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It is the Wednesday 31 00:01:36,599 --> 00:01:40,680 Rush Hour. I am James Golden Boats nearly welcome to 32 00:01:40,719 --> 00:01:45,000 the fastest hour in American media. 33 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:47,040 Speaker 1: A political earthquake. 34 00:01:49,359 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 7: That's pretty much what happened overnight within the last twenty 35 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:05,879 four hours. The people of New York have decided, or 36 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:10,120 appear to have decided, it won't be official to until 37 00:02:10,159 --> 00:02:14,280 the next step in this ranked choice. Nonsense is done. 38 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:19,800 That and a man that was not even an American 39 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:26,840 citizen until the last few years, thirty three years old. 40 00:02:26,719 --> 00:02:28,159 Speaker 1: Is now poised to. 41 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:36,960 Speaker 7: Run and many people assume become the next mayor of 42 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:43,120 the City of New York unless voters do something. His name, 43 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:55,240 of course, Big Z, the Big z Zoran Madanni Mandani, 44 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:02,159 and it is there are all kinds of references. If 45 00:03:02,199 --> 00:03:04,360 you look at what has happened in London, the ones 46 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:08,120 great city of London, people are forecasting that for what 47 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:11,800 will happen in New York. He is an avowed and 48 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:25,120 open socialist, an unapologetic socialist. Andrew CuMo, who was supposed 49 00:03:25,159 --> 00:03:30,080 to be the establishment's choice candidate to become the next 50 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:36,400 mayor of New York failed miserably. And of course the 51 00:03:36,439 --> 00:03:41,240 conventional wisdom is talking about the generational change it's taking 52 00:03:41,319 --> 00:03:46,759 place within the Democrat Party, and then, yes, that's part 53 00:03:46,759 --> 00:03:51,800 of it, but it's not just the generation. This is 54 00:03:52,159 --> 00:04:00,759 not just generational. Andrew Cuomo was forced to leave office 55 00:04:00,879 --> 00:04:09,560 under scandal, and had he been a more popular figure 56 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:13,439 in American politics and in New York politics, perhaps he 57 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:16,240 would have been able to eke out a victory. Now 58 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:18,399 he's still not out of it. He can still run 59 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:24,399 as an independent. Of course, Curtis lewa is running unopposed 60 00:04:24,439 --> 00:04:28,720 on the Republican line. And I wonder if people think 61 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:32,680 that if there's a three four way contest, Adams is 62 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:36,560 certainly in it. His poll numbers are in the sewer. 63 00:04:37,959 --> 00:04:42,040 He was on Fox News this morning. Adams numbers are 64 00:04:42,079 --> 00:04:44,519 in the sword. No one's even suggesting that Adams has 65 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:49,399 a shot at this, but he's going to supposedly start 66 00:04:49,439 --> 00:04:57,240 his campaign in earnest. Democrats were finding themselves hoisted upon 67 00:04:57,319 --> 00:05:03,279 their own pitard, and it is going to be delightful 68 00:05:03,319 --> 00:05:05,600 to see what comes of this party, even if they 69 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:07,319 stave this guy off. 70 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:12,439 Speaker 1: Now the future should be clear. 71 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:17,439 Speaker 7: That the Democrat Party is in the process of a transformation, 72 00:05:17,959 --> 00:05:23,399 and that transformation is going to yield more insanity. They 73 00:05:23,399 --> 00:05:27,199 are not moving in the direction that one would consider 74 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:32,000 to be a safe self correction course, in other words, 75 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:39,319 trying to retune themselves with the national electorate. It is 76 00:05:39,399 --> 00:05:43,879 hard to see this new Democrat Party emerging as being 77 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:48,600 a party that will attract people from around the country 78 00:05:48,959 --> 00:05:52,680 in terms of national politics. Locally, they may do well. 79 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:57,839 It's like Alexandrio Ocasio Cortes, who was one of the 80 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:04,040 main backers of Zorami. Mandami is in a safe district. 81 00:06:04,519 --> 00:06:09,120 She had she if this woman had to actually run 82 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:14,560 for office in a state that has a mixed voting record, 83 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:16,920 a purple state, there's no way that she could pull 84 00:06:16,959 --> 00:06:21,360 it off. I shouldn't say no way. I guess there's 85 00:06:21,439 --> 00:06:25,720 always a way, but it's highly unlikely that she could 86 00:06:25,759 --> 00:06:34,000 move her appeal to become a national figure that garners 87 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:38,439 support from anyone except the extreme left. And the extreme 88 00:06:38,519 --> 00:06:44,639 left is what is now with this new generation of Democrats. 89 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:48,759 These are the people that are now poised to take 90 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:53,800 the Democrat Party in the direction they are looking like. 91 00:06:55,879 --> 00:07:02,199 And I could be wrong about this, but I just 92 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:07,279 Lady Benedict, that's not nice. And I'm not even going 93 00:07:07,319 --> 00:07:08,120 there with any of this. 94 00:07:08,519 --> 00:07:09,040 Speaker 8: She just. 95 00:07:11,079 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 7: Sent me anew before Obama and after Obama. The Democrats 96 00:07:18,839 --> 00:07:24,759 before Obama had the donkey as their campaign as their 97 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:29,879 party symbol. Now it's a camel, and under the word 98 00:07:29,959 --> 00:07:34,639 of the camel Islamocrats. That is not where we're going 99 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:39,480 with this. Yes, I know London, Yes, I know what's 100 00:07:39,519 --> 00:07:43,759 happening across Europe. It's a lot more complex here in 101 00:07:43,879 --> 00:07:48,600 New York. You look at where this guy drew support 102 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:50,480 and where he didn't draw us. I've been reading up 103 00:07:50,519 --> 00:07:54,759 on this race and this guy all day. I had 104 00:07:54,759 --> 00:07:58,079 been reading about him before and was aware, but I 105 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:01,319 and then Poles started showing last week that he was leading. 106 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:05,120 And you know how the polling goes. Sometimes the polling 107 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:08,560 is okay. Sometimes the polling depends on who's doing the polling. 108 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:14,000 But some of the things that this guy has said 109 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:20,920 are are stunning. Example, by the way, we have so 110 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:25,000 much other stuff to get to Pete heg Seth. Donald 111 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:28,199 Trump at the close of the NATO held the press 112 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:34,080 her and some of that is just delicious, Marco Rubio 113 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:40,559 Trump heg seth delicious. Joy read yes, sir, no, that 114 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:43,679 would be the one. But we're not. Joy Reid was 115 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:49,360 on CNN last night. I guess she might be considered. 116 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:53,799 Maybe it's an audition for all we know, but she's 117 00:08:54,039 --> 00:08:58,440 who you would expect anyway. Let's check in with with 118 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:05,399 the Democrat new hero. Let's begin with cut number. 119 00:09:06,639 --> 00:09:07,120 Speaker 1: Twelve. 120 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:11,480 Speaker 7: I think let's see no, no, no, Let's start with 121 00:09:11,639 --> 00:09:15,240 the victory speech cut seven and go from there. 122 00:09:16,799 --> 00:09:18,039 Speaker 9: We made history. 123 00:09:18,639 --> 00:09:19,639 Speaker 1: Yeah, you sure, dude. 124 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:27,120 Speaker 9: In the words of Nelson Mandela, it always seems impossible 125 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:28,039 until it is done. 126 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:37,039 Speaker 10: Yay, Yay, my friends, we have done it. 127 00:09:38,519 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 1: Yay. 128 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:46,039 Speaker 9: I will be your Democratic nominee for the mayor of 129 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:46,840 New York City. 130 00:09:48,799 --> 00:09:51,799 Speaker 1: This place was packed, by the way. These people were jubulant. 131 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:58,120 Speaker 9: And as I thank you, I must thank those who 132 00:09:58,120 --> 00:09:59,399 brought me into this world. 133 00:10:03,039 --> 00:10:16,399 Speaker 10: I must thank my mother and my father, Mirah and mahmoud. 134 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:22,519 Speaker 9: Mm hmm, and I must thank you. 135 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:29,080 Speaker 7: He's told his wife he's fuck enough enough, enough enough, 136 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:30,720 because it's just thank you on this now. 137 00:10:30,799 --> 00:10:35,519 Speaker 1: Let's get to uh, let's get to. 138 00:10:38,519 --> 00:10:43,480 Speaker 7: I'm sorry, I do I can't help it. It's hysterically 139 00:10:43,519 --> 00:10:47,600 funny that the Democrats have put themselves in this situation. 140 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:50,919 Cut eight, Let's let's get to it. 141 00:10:50,799 --> 00:10:56,120 Speaker 9: To reject Donald Trump's fascism, to stop mass ice agents 142 00:10:56,159 --> 00:11:00,679 from deporting our neighbors, and to govern our city as 143 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:03,000 a model for the Democratic Party. 144 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:10,600 Speaker 7: Yeah, please, He's gonna stop ice agents. I can't wait 145 00:11:10,639 --> 00:11:15,720 to see this happen. I can wait to see another 146 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:19,200 Brandon Johnson. I can't wait to see this happen. He 147 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:23,519 has promised everybody everything. This is going to be incredible 148 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:27,399 if this guy becomes mayor, to watch him try to deliver, okay, 149 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:29,639 some of the things that he has promised people. Let's 150 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:32,159 go to cut ten. This is one of my favorites. 151 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:34,960 Speaker 5: Grocery prices are out of control, the cost of eggs. 152 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:35,919 Speaker 1: This is a campaign. 153 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:39,759 Speaker 5: Dumb stores are even using dynamic pricing, jacking up the 154 00:11:39,799 --> 00:11:41,600 cost over the course of a day depending on what 155 00:11:41,639 --> 00:11:43,279 they can get away with. It doesn't need to be 156 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:46,200 this way. I'm Zaramambani, and as mayor, I will create 157 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:48,799 a network of city owned grocery stores. It's like a 158 00:11:48,799 --> 00:11:52,840 public option for produce. We will redirect city funds from 159 00:11:52,879 --> 00:11:56,960 corporate supermarkets to city owned grocery stores whose mission is 160 00:11:57,039 --> 00:12:01,440 lower prices, not price gadget will operate without a profit 161 00:12:01,519 --> 00:12:04,000 voting or having to pay property taxes or rent. It 162 00:12:04,039 --> 00:12:05,799 will pass on those savings to you. 163 00:12:07,639 --> 00:12:11,519 Speaker 7: All right, folks, there's a lot in that he's going 164 00:12:11,639 --> 00:12:19,039 to redirect funds. What does that mean? Exactly? He's going 165 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:26,960 to redirect funds from grocery outlets from people who are 166 00:12:27,159 --> 00:12:34,840 in the business of providing consumer goods stores. He's going 167 00:12:34,879 --> 00:12:38,840 to take their money, That's what he says. He's going 168 00:12:38,919 --> 00:12:44,080 to redirect the money from stores that are already in 169 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:50,480 business and instead open up a network of government stores, 170 00:12:51,519 --> 00:12:57,879 government stores that don't have to pay rent, government stores 171 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:03,639 that don't have to pay taxes, and with the savings 172 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:10,600 because they're going to limit the overhead by not paying rent, 173 00:13:10,759 --> 00:13:14,480 I guess they're just gonna commandeer property or take government 174 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:18,440 existing property and or just I don't know how they're 175 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:21,000 gonna come up with the property, but they're not gonna 176 00:13:21,039 --> 00:13:26,360 pay rent, and they're gonna lower prices for everybody with 177 00:13:26,639 --> 00:13:31,960 not one but a network of government stores that will 178 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:39,679 be competing against legitimate businesses. And yes, I use the 179 00:13:39,679 --> 00:13:44,799 word legitimate because this is totally illegitimate and I can't 180 00:13:45,039 --> 00:13:48,919 wait if he tries to implement this for the lawsuits 181 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:53,039 to come springing out from everywhere. This is illegal competition. 182 00:13:53,519 --> 00:13:56,519 This is taught interference. This is interference in the way 183 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:59,360 normal people do. You're going to open up a store 184 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:02,360 to compete with the other stories by taking their money 185 00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:08,240 and in using it against them. Oh, this guy is 186 00:14:08,279 --> 00:14:11,720 a piece of work. And in front of he's going 187 00:14:11,799 --> 00:14:15,600 to stop ice agents. One quick other thing. He was 188 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:21,879 asked what happens if is really Pm Benjamin Netanyah who 189 00:14:22,039 --> 00:14:26,039 comes to New York City under his mayorship, And this 190 00:14:26,159 --> 00:14:27,480 is how he answered. 191 00:14:27,519 --> 00:14:31,519 Speaker 11: Mayamum Donnie, would he welcome Prime Minister Netanyahu to New 192 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:32,600 York City for the. 193 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 1: For whatever he comes for? 194 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:36,759 Speaker 11: Given the US is not the signature to the ICC, 195 00:14:37,679 --> 00:14:39,360 so he can travel to the US unlike a lot 196 00:14:39,399 --> 00:14:41,840 of other countries with a Maymum doney welcome Benjamin to 197 00:14:41,919 --> 00:14:42,279 the city. 198 00:14:42,519 --> 00:14:45,480 Speaker 5: No, as mayor, New York City would arrest Benjamin Netanyah, 199 00:14:45,519 --> 00:14:47,759 who this is a city that our values are in 200 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:50,799 line with international law. It's time that our actions are also. 201 00:14:50,639 --> 00:14:52,519 Speaker 11: Even though the US is not a signature of the ICC. 202 00:14:52,799 --> 00:14:54,639 Speaker 5: No, it's time that we actually step up and make 203 00:14:54,679 --> 00:14:56,759 clear what we are willing to do to showcase the 204 00:14:56,840 --> 00:14:59,399 leadership that is sorely missing in the Federal administration. 205 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:07,919 Speaker 7: Comedy stores. He's gonna arrest people. He doesn't like these people. 206 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:10,840 I wonder if the know Kings people have to know 207 00:15:10,919 --> 00:15:15,840 about this guy, because this is this is taking us 208 00:15:15,879 --> 00:15:22,919 back to almost feudal days. Here heavenly birthday to day 209 00:15:22,919 --> 00:15:30,960 for George and Michael Wham passed away twenty sixteen, age 210 00:15:31,039 --> 00:15:39,360 fifty three. Georgio's panagutio. I believe it's how you pronounced 211 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:42,720 his name. I'm not sure about the last name, but 212 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:46,840 George Michael was certainly easy to pronounce. Happily Heavenly Birthday 213 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:47,600 to George. 214 00:15:47,279 --> 00:15:54,320 Speaker 1: Michael Payoto, George Payotu. Thank you, Carlos, Carlos, you are 215 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:58,399 the man. Carlos didn't even hesitate. 216 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:02,320 Speaker 12: I got going back to all the time, so I 217 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:04,559 mean it might as well, you know, just like chip 218 00:16:04,679 --> 00:16:06,559 Man Boom. 219 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:11,720 Speaker 7: That was awesome. James Golden slurly with you here. We're 220 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:13,960 coming back. Don't go away fastest. Oh oh oh, We're 221 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:16,080 having a guest at four thirty. We're gonna talk about 222 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:20,519 this ranked choice crap. Uh We'll be back, don't go away. 223 00:16:22,039 --> 00:16:25,519 Speaker 4: The Rush Hour with James Golden on the Red Apple 224 00:16:25,639 --> 00:16:32,559 Podcast Network. The Rush Hour with James Golden Entertaining and 225 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:35,759 Informative on the Red Apple Podcast Network. 226 00:16:36,879 --> 00:16:39,200 Speaker 13: Why is Trump talking down on AOC like that? 227 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:41,440 Speaker 14: And why is. 228 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:45,519 Speaker 13: He talking down on Jasmine Crockett, two women of color? 229 00:16:46,039 --> 00:16:48,320 Speaker 15: I said that Trump was racist, and. 230 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:50,799 Speaker 13: I got people in my comments saying, show me proof 231 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:51,720 that he's racist? 232 00:16:52,279 --> 00:16:58,399 Speaker 10: Uh? 233 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:00,200 Speaker 7: What do the two of them have in commonly? She 234 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:04,880 will never understand it, you know, I love all these stories. Lately, 235 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:08,559 Jasmine is still out there complaining that she's not being 236 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:19,240 given intelligence. Cut three real quick, Oh. 237 00:17:16,599 --> 00:17:21,119 Speaker 14: Yes, it is ceasefire? What up with it again? I 238 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:25,839 know nothing because this man lies and governs by truth 239 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:29,200 social so I have no idea. All we know is 240 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:32,839 what we get on the reporting, which supposedly part of 241 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:37,359 the ceasefire includes Israel stopping what they're doing, and so 242 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:40,599 I don't know. I don't know. 243 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:41,680 Speaker 6: I don't know. 244 00:17:41,839 --> 00:17:44,000 Speaker 1: So I don't know. I don't know. 245 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:47,279 Speaker 14: I mean, I don't get Israel briefings I get at 246 00:17:47,319 --> 00:17:50,920 this point, I'm not getting US briefings, So I don't know. 247 00:17:51,039 --> 00:17:55,240 I don't know that I would believe it. I think 248 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:59,559 we will know when we get reports that ain't nobody else. 249 00:17:59,559 --> 00:18:01,400 Being a say, you. 250 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:04,079 Speaker 7: Wouldn't get reports when it ain't nobody else. Okay, enough 251 00:18:04,119 --> 00:18:08,839 of that, enough of you think there's a reason David 252 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:11,119 Page was born. 253 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:12,680 Speaker 1: On this day. 254 00:18:13,079 --> 00:18:18,200 Speaker 7: American keyboardist snaror composer Toto had this when he's worked 255 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:23,279 with so many people like Michael Aretha, Quincy, Boss Gaggs, 256 00:18:24,519 --> 00:18:28,039 all of that, James Golden is. Thirdly, it is both 257 00:18:28,079 --> 00:18:30,480 Eli Sprush Hour are the fastest hour in American media. 258 00:18:30,599 --> 00:18:33,039 We're gonna talk ranked choice when we get back. Make 259 00:18:33,079 --> 00:18:34,319 sure you're here, don't go away. 260 00:18:35,319 --> 00:18:38,799 Speaker 4: The Rush Hour with James Golden on the Red Apple 261 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:47,519 Podcast Network. The Rush Hour with James Golden entertaining and 262 00:18:47,759 --> 00:18:50,680 informative on the Red Apple Podcast Network. 263 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:07,079 Speaker 7: Yes, my friends, that was the moment it was announced 264 00:19:08,559 --> 00:19:18,680 that he won. Zoe Man had pulled it off. James 265 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:23,480 Golden sternly with you here. Nineteen seventy seven. On this day, 266 00:19:23,559 --> 00:19:29,440 Marvin Gaye goes to number one on the American singles charts. 267 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:37,519 It was his third number one single. Got to give 268 00:19:37,519 --> 00:19:40,200 it Up? And you should ask Pharrell and Robin think 269 00:19:40,279 --> 00:19:42,519 how they must love this one because they had to 270 00:19:42,559 --> 00:19:46,759 pay dearly for ripping it off. James Golden slatertly with 271 00:19:46,839 --> 00:19:48,960 us right now. We are so pleased to have Jason 272 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:54,200 sneaed he as the executive director of Honest Elections Project. 273 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:58,640 Honest Elections Projects, g I wonder what made you decide 274 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:01,319 to look and do that, Jason? 275 00:20:01,599 --> 00:20:02,240 Speaker 1: How are you? 276 00:20:03,599 --> 00:20:06,359 Speaker 6: I'm doing great? Thank you for having me on the program. 277 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:12,480 Speaker 7: Jason, Please explain to me and to other people who 278 00:20:12,559 --> 00:20:19,680 may be or have confusion about ranked choice voting. It's 279 00:20:19,759 --> 00:20:25,039 we know California does it, Alaska does it, and Democrats 280 00:20:25,079 --> 00:20:32,000 seem to be moving towards this as a way to 281 00:20:32,039 --> 00:20:33,880 do what exactly. 282 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:38,279 Speaker 6: Well, if you hear them talk about it, ranked choice 283 00:20:38,319 --> 00:20:41,559 voting is a way to give voters more choices and 284 00:20:41,599 --> 00:20:46,279 more say in politics. But I think that the proof 285 00:20:46,319 --> 00:20:48,960 of what is really going on here is in the putting. 286 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:52,240 As they say, with yesterday's election results in the New 287 00:20:52,279 --> 00:20:55,319 York City Aral primary, ranked choice voting is really just 288 00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:59,960 a way to inject chaos into the process, to confuse voters, 289 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:04,200 disenfranchised voters. But ultimately, and most importantly, for the people 290 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:08,720 pushing it, it's about pushing politics to the left, and 291 00:21:08,759 --> 00:21:12,000 that's why we have seen hundreds of millions of dollars 292 00:21:12,079 --> 00:21:15,960 spent pushing this idea from elite liberal mega donors. That's 293 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:19,240 why we have seen this pushed into cities and even 294 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:22,839 efforts to push this statewide all across the country. It's 295 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:26,400 really ultimately about pushing politics to the left, and that's 296 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:29,640 exactly what ended up getting reflected in yesterday's results in 297 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:30,839 that New York City race. 298 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:35,920 Speaker 1: Okay, explain to us how this is supposed to work well. 299 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:39,720 Speaker 6: Ranked choice voting itself is a fundamentally different type of 300 00:21:39,759 --> 00:21:44,039 an election. So instead of voting for one person in 301 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:46,359 a race and then moving to the next race the 302 00:21:46,839 --> 00:21:49,599 way that pretty much every American has voted for their 303 00:21:49,759 --> 00:21:54,039 entire life, with ranked choice voting, the idea is that 304 00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:57,079 you rank multiple candidates based on your order of preference 305 00:21:57,079 --> 00:21:59,559 for a second, third, and so on, and then if 306 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:03,279 nobody gets over fifty percent of the first place vote, 307 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:06,960 then you will begin a series of elimination rounds where 308 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:10,359 you find the candidate who got the fewest first place votes, 309 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:14,759 eliminate that person, and then redistribute every ballot that was 310 00:22:14,839 --> 00:22:18,880 cast for the defeated candidate to each voter's next highest pick, 311 00:22:19,039 --> 00:22:19,720 and you go. 312 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:23,599 Speaker 7: Through this stop no, no, stop stop stop stop stop. 313 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:23,839 Speaker 1: Wait. 314 00:22:25,759 --> 00:22:30,519 Speaker 7: So already this is getting confusing. So okay, you get 315 00:22:30,519 --> 00:22:35,880 through the first round all of that. If nobody gets 316 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:40,279 fifty percent, then you start eliminating people from the bottom. 317 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:42,720 Speaker 1: But you do what with their votes? 318 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:48,160 Speaker 6: So every every voter is asked to rank more than 319 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:52,039 one person. And so if you voted for the defeated 320 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:57,079 candidates first, and that candidate is eliminated, then your vote 321 00:22:57,119 --> 00:23:00,599 is now shifted to your second pick, or your third pick, 322 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:06,200 or your fourth pick. As this process continues until eventually 323 00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:10,759 a winner is declared because they have pulled in enough 324 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:15,039 second in third place votes to have what they claim 325 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:19,160 is a majority, but it's really a manufactured majority of 326 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:24,960 the remaining vote. And along the way, because as almost 327 00:23:25,079 --> 00:23:28,240 everybody will tell you, they don't support every single person 328 00:23:28,319 --> 00:23:31,279 running for political office. There are many candidates that they 329 00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:33,720 would never support in a million years, so they only 330 00:23:33,799 --> 00:23:37,279 rank a couple of people. If your candidates are eliminated 331 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:40,599 before there is a winner in the race, then your 332 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:43,720 ballot is what they call exhausted, which is a code 333 00:23:43,759 --> 00:23:49,079 word for eliminated from from the race altogether. So as 334 00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:52,119 you move through this process, there are more and more 335 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:55,039 ballots that are eliminated. It's as if fewer and fewer 336 00:23:55,079 --> 00:23:58,079 people are voting, and so what you actually wind up 337 00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:00,559 with in many of these ranked choice races is that 338 00:24:00,599 --> 00:24:02,759 the people who win don't get a majority of all 339 00:24:02,759 --> 00:24:04,640 the votes cast because they had to throw out so 340 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:08,920 many votes. And in some cases there are even more 341 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,759 ballots that are eliminated and thrown out than there are 342 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:14,880 votes left to count in the final round before they 343 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:17,480 declare winning a winner. With ranked choice voting, so this 344 00:24:17,839 --> 00:24:22,319 entire system is fundamentally different. It is deeply flawed, it 345 00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:26,839 is confusing to voters, it is disenfranchising to voters. And again, 346 00:24:27,279 --> 00:24:30,200 it's all a scheme that's being pushed in order to 347 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:31,680 push politics to the left. 348 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:36,319 Speaker 7: Now, why would it push politics to the left. Why 349 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:43,799 if you have conservatives, everyone that moderates, whatever, that are 350 00:24:43,839 --> 00:24:46,640 all running with the left, why would it skew leftward. 351 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:52,920 Speaker 6: We've seen this in numerous elections at this point, where, 352 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:56,319 for instance, if you look at Alaska where they used 353 00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:59,680 it beginning in twenty twenty two, in the first rank 354 00:24:59,759 --> 00:25:03,759 choice election, you actually had sixty percent of Alaska voters 355 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:07,720 voting for a Republican candidate is their first pick, and 356 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:11,680 yet a Democrat wound up getting elected purportedly with the 357 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:14,599 majority of the vote, although if you add those eliminated 358 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:17,640 ballots that I mentioned back in after they had done 359 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:23,400 their round of elimination, then the Democratic congressom and Mary 360 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:27,119 Peltola didn't actually get a majority. There are numerous examples 361 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:31,160 like that. In Maine, Republican Congressman Bruce Pollockuin, when that 362 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:34,160 state shifted some of its elections to rank choice voting, 363 00:25:34,519 --> 00:25:38,039 got more votes in the first round, but wound up 364 00:25:38,079 --> 00:25:42,480 losing to a Democratic challenger, and then again ran again 365 00:25:42,559 --> 00:25:46,920 and was unable to unseat the Democrat and reclaim his seat. 366 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:50,720 With ranked choice voting, there are lots of examples where 367 00:25:50,839 --> 00:25:54,920 the net effect seems to be that more liberal candidates 368 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:58,519 will win election with rank choice voting than they otherwise would. Now, 369 00:25:58,559 --> 00:26:00,880 that's not to say that that's the case in every example. 370 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:05,680 There are very few election reforms that universally skew one 371 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:09,160 way or the other in terms of any partisan impacts. 372 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:13,279 But certainly the growing body of evidence I think strongly suggests, 373 00:26:13,759 --> 00:26:17,319 unlike what the rank choice voting lobby would tell you, 374 00:26:17,559 --> 00:26:21,759 that it's about really identifying moderate centrist candidates. You're actually 375 00:26:21,799 --> 00:26:24,680 winding up pushing candidates that are more center left or 376 00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:27,240 even left. And again yesterday in the New York mayor 377 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:31,359 Weld primary, as a result of a very crowded field 378 00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:35,559 in which you had lots of candidates running strategies like 379 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:39,200 cross endorsing one another on the progressive side and all 380 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:42,759 of the progressives saying, don't rank Cuomo, you were essentially 381 00:26:42,799 --> 00:26:45,279 able to get to a point where it appears. 382 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:45,599 Speaker 1: Now that. 383 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,640 Speaker 6: A candidate most Americans would consider to be well outside 384 00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:53,640 of the mainstream is going to at least get the 385 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:56,839 nomination and seems to have the inside tracks who actually 386 00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:58,319 win the election later this year. 387 00:27:00,079 --> 00:27:03,279 Speaker 7: Why are the parties going along with us? Why would 388 00:27:03,319 --> 00:27:06,000 the Republican Party not file suit in every one of 389 00:27:06,039 --> 00:27:10,599 these places where rank choice voting has been accepted under 390 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:16,119 the terms that this is that this actually does disenfranchise voters. 391 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:18,839 Why is this being accepted as a normal part of 392 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:20,720 the political process. 393 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:24,880 Speaker 6: Well, fortunately it's not being accepted as a regular part 394 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:27,400 of the process. In a lot of places. There have 395 00:27:27,559 --> 00:27:31,480 been legal challenges, but unfortunately they haven't fared particularly well 396 00:27:31,519 --> 00:27:34,519 in the courts, and so what we've been working very 397 00:27:34,519 --> 00:27:38,039 hard to get done are state legislative bands, and this 398 00:27:38,079 --> 00:27:40,880 is where we've seen a lot of leadership in tremendous 399 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:44,759 progress on the conservative side of the aisle. We've actually 400 00:27:44,839 --> 00:27:47,720 had seventeen states in the last three years that have 401 00:27:47,759 --> 00:27:51,039 passed statewide bands on rank choice voting, and that includes 402 00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:55,200 five just this year alone. Last year, in November, adding 403 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:59,599 to that total, you had six states that rejected by 404 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:04,319 why bipartisan margins, ballot measures that were designed to bring 405 00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:09,920 rank choice voting into states like Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and Arizona. 406 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:13,279 And again, that's a fairly wide spread of states in 407 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:17,720 terms of ideological spectrum, and yet you had sixty or 408 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:21,079 seventy percent of the electorate in blue states, red states, 409 00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:24,039 in purple states all saying no to ranked choice voting. 410 00:28:24,079 --> 00:28:26,759 So the good news is that there's not really much appetite. 411 00:28:27,079 --> 00:28:29,440 But that's not to say that there isn't a concerted 412 00:28:29,559 --> 00:28:32,640 drive to push those ballot measures in those states that 413 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:35,440 I mentioned, those six states. Last year, you had a 414 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:40,319 few elite mega donors on the left politically speaking, they 415 00:28:40,359 --> 00:28:44,200 put about one hundred million dollars into those campaigns. Unfortunately, 416 00:28:44,599 --> 00:28:48,519 they were unsuccessful, but we're already seeing an attempt in 417 00:28:48,599 --> 00:28:52,240 Michigan this year to begin a process to put a 418 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:55,160 ballot measure to bring rank choice voting to Michigan for 419 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:57,920 twenty twenty six election. And I think that we all 420 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,000 understand how significant a state like Michigan is, especially when 421 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,440 you're looking at its position as a presidential battleground. So 422 00:29:04,839 --> 00:29:08,400 it is not accepted widely as a normal political process. 423 00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:12,880 There is no actual grassroots support for rank choice voting. 424 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:14,720 Voters are not asking for it, in fact, they are 425 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:18,079 rejecting it. But you still see a push to normalize 426 00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:22,079 rank choice voting and to in any way possible spread 427 00:29:22,119 --> 00:29:26,359 it into local races, into city elections, and then once again, 428 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,480 I'm sure in a few years, we'll see another push 429 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:30,799 just like what we're beginning to see in Michigan, to 430 00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:32,119 bring this statewide. 431 00:29:33,039 --> 00:29:36,440 Speaker 7: Jason, where can people find your organization on a selections project? 432 00:29:37,759 --> 00:29:41,319 Speaker 6: You can find us at Honest Elections dot org if 433 00:29:41,359 --> 00:29:44,000 that's our website, or you can follow us on x 434 00:29:44,119 --> 00:29:47,480 at Honest Elections for all of the updates about the 435 00:29:47,799 --> 00:29:49,640 ongoing fight against rank choice voting. 436 00:29:51,359 --> 00:29:55,799 Speaker 7: Thank you so much for giving us an education on 437 00:29:56,160 --> 00:30:00,000 this phenomena. And I do hope that this gets stopped 438 00:30:00,039 --> 00:30:03,079 than its tracks, and maybe one of the byproducts of 439 00:30:03,079 --> 00:30:06,480 this New York election will be that more people will 440 00:30:06,519 --> 00:30:09,799 want to know exactly how this happened, and it will 441 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:13,240 get the publicity that it deserves. And You've been very 442 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:15,680 helpful in helping us. I'm sure understand all of it. 443 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:20,039 Thank you so much, Jason, Thank you very much. James 444 00:30:20,039 --> 00:30:30,640 Goldan slurly here, oh Man, Prince. This is the day 445 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:38,839 Prince released his sixth studio album, Purple Rain. When Doves 446 00:30:38,839 --> 00:30:41,240 Cry Let's Go Crazy were the first two singles off 447 00:30:41,279 --> 00:30:47,200 of it. The title track went to number two on 448 00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:51,160 the Hot Billboard one hundred, but certainly this was one 449 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:57,000 of Prince's most successful albums ever. James Golan snurly keep 450 00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,839 it Right Here, Don't Go Away. 451 00:31:00,839 --> 00:31:06,759 Speaker 4: With James Golden on the Red Apple Podcast Network. The 452 00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:11,400 Rush Hour with James Golden on the Red Apple Podcast Network. 453 00:31:12,759 --> 00:31:15,319 Speaker 15: I think that the narrative last week when we were 454 00:31:15,359 --> 00:31:19,160 talking about this from the Trump team was the decision 455 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:21,319 that Trump is going to make. Here is something that 456 00:31:21,359 --> 00:31:24,119 no other president has been willing to do. He's the 457 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:26,920 only one who's been willing to act to stop Iran. 458 00:31:27,359 --> 00:31:30,480 But the truth is he's not really stopping Iran. He's 459 00:31:30,519 --> 00:31:32,960 delaying Iran, which is kind of actually what all the 460 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:35,440 other presidents did without dropping bombs. 461 00:31:38,279 --> 00:31:41,599 Speaker 1: That genius was from the Abbey Show. And that's. 462 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:49,799 Speaker 7: The genius of the Abby Okay, my friends, last yes, 463 00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:51,640 oh you got more genius? 464 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:52,559 Speaker 1: Okay, hit it. 465 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,880 Speaker 8: Why on earth is the United States bombing a country 466 00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:57,839 that did not attack us? What on earth are we 467 00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:02,319 doing there at all? And and why is it that 468 00:32:02,359 --> 00:32:04,799 there is this arrogance in the West and in the 469 00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:09,119 United States to say that we get to decide who 470 00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:15,400 can have nuclear energy, We get to decide that. 471 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:16,680 Speaker 1: That's Joy. 472 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:21,200 Speaker 7: Joy and Abbey were together on the Abbey Show, Thank goodness, 473 00:32:21,559 --> 00:32:26,079 Thank goodness. Scott Jenny's was on the Pound. Anyway, folks, 474 00:32:26,599 --> 00:32:30,200 do you remember remember what your day is two thousand 475 00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:34,119 and nine, you would This was the day Michael Jackson. 476 00:32:34,559 --> 00:32:38,279 We got news of this in the afternoon. Yes, how 477 00:32:38,319 --> 00:32:38,920 we can forget. 478 00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:42,240 Speaker 12: We're on vacation, and all channels back home, all of 479 00:32:42,279 --> 00:32:46,480 them were centered around his house and what's going on? 480 00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:49,640 Minute by minute? What happened? Where the doctor is? They 481 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:51,839 were looking for the doctor too, and he was a 482 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:56,359 twenty four to seven story going on, Yeah, guessing around 483 00:32:56,359 --> 00:32:56,960 the world. 484 00:32:57,319 --> 00:32:58,839 Speaker 7: I was in the studio. We were in the studio. 485 00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:00,480 The rest show was on. When of the new broke 486 00:33:01,559 --> 00:33:07,079 and man, oh man, it took over immediately. Michael Jackson 487 00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:12,559 passes away two thousand and nine, aged fifty, The eighth 488 00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:17,480 child of the Jackson family, debuted with his brothers nineteen 489 00:33:17,599 --> 00:33:23,039 sixty four, but this one, of course, was off their 490 00:33:23,039 --> 00:33:24,200 first album, I Want You Back. 491 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:24,680 Speaker 1: And then. 492 00:33:26,279 --> 00:33:28,680 Speaker 7: While he was still with the Jackson's, Michael did his 493 00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:34,079 first solo album. I affectionately call it a Boy in 494 00:33:34,119 --> 00:33:41,039 his Rat. I never heard him voicing to a rat 495 00:33:41,079 --> 00:33:45,039 in such beautiful artistic. 496 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:50,759 Speaker 1: Tones. 497 00:33:56,839 --> 00:33:57,720 Speaker 2: Colos with a. 498 00:33:57,839 --> 00:34:05,039 Speaker 7: Quick line today, just on fire to day Carlos, Okay. 499 00:34:05,119 --> 00:34:09,119 And then of course Michael's solo career just blew up 500 00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:23,920 and he's playing it anyway, Thank you, Carlos. Michael Jackson 501 00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:29,159 as an adult became, of course, probably the biggest entertainer 502 00:34:30,639 --> 00:34:37,840 of all time. Remember any other life of Michael Jackson. 503 00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:40,159 Speaker 12: And the elected I'm guessing a new mayor. 504 00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:45,800 Speaker 1: So mm hmm, all. 505 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:47,760 Speaker 7: Right, so we gotta get I gotta get one more 506 00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:49,639 thing in here. We're gonna have to hold the rest 507 00:34:49,679 --> 00:34:53,000 of the joy stuff till tomorrow. But I gotta get 508 00:34:53,039 --> 00:34:55,679 one in here, and I think we have time to 509 00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:59,320 do this. So Carlos, let us start with cut seventeen. 510 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:05,079 This this is the vice mayor of Tuo Day, California, Chade, California. 511 00:35:05,199 --> 00:35:06,039 Speaker 1: And listen to this. 512 00:35:06,039 --> 00:35:08,599 Speaker 16: Statement for nothing, but I want to know where all 513 00:35:08,599 --> 00:35:12,960 the trollos are at in Los Angeles, Eighteenth Street, Florencia. 514 00:35:13,039 --> 00:35:16,400 Where's the leadership at? Because you guys. 515 00:35:16,159 --> 00:35:18,920 Speaker 13: Are all about territory and this is eighteenth Street and 516 00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:19,679 this is Torne. 517 00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:22,199 Speaker 16: You can tag everything up claiming hood. 518 00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:25,039 Speaker 13: And now that your hood's being invaded. 519 00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:26,079 Speaker 16: By the biggest gang. 520 00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,760 Speaker 13: There is, there ain't a peep out of you. It's 521 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:31,639 everyone else who's not about the gang life that's out 522 00:35:31,639 --> 00:35:35,960 there protesting and speaking up. We're out there like biting 523 00:35:36,159 --> 00:35:39,840 our tur protecting our turn, protecting our people, and like 524 00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:46,400 where you at, bin kaya vitoskayavitoo. I'm like, dude, they're 525 00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:49,840 running amuck all up in your on your streets, on 526 00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:52,679 your streets and in your city. 527 00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:56,119 Speaker 7: And this is the way that ABC News seven Eyewitness 528 00:35:56,199 --> 00:35:58,960 News out there covered this speech. Let's go to sixteen 529 00:35:59,079 --> 00:36:02,559 very quickly, and this is how this speech by the 530 00:36:02,639 --> 00:36:04,480 vice mayor got covered. 531 00:36:04,679 --> 00:36:07,440 Speaker 17: The vice mayor of Cuta Hay is under fire after 532 00:36:07,519 --> 00:36:10,800 she posted this video on social media making a controversial 533 00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:14,639 call for action as immigration rates continue. Eyewitnessed this reporter, 534 00:36:14,679 --> 00:36:17,440 Sheila Girardin joins us live outside of Cutahey City Hall 535 00:36:17,519 --> 00:36:22,480 with more Sheila. 536 00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:23,280 Speaker 18: Yes, Tony, the video is really shocking. The vice mayor 537 00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:26,719 allegedly calling on gang members to defend the city from 538 00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:28,320 these immigration rates. Take a look. 539 00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:30,800 Speaker 16: I want to know where all the Torolos are at 540 00:36:31,519 --> 00:36:35,480 in Los Angeles. Eighteenth Street, Florencia. Where's the leadership? 541 00:36:35,519 --> 00:36:37,000 Speaker 1: Bet now that your who's. 542 00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:39,079 Speaker 16: Been invaded by the biggest gang. 543 00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:41,079 Speaker 13: There is, there ain't a peep, are you? 544 00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:46,159 Speaker 18: A shocking message posted on social media by elected official 545 00:36:46,199 --> 00:36:50,000 Cynthia Gonzalez. The message is not for federal government. Instead, 546 00:36:50,039 --> 00:36:52,159 it's for some of the most violent street gangs in 547 00:36:52,199 --> 00:36:55,119 southern California. The video is over a minute long, but 548 00:36:55,199 --> 00:36:58,239 has since been taken down. Gonzale serves as the vice 549 00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:01,440 mayor of Cuta Haey, located in East a County. Our 550 00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:04,639 ABC seven legal analyst is the Gonzales words may have 551 00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:07,280 crossed the line. 552 00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:10,840 Speaker 19: That takes on a far more sinister meaning and perhaps 553 00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:13,119 even criminal meaning behind it. 554 00:37:13,199 --> 00:37:14,239 Speaker 1: I mean, it is. 555 00:37:14,199 --> 00:37:18,559 Speaker 19: One thing to say, you know, local people of the neighborhood, 556 00:37:19,199 --> 00:37:21,679 you know, stand up for yourselves. It's another thing to 557 00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:26,159 actually call out the names of different criminal street gangs 558 00:37:26,199 --> 00:37:28,159 and ask them to protect their neighborhood. 559 00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:32,440 Speaker 18: In a statement, the city of Kutahee told EBC seven, 560 00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:33,920 they're aware of commons. 561 00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:38,159 Speaker 1: Yep. Well that's what you have out there. Now. 562 00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:44,119 Speaker 7: You have city elected officials calling for the street gangs, 563 00:37:44,559 --> 00:37:48,119 violent gangs to come up and go to war with 564 00:37:48,199 --> 00:37:53,159 what she calls the biggest gang Ice. You also have 565 00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:56,960 today and we'll get into this hopefully tomorrow. You have 566 00:37:57,079 --> 00:38:03,079 federal workers now having anti ICE protests. They belong to 567 00:38:03,079 --> 00:38:07,559 federal unions. There's a protest that's being called by federal 568 00:38:07,639 --> 00:38:14,000 workers to protest ice. Fastest hour in American media. We're done. 569 00:38:15,519 --> 00:38:17,760 May God blessed protect each and every single one of you, 570 00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:20,000 your families, your loved ones, love and gratitude for your 571 00:38:20,039 --> 00:38:22,000 being here, allowing me, of course to be with you, 572 00:38:22,079 --> 00:38:28,320 God willing. 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