Speaker 1: Gather around, folks, It's time for election winners and losers. Yes,
Speaker 1: we know who the chief winner is, Donald Trump. We
Speaker 1: know who the chief loser is, Kamala Harris. But I
Speaker 1: want to go through just kind of mentally, the other
Speaker 1: folks in the whole cast of characters of the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four election, statewide, maybe even locally, and talk through
Speaker 1: who are the big winners, who are the big losers.
Speaker 2: So let's go through it. We'll start at the national level.
Speaker 2: Maybe as we.
Speaker 1: Go on through the show, we'll get some local people
Speaker 1: for the losers segment especially, So.
Speaker 2: Let's start with big winners.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously Donald Trump, but I don't want to
Speaker 1: dwell too much on the obvious of Donald Trump. I
Speaker 1: want to kind of look at other folks in the
Speaker 1: cast of characters. I think one big winner coming out
Speaker 1: of this.
Speaker 2: Is JD. Vance.
Speaker 1: Vance turned out to be after kind of a bit
Speaker 1: of a stumble at the gate, Democrats were able to
Speaker 1: make some hay out of Vance's old comments Vance had
Speaker 1: made about you know, childless cat ladies and blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: and that got about a week's worth of a news cycle.
Speaker 2: But I feel like.
Speaker 1: The campaign really shifted when Vance really started going on
Speaker 1: the offensive, and Vance was on every Sunday morning show.
Speaker 1: He was the lead communicator for the Trump campaign. Out
Speaker 1: of all the Trump surrogates, he was certainly first and
Speaker 1: foremost right front and center, and I think the vice
Speaker 1: presidential debate wound up being incredibly consequential to the course
Speaker 1: of the campaign. The contrast between him and Walls. Walls
Speaker 1: looked incompetent. Vance absolutely beat the brakes off of him.
Speaker 1: And I think that the picture that people had been
Speaker 1: trying to paint of Vance he's some sort of wild
Speaker 1: eyed lunatic who's you know, hates women or something, that
Speaker 1: picture was really shown to be silly, and he was
Speaker 1: actually so relatively civil to Walls while completely dismantling him,
Speaker 1: that actually, I think it really changed people's attitudes. I
Speaker 1: think he comes out of this looking smelling like a rose.
Speaker 1: And I think Trump comes out of the you know,
Speaker 1: the debate about whom should Trump have picked for his
Speaker 1: vice president? You know, when he picked Mike Pence, that
Speaker 1: was clearly a we need to shore up the in
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, we needed to shore up the more traditional
Speaker 1: Republican coalition. We needed someone who the establishment was comfortable
Speaker 1: with because Trump was obviously so opposed to the Republican establishment,
Speaker 1: so different from the Republican establishment, they needed someone to
Speaker 1: represent that. Camp and Pence would sort of picture perfect
Speaker 1: for that. The debate about whom Trump should pick as
Speaker 1: vice president, you know, there were a lot of different options.
Speaker 1: There were some people like Marco Rubio was kind of
Speaker 1: on the table as a possible pick, and you know,
Speaker 1: some people were floating Doug Northam, the governor of North Dakota,
Speaker 1: or Christy Nome. And apparently the argument for Vance was
Speaker 1: coming from Eric and Don Junior, who we're trying to
Speaker 1: make the pitch that no, no, no, no, no, we should
Speaker 1: double down on trump Ism, we should double down on
Speaker 1: we don't you are the establishment of the party at
Speaker 1: this point. We don't need to play kate that wing anymore.
Speaker 1: Let's get someone who will carry on the legacy of
Speaker 1: trump Ism, put an intellectual context to it. Let's get
Speaker 1: someone like that. Let's go for Broke, let's swing for
Speaker 1: the fences. At that time, you know, they were looking
Speaker 1: at an incredibly weakened Joe Biden, and they were like, well,
Speaker 1: why make a pick based on politically trying to you know,
Speaker 1: there are two factors you can weigh when you're picking
Speaker 1: a vice president. You factor in either will this person
Speaker 1: help me win the election or will this person help
Speaker 1: me govern? And there's a lot of thought that, you know,
Speaker 1: Bill Clinton picked Al Gore more.
Speaker 2: For the will he helped me win.
Speaker 1: He was another Southern senator to you know, take away
Speaker 1: Republican votes.
Speaker 2: George W.
Speaker 1: Bush meanwhile picked Dick Cheney, who was clearly a help
Speaker 1: me govern person. Like he had picked Cheney to help
Speaker 1: him select his vice president. Was so impressed by him
Speaker 1: then he was like, well, why don't I just pick
Speaker 1: you like you're You're clearly more competent than any of
Speaker 1: these people. So I think Vance comes out of this
Speaker 1: looking like clearly the successor to Trump. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: you'll need to We'll need to wait and see how
Speaker 1: Vance performs as vice president over the next four years.
Speaker 1: I have enormous confidence he's going to be at very
Speaker 1: least a more able vice president than Kamala Harris was,
Speaker 1: So I I'm really looking forward to that. I think
Speaker 1: he will be a much more the undisputed leader with
Speaker 1: much more of the party's confidence over the next four
Speaker 1: years than Kamala Harris was coming into this election. Consequently,
Speaker 1: maybe the biggest losers just the flip side of this,
Speaker 1: the biggest loser on the Democrat side, and there were
Speaker 1: a lot of losers. Maybe the biggest loser of them
Speaker 1: all though, might be Tim Walls. There are maybe some
Speaker 1: bigger losers. I mean, I think one of the big arguments,
Speaker 1: the overwhelming case for why did Harris lose, I mean,
Speaker 1: failure has a thousand fathers. Probably the overwhelming reason why
Speaker 1: Harris lost is because Biden was a terrible president and
Speaker 1: had a very unpopular president. His administration was not very good,
Speaker 1: and she basically had nowhere to go with it if
Speaker 1: she had to be continuity with Biden because she's his
Speaker 1: vice president. But at the same time, she wanted to
Speaker 1: be new, different from him because he was so unpopular.
Speaker 1: But she can't throw him under the bus completely. But
Speaker 1: so I think she was in an impossible position. So
Speaker 1: Biden's maybe overriding the biggest loser. But the person who
Speaker 1: proved himself to be a total waste of space was
Speaker 1: Tim Walls. Walls had like a good first week and
Speaker 1: then from that point on was a train wreck. He's
Speaker 1: just weird. He's just a very strange guy with strange
Speaker 1: mannerisms and a strange affect, who was constantly lying about
Speaker 1: himself in odd, bizarre, self serving fashions, like, oh, saying
Speaker 1: that he was a football coach, he was kind of
Speaker 1: an assistant coach because he was just teaching at this
Speaker 1: high school, and then you know, proved himself to not
Speaker 1: really know anything about football in various comments like a
Speaker 1: AOC like they had some kind of oh, we need democrats,
Speaker 1: we need to appeal to young men voters. So they
Speaker 1: had Tim Wall's play Madden the NFL football game online
Speaker 1: over the Internet against Alexandria Okazio Cortes. Of all people,
Speaker 1: I guess she was the most masculine man they could find.
Speaker 1: Maybe they think, okay, well AOC's pretty, so young men
Speaker 1: will want to watch her, and then we'll have her
Speaker 1: with Tim Walls and oh build up his his man
Speaker 1: bona fides, which if that was actually their thinking, well
Speaker 1: that's kind of sexist towards AOC, that she was just
Speaker 1: there as eye candy. Anyway, so he's playing against AOC
Speaker 1: and afterwards he tweets about it and says, AOC runs
Speaker 1: a mean pick six. It's like a pick six is
Speaker 1: a football term. But it's not like a play that
Speaker 1: you run. A pick six means an interception that the
Speaker 1: defense returns for a touchdown six points. Pick interception six,
Speaker 1: it's not a play that you run. So he clearly
Speaker 1: had for someone who was quote a football coach, had
Speaker 1: seemingly less familiarity with football lingo than I do. I've
Speaker 1: never played a snap of organized tackle football, and I
Speaker 1: didn't play football in high school or anything.
Speaker 2: But I don't know.
Speaker 1: I've watched football my whole life. I know enough about
Speaker 1: football to know that you don't say, run.
Speaker 2: A pick six. Okay, that's a that's not a thing.
Speaker 1: So beyond that, I mean, Plus his bizarre thing about
Speaker 1: whether he whether he actually carried weapons of war and
Speaker 1: was using it in combat when he never saw combat,
Speaker 1: lying about what rank he had, all these weird little things,
Speaker 1: and just his general affect was so strange. He was
Speaker 1: a total nothing burger, a total He totally contributed zilch
Speaker 1: to the Harris campaign. And the contrast between him versus say,
Speaker 1: Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania, who is a very
Speaker 1: good speaker, I think the governor of the single most
Speaker 1: important of all the swing states, I think the contrast
Speaker 1: between him and Shapiro was so great, and what I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people don't have to be a
Speaker 1: brilliant psychoanalyst. Shapiro is just clearly more competent than Harris is.
Speaker 1: I think he's smarter than she is. He's more accomplished
Speaker 1: than she is. He's better at speaking than she is.
Speaker 1: I think he's quicker on his feet than she is.
Speaker 1: And what was the thought process for her picking Walls?
Speaker 1: I think, again, maybe this is uncharitable of me, but
Speaker 1: I don't think you need a brilliant psycho analysis here.
Speaker 1: Walls is much Walls is less impressive than Harris's. I
Speaker 1: think she picked someone who wouldn't out shiner. I think
Speaker 1: if she wound up picking Shapiro, a lot of people
Speaker 1: would be looking at that ticket and saying, why the
Speaker 1: heck isn't Shapiro at the top of this ticket. He
Speaker 1: seems more impressive than she is. By almost any measure,
Speaker 1: he's more impressive than she is. Tim Walls was such
Speaker 1: a nothing burger that, in fact, it looks like the
Speaker 1: Minnesota State their lower House, like their version of the
Speaker 1: State House of Representatives, is flipping Republican. This election or
Speaker 1: may very well flip Republican sixty eight. It might be
Speaker 1: sixty eight Republican seats to sixty six Democrat seats. Now,
Speaker 1: Democrats might lose control role of one of the state
Speaker 1: houses in Minnesota in the year when their governor is
Speaker 1: running for vice president. Minnesota went for Harris, but by
Speaker 1: a much smaller margin than it did in twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: and Tim Walls has.
Speaker 2: No future, no future in national Democrat politics.
Speaker 1: I don't think I don't think anyone was impressed by
Speaker 1: that guy. I don't think anyone's thinking, oh, man, this
Speaker 1: this is you know, if you know, tough break that
Speaker 1: we lost this election.
Speaker 2: But you know what.
Speaker 1: If if something happens down the road, like this guy
Speaker 1: needs to be, you know, part of a next Democrat administration.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe we you know, gear him up to
Speaker 1: be the head of this or that. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: no one. As a result of this race, there's nobody
Speaker 1: looking at Tim Walls and saying, this is the man
Speaker 1: that we need to line up for future positions of
Speaker 1: national Democrat leadership importance. This is the guy who should
Speaker 1: run for president in twenty twenty eight. No, absolutely, no, absolutely,
Speaker 1: nobody has come out of this election thinking that, and
Speaker 1: you know, it's hard to think that any presidential election
Speaker 1: came down to the vice presidential picks. But I do think,
Speaker 1: you know, as much as failure has a thousand fathers,
Speaker 1: I think success has a thousand fathers as well. Very often,
Speaker 1: I think the Vance versus walls divide. How much of
Speaker 1: an asset Vance became to the Trump campaign over time,
Speaker 1: how much of a liability Walls became to the Harris
Speaker 1: campaign over time. And I think it was smart of
Speaker 1: Trump to sort of limit the bleeding and not try
Speaker 1: to have another debate with Harris. You know, he had
Speaker 1: his one debate with Harris and he was like, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm done, I'm not doing this anymore. And that gave
Speaker 1: the vice presidential eight I think a lot more weight
Speaker 1: and a lot more importance because that was the last
Speaker 1: debate we were gonna see between you know, these two tickets,
Speaker 1: and Vance just thumped them. So again, there were bigger,
Speaker 1: overriding reasons for the Trump victory. I think huge events
Speaker 1: like Trump's survival of the assassination attempt, these sort of
Speaker 1: big media moments Trump was able to spin out, like
Speaker 1: going to McDonald's and working at a McDonald's uh wearing
Speaker 1: going around driving a garbage truck after Joe Biden does
Speaker 1: this gratuitous, horrific knifing of the Harris campaign by saying, oh,
Speaker 1: Trump's the only garbage I see. You're all of Trump's supporters,
Speaker 1: and Trump capitalizes on it immediately. They immediately find a
Speaker 1: garbage truck. They immediately paint a big Trump logo on
Speaker 1: the side of it. Trump puts on a garbage garbage
Speaker 1: worker vest and drives it around on a tarmac. And
Speaker 1: these big signal media moments that Trump had in the
Speaker 1: context of a very unsuccessful Biden administration. That's maybe the
Speaker 1: overriding thing that Trump had, these signal, tent pole significant
Speaker 1: campaign moments that I think really impressed people and made
Speaker 1: people like him, And it was in the context of
Speaker 1: a terrible Democrat administration that Harris couldn't separate herself from.
Speaker 2: That's the overriding thing.
Speaker 1: All Right, when we return, we're gonna have more winners,
Speaker 1: more losers, local winners, local losers, national winners, national losers.
Speaker 2: That's next on the John Girardi Show.
Speaker 1: Who's a big winner from the twenty twenty four presidential election.
Speaker 2: Here's a winner you might not expect. I think.
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom is a little bit of a winner today.
Speaker 1: I think this is my I hope this happened. There's
Speaker 1: no evidence that it did. I feel like they should.
Speaker 2: Have done this, the two of them.
Speaker 1: You gotta believe that Newsom hates Kamala Harris, or at
Speaker 1: the very least that there is obvious sort of envy
Speaker 1: there Newsom and Harris. I've often said this, Newsom and
Speaker 1: Harris are basically the same person. They took basically the
Speaker 1: same route to national Democrat prominence. Harris and Newsome were
Speaker 1: both proteges of Willie Brown. Willie Brown both appointed both
Speaker 1: of them to their first sort of jobs in politics.
Speaker 1: Brown was a backer of Kamala Harris as she became
Speaker 1: a higher up in the San Francisco Diezo and then
Speaker 1: ran for DA in San Francisco. Willy Brown appointed Newsom
Speaker 1: to his first county supervisor post in the city slash
Speaker 1: County of San Francisco. He was a backer of Newsom
Speaker 1: throughout his political career, and the donor circle around Willy
Speaker 1: Brown is what really propelled those two to prominence, and
Speaker 1: they are the most It's Harris and Newsome are the
Speaker 1: most significant branches on the Willy Brown political tree.
Speaker 2: So they're identical. I think.
Speaker 1: I think they are very very similar people, very similar.
Speaker 1: I think they are similarly unimpressive people who have been
Speaker 1: propped up by San Francisco Democrat donor money. How do
Speaker 1: you win a statewide election in California. You win as
Speaker 1: a Democrat. Here's how you win. You win a statewide
Speaker 1: election as a Democrat in California by getting the most
Speaker 1: money during the primary so that you can run television
Speaker 1: ads in Los Angeles. If you get that money and
Speaker 1: you win the advertising battle in LA, you win, You
Speaker 1: win the Democrat primary, and then you steamroll over whatever
Speaker 1: Republican you're facing. That's how you become a statewide elected
Speaker 1: official in the state of California. If money is so
Speaker 1: important to it because of the Los Angeles media market
Speaker 1: and how expensive those ad bys are, and by virtue
Speaker 1: of knowing Willie Brown and their circle of donors. That's
Speaker 1: what Kamala Harris had, That's what Gavin Newsom had, and
Speaker 1: that's what's propelled both of them to success.
Speaker 2: Harris gets appointed Vice president.
Speaker 1: Why because those San Francisco Democrat donors who are the
Speaker 1: reason why Nancy Pelosi was the Speaker of the House
Speaker 1: for so long and the Democrat leader in Congress.
Speaker 2: Why she was there spokesperson?
Speaker 1: She was the connection between the Democrat Party as a
Speaker 1: political entity and the donors. She was the one going
Speaker 1: to these parties in people's in the backyards of mansions
Speaker 1: with all these people. She was the connection to the
Speaker 1: donor class. And that donor class liked Kamala Harris. They
Speaker 1: wanted her. Why did Biden pick her his vice president?
Speaker 1: He had no reason to pick her. He never worked
Speaker 1: with her. She called him a racist to his face.
Speaker 1: Basically during the twenty twenty primary debate cycle. He picked
Speaker 1: her because the donors wanted her, and Newsom probably in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, was like, boy, he could have picked me.
Speaker 1: Newsom when it became clear that Biden was dropping out,
Speaker 1: I was like, well, really, we couldn't have had a
Speaker 1: contested primary, and maybe I could have, you know, jumped
Speaker 1: into a contested primary.
Speaker 2: See if people wanted.
Speaker 1: Me, how comes she gets picked to be vice president?
Speaker 1: I don't, And of course Joe Biden must hate Harris.
Speaker 1: Harris was a useless vice president. She was forced on
Speaker 1: him by the donors. She was nothing but a liability
Speaker 1: for him his whole time in office, and ultimately the
Speaker 1: donors shoved him out in favor of her. He's mad
Speaker 1: about it. Biden still probably think Biden probably thinks right
Speaker 1: now he would have beaten Donald Trump. He's probably so
Speaker 1: ticked off right now. I like to imagine that Joe
Speaker 1: Biden and Gavin Newsom watched the election results together, how
Speaker 1: to party and watch the election results together, and we're
Speaker 1: popping champagne after Fox News called Wisconsin for Trump and
Speaker 1: put him over.
Speaker 2: Why. Well, first, Biden's happy because Harris lost. He can't
Speaker 2: stand her.
Speaker 1: He gets to to have these recriminations against the Obamas
Speaker 1: and the Pelosis and the George Clooneyes of the world
Speaker 1: and say, see, you idiots, you forced me out. You
Speaker 1: put this moron in my place, and she got her
Speaker 1: butt kicked. I'm the only one who's ever beaten Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: And now Newsom is popping champagne because the seas are parting.
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom gets to run in twenty twenty eight. He
Speaker 1: doesn't have to wait around for Kamala Harris. If Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris won, well, he couldn't run in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1: He'd have to sit around cooling his heels for another
Speaker 1: four years at least do something to convene. And she
Speaker 1: wouldn't have picked him to be her vice presdent. Well,
Speaker 1: she didn't pick him to be her vice president.
Speaker 2: She picked Tim Walls, So.
Speaker 1: He would have had to wait around at least until
Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight. Beyond twenty twenty eight, he would have
Speaker 1: had to wait until twenty thirty two. Gavin Newsom now
Speaker 1: becomes virtue of this election. Democrats will almost certainly not
Speaker 1: have a majority in the House. They certainly do not
Speaker 1: have the majority in the Senate anymore. They don't have
Speaker 1: the White House. Guess who's the most prominent elected Democrat
Speaker 1: in the United States of America. Now, guess who's left Well,
Speaker 1: the governor of the biggest state in the Union. Gavin Newsom, guys,
Speaker 1: is pretty much de facto the leading Democrat in the
Speaker 1: entire United States of America right now, with the most
Speaker 1: donors and the most donor dollars in his back pocket.
Speaker 1: He is now lined up to run in twenty twenty eight,
Speaker 1: and he doesn't have to run against Trump.
Speaker 2: Trump will be term limited out. He thinks he can
Speaker 2: take jd Vance. I can tell you that much.
Speaker 1: So of all people, bizarrely enough, a big winner from
Speaker 1: last night is one Gavin Newsom because the seas have parted.
Speaker 1: Get ready for the Newsom twenty twenty eight campaign. And
Speaker 1: by the way, if you thought Newsom's senioritis, I've been
Speaker 1: joking about this. Nobody has cared less about being a
Speaker 1: governor for his second term than Gavin Newsom has. Gavin
Speaker 1: Newsom is going to be so bored for the rest
Speaker 1: of his term the next two years. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: he is not going to give an absolute crap about anything.
Speaker 1: When we return more winners and losers in the presidential election,
Speaker 1: we might shift to some local winners and losers. Next
Speaker 1: on the John Girardy Show, let's shift to some local
Speaker 1: winners and losers from the twenty twenty four presidential elections.
Speaker 1: The twenty twenty four elections that saw we had elections
Speaker 1: for every member of the California State Assembly, every half
Speaker 1: of the members of the California State Senate.
Speaker 2: We had local races, et cetera.
Speaker 1: So let's go to a big local winner, which is
Speaker 1: school bonds for terribly run school districts. And really I'm
Speaker 1: just talking about presdent unified. I will say, so, as
Speaker 1: as we stand here, Clovis President Unified School Bond, Measure H.
Speaker 2: Passed easily.
Speaker 1: You needed fifty five percent of the vote to pass
Speaker 1: the Measure H school bond, which again, let's remember what
Speaker 1: is a school bond.
Speaker 2: A bond is a loan.
Speaker 1: To a governmental entity. The governmental entity then pays back
Speaker 1: the loan over the course of thirty or forty years,
Speaker 1: and they pay it back with interest. Where do they
Speaker 1: get the money to pay back the loan. They get
Speaker 1: it from you, from the taxpayers in the form of
Speaker 1: property taxes, which you have to pay even if you
Speaker 1: don't own your home, if you don't own your apartment
Speaker 1: and you're renting, the cost of property taxes gets passed
Speaker 1: on to you through rent, so.
Speaker 2: Measure That's why I've always sort of hated.
Speaker 1: The bond mechanism as a means of funding anything. It's
Speaker 1: the Measure H bond for President Unified specifically is five
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars that with interest will President Unified taxpayers
Speaker 1: will really have to pay about a billion dollars, not
Speaker 1: five hundred million. It'll be a billion dollars with interest.
Speaker 1: Here's Measure H that they couldn't even hadn't even fully
Speaker 1: decided what stuff they wanted to build with the Measure
Speaker 1: H funding before. They hadn't even decided on it. By
Speaker 1: the time that people's ballots got to them for early voting,
Speaker 1: they hadn't decided on all the things they wanted to
Speaker 1: build with it. President Unified does not have its permanent
Speaker 1: superintendent yet, they have an interim superintendent, So they're making
Speaker 1: all these decisions about what their priorities are for funding,
Speaker 1: what they're going to fund, what they're gonna build without
Speaker 1: having their full time superintendent. What if a new superintendent
Speaker 1: comes in is like, well, why did we decide to
Speaker 1: spend all this on this school in this school when
Speaker 1: we should have spent it on this and this and this. Well, sorry,
Speaker 1: we're locked in so proposition to the statewide bond measure.
Speaker 1: It passes easy. Measure H, it passes easy and basically
Speaker 1: everyone in California is duped by this idiotic mechanism of funding.
Speaker 1: I am so sick of these bonds. I was the
Speaker 1: local razor campaigner against school bond measures, and people.
Speaker 2: Say, well, it's the only way we can fund the schools.
Speaker 1: No, it's the only way California lets you. But they
Speaker 1: have other sources of funding as well. So I'm just
Speaker 1: tired of this nonsense saying, oh that we need to
Speaker 1: tax people a billion dollars to get five hundred million
Speaker 1: dollars worth of benefit, that we need to tax some
Speaker 1: eight hundred million dollars to get four hundred million dollars
Speaker 1: worth of benefit. I'm so sick of it for these
Speaker 1: schools that cost. I mean, Clovis Unified was really pitching
Speaker 1: voting for MEASUREE because oh, we need to finish close
Speaker 1: South High School. How did the cost of closed South
Speaker 1: High School double over the course of construction? How does
Speaker 1: that make sense? Why do we then have to fit
Speaker 1: the bill for this project that clearly got wildly out
Speaker 1: of hand? And I understand that the cost of stuff
Speaker 1: increased over the course of time via COVID kurktailor project.
Speaker 1: Why is it that Clovis Unified is a one entity
Speaker 1: that doesn't have to tighten its belt. I got to
Speaker 1: tighten my belt when groceries go up, et cetera. I
Speaker 1: who don't even send my kids to close unified schools,
Speaker 1: but living clothes unified, so I have to pay for it.
Speaker 1: So congratulations to the school districts whose bond measures passed,
Speaker 1: the bond measure movement having a dumb state bond measure
Speaker 1: because the teachers' unions were upset that Gavin Newsomen didn't
Speaker 1: have as much funding for schools as they wanted, so
Speaker 1: they had Prop two on the books, and of course
Speaker 1: Prop two has a matching fund thing. Hey, if your
Speaker 1: local school district raises bond funding itself, we'll match. And that's,
Speaker 1: by the way, the reason why every local school district
Speaker 1: had a bond measure was because of Prop two. The
Speaker 1: reason why every local school district had a bond measure
Speaker 1: was because the prop to the If Prop two passed,
Speaker 1: that money would be on the table and school districts
Speaker 1: could get it if they raised local bond funding themselves,
Speaker 1: even though all these school districts had done this exact
Speaker 1: same thing just four years ago. And I don't know
Speaker 1: when this is gonna stop, because here's a news flash
Speaker 1: for you. All the teachers' unions insisted on Prop two
Speaker 1: because they thought Gavin Newsom didn't put enough money for
Speaker 1: schools in the state budget. The reason why he didn't
Speaker 1: put enough for them is because we are running budget
Speaker 1: deficits year after year after year in California, and that's
Speaker 1: that picture is not going to get better. We had
Speaker 1: a ton of people and a ton of money move
Speaker 1: out of California during COVID. A bunch of rich people
Speaker 1: with fifteen billion dollars of annual revenue in capital gains
Speaker 1: taxes are out of this state. We're going to run
Speaker 1: deficits for the foreseeable future. Twenty twenty two was the
Speaker 1: aberration because we got this big influx of federal COVID money.
Speaker 1: We had a surplus in twenty twenty two, but we're
Speaker 1: running deficits in twenty twenty three. We're running a deficit
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four. We're never gonna have enough money
Speaker 1: to satisfy the teachers' unions for schools. So are we
Speaker 1: going to do a ballot initiative every year every two
Speaker 1: years to fund schools? As every year we're not going
Speaker 1: to have as much money as these people want. I
Speaker 1: don't know where this gravy train is going to stop.
Speaker 1: Because these local school districts are so hungry for money
Speaker 1: from the state that they'll run a bond measure. They
Speaker 1: will always your local school district will always have a
Speaker 1: bond measure proposal to match a state bond proposal for
Speaker 1: education funding. So I don't know where this is going
Speaker 1: to stop. We're just going to keep having close unified
Speaker 1: measure as we're going to keep having presdent unified measure HS.
Speaker 2: I see no reason why they would stop. People just
Speaker 2: keep voting.
Speaker 1: For them, and they clear the fifty five percent threshold
Speaker 1: or they come damn close. So the big winner is
Speaker 1: the bond system, the scam system measured Proposition two for schools,
Speaker 1: pasted Proposition four for and environmental bond, So ten billion
Speaker 1: dollars for vague environmental projects in California. Because why well,
Speaker 1: similar to how the teachers unions complained that there wasn't
Speaker 1: enough funding for schools in the state budget, again a
Speaker 1: budget that was running a huge deficit, the environmental groups
Speaker 1: all complained that, hey, there wasn't enough. You you reduced
Speaker 1: spending on environmental projects of dubious value by about ten
Speaker 1: billion dollars. Gavenusom, So let's have a ten billion dollar
Speaker 1: loan to the state to pay for these projects that
Speaker 1: we like. That ah, the taxpayers will have to pay
Speaker 1: twenty billion dollars to pay this up. But what do
Speaker 1: we care, It's not our money. So the bond system
Speaker 1: is a big winner locally and statewide. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: some local winners and losers. David Valadeo is a winner. Uh,
Speaker 1: David Valadeo is a bizarre political machine. I don't understand it.
Speaker 1: It seems to sort of stump certainly nationwide and statewide observers.
Speaker 1: David Valadeo was put into this district so that he
Speaker 1: would lose, all right, the way that redistricting happened in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty and starting with the twenty twenty two cycle,
Speaker 1: basically what our quote non partisan redistricting commission did, which
Speaker 1: is hyperpartisan in favor of Democrats. They jerry manndered one
Speaker 1: district to be the Republican district. The district that it
Speaker 1: was Kevin McCarthy's district, now it's Vince Fong's district. So
Speaker 1: they wanted one super safe Republican district. Let's pack all
Speaker 1: the Republicans into one district. So let's draw this bizarre
Speaker 1: district that looks like the number three. So the spine
Speaker 1: of the three goes along the Sierra Nevada mountains and
Speaker 1: then it has three little points jutting out. One goes
Speaker 1: to Clovis, the most conservative area of the Fresno immediate
Speaker 1: Fresno area. The other goes to lamore A Naval base
Speaker 1: military more conservative, and then the third sort of jutting
Speaker 1: out point goes to the most conservative parts of Kern County.
Speaker 1: So it's a plus thirty five advantage Republican district. The
Speaker 1: idea was have all the Republicans in one district, all
Speaker 1: the other districts be competitive so that Democrats can win.
Speaker 1: So David Valadeo's district he got like the worst part
Speaker 1: of King's County for Republicans. He's got parts of Tilarry County,
Speaker 1: King's County. It's a district designed for him to lose.
Speaker 1: Democrats have, like I believe, a plus four plus five
Speaker 1: voter registration advantage, and David Valadeo just keeps freaking winning
Speaker 1: and completely kicked Rudy Salas's butt. All the Democrats nationally
Speaker 1: who dumped tons and tons and tons of money into
Speaker 1: television ads against Valadeo for Rudy Salas a complete waste
Speaker 1: of money. In fact, they even realized this. National Democrats
Speaker 1: pulled a bunch of money out of Rudy Salas in
Speaker 1: a few weeks before the campaign and dumped it into
Speaker 1: other races in southern California. So David Valadeo is a winner.
Speaker 1: It's really just a remarkable political achievement what he's been
Speaker 1: able to do to just keep winning elections. He had
Speaker 1: the one loss to t J. Cox, and he got
Speaker 1: right back into it and started winning again. So you know,
Speaker 1: kudos to David Valadeo. When we return, I'll have sort
Speaker 1: of the last winners and losers of local elections, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to focus on the David Tangipa.
Speaker 2: Versus George Rodanovitch race that is next on the John
Speaker 2: Girardi Show.
Speaker 1: We're doing winners and losers statewide, nationwide local addition, and
Speaker 1: I want to end the race with a quick winter
Speaker 1: loser segment. This was the race for Jim Patterson's Assembly
Speaker 1: see and first of all, I'll give my first winner
Speaker 1: as Jim Patterson himself. I've admired Jim Patterson so much
Speaker 1: ever since I started my career in Fresno, and you know,
Speaker 1: obviously I grew up here though also and knew of
Speaker 1: Jim as mayor of Fresno, and I've always respected him,
Speaker 1: always admired him. A true pro lifer. There are not
Speaker 1: a lot of Republican politicians out there who I could
Speaker 1: say really believe in the pro life cause and care
Speaker 1: about it. For Jim, it's very personal to him. His
Speaker 1: children are adopted and that's the reason why he has
Speaker 1: children and grandchildren.
Speaker 2: He's spoken about that.
Speaker 1: At great length at a number of venues, and I've
Speaker 1: so admired him, so admired his work on behalf of
Speaker 1: the cause of adoption in the state legislature and concluded
Speaker 1: twelve years of incredible service to his district as a
Speaker 1: state assembly member. I think if our state legislator had,
Speaker 1: if our state legislature had, you know, eighty Jim Pattersons
Speaker 1: in the Assembly and forty Jim Pattersons in the state Senate,
Speaker 1: we'd have a much better state. So Jim's term limited out,
Speaker 1: you can serve twelve years in the California State Legislature,
Speaker 1: served all twelve years in his Assembly district. You know,
Speaker 1: I really admire him and congratulate him on twelve incredible years.
Speaker 1: A congratulations to David, Togepa, who looks like he's on
Speaker 1: the road to victory. And I don't mean this to
Speaker 1: be like a mean beat down towards George Rodanovitch. I
Speaker 1: will say though his campaign turned pretty negative against David Togepa,
Speaker 1: pretty darn negative. And you know, I producing these political ads.
Speaker 1: I don't know if Radanovitch himself knew some of the
Speaker 1: nastiness that was, you know, being used. They do some
Speaker 1: attack ad that comes out on the day on David Tongapa,
Speaker 1: his father died earlier this year. They send it an
Speaker 1: ad out on his dad's birthday with the one bad
Speaker 1: picture they could find of David where he's it was
Speaker 1: his Facebook live video he did after his dad's passing
Speaker 1: where he was talking about it. Where it's the one
Speaker 1: video of Tongapa not looking like a movie star, you know,
Speaker 1: where he's you know, he's been crying his dad had
Speaker 1: passed away.
Speaker 2: He's not not looking his best.
Speaker 1: They use that picture in an attack ad against David,
Speaker 1: and I wonder if that turned the tide against Radanovic.
Speaker 2: I think it.
Speaker 1: You know, I really respect Radanovich for his service in
Speaker 1: Congress in the past, but to have lost now in
Speaker 1: his case a state Senate race and a state Assembly race,
Speaker 1: it's not great, not great. So a big Congress cotulations
Speaker 1: to David Togapa for a real awesome win. That'll do
Speaker 1: it for John di'lardi show. See you next time on
Speaker 1: Power Talk