WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:04.719 I saw it today. A little story, just a little 2 00:00:04.759 --> 00:00:11.199 story that's symptomatic of the much larger problems that California 3 00:00:11.560 --> 00:00:21.519 is experiencing with basically all over the place. The inability 4 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:26.559 to build, the inability to develop, the inability to have 5 00:00:27.160 --> 00:00:35.799 local investment. And a lot of this is focused around SIQUA, 6 00:00:37.240 --> 00:00:41.119 the California Environmental Quality Act, which I've talked about very 7 00:00:41.159 --> 00:00:46.679 frequently on this show. The seque, I think is a 8 00:00:46.799 --> 00:00:52.119 scourge on the face of the state. I think there 9 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:58.359 are ways to have environmental regulation and emissions standards that 10 00:00:58.840 --> 00:01:04.879 don't require lawsuits, that state regulators can enforce emission standards 11 00:01:05.079 --> 00:01:09.400 without having private parties file lawsuits. Basically that the way 12 00:01:09.480 --> 00:01:14.359 sequel works is it turns normal It turns normal American 13 00:01:14.439 --> 00:01:18.239 rules about who has the ability to file a lawsuit. 14 00:01:18.719 --> 00:01:21.040 It takes those normal rules and turns them on their heads, 15 00:01:21.480 --> 00:01:27.959 on its head. Normally, if you are going to sue someone, 16 00:01:28.280 --> 00:01:30.920 you have to demonstrate that you suffered some kind of damage, 17 00:01:32.120 --> 00:01:35.400 some kind of damages, that you were adversely impacted by 18 00:01:35.400 --> 00:01:41.959 someone else's conduct. You know, if someone crashes their car 19 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:47.680 into my house, I can sue that person. My friend 20 00:01:47.879 --> 00:01:51.040 who's upset that my house got smashed into. He can't 21 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:55.079 sue the guy who crashed the car. If he comes 22 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:58.560 into the courtroom and is filing a lawsuit, the judge 23 00:01:58.599 --> 00:02:02.239 will say, well, who are you, Why are you? Why 24 00:02:02.239 --> 00:02:04.439 are you filing this lawsuit? Oh, I'm really upset for 25 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:08.439 my friend. No, that doesn't work that way. Traditional American 26 00:02:08.520 --> 00:02:12.719 rules governing standing, as it's called legal standing, do you 27 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:16.800 have standing to sue? They're a really important sort of 28 00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:23.159 limit on litigation on who has the ability to file 29 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:27.360 a lawsuit. Okay, I can sue because someone crashed into 30 00:02:27.439 --> 00:02:30.039 my house. I have suffered the economic harm of my 31 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:36.439 house being smashed sikua. The California Environmental Quality Act turns 32 00:02:36.479 --> 00:02:39.840 all that upside down, where basically anyone can file a 33 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:48.199 lawsuit against anybody for alleged environmental harms from new kinds 34 00:02:48.240 --> 00:02:54.479 of business development. Whether that's a real estate developer trying 35 00:02:54.520 --> 00:02:58.479 to set up new housing, whether that's a business that 36 00:02:58.560 --> 00:03:02.520 wants to set up manufacturing within town, whether it's a 37 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:07.000 city that has a development plan for new businesses to 38 00:03:07.039 --> 00:03:10.439 set up, whether it's the State of California trying to 39 00:03:10.520 --> 00:03:15.319 build new state infrastructure water storage. This that even the 40 00:03:15.319 --> 00:03:17.439 State of California trying to build an annex on the 41 00:03:17.439 --> 00:03:22.159 Capitol building. It's all subject to a lawsuit from anybody, 42 00:03:22.280 --> 00:03:25.080 any Tom Dick or Harry who wants to swoop in 43 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:30.759 and stop something for whatever reason. Really purportedly it's going 44 00:03:30.840 --> 00:03:33.680 to be for some environmental impact reason. But SEQUA has 45 00:03:33.719 --> 00:03:37.520 been weaponized by people who have no real interest in 46 00:03:37.560 --> 00:03:42.560 the environment. Siqua's been weaponized by competing real estate developers 47 00:03:42.639 --> 00:03:45.759 to stop a real estate developer from starting a housing project. 48 00:03:46.039 --> 00:03:49.039 It's been used by people who don't want their property 49 00:03:49.080 --> 00:03:52.800 values to go down because of the establishment of a 50 00:03:52.879 --> 00:03:57.759 new you know, real estate the establishment of some new 51 00:03:57.919 --> 00:04:01.240 multi unit dwelling that they think will bring down the 52 00:04:01.319 --> 00:04:05.879 value of their homes, the sort of nimby instinct, not 53 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:11.319 in my backyard yard instinct. So SIQUA has been weaponized 54 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:17.480 in all these different ways. Let's go down to Pixley 55 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:21.800 and a piece that was commented on by Tad Weber 56 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:26.399 writing in the Fresno b where Weber is so happy 57 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:31.319 that basically a new business maybe with some jobs who knows, 58 00:04:31.879 --> 00:04:36.560 is not starting in Pixley. It's a very small town 59 00:04:36.600 --> 00:04:40.839 into Larry County. Here's what he writes, chalk one up 60 00:04:40.839 --> 00:04:43.879 for the little guy. The residents of Pixley into Larry 61 00:04:43.879 --> 00:04:47.079 County are forcing an energy company to decide whether it 62 00:04:47.120 --> 00:04:50.160 wants to do an environmental review for a proposed hydrogen 63 00:04:50.240 --> 00:04:53.639 production plant, A review, I might add, that should have 64 00:04:53.680 --> 00:04:56.920 been done from the start, no question, full stop. Like 65 00:04:57.040 --> 00:05:00.879 many small communities located on Highway ninety nine Sanawaquin Valley, 66 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:04.800 Pixley is home to low income farm workers. According to 67 00:05:04.839 --> 00:05:07.319 a report by the Presno based Leadership Council for Justice 68 00:05:07.319 --> 00:05:10.079 and Accountability, ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding ding ding ding. 69 00:05:15.800 --> 00:05:22.360 Such a such a generic sounding name, The Leadership Council 70 00:05:22.399 --> 00:05:27.839 for Justice and Accountability. I like leadership, I like justice, 71 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:34.000 I like accountability. These are all good things. Who would 72 00:05:34.720 --> 00:05:37.839 who would be opposed to any of those things? Oh 73 00:05:37.920 --> 00:05:42.560 wait a second, what is the Leadership Council for Justice 74 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:47.439 and Accountability. Leadership Council for Justice and Accountability is an 75 00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:55.839 ultra left wing nonprofit organization that is super just a 76 00:05:55.879 --> 00:06:02.560 bunch of super duper environmental wackos. Okay, you go to 77 00:06:02.639 --> 00:06:06.639 their about page. Our team. Every single person who works 78 00:06:06.680 --> 00:06:14.600 there has their pronouns right in their profile. All a 79 00:06:14.600 --> 00:06:17.160 bunch of she hers. Oh there's a she they there. 80 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:21.120 We go, looks like a dude, looks like a lady. 81 00:06:23.120 --> 00:06:26.240 She her, and Ayah for the some of the Latina 82 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:33.079 ladies working there, A couple of guys, couple of staff attorneys. 83 00:06:33.120 --> 00:06:38.680 So this is a left wing outfit that does various 84 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:47.160 kinds of lawsuits locally, taking advantage of things like SIQUA 85 00:06:47.519 --> 00:06:51.319 to stop things that they think are environmentally harmful. Let's 86 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:56.120 pull up their nine to ninety, shall we. So pro 87 00:06:56.199 --> 00:07:01.639 Publica has their nonprofit Explorer feature. Pro Publica is this online. 88 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:04.079 They're usually actually a super liberal outlet, but they have 89 00:07:04.160 --> 00:07:10.399 this interesting thing for readily looking up data about different nonprofits. 90 00:07:11.439 --> 00:07:16.079 So here is the profile for the Leadership Council for 91 00:07:16.199 --> 00:07:22.759 Justice and Accountability, located in Fresno. It tracks their revenue, 92 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:27.319 their expenses, their total assets, their total liability. It just 93 00:07:27.360 --> 00:07:29.759 has all their nine to ninety data from their twenty 94 00:07:29.800 --> 00:07:33.639 twenty three text filings. So this is this little plucky 95 00:07:33.759 --> 00:07:37.759 nonprofit just trying to help out the good people of Pixley, California. 96 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:41.879 This little nonprofit, which is located in Fresno, had revenue 97 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:47.399 in twenty twenty three of six point one seven million dollars. 98 00:07:48.439 --> 00:07:51.959 I'm no expert, Well, actually I am kind of an expert. 99 00:07:52.040 --> 00:07:55.079 I am kind of an expert on Sanwalquing Valley nonprofits, 100 00:07:55.160 --> 00:07:59.040 having run one for several several years, run two actually 101 00:07:59.040 --> 00:08:03.319 on and off several years. You're not getting all that 102 00:08:03.480 --> 00:08:07.600 money just from like little old Ladies in downtown Fresno 103 00:08:08.079 --> 00:08:11.399 and little old Mexican farm worker ladies, giving you twenty 104 00:08:11.399 --> 00:08:18.519 bucks six point one seven million dollars in revenue four 105 00:08:18.519 --> 00:08:21.560 point twelve million dollars in expenses in twenty twenty three. 106 00:08:21.560 --> 00:08:24.120 Their total assets as of twenty twenty three are sixteen 107 00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:27.319 point three million, with only four hundred and thirteen thousand 108 00:08:27.360 --> 00:08:35.279 dollars of liabilities. You can look at their compensation. The 109 00:08:35.279 --> 00:08:41.320 only compensation they're reporting is for their top three. They 110 00:08:41.320 --> 00:08:46.919 have top three key employees whose compensation they report. Veronica Garibov, 111 00:08:48.120 --> 00:08:50.679 the co founder and co executive director, who's getting one 112 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:53.759 hundred and fifty four thousand dollars per year. Phoebe, you know, 113 00:08:53.919 --> 00:08:55.960 pretty nice for nonprofit work if you can get it. 114 00:08:56.159 --> 00:08:59.000 Phoebe Seaton, co founder and co executive director, one hundred 115 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:02.480 forty eight thousand dollars year. And then Kaylin Hammond, the 116 00:09:02.519 --> 00:09:05.639 director of operations, one hundred twenty five thousand dollars per year. 117 00:09:08.799 --> 00:09:14.039 Sandra Celadon is on their board of directors. You may 118 00:09:14.120 --> 00:09:19.960 remember Sandra Seladan. She's executive director of another liberal Presno area, 119 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:24.639 nonfit Fresno, building Healthy Communities. She was the one who 120 00:09:25.039 --> 00:09:27.799 after the George Floyd riots, she posted on Twitter a 121 00:09:27.879 --> 00:09:30.840 video of a Minneapolis police precinct burning to the ground 122 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:36.799 with the delighted, ecstatic little message from her there on 123 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:39.559 Twitter saying burn them all down, burn them all down. 124 00:09:39.879 --> 00:09:43.039 She was then somehow the city of Fresno thought it 125 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:45.200 was a good idea to make her basically the vice 126 00:09:45.320 --> 00:09:49.080 chair of the Presno Police Reform Commission, where she completely 127 00:09:49.159 --> 00:09:54.000 rolled poor Oliver bains to produce a Police Reform Commission 128 00:09:54.080 --> 00:09:58.039 report of recommendations to the Fresno Police Department that was 129 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:03.919 completely obviously written by her, completely rolled Oliver Baines talking 130 00:10:03.960 --> 00:10:06.919 about how all policing in America is rooted in racism, 131 00:10:08.440 --> 00:10:12.240 It's rooted in gangs of Yahoo's trying to round up 132 00:10:12.279 --> 00:10:16.000 freed slaves. Not true, not true, that's not how, that's 133 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:21.639 not what modern American policing is based in. Modern American 134 00:10:21.679 --> 00:10:27.080 policing owes far more to the bobbies. The reforms that 135 00:10:27.159 --> 00:10:32.120 happened to police to policing in London in the eighteen hundreds, 136 00:10:32.519 --> 00:10:36.679 which were imported across the Atlantic to the United States, 137 00:10:36.720 --> 00:10:38.639 starting in kind of the East coast and spread its 138 00:10:38.639 --> 00:10:45.120 way westward. The idea of uniformed, professional, full time sworn officers, 139 00:10:45.919 --> 00:10:51.159 that tradition has really almost nothing to do with, you know, 140 00:10:52.519 --> 00:10:57.039 deputized yahoos rounding up slaves in the South. Couldn't be 141 00:10:57.080 --> 00:11:04.320 more different in fact, anyway. So this lawsuit to try 142 00:11:04.360 --> 00:11:08.120 to defend the poor little guys of Pixley from a 143 00:11:08.200 --> 00:11:11.200 hydrogen production plan. We'll talk about what is the threat there. 144 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:16.960 This is not coming from some little oh just in 145 00:11:17.000 --> 00:11:18.960 the interest of the community. No, this is a super 146 00:11:19.120 --> 00:11:25.000 left wing nonprofit designed to achieve that. That's extremely well 147 00:11:25.039 --> 00:11:33.440 funded with lawyers on staff who are trying to achieve 148 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:40.320 super left wing goals. By the way, this isn't like 149 00:11:40.519 --> 00:11:47.279 the only time Leadership Council for Justice and Accountability has 150 00:11:47.679 --> 00:11:57.240 made headlines. Here's a story from November. Fourth lawsuit puts 151 00:11:57.360 --> 00:12:01.159 multiple city projects in Fresno on hole. City of Fresno 152 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:03.679 has plans to bring more businesses into city limits, but 153 00:12:03.759 --> 00:12:06.600 due to a lawsuit filed against them, projects are put 154 00:12:06.639 --> 00:12:09.279 on hold. By the way, I'm reading again, it's not 155 00:12:10.279 --> 00:12:16.759 it's Veronica Gara Bay who is the executive director for 156 00:12:17.039 --> 00:12:20.120 Building Healthy Communities. I think I said gharabav by the way, 157 00:12:20.159 --> 00:12:22.480 she and Sandraceladon we're both on hand for the swearing 158 00:12:22.519 --> 00:12:26.120 in of new members for the Fresne Unified School Board, 159 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:29.200 which which again continues this tradition that left wing nonprofits 160 00:12:29.200 --> 00:12:35.039 and Fresno have. They gather like carrion fowl. They gather 161 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:41.159 like vultures at any governmental bodies meetings and things like that, 162 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:46.240 to linger there like vultures waiting to feed on the 163 00:12:46.279 --> 00:12:52.120 carcass of some local government. Basically just desperately trying to 164 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:56.600 find some program that they can you know, some service, 165 00:12:56.639 --> 00:12:58.639 some program they could provide for the city as long 166 00:12:58.639 --> 00:13:03.720 as your taxpayer dollars are paying for it. Anyway. Here's 167 00:13:03.720 --> 00:13:08.519 a story from November fourth about Leadership Council for Justice 168 00:13:08.559 --> 00:13:12.320 and Accountability City of Fresno has plans to bring more 169 00:13:12.360 --> 00:13:15.240 businesses into city limits. Due to a lawsuit filed against them, 170 00:13:15.240 --> 00:13:17.919 projects are put on hold leadership. Back in twenty twenty one, 171 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:20.960 Leadership Council for Justice and Accountability in South Fresno community 172 00:13:21.000 --> 00:13:24.840 Alliance filed a writ of mandate against the city. They 173 00:13:24.840 --> 00:13:28.919 claimed the city didn't properly address several environmental subjects dot 174 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:35.600 pad sequa while filling while filing their program environmental impact report. 175 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:41.519 The State Court of Appeals sided with them on August fifth, 176 00:13:41.519 --> 00:13:44.440 twenty twenty four. City of Fresno member Mike Carbosi explained 177 00:13:44.480 --> 00:13:47.320 what this means for projects that need to adjust to 178 00:13:47.360 --> 00:13:49.559 this ruling. So, what's going to happen now, This is 179 00:13:49.639 --> 00:13:52.240 Carbasi talking. What's going to happen now is every single project, 180 00:13:52.279 --> 00:13:55.399 whether it's a city park that we're building that your 181 00:13:55.440 --> 00:13:58.080 tax dollars are paying for, or it's a private development 182 00:13:58.200 --> 00:14:00.000 for a home or an apartment you'd want to live in, 183 00:14:00.440 --> 00:14:03.679 the cost to build is going to go up substantially 184 00:14:03.720 --> 00:14:06.159 now because every single project now has to add on 185 00:14:06.240 --> 00:14:08.679 the cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars for their 186 00:14:08.679 --> 00:14:12.840 own unique environmental impact report. Carbasi said, So, basically, what 187 00:14:12.919 --> 00:14:16.360 had happened the city had put together an environmental impact 188 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:22.679 plant SIQUA. California Environmental Quality Act requires if you're doing 189 00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:25.679 a new construction project, you need to have an environmental 190 00:14:25.720 --> 00:14:30.879 impact report. What some cities have done, including Fresno is. 191 00:14:31.320 --> 00:14:35.279 Fresno did a massive environmental impact report for all of 192 00:14:35.320 --> 00:14:38.039 its zoning and for new developments, so that if a 193 00:14:38.080 --> 00:14:40.480 new business wants to set up in Fresno in a 194 00:14:40.519 --> 00:14:43.600 place that's designated for that zoning purpose, they don't have 195 00:14:43.679 --> 00:14:46.679 to do as much work putting together the environmental impact report. 196 00:14:46.720 --> 00:14:49.960 They can kind of piggyback off of the environmental impact 197 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:55.919 report that the City of Fresno already did. That is good, right, 198 00:14:56.000 --> 00:14:58.559 that's going to help spur new investment. And then in 199 00:14:58.600 --> 00:15:04.440 it because because Leadership Council for Justice and Accountability, they 200 00:15:04.559 --> 00:15:08.840 swooped in and sued the City of Fresno to say, 201 00:15:08.879 --> 00:15:16.960 your environmental impact report is insufficient. So they're just weaponizing 202 00:15:17.120 --> 00:15:22.360 SEQUA to stop basically any new building in the in 203 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:26.039 the San Jaquin Valley. If there's any project in the 204 00:15:26.080 --> 00:15:29.679 San Joaquin Valley that Leadership Council for Justice and Accountability 205 00:15:29.720 --> 00:15:33.799 doesn't like, they can just swoop in and file a 206 00:15:33.879 --> 00:15:36.039 lawsuit or at least even just the threat of a 207 00:15:36.120 --> 00:15:40.399 lawsuit to stop the project cold. So Carbasi saying, hey, 208 00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:44.480 guess what, its stopped all these projects dead in their tracks. Now, 209 00:15:44.559 --> 00:15:47.360 all these people who wanted to invest in Fresno. They 210 00:15:47.399 --> 00:15:50.720 have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on their 211 00:15:50.759 --> 00:15:53.559 own environmental impact report, so everything's going to cost more. 212 00:15:55.879 --> 00:15:59.120 When we return, we'll talk about what kinds of environmental 213 00:15:59.159 --> 00:16:01.600 impacts they think. Think the poor people of Pixley who 214 00:16:01.639 --> 00:16:06.639 don't have jobs, who probably would benefit from some new industry, 215 00:16:06.759 --> 00:16:09.679 some new investment in the town, are going to suffer 216 00:16:09.720 --> 00:16:15.360 from a hydrogen plant. A hydrogen plant, you know, to 217 00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:18.080 have better environmental outcomes. We'll talk about it next. This 218 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:22.000 is the John Gerardi Show on Power Talk. The city 219 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:25.320 of Pixley is not exactly a boom town. It is 220 00:16:25.320 --> 00:16:28.399 not exactly a town with a ton of economic investment. 221 00:16:29.279 --> 00:16:34.200 It's one of the poorest cities in the San Joaquin Valley. 222 00:16:34.840 --> 00:16:38.360 It's got bad air quality, got a huge percentage of 223 00:16:38.360 --> 00:16:44.720 people who only speak Spanish or speak limited English. Seventy 224 00:16:44.759 --> 00:16:49.360 percent of Pixley's residents live below two x of the 225 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:56.240 federal poverty line. This is not a booming town. It's 226 00:16:56.279 --> 00:16:59.240 the only thirty eight hundred people. You know, if any 227 00:16:59.240 --> 00:17:02.399 of you are drying through to Larry County and you 228 00:17:02.480 --> 00:17:04.880 drive past it, you know you're not saying, oh man, 229 00:17:05.039 --> 00:17:07.240 this is a town that's got a lot happen and happening. No, 230 00:17:10.680 --> 00:17:15.680 a energy company, with the great encouragement of Gavin Newsom, 231 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:24.680 wanted to build a hydrogen plant, a hydrogen production plant. 232 00:17:25.119 --> 00:17:31.079 This is something Gavin Newsom is super enthused about. Basically 233 00:17:31.119 --> 00:17:36.440 the idea Newsom thinks hydrogen is the clean burning fuel 234 00:17:36.440 --> 00:17:43.640 of the future. You have hydrogen production. The only byproduct 235 00:17:43.920 --> 00:17:54.480 of producing energy via hydrogen is water. Now, the problem, apparently, 236 00:17:55.319 --> 00:18:00.640 is that liberal nonprofits hate all new development, They hate 237 00:18:00.680 --> 00:18:06.359 all new investment, all new businesses, any new business. And 238 00:18:06.400 --> 00:18:11.160 they've this liberal this one particular liberal nonprofit called the 239 00:18:11.200 --> 00:18:14.200 Leadership Council for Justice and Accountability, which is based in 240 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:16.279 Fresno and basically goes all up and down the San 241 00:18:16.319 --> 00:18:20.519 Joaquin Valley trying to find ways to stop new businesses 242 00:18:20.680 --> 00:18:28.359 from starting, basically using SEQUA as their weapon. SEQUA, of 243 00:18:28.359 --> 00:18:34.799 course the California Environmental Quality Act, which requires an environmental 244 00:18:34.799 --> 00:18:40.559 review for the construction the building of any new real 245 00:18:40.680 --> 00:18:45.480 estate or other venture for whatever the environmental impact would be. 246 00:18:46.960 --> 00:18:49.559 Tad Weber gleefully talking about it in the pages of 247 00:18:49.559 --> 00:18:52.440 the Fresno b How Leadership Council for Justice and Accountability 248 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:55.039 stopped this hydrogen plant for coming in because of the 249 00:18:55.079 --> 00:19:00.839 negative environmental impact. Wait a tick thout. The whole point 250 00:19:00.839 --> 00:19:04.680 of a hydrogen production plant was to not have a 251 00:19:04.720 --> 00:19:10.599 negative environmental impact. That isn't that the whole point. You're 252 00:19:10.599 --> 00:19:13.279 producing energy and the only byproduct is water. That that 253 00:19:13.880 --> 00:19:20.559 isn't Isn't that what we want? Shouldn't we want investment 254 00:19:20.640 --> 00:19:23.039 in green energy like that? That's that's the whole point. 255 00:19:24.200 --> 00:19:30.319 It's gonna benefit. Well, no, because here's the problem. See, 256 00:19:30.359 --> 00:19:33.519 to have a hydrogen production plant, what do you need, Well, 257 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:37.039 you need trucks to bring in the hydrogen, and that's 258 00:19:37.079 --> 00:19:40.359 gonna hurt the environment in Pixley. So we got to 259 00:19:40.400 --> 00:19:50.079 shut it down. And this is the Fresno b applauding this. Yes, 260 00:19:50.359 --> 00:19:55.359 what Pixley really needs is big time green energy companies 261 00:19:55.519 --> 00:19:58.319 out of this big time green energy company out of Phoenix. 262 00:19:58.359 --> 00:20:00.960 It was gonna set up this hydrogen production plant in 263 00:20:01.279 --> 00:20:06.839 Pixley of all places. Gavin Newsom's really hot to trot 264 00:20:06.839 --> 00:20:09.440 for this hydrogen energy stuff. He's trying to find places 265 00:20:09.480 --> 00:20:12.559 to do it. And what do liberals do? They stop 266 00:20:12.599 --> 00:20:19.799 it with sequel. Pixley residents sue the Pixley Residents for 267 00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:24.240 Environmental Justice sued to Larry County last March because an 268 00:20:24.319 --> 00:20:27.839 environmental review had not been done. Pixley Residence for Environmental Justice, 269 00:20:27.880 --> 00:20:31.000 I'm sure an entity that was purely one hundred percent 270 00:20:31.000 --> 00:20:34.920 fabricated and created by Leadership Council for Justice and Accountability, which, 271 00:20:34.960 --> 00:20:36.480 by the way, for those who didn't hear the first segment, 272 00:20:36.559 --> 00:20:39.400 Leadership Council for Justice and Accountability is a super left 273 00:20:39.400 --> 00:20:42.640 wing nonprofit. It got in twenty twenty three six point 274 00:20:42.680 --> 00:20:48.319 five million dollars worth of funding. This is an extremely 275 00:20:48.359 --> 00:20:51.599 well funded outfit. They have like three top executives making 276 00:20:53.000 --> 00:20:56.000 around one hundred well over six well into six figures 277 00:20:56.640 --> 00:20:58.359 one hundred twenty five to one hundred and fifty thousand 278 00:20:58.359 --> 00:21:01.039 dollars a year. They've got lawyer on staff working for 279 00:21:01.079 --> 00:21:05.119 them like this is This is not some rinky dink outfit. 280 00:21:05.319 --> 00:21:09.440 This is clearly being funded by super left wing groups, 281 00:21:09.480 --> 00:21:12.079 super left wing donors who want to achieve super left 282 00:21:12.119 --> 00:21:16.119 wing environmental goals. And they don't want to build. They 283 00:21:16.119 --> 00:21:22.640 don't want any real estate investment, they don't want new manufacturing, 284 00:21:22.680 --> 00:21:25.240 they don't want anything that they think is going to 285 00:21:25.240 --> 00:21:28.160 put any sort of blight on the pristine face of California, 286 00:21:28.160 --> 00:21:33.039 including apparently hydrogen energy production, the whole point of which 287 00:21:33.599 --> 00:21:37.680 is to be a zero emissions green way of producing 288 00:21:37.759 --> 00:21:43.039 energy in Pixley. Why because apparently trucks might have to 289 00:21:43.119 --> 00:21:51.240 drive into Pixley. I don't know if the good people 290 00:21:51.240 --> 00:21:54.440 from the Leadership Council for Justice Accountability have been through Pixley. 291 00:21:54.599 --> 00:22:01.119 I have guys, it's on the ninety nine, all right, 292 00:22:01.240 --> 00:22:05.599 It's a town that exists because it's along the ninety nine. 293 00:22:06.519 --> 00:22:08.440 You know what, the ninety nine sure has a lot 294 00:22:08.480 --> 00:22:15.359 of trucking, just tons and tons and tons of trucks. 295 00:22:16.519 --> 00:22:20.640 Do you really think, however, just because some of the 296 00:22:20.680 --> 00:22:25.319 trucks would now stop in Pixley to offload hydrogen for 297 00:22:25.400 --> 00:22:30.319 this hydrogen plant, that is gonna make a rat's rear 298 00:22:30.480 --> 00:22:37.960 end of difference for Pixley's air quality. I'm sorry the 299 00:22:38.079 --> 00:22:43.359 beggars belief that that's gonna do a damn thing, or 300 00:22:43.400 --> 00:22:46.359 how you could even measure that it would do a 301 00:22:46.440 --> 00:22:51.799 damn thing. It is staggering, like, oh, oh, yes, Pixley 302 00:22:51.799 --> 00:22:55.319 would have. Pixley already has like many towns in the 303 00:22:55.359 --> 00:22:58.480 Sanwaquin Valley, Pixley has pretty bad air quality, the idea 304 00:22:58.519 --> 00:23:01.680 that their air quality would get work because trucks will 305 00:23:01.799 --> 00:23:09.119 drop off hydrogen at this zero emissions producing hydrogen energy 306 00:23:09.160 --> 00:23:15.319 plant to benefit the whole state with zero carbon, zero 307 00:23:15.480 --> 00:23:21.559 emissions energy. And we're gonna have This is the level 308 00:23:21.640 --> 00:23:24.039 of insanity that we have with SEQUA. This is the 309 00:23:24.160 --> 00:23:28.400 level of insanity that we have in California. Gavin News 310 00:23:28.440 --> 00:23:32.000 some things. We're gonna have all electric cars, all green 311 00:23:33.160 --> 00:23:36.559 energy production by twenty three. Forget what his goal is. 312 00:23:36.559 --> 00:23:38.599 I think twenty thirty five was sort of his goal date. 313 00:23:38.880 --> 00:23:42.720 Good luck, buddy, because you can't even build a flipping 314 00:23:42.920 --> 00:23:49.240 hydrogen energy production plant, zero emissions producing only byproduct is 315 00:23:49.400 --> 00:23:55.200 water hydrogen emission high hydrogen energy plant in Pixley, a 316 00:23:55.279 --> 00:23:58.200 town with like three people who live there. It's thirty population, 317 00:23:58.279 --> 00:24:02.519 thirty eight hundred out a left wing nonprofit group suing 318 00:24:02.559 --> 00:24:06.000 to stop it because trucks might come into Pixley. God forbid, 319 00:24:06.599 --> 00:24:10.279 as opposed to the eight guillzillion trucks that drive right 320 00:24:10.400 --> 00:24:14.880 through slash past Pixley on the ninety nine every single day. 321 00:24:15.839 --> 00:24:20.039 And the Fresno b is applauding this. When we return 322 00:24:20.079 --> 00:24:22.200 the culture of left wing nonprofits in Fresno. This is 323 00:24:22.240 --> 00:24:26.000 the John Girardi Show. I want to talk about the 324 00:24:26.000 --> 00:24:32.480 culture of left wing nonprofits in Fresno. I want to 325 00:24:32.519 --> 00:24:36.400 talk about it after this story that just absolutely infuriates 326 00:24:36.440 --> 00:24:40.440 me that the Leadership Council for Justice and Accountability, which 327 00:24:40.519 --> 00:24:45.680 is becoming a major player on the Fresno liberal nonprofit scene, 328 00:24:46.319 --> 00:24:51.599 has successfully cowed this hydrogen energy company that was going 329 00:24:51.640 --> 00:24:54.519 to set up a hydrogen energy production plant in the 330 00:24:54.519 --> 00:24:58.799 town of Pixley, has stopped them under the threat of 331 00:24:59.079 --> 00:25:03.000 a sequa lawsuit, and now they have to do a big, 332 00:25:03.039 --> 00:25:07.160 expensive environmental impact review for a hydrogen plant that is 333 00:25:07.200 --> 00:25:11.240 a zero emissions hydrogen energy plant. That's the whole point 334 00:25:11.559 --> 00:25:15.119 of hydrogen energy. It's why Gavin Newsom is all hot 335 00:25:15.160 --> 00:25:17.880 to trot over ityrogen. The point of hydrogen energy. As 336 00:25:17.920 --> 00:25:20.880 you bring in hydrogen, the only byproduct you have from 337 00:25:20.960 --> 00:25:26.400 it is water. So it would be a zero emissions 338 00:25:26.759 --> 00:25:32.039 power plant, a zero emissions energy production plant. But Leadership 339 00:25:32.039 --> 00:25:38.160 Council for Justice and Accountability, this Fresno based nonprofit, is 340 00:25:38.200 --> 00:25:40.880 suing to stop it. Why all because more trucks will 341 00:25:40.880 --> 00:25:46.680 be coming into Pixley to drop off hydrogen, which ignores 342 00:25:46.759 --> 00:25:49.200 the fact that Pixley is on the ninety nine. I 343 00:25:49.240 --> 00:25:52.480 don't know about eight hundred billion trucks drive through Pixley 344 00:25:52.559 --> 00:25:55.519 every day. You really think a few of those trucks 345 00:25:55.599 --> 00:25:58.599 stopping in Pixley is going to make a rat's rear 346 00:25:58.720 --> 00:26:05.039 end worth a difference. Now, let's talk about this because 347 00:26:05.119 --> 00:26:11.160 the culture of left wing nonprofits in Fresno has been 348 00:26:11.559 --> 00:26:14.200 insane for a long time, and Leadership Council for Justice 349 00:26:14.240 --> 00:26:21.160 Accountability is just taking it to the umpteenth degree. There 350 00:26:21.279 --> 00:26:28.680 is a large number of Fresno based, but likely other 351 00:26:28.759 --> 00:26:38.000 parts of California financed left wing nonprofits. Barrio Sunidos Fresno, 352 00:26:38.079 --> 00:26:42.319 Building Healthy Communities, Leadership Council for Justice and Accountability, a 353 00:26:42.319 --> 00:26:47.799 lot of the programs funded by oh, what's the name 354 00:26:47.799 --> 00:26:52.880 of the Fresno, Fresno Council for Economic Opportunity, President Economic 355 00:26:52.880 --> 00:26:57.359 Opportunity Council, something like that. A number of these left 356 00:26:57.400 --> 00:27:01.839 wing nonprofits, and they all are kind of intermingle with 357 00:27:01.880 --> 00:27:04.119 one another. They all know one another, they all know 358 00:27:04.200 --> 00:27:06.079 each other, they interact with each other. They all have 359 00:27:06.279 --> 00:27:13.240 very similar guiding left wing principles and ideas. And what's 360 00:27:13.240 --> 00:27:20.200 been happening is these left wing nonprofits The way they 361 00:27:20.920 --> 00:27:25.359 function or exist is well, we'll talk about Leadership Council 362 00:27:25.359 --> 00:27:29.000 for Justice and Accountability. Their modus operandi seems to be 363 00:27:29.440 --> 00:27:35.519 they file sequel lawsuits against everybody. But what these other 364 00:27:35.559 --> 00:27:40.559 nonprofits seem to do is they hang around governmental entities 365 00:27:43.079 --> 00:27:47.359 to advance what sounds like some altruistically liberal cause, but 366 00:27:47.440 --> 00:27:54.680 it's always with their handout. I remember Barrios Sunidos was 367 00:27:54.720 --> 00:27:57.839 big on this, you know, in kind of the defund 368 00:27:57.880 --> 00:28:01.039 the police era. The Barrios who need would be hanging 369 00:28:01.119 --> 00:28:05.079 out at the President Unified school board meetings again with 370 00:28:05.119 --> 00:28:08.400 their handout saying, you know, we need to get President 371 00:28:08.559 --> 00:28:13.039 Unified needs to cancel its contract with the Fresne Police 372 00:28:13.039 --> 00:28:18.400 Department for having police on campuses within Presnew Unified school district. 373 00:28:18.839 --> 00:28:23.559 The presence of police officers in black or brown communities, 374 00:28:24.319 --> 00:28:29.079 you know, is a hateful, harmful, traumatizing thing. The very 375 00:28:29.119 --> 00:28:33.480 presence of police is violence. We need to defund the police, 376 00:28:33.759 --> 00:28:36.480 you know, we should instead of having policing, we should 377 00:28:36.519 --> 00:28:42.920 have more conflict resolution specialists that that Fresne Unified could 378 00:28:43.000 --> 00:28:46.759 divert their funding to. And and yes, Fresne Unified should 379 00:28:46.799 --> 00:28:49.680 do more mental health professionals even though President Unified as 380 00:28:49.759 --> 00:28:55.079 mental health professionals you know out the wazoo, But what 381 00:28:55.119 --> 00:28:59.279 you need is more conflict resolution specialists. And uh, you know, 382 00:28:59.480 --> 00:29:04.960 we could provide the conflict resolution specialists for you. President unified, 383 00:29:04.960 --> 00:29:08.880 school district and entity funded by taxpayer dollars, who is 384 00:29:09.200 --> 00:29:12.319 not as cautious about spending other people's money. But just 385 00:29:12.319 --> 00:29:16.039 just give us a contract, give us a nice, big, fat, 386 00:29:16.880 --> 00:29:21.440 unlikely to be reviewed, very scrutinizingly government contract for us 387 00:29:21.519 --> 00:29:24.039 to provide these services where no one will actually measure 388 00:29:24.039 --> 00:29:26.559 the metrics of how successful it was, how useful it was, 389 00:29:27.880 --> 00:29:35.920 and we will provide your conflict resolution specialists. The same 390 00:29:35.960 --> 00:29:39.440 thing happened with the Police Reform Commission. How oh have 391 00:29:39.640 --> 00:29:43.680 Sandra Celadon from Fresno building healthy communities, have what's her 392 00:29:43.720 --> 00:29:47.480 face from Barrios Sunidos, have them on the Police Reform Commission, 393 00:29:47.480 --> 00:29:50.039 have them completely roll Oliver Bains and write all the 394 00:29:50.039 --> 00:29:55.640 recommendations for how the police should conduct themselves and reform 395 00:29:55.720 --> 00:29:57.839 measures that the police should have, and have them more 396 00:29:57.880 --> 00:30:03.359 focus on again again, conflict resolution specialist, conflict resolution specialist, 397 00:30:03.359 --> 00:30:07.079 conflict resolution specialists, and of course the whole idea being 398 00:30:07.480 --> 00:30:13.200 well we could provide conflict resolution specialists. We could provide it. 399 00:30:13.559 --> 00:30:18.960 Go to the Fresno Public Housing Authority with the same proposal. Oh, 400 00:30:19.000 --> 00:30:23.039 get rid of the cops at you know, public sector housing, 401 00:30:24.359 --> 00:30:29.759