Ep. 249 - Election Results (Thus Far)

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[00:00:29] Thanks for tuning in to another episode of the California Underground, your host Phil

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[00:00:37] Camille.

[00:00:39] How are you doing?

[00:00:40] I'm good.

[00:00:41] A little jet lag still.

[00:00:42] How are you?

[00:00:43] Well, we're both jet lagged.

[00:00:46] I had intimated where I was.

[00:00:48] We both, this is so weird.

[00:00:51] We both out of nowhere.

[00:00:54] We didn't plan this.

[00:00:55] We didn't coordinate this, but we both plan trips to Europe.

[00:00:59] Not the same trips, but we were both gone in Europe at the same time.

[00:01:05] We didn't even talk about it.

[00:01:06] It was just like, hey, we're going to London and Scotland.

[00:01:09] We're going over here.

[00:01:13] That's where we were for the last week.

[00:01:15] Jet lag sucks, especially when we were back.

[00:01:17] You were with your wife in London and Scotland.

[00:01:19] I was with my husband and kids in Italy and Switzerland.

[00:01:23] Correct.

[00:01:24] We were still countries apart, but we were in Europe at the same time.

[00:01:30] It just worked out that way.

[00:01:31] I don't know.

[00:01:32] We did not plan it that way.

[00:01:34] Jet lag sucks, especially coming back from Europe to California.

[00:01:37] It's like eight hour difference, I think.

[00:01:40] It was time.

[00:01:41] Well, then the time changed.

[00:01:43] Actually, I was nine hours ahead and then California is from forward.

[00:01:47] So they gained an hour.

[00:01:49] So it was still eight hours.

[00:01:51] So then I was eight hours, yeah.

[00:01:53] So I could do like, savings thing.

[00:01:55] But then I'm yeah, I got home Monday morning.

[00:01:58] So I'm just tired.

[00:02:01] It's like the best way to describe it to people is like you flip your day on its head because

[00:02:06] like when you should be sleeping, you're awake and like when you're getting ready to go

[00:02:12] to bed, people are just like waking up and going to work.

[00:02:15] So your whole like, it takes a little bit and then coming back and anyway.

[00:02:19] So that's where we've been.

[00:02:21] And even though it's been about two weeks since the election happened, the primary elections

[00:02:26] on March 5th and anyone who tuned into NBC on the streaming to check me out.

[00:02:33] That was awesome.

[00:02:34] There's a lot of fun.

[00:02:35] Thank you, NBC for having me on.

[00:02:37] They were still results trickling in for the next two weeks.

[00:02:43] And that's why we said election results thus far.

[00:02:46] Now there's been some races that we've been keeping our eye on that have been decided

[00:02:50] like prop on which we're going to get to.

[00:02:53] There were some races that were too close to call.

[00:02:56] There's some races like the Shasta County Supervisor, which is quite literally one of the

[00:03:01] closest races still too close to call.

[00:03:04] So that's why we're saying election results thus far.

[00:03:06] So I don't think we really missed out on anything by not doing a show the week of the primary

[00:03:11] because the election would like the results weren't done that Thursday.

[00:03:16] So we gave it some time and we actually have a better idea.

[00:03:20] There were races that were decided that night, but there are still a lot of races that

[00:03:25] also flipped like the following days.

[00:03:28] So before we get started, any thoughts about the election results that you want to get

[00:03:34] off right off the bat?

[00:03:35] My disappointment and prop on happened.

[00:03:39] I mean, I expected it.

[00:03:41] It was so close that I was I was figures crossed hopeful that it wouldn't.

[00:03:45] Of course, last night late afternoon yesterday, we were of course heard.

[00:03:50] Yeah.

[00:03:51] I was I was bombed.

[00:03:53] I'm doing this podcast, but I loved like two weeks of no politics.

[00:04:01] It's nice to decompress.

[00:04:02] It's always nice to decompress.

[00:04:04] Go on vacation and be with my family and just you know doing all that and people would

[00:04:08] send me stuff.

[00:04:09] I'm sick.

[00:04:10] I do not.

[00:04:11] You hold the bear could down.

[00:04:13] I'm good.

[00:04:15] Yeah, it's California won't burn down in a week if we're gone.

[00:04:18] Not talking about politics.

[00:04:19] Yeah.

[00:04:20] It's it's always important.

[00:04:22] I think people should just like also disconnect from politics because you can like consume

[00:04:27] a lot of people and then I know there's a lot of people who like make some their whole

[00:04:30] life, but connect disconnect.

[00:04:33] Enjoy the beauty.

[00:04:34] You know, go travel.

[00:04:35] Go see a different country.

[00:04:37] Go to some beautiful country and look around and enjoy something.

[00:04:42] Live your life.

[00:04:43] It's not all politics.

[00:04:45] Anyway, so a lot of people always are like, why does it take so long to get all of our

[00:04:52] results in California?

[00:04:55] And I mean the point of this episode again, it's kind of funny that we're still talking

[00:04:59] about election results two weeks later.

[00:05:03] But I think it's important to kind of go over why it does take so long.

[00:05:06] I'm not saying I agree with it.

[00:05:07] I'm not trying to explain it.

[00:05:08] I'm not trying to rationalize it.

[00:05:10] I'm just trying to explain it so people can say, OK, this is why it takes so long.

[00:05:15] This is an article from CalMatters that says two weeks plus one day after voting and

[00:05:20] did in California's primary, there are 108,000 ballots left to be counted.

[00:05:25] And a dozen congressional and legislative races remain too close to call.

[00:05:29] While the uncounted ballots are less than 2% of the 7.7 million cast readers have again

[00:05:34] asked why it takes so long for California to finish counting votes.

[00:05:38] California started mailing ballots to all registered voters for the November 2020 election.

[00:05:43] This year about 50% of ballots cast were counted on primary night March 5th compared

[00:05:47] to 41% in June 2022.

[00:05:50] Kind of data from the California Voter Foundation.

[00:05:53] But processing mail and ballots can take time.

[00:05:55] Any ballots postmarked by March 5th and received by March 12th still get counted.

[00:06:01] Also there are a number of steps, county election offices take to ensure the integrity of each

[00:06:06] voters ballot.

[00:06:07] Some of which can't start until after election day and counties have varying levels of

[00:06:11] staffing and resources that can impact how quickly the work is done as of Wednesday night.

[00:06:15] 13 to 58 counties reported completed their tallies.

[00:06:19] Let's see, the state passed some laws to try and speed up the process.

[00:06:23] One new law allows counties to immediately scan vote by mail ballots from people who bring

[00:06:27] them in person.

[00:06:29] Plus or county did so this primary about 8,000 people use the system of nearly 15,000 who

[00:06:34] came to vote centers.

[00:06:36] Another new law counties to contact contact voters via email or text for signature verification,

[00:06:41] but both laws just went to affect January 1st.

[00:06:44] In Orange County, the last batch of notification letters were sent out March 13th according

[00:06:48] to Bob Page, the county's registered our voters.

[00:06:51] Voters have until two days prior to certification of the election to respond.

[00:06:56] So there's sort of an overview.

[00:06:58] Again, I'm not like advocating.

[00:07:01] I'm not saying it's the best system.

[00:07:02] This is how it is in California.

[00:07:04] Mail and ballots are definitely a big thing.

[00:07:06] It takes a while as long as they're postmarked by the fifth, they start kind of like trickling

[00:07:10] in.

[00:07:11] So there's a lot of people who probably drop it off the day of election and it kind of gets

[00:07:14] to the register of voters.

[00:07:17] And then you have to think about the fact that like sure, there's a lot of the day of

[00:07:21] who are counting ballots like election day.

[00:07:23] There's a lot of people counting and people working or volunteering.

[00:07:28] After that, I mean, as time goes on, you're going to get less and less voting.

[00:07:31] And the volunteers, the staff kind of slowly goes down.

[00:07:34] So it's not I mean, it's not perfect.

[00:07:37] I'm not going to say it's perfect why it takes so long.

[00:07:41] Mail and ballots definitely slows everything down.

[00:07:43] Any thoughts?

[00:07:44] No, I mean with you on that, we can agree or disagree but those are the facts because

[00:07:53] there are all the reasons why it does take time.

[00:07:57] And how long is a huge state?

[00:07:58] I mean, we're very populated state.

[00:08:00] And so yeah, there are a lot of states that are like right on it and good for them.

[00:08:05] But we have all our own rules and regulations and we are many people.

[00:08:11] Fun fact, not this will be the last time I talk about my Europe trip.

[00:08:17] Scotland only has about five million people which to me is crazy because San Diego County

[00:08:22] has about 4.4 million people.

[00:08:25] When I told our tour guide, it's a stillery.

[00:08:27] I was like, our county has about 5 million people.

[00:08:29] She was like, are you serious?

[00:08:31] Our whole country is 5.5 million people.

[00:08:34] But to go to your point that it's a large state.

[00:08:36] There's a lot of people although 7.7 million ballots cast seems like low when there's what

[00:08:43] 48 million people in California.

[00:08:46] It's a primary.

[00:08:47] It's not abnormal to have low voter turnout.

[00:08:51] A lot of people don't even really care.

[00:08:52] A lot of people don't even know.

[00:08:55] I don't think a lot of people are educated on what the point of a primary is.

[00:08:59] So then when we get to the general, they're like, oh god why do we only get a choice between

[00:09:04] two Democrats?

[00:09:05] Who are these horrible people?

[00:09:07] Why do we never get good choices?

[00:09:08] It's like well if you were paying attention back in March, you might have had to say and

[00:09:12] you could have helped but by the general in November it's a little too late for that

[00:09:17] which we'll get to prop one in a little bit and why I think they put it on the primary

[00:09:25] rather than the general.

[00:09:27] So let's start at one of the biggest races with national implications, the Senate race

[00:09:38] which was we did the Senate debate.

[00:09:42] We did a whole episode on it about how unimpressive they are and shocker to no one.

[00:09:47] Two unimpressive people made it to the top two vote getters.

[00:09:53] Adam Schiff versus Steve Garvey.

[00:09:57] Now it's no surprise.

[00:09:59] Adam Schiff had a lot of money behind him.

[00:10:03] He played the whole, I'm going to boost Steve Garvey's profile to let people know there's

[00:10:07] a Republican running, attach him to Trump, get people who are Trump voters to back behind

[00:10:13] Steve Garvey and guess what?

[00:10:15] Now it's Schiff versus Garvey so congratulations Senator Schiff.

[00:10:19] In the jungle primary here in California that's sort of a game that is played fair or not

[00:10:27] that's how politicians play it.

[00:10:29] They'll actually boost their opponent so that they know well I'm in a blue state, I'm

[00:10:36] running to be Senator.

[00:10:37] If I can get a Republican on the ballot, it's me as a Democrat, I might as well start measuring

[00:10:42] the window draping in my office because I'm going to be the next Senator.

[00:10:47] Were you surprised by the outcome of Schiff?

[00:10:50] I almost called him Schiff.

[00:10:52] Schiff versus Garvey.

[00:10:54] I actually was a little bit surprised not Schiff.

[00:10:57] I expect Schiff to win the general but Garvey didn't even with all the money that

[00:11:04] Schiff was spending on propping him up as you know the Trump supporter.

[00:11:09] I was surprised Garvey made it this far, well I shouldn't say this far but Schiff got

[00:11:16] 31.6% of the votes.

[00:11:18] Garvey got 31.5% votes.

[00:11:21] I was not expecting it to be so close.

[00:11:24] I thought he'd be quarter and Garvey would be a heck of a lot closer.

[00:11:29] I forget what she got but it was very low.

[00:11:33] It was, hold on I can tell you.

[00:11:35] I think I have it up.

[00:11:41] She only got 15.3% of the vote.

[00:11:44] Okay, that's a long way off.

[00:11:47] She didn't even come close to sniffing on the top two.

[00:11:50] Yeah.

[00:11:51] Eric Early only got 3.3% of the vote.

[00:11:56] I don't like how this is organized that.

[00:11:57] It's not organized by...

[00:11:58] I know I wanted to be, are you looking at the SOS?

[00:12:02] Yeah, I'm looking at the SOS.

[00:12:05] So it's where hell is going to set up.

[00:12:08] You have to go search for people.

[00:12:09] So Barberley got 9.8%.

[00:12:13] So those sickle blind didn't make it that much.

[00:12:20] Yeah and that's a...

[00:12:23] That's definitely I think a big part of what Adam Schiff was playing to do.

[00:12:27] So he had been watching TV in the past couple of weeks leading up to election.

[00:12:31] Definitely saw the Steve Garvey as too conservative for California ad played up a

[00:12:35] trillion times and that's a tactic to get people who are Republicans go wait a second.

[00:12:43] I don't think building a border walls too conservative.

[00:12:46] I'm going to vote for this Steve Garvey fellow and it worked.

[00:12:49] It promoted him.

[00:12:50] It got people to know who he was.

[00:12:51] Right, I don't...

[00:12:52] He said most people don't even pay attention to the primary.

[00:12:57] And so the fact that Garvey did that well in the primary, it's Schiff didn't that.

[00:13:04] Yeah and I'm not going to sit here and pretend like, oh, you know Garvey did so well

[00:13:10] and he was ahead on the election night and all that.

[00:13:14] Like I'm not going to...

[00:13:15] Look, I'm not going to blow smoke up any of our listeners' butts that we've never been

[00:13:18] that way.

[00:13:19] We're going to be honest with you.

[00:13:20] It's going to be Senator Schiff.

[00:13:21] Like Steve Garvey is not going to make a run and win in a blue state.

[00:13:26] I mean, if he does, it'll be the craziest political upset in like entire history because

[00:13:33] the Democrats will come home.

[00:13:36] The other votes which were...

[00:13:38] A few Republicans, they don't add to anything and then of course no party preference and

[00:13:43] Democrat.

[00:13:44] Barbara Lee's and Katie Porter's votes are more than likely going to Schiff and so come

[00:13:50] the general he's going to very likely win with over 50-60%.

[00:13:55] Yeah, it's not really going to even be close.

[00:13:58] So Garvey is not...

[00:14:00] His percentage isn't going to go up because Schiff's will.

[00:14:04] No, I think this is about as...

[00:14:07] Well, it might go up a little bit.

[00:14:09] Well actually percentage wise it probably won't go up that much because even the people

[00:14:14] who are going to vote on the general when it's fighting and Trump are on the ballots,

[00:14:20] I don't think it's going to make that much of a difference.

[00:14:22] There's still a lot of people vote for Garvey, millions of people will end up voting for

[00:14:25] him.

[00:14:26] It ain't any end won't make a difference.

[00:14:28] So congratulations, Senator Schiff.

[00:14:31] He'll be Senator now until the day he dies probably so that should be fun.

[00:14:40] What do you think about Katie Porter spending money on early who didn't even have any really...

[00:14:49] We know his name because he's the perennial candidate.

[00:14:53] Republican, we see him like every election is like, oh what's he running for now?

[00:14:58] But nobody knew who early was and yet Katie Porter was like, oh this is the whole I'm

[00:15:02] going to die on a selection.

[00:15:03] What do you think about that?

[00:15:06] It was a weird choice honestly because she was spending money on trying to get Republican

[00:15:13] candidate who had no backing at all.

[00:15:16] He wasn't like Eric early just throws his hat in the ring on everything.

[00:15:22] He's run for Senate.

[00:15:24] He ran for Attorney General did any he ran for Attorney General?

[00:15:27] He's run for everything.

[00:15:28] I mean he's run for everything.

[00:15:31] He's one of those Republicans who just kind of like makes the rounds.

[00:15:34] I wouldn't be surprised if that Steve Garvey's future is like after he runs for Senate and

[00:15:38] does better than what people expected.

[00:15:40] He might run in a more favorable district like a more favorable congressional district in

[00:15:45] win.

[00:15:46] So who knows?

[00:15:47] I don't think he'll ever go back down to like state legislature that's probably beneath

[00:15:50] him or yeah, I'm not saying beneath them in terms of like the assembly is bad.

[00:15:55] I'm saying he's got that celebrity mindset if he wants to be on the big stage.

[00:16:02] But yeah, I think it was a weird strategy by her.

[00:16:07] I don't know if you saw the news.

[00:16:10] 80 Porter came out and sounded a lot like Donald Trump after she lost.

[00:16:15] She came out after I saw the new person.

[00:16:19] She says that the California Senate primary was rigged.

[00:16:25] And of course everyone pounced on her and said why would you have said rigged because

[00:16:29] that sounds like something that Donald Trump would say about an election.

[00:16:33] And then recently she came out and said obviously, I wish I'd chosen a different word said

[00:16:40] Porter Tuesday on the episode of pod save America at no time and no way would I ever suggest

[00:16:45] that there's anything other than a careful thoughtful amazing election system that she

[00:16:49] actually should be the model for a lot in the country in my opinion.

[00:16:54] So she had to walk it back a little bit and say like, no, no, I'm not saying the election

[00:16:58] system how we have it in California is rigged.

[00:17:01] I'm saying that it's rigged in other ways.

[00:17:04] She wanted to say because of you, we had the establishment running scared with standing

[00:17:09] with three to one in TV spending and an onslaught of billionaires spending millions to

[00:17:13] rig this election.

[00:17:17] Porter's choice of words was quickly compared to that formal present Donald Trump who falsely

[00:17:21] claimed since the 2020 election that the contest was rigged and characterized by widespread

[00:17:25] election fraud.

[00:17:27] So she goes on to say on the podcast, outcomes are manipulated and destroyed when you have

[00:17:31] people coming and spending millions of millions of dollars for the last minute and that money

[00:17:35] is not disclosed until after the election.

[00:17:39] That turn.

[00:17:40] Go ahead and stand that comment.

[00:17:41] How does that if it's not exposed until after the election, what does that have to do with

[00:17:44] the outcome?

[00:17:45] How does that make it rigged?

[00:17:47] I didn't see the correlation between the two.

[00:17:50] Well, I think because you can't use it as fodder like as an argument against your opponent

[00:17:57] like if some if there's some shady super pack who is helping one candidate and then we

[00:18:03] don't know until after the election she can't say, oh well, this shady super pack is doing

[00:18:08] something shady so you guys shouldn't vote for him.

[00:18:11] But regardless, I don't know.

[00:18:13] People were supporting her too, like super packs were supporting her, packs were supporting

[00:18:17] her.

[00:18:18] She had a lot of money.

[00:18:19] Like lots of money was rolling into Katie, but she had millions from her congressional,

[00:18:23] millions from raising.

[00:18:24] It's not like she had a lack of money.

[00:18:28] It's not like she was some grassroots politician who just came out nowhere.

[00:18:32] She's pretty well known if all be it just for the fact that she has a whiteboard.

[00:18:38] But I mean, I think she just it sounds like it sounds like she's better because she lost

[00:18:46] and she was outspent by Adam Schiff.

[00:18:49] And like the I'm sure she wouldn't be whining if the powers that be lined up behind her,

[00:18:55] if all that money lined up behind her, I think she probably wouldn't come out and say it

[00:18:58] was rigged.

[00:18:59] I think she's just mad at yeah, even if she came in second for the top two, maybe she

[00:19:06] wouldn't be whining.

[00:19:09] But she goes on and say outcomes are manipulative into story when you have people coming in, spending

[00:19:13] millions of dollars.

[00:19:14] Oh sorry, I already read that part.

[00:19:17] That term rigged though is a very loaded term in the era of Trump.

[00:19:22] Oh, this was Adam Schiff.

[00:19:25] He's responding.

[00:19:26] So the term rigged though is a very loaded term in the era of Trump.

[00:19:29] It connotes fraud or ballot stuff and false claims like those of Donald Trump shift said.

[00:19:34] And I think that what's remarkable is Democrats very quickly rally to say no, we don't use

[00:19:39] that language.

[00:19:40] The election was legitimate and this is a sharp contrast to how the Republican Party treats

[00:19:44] allegation of rigged elections which they've gone along with.

[00:19:49] So um, so our loser, I don't know.

[00:19:53] What do you think?

[00:19:54] I think it was sort of loser comment.

[00:19:58] It just kind of lead me to question and I'm curious on your opinion on this.

[00:20:03] So she was Congress for a couple terms and she had a close race last time with a scottball

[00:20:12] of the Republican, but she had way more money than he did millions, millions more.

[00:20:18] And I forget the exact figures.

[00:20:20] I don't have them in front of me, but she definitely had a much larger war trust than

[00:20:25] scottball and then he came pretty close to her.

[00:20:29] I didn't hear anyone saying that's only because of her money that she won that race.

[00:20:34] And so, you know, she won by people supported her, people chose to vote for her over scottball.

[00:20:43] Now she has stepped out, she's not running for that congressional seat again and scottball

[00:20:48] is the clear front runner.

[00:20:49] And I'm wondering do you think she committed political suicide?

[00:20:52] Do you think her career is done?

[00:20:56] Possibly.

[00:20:57] I always wonder the risk that politicians take when they run for something and they lose

[00:21:04] and then they kind of have to fall back on another race, and then how do they do her?

[00:21:08] She doesn't have that.

[00:21:08] It's fonderous.

[00:21:09] She couldn't do it out.

[00:21:11] Yes, she can keep going.

[00:21:13] Did she spend too much on the side campaign and now she's got to try and defend her seat?

[00:21:20] We'll see.

[00:21:21] She could probably raise the money, though I think again, but it does put her at a disadvantage

[00:21:26] going forward.

[00:21:28] Right?

[00:21:29] Yeah, I mean, where does she go from here?

[00:21:34] You like you said she could go back to Congress, you know, 2026.

[00:21:38] Yeah, yeah.

[00:21:39] But then people also might be like, hey, you left us.

[00:21:43] You wanted better things.

[00:21:45] You weren't here for us.

[00:21:47] Yeah, maybe.

[00:21:49] And maybe if the way things, you know, it's in competency is a big deal.

[00:21:55] And being in incumbent helps a lot.

[00:21:57] So once somebody's in there, it's Congress.

[00:22:01] You can flip a lot of seats.

[00:22:02] Congress, you're always flipping seats back and forth, but in competency helps a lot.

[00:22:06] So losing that seat to a Republican changes the landscape of that district.

[00:22:12] So now maybe it's not such a favorable district for her to run in.

[00:22:18] So we'll see where she goes from here.

[00:22:20] I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if we see her as a political analyst on MSNBC or CNN for

[00:22:28] the next couple of years until she's there.

[00:22:29] You're listening?

[00:22:30] You think we want to listen to her?

[00:22:31] Oh, they love.

[00:22:32] They've had her on the news with that whiteboard all the time.

[00:22:35] So I'm sure they'll be like you and your whiteboard come onto MSNBC and talk about.

[00:22:40] I'm going to take over the whiteboard thing.

[00:22:44] It's going to be your thing now.

[00:22:45] I want to get one.

[00:22:47] Well, Carl Rove also does the whiteboard thing, which I don't really understand, but that's

[00:22:52] like their gimmick is the whiteboard thing.

[00:22:55] I guess they want to show people like, hey, here's the breakdown of these things and

[00:22:59] I want to do post notes.

[00:23:01] That's my thing.

[00:23:02] You'll do post it.

[00:23:05] I think we should do it like coloring books and like crayons to make it even simpler because

[00:23:10] it feels like that's how they're talking to people.

[00:23:12] It's like, well, you people are too stupid to understand.

[00:23:14] So I'm going to write it like this for like a child.

[00:23:18] So maybe we should just break out like the crayons and just be like this is how.

[00:23:21] Yeah, I have things to call things.

[00:23:22] We'll just be like, let me show you pictures.

[00:23:25] Yeah.

[00:23:26] There will be terrible pictures but it'll be okay.

[00:23:29] Okay, so imagine this cat lives on your land.

[00:23:34] How do you treat him?

[00:23:36] This cat wants to pass a law in Sacramento.

[00:23:39] What does he do?

[00:23:41] He takes money and gives it to politicians and lobbies.

[00:23:45] Anyway, okay.

[00:23:47] So shift versus Garvey in November.

[00:23:53] Do you want to move on to a mayoral race?

[00:23:57] Sure.

[00:23:58] Okay.

[00:24:01] This is a race that obviously I had personal interest in.

[00:24:04] It was here in San Diego.

[00:24:06] It was Todd Gloria who is not popular at all, I think when I last look at his policies

[00:24:12] like 30% approval rating but somehow some way he got 49% of the vote in this primary.

[00:24:21] What is the population of San Diego City?

[00:24:25] I think it's two million.

[00:24:26] So San Diego City is weird because it goes like there's the city, there's La Jolla.

[00:24:35] It also goes down to Otay Mesa and San Yacidro and like Chula Vista is like this weird thing

[00:24:40] like right in the middle so it kind of spreads out and it goes up to Mesa.

[00:24:45] So yeah, like Adona or Arches, it's weird how San Diego City is spread out everywhere.

[00:24:54] So yeah, it spreads a lot of area San Diego.

[00:24:55] I think it's like maybe it's 1.5 or 2 million if anyone in the chat wants to say like

[00:25:01] what fact check me on it live.

[00:25:03] I think it's around that amount but so I was definitely interested in this because

[00:25:10] there are a couple reasons.

[00:25:12] I'll start with my own personal reasons.

[00:25:15] Todd Gloria has not been great for the city of San Diego.

[00:25:19] I'll tell you a story.

[00:25:21] When Kevin Faulkner was in office, we have this app.

[00:25:24] It's called the Get It Done app.

[00:25:27] You go into the Get It Done app.

[00:25:29] You can take a picture of something in the city and go hey there's graffiti here.

[00:25:34] Can you fix it?

[00:25:35] They'll be like great.

[00:25:36] Send out city workers they'll fix it.

[00:25:37] Let you know, tick a picture of it.

[00:25:39] I've used it a couple times.

[00:25:41] I'll be like hey there's trash on the side of the road.

[00:25:44] A day or two later somebody comes by and picks up the trash as hey all good picked up

[00:25:49] the trash.

[00:25:51] Ever since Todd Gloria has taken over, as is just anecdotal this is my own story, nothing

[00:25:57] really gets done.

[00:25:59] You can look at the Get It Done app there's about 1000 requests that have not been completed

[00:26:04] by the city.

[00:26:06] We have a trash can that's outside of where we live right now.

[00:26:12] For some reason it's full of garbage.

[00:26:15] No one's come to pick it up.

[00:26:17] People in our neighborhood decide we're going to keep throwing more garbage on top of it

[00:26:22] because it's a garbage can.

[00:26:25] Even though it's literally falling all over like there's garbage bags on top of fast

[00:26:31] food and chick filets, piling up.

[00:26:33] It's like a jenga game.

[00:26:35] So I finally took a picture of it put it in the Get It Done app.

[00:26:37] I said hey there's this garbage.

[00:26:39] It's starting to get flies.

[00:26:41] It's gross.

[00:26:42] It's starting to smell.

[00:26:43] Can you please come and get it?

[00:26:44] The message I got back from this Get It Done app was we're sorry to inform you that

[00:26:51] this is not something that the city handles.

[00:26:53] Therefore it's been sent out to the company that does handle it.

[00:26:58] That was the end of the message.

[00:26:59] The city just shrugged its shoulders and went, sorry we don't handle this stuff.

[00:27:03] Sorry that there's garbage all over the streets.

[00:27:05] That's anecdotal.

[00:27:07] I think the city has gotten worse.

[00:27:09] I think it's gotten dirtier.

[00:27:11] I don't think the streets have been fixed.

[00:27:14] He's been horrible with that said, with that said there was a lady running in this race by

[00:27:23] the name of Genevieve L. Jones right.

[00:27:28] A little history about Genevieve L. Jones right she ran for public defender four years

[00:27:35] ago.

[00:27:36] I feel like was it four years ago or no, I'm sorry she was running for

[00:27:40] district attorney she was a public defender.

[00:27:43] She was running for district attorney.

[00:27:45] Again summer Stephens, thank God summer Stephens won.

[00:27:49] Genevieve L. Jones right is a Soros backed candidate and I know that sounds conspiratorial.

[00:27:58] She is absolutely backed by Soros you can look at it.

[00:28:00] She's got plenty of money backed by Soros and is not profit.

[00:28:04] She is soft on crime.

[00:28:06] She's all about social justice.

[00:28:07] She's all about the AI.

[00:28:08] She's all about that stuff.

[00:28:10] So we had this horrible horrible situation where it was Todd Gloria whose ineffective

[00:28:17] and does nothing versus a George Soros plant.

[00:28:22] And you're sitting here in San Diego going what the heck do I do?

[00:28:28] Well I'll tell you thankfully the results were, I say this kind of tongue and cheek.

[00:28:33] Thankfully Todd Gloria made it to the top spot with 49.99%.

[00:28:39] And the second guy is a guy by the name of Larry Turner.

[00:28:43] He made it with 23% of the vote as an independent.

[00:28:48] Genevieve L. Jones right did not come close.

[00:28:50] There was like 15.9%.

[00:28:52] So she wasn't even close to the top two.

[00:28:55] She didn't even scratch sniff the top two.

[00:28:59] So at least I'm like, you at least the Soros plant isn't going to make it in yet Todd Gloria

[00:29:04] is horrible but he's not Soros.

[00:29:10] But now we have a choice between Todd Gloria and Larry Turner.

[00:29:14] We had done research about Larry Turner and we didn't, you know they approached us

[00:29:21] about having Larry Turner on and Camille being the incredible research that she is.

[00:29:27] And this is just fair warning to anybody who requests to be on the show.

[00:29:31] You will be looked into, you will be researched.

[00:29:33] We're going to look into Camille found immediately what?

[00:29:40] So I have to be careful what I say because it was already a lawsuit that was dismissed.

[00:29:47] Right allegedly Larry Turner did not or does not live in the city of San Diego.

[00:29:55] I know this to be fact.

[00:29:58] And how do you know this to be fact?

[00:30:01] So we, this was what last September, October when we.

[00:30:06] Several months ago.

[00:30:08] And we, we were quiet about it because we want to, I guess we just really think there was a point.

[00:30:15] But what happened was I don't even know why okay can I say like how much can I say?

[00:30:24] You say whatever you want.

[00:30:26] So his campaign manager had approached us and for some reason I looked into his campaign manager.

[00:30:33] And I didn't have any reason to, but when I, when I'm like researching a candidate, I really want a full picture.

[00:30:40] And it's nothing nefarious.

[00:30:43] It's just like I try to just get a whole picture of who are they?

[00:30:46] Where do they live?

[00:30:47] They're, you know, their family.

[00:30:48] Who is working with them?

[00:30:50] What's going on here?

[00:30:51] So I looked into his campaign manager.

[00:30:53] Nothing, nothing that I don't have like anything.

[00:30:55] She did say about his campaign manager.

[00:30:57] But I, I don't stop people.

[00:31:01] But I do tend to find their addresses easily without like giving much effort.

[00:31:06] And it's just sort of like okay, this is where they lived if we deal with anyway.

[00:31:10] I think I happen to find the campaign manager's address his personal residence.

[00:31:15] Okay, and I won't put that out there.

[00:31:17] But then through trying to find out more about Larry Turner, I found out that he was using his campaign managers address that the residents.

[00:31:26] That is campaign manager owned.

[00:31:29] And we knew that they had met and then learned that they were interested in politics.

[00:31:34] And I thought, oh, well, maybe he's his landlord.

[00:31:36] You know, nothing wrong there.

[00:31:38] Like maybe that's how they met.

[00:31:39] He's a slandler.

[00:31:40] They got shocking politics, whatever.

[00:31:42] Cool.

[00:31:43] But as, as I went on and on through my research, I discovered that wasn't the case.

[00:31:48] And what I did was I looked at FEC filings.

[00:31:52] And Larry Turner had donated to a campaign.

[00:31:55] I forget who's campaign, but he had an alcohol and address.

[00:31:59] And this was in June of 2023.

[00:32:02] And I have access to all California voters voting data.

[00:32:06] I mean, I can't tell you who they voted for, but I know that they're another party there.

[00:32:10] And when they change.

[00:32:12] If they make any sort of change if they update their address or their party preference or whatever any change.

[00:32:19] It's noted on there.

[00:32:20] So I have access to see all this.

[00:32:22] Well, the last change that he Larry Turner made on his voter registration was then in July, like just a couple weeks after this donation.

[00:32:32] And I went through a whole lot of paperwork and property taxes and whatnot to find his alcohol and address, which is this like beautiful single family home.

[00:32:44] And alcohol is I think I want to say 15 plus miles inland of San Diego city.

[00:32:52] So and he went through great lengths to basically transfer his property records out of his name and into some random name so that it couldn't be found.

[00:32:59] And then you know, we registered using his managers.

[00:33:04] Address but his wife isn't registered there.

[00:33:06] It was just it was kind of messy.

[00:33:08] And we told them like look, we found this.

[00:33:10] Can you can you please comment on this and then they were like, Oh, well, wouldn't this be great current diversity for the show or like no, that's not more about.

[00:33:18] And so we were just like, we're going to do that. Well, then someone else found out and then raised a lawsuit, which was then dismissed.

[00:33:25] And he probably did find some address to move into but it just questions why do you start of your campaign lying?

[00:33:32] And why are you running for, you know, I get that he works in the city of San Diego.

[00:33:37] But why are you running for the mayor of a city? You don't even live it.

[00:33:40] Meanwhile, the alcohol mayor is actually running for Congress right now.

[00:33:44] And so I felt like you could just wait and run for that mayoral position depending on what happens with your current mayor.

[00:33:51] Right.

[00:33:52] So yeah, it was something we hadn't really spoken about it publicly but I figured now that it's going to be.

[00:33:59] Gloria versus Turner, I think we kind of kept quiet because I was like, I don't even know if this guy's going to like make it to the top two.

[00:34:06] So it might not even be worth it.

[00:34:09] But he's made it to the top two and so I figured it's worth us talking about it.

[00:34:14] We have received, you know, date and time.

[00:34:16] So text message.

[00:34:17] Yeah, we were everything we just said.

[00:34:20] You know, if you know anything about us, we always come with the receipts.

[00:34:22] We always do our research.

[00:34:24] Yeah, I we were not, we were kind of putting this weird position where we were like, they were like, oh well why don't you have us on and we'll talk about it.

[00:34:34] And then I was like, okay, but we're not a gotchas show.

[00:34:39] And we always pride ourselves in the fact that like we have guests on because we honestly want them to come on and talk about like what they're doing, what they want to accomplish.

[00:34:49] We want to give people guest politicians stuff like that.

[00:34:52] We want to give them that space where they can talk for an hour and like really get to like to the detail they can get past the two minute news segment.

[00:35:03] And a lot of our guests love that.

[00:35:05] That's why they come on the show.

[00:35:06] They they've loved the fact that they can be like, I'm going to talk about five subjects at length.

[00:35:12] And so our whole thing is we're not a gotcha like we don't bring people on so we can do gotchas and be like, hey we gotcha we're going to embarrass you for a viral clip.

[00:35:21] So we were in this weird position of like, we're not going to bring somebody on to do a gotcha because that's not our show.

[00:35:31] And then but we're also not going to bring somebody on and then if stuff comes out, people will be like why did you platform this guy?

[00:35:39] If he's not being completely honest.

[00:35:42] No, and not knowing that that's what's going on behind the scenes. So that's why we were like, nah sorry it's not going to work out for you.

[00:35:51] And we had talked about and we went back for like, should we have on should we not?

[00:35:54] And I was like, now we're not going to have this guy on.

[00:35:56] And I have the same concerns as well. Like why is a guy who's up until recently he supposedly lives in Ocean Beach now.

[00:36:05] Why is a guy running for San Diego city mayor when he lived in Alcahon for a long time?

[00:36:11] And why doesn't he just run for Alcahon?

[00:36:13] And I respect that he's worked as a police officer in San Diego.

[00:36:19] But there's a big difference. I feel like between working as a police officer in San Diego and living day to day in San Diego.

[00:36:27] Like do you see the little issues that I see?

[00:36:31] Do you notice the garbage can sitting out on the street for four weeks?

[00:36:36] Like that stuff that like I don't know, like do you are you really in like embedded into the city to understand what's going on?

[00:36:43] So with that said, we don't have any plans on having Larry Turner on or Todd Gloria for that matter.

[00:36:50] So this is the best case scenario for me personally in this race because I'm like cool.

[00:36:58] Now that Genevieve L Jones writes, she was the one I was really scared of taking over the city.

[00:37:03] I'd be like this we'd become LA overnight if she won his mayor.

[00:37:08] I mean even worse in San Francisco, I think she's even farther left than London breed who London breed is actually moved towards the middle and we're going to talk about that.

[00:37:17] So as soon as she lost and there's Larry Turner versus Todd Gloria, I was like okay, great. I don't have to worry about it anymore.

[00:37:23] This unknown guy that we came in from AlkaHon or Todd Gloria who's completely incompetent.

[00:37:30] I don't know, I'll take someone who's incompetent doesn't get anything done over an activist who ruins our city.

[00:37:35] So any final thoughts on San Diego City mayor?

[00:37:39] Yeah.

[00:37:40] No, I think I'm glad I'm not in your position then.

[00:37:44] I don't have to choose between those two.

[00:37:47] Yeah, it's and I had feared this too.

[00:37:50] Like I had feared that we were in a weird position of like, and this is California politics.

[00:37:57] This is what stinks about California politics.

[00:37:59] It's like if it was Genevieve L Jones right versus Todd Gloria, do you hold your nose and vote for Todd Gloria?

[00:38:07] Because you're like the other option is just so bad.

[00:38:11] Like, yeah, it's so thankfully it's I don't really care who wins now.

[00:38:19] It is what it is.

[00:38:21] So I wish Kevin Faulkner was running again.

[00:38:23] I think he would easily want to become mayor and things.

[00:38:26] I don't think we were planning on talking about his race.

[00:38:29] Is well there's not really much to talk about because no one faced off against them.

[00:38:35] So he's running as far as I know no one ran against him.

[00:38:41] I thought he was like, I thought he was running for Tara loss or whatever her name is sorry.

[00:38:47] Right.

[00:38:48] Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm saying.

[00:38:50] So yeah, tell us a little bit of the sense you're going to the general.

[00:38:55] Yeah, there was no one running against him in the primary.

[00:38:58] They cleared the path for him in that race.

[00:39:01] And is that your district?

[00:39:05] I should know this.

[00:39:07] Yes, it is my district.

[00:39:08] Yes, it is my district because they switched all districts.

[00:39:11] It was Nathan Fletcher was prior my supervisor.

[00:39:15] So now it's not now.

[00:39:17] I'm just getting represented by a whole bunch of winners right now.

[00:39:23] So yeah, Tara loss of Rima who appears in dating profiles with her kid.

[00:39:30] That's fun.

[00:39:32] It's a whole different story anyway, but let's talk about some good news.

[00:39:37] There was good news in the race in the election.

[00:39:41] I don't want to make it sound like it's all bad news.

[00:39:44] Usually when people hear about California election results are like it's all bad news.

[00:39:48] The biggest news that I had tweeted about that got some major traction was what happened in San Francisco.

[00:39:57] If you're not aware of what happened in San Francisco, there were two city propositions.

[00:40:01] So not state propositions were put on the ballot and they won overwhelmingly with like 60% of the vote.

[00:40:07] So it wasn't even close.

[00:40:08] It wasn't like 51% it's squeaked by it was overwhelmingly in favor of these two propositions to the point where like the San Francisco Chronicle the next day came out with a headline like San Francisco is no longer a progressive city.

[00:40:24] Like that's they were like.

[00:40:26] These were good ones. Yeah, and they were.

[00:40:29] I'm not clear of what happened.

[00:40:31] So there are two propositions city propositions.

[00:40:34] Prop E and prop F and mayor breed was in support of both of them.

[00:40:38] And that's why I said mayor breed who is facing reelection.

[00:40:41] You know she's kind of she's in a hot seat right now like she's not guaranteed to win again.

[00:40:47] She's moved back towards the middle.

[00:40:50] Okay.

[00:40:51] Now towards the right I would say she's more moderate now.

[00:40:53] And there's these two propositions prop E which allows for the use of body camera footage to satisfy reporting requirements and allows the installation of surveillance and facial recognition cameras without approval from the police commission or board of supervisors.

[00:41:07] So that basically gives the police more power to fight crime and like recognize criminals and what's going on.

[00:41:14] And the bigger one I think that a lot of people were kind of like wow, this actually passed in San Francisco was prop F which would require drug screening for certain beneficiaries of county assistance.

[00:41:27] So if you were to tell someone that drug screening of those receiving welfare would pass in San Francisco.

[00:41:35] I think they probably would have said help has frozen over because that's like that's been like a Republican thing for so long.

[00:41:43] The idea of welfare on welfare you should be gain drug tested because you shouldn't be on drugs and getting welfare like the ideas were trying to help you.

[00:41:51] And if you're squandering on drugs then then what's the point we're just throwing money down the toilet.

[00:41:56] Like that's been like a site since I was a kid maybe even before.

[00:42:01] Yeah, it's been a fight for a long time in a lot of places and here we are San Francisco.

[00:42:10] The bastion of Republican ideals had passed this proposition which now makes it a requirement that you have to certain beneficiaries have to go through this.

[00:42:21] That's big news. I think I think the biggest thing if you're reading between the tea leaves with this is that San Francisco has gotten so bad.

[00:42:30] That this is what's the result people are lashing out and there is a backlash against how bad San Francisco has gotten.

[00:42:37] And the fact that wasn't close it was 60 40 for both of them I think that just shows you like people are fed up in San Francisco they're looking for more common sense they're done with like the progressive ideals or trying all that stuff they're like we want some sanity we want some safety.

[00:42:54] Look we want to we just want our city back to what it was like every day it feels like every week there's this store is leaving Union Square was Zara's then it was Macy's and Nordstrom's like it's just every week like somebody's leaving Union Square.

[00:43:08] So it's I think people are just fed up with it. I'm actually watching the video right now measure F was 63 to 37% so it's even better than 60 40.

[00:43:19] So that's good news good news in California if in San Francisco you can get these two things past I think there's I've always said there's hope for California but I think that's good news for a lot of people say like wait these things can actually pass and like San Francisco is the one to do it great maybe there is hope for us after all.

[00:43:45] With K4% of the trade.

[00:43:48] No comment from Katie Porter on whether that was rigged or not.

[00:43:51] It'll be funny if it's just Katie Porter every race she doesn't like she just comes out says it was rigged and then like apologize.

[00:43:58] She just she comes out with her white points like this was rigged and then they're like what do you mean rigged and she's like no I don't mean like rigged rigged like I just mean like it's just not fair money.

[00:44:09] Now it's just money like well you sound like Donald Trump no no that's not what I meant I didn't even rigged like Donald Trump rigged I mean like rigged like California money rigged.

[00:44:19] Okay so I thought that was really good news that San Francisco is finally trying to see the light a little bit and see your vote matters.

[00:44:30] It does it absolutely does and we are big believers that stop whining stop saying that your vote doesn't matter because it doesn't California it absolutely matters and look at what happened in San Francisco like things can change momentum can swing.

[00:44:49] They got rid of Chesa bo Dean they've instituted these two propositions I mean you would think like Republicans are like taking over San Francisco but this is just like moderate Democrats are like we're tired of this crap like we want like a normal city back is that okay.

[00:45:04] It's funny watching all the San Francisco papers be like this is the death of like a progressive city it was fun while it lasted it's like really it was fun while it lasted while you're stepping where was the fun.

[00:45:17] Where was the fun. Where was the fun and stepping over poop and homeless people that was that was the fun part okay but anyway I should try and think of what's the next one and then we'll I think we'll end with prop one they'll be a big because we can bang out these other ones.

[00:45:40] His other race that was kind of notable was the recall of Shasta County supervisor I don't know if you've been following that.

[00:45:48] Pablo Rice what's that no.

[00:45:53] Kevin cry.

[00:45:57] So there's a recall of Kevin cry he's they've been calling him one of the far right people who took over Shasta County County supervisor is getting part of supervisors as of today before the podcast there is a difference so yes in favor of recalls 4,527 votes no is 4,573 votes.

[00:46:22] So again if you don't think your vote matters look at those numbers this could literally come down to like less than 100 votes whether this guy keeps his job or not so 50 votes is what what separates them.

[00:46:38] That is very very close which I want to speak all that for a second because I admit that I could get like I vote but I can get politically lazy it as far as like talking to people or trying to do it.

[00:46:51] People or trying to activate people in my own community because right now it's safe if you will but we're always one election away from from not being safe.

[00:47:02] My entire city council is Republican my mayor is Republican my assembly member is Republican my county board is Republican like I'm in it like it's it's a safe district if you will but

[00:47:17] you know if we get lazy we get comfortable with that and just be like oh you know everyone else will do the work everyone also keep voting everyone also keep it red or at least moderate you know then no that's where that's where going to lose it and so don't get comfortable.

[00:47:34] Conversely live in a really safe district don't count.

[00:47:38] Don't get comfortable and conversely if you're in a place that seems like it'll never change you might be only one election away from changing momentum.

[00:47:48] Yeah as we just saw San Francisco if you're sick I mean you might be seeing the middle San Francisco going things will never get better the city sucks like it's full of you know Uber progressive socialist.

[00:47:59] Change overnight all of sudden there's going to be a whole bunch of stuff that's going to change and they're there I think it's just the beginning of what they're going to do in San Francisco so yeah conversely if you think it's if you're depressing are like there's no changing it like San Francisco changed and if San Francisco can change.

[00:48:19] Who knows what else can change in California.

[00:48:22] And we always talk about like we don't think Calvin is red but we can make it purple yeah but it's not going to happen overnight we just have to keep consistently chipping away and this is this is proof I don't I don't know if this is turning purple but it's clearly if San Francisco can change there's hope for anybody right.

[00:48:45] Is this something used to talk about coffee in California politics was progress to purple like would you take a California that's a battleground state not a red state but like a battleground state where it's purple and nobody knows which way it's going to go I bet you most people would say I'd take purple over a deep blue state.

[00:49:02] Do you want to hear more about Democrats sounding like Donald Trump in another recall election.

[00:49:09] This is just signature gathering this wasn't actual election.

[00:49:14] D.A. Pamela Price is a legend recall signature fraud.

[00:49:19] She's the Alameda district attorney there's a recall against her they're basically saying we're going to Chesa bo Dean you just like we did to him.

[00:49:29] Her first response was racism she said this has to do with racism and right wingers you know Alameda County the bastion of Donald Trump Maga Republicans.

[00:49:40] Oh we see now she's claiming that there's signature fraud she said quote we have extensive evidence that we've collected from volunteers and citizens in Alameda County who have come

[00:49:51] to us to make these claims and they deserve for our election integrity to be maintained.

[00:49:56] So y'all sometimes people just don't like you sometimes you are not good at your job and you need to be recalled slash fired.

[00:50:09] Yeah she issued a letter to attorney general Bonta and he responding your letter you alleged that signature gatherers for the recall campaign of employed deceptive tactics to acquire photo signatures for the recall.

[00:50:20] Thank you for raising this matter with us it is imperative that our electoral system operates with the utmost integrity and our principles of democracy are protected.

[00:50:29] At this time the allegations recording on lawful signature gathering tactics should be directed to the secretary of state who serves as the state's chief elections officer.

[00:50:39] So as you know I think a attorney you made it to district attorney of Alameda County you should probably know that all election complaints go to the secretary of state not the attorney general so good job d a pamphlet price for not knowing that.

[00:50:58] Anyway let's see what else is left I think that's all of it before we can finish and talking about prop one so prop on which we did a whole episode on prop one unfortunately passed.

[00:51:13] They called it yesterday yesterday afternoon I was hoping that it was still undecided by the time this podcast came out but it had passed sadly properly.

[00:51:27] Sadly prop one narrowly passed very narrowly passed I want to see I didn't do the math on it.

[00:51:38] You do not let's say I can pull it up any it's a secretary of state I feel like we should have had this ready to go last I checked it it shot just under 29,000 votes which first state our size that's.

[00:51:56] That's not that much close couple percentage points so sadly I mean we if you all know what more about what prop one does you can go back and listen to that episode that we did about prop one.

[00:52:09] I will say this even though it won I think it's still a vote of confidence on Gavin Newsom and how he's handling homelessness because this was like his signature thing to the right he had delayed his own state of the speech or.

[00:52:29] I think he's going to now that it won but he delay state.

[00:52:36] We're going to have to watch it it's our job it's our duty to our listeners and their followers we have to watch this so that it's more bearable for them to watch as well.

[00:52:49] I had an article about this I have too many tabs open out let's see did it do it said this is from Cal matters well the ballot measure initially seemed a shoe in public support wavered in recent months in part that's because the state's balloon deficit came into stark focus the legislative analysis office projecting last month that it might be as big 73 billion.

[00:53:15] The balance of the ballot measure had also raised concerns that it could siphon money from the community health mental health organizations possibly causing them to close at a couser a UC San Diego professor of political science he says news some fail to convince voters on just how effective other billion dollar investments and helping unhouse people have been quote to me given the strong message the money behind the message the lack of organized opposition I would have guessed at the beginning of this campaign it was headed for a 60 40 win.

[00:53:44] Nevertheless it did squeak by just and under the justice proof ballot measure counties are now required to invest 30% of money to receive the state's millionaires tax into housing programs.

[00:53:54] I would agree I think if you look at the numbers and we talked about how the polls shifted they shifted big like leading up to the election I think is more people started to learn about prop one.

[00:54:07] I think the polls shifted massively because at first it was like yeah it was like 63% in December and then by it like the end of February it was down like 53% so it had like that's why I guess.

[00:54:21] Because of our podcast we'll take all the credit thank you for watching us because the world is thanks for a bunch people rent thank you to everyone who spread the podcast but now seriously I think more people learned about it like that's why Gavin Newsom had to go on this like barn storming campus.

[00:54:37] I think it's a lot of money to be able to pay around the state to be like no we need to support prop on because it was like a shoe in in December and then all of a sudden two or three weeks before they saw the polls showing that it was it could possibly lose.

[00:54:51] So until about two days ago people were like it could lose like it could actually lose and then when there is.

[00:54:58] I forgot County came in and it dumped like a whole bunch of yes votes like in mathematically there were like there's no way like the no sides going to win in any of the remaining counties so.

[00:55:10] I think in we talked at the beginning of this episode I said there's a reason why they put prop one in the primaries and it is because of low turnout I think it also caught people off guard I think if prop one had been introduced in January.

[00:55:26] And was not voted on until November I think it would have lost by like 10 percentage points honestly because I think it shifted so much as people started to learn about it that the more time it had the more people learned about it.

[00:55:44] I think people would have in droves voted no on this because they're right like why would you give the state 6.4 billion dollars more when you've already spent about 18 to 20 billion dollars since 2018 and there's been no improvements actually gotten worse with homelessness and they're coming back and saying like oh no this time if you give us 6.4 we'll really make sure we fix homelessness.

[00:56:13] Sadly I think the only people who are cheering after yesterday's news were probably nonprofit almost nonprofits and construction unions because those are ones we're going to they are going to make bank for the next decade or so off of this money.

[00:56:32] So sadly prop one did pass will it make any difference I'm going to doubt it I'm going to say doubtful we'll Gavin Newsom spin it to be like you know where we pass this measure where it's going to help homelessness of course I also think it would have been a great black eye to him if this lost and he wants to run for president in 2028 and he couldn't use this to try and fix homelessness.

[00:56:59] Because at this point like they're all in on the let's just hide homeless as much as possible. They got care court they've changed the legal definition of what greatly greatly disabled means which now means substance abuse they've got prop 1 now so they've got enough tools to make homelessness disappear.

[00:57:19] It's not going to do the thing again is it I was waiting for the balloons.

[00:57:25] I'm so tired I would have lost it.

[00:57:27] But yeah, I think it would have been a nice black eye and Gavin Newsom. I still think it is sort of a black eye that people just didn't believe in him that even his charisma couldn't get enough people to support it.

[00:57:38] The thing you would think about the fact that the no there was like what a thousand dollars would a thousand dollars was all they had for like vote no one prop 1 and it got this close.

[00:57:52] Yeah, yeah, it was only a thousand dollars and people on social media and podcasts who are really kind of talking about what prop 1 does.

[00:58:01] And it was us. We're going to take all the credit that it was this close. Why not? Maybe maybe maybe it's better next time.

[00:58:10] Well, sorry. Yeah, if there's a prop will we'll do an episode way earlier. Maybe we shouldn't say take credit for the fact that so close maybe we should take the blame for the fact that it passed.

[00:58:21] We should have informed people earlier.

[00:58:23] Oh yeah, we're humble.

[00:58:25] Yeah, sorry. There's a lot of subjects that cover in California. We just can't cover every single one. We try to do our best.

[00:58:33] But any final thoughts on prop 1 before we close out the episode?

[00:58:39] No, I mean just as a reminder this you know this will raise your taxes eventually because it'll have to be paid back and this does unfortunately take away a little bit of local government control and send it to Sacramento.

[00:58:52] So for those who are familiar with what prop 1 is.

[00:58:55] You can go listen to our episode but that's what it does and that's why we were hugely against it.

[00:59:01] Yeah. So yeah, I try to defend our position on NBC. That was kind of fun when I was on NBC and faced off against James canning.

[00:59:12] You guys all have to go watch that.

[00:59:14] I was called I didn't know it was going to be like that style like he had fired at me. I didn't I was like oh I didn't know we were doing this sort of combative panel but okay.

[00:59:23] I even told him afterward I told James I was like it was fun. We should that was good.

[00:59:28] So anyway, it was fun being on a in the middle of a newsroom in the middle of election cycle so this is where they bring them on permanently and he says goodbye to the show.

[00:59:41] No, I'm just kidding.

[00:59:42] No, I didn't have.

[00:59:44] Nads. I like this much better. I don't want to be behind a desk just repeating like what the teleprompter tells me.

[00:59:51] All right, so those are the election results. Obviously you can go check out a lot of election results.

[00:59:57] Oh my gosh we didn't talk about the one race that were really interested in. Okay.

[01:00:01] Really quickly. Really really quick. How did we forget this race? The 75th district.

[01:00:07] You can put it on the notes and I thought okay he doesn't want to talk about it.

[01:00:11] I don't know why I didn't put it. We have to talk about the 75th district.

[01:00:16] We will just come back. We're both tired, all right?

[01:00:19] Yeah we're still just getting over jet lag and everything.

[01:00:23] So all right real quick 75th district you all know if you follow the show is called to mile called to mile jumped into this race

[01:00:32] and lay Larry Turner his way into this race with a fake address.

[01:00:39] He did Larry Turner his way into it because he rented a room from somebody in that area so we don't believe he actually lives in that that district.

[01:00:49] He doesn't live as has going to go rent a room from somebody.

[01:00:52] Right and we have the receipts, so don't come at us.

[01:00:56] Don't add us. And so he jumped in pretty late Andrew Hayes was already the endorsed Republican candidate like the San Diego kind of GOP, California GOP they all were behind him everybody was behind him even Marie Waldron was behind him.

[01:01:11] She's the one who's termed out so like everybody was behind Andrew Hayes called to mile jumped in my insiders are telling me that like now it's Andrew Hayes versus called mile it was scary there for a minute.

[01:01:24] I was very depressed on election night because it was called to mile jumped out to a huge lead and Kevin Juza who was the Democrat was in second and I was like, oh, this is not my district.

[01:01:38] This is not my district.

[01:01:41] I care generally in politics but yeah, it's the assembly like it matters.

[01:01:47] It does. You know, if you want someone in the assembly doing a good job not wasting it for their own self promotion.

[01:01:55] So night of election I was very depressed that it was going to be him versus Kevin Juza which means again he could start measuring the drapes in his office.

[01:02:06] But all of a sudden a couple days later and this is why elections take a while Andrew Hayes surged into second place he's held on to second place so it looks like it's me Andrew Hayes versus called mile.

[01:02:19] Interesting very, very interesting I was watching the results and I was like, I can't believe this Kevin Juza guys holding on like how many Democrat votes are actually out there for him to get in a very red district.

[01:02:32] And obviously not that much because he's kind of stuck at the same spot since election night.

[01:02:37] So now we have called to my who jumped into the race late you have Andrew Hayes who's been endorsed by everybody insiders have told me that all those endorsements the San Diego GOP, the California GOP, all those endorsements of all the assembly people everybody like Brian Jones everybody I think Brian Jones.

[01:02:54] Sorry Brian Jones didn't do it but I think it's like everybody it's like 100 people all those endorsements are likely going to stick.

[01:03:02] So now you're going to have basically the endorsed candidate Andrew Hayes versus Carl D'Amaya.

[01:03:11] And this should be interesting who's who's going to win because Carl D'Amaya is a notorious he's very good fundraising Andrew Hayes has got to keep up with him a little bit he's got all the endorsements so we'll see what happens.

[01:03:22] I think this is my premonition this is my prediction.

[01:03:27] I think if Carl D'Amaya ends up losing this race, I think he is basically exit stage right in politics in San Diego.

[01:03:38] I think he's worn out his welcome.

[01:03:41] I think if he doesn't win this race, so be one for five in races. He's already off the radio.

[01:03:48] I think people will just tune him out and I think he's lost all his influence so that's why I'm particularly interested in this race because we're all rooting for Carl D'Amaya to go down anyway.

[01:03:59] I don't I can't wait what I got that race.

[01:04:02] Wait what?

[01:04:06] All right, so I think we covered all the races that I want to cover.

[01:04:11] Again, there's a lot you can go check them out yourself. Go to the Secretary of State website.

[01:04:15] You can check out every single race that happened in California even the federal races.

[01:04:19] There's a whole bunch of we didn't even get into like congressional races just because there's so many and again,

[01:04:25] California based podcast. We focused on the local stuff and that's basically it for tonight's episode since we're over by a little bit any final thoughts.

[01:04:36] No, no, you're just like I'm just glad I made it through this.

[01:04:41] Yeah, San Diego. I'm so sorry you had to choose between Tompil Priet and Larry Turner.

[01:04:47] Yeah, I'm so sorry that Carl D'Amaya might be coming assembly member.

[01:04:52] Get out of Bober Andrew Hayes if you live in the 70-foot district. If you have a real address in the set, go run to room.

[01:04:58] Yeah, don't don't engage in any false voting. We don't we that's not good. It's not worth it to vote.

[01:05:05] I'm sorry everyone here is jet lagged and apparently they forgot his podcast nights. There's a lot of noise.

[01:05:11] They're also on European time. They like what?

[01:05:14] But anyway, all right. So we'll be back to our normal schedule Thursday every week at 6 p.m.

[01:05:22] Good to be back and we got this is the home stretch now where primaries are over.

[01:05:27] We got our presidential races set up. All the races are basically decided for California coming up.

[01:05:33] It's going to be a mad dash before you know it will be November and there's going to be a lot to talk about.

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