WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.760 --> 00:00:04.360 You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from 2 00:00:04.440 --> 00:00:06.000 KFI AM six forty. 3 00:00:06.719 --> 00:00:10.080 Nathan Hakman, who at this point is presumed to be 4 00:00:10.160 --> 00:00:16.160 the next La County DA defeating incumbent George Gascone not 5 00:00:16.199 --> 00:00:19.399 a big surprise, not a big surprise at all. The 6 00:00:19.760 --> 00:00:24.600 headwinds against George Gascon, I'll say, the hate against George Gascone. 7 00:00:24.679 --> 00:00:28.399 And in the weird part was his reticence to even 8 00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:34.399 engage media, to engage his competition, to engage citizens, to 9 00:00:34.560 --> 00:00:38.240 engage his own deputy das just from the people that 10 00:00:38.320 --> 00:00:42.479 I spoke to, he would not even engage them, isolated 11 00:00:42.560 --> 00:00:48.240 himself to where that this was the eventual end to 12 00:00:48.479 --> 00:00:50.920 his I would say, his political career, at least as 13 00:00:51.119 --> 00:00:54.119 DA in Los Angeles County. I don't know what he 14 00:00:54.159 --> 00:00:56.600 may move on to next. I don't know if he 15 00:00:56.679 --> 00:00:59.719 will have a concession speech. I don't think he will 16 00:00:59.759 --> 00:01:02.079 because that's just not his style. He hasn't said much 17 00:01:02.079 --> 00:01:07.159 of anything about anything. And La County will move forward, 18 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:12.319 we will have a different district Attorney who fundamentally will 19 00:01:12.319 --> 00:01:15.959 have a different approach to crime. And when you add 20 00:01:15.959 --> 00:01:19.400 that with Proposition thirty six, which is going to pass 21 00:01:19.439 --> 00:01:23.480 overwhelmingly more than three to one. You can see how 22 00:01:24.159 --> 00:01:28.640 people have spoken loudly and resoundingly about what they feel 23 00:01:28.640 --> 00:01:33.519 about crime in southern California, La County, specifically what needs 24 00:01:33.519 --> 00:01:37.480 to be done, what hasn't been done, what has been 25 00:01:37.599 --> 00:01:40.719 largely overlooked and excused. And I've said many times on 26 00:01:40.799 --> 00:01:44.400 my show that there's a culture of permissiveness and people 27 00:01:44.480 --> 00:01:46.840 have taken advantage of that, and I think part of 28 00:01:46.879 --> 00:01:50.640 the reason why we've seen the different types of crime. 29 00:01:50.719 --> 00:01:55.159 It's one thing to say crime is down statistically, which 30 00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:58.599 is true, but the types of crime has changed. The 31 00:01:58.799 --> 00:02:03.599 brazen nature of crime that we experience day to day 32 00:02:03.599 --> 00:02:07.120 in southern California, from the street takeovers to the robberies 33 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:10.879 to what happens on the metro, it's just fundamentally different. 34 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:13.039 And if you want to only talk in terms of 35 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:15.840 numbers and statistics, yes, you can say that there are 36 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:20.439 fewer violent crimes for capita than a year ago. But 37 00:02:20.520 --> 00:02:24.000 the bottom line is safety begins with how we feel, 38 00:02:24.199 --> 00:02:27.599 and you can't quantify that, but it's real and I 39 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:32.759 don't think people, if they're being honest, feel generally safe 40 00:02:32.840 --> 00:02:35.800 when they go about their way here in Los Angeles 41 00:02:35.800 --> 00:02:38.919 County and this is the first step into changing that, 42 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:42.039 and part of it is taking law enforcement and the 43 00:02:42.159 --> 00:02:47.599 laws seriously prosecuting crimes as they should. And we'll see 44 00:02:47.639 --> 00:02:49.840 what happens with Nathan Hoffmann and see if we get 45 00:02:50.039 --> 00:02:52.919 something different than what we had before. It's a CAFI 46 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:55.599 election desk. I'm Moe Kelly. We're going to check in 47 00:02:55.639 --> 00:02:58.319 with Steve Roberts of ABC News and look at the 48 00:02:58.439 --> 00:03:02.039 national scene and the latest as far as state projections 49 00:03:02.360 --> 00:03:05.080 and whether there has been any updates to what we 50 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:06.400 know in the presidential race. 51 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:10.639 You're listening to later with Moe Kelly on demand from 52 00:03:10.759 --> 00:03:12.319 KFI Am sixty. 53 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:18.919 Is the election Desk on mo Kelly as we continue 54 00:03:19.199 --> 00:03:25.120 to follow the events all across the nation, races both federal, national, 55 00:03:25.240 --> 00:03:28.439 and local. Joining me right now is Steve Roberts, ABC 56 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:32.560 News political analysts to give us some analysis of what's 57 00:03:32.599 --> 00:03:33.800 going on around the country. 58 00:03:33.960 --> 00:03:35.599 Steve, how are you doing this evening? I know it's 59 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:36.360 late where you are. 60 00:03:37.159 --> 00:03:40.639 Yeah, it's gotten later too. It's gotten later for Kamala 61 00:03:40.719 --> 00:03:46.759 Harris too. You know, I think that any fair look 62 00:03:46.840 --> 00:03:49.919 at the trend lines now. We're very careful at ABC. 63 00:03:50.120 --> 00:03:53.400 We don't call races until we're absolutely sure. But the 64 00:03:53.479 --> 00:03:58.879 trend line is very clear, and unless something very very 65 00:03:58.919 --> 00:04:03.520 unusual happens, Trump is going to win this election. And 66 00:04:03.560 --> 00:04:06.800 this core reason for this is very obvious in actually 67 00:04:06.840 --> 00:04:11.520 in the exit polls from the very beginning mode this election. 68 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:14.280 Despite all of the turmoil of Biden getting out and 69 00:04:14.360 --> 00:04:18.639 Harris getting in and Trump getting shot, the basic parameters, 70 00:04:18.680 --> 00:04:22.120 the basic foundation of this election has been exactly the 71 00:04:22.160 --> 00:04:25.360 same from day one, and that is that about two 72 00:04:25.480 --> 00:04:30.800 thirds to three quarters of Americans tell polsters we don't 73 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:33.240 like the direction of the country. We're paying too much 74 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:37.000 for gas and groceries, where don't like inflation. Inflation is 75 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:40.639 always the most damaging of issues. It affects every family 76 00:04:40.680 --> 00:04:46.120 in Los Angeles every day. But it's beyond prices. There 77 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:50.079 is this global gloom. Oh there's this infection of the 78 00:04:50.120 --> 00:04:53.399 spirit that has lasted long after the infection of COVID 79 00:04:53.399 --> 00:04:57.839 has gone away, and it helped defeat Donald Trump four 80 00:04:57.879 --> 00:05:01.560 years ago. It's defeating ruling parties in the UK and 81 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:05.399 all over the world. And so when you step back 82 00:05:06.920 --> 00:05:10.920 in some ways tonight was inevitable that asking Kamala Harris 83 00:05:10.959 --> 00:05:15.879 to run as an incumbent vice president when the country 84 00:05:15.959 --> 00:05:19.160 is so gloomy, it was an enormously difficult task. 85 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:21.959 Well, there was history which was working against hers, just 86 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:25.839 as far as vice presidents trying to become president usually 87 00:05:25.879 --> 00:05:30.000 don't do well, with the notable exception of George H. W. 88 00:05:30.319 --> 00:05:32.560 Bush. We know what happened to al Gore and what 89 00:05:32.759 --> 00:05:33.079 have you. 90 00:05:33.399 --> 00:05:37.199 But I wonder, though, was this more You say that 91 00:05:37.279 --> 00:05:40.879 there was an economic reason primarily, how much do you 92 00:05:40.920 --> 00:05:43.759 think was it an embrace of Donald Trump as well? 93 00:05:44.959 --> 00:05:45.199 Well? 94 00:05:45.240 --> 00:05:49.759 Sure, you know, it's always hard to evaluate which variables 95 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:54.000 were more important, because, as you certainly rightly point out, 96 00:05:54.000 --> 00:06:00.120 mode every voter is a combination of many factors. And 97 00:06:00.759 --> 00:06:03.240 you know, a woman whom I care about reproductive rights 98 00:06:03.240 --> 00:06:06.040 also is paying too much for eggs and milk at 99 00:06:06.040 --> 00:06:08.800 the grocery store. I mean, you know, so everybody is 100 00:06:08.839 --> 00:06:14.240 a mixture of factors. Where you can see evidence of 101 00:06:14.319 --> 00:06:19.480 Trump's personality making a difference is in the votes of 102 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:24.680 black and Latino men. Twenty percent of Black men voted 103 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:30.920 for Donald Trump, but over fifty percent of Latino men 104 00:06:32.319 --> 00:06:35.519 voted for Fifty three percent of Latino men voted for 105 00:06:35.560 --> 00:06:40.600 Donald Trump. And you have to at least hypothesize that 106 00:06:40.680 --> 00:06:44.800 his the whole aura around Donald Trump is sort of 107 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:50.639 strength and power and and and sort of masculinity at 108 00:06:50.759 --> 00:06:53.680 least was one of the reasons why those numbers were 109 00:06:53.720 --> 00:06:56.879 so different. There were enormous gender gaps both the black 110 00:06:56.920 --> 00:07:01.319 and Latino communities. Latino and Black women voted pretty much 111 00:07:01.360 --> 00:07:03.319 the way they have in the past for Harris, but 112 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:05.079 there was a big shift among men. 113 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:07.959 Did you get a sense from at least the data 114 00:07:08.079 --> 00:07:13.000 that there were more black mail and Latino male voters. Now, 115 00:07:13.240 --> 00:07:16.240 if we look at history, the Democratic Party has had 116 00:07:16.279 --> 00:07:21.240 a strong base among Black women voters, less so with 117 00:07:21.319 --> 00:07:23.680 black men. Even though there may have been an upward 118 00:07:23.879 --> 00:07:27.879 shift towards Donald Trump, does the data suggest that more 119 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:30.920 black men came out to vote this particular election cycle. 120 00:07:31.519 --> 00:07:35.600 You know, that's hard to tell. Not really. I haven't 121 00:07:35.639 --> 00:07:39.399 been struck by any real significant shift. The real shift 122 00:07:39.480 --> 00:07:43.399 is in the way they're voted. And you know, you 123 00:07:43.439 --> 00:07:48.519 look at another number that was really striking to me. 124 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:52.240 You know, a week or or so before the election, 125 00:07:52.319 --> 00:07:56.600 there was a lot of talk about late movement toward Democrats. 126 00:07:56.639 --> 00:08:00.560 There was that outlying Poland Iowa was showed Harris had 127 00:08:00.560 --> 00:08:04.279 by three points. There was all this talk about momentum 128 00:08:04.319 --> 00:08:07.120 on the Harris side. They were putting out press releases, 129 00:08:07.199 --> 00:08:10.959 and it didn't show up tonight. In fact, of the 130 00:08:11.399 --> 00:08:14.680 folks who decided in the last week or so, by 131 00:08:14.759 --> 00:08:18.519 seven points, they voted for Donald Trump, not Harris. So 132 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:22.680 that's yet one more number to factor into the mix. 133 00:08:22.720 --> 00:08:26.519 But you made a very important point, and it's not 134 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:31.680 just that Harris was caught in this trying to run 135 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:35.639 as the vice president from with a very unpopular administration. 136 00:08:36.519 --> 00:08:41.080 But history is really very telling here. It's sometimes called 137 00:08:41.080 --> 00:08:44.840 the Curse of Martin van Buren. Martin van Buren was 138 00:08:44.840 --> 00:08:48.039 the vice president who has succeeded Andrew Jackson eighteen thirty six, 139 00:08:48.759 --> 00:08:50.600 one hundred and eighty eight years since then. As you 140 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:54.200 point out, George Bush forty one, the only vice president 141 00:08:54.200 --> 00:08:58.000 who's ever been able to run directly. And when the 142 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:01.879 presidents see that, people like both Joe Biden and Richard 143 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:04.960 Nixon had once been vice presidents when they finally won 144 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:08.080 the presidency, but they didn't do it directly. And that's 145 00:09:08.120 --> 00:09:11.840 because there are only two slogans in American politics when 146 00:09:11.840 --> 00:09:15.039 it really comes down to it, you never had it 147 00:09:15.080 --> 00:09:17.919 so good, which is what all incumbents say, and it's 148 00:09:17.919 --> 00:09:20.960 time for change, which is what all challenges say. Now, 149 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:24.519 when you're the vice president of an incumbent party, you 150 00:09:24.639 --> 00:09:27.000 actually got to say both things at the same time. 151 00:09:27.360 --> 00:09:29.840 You got to say, I'm defending the record, I'm proud 152 00:09:29.879 --> 00:09:32.519 of my service in this administration. But by the way, 153 00:09:32.799 --> 00:09:37.200 I'm also a change agent. There's an inherent mixed message. 154 00:09:37.320 --> 00:09:40.559 It's inherently muddled, and you can see this with Kambala Harris. 155 00:09:40.559 --> 00:09:43.159 You could see that day when she was on the View, 156 00:09:43.600 --> 00:09:45.840 when she made one of the worst mistakes of the campaign, 157 00:09:45.840 --> 00:09:48.120 when she was asked, well, can you name a single 158 00:09:48.759 --> 00:09:51.679 issue the difference that I can't think of one because 159 00:09:51.720 --> 00:09:55.000 she was caught. She didn't want to insult Joe Biden, 160 00:09:56.080 --> 00:09:59.519 but at the same time, she came across to someone 161 00:09:59.519 --> 00:10:04.000 who was too tied to the past. Even though she 162 00:10:04.120 --> 00:10:06.960 kept talking about changing the page and talking about turning 163 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:10.639 over in a new day, she was inevitably tied to Trump, 164 00:10:10.679 --> 00:10:14.279 and Trump's ads hammered that home. They talked all the 165 00:10:14.360 --> 00:10:17.480 time about how it's been three and a half years 166 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:20.720 she's been part of the Biden administration. They showed every 167 00:10:20.720 --> 00:10:23.440 ad I saw in the last few days started with 168 00:10:23.559 --> 00:10:27.559 images of Biden and Harris standing together and holding hands, 169 00:10:27.559 --> 00:10:31.320 and they just hammered home because they knew that this 170 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:33.320 was the single biggest weakness she had. 171 00:10:33.679 --> 00:10:35.399 Steve Roberts, I'm running out of time with you, but 172 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:37.240 let me ask you this question, and this is a 173 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:39.639 general question. As I look at the Senate map and 174 00:10:39.679 --> 00:10:43.320 I looked at Republicans they now have control of the Senate, 175 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:46.600 that the House is still to be decided, is it 176 00:10:46.759 --> 00:10:50.639 fair to posit that this might be beyond Kamala Harris 177 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:54.360 a referendum against Democrats, and the Democratic Party is going 178 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:56.679 to have to do some soul searching between now and 179 00:10:56.759 --> 00:10:57.720 the next midterms. 180 00:10:58.840 --> 00:10:59.720 I think that's certainly. 181 00:11:00.279 --> 00:11:03.080 I mean, the Democrats have already clearly lost the Senate 182 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:09.399 seat in Ohio incumbent there Sheried Brown. Their incumbents in 183 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:12.480 Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are hanging by a thread. They could 184 00:11:12.559 --> 00:11:17.039 lose as well. You know, But you're right to point 185 00:11:17.039 --> 00:11:19.559 out the importance of the House because and then right 186 00:11:19.600 --> 00:11:22.679 there in southern California, as you well know, some of 187 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:25.399 the key races are going to decide in the end 188 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:29.360 whether the Democrats take the House. If Donald Trump this 189 00:11:29.639 --> 00:11:32.080 this next couple of years in Washington. 190 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:33.879 Will be very, very different. 191 00:11:35.080 --> 00:11:38.399 If Donald Trump comes in not only with the Senate, 192 00:11:38.440 --> 00:11:42.039 but with the House and also of course a Supreme Court. 193 00:11:42.120 --> 00:11:45.879 With a Supreme Court with a conservative majority, There'll be 194 00:11:45.919 --> 00:11:50.600 no guardrails, there'll be no obstacles. If the Democrats manage 195 00:11:50.600 --> 00:11:54.200 even by one seat to hold the House, that means 196 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:56.879 that they will have some leverage, they will have some power. 197 00:11:56.919 --> 00:11:57.799 If they don't hold the. 198 00:11:57.759 --> 00:12:02.120 House, they'll be left with only one source of any 199 00:12:02.200 --> 00:12:05.320 kind of leverage or power in Washington, and that's the 200 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:09.559 Senate philibuster. And it wasn't that long ago that a 201 00:12:09.559 --> 00:12:12.720 whole lot of Democrats, including Joe Biden and Kamla Harris, 202 00:12:12.759 --> 00:12:15.159 said let's do away with the philibusters and we can 203 00:12:15.200 --> 00:12:18.440 pass all these wonderful things. Aren't they really glad that 204 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:21.080 they are going to have the filibuster if that's the 205 00:12:21.159 --> 00:12:24.159 only way they can exert any kind of checking balance 206 00:12:24.200 --> 00:12:24.960 on Donald Trump. 207 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:26.279 We will find out. 208 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:29.080 Steve Roberts, ABC News Political Analysts, thank you so much 209 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:30.600 for staying up late with us, and. 210 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:31.240 Thank you for what you do. 211 00:12:31.919 --> 00:12:35.039 Sure anytime, I am six forty is the election desk, 212 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:36.879 I'm o Kelly we'll have more in just a moment. 213 00:12:37.360 --> 00:12:40.919 You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from 214 00:12:41.039 --> 00:12:42.639 KFI AM six forty. 215 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:48.279 It's the CAFI election Desk. I'm o Kelly. We're live 216 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:50.120 everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. 217 00:12:50.120 --> 00:12:53.120 And joining us right now with some local updates is 218 00:12:53.200 --> 00:12:56.240 kfi's own Michael Monks, who joins me in studio. Michael, 219 00:12:56.240 --> 00:12:57.879 how long has your dave been going today? 220 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:02.639 You know, I attended the city council meeting this morning 221 00:13:02.840 --> 00:13:04.600 into the afternoon just to you know, take some notes 222 00:13:04.679 --> 00:13:06.320 he was going on. I didn't want to miss anything. 223 00:13:06.360 --> 00:13:08.440 And now here we are. 224 00:13:08.799 --> 00:13:10.679 I see your five o'clock shadow, but it's not really 225 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:12.879 a five o'clock shadow because it's like ten o'clock at 226 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:16.559 night it is, and it starts three days earlier, so 227 00:13:16.600 --> 00:13:19.600 it's about five o'clock Monday shadow. 228 00:13:19.600 --> 00:13:22.759 I suppose you got it that row very fast. Anything 229 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:26.000 surprising in the data that you have right now? Where 230 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:27.600 would you like to start? Sure? 231 00:13:27.639 --> 00:13:29.639 So, I mean, you know, I'm following the county, I'm 232 00:13:29.639 --> 00:13:32.440 following the city. So I've got some county ballot measures 233 00:13:32.480 --> 00:13:34.559 and the la City council races that are going on. 234 00:13:34.799 --> 00:13:36.559 Let's start with Measure A. All right, let's do it. 235 00:13:36.559 --> 00:13:36.919 Measure A. 236 00:13:37.039 --> 00:13:39.919 This is this will impact everybody who buys anything in 237 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:41.919 the city, right Like, so, we're already currently paying a 238 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:46.879 quarter cent sales tax to support homeless efforts on purchases, 239 00:13:47.480 --> 00:13:51.720 and that is supposed to go away in measure that 240 00:13:52.039 --> 00:13:54.200 used to be. Yes, that's what the current one is exactly. 241 00:13:54.559 --> 00:13:56.559 These measures start to get confused, I guess it is. 242 00:13:56.879 --> 00:14:01.759 But the current Measure A would basically repeal that one, 243 00:14:02.080 --> 00:14:04.159 but not get rid of it. It would double the 244 00:14:04.200 --> 00:14:07.039 amount that you're paying in order to fund homelessness. So 245 00:14:07.080 --> 00:14:09.120 from a quarter cent sales tax to a half a 246 00:14:09.159 --> 00:14:12.320 cent sales pack at sales tax without us on st clause, 247 00:14:12.399 --> 00:14:17.279 So in perpetuity and extra ever, forever, ever, ever, until 248 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:20.440 you a voter or somebody says, Okay, enough is enough, 249 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:22.639 let's put it on the ballot to repeal it. That's 250 00:14:22.679 --> 00:14:26.799 winning right now pretty overwhelmingly fifty five to forty five percent. 251 00:14:26.919 --> 00:14:29.399 So yes, we're going to have more sales tax. 252 00:14:30.080 --> 00:14:32.879 What I saw from the campaign and support of this 253 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:35.120 was a lot of the large nonprofits in the area, 254 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:38.600 including the United Way, pushing the message that if we 255 00:14:38.639 --> 00:14:42.919 don't adopt this, the people who have been helped and 256 00:14:43.120 --> 00:14:46.879 brought into housing from homelessness will be back on the street. 257 00:14:47.080 --> 00:14:48.960 Is this a guilt conscience where we feel like you, 258 00:14:49.200 --> 00:14:51.200 if I just say yes to this, I've done my 259 00:14:51.320 --> 00:14:53.519 little part to help in homelessness. 260 00:14:53.559 --> 00:14:54.080 Be damned. 261 00:14:54.080 --> 00:14:56.679 The fact that we haven't made any inroads. It just 262 00:14:56.679 --> 00:14:59.279 seems like it feels like that. This is what I 263 00:14:59.399 --> 00:15:00.000 was anticipated. 264 00:15:00.399 --> 00:15:02.960 This was because remember, just last year we voted on 265 00:15:03.159 --> 00:15:05.840 or just in the primaries, we voted on a statewide 266 00:15:05.879 --> 00:15:09.399 ballot measure related to more funding for mental health and 267 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:11.720 homelessness and that sort of thing. It was very close, 268 00:15:12.240 --> 00:15:14.279 and so I was curious about how this one was 269 00:15:14.320 --> 00:15:17.440 going to turn out, whether folks have decided, Look, we've 270 00:15:17.480 --> 00:15:21.159 thrown billions of dollars at this problem. We're not seeing 271 00:15:21.279 --> 00:15:26.519 any tangible difference in testing exactly. Now you'll hear from 272 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:29.720 homeless advocates and the organizations that are supported by these 273 00:15:29.759 --> 00:15:33.279 funds that homeless homelessness finally dropped in both the city 274 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:36.480 and the county very modestly, but after years of an increase, 275 00:15:36.519 --> 00:15:38.960 it did level off and drop for the first time 276 00:15:38.960 --> 00:15:41.720 in the official homeless count that was released earlier this year. 277 00:15:42.120 --> 00:15:44.879 So they may think they've got some momentum and maybe 278 00:15:44.879 --> 00:15:46.679 with a little more money they'll be able to address 279 00:15:46.679 --> 00:15:49.320 it more. But right now the voters agree fifty five 280 00:15:49.360 --> 00:15:51.759 percent to forty five percent. I think the most surprising 281 00:15:51.759 --> 00:15:54.600 one that I'm seeing, though, mo is is measured G 282 00:15:55.360 --> 00:15:58.440 and this was the proposal to take the five county 283 00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:02.919 supervisors and make them not county supervisors and CEO. 284 00:16:03.039 --> 00:16:04.440 This is basically a county mayor. 285 00:16:04.919 --> 00:16:07.240 And based on the support that I mean, like every 286 00:16:07.639 --> 00:16:10.279 week I was getting press releases, We're gonna have Asians 287 00:16:10.320 --> 00:16:13.440 for measure, G, Gays for measure, G, Jews for measured G, 288 00:16:13.639 --> 00:16:14.600 Latinos from measure. 289 00:16:14.639 --> 00:16:15.720 It was all these different. 290 00:16:17.039 --> 00:16:21.080 Rank that opportunity on their right. It looks like President 291 00:16:21.120 --> 00:16:22.559 Trump's gonna be an office. I think it'll be allowed 292 00:16:22.600 --> 00:16:27.559 to make those jokes. Yeah, we'll see, but all of 293 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:31.240 these different groups who represent diverse viewpoints, because that was 294 00:16:31.279 --> 00:16:33.320 one of the messages that like, look, we've got ten 295 00:16:33.360 --> 00:16:36.799 million people in this county. Each supervisor is basically representing 296 00:16:36.840 --> 00:16:39.720 two million. That's more than some governors, and it doesn't 297 00:16:39.799 --> 00:16:43.360 leave a lot of opportunities for a variety of the 298 00:16:43.399 --> 00:16:47.519 county's rich cultural diversity to be represented. On the Council, 299 00:16:48.039 --> 00:16:50.320 on the Board of Supervisors. I have to say this one. 300 00:16:50.840 --> 00:16:52.559 I thought it was going to pass. You know, I'm 301 00:16:52.559 --> 00:16:54.440 not a good I'm not good at handicapping, But just 302 00:16:54.480 --> 00:16:56.240 based on all the attention it was getting, I thought, 303 00:16:56.440 --> 00:16:58.759 it looks like the right people are supporting this. I 304 00:16:58.759 --> 00:17:02.200 guess it's been fifty to fifty right now, maybe fifty 305 00:17:02.279 --> 00:17:03.600 one forty nine. 306 00:17:03.799 --> 00:17:06.480 At no is winning right now. 307 00:17:06.599 --> 00:17:09.240 No on that, I thought if it didn't have the 308 00:17:09.279 --> 00:17:12.640 CEO component, it would have passed overwhelmingly. 309 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:15.359 Are you saying you wouldn't want another mayor in La County? 310 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:18.200 Well, not only that, it just was unclear, and I 311 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:20.599 talked to a number of the supervisors about it directly. 312 00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:24.079 It was unclear as far as how that position would work. 313 00:17:24.359 --> 00:17:27.240 There weren't any real term limits. There wasn't clarity about 314 00:17:27.559 --> 00:17:31.319 how the supervisors county supervisors would be subordinate to this person. 315 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:34.119 If they said, hey, we're going to go from five 316 00:17:34.200 --> 00:17:38.799 to nine and make it more manageable and less unwieldy, 317 00:17:39.079 --> 00:17:41.160 I think voters would have passed that overwhelmingly. 318 00:17:41.799 --> 00:17:44.000 I think you might be right about that, because there 319 00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:46.319 did seem to be a Now, look, this is also 320 00:17:46.359 --> 00:17:48.759 something that's come up over the years and has been 321 00:17:48.759 --> 00:17:52.599 rejected by La County voters eight times. But they basically 322 00:17:52.680 --> 00:17:55.680 had the same number of supervisors for I mean since 323 00:17:55.759 --> 00:17:58.599 nineteen fifteen, and the county's population has grown. So a 324 00:17:58.599 --> 00:18:01.839 lot of the arguments you heard made sense objectively, like, yeah, 325 00:18:01.960 --> 00:18:03.799 you know, there are a lot more people living here 326 00:18:03.839 --> 00:18:06.200 and the same number of people representing all these different 327 00:18:06.200 --> 00:18:08.759 points of view, It does make sense to at least 328 00:18:08.759 --> 00:18:11.400 consider how you might be able to get closer to government. 329 00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:15.039 They do it with the census as far as congressional representatives, 330 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:16.720 so why not do it on a county level. 331 00:18:16.759 --> 00:18:17.240 Exactly. 332 00:18:17.279 --> 00:18:19.680 That's exactly right, and that was the argument that was taken, 333 00:18:19.720 --> 00:18:22.279 and it's very curious to me that it's as close. 334 00:18:22.319 --> 00:18:24.720 This is also an issue that divided the current Board 335 00:18:24.720 --> 00:18:27.119 of Supervisors. Now I attend a lot of their meetings too, 336 00:18:27.160 --> 00:18:30.319 every Tuesday, and most of the stuff sales through. They're 337 00:18:30.359 --> 00:18:32.480 a very polite group to one another. They tend to 338 00:18:32.519 --> 00:18:36.039 vote five nothing on things, occasional dissent on an item 339 00:18:36.119 --> 00:18:39.400 here or there. This one created some very serious friction. 340 00:18:39.559 --> 00:18:43.039 Holly Mitchell and also Catherine Barger, who you would think 341 00:18:43.079 --> 00:18:47.920 are ideologically opposed to just about everything were in agreement. 342 00:18:47.960 --> 00:18:50.839 As far as the opposition to this, they absolutely were. 343 00:18:50.920 --> 00:18:54.759 So Catherine Barger, a Republican from you know, the High Desert, 344 00:18:54.799 --> 00:18:57.400 I guess, and Holly Mitchell from here in the city 345 00:18:57.599 --> 00:19:02.279 is jus my supervisor. Yeah, so they teamed up to 346 00:19:02.279 --> 00:19:04.559 say like this was rushed through, it was not well 347 00:19:04.599 --> 00:19:05.000 thought out. 348 00:19:05.039 --> 00:19:07.279 They also said they support. 349 00:19:07.039 --> 00:19:09.480 Exploring an expansion of the board, but they didn't like 350 00:19:09.559 --> 00:19:12.319 this proposal at all. What was strange was that the 351 00:19:12.359 --> 00:19:17.359 opposition of this really had no serious campaign. The yes 352 00:19:17.640 --> 00:19:20.960 on g had a lot of press and push this 353 00:19:21.079 --> 00:19:22.640 really hard, and for it to be as tight as 354 00:19:22.799 --> 00:19:24.519 it is is really interesting. 355 00:19:24.720 --> 00:19:26.480 Michael, can I lean on you to get one more 356 00:19:26.519 --> 00:19:28.400 segment out of you because we got to talk about 357 00:19:28.400 --> 00:19:32.119 the La City Council, whether Kevin de Leone has another life, 358 00:19:32.240 --> 00:19:35.440 did he avoid the end of his political career somehow, 359 00:19:35.480 --> 00:19:38.000 some way? And also Prop thirty six. We all know 360 00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:39.920 what's going to happen with Prop thirty six, But what 361 00:19:39.960 --> 00:19:43.960 does it mean? You know, after Prop thirty six passes, 362 00:19:44.279 --> 00:19:46.920 it's the KFI election desk. I'm mo Kelly sitting in 363 00:19:47.039 --> 00:19:49.160 with Michael Monks will have more just a moment CAFI 364 00:19:49.200 --> 00:19:51.799 AM six forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app. 365 00:19:52.240 --> 00:19:55.839 You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from 366 00:19:55.920 --> 00:19:57.759 KFI AM six forty. 367 00:20:00.319 --> 00:20:03.480 KFI Election Desk. I'm Mo Kelly. We're live everywhere on 368 00:20:03.519 --> 00:20:04.480 the iHeartRadio app. 369 00:20:04.480 --> 00:20:08.119 And joining me in studio is still Michael Monks, kfi's 370 00:20:08.160 --> 00:20:09.359 own Michael. 371 00:20:09.480 --> 00:20:11.920 Let me just give everyone the national update. 372 00:20:12.599 --> 00:20:16.400 Georgia has just been called for former President Trump. 373 00:20:16.720 --> 00:20:17.880 It adds to a total. 374 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:22.000 So my tope board, as it were, is Donald Trump 375 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:27.200 two forty eight, Kamala Harris two sixteen. That's the national 376 00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:31.519 Senior And you and I were talking about how Ohio interesting, 377 00:20:31.799 --> 00:20:35.160 What is going on in Ohio, how the Democratic incumbent 378 00:20:35.640 --> 00:20:40.640 Shared Brown lost to a relative unknown, relative unknown, and 379 00:20:41.359 --> 00:20:44.559 how the politics of that state have shifted so greatly 380 00:20:44.599 --> 00:20:46.319 in the past I'll say six years or so. 381 00:20:46.799 --> 00:20:49.519 I come here directly from the Cincinnati media market. That's 382 00:20:49.519 --> 00:20:51.359 where I worked for a long time, interviewed Shared Brown 383 00:20:51.519 --> 00:20:54.319 many times, and even interviewed Bernie Marino when he was 384 00:20:54.440 --> 00:20:56.799 just a guy who owned car dealerships because he was 385 00:20:56.839 --> 00:20:58.680 going to open a new one in an area that 386 00:20:58.720 --> 00:21:02.759 I covered as a newsman. There and it is interesting 387 00:21:02.920 --> 00:21:07.799 that Ohio has become very reflective of the rural urban 388 00:21:07.880 --> 00:21:10.839 divide that we see across the country. Ohio is a 389 00:21:10.920 --> 00:21:13.599 very populous state. You know, there's about ten million people 390 00:21:13.640 --> 00:21:16.640 there and there's probably five good sized cities, and when 391 00:21:16.680 --> 00:21:18.079 you look at the map of how they vote, it's 392 00:21:18.079 --> 00:21:23.720 exactly what you would think. It's overwhelmingly blue and Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Toledo, Dayton, 393 00:21:24.279 --> 00:21:28.240 and read everywhere else and there is a very serious 394 00:21:28.279 --> 00:21:32.599 disconnect between the city and the country. Shared Brown, over 395 00:21:32.640 --> 00:21:35.200 all these years has been able to bridge those gaps. 396 00:21:35.279 --> 00:21:38.039 And I made the comparison off there talking about how 397 00:21:38.079 --> 00:21:40.680 he was able to connect even though it was a 398 00:21:40.759 --> 00:21:44.039 my word, rural state in the way that Joe Manchin 399 00:21:44.160 --> 00:21:47.920 did in rural West Virginia or John Tester did in 400 00:21:47.960 --> 00:21:49.160 a rural Montana. 401 00:21:49.799 --> 00:21:52.960