WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:06.360 Gather around children, Let's hear the sordid tale of Republican incompetence. 2 00:00:07.719 --> 00:00:10.919 A Democrat elected to what should be a Republican state 3 00:00:11.000 --> 00:00:17.480 Senate seat, and a turn on a dime conversion from 4 00:00:17.559 --> 00:00:25.480 Democrat to Republican. This is the story of Senator Marie 5 00:00:25.800 --> 00:00:34.960 Alvarado Gill. Now her district is the fourth state Senate district, 6 00:00:35.640 --> 00:00:39.200 and this is kind of a new state Senate district. 7 00:00:40.799 --> 00:00:49.640 It's a monstrously large state Senate district. It covers. Basically, 8 00:00:51.359 --> 00:00:53.960 one of the things for us to remember as Californians 9 00:00:54.039 --> 00:00:58.159 is that our state senators in California represent an absurdly 10 00:00:58.399 --> 00:01:01.799 large number of people. We have forty million Californians and 11 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:06.799 forty state senators, so each state senator represents a very 12 00:01:06.920 --> 00:01:13.799 large number of people. And the state Senator Alvarado Gill 13 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:20.680 her district encompasses a huge portion of the California Nevada border, 14 00:01:20.840 --> 00:01:24.400 just this enormous mountainous area with very few residents, and 15 00:01:24.480 --> 00:01:29.959 then a good chunk of the North Valley, so the 16 00:01:29.959 --> 00:01:36.040 northeastern portion of the Central Valley, the Central Sierra Nevada Mountains, 17 00:01:36.079 --> 00:01:43.799 all of Death Valley, portions of Stanislaus Calveris, Amador, El Dorado, 18 00:01:43.879 --> 00:01:49.680 Placer Alpine to Illumini, Mariposa, Madera, Mono, and Inyo Counties 19 00:01:49.799 --> 00:01:56.400 a right. So it's this geographically monstrously large district, but 20 00:01:56.519 --> 00:02:05.359 this is a district that should be Republican. Should be Republican. 21 00:02:06.760 --> 00:02:10.240 This district voted for Trump fifty one to forty six 22 00:02:10.439 --> 00:02:17.919 in twenty twenty. This district voted for John Cox for 23 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:23.039 governor in twenty eighteen, fifty six to forty three. It 24 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:25.919 voted for Brian Dolly for governor most recently fifty nine 25 00:02:25.960 --> 00:02:35.800 to forty. This is a very conservative leaning district. In 26 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:38.879 twenty twenty two, this seat was up for reelection. Now, 27 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:44.719 this seat was largely created anew after the redistricting. We 28 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:48.520 have redistricting that happens every ten years. Per the twenty 29 00:02:48.560 --> 00:02:51.360 twenty census, this new district was sort of carved up. 30 00:02:51.719 --> 00:02:55.520 But other Republicans had been holding a seat sort of 31 00:02:55.560 --> 00:02:58.319 similar to this, with a similar kind of geography and 32 00:02:58.360 --> 00:03:02.199 demographic So this is a Republican seat. And there aren't 33 00:03:02.199 --> 00:03:06.639 a lot of safe Republican seats in the state Senate. Okay, 34 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:11.439 there are maybe eight or nine out of forty that 35 00:03:11.520 --> 00:03:16.960 could be safe Republican districts. So in twenty twenty two, 36 00:03:18.520 --> 00:03:22.080 they have a primary. Twenty twenty two, they have a 37 00:03:22.199 --> 00:03:27.039 primary for this state Senate seat. And as you all know, 38 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:32.800 we in California have this ridiculous jungle primary system. So basically, 39 00:03:33.039 --> 00:03:36.360 let's do the math this way. There are about it's 40 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:40.280 about a sixty forty split between Republicans and Democrats. Within 41 00:03:40.319 --> 00:03:48.759 this district. Four Republicans ran, two Democrats ran. The Republicans 42 00:03:48.840 --> 00:03:51.319 each averaged about fifteen percent of the vote, and the 43 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:54.360 two Democrats averaged twenty percent of the vote. So what 44 00:03:54.479 --> 00:03:59.400 happens in a top two primary system. All the Republicans 45 00:03:59.439 --> 00:04:02.039 were shut out. None of the Republicans made it to 46 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:06.120 the general election because the two Democrats each got more 47 00:04:06.199 --> 00:04:12.319 votes than any individual Republican. This includes, by the way, 48 00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:18.160 George Radanovich, who is now running for the state Assembly seat. 49 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:21.160 He's running for Jim Patterson's old state Assembly seat. And 50 00:04:21.480 --> 00:04:26.480 this is you know, I have I don't have much 51 00:04:26.600 --> 00:04:31.040 bad to say about George Danovich at all, other than 52 00:04:31.399 --> 00:04:34.839 I guess it's disappointing how he couldn't I guess, get 53 00:04:34.839 --> 00:04:37.399 the momentum going enough for this state Senate race to 54 00:04:37.480 --> 00:04:41.040 get over that twenty percent hump. It was an enormous 55 00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:45.720 embarrassment that Republicans couldn't get somebody in the top two. 56 00:04:45.839 --> 00:04:49.000 This is a sixty to forty Republican to Democrat district. 57 00:04:49.600 --> 00:04:53.839 Basically four Republicans ran. Nobody had the common sense to 58 00:04:53.920 --> 00:04:56.240 just drop out so that somebody could kind of pull 59 00:04:56.279 --> 00:05:01.040 ahead and win this thing. And this led to the 60 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:06.319 ridiculous situation of two Democrats being the top two vote 61 00:05:06.319 --> 00:05:10.360 getters in the twenty twenty two primary and Marie Alvarado 62 00:05:10.399 --> 00:05:15.560 Gill winning this seat. A Democrat winning this very heavily 63 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:24.279 conservative seat, so state senators have four year long terms 64 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:27.279 of office. She was elected in twenty twenty two. We 65 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:31.480 are approaching twenty twenty four. She is probably looking ahead. 66 00:05:32.160 --> 00:05:36.680 She is certainly looking ahead to the twenty twenty six elections. 67 00:05:37.160 --> 00:05:41.160 A lot of California politicians are starting this look ahead 68 00:05:41.360 --> 00:05:43.120 to twenty twenty six. Right now. We're going to have 69 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:46.199 another governor's race in twenty twenty six. A lot of 70 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:51.279 our statewide offices will be up for reelection. Twenty twenty 71 00:05:51.279 --> 00:05:55.639 six will be an important year for many many Californians, 72 00:05:55.759 --> 00:05:58.120 including all the half of the state senators that will 73 00:05:58.120 --> 00:06:02.160 be up for reelection in twenty twenty six. So Marie 74 00:06:02.240 --> 00:06:09.319 Alvarado Gill was a Democrat. She was a member of 75 00:06:09.319 --> 00:06:17.199 the Democratic Caucus within the California State Legislature. She endorsed 76 00:06:17.319 --> 00:06:26.279 Kamala Harris, She co sponsored a resolution within the California 77 00:06:26.319 --> 00:06:32.079 State Senate giving their appreciation to Joe Biden about what 78 00:06:32.160 --> 00:06:40.600 a wonderful and historic and consequential president he was. And 79 00:06:40.680 --> 00:06:43.519 all of a sudden, just a few days ago, she 80 00:06:43.639 --> 00:06:50.000 announces she's leaving the Democrat Party. She's becoming a Republican. 81 00:06:50.959 --> 00:06:53.279 The party has just moved too far to the left. 82 00:06:53.800 --> 00:06:58.800 It's abandoned her, and she needs to she needs she 83 00:06:58.879 --> 00:07:04.079 can't she can't tell all right this anymore. So she's 84 00:07:04.120 --> 00:07:09.600 going to become a Republican and run for reelection as 85 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:17.160 a Republican in twenty twenty six. Now this has pleased 86 00:07:17.439 --> 00:07:21.959 pretty much nobody. Obviously, the Democrats are upset. You ran 87 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:24.199 as a Democrat. We supported you as a Democrat. What 88 00:07:25.279 --> 00:07:29.240 are you doing. You just endorsed Kamala Harris last week, 89 00:07:29.759 --> 00:07:34.120 you just co authored this resolution talking about what a 90 00:07:34.240 --> 00:07:38.279 historically significant president, wonderful president Joe Biden is. Are sort 91 00:07:38.319 --> 00:07:43.959 of like, thanks Joe for dropping out from the California legislature. 92 00:07:45.759 --> 00:07:48.839 You just endorsed these things, and now you're a Republican 93 00:07:48.879 --> 00:07:53.800 all of a sudden. Similarly, the response from the Republican 94 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:57.240 Party has been muted. I think some Republicans have sort 95 00:07:57.279 --> 00:08:01.680 of had to put some kind of a smiling face 96 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:04.600 on it, because, well, look, we don't have a lot 97 00:08:04.600 --> 00:08:09.720 of state senators. She's just you know, increased the number 98 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:11.959 of state senators by twelve and a half percent. We 99 00:08:12.279 --> 00:08:15.040 only had eight of the forty state senators before. Now 100 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:19.920 we have nine of the forty. So I think to 101 00:08:19.959 --> 00:08:23.800 a certain extent, the Republican powers that be had to 102 00:08:23.839 --> 00:08:27.480 sort of say, well, okay, well we welcome you in. 103 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:34.120 But other Republicans with a bit more freedom to speak 104 00:08:34.159 --> 00:08:37.679 their minds, and I think the leading Republican on this 105 00:08:37.720 --> 00:08:42.279 front has been Bill Asie, who's a state assembly member 106 00:08:42.320 --> 00:08:49.080 from I think like Corona, California. Bill Assie comes out 107 00:08:49.480 --> 00:08:55.799 and says, this is obvious, BS, this is obvious. Sheer nonsense. 108 00:08:56.720 --> 00:09:01.159 She's not a Republican. She just talked about how she's 109 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:05.919 endorsing Kamala Harris for president. She is endorsing you know, 110 00:09:06.159 --> 00:09:10.399 she's giving this love note that she's helped co author 111 00:09:11.799 --> 00:09:14.919 to Joe Biden. This is like a week before she 112 00:09:15.039 --> 00:09:18.399 made her decision to switch parties. She's doing these things, 113 00:09:21.440 --> 00:09:25.279 so Essale is pointing out like this is obvious nonsense. 114 00:09:25.480 --> 00:09:30.480 She wants to get reelected in twenty twenty six. She 115 00:09:30.759 --> 00:09:34.840 knows that the odds of the Republicans screwing this up 116 00:09:34.960 --> 00:09:38.159 again in the twenty twenty sixth primary are are going 117 00:09:38.200 --> 00:09:42.279 to be fairly low. Republicans have hopefully learned their lesson 118 00:09:42.399 --> 00:09:47.200 from the disastrous debacle of again running four people who 119 00:09:47.279 --> 00:09:54.799 all got about fifteen percent of the vote. So why 120 00:09:55.080 --> 00:10:02.639 I mean, of course that's what she's doing. But again 121 00:10:02.679 --> 00:10:05.879 it goes back to why are we in this situation 122 00:10:06.200 --> 00:10:07.840 in the first place. We're in this situation in the 123 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:15.080 first place because the California Republican Party is inept. The 124 00:10:15.120 --> 00:10:17.720 California Republican Party was so inept that they couldn't get 125 00:10:17.840 --> 00:10:21.039 at least one of these four people to drop out 126 00:10:21.120 --> 00:10:28.919 of the race. And it's this thing where Democrats fall 127 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:34.440 in line. Democrats fall in line, Republicans don't, I think 128 00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:37.759 the California and the reason that happens in California is 129 00:10:37.799 --> 00:10:42.960 because the California Democratic Party actually has power. The California 130 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:47.960 Democratic Party can actually threaten people credibly. They can actually 131 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:55.039 say hey, if they have both carrots and sticks, they 132 00:10:55.039 --> 00:10:57.799 can say, hey, if you run in the recall election 133 00:10:57.840 --> 00:11:02.399 against Gavin Newsom, we will end your career. Or they 134 00:11:02.399 --> 00:11:05.399 can say listen, in this race, it makes sense for 135 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:07.879 you to drop out. If you do, maybe there's something 136 00:11:07.919 --> 00:11:11.039 else that we can kind of carve out for you, 137 00:11:11.080 --> 00:11:13.279 some other position we can carve out for you. The 138 00:11:13.320 --> 00:11:18.679 Democrat Party in California has the power to dangle a 139 00:11:18.759 --> 00:11:22.639 carrot in front of you to tempt you for something good. 140 00:11:23.200 --> 00:11:26.600 They have the power to menace you with a stick, 141 00:11:26.879 --> 00:11:28.759 ruin your life, ruin your career if you don't do 142 00:11:28.840 --> 00:11:31.559 what they want, and the California Republican Party has no 143 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:39.519 such power. We have nothing to entice people with because 144 00:11:40.240 --> 00:11:44.320 our ability to get people jobs or get people elected 145 00:11:45.000 --> 00:11:49.919 is fairly weak, and we have nothing to threaten people with. 146 00:11:50.399 --> 00:11:53.320 As a result. You know you do this, you'll never 147 00:11:53.480 --> 00:11:58.399 run for statewide office as a Republican. Again, well knows 148 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:02.360 statewide Republican's going to win anyway. Your threats don't matter 149 00:12:02.399 --> 00:12:07.039 to me. What is the California GOP going to do 150 00:12:08.799 --> 00:12:10.840 the California GOP, which by the way, has its own 151 00:12:11.720 --> 00:12:19.759 problems left right and center. So that is the heart 152 00:12:19.799 --> 00:12:22.639 of the problem, is the California GOP. We're still living 153 00:12:22.720 --> 00:12:29.840 with the consequences of the most ineftly run primary campaign 154 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:34.200 humanly possible. That we had four people splitting sixty percent 155 00:12:34.200 --> 00:12:37.279 of the vote going up against two Democrats who split 156 00:12:37.399 --> 00:12:43.679 forty percent of the vote. It was just an unbelievable 157 00:12:44.200 --> 00:12:50.799 episode of incompetence leading to this vast majority Republican district 158 00:12:51.080 --> 00:12:54.200 electing a Democrat because two Democrats were going head to 159 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:57.919 head against each other. So now we have to decide 160 00:12:57.919 --> 00:12:59.799 what we're going to do. Are we going to allow 161 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:04.919 Marie Alvarado Guil to stay in office? And then Alvarado 162 00:13:04.960 --> 00:13:08.440 Gill had an interview with Ashley Zavala, who's this big 163 00:13:08.480 --> 00:13:13.879 time journalist who covers what goes on in Sacramento really 164 00:13:13.919 --> 00:13:17.000 one of the most a great follow if you want 165 00:13:17.039 --> 00:13:20.080 to follow anything that happens with Sacramento politics, Ashley Zavalla, 166 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:23.919 and Zavala asked her such point of questions that Alvarado 167 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:32.720 gil just stormed out of the interview. It's really it's 168 00:13:32.759 --> 00:13:40.480 an unbelievably comedic episode. But yeah, this is the most 169 00:13:40.879 --> 00:13:45.360 glaring example possible of a politician just kind of licking 170 00:13:45.360 --> 00:13:46.960 their finger, holding it up to the wind and going 171 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:49.919 which way the wind blows to such an absurd degree 172 00:13:50.320 --> 00:13:55.120 that she's actually changing her political party one week after 173 00:13:55.200 --> 00:14:00.159 endorsing Kamala Harris. Wait, we return my theory about why 174 00:14:00.279 --> 00:14:03.679 politicians become Republicans or Democrats in the first place. Next 175 00:14:03.759 --> 00:14:08.960 on The John Girardi Show. Senator Marie Alvarado Gill the 176 00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:14.440 California State Senator representing the fourth Senatorial District, which includes 177 00:14:15.480 --> 00:14:20.080 pretty much a huge chunk of the central California Nevada border, 178 00:14:20.120 --> 00:14:23.320 all the mountainous areas around there, plus some chunks of 179 00:14:23.360 --> 00:14:30.000 the North Valley, chunks of Madera Mariposa to Alumni, Stanislaus County, 180 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:34.759 all of Death Valley too. It's a massive, massive geographical area. 181 00:14:35.399 --> 00:14:39.159 Senator Marie Alvarado Gill has announced declared to all to 182 00:14:39.200 --> 00:14:42.840 all in Sundry that she is now a Republican. She's 183 00:14:42.879 --> 00:14:46.039 going to run as a Republican in twenty twenty six 184 00:14:46.759 --> 00:14:49.600 for her re election for her state Senate seat. This 185 00:14:49.639 --> 00:14:52.679 is because Republicans were so stupid that in the twenty 186 00:14:52.679 --> 00:14:56.720 twenty two Senate primary for this state Senate seat, they 187 00:14:56.799 --> 00:14:59.480 ran four Republicans who each got about fifteen percent of 188 00:14:59.480 --> 00:15:03.159 the vote, and the Democrats ran two Democrats who got 189 00:15:03.159 --> 00:15:06.799 about twenty percent of the vote each. And in a 190 00:15:06.840 --> 00:15:10.399 top two primary system, the two Democrats won, the two 191 00:15:10.399 --> 00:15:13.080 Democrats got to advance, and the four Republicans didn't. This 192 00:15:13.360 --> 00:15:17.080 in a seat that is about sixty forty Republican leaning. 193 00:15:17.519 --> 00:15:20.159 So this sixty to forty Republican district, this very safe 194 00:15:20.159 --> 00:15:24.159 Republican district, winds up electing having to choose on election 195 00:15:24.240 --> 00:15:28.120 Day twenty twenty two between two Democrats, Marie Alvarado Gill 196 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:30.879 gets elected. Marie Alvarado Gill wants to get re elected, 197 00:15:31.519 --> 00:15:37.519 and so she declares one week after signing this resolution 198 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:40.240 from the legislature about how wonderful and consequential a president 199 00:15:40.320 --> 00:15:44.399 Joe Biden is and how and announcing that she was 200 00:15:44.480 --> 00:15:48.240 endorsing Kamala Harris for president, she announces that she is 201 00:15:48.360 --> 00:15:52.200 now a Republican. Oh, the Democratic Party has left her, 202 00:15:53.360 --> 00:15:55.759 amazing how it left her right at the moment when 203 00:15:55.759 --> 00:15:59.559 it became most politically expedient. And this gets me to 204 00:16:00.519 --> 00:16:07.399 my sort of pet theory about politicians. I think most 205 00:16:07.639 --> 00:16:12.639 elected politicians, most I'm not saying all, but most most 206 00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:23.559 elected politicians don't have a very strong grounding for why 207 00:16:24.360 --> 00:16:28.879 they are of the left or of the right. Necessarily. 208 00:16:28.879 --> 00:16:32.279 I think it's easier to be of the left because 209 00:16:32.440 --> 00:16:40.080 I think the dominant culture media pushes you left, certainly 210 00:16:40.279 --> 00:16:42.799 pushes you towards a kind of libertarian way of thinking 211 00:16:42.799 --> 00:16:45.960 when it comes to ethical things, and that would naturally 212 00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:48.879 push you towards a more liberal view of various kinds 213 00:16:48.919 --> 00:16:56.279 of social issues. But I think most people who run 214 00:16:56.320 --> 00:17:01.480 for office they run for office because they're in some way, 215 00:17:01.720 --> 00:17:08.160 maybe prominent or successful, and they care about a few things. 216 00:17:08.240 --> 00:17:13.200 There's probably a few political issues they really care about, 217 00:17:14.319 --> 00:17:17.359 maybe a few local government things, or tax things, or 218 00:17:17.480 --> 00:17:21.839 business things or something like that, business regulation, whatever it is, 219 00:17:24.920 --> 00:17:28.119 or maybe they have a background in public schools or 220 00:17:28.440 --> 00:17:31.240 university or whatever it is. They have a few things 221 00:17:31.240 --> 00:17:36.680 that they really care about. And then for the rest 222 00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:39.559 of their ideology, though, because if you're an American politician, 223 00:17:39.599 --> 00:17:42.319 you kind of have a whole wide spectrum of things 224 00:17:42.319 --> 00:17:44.440 you have to care about and have to vote on. 225 00:17:46.599 --> 00:17:48.960 For a lot of this other stuff, you just kind 226 00:17:49.039 --> 00:17:57.599 of take on the chameleon appearance of whichever party provides 227 00:17:57.640 --> 00:18:03.000 you with a lane to power. I've been thinking about 228 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:08.319 this certainly. I think Marie Alvarado Gill is a great 229 00:18:08.400 --> 00:18:13.160 example of this. Okay, uh, Marie Alvarado Gill was sort 230 00:18:13.160 --> 00:18:17.200 of Democrat, Democrat inclined, probably cared about a couple of 231 00:18:17.279 --> 00:18:21.599 things that sort of made her a Democrat. She finds 232 00:18:21.640 --> 00:18:27.839 herself in this preposterously lucky situation of being in a 233 00:18:27.960 --> 00:18:33.119 heavily Republican state senate district, getting into the top two 234 00:18:35.839 --> 00:18:38.359 because Republicans were so stupid that they ran you know, 235 00:18:38.440 --> 00:18:43.680 four people who split the vote between themselves. She somehow 236 00:18:43.680 --> 00:18:46.079 gets elected because she's able to convince the elector that 237 00:18:46.160 --> 00:18:48.839 she's more moderate as a Democrat than the guy she 238 00:18:48.920 --> 00:18:52.400 was running against. She becomes a California state Senator. And 239 00:18:52.400 --> 00:18:56.119 now she realizes, well, you know, I still like, you know, 240 00:18:56.480 --> 00:18:58.480 there are a few things where I can kind of 241 00:18:58.480 --> 00:19:01.480 fudget and say I'm with republic we need smaller government 242 00:19:01.480 --> 00:19:05.240 and blah blah blah blah blah, and she completely changes 243 00:19:05.279 --> 00:19:08.039 her identity on a dime. She goes literally for one 244 00:19:08.079 --> 00:19:11.920 week talking about what a wonderful president Joe Biden's been 245 00:19:12.039 --> 00:19:15.880 and endorsing Kamala Harris to the very next week declaring 246 00:19:15.880 --> 00:19:19.079 that she is a Republican, which if you actually are 247 00:19:19.480 --> 00:19:23.519 an authentic Republican, there's no way you could a endorse 248 00:19:24.079 --> 00:19:29.319 Kamala Harris for president or b say that Joe Biden 249 00:19:29.440 --> 00:19:32.799 was this wonderful, historically significant president. It just does not 250 00:19:33.039 --> 00:19:37.680 make sense to do those things if you are actually 251 00:19:38.440 --> 00:19:45.079 anything like a sincere Republican. Because I don't think she 252 00:19:45.240 --> 00:19:47.480 has much of a grounding of anything. I think the 253 00:19:47.519 --> 00:19:49.880 only thing that's really grounding her is the desire to 254 00:19:49.920 --> 00:19:52.799 stay in power. And I think this is true of 255 00:19:52.960 --> 00:19:59.559 a lot of elected people, maybe scarily far more than 256 00:19:59.599 --> 00:20:02.839 we would like to believe. The person that really I've 257 00:20:02.880 --> 00:20:04.319 talked about him a little on the show, but the 258 00:20:04.319 --> 00:20:08.759 person like this that really has bowled me over. Do 259 00:20:08.799 --> 00:20:12.680 you guys remember Michael Steel. He was the former head 260 00:20:12.720 --> 00:20:18.680 of the RNC and he was like a lieutenant governor 261 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:25.359 of Maryland. So Michael Steele went like full on on 262 00:20:25.440 --> 00:20:28.119 board with like the Lincoln Project people. Those are the 263 00:20:28.440 --> 00:20:32.720 former Republicans who are now anti Trumpers, and not just 264 00:20:32.799 --> 00:20:37.640 anti Trump, but aggressively pro Harris and not just aggressively 265 00:20:37.680 --> 00:20:41.720 pro Harris, but aggressively pro choice, aggressively just a complete 266 00:20:41.960 --> 00:20:45.839 MSNBC liberal cheerleader. He became like an MSNBC talking yet 267 00:20:45.880 --> 00:20:49.119 and he's now like an aggressive liberal cheerleader. And I 268 00:20:49.160 --> 00:20:51.759 look at him and I think this man was the 269 00:20:51.839 --> 00:20:56.359 head of the RNC. His job was getting Republicans elected. 270 00:20:56.400 --> 00:20:58.720 He was like the lieutenant He was a Republican like 271 00:20:59.160 --> 00:21:01.640 lieutenant governor of Maryland, and then became the head of 272 00:21:01.680 --> 00:21:06.920 the RNC. His job was getting Republicans elected across the nation. 273 00:21:09.000 --> 00:21:14.000 And he has so thoroughly flipped that he's posting memes 274 00:21:14.039 --> 00:21:19.759 about Kamala Harris wearing like a Captain America outfit. So 275 00:21:20.000 --> 00:21:26.960 was he totally insincere the whole time? What was he doing? 276 00:21:27.079 --> 00:21:31.839 Did he believe anything the Republican Party believes in? Was 277 00:21:31.880 --> 00:21:37.359 it all an act? Well, I think people changed their 278 00:21:37.359 --> 00:21:42.480 political viewpoints to get themselves avenues towards power. He had 279 00:21:42.559 --> 00:21:46.279 a certain avenue to power as a Republican in Maryland, 280 00:21:46.319 --> 00:21:48.279 and he took it, and he had a certain avenue 281 00:21:48.319 --> 00:21:50.759 to power continuing to pretend to be a Republican and 282 00:21:51.119 --> 00:21:53.359 got to be the head of the RNC, got canned 283 00:21:53.400 --> 00:21:57.160 from that job, and then saw that he had some 284 00:21:57.880 --> 00:22:01.880 avenue to I don't know not I guess as a 285 00:22:02.000 --> 00:22:06.279 Lincoln Project flunky and MSNBC talking head, and he completely 286 00:22:06.319 --> 00:22:09.279 abandons all of his viewpoints so that he can talk 287 00:22:09.279 --> 00:22:12.680 smack about Donald Trump, but not just talks back about 288 00:22:12.680 --> 00:22:17.039 Donald Trump, completely repudiate all this Republican stuff he used 289 00:22:17.079 --> 00:22:24.000 to stand for. I just think self interest for these 290 00:22:24.039 --> 00:22:31.640 politicians lately. You take the same guy and you have 291 00:22:31.799 --> 00:22:34.440 him grow up in Clovis, California, or run for an 292 00:22:34.440 --> 00:22:37.519 office in clothes California. Oh yeah, I'm a Republican. You 293 00:22:37.559 --> 00:22:39.440 take this same guy and have him run for the 294 00:22:39.440 --> 00:22:43.000 same office in Boston, Massachusetts. Oh yeah, I'm a Democrat. 295 00:22:44.839 --> 00:22:50.160 I think people just kind of chameleon camouflage themselves towards 296 00:22:50.240 --> 00:22:53.000 their environment and whatever will give them a path to 297 00:22:53.079 --> 00:22:59.119 power when we return, when we return. Some commentary on 298 00:22:59.160 --> 00:23:05.200 the lawsuit that was filed against Community Hospital for diverting 299 00:23:05.640 --> 00:23:10.119 money from the Fresno downtown community to the Clovis downtown community. Allegedly. 300 00:23:10.160 --> 00:23:14.680 This is next on the John Girardi Show. There's a 301 00:23:14.799 --> 00:23:18.920 lawsuit that's gotten some coverage in local media. A lawsuit 302 00:23:18.920 --> 00:23:26.559 that was filed against Community health system. And basically the 303 00:23:26.640 --> 00:23:30.240 long and short of the lawsuit is that Community Health, 304 00:23:31.680 --> 00:23:37.000 which receives medical money and part of the reason why 305 00:23:37.119 --> 00:23:42.039 Community Hospital or Community Health, the reason why it's a 306 00:23:42.079 --> 00:23:45.000 nonprofit is because of its agreement to take lots and 307 00:23:45.000 --> 00:23:52.240 lots of medical patients and thereby receive medical funding. Now, 308 00:23:53.799 --> 00:24:00.759 the lawsuit is arguing that Community Hospital was unlawfully diverting 309 00:24:02.039 --> 00:24:04.960 more funding than is permissible. And this is kind of 310 00:24:04.960 --> 00:24:07.799 part of where I get a little I'm not quite 311 00:24:07.799 --> 00:24:13.400 sure about. This was diverting funding away from Community Hospital 312 00:24:13.480 --> 00:24:19.279 Downtown to Community Hospital Clovis, that that was the focus 313 00:24:20.000 --> 00:24:22.039 of what Community was trying to do, was to make 314 00:24:22.079 --> 00:24:26.880 the community hospital in Clovis, which has fewer medical patients 315 00:24:27.000 --> 00:24:30.920 more private insurance patients, is therefore more profitable to divert 316 00:24:31.000 --> 00:24:35.880 more and more funding to that, and that this was 317 00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:42.720 done on lawfully or inequitably. Now, a couple of things 318 00:24:42.759 --> 00:24:47.759 I want to note about this lawsuit. First of all, 319 00:24:48.200 --> 00:24:55.119 is who is bringing it. And you know, you're not 320 00:24:55.160 --> 00:24:57.559 supposed to judge a book by its cover. You're not 321 00:24:57.559 --> 00:25:00.599 supposed to judge based on appearance. I understand in all that, 322 00:25:00.839 --> 00:25:02.920 and you should look at this stuff on the merits, 323 00:25:03.519 --> 00:25:06.599 you know, don't shoot the messenger. I get it, I 324 00:25:06.640 --> 00:25:11.240 get it. However, the group filing this lawsuit is none 325 00:25:11.279 --> 00:25:17.400 other than Fresno Building Healthy Communities, under the leadership of 326 00:25:17.440 --> 00:25:23.160 an old favorite on this show, Sandra Celadon. Yes, that's right, Sandra, 327 00:25:23.759 --> 00:25:27.519 burn it all down Celadon. So Presno Building Healthy Communities 328 00:25:28.039 --> 00:25:35.599 is this nonprofit left wing activist group that basically exists 329 00:25:35.799 --> 00:25:41.920 to hang around city hall advocate for some altruistic liberal cause. 330 00:25:41.960 --> 00:25:45.039 But it's always with a handout. It's always well, you 331 00:25:45.039 --> 00:25:48.400 should do this wonderful altruistic liberal thing and give us 332 00:25:48.440 --> 00:25:51.759 a contract to do it. Oh, we were gonna help 333 00:25:51.799 --> 00:25:54.880 the city with contact tracing during COVID. I think that 334 00:25:54.920 --> 00:25:57.160 was one of the It was either them or Barriosunidos 335 00:25:57.240 --> 00:25:59.359 that was doing that. Anyway, there are a lot of 336 00:25:59.359 --> 00:26:03.839 these old sure left wing from out of the region 337 00:26:04.680 --> 00:26:11.799 nonprofits that basically exists to advocate for some left wing 338 00:26:11.880 --> 00:26:19.279 cause but also get money. They Presno Building Healthy Communities. 339 00:26:19.279 --> 00:26:26.599 This nonprofit are suing Community Health System for this alleged 340 00:26:26.640 --> 00:26:34.279 inequity of not diverting enough resources to Community Hospital Downtown, 341 00:26:34.480 --> 00:26:40.640 diverting too much to Community Hospital in Clovis, so Presno 342 00:26:40.720 --> 00:26:46.559 Building Healthy Communities and Cultiva la Salute this is the 343 00:26:46.559 --> 00:26:50.759 other nonprofit that they are the two plaintiffs in this case. 344 00:26:52.960 --> 00:26:56.599 The lawsuit claims that Community Health funneled. I don't know 345 00:26:56.599 --> 00:26:59.319 if they are they funneling or just moving or allocating 346 00:26:59.359 --> 00:27:02.920 whatever billion dollars to the Clovis facility instead of providing 347 00:27:02.960 --> 00:27:06.640 better staffing and facility upgrades at Community Regional Medical Center. 348 00:27:06.720 --> 00:27:09.880 This is the write up by Edward Smith in GV wire, which, 349 00:27:09.920 --> 00:27:12.480 by the way, Edward Smith or anyone from gv wire, 350 00:27:12.640 --> 00:27:16.319 if you guys are reading this, if you are writing 351 00:27:16.960 --> 00:27:25.079 about a lawsuit or a legal a decision that's issued 352 00:27:25.119 --> 00:27:28.240 by a judge, a complaint that was filed in a lawsuit, 353 00:27:29.279 --> 00:27:34.200 a charging document, and a criminal prosecution, provide the link 354 00:27:34.640 --> 00:27:39.599 to the pdf. Okay, don't just write a story about it. 355 00:27:40.240 --> 00:27:43.279 If your post, you're publishing it online, provide a link 356 00:27:43.279 --> 00:27:46.599 to the pdf. I hate. There's nothing I hate more. 357 00:27:47.039 --> 00:27:48.960 And it's not just GV wire that does this, by 358 00:27:49.000 --> 00:27:52.440 the way, or the Fresno b or whoever, like major 359 00:27:52.559 --> 00:27:56.000 nationwide news outlets will write a whole story about some 360 00:27:56.200 --> 00:27:59.599 judge's decision in some court case without providing a link 361 00:27:59.680 --> 00:28:02.759 to the judge's decision so that you can read it yourself, 362 00:28:03.319 --> 00:28:07.160 which is insane, asinine, and for any lawyer who's trying 363 00:28:07.200 --> 00:28:09.440 to read or cover the thing, it's a huge pain 364 00:28:09.519 --> 00:28:11.000 of the butt because then you got to look for 365 00:28:11.039 --> 00:28:13.119 some other piece that final actually links to it. So 366 00:28:13.519 --> 00:28:17.000 GB wire, next time you talk about any kind of 367 00:28:17.039 --> 00:28:22.359 lawsuit anything, provide the link to the PDF. Hopefully someone listens. Now. 368 00:28:25.279 --> 00:28:28.359 I actually pulled up the PDF of the complaint and 369 00:28:28.519 --> 00:28:31.119 was reading through. It's pretty long document. I was reading through. 370 00:28:31.240 --> 00:28:32.720 I won't say I read every single word, but I 371 00:28:32.759 --> 00:28:37.279 read most of it. The thing that I immediately was 372 00:28:37.839 --> 00:28:43.359 trying to determine was this issue called standing. Okay, so 373 00:28:43.440 --> 00:28:46.279 standing is this kind of bedrock principle of American law. 374 00:28:46.960 --> 00:28:51.240 It's basically, why are you in this courtroom? What right 375 00:28:51.400 --> 00:28:54.200 do you have to file this lawsuit? Why are you 376 00:28:54.319 --> 00:28:58.119 the person filing this lawsuit? Why is it your business? 377 00:28:59.880 --> 00:29:03.160 I asked that about Sandra Celadon and her building presno 378 00:29:03.200 --> 00:29:06.839 building healthy communities. Why is she able to serve to 379 00:29:06.920 --> 00:29:12.960 sue community hospital for its decisions about allocating money one 380 00:29:13.039 --> 00:29:18.680 way or another? What business is it of hers? How 381 00:29:18.720 --> 00:29:24.599 is she harmed by this? Because generally, for standing, you 382 00:29:24.680 --> 00:29:32.359 need to have some articulable, concrete harm that you have 383 00:29:32.480 --> 00:29:35.119 suffered that allows you to have standing. The example I 384 00:29:35.160 --> 00:29:39.119 always give for this is, Okay, if someone crashes a 385 00:29:39.160 --> 00:29:44.559 car into Agent Squire's house, I would feel bad for 386 00:29:44.880 --> 00:29:50.240 my buddy, Agent Squire's intrepid producer of the John Girardi Show. 387 00:29:51.319 --> 00:29:54.599 I would feel bad for him. I'd feel upset on 388 00:29:54.640 --> 00:29:58.319 his behalf. I'd be angry at the guy who negligently 389 00:29:58.359 --> 00:30:02.079 crashed his car into Agent Squire's house. But I can't 390 00:30:02.119 --> 00:30:09.039 sue the guy. I can't sue him. Agent Squires has 391 00:30:09.079 --> 00:30:11.039 to sue him because Agent Squires is the guy who 392 00:30:11.119 --> 00:30:14.319 actually suffered the harm. Okay, if I try to file 393 00:30:14.359 --> 00:30:18.640 a lawsuit, I am suing this man for negligence causing damage, 394 00:30:18.720 --> 00:30:21.039 for crashing an Agent Squire's house, and the judge would 395 00:30:21.039 --> 00:30:24.000 ask me why are you here? Why are you suing? 396 00:30:24.079 --> 00:30:26.359 What harm did you suffer? Its all, I was really 397 00:30:26.480 --> 00:30:34.200 upset your honor. Well, that doesn't count, so I immediately asked, 398 00:30:34.279 --> 00:30:39.640 looking at this, well, what standing does Fresno Building Healthy 399 00:30:39.640 --> 00:30:45.799 communities have to sue Community Hospital for its decisions of 400 00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:52.359 how it's allocating money between one hospital versus the other. Well, 401 00:30:53.680 --> 00:30:56.119