Why Homeless Facilities in Fresno Aren't Working

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I want to give a little personal testimony about homelessness
and other sort of issues associated with it, just my
own personal experience as sort of an anecdote that maybe
those of you listening who have businesses in Fresno might

(00:20):
be able to relate to. And it has to do
with my business being located near one of the various
new homeless shelters that are being constructed along Blackstone Avenue.
A lot of this stuff is being developed kind of
in the corridor around Blackstone and Ashland. Now. I've worked

(00:42):
at That's where my office is for Right to Life
of Central California, and I've been working at Right to
Life since twenty sixteen. Go there every weekday to my office,
and it's always been a rough part of town. There's
a lot of crime and gang activity near there, but

(01:03):
most of the time it was sort of restricted to
the night and during the day it's not too bad.
We would have graffiti fairly often. I have the City
of Fresno's graffiti abatement service sort of pre programmed into
my phone, and I make more use of them probably
than most people do. And we would occasionally get homeless

(01:30):
people who sort of decided they would set up shop
near or around our business, and eventually we would, you know,
try to be kind to people, but eventually sort of
tell them, howy you kind of need to move along.
A lot of it has to do with the fact
that my business, it's got our building that we have.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Which is on Griffith Avenue. It's got kind of this.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Low garden wall on the outside of it, and it's
kind of the perfect height for sitting on.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
It's sort of.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Low garden bed wall, and it is in the shade,
so during the summer people wind up sitting there and
hanging out. Now, the problem is that I've realized, and
a lot of this seems to happen near my building
at night after we're gone, is that people are drinking
and doing drugs and stuff like that right in front

(02:21):
of my building, sitting on my stoop, et cetera. But
for the most part, it's not too bad. Recently, however,
the city of Fresno has some kind of I don't know,
and I should actually clarify. I don't know if it's
the City of Fresno, I don't know if the State
of California. I don't know who this relationship is with,

(02:44):
but there's the old Motel six. It's near Blackstone and
Ashland and it's just sort of the back of its
parking lot is right across the street from my business.
The back of its parking lot sort of runs backs
up against Griffith Way, and it's right across the street

(03:07):
from my business. It has now become a kind of
homeless residence, a residence for people going through homelessness. Now,
this is what seems to have happened, and this is
I think this is going to be a problem with

(03:29):
the way that a lot of these homeless entities work.
And it's making me more and more convinced that homelessness,
at least A massive contributor to homelessness seems to be
drug use. These are people with drug problems? Am I
saying every single one? I don't know, but it seems

(03:51):
to be a massive contributor. So let me describe what's
happening here. Right across the street from my business right
to Life Central, California is the back of the parking
lot for the Motel six, which has now been converted
into some kind of homeless housing. There is now a
black metal gate with like a security checkpoint with security

(04:16):
guards there who let people in and out, residents of
the building. Presumably they've been doing construction on it for
the last several months, and it seems to have been
finalized all of a sudden in the last like two weeks.
After this is finalized, tons of people go out the back,

(04:41):
leave from this exit the sort of security checkpoint at
the back of the Motel six parking lot along Griffith Way,
walk out onto Griffith Way and hang out right in
front of my business on this again, literally on the
fabric of my building, on this low garden wall that's
up against the side of my building that runs along

(05:02):
the sidewalk on Griffith Way. And what seems to have
happened is that drug dealers, entrepreneurial folks have just set
up shop. They're just camped out. They're camped out right
at this exit where folks leave the facility. Now, I

(05:27):
think what seems to be happening is quite clear. You
can't be using drugs taking drugs on the premises of
this homeless facility. So what's happening. Well, they go immediately
off the campus to a guy who very seems quite

(05:50):
visibly to be a drug dealer, buy drugs from him.
And then just hang out doing drugs. So then they
hang out on my building and they're dumping garbage of
all kinds into my garden bed, hanging out in front

(06:10):
of my garden bed, stopping cars to lean into women,
stopping cars to lean into the window in the middle
of the street for no clear apparent good reason, leaving garbage,
leaving other stuff in my garden bed, and just I've

(06:31):
literally seen guys throwing dice against the side of my building,
gambling like the playing dice, rattling the dice, the clickity gleck.
I remember Dave Chappelle did a whole skit about this,
the World Series of Dice Now, And all of a sudden,

(06:52):
it's like a zillion people like this, cars parked along
for there's a car that seems to be belonged to
this drug dealer. There are certain women who were dressed
a little odd who seem to be hanging out around here,
who again keep having guys kind of stopping in the
middle of the road to kind of talk to them,
and they're leaning into the window. I'm I it seems

(07:15):
like a lot of bad stuff is happening, and it's
right off the campus of these homeless houses of these
homeless housing facilities. Now call me crazy. I don't think
this is the most productive thing. And it makes you think.

(07:40):
You know, we've had all these stories about the tens
of billions of dollars that the state of California has
spent on homelessness, on homeless shelters, homeless housing, this.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
Then, and the other.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
Okay, let me just state and by by the way,
all of this traffic that's happening right in front of
my business is within sight of the security guards who
are working for this homeless shelter. They're like seeing it
all unfold in front of them. It's within plane view,

(08:20):
and it's difficult. I call the police, and it's not
quite at the level of someone getting stabbed or shot,
and so it takes a while for the police to come.
I had to yell and scream at the police for
like four or five straight days and contact two different
city council members before I was able to get appropriate

(08:41):
action taken to get them out of there. I then
went to the security guards working for that homeless shelter
and I told them, listen, you tell your people that
if they are loitering and leaving garbage et cetera. On
my property, I will call the cops. I will call
the cops every time. Now, I do not run a normal,

(09:09):
you know, open to the public business. I'm running a
nonprofit organization. This is just the management office for it. Okay,
we're not open to the general public. We're only open
to invitees. I have employees who come there, and some
volunteers who come by, board members who come by for
board meetings, et cetera. So I'm not But imagine, though,

(09:31):
if I just had a normal business it's open to
the public. If I had a I don't know, if
I had a burger king or something where I've got
customers trying to come in and I've got this nonsense
like right in front. I mean, what a huge disincentive
for people to come visit my business that would have been.
I mean, I'm fortunate that it's not really impacting my
bottom dollar all that much. It is, though, highly embarrassing

(09:53):
to you know, when I have board members or supporters
or volunteers who want to I mean I had last Thursday,
we had a truck come by to write to Life
to drop off a bunch of corsages that we order.
We have a bunch of churches that do a fundraiser
with US where they sell corsages at their Sunday services

(10:14):
on Mother's Day and the proceeds go to help support US.
It's a lovely little fundraiser. So I had volunteers at
my building ready to help unload the corsages from the truck.
And we've got a whole army of people from the
homeless shelter just camped out on my stoop in front

(10:34):
of my building on the garden bed wall attached to
the outside wall of my building along Griffith Way. So
it's it was nuts now. Eventually, after a lot of effort,
I got through to the city and I got through
to the Fresno PD and they were responsive and were
able to help me. But the first several times I called,

(11:00):
it was nothing doing nothing, Nothing useful was happening, and
I sort of feel bad for like, well, if there's
a business that's not as insistent as I am, I mean,
you know, and I kind of know a little better
about what avenues I can take to get more help
than maybe most people do. I wind up calling my
city council member who represents me in that part of town,

(11:22):
Tyler Maxwell kind of is the city council member who
sort of represents my region where right to life is.
But I don't know that everyone knows to do that.
I think people will just call the police and then
give up after a couple of times. And I honestly
got to say, I mean, we want to move, We

(11:43):
want to move. It's not good. And again it makes
me turn to all the money that's been spent on
homeless on homelessness efforts. Let me just say this. You've
got a homeless housing entity where a lot of these

(12:03):
people are homeless in part at least in part because
of their drug problems, and they're living in your unit
and they're going like two feet off the campus to
buy drugs. How are you helping? Like, is there no

(12:24):
sense that the effectiveness of this mission is going to
be massively undercut if there isn't a concomitant commitment on
the part of local police, local law enforcement to make
sure that the area immediately around this shelter is not

(12:44):
a hub for drug activity, because that seems to be
what's happening. These drug dealers are shrewd businessmen and they're
setting up shop like right outside the exit to the
homeless shelter. That's got to be enormously undercutting whatever good
work the shelter itself is doing. So what is the

(13:05):
point of this? Is the point of this homeless shelter
to get people on their feet, get them with a
roof over their head, and maybe get them on the
right road to being able to be self sustaining by
cleaning up their drug habit, et cetera. Or is it

(13:26):
just there's government money, We're doing a thing for government money.
We're just trying to have a job. What's the point
of this? Are we spending all this state money? Are
we spending all this taxpayer money on homelessness to make
ourselves feel better? To make Gavin Newsom feel better about
himself than oh I spent fourteen billion dollars on homelessness.
Well that's all well and good, but unless it's actually

(13:46):
gonna help, that's not going to fix anything. And what
I'd say from again, this is my window, my narrow
window of personal experience dealing with my business at Blackstone
and Griffith. If you're gonna have homeless housing, but you

(14:08):
allow people to walk ten feet out of the homeless
housing and buy drugs, it's not gonna effect the kind
of long term lifestyle change that we want for these people.
If anything, you're just gonna perpetuate the cycle. They're gonna
stay in the homeless housing for a little bit until,

(14:30):
you know, whatever, their term is up, or they have
to leave. And they've maintained their drug habit the whole
time they were there. Why because there was a drug
dealer camped out right outside the homeless shelter and you
didn't do much about it. You didn't do much whether
the city was lax and it's policing or the homeless

(14:54):
entity was lax as far as like telling people residing there, hey,
what are you doing? You can't be like it just
boggles my mind. It boggles my mind that. But I
now I feel like I understand it a little more.
We're spending all this money on homelessness because you know,

(15:15):
people like to have a job. The people who are
receiving this money, they like getting state money. They like
setting up entities and getting a salary and whatnot. But
it seems like there's the harder work of making sure
this is actually effective rather than just a revolving door
of state money going in. Us getting our salary just

(15:39):
just a money pit. Basically, when we return, is this
a state problem or a local government problem? Next on
the John Girardi Show, I'm reading some different arguments people
are making about Gavin Newsom and whether it's his fault
that homelessness has expanded statewide so much over the course

(16:02):
of his governorship. And there are some Gavin defenders who
try to argue it's not govern's folded look, homelessness is
a local government problem, ignoring how it seems to be
very specifically California statewide problem. It's massively expanded all across

(16:25):
this state, and you know San Francisco always had problems
with homelessness, and then over the last you know, ten years,
it's become a massive problem in all the rest of
the state. And is it a local problem? Is it
a state problem? Well, the thing is, if you try

(16:47):
to do that as a defense of Gavin Newsom, it
doesn't really work very well because people then forget, oh wait,
he was mayor of one of the biggest cities in
California that had one of the largest homeless populations in
the state, that had one of the worst problems with
homelessness in the whole state. San Francisco for seven years

(17:08):
and the problem massively increased under his watch as mayor
of San Francisco, Newsom spent thirty seven billion dollars to
that only wound up increasing homelessness by twenty four percent
and it raised violent crime increased thirty one percent over
the national average. So the whole argument of it's no

(17:29):
Covin Newsom's fault, it's a local government problem. Well, okay,
Well it's also Gavin Newsom's fault given that he was
mayor of one of the biggest cities in California and
saw it massively get worse. Anyway, Gavin Newsom is a
terrible He is a terrible government official at both the
local and the state wide levels. So is it a

(17:51):
local problem? Is it a state problem? I will say,
and hey, maybe my this you know, little platform here.
I think I want to highlight that there is a
real local government problem with how we're doing homeless shelters.

(18:12):
If my experience, now, if my experience is universal, that
these homeless shelters, these people are living at them, They
have these converted hotels. People are living there, but they're
going immediately off the campus to go do drugs with
the seemingly with the wink wink, nod nod understanding of

(18:34):
the entities running these homeless shelters, and with the police
being mia you know, until I absolutely badgered them, and
even still I'm not sure. It seems like they're just
sort of moving these homeless people who are sort of
camping out right in front of my building, with a
drug dealer right there camped outside the exit to the

(18:59):
exit from this motel, the converted Motel six, or what
certainly seem to be a drug dealer or someone very
conspicuously positioned right there interacting with all these people with
a car and everything. If people are allowing the residents
there to continue their drug habits more or less unabated

(19:23):
with a wink wink, nod nod acknowledgment, and local police
isn't really cracking down around the perimeter of these homeless
shelters to ensure that there isn't drug trafficking going on, well,
then these homeless shelters are not going to work. And
the police can say all they want listen, like, low
level drug trafficking is just not something that we're very

(19:43):
we got. We have bigger fish to fry. I understand
that I understand the Fresno PD has much bigger fish
to fry than you know, buying someone buying crack from
Gooch outside of you know, outside of a motel six.
I get it, But we're spending local governments are spending

(20:05):
state governments are spending gazillions of dollars on homelessness, on
fighting homelessness, combating homelessness. You've got people living at these
shelters who are homeless in the first place, many many, many,
many of them because they have drug problems. They're living
at these shelters, going you know, fifteen feet off the

(20:27):
campus to buy drugs and use drugs. You're not gonna
help fix the long term problem unless local government.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
I e.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
Local police is really vigilant about patrolling those areas around
the perimeter of homeless shelters and saying, hey, we're not
going to take a wink wink, non nod approach that Okay,
let me stand here, and he's going off the you know,
buy heroin or speed, whatever the hell it is that
he's buying. We can't take that approach. Otherwise we're just

(21:04):
dumping money into a bottomless pit. And that's the thing
with so much of liberal spending on different kinds of programs.
You're only supposed to you know, I think Rush talked
about this back in the whole Day. The only thing

(21:25):
you're supposed to judge them on is their intentions. Oh,
liberals have such good, noble intentions. When you actually ask
for some results, for some return on investment, it's like
you're you're a mean guy for doing so. Like, I
don't care how much money you spend on homelessness. If
homelessness doesn't go down, we need to reevaluate what the
heck we're doing. And I'm I am wondering that all

(21:49):
I have to go on is my narrow experience outside
of my business of we're right outside the exit to
a homeless housing entity. People are going to feet off
campus and seem to be buying drugs from a guy
who's camped out there with a bunch of tattoos, who
is conspicuously hanging around. And if it's just a wink wink,

(22:15):
non non arrangement with the entities running the homeless entity,
if local police isn't gonna be vigilant to stop it,
these people are never going to get out of homelessness.
If while they're in the homeless housing entity, they are
able to continue their drug habits completely unabated, then it's
never gonna end. You can dump as much money as

(22:35):
you want. If someone is addicted to drugs, win they're
homeless when they're in the homeless shelter, and then after
they leave the homeless shelter, they're gonna go back to
being homeless. It's not gonna ultimately change the trajectory of
this long term. When we return the shocking using scare quotes,

(22:55):
they are shocking, not very shocking revelations about Joe Biden's health.
That is next on the Gerardi Show. So there's a
new book that's going to be released by Jake Tapper and.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
I think the other guy's name is Alex Thompson.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
I believe about basically the cover up of the decline
in President Biden's health. And there's a lot of cya
happening on the left right now over this, a lot
of well, a lot of cya on the part of
the media. A lot of the media acting like, oh,

(23:32):
we were deceived, how dare oh so unfortunate, which is nonsense.
You can tell it's nonsense because basically a lot of
Biden officials if the media was genuinely being deceived, it
means that a lot of Biden officials would have had
to lie to them. And if you got lied to

(23:58):
repeatedly by all these people, well you would burn them.
Probably after the fact, you would turn on them. You
wouldn't continue to be buddy buddies with them. And that's
just not what happened. People in Biden world, with all
their contacts in the media, still seem to remain on
good terms with the media. And furthermore, this idea of oh,

(24:19):
we were deceived, we missed this story. Nobody missed anything.
We all the vat and not just like right wingers
saw it. I'm not talking about the thirty eight percent
of Americans who are sort of Trump's core, never ever

(24:42):
going to abandon him constituency. I'm not talking about people
who wear maga hats. I'm not talking about you know,
talk radio hosts or you know people really in depth.
There sixty plus percent of the country before the CNN

(25:04):
debate thought Biden was too old to be president. A
huge majority of Americans believed their non lion eyes. They
just saw the guy. They see the guy, They see
the guy walking around, they see him shuffling around when
he walks, they see him going upstairs, they see him
make mental gaffs, they see him wandering around on stages.

(25:29):
It's not it wasn't some grand secret and the Republican
accounts who were reshowing video clips of Biden's gaffes, they
weren't manufacturing this stuff. A lot of it was just
replaying uncut video and the media just sort of refused
to talk about it. Now there's a lot of the

(25:54):
people who are in the Kamala campaign are using this
book seemingly as sort of their platform, a sort of
rationalizing and trying to rationalize things and justify things, And
it leads me to want to talk about Kamala and
her political prospects going forward. I think more and more,
the more media I read, the more accounts I read

(26:16):
about what is happening in Kamala world, is that ego
has gotten the better of her. So Kamala obviously has
right now two pretty much mutually exclusive paths that she
can take to political power and relevance. She can try

(26:38):
to one is the safe bet she can run for
governor of California in twenty twenty six, where she will
easily win. What a is sho. She's terrible. I know
she's terrible, guys. And she beat Donald Trump sixty to
forty in the twenty twenty four November presidential contest. Okay,

(27:02):
even though Trump did better in California than he had
done last time, She's still won like fifty eight to
forty something like that. She's got more name recognition than anybody.
She's got more connections to the donor class than anybody.
And how do you win a statewide election in California, Well,

(27:22):
you really win it with name recognition. You win because
you have more money than everyone else. You have the
donors behind you, the big time Democrat donors behind you,
and they pay for television ads in Los Angeles. That's
how you win. That's how you win.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
If you're a Democrat.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
You get enough money to pay for television ads in
the Los Angeles media market, which is very, very expensive.
You get your name out there. You win. People lose
elections for state wide office in California very often, just
purely on the basis of nobody knows who the heck
they are. So Kamala has enormous, an enormous name recognition advantage.

(27:58):
She's already one state one office in California several times.
She was the presidential candidate last time, who won California
fifty eight to forty. Like she's gonna be a shoe in.
She's going to be a shoe in to win as governor.
She also might not have the same kinds of problems

(28:19):
with forest fires and things like that. Then, say, Gavin
Newsom would right, I mean the Los Angeles fires are
those her fault? Well not really. Now, she might not
be able to articulate anything she would have done differently
about forest management or anything like that. The thing with
Harris is that she was attorney general, but she wasn't

(28:42):
really necessarily overseeing in her various jobs. She was never
really necessarily overseeing from an executive perspective, any of the
really bad stuff that happened over the course of the
time in California. May when she was attorney general. You
can go back and say that, you know, she was

(29:04):
initiating environmental lawsuits. Maybe someone can dig that up. But
it's not like Karen Bass, where you were the mayor
of Los Angeles. These horrible fires happened under your watch.
Explain yourself. It's not like Gavin Newsome. Hey, you were
governor for eight years, you didn't fix any of these
forest fire problems. In fact, in your seventh year you
had the worst fire ever. Explain yourself. Because she was

(29:29):
a senator and isn't really governing. She's just voting on stuff.
You know, she doesn't really have to face much as
far as accountability for California's specific problems, So she'd be
a shoe in. However, as much as she'd be a
shoe in as governor of California, I think, and don't

(29:52):
talk to me about Steve Hilton, good lord, she'd utterly
smoke him. As much as you may like Steve Hilton,
he doesn't have a prayer against Kamala Harris. She has
eight hundred thousand times the name recognition.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
That he does.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
As easy as it would be for Kamala to win
the governor's race in California, I don't think she wants
to do it. I think she wants to run for president,
and I think the release of this book is giving
me more indication that that's what's happening. Why well, there's
all these quotes from Kamala campaign surrogates saying it was

(30:32):
impot It's all Biden's fault. It's all Biden's fault that
Kamala lost. It was absolutely impossible to expect her to
win with only a one hundred day ramp up to
the election. It was impossible to expect her to win
with only one hundred days to the election. You know,

(30:54):
they switched out the candidates. It was in what was
that it was in July or August. I think so
it was about one hundred days before or the November
fifth election. It was impossible to expect her to win.
Joe Biden. It's all Joe Biden's fault. Joe Biden screwed
this all up. And the narrative that seems to be
getting pushed from Kamala world is it's not Kamala's fault
that she lost, it's Biden's fault. Now, if I may

(31:20):
step in with my commentary, failure has a thousand fathers. Sure,
no doubt Biden's conduct was a huge problem for Democrats.
But it's not like it would have been impossible for
Kamala to win. Let's be real here. Kamala, you know,

(31:46):
was doing very well. Shortly after she was announced. She
had a big bounce, She had a big bounce after
after the Democrat After the Democrat Convention, she had this
big bounce. She was doing well, she was polling well,
and Trump just pulled ahead of her. Why. Because she's
not a very good candidate. That's why she screwed up

(32:08):
a lot of things. A lot of the problems were
not that she had Oh such a short time frame.
Would more time have really helped her? I don't know
that that's true. I mean, she did okay in the
debate against Trump. Honestly, she did better than I thought
she would, but she had some huge gaffes. She did
that interview where she was asked, what would you have

(32:30):
done differently from Joe Biden? And she said, quote, nothing
comes to mind. Nothing comes to mind. That was a
total god send for the Republicans because it allowed look,
Democrats seem to not want to acknowledge this is the problem.

(32:50):
The strategists around Kamala seemed to have this weird spot
they were in that they wanted her to be the candidate,
but they also didn't really want to criticize Biden for anything,
and Biden wasn't winning. Biden was losing by a good margin.

(33:13):
Prior to the CNN debate, and it wasn't only just
because he was old. He was losing in large I
mean everyone sort of thought he was old. The CNN
debate really opened people's eyes, like, wow, he's really too
old to do this. But he was losing not just
because he was old. He was losing because of inflation

(33:33):
in the economy and a host of other reasons. I
mean the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle. Like people thought there was
a lot of stuff he did that wasn't great, that
he was not doing well. His presidential approval ratings were
really really poor. And for them to think that the
only problem was oh, he was old. Once we get

(33:57):
a young person in then oh we'll be fine, will
be easy, breezy victory. Will Is assured no they needed
to do to have a break with Biden's policies, and
Harris had plentiful opportunities to say, you know, listen, I
was the vice president. I mean, I feel and I
feel like Harris could have done it. I feel like
she could have said, listen, I was the vice president.

(34:19):
I was only so empowered to make changes to policy.
So is you know, I think President Biden did a
lot of good things. Did I agree with absolutely everything
he did. No, I can't imagine that any vice president
agrees one hundred percent with everything that our boss does.
Here's some things I would have done differently, and here's

(34:40):
things both never that case was never made, never made,
and she was handled, you know, the way that, for example,
the sixty minutes interview was handled, where they were super
heavily editing it because they really didn't trust her to
talk too much. The debacle of not going on the
Joe Rogan podcast, which all of a sudden, here's Joe Rogan,

(35:02):
the most important, you know, broker of all media. That
showed real weakness. It showed real weakness and a lack
of confidence. So this notion, however, in spite of all that,
in spite of the fact that clearly Harris contributed to
her own defeat, it was not all Biden's fault. Maybe

(35:24):
you could argue, you know, that was a hole that
nobody could have dug out of. I feel like somebody
could have. I feel like Josh Shapiro could have dug
out of that hole. And and that's that's the other thing.
Democrats don't want to take responsibility for how they switched
out Joe Biden clearly what they should have done is

(35:45):
switch out Joe Biden and then have a real open
process process at the Democrat convention. Like Biden was failing
for a number of reasons other than being old, maybe
you bring in someone who is in beholden to having
to defend all of the Biden policies as clearly they
felt Harris had to do, and that was Maybe that's

(36:07):
part of it. Harris's ego was so fragile, seemingly that
she couldn't just say, well, I was pretty much a
powerless vice president and I was overridden all the time
by Joe Biden, So don't blame me for his policies.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
You know.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
Maybe, in her defense, maybe that's not a tenable position
for her to take. Nonetheless, it seems like all the
messaging coming out is it was Biden's.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
Fault, It was Biden's fault. It was Biden's fault.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
And that makes me think Harris thinks she can win.
Harris thinks if she is the main nominee and she
has a full cycle and has some time and space
away from Joe Biden, that she can be elected president.
So I don't think she's running for governor in twenty
twenty six, and I think she is going to run

(36:54):
for president in twenty twenty eight when we return my
Steve Hilton thought it's next on the John Girardi Show.
I think Kamala Harris is not going to run for governor. Clearly,
Javier Bsera is in and Steve Hilton is in. Now,
a lot of stuff has happened the last couple weeks,
and I haven't really talked about Steve Hilton much. I

(37:16):
can't say I'm like super enthused. It's nothing too much
against Steve Hilton. I mean, Hilton has done every rubber
chicken Republican dinner throughout the San Joaquin Valley. He possibly could.
He's trying to write a book, he's trying to promote
his book. Blah blah blah blah blah.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
He's running for governor.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
You know, he's an immigrant, he you know, he loves America. Okay,
he's a Fox News talking head. I just feel like
you win the governorship with name recognition, and until we
can get a Republican candidate with some measure of name recognition,
we're just going to get steamrolled. And I'm sorry, Fox

(37:56):
News talking head isn't enough in addition to other aspects,
you know, very socially liberal, blah blah blah. I'm just
not blown away. So would he be better than Kamala
Orjavi or but Sarah sure.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
Just just don't see it happening.

Speaker 1 (38:12):
That'll do it. John Dirolady Show, See you next time
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