WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:01.960 I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but 2 00:00:02.040 --> 00:00:05.799 it appears that coming up in the twenty twenty six elections, 3 00:00:08.519 --> 00:00:12.480 Fresno is going to have a new candidate for the 4 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:16.160 California State Assembly seat currently held by Joaquin Arambula, so 5 00:00:16.239 --> 00:00:18.760 Jaquin Arambula has been a California State Assembly member for 6 00:00:18.760 --> 00:00:23.039 a long time. He is term limiting out. Yes, we 7 00:00:23.120 --> 00:00:27.399 have term limits in the California legislature. Probably many of 8 00:00:27.440 --> 00:00:27.839 you did. 9 00:00:27.760 --> 00:00:30.199 Not know that. 10 00:00:30.359 --> 00:00:32.640 The California State Legislature, by the way, is the greatest 11 00:00:32.679 --> 00:00:35.600 counter example for every conservative who says, you know, we 12 00:00:35.640 --> 00:00:38.920 need solve the problem in Washington, we need term limits. 13 00:00:39.079 --> 00:00:41.200 Term these people need to get out off. 14 00:00:41.359 --> 00:00:44.359 Well, we have term limits in the California State Legislature. 15 00:00:44.799 --> 00:00:46.679 You have a twelve year term limit. You can serve 16 00:00:46.759 --> 00:00:49.359 no more than twelve years combined between the State Assembly 17 00:00:49.479 --> 00:00:51.280 and the State Senate. So you could do like four 18 00:00:51.320 --> 00:00:52.840 years in the State Senate in eight years in the 19 00:00:52.840 --> 00:00:55.560 State Assembly, or or you know, twelve years in one 20 00:00:55.679 --> 00:00:57.039 or twelve years in the other, and then you're done. 21 00:00:57.119 --> 00:00:58.240 Okay, you're term limited out. 22 00:00:59.359 --> 00:01:04.519 And this legislature is terrible in California, just in different 23 00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:09.719 ways than Washington. Is it has just created new and 24 00:01:09.760 --> 00:01:14.319 different bad pathologies among members of the state legislature anyway. 25 00:01:14.799 --> 00:01:19.840 Joaquina Arambula is term limiting out and his district covers 26 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:25.560 a lot of like South Fresno, and running to replace him. 27 00:01:26.840 --> 00:01:33.879 Is maybe one of my least favorite people as far 28 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:36.719 as what she believes. I don't know anything about her personally. 29 00:01:36.719 --> 00:01:38.239 I never met her personally. I'm not saying she's a 30 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:43.599 bad person. I guess I don't know. Just don't like 31 00:01:43.640 --> 00:01:47.879 what she advocates and how she postures herself and sort 32 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:53.640 of what she represents within local politics. Sandra Celodon, Sandra 33 00:01:53.719 --> 00:01:57.000 Selodon is running to replace Jauquina Rambula, and she got 34 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:02.879 a big glowing column in the Fresno b yesterday from 35 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:06.640 Merrik Worzowski, and it's really kind of. 36 00:02:08.639 --> 00:02:09.240 Indicative. 37 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:12.879 I think of the irrelevance to which the Fresno Bee 38 00:02:12.960 --> 00:02:16.439 is sliding that they find literally the most left wing 39 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:20.240 person to have their columnists do this big, glowing, gushing 40 00:02:20.360 --> 00:02:25.599 review over. So I want to go through this piece 41 00:02:25.759 --> 00:02:30.039 by Worzowski and talk a little bit about Selodon and 42 00:02:30.039 --> 00:02:32.719 what she represents. So the first thing to know is 43 00:02:32.719 --> 00:02:36.800 that Sandra Seladon is the CEO of Fresno Building Healthy Communities. 44 00:02:40.240 --> 00:02:47.240 Fresno Building Healthy Communities is one of these nonprofits that 45 00:02:49.039 --> 00:02:59.439 circles around the basically any government entity that has money 46 00:02:59.599 --> 00:03:04.520 there in a city council, the president, county, board of supervisors, president, 47 00:03:04.599 --> 00:03:10.479 unified school districts, board of trustees, et cetera. They circle 48 00:03:10.520 --> 00:03:18.719 around like vultures circling a carcass. And they have all 49 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:25.439 of these altruistic sounding liberal ideas, proposing certain kinds of taxes, 50 00:03:25.599 --> 00:03:29.759 doing certain kinds of things, whatever, certain kinds of government programs. 51 00:03:30.599 --> 00:03:37.960 All sounds like these altruistic liberal ideas, but the point 52 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:41.800 is to do them with a government contract going to them. 53 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:49.520 They want to provide all these services with your taxpayer 54 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:53.039 dollar flowing to them, so that it sounds like they're just, oh, 55 00:03:53.080 --> 00:03:58.039 we're just altruistically advocating for you know, some you know, bleeding. 56 00:03:57.719 --> 00:03:58.639 Heart liberal cause. 57 00:03:59.319 --> 00:04:02.680 But really what they want is your money in the 58 00:04:02.680 --> 00:04:09.039 form of a government contract. So Fresno Building Healthy Communities 59 00:04:09.039 --> 00:04:14.919 does that, Barriosunidos does that. All these different Fresno eoc 60 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:21.680 very often does that. All these different local nonprofits do this. 61 00:04:25.879 --> 00:04:30.600 And Celadon and her Fresno building healthy communities has been 62 00:04:30.680 --> 00:04:32.920 at the forefront of it. So she was this big 63 00:04:32.959 --> 00:04:41.680 pusher of measure p the parks measure, which she and 64 00:04:41.759 --> 00:04:45.000 her organization was a big pusher of measure p She 65 00:04:45.720 --> 00:04:48.839 is also like super environmental, like wanting to stop any 66 00:04:48.879 --> 00:04:52.839 kind you know, one of the big local entities, pushing 67 00:04:53.240 --> 00:04:58.680 all kinds of the negative adverse environmental actions, lawsuits, et 68 00:04:58.680 --> 00:05:04.839 cetera that help stop development and hurt business in the 69 00:05:04.839 --> 00:05:13.959 city of Fresno. She also, notoriously this was the one 70 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:17.600 notorious thing about her that Warzowski buries at the bottom 71 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:22.079 of the article and just sort of glosses past. This 72 00:05:22.240 --> 00:05:24.800 was the sequence of events we had. The riots were 73 00:05:24.800 --> 00:05:32.839 happening in Minnesota after George Floyd was killed. Seladan tweets 74 00:05:32.839 --> 00:05:37.439 out a video of a police precinct burning to the ground, 75 00:05:37.560 --> 00:05:40.480 and she writes in the caption burn them all down. 76 00:05:43.800 --> 00:05:48.720 Everyone understandably says, what the hell. She deletes her whole 77 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:54.639 Twitter account, and yet somehow still manages to finagle her 78 00:05:54.680 --> 00:06:03.920 way onto the Fresno Police Reform Commission, the commission that 79 00:06:04.079 --> 00:06:07.800 was set up under Mayor brand and Mayor elect Jerry 80 00:06:07.879 --> 00:06:11.439 Dyer to examine the police how should we reform policing 81 00:06:11.439 --> 00:06:14.560 in Fresno because we're all feeling bad after George Floyd, 82 00:06:14.639 --> 00:06:18.199 and somehow the police are racist in Fresno, so we 83 00:06:18.279 --> 00:06:20.839 need to set up a commission. And they set up 84 00:06:20.839 --> 00:06:26.079 poor Oliver Baines as the figurehead chair of the Police 85 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:29.920 Reform Commission, and Sandra Celadon, of all people, this person 86 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:33.199 who expressed the most obviously out of bounds idea for 87 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:37.800 fresnens presidents who have never gone in at any level 88 00:06:37.959 --> 00:06:40.959 the citizenry, the city council, Nobody at any point had 89 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:43.800 ever gone in for defund the police stuff other than Selodon, 90 00:06:44.079 --> 00:06:45.759 who's clearly a huge enthusiast for it. 91 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:47.800 Celodan gets picked. 92 00:06:47.560 --> 00:06:52.399 To be the vice chair of this Police Reform Commission 93 00:06:54.360 --> 00:07:00.160 and produces this report full of recommendations that she clearly wrote. 94 00:06:59.839 --> 00:07:02.680 I don't know if Oliver Bain's I mean, Oliver bains 95 00:07:02.680 --> 00:07:07.480 seemingly was completely steamrolled on this whole thing or sell 96 00:07:07.519 --> 00:07:10.240 it On writes this report, which which apparently nobody but 97 00:07:10.360 --> 00:07:15.319 me bothered to actually read at the time, which basically 98 00:07:15.360 --> 00:07:20.600 said policing in America is inherently racist. Policing in America 99 00:07:21.079 --> 00:07:26.199 is rooted in gangs of Southern yahoos who would go around, 100 00:07:26.839 --> 00:07:29.600 get deputized, and go around with rifles to round up 101 00:07:29.759 --> 00:07:32.920 escape slaves. That was the whole point of policing in America, 102 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:35.480 and that racist legacy lives on today and how it 103 00:07:35.680 --> 00:07:39.000 adversely impacts communities of color, and blah blah blah. 104 00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:42.120 Every just chapter in verse, every. 105 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:49.319 Line of modern day American left wing police discourse, all 106 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:54.759 of which is bunk, all of which is historically bunk. Actually, 107 00:07:54.800 --> 00:07:58.079 the roots of modern day American policing lie in the 108 00:07:58.120 --> 00:08:03.839 Bobby's London's Police Force that was developed in nineteenth century, 109 00:08:05.360 --> 00:08:09.800 where the idea came about for a professionalized swarm set 110 00:08:09.879 --> 00:08:14.120 of swarm officers taking on almost a sort of quasi 111 00:08:14.319 --> 00:08:20.319 military style of behavior, with uniforms, with ranks, with discipline, 112 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:26.519 with training, who would enforce the law. That model was 113 00:08:26.560 --> 00:08:30.720 exported from the United Kingdom to the United States of 114 00:08:30.759 --> 00:08:33.720 America and started on the East Coast and spread throughout 115 00:08:33.720 --> 00:08:37.279 the country. That's the model for modern day American policing. 116 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:41.759 It owes far more to that than it does to 117 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:45.440 anything having to do with rounding up slaves in the 118 00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:48.879 American South prior to the Civil War. It's a different tradition. 119 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:51.240 It has nothing to do with it. But if you're 120 00:08:51.240 --> 00:08:59.000 a completely left wing nutjob, race obsessed loan, then of 121 00:08:59.039 --> 00:09:01.320 course that's the lens through which you view the universe. 122 00:09:04.639 --> 00:09:07.519 So I find Seladon. 123 00:09:07.159 --> 00:09:07.480 To be. 124 00:09:10.120 --> 00:09:12.840 Sort of the worst example. 125 00:09:12.759 --> 00:09:15.559 Of this, and I think an out of touch example 126 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:20.279 with where Fresno is and has been. Fresno never bought 127 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:21.799 in to the defund. 128 00:09:21.399 --> 00:09:22.320 The police nonsense. 129 00:09:22.440 --> 00:09:28.519 Never. I don't care if you're South President, North President whatever. 130 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:31.799 No, Fresno never bought into the defund the police nonsense. 131 00:09:34.600 --> 00:09:39.679 She was able using her army of nonprofit paid interns 132 00:09:39.720 --> 00:09:45.559 to get measure P the parks tax passed, but which, 133 00:09:45.600 --> 00:09:48.360 of course she's you know, then tries to finagle you know, 134 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:50.559 grants and stuff for herself. I am sure, I haven't 135 00:09:50.600 --> 00:09:53.279 seen all the receipts from it, but that seems to 136 00:09:53.320 --> 00:09:55.559 be their mo. If she didn't get any money from 137 00:09:55.600 --> 00:10:02.480 measure PE, then I'll shut up. But basically, Fresno Building 138 00:10:02.559 --> 00:10:06.960 Healthy Communities is a nonprofit that was started up in 139 00:10:06.960 --> 00:10:11.679 bootstrapped by ultra left wingers from the Los Angeles area 140 00:10:13.320 --> 00:10:20.559 who helped to get these things going. And you know, 141 00:10:20.759 --> 00:10:24.360 Worzowski goes through her sort of like resume here on 142 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:29.879 this piece because he went to a fundraiser for her. 143 00:10:30.759 --> 00:10:37.519 He talks about how she's transforming Fresno with state funds. So, 144 00:10:37.879 --> 00:10:42.200 in short, like this is the worst kind of person 145 00:10:43.919 --> 00:10:50.879 to vault into the state legislature. This is someone who 146 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:55.840 I don't think actually represents very well the communities she 147 00:10:55.919 --> 00:10:58.679 claims to represent. And this is one of the obnoxious 148 00:10:58.679 --> 00:11:03.240 things about these kinds of groups. Leadership Council for Justice 149 00:11:03.240 --> 00:11:07.919 and Accountability is another one of these groups that CELADON 150 00:11:08.039 --> 00:11:13.320 is very tight with, which this is the that's the 151 00:11:13.320 --> 00:11:17.840 group that basically sues everyone for allegedly for under sequa 152 00:11:17.919 --> 00:11:22.759 for allegedly not having enough of an environmental review. Celadon 153 00:11:23.399 --> 00:11:25.879 is sort of tight with those groups. All these different 154 00:11:25.919 --> 00:11:31.519 lefty nonprofit quote community groups, they're all funded with money 155 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:35.399 from Los Angeles. First of all, these entities are not 156 00:11:35.480 --> 00:11:37.840 just springing out of the ground on the backs of 157 00:11:37.879 --> 00:11:40.679 ten dollars donations from Ubuela No. 158 00:11:41.480 --> 00:11:43.039 These are out of. 159 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:48.559 Town Los Angeles or San Francisco based entities starting up 160 00:11:48.840 --> 00:11:52.120 nonprofits in Fresno to impact public policy in Fresno. That's 161 00:11:52.240 --> 00:12:02.399 what this is. Well moneyed entities. So it's not something organic, 162 00:12:03.080 --> 00:12:06.679 and they constantly have this attitude of acting as if 163 00:12:07.000 --> 00:12:13.840 they represent South Fresno more so than the actual elected 164 00:12:13.879 --> 00:12:19.120 representatives of South Fresno do. Like it seems as though 165 00:12:19.159 --> 00:12:24.639 Analisa Perea might be running for this Assembly seat also now, 166 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:27.159 Analisa pre has been on the president of City Council 167 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:31.399 for about two years. I'm not you know, I'm not 168 00:12:31.600 --> 00:12:36.639 like a great fan of Analisa Perea. Necessarily she's sort 169 00:12:36.679 --> 00:12:43.159 of part of the Henry Perea family business. But Analisa 170 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:46.480 Perea I think has a much better claim to actually 171 00:12:46.559 --> 00:12:49.600 represent these people her viewpoints, which, by the way, she's 172 00:12:49.600 --> 00:12:54.039 a far more moderate Democrat than Sandra Seladon is, and 173 00:12:55.120 --> 00:12:58.840 I think that is actually representative of the people of 174 00:12:58.840 --> 00:13:02.440 South Fresno. I think people in South Presno are if 175 00:13:02.440 --> 00:13:05.279 they are Democrats, they're more moderate Democrats. This is not 176 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:10.120 San Francisco Democrats. This is not you know, Beverly Hills democrats. Here, 177 00:13:11.840 --> 00:13:15.480 people in Fresno didn't ever want the police to be defunded. 178 00:13:15.519 --> 00:13:19.320 People in Fresno overwhelmingly voted for the former police chief 179 00:13:19.360 --> 00:13:27.480 to be the mayor twice. This is not a this 180 00:13:27.600 --> 00:13:30.679 is not a left wing city. And by the way 181 00:13:31.240 --> 00:13:33.919 Sandra Seladon is a candidate for twenty twenty, she's not 182 00:13:33.960 --> 00:13:37.759 a candidate for twenty twenty six. The country has moved 183 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:41.360 on from a lot of these insane. 184 00:13:41.279 --> 00:13:43.000 That sounded like Trump for a second, a lot. 185 00:13:42.879 --> 00:13:43.639 Of these people. 186 00:13:44.039 --> 00:13:45.799 The country has moved on from a lot of these 187 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:49.799 sort of pathologies that the left was just so captivated 188 00:13:49.840 --> 00:13:54.039 but with back in twenty twenty, she's the wrong person 189 00:13:54.159 --> 00:13:58.159 for this timeframe, seemingly, and especially in Fresno a county. 190 00:13:58.200 --> 00:14:03.279 You know, Presno County went you know, Fresno County went red. 191 00:14:04.399 --> 00:14:07.039 Now I'm sure that Assembly district didn't. It takes like 192 00:14:07.080 --> 00:14:09.639 the most liberal parts of Fresno and then probably I 193 00:14:09.679 --> 00:14:12.720 think some other parts of the South Valley into the 194 00:14:12.759 --> 00:14:16.159 South Valley. So I mean, it's still probably a pretty 195 00:14:16.360 --> 00:14:22.399 safely Democrat district. But I think go on, Lisa Perea 196 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:25.240 probably fits that district a lot better than Sandra Slodon does. 197 00:14:25.759 --> 00:14:28.279 And yet that this is the difficulty. You have these 198 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:31.519 nonprofit groups who act like, oh, I represent the interests 199 00:14:31.600 --> 00:14:33.799 of this community. We're just standing up for the people 200 00:14:33.799 --> 00:14:36.919 in this community, and it's very unclear that they are 201 00:14:37.000 --> 00:14:44.279 actually representative of their communities. They'll file lawsuits with you know, 202 00:14:44.399 --> 00:14:48.120 three members of that community who said, uh sure, I'll 203 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:50.240 have my name be a plaintiff in the lawsuit. I 204 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:52.240 don't have to do anything right, No, you don't do it, okay. 205 00:14:54.559 --> 00:14:59.919 So basically I just feel like, gosh, Sandra Slodon represents 206 00:15:01.320 --> 00:15:07.799 the absolute worst stuff, the most poisonous stuff within Fresno politics. 207 00:15:08.759 --> 00:15:14.399 Is this again, this flock of vultures from these different 208 00:15:14.440 --> 00:15:17.759 nonprofitentities who again they circle around City Hall. 209 00:15:19.840 --> 00:15:24.240 Just waiting to dip their beaks. That's all they want. 210 00:15:25.720 --> 00:15:29.679 And she's going to ride that gig all the way 211 00:15:29.720 --> 00:15:32.960 to the California State Assembly. Now, when we return, I 212 00:15:32.960 --> 00:15:36.080 want to talk about the BS lawsuit that Selodan filed 213 00:15:36.399 --> 00:15:39.919 against Community Hospital. That's next on the John Girardy Show. 214 00:15:41.399 --> 00:15:44.639 Sandra Seladon is running for the California State Assembly seat 215 00:15:44.720 --> 00:15:49.039 currently held by Joaquin Arambula, who is term limiting out, 216 00:15:49.039 --> 00:15:52.120 and the Fresno b is fainting all over itself. At 217 00:15:52.120 --> 00:15:56.919 the News, Marrik Worzowski wrote a gushing column about Sandra 218 00:15:57.000 --> 00:16:00.120 Celadon and how wonderful she is. Sandra Slodon on the 219 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:04.919 head of Fresno building healthy communities. Sandra burn them all down. 220 00:16:05.399 --> 00:16:05.879 Seladan. 221 00:16:07.480 --> 00:16:09.399 Yes, this was the woman who tweeted out after the 222 00:16:09.399 --> 00:16:14.000 George Floyd riots when there were Minneapolis police precincts literally 223 00:16:14.039 --> 00:16:16.519 burning to the ground. She posted a video of one 224 00:16:16.519 --> 00:16:20.320 burning down with the caption burned them all Down. And 225 00:16:20.559 --> 00:16:23.720 her defense of that in Warzowski's column was so lame. 226 00:16:23.799 --> 00:16:25.919 She was saying, Oh, I just I tweeted it out 227 00:16:25.919 --> 00:16:29.960 in a moment of passion, and you noticed that I 228 00:16:30.039 --> 00:16:31.679 wasn't the one doing anything destructive. 229 00:16:31.720 --> 00:16:32.759 I just went back to work. 230 00:16:33.600 --> 00:16:39.399 It's like, okay, So the bar that we're holding you, 231 00:16:39.399 --> 00:16:41.399 you know, the standard were holding you up against, is 232 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:45.440 did you actively participate in a riot or did you 233 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:48.600 just cheer one on from the sideline? Oh okay, we 234 00:16:49.200 --> 00:16:52.799 ignore that you were cheering on violent riots because you 235 00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:56.480 didn't actually do them. If anything, it just shows that 236 00:16:56.519 --> 00:16:59.120 she lacks conviction. I guess anyway, if she thinks, you know, 237 00:16:59.159 --> 00:17:01.360 burning down police, he thinks is such a wonderful idea. 238 00:17:02.360 --> 00:17:09.039 Now I say this for its own segment. Worzowski in 239 00:17:09.079 --> 00:17:11.319 his column. And by the way, you may have noticed, 240 00:17:11.359 --> 00:17:13.359 I haven't talked as much about the Fresno Bee lately. 241 00:17:14.599 --> 00:17:18.079 I think it's less and less relevant I don't know 242 00:17:18.079 --> 00:17:21.839 why I happened to open it up today to look 243 00:17:21.880 --> 00:17:24.720 at it, and it's sort of cemented in my mind 244 00:17:24.759 --> 00:17:27.680 that maybe I don't need to. The President Bee still 245 00:17:27.759 --> 00:17:35.480 has this bizarre worldview that of their acceptable range of opinions, 246 00:17:36.160 --> 00:17:38.680 their worldview seems to be so narrow that they sort 247 00:17:38.720 --> 00:17:42.240 of cannot comprehend analysis from someone on the right anyway, 248 00:17:42.279 --> 00:17:46.359 so such that they think that Celodan isn't a ridiculous 249 00:17:46.440 --> 00:17:52.720 kind of person anyway. One of the things Worzowski highlighted 250 00:17:52.759 --> 00:17:58.240 in his column was the wonderful stuff Clodon has done 251 00:17:58.279 --> 00:18:02.240 with suing different business as in government agencies, including one 252 00:18:02.279 --> 00:18:05.759 lawsuit currently pending in federal court that charges Community Health 253 00:18:05.839 --> 00:18:11.240 System of misusing medical funds for its Clovis hospital expansion. 254 00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:12.440 So the idea is. 255 00:18:15.160 --> 00:18:22.039 Community Hospital gets reimbursement from Medical for caring for patients 256 00:18:22.119 --> 00:18:27.720 who have medical They provide a service for a medical patient, 257 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:30.079 they submit a bill to Medical, they get money from Medical. 258 00:18:31.240 --> 00:18:34.400 The argument is that Community has diverted too much money 259 00:18:34.559 --> 00:18:41.079 away from community downtown towards Community and Clovis, and the 260 00:18:41.160 --> 00:18:46.000 idea being that this is racist, that this has resulted 261 00:18:46.240 --> 00:18:52.039 in community downtown suffering and community and Clovist thriving. That 262 00:18:52.160 --> 00:18:55.079 community and Clovis is much bigger, nicer, and more spacious, 263 00:18:55.119 --> 00:18:55.680 better services. 264 00:18:55.720 --> 00:18:56.640 Blah blah blah blah blah. 265 00:18:56.680 --> 00:19:01.200 Community downtown is crappy and run down, not as nice, 266 00:19:01.759 --> 00:19:06.359 and that community was illegally siphoning medical money from one 267 00:19:06.359 --> 00:19:11.359 place to another. So let me just talk about what 268 00:19:11.440 --> 00:19:14.200 an idiotic lawsuit this is just at the ten thousand 269 00:19:14.240 --> 00:19:22.599 foot level, all right, Is community diverting more money to 270 00:19:22.640 --> 00:19:24.160 Clovis than to downtown? 271 00:19:24.319 --> 00:19:27.960 I don't know. Is that illegal? 272 00:19:28.240 --> 00:19:29.119 I don't think it is. 273 00:19:30.680 --> 00:19:33.319 I know though, for a fact, that saying that their 274 00:19:33.440 --> 00:19:40.240 medical money is being misused to spruce up community in 275 00:19:40.279 --> 00:19:43.440 Clovis at the expensive community downtown is one of the 276 00:19:43.519 --> 00:19:48.519 stupider things I've ever heard. Let's explain how medical works, guys. 277 00:19:49.759 --> 00:19:59.559 Medical's broke. Medical is deeply fundamentally flawed. Why because reimbursements 278 00:19:59.759 --> 00:20:04.880 to doctors who take care of medical patients from so 279 00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:07.839 this is reimbursement from the state. Medical is health insurance 280 00:20:08.119 --> 00:20:11.119 paid for with joint federal and state dollars. It's health 281 00:20:11.119 --> 00:20:14.759 insurance that's available to everyone under a certain income threshold. 282 00:20:17.400 --> 00:20:20.799 The reimbursement that a doctor gets for performing a service 283 00:20:21.279 --> 00:20:29.000 on a medical patient is tiny, tiny relative to what 284 00:20:29.039 --> 00:20:31.240 the doctor could get for performing the same service on 285 00:20:31.279 --> 00:20:36.599 a patient who has private health insurance, and tiny also 286 00:20:36.799 --> 00:20:43.000 relative to the costs associated with providing that care. There 287 00:20:43.000 --> 00:20:46.519 are many disciplines where doctors just flat out lose money 288 00:20:46.920 --> 00:20:52.960 taking care of medical patients. Okay, obgyn care for example, 289 00:20:54.000 --> 00:20:56.920 without extra state subsidies, they lose money on ob care. 290 00:20:57.119 --> 00:20:58.839 Doctors do and they. 291 00:20:58.880 --> 00:21:04.440 Lose BI get totally sucked providing gynecology care. So the 292 00:21:04.599 --> 00:21:08.480 money that community hospital, let's say, is getting from medical 293 00:21:09.440 --> 00:21:12.200 this is not representing some grand windfall. This is not 294 00:21:12.240 --> 00:21:14.920 like a big grant or something that they get that 295 00:21:15.279 --> 00:21:23.720 helps them. No, medical funding that community hospital gets is 296 00:21:24.160 --> 00:21:29.000 barely covering the costs associated with providing a service to 297 00:21:29.039 --> 00:21:33.400 a patient, to providing services to their medical patients. So 298 00:21:33.599 --> 00:21:37.519 the idea to frame their lawsuit in terms of oh, 299 00:21:37.599 --> 00:21:41.039 here's community hospital making tons of money off of medical 300 00:21:41.920 --> 00:21:44.240 and they're just taking all that money they're getting from 301 00:21:44.279 --> 00:21:47.000 medical down a community and they're just shoveling at all 302 00:21:47.039 --> 00:21:51.920 to those fat cat white people in Clovis. It is 303 00:21:51.960 --> 00:21:56.200 not a realistic understanding of the world. Money that they 304 00:21:56.240 --> 00:22:02.039 get from medical represents, like, you know, reducing their loss 305 00:22:02.079 --> 00:22:06.079 from a total loss to just a partial loss. All right, 306 00:22:06.119 --> 00:22:12.480 it's not some windfall. It's not like Okay, if look 307 00:22:12.920 --> 00:22:17.240 if Community down. If Community Hospital had applied for a 308 00:22:17.640 --> 00:22:21.240 you know, forty million dollar grant from the state for 309 00:22:21.359 --> 00:22:24.799 caring for lowering compatients at Community Downtown, and had received 310 00:22:24.839 --> 00:22:27.720 a forty million dollar grant from the state, Hey use 311 00:22:27.799 --> 00:22:30.440 this for Community Downtown to care for lowering compatients. And 312 00:22:30.480 --> 00:22:32.359 then they took that forty million dollars and threw it 313 00:22:32.400 --> 00:22:36.920 into a you know, chandeliers and caviat at Clovis Community. 314 00:22:37.559 --> 00:22:40.920 Okay, that I could understand. That. That's a lawsuit. That 315 00:22:40.960 --> 00:22:41.799 I could understand. 316 00:22:41.839 --> 00:22:44.559 You got a forty million dollar, effectively a windfall a 317 00:22:44.559 --> 00:22:46.839 grant from the state, and you used all that money 318 00:22:46.839 --> 00:22:47.880 for Community Clovis. 319 00:22:48.160 --> 00:22:50.359 That I would understand. But that's not the lawsuit. 320 00:22:50.440 --> 00:22:53.480 It's saying, oh, you're you're a medical funding you've diverted 321 00:22:53.519 --> 00:22:54.240 to Clovis. 322 00:22:54.720 --> 00:22:55.519 It's idiotic. 323 00:22:55.599 --> 00:23:02.480 The medical funding that Community Hospital gets is again it's 324 00:23:02.519 --> 00:23:05.200 not even covering the costs of the services they get. 325 00:23:05.359 --> 00:23:11.599 Medical funding is given as a reimbursement for the cost 326 00:23:11.880 --> 00:23:14.799 of a service that Community Hospital or one of its 327 00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:22.079 docks whatever provided. So, but that's Sandra Seladon's nonprofit filing 328 00:23:22.119 --> 00:23:26.000 this fancy schmancy lawsuit. Oh she's bringing awareness. She's not 329 00:23:26.000 --> 00:23:33.200 bringing awareness to Jack. It's a PR stunt, is what 330 00:23:33.279 --> 00:23:36.920 it was. It's a way to get her nonprofit in 331 00:23:36.960 --> 00:23:43.559 the news with a silly lawsuit that I don't think 332 00:23:43.680 --> 00:23:48.119 is going to go anywhere. It doesn't make any sense. 333 00:23:48.759 --> 00:23:52.160 It doesn't make any sense theoretically. Look, is there stuff 334 00:23:52.160 --> 00:23:53.680 to criticize the Community Hospital for. 335 00:23:53.759 --> 00:23:54.359 I don't know. 336 00:23:54.599 --> 00:23:58.960 Maybe I'm not saying they're a sainted organization that that's 337 00:23:58.960 --> 00:24:00.359 perfect and doing everything perfectly. 338 00:24:00.599 --> 00:24:02.759 But that lawsuit doesn't even make any sense. 339 00:24:03.039 --> 00:24:05.799 So acting like Sandra selad On some grand community act 340 00:24:06.200 --> 00:24:09.400 advocate because she's suing Community Hospital. 341 00:24:10.720 --> 00:24:12.960 Is silly. 342 00:24:13.920 --> 00:24:17.079 Let me return a broader cultural question. Is Clovis really 343 00:24:17.119 --> 00:24:17.799 all that white? 344 00:24:18.640 --> 00:24:21.799 Next? On the John Girardi Show, all right, I want 345 00:24:21.799 --> 00:24:22.559 to talk about sort of. 346 00:24:22.559 --> 00:24:25.720 A this is an evergreen sort of topic, a broader 347 00:24:25.759 --> 00:24:32.920 cultural question, the demography of the San Joaquin Valley. So 348 00:24:33.079 --> 00:24:35.759 over the weekend I was in Washington, DC, and I 349 00:24:35.799 --> 00:24:40.240 get reminded of this pretty much every time I leave 350 00:24:40.359 --> 00:24:44.240 the San Joaquin Valley and I remember this the first 351 00:24:44.240 --> 00:24:49.240 time I visited Notre Dame and it's another area where 352 00:24:49.559 --> 00:24:51.720 by the way. So the whole first half of the show, 353 00:24:51.799 --> 00:24:54.640 I was riffing off of a column written by Merrick 354 00:24:54.680 --> 00:24:59.640 Wworzowski in The Fresno Bee. I want to pledge Agent Squires, always, 355 00:25:00.400 --> 00:25:03.200 our beloved producer here on the John Girardi Show, always 356 00:25:03.720 --> 00:25:06.640 takes me to task whenever I do a Fresno B story, Why. 357 00:25:06.519 --> 00:25:09.319 Are you talking about them? They're irrelevant there. Their readership 358 00:25:09.400 --> 00:25:10.720 is just down, down, down, down down. 359 00:25:10.759 --> 00:25:11.480 Why are you doing that? 360 00:25:11.920 --> 00:25:16.680 And based on the column I read today, which was 361 00:25:16.799 --> 00:25:20.519 just Mayrek Warzowski just losing his mind over how wonderful 362 00:25:20.519 --> 00:25:24.279 Sandra Seladon is, the CEO of Fresno Building Healthy Communities, 363 00:25:24.319 --> 00:25:28.400 is running for the State Assembly, I think I'm more 364 00:25:28.440 --> 00:25:31.440 convinced that Agent Squire's is right, and maybe I will 365 00:25:32.400 --> 00:25:35.119 slash my Fresno B consumption accordingly. 366 00:25:35.640 --> 00:25:37.440 I think Fresno B is a. 367 00:25:37.359 --> 00:25:43.759 Downward news source stock, if you will, and maybe other 368 00:25:44.079 --> 00:25:48.759 kinds of news outlets are upward trending stocks. So anyway, 369 00:25:51.559 --> 00:25:54.559 but one of the things that is very much kind 370 00:25:54.559 --> 00:25:56.720 of a fresnob. 371 00:25:56.480 --> 00:25:59.359 Sort of worldview. 372 00:25:59.799 --> 00:26:02.880 Building One of these sort of building blocks of the 373 00:26:02.880 --> 00:26:08.960 Presno be worldview is that Clovis is bad within local 374 00:26:09.000 --> 00:26:14.000 Fresno politics, Clovis is bad, Clovis is conservative, Clovis's. 375 00:26:13.559 --> 00:26:15.119 Right wing, and. 376 00:26:17.160 --> 00:26:18.480 Clovis is white. 377 00:26:21.319 --> 00:26:24.960 Clovis is just chuck full of white people, as is 378 00:26:25.000 --> 00:26:28.839 North Presno, but Clovis h Clovis just full of white people, 379 00:26:29.839 --> 00:26:37.799 nothing but whities everywhere you look, and those racial tensions, 380 00:26:37.880 --> 00:26:42.480 that racial animus distorts our local politics, and it made 381 00:26:42.480 --> 00:26:45.039 me think I was brought to think about this. One 382 00:26:45.039 --> 00:26:47.519 of the things Worzewski was saying and his gushing piece 383 00:26:47.559 --> 00:26:50.680 about zelod On, he was talking about this lawsuit that 384 00:26:50.759 --> 00:26:55.079 Selodon's nonprofit filed against Community Hospital, saying how terrible it 385 00:26:55.119 --> 00:27:00.400 is a community hospital was siphoning money from community downtown 386 00:27:00.440 --> 00:27:02.480 to help pay for community and Clovis and a lot 387 00:27:02.559 --> 00:27:05.839 of her I think a lot of this kind of 388 00:27:06.000 --> 00:27:10.160 racial animus against Clovis because it's so full of white people. 389 00:27:11.319 --> 00:27:14.039 It's sort of built into it that, oh, you're giving 390 00:27:14.079 --> 00:27:17.720 all the money to the rich white hospital Clovis community, 391 00:27:17.759 --> 00:27:20.839 and you don't care about you know, the downtown Fresno, 392 00:27:22.160 --> 00:27:32.240 you know, lower socioeconomic community predominantly Latino serving community downtown. Now, 393 00:27:32.480 --> 00:27:36.720 there's definitely demographics that are at play with Clovis community, 394 00:27:36.880 --> 00:27:42.200 and I would guess I would venture that Clovis community 395 00:27:42.240 --> 00:27:47.799 has a high err percentage of non medical patients, which 396 00:27:47.880 --> 00:27:50.640 I bet and I sort of read some stuff I 397 00:27:50.640 --> 00:27:56.160 think indicating this Clovis community having a higher percentage of 398 00:27:56.240 --> 00:28:02.079 private insurance paying patients helps subsidize and keep community downtown afloat. 399 00:28:02.160 --> 00:28:06.000 It's not the other way around. I mean, just the 400 00:28:06.079 --> 00:28:08.680 economics of healthcare would tell you that this is as 401 00:28:08.720 --> 00:28:12.559