a place to sleep, We'll do all that. But 312 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:37,200 Speaker 1: I got to find a life again for my child 313 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:42,719 Speaker 1: who is now displaced. And my child can now say 314 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:45,359 Speaker 1: that she is a victim of the homeless policies, the 315 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:49,800 Speaker 1: holistic homeless policies of the Mayor of Los Angeles. I 316 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:53,440 Speaker 1: want to thank iHeartRadio for inviting me here. I want 317 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:56,280 Speaker 1: to thank the legacy that Shannon Doherty has left. I 318 00:20:56,320 --> 00:21:02,000 Speaker 1: want everyone to sometimes in their lives, ask that question 319 00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:06,280 Speaker 1: that she did. Sometimes you ask why me, and then 320 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:09,679 Speaker 1: sometimes you ask why not me? And that will ground you. 321 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:12,840 Speaker 1: If you want to help those who have lost everything, 322 00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:15,719 Speaker 1: there are many ways to do that. You can go 323 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:18,960 Speaker 1: to Dreamcenter dot org, the California Fire Foundation, and the 324 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:21,880 Speaker 1: Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, just to name a few. 325 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:33,560 Speaker 1: Please stay safe and thank you.