Karen Bass is confident about her reelection despite bad polling

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Speaker 1: And very happy Friday to you at twelve oh seven in the West, It's the Giant Philip Show, Mister Randy Weggs in Culver City, Johnny.

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Speaker 2: After the show yesterday, I took another look at that unclaimed property website claim it dot CA, dot gov. I found three hundred dollars that's owed to me and five hundred dollars that's owed to my wife.

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Speaker 1: Okay, when you did it during the show yesterday, you only found one claim for a few cents. What did you do differently that allows you to find all this extra money?

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Speaker 2: So the big mistake that I was doing was I was typing in the city that I live in and the zip code that I live in. Because the thing is, chances are if you have unclaimed money or unclaimed property, it's from a place you used to live in. So when I just looked at my name and scrolled through it, looked at and the addresses that matched, I found all of these unclaimed things from when I used to live in Burbank, Ah.

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Speaker 1: So if you just type in your current information and nothing shows up, don't stop there. Go back and look at former addresses and see if there's any money tied to them.

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Speaker 2: That's all you gotta do, and then you click on all the things that match you. You put in your information. My claim has been filed, and I'll keep the audience posted it as to when I get my money. But I should be getting about three hundred bucks.

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Speaker 1: Hey, there's nothing wrong with that.

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Speaker 2: Little better than the fifteen cents I thought I was getting.

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Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is a telephone number? What eight hundred two two two five two two two. We know that failed Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass is seeking another four years as the chief executive of America's second largest city, despite the fact that she failed us during the fires, she failed us with homelessness, She's failed us with virtually everything that she's been tasked with, and according to a recent poll, only twenty percent of Angelino's say they support her in her bid for reelection. She knows that puts her in the danger zone, and she's out trying to make it right with city voters, and that got her to sit down with Conan Nolan of NBC four. I wouldn't be surprised if a much longer version of this interview gets posted over the weekend for Conan Nolan's Sunday Show news conference.

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Speaker 2: But here's what we have so far from NBC.

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Speaker 3: La Fridy, Eric, thank you for that and knew at six Los Angeles in the spotlight as a city gets ready to host the World Cup this summer in tonight.

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Speaker 2: Uh oh, Colleen did it? She dropped the d. Is that just something you do when you get older?

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Speaker 3: Maybe gets ready to host the World Cup this summer and tonight.

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Speaker 2: Although I feel like she missed a couple of letters there. She just said the work.

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Speaker 3: Coup gets ready to host the World Cup this summer and tonight.

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Speaker 1: Close enough.

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Speaker 3: We are hearing from mayor.

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Speaker 2: Is she the only one left from the original team in the eighties.

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Speaker 1: Okay, here's what happens when you're a broadcaster. When you're reading copy, hitting all of the words and hitting all of the letters. It's like doing a double play in baseball. You don't actually have to touch second base, you just have to get some we're kind of close to it.

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Speaker 3: We are hearing from Mayor Karen Bass Harcna Nolan sat down with the mayor.

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Speaker 2: Wait where is it?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Here we go.

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Speaker 4: We are hearing.

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Speaker 3: We are hearing from Mayor Karen bass Harcna Nolan sat down with the mayor to talk about everything from security concerns for the World Cup.

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Speaker 2: To reach she did it again.

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Speaker 1: That's twice, Colleen.

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Speaker 3: To rebuilding the Palisades and all of this As the mayor campaigns for reelection.

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Speaker 4: It was not the image of a welcoming city.

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Speaker 2: Oh the street takeover in downtown.

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Speaker 1: La Oh, yeah, she's going to get right on that.

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Speaker 4: Following a recent street takeover in the heart of downtown South Park District, mobs entered a high end apartment building, attacking employees, shattering windows, stealing what they could.

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Speaker 5: It was horrible. It was the first time that we've seen anything like that.

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Speaker 2: What we see these things all the time?

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Speaker 1: Is she new here?

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Speaker 2: The difference is they ransacked a fancy apartment building instead of an AutoZone or a seven to eleven. But what you're saying is what now I have to pay attention to this because it wasn't poor people that were victimized, and.

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Speaker 1: It led the news.

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Speaker 5: It was horrible.

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Speaker 2: It was the Also, it's an election year now, now, Karen cares I had in the last three and a half years, I can't remember her speaking out once about street takeovers. That happened every weekend, including on the sixth Street Bridge.

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Speaker 1: Nope, and you know what else is usually a part of those stories. No arrests were made. And that's not because the LAPD can't arrest people. That's because they know the mayor and the leadership in the city doesn't want them to.

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Speaker 5: It was horrible. It was the first time that we've seen anything like that.

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Speaker 4: In an interview with NBC four, Mayor Karen Vass says the city will respond with strategic patrols downtown on foot and in cars, with undercover units, and even horse patrols.

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Speaker 2: What are the horse patrols supposed to do?

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Speaker 1: Eat?

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Speaker 2: Hey, I just I care for the safety of the horses and these monsters that are doing the donuts and lighting fires. I don't know if they would not think it a great idea to try to play chicken with the horse cop So you think these people aren't card carrying members of PETA.

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Speaker 5: So we will put a stop to that. You will not see that again.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that is a bad thing to promise. How long do you think it'll take for that promise to be broken?

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Speaker 2: All right? So I'm just going to give some advice to the Pratt people, by the way, thanks for doing our competitors show yesterday and ditching us and the Ramen people and even the Adam Miller people. Get video of the street takeover. Then get video of Karen Bess saying this, so.

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Speaker 5: We will put a stop to that. You will not see that again.

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Speaker 2: And then post video of when it happens again this weekend. Well, it's Friday, It's going to happen tonight.

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Speaker 4: She downplayed safety concerns during the upcoming World Cup.

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Speaker 2: Hey, he did not drop the D.

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Speaker 1: We always knew that Conan had a D and in just.

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Speaker 4: Two years, the largest global event on the planet, the Summer Olympics, saying federal law enforcement will help the LAPD keep visitors safe.

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Speaker 2: You know who's so excited that we're doing the Olympics here in twenty twenty eight Rio, because that was the most embarrassing sum our Olympics. And tell this one, I don't think they understand what's waiting for them. We're going to be the laughingstock of the world, aren't we all ready?

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Speaker 1: We know it. They don't know about it in Tokyo quite yet.

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Speaker 4: Citing President Trump's personal affection if not for La for high profile spectacles.

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Speaker 5: You know, he wants to be front and center on the World Cup.

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Speaker 1: She can't help herself.

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Speaker 5: And I do believe that the World Cup will be saved, as I believe the Olympics will be as well.

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Speaker 2: Last month, mister, well, the Olympics will be because you won't be mayor anymore. God help us, unless it's Nithia in charge, and then you know, I'll be broadcasting from Santa Fe. Actually I might do that no matter who wins this race.

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Speaker 4: Last month, mister Trump issued an executive order taking control of the rebuilding in the Pacific Palisades, appointing EPA director Lee Zelden to investigate the city's permit process.

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Speaker 5: We examined our permits. He saw that, of course, we had given over two thousand permits, but we've given permits out to a lot of people that have not responded back. So we reach those people and we found out the main reason they're stuck has nothing to do with the permitting process. It's the banking industry and the insurance industry.

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Speaker 2: Ricardo ye listening, buddy.

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Speaker 1: Okay, very kind of sketch. So if he's not doing his job, and that's the whole dub, which I believe he's not doing his job, and I believe that's leading to delays. But you hear from the victims and they say it's d all of the above. They're not claiming that the city is making things easy on them, and it's the California Department of Insurance that's the hull dub. They say, no one's doing what they're supposed to be doing and that's what's leading to the nightmare.

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Speaker 2: How about the LAFD sending bills to burned out lots to clear out their brush.

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Speaker 4: That resulted in a phone call to the White House.

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Speaker 5: And so I appealed to the President, only you could bring together these two INDs.

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Speaker 2: There's a rumor that her communications person that quit because she called the White House.

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Speaker 1: Well, she's gone through a bunch of staffers recently, hasn't.

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Speaker 2: She, including her deputy mayor of public Safety that had to go on leave and then eventually be replaced for calling in a bomb threat.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we can't forget him.

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Speaker 5: And so I appealed to the president, only you could bring together these two industries in your oval office and tell them to pay people what they deserve and to extend forbearans for three years. The other thing is is that we need our FEMA RINA.

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Speaker 2: By the way, that's not a really confident sign that we need to extend people not being able to pay their mortgages in the Palisades for three years because they're not going and their homes built for at least three years.

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Speaker 1: No, in fact, who was it. We had someone on who said that it would be five years.

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Speaker 5: The other thing is is that we need our FEMA reimbursement. We want to underground the utilities and the Palisades, we don't have the resources to do that.

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Speaker 4: And a recent Emerson College I don't.

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Speaker 2: Know, I just saw my DWP bill.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so that is a worthy thing. Putting the power lines underground is great. It makes your neighborhood look better, it doesn't block your view, it reduces the fire risk. But that's not what caused this fire. Maybe if you're dealing with oh, I don't know, alta Dina, you could talk about the electric company. This was an arsonist who started a fire, and a fire that wasn't fully extinguished because the city and the state couldn't figure out how to let the LAFD do their job.

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Speaker 4: And a recent Emerson College. Inside California Politics poll, over fifty percent of LA were undecided if Bass should have a second term.

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Speaker 2: That's pretty damning for an incumbent. It's beyond that, it's embarrassing. It should tell you that you need to get out of the race. And I would love to know what went on at team Caruso when they looked at these numbers and decided that he would take a pass on the race. Because if you've ever wanted to be an elected official in the state of California and you're Rick Caruso, this is your chance. You know who, must love that pall our former mayor just be smart and stay apart those rose colored glasses that are making the Garcetti ears look pretty good by comparison.

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Speaker 1: Well with the exception of Dick Reard and everyone who takes that job goes through the meat grinder.

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Speaker 4: Her job approval at an ANEMA twenty four percent.

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Speaker 1: That's so bad.

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Speaker 4: Her job at.

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Speaker 2: Least it shows that even in Los Angeles, where the voters don't pay attention at all, they don't like what they're seeing.

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Speaker 1: Well, the problem is they understand that she's a failure. But for whatever reason, Democrats in California in particular, are extremely tolerant of bad government, and the question becomes, will they vote for her again? If the election were today, She'd make the November ballot, and then they would have the choice as to whether or not they wanted it to be her or Spencer Pratt, or whoever it is it makes the second slot to be mayor of Los Angeles for the next four years. I am not so sure they would vote for him over her if given the opportunity.

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Speaker 4: Her job approval at an anemic twenty four percent.

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Speaker 5: I think that the electorate is in a very foul mood.

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Speaker 1: But I wonder why. Yeah, that tends to happen when you burn down their homes.

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Speaker 5: But what I'm confident in I feel very good about my ability to bring various parts of the city together and coalitions doing the grassroots work.

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Speaker 2: Let's ask Lindsay Horvath about your locking arms. She'd been really mean girling her lately.

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Speaker 5: Doing the grassroots work, building support in the business community, the Democratic Party, labor and community organizations.

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Speaker 2: See this is how Los Angeles politics work. Voter participation is so minimal if you get the unions behind you by doing everything they want, including giving out contracts that the city could not afford, and it's partially why we're in a deficit. Well, that's enough people voting for you that you'll go over the threshold, because the vast majority of people in this city do not vote in local elections.

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Speaker 1: Well, and keep in mind also that just because people disapprove of her job doesn't mean they disapprove for the same reasons. You could have people who are upset at what the city did regards aready, the fires, or homelessness or whatever. And then you have a whole different group of people who are upset at her for not being destructive enough. That's the Nythia crowd.

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Speaker 5: The Democratic Party, labor and community organizations. You've known me for a long time, you know that's what I have always done and will continue to do.

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Speaker 4: Mayor Bass called her conversation with President Trump constructive, as was her working with the EPA director Lee Zelden, who was a colleague of hers in Congress, the two having worked together on a bipartisan police reform bill years ago. So, but the pulling huver is not good if you're running for reelection. But she's still up nine points from Nythia Rahman, a member of the City Council and the reality show Spencer Pratt.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Conan never watched The Hills. No, but isn't Spencer Pratt doing better than Nythia?

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's Spencer Pratt at ten point nine percent and it's Nitthi at like nine point eight percent.

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Speaker 1: Okay, why do they always mention her first? He's doing better than her, He's coming in second place. Shouldn't he be mentioned before her?

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Speaker 2: I honestly think Conan couldn't remember his name.

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Speaker 1: But this isn't the first time I've seen that happen. I forget which channel I was watching, but I was watching another channel and they did the same thing when they were going over the pole results. Well, maybe some organizations are not taking that campaign seriously. Such a breath.

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Speaker 4: Yes, still up and so she's confident.

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Speaker 1: Who knows?

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Speaker 4: We still have a few months left.

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Speaker 3: Codin, you obviously covered a lot of ground with the mayor today. Does she have any concern about the fact that Iran pulled out today of the World Cup? There was supposed to be two games.

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Speaker 2: She dropped it again, Colleen?

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Speaker 3: Of the World Cup?

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Speaker 2: How long ago did Chuck retire? And Fred and Fritz.

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Speaker 1: I think they've been gone a while.

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Speaker 2: She's just hanging on.

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Speaker 5: Of the World Cup.

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Speaker 3: There was supposed to be two games played here in town.

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Speaker 4: Right right, very well. She was upset about it because we obviously have the largest Iranian Persian American community in the nation.

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Speaker 2: And of the eight games that were supposed to be played in the World Cup, two of them have already been canceled because of the war.

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Speaker 4: That's one of the reasons those games were scheduled for here. She's very attuned, she says, to the fact that there are safety and security issues related to it. Interesting thing she told me is that normally, as mayor, she gets a federal safety briefing, that is and sort of an intelligence briefing. That stopped when President Trump came into office. Apparently they fired the people that normally did that, so she and the mayor of New York and the mayor of Chicago was sort of out of the loop when it comes to those kind of things. But she's clear that she believes this is going to be a safe World Cup.

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Speaker 1: Define safe, because if she considers it to be safe the same way she considers the Metro to be safe, we're gonna have some problems.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 4: The Olympics two years away. Still got a lot of concerns. One of the concerns they don't have you know, they don't have the money to hire more police LAPD. She wants to increase the number of officers. That's still a challenge.

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Speaker 3: All right, Coda, thank you, my pleasure.

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Speaker 2: There you go. That is Karen Bass sitting down with Conan Nolan. That interview might get a lot longer over the weekend. We will keep you posted.

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Speaker 1: According to a recent poll for governor, if the election were held today, the most likely scenario is that Bay Area Congressman Eric Swollwell and former Fox News so Steve Hilton would make the November runoff. That being said, other candidates who are polling underneath them are still within strike distance, and you have different polls that show different results. Another poll showed that if the election were today, the November election would pit Steve Hilton up against billionaire and Viro sugar daddy Tom Steyer. Certainly that's the result that Tom Styer wants, and Randy he's willing to spend whatever it takes to get it.

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Speaker 2: And he's running so many ads that it is really starting to piss some people off. But other people are like, well, now I got to see what this guy's about, because he is occupying my television space all day long for mar on the Stiers spending spree. There's some alliteration for you. Here is kpix in the Bay.

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Speaker 7: All new polling on the crowded race to represent California as governor. As two survey show a lot of voters have yet to well actually make up their mind. We're here in San Francisco. Candidates are making the rounds trying to win over on the side of voters. More than that in just a minute, but first let's give you a look at those numbers. The latest Emerson College poll shows East Made Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell was seventeen percent. Two Republicans Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco were just behind him, followed by Democrats Tom Steyer and Katie Porter.

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Speaker 2: Katie got a shout out, not the shout out she wanted.

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Speaker 1: She wants to be in the top two.

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Speaker 2: I don't even think you got that many.

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Speaker 7: And UC Berkeley and Political poll found Hilton, a Republican, leading with nineteen percent. Stier received thirteen percent, with Swallwell, Katie Porter Bianco and at eleven percent. But more importantly to note unders how is.

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Speaker 1: She's in a three way with Swallwell and Bianco. Oh god, don't ever use those words again.

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Speaker 2: A three way tie.

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Speaker 1: I think I need to just put some bleach on my brain right now.

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Speaker 7: Chicking dinner.

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Speaker 2: She's just polling the same as the other candidates. I don't see what is going on in your brain. But I had a very innocent comment there. What did Joe Biden do to forget everything he ever learned? He got old.

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Speaker 7: Fianco and at eleven percent. But more importantly to note on this side of voters make up a large percentage in both of those polls, and Time Stier, who is a.

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Speaker 2: Still three months out from the primary, two months out from the ballots going into the mail, the majority of voters have no idea who any of these people are.

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Speaker 1: It shows you how big and how expensive California is, because if we were living in North Dakota, we'd know who all of these people were.

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Speaker 7: And Time Styer, who is a billionaire, has tried to make a name for himself with a blitz of television commercials. Lauren Tom spoke to the Bay Area of voters who recently came out to meet that man behind those ads.

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Speaker 2: You know, Tom Steyer likes to say that he made a pitch that he was going to give the majority of his money away before he dies. What you didn't know was he was going to give the majority of his money away to political consultants and advertising agencies.

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Speaker 1: And oh boy, are they happy about that.

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Speaker 8: There's one candidate in California's race for governor who's been hard to miss, Tom Steyer.

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Speaker 2: I'm Tom Steyer, and I'm money for governor.

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Speaker 1: Oh that voice, super Dave Osborne. I'm telling you, he's super Dave was funny. Yeah, this guy's just an a hole.

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Speaker 8: He's spent millions on a TV ad campaign that voters like Laura Wherlin say feels nearly constant after.

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Speaker 9: Seeing all of the ads that Tom Steyer has been doing, which, frankly, I'm so tired of that.

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Speaker 1: I you remember who the last one was to do this. That was Meg Whitman. I remember one time driving to Las Vegas and I think I think I was in Baker or someplace in the middle of nowhere. Where it looks like you're on the surface of the moon, and the only thing that I could get on the radio was mariachi music and Meg Whitman ads.

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Speaker 2: Political advertising not only can have diminishing returns, but the frequency of the ad buys can actually actively turn people off, which is why my theory currently is that we're seeing a lot more support for that billionaire at tax because people want to take away tom Steyer's money.

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Speaker 9: Could be after seeing all of the ads that Tom Steyer has been doing, which frankly, I'm so tired of that. I you know, kind of turn them off sometimes when they come on. But it was enough to get through to me that I wanted to hear from the.

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Speaker 2: That's a great focus group. What is your first reaction when you see a Tom Steyer ad?

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Speaker 1: Click okay, but then she goes but I want to hear more information.

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Speaker 2: I guess the advertising works.

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Speaker 9: It was enough to get through to me that I wanted to hear from the you know, from him directly.

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Speaker 8: So when he came to San Francisco this week for an intimate town hall series with the candidates for governor at Manny's, she showed up not to watch another commercial, but to see the person behind them.

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Speaker 9: I found what I saw in the ads, and I found something sort of ads plus.

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Speaker 5: And the ads plus.

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Speaker 9: Part is that I really believe that he does walk his talk, which I kind of got before.

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Speaker 8: But this confirmed that Stuyer's self funded campaign has spent nearly thirty million dollars so far.

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Speaker 1: You see, though, this is why they do it. She started out complaining about the frequency of the ads, and now she's going to be a Tom Styer supporter.

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Speaker 8: Oh boy, including a massive ad buy that has made him one of the most visible candidates in the race. His spending dwarf so other campaigns, including Katie Porter, Eric swas.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Katie got another shout out.

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Speaker 1: Again, not the kind that she wanted.

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Speaker 8: His spending dwarf souther campaigns including Katie Porter, Eric Swalwell, and Matt Mayhan with I don't know.

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Speaker 2: If Katie's doing any TV buys. She's doing a lot of social media, but she's also trying to get a lot of earned media with different stunts like going down to the Tijuana River.

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Speaker 5: You can smell it right here.

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Speaker 1: Well, don't forget this is exactly what she was complaining about when she was destroying those carrots.

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Speaker 2: Hey, you know what that video got her an hour of free coverage on this radio station. I don't know if that is a positive or a negative, but it was all Katie all the time.

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Speaker 3: Sorry for the noise, I'm cutting carrots.

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Speaker 8: His spending dwarf souther campaigns, including Katie Porter, Eric Swalwell, and Matt Mayhan.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Matt Mayhan I think has spent about five million so far from all the people funding his campaign, and it has not yet to make a dent.

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Speaker 1: No, but he's sitting on more money and they're ies who are going to spend money on his behalf. But they better get to it because if there are any number of new polls that come out that show him at two or three percent, this thing is going to be over before it starts.

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Speaker 8: Well, have yet to break ten million dollars.

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Speaker 10: I mean, if you haven't seen a Tom Stier commercial, then you probably haven't been breathing.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's one way of describing it.

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Speaker 8: Political expert David McEwan says that kind of exposure matters, but it only goes so far.

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Speaker 4: Tom Steier's money buys some access.

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Speaker 2: When we finally start doing polling with ballot designations where it's going to say, like former congresswoman or former mayor of Los Angeles? Is Tom Steyer's going to be that guy that's always on your TV?

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Speaker 1: He's going to have something nebulous like businessman and environmentalist Tom Steyers.

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Speaker 10: Money buys some access, but it doesn't necessarily buy him the.

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Speaker 8: Vote, making moments like this, small in person conversations with voters crucial.

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Speaker 10: You have to compete with your television image with your in person Are you genuine and likable?

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Speaker 2: Katie? What do you think?

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Speaker 1: Well ask her staffers.

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Speaker 2: Out of my shot?

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Speaker 10: This used to be the test of you know, do you want to have a beer with this guy? And so that test of being.

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Speaker 2: Of the candidates that are running, I don't think I want to have a beer with any of them. What would you want to drink with Katie? Porter shots?

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Speaker 10: This used to be the test of you know, do you want to have a beer with this guy? And so that test of being genuine and likable is an important kind of test of retail politics.

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Speaker 8: Erwin's the difference between campaign messaging and the real life candidate can be subtle.

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Speaker 2: And imagine howing drinks with Tom Steyer and how much graveller that voice can get.

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Speaker 1: And how insulting would it be if he didn't pick up the tab.

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Speaker 8: Werwin says the difference between campaign messaging and the real life candidate can be subtle. In his ASTs, he often talks about affordability.

00:28:20
Speaker 2: But the Californians who make this date run are being run over by the cost of looking and that is grating.

00:28:28
Speaker 1: It hurts my voice to just hear him talk.

00:28:31
Speaker 2: That hurts almost as much as when RFK was running for president.

00:28:37
Speaker 8: And at the town hall the message was similar, but gave a peek into his personality.

00:28:42
Speaker 1: Working people in.

00:28:42
Speaker 2: This state had been screwed for at least.

00:28:44
Speaker 8: Forty five years, she says. The night gave her a clear understanding of who's.

00:28:48
Speaker 2: That did not show any personality, No, it didn't. He sounded like a robot.

00:28:53
Speaker 4: Working people in this state had been screwed for at least forty five years. She says.

00:28:56
Speaker 8: The night gave her a clear understanding of who Styar is. But we're means undecided in the race.

00:29:01
Speaker 2: Okay, So it didn't turn her over completely.

00:29:05
Speaker 1: So she's what kicking tires on all of these candidates by showing up to their events.

00:29:09
Speaker 2: Well, at Manny's it's like a rite a passage in San Francisco?

00:29:14
Speaker 1: Doesn't that sound exhausting though?

00:29:17
Speaker 8: And more convinced than ever that voter, I mean, she's doing her research.

00:29:20
Speaker 2: We should be encouraging that she's finding out more about the candidates, not just taking what they say on the TV by word, And.

00:29:29
Speaker 8: More convinced than ever that voters need to look beyond the ads.

00:29:33
Speaker 9: Can't just go for that low hanging fruit, which is which is the people.

00:29:36
Speaker 5: Who are the best?

00:29:37
Speaker 2: This is California, the land of low hanging fruit. Do I need to play the average California voter? No, I don't know enough to give you any good information, but good luck finding someone who does.

00:29:51
Speaker 9: Can't just go for that low hanging fruit, which is which is the people who.

00:29:54
Speaker 5: Are the best? Undis because it is our.

00:29:56
Speaker 9: Life and our life and our nature.

00:30:00
Speaker 7: Well, these are all the candidates that have filed the run and the June second primary. Voters will send the top two to the general election in November, regardless of party affiliation, and that has Democratic Party leaders worried about the possibility that two Republicans winning the top two spots.

00:30:17
Speaker 2: The state that is seeming less likely every day, so don't get your hopes up, kids.

00:30:22
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's going on right now is that Steve Hilton is excelling and Chad Bianco is floundering. And if Chad Bianco doesn't kick it in the high gear, you're going to end up with Hilton and a Democrat, which means you're going to end up with a Democrat elected governor. By the way, I just saw that apparently Bianco didn't show up to get another one.

00:30:42
Speaker 2: What is he busy doing?

00:30:44
Speaker 1: I don't know. Hilton was tweeting about it.

00:30:47
Speaker 7: The state party chair has called on Democrats who are toward the bottom of the polls to actually drop out. He says they will release those tracking polls every week or so to make sure candidates and voters know where that race now stands.

00:31:02
Speaker 6: There's been plenty of polls before. I think it made sense to do this at this particular point in time to ensure that we all had a clear picture as to what the current state of the race is, especially at a time when candidates are expending resources and connected.

00:31:20
Speaker 2: They're going to start putting out all these weekly polls. Betty Ye, you're still at one percent, Betty Ye, you're still at one percent, give that one percent to Swalwell place. Well, if they're at one percent and Swallwell is moving up in the polls, their support is already moving to him, because she was what five percent in a recent poll, and now she's at one percent. She made five percent. She did a really interesting showing at the convention where she got second place behind Swalwell, but I don't think she's ever polled higher than five percent. And the most recent polls her and Tony Thurman, who have been the King candidates who have been running the longest, are at between one and two percent every single time, So.

00:32:05
Speaker 1: That means their support is already collapsing and it's all going to the same place. YEP eight hundred two two two five two two two is a telephone number one eight hundred two two two five two two two. If you'd like to email the show, you can do so at Johnny Don't Like Show at gmail dot com. That's Johnny Don't Like Show at gmail dot com. And Randy ear monitoring the mail bag.

00:32:33
Speaker 2: Robert writes in at Johnny Don't Like Show at gmail dot com. If that caller story about Katie Porter is true, I strongly advise never to go out drinking with porter.

00:32:43
Speaker 1: You can smart like here, what do you think her cocktail is? You think it's something dainty like a pink squirrel? Or do you think she just goes right for the long islandized teas? I say gin. She gives me a real gin vibe. She's from Iowa originally, isn't she?

00:33:03
Speaker 2: Yes? What do they drink in Iowa? Good question, PVR.

00:33:10
Speaker 1: Could be. Let's go to Bill and Whittier. Bill, Hello, Hello, John, Randy? How you doing good?

00:33:20
Speaker 11: Hey?

00:33:20
Speaker 12: I got a letter from the County of Los Angeles Fire Department and I was absolutely dumbfounded when I read it, and quite frankly, I never want to get a.

00:33:30
Speaker 11: Letter like this again. I'm gonna read to you what it says. It's a measure purpose of measure E the purpose of the special taxes to help the Consolidated Fire Protection District of Los Angeles replace, improve, and maintain essential emergency response services.

00:33:53
Speaker 12: This includes an I to living and communications systems for faster response times, purchased and maintaining fire engines, helicopters, and thermal imaging cameras, improving fire protection and wildfire prone areas, and hiring and training firefighters and paramedics to meet national staffing standards. And this is going to be a sixty dollars property tax increase.

00:34:18
Speaker 11: What would they do with all the other money? And what makes to think that when they take this money they're going to do any better?

00:34:24
Speaker 1: How about this? If they would to reduce the fire risk in La County? How about busting up the bum encampments, I hear you. How about this, making sure there's water in the fire hydrants.

00:34:44
Speaker 12: Yeah, protection and wildfire prone areas and hiring and training fire.

00:34:53
Speaker 1: All right, Well, thank you for the call, sir, I appreciate it.

00:34:55
Speaker 2: I think he started to realize that we're hitting the sixty second delay, so he turned on the radio so he could hear himself on the radio, and he decided that he was done with talking to us because he got what he needed out of us.

00:35:10
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, the fixed California Hours coming up next. Later out of the program, we're gonna check in with our pal Robbie Suave from Washington, DC. It's Jimmy Buffett Friday, and the heat is coming to the state of California. Actually, the heat's coming to the entire West. I'm going to Arizona later today for some spring training baseball, and I've been told to bring plenty of hats and plenty of sunscreen because it's gonna be a scorcher