WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:04.160 The voice of one crying out in the desert. Stop 2 00:00:04.320 --> 00:00:09.359 voting for school bonds. That's what I hope to be 3 00:00:09.519 --> 00:00:12.519 for this region, the John the Baptist of yelling at 4 00:00:12.560 --> 00:00:20.000 people to stop voting for school bonds. Stop voting for them. 5 00:00:20.640 --> 00:00:25.000 It is mindless, it is stupid. It does not seem 6 00:00:25.120 --> 00:00:33.880 to be based on need. It increases your taxes, and 7 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:37.920 it seems like this is a boondoggle for all kinds 8 00:00:37.960 --> 00:00:44.960 of people. Union, labor, construction, and all this political stuff 9 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:47.799 is all tied into this. It's just a vicious cycle 10 00:00:48.399 --> 00:00:50.200 of just using more and more and more and more 11 00:00:50.200 --> 00:00:53.799 of your taxpayer dollars to fund more and more and 12 00:00:53.840 --> 00:00:56.759 more and more construction that I'm not sure we even 13 00:00:56.840 --> 00:01:02.240 really need within public school and the community college district. 14 00:01:02.280 --> 00:01:10.400 So here's the summary right now in the San Jauquean Valley, 15 00:01:11.519 --> 00:01:17.519 we are looking at in the Fresno area, five count them, 16 00:01:18.159 --> 00:01:22.040 five different local bond measures that will all be on 17 00:01:22.200 --> 00:01:29.760 the ballot this upcoming November. So pretty much everyone in 18 00:01:29.799 --> 00:01:32.560 the Fresno area listening to this, and I actually I'm 19 00:01:32.599 --> 00:01:35.000 betting it's people all up and down the valley listening 20 00:01:35.079 --> 00:01:38.840 to this. You're probably voting on a bond measure for 21 00:01:39.159 --> 00:01:44.000 either your local school district and or your community college district. 22 00:01:47.640 --> 00:01:52.079 Fresno Unified has Measure H A five hundred million dollar 23 00:01:52.599 --> 00:01:57.480 bond measure, Clovis Unified Measure A A four hundred million 24 00:01:57.519 --> 00:02:00.799 dollar bond measure, Central Unified Measure X A one hundred 25 00:02:00.879 --> 00:02:03.680 nine million dollar bond measure, Saying or Unified Measure M 26 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:06.680 one hundred and seventy five million dollar bond measure, State 27 00:02:06.719 --> 00:02:17.319 Center Community College District Measure Q six hundred ninety six million. Now, 28 00:02:19.960 --> 00:02:25.639 let's remind ourselves that we just voted on a round 29 00:02:26.240 --> 00:02:33.039 of bond measures four years ago. We just voted on 30 00:02:33.080 --> 00:02:35.319 around of bond measures four years ago, and now all 31 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:37.960 of a sudden, who we need more? We need more 32 00:02:37.960 --> 00:02:42.960 school bonds, We need more money again. Now, what is 33 00:02:43.159 --> 00:02:48.560 actually motivating this, Well, the actual thing that's motivating this, 34 00:02:48.879 --> 00:02:56.560 as I explained, is that there is a statewide education 35 00:02:56.879 --> 00:03:01.080 bond initiative that we're going to be voting on. I 36 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:06.560 believe it's Proposition two Proposition three, one of the propositions 37 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:07.879 that will be voting on. I will look it up 38 00:03:07.879 --> 00:03:17.400 as I'm talking here. Now, Basically, what's happening is you've 39 00:03:17.439 --> 00:03:24.800 got a statewide ten billion dollar bond measure, ten billion 40 00:03:24.840 --> 00:03:31.240 dollars for schools K through twelve school districts and also 41 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:34.879 for community colleges. So here's a pot of ten billion dollars. 42 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:40.120 Why did this ballot initiative come to be Well, basically, 43 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:44.599 Gavin Newsom has had to make certain kinds of cuts 44 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:49.039 or certain kinds of non increases in funding for education 45 00:03:49.120 --> 00:03:54.199 over the course of the last budgetary cycle. This ticked 46 00:03:54.199 --> 00:04:03.319 off the teachers' unions who wanted more money. Oh, basically 47 00:04:03.400 --> 00:04:08.560 the idea was okay, well, they Knewsome had to negotiate 48 00:04:08.599 --> 00:04:10.599 this deal with the teachers. The teachers were all mad 49 00:04:10.599 --> 00:04:12.560 at him. The teachers union is the most powerful force 50 00:04:12.599 --> 00:04:16.759 in Sacramento. Newsom's tick them off by cutting, by not 51 00:04:16.920 --> 00:04:20.319 increasing funding to the extent that they want. They wrestle 52 00:04:20.439 --> 00:04:23.920 together and they come up with this solution. Okay, Newsom, 53 00:04:24.040 --> 00:04:26.360 you give out this budgetary figure that we can kind 54 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:28.759 of live with. But at the same time, we're going 55 00:04:28.839 --> 00:04:32.000 to go to the voters to vote for a bond initiative, 56 00:04:33.040 --> 00:04:40.360 a ten billion dollar bond initiative, and in addition to 57 00:04:41.879 --> 00:04:48.600 ten billion dollars in statewide bond funding, basically local school 58 00:04:48.600 --> 00:04:51.879 districts can get more with like a match. So if 59 00:04:51.920 --> 00:04:54.639 your local school district passes a bond measure to raise 60 00:04:54.800 --> 00:04:57.560 X amount of dollars, you can get state money to 61 00:04:57.680 --> 00:05:02.759 match it. So that's why all these school districts and 62 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:06.959 the community college districts are having bond measures right now. 63 00:05:07.399 --> 00:05:12.759 It's not actually a response to genuine need. Okay, it's 64 00:05:12.759 --> 00:05:15.519 not like Clovis Unified is sitting around. Oh dear, you know, 65 00:05:15.720 --> 00:05:19.480 the coppers are really running low here. Oh geez, we 66 00:05:19.519 --> 00:05:21.720 have all this need, all these new people moving in. 67 00:05:21.759 --> 00:05:23.800 We don't have the tax revenue yet to pay for 68 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:25.480 all this stuff that we're trying to do. We're trying 69 00:05:25.480 --> 00:05:27.839 to get a new Clovis South High School. We're trying 70 00:05:27.879 --> 00:05:30.959 to get it finished. Oh, we just don't have the money. Okay, 71 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:32.920 we need to go to the taxpayer's hat in hand 72 00:05:32.920 --> 00:05:35.800 and ask them for help for this, just this one exigency. No, 73 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:41.399 that's not what it is. They just know there's money 74 00:05:41.439 --> 00:05:44.000 on the table to be had, and they're not gonna 75 00:05:44.079 --> 00:05:47.319 let it. They're not gonna let it sit there. They're 76 00:05:47.319 --> 00:05:51.560 gonna go after it. There's ten billion dollars in state funding. 77 00:05:51.839 --> 00:05:54.240 They get access to more of it if they pass 78 00:05:54.279 --> 00:05:59.519 a local bond measure, so they can double up their money. 79 00:06:01.040 --> 00:06:07.040 Now it is in the context, however, of a bond. 80 00:06:07.639 --> 00:06:09.399 All of this is in the context of a bond. 81 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:13.160 So the state wide measure is Proposition two ten billion 82 00:06:13.199 --> 00:06:16.439 dollars in bonds to fund construction and modernization of public 83 00:06:16.560 --> 00:06:21.399 education facilities. So we've got ten billion dollars, a ten 84 00:06:21.439 --> 00:06:25.639 billion dollar bond from the state. And then, as I 85 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:30.759 said before, we've got here's again the lineup. Five hundred 86 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:34.079 million dollars bond for Fresne Unified, four hundred million dollars 87 00:06:34.079 --> 00:06:36.519 bond for Close Unified, one oh nine million dollar bond 88 00:06:36.519 --> 00:06:38.560 for Central Unified, one hundred and seventy five million dollar 89 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:41.759 bond for Singer Unified, six hundred and ninety eight million 90 00:06:41.800 --> 00:06:45.360 dollar bond for State Center Community College District, and State 91 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:48.519 Center Community College District. For those who't know, it's think 92 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:51.879 of it like a school district. So it's basically like 93 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:54.600 a school district, only the schools that it runs are 94 00:06:54.759 --> 00:06:57.160 a bunch of the local community colleges in the presdenty 95 00:06:57.160 --> 00:06:59.959 area Readley College, Fresno City College, Closed Community, et cetera. 96 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:09.720 These are bonds and what is a bond. Let us 97 00:07:09.759 --> 00:07:12.800 remember what is a bond. I think sometimes people hear 98 00:07:12.839 --> 00:07:16.120 the word, they don't exactly know what it means, and 99 00:07:16.160 --> 00:07:19.560 they just kind of keep talking or reading and don't 100 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:24.839 really acknowledge exactly what a bond is. A bond is 101 00:07:24.959 --> 00:07:28.639 a loan. It is a loan made out to a 102 00:07:28.720 --> 00:07:37.279 governmental entity like a school district, and like any loan, 103 00:07:37.959 --> 00:07:41.439 it needs to be paid back over a certain term 104 00:07:41.480 --> 00:07:48.519 of years with interest. Most educational bonds are thirty year loans. 105 00:07:51.079 --> 00:07:53.360 For those of you who've been thinking about maybe buying 106 00:07:53.399 --> 00:07:55.959 a house or something like that over the last year 107 00:07:56.079 --> 00:07:59.079 or so, you might be aware of the fact that 108 00:07:59.240 --> 00:08:05.800 interest rates really high right now. So that's also going 109 00:08:05.839 --> 00:08:09.639 to impact the nature of these bonds. We might be 110 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:17.160 paying back in taxes almost double the amount the sticker 111 00:08:17.199 --> 00:08:22.319 price on these bond measures. So when we're talking about 112 00:08:22.759 --> 00:08:28.920 voting on Proposition too a quote ten billion dollar bond 113 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:35.480 measure statewide for construction, for construction for schools and for 114 00:08:35.559 --> 00:08:39.080 community college for K through twelve school districts and community colleges. 115 00:08:39.720 --> 00:08:42.600 When we say ten billion dollars, what we actually mean 116 00:08:42.840 --> 00:08:45.320 is this is going to cost the taxpayers maybe almost 117 00:08:45.320 --> 00:08:51.000 twenty billion dollars, because it's not just the principle you 118 00:08:51.039 --> 00:08:53.320 have to repay, it's the interest over the course of 119 00:08:53.360 --> 00:08:58.279 thirty years. President Unified's Measure H is not a five 120 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:01.519 hundred million dollars bond, and as the price on the 121 00:09:01.559 --> 00:09:06.480 sticker says, it's really almost a billion dollar bond. Close 122 00:09:06.639 --> 00:09:09.279 Unified's Measure A is not a four hundred million dollar bond, 123 00:09:09.279 --> 00:09:12.320 It's almost an eight hundred million dollar bond. Central Unified's 124 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:15.000 Measure X is not one hundred and nine million, it's 125 00:09:15.200 --> 00:09:17.919 about two hundred million. Saying you're unified, it's not one 126 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:21.440 hundred and seventy five million, it's almost three hundred and 127 00:09:21.440 --> 00:09:25.639 fifty million. State Center Community College District. It's not a 128 00:09:25.679 --> 00:09:28.960 six hundred and ninety eight million dollar bond. It's over 129 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:40.600 a billion dollars in property taxes. That's the thing. We 130 00:09:40.720 --> 00:09:48.559 have to realize that the near inherent immorality almost I mean, 131 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:57.200 I genuinely feel there's something almost immoral about this. That 132 00:09:58.200 --> 00:10:05.399 it's not even the tax directly benefiting from this loan. 133 00:10:08.639 --> 00:10:14.440 The money goes to the school district. They get to 134 00:10:14.559 --> 00:10:19.200 build stuff, hire people, do all this great stuff, employ 135 00:10:19.279 --> 00:10:25.000 more people. I'll note that various public sectors, various of 136 00:10:25.039 --> 00:10:31.360 the unions that represent employees within some of these school districts. 137 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:34.440 For example, the Teachers' union within President Unified As expressed 138 00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:40.720 their support for measure H. Of course, you know they 139 00:10:40.799 --> 00:10:44.840 might get to benefit from all this, but it's chiefly 140 00:10:44.879 --> 00:10:49.200 the district itself that gets to benefit from it. But 141 00:10:49.279 --> 00:10:52.320 it's the taxpayers who pay it back. And what you're 142 00:10:52.320 --> 00:10:58.159 effectively saying to the taxpayers is this, Hey, taxpayer, pay 143 00:10:58.240 --> 00:11:02.000 us almost a billion dollars in property taxes over the 144 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:04.600 next thirty years so that we can get about five 145 00:11:04.679 --> 00:11:10.360 hundred million dollars worth of benefit. That is a bad 146 00:11:10.600 --> 00:11:19.399 bang for your buck. It just is. Now. The problem 147 00:11:19.480 --> 00:11:25.279 is that people love voting for school bonds. Now, when 148 00:11:25.279 --> 00:11:29.679 we return, I want to talk about this sentimentality, this 149 00:11:29.879 --> 00:11:33.279 sentimental love that people have for voting for school bonds. 150 00:11:33.960 --> 00:11:40.519 And I just want to break through this mindset that 151 00:11:40.559 --> 00:11:46.120 you're some kind of community oriented, good governmance person. When 152 00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:49.240 I and again it would be one thing if this 153 00:11:49.399 --> 00:11:51.559 was in response to need. I think it is not 154 00:11:51.720 --> 00:11:53.600 in response to need. That is next on the John 155 00:11:53.639 --> 00:12:01.080 Girardi Show. People love voting for school bond measures. The 156 00:12:01.080 --> 00:12:05.360 piece in gv wire has sort of the rundown of 157 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:10.120 all of the local school bond measures that voters in 158 00:12:10.519 --> 00:12:13.240 the Fresno area are going to be paying for or 159 00:12:13.320 --> 00:12:16.840 voting on, rather voting on and then likely paying for. 160 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:23.039 So you've got Fresne Unified with its Measure H five 161 00:12:23.159 --> 00:12:25.879 hundred million dollars, Clovis Unified with its Measure A four 162 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:28.399 hundred million dollar bond, Central Unified with Measure X one 163 00:12:28.440 --> 00:12:30.720 hundred nine million dollar bond, Saying Unified with Measure M 164 00:12:30.759 --> 00:12:33.120 one hundred and seventy five million dollar bond, State Center 165 00:12:33.159 --> 00:12:36.799 Community College District Measure Q six hundred and ninety eight 166 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:41.519 million dollars. Again, that's just the sticker price, that's the 167 00:12:41.519 --> 00:12:44.200 money the school district gets. But again, a bond is 168 00:12:44.240 --> 00:12:46.919 a loan. It's a loan that you have to repay 169 00:12:46.960 --> 00:12:51.399 with interests. So Measure H Presne Unified taxpayers are probably 170 00:12:51.480 --> 00:12:55.559 going to have to pay back in taxes somewhere approaching 171 00:12:55.639 --> 00:12:58.440 a billion dollars. Clovis Unified will have to pay back, 172 00:12:58.519 --> 00:13:02.120 not the four hundred million dollars still price on Measure A, 173 00:13:02.159 --> 00:13:06.600 but something approaching eight hundred million dollars, et cetera. Et cetera, 174 00:13:06.600 --> 00:13:13.279 et cetera. In spite of all this, in spite of 175 00:13:13.320 --> 00:13:16.879 the fact that the school districts seem to it's it's 176 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:21.279 it's just every four years now almost We're just doing 177 00:13:21.320 --> 00:13:27.519 another huge nine figure dollar bond for Clovis Unified, for 178 00:13:27.559 --> 00:13:32.279 President Unified, and taxpayers just keep saying yes. They just 179 00:13:32.360 --> 00:13:36.320 keep saying yes, in spite of the relatively high electoral 180 00:13:36.440 --> 00:13:39.120 hurdle that local bond measures like these need to reach. 181 00:13:39.960 --> 00:13:44.440 You need a fifty five percent majority to approve a 182 00:13:44.519 --> 00:13:49.000 local bond measure like these. It's a weird thing with 183 00:13:49.080 --> 00:13:53.960 California elections and California laws it governs bond measures for 184 00:13:54.080 --> 00:13:59.600 local municipal entities. It's not it doesn't require a simple, 185 00:14:00.279 --> 00:14:03.639 you know, fifty percent plus one majority. It needs actually 186 00:14:04.240 --> 00:14:06.320 a bit of a super majority. You need actually fifty 187 00:14:06.360 --> 00:14:09.720 five percent of voters to approve the passage of a 188 00:14:09.759 --> 00:14:12.360 bond measure in order for it to come into effect. 189 00:14:14.240 --> 00:14:20.840 And yet local voters love doing it. So the piece 190 00:14:20.840 --> 00:14:25.399 in GV wire interviews fres note this guy, he's a 191 00:14:25.440 --> 00:14:31.519 political campaign manager locally named Jason Carnes. He sees all 192 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:36.519 of these local bond measures passing. Again, this November quote, 193 00:14:36.720 --> 00:14:38.480 you can almost put it on the ballot and do 194 00:14:38.559 --> 00:14:41.080 some very basic communication and the bond is likely to 195 00:14:41.080 --> 00:14:44.000 get fifty five percent unless there's some politics going on 196 00:14:44.039 --> 00:14:48.039 separately that for some reason has upset people. Carnes said, 197 00:14:49.039 --> 00:14:52.200 even in March of twenty twenty. March of twenty twenty, 198 00:14:52.240 --> 00:14:54.559 which was this weird election where the bond measures for 199 00:14:54.600 --> 00:14:58.799 Clovis Unified and Central Unifide both failed, the districts put 200 00:14:58.799 --> 00:15:00.879 them on the ballot again in nov Member of twenty twenty, 201 00:15:00.919 --> 00:15:06.200 and both of them passed. So maybe the school districts no, like, Okay, well, 202 00:15:06.279 --> 00:15:09.320 let's let's not put them on a primary ballot ballot. 203 00:15:10.120 --> 00:15:13.879 Let you know, let's focus on November. I guess it's 204 00:15:13.879 --> 00:15:17.159 trying to line up with proposition too. Now, what I 205 00:15:17.240 --> 00:15:22.279 want to break through here is this kind of good government, 206 00:15:23.559 --> 00:15:29.120 good citizen bs that I think infects people into thinking 207 00:15:29.240 --> 00:15:32.799 that voting for these bond measures again and again and 208 00:15:32.840 --> 00:15:36.320 again and again and again is some kind of almost 209 00:15:36.440 --> 00:15:43.120 good citizenship deal. I've seen this my whole life, growing 210 00:15:43.200 --> 00:15:47.080 up in Clovis and seeing this with Clovis Unified, How 211 00:15:47.759 --> 00:15:51.440 you know, whatever is this the current iteration of the 212 00:15:51.480 --> 00:15:53.519 Clovis Unified Bond measure. And by the way, my wife 213 00:15:53.559 --> 00:15:56.919 and I looked at our property taxes, we're still paying 214 00:15:57.440 --> 00:16:00.919 for a Clovis Unified bond measure that passed in two thousand. 215 00:16:01.519 --> 00:16:07.120 There's like there's like a backlog of four different Clovis 216 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:11.559 Unified bond measures that we as people who live in 217 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:17.399 Close Unified that we are still paying for. So this 218 00:16:17.519 --> 00:16:23.639 is just adding a fifth one. And my whole life 219 00:16:23.679 --> 00:16:26.360 growing up in Clovis, I saw this that that people 220 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:30.039 in Clovis have this sort of you know, this picturesque 221 00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:37.279 attitude of Clovis Unified, this idea promoted by builders and 222 00:16:39.279 --> 00:16:43.200 you know real estate builders that oh it's the highly 223 00:16:43.240 --> 00:16:47.000 acclaimed Clovis Unified School District, the highly acclaimed Clovis Unified 224 00:16:47.039 --> 00:16:50.080 School District, highly acclaimed Close Unified School District, which was 225 00:16:50.120 --> 00:16:52.559 in all the ads that I heard on the radio 226 00:16:52.679 --> 00:16:55.279 growing up for you know, buy a home in this 227 00:16:55.399 --> 00:16:58.559 new development, buy a home in this new development. It's 228 00:16:58.639 --> 00:17:03.840 located within the highly claimed Clothes Unified School District. Highly acclaimed, 229 00:17:05.720 --> 00:17:08.400 which is like well, highly acclaimed by whom by you, 230 00:17:08.880 --> 00:17:11.359 by the builders who want to sell expensive houses within 231 00:17:11.400 --> 00:17:13.839 Close Unify. I mean, who care? What do you mean? 232 00:17:13.880 --> 00:17:15.359 And highly acclaimed what do you mean? The best of 233 00:17:15.440 --> 00:17:23.440 two school districts in the Fresno area and Clothes Unified. 234 00:17:23.440 --> 00:17:28.880 People believe often in this mythos around Clovis Unified. 235 00:17:28.920 --> 00:17:32.000 Ah, that Close Unified is unique. Close Unified is great. 236 00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:36.640 Cloves Unified doesn't have unionized teachers, it has better teachers. Oh, 237 00:17:36.759 --> 00:17:40.480 the ghost of Doc Buchanan hovers over Close Unified to 238 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:43.960 protect it from all evil, and so voting for a 239 00:17:43.960 --> 00:17:46.519 bond measure for Clothes Unified, that thus becomes You're. 240 00:17:46.440 --> 00:17:48.960 Part of the spirit of Clovis. This is who we 241 00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:54.440 are as a community. And meanwhile, every both this time 242 00:17:54.599 --> 00:18:00.319 and four years ago when Close Unified passed another simily 243 00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:05.519 enormous bond measure, the rationale for what are you gonna 244 00:18:05.640 --> 00:18:10.960 use the money for seems dumb. It doesn't make sense. 245 00:18:11.400 --> 00:18:13.960 It's stuff like oh we will like both four years 246 00:18:13.960 --> 00:18:17.039 ago and right now. And I think both of the 247 00:18:17.039 --> 00:18:22.240 measures were called Measure A if I'm not mistaken, both 248 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:24.400 the twenty twenty Measure A and the current Measure A. 249 00:18:24.720 --> 00:18:26.920 Both of them said that the reason for getting these 250 00:18:26.920 --> 00:18:32.079 four hundred million dollar bonds was to help pay for oh, 251 00:18:32.200 --> 00:18:35.920 well for paying for dilapidating classrooms, updating things, bringing things 252 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:40.480 up to code. Basic repairs and maintenance, Basic repairs and maintenance. 253 00:18:40.759 --> 00:18:43.440 Why do you need a special four hundred million dollar 254 00:18:43.559 --> 00:18:47.000 bond for basic repairs and maintenance? Shouldn't that just be 255 00:18:47.119 --> 00:18:55.359 part of your normal budgetary a normal budgetary item, ongoing 256 00:18:55.400 --> 00:18:59.880 repairs and maintenance. Why do we need a special bond 257 00:18:59.880 --> 00:19:04.119 measure to pay for it? Now? The thing that they're 258 00:19:04.119 --> 00:19:06.440 trying to pitch from Clovis Unified is, oh, well, Clovis 259 00:19:06.519 --> 00:19:09.960 South High School is still unfinished. We need this money 260 00:19:10.000 --> 00:19:14.640 to help pay for it. So one of two things. 261 00:19:15.160 --> 00:19:19.720 Either you started Clovis South High School without any game 262 00:19:19.759 --> 00:19:21.440 plan for how you were going to finish it, because 263 00:19:21.480 --> 00:19:25.119 nobody knew this bond measure was gonna happen a year ago, 264 00:19:26.400 --> 00:19:29.000 and obviously it took you more than a It was 265 00:19:29.079 --> 00:19:31.640 more than just last year that you thought of building 266 00:19:31.640 --> 00:19:36.720 Clovis South High School. So either you started a high 267 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:38.799 school with no earthly idea how you were going to 268 00:19:38.839 --> 00:19:46.359 pay for it, or you actually don't really need this 269 00:19:46.440 --> 00:19:50.359 money to finish it. Again, you just got a four 270 00:19:50.480 --> 00:19:54.319 hundred million dollar bond measure passed four years ago. Why 271 00:19:54.319 --> 00:19:58.359 do you need another one four years later? I mean 272 00:19:58.599 --> 00:20:01.960 in prior years, Clovis unif goes about eight years or 273 00:20:02.119 --> 00:20:08.400 ten years in between bond measures. Four years and already 274 00:20:08.400 --> 00:20:11.680 you need another one. Why again? The reason why they're 275 00:20:11.720 --> 00:20:14.160 doing this bond measure and what a quinki dink that 276 00:20:14.200 --> 00:20:16.240 Clovis Unified is doing it the exact same election is 277 00:20:16.240 --> 00:20:18.240 Presdney Unified and saying are unified and essential unified in 278 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:20.240 the states. In our community college district. It has nothing 279 00:20:20.279 --> 00:20:25.640 to do with existing need. It's not like they're so 280 00:20:25.839 --> 00:20:29.119 desperately hurting that, oh, we need this infusion of cash. 281 00:20:29.160 --> 00:20:32.119 Whatever will we do. No, they're doing it because there's 282 00:20:32.160 --> 00:20:37.480 a statewide bond measure on the table. There's a statewide 283 00:20:37.519 --> 00:20:40.599 bond measure for ten billion dollars, and your school district 284 00:20:40.640 --> 00:20:44.359 can get more of that pie if you raise your 285 00:20:44.400 --> 00:20:47.119 own local bond measures, you can get a match from 286 00:20:47.160 --> 00:20:51.039 the state. So this isn't President Unified trying to get 287 00:20:51.039 --> 00:20:53.119 five and a million dollars. It's Fresney Unified trying to 288 00:20:53.119 --> 00:20:59.799 get a billion dollars. But again, it remains a raw 289 00:21:00.079 --> 00:21:05.000 deal for the taxpayers. Presde Unified wants a billion dollars 290 00:21:05.359 --> 00:21:10.799 but the taxpayers have to basically pay double that over 291 00:21:10.839 --> 00:21:19.279 the course of time. Over the course of time, the 292 00:21:19.480 --> 00:21:23.599 interest we have to pay via our taxes to pay 293 00:21:23.640 --> 00:21:26.039 back this loan, which is what a bond is. It's 294 00:21:26.039 --> 00:21:29.000 a loan to a municipal entity. The taxpayers pay back 295 00:21:29.039 --> 00:21:31.079 the loan. They have to pay back the principal of 296 00:21:31.119 --> 00:21:34.279 the loan, the five hundred million dollars sticker price for 297 00:21:34.359 --> 00:21:36.680 measure H for President unified, the four hundred million dollars 298 00:21:36.680 --> 00:21:40.319 sticker price for measure A for clothes unified, plus interest, 299 00:21:40.559 --> 00:21:47.039 and the interest is going to be almost double. So 300 00:21:47.200 --> 00:21:51.759 what I am telling you all is just stop this cycle. 301 00:21:52.200 --> 00:21:57.559 Just stop this maddening cycle of every time these school 302 00:21:57.680 --> 00:22:00.920 districts just want more and more and more money, more 303 00:22:01.000 --> 00:22:06.720 money that is taken from you in this incredibly inefficient 304 00:22:06.799 --> 00:22:12.599 way because they just figure you don't look very hard 305 00:22:12.640 --> 00:22:17.279 at your property tax statement and you just consider it 306 00:22:17.319 --> 00:22:19.519 money out the door and you don't really notice it. 307 00:22:21.480 --> 00:22:25.759 If they actually just raised a normal tax for a 308 00:22:25.920 --> 00:22:28.720 normal tax on everyone, just to pay for four hundred 309 00:22:28.720 --> 00:22:31.200 million dollars straight up without it being alone, without it 310 00:22:31.240 --> 00:22:32.759 being alone, that we have to pay double on with 311 00:22:32.799 --> 00:22:34.839 interest over the course of time, I would actually respect 312 00:22:34.839 --> 00:22:42.240 it a lot more. It's just a BS system and 313 00:22:42.319 --> 00:22:45.559 I hate it. I just think it's almost immoral to 314 00:22:45.720 --> 00:22:51.359 make taxpayers spend you know, X amount for half of 315 00:22:51.640 --> 00:22:58.359 x of the impact when we return the forced unreality 316 00:22:59.240 --> 00:23:02.880 of the Harris twenty twenty four campaign. Next on the 317 00:23:02.960 --> 00:23:07.599 John Girardi Show, I want to talk about the sort 318 00:23:07.640 --> 00:23:14.480 of bizarre unreality of so many people on the left. 319 00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:22.799 And I'm trying not to have this be too cliched, 320 00:23:24.599 --> 00:23:30.720 because Kamala Harris is not good. Okay, you don't need 321 00:23:30.759 --> 00:23:33.079 to look very far on your radio dial to find 322 00:23:33.160 --> 00:23:37.279 someone willing to say that Democrats are hypocrites, no kidding. 323 00:23:40.200 --> 00:23:51.319 I guess my surprise or my despair is the kind 324 00:23:51.359 --> 00:23:59.880 of unreality that thought leaders on the left have seemingly 325 00:24:00.119 --> 00:24:07.480 just completely embraced uncritically, and that it's working. It's working 326 00:24:07.640 --> 00:24:12.359 to such an extent that it looks like Kamala Harris 327 00:24:12.359 --> 00:24:14.000 and Donald Trump are going to be in a neck 328 00:24:14.160 --> 00:24:17.319 to neck, you know, absolute blood bath fight to the 329 00:24:17.359 --> 00:24:22.559 bitter finish for the presidency, as opposed to what I 330 00:24:22.640 --> 00:24:24.200 kind of think it should be. I kind of think 331 00:24:24.200 --> 00:24:29.319 it should be. Kamala Harris just losing based on a 332 00:24:29.359 --> 00:24:36.000 disastrous record. Now Trump brings his own weight of baggage 333 00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:40.839 that I have to acknowledge. And I think it's fairly 334 00:24:40.960 --> 00:24:46.799 evident that Trump seems to have a ceiling within the electorate. 335 00:24:47.160 --> 00:24:49.880 I think it's hard for Trump to get over a majority. 336 00:24:49.920 --> 00:24:53.039 I think he's sort of hardened opinion about himself. He's 337 00:24:53.039 --> 00:24:55.519 a known quantity at this point. The guy's been around 338 00:24:55.519 --> 00:24:59.319 for nine years at this point as a campaigner for 339 00:24:59.480 --> 00:25:04.440 president slash president slash not president. He's a known quantity. 340 00:25:04.640 --> 00:25:06.680 And I don't think he's getting over sort of a 341 00:25:06.920 --> 00:25:11.839 forty eight percent threshold. So that's you know, that just 342 00:25:11.960 --> 00:25:14.960 is what it is. Harris is the relatively new face 343 00:25:15.039 --> 00:25:17.680 on the block in spite of the fact that she's 344 00:25:17.720 --> 00:25:23.640 been vice president for four years. Well, here's an example 345 00:25:23.680 --> 00:25:26.759 of this of what I'm trying to say, the skepticism 346 00:25:26.839 --> 00:25:30.000 that I have that just the unreality that even thought 347 00:25:30.079 --> 00:25:34.960 leaders on the left are suggesting. Now. In March of 348 00:25:35.000 --> 00:25:40.319 this year, Kathleen Parker, who's a Washington Post columnist has 349 00:25:40.359 --> 00:25:49.440 won a Pulitzer actually called just in March five months ago, 350 00:25:50.839 --> 00:25:58.319 called for Vice President Harris to resign. To resign in 351 00:25:58.480 --> 00:26:03.759 March Here's what she had to say. Harris was known 352 00:26:03.799 --> 00:26:08.160 then to quote, this is Kathleen Parker, a Washington Post columnist. 353 00:26:08.359 --> 00:26:12.640 She was known to quote embarrass her boss Biden with 354 00:26:12.720 --> 00:26:17.079 her sometimes inane rambling remarks and a laugh that erupts 355 00:26:17.119 --> 00:26:21.440 from nowhere about nothing obvious to others. Harris was, according 356 00:26:21.440 --> 00:26:27.240 to Parker quote, a colossal failure, as borders are again. 357 00:26:27.279 --> 00:26:28.839 That was in March, when it was okay to call 358 00:26:28.880 --> 00:26:33.400 her the borders are Parker thought she would be Biden 359 00:26:33.480 --> 00:26:37.640 could be Biden's downfall in twenty twenty four. At that time, 360 00:26:37.960 --> 00:26:40.920 Harris had an approval rating of thirty seven point two percent, 361 00:26:41.680 --> 00:26:45.400 basement level low. There was, according to Parker quote, no 362 00:26:45.519 --> 00:26:48.839 reason to think her ranking would spike were she suddenly promoted. 363 00:26:49.480 --> 00:26:51.960 All right. Michael Brendan Doherty from National Reviews, writing about this, 364 00:26:52.039 --> 00:26:55.279 Here's what he has to say. Harris is now rebranded 365 00:26:56.240 --> 00:26:59.440 as the face of a pleasant near term future in 366 00:26:59.480 --> 00:27:02.400 which all political turmoil of the past decade is simply 367 00:27:02.440 --> 00:27:08.200 transcended by an assertion of an unexpected, joyful emotion. She 368 00:27:08.440 --> 00:27:14.440 has nothing to do with the past administration, I either 369 00:27:14.519 --> 00:27:17.920 the current administration, except to have been so proud of 370 00:27:17.960 --> 00:27:23.279 its leader's gallantly selfless decision to exercise super superogatory nobility 371 00:27:23.599 --> 00:27:27.200 and enthusiastically walk away from political power, thereby granting us 372 00:27:27.240 --> 00:27:31.480 and her this chance at joy. No longer tied to 373 00:27:31.519 --> 00:27:35.480 Biden politically, she is running as the challenger and making 374 00:27:35.519 --> 00:27:38.720 the dour, aberrant mood of American politics over the last decade, 375 00:27:38.759 --> 00:27:44.200 now solely represented by Trump, into the incumbent against which 376 00:27:44.279 --> 00:27:49.240 she is running. Instead of being the bumbling, screw up 377 00:27:49.279 --> 00:27:52.799 and colossal failure of five months ago, she is now 378 00:27:52.799 --> 00:27:56.519 the front runner. The question is do you buy it? 379 00:27:58.400 --> 00:28:01.920 The polls show that Democrats are buying it. The week's 380 00:28:01.960 --> 00:28:05.119 long democratic agony after Biden's debate performance and the relief 381 00:28:05.119 --> 00:28:07.640 when he retired himself from the race, has provided Democrats 382 00:28:07.680 --> 00:28:10.920 with an occasion to declare themselves euphoric, and if you 383 00:28:10.960 --> 00:28:13.119 turned into their convention in Chicago this week, you heard 384 00:28:13.160 --> 00:28:15.960 them announce their quote joy over and over and over again. 385 00:28:16.640 --> 00:28:20.920 Democrats have decided that any present political dissatisfaction over inflation 386 00:28:21.359 --> 00:28:24.599 or the chaos at the border can be safely deposited 387 00:28:24.880 --> 00:28:27.839 onto the same ice flow as the current president of 388 00:28:27.839 --> 00:28:32.200 the United States. Letting Biden go adrift on an ice flow. 389 00:28:34.519 --> 00:28:36.640 And I guess this is the stuff that I don't 390 00:28:36.680 --> 00:28:48.440 get is you have allegedly serious people who do buy it, 391 00:28:48.960 --> 00:28:56.480 who do buy it, the elite level people on the 392 00:28:56.480 --> 00:29:03.039 Democrats side, who are buying this notion that Kamala Harris 393 00:29:03.079 --> 00:29:06.640 is almost somehow a representative of change, and the voters 394 00:29:06.640 --> 00:29:09.039 seem to be buying it. She's doing way better than Joe. 395 00:29:10.599 --> 00:29:13.160 She's doing way better than Joe Biden was doing. I mean, 396 00:29:13.240 --> 00:29:19.839 Joe Biden was clearly facing a catastrophe and Democrat voters 397 00:29:20.079 --> 00:29:25.680 are looking at her with utter confidence, when like a 398 00:29:25.720 --> 00:29:31.599 month ago, it was a genuinely live issue. Is Kamala 399 00:29:31.680 --> 00:29:37.000 Harris actually worse than senile Joe Biden? Like that was 400 00:29:37.039 --> 00:29:45.119 a genuine conversation people were having five weeks ago. And 401 00:29:45.160 --> 00:29:51.119