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Speaker 1:
[00:00] And very happy Tuesday to you at 1206 in the West. It's The John Phillips Show. Mr. Randy Wang's in Culver City.
Speaker 2:
[00:07] Well, John, it sure looks like the machine has found their candidate in the California Governor's Race as the not ready for prime time speaker of the assembly, Robert Revis, announced today that he's endorsing Javier Baccaria.
Speaker 3:
[00:22] The Secretary of Health and Education's ever I nominated Javier Baccaria.
Speaker 1:
[00:29] And it looks like he's not the only ones because the Bach is getting a bump.
Speaker 2:
[00:34] Let's see what Revis had to say in a video he shot with Baccaria, who Baccaria's new look is, Hey, I ditched the glasses for contacts.
Speaker 4:
[00:46] California is under threat.
Speaker 2:
[00:48] Oh boy. The violins are starting early.
Speaker 4:
[00:52] Every day, the Trump administration is coming after our health care.
Speaker 2:
[00:56] Yep. This is totally about local issues.
Speaker 1:
[01:01] And they never miss an opportunity, do they?
Speaker 4:
[01:04] Our families, our values. There's no time to learn on the job. We need a governor who's going to be ready to fight back on day one. That's why I'm proud to endorse Javier Becerra for governor.
Speaker 2:
[01:17] Oh, we're going to swell into drums. The people who produce these videos are the biggest hacks in the industry.
Speaker 1:
[01:27] And they charge them a fortune to do it.
Speaker 4:
[01:29] As US health secretary, he expanded health care coverage. As California's attorney general, he sued the Trump administration 122 times.
Speaker 1:
[01:40] It is all about Donald Trump.
Speaker 2:
[01:42] Yep.
Speaker 4:
[01:43] He defended Obamacare. He defended our dreamers. He defended working people. And he won.
Speaker 2:
[01:49] Did he prosecute anybody?
Speaker 1:
[01:52] Yeah, how's crime doing in California?
Speaker 4:
[01:55] And he won. 30 years of leadership, millions of Californians protected and defended. We have a strong...
Speaker 2:
[02:03] What did he accomplish in his 20 years in Congress? Oh, nobody knows.
Speaker 1:
[02:07] Why did Nancy Pelosi hate him?
Speaker 4:
[02:09] We have a strong Democratic field for governor. But right now, we need to...
Speaker 2:
[02:14] Fact check. Define strong.
Speaker 1:
[02:20] There are pieces in just about every national publication about what a train wreck this field is.
Speaker 2:
[02:27] I mean, I don't know how you can say this.
Speaker 4:
[02:29] We have a strong Democratic field.
Speaker 2:
[02:31] When up until a week and a half ago, the front runner is an accused rapist.
Speaker 4:
[02:38] We have a strong Democratic field for governor. But right now, we need someone ready on day one. Javier Becerra is that leader.
Speaker 5:
[02:47] Mr. Speaker, thank you.
Speaker 2:
[02:48] Oh, he's in the spot too.
Speaker 1:
[02:52] Oh, yes. Well, if he's going to be given all this love, he might as well be there to accept it.
Speaker 2:
[02:58] But this is Becerra 2.0, because he doesn't have glasses on.
Speaker 5:
[03:01] Mr. Speaker, thank you. Like so many Californians, you and I come from immigrant families. We have lived.
Speaker 2:
[03:08] Has there been one even iota of California issues in this ad?
Speaker 1:
[03:15] Go back to that original interview that he did with Alex Michelson, where he was woefully unprepared to talk about any California subjects. This guy doesn't know the basics.
Speaker 5:
[03:27] Scrub it.
Speaker 2:
[03:29] It doesn't matter, though. It doesn't matter that he doesn't know anything or he doesn't really have a track record or that he, you know, that Nancy Pelosi thinks he's a joke. He'll play nice. And Katie Porter and Tom Steyer won't. So they need somebody to play nice.
Speaker 1:
[03:45] That is true.
Speaker 5:
[03:46] We have lived the California dream.
Speaker 2:
[03:49] It's not going to be Mahan. Mahan won't play nice. He went against them on 36. They don't like him.
Speaker 1:
[03:54] No, they don't.
Speaker 5:
[03:56] We have lived the California dream, the same dream that's under attack by Donald Trump and his cronies. There's not a moment to lose. As governor, I will be ready on day one to bring down costs and to defend...
Speaker 2:
[04:09] By the way, if you're hearing that clipping, it's because in the ad that they produced, Becerra is speaking so much louder than Revis, it actually overblows the microphone.
Speaker 5:
[04:22] And to defend everything we love about California. So, let's get to work.
Speaker 2:
[04:29] There you go. Revis endorses Becerra and neither one of them want to talk about any issues facing California.
Speaker 1:
[04:37] Scrub it.
Speaker 5:
[04:40] Scrub it.
Speaker 1:
[04:43] 800-222-5222 is the telephone number 1-800-222-5222. Well, despite the fact that he doesn't seem to know much about the state of California, Javier Baccaria is seeing a boost in the polls.
Speaker 2:
[04:58] First, we saw that poll that was commissioned by Inside California Politics, that poll which actually qualified Becerra for the debate tomorrow that's going to be on KTLA in Southern California and Cronfor in the Bay Area and Fox 40 in Sacramento. Now we have the third version of the poll that was commissioned by the California Democratic Party to kick all the other candidates out and Baccaria has got a bump in that one too. For more, here's ABC 10 in Sacramento.
Speaker 6:
[05:32] A new poll you mentioned today from the California Democratic Party shows former US. Secretary of State and California Attorney General Javier Becerra.
Speaker 2:
[05:40] Was he Secretary of State?
Speaker 1:
[05:43] That's not what Biden said. That's also not what the job was.
Speaker 3:
[05:49] For Secretary of Health and Education, I nominate Javier Baccaria.
Speaker 2:
[05:54] Nobody knows what job this guy had.
Speaker 1:
[05:57] There is so much confusion going on right now in this state.
Speaker 6:
[06:02] Former US. Secretary of State and Nope.
Speaker 1:
[06:08] You're not even warm.
Speaker 2:
[06:10] Well, the people over at ABC 10 are probably worried that if that Tang and Nextar merger happens, that they're all losing their jobs. So they might be a little stressed.
Speaker 1:
[06:20] The robots won't get that wrong.
Speaker 6:
[06:23] State and California Attorney General Javier Baccaria got the largest bump following Eric Swalwell's resignation, and that wasn't the only change. The California.
Speaker 2:
[06:33] I love that nobody knows what Baccaria did in the Biden administration.
Speaker 6:
[06:38] Nobody knows.
Speaker 1:
[06:38] What does that tell you about him?
Speaker 6:
[06:42] The California Democratic Party published a poll earlier this month after surveying likely California voters. At the time, it showed the two leading Republican candidates, Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco, tied for first at 14% each, with then Congressman Eric Swalwell leading the Dems with 12%.
Speaker 2:
[07:04] Oh, how times have changed.
Speaker 1:
[07:06] I wonder what he's up to these days.
Speaker 2:
[07:08] Has anyone seen him?
Speaker 1:
[07:11] Well, he's not at Steve Klubeck's house anymore.
Speaker 2:
[07:13] Nope.
Speaker 6:
[07:14] Since then, President Trump announced his endorsement of Hilton, and the California Republican Party declined to endorse a candidate at their convention.
Speaker 2:
[07:23] Their convention did the same thing that Democrat convention did, where the delegates said, nah, we can't get to a consensus here.
Speaker 1:
[07:30] We'll take a pass.
Speaker 7:
[07:31] For the crowded Democratic field, certainly the race was in many ways sort of reset two weeks ago.
Speaker 6:
[07:37] That's Rusty Hicks, Chair of the California-
Speaker 1:
[07:39] He sounds like a robot too. Can we play that up against robot Barbara Ferrer?
Speaker 2:
[07:46] Let's see. Yes, I can do that. Let's see. Ferrer. So now I have to go to Ferrer Robot and I have to find it. There we go. So here is Rusty Hicks from the California Democratic Party.
Speaker 7:
[08:01] Certainly the race was in many ways sort of reset two weeks ago.
Speaker 2:
[08:05] And here is Babs. I don't like wearing a mask.
Speaker 8:
[08:08] I find it annoying.
Speaker 1:
[08:12] I'm telling you, maybe the robots have already taken over.
Speaker 7:
[08:16] Certainly the race was in many ways sort of reset two weeks ago.
Speaker 6:
[08:20] That's Rusty Hicks, chair of the...
Speaker 2:
[08:21] Wouldn't even two weeks ago. It's like a week and a half ago.
Speaker 1:
[08:25] Boy, time flies by.
Speaker 6:
[08:27] That's Rusty...
Speaker 2:
[08:28] I feel like we've been talking about this governor's race for three years.
Speaker 6:
[08:35] That's Rusty Hicks, chair of the California Democratic Party, talking about Eric Swalwell dropping out of the race and resigning from Congress amid serious accusations of sexual assault and harassment, which Swalwell has denied. Hicks spoke with journalists Monday after the party released their newest poll, apparently showing Trump's endorsement of Hilton moving the needle. He now leads with 16%, his fellow Republican remaining at 14%. And with Swalwell out of the race, Javier Becerra jumped nine percentage points to 13%.
Speaker 2:
[09:07] The Becerra bump nine to 13.
Speaker 1:
[09:12] However, what's most important about this poll is that it has both of the Republicans in first and second place, which means the Democrats haven't gotten out of their gotten out of the way of their problem.
Speaker 2:
[09:24] Well, almost. I believe in this poll Hilton's in first, but Bianco is tied with Steyer.
Speaker 1:
[09:32] Yeah, but it doesn't matter which poll you look at. Republicans are within the margin of error first and second and all of them still.
Speaker 6:
[09:40] After previously polling in the single digits.
Speaker 7:
[09:43] And is now tied for third with Tom Steyer. And finally, more voters are tuning in, are beginning to tune in to the race for governor as the undecided rate has fallen from 24% to 20%.
Speaker 2:
[09:58] Boy, he is just a whole lot of enthusiasm.
Speaker 1:
[10:02] He must be fun at a party.
Speaker 7:
[10:04] All of these are positive signs for insuring that a strong Democrat moves into the general election.
Speaker 2:
[10:10] But it seems like Rusty could use some WD-40.
Speaker 1:
[10:15] Some B-12.
Speaker 7:
[10:16] All of these are positive signs for insuring that a strong Democrat moves into the general election. But in my view, it's not enough and our work is not done.
Speaker 2:
[10:25] OK, so who you going after next?
Speaker 1:
[10:28] OK, Betty Yee gets some virtually nothing. Think about this. She was pulling at what, 1%?
Speaker 2:
[10:34] Yes.
Speaker 1:
[10:35] OK. She was raising and spending no money. I don't believe I ever saw a Betty Yee commercial on television. Did you?
Speaker 2:
[10:44] She had one commercial that came out about a week and a half ago. And I know because they premiered it on an interview that she did with Marla Tejas on the Fox Local Stream, where it was a bunch of kids saying, we like Betty Yee.
Speaker 1:
[10:57] OK, I understand that she made them. But did you actually see it on television outside of that one news report that they didn't pay for?
Speaker 2:
[11:05] I don't think they did a media buy. Very expensive.
Speaker 1:
[11:10] And she has virtually no name ID, which means whoever is being polled, who says they're voting for Betty Yee, is voting for her for one of two reasons. One, they can identify that she's a female and there are certain voters out there, particularly Democratic women, who always vote for the female, and she has an obviously Asian name. Her name will still be appearing on the ballot, which means if she's actively campaigning or not, she's going to receive 1% and it's going to come from people who want to vote for a woman or want to vote for an Asian.
Speaker 2:
[11:49] It's funny to show her drop.
Speaker 1:
[11:51] What's that?
Speaker 2:
[11:52] It's funny that you say that because yesterday when Betty Yee dropped out before the announcement, she sat down with our friend, Julie Watts of CBS news investigates and she kind of went after the Asians for not supporting her.
Speaker 1:
[12:08] But whatever vote she gets, that's why she's getting it, which means whether she's actively campaigning or not, that 1% is still going in her column. So this doesn't get Rusty Hicks out of his problem. He needs someone with more support to drop out.
Speaker 2:
[12:28] She also said that she had commissioned polls and they found that issues like competency and experience nobody cared about in this race.
Speaker 1:
[12:36] Yeah, well, welcome to the party.
Speaker 6:
[12:39] He repeated his call for low polling Democrats to drop out, applauding.
Speaker 2:
[12:43] Yes, let's get Thurmond out with his less than 1%.
Speaker 1:
[12:46] But it's going to be the same thing. With less than 1%, he's still going to get less than 1%, whether he's campaigning or not.
Speaker 2:
[12:55] At this point, the knives are coming out for either Katie or Steyer, and Steyer's got a lot of money.
Speaker 9:
[13:02] Hey, hello everybody.
Speaker 1:
[13:04] Oh, the next hit is coming for our girl.
Speaker 2:
[13:09] Someday, any day is going to happen.
Speaker 4:
[13:12] You can smell it right here.
Speaker 1:
[13:14] Because if you take her out of the picture, that frees up 10% of the electorate consisting entirely of angry Karens.
Speaker 6:
[13:25] Applauding Betty Yee for her decision to drop out of the race Monday.
Speaker 7:
[13:29] I commend her leadership and her commitment to California, and I hope...
Speaker 2:
[13:33] When she dropped out, every single candidate writes this lovely thing about how great and competent and wonderful she is and a policy wonk, and nobody supported her.
Speaker 1:
[13:44] Nope.
Speaker 7:
[13:45] And I hope other candidates will consider her example. Because the reality is, is that there are 60 candidates on the ballot. There are...
Speaker 2:
[13:52] That is true. Actually it's 61.
Speaker 1:
[13:56] And again, just because they're not actively campaigning doesn't mean they won't appear on the ballot. Betty Yee will be on the ballot. Eric Swalwell will be on the ballot.
Speaker 7:
[14:06] There are still two primary Republicans and now six primary Democrats.
Speaker 6:
[14:11] Yee's announcement was an emotional one, citing a lack of finances and support.
Speaker 10:
[14:16] This journey, it is ending today, but my work will not end.
Speaker 6:
[14:22] As for the...
Speaker 2:
[14:23] The delulu finally ended and reality set in that it was never going to happen for Betty Yee.
Speaker 1:
[14:29] Well, what's wild is it was always in the cards for one of the candidates in the single digits to start doing better. It looks like that candidate is going to be Becerra, but she had as good a chance as any of them as being that person.
Speaker 6:
[14:46] As for the remaining candidates, expect to see more ads in this race as the dollars roll in.
Speaker 2:
[14:52] How can we even have more ads every spot in a break as Steyer?
Speaker 1:
[14:58] What's going to happen to flow from Progressive?
Speaker 6:
[15:01] The latest numbers from the Secretary of State's office show billionaire Tom Steyer remains the top fundraiser, mostly his own money.
Speaker 2:
[15:08] Yeah, that doesn't count. That is not fundraising.
Speaker 1:
[15:11] No, that is entirely his own money.
Speaker 2:
[15:14] Do you see the Bernie people endorse Steyer?
Speaker 1:
[15:17] Of course. The people who believe that being a millionaire should be illegal, a billionaire, excuse me, get behind the billionaire.
Speaker 6:
[15:25] Followed by San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan and Hilton.
Speaker 2:
[15:28] Jim Cooper just endorsed Mahan. That's not going to get him anything. Yep.
Speaker 6:
[15:34] But Becerra is gaining ground on rivals here. His rate of overall fundraising is growing faster than almost everyone in the field, trailing only Steyer.
Speaker 7:
[15:44] Candidates are beginning to spin.
Speaker 2:
[15:45] Viragosa doesn't even get a mention in this story.
Speaker 1:
[15:48] No, boy, they disrespected him.
Speaker 7:
[15:52] Candidates are beginning to spin their resources and voters are beginning to pay attention in new and different ways.
Speaker 2:
[15:58] They're paying attention because of the sex scandal.
Speaker 1:
[16:01] Oh yeah, people are interested in that.
Speaker 6:
[16:03] Now, at this point in the race, candidates' names will remain on the ballots even if they drop out. That means voters will see Yee's and Swalwell's names. Democratic party leaders say they're working to educate voters on who has dropped out. Alex. All right, Becca.
Speaker 2:
[16:18] What are they gonna have? Put out a mailer? Hey, just so you know, Swalwell's an accused rapist.
Speaker 1:
[16:30] Well, right next to a bunch of coupons for Del Taco. All right, we know that there are a bunch of debates that will be taking place soon, including one next week that Randy and I are going to. That will be in Claremont. So here's our question to you at 800-222-5222, 1-800-222-5222. If you are given the opportunity to ask a question to any of the candidates at one of these upcoming debates, what would it be? You can ask that question to any of the Republicans, Steve Hilton or Chad Bianco. You could ask your question to any of the Democrats, Steyer, Porter, Becerra, Virgoza, Mahan, Thurman. It could be a question that you generally have interest in the answer. You want to know what they would do on issue X, or maybe it has to do with their character or temperament. And you want to know if they are fit to be governor of California.
Speaker 11:
[17:31] Get out of my f***ing shop!
Speaker 1:
[17:33] Hint, hint.
Speaker 2:
[17:35] I've got the calls you want here, Johnny.
Speaker 1:
[17:38] What question would you ask the candidates if given the opportunity at one of the upcoming debates? 800-222-5222, 1-800-222-5222, 800-222-5222 is telephone number 1-800-222-5222. A bunch of debates will be coming up with all of the candidates for governor appearing on stage. If you had the opportunity to ask a question to any of them, what would it be? 800-222-5222, 1-800-222-5222, 800-222-5222 is telephone number 1-800-222-5222. If you d like to email the show, you can do so at johnnydontlikeshow.com, that's johnnydontlikeshow.gmail.com, and Randy, you re monitoring the mailbag.
Speaker 2:
[18:34] Kevin writes in at johnnydontlikeshow.gmail.com with a question for a candidate. I would ask Katie Porter the following. Can you smell what The Rock is cooking?
Speaker 4:
[18:45] You can smell it right here.
Speaker 1:
[18:50] That would be an interesting question from one Dwayne The Rock Johnson. And Randy, if you want to go back into the vault and listen to a past episode on Katie Porter, that's easy to do.
Speaker 2:
[19:04] Oh, why would you ever want to do that?
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Speaker 10:
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Speaker 1:
[19:45] All right. If you are given the opportunity to ask a question, any of the candidates in one of the upcoming debates, what would it be? 800-222-5222. Let's begin with Randy in Mission Viejo. Randy, hello.
Speaker 12:
[20:02] Good afternoon. I would ask the candidates if they presently support Prop 13 and if they will continue to defend attacks on Prop 13 for everyone, including seniors and Republicans.
Speaker 1:
[20:20] That is a very interesting question because Tom Steyer has put the split role at the top of his to-do list. He says that if he gets elected, that that's one of the first things he will do as governor. He'll call for a special election and he wants to blow up half of Proposition 13. Now, there's only one reason to do that. You blow up half of it so you can go get the second half later because the people who hate Prop 13 hate all of it. They don't hate portions of it. I would imagine that many on the Democratic side of the aisle believe the same way as him. Maybe all of them except Matt Mahan and potentially Antonio Villaregosa. I would assume that both Republican candidates support Prop 13, but that's just an assumption. I would love to get them on the record. So that's an excellent question.
Speaker 12:
[21:12] Hold their toes to the fire.
Speaker 1:
[21:15] All right. Thank you for the call, sir. Let's go to Caleb in Rancho Cucamonga. Caleb, hello.
Speaker 12:
[21:24] Hi. I'd like to ask both the Republican candidates how they plan to get their economic agenda past all those crazy people in Sacramento.
Speaker 1:
[21:36] That's a very good question because the state legislature would likely still be controlled by supermajorities in both the Assembly and the Senate. They clearly don't see the world the same way as either Republican. So how is it that we would govern when you have a hostile legislature who can override your vetoes?
Speaker 12:
[21:59] Absolutely. And they can kick them out if they don't like their vetoes. They can expel them like they're trying with Trump.
Speaker 1:
[22:08] My guess, and this is just a guess, again, this would be an excellent question to ask the candidates, would be that the Republicans would look for moderate Democrats in the mold of Matt Mahan, and they would try to come up with a governing majority that would allow them to get at least some of their agenda through. If you go back to Alaska politics, for example, that's what Sarah Palin did. Even though Alaska is a Republican state, there were two factions of Republicans. There was the old guard, the establishment, and there was the new guard, the reformers. And what she did, she peeled off some of the reformer Republicans and the Democrats and created a governing majority. And that's how she ruled in Alaska. And that really upset the Republican machine because she didn't have to go through them to get her agenda through. She just went around them by creating her own coalition. All right. Thank you for the call, sir. Let's go to Robert in San Jose. Robert. Hello.
Speaker 9:
[23:17] Yeah, I'd like to ask Steyer what his logic is behind making grocery stores suffer and all these commercial property owners suffer. I mean, he's that confiscatory is Mondani. We were, you know, but I'd ask him straight to say, what's his logic? He seems like a scarcity oligarch creator who's fully arrogant. The guy is insane. And he's not helping anybody. We're trying to hold on to our homes here. And this, this mind virus of taxing property is getting way past what the Bill of Rights, you know, the Madisonian tradition of eminent domain. We should all be fairly compensated, not seize our property. And we can't have to seize just by taxing too. That's just, this is just crazy. But he seems like he's all in on that.
Speaker 1:
[23:58] Yeah. What does he think that's going to do to inflation? If all of the sudden every mom and pop shop, every convenience store, every place where commerce is commenced, if they suddenly have to start paying property taxes on property that they own above and beyond Prop 13 sets it at, what does he think is going to happen to prices? Prices are going to go through the roof. And you look at, let's just say, jewelry stores, for example. How often do jewelry stores make the blotter because they get robbed? And then we find out they have no insurance. So whatever it is that's stolen from their store is just something that no longer exists and they're not compensated for it. What are they paying in insurance, the ones that do have insurance? It just goes through the roof. Every time they get a new policy, it goes up and up and up and up and up. They can barely hang on as it is. If all of a sudden you're going to jack their property taxes up too, I don't see how you expect these stores to hang on.
Speaker 9:
[25:07] Well, yeah, like inflation actually infects the insurance market. It's already maxed out. Every policy, I don't know why they don't want to get rid of the infectors in the economy. So you could gauge a million people on, let's say, a healthcare plan. That policy is a lot cheaper. Or helping the homeless policy, which would it is, the allotment you put towards it has to be a lot smaller amount if you get rid of inflation. You can actually offer it. But he wants to create inflation. He doesn't make any sense. He wants to do all these good things. He's conflict of interest as far as inflating the cost of everything, one of these things, up. I think we're in agreement.
Speaker 1:
[25:46] I'll also say this, and I don't want to knock anyone's profession because we all do what we do. We all pay taxes. We all have to pay our mortgage. We all have to pay our bills. There's a difference between creating something. If you own a widget factory or you have a tire shop or you create something for someone. I don't know what it is. You beanie babies on the Internet. Whatever it is, you provide a service for someone else, and something is created based off of your labor. What Tom Steyer did to make his money was just moving money around. And there seems to be a difference in the attitudes that people have when they make a gazillion dollars moving money around as opposed to creating something. If you create something, you have to deal with regulations, you have to deal with insurance, you have to deal with crime, you have to deal with regulation and electeds and all of that. And if all you're doing is sitting in front of a laptop computer and you're clicking buttons and you're moving money around, yeah, you can make a ton of money. If the stock market is going in the right direction and you have enough money to play with, oh boy, can you make it rain? But that doesn't necessarily mean you understand how the world works. That doesn't mean you can sympathize and you can, I don't know, even just comprehend what a small business owner is going through on a daily basis. And I really get the impression that that man is clueless. But he thinks that because he made a billion dollars, he's brilliant when in reality, he has no idea what's going on in this state. Let's not forget. Randy, who was it? Was it the interview with Ashley Zavala when he was asked what grade would you give Gavin Newsom? And his answer was, oh, I haven't paid enough attention to it to give an answer to that question.
Speaker 2:
[27:44] I haven't really been following it. And he wants the job.
Speaker 1:
[27:51] Yeah. All right, let's go to Stuart in Seal Beach. Stuart, hello.
Speaker 9:
[27:58] Thank you, John and Randy, for taking my call. I'd like to have a quick Rorsach test of the Democratic candidates to see who's far off the complete radar of sanity. So I would ask them who of the Democrats would continue the policy of Gavin Newsom, paying for transgendered surgeries of criminals in prison and illegal aliens? That would be the question to determine the sanity of each of them.
Speaker 1:
[28:29] That would certainly be an interesting question. My guess is all of the Democrats, except for Mahan or Villarigosa, would say yes. Villarigosa and Mahan would say no, and both Republicans would say no. But maybe this is the new plank of the Democratic Party. It's the update to the old ways of doing business. When first it was a chicken in every pot, then it was a car in every garage, and now it's a Richard for every illegal alien. Oh boy.
Speaker 9:
[29:00] One other point quickly. If Ben Yee is not running anymore, can Kanye West, who's also known as Yee, take her spot? Because being a bipolar anti-Semite might be a winning formula for the Democrats.
Speaker 1:
[29:17] The Yee switch, huh?
Speaker 9:
[29:19] The Yee switch.
Speaker 1:
[29:21] It could happen. Thank you for the call, sir.
Speaker 4:
[29:28] You can smell it right here.
Speaker 1:
[29:32] 800-222-5222 is Jell-O-Phone number 1-800-222-5222. The Fixed California Hour coming up after the news at one. Fox News' Trace Gallagher joins us. So make sure you stick around for that. Let's go back to the phones and welcome Craig in Los Gatos. Craig, hello.
Speaker 8:
[29:52] Hey, John, I've been trying to contact Hilton's campaign because they're missing us teachers. I'm a teacher and the unions have just totally thrown the ball in on this one because the fraudulent behavior here in this state is taking so many millions out of the general fund, which means that they can offer less for the districts. Now, if that were included, then they can give more to the districts. They may not have to close all the schools. Teachers, more importantly, could be offered maybe a percentage more in their salary offerings. Instead, what are we doing? We're telling the parents, and I object to this, telling parents it is in their court to pay more property tax. We even used to have to call them to pass bonds, and I'm going, wait a minute, it's not the parents, it's the fraudulent behavior. But when you contact your local state rep here in California, they will not, I repeat, not even comment on the whole issue of the fraudulent behavior. They figured that we're just going to raise property tax to replace the money that's being taken out of the general fund because of the, you know, it was even on a local channel here with the GO students, et cetera, et cetera. The hospices, you know, it just goes on and on. But they're missing out on the teachers. That's the part that I just don't understand. I've called my union and saying, why aren't you telling the rest of the teachers to start calling their reps and asking for more accountability, which means more money in the general fund, which means more money for teachers. It's such a no-brainer.
Speaker 1:
[31:39] I think the working assumption, and I'm just making this up, but I think their assumption is that the waste, fraud and abuse is going to the right people. And if you actually blew the whistle on it, it would be friendly fire.
Speaker 8:
[31:54] I agree with that. There has to be a reason why they won't tackle it. You're totally right. It's going into spots that benefits some of them, and they don't want to touch it. You're right.
Speaker 1:
[32:06] All right. Thank you for the call, sir. We appreciate it. Let's go to Randy Admission Viejo. Randy, hello.
Speaker 12:
[32:13] Hello. I was calling to see if any of the governors would defund California high-speed rail, veto it if they want to spend more money on it, to see who's really still behind high-speed rail here.
Speaker 1:
[32:30] What's wild, and this was before Mahan got into the race, but what was wild was many of the Democratic candidates had essentially the position that you just outlined as the official position, and then they went in front of the unions in the Central Valley, and they changed course, and the answer became, yeah, I want to keep high-speed rail, but the way to get away from all the fraud is to put me in charge. And if I was in charge, this project would actually get done. And that's the position that they took, which, of course, is bung, because Jerry Brown is smarter than all of them. Gavin Newsom is probably smarter than all of them. They couldn't get it done. If they can't get it done, how can the tallest building in Omaha get it done?
Speaker 12:
[33:21] Yeah, we're just throwing good money after bad on that deal. That was a job to begin with.
Speaker 1:
[33:28] No question about it. Thank you for the calls, sir. Let's go to Frank in Redwood City. Frank, hello.
Speaker 12:
[33:36] Hey, just two questions I want to ask the candidates. One is what would you do different than Gavin Newsom has done and as far as tax, all the legal immigrants coming into the country, how would you answer that without trying to blame Donald Trump? The second question I would ask is, do you support the Stop Nick Shirley Act and why would you support it if he's trying to locate fraud and help with eliminating fraud? Those are my two questions I would ask the candidates.
Speaker 1:
[34:10] Well, what you're asking for is the impossible, which is to get them to talk about California without referencing Donald Trump. And they can't do that because if they were to only talk about California, it would be a bad look because of the Pottery Barn rule of politics. You broke it, you bought it. They broke it. They don't know how to fix it. So let's talk about Donald Trump instead. Thank you for the call, Sheriff. All right. Thank you. Let's go to John in San Jose. John, hello.
Speaker 8:
[34:46] Hey, John. Hey, Randy. My question would be to Steve Hilton. And it will go as follows. During your time at Fox, have you ever spent time in a hot tub with Greg Gutfeld and Larry Kudlow? And the follow-up question would be, him, I wasn't invited.
Speaker 1:
[35:12] All right. Thank you for the call, sir. We appreciate it. And thank you for not including Caitlyn Jenner. Let's go to Cynthia in San Francisco. Cynthia, hello.
Speaker 11:
[35:22] Hey, good afternoon. Thanks for taking my call. Okay. So I listened to Steyer. His first thing is just what you said. He wants to get rid of Prop 13. And then I believe the second thing he said was universal health care. He wants everyone on the same health plan that they put us on. I want to know if he and his family are going to be on the same health plan that they put all of us on. That's my question.
Speaker 1:
[35:52] That's a very good question, because if government-run health in California goes as I expect it to, none of us are going to make it to 60.
Speaker 11:
[36:03] No, you're exactly right. Am I going to see them in my emergency room? Yeah, I don't think so. So I want to know. And a lot of them say it. We all need this one pay health care. We're all going to be on it. We're all going to be good, take care of all the legals and illegals. But nobody asked them, are you going to be on the same one that I'm on? That's what I want to know. And I know the answer.
Speaker 1:
[36:29] That's the whole beauty of having private health insurance. If you make enough money and you have a good enough plan, you can get out of many ailments. And let's face it, we live in a world where we have access to just about anything. And the point for me for getting rich, if I ever get there, is so that I can eat and drink whatever I want. Because if I can eat and drink whatever I want, and you finally get to a point where your body starts to fail you, well, who cares? You can buy a liver from China and you can get one of those baboon hearts here too.
Speaker 11:
[37:06] Right. And I pay a lot of money to have a PPO. So I can go when I want, see whomever I want. And they said you couldn't even do that. It's going to be all just like that. That saying goes knock, knock who's there? The government. I'm here to help. No, anything the government touches seems to go. So that's all right.
Speaker 1:
[37:28] Thank you for the call. We appreciate it.