WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.839 I've been pretty pessimistic about the state of California politics. 2 00:00:03.879 --> 00:00:09.320 I mean, who what sane person would be optimistic? But 3 00:00:09.400 --> 00:00:14.880 even so I think I've been more particularly pessimistic than 4 00:00:14.919 --> 00:00:17.480 a lot of people. I think you will still sometimes 5 00:00:18.039 --> 00:00:22.000 when you do politicky kind of things like I do, 6 00:00:24.879 --> 00:00:27.239 you will get people who view you as some kind 7 00:00:27.280 --> 00:00:29.519 of an expert, which far from it. I'm just the 8 00:00:29.559 --> 00:00:33.119 guy with the microphone who'll come up to you and ask, well. 9 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:36.719 Where is it gonna take to take this state back? 10 00:00:38.679 --> 00:00:42.439 What's it gonna take for California to stop this and 11 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:46.000 for us to take our state back? I guess, first 12 00:00:46.039 --> 00:00:48.920 of all, I would challenge the contention that it was 13 00:00:48.960 --> 00:00:50.600 ever our state to begin with. I don't know that 14 00:00:50.679 --> 00:00:54.719 California was ever some kind of conservative bastion at any point. Nonetheless, 15 00:00:56.600 --> 00:01:04.040 I think there's this constant attitude among right wingers, what. 16 00:01:04.359 --> 00:01:07.760 Can we do to fix this? Like like that there 17 00:01:07.879 --> 00:01:14.560 is some kind of solution that we can put in 18 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:19.400 place that will fix things in something approaching a timely fashion. 19 00:01:19.439 --> 00:01:26.200 And I would say the prospect of bringing California to 20 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:31.319 something approaching sanity is going to be as it's not 21 00:01:31.400 --> 00:01:34.000 going to happen next election. It's going to be a 22 00:01:34.159 --> 00:01:38.200 painful process. It's not going to get fixed in one 23 00:01:38.239 --> 00:01:41.920 election cycle. It just isn't. It's going to take a 24 00:01:42.040 --> 00:01:47.159 long time, a lot of effort, a lot of intelligent 25 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:50.680 work from the ground up. And I think there are 26 00:01:50.719 --> 00:01:53.760 some smart, sort of think tanky type people, but there's 27 00:01:54.439 --> 00:01:59.159 very little intelligent political work being done in California at 28 00:01:59.159 --> 00:02:03.400 the state Republican level or what have you. I don't 29 00:02:03.680 --> 00:02:06.439 see a very good clear path forward. We're in a 30 00:02:06.560 --> 00:02:10.479 bad shape in this state where seeming to head in 31 00:02:10.599 --> 00:02:13.400 worse shape. I mean, my wife and I have been 32 00:02:13.680 --> 00:02:17.520 just like groaning and rolling our eyes at the prospect 33 00:02:17.560 --> 00:02:20.719 that here's the California Air Resources Board announcing that basically 34 00:02:20.759 --> 00:02:24.199 they're going to introduce new regulations to make gas fifty 35 00:02:24.240 --> 00:02:28.400 cents a gallon cheaper. The legislature went forward with this 36 00:02:28.520 --> 00:02:35.680 completely unnecessary special session over the last few months to 37 00:02:35.800 --> 00:02:41.520 go after price gouging by the gas companies who are 38 00:02:42.280 --> 00:02:45.080 price gouging no more than they are anywhere else in 39 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:47.120 the country, and which, by the way, if the state 40 00:02:47.159 --> 00:02:50.800 could prove that these gas companies were price gouging, they 41 00:02:50.840 --> 00:02:54.479 would initiate anti trust proceedings against them. They wouldn't be 42 00:02:54.560 --> 00:02:57.159 doing the kind of political posturing and Gavenusm's doing. They 43 00:02:57.199 --> 00:03:02.159 passed these ridiculous new laws to say, oh, gas refineries 44 00:03:02.199 --> 00:03:07.479 in California have to maintain an artificially high level of 45 00:03:07.560 --> 00:03:12.560 supply at all times so that there aren't spikes when 46 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:17.240 there are spikes in demand, that there aren't spikes in price, 47 00:03:19.199 --> 00:03:21.800 which the refineries are saying, this is idiotic. You're just 48 00:03:22.280 --> 00:03:25.080 that's gonna put additional cost on us. You're just gonna 49 00:03:25.080 --> 00:03:30.360 permanently have higher prices. So you see, California just doubling 50 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:36.080 down on so many bad ideas, where like, bad things 51 00:03:36.120 --> 00:03:41.639 are happening, and the voters keep voting for people who 52 00:03:41.759 --> 00:03:45.439 doubled down on terrible ideas, and the voters themselves vote 53 00:03:45.439 --> 00:03:50.240 for terrible ideas. Our education systems not doing great. The 54 00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:55.120 voters vote to give our public schools a ten billion 55 00:03:55.159 --> 00:03:59.319 dollar bond measure. We're gonna give the schools ten billion, 56 00:03:59.319 --> 00:04:01.639 and it's going to cost us, the taxpayers, twenty billion 57 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:04.560 over time. We vote to give ten billion dollars to 58 00:04:04.639 --> 00:04:13.439 various unspecified environmental projects through Proposition four. That's proposition two 59 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:17.000 in Proposition four that Californians voted for giving bond measure 60 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:20.480 money to all these liberal pet projects. So in many 61 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:22.480 ways I feel like California is going to get worse 62 00:04:22.519 --> 00:04:31.639 before it gets better. However, I do think the seeds 63 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:40.639 of some kind of a movement towards sanity in certain 64 00:04:40.680 --> 00:04:46.759 respects and with regards to certain kinds of things can 65 00:04:46.839 --> 00:04:51.199 be found in the results of the twenty twenty four elections. 66 00:04:53.319 --> 00:04:58.759 California went for Kamala Harris, Yes, of course. California voted 67 00:04:58.800 --> 00:05:06.000 for Adam Schiff by a massive margin. Yes, of course. However, 68 00:05:06.040 --> 00:05:11.680 there were some results that were surprising and surprisingly conservative. 69 00:05:13.759 --> 00:05:18.720 Proposition thirty six passed with overwhelming support. Over seventy percent 70 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:26.839 of Californians voted in favor of it. This reclassifies certain 71 00:05:26.959 --> 00:05:33.680 kinds of drug and theft offenses as felonies rather than misdemeanors. 72 00:05:35.519 --> 00:05:40.240 Californians were clearly tired of smash and grab robberies. They 73 00:05:40.240 --> 00:05:43.800 are tired of the state of criminal law enforcement in 74 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:50.399 California that was accompanied by a couple of extreme left 75 00:05:50.519 --> 00:05:55.959 figures losing their jobs. The mayor of Oakland got recalled 76 00:05:56.079 --> 00:06:01.000 two years into her administration. George Gascon, ultra left wing 77 00:06:01.040 --> 00:06:04.560 district attorney of Los Angeles County, the most populous county 78 00:06:04.639 --> 00:06:13.040 in the United States of America, got voted out of office. 79 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:17.800 So you're beginning to see I think you're beginning to 80 00:06:17.839 --> 00:06:24.360 see something of an opening, something of a pathway. There 81 00:06:24.439 --> 00:06:29.040 are certain things that the voters of California are expressing. 82 00:06:34.199 --> 00:06:36.920 They are expressing. First of all, I think here's my 83 00:06:37.319 --> 00:06:43.759 first my initial thesis, the defund the police movement is dead. 84 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:52.639 Defund the police is dead. Defund the police, and the 85 00:06:52.759 --> 00:07:01.000 broader criminal justice agenda that surrounded it, which was basically 86 00:07:01.079 --> 00:07:05.560 one of criminal non enforcement on the basis of race. 87 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:13.879 George Soros wanted to reshape criminal law enforcement in America. 88 00:07:14.600 --> 00:07:18.079 Soros and others on the left believed this sort of 89 00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:24.040 fundamental premise that criminal law enforcement in America is hopelessly racist, 90 00:07:24.959 --> 00:07:34.519 that the criminal justice outcomes showing that African Americans are arrested, prosecuted, convicted, 91 00:07:35.079 --> 00:07:38.839 incarcerated at rates that far outstrip their share of the 92 00:07:38.920 --> 00:07:44.079 population is all evidence. These outcomes are all evidence of racism. 93 00:07:44.240 --> 00:07:49.199 The inequity of the outcomes is evidence of racism in 94 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:58.480 the system. Their proposed solution is we need to rethink 95 00:07:58.519 --> 00:08:01.079 criminal law enforcement, whether we need to be locking all 96 00:08:01.079 --> 00:08:04.439 these people up, so let's not lock all these people up, 97 00:08:08.319 --> 00:08:13.519 and they sort of recast almost crimes like theft as well, 98 00:08:13.600 --> 00:08:17.240 that's a that's a that's a crime of a status crime. 99 00:08:17.279 --> 00:08:19.519 That's a crime you only commit because you're poor. Why 100 00:08:19.560 --> 00:08:22.360 are we punishing that so severely? Why are we punishing 101 00:08:22.360 --> 00:08:27.279 our brown people black and brown bodies, as ton Heasy 102 00:08:27.360 --> 00:08:32.960 Coats always says, which doesn't saying but there This became 103 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:34.799 a trope on the left over the last ten years, 104 00:08:35.240 --> 00:08:39.039 saying why are we incarcerating black and brown bodies for 105 00:08:39.080 --> 00:08:43.440 the sake of our the preconceived notions of criminal justice? 106 00:08:43.639 --> 00:08:46.120 Saying black and brown bodies rather than black and brown people. 107 00:08:47.120 --> 00:08:51.039 It doesn't actually do anything to like change the meaning 108 00:08:51.039 --> 00:08:55.519 of what you're saying. It just sounds more dramatic anyway. 109 00:08:55.559 --> 00:08:58.559 A lot a lot of lefty writers like using that 110 00:08:58.600 --> 00:09:00.960 turn of phrase and always annoys me because it doesn't 111 00:09:00.960 --> 00:09:04.799 actually mean anything different from saying black and brown people. Anyway. 112 00:09:06.840 --> 00:09:09.399 Although I will note, as I've noted to some of 113 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:15.559 my Hispanic friends, the days of quote brown people being 114 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:20.720 a protected category may be shortened. Given that Latinos voted. 115 00:09:21.960 --> 00:09:26.440 I think it was like forty five percent of Latinos 116 00:09:26.559 --> 00:09:29.039 voted for Trump. It was like forty five to fifty 117 00:09:29.080 --> 00:09:33.320 five or something. So you're guess what, Latino's Your days 118 00:09:33.480 --> 00:09:42.759 of being a put upon, oppressed minority subject to liberal 119 00:09:43.159 --> 00:09:47.759 largesse and liberal concern about, oh, the plight of oppressed 120 00:09:47.759 --> 00:09:50.399 communities of color, your days of getting that kind of 121 00:09:50.399 --> 00:09:58.679 concern from the left may well be numbered already. Nicole Hannah, 122 00:09:59.039 --> 00:10:01.559 Oh gosh, what's her name, the gal from the sixteen 123 00:10:01.639 --> 00:10:11.559 nineteen project, Nicole Hannah Nicole Hanna Jones, the former New 124 00:10:11.639 --> 00:10:14.320 York Times columnist who was the author of the sixty 125 00:10:14.440 --> 00:10:17.759 nineteen projects. She's already started to say, based on these 126 00:10:17.759 --> 00:10:21.360 election results, that Latinos don't count as communities of color. 127 00:10:22.960 --> 00:10:27.840 So let's just note that any Hispanics, your inclusion in 128 00:10:27.879 --> 00:10:32.720 the club may now be revoked due to the fact 129 00:10:32.720 --> 00:10:38.000 that too many of you voted for Donald Trump. Now, 130 00:10:38.120 --> 00:10:41.759 where the heck was? I? All right? The project on 131 00:10:41.799 --> 00:10:46.200 the left was, let's just not prosecute whole swaths of 132 00:10:46.279 --> 00:10:50.440 crime because we think the enforcement of these laws is racist. 133 00:10:50.480 --> 00:10:54.360 It's racist in its effect, therefore it's racist, and so 134 00:10:54.840 --> 00:10:59.679 let's not have as much policing in those neighborhoods. Let's 135 00:10:59.799 --> 00:11:03.440 not have our prosecutors actually prosecute those crimes. And if 136 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:07.240 the prosecutors don't prosecute those crimes at that immediately undercuts 137 00:11:07.399 --> 00:11:11.799 the policing. Why would police arrest people for doing stuff 138 00:11:12.080 --> 00:11:14.960 if they know that the prosecutor is not going to prosecute. 139 00:11:17.519 --> 00:11:20.440 So Sorows and others realized, well, a lot of these 140 00:11:20.639 --> 00:11:25.799 district attorney races don't have huge dollar amounts and don't 141 00:11:25.840 --> 00:11:30.200 have large numbers of people who actually vote in them, 142 00:11:30.399 --> 00:11:33.519 Like the District Attorney of Manhattan, for example, Alvin Bragg. 143 00:11:34.519 --> 00:11:37.399 He got elected by a grand total of I think 144 00:11:38.399 --> 00:11:40.919 what was it was like eighty thousand people voted for him. 145 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:44.200 He's the District Attorney of Manhattan, the Borough of Manhattan, 146 00:11:44.200 --> 00:11:46.519 which I don't know how many people live in just Manhattan. 147 00:11:46.519 --> 00:11:48.559 It might be like a million people or something. At 148 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:51.919 least it's not all of New York City, but just 149 00:11:52.200 --> 00:11:57.039 the Borough of Manhattan. That's a really small number of 150 00:11:57.080 --> 00:12:01.200 people voting. And what realized is that in a lot 151 00:12:01.240 --> 00:12:04.080 of these DA races, he could swamp these races with 152 00:12:04.279 --> 00:12:09.720 campaign money, completely outspend all the other candidates, and install 153 00:12:09.799 --> 00:12:14.039 people who through what's called prosecutorial discretion. That's the principle 154 00:12:14.080 --> 00:12:18.679 that a prosecutor doesn't have to prosecute every single crime 155 00:12:19.080 --> 00:12:22.279 to the max every single time. The prosecutor needs discretion 156 00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:23.919 to decide, well, I'm going to bring this case, I'm 157 00:12:23.960 --> 00:12:25.600 not going to bring this case. I'm going to bring 158 00:12:25.600 --> 00:12:28.519 this case as a manslaughter case rather than a murder charge. 159 00:12:29.320 --> 00:12:31.320 You know, in order to get a plea deal. You know, 160 00:12:31.759 --> 00:12:34.120 that kind of discretion a prosecutor needs to do. What 161 00:12:34.159 --> 00:12:37.480 these liberal prosecutors were doing was just saying we will 162 00:12:37.559 --> 00:12:41.879 use our discretion to just basically not prosecute whole swaths 163 00:12:42.519 --> 00:12:46.039 of In the case of Georgia Gascon in Los Angeles, 164 00:12:46.200 --> 00:12:55.639 California criminal law, so that whole movement, even in California, 165 00:12:56.559 --> 00:13:00.879 it seems like it's dead. Seventy percent of people in 166 00:13:00.919 --> 00:13:08.159 California voted for Prop thirty six LA County votes out 167 00:13:08.200 --> 00:13:13.000 George Gascon. San Francisco had already voted out Chase A. Boudin. 168 00:13:15.799 --> 00:13:20.080 Clearly California's fed up with this approach to criminal law enforcement. 169 00:13:21.799 --> 00:13:24.720 And that makes me look towards twenty twenty six, who 170 00:13:24.720 --> 00:13:26.279 are all these people who are going to be running 171 00:13:26.279 --> 00:13:28.440 for governor? Well, on the left, it's going to be 172 00:13:28.440 --> 00:13:31.000 a lot of people who said a lot of positive 173 00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:37.559 things about the defund the police movement. Possibly you could 174 00:13:37.639 --> 00:13:41.519 see a lot of people who were really down with 175 00:13:41.639 --> 00:13:51.960 left wing approaches to criminal law enforcement. Javier Bessera, Rob Bonta, 176 00:13:52.440 --> 00:13:54.720 you know, these are names that are being floated as 177 00:13:54.720 --> 00:13:58.279 people who may want to run for governor. I think 178 00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:03.720 there could be a window for report Publicans here. If 179 00:14:03.720 --> 00:14:09.240 Democrats are foolish enough to nominate someone like Rob Bonta, 180 00:14:10.080 --> 00:14:13.799 whose career as ag was characterized by embracing this sort 181 00:14:13.840 --> 00:14:17.600 of left wing approach to criminal law enforcement, if they 182 00:14:17.639 --> 00:14:25.120 nominate someone who opposed Prop thirty six and supported Prop 183 00:14:25.279 --> 00:14:31.039 forty seven ten years ago, I think you could see 184 00:14:31.039 --> 00:14:35.240 an opening for a Republican. It would have to be 185 00:14:35.279 --> 00:14:42.159 the right kind of Republican, couldn't just be anybody. But 186 00:14:42.279 --> 00:14:45.759 I think if you have a Democrat who is clearly 187 00:14:45.960 --> 00:14:52.519 weak on criminal law enforcement, who didn't support Prop thirty six, 188 00:14:54.279 --> 00:14:57.320 if they go against a Republican gubernatorial candidate in twenty 189 00:14:57.360 --> 00:15:02.440 twenty six who did support Prop thirty six and who 190 00:15:02.519 --> 00:15:06.240 really wraps him or herself in the mantle of Prop 191 00:15:06.279 --> 00:15:12.399 thirty six, that could be an opening. I feel like 192 00:15:12.559 --> 00:15:19.480 we need to make Prop. Thirty six into like a 193 00:15:19.559 --> 00:15:24.720 cape that every Republican candidate running for any office throughout 194 00:15:24.759 --> 00:15:28.559 the state wears, and to compare in contrast, and to 195 00:15:29.320 --> 00:15:32.559 hammer any Democrat they're running against over the head with it. 196 00:15:34.720 --> 00:15:39.879 When we return. Dan Walters writing about the sort of odd, 197 00:15:40.480 --> 00:15:43.200 sort of conservative leaning dynamics of the twenty twenty four 198 00:15:43.279 --> 00:15:46.440 race in California. That's next on the John Growardy Show. 199 00:15:47.360 --> 00:15:51.480 Dan Walters, who is a longtime columnist for The Sacramento 200 00:15:51.600 --> 00:15:54.559 b and now runs calmatters dot org, definitely one of 201 00:15:54.600 --> 00:15:57.480 the most insightful people when it comes to California political issues. 202 00:15:59.000 --> 00:16:01.440 He's got a good piece on the twenty forty four 203 00:16:01.480 --> 00:16:06.639 election results where he's noting that there were some real 204 00:16:06.840 --> 00:16:11.080 cracks and Democrat power that were revealed in this election 205 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:14.679 title the piece in deep blue California, voters don't always 206 00:16:14.679 --> 00:16:18.279 march to dem drums, so one of the things he 207 00:16:18.440 --> 00:16:22.240 points out is that there's some real Republican resilience in 208 00:16:22.279 --> 00:16:25.440 a lot of the congressional races in California. He writes, 209 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:29.200 as of Wednesday afternoon, the five Republican congressional I guess 210 00:16:29.200 --> 00:16:32.360 that must have been last Wednesday afternoon, the five Republican 211 00:16:32.399 --> 00:16:35.440 congressional members who had been targeted by Democrats in hopes 212 00:16:35.440 --> 00:16:38.080 of recapturing the House were all running ahead of their 213 00:16:38.120 --> 00:16:41.120 Democratic challengers, albeit by very thin margins, with many votes 214 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:43.399 still to be counted. Although I think Mike Garcia from 215 00:16:43.480 --> 00:16:47.720 California has just conceded, but I think all the others 216 00:16:47.759 --> 00:16:52.279 are winning. Democratic strategists chose the districts because they had 217 00:16:52.360 --> 00:16:54.480 tended to vote for the party's presidential candidates or had 218 00:16:54.559 --> 00:17:00.399 Democratic voter registration pluralities. The dissonance was especially obvious in 219 00:17:00.399 --> 00:17:03.080 the San Juaquin Valley districts of Republicans John Duarte and 220 00:17:03.159 --> 00:17:06.640 David Valadeo, both of which have Democratic voter margins of 221 00:17:06.680 --> 00:17:10.680 well over ten percentage points. Nevertheless, both were narrowly leading 222 00:17:10.720 --> 00:17:14.920 their challengers Wednesday, and as of today, there looks like 223 00:17:14.920 --> 00:17:16.759 both of them are going to pull it out. In 224 00:17:16.799 --> 00:17:20.079 another San Juan Valley district, Democratic Representative Josh Harder is 225 00:17:20.200 --> 00:17:23.480 locked in a very tight duel with Kevin Lincoln, the 226 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:26.799 Republican mayor of Stockton, despite having an eleven point advantage 227 00:17:26.799 --> 00:17:31.559 in Democratic voter registration. Moreover, Republican Scott baw is leading 228 00:17:31.599 --> 00:17:34.000 in the duel for an Orange County congressional seat that 229 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:36.480 Democrat Katie Porter gave up to run for the Senate. 230 00:17:38.799 --> 00:17:40.920 That's the reason why Katie Porter ran for the Senate, 231 00:17:41.039 --> 00:17:45.200 because she realized that might be easier than holding on 232 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:48.440 to her own house seat. Katie Porter is another one 233 00:17:48.440 --> 00:17:52.039 of these people that my wife cannot stand her. Oh 234 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:54.759 my gosh, she hates Katie Porter. The kind of girl 235 00:17:54.880 --> 00:17:59.519 boss attitude she gives off, like the she made a 236 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:04.559 big deal by some like session of Congress like Trump 237 00:18:04.680 --> 00:18:07.039 that Trump was speaking at or something, and she was 238 00:18:07.079 --> 00:18:10.000 reading a book called The Subtle Art of Not Giving 239 00:18:10.079 --> 00:18:13.680 a f. They are all these like self help books 240 00:18:13.680 --> 00:18:15.480 that have been published that have the F wort in 241 00:18:15.519 --> 00:18:18.599 their title, and it's all appealing to millennials. I could 242 00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:22.759 do like a whole segment about this embarrassing millennial thing 243 00:18:24.799 --> 00:18:28.519 that millennials love cursing. I don't know if you notice this. 244 00:18:29.279 --> 00:18:34.000 Millennials love cursing, and they love cursing because they think 245 00:18:34.039 --> 00:18:37.559 it makes them edgy or something, and it's just embarrassing it. 246 00:18:37.759 --> 00:18:42.359 It's this incredibly sophomoric thing. There are all kinds of examples. 247 00:18:42.480 --> 00:18:45.559 I could do a whole second of this anyway, he 248 00:18:45.640 --> 00:18:49.599 also well, getting back to Dan Walter's piece, ballot measures 249 00:18:49.599 --> 00:18:55.680 and local elections reflect conservative leanings. He continues. Tickets splitting 250 00:18:56.000 --> 00:18:59.200 was also evident in down ballot issues, particularly voting for 251 00:18:59.319 --> 00:19:03.240 and against ballet measures with ideological profiles. While about sixty 252 00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:06.640 percent of California voters were opting for Democrats Kamala Harris 253 00:19:06.680 --> 00:19:11.200 and Adam Schiff, more than seventy percent backed Proposition thirty six, 254 00:19:11.839 --> 00:19:15.640 a measure that increases penalties other for some crimes that 255 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:19.799 the state's Democratic leadership, including Governor Gavin Newsom, opposed, to 256 00:19:19.880 --> 00:19:23.920 punctuate the hardening mood on crime even more, two big 257 00:19:23.960 --> 00:19:27.319 city district attorneys who identified with the left leaning criminal 258 00:19:27.400 --> 00:19:31.839 justice reform movement, George Gascon in Los Angeles and Alameda 259 00:19:31.880 --> 00:19:36.279 County's Pamela Price, lost their positions, Gascon to challenger Nathan 260 00:19:36.319 --> 00:19:41.160 Hockman and Price to a recall. Likewise, Proposition five, a 261 00:19:41.200 --> 00:19:43.559 measure to lower the voting requirement from many local bond 262 00:19:43.599 --> 00:19:45.960 issues from two thirds to fifty five percent, backed by 263 00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:49.680 Democratic legislators and their allies and public worker unions, was 264 00:19:49.720 --> 00:19:52.920 failing on Wednesday, with well over fifty percent of voters opposed. 265 00:19:54.640 --> 00:19:58.000 Two other ballot measures reflecting leftist center ideology were also 266 00:19:58.119 --> 00:20:01.319 failing or defeated. Proposition thirty two, which would raise the 267 00:20:01.359 --> 00:20:03.759 state's minimum wage to eighteen dollars an hour, end Proposition 268 00:20:03.839 --> 00:20:05.880 thirty three, which would make it easier for local governments 269 00:20:05.880 --> 00:20:12.279 to impose rent control, was called early Wednesday morning. So 270 00:20:12.680 --> 00:20:16.920 I think Walters is correct here that California is not 271 00:20:17.279 --> 00:20:21.279 quite as lockstep liberal as we make it out. Now, 272 00:20:21.359 --> 00:20:26.480 if you give people generic Republican vote running against generic Democrat, yeah, 273 00:20:26.759 --> 00:20:30.640 generic Republican will lose. Donald Trump will lose to Kamala Harris, 274 00:20:32.240 --> 00:20:34.839 you know, as Steve Garvey will lose to Adam Schiff. 275 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:41.359 But I still think there's an avenue here. I think 276 00:20:41.440 --> 00:20:46.400 there's an avenue for an intelligent Republican governor who really 277 00:20:46.559 --> 00:20:52.880 hammers home Prop thirty six crime issues and then can 278 00:20:52.960 --> 00:20:56.400 lean into like homelessness and stuff like that, depending on 279 00:20:56.559 --> 00:20:59.480 the Democrat he runs against. I think he could make 280 00:20:59.599 --> 00:21:01.640 real hay with it, because I think a lot of 281 00:21:01.640 --> 00:21:05.720 these Democrats didn't want to be too vocal opposing or 282 00:21:05.759 --> 00:21:10.039 supporting Prop thirty six. And I think if you get 283 00:21:10.039 --> 00:21:13.079 the right Republican and he gets some funding behind him, 284 00:21:13.480 --> 00:21:16.480 I think there's a genuine opening for Republicans in twenty 285 00:21:16.480 --> 00:21:19.720 twenty six if they really wrap themselves in these issues. 286 00:21:20.319 --> 00:21:22.400 And this is the way that. Again, I'm not saying 287 00:21:22.440 --> 00:21:27.039 there's a Republicans sweep the governorship and the Assembly and 288 00:21:27.079 --> 00:21:30.000 the Senate in twenty twenty six and a new glorious dawn. 289 00:21:30.079 --> 00:21:34.160 A second, you know, Reagan resurrection happens in California or something. 290 00:21:34.160 --> 00:21:37.079 Even though Ron Reagan was super liberal when he was 291 00:21:37.119 --> 00:21:40.119 governor of California, I think much more liberal than people realize. Nonetheless, 292 00:21:42.599 --> 00:21:47.359 I'm not saying overnight a whole transformation happens in California. 293 00:21:48.359 --> 00:21:51.880 What I am saying is that you're starting to see 294 00:21:52.640 --> 00:21:59.599 some cracks in the liberal monopoly of control over California, 295 00:21:59.759 --> 00:22:05.960 that there are some issues where finally California voters are 296 00:22:06.200 --> 00:22:11.880 starting to have had enough, and that it provides some 297 00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:17.920 kind of a window for an intelligent, well funded Republican 298 00:22:17.960 --> 00:22:23.200 candidate to make some real gains when we return. How 299 00:22:23.200 --> 00:22:26.920 the left was completely inept at trying to get certain 300 00:22:26.960 --> 00:22:30.960 demographics that are slipping out of their fingers, young men 301 00:22:31.319 --> 00:22:36.079 and minorities. Next, on the John Girardi Show, there's an 302 00:22:36.119 --> 00:22:42.400 interesting story in the Spectator about basically the ways in 303 00:22:42.440 --> 00:22:48.599 which the Harris campaign really wildly overspent. Written by Stephen 304 00:22:48.640 --> 00:22:52.559 Miller at The Spectator. The title of the pieces Kamala 305 00:22:52.599 --> 00:22:56.640 Harris ran the Fire Festival of campaigns. Now, for those 306 00:22:56.680 --> 00:22:59.119 who don't know what the fire Festival is, this was 307 00:22:59.160 --> 00:23:02.079 an event that was to happen about when was this. 308 00:23:02.079 --> 00:23:05.480 This was about twelve ten or twelve years ago. It 309 00:23:05.559 --> 00:23:09.319 was called the Fire Festival Fyr and it was supposed 310 00:23:09.319 --> 00:23:12.240 to happen in some Caribbean island and it was really 311 00:23:12.279 --> 00:23:19.279 heavily promoted by certain rappers, and the promoter of the 312 00:23:19.319 --> 00:23:23.039 event was basically engaged in a massive fraud scheme. People 313 00:23:23.160 --> 00:23:26.119 showed up for this event and there was no logistics 314 00:23:26.119 --> 00:23:28.279 for it. It was supposed to be like travel out to 315 00:23:28.319 --> 00:23:33.000 this island, stay at this you know, fancy resort, fancy food, 316 00:23:33.039 --> 00:23:39.119 and the food was like box lunches, and the accommodation 317 00:23:39.480 --> 00:23:44.319 luxury accommodations were like un refugee tents, and there were 318 00:23:44.359 --> 00:23:47.000 like no performance. It was this disastrous thing and the 319 00:23:47.000 --> 00:23:50.839 guy who promoted it was prosecuted. It became kind of 320 00:23:50.839 --> 00:23:53.079 this famous thing on the Internet for millennials to sort 321 00:23:53.119 --> 00:23:57.559 of joke about well, Kamala Harris ran the that of 322 00:23:57.720 --> 00:24:04.039 campaigns is the thesis, and so Steven Miller writes for 323 00:24:04.079 --> 00:24:07.799 The Spectator. As the finger pointing begins and the autopsy 324 00:24:07.839 --> 00:24:10.680 of the Kamala Harris campaign continues, financial details are being 325 00:24:10.680 --> 00:24:13.559 released on how the Harris campaign managed to blow more 326 00:24:13.599 --> 00:24:16.680 than a billion dollars in war chest funds and not 327 00:24:16.720 --> 00:24:19.400 only lose, but get wiped off the electoral map by 328 00:24:19.400 --> 00:24:22.160 Donald Trump, who ended his campaign with roughly four hundred 329 00:24:22.160 --> 00:24:25.480 and eighty eight million dollars. That's not a doctor evil typo. 330 00:24:25.759 --> 00:24:29.480 Kamala Harris not only blew a billion dollars but actually 331 00:24:29.559 --> 00:24:33.079 ended up twenty million dollars in debt. Where did the 332 00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:37.680 money all go to celebrities mostly and elaborate sets and stages. 333 00:24:39.720 --> 00:24:43.000 As it turns out, not all of those celebrity quote 334 00:24:43.000 --> 00:24:46.359 activists appeared with Kamala Harris because they believed in her 335 00:24:46.440 --> 00:24:49.079 or were doing their civic duty by getting engaged. That's 336 00:24:49.119 --> 00:24:51.519 a thing I love when someone's just like an actor 337 00:24:51.599 --> 00:24:57.000 celebrity and they describe themselves as my name is so 338 00:24:57.039 --> 00:24:59.359 and so, I'm an activist and this and that like 339 00:24:59.400 --> 00:25:01.279 always on their t would approached they write that they're 340 00:25:01.279 --> 00:25:04.599 an activist. It's like, no, you're just a rich person. 341 00:25:05.119 --> 00:25:07.039 You're just trying to feel better about yourself. Your job 342 00:25:07.119 --> 00:25:08.960 is to pretend to be other people in front of 343 00:25:09.000 --> 00:25:11.880 a camera, like to chill out. You're You're not that 344 00:25:11.920 --> 00:25:17.759 important anyway. So apparently what was happening is that a 345 00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:25.359 bunch of celebrities who appeared with Kamala Harris and who 346 00:25:25.920 --> 00:25:31.200 especially musical acts who performed concerts at Kamala Harris rallies, 347 00:25:32.319 --> 00:25:37.000 the Harris campaign had to spend a gazillion dollars to 348 00:25:37.240 --> 00:25:40.839 get those acts to come or or to get those 349 00:25:40.880 --> 00:25:52.720 people just to appear. So, as reported in the Washington Examiner, 350 00:25:52.839 --> 00:25:56.000 let's see here, here's here's the uh, here's the centerpiece. 351 00:25:56.720 --> 00:26:01.319 There were seven swing state concerts what the Harris campaign 352 00:26:01.359 --> 00:26:07.759 through that involved high priced performers Katie Perry, Lady Gaga, 353 00:26:08.480 --> 00:26:13.359 John Bon, Jovie, Ricky Martin, and Moore, who seemingly ended 354 00:26:13.440 --> 00:26:17.079 up costing the Harris campaign more than twenty million dollars 355 00:26:17.160 --> 00:26:23.079 on event production alone, and reportedly even more on paying 356 00:26:23.119 --> 00:26:30.400 the celebrities to appear. Even Oprah Winfrey charged the campaign 357 00:26:30.519 --> 00:26:34.920 a million dollars to show up. That's amazing that Oprah 358 00:26:34.960 --> 00:26:38.480 did that. Oprah, here's Oprah Winfrey like showing up on 359 00:26:38.519 --> 00:26:41.039 stage somewhere to support Kamala Harris and he's like, I'll come, 360 00:26:41.039 --> 00:26:43.440 but you gotta pay me a million dollars. What kind 361 00:26:43.480 --> 00:26:50.039 of an endorsement is that? Heck, I'll endorse Kamala Harris 362 00:26:50.079 --> 00:26:53.039 for a million bucks. I'd like to think I wouldn't 363 00:26:53.079 --> 00:26:55.640 sell my soul that cheap. All right, all right, now, 364 00:26:55.680 --> 00:26:58.720 I'm not gonna I'm not going to show up at 365 00:26:58.720 --> 00:27:01.240 a Kamala Harris camp pay event for a million bucks. 366 00:27:01.279 --> 00:27:03.319 But still, the idea that Oprah only showed up for 367 00:27:03.319 --> 00:27:07.000 a million bucks. Doesn't Oprah have enough money? You'd think 368 00:27:07.039 --> 00:27:09.799 if Oprah genuinely believed in this, that she'd have enough 369 00:27:09.839 --> 00:27:14.039 civic mindedness to say, yeah, of course I'll I'll just come. 370 00:27:14.079 --> 00:27:18.359 I endorse you for president. I'm gonna show up. You 371 00:27:18.400 --> 00:27:21.200 don't have to pay me anything to show I'm Oprah Winfrey. 372 00:27:21.279 --> 00:27:23.559 I have more money than God. Why does Oprah need 373 00:27:23.599 --> 00:27:28.559 a million dollars to show up at a Kamala Harris event. 374 00:27:29.319 --> 00:27:32.799 That's unbelievable. The campaign went so far into debt that 375 00:27:32.839 --> 00:27:37.559 the campaign was reportedly forced to scrap Canadian nineties indie 376 00:27:37.559 --> 00:27:43.519 pop singer Alanis Morrissett to save money. The pop concert 377 00:27:43.599 --> 00:27:46.079 campaign strategy is said to have been the brainchild of 378 00:27:46.119 --> 00:27:50.559 former Obama advisors on the campaign. Now, let me read 379 00:27:50.599 --> 00:27:56.119 again that list of that list of performers, because I 380 00:27:56.160 --> 00:28:01.839 think this sort of shows how the Harris campaign had 381 00:28:01.880 --> 00:28:05.079 no idea how to reach out to all these demographics 382 00:28:05.079 --> 00:28:07.920 of people who went hard Trump. Let me read you 383 00:28:07.920 --> 00:28:13.440 that list again and stop me if you think any 384 00:28:13.480 --> 00:28:16.680 of these performers would be appealing to a twenty year 385 00:28:16.720 --> 00:28:22.079 old man as far as like a concert he wants 386 00:28:22.119 --> 00:28:31.000 to go to. Concert wise, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, John 387 00:28:31.119 --> 00:28:36.920 bon Jovi, Ricky Martin, I guess if you're a gay 388 00:28:36.960 --> 00:28:41.599 twenty year old man, maybe an Alanis Morissett, whom they 389 00:28:41.599 --> 00:28:48.559 had to scrap. I'm sorry, what demographic is that lineup 390 00:28:49.240 --> 00:28:54.759 appealing to other than John bon Jovi? Were they only 391 00:28:55.000 --> 00:29:00.240 trying to put on musical acts beloved by gay men? 392 00:29:01.559 --> 00:29:05.039 Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Ricky Martin, Alanis Morris set. Actually 393 00:29:05.039 --> 00:29:06.759 I don't know how the gays feel about Alanis Morisset. 394 00:29:07.319 --> 00:29:12.440 Definitely Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, and Ricky Martin, who exactly 395 00:29:12.559 --> 00:29:15.119 is this appealing to. There was apparent there had been 396 00:29:15.160 --> 00:29:17.039 the rumor they were gonna have Beyonce, but then she 397 00:29:17.079 --> 00:29:21.240 didn't actually perform. She just spoke, which is like having 398 00:29:21.519 --> 00:29:26.359 Beyonce speak at a rally rather than sing at a rally. 399 00:29:26.519 --> 00:29:30.079 It seems kind of like a waste of Beyonce's talents here. 400 00:29:30.400 --> 00:29:34.160 I don't think anyone promoted Beyonce as for her political acumen. 401 00:29:34.200 --> 00:29:36.240