In this episode of California Underground, Phil and Camille discuss the recent $2 million payout to the CEO of LA County, the unfulfilled promises of Governor Gavin Newsom, and the political comeback attempt of Pamela Price, who was recalled as district attorney. They explore themes of entitlement among politicians, the impact of local elections, and the broader implications for California's political landscape.
Original air date 12.9.25
Chapters
00:00 LA County CEO's Controversial Settlement
17:28 Gavin Newsom's Unfulfilled Promises
29:54 California's Healthcare Challenges
35:58 Funding Priorities and Political Promises
38:09 Gavin Newsom's Book and Its Implications
40:39 The Outsider Narrative and Personal Responsibility
42:38 Political Grifts and Book Deals
49:45 Pamela Price's Political Comeback Attempt
55:33 The State of California Politics and Public Sentiment
01:03:27 The Importance of Local Elections and Community Engagement
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LA County Super, our CEO was paid $2 because she was
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hurt in the fee fees and was upset with a local measure.
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We're going to look back on all the promises that Gavin Newsom,
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or at least some of the promises that Gavin Newsom made during
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2025. Where are they now?
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Has he followed through on them? Spoiler alert, not all of them.
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And we're going to talk about Pamela Price.
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Yes, that's right. The Pamela Price who was
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recalled, she's running for District Attorney again in
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Alameda County. So we're going to get into all
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that on tonight's episode of the California Underground, starting
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right now. What's going on, everybody?
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Thanks for tuning to another episode of the California
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Underground. I'm your host Phil, as always,
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live here on Tuesday night. Just disclaimer, we are trying
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out some new software. So if tonight's show seems a
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little wonkier than normal, apology, hopefully everybody's
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doing well and everyone's out there in the chat.
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We got a lot to talk about new Sims, promises from 2025, which
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we're going to get to. If you haven't already, make
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sure you subscribe, like, share, follow, all that stuff helps
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with the algorithm. And as always, joining me is the
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best of fastest researcher in the West.
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Camille. How are you doing tonight,
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Camille? Good.
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Thank you. How are you?
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I am good. So let's get right into it.
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We'll start with the first story, which I don't think a lot
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of people have really been talking about, but it's an
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actually really interesting story, was the CEO of LA
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Counties of the Supervisors. So like the Board of Supervisors
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have ACEO, San Diego has one, LA County has one, She was paid a
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$2 settlement because she was hurt by a local measure
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and she was upset about it. So should we just go ahead and
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jump into the video and we'll we'll discuss after?
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Sure. Yes.
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All right, let's do that. A $2 settlement approved
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by the LA County Board of Supervisors is raising eyebrows
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tonight. The payout is going to a
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high-ranking county leader. Yeah, it was agreed to over the
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summer, but it's only now being made public.
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CBSLA political reporter Tom Waite joins us to explain why
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taxpayers are footing the bill for it.
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Tom right, so Susie Elliott first reported this story and it
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surrounds Fija Davenport, LA County CEO.
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Right now the position is appointed by county supervisors,
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but in three in years, voters will pick the CEO.
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Davenport says the change is causing her physical and
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emotional mental distress and she wants to be paid out.
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LA County Board of Supervisors meeting July 29th, County CEO
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Fija Davenport delivers a devastating report about the
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county's financial crisis. We.
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Are looking at what I call a tidal wave of profound impacts
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all hitting at the same time. It would be at this same
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meeting, in a closed session, where Davenport would accept a
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$2 personal payout from the county.
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Why, you ask? A county source tells CBSLA it's
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all connected to Measure G, which was approved by voters
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last November. Measure G expands the Board of
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Supervisors and changes the county CEO job Davenport
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currently holds from being appointed to an elected
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position, which means Davenport would have to run a campaign in
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2028 to keep her job. Our source says supervisors
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feared Davenport would sue the county for allowing the change.
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People seem to think that a county job is a Supreme Court
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appointment, a lifelong term. That's not the case.
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Sarah Sadwani is a professor of. I do, I want to pause here for a
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second because it's interesting that she automatically assumes
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that because it's going from appointed to elected that she
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won't keep her job. So I wonder if maybe that's a
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comment on the job she's doing and she doesn't want to run
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because people will be critical of her.
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But I thought that was interesting that she's like, oh,
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I'm, it's now elected. So I I can't, I can't do this
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job anymore. Yeah, that's.
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Interesting as well the. Professor.
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Of no, sorry, I was just saying I, I did think about that.
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I thought she can run the greatest campaign because she
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can say I've been doing this job for what is it like 5 years now.
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Literally she'd be the most qualified.
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Exactly, exactly. And she could just speak to what
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she's done. Professor of politics, and she's
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also on the task force that's in place to implement Measure G.
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This idea that her job was being harmed is not very clear to me,
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you know, and and seems like somewhat of a frivolous claim.
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As Davenport detailed in her presentation the night she
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accepted the $2 payout, the county is facing a barrage
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of financial woes. The devastating January fires.
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Overall, tumultuous economic conditions, Unpredictable
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support from the federal government, and the
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unprecedented $4 billion in payouts to victims of sexual
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abuse crimes stretching back decades that occurred in LA
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County's juvenile facilities. Zeb Yaroslavsky served on the LA
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County Board of Supervisors for two decades.
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That's a new one for me. I didn't even know that story
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that there's $4 billion in settlements that they have to
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pay out to people who were abused in LA juvenile centers.
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You see, I feel like that kind of came up at one point and then
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was just brushed away. Maybe we needed to go into that
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at some point. Not today.
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I mean, we should not. Today.
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But that's that's a story. Yeah.
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I had never even heard of that story.
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I mean, we, you and I follow California news all the time.
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I'd never heard of that story. So must be an older story, but
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it's interesting. Decades.
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This is not a reflection of her performance.
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I've been an advocate for a county, an elected County
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Executive, as long as I was a county supervisor.
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The County of Los Angeles would be the 12th largest state in the
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union if it was its own state. To have it governed by a board
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of five people is is really unseemly and it causes delays.
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Supervisors last year narrowly approved sending Measure G to
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voters in a three to two vote, with supervisors publicly
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disagreeing over it. There is no requirement for the
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elected county wide executive to have the necessary skills or job
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qualifications. To effectively allocate a highly
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complex and regulated municipal budget.
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This idea is uncomfortable to some people and I understand
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that and I trust the voters. Last week, Davenport went on
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medical leave. A county spokesperson says it's
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unrelated to the settlement. That spokesperson says Davenport
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is expected back early next year.
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Susie all. Right, Tom, thank you so much.
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I I'm not going to make sense of a medical condition, but how
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convenient because I'm sure it's paid medical leave.
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Yeah, it it's, but the story is wild because she got well, the
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video doesn't really go into it. So let me pull up this article
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because it goes into a little bit more of like why she's so
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upset about this. Let me pull this up real quick.
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All right, so this is from Las, which is fast becoming like one
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of my favorite publications because they just do such great
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investigative journalism. Like all the homeless stuff that
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we talk about is mostly Las and it's actually this guy, Nick
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Gerter Gerda. Hopefully, maybe we can get him
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on the show 1 day. That'd be cool.
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LA County's $2 CEO payout was over.
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Claimed she was harmed by ballot measure LA County secretive
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$2 payout to its CEO two months ago first revealed by
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Ellius this week was to settle her claims that she was harmed
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by a ballot measure that will change her job to an elected
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position and by the county's messaging.
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Davenport requested this element for what she claimed was, quote,
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reputational harm, embarrassment and physical, emotional and
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mental distress caused by Measure G Emotional and mental
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distress, Embarrassment as well. So it's she's this literally
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when I said like she sued and she got this claim, she got this
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$2 settlement because she got hurt in her fee fees.
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I was not kidding because that's literally what her, her
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statement is, is that she got hurt mentally and there was
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emotional distress. In letters laying out her
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claims, Davenport said that while the measure made the case
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for structural changes, it's text impugned her reputation by
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saying the lack of strong elected executive leadership has
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impacted our ability to address these challenges.
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She also wrote that she deserved compensation from her career as
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the at will CEO being cut short by the shift to elected CEO in
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late 2028, which she said would lessen how much retirement she'd
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earned Measure GI. Had no idea that they just
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guaranteed these people could keep their jobs forever.
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Like, yeah. That is probably the most
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egregious statement of her is you're an AT will CEO, meaning
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like you can be fired at any time, like you, you're not
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guaranteed. This is not a lifetime tenure.
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This is not a lifetime position. How can you say that I was cut
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short of all the money I was going to make as a CEO when you
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could have been let go at any time?
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I mean, that's similar to, it's similar to if you're an employee
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that'd be like if I were let go for my job and I sued them and
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said, well, you should compensate me for all the time
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and money that I think, you know, the money that I'm going
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to lose by not being here because I thought this was going
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to be a career position. They would laugh in my face and
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be like, no, you're at will, meaning we can get rid of you
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whenever we want. That that when I read that, that
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jumped out at me like, you got to be kidding me.
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She thinks that she was going to be here for the rest of her life
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and that she was just going to make all this government money
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and get paid by taxpayers also lessen how much retirement she'd
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earn. So she was back.
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She was banking on the fact that she was going to be a public
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employee for the rest of her life and she was going to get
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some big fat public pension. So Measure G quote, ends my
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career as CEO at least two years earlier than I intend.
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OK, welcome. Welcome to everybody else's
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life. Like this is everybody's life.
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Go ahead. So we pulled her salary, I don't
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know if you were cared to share that or not, but she wasn't
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earning $1 a year. So how did she get even with
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her? Well, I guess she was expecting
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some sort of, like you said, big pension, but even with her
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benefits, which she was earning quite a salary, but she wasn't
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earning a million a year. So she believes this is that she
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was going to hold this job for five years.
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She only gets it three more years and somehow $2 is
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acceptable. OK, carry on.
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Let's see, I lost. Here we go.
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By receiving the payment in one lump sum, Davenport wrote She
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would be quote able to earn interest on the funds to help
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mitigate the lifelong impact of Measure G on my retirement
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allowance. Again, welcome to the real
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world, sweetheart. Like you can be let go from a
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job before you think you're going to retire, before you
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think your career's over. You can be let go from an AT
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will position anytime. This is the real world.
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This is what everybody, most Californians, the large majority
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of Californians deal with is that our fate is not necessarily
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in our hands. When you work for an employer,
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they could get rid of you tomorrow and you could lose out
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on retirement earnings or compensation.
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And that's just how it goes. It's, it's almost, it's so
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entitled for her to sit here and say she was expecting this
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amount of money, she was expecting to retire in two years
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and she expected to get this much retirement and this
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compensation. Like you shouldn't, you just
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shouldn't expect that. That's guaranteed unless you
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have a contract. Unless you have a contract that
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you're supposed to be there a certain amount of years, then
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that's fine. But if you're at will and it's
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year to year, then I don't know what to tell you.
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So they she sued and they settled.
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Is that what happened? Basically, So this is from,
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let's see, I think I did. I yeah, Lindsay Horvath, who was
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one of the county supervisors somewhere and she said, oh,
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right here I was presented with two bad options, settle a claim
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I disagree with or risk a protracted court battle, Horvath
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said an emailed statement to the alias.
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Either choice meant spending precious taxpayer dollars, but
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settling resolved the matter quickly.
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And she goes on to say Measure G was never about anyone
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individual. It's about reforming a broken
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system and returning power to the people.
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So I, I mean, I guess like they were expecting that she was
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going to sue and this would go on for years and they'd fight it
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out. And then they have to pay the,
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you know, the the government attorneys or the county and all
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that. And so they just figured just
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just give her money and make her go away because either way,
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we're going to have to fight this out or yeah.
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So I. Just feel like this is going to
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possibly sent a precedent for like other similar type employee
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situations where the position like restructuring is done and
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perhaps the position is eliminated or goes to an elected
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position sort of thing. And they're going to just start
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in like, well, you know, I thought I was going to be here
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another 1215 years. So I'm going to sue for several
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$1. That's crazy.
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That's weird. It's a crazy entitled story of
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someone who works for the taxpayers and believes she is
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owed that much money. So also welcome to everybody
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live in the chat and watching on YouTube.
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can hear your comments and stuff like that.
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So that's basically that story. It was, it got my blood boiling
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because I was like, no one's really talking about the fact
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that this woman got $2 payout, 1 lump sum because she
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was entitled to what she believed she was entitled to
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taxpayer dollars. And that is just wild to me that
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LA already has enough problems as it is.
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We believe me. We've done like so much content
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on LA this year alone. And funny if looking back, I
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think we said in January of this year, we were like LA is going
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to provide so much content for us.
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And that was just with the wildfires.
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I had no idea I was going to provide like corruption,
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homelessness, all sorts of things.
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LA is a mess. LA County, LA City.
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Yeah, I was going to say both the city and the county.
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It's just. Like you guys are just an
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absolute mess. Like y'all need to get together
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up there in LA. Well, it sounds like they're.
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Trying to. At least they're trying to and
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get. Supervisors wants to restructure
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some things, but they're possibly getting sued over it,
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so. Yeah, I mean, at least the I, I
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think the measure was a good idea.
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Like, it should be an elected position.
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People should be accountable. I think most public officials
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should be accountable to the people.
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I mean, we're paying you with our tax dollars, so why?
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Why not be accountable? Someone checked in from
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Temecula. Oh, what's up?
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Temecula? I always think Temecula, San
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Diego County, San Diego. It's not San Diego County.
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Temecula is Riverside. Riverside.
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It's like the crossover, the crossover between San Diego and
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River. I mean I.
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Think it's kind of close to inland San Diego County, right?
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Is that? Yeah, Escondido up there, I
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don't know. I say anything north of the
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Wall, I'm like lost to me. For those who don't, I say north
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of the wall is like anything north of La Jolla.
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So anything north of that I'm just like, I, I don't know,
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could be Orange County, could be LA, could be, I don't know,
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could be Santa Barbara. I don't know where anything
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above that is. So, so I was like, can you, can
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the citizens of Los Angeles sue for pain and suffering?
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That would be great if you could sue for pain and suffering
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because LA has been through a lot.
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And yeah, I, I don't blame you for for that fact that I, I.
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Actually thought about that. I was like, I want to sue for
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the way some of like 1 billion additional homeless on Prop one
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last year was. I think that was it Prop 36 not
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passing. Like there's emotional distress
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about all these criminals, just not even or you know, it passed,
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but it's not being funded. Sorry.
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I I could think of a few things that I could sue over that have
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affected me negatively that the government has done.
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If that were the case, I'd sue over a lot of things of what the
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government has done, emotional distress and all of that.
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So, Speaking of someone who's caused emotional distress to all
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of us in his seven years as governor.
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Speaking of emotional distress. Speaking of emotional, emotional
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distress, someone else commented this right now, seems like LA is
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melting down. Total corruption.
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I would agree with you. Yeah, there's a whole bunch of
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stuff. We just did a video on how they,
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you can go back and watch it on YouTube.
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It's a pretty good video about how taxpayers paid $27 million
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for a piece of property to Weingart Foundation or LLC and
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Weingart Center LLC. And then the person who owned it
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bought it for 11 and then quickly flipped it for
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27 for the taxpayers. So hell of a deal.
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But Bill Assaili did arrest him. So for people who are wondering
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when are they going to be held accountable, that guy was
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arrested, so good job Bill Assaili.
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Anyway, back to the man who's caused this all a lot of
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emotional distress. Good.
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Gavin Newsom. I was going to wear my my old
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noodle shirt but I couldn't seem to find it anywhere so stuck.
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Here, sorry, very stalking away. Siri's getting in on the Gavin
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Newsom corruption. All right, I'm gonna read some
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of these. So we had to jot down a bunch of
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them. We just, here's the parameters
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of what we did. This was actually Camille's
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idea. We're coming up on the end of
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the year 2025 is going to be in the books next two and a half,
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three weeks. So Camille came up with a great
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idea of, well, let's look at look back at what Gavin Newsom
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has promised and what he has failed to fulfill on his
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promises. And with the help of good
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research, we were able to find a whole bunch of promises.
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We're not going to go through all the promises.
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So it's, this is all reserved to just 2025 or it had a goal of
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2025 and whether or not he met that goal, that's what we're
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going to talk about in my research.
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I do want to share this because I thought this was actually
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really hilarious. So there is a Newsom meter, I
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don't know if you've seen this on PolitiFact.
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There's a Newsom meter and it basically keeps track of all the
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promises that Gavin Newsom's made.
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I, I don't like this because they give him way too much
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leeway and they cut him way too many slack.
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Way too much slack because they say everything is like in the
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works. So here's his scorecard, 58%
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promise in like in the works. And then there's one promise is
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stalled. So like, let's see what is 1
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promise is stalled, appoint state homeless secretary,
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homelessness secretary. So he didn't follow through on
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that. Let's go back.
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There was another one I. Know someone who might be out of
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a job soon? Her name is Fisia Davenport.
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You get a higher Fisia Davenport.
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She was a CEO of LA County. Seems like she's knows her way
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around a corrupt county, so she maybe I'll help.
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But all of these were like in the works.
00:20:31
So PolitiFact gave him like the benefit of the doubt and they're
00:20:34
like, oh, it's in the work. Rapidly expand housing, expand
00:20:38
homeless services, boost affordable housing credit,
00:20:40
create universal healthcare. I mean, is any of this really in
00:20:47
the works? Provide access to universal
00:20:49
preschool. Guarantee free Community
00:20:51
College. Don't forget about those
00:20:53
binders. He's got binders of stuff,
00:20:56
binders of jobs. There's also a Trump O meter.
00:20:59
So I want to look at this real quick.
00:21:01
Basically, see, now look at the difference between the Trump O
00:21:04
meter and Gavin Newsom's. The Newsome Meter is they
00:21:09
obviously went through the 55 promises by Donald Trump were
00:21:13
broken, 23 of compromises, 24 promises kept, 0 promises in the
00:21:18
works. So they don't give Donald Trump
00:21:20
any credit for anything in the works.
00:21:23
Again, this is PolitiFact, so take it with a grain of salt
00:21:27
because it's already very skewed in one way, but this is
00:21:31
PolitiFact. So all right, let me pull up.
00:21:36
OK, so here's the notes. I'm going to read off some of
00:21:39
them. We can talk about each one as we
00:21:41
go on. And if you're in the comments,
00:21:44
throw out some other ones that we may have forgotten and we'll
00:21:48
discuss. All right.
00:21:49
First one, end family homelessness within five years
00:21:54
via Housing First expansion. That this was a 2021 plan.
00:21:59
If 25 updates promised aggressive progress with $12
00:22:03
billion invested, do you think he fulfilled that promise?
00:22:12
No. OK, I'm I'm asking you, but you
00:22:14
already have the CHEAT SHEET. So, but this is for the dramatic
00:22:17
family. Family homelessness surged 22%
00:22:21
and 24 to 25 homeless students up 9%.
00:22:25
That is probably the scariest and saddest thing I've seen is
00:22:27
homeless students. There are students in California
00:22:31
who are homeless. They can't afford anything.
00:22:33
They can't afford any sort of housing, which to me is just
00:22:37
absolutely wild that we have homeless students who are going
00:22:40
to our colleges and they can't find housing.
00:22:43
The overall unsheltered rate rose 47% since 2017 despite $27
00:22:48
billion spent. Critics blame over reliance on
00:22:52
temporary shelters in one-size-fits-all policies with
00:22:55
no measurable decline. All right, so that seems like a
00:23:00
big old fat failure in my book. Any thoughts on that?
00:23:07
Yeah, that 1 is really sad. And then we all know that $24
00:23:11
billion is unaccounted for. So that makes it even harder to
00:23:15
kind of like to really track what did they try, what did they
00:23:18
do? I I understand that that's a
00:23:21
huge issue. I mean, it's, it's a huge issue
00:23:23
to tackle. It's important to tackle.
00:23:25
And I I do understand that it's, you know, different counties and
00:23:28
different cities are going to have different needs.
00:23:30
And so, yes, one-size-fits-all is probably not going to work,
00:23:33
but it I do expect that would be something with a lot of trial
00:23:37
and error. But like we've talked about,
00:23:40
like I just mentioned, we don't know where the money went.
00:23:43
Therefore, it's hard to say, OK, well, we tried this and it
00:23:46
didn't work or we tried this and it did work.
00:23:49
So this, you know, this is what we need to do.
00:23:51
This is what we need to avoid. We have no idea.
00:23:54
And and that's a huge, tragic issue.
00:23:58
Yeah, So obviously nothing's gotten better.
00:24:03
We voted in Prop One. That was last year was Prop One.
00:24:08
We $6 billion more bond. Still nothing happening on the
00:24:12
homeless front, although people in LA seem to be making a ton of
00:24:15
money if you know the right people.
00:24:18
All right, next one, provide state subsidies to offset
00:24:23
federal EV tax credit loss. If you remember, President Trump
00:24:29
vowed and he did, so they cut the EV tax credit.
00:24:33
There's a whole issue between him and Elon over that.
00:24:36
People say that's why they had a falling out.
00:24:38
I think it's more because of the doge stuff, but that's neither
00:24:41
here nor there. That's not the point of
00:24:42
tonight's episode. So late 2024, early 25 is when
00:24:47
he made that announcement. By September 2025, he admitted
00:24:52
no state level rebates possible due to the budget crisis,
00:24:55
shifted focus to chargers instead.
00:24:58
EV mandates continue amid high cost and grid unreliability.
00:25:03
And also they backed off the trucks to be electric.
00:25:07
The what is it they want cars to be?
00:25:09
Everyone has to be an electric by 2035, so they backed off on
00:25:14
all of these promises so. That originally 2030 and then
00:25:17
they. Had 20-30, you're right, 20-30,
00:25:19
well. No, I mean, I think they maybe
00:25:21
I'm wrong. And if anyone of the comments
00:25:23
knows, I thought that the initial goal was 2030 and then
00:25:26
it was like that's not happening.
00:25:27
So they pushed it back to 2035 now.
00:25:29
And I believe there was maybe some pressure from Trump, but
00:25:32
now it's like not a thing which good, because the government
00:25:36
shouldn't be mandating these things.
00:25:39
I also thought it was funny that he set that goal date for how
00:25:43
many years after he was governor?
00:25:45
So he set the goal date not when he was governor.
00:25:48
He said it so he in his mind be two years into being president
00:25:53
of United States. So if he was that ambitious
00:25:56
about it, you know, Mr. Ambitious and go Getter, then he
00:26:02
would have said it for possibly during his terms.
00:26:06
I mean, even assuming that he got a second term, he didn't
00:26:08
even assume that he's going to get a second term.
00:26:10
So, all right, expand medical to all undocumented residents
00:26:16
without barriers. This was part of his 2018
00:26:20
campaign. So this is going back what
00:26:23
happened in 2025. Push for universal access
00:26:28
regardless of status. Do you think he followed through
00:26:32
on that promise? Yes.
00:26:37
Yeah, it's like 1/2, yes. Yeah, I was a little unsure
00:26:42
about that. This one's like this is a
00:26:45
squishy one because yes, he did follow through on it.
00:26:49
So a year ago he did sign and allow for universal access to
00:26:56
anybody based on not regardless of status.
00:27:01
And then we did plenty of videos about how less than a year
00:27:04
later, medical was broke and they had to borrow from
00:27:09
themselves to pay for medical. At first it was they need $2
00:27:13
billion, and then a week later a balloon to they need $6 billion
00:27:18
just to make ends meet for that month.
00:27:21
And then they had to in this recent budget.
00:27:25
So this was the May 2025 revision of the budget.
00:27:27
Froze new enrollments for undocumented adults starting
00:27:30
2026. Added $100 a month premium in
00:27:33
2027 and cut long term dental benefits to say $5.4 billion.
00:27:39
Overran by 2.7 billion amid a $12 billion deficit.
00:27:44
Made a promise. That kind of failed because he
00:27:47
was like all the things and then he's had to take back some of
00:27:50
the things. Yes, exactly.
00:27:55
He promised it, he started it, but could he fulfill it fully?
00:28:01
No. It actually failed on its own
00:28:03
because who would have thought that giving free health care to
00:28:08
anyone, regardless of citizenship status would cost a
00:28:12
lot of money? Who would have thought and a?
00:28:15
Reminder that in California, abortion is health care.
00:28:20
So anything he was. Allowed to come here from
00:28:21
anywhere to get an abortion paid for by the state of California.
00:28:25
We're probably still paying for that.
00:28:26
I'm sure that prioritizes over dental care.
00:28:30
Right. I was going to say something.
00:28:33
Oh. The reason that they thought
00:28:36
they could pull this off is because the Laos estimates were
00:28:39
it was going to be a certain amount of money and they'd be
00:28:41
able to afford it. And then when they opened it up,
00:28:45
it was flooded with millions of people who joined the program.
00:28:51
Now I really need to get an X-Files like little Stinger
00:28:54
here. Here's my conspiracy tinfoil hat
00:28:57
about all of this. I don't even think people in the
00:29:03
California State government actually know how many
00:29:05
undocumented people are here in California because I think they
00:29:12
they thought there was a certain amount of people who would join
00:29:14
because they're like, well, we can afford it.
00:29:17
And then when like quadruple the amount of people showed up and
00:29:20
we're like, well, we want free healthcare.
00:29:23
They were like, whoa, we did not expect this many people to show
00:29:26
up and ask for free healthcare. So I don't even think they have
00:29:30
any idea of how many undocumented people are in the
00:29:33
state because they clearly budgeted this all wrong.
00:29:36
Otherwise they probably wouldn't have gone through with it.
00:29:39
And it ended up being an absolute calamity and it almost
00:29:44
destroyed medical. It basically bankrupted medical
00:29:48
this year. So any other thoughts on that
00:29:52
one? We could be here all night if
00:29:54
we, you know, really go down the rabbit hole of each one.
00:29:57
So yeah, we'll keep moving. All right.
00:30:01
Regarding LA, he promised to waive rebuilding fees and
00:30:06
expedite permits for 2025 LA wildfire victims January 25 on
00:30:10
site pledge for record-breaking recovery after 16 structures
00:30:16
were lost. Do you think he followed through
00:30:20
with that? Oh no, no, I think he forgot
00:30:24
that it happened. I think he also, yeah, I think
00:30:27
he forgot that happened. He made his promise and moved on
00:30:30
by December 2025. No waivers implemented.
00:30:33
Victims face full fees. Bureaucrat delays and red tape.
00:30:36
Newsom blamed the feds and Trump, but state inaction
00:30:39
criticized it as hollow words. I just did a video on that just
00:30:44
two days ago about how there's all these delays going on with
00:30:48
the permit in and Gavin Newsom's begging the federal government
00:30:51
for bailouts even though he has no problem, like bashing Donald
00:30:55
Trump and congressional Republicans.
00:30:57
But he also had to go and beg for $33 billion.
00:31:00
Can you imagine? Getting up on stage and bragging
00:31:03
about how California is the 4th largest, largest economy in the
00:31:06
world and then turning around and having to beg Donald Trump,
00:31:10
who you absolutely hate. Just like I just imagined him on
00:31:13
his knees, like per hands, you know, like begging Trump help
00:31:18
make it. You know, if I failed
00:31:21
California, he wouldn't have bit that but help us.
00:31:24
Well, he's pointing the finger because he's like, it's not my
00:31:28
fault that none of this is happening.
00:31:29
It's it's Donald Trump's fault. I mean, it's, it never is or
00:31:33
it's the the greatest thing to Democrats is that Donald Trump's
00:31:37
in office. So they can just literally blame
00:31:38
everything under the sun is Donald Trump's fault.
00:31:43
So let's see something. I'm looking at some of the
00:31:45
comments now. Just keeping up with the
00:31:50
comments. You guys are all awesome.
00:31:52
Wherever you are. Let us know where you're
00:31:54
checking in from all over the state.
00:31:55
Some people are from out of out of the state, which is also
00:31:58
awesome as well. So welcome to everybody.
00:32:00
It's good. That they TuneIn because they
00:32:01
need to know that Catherine Newsome should never be our
00:32:04
president. So keep up on that.
00:32:07
Yes, yeah, that's we're going to be going hard over the next
00:32:10
couple years. I feel like with Gavin Newsom
00:32:11
next year, we got the governor's race, which is a big deal.
00:32:14
We'll have a new governor regardless whether we like it,
00:32:17
like the outcome or not. We will have a new governor next
00:32:20
year. Hopefully it's not Eric
00:32:22
Swalwell. I mean, hopefully it's not a lot
00:32:25
of people, but we'll get to that next year.
00:32:28
Next promise, eliminate 10 vacant state jobs for $4.9
00:32:34
billion in savings. This was part of his 2025
00:32:37
efficiency pledge back in January.
00:32:41
Do you think he followed through with that?
00:32:44
No, but question those were vacant jobs, right?
00:32:48
And he was like so there was we, I think we talked about this.
00:32:51
There was the funds were technically already set aside
00:32:55
and they were just vacant jobs. Yeah, so he was basically
00:33:01
cleaning up the rolls and being like, I'm going to cut these
00:33:03
jobs because we don't need them. No one's filling them up anyway,
00:33:07
so we don't need them. Probably tried to fulfill them
00:33:08
to act like the unemployment rate is actually lower than it
00:33:11
is. But anyway, carry on.
00:33:13
Yeah. I mean, we could go on a whole
00:33:14
thing about how the largest employer who creates jobs in
00:33:17
California is the government, which is absolutely terrifying
00:33:21
that the government is the only thing that's really keeping our
00:33:24
jobs number somewhat respectable, even though our
00:33:27
unemployment is still like the highest in the nation, I think
00:33:29
is at 5% just a couple months ago.
00:33:33
It's pretty much stayed steady at 5 point something for like a
00:33:35
year now. Yeah.
00:33:37
So what's up, San Jose? People check in from San Jose.
00:33:41
That's awesome. All the way up north.
00:33:43
That's way north of the wall. Checking in from Folsom.
00:33:47
Awesome. Awesome.
00:33:48
Thank you for checking. In you know, I do know where San
00:33:50
Jose is. OK, not like Stockton last week
00:33:54
you had no idea. You were like, they get snow in
00:33:56
Stockton, right? I didn't say that.
00:33:58
I asked if they did because I said I don't know where it is.
00:34:02
They do not get snow in Stockton.
00:34:04
Really blonde, thank you. That was that was my clueless
00:34:08
what they got snow in Stockton, right, All right, to answer the
00:34:12
question, did he fulfill that promise?
00:34:14
Only 6500 jobs were cut by mid year yielding $1.4 billion of
00:34:20
savings. Only 29% of target.
00:34:23
We're all spending Rose 17.4 despite deficits.
00:34:29
Oh geez. So really a drop in the bucket
00:34:33
when it comes to cutting back on on and making this more
00:34:36
efficient. Last one, this is the big one.
00:34:41
I think we all know the answer to.
00:34:43
Fund Prop 36 implementation for crime and treatment post 2024.
00:34:48
Voter approval in 2025. Post election assurances of full
00:34:53
support. I don't think we need to make
00:34:56
the suspense about this. We all know that.
00:34:57
No he did not allocate any funds towards this when he put out his
00:35:02
original budget he had no funds for and he played some like
00:35:05
swarmy game where he goes well the the proposition didn't
00:35:10
actually require any funding so that's not on us.
00:35:13
That's their fault for them actually not including it.
00:35:16
It his defense, he did everything he could to keep Prop
00:35:21
36 off the ballot and hated the whole idea of it.
00:35:25
So we could have seen this coming very easily, but he was
00:35:27
just not. I was like I don't care what
00:35:29
happened so I'm just going to ignore it but pretend like it
00:35:32
doesn't exist. I'll just pretend though, you
00:35:34
know, we're so obsessed with democracy here in California
00:35:38
that when people vote and approve things that we don't
00:35:40
like, we just pretend we're not. It didn't happen.
00:35:45
We sue for emotional distress. We sue for emotional distress.
00:35:48
That's what we do in California with it's democracy.
00:35:52
We believe in democracy with a big D for Democrats.
00:35:56
Yeah. So no funding allocated despite
00:35:58
$250 million low end estimate. I think there's 400 million.
00:36:02
They said it's what they really needed.
00:36:04
It was diverted to other priorities like something else
00:36:07
that happened just a month ago, which was the special election
00:36:12
on redistricting. So here we are.
00:36:16
They they spent $250 million, almost three, I think it's like
00:36:20
$300 million on the redistricting special rate or
00:36:23
special election for redistricting.
00:36:27
But somehow we didn't have any money for Prop 36.
00:36:29
We found $300 million for that, $300 million for Prop 36, nada.
00:36:35
So any what's your take away? You know, the, you look at it
00:36:41
like fund Prop 36 and it's no, you know, what did the guy do
00:36:46
with the and then. Oh, Drake, Yeah.
00:36:49
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then, you know, fund
00:36:52
redistricting to pack Congress, the Democrats that yeah, you all
00:36:57
know what I'm talking about. We're we're acting out memes
00:37:00
now. Everyone knows what we're
00:37:02
talking about. Ourselves into.
00:37:05
All right, now there's one thing, even though he wasn't
00:37:09
able to keep any of his promises or a lot of his promises, there
00:37:13
was one thing that Gavin Newsom did have time for.
00:37:16
And this just came out today and I'll let you guys watch it and
00:37:20
we'll comment afterwards. So enjoy this little clip we're
00:37:24
going to show you. This This is not the book you'd
00:37:31
expect me to write. It's a story about the people
00:37:34
that form, well, better or worse, Make us who we are.
00:37:36
Made me who I am. The hopes that drive us for the
00:37:41
failures that send us reeling, and the immense burden of grief
00:37:45
and regret. Nobody's family is easy.
00:37:48
Nobody's story is tidy. And I'm no different.
00:37:50
A lot of people look at me, the stark white shirt, the blue
00:37:54
suit, and yeah, the gelled hair. And they think, oh, I know this
00:37:57
guy. I know this guy better than I'd
00:37:59
ever want to know him. I get it.
00:38:02
This is a story of a kid who always felt like he wasn't quite
00:38:04
enough. This is a truly vulnerable book.
00:38:07
It was incredibly hard, even painful.
00:38:11
Dude. I I didn't notice the side
00:38:14
profile of this book. That looks like a thin book.
00:38:18
I'm I'm guessing less than 200 pages for them.
00:38:22
Probably empty. Like all the binders.
00:38:25
It's empty, like the binders he was showing about jobs.
00:38:28
It's. My this is my plan.
00:38:29
This is my book. There's nothing in it but
00:38:32
pre-order. Pre-order it.
00:38:34
Everyone jump on the bandwagon and pre-order.
00:38:36
Full to write. There's a story about living
00:38:38
between 2 worlds, 1 of wealth and privilege and the other.
00:38:42
Wait, I know it's in the book photos.
00:38:45
It's a photo book. It's a lot of photos.
00:38:47
Yeah, it's a picture book, yes. Reading is fun with the picture.
00:38:53
Well, remember, he's dyslexic, he said.
00:38:55
He's dyslexic, right? He has.
00:38:57
Some. Yeah, this guy right here, the
00:39:02
older gentleman in the middle, right there, I'm assuming is
00:39:04
Bill Newsom. William Newsom.
00:39:08
Back story about William Newsom. He was a Superior Court judge.
00:39:13
He was also the trustee of the Gordon Getty Trust.
00:39:19
The son, not the father, but Gordon Getty.
00:39:23
This is actually pretty interesting to me as a trust and
00:39:25
estates attorney. I was reading about this.
00:39:28
So William Newsom went to the legislature and leaned on the
00:39:32
legislature to pass a bill that made it easier for people for
00:39:39
the court to break up a trust into subtrust because Gordon
00:39:45
Getty needed the larger Getty family trust broken up into
00:39:51
subtrust so that he could get his portion.
00:39:54
And it was like 10s of millions of dollars that he was going to
00:39:56
get. And then it turned out the the
00:39:59
assets that were in the Gordon Getty Trust, which were part of
00:40:02
Getty Oil, ended up being worth billions of dollars.
00:40:06
He went and did that using his connections as a Superior Court
00:40:10
judge, helped out Gordon Getty and yeah, helped him make tons
00:40:15
and tons of money, Billions of dollars.
00:40:18
If everyone's pretty familiar with the connection that there
00:40:20
is a connection between Newsom and the Gettys, but but Bill
00:40:24
Newsom was. He was like the consiglieri.
00:40:28
He was like the confidant. So fun story about Bill Newsom.
00:40:33
To the other, a more modest upbringing, the outsider on the
00:40:37
inside, the interloper who learned to feel.
00:40:40
I'm, I'm sorry, the outsider on the inside.
00:40:45
Did he? He said that with a straight
00:40:47
face. He didn't laugh and chuckle at
00:40:48
him. The outsider on the inside you,
00:40:54
you couldn't be more inside. You couldn't be more on the
00:40:59
inside of the California ruling elite than Gavin Newsom.
00:41:05
Like he grew up surrounded by powerful people who were all
00:41:11
involved in the highest echelon of power in California.
00:41:17
Outsider as an insider. Hey, I understand that people go
00:41:25
through trauma. I understand that they're like
00:41:28
he could he could have grown up in the most, you know, riches of
00:41:31
riches, households and connections.
00:41:33
And still they're like, maybe his emotional needs weren't met,
00:41:37
he was neglected, whatever. I don't know.
00:41:40
I'm not saying he was. I'm saying, I understand that
00:41:43
that can absolutely happen to to anybody, but at some point in
00:41:48
your life, you have to take responsibility for not dealing
00:41:55
with that yourself, like as as an adult.
00:41:59
So I kind of like this is going to be so insensitive to me, but
00:42:03
I get so tired of the people's stories of how like they're
00:42:06
literally like in their 50s and 60s and then I don't know what
00:42:09
it is, but they need to talk about this like, oh, my
00:42:11
childhood life is so rough. Like you're no in your 20s, you
00:42:16
know, you start to recognize that and you should deal with it
00:42:19
and it in your 50s. Like I don't want to hear you
00:42:20
crying about it anymore, especially because you did
00:42:24
overcome and you were able to become into this all these
00:42:29
powerful positions and face or recall and yet get reelected.
00:42:33
And sorry, this is not the point of the Chinese podcast, but this
00:42:37
whole book is such a grift to me.
00:42:42
Well, I mean again, X-Files clip outstanding.
00:42:50
Really need to get that media clip on there.
00:42:52
Outsider on the inside. Outsider on the insider books to
00:42:56
me by a politician are the last legal way to funnel money and
00:43:04
launder money to politicians and pay them off.
00:43:08
It's kind of like art sales, like books are you get a
00:43:11
publishing deal, you write this book.
00:43:14
I I would bet good money that he had someone ghost write this
00:43:18
book. He probably told them general
00:43:20
ideas and then they wrote the rest of it and then the
00:43:25
publisher pre-orders, I don't know, 100 copies.
00:43:29
Someone pays for it and then that's it.
00:43:31
He makes a ton of money and that's the most legal way to
00:43:34
you. Just have to get on like the New
00:43:35
York bestsellers, list enough copies for that and then it's.
00:43:38
Yeah. And then from there, you, you
00:43:40
know, it's a great way to money launder.
00:43:43
And, you know, this is what people do before they run for
00:43:45
president. They write these, these books
00:43:47
about who am I? Who?
00:43:50
I see in what you're in 20 in 2027, he's going to be offering
00:43:57
this book for free with like a $20 donation or a $5 donation to
00:44:02
his presidential account. Yep.
00:44:04
Mark, this Day in History, come back to this video.
00:44:08
I mean, you can go back and let's see, before this, there
00:44:11
was Hillary. What did she write?
00:44:14
What's the book Hillary wrote? Because I know I remember Obama.
00:44:19
The audacity of hope. She overcame stuff too.
00:44:23
They all overcome. So much they overcome so much
00:44:26
such tough lives being. Sacrifices that they make.
00:44:30
Privileged elites. Well, let's keep watching.
00:44:31
I'm going to look this up while I'm while we're sitting.
00:44:34
Comfortable in many rooms. It's a story of the personas we
00:44:38
create to face the world around us.
00:44:40
The story of self doubt and yes, ambition.
00:44:43
It's a story of the people, the relatives, the immediate and
00:44:46
ancestral, the neighbors, the childhood friends, even the
00:44:49
bullies who overtime fade in the background of our memories but
00:44:53
are so critical in shaping us and pushing us to, well, the
00:44:57
next step. Even when sometimes we have no
00:44:59
clue what the next step is or where it's leading.
00:45:03
I hope that whatever your opinions of me are, openness,
00:45:07
the honesty I felt and writing this and living it will
00:45:10
resonate. Iran is that perhaps equal parts
00:45:13
revelatory and contradictory. Adapting to my dyslexia,
00:45:17
starting and growing my own small businesses, fighting and
00:45:20
winning political battles for same sex marriage and against
00:45:24
the NRA. Always striving, if not
00:45:26
sometimes succeeding, to be a present father that my kids
00:45:30
deserve. And yet there are those public
00:45:32
and private moments that I'll always regret.
00:45:36
Bernard Devoto, the historian of the American West, wrote that
00:45:40
Californians are the children of paradox and the beginners of
00:45:44
paradox. And that seems just about right
00:45:47
to me. I wrote this book in no small
00:45:49
part as a gift. Gift to my kids that it might
00:45:53
one day help them understand the paradoxes that shape.
00:45:57
One of his kids who's a big Charlie Kirk fan, as admitted in
00:46:00
his podcast. They shape their upbringing and
00:46:04
are bound to shape their children who will come after.
00:46:07
In all of its messiness, it's heartbreak and it's fundamental
00:46:10
optimism about the power of family and community.
00:46:14
This is a story I hope a lot of readers will connect with and
00:46:17
relate to. Like I said, it's definitely not
00:46:19
the book you'd expect me to write, and it's a book that I'm
00:46:22
extraordinarily excited to share.
00:46:27
Can you cheat on one of his wives?
00:46:29
I was just going to ask, did he include because he's very open,
00:46:34
He's saying he's very open and honest about his failures and
00:46:37
his transgressions. Did he include or having an
00:46:44
affair with his best friend's wife or his campaign manager's
00:46:47
wife? Did he talk about that?
00:46:48
You'll have to pre-order the book to find out so.
00:46:51
I guess so. And it didn't he end up cheating
00:46:53
on Kimberly Guilfoyle. Wasn't that he was married to
00:46:56
Kimberly Guilfoyle? Yes, that's what I was asking.
00:46:58
I don't know if he cheated on her, but I think that's he was
00:47:01
married to her when he cheated, right?
00:47:02
With the best friend's wife or the campaign manager, whoever
00:47:06
something happened there. I've never seen anyone with
00:47:10
dyslexia grift so hard or be such a victim to dyslexia.
00:47:16
And I'm not saying that as insensitive to anyone with
00:47:19
dyslexia. I just, I, I've never, I know
00:47:23
people with dyslexia and I've never seen anyone use it so hard
00:47:26
to act like they were like held back from life.
00:47:32
Somebody, somebody said about the book that it's actually,
00:47:37
it's, it's a comic book. That's why it's so small.
00:47:40
It looks like a graphic novel because.
00:47:42
You use it all the family photos.
00:47:45
It's going to be a lot of photos.
00:47:47
That way you don't have to read for all those kids who have
00:47:49
dyslexia like he did. You can't you don't have to
00:47:51
worry about reading Hillary's book, Hillary's books with
00:47:55
secrets of Whitewater. The chat is I love you chat.
00:48:00
You're awesome. For someone who who pointed this
00:48:05
out. This is why we have a shirt with
00:48:07
his with him on it, and we call him Noodles is because he's got
00:48:10
these noodly little arms. Yeah.
00:48:13
So I wonder if he goes into some of the other things like
00:48:15
cheating on his wife and then cheating with his campaign
00:48:20
manager's wife. I wonder if he goes into stuff
00:48:22
like that or any of his other transgressions.
00:48:25
I. Wonder if he goes into cheating
00:48:26
on campaigns and funds and how French.
00:48:33
Laundry. There's some gossip.
00:48:36
I know someone that worked at his restaurant in SF saying he
00:48:38
always had a woman in the backroom with him that wasn't
00:48:40
his wife. OK, well, you heard it here,
00:48:44
folks. You heard the, you heard it here
00:48:45
first. The cheese mate is here in
00:48:47
California underground. So that's what he's been up to.
00:48:50
He's been writing his book, not keeping up with any of the
00:48:53
promises that he made in 2025 or even before that.
00:48:56
So. I literally just tweeted this
00:48:59
morning, I think it was or X whatever we call it, like he's
00:49:04
before I, I didn't even know we were going to play that video or
00:49:06
talk about that. But I, I said something about
00:49:09
like, he hasn't had time, Like he, he had time to write this
00:49:13
book, but he hasn't had time to fix anything in California.
00:49:18
It's amazing, amazing. What he prioritizes in the chat.
00:49:22
If you want, I have my special Christmas mug out because it is
00:49:25
holiday season so we can break out all the Christmas stuff.
00:49:29
All right. From one narcissistic politician
00:49:33
to another who believes they're self-righteous and all
00:49:35
important. Pamela Price, if you don't
00:49:39
remember her, Pamela Price was recalled last year by not a
00:49:45
small margin. She was it was 62.9% was the
00:49:49
vote. I saw in researching she's
00:49:52
running again for District Attorney.
00:49:55
So someone kind of like our first story, some of the things
00:49:59
they're entitled to a position, someone who believes they're
00:50:03
above scrutiny like Gavin Newsom.
00:50:04
Pamela Price, who was recalled, is running again.
00:50:08
So let's take a look at that video and we'll discuss as she's
00:50:14
ready to run again. About a year after she was
00:50:17
ousted, Pamela Price, the former Alameda County DA, wants her job
00:50:22
back. Today, she formally launched her
00:50:24
2026 campaign. NB CS Valena Jones explains.
00:50:29
We have the time and the opportunity to right a wrong.
00:50:32
As Pamela Price announced she's entering the 2026 race for
00:50:36
Alameda County DA, she referenced several reasons for
00:50:40
her new run Prices, President Donald Trump, ice enforcement,
00:50:44
and the decisions made by current DA Ursula Jones Dixon.
00:50:49
Two out of those three things are not your concern, so not
00:50:55
something a county District Attorney should concern
00:50:57
themselves with. I was going to ask you to pause
00:51:02
at this exact moment because I just don't know what California
00:51:05
Democrats are going to run on would Trump is out of office.
00:51:11
Like, yeah, like I just said, it's Democrats love the fact
00:51:14
that Donald Trump's in office because they can literally blame
00:51:17
everything on Donald Trump and they can run everything on
00:51:19
Donald Trump. And we here do not think Donald
00:51:23
Trump is perfect. We're not like, sitting here
00:51:25
loyally defending everything he does.
00:51:28
It's just amazing that Democrats can twist anything he says or
00:51:33
does to just say This is why this happened and This is why
00:51:38
I'm running. Yeah, I mean, the fact that our
00:51:41
first two reasons are Donald Trump and immigration, not, not
00:51:46
stuff you'd like that you'd concern yourself with as
00:51:49
district attorneys. So.
00:51:51
Miss Dixon are all reasons voters should send her back to
00:51:55
the office they once removed her from.
00:51:58
She also criticized that prior recall effort.
00:52:01
Donald Trump is the champion of the billionaires.
00:52:04
We have ADA now who's an appointed District Attorney, who
00:52:08
stands with the billionaires, with corporate polluters.
00:52:12
Price 1 and. All right, so her crackpot team
00:52:16
of strategists, I don't know who she found, but they they
00:52:20
probably workshopped themes that would resonate with people in
00:52:23
Alameda County and said, what are some buzzwords that are
00:52:28
going to get people upset? OK, Donald Trump immigration
00:52:32
raids. He sides with the billionaires
00:52:37
and corporate polluters. Out of those four things, I'm
00:52:42
not quite sure what a District Attorney has to do with that.
00:52:47
Unless a billionaire is guilty of a crime in that county, then
00:52:52
you would probably go after them unless someone was polluting.
00:52:58
If it's not a federal issue because it's in rivers or oceans
00:53:02
or something like that. It's corporate pollution.
00:53:04
I love politics because I love the terms they come up with.
00:53:07
Republicans do it too. Corporate polluters.
00:53:11
Corporate polluters, Yeah, we have a ton of.
00:53:15
Like, let's make these things, you know, little buzz phrases.
00:53:17
Corporate polluters. What does that even mean?
00:53:21
It's polluters who are incorporated.
00:53:26
They are not, you know, solo proprietors or LLC polluters.
00:53:30
They are full on corporate polluters.
00:53:32
That's their businesses polluting 1.
00:53:34
In 2022 with 53% of the vote, but two years later about 63% of
00:53:39
those who voted voted to recall her.
00:53:41
She says if reelected, she wouldn't automatically reverse
00:53:45
Jones Dixon's case decisions, but disagrees with the DA's
00:53:48
decision to push for more teens to be tried as adults.
00:53:52
She also argues reinstituted mandatory minimum sentences
00:53:56
don't address gun violence. I will be the District Attorney
00:54:00
who puts people first, I will go after corporate criminals and I
00:54:05
will hold law enforcement officers accountable.
00:54:08
Price's time in office was marked by controversy and
00:54:11
criticism, including resigning prosecutors case backlogs in
00:54:15
claims she was too lenient on criminals.
00:54:18
She insisted her office prosecuted cases at a higher
00:54:21
rate than her predecessor. I am going to be part of this
00:54:24
campaign to build and focus on working class struggle, people
00:54:28
in the margin and a fight for justice.
00:54:30
But those who let her prior. Again, not sure what working
00:54:37
class people have to do with the District Attorney, but it's
00:54:42
another Democratic buzzword of working class.
00:54:45
It's the billionaires, it's polluters, it's Donald Trump,
00:54:49
it's ICE. Also doesn't look like she had a
00:54:53
huge turn out so I don't know if this is going to go well for
00:54:56
her. She wasn't even elected by that
00:54:58
much originally. 53% is a very, very small margin to win by so.
00:55:05
This is it is literally a year later, like the recall was like
00:55:08
December 4th or something like that.
00:55:10
And then the fifth she announces she's running again.
00:55:14
Like, girl, maybe you need to give it a couple years to to
00:55:19
baby be like I've changed. I mean, don't ever come out and
00:55:22
say I've changed because that's the cringest thing.
00:55:24
But like prove that you've changed.
00:55:26
You know, that you for the things that she was recalled
00:55:28
for. I know there was racist issues,
00:55:31
stuff like that. Like at least be like I took a
00:55:34
class again. That's cringe to me too.
00:55:36
But this is, you know, Democrats love all that stuff.
00:55:39
So it's like just be like I took a class.
00:55:42
I educated myself. I understand how I was wrong or
00:55:45
how I became a cross is wrong and and I want to do a better
00:55:49
job now but like give it some time.
00:55:53
She should try instead of running, doing all this work and
00:55:56
spending money. What she should do is she should
00:55:58
just sue Alameda County for being removed.
00:56:02
That was. The only she could have done
00:56:04
that and gotten paid that way, if that's what she was concerned
00:56:07
about, was that she got removed from office before she thought
00:56:10
her career was over so she could have.
00:56:12
Better. She should have just done that.
00:56:15
That seems to be the easy way to go.
00:56:17
Nothing. Has changed changed.
00:56:19
What we want to see is a safer Alameda County for everybody.
00:56:23
So you have to have the vision of everybody.
00:56:26
We don't need to hear about Trump because Trump don't live
00:56:28
here. Brenda Grisham is now running.
00:56:31
BB S. Round of applause.
00:56:36
Round of applause snaps for this girl because she nailed it.
00:56:41
Trump does not live here. It's not a Trump campaign.
00:56:44
She has nothing to do with Trump if you're running for Alameda
00:56:46
District Attorney. Running for Brooklyn mayor under
00:56:49
the new DA Gresham claims cases are moving faster through the
00:56:52
courts. I have cases in trial now that
00:56:55
have been we're sitting the whole time she was in office and
00:56:59
so now we're going to trial holding people accountable.
00:57:03
DA Jones Dixon will serve until the June 2020 sixth election,
00:57:07
which will decide who finishes the term through 2028.
00:57:11
Her office did not respond to requests for comment in Alameda
00:57:14
County. Valena Jones, NBC Bay Area News.
00:57:19
All right, I'm not sure if that's going to go well for her.
00:57:24
For someone who was just recalled by a large amount, it
00:57:27
wasn't a close amount. She said it was manipulated.
00:57:30
I'm not sure how it was manipulated.
00:57:32
She said people lied about her, her career and what she was
00:57:36
doing there, and I don't know. But either way, she was out.
00:57:42
It's never her fault she was out.
00:57:44
So I looked up a little bit of like, I had to go back because
00:57:49
all the news was basically about what's going on now with her re
00:57:54
election. So yeah, she was recalled as of
00:57:59
let's see what day that was been.
00:58:02
But did say prices reform platform include not charging
00:58:05
youths as adults, relying less on incarceration, holding police
00:58:09
accountable after taking office, She acted on her promises.
00:58:13
For example, she enacted policies against using
00:58:15
enhancements to extend jail time for defendants, directed
00:58:17
prosecutors to offer defendants probation whenever possible
00:58:21
instead of jail time. So she was very, very lenient on
00:58:26
crime. And that's why she got recalled
00:58:29
because she was not very effective at what she was doing.
00:58:32
And that was also part of the entire like I, California went
00:58:38
through with Prop 36 and all of this.
00:58:40
I mean, you think about 2024 was Prop 36.
00:58:43
It was a mass movement of people who wanted to reform criminal
00:58:48
justice years. That was the theme in 2024, Law
00:58:54
and order. She was soft on crime and she
00:58:57
was swept up in it. So I I can't imagine how well
00:59:03
this is going to go, but crazier things have happened in
00:59:06
California. It looks like there's going to
00:59:09
be an election in 2026. Who serves out the remainder of
00:59:13
Pamela Price's term, which is crazy.
00:59:16
Imagine if Pamela Price wins the election to finish out her own
00:59:21
term. I mean, like you said, crazier
00:59:25
things have happened. We've seen, we like to think
00:59:28
that in modern times, people have actually changed, like
00:59:32
human nature has changed, but truly it doesn't.
00:59:34
You know, we can go back. And I mean, some of the
00:59:40
politicians over the years, not recent years that have won, like
00:59:44
they killed somebody and and then they, you know, they got
00:59:47
elected. Like I'm talking way back when,
00:59:49
obviously. So, yeah, crazier things have
00:59:51
happened. It could happen.
00:59:53
And we will have to laugh about it because it's so sad how how
00:59:59
you know this is this is real, this is real, like politics is
01:00:03
real. And yet in California, I swear
01:00:05
everything is treated as a joke. It's a clown show.
01:00:08
It's ridiculous, but things happen.
01:00:13
To look at some of the chats, I'm putting them up on the
01:00:14
screen. Another Democrat loser.
01:00:16
Just what we don't need. Pam Price puts criminals first.
01:00:21
Castle doctrine, stand your ground laws will fix.
01:00:23
Actually California still has castle doctrine.
01:00:26
Crazy enough, whether or not a jury of your peers will believe
01:00:31
in castle doctrine, that's a different story.
01:00:33
But under the law, you still have castle doctrine.
01:00:36
Here. Someone said in terms of what
01:00:40
happens when Trump leaves, they'll blame everything on JD
01:00:42
Vance. Yeah.
01:00:44
I mean, JD Vance will be the extension of MAGA, so they'll
01:00:47
blame everything on him. Well, yeah.
01:00:49
Let's just say if a Republican doesn't become president, then
01:00:54
what? Like who do they blame?
01:00:58
I don't know. It didn't go so well with Biden
01:01:01
because they had a Democrat in office for four years and it
01:01:04
just exposed a lot of how their policy is.
01:01:09
People are not fans of their policy.
01:01:11
And well, you know, if MAGA doesn't turn it around or Trump
01:01:15
doesn't turn it around soon, I could see that the electorate
01:01:18
might go the other way. But still, three years, there's
01:01:20
still plenty of time. You know, Reagan got off to a
01:01:24
slow start in the beginning as well because he had to deal with
01:01:27
tariffs and stuff like that. So somebody said the real truth
01:01:33
is Price wants to be a martyr than or family can get 30
01:01:35
million from Alameda County selling out of court.
01:01:39
Yeah, they could. They should just sue until they
01:01:42
prosecute you for using it. That's what somebody said about
01:01:45
the castle doctrine. So, yeah.
01:01:47
Any other final thoughts on Pamela?
01:01:49
I'm looking through the chat right now because I want to make
01:01:51
sure I catch everything. I don't have final thoughts.
01:01:55
No, I I do find it funny. Like I said, it's politics is
01:02:00
real, but yet it's a joke here in California.
01:02:02
So this is a humorous story to me.
01:02:05
People can change. Like I, I do believe that.
01:02:08
I mean, I just went off about how human nature doesn't change,
01:02:10
but like an individual can change.
01:02:12
She can be a better person, but I don't believe that a year is
01:02:17
enough time. Like maybe if she came back when
01:02:20
the actual term ends and like 2028 and and ran, then it's like
01:02:28
people and people forget too, but they don't tend to forget
01:02:31
after a year. She's saying like it was
01:02:34
manipulated or whatever, but it's the same people that
01:02:36
elected her that recalled her successfully.
01:02:39
So, you know, I just don't think that they forget that quickly.
01:02:42
And I think that if she tried to get in 2028, she'd have better
01:02:45
success. Those are big downfall.
01:02:48
Was the rolling drive by shooting of a was it just chat
01:02:53
for sharing keys and jumping? Looks like a small child and
01:02:56
they let the shooters walk. So some other people were saying
01:03:00
they were stuck on traffic. When that happened.
01:03:02
I was stuck in the five O 8 traffic where the small child
01:03:04
was shot on the freeway in Oakland where Pamela Price
01:03:06
released the shooter with no charges.
01:03:10
Yeah, I mean, that's going to get a lot of people upset when a
01:03:13
small child is shot and you let the the the shooters off easy.
01:03:18
So you want to talk about being soft on crime?
01:03:22
So somebody just trying to get to all your chats folks, I know
01:03:28
we're. I will say, you know, it felt
01:03:31
like a 2022 to 2024. We were big on the recalls of
01:03:37
some of these soft on crime Das. It was, it was good to see.
01:03:42
But now it has been like with ICE and stuff here in
01:03:47
California, it does feel like the pendulum has kind of swung
01:03:49
the other way. And now people are getting
01:03:51
angry, especially because there's so much propaganda out
01:03:53
there. But they're getting angry about
01:03:55
now being too hard on crimes. So you again, that that could
01:04:01
affect, you know, the 2026, the special election and the, and
01:04:05
the midterms of these DAS and stuff.
01:04:08
You just never know. Well, it, it kind of came full
01:04:11
circle where we talked about the LA County CEO who believed she
01:04:15
was entitled to that position, that she was that position was
01:04:19
hers for the keeping. And then we kind of ended with
01:04:22
another politician who believed that her position was entitled
01:04:25
to her and that she should get it back.
01:04:27
So there is a weird, horrible precedent being set by
01:04:32
politicians, especially in California.
01:04:34
And maybe this is the the big message to end on why we do this
01:04:41
show. And I know a lot of people sit
01:04:43
here and say California is hopeless.
01:04:46
Who cares? Give up, it's lost, let it fall
01:04:48
into the ocean. This attitude that politicians
01:04:53
have of we run your lives, you are subservient to us as
01:04:58
politicians. It is not just a Gavin Newsom
01:05:02
thing, as we saw tonight. It is a statewide thing where
01:05:06
politicians believe we are your overlords and you are the
01:05:10
peasants. This is a this is a feudal
01:05:13
system. This is a serfdom.
01:05:16
You guys obey us. We saw it with COVID.
01:05:18
We saw where you had to bend a knee to the government, do
01:05:21
whatever they told you to do. As ridiculous as it was to not
01:05:25
meet up with family, to not have Thanksgiving, especially now
01:05:28
it's around the holidays. Think not that long ago, how
01:05:31
many years ago they were literally telling you Gavin
01:05:33
Newsom and all of his cronies were telling you do not get
01:05:36
together with family during Thanksgiving or Christmas, that
01:05:39
that's not allowed. So this idea and this this
01:05:44
mindset of these politicians is festering here in California and
01:05:51
it's spreading across the country.
01:05:53
And you're seeing it more and more of status across the
01:05:57
country who believe government is all knowing and all powerful
01:06:01
and can fix any problem. And therefore you should just
01:06:05
give up all your rights and everything to us and we'll take
01:06:07
care of it. And if you don't like the
01:06:09
results, screw you, go sit down and shut up.
01:06:12
You're just a lowly little peasant.
01:06:14
So to sum it all up, This is why we do the show.
01:06:17
We do the show because if we can stop it here in California, if
01:06:21
we can turn the tide here in California, then you stop it
01:06:25
across the country. And that's why we do this show.
01:06:29
So it these this trend is happening here and it has to be
01:06:35
stopped here. We are on the front lines of
01:06:38
this status takeover of the United States and that's why
01:06:42
we're here and that's why we're doing this show so people learn
01:06:45
about this. You can share it with people and
01:06:50
we can fan together because there are millions of us who
01:06:54
hate this style of governance. There are literally millions of
01:06:58
us here in California. There are way more than people
01:07:00
think. I was going to tell you there
01:07:03
are way more than you think You think Everyone thinks it's like
01:07:06
10 to 1 of like status to normal everyday Californians.
01:07:13
It's not even, I don't even think it's that.
01:07:15
I think it's barely a 1 1/2 to one ratio.
01:07:21
I think when you factor in Republicans, dependents,
01:07:25
libertarians, I think there are way more, millions of more
01:07:29
people than you think who are fed up with this status system
01:07:32
and this idea of the politicians rule our lives.
01:07:36
They can do whatever they want. They can tell us to go # sand we
01:07:41
owe them tax dollars and compensation.
01:07:44
That's just not true. So yeah, so that's why we do
01:07:50
this show. We do this show so people learn
01:07:52
about it and we'll keep doing it as long as people will keep
01:07:54
tuning in, like all these people in the chat, which is awesome.
01:07:57
Somebody said found this podcast about one month ago.
01:08:01
So awesome. Welcome.
01:08:03
It's. Happy to see you're still.
01:08:04
Here, yes, the Conservatives need to get active and take back
01:08:08
the best state. So, yeah, there's there's way
01:08:13
more than people think. That's all I'm saying.
01:08:15
They're way more than people think.
01:08:17
It's not we, they're not. Yeah, the.
01:08:21
Moderate Democrats are fed up, too.
01:08:23
People forget because like when you started, you said, you know,
01:08:26
people who were like, California should just fall off the ocean,
01:08:29
should be their own state. They forget that by numbers we
01:08:32
have the largest population of Republicans.
01:08:35
And I don't know what the numbers of independents and
01:08:37
Libertarians are, but I believe they are similar to that of the
01:08:41
Republican population or registered Republicans I should
01:08:44
say. So by percentage, yes, we don't
01:08:51
have the highest percentage of Republicans here, but certainly
01:08:54
by population we, we have 1.
01:08:56
And, and again, along with the independents and libertarians
01:09:01
and modern Democrats, we all want better for us, for our
01:09:05
children, for our future grandchildren and all that we,
01:09:09
we truly want. We want better for all of you.
01:09:12
And I just, I don't want anyone to ever believe that the
01:09:15
government owns them and is entitled to ruling their lives
01:09:20
and their paychecks. And as we just talked about with
01:09:25
the first starting story, like she believes she's entitled to
01:09:28
your and she got it 2 million taxpayer dollars because she
01:09:34
apparently can't find a new job within three years or figure out
01:09:37
a way to retire or something. And so she's like, no, taxpayers
01:09:42
need to pay me for this. Wrong.
01:09:44
Done. Even though taxpayers voted for
01:09:48
that measure and and that is disturbing and I don't none of
01:09:52
you, none of you should feel that especially so obviously
01:09:55
that was an LA County thing, but all you in LA County, like I'm
01:09:58
so sorry that you literally are paying taxes for people like
01:10:03
that. It's it's wrong.
01:10:09
Somebody said this and I want to.
01:10:11
This might be my final point. Servants legislate, isolate.
01:10:15
I think you said insulate almost untouchable, yet no one is above
01:10:20
the law yet who will bring justice, prosecute.
01:10:23
And This is why we have this wonderful shirt on our channel.
01:10:26
It says local elections matter. It's a great shirt.
01:10:30
I wore it how many years ago at convention, GOP convention was
01:10:33
like a couple years ago, you and yeah, and it obviously got a lot
01:10:38
of double takes because people thought it was a BLM shirt, but
01:10:40
it's it says local elections matter.
01:10:42
So it will get you some double looks.
01:10:45
But we always say local elections matter because you
01:10:49
think that, well, who's going to prosecute?
01:10:51
Who's going to do all this? It starts slowly.
01:10:54
Like LA County just elected Nathan Hawkman, who ran as a
01:11:01
independent, but he was not that long ago he ran as a Republican
01:11:05
for attorney general. So he is a right leaning
01:11:08
District Attorney and he was elected in Los Angeles for the
01:11:12
LA District Attorney. So things like that are how we
01:11:17
as a state slowly start to turn things around is you have to
01:11:22
show up for these local elections and you have to pay
01:11:23
attention all this stuff. We all want like this one person
01:11:27
to come in like the movies and to start just coming in and
01:11:31
changing everything overnight. That's not going to happen in a
01:11:34
state this size with as much. Beautiful speeches.
01:11:37
Beautiful speeches and all this stuff.
01:11:39
Like we all want that. The real change comes from when
01:11:42
you show up and you throw out one mayor and put in a better
01:11:46
mayor. When you throw out City Council
01:11:48
members and put in new City Council members.
01:11:49
When you switch your school board to one that actually cares
01:11:53
about parental rights. When you put in a District
01:11:56
Attorney who actually cares about prosecuting crime.
01:11:59
Like those are the things that slowly change or you put a
01:12:02
sheriff in who actually cares about arresting people and
01:12:06
cracking down on crime. Like this is how the the system
01:12:10
changes is slowly but surely it doesn't happen.
01:12:14
I wish we could all snap our fingers and it all happens
01:12:16
overnight and it's like the movies roll credits, we're all
01:12:19
happy and everything like that. It doesn't happen like that, but
01:12:22
it does happen slowly. In 2024, we saw how many
01:12:26
counties go red as opposed to in 2020.
01:12:31
That was an enormous shift in voter sentiment and it rode a
01:12:36
wave of law and order. Prop 36.
01:12:39
LA District Attorney is more conservative, hard on crime now.
01:12:45
I believe there is. Villanueva is running again.
01:12:48
Antonio Villanueva is running again for LA County Sheriff.
01:12:52
He was tough on crime and he was actually a he was not.
01:12:55
He was voted out mostly because of the fact that he was not
01:13:00
going to be a stormtrooper for the COVID regime and crack down
01:13:06
on people in LA. Remember, he got villainized,
01:13:08
like vilified for that. He's running again.
01:13:13
So you got to look at who's running for these positions.
01:13:16
And that's how we turn things around.
01:13:19
So that's that's my soapbox moment to kind of finish.
01:13:24
I know we can win a little over. So that's and everyone who's
01:13:30
who's asking questions. This is awesome.
01:13:32
Thank you everyone for showing up and chatting.
01:13:35
Someone said how can we rally against them when they just
01:13:37
steal our taxes without a say on what we want the money to go to.
01:13:40
Even if we vote vote, they just rig elections.
01:13:44
Well, referendums are a thing. Referendums are a thing in
01:13:47
California. It takes effort and it takes
01:13:50
time, but the easiest way to do is show up and vote.
01:13:54
You got to show up and vote and overwhelm the system.
01:13:56
You know what it what did Trump say?
01:13:58
Too big to rig? Like you got to overwhelm the
01:14:00
system and get enough people out there.
01:14:01
And the more people who TuneIn and know about this stuff.
01:14:04
So it takes knowledge. It takes knowledge and people
01:14:08
paying attention to this stuff. And that's why we're here.
01:14:11
Any final words before we log off for the night?
01:14:14
No, I know we kept everybody. Well, I guess I do have final
01:14:18
words. Thank you chat for being here.
01:14:20
Always fun to see you guys. Always a good time.
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Thank you everyone for being here.
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