Speaker 1: A lot of my work and a lot of my writing,
Speaker 1: more than I ever would have anticipated, has focused on
Speaker 1: medical medical. The part federally funded, part California funded, the
Speaker 1: California version of the federal Medicaid program, which was in
Speaker 1: its original conception health insurance for certain kind of classes,
Speaker 1: categories of persons, pregnant women, people with certain kinds of disabilities, etc.
Speaker 1: But which, as a result of Obamacare, really morphed into
Speaker 1: something very different. It morphed into health insurance for lower
Speaker 1: income people, health insurance just for people under a certain
Speaker 1: income threshold. I think the income threshold it's something like
Speaker 1: if you're at or under one hundred and thirty eight
Speaker 1: percent of the federal poverty line. It's now at a
Speaker 1: point where it's something like half a Fresno county is
Speaker 1: covered by some version of medical, and huge percentage of
Speaker 1: people in rural counties are covered by medical. So it's
Speaker 1: now this enormous pool of people. And the amount of money,
Speaker 1: the amount of reimbursement that doctors get for providing a
Speaker 1: service to a medical patient, the money that they get
Speaker 1: from medical for providing a service to a medical patient
Speaker 1: is often inadequate. There just isn't enough money. And this
Speaker 1: is in spite of the fact that the Medicaid program,
Speaker 1: the federal Medicaid program is growing, growing, growing, to such
Speaker 1: a degree that it's going to be a one trillion
Speaker 1: dollar a year program. As far as how much it costs,
Speaker 1: just the massive overexpansion of Medicaid to able bodied adults,
Speaker 1: even able bodied adults without dependence has been exorbitant, and
Speaker 1: that has led to exorbitant costs, and it leads to
Speaker 1: this really sort of unbalanced system where some of the
Speaker 1: original kinds of groups that the program was supposed to
Speaker 1: help cover, like, for example, pregnant women aren't getting very
Speaker 1: good care and aren't getting very good reimbursement. The fewer
Speaker 1: and fewer obgyns want to take care of medical patients
Speaker 1: for their obgyn care because you lose money, and this
Speaker 1: has led to big time problem unless you get like
Speaker 1: special state subsidies for their care, which are very hard
Speaker 1: to get. So basically it's a it's a whole mess.
Speaker 1: It's a whole mess. Gavin Newsome, however, needed to utilize
Speaker 1: medical in order to sort of kind of rationalize one
Speaker 1: of the most obvious acts of hypocrisy from his time
Speaker 1: as Californi governor, his abandonment of single payer healthcare, of
Speaker 1: universal single payer California healthcare. So let's go back to
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. Gavin Newsom is running for governor. Gavin Newsom
Speaker 1: talks about his desire to have universal California healthcare and
Speaker 1: the idea is a single payer system. So, by the way,
Speaker 1: I think single payer healthcare is one of those political
Speaker 1: terms or terms that people here all the time and
Speaker 1: probably don't really know what it means. Right now, we
Speaker 1: have a system where we have multiple payers. A payer
Speaker 1: just means either an insurance company or a government manage
Speaker 1: or a government run insurance plan, an insurance company providing
Speaker 1: health insurance, or a government run health insurance plan. So
Speaker 1: right now in the healthcare market, there are multiple payers.
Speaker 1: I have Blue Cross, I have a blue Cross or
Speaker 1: Blue Shield, and some people have Kaiser, and some people
Speaker 1: of this, and some people of that. Some people have
Speaker 1: met and then some people have this and blah blah
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah, and then some people are
Speaker 1: on medical older folks are on many older folks are
Speaker 1: on Medicare, et cetera, et cetera. All right, so we
Speaker 1: have a system with multiple payers. A single payer healthcare system,
Speaker 1: as you see in Canada, as you see in the
Speaker 1: United Kingdom, means no, we get rid of all of
Speaker 1: the payers and we only have one payer, one person
Speaker 1: providing the coverage, providing the funding that goes to the doctors,
Speaker 1: the government. That's what a single payer healthcare system is.
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom was promoting a single payer healthcare system for California.
Speaker 1: That's what he was pushing in twenty eighteen when he
Speaker 1: ran for governor. And in fact, he has some quotes,
Speaker 1: some really embarrassing quotes from that time from twenty eighteen
Speaker 1: when he said, all these liberals they run for office
Speaker 1: pledging that they're going to push for single payer healthcare,
Speaker 1: and then when the rubber meets the road, oh, they
Speaker 1: chicken out and they kick the can down the road
Speaker 1: and it's never the right time, and I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: be like that. Well, and then he proceeded to do
Speaker 1: exactly precisely that. He becomes governor. The insurance companies lobby
Speaker 1: him and they're like, hey, please don't do that, and
Speaker 1: he chickens out and he doesn't actually pursue single payer
Speaker 1: health care. So what does he do to kind of
Speaker 1: rationalize this obvious betrayal of his campaign promise. Well, what
Speaker 1: he does is he utilizes medical. He uses medical in
Speaker 1: order to achieve the goal of universal coverage. He wants
Speaker 1: everybody in California to have health insurance. Now, the quality
Speaker 1: of that health insurance, the financial sustainability of that health insurance,
Speaker 1: all of those factors be damned. Gavin Newsom is going
Speaker 1: to accomplish his goal of getting everybody covered. That's the
Speaker 1: focus for him. So what does he do. He expands
Speaker 1: and expands and expands and expands medical eligibility, crowning it
Speaker 1: off a couple of years ago by opening medical eligibility
Speaker 1: to illegal aliens, people who are in the country unlawfully,
Speaker 1: people who are in the state of California unlawfully. They
Speaker 1: are eligible to receive medical coverage. Well, here's the problem.
Speaker 1: Even before illegal aliens were eligible for medical medical was
Speaker 1: in horrific shape. Again, in spite of all the money,
Speaker 1: there are too many people getting too many services, and
Speaker 1: the pool of money to help pay the doctors for
Speaker 1: providing those services is too small. The reimbursement that go
Speaker 1: to doctors are too low. Doctors lose money. In some
Speaker 1: cases they barely cover their costs through medical reimbursements. Why
Speaker 1: did Madeic Community Hospital go out of business? There were
Speaker 1: a lot of reasons why. This wasn't the only reason,
Speaker 1: but one of the big reasons is sixty percent of
Speaker 1: their patient population was medical and they weren't making money
Speaker 1: off of those patients sixty percent. And even now Madeira
Speaker 1: Community Hospital's reopening but guess what they're reopening with no
Speaker 1: maternity ward. Why because obgyn services is one of those
Speaker 1: areas where medical is particularly not profitable for doctors taking
Speaker 1: medical patients, getting a medical reimbursement for a service to
Speaker 1: a patient, for a delivering a baby to a medical
Speaker 1: patient pregnant woman who's covered by medical, you lose money.
Speaker 1: So so that was a problem before illegal aliens. We're
Speaker 1: eligible for medical and here you're gonna add So here's
Speaker 1: we have only a certain pool of money to pay
Speaker 1: for reimbursements for medical patients. And Gavin Newsom's gonna add
Speaker 1: every illegal alien in California to the pool of people
Speaker 1: eligible for medical without proportionally expanding the pool of money
Speaker 1: to pay for services for them. That's not gonna work.
Speaker 1: The math doesn't make sense. And lo and behold The
Speaker 1: cost to the state for providing medical coverage for illegal
Speaker 1: aliens has been billions of dollars, more than Gavin Newsom anticipated,
Speaker 1: than California anticipated, and it's so much more that. According
Speaker 1: to this story from the Los Angeles Times written by
Speaker 1: Tarren Luna, facing a budget deficit, Governor Gavin Newsom is
Speaker 1: proposing changes to California's program to provide free healthcare coverage
Speaker 1: to low income undocumented immigrants. The cost of coverage for
Speaker 1: immigrants has exceeded state estimates by billions of dollars. Gavin
Speaker 1: Newsom is maybe wanting to roll this back. Governor Gavin
Speaker 1: Newsom's twenty twenty five twenty twenty six revised budget proposal
Speaker 1: renegs on his signature policy to provide free healthcare coverage
Speaker 1: to all low income undocumented immigrants as costs exceed expectations
Speaker 1: and the state anticipates challenging economic times ahead, Newsom's office
Speaker 1: said the Governor's spending plan, which will be released late
Speaker 1: Wednesday morning, you know that this article was I think
Speaker 1: written very very early this morning, which will be calls
Speaker 1: for requiring all undocumented adults to pay one hundred dollars
Speaker 1: monthly premiums. To receive medical coverage and for blocker all
Speaker 1: new adult applications to the program as of January first.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna make We're gonna make adults adult illegal immigrants.
Speaker 1: They got to pay one hundred dollars premiums, and we're not
Speaker 1: gonna admit any new applicants after January first. No adult
Speaker 1: applications to the program as of January first. The costs
Speaker 1: share will reduce the financial burden on the state and
Speaker 1: could lower the total number of people enrolled in the
Speaker 1: healthcare program if some immigrants cannot afford the new premiums.
Speaker 1: Freezing enrollment may prevent the price tag of the program
Speaker 1: from continuing to balloon after more people signed up for
Speaker 1: coverage than the state anticipated. Why would the state of
Speaker 1: anticipated that a ton of people weren't gonna sign up.
Speaker 1: I guess I'm baffled by why they're baffled. You're offering
Speaker 1: free health insurance to people who aren't supposed to be
Speaker 1: in the country legally. You're telling hey, come on it.
Speaker 1: I remember seeing the billboards, billboards in Spanish proclaiming that
Speaker 1: you know coverage regardless of your immigration status. The governor's
Speaker 1: office said the changes will save a combined five point
Speaker 1: four billion dollars through twenty twenty eight twenty twenty nine,
Speaker 1: but did not detail the cost savings in the upcoming
Speaker 1: fiscal year that begins July first. Newsom has expected Wednesday
Speaker 1: to project a deficit for California in the fiscal year ahead,
Speaker 1: which includes higher than expected medical costs and more significant
Speaker 1: shortfall estimates in the following years.
Speaker 2: This is such another massive failure for Gavin Newsom, and
Speaker 2: it shows just the the approach that the Democrats have
Speaker 2: taken healthcare.
Speaker 1: Has just not really been a sustainable one. It's almost
Speaker 1: sort of that there's this the half rear rendered approach
Speaker 1: as opposed to the whole rear rendered approach. If you will,
Speaker 1: if you're going, at the very least you know, say
Speaker 1: what you will about single payer healthcare systems. And I'm
Speaker 1: more than happy to say what I will about single
Speaker 1: payer healthcare systems. I think there are a lot of
Speaker 1: real serious risks with single payer healthcare systems, having the
Speaker 1: government completely control it, the kinds of perverse incentives that exist,
Speaker 1: and there's all kinds of problems with single payer healthcare systems.
Speaker 1: We don't need to detail them all here.
Speaker 2: But.
Speaker 1: At least from a financial perspective, there's a certain kind
Speaker 1: of sense to it. You eliminate all the extraneous costs
Speaker 1: that are associated with lots and lots and lots of
Speaker 1: other individual payers. You have one single payer. Everyone is
Speaker 1: paying a significant tax burden hiring come people or paying
Speaker 1: a significant tax burden in order to pay for the
Speaker 1: costs for everybody. Rather than everyone paying premiums, people are
Speaker 1: paying that money in taxes. You have to accompany a
Speaker 1: single payer system with a tax increase that there's a
Speaker 1: certain kind of mathematical sense to it. Everyone's going to
Speaker 1: pay more in taxes, but everyone's going to be covered.
Speaker 1: That's the system we have. Okay, it makes mathematical sense
Speaker 1: now on the ground realities of life within the National
Speaker 1: Health Service in the UK or the Canadian model not
Speaker 1: all sunshine and roses. But at the very least there's
Speaker 1: a certain math that adds up. Newsom has basically because
Speaker 1: this is about Newsome and advancing the greater glory of
Speaker 1: Gavin and Newsom trying to do this sort of cya
Speaker 1: for his campaign promise of universal health care. He's gone
Speaker 1: about this in a way that just makes no math sense,
Speaker 1: because what else is he supposed to do increase taxes
Speaker 1: on Californians, were already the most heavily taxed state in
Speaker 1: the Union. Newsom knows he can't increase taxes further to
Speaker 1: pay for medical, but he has to fulfill these campaign
Speaker 1: promises that he made of health care for everybody, health
Speaker 1: care for all, universal health care. So he pushes this
Speaker 1: policy and everyone, certainly everyone from the Republican side of
Speaker 1: the aisles like medical is already in disastrous shape, and
Speaker 1: you're because it's too many, it's too small a pool
Speaker 1: of money covering health care for too many people, and
Speaker 1: now you're going to add illegal aliens to the mix,
Speaker 1: Like this is gonna be a disaster, and lo and behold,
Speaker 1: that's exactly what it is. Because again, the point of
Speaker 1: this was not actually to do something that made any sense.
Speaker 1: The point of it was to advance Gavin Newsom's greater glory.
Speaker 1: When we return, why I kind of suspect that Gavin
Speaker 1: Newsom's presidential aspirations are cooked. That's next on the John
Speaker 1: Girardi Show, before I really dig into Newsom's presidential aspirations,
Speaker 1: the bigger picture, so that the highlight from the revision
Speaker 1: of the state budget is the need to step back
Speaker 1: medical eligibility for illegal aliens. But let's talk more broadly
Speaker 1: about Gavin Newsom and his laying out to the state
Speaker 1: of just how bad California's budget problems are. Senator Brian
Speaker 1: Dolly's Republican state senator in California. He tweets out the
Speaker 1: state is going to be facing deficits of twenty to
Speaker 1: thirty billion dollars per year. This is from Brian Dolly
Speaker 1: Newsom is so Newsom's reporting like, we are going to
Speaker 1: face enormous, enormous deficits and he's going to try to
Speaker 1: blame Trump. He's going to try to blame uh Trump's tariff. Oh,
Speaker 1: there's so much revenue we're losing out on. This is
Speaker 1: going to be wildly overstated, but we just need to
Speaker 1: acknowledge this is Newsom's last year. This is not year
Speaker 1: one of Newsom. It's his eighth year. Okay. We are
Speaker 1: going to have an election for a new governor in well,
Speaker 1: I guess it's his seventh year. Okay, We're going to
Speaker 1: have the governor election is going to take place in
Speaker 1: November of twenty twenty six. It's on him now. At
Speaker 1: this point, if California was doing all right, we wouldn't
Speaker 1: be facing deficits at this If California had been managed
Speaker 1: well for the prior seven years in spite of COVID,
Speaker 1: we would be doing really well right now. We could
Speaker 1: be okay right now, we might not be engaged in
Speaker 1: deficit spending right now. Why are we? It's because of him.
Speaker 1: He's been the captain of this ship for over six years.
Speaker 1: He at a certain point he cannot deflect the blame,
Speaker 1: and he's going to try to deflect the blame on Oh,
Speaker 1: it's Donald Trump's tariffs, so have cost us all these
Speaker 1: billions of dollars. Florida's got budget surpluses and their budgetary
Speaker 1: situation is doing just fine. Are tariff's impacting them more
Speaker 1: so than California? I don't think so. They got plenty
Speaker 1: of international shipping in Florida. So the it's on him
Speaker 1: at this point. It's on him at this point. The
Speaker 1: fact is it's the most overtaxed state in the Union.
Speaker 1: It's the most overtaxed state in the Union, and it's
Speaker 1: super reliant on this incredibly small number of super high income,
Speaker 1: super high net worth taxpayers who get a ton of
Speaker 1: money in capital gains taxes and for who get a
Speaker 1: lot of money in capital gains that are paid to
Speaker 1: California in the form of capital gains taxes, and a
Speaker 1: lot of that crowd left. A lot of that crowd
Speaker 1: left the state over the last four or five years
Speaker 1: over Newsom's tenure, in no small part because of how
Speaker 1: he managed the state, because of how he ran the
Speaker 1: state during COVID, because of how he has run the
Speaker 1: state this whole time. It's on him period end of sentence.
Speaker 1: We're facing enormous budget deficits, so you know he can't
Speaker 1: escape that. So now when we return, we're going to
Speaker 1: talk about his presidential ambitions and why I'm getting more
Speaker 1: and more confidence that JD. Vans is going to be
Speaker 1: our president starting on January twentieth of twenty twenty nine.
Speaker 1: That's next on the John Girardi Show. I am getting
Speaker 1: more and more convinced that JD. Vance is going to
Speaker 1: be the next president of the United States of America.
Speaker 1: Here's why. So his two chief opponents, the two most
Speaker 1: likely opponents from the Democrats side, are at least two
Speaker 1: of the most heralded opponents from the Democrats side. Maybe
Speaker 1: I'm overstating their chances are Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1: Newsom's going to run, Harris is going to run. Now,
Speaker 1: maybe both of them will lose the Democrat primary. I
Speaker 1: don't know. They've got a lot of money behind them.
Speaker 1: They might have a lot of donors, a lot of
Speaker 1: money behind them. I am looking though, at all this
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom news that's coming out now that he has
Speaker 1: to roll back one of his signature things, his promise
Speaker 1: to give medical coverage to illegal aliens. But he's having
Speaker 1: to roll back because it was way more expensive than
Speaker 1: he anticipated. I think Gavin Newsom's never going to be president.
Speaker 1: I think his chances of being president are just cooked.
Speaker 1: I think the last even just the last year, between
Speaker 1: the fires in LA and now this. I mean, let's
Speaker 1: just look at Gavin Newsom's career. Look at Gavin Newsom's
Speaker 1: time as governor. Homelessness has become this huge problem in California.
Speaker 1: He hasn't really done anything to fix it. In fact,
Speaker 1: he spent billions of dollars on it. The problem hasn't alleviated,
Speaker 1: which follows a trend throughout his whole career. He was
Speaker 1: mayor of San Francisco for seven years, spent all his money,
Speaker 1: time and attention to help address homelessness in San Francisco,
Speaker 1: and the problem got way worse when he was mayor. Okay, wildfires, okay,
Speaker 1: we had the bad wildfires in twenty nineteen, twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: said oh, I'm going to do stuff to work on it.
Speaker 1: And then we had the worst fire in history this
Speaker 1: past January in Los Angeles, and we can't get permitting
Speaker 1: for rebuilding this enormous number of houses that got built down,
Speaker 1: that got burned down. Okay, that's also really bad. Well,
Speaker 1: we got our high speed rail, the high speed rail,
Speaker 1: which still has exactly zero inches of operable track. It
Speaker 1: had zero inches of operable track when he started as governor.
Speaker 1: It continues to have zero inches of operable track. We'll
Speaker 1: probably have zero inches of operable track when he leaves governor.
Speaker 1: Over the course of eight years, he didn't ban, he
Speaker 1: did not do a kind of sunk cost analysis. He
Speaker 1: just let it linger. He embraced this stupid Merced to
Speaker 1: Bakersfield plan. It's a disaster and it's indefensible. Now he's
Speaker 1: got budget deficit after budget deficit after budget deficit, because
Speaker 1: and what's the dynamic there. The dynamic is California was
Speaker 1: when he started as governor, and he knew this. When
Speaker 1: he started as governor, he knew California was super reliant
Speaker 1: on a very small pool of very high value into
Speaker 1: the individuals who pay a lot in taxes, and they
Speaker 1: were propping the whole state government up with their tax revenue.
Speaker 1: And the way he governed in no small part during
Speaker 1: COVID resulted in a bunch of them moving away and
Speaker 1: taking billions of dollars in annual revenue from their capital
Speaker 1: gains taxes and other tax revenue with them to Nevada
Speaker 1: to Arizona, to Idaho, to Florida, to Texas, and we're
Speaker 1: never getting them back or not anytime soon anyway. So
Speaker 1: and that's on him. A lot of that was on him.
Speaker 1: It was because of how he governed things during COVID,
Speaker 1: and we had the one year we had twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two where we thought where everyone in Sacramento seemed to
Speaker 1: have this false optimism that oh, everything's wonderful because we
Speaker 1: had a budget surplus. Why well, we had this huge
Speaker 1: influx of federal cash, and we seem to think that,
Speaker 1: you know, blue skies and sunny days were here to stay.
Speaker 1: And here's Gavin Newsom palain around with Jerry Dyer and
Speaker 1: so here, Jerry, here's you know, two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: million dollars for helping with the infrastructure in downtown Fresnoe. Oh,
Speaker 1: thank you, mister governor. That's so sweet of you.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And that money ain't coming, Jerry. I just don't know
Speaker 1: that that money's gonna come. I mean I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't be grudge Jerry Dyer for trying to get the money.
Speaker 1: Good for him, he's the mayor of Fresno. He wants
Speaker 1: to help help, you know, build up Fresno. Good for him,
Speaker 1: But I don't know that that money's coming. We got
Speaker 1: the first installment of it, and and it keeps getting
Speaker 1: pushed back a year, keeps getting pushed back a year.
Speaker 1: I don't know that it's ever coming, especially when we're
Speaker 1: facing these massive year over year deficits. So our fiscal
Speaker 1: outlook is a train wreck. And Knewsome just is like, well,
Speaker 1: all the teachers' unions were mad that they didn't get
Speaker 1: enough money for schools in the budget last year. Oh okay, well,
Speaker 1: I guess we're gonna do a statewide bond measure. What
Speaker 1: was that? That was Prop two, I think or it
Speaker 1: was one of the one of the propositions that we
Speaker 1: voted on in November. And then every local school district
Speaker 1: does a bond measure. Okay, we're just adding more bond debt,
Speaker 1: just more and more bond debt. Who cares as long
Speaker 1: as the teachers' unions are happy, So our fiscal outlook
Speaker 1: is a disaster. He's now having to roll back his signature,
Speaker 1: you know, one of his signature big promises of universal
Speaker 1: healthcare coverage, because he gave even while we were facing
Speaker 1: these horrible budgetary situations. He then proceeded to add illegal
Speaker 1: aliens as being eligible for medical which has cost the
Speaker 1: state billions more than we anticipated. Why didn't we anticipate
Speaker 1: it would cost that much? I don't know. I was
Speaker 1: anticipating it was going to cost a lot of money.
Speaker 1: So I just feel like I don't understand how Gavin
Speaker 1: Newsome is kin to go on a debate stage and
Speaker 1: say vote for me. What literally, what does he have
Speaker 1: to point to? He can talk all you want about all.
Speaker 1: California is one of the fifth leading economy in the world.
Speaker 1: California was one of the leading He always talks about
Speaker 1: that California is the sixth largest economy in the world. Like,
Speaker 1: if you treat California as its own country, it stacks
Speaker 1: up as it's the fifth or sixth leading economy in
Speaker 1: the world. Okay, great, good job by us. It was.
Speaker 1: That's always been the situation with California. That's been the
Speaker 1: situation with California for years and years and years. That
Speaker 1: it has the biggest economy because it has the largest
Speaker 1: population of any individual state in the United States. It
Speaker 1: has several major industries, it has great geography. Shipping goes
Speaker 1: through California. Hollywood is located in California. Yeah, of course,
Speaker 1: but that's not a thing News can take any credit
Speaker 1: for with any sense. Every single aspect of California governance
Speaker 1: has gotten worse. Our fiscal situation is worse. Public safety
Speaker 1: is not better. He's trying to sort of claw back
Speaker 1: after the ridiculous sorts of ballot initiatives that he himself
Speaker 1: helped pass. Public safety is worse, Homelessness is worse. He's
Speaker 1: blown billions of dollars trying to fix homelessness and it
Speaker 1: hasn't fixed anything. The high speed rail is a total waste.
Speaker 1: You just go on and on and on and on.
Speaker 1: And I just don't understand how Gavin Newsom's going to
Speaker 1: be able to stand on a debate stage and credibly
Speaker 1: make the case that people should vote for him him
Speaker 1: to be president. I don't understand how it's gonna work
Speaker 1: he has. I don't see what accomplishment he has to
Speaker 1: point to. Now when you look at the field of
Speaker 1: likely Democrats. Though Newsom will be a formidable person. He's
Speaker 1: got the Nancy Pelosi California donors. He may well have
Speaker 1: a lot of them behind him, and money means a lot.
Speaker 1: The dons. Donors really run things on the Democrats side,
Speaker 1: don't believe me. Look at poor old Joe Biden, who
Speaker 1: got tossed out unceremoniously because the donors basically told him
Speaker 1: you gotta go. I mean that the donors really run
Speaker 1: the show. That they they don't mess around. If they
Speaker 1: really want somebody or really don't want somebody, they can
Speaker 1: make that happen. So it seems as though Newsom has
Speaker 1: been trying to placate that donor class his whole tenure
Speaker 1: as governor of California to set himself up for a
Speaker 1: presidential run in twenty twenty eight. But there's there are
Speaker 1: other challenges he's going to face. So first of all,
Speaker 1: I think it's more and more likely that Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: is going to run for president again. So if she
Speaker 1: runs for president also, that might sort of block up
Speaker 1: the lane that he wants to pursue. She has a
Speaker 1: lot of the same donor base. She's also from California
Speaker 1: that you know, she's the one person who could run
Speaker 1: that has better name recognition than he does on a
Speaker 1: national level. You know, that could be tricky. But then
Speaker 1: you've got to look at other states who have governors
Speaker 1: that are, you know, better, more successful. Look at Josh
Speaker 1: Shapiro in Pennsylvania his governor. No other governor who runs
Speaker 1: will have the catalog of catastrophic failures that Newsom has.
Speaker 1: Josh Shapiro won't have it. Andy Basheer from Kentucky, he
Speaker 1: won't have it. Pete Botagig won't have it. I mean,
Speaker 1: Pete Buotagige has the advantage of having worked a basically
Speaker 1: useless job for four years under the Biden administration and
Speaker 1: not really done much of substance, so he doesn't have
Speaker 1: as much to criticize. But he won't be subject to
Speaker 1: the kinds of attacks that Newsom will be. Newsom just
Speaker 1: has this long, extensive track record of horrific failures that
Speaker 1: I think are I don't understand how he can escape
Speaker 1: it and realistically think he's got a shot at being
Speaker 1: president if his fellow Democrats are willing to be vicious enough,
Speaker 1: as vicious as they need to be for these highly
Speaker 1: ambitious people who want the ultimate prize, if they're gonna
Speaker 1: be the level of ambitious that they should be, they're
Speaker 1: gonna point out on the debate stage, Look, you promised
Speaker 1: single payer, you promise universal health care, and you whimped
Speaker 1: out on it. You said you would deal with forest
Speaker 1: fires and you didn't really deal with forest fires. You
Speaker 1: made this commitment to the high speed rail, it's still
Speaker 1: not there. You uh, you know, on and on and
Speaker 1: on and on. You you are delivering budget deficits. What actually,
Speaker 1: what actual accomplishments does Newsom have to run on. I
Speaker 1: don't know that he's got any. And now again, let's
Speaker 1: let's talk about Kamala Harris wanting to run. She she
Speaker 1: is really wanting to run. I think a lot of
Speaker 1: what's happening right now, you've got this Jake Tapper book
Speaker 1: that's coming out about Joe Biden and about how old
Speaker 1: the cover up that happened there was, what are you
Speaker 1: talking about? There was no cover up. Everyone knew Biden
Speaker 1: was too old and senile. All you had to do
Speaker 1: was just watch video of him, which is what everyone
Speaker 1: in the country was doing. Let's let's not forget sixty
Speaker 1: percent of the country thought Biden was too old to
Speaker 1: run for president before the CNN debate, sixty percent of
Speaker 1: the country. So the idea that, oh, they deceived us
Speaker 1: all in the met No, there was nothing to deceive.
Speaker 1: Just believe your eyes. Anyway, A lot of that, this
Speaker 1: whole sterm and drong over this book that Jake Tapper's
Speaker 1: releasing about oh how old, how old? The Biden people
Speaker 1: orchestrated this horrific cover up and deceived us all. A
Speaker 1: lot of it, I think is that there are at
Speaker 1: least some people who are participating with it who are
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, people who are trying to rationalize and justify
Speaker 1: her loss and try to say, no, she's not a
Speaker 1: terrible candidate. She was just dealt an impossible situation. She
Speaker 1: was saddled to this loser Joe Biden, and no one
Speaker 1: could have won with a one hundred day campaign. That's
Speaker 1: the big thing they keep saying that, Oh, it's how
Speaker 1: could we have expected Kamala Harris to beat Donald Trump
Speaker 1: with only one hundred days to campaign? Because you know,
Speaker 1: it was only about one hundred days before the November
Speaker 1: election that the big switch aeroo happened. So a lot
Speaker 1: of this media circus is it's a Kamala Harris rehabilitation thing.
Speaker 1: So I think she's going to be back. I think
Speaker 1: she's going to be back in twenty twenty eight. And
Speaker 1: let me I'll just say this, if the ultimate contest
Speaker 1: for the Democrats is between Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom
Speaker 1: to be the next president, then JD. Vance is gonna
Speaker 1: cruise to victory because one I don't think. I think
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris was a really bad candidate the last time,
Speaker 1: and she's gonna be a really bad candidate again this time.
Speaker 1: It's not like she's all of a sudden gonna be
Speaker 1: good at talking. It's now all of her her problems
Speaker 1: are not going to go away. And it's clear that
Speaker 1: the like the Trump tariff stuff, it seems like this
Speaker 1: is kind of getting drawn back wound down. That stuff's
Speaker 1: going to be in the rearview mirror by the time
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty eight presidential election rolls around. I would
Speaker 1: anticipate some kind of tax cuts are going to happen.
Speaker 1: I bet the economy is going to be doing better
Speaker 1: by the time Jade Vance is running. I think Vance
Speaker 1: would crush Harris. And if it's Gavin Newsom, Vance has
Speaker 1: so much AMMO to use against Newsom. Again, all of
Speaker 1: the things that Newsom has done that have just been
Speaker 1: massive failures, and we're topping it off now with the
Speaker 1: disaster of his expanding medical eligibility to people who aren't
Speaker 1: supposed to be in the country, who aren't in the
Speaker 1: country legally. That's just gonna be the cherry on top
Speaker 1: of this turd. Sunday, I think Vance will just be
Speaker 1: able to rip Gavin Newsome limb from limb and just
Speaker 1: demonstrate he has nothing to run on when we return.
Speaker 1: I told you guys the story about how we're dealing
Speaker 1: with drugies outside of a homeless shelter. Apparently we have someone,
Speaker 1: a well known figure, a well known gadfly in Fresno
Speaker 1: politics is involved. I'll tell you all about it. Next.
Speaker 1: This is the John Girardi Show. I came on the
Speaker 1: show yesterday and I talked with you guys. Actually, I
Speaker 1: might writing an obet about it. I might submit it
Speaker 1: to somebody telling you about my experience that are are
Speaker 1: building it right to life. Where we're located across the
Speaker 1: street from the back part of a parking lot of
Speaker 1: what used to be a motel six but is now
Speaker 1: a homeless housing entity. And how basically now people can
Speaker 1: enter an exit from the back part of this parking lot.
Speaker 1: People living at this homeless housing entity, they're coming out
Speaker 1: of there, and drug dealers are just sort of or
Speaker 1: very much seems to be drug dealers anyway, are just
Speaker 1: camping out right next to the exit to sell their
Speaker 1: wares to people as they leave the housing unit. As
Speaker 1: they leave this homeless housing they're selling drugs right there
Speaker 1: in full view of the employee or at least the contractors,
Speaker 1: the security people from the homeless housing entity, selling drugs
Speaker 1: to them right there. And then they're sitting on basically
Speaker 1: right up against my property to loiter around all day
Speaker 1: using drugs, ambling what looked kind of like soliciting prostitution.
Speaker 1: You know, cars stopped in the middle of the road
Speaker 1: with ladies leaning into the windows, et cetera. Well, I
Speaker 1: learned that apparently this entity is being managed by none
Speaker 1: other than Terrence Fraser. Terrence Fraser the head of the
Speaker 1: nonprofit that runs the Granite Park Sports complex that has
Speaker 1: been a massive thorn in the city side for all
Speaker 1: kinds of fun, paid bills and lawsuits, all kinds of
Speaker 1: things like that. So the plot thickens for your boy,
Speaker 1: John Girardi, and I'm going to dig into this a
Speaker 1: little more. I'm hoping I can write something about this
Speaker 1: and maybe write a little op ed and maybe send
Speaker 1: it to Bill McEwan and the guys at GV Wire.
Speaker 1: That'll do it for the John Girardi Show. Thank you
Speaker 1: all so much for listening. We'll see you next time
Speaker 1: here on Power Talk.