February 28, 2024 • 11 mins
The race for the CA Senate is on. Candidate Steve Garvey joins Armstrong & Getty to talk about his values and plans for California if elected!
Steve Garvey, former Major League Baseball star, is going up against democrats Katie Porter and Adam Schiff for CA senate.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is they're running them. We have to. It's the law.
This would be this would be My first question is
Steve Garvey?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
If I just didn't want put him in an uncomfortable position,
He's a not Steve Garvey.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Adam Ship is a.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Lying, cynical piece of crap and I hate him, disagree
very strong.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Why don't we introduce Steve Garvey?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
First of all, great baseball star second half of the
twentieth century. Of the fact that he's not in the
Hall of Fame as a joke, but we won't get
hung up on that. Steve has also been since his
retirement to active in a variety causes from special Olympics
to juvenile diabetes, the United Way, Ronald McDonald, House and more.
And Steve Garvey candidate for US and in California joins US.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Now, Steve, how are you.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Great? To be with you guys? Could you play that
home run again more and more?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
If he does, there's going to be a fight. How honestly,
how often? How often do you think about that?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
You went through the recovery program, the Cubs revo tape
from Garvey program.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Well we'll get to the politics. But yeah, I always
wondered we got a terrible delay problem going on.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
We're going to use that. We're going to use that
Don Drysdale call, which has been infamous on Tuesday Night,
Primary night, because you know, we've run My team has
run an amazing campaign. It's just five months now and
we've gone from zero to the mid twenties in terms
of carolling. And we believe that we'll be a tomorrow
(01:27):
and there'll be eight more months after Tuesday Night where
the people that have good people at California have stood
up and say, Steve, thanks for running. Bless you. It's
a narrow path, but we can't believe that California is
in the States. And your voice is saying we want
to be the wind beneath your wings back to Washington.
(01:48):
So it stays like they were a chance to talk
to you, and the message is so vitally important.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
So you live in a pretty comfortable life as a
retired baseball star, well regarded in your home state. Why
would you toss that all up in the air to
run for the Senate in a blue blue stain.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Well, you know, there's a wonderful saying that the two
most important days of your life are the day you're
born and the day you realize why. And you know,
in the seventies, September first, in nineteen sixty nine, I
was called up to the Dodgers. You know, they bring
up minor league players in September. And a longer story
(02:25):
is me being a back boy at the age of
eight in Tampa, Florida for the Brooklyn Dodgers and the
Boys this summer. It's a longer story, but I got
a chance to ba boy two or three times for
eight or nine years with Hodges and Trillo and Jackie Robinson.
So I grew up with my idols. And then twelve
years after that first day, I was after by the Dodgers,
and on that September one, fifty five years ago, I
(02:49):
put on a Dodger uniform for the first time, and
my dream came true. And that was when California was
the heartbeat of America. You know, people remember people coming
here with their dreams and hoping to grow the family
and build businesses and having their dreams come true. And
that heartbeat became a murmur. And you so ably every
(03:11):
day talk about this one party state that suppresses the
good people who like me, have common sense, They have compassion,
They try to work together and build businesses that they
can't And the most important thing is that we had
finally somebody stand up. And I decided in March that
(03:31):
I'm better than this. And I woke up in the morning,
turned TV on and saw the snarkiness and career politicians
not representing us, but representing their party, and they were
doing it for a job, they were doing it for power.
And I said, maybe I want to have the chance
to do it for the people. So I woke up
(03:53):
my wife and I said, Canvas, you know, honey, let's
work for the Senate. And she is a dutiful wife.
Turned over. She turned back and said, don't you think
you're a little young for the Senate? You know, seventy
fourth time, And I said, well, I used the Reagan line.
I think I can overcome my youth and inexperience and
we are better than this. And I started a pathway
(04:14):
to running. We announced almost five months ago. Unfortunately it
was a day after the Israeli War, which captivated the
media world and devastated all of us. But we've come
from zero to the mid twenties and a short amount
of time with that great momentum and an he writes
this ad campaign that they've spent tens of millions to
(04:37):
paint me in a corner. It's got people mad, but
for us, it's created a tremendous amount of awareness. And
by the way, the pictures look good. What all the
women say? What's important? The days like today where we
can share my vision are so important during this stretch.
Run now to the next Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
So we know who your likely opponent is. True of false?
Adam Ship is a lying piece of crap.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Well, you know, about three weeks, almost a month, we
had the first and three debates, and I hadn't debated
in sixty years. You know, I figured out it was
a junior class president. We had a debate at Chamberlain
I in Dampa, and that debating is really interesting. You're
standing on the stage and I wanted to make sure
I was at the one end and that my three
(05:26):
progressive opponents were done the wrong. And then all of
a sudden they started to attack me, and Shift looked
at me, and I just raised my hand to the
moderators and I said, mister Schiff, you've lied to over
three hundred million people, and you can't take that back,
(05:47):
and he looked at me and he started going, well,
I won't take it back, and this and then and
by the way, you were censored. Well, only three people
in the history of Congress have been censored. So that night,
you know, it was a volley. Those two statements have
reservated to pay to ten million people on the you know,
on the web. And that's established. You know, dot mistake
(06:10):
kindness for weakness, if you're going to hack me what
I'm standing up for. And my wife said that, she said,
you know, you never took the field for Democrats, Republicans, independence,
You took the field for all the fans. And now
you're running for all the people. And that's the difference.
They're running for half the people. They're running for a job,
they're running for power. I'm running for all the people
(06:33):
and a chance to go to Washington and represent them.
Go to bed every day.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
What issues are important to you, Steve, I mean, what
do you really want to get done in the Senate.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Well, you know, they we've done our polling and varies.
But let's face it, I'm law and order. I'm let's
fight crime. So that's important. The economy and inflation every
day moms get up and dads and they go to
the kittens, and mom has to decide what she could afford.
You know that we had to feed her children. Then
(07:05):
they go to the gas station. You go there and
you look around like I do here in the jail valley,
and people are taking a ten dollar bill instead of
their credit cards and buying ten dollars worth of gas
instead of ten gallons. Then you look at housing, and
you look at the mortgage and interest rates, and people
are getting up. And this is a very very founded
(07:28):
polways that they're probably losing eight to nine hundred dollars
a month. They're working harder and losing every day. They're
dreams than dull. They'll lose ten to twelve thousand dollars
a year. And this is a fact. Eighty percent of
California and are breaking or losing every day. So it's
(07:49):
the economy, it's crime. It's the border. I've been down
to the border. My opponents haven't. It's watching the infiltration
we did San Diego from the ocean at the top
of ot Mountain, which is right near Hokumba, and walking
him come across. I should cross in pacts of twenty
thirty forty raising their hands waiting for the US Border Patrol,
(08:11):
Border patrol bencements all their time processing, and that every
day is the reasons why there's five to eight ten
thousand people a day.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Right, And if you're going to focus on inflation and
the economy and the border, I think you're on exactly
the right track. I hate to interrupt, but we're actually
up against the break. Steve Garvey, we will stay in touch.
We will talk again. Good luck and best wishes. Thank
you for being here.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
You'll stay in touch and talk again. I won't be here.
I just hate talking to politicians. I get nothing out
of talking to politicians. Be nice to who for what?
You got nothing out of that? Well, I got the
fact that he's never going to be a US senator.
Out of that, I got that m harsh words handsome.
(08:57):
The next time you suggest a politician, oh no, oh yeah,
I'm ready to know. I'm ready to name names and
blame people. The next time you suggest a politician, make
sure you also schedule my day off. The next time
we get something out of talking to a politician might
be the first time. I don't know what school they
go to about answering questions to make sure it's few
(09:18):
people stay tuned in.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
As possible or what.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Or just none of them have that skill, just very
few of them have that skill, that talent for like
getting to the things that could possibly interest somebody. I
don't know, I don't know what it is. Are they
their ability to just filibuster and eat up time? Oftentimes
that's it. I don't that's not usually what it is
when you're running for office. You're not trying to kill time.
(09:43):
You want to get elected. I mean, we've had plenty
of politicians on where you're trying to grill them and
they their skill is to just eat up time, just
to filibuster until you the five minutes are up.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
But god dang it, moving along.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I'm sure he's a nice guy that doesn't make any difference.
So he ain't gonna be a US senator.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Mm Jack on the Shift payroll pretty clearly and Adam
Shift that lying, cynical piece of crap.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
He might be the worst person in all of government,
Adam Schiff, and he's going to be a senator from
the biggest state in the country.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
So now it's clear to me or you here on
Maxine Waters payroll, who can you come up with anybody
who's running I don't even care.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Can you come up with anybody in the federal government
worse than Adam Schiff And but he's in the top
tier of evil and gutless and dishonest.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
God.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Usually when you do something like what he did during
the whole Trump collusion thing, you're like, you're you're sacrificing yourself.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
You're sacrificing the rest of your career to go. Yeah,
you're a joke for the rest of your life. You're
a punchline. But you took one for the team. No,
he's gonna be elevated to a US senator. That's a
disappointing reality about our politics.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Oh my god, he'll be a senator till the day
he dies.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Because I think it's cute that you still have the
capacity to be disappointed.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Armstrong and Getty
This is they're running them. We have to. It's the law.
This would be this would be My first question is
Steve Garvey?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
If I just didn't want put him in an uncomfortable position,
He's a not Steve Garvey.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Adam Ship is a.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Lying, cynical piece of crap and I hate him, disagree
very strong.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Why don't we introduce Steve Garvey?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
First of all, great baseball star second half of the
twentieth century. Of the fact that he's not in the
Hall of Fame as a joke, but we won't get
hung up on that. Steve has also been since his
retirement to active in a variety causes from special Olympics
to juvenile diabetes, the United Way, Ronald McDonald, House and more.
And Steve Garvey candidate for US and in California joins US.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Now, Steve, how are you.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Great? To be with you guys? Could you play that
home run again more and more?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
If he does, there's going to be a fight. How honestly,
how often? How often do you think about that?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
You went through the recovery program, the Cubs revo tape
from Garvey program.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Well we'll get to the politics. But yeah, I always
wondered we got a terrible delay problem going on.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
We're going to use that. We're going to use that
Don Drysdale call, which has been infamous on Tuesday Night,
Primary night, because you know, we've run My team has
run an amazing campaign. It's just five months now and
we've gone from zero to the mid twenties in terms
of carolling. And we believe that we'll be a tomorrow
(01:27):
and there'll be eight more months after Tuesday Night where
the people that have good people at California have stood
up and say, Steve, thanks for running. Bless you. It's
a narrow path, but we can't believe that California is
in the States. And your voice is saying we want
to be the wind beneath your wings back to Washington.
(01:48):
So it stays like they were a chance to talk
to you, and the message is so vitally important.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
So you live in a pretty comfortable life as a
retired baseball star, well regarded in your home state. Why
would you toss that all up in the air to
run for the Senate in a blue blue stain.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Well, you know, there's a wonderful saying that the two
most important days of your life are the day you're
born and the day you realize why. And you know,
in the seventies, September first, in nineteen sixty nine, I
was called up to the Dodgers. You know, they bring
up minor league players in September. And a longer story
(02:25):
is me being a back boy at the age of
eight in Tampa, Florida for the Brooklyn Dodgers and the
Boys this summer. It's a longer story, but I got
a chance to ba boy two or three times for
eight or nine years with Hodges and Trillo and Jackie Robinson.
So I grew up with my idols. And then twelve
years after that first day, I was after by the Dodgers,
and on that September one, fifty five years ago, I
(02:49):
put on a Dodger uniform for the first time, and
my dream came true. And that was when California was
the heartbeat of America. You know, people remember people coming
here with their dreams and hoping to grow the family
and build businesses and having their dreams come true. And
that heartbeat became a murmur. And you so ably every
(03:11):
day talk about this one party state that suppresses the
good people who like me, have common sense, They have compassion,
They try to work together and build businesses that they
can't And the most important thing is that we had
finally somebody stand up. And I decided in March that
(03:31):
I'm better than this. And I woke up in the morning,
turned TV on and saw the snarkiness and career politicians
not representing us, but representing their party, and they were
doing it for a job, they were doing it for power.
And I said, maybe I want to have the chance
to do it for the people. So I woke up
(03:53):
my wife and I said, Canvas, you know, honey, let's
work for the Senate. And she is a dutiful wife.
Turned over. She turned back and said, don't you think
you're a little young for the Senate? You know, seventy
fourth time, And I said, well, I used the Reagan line.
I think I can overcome my youth and inexperience and
we are better than this. And I started a pathway
(04:14):
to running. We announced almost five months ago. Unfortunately it
was a day after the Israeli War, which captivated the
media world and devastated all of us. But we've come
from zero to the mid twenties and a short amount
of time with that great momentum and an he writes
this ad campaign that they've spent tens of millions to
(04:37):
paint me in a corner. It's got people mad, but
for us, it's created a tremendous amount of awareness. And
by the way, the pictures look good. What all the
women say? What's important? The days like today where we
can share my vision are so important during this stretch.
Run now to the next Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
So we know who your likely opponent is. True of false?
Adam Ship is a lying piece of crap.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Well, you know, about three weeks, almost a month, we
had the first and three debates, and I hadn't debated
in sixty years. You know, I figured out it was
a junior class president. We had a debate at Chamberlain
I in Dampa, and that debating is really interesting. You're
standing on the stage and I wanted to make sure
I was at the one end and that my three
(05:26):
progressive opponents were done the wrong. And then all of
a sudden they started to attack me, and Shift looked
at me, and I just raised my hand to the
moderators and I said, mister Schiff, you've lied to over
three hundred million people, and you can't take that back,
(05:47):
and he looked at me and he started going, well,
I won't take it back, and this and then and
by the way, you were censored. Well, only three people
in the history of Congress have been censored. So that night,
you know, it was a volley. Those two statements have
reservated to pay to ten million people on the you know,
on the web. And that's established. You know, dot mistake
(06:10):
kindness for weakness, if you're going to hack me what
I'm standing up for. And my wife said that, she said,
you know, you never took the field for Democrats, Republicans, independence,
You took the field for all the fans. And now
you're running for all the people. And that's the difference.
They're running for half the people. They're running for a job,
they're running for power. I'm running for all the people
(06:33):
and a chance to go to Washington and represent them.
Go to bed every day.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
What issues are important to you, Steve, I mean, what
do you really want to get done in the Senate.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Well, you know, they we've done our polling and varies.
But let's face it, I'm law and order. I'm let's
fight crime. So that's important. The economy and inflation every
day moms get up and dads and they go to
the kittens, and mom has to decide what she could afford.
You know that we had to feed her children. Then
(07:05):
they go to the gas station. You go there and
you look around like I do here in the jail valley,
and people are taking a ten dollar bill instead of
their credit cards and buying ten dollars worth of gas
instead of ten gallons. Then you look at housing, and
you look at the mortgage and interest rates, and people
are getting up. And this is a very very founded
(07:28):
polways that they're probably losing eight to nine hundred dollars
a month. They're working harder and losing every day. They're
dreams than dull. They'll lose ten to twelve thousand dollars
a year. And this is a fact. Eighty percent of
California and are breaking or losing every day. So it's
(07:49):
the economy, it's crime. It's the border. I've been down
to the border. My opponents haven't. It's watching the infiltration
we did San Diego from the ocean at the top
of ot Mountain, which is right near Hokumba, and walking
him come across. I should cross in pacts of twenty
thirty forty raising their hands waiting for the US Border Patrol,
(08:11):
Border patrol bencements all their time processing, and that every
day is the reasons why there's five to eight ten
thousand people a day.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Right, And if you're going to focus on inflation and
the economy and the border, I think you're on exactly
the right track. I hate to interrupt, but we're actually
up against the break. Steve Garvey, we will stay in touch.
We will talk again. Good luck and best wishes. Thank
you for being here.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
You'll stay in touch and talk again. I won't be here.
I just hate talking to politicians. I get nothing out
of talking to politicians. Be nice to who for what?
You got nothing out of that? Well, I got the
fact that he's never going to be a US senator.
Out of that, I got that m harsh words handsome.
(08:57):
The next time you suggest a politician, oh no, oh yeah,
I'm ready to know. I'm ready to name names and
blame people. The next time you suggest a politician, make
sure you also schedule my day off. The next time
we get something out of talking to a politician might
be the first time. I don't know what school they
go to about answering questions to make sure it's few
(09:18):
people stay tuned in.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
As possible or what.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Or just none of them have that skill, just very
few of them have that skill, that talent for like
getting to the things that could possibly interest somebody. I
don't know, I don't know what it is. Are they
their ability to just filibuster and eat up time? Oftentimes
that's it. I don't that's not usually what it is
when you're running for office. You're not trying to kill time.
(09:43):
You want to get elected. I mean, we've had plenty
of politicians on where you're trying to grill them and
they their skill is to just eat up time, just
to filibuster until you the five minutes are up.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
But god dang it, moving along.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I'm sure he's a nice guy that doesn't make any difference.
So he ain't gonna be a US senator.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Mm Jack on the Shift payroll pretty clearly and Adam
Shift that lying, cynical piece of crap.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
He might be the worst person in all of government,
Adam Schiff, and he's going to be a senator from
the biggest state in the country.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
So now it's clear to me or you here on
Maxine Waters payroll, who can you come up with anybody
who's running I don't even care.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Can you come up with anybody in the federal government
worse than Adam Schiff And but he's in the top
tier of evil and gutless and dishonest.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
God.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Usually when you do something like what he did during
the whole Trump collusion thing, you're like, you're you're sacrificing yourself.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
You're sacrificing the rest of your career to go. Yeah,
you're a joke for the rest of your life. You're
a punchline. But you took one for the team. No,
he's gonna be elevated to a US senator. That's a
disappointing reality about our politics.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Oh my god, he'll be a senator till the day
he dies.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Because I think it's cute that you still have the
capacity to be disappointed.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
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