Speaker 1: Every time I think things can't get worse for Gavin Newsom,
Speaker 1: they just get worse. And it's not just the transgender
Speaker 1: controversy with the CIF track meet and transgender athletes and
Speaker 1: all that, and then the clash with the Trump administration
Speaker 1: that's looming. There was an oversight hearing yesterday in Sacramento
Speaker 1: about the oil and gas industry. And this comes off
Speaker 1: the news that two major oil refineries in the state
Speaker 1: are closing down, meaning, with lessened supply and demand not
Speaker 1: really changing very significantly, prices for gas are going to
Speaker 1: skyrocket by twenty twenty six. So the state legislatures gathering
Speaker 1: together to askool what what happened and how is this happening?
Speaker 1: And everyone's all in a tizzy over it, And what
Speaker 1: no one wants to acknowledge is that the state legislature
Speaker 1: did this. This is all the state legislature's fault and
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom's fault. Chiefly Gavin Newsom's fault. They took actions
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four in which they were warned if
Speaker 1: you do this, bad things will happen, refineries will close,
Speaker 1: prices will go up, and they did it anyway. It's
Speaker 1: all one hundred percent their fault. All right, what am
Speaker 1: I talking about? Well, it all has to do with
Speaker 1: the extraordinary session of the legislature. Gavin Newsom called last
Speaker 1: year he was upset at price spikes for gasoline. Basically,
Speaker 1: he's he gets upset that in the summertime, when demand
Speaker 1: goes up, the cost of gasoline throughout California goes up.
Speaker 1: And Newsome kept insisting basically ascribing these price spikes not
Speaker 1: to the normal fluctuations of supply and demand in the market,
Speaker 1: but ascribing it all to greed on the part of
Speaker 1: oil companies, price gouging on the part of oil companies.
Speaker 1: So he introduced legislation a bill called ab X two
Speaker 1: dash one ab X two to one that put requirements
Speaker 1: on California oil refineries or fine oil and gas for
Speaker 1: our cars to maintain a higher supply of gas at
Speaker 1: all times in order to avoid the fluctuations, to offset
Speaker 1: the fluctuations. Basically, just maintain a higher supply of gas
Speaker 1: at all times. Then when demand gets high, you already
Speaker 1: have the gas on hand to do that. Well, it's
Speaker 1: not that easy. If it were just that easy, that
Speaker 1: you could well just maintain a higher supply and then
Speaker 1: when the you know that, you know that demand's gonna increase,
Speaker 1: So when demand increases, then you're ready. It's not that simple.
Speaker 1: Keeping an artificially higher supply of gas, a supply of
Speaker 1: gas that's higher than the current demand is costly. It
Speaker 1: adds costs, and the gas company have to pass that
Speaker 1: cost along somehow, and guess how they pass it along.
Speaker 1: They pass it along in the form of higher prices.
Speaker 1: And the gas companies at the time last year, around
Speaker 1: this time when ABX two to one was being debated,
Speaker 1: the gas companies told Gaven Newsom told the state legislature
Speaker 1: very bluntly, in no uncertain terms, if you pass this,
Speaker 1: it's just going to lead to higher gas prices throughout
Speaker 1: the year. We can't. This puts more cost on us
Speaker 1: if you insist that we maintain artificially inflated higher levels
Speaker 1: of gasoline in our refineries. Because let's remember why it's
Speaker 1: like this California specific problem. If you insists that we
Speaker 1: maintain this higher level of gas at all times, then
Speaker 1: it's going to add more costs to us, and we
Speaker 1: have to start questioning as a business whether we want
Speaker 1: to keep maintaining our California based refineries because our California
Speaker 1: based refineries cost a lot of money to maintain year
Speaker 1: over year. To maintain an oil refinery a gas refinery
Speaker 1: over the course of a year requires something like three
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars per year of investment. It's a lot
Speaker 1: of investment. If we're not making enough profit because our
Speaker 1: prices have to be too high and a certain point
Speaker 1: it's hurting our bottom line, then we're gonna move. We're
Speaker 1: gonna stop our California based operations. And if we shut
Speaker 1: down our California based refineries, it's gonna have a massively
Speaker 1: negative impact on prices for the California gas consumer. The
Speaker 1: oil companies told us that last year they explicitly warned
Speaker 1: us of this. The state legislature passed this law anyway,
Speaker 1: and that outcome has happened. Two major refineries have shut down.
Speaker 1: Gas prices are gonna skyrocket. Now, why is it that
Speaker 1: we're so dependent on like two refineries shutting down, Like
Speaker 1: wouldn't you think the whole California market would be bigger
Speaker 1: and bigger and diversified enough to sort of absorb the
Speaker 1: blow of something like that. Well, it gets back to
Speaker 1: the whole reason why gas is expensive in California in
Speaker 1: the first place, a problem that everybody understands, and nobody
Speaker 1: with any power in California government wants to grapple with.
Speaker 1: The reason why gas is expensive in California is not
Speaker 1: a mystery, and it is not the result of oil
Speaker 1: or gas price companies being greedy. It's not like they're
Speaker 1: greedier in California than they are in Nevada, or greedier
Speaker 1: in California than they are in Massachusetts. Gas prices are
Speaker 1: more expensive in California because of one, taxes, but more
Speaker 1: significantly regulation regulation on the kind of gas that can
Speaker 1: be sold in California, which is different from the kind
Speaker 1: of gas sold in the rest of the country. It's
Speaker 1: a different blend that you can't get that is California specific.
Speaker 1: You can't just use the gas that's sold at the
Speaker 1: pump in Oklahoma in California, because California has these specific
Speaker 1: regulations that make it different. You have to do a
Speaker 1: different refining refining process. As a result, oil and gas
Speaker 1: companies they still wanted to sell in the California, so
Speaker 1: they made the investment to set up refineries that are
Speaker 1: California specific. California is a gas island, it's supply chains
Speaker 1: for getting crude oil and making it into gas are
Speaker 1: separate from those of the rest of the country. So
Speaker 1: if we've got two refineries shutting down that are producing
Speaker 1: California gas, it's not like we can get it from
Speaker 1: other places. There are only so many places to get it.
Speaker 1: So again, this is yet another Gavin Newsome catastrophe. And
Speaker 1: this is like the I don't know, the sixth or
Speaker 1: seventh massive Gavin Newsome catastrophe that we've been dealing with
Speaker 1: over the last year. Here between the structural deficit in
Speaker 1: the California state budget, wildfires being a problem for the
Speaker 1: whole Newsome administration and then culminating in the worst wildfires
Speaker 1: anyone's ever seen in January of this year, homelessness being
Speaker 1: a massive growing problem, and us coming to the conclusion
Speaker 1: last year that the state had spent twenty four billion
Speaker 1: dollars on homelessness to no impact, to no effect through
Speaker 1: programs that had no accountability, no metrics even for measuring
Speaker 1: that they were effective, let alone demonstrating effectiveness. The high
Speaker 1: speed rail train that continues to just not be problem
Speaker 1: after problem after problem after problem, so specifically with gas,
Speaker 1: there was an oversight hearing in Sacramento in the state
Speaker 1: legislature about the Newsome administration and its approach to the
Speaker 1: oil and gas industry. It was present there were members
Speaker 1: of the California Air Resources Board and they were discussing
Speaker 1: the various problems and difficulties that are coming out of
Speaker 1: one the Trump administration sort of undoing the all electric
Speaker 1: cars by twenty thirty five mandate, but then also dealing
Speaker 1: with again this fact that we're gonna have two refineries
Speaker 1: closing down and gas prices are about to go nuts.
Speaker 1: So Ashley Zavala is a Sacramento based local news reporter
Speaker 1: in Sacramento who's like the only person who actually covers
Speaker 1: the state capitol. I'm convinced. She was live tweeting the
Speaker 1: event this hearing, and Siva Gunda from the California Energy
Speaker 1: Commission was presenting, and she presents this slide show about
Speaker 1: gas price spikes that the state is bracing for these
Speaker 1: spikes to worsen with the loss of refining capacity. So
Speaker 1: because we have two refineries closing down, gas price spikes
Speaker 1: are going to be worse than they were last year.
Speaker 1: Which the irony of this is so rich. The whole
Speaker 1: reason why Gavin Newsom introduced and passed ABX to one
Speaker 1: last year. His bill to the whole point of the
Speaker 1: bill was to prevent gas price spikes by insisting that
Speaker 1: gas companies maintained artificially high supplies of gas at all
Speaker 1: times so that when demand spiked, they'd have enough gas
Speaker 1: to do it. Well, now we don't have enough refining capacity.
Speaker 1: So because the company, the gas companies said, this is
Speaker 1: going to be way too expensive for us to do.
Speaker 1: It's way too expensive for us to maintain refineries if
Speaker 1: we have to jack up our prices this much, and
Speaker 1: this is not worth it for us anymore. We're pulling
Speaker 1: out of California. So now our supply is so low
Speaker 1: that the gas price spikes, they're still going to have
Speaker 1: to do gas price spikes, and in fact they're going
Speaker 1: to be worse. They're gonna be worse. This bill, whose
Speaker 1: whole point was to prevent spiking prices of gas, has
Speaker 1: made it worse. And this is yet another, yet another
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom failure, just of epic proportions. No one was
Speaker 1: talking about this legislation until Newsome stomped his foot and
Speaker 1: insisted on it. Last year, he called a special session
Speaker 1: of the legislature to do it because he has to
Speaker 1: blame name somebody else. He and the environmentalist wacko controlled
Speaker 1: California state legislature that they are so insistent on blaming
Speaker 1: anyone other than themselves for high costs of energy, and
Speaker 1: it's only their fault. It's only their fault. The idea
Speaker 1: that you can blame gas and oil companies in California
Speaker 1: based gas and oil companies for being greedy. They're not
Speaker 1: any greedier in California than they are greedy anywhere else.
Speaker 1: Their greed level is exactly the same. There's no reason
Speaker 1: why they would be so much greedier in California than
Speaker 1: they are in Hawaii. And everyone knows that greed is
Speaker 1: not the underlying reason for why gas prices are so high.
Speaker 1: Everyone understands why gas prices are high. They are high
Speaker 1: because of policy decisions made by California California lawmakers. Policy
Speaker 1: decisions that were made and maintained by California lawmakers. That's it.
Speaker 1: That's the first, middle last, only reason why. And Democrats
Speaker 1: in California think they can constantly go back to this
Speaker 1: well of blaming the greed of big oil for why
Speaker 1: stuff is expensive. Ignore, and people keep voting for it,
Speaker 1: People keep buying it, People keep buying this notion that
Speaker 1: the gas companies are so powerful in California. They're not
Speaker 1: very powerful. Clearly, they're not very powerful. If they had power,
Speaker 1: they wouldn't they would have stopped the passage of ABX
Speaker 1: two one. They didn't because they're not very powerful. You
Speaker 1: know who's powerful in California, environmentalist groups, that's who's powerful.
Speaker 1: So it's yet another Gavin Newsom failure. And when we return,
Speaker 1: I want to talk about the Gavin Newsom failures that
Speaker 1: they're not just like partisan failures, they're just non partisan
Speaker 1: any which way you look at it failures. Next on
Speaker 1: the John Growardy Show, here's the thing with Gavin Newsom's
Speaker 1: various failures. And I feel like I do this every show.
Speaker 1: I feel like I go back to what's gonna happen
Speaker 1: on a Democrat primary debate stage in twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 1: In December twenty twenty seven, CNN presents the Democrat Primary Debate,
Speaker 1: the first Democrat primary debate, and Gavin Newsom's gonna be
Speaker 1: up there, grinning with his slicked back hair and his
Speaker 1: veneers shining in the camera and he's going to try to,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously, promote himself in the great work he's
Speaker 1: done in California, and someone's gonna turn to him and say,
Speaker 1: are you kidding me? The great work you've done in California.
Speaker 1: Let me give you a list of horrible things that
Speaker 1: have happened under your administration. And then they'll proceed to
Speaker 1: give a list not of politically controverted things that Democrats
Speaker 1: like and Republicans don't like. That's not what's going to
Speaker 1: be presented again. It'll be a Democrat primary debate. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's Democrats debating other Democrats. The thing is Newsome's biggest failures,
Speaker 1: his failure after failure after failure, spectacular failure after failure.
Speaker 1: It's all stuff that isn't really up for political debate.
Speaker 1: It's just an outcome that's obviously bad. California has the
Speaker 1: highest gas prices in the country. They had the highest
Speaker 1: gas prices in the country when you entered office, and
Speaker 1: their gas prices are now much higher. In fact, after
Speaker 1: you passed the law in twenty twenty four to try
Speaker 1: to insist that oil refineries in your state artificially keep
Speaker 1: a higher supply of gas at all times in order
Speaker 1: to prevent gas price spikes, which they told you not
Speaker 1: to do, which plenty of smart people warned you not
Speaker 1: to do, because it would cause those oil companies to
Speaker 1: pull out of the state, close down refineries, and ultimately
Speaker 1: lead to higher gas prices. You charged ahead anyway, You
Speaker 1: signed the legislation anyway, and that's precisely what happened. Within
Speaker 1: a year, two oil refineries were shutting down, and you're
Speaker 1: looking at eight dollars a gallon gas in some parts
Speaker 1: of California coming up in twenty twenty six, like eight
Speaker 1: dollars a gallon. Guess that's not a Republican problem. It's
Speaker 1: not a Democrat problem. That's a problem probl em. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if you're a Republican or Democrat. Homelessness was
Speaker 1: a bad problem in California in twenty eighteen when you
Speaker 1: ran for governor. It's a worse problem here in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: In December of twenty twenty seven, when this debate's happening,
Speaker 1: you inherited a state budget that was relatively stable. By
Speaker 1: the time you left office, your state budget was facing
Speaker 1: structural deficits of ten to twenty billion dollars every year.
Speaker 1: Deficits are just bad. Like, there's no it's not a
Speaker 1: Republican bad, Democrat bad. Everyone acknowledges that's bad. And there's
Speaker 1: only so many boogeymen Newsom can blame. Whom does he
Speaker 1: blame for deficits? Well, it's the fault of uh, it's
Speaker 1: not the Republicans fault. And that's the thing with Newsome,
Speaker 1: it's all his fault. He has no Republicans to blame.
Speaker 1: There are like three Republicans in Sacramento. Republicans are not
Speaker 1: just the minority. They're not just the super minority. They
Speaker 1: are a super duper minority because Democrats don't just have
Speaker 1: a majority. They don't just have a super majority of
Speaker 1: two thirds, which you need two thirds majority. If you
Speaker 1: have a two thirds majority, there's lots of additional things
Speaker 1: you can do. Democrats don't have two thirds. They have
Speaker 1: three fourths. They have three fourths of all the seats.
Speaker 1: For those of you from Rial Linda, three fourths is
Speaker 1: more than two thirds. So Republicans can stump their feet
Speaker 1: and shout all they want. They can't do a darned thing.
Speaker 1: It's all Newsome's fault. The high speed rail was not
Speaker 1: built when he started it's still not built when he's
Speaker 1: leaving and not funded. He has these failures on issue
Speaker 1: after issue after issue after issue, where it's again, it's
Speaker 1: just not like a partisan deal. It's surely just a failure.
Speaker 1: Wildfires were a horrible problem his whole time as governor,
Speaker 1: and he clearly didn't take effective enough steps to correct it,
Speaker 1: because in January twenty twenty five, Los Angeles has the
Speaker 1: biggest wildfire in history. New housing construction was a problem
Speaker 1: that wasn't happening quickly enough in twenty eighteen when he
Speaker 1: ran for governor. By you know, here, we are almost
Speaker 1: five months out from the wildfires in January, and how
Speaker 1: many permits for new homes to be rebuilt have been
Speaker 1: approved a paltry tiny fraction of all the houses that
Speaker 1: burnt down, Like he's just failed. And it's stuff that's objective,
Speaker 1: doesn't matter where you stand. And even the things where
Speaker 1: maybe you could criticize him one way or another politically,
Speaker 1: like medical coverage for illegal aliens, he gets it coming
Speaker 1: and going. Conservatives can blame him and criticize him for
Speaker 1: providing medical coverage for illegal aliens, and then liberals can
Speaker 1: blame him for having to embarrassingly roll that back because
Speaker 1: it cost way more than he anticipated. So he's just
Speaker 1: faced and now with god knows where where his you know,
Speaker 1: head's gonna stop spinning on the transgender issue. Democrats might
Speaker 1: criticize him, Republicans might criticize him, like he's just got
Speaker 1: failure after failure after failure after failure that, and he
Speaker 1: it seems like he's racking them up in rapid succession. Really,
Speaker 1: just over the course of twenty twenty five, he's cooked,
Speaker 1: he's done. I just don't think he's got a snowballs
Speaker 1: chance in hell of being elected president. Just the series
Speaker 1: of catastrophic California news, from the budget structural deficit, to
Speaker 1: the wildfires, to the alarming news about how underfunded the
Speaker 1: high speed rail is, how they seriously don't have enough
Speaker 1: money to get it done. Just boom boom boom boom,
Speaker 1: thing after thing after thing he is. I just don't
Speaker 1: see how he can possibly credibly run for president when
Speaker 1: we return the inevitable criticisms of Diane Pierce and other
Speaker 1: local Fresno politicians talking about this whole state issue with
Speaker 1: transgenderism at the California High School Track and Field meet
Speaker 1: coming up this weekend that is next on the John
Speaker 1: Girardi Show. So I went today to the press conference
Speaker 1: that Diane Pierce held for regarding the whole issue about
Speaker 1: transgenderism within California high school sports that took place at
Speaker 1: the Presno Veterans Memorial and about the California state high
Speaker 1: school track and field competitions which are being held the
Speaker 1: state wide championships that are being held at Buchanan over
Speaker 1: the course of this weekend, and which are prominently featuring
Speaker 1: a biological male competing in some of the women's events.
Speaker 1: The Californianster Scholastic Federation has updated some of its rules
Speaker 1: basically to allow girls who may have been bumped from
Speaker 1: qualifying for things to still participate, who may have been
Speaker 1: bumped for qualifying for things by a transgender biological male
Speaker 1: athlete to still qualify for things, but their policy is
Speaker 1: still not in conformity with the Trump administration's Executive Order
Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera, And my thoughts turned to Diane Pierce,
Speaker 1: a public figure who has caused no small amount of
Speaker 1: controversy in our local politics, and the controversy around her
Speaker 1: is always this. It's usually basically it's usually centered around
Speaker 1: other members of the City of Clovis City Council criticizing
Speaker 1: her for getting involved in issues that they say are
Speaker 1: outside the scope, outside the scope of what the city
Speaker 1: council is supposed to do. Why can't you just be
Speaker 1: focused on fixing potholes, et cetera. Lynn Ashbeck is often
Speaker 1: the leading figure criticizing Diane Diane Pierce very publicly for
Speaker 1: this kind of behavior, and it leads me to want
Speaker 1: to offer a defense of Diane Pierce and of politicians
Speaker 1: like her, like Gary Brettefeld. Gary Bretdefeld gets hit with
Speaker 1: the same kind of accusation quite a bit, that he's
Speaker 1: a grand stander, that he's a self promoter, but also
Speaker 1: that he overly politicizes things and focuses on issues that
Speaker 1: are outside of his ken. If you will, all right,
Speaker 1: City governments are supposed to represent us. That's what they do,
Speaker 1: and the work of city governments is limited. City governments
Speaker 1: and county governments are themselves purely and simply creations of
Speaker 1: state government. The parameters of what they do or can
Speaker 1: do are set by state law. This is true throughout
Speaker 1: the United States, Okay, cities and county governments only have
Speaker 1: latitude to act. They only have freedom to act. They
Speaker 1: only have independence to act insofar as the state grants
Speaker 1: them that freedom latitude independence to act. So the range
Speaker 1: of what a city council can do is fairly limited.
Speaker 1: Their football field on which they can play is very small. Okay,
Speaker 1: the parameters are set by state law. So as a result,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of kind of big picture things national
Speaker 1: news controversies, even statewide news controversies that city council's city government,
Speaker 1: local government, county government. They may not be able necessarily
Speaker 1: to have a big impact on it, or there might
Speaker 1: be some issue that's a county issue but not a
Speaker 1: city issue, or vice versa. The instinct of any local
Speaker 1: government official is to flee controversy, to settle themselves into
Speaker 1: something quiet, safe and secure. I think there's very much
Speaker 1: a temptation to do that in county government on the
Speaker 1: County Board of Supervisors. The County Board of Supervisors made
Speaker 1: a lot of headlines by not really changing their boundary.
Speaker 1: Their redistricting boundary lines very much. So every ten years
Speaker 1: you do redistricting and the County Board of Supervisors, their
Speaker 1: individual supervisorial districts have to get redrawn to reflect the
Speaker 1: latest census data, and the president County Board of Supervisors
Speaker 1: didn't change their boundary lines all that much. County supervisors
Speaker 1: make really good money for relative to other elected officials
Speaker 1: in California state government. County supervisors make very good money.
Speaker 1: They make much more than even City of Fresno City
Speaker 1: council members make. They make a comfortable into the six figures.
Speaker 1: And county supervisors don't have term limits. It's very comfortable.
Speaker 1: You can if you don't make waves. You maybe have
Speaker 1: two or three controversial votes per year. You've got your
Speaker 1: district that's fairly Republican I mean that fairly Republican or
Speaker 1: fairly Democrat, and you can sit tight pretty well. And
Speaker 1: yet in the last county supervisor round of elections, two
Speaker 1: incumbents lost in favor of two pretty hard charging challengers.
Speaker 1: Gary Bretdefeld replaced Steve Brandew. And I like Steve Branda,
Speaker 1: and I'll say this, I don't think Steve Randall was
Speaker 1: like that. I don't think he was a comfortable sit
Speaker 1: around guy. I mean he I'll always credit him for
Speaker 1: passing the library ordinance that took a lot of guts
Speaker 1: for him to do. But sal Can and Tara All
Speaker 1: so he got replaced by Luis Chavis. And I do
Speaker 1: believe that there is a real temptation in local government
Speaker 1: not to talk about your views on bigger, broader topics
Speaker 1: because you don't want to be controverari sial. Even though
Speaker 1: this is a thing you may not be able to
Speaker 1: impact it. But part of living in a political community
Speaker 1: together is affirming what's good and denying what's bad. Alerting
Speaker 1: your citizenry about things that are happening that are good
Speaker 1: or bad, rallying attention, rallying concern on behalf of your
Speaker 1: city for things that are maybe beyond your city's power
Speaker 1: to immediately do something, but maybe your city ken if
Speaker 1: you will lobby for that thing. I think Diane Pierce
Speaker 1: was admirable for doing just this in the context of libraries.
Speaker 1: Here's the Clovis City Council, which, for those who haven't
Speaker 1: been to the closed City Council, it's this. It's right
Speaker 1: across the street from Clark Intermediate School. It's right near
Speaker 1: San Joaquin College of Law on Bullard, which turns into
Speaker 1: Fifth Street. Once you get to Old Town Clovis it
Speaker 1: becomes Fifth Street, and then as you leave Old Town
Speaker 1: Clovis it turns back into Bullard. So the Clovis City
Speaker 1: Council is in this sort of complex of buildings that
Speaker 1: all look the same. It's right next door to a
Speaker 1: Fresno County Library, the Clovis branch of the Fresno County Library,
Speaker 1: and in the Clovist branch of the Fresnoe County Library.
Speaker 1: They had all kinds of smut aimed at kids. I
Speaker 1: go to that library, I've seen it to. It's not
Speaker 1: just Diane seeing it. I've seen it too. And so
Speaker 1: Diane Pierce made a big public stink about it and said, hey,
Speaker 1: this is really bad. And it was right in the
Speaker 1: middle of this being a big national, you know, news
Speaker 1: story talking point in what was I guess this was
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four, that
Speaker 1: public schools were introducing public schools and county run public
Speaker 1: libraries introducing more and more aggressive sexual content to younger
Speaker 1: and younger audiences, and Diane Pierce said, why the heck
Speaker 1: do we have this the al Basically everyone on the
Speaker 1: Clovis City Council sort of wrung their hands and said, well,
Speaker 1: that's a controversial topic, and you're making city staff feel
Speaker 1: uncomfortable by drawing attention to it. And by the way,
Speaker 1: it's a county it's a county library, it's not a
Speaker 1: city library. So it's not your job. It's not your
Speaker 1: job to deal with that. You know what else isn't
Speaker 1: part of our you know, the Presdent City Council's job,
Speaker 1: or the Clove City Council's job. The Presno City council
Speaker 1: is not going to do anything to fix the Armenian genocide.
Speaker 1: It happened one hundred and ten years ago. And yet
Speaker 1: every year in April, what do we do. We ceremonies,
Speaker 1: public ceremonies, speeches, gatherings in which we honor the victims
Speaker 1: of the Armenian genocide. Why, because this is a community.
Speaker 1: We are part of a community. Living in a polis,
Speaker 1: in a political community, in a city is a natural
Speaker 1: thing for human beings to do, and a city is
Speaker 1: a kind of naturally occurring thing. A city has stuff
Speaker 1: that ties it together. Things they think are good, things
Speaker 1: they think are bad, are shared. American heritage, Pride in
Speaker 1: our country, pride in our agricultural economy, pride in this
Speaker 1: that there's a lot of ideas, ideals, principles that in
Speaker 1: a functioning city can and do unite you and city governments.
Speaker 1: It's good for us to honor things that are good
Speaker 1: and to object to things that are bad, even if
Speaker 1: it's a little beyond our ability immediately to legislate to stop. Yes,
Speaker 1: I understand that the closed city council can't fix the
Speaker 1: problem of transgender athletes competing in California high school sports.
Speaker 1: It's above their pay grade. But I commend local government
Speaker 1: leaders for saying, you know what, it's happening right here
Speaker 1: in our town. I have citizens in my town who
Speaker 1: don't even realize this. Don't don't grasp the enormity of this,
Speaker 1: don't grasp the enormity of how this has taken away
Speaker 1: the rights of women. And it's the state championships are
Speaker 1: happening right here in Clovis, California. So I say bravo
Speaker 1: to Diane Pierce, Bravo to Gary Brettfeld, Bravo to local
Speaker 1: government leaders who are willing to say you know what. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, my job is mostly concerned with potholes and
Speaker 1: fixing roads and hiring cops, but this is what I
Speaker 1: also But I also believe that this is right and
Speaker 1: this is wrong, and as a city leader, as a
Speaker 1: civic leader, I think it's right and just for my
Speaker 1: voice to be heard on this. So kudos to them
Speaker 1: when we return the power of AI to really screw
Speaker 1: up your job. Next on the John Girardi Show, Misty
Speaker 1: her is in hot Water news story in GV wire
Speaker 1: by Edward Smith. Apparently the Fresney Unified administration presented the
Speaker 1: Teachers Association, the teachers' union that represents teachers in Fresney Unified,
Speaker 1: with a document this month that cited every instance that
Speaker 1: union leadership criticized Misty Herr in a quote inflammatory, unprofessional,
Speaker 1: or dismissive way. But there was a problem this document
Speaker 1: that they gave the Teachers Association. It's nine pages long,
Speaker 1: document was sharing a bunch of quotes that were completely fabricated.
Speaker 1: None of the stories actually the actual news stories. When
Speaker 1: you went back to them, they didn't have the quotes
Speaker 1: that this dossier said they did, leading everyone to realize
Speaker 1: that this nine page dossier was created by AI. I
Speaker 1: would just like to give this little thought. Everyone needs
Speaker 1: to realize that there's a lot of lazy, stupid people
Speaker 1: in the world, and that all of them are going
Speaker 1: to try to use AI, even in professional settings to
Speaker 1: cut corners at work, and it's going to lead to
Speaker 1: a lot of embarrassing situations like this. So mistery Hurr,
Speaker 1: you probably want a fire whoever made that document for you,
Speaker 1: just just my two cents. If you don't want your
Speaker 1: students all using AI to cheat on work, you probably
Speaker 1: don't want people working for you who also use AI.
Speaker 1: And it's part of my ongoing luddite hatred of AI
Speaker 1: that I find. Look, if you want to use AI, Hey,
Speaker 1: I've got this kind of cheese and this kind of onion.
Speaker 1: There's a AI. Find me five recipes that will use
Speaker 1: these ingredients. All right, that's fine. Other than that I
Speaker 1: hate it. That'll do it, John Glady Show. See you
Speaker 1: next time on Power Talk