Speaker 1: I saw it today. A little story, just a little
Speaker 1: story that's symptomatic of the much larger problems that California
Speaker 1: is experiencing with basically all over the place. The inability
Speaker 1: to build, the inability to develop, the inability to have
Speaker 1: local investment. And a lot of this is focused around SIQUA,
Speaker 1: the California Environmental Quality Act, which I've talked about very
Speaker 1: frequently on this show. The seque, I think is a
Speaker 1: scourge on the face of the state. I think there
Speaker 1: are ways to have environmental regulation and emissions standards that
Speaker 1: don't require lawsuits, that state regulators can enforce emission standards
Speaker 1: without having private parties file lawsuits. Basically that the way
Speaker 1: sequel works is it turns normal It turns normal American
Speaker 1: rules about who has the ability to file a lawsuit.
Speaker 1: It takes those normal rules and turns them on their heads,
Speaker 1: on its head. Normally, if you are going to sue someone,
Speaker 1: you have to demonstrate that you suffered some kind of damage,
Speaker 1: some kind of damages, that you were adversely impacted by
Speaker 1: someone else's conduct. You know, if someone crashes their car
Speaker 1: into my house, I can sue that person. My friend
Speaker 1: who's upset that my house got smashed into. He can't
Speaker 1: sue the guy who crashed the car. If he comes
Speaker 1: into the courtroom and is filing a lawsuit, the judge
Speaker 1: will say, well, who are you, Why are you? Why
Speaker 1: are you filing this lawsuit? Oh, I'm really upset for
Speaker 1: my friend. No, that doesn't work that way. Traditional American
Speaker 1: rules governing standing, as it's called legal standing, do you
Speaker 1: have standing to sue? They're a really important sort of
Speaker 1: limit on litigation on who has the ability to file
Speaker 1: a lawsuit. Okay, I can sue because someone crashed into
Speaker 1: my house. I have suffered the economic harm of my
Speaker 1: house being smashed sikua. The California Environmental Quality Act turns
Speaker 1: all that upside down, where basically anyone can file a
Speaker 1: lawsuit against anybody for alleged environmental harms from new kinds
Speaker 1: of business development. Whether that's a real estate developer trying
Speaker 1: to set up new housing, whether that's a business that
Speaker 1: wants to set up manufacturing within town, whether it's a
Speaker 1: city that has a development plan for new businesses to
Speaker 1: set up, whether it's the State of California trying to
Speaker 1: build new state infrastructure water storage. This that even the
Speaker 1: State of California trying to build an annex on the
Speaker 1: Capitol building. It's all subject to a lawsuit from anybody,
Speaker 1: any Tom Dick or Harry who wants to swoop in
Speaker 1: and stop something for whatever reason. Really purportedly it's going
Speaker 1: to be for some environmental impact reason. But SEQUA has
Speaker 1: been weaponized by people who have no real interest in
Speaker 1: the environment. Siqua's been weaponized by competing real estate developers
Speaker 1: to stop a real estate developer from starting a housing project.
Speaker 1: It's been used by people who don't want their property
Speaker 1: values to go down because of the establishment of a
Speaker 1: new you know, real estate the establishment of some new
Speaker 1: multi unit dwelling that they think will bring down the
Speaker 1: value of their homes, the sort of nimby instinct, not
Speaker 1: in my backyard yard instinct. So SIQUA has been weaponized
Speaker 1: in all these different ways. Let's go down to Pixley
Speaker 1: and a piece that was commented on by Tad Weber
Speaker 1: writing in the Fresno b where Weber is so happy
Speaker 1: that basically a new business maybe with some jobs who knows,
Speaker 1: is not starting in Pixley. It's a very small town
Speaker 1: into Larry County. Here's what he writes, chalk one up
Speaker 1: for the little guy. The residents of Pixley into Larry
Speaker 1: County are forcing an energy company to decide whether it
Speaker 1: wants to do an environmental review for a proposed hydrogen
Speaker 1: production plant, A review, I might add, that should have
Speaker 1: been done from the start, no question, full stop. Like
Speaker 1: many small communities located on Highway ninety nine Sanawaquin Valley,
Speaker 1: Pixley is home to low income farm workers. According to
Speaker 1: a report by the Presno based Leadership Council for Justice
Speaker 1: and Accountability, ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding ding ding ding.
Speaker 1: Such a such a generic sounding name, The Leadership Council
Speaker 1: for Justice and Accountability. I like leadership, I like justice,
Speaker 1: I like accountability. These are all good things. Who would
Speaker 1: who would be opposed to any of those things? Oh
Speaker 1: wait a second, what is the Leadership Council for Justice
Speaker 1: and Accountability. Leadership Council for Justice and Accountability is an
Speaker 1: ultra left wing nonprofit organization that is super just a
Speaker 1: bunch of super duper environmental wackos. Okay, you go to
Speaker 1: their about page. Our team. Every single person who works
Speaker 1: there has their pronouns right in their profile. All a
Speaker 1: bunch of she hers. Oh there's a she they there.
Speaker 1: We go, looks like a dude, looks like a lady.
Speaker 1: She her, and Ayah for the some of the Latina
Speaker 1: ladies working there, A couple of guys, couple of staff attorneys.
Speaker 1: So this is a left wing outfit that does various
Speaker 1: kinds of lawsuits locally, taking advantage of things like SIQUA
Speaker 1: to stop things that they think are environmentally harmful. Let's
Speaker 1: pull up their nine to ninety, shall we. So pro
Speaker 1: Publica has their nonprofit Explorer feature. Pro Publica is this online.
Speaker 1: They're usually actually a super liberal outlet, but they have
Speaker 1: this interesting thing for readily looking up data about different nonprofits.
Speaker 1: So here is the profile for the Leadership Council for
Speaker 1: Justice and Accountability, located in Fresno. It tracks their revenue,
Speaker 1: their expenses, their total assets, their total liability. It just
Speaker 1: has all their nine to ninety data from their twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three text filings. So this is this little plucky
Speaker 1: nonprofit just trying to help out the good people of Pixley, California.
Speaker 1: This little nonprofit, which is located in Fresno, had revenue
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three of six point one seven million dollars.
Speaker 1: I'm no expert, Well, actually I am kind of an expert.
Speaker 1: I am kind of an expert on Sanwalquing Valley nonprofits,
Speaker 1: having run one for several several years, run two actually
Speaker 1: on and off several years. You're not getting all that
Speaker 1: money just from like little old Ladies in downtown Fresno
Speaker 1: and little old Mexican farm worker ladies, giving you twenty
Speaker 1: bucks six point one seven million dollars in revenue four
Speaker 1: point twelve million dollars in expenses in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: Their total assets as of twenty twenty three are sixteen
Speaker 1: point three million, with only four hundred and thirteen thousand
Speaker 1: dollars of liabilities. You can look at their compensation. The
Speaker 1: only compensation they're reporting is for their top three. They
Speaker 1: have top three key employees whose compensation they report. Veronica Garibov,
Speaker 1: the co founder and co executive director, who's getting one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty four thousand dollars per year. Phoebe, you know,
Speaker 1: pretty nice for nonprofit work if you can get it.
Speaker 1: Phoebe Seaton, co founder and co executive director, one hundred
Speaker 1: forty eight thousand dollars year. And then Kaylin Hammond, the
Speaker 1: director of operations, one hundred twenty five thousand dollars per year.
Speaker 1: Sandra Celadon is on their board of directors. You may
Speaker 1: remember Sandra Seladan. She's executive director of another liberal Presno area,
Speaker 1: nonfit Fresno, building Healthy Communities. She was the one who
Speaker 1: after the George Floyd riots, she posted on Twitter a
Speaker 1: video of a Minneapolis police precinct burning to the ground
Speaker 1: with the delighted, ecstatic little message from her there on
Speaker 1: Twitter saying burn them all down, burn them all down.
Speaker 1: She was then somehow the city of Fresno thought it
Speaker 1: was a good idea to make her basically the vice
Speaker 1: chair of the Presno Police Reform Commission, where she completely
Speaker 1: rolled poor Oliver bains to produce a Police Reform Commission
Speaker 1: report of recommendations to the Fresno Police Department that was
Speaker 1: completely obviously written by her, completely rolled Oliver Baines talking
Speaker 1: about how all policing in America is rooted in racism,
Speaker 1: It's rooted in gangs of Yahoo's trying to round up
Speaker 1: freed slaves. Not true, not true, that's not how, that's
Speaker 1: not what modern American policing is based in. Modern American
Speaker 1: policing owes far more to the bobbies. The reforms that
Speaker 1: happened to police to policing in London in the eighteen hundreds,
Speaker 1: which were imported across the Atlantic to the United States,
Speaker 1: starting in kind of the East coast and spread its
Speaker 1: way westward. The idea of uniformed, professional, full time sworn officers,
Speaker 1: that tradition has really almost nothing to do with, you know,
Speaker 1: deputized yahoos rounding up slaves in the South. Couldn't be
Speaker 1: more different in fact, anyway. So this lawsuit to try
Speaker 1: to defend the poor little guys of Pixley from a
Speaker 1: hydrogen production plan. We'll talk about what is the threat there.
Speaker 1: This is not coming from some little oh just in
Speaker 1: the interest of the community. No, this is a super
Speaker 1: left wing nonprofit designed to achieve that. That's extremely well
Speaker 1: funded with lawyers on staff who are trying to achieve
Speaker 1: super left wing goals. By the way, this isn't like
Speaker 1: the only time Leadership Council for Justice and Accountability has
Speaker 1: made headlines. Here's a story from November. Fourth lawsuit puts
Speaker 1: multiple city projects in Fresno on hole. City of Fresno
Speaker 1: has plans to bring more businesses into city limits, but
Speaker 1: due to a lawsuit filed against them, projects are put
Speaker 1: on hold. By the way, I'm reading again, it's not
Speaker 1: it's Veronica Gara Bay who is the executive director for
Speaker 1: Building Healthy Communities. I think I said gharabav by the way,
Speaker 1: she and Sandraceladon we're both on hand for the swearing
Speaker 1: in of new members for the Fresne Unified School Board,
Speaker 1: which which again continues this tradition that left wing nonprofits
Speaker 1: and Fresno have. They gather like carrion fowl. They gather
Speaker 1: like vultures at any governmental bodies meetings and things like that,
Speaker 1: to linger there like vultures waiting to feed on the
Speaker 1: carcass of some local government. Basically just desperately trying to
Speaker 1: find some program that they can you know, some service,
Speaker 1: some program they could provide for the city as long
Speaker 1: as your taxpayer dollars are paying for it. Anyway. Here's
Speaker 1: a story from November fourth about Leadership Council for Justice
Speaker 1: and Accountability City of Fresno has plans to bring more
Speaker 1: businesses into city limits. Due to a lawsuit filed against them,
Speaker 1: projects are put on hold leadership. Back in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: Leadership Council for Justice and Accountability in South Fresno community
Speaker 1: Alliance filed a writ of mandate against the city. They
Speaker 1: claimed the city didn't properly address several environmental subjects dot
Speaker 1: pad sequa while filling while filing their program environmental impact report.
Speaker 1: The State Court of Appeals sided with them on August fifth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. City of Fresno member Mike Carbosi explained
Speaker 1: what this means for projects that need to adjust to
Speaker 1: this ruling. So, what's going to happen now, This is
Speaker 1: Carbasi talking. What's going to happen now is every single project,
Speaker 1: whether it's a city park that we're building that your
Speaker 1: tax dollars are paying for, or it's a private development
Speaker 1: for a home or an apartment you'd want to live in,
Speaker 1: the cost to build is going to go up substantially
Speaker 1: now because every single project now has to add on
Speaker 1: the cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars for their
Speaker 1: own unique environmental impact report. Carbasi said, So, basically, what
Speaker 1: had happened the city had put together an environmental impact
Speaker 1: plant SIQUA. California Environmental Quality Act requires if you're doing
Speaker 1: a new construction project, you need to have an environmental
Speaker 1: impact report. What some cities have done, including Fresno is.
Speaker 1: Fresno did a massive environmental impact report for all of
Speaker 1: its zoning and for new developments, so that if a
Speaker 1: new business wants to set up in Fresno in a
Speaker 1: place that's designated for that zoning purpose, they don't have
Speaker 1: to do as much work putting together the environmental impact report.
Speaker 1: They can kind of piggyback off of the environmental impact
Speaker 1: report that the City of Fresno already did. That is good, right,
Speaker 1: that's going to help spur new investment. And then in
Speaker 1: it because because Leadership Council for Justice and Accountability, they
Speaker 1: swooped in and sued the City of Fresno to say,
Speaker 1: your environmental impact report is insufficient. So they're just weaponizing
Speaker 1: SEQUA to stop basically any new building in the in
Speaker 1: the San Jaquin Valley. If there's any project in the
Speaker 1: San Joaquin Valley that Leadership Council for Justice and Accountability
Speaker 1: doesn't like, they can just swoop in and file a
Speaker 1: lawsuit or at least even just the threat of a
Speaker 1: lawsuit to stop the project cold. So Carbasi saying, hey,
Speaker 1: guess what, its stopped all these projects dead in their tracks. Now,
Speaker 1: all these people who wanted to invest in Fresno. They
Speaker 1: have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on their
Speaker 1: own environmental impact report, so everything's going to cost more.
Speaker 1: When we return, we'll talk about what kinds of environmental
Speaker 1: impacts they think. Think the poor people of Pixley who
Speaker 1: don't have jobs, who probably would benefit from some new industry,
Speaker 1: some new investment in the town, are going to suffer
Speaker 1: from a hydrogen plant. A hydrogen plant, you know, to
Speaker 1: have better environmental outcomes. We'll talk about it next. This
Speaker 1: is the John Gerardi Show on Power Talk. The city
Speaker 1: of Pixley is not exactly a boom town. It is
Speaker 1: not exactly a town with a ton of economic investment.
Speaker 1: It's one of the poorest cities in the San Joaquin Valley.
Speaker 1: It's got bad air quality, got a huge percentage of
Speaker 1: people who only speak Spanish or speak limited English. Seventy
Speaker 1: percent of Pixley's residents live below two x of the
Speaker 1: federal poverty line. This is not a booming town. It's
Speaker 1: the only thirty eight hundred people. You know, if any
Speaker 1: of you are drying through to Larry County and you
Speaker 1: drive past it, you know you're not saying, oh man,
Speaker 1: this is a town that's got a lot happen and happening. No,
Speaker 1: a energy company, with the great encouragement of Gavin Newsom,
Speaker 1: wanted to build a hydrogen plant, a hydrogen production plant.
Speaker 1: This is something Gavin Newsom is super enthused about. Basically
Speaker 1: the idea Newsom thinks hydrogen is the clean burning fuel
Speaker 1: of the future. You have hydrogen production. The only byproduct
Speaker 1: of producing energy via hydrogen is water. Now, the problem, apparently,
Speaker 1: is that liberal nonprofits hate all new development, They hate
Speaker 1: all new investment, all new businesses, any new business. And
Speaker 1: they've this liberal this one particular liberal nonprofit called the
Speaker 1: Leadership Council for Justice and Accountability, which is based in
Speaker 1: Fresno and basically goes all up and down the San
Speaker 1: Joaquin Valley trying to find ways to stop new businesses
Speaker 1: from starting, basically using SEQUA as their weapon. SEQUA, of
Speaker 1: course the California Environmental Quality Act, which requires an environmental
Speaker 1: review for the construction the building of any new real
Speaker 1: estate or other venture for whatever the environmental impact would be.
Speaker 1: Tad Weber gleefully talking about it in the pages of
Speaker 1: the Fresno b How Leadership Council for Justice and Accountability
Speaker 1: stopped this hydrogen plant for coming in because of the
Speaker 1: negative environmental impact. Wait a tick thout. The whole point
Speaker 1: of a hydrogen production plant was to not have a
Speaker 1: negative environmental impact. That isn't that the whole point. You're
Speaker 1: producing energy and the only byproduct is water. That that
Speaker 1: isn't Isn't that what we want? Shouldn't we want investment
Speaker 1: in green energy like that? That's that's the whole point.
Speaker 1: It's gonna benefit. Well, no, because here's the problem. See,
Speaker 1: to have a hydrogen production plant, what do you need, Well,
Speaker 1: you need trucks to bring in the hydrogen, and that's
Speaker 1: gonna hurt the environment in Pixley. So we got to
Speaker 1: shut it down. And this is the Fresno b applauding this. Yes,
Speaker 1: what Pixley really needs is big time green energy companies
Speaker 1: out of this big time green energy company out of Phoenix.
Speaker 1: It was gonna set up this hydrogen production plant in
Speaker 1: Pixley of all places. Gavin Newsom's really hot to trot
Speaker 1: for this hydrogen energy stuff. He's trying to find places
Speaker 1: to do it. And what do liberals do? They stop
Speaker 1: it with sequel. Pixley residents sue the Pixley Residents for
Speaker 1: Environmental Justice sued to Larry County last March because an
Speaker 1: environmental review had not been done. Pixley Residence for Environmental Justice,
Speaker 1: I'm sure an entity that was purely one hundred percent
Speaker 1: fabricated and created by Leadership Council for Justice and Accountability, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, for those who didn't hear the first segment,
Speaker 1: Leadership Council for Justice and Accountability is a super left
Speaker 1: wing nonprofit. It got in twenty twenty three six point
Speaker 1: five million dollars worth of funding. This is an extremely
Speaker 1: well funded outfit. They have like three top executives making
Speaker 1: around one hundred well over six well into six figures
Speaker 1: one hundred twenty five to one hundred and fifty thousand
Speaker 1: dollars a year. They've got lawyer on staff working for
Speaker 1: them like this is This is not some rinky dink outfit.
Speaker 1: This is clearly being funded by super left wing groups,
Speaker 1: super left wing donors who want to achieve super left
Speaker 1: wing environmental goals. And they don't want to build. They
Speaker 1: don't want any real estate investment, they don't want new manufacturing,
Speaker 1: they don't want anything that they think is going to
Speaker 1: put any sort of blight on the pristine face of California,
Speaker 1: including apparently hydrogen energy production, the whole point of which
Speaker 1: is to be a zero emissions green way of producing
Speaker 1: energy in Pixley. Why because apparently trucks might have to
Speaker 1: drive into Pixley. I don't know if the good people
Speaker 1: from the Leadership Council for Justice Accountability have been through Pixley.
Speaker 1: I have guys, it's on the ninety nine, all right,
Speaker 1: It's a town that exists because it's along the ninety nine.
Speaker 1: You know what, the ninety nine sure has a lot
Speaker 1: of trucking, just tons and tons and tons of trucks.
Speaker 1: Do you really think, however, just because some of the
Speaker 1: trucks would now stop in Pixley to offload hydrogen for
Speaker 1: this hydrogen plant, that is gonna make a rat's rear
Speaker 1: end of difference for Pixley's air quality. I'm sorry the
Speaker 1: beggars belief that that's gonna do a damn thing, or
Speaker 1: how you could even measure that it would do a
Speaker 1: damn thing. It is staggering, like, oh, oh, yes, Pixley
Speaker 1: would have. Pixley already has like many towns in the
Speaker 1: Sanwaquin Valley, Pixley has pretty bad air quality, the idea
Speaker 1: that their air quality would get work because trucks will
Speaker 1: drop off hydrogen at this zero emissions producing hydrogen energy
Speaker 1: plant to benefit the whole state with zero carbon, zero
Speaker 1: emissions energy. And we're gonna have This is the level
Speaker 1: of insanity that we have with SEQUA. This is the
Speaker 1: level of insanity that we have in California. Gavin News
Speaker 1: some things. We're gonna have all electric cars, all green
Speaker 1: energy production by twenty three. Forget what his goal is.
Speaker 1: I think twenty thirty five was sort of his goal date.
Speaker 1: Good luck, buddy, because you can't even build a flipping
Speaker 1: hydrogen energy production plant, zero emissions producing only byproduct is
Speaker 1: water hydrogen emission high hydrogen energy plant in Pixley, a
Speaker 1: town with like three people who live there. It's thirty population,
Speaker 1: thirty eight hundred out a left wing nonprofit group suing
Speaker 1: to stop it because trucks might come into Pixley. God forbid,
Speaker 1: as opposed to the eight guillzillion trucks that drive right
Speaker 1: through slash past Pixley on the ninety nine every single day.
Speaker 1: And the Fresno b is applauding this. When we return
Speaker 1: the culture of left wing nonprofits in Fresno. This is
Speaker 1: the John Girardi Show. I want to talk about the
Speaker 1: culture of left wing nonprofits in Fresno. I want to
Speaker 1: talk about it after this story that just absolutely infuriates
Speaker 1: me that the Leadership Council for Justice and Accountability, which
Speaker 1: is becoming a major player on the Fresno liberal nonprofit scene,
Speaker 1: has successfully cowed this hydrogen energy company that was going
Speaker 1: to set up a hydrogen energy production plant in the
Speaker 1: town of Pixley, has stopped them under the threat of
Speaker 1: a sequa lawsuit, and now they have to do a big,
Speaker 1: expensive environmental impact review for a hydrogen plant that is
Speaker 1: a zero emissions hydrogen energy plant. That's the whole point
Speaker 1: of hydrogen energy. It's why Gavin Newsom is all hot
Speaker 1: to trot over ityrogen. The point of hydrogen energy. As
Speaker 1: you bring in hydrogen, the only byproduct you have from
Speaker 1: it is water. So it would be a zero emissions
Speaker 1: power plant, a zero emissions energy production plant. But Leadership
Speaker 1: Council for Justice and Accountability, this Fresno based nonprofit, is
Speaker 1: suing to stop it. Why all because more trucks will
Speaker 1: be coming into Pixley to drop off hydrogen, which ignores
Speaker 1: the fact that Pixley is on the ninety nine. I
Speaker 1: don't know about eight hundred billion trucks drive through Pixley
Speaker 1: every day. You really think a few of those trucks
Speaker 1: stopping in Pixley is going to make a rat's rear
Speaker 1: end worth a difference. Now, let's talk about this because
Speaker 1: the culture of left wing nonprofits in Fresno has been
Speaker 1: insane for a long time, and Leadership Council for Justice
Speaker 1: Accountability is just taking it to the umpteenth degree. There
Speaker 1: is a large number of Fresno based, but likely other
Speaker 1: parts of California financed left wing nonprofits. Barrio Sunidos Fresno,
Speaker 1: Building Healthy Communities, Leadership Council for Justice and Accountability, a
Speaker 1: lot of the programs funded by oh, what's the name
Speaker 1: of the Fresno, Fresno Council for Economic Opportunity, President Economic
Speaker 1: Opportunity Council, something like that. A number of these left
Speaker 1: wing nonprofits, and they all are kind of intermingle with
Speaker 1: one another. They all know one another, they all know
Speaker 1: each other, they interact with each other. They all have
Speaker 1: very similar guiding left wing principles and ideas. And what's
Speaker 1: been happening is these left wing nonprofits The way they
Speaker 1: function or exist is well, we'll talk about Leadership Council
Speaker 1: for Justice and Accountability. Their modus operandi seems to be
Speaker 1: they file sequel lawsuits against everybody. But what these other
Speaker 1: nonprofits seem to do is they hang around governmental entities
Speaker 1: to advance what sounds like some altruistically liberal cause, but
Speaker 1: it's always with their handout. I remember Barrios Sunidos was
Speaker 1: big on this, you know, in kind of the defund
Speaker 1: the police era. The Barrios who need would be hanging
Speaker 1: out at the President Unified school board meetings again with
Speaker 1: their handout saying, you know, we need to get President
Speaker 1: Unified needs to cancel its contract with the Fresne Police
Speaker 1: Department for having police on campuses within Presnew Unified school district.
Speaker 1: The presence of police officers in black or brown communities,
Speaker 1: you know, is a hateful, harmful, traumatizing thing. The very
Speaker 1: presence of police is violence. We need to defund the police,
Speaker 1: you know, we should instead of having policing, we should
Speaker 1: have more conflict resolution specialists that that Fresne Unified could
Speaker 1: divert their funding to. And and yes, Fresne Unified should
Speaker 1: do more mental health professionals even though President Unified as
Speaker 1: mental health professionals you know out the wazoo, But what
Speaker 1: you need is more conflict resolution specialists. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we could provide the conflict resolution specialists for you. President unified,
Speaker 1: school district and entity funded by taxpayer dollars, who is
Speaker 1: not as cautious about spending other people's money. But just
Speaker 1: just give us a contract, give us a nice, big, fat,
Speaker 1: unlikely to be reviewed, very scrutinizingly government contract for us
Speaker 1: to provide these services where no one will actually measure
Speaker 1: the metrics of how successful it was, how useful it was,
Speaker 1: and we will provide your conflict resolution specialists. The same
Speaker 1: thing happened with the Police Reform Commission. How oh have
Speaker 1: Sandra Celadon from Fresno building healthy communities, have what's her
Speaker 1: face from Barrios Sunidos, have them on the Police Reform Commission,
Speaker 1: have them completely roll Oliver Bains and write all the
Speaker 1: recommendations for how the police should conduct themselves and reform
Speaker 1: measures that the police should have, and have them more
Speaker 1: focus on again again, conflict resolution specialist, conflict resolution specialist,
Speaker 1: conflict resolution specialists, and of course the whole idea being
Speaker 1: well we could provide conflict resolution specialists. We could provide it.
Speaker 1: Go to the Fresno Public Housing Authority with the same proposal. Oh,
Speaker 1: get rid of the cops at you know, public sector housing,
Speaker 1: you know Section eight housing. We could provide conflict management
Speaker 1: and de escalation councilors instead. So that's what they do.
Speaker 1: These ultra left wing nonprofits. Faith in the Valley is
Speaker 1: another one. These ultra left wing nonprofits. They hang around
Speaker 1: city Hall, they hang around the County Board of Supervisors,
Speaker 1: they hang around the president Unified school Board. By the way,
Speaker 1: at the swearing inn for new president Unified school Board members.
Speaker 1: That happened just a day or two ago. Guess who
Speaker 1: was there. Sandra Saladan, Fresnoe Building Hell Communities. And I
Speaker 1: think the name is Veronica Garabay, Yes, Veronica Gharabey, the
Speaker 1: executive director for Leadership Council for Justice and Accountability. They're there.
Speaker 1: They're just hanging out, just hanging because they and this
Speaker 1: is what happens. They basically appoint themselves the representatives of
Speaker 1: minority areas of Fresno. Is it clear that the citizenry
Speaker 1: that the thirty eight hundred citizens of Pixley, California, genuinely
Speaker 1: don't want a hydrogen production plant in city limits? Are
Speaker 1: are the thirty eight hundred residents of Pixley like really think?
Speaker 1: You know, none of them would like a job at
Speaker 1: the plant. Nobody, None of the citizenry of Pixley is like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know it could be a positive thing. Have some
Speaker 1: investment here in Pixley. Source of jobs? You know? No, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no. Somehow Leadership Council for Justice and Accountability was
Speaker 1: able to find, you know, three citizens of Pixley. I'm
Speaker 1: sure to set up the citizens of Pixley against for
Speaker 1: what was the name of the phony Bologney What was
Speaker 1: the name of the phony Bologney organization that they obviously
Speaker 1: put together the Pixley Residents for Environmental Justice. Ah, yes,
Speaker 1: I'm sure the Spanish speaking farm workers who live in
Speaker 1: Pixley are thinking, you know what, how do I vindicate
Speaker 1: environmental justice? I know, I will start a community organization
Speaker 1: to fight for environmental justice. Now, this nonprofit came in,
Speaker 1: They found one or two people willing to sign a form,
Speaker 1: sign a petition or something, and they filed the lawsuit.
Speaker 1: They organized whatever this entity was, Pixley had residence for
Speaker 1: Environmental Justice and they filed this lawsuit. So that's the
Speaker 1: culture at city Hall in Fresno, at any sort of
Speaker 1: gathering of governmental really, any governmental body that is overseeing
Speaker 1: taxpayer money and that has contracts to give out, that
Speaker 1: can give a contract to a nonprofit to provide some
Speaker 1: city services. That has been the culture in Fresno for
Speaker 1: years and years and years. It's going to keep being
Speaker 1: the culture, apparently. And now we can add to the
Speaker 1: list the weaponization of SEQUA. This is apparently a very
Speaker 1: effective nonprofit strategy. Use SEQUA just to stop any investment
Speaker 1: in Fresno. Just now, We'll stop every real estate, every
Speaker 1: construction project. We're going to stop dead in its tracks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just what we're doing. When we return. I reflect
Speaker 1: on a Notre Dame football victory next on the John
Speaker 1: Girardi Show. So folks as today. Yesterday I filled in
Speaker 1: for Trevor Carey and I was kind of major league bummed.
Speaker 1: I was a little bit bummed because I learned that
Speaker 1: Notre Dame basically stuff shifted in my schedule and Notre
Speaker 1: Dame schedule after the terrorist attack that happened in New Orleans.
Speaker 1: Notre Dame was supposed to play in the Sugar Bowl
Speaker 1: on January first. Because of the terrorist attack in New Orleans,
Speaker 1: they had to bump the game back one day, and
Speaker 1: so Notre Dame play wound up playing starting at one
Speaker 1: o'clock yesterday. And as any of you who listened to
Speaker 1: the show, no, I am a die hard Notre Dame
Speaker 1: football fan. I am a Notre Dame grad. I went
Speaker 1: to Notre Dame undergrad. I went to Notre Dame law school.
Speaker 1: I took a class from Amy Cony Barrett. Okay, I
Speaker 1: am as I am. I bleed for Notre Dame, and
Speaker 1: I realized, dog gonet, I'm gonna be filling in for
Speaker 1: Trevor like during the second half. Like the game starts
Speaker 1: at one, Trevor's show starts at three, so I'm gonna
Speaker 1: man like, all right, well, I guess I can have
Speaker 1: the game on the monitor in the studio and I
Speaker 1: can do the show. That was the most distracted bitter
Speaker 1: radio I've ever done. I had one or two moments
Speaker 1: where I was like, oh, okay, I might need to
Speaker 1: actually turn this game off because this is this is
Speaker 1: gonna become some bad radio here. But I sold you on.
Speaker 1: I did not have any FCC non compliant outbursts in
Speaker 1: the middle of the broadcast, and I gotta say I am.
Speaker 1: I am so jazzed about a couple of things with
Speaker 1: Notre Dame. This is the John Girardi Show, It's not
Speaker 1: the U Show. So if you're bored by Notre Dame football,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, you go get your own radio show. All right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do two minutes on Notre Dame football. So
Speaker 1: a couple of things I'm happy about. One, Notre Dame
Speaker 1: getting rid of Brian not excuse me, Brian Kelly leaving
Speaker 1: Notre Dame for the SEC on the grounds of Notre
Speaker 1: Dame can't win big time. I need to go to
Speaker 1: an SEC school where I can win big time. Notre
Speaker 1: Dame proceeding to get to the College Football Playoff, get
Speaker 1: to the semi finals of the College Football Playoff. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: Brian Kelly's cooling his heels in Louisiana, not in the playoff,
Speaker 1: getting his rear end beat by USC of all teams
Speaker 1: to start the year, USC which was highly mediocre. Just
Speaker 1: the shaden freud I experience every time LSU loses, every
Speaker 1: Notre Dame fan all of a sudden, you know, Notre
Speaker 1: Dame fans. We don't really play. Notre Dame doesn't play
Speaker 1: LSU very often, if at all. It's not one in
Speaker 1: Notre Dame's historic rivals. Every Notre Dame fan is checking
Speaker 1: out the scores on LSU pretty much every week and
Speaker 1: just delighting, just luxuriating in every Brian Kelly loss as
Speaker 1: opposed to every Marcus Freeman wins. And then let's talk
Speaker 1: about Marcus Freeman, our new coach. So our new coach,
Speaker 1: Marcus Freeman, super charismatic, underrated, But basically every female Notre
Speaker 1: Dame fan is in love with Marcus Freeman because he's
Speaker 1: a very good looking guy. My wife has basically said, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm going to make comments about how hot I think
Speaker 1: Marcus Freeman in is. It doesn't mean I don't love you.
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, you know, fair enough, that's fine.
Speaker 1: I'll give you that. As long as he keeps winning,
Speaker 1: I'll give you that. Underrated how much the women of
Speaker 1: Notre Dame absolutely love Marcus Freeman. Marcus Freeman also seems
Speaker 1: like an awesome dude. He's got like five little kids
Speaker 1: from teenage to little kids. He and his wife converted
Speaker 1: to Catholicism after he became the Notre Dame head coach,
Speaker 1: which is super cool. He reinstituted the players going to
Speaker 1: mass before games, which apparently Catholic, you know, cradle Catholic.
Speaker 1: Brian Kelly had stopped doing. Gosh, Brian Kelly just seems
Speaker 1: like such a jerk. So, by the way, I I'm
Speaker 1: just so happy. I'm so happy with Notre Dame winning.
Speaker 1: I'm so pumped. I really hope we can beat Penn State.
Speaker 1: I'm terrified of Ohio State. Go Irish, beat the Nittney Lions.
Speaker 1: That'll do it. John dijolready show see you next time
Speaker 1: on Power Talk