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Speaker 1 (00:02):
A Democratic senator is delaying a vote on a measure
that would end the government shutdown. Oregon Democrat Jeff Merkley
has been filibustering on the Senate floor since yesterday evening,
warning about what he says his President Trump's attack on democracy.
He's most likely delaying the inevitable, as the procedural a
vote on the GOP back funding proposal has already failed
to pass eleven times. The shutdown is now into its
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twenty second day. NATO's chief is meeting with President Trump
in Washington, just after Trump canceled a second summit with
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Now here's Jeff.
Speaker 17 (07:00):
It is our three of the Jeff Santio Show, and
welcome to it, folks, coming to you live from the
South Coast and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is my
pleasure to talk to the minority whip in the Democratic House.
Speaker 8 (07:17):
It's so great.
Speaker 17 (07:19):
From a fan of somebody who I knew when she
was a state legislator here in the great Commonwealth of
Massachusetts and now the number two person behind Kim Jeffries,
it is my pleasure to bring to the Jeff Santo
Show for the first time in a long time, our
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good friend again, Congresswoman Catherine Clark of Massachusetts, again the
minority whip in the Democratic side.
Speaker 8 (07:47):
So great to have you, Congresswoman.
Speaker 9 (07:48):
How are you today, Oh Jeff, Nice to be on
your show again.
Speaker 8 (07:56):
It's a pleasure. It's great to have you on the program.
Speaker 17 (08:01):
I must tell you, it's an exciting time to be
a Democrat, to be a progressive. We're excited to be
on in California, and we'll be replaying this interview throughout
the next couple of days for our audiences in Boston
and San Francisco and other parts of southern California as well,
so people will have a chance to get to hear
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what a good Massachusetts representative for so many years and
of course now number two in the House of Leadership. Well,
first of all, let me start with no King's Day.
What was your experience Like I had a chance to
go to small towns in the South Coast and some
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mid size cities, and I found that the vibes were
great from people who were very political to people who
never went to a rally before. What was your impressions
and the tour that you had around the Commonwealth country
if you were in different states.
Speaker 9 (09:04):
Yeah, I was only in Massachusetts and it was a great,
great day, Jeff, Just as you said, across the country,
over twenty seven hundred events, seven million people peacefully coming
out to say that we are patriots and patriots don't
believe in kings. And from the people I talked to
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to the over one hundred and twenty five thousand people
that came down to the Boston Commons, everybody was there
because they believe in this country. They believe in an
economy that includes them, they believe in having healthcare as
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a right. And it was just a really picture perfect
weather day and just a lot of community building and
a really great atmosphere.
Speaker 17 (10:06):
We're talking with minority whip in the Democratic House, Catherine Clark,
Congressman Clark represents, of course a Cambridge Metro West in
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. I must tell you it was
not only a great day, but I saw people from
every walk of life. You know, Tino, African American, Asian American,
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you know, young old people in their military garb, folks
who you know were retired and not necessarily very political,
but they feel that this country is off on the
wrong tract to a point where they say, look, I
have to get engaged. Did that also come across in
your visits across the Commonwealth?
Speaker 9 (10:48):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (10:49):
The crowd was beautiful ever where we went, and just
like you said, a very diverse crowd through a lot
of students and young people there. We had a lot
of babies and toddlers running around, young families to you know,
I know, I brought my eighty six year old in
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laws and for my father in law, was his first
sort of political rally. And you know, you couldn't help
but feel in a time that is so challenging to
families at home, you know, when we have sixty percent
of families in this country who are unable to afford
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the basics to you know, people who have given so
much to this country. It was just there was an
optimism there that is sometimes hard to find in these
very difficult times and days, and an optimism and a
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vision for our country, for our security, for our economy.
That was just a great reminder of what we're doing
and how we are meeting this moment with community as
we see this administration and Republicans literally shutting down government
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in order to take away people's healthcare. And so it
was not only a wonderful part of being part of
a movement to reclaim our country and to stand for
those values of quality and justice, but also to be
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a great split screen too. We're seeing Republicans refusing to
come to work, refusing to come to the negotiating table
and standing aside as American families received these health insurance
premium notices that are just skyrocketing in adding to real
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economic pain that people are already experiencing.
Speaker 17 (13:05):
You know, I held this up Congresswoman the other day.
It was a you know, stop and shop had this,
but probably other stores too. It was seven dollars back
in early September for a pound of dunkin Donuts coffee.
It's fourteen dollars now. That is the Trump tariff economy.
I use it as a prop on the show for
the video portion of it, and I think that's what
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people should be doing across the country. And I'd be
glad to give it to you or anybody else if
thereant was to use that prop next time they're in
front of the US Capital whatever. This is where where
we're at, And I'm wondering, is that now how we leave,
how we keep the momentum and take the next steps,
you know, beyond Saturday? Is the economic message that to
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me is so critical. You know, it's insurance, it's the ACA,
it's it's education. Everything in Americans are, you know, are
in a ditch and Trump is throwing dirt on them.
Speaker 9 (14:03):
Your thoughts, yeah, yeah, And you know we see it
in just the arrogant way that he treats what's happening
to people while he enriches himself and his own family.
And listen, we're really clear what our message is as
House Democrats, and our message to Americans is you deserve better.
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You deserve lower costs, whether that's housing or groceries or
utility bills. You deserve to be able to afford healthcare
and be able to get it when you need it
and where you need it. And you deserve to have
a government that works for you. And that means we
are ready to go after corruption and make sure that
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government services that people serving our country from the highest
office on down are working for you and not for
their own not for their own enrichment, and not for
their own purposes. And those are the three pillars that
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we are going to be putting forward to the American people.
And central to that is healthcare. And you know, it
is astounding that for an administration and Republicans who ran
saying they would lower costs on day one have done
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just the opposite. And with healthcare, it's you know, over
trillion dollars taken out of Medicare, Medicaid, the ACA Veterans'
health programs, all of this with huge cuts that are
just you know, more than a family can afford. And
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it seems that with the Republicans in the House and
the Senate and sourrently with Donald Trump and the White House,
those American families are forgotten. And this is a game
about uh pleasing Donald Trump. He is where the loyalty
of the members of Congress lies. And for Donald Trump,
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it's about doing the very best, buy himself for himself
at the expense.
Speaker 8 (16:22):
In his pocket. That's what he does every time.
Speaker 17 (16:27):
Take the money from the American people put in his
back pocket.
Speaker 9 (16:33):
So you know, we are very aware of how painful
a shutdown is, and we just want the Republicans to
get back to work, start working again for the people
who elected you and are are looking for your leadership
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to help them be able to afford the basics for
their families and get ahead.
Speaker 17 (17:01):
You know, one of the things that I think coming
out of this is a unified approach. And you know,
we're here, you know, in Massachusetts, but we're out there
communicating what is important in California with Prop fifty and
the idea of making sure that Catherine Clark is a
majority whip, our majority leader in the new Democratic House
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come November twenty twenty six, come January twenty twenty seven.
You know, to me, unifying around some of these issues
economic issues is the is the key element here as
you talk to Democrats in Washington and around the country.
Is that sort of how people are kind of coming
together because you have some great progressive leaders. You see
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what Mom Donnie is doing in New York City, You
see what Gavin Newsom is doing in California with Prop
fifty and fighting back against Trump. Your final thoughts, because
I know you have to run, but to me, a
unified Democratic Party is a very very difficult party to beat.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
We have to get there, of course, your final thoughts.
Speaker 9 (18:05):
That's right, And I will just close on Prop fifty
because you brought it up. We know that this message
that connecting with people who work for a living and
who just want to have a solid floor and no
ceiling on their family's success are the people that we
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are working with, and they are the ones who feel
so betrayed by Donald Trump. And this is showing up
in all the polling, so they have decided to try
and change the voters and redistrict mid decade, which is
just you know, it is preposterous that they're undertaking this,
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but we have to fight back. Ye cannot stand aside
and let them do it. And Prop fifty, the California redistrict,
which complies with the Voting Rights Act, which is going
before the voters, is not being done in a back
room in a state House without the public's involvement, is
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not only leading the polls, but is leading in the
way that we get to protect our democracy by winning
back the majority in the House. So we had no
Kings Day and all lives on November fourth and getting
out that vote for Proposition fifty and for making sure
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that we elect Abigail Spamberger in Virginia and Mikey Cheryl
in New Jersey as their new governors. So you know,
we hope all your listeners will will do what they can.
You can help with Prop fifty from anywhere in the country,
and it truly is what we have to do to
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make sure that we have a chance at a level
playing field because we have have a level playing field
their districts and elections Democrats are gonna win, right.
Speaker 8 (20:07):
What happens in California.
Speaker 17 (20:08):
You know they've been They've been doing everything from you know,
the convertible to hula hoops, as you know. And this
is an opportunity to follow California because it helps the
other forty nine states, as you will know. So great
to have you on, congresswoman. We look forward to doing
it again hopefully over the coming weeks. And appreciate you
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very much. I know it's a it's a whirlwind for
you today. Keep on fighting for us from Massachusetts and
for the country against those Republicans in the shutdown.
Speaker 8 (20:38):
I know you're doing the right thing. Thank you so
much for joining us this afternoon.
Speaker 9 (20:42):
Ye good to talk to you. Congrats on the show, guys.
Speaker 17 (20:46):
Thank you appreciate it. That is a minority whip. Catherine
Clark here on the Jeff Santo Show. Open up the
phones for any comments you may have about the interview.
And again we'll be replaying this interview tomorrow at four
o'clock in Boston, and we will also replaying it tomorrow
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evening or Thursday evening in both San Francisco and eventually
Friday in KABC. So we're going to be putting this
out there. Of course, it's on demand at the Jeff
Santo Show. Our great team, the A team, Rocky and
Company are going to be putting this out so you'll
be able to watch it at your own leisure. But
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again tomorrow and WCAP in Boston at four pm again
Eastern time at t one o'clock Pacific.
Speaker 8 (21:40):
We'll replay this interview.
Speaker 17 (21:41):
Also again have it on both KSFO and KBC later
in the week. We'll let you know more about that
in the next twenty four hours. Again the phone number
to join us A three three five four five five
three three three. We look forward to having the congresswoman
on the Minority Whip in the House on over the
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coming weeks. It was so much to talk about. We
had a small window because of her tight schedule and
all of the course of the negotiations and shut down what
she's involved with with the Republicans.
Speaker 8 (22:14):
Please, and this is this is an opportunity, folks.
Speaker 17 (22:20):
You know you heard how she connected that Prop fifty
in California that our listeners at casey AA are listening
to right now live at ten fifteen in sam Bernardino
and across Greater Los Angeles, the point is is that
we're all tied into this together. As I've been saying,
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as Jerry Austin was talking about before, you know, this
is going to be you know, a big decision by
California voters. You know, don't listen to the you know,
the terminator in Schwarzenegger, who is a better actor than
he was a governor. And the fact is is that
he you know, had with the Democratic Assembly in the
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Senate in two thousand and two, put together this independent
you know that wasn't partisan one way or the other.
And that's what's going back in twenty thirty two. That's
the genius of what Gavin Newsom has done. He's been
able to fight back, he's been able to kick butt,
and he is doing it within the law, as Catherine Clark,
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Congresswoman Clark has just said, you know, they're doing it
within the voting rights parameters Texas, you know, Trump, They're
kicking the whole thing to the curb. They want, they
want the Supreme Court to get rid of this. Ah,
they don't need it anymore. You know, you know, racism
doesn't exist. That's only like fifty years ago or one
hundred years ago. This is all BS. But this is
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who the Republicans are. It's a BS party. But they
have the platforms and they can lie all night long.
As that good friend John from Minnesota said, you know,
it's easy to lie.
Speaker 8 (23:56):
That's the easy way to communicate.
Speaker 17 (23:57):
You know, this guy's terrible, This guy's you know, your
situation is bad because his Democrats are Joe Biden, you know,
on and on and on, and they just make it
up as.
Speaker 8 (24:05):
You go along. It all it's all BS. But that's
who they are.
Speaker 17 (24:09):
So again, folks, Uh, the opportunity now is for the
Democrats to push hard. I'm really glad to hear on
the economic issue. The more you expand that economic issue,
not only on healthcare again, the prices, housing cost, you know,
the whole New York. The African American candidate ran for
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a mayor, I forget his name. I think it was Coleman,
you know it. It knew very well in the race
several years ago. But he got the line down. The
rent is too damn high. The rent is too damn high.
And that's the case for New Yorkers, that the people
for all around the country in big cities and if
you unless you do something about it, and that's state government,
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that's municipalities. You're gonna end up being in a very
very difficult situation. The ditch has been built by Trump
and he's thrown a lot of people in there, and
he's now putting the crap, as he says, on top
of it. We've got to make sure we get out
of the hole. And you know, the only way they
can do that is the Democrats and progressive Democrats with
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moderate Democrats coming together, are going to have to lead
the way. Five four five five three three three And Kevin,
let me know who we have online and we'll go
to the phones momentarily. All right, let's go to Tom
from Los Angeles. Uh, you are next here on the
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Jeff Santo Show. Your thoughts on what Minority Whip Clark
had to say and where you think the Democrats are going.
Speaker 8 (25:45):
Uh, you know from this point.
Speaker 18 (25:47):
On, well, you know me, joff I, I would love
to hear you know, more of talking about FBR, whether
that's educating people right album the start, you know, and
i'd love to hear you know, we actually get to
a point where Democrats can start staying you know that
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they're at the our Democrats.
Speaker 8 (26:10):
That would be a really really interesting thing.
Speaker 18 (26:14):
However, I would say to all my friends in California,
you know, it's pretty disgusting that we're the fourth largest
economy in the world and when we left, when we
and when we elect a president, it really doesn't even
matter in California because of the stupid electoral college.
Speaker 8 (26:38):
This is another biggest.
Speaker 18 (26:42):
This is this is the one time with top fifty
that we actually can make a difference in terms of
the whole country. And I hope that everyone gets out
and I hope everyone votes early for yes on fifty,
because honestly, you know, if we had a national popular vote,
you would probably see in California the numbers double in
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terms of the election returns. But when we really don't
even have a say because the election has already decided
by the time they even get to California.
Speaker 11 (27:17):
You know, it's toll bs.
Speaker 18 (27:19):
And I hope that, like I said, all my California
friends and people in our state get out and vote
yes I'm fifty, because so one time, actually we do
have some type of power to change what's happening here
in this country.
Speaker 17 (27:35):
So well said, you know, well, look, we whether it's
the idea of the expansion in the Supreme Court, which
we've talked about on this program, whether or not we've
talked about, you know, the statehood for DC and Puerto
Rico if they decide that they want to become part
of the country and not just take off because of
Trump and again uh end in end of the electoral College.
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Having as we talked with our good friend John Bussinger
about a couple of weeks ago, who was a real
maverick in the Massthusetts legislature, you know, going back to
the seventies for longer hours for voters to go there.
It was at five or six o'clock at night. Now
now it's eight o'clock. And thanks to people like Bussinger,
all these reforms Democrats have to run on them. These
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are great ideas that have been around for forty years
and they've been on the table and you got to
make it move. And basically, if you want to fight
fire with fire, you know, you want a Jerry Mander
to get yourself seats, Well, the Democrats will give statehood
to d C. That's probably two Democratic senators right there.
And if Puerto Rico agrees to be part of America
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and they want to have two senators from that great island. Then,
in my opinion, that is another two Democratic seats. Not
a guarantee, but close to it. So I just think
all of these things. You know, you want to have
a Supreme Court that works. Well, let's get to eleven,
let's get to thirteen, you know, I mean, let's make
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it happen. So when the next president gets in there, Newsome, Pritzker,
you know, whomever it might be, Murphy, you got to
go and you've got to make it clear that we
are going for the gold. I'm sick, guitared and going
for the bronze. And that's how I looked at it.
Thanks so much, Tom, You're spot on. Great ideas. All right,
let's go back to Minnesota and get a quick comment
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from my good friend John D before we go to break.
Speaker 8 (29:25):
John D, I got about thirty seconds. You can go
ahead and have it.
Speaker 19 (29:30):
Yeah, I used to live in California. I lived in
San Bernardino. I did a residency at Lomlinda. You know,
I love California. I you know, for various reasons, did
not settle there but came back.
Speaker 11 (29:45):
Well, I lived in New Mexico.
Speaker 8 (29:46):
And fifteen seconds and then.
Speaker 19 (29:48):
The last Yeah, yeah, in the last thirty years lived here,
and I think that proportional representation, you know, representation, not
on the basis of I.
Speaker 17 (29:59):
Got to run my friend, Thank you so much. I
hear what you're say. Yep, right on, thank you John. Look, folks,
we're gonna give a tape replay of John Nichols coming up,
and then we'll say goodbye, maybe don't you.
Speaker 12 (30:17):
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Org for KCAA ten fifty AM, NBC News Radio and
Express one of six point five FM. For the second
time in ten years, the Riverside Police Officers Association office
manager has stolen funds from them. Beatrice Margarita Putnam is
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scheduled to be arraigned October twenty seventh on one count
of grand theft after a Riverside Police detective said she
sold more than eighty thousand dollars from their association from
twenty twenty one to twenty twenty four. The accusation comes
ten years after their previous office manager admitted stealing more
than three hundred and thirty thousand dollars that was used
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for personal expenses, including for her husband's child support, tattoos,
and a trip to Italy. Her plea agreement called for
a sentence of three years in state prison and a
restitution of three hundred and thirty seven thousand dollars. In
the current case with Putnam economic crimes, Detective Brian Money,
in a swarren Affidavid written to the judge to obtain
a search, Wart indicated that Putnam fraudulently transferred fifty nine thousand,
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seventy dollars from the union's bank account to pay off
her credit card from February twenty twenty one until the
discovery of the alleged theft on August twenty six, twenty
twenty four. Detective Money examined Putnam's records and found checks
drawn on the union's account totaling twenty four thousand, three
hundred and fifty one dollars that were deposited into Putnam's account.
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The Union represents Riverside Police Department employees with the rank
of officer through sergeant.
Speaker 21 (32:02):
The losses did not involve any public money.
Speaker 20 (32:04):
Or the police department, which is separate from the officers Union.
Speaker 21 (32:08):
Putnam was not an employee of the Police Department.
Speaker 20 (32:11):
For NBC News Radio KCAA ten P fifty AM, an
express one of six point five FM. I'm Lillian Vosquez
and you're up to date KCAA, keeping California alert and aware.
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taped interview that we just had with our good friend Ms. Clark,
the majority a minority whip. Hopefully she'll be the majority
Whip come early twenty twenty seven when the new House
is sworn in.
Speaker 8 (34:04):
Couldn't wait much longer than that.
Speaker 17 (34:07):
I tell you, it's destruction, as we see in the
screens in our studio here of the destruction of the
East Ballroom, the East wing of the White House by Trump.
And that's destruction he's doing to the economy. That's the
symbolism of what word is going on right now in
twenty twenty five, and we'll be in twenty twenty six
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until we can get Democrats in control of the House
and hopefully the Senate too. All that is subject to
a lot of polling data and a lot of information
that we need to seek and what's going to be
the key issues and where the Democrats are. You know
how I stand on the FDR pathway. Well, let's see
where things stand. And a couple of important races to
(34:53):
judge that are in Virginia and New Jersey and our
good friend, the best pollster in the country first time
back in twenty twenty five, Suffolk University's director of polling.
He pulls for USA today in the Boston Globe.
Speaker 8 (35:07):
He is the best.
Speaker 17 (35:08):
He is David Palliologas, and he joins us on the
phone from his offices in downtown Boston.
Speaker 8 (35:13):
David, great to have you back, my friend. How are
you great to be back?
Speaker 11 (35:19):
Congratulations, Well, thank you.
Speaker 8 (35:22):
It is good to be back.
Speaker 17 (35:23):
Good to be back talking about all these issues that
are important to the American people and important to really mankind,
because as goes America, as goes the world. Unfortunately, it's
not going very well right now. So first of all,
I don't know what you can release because I know
(35:44):
you're involved in the Virginia primary or the Virginia general election,
I should say in two weeks and if you can
tell us that, But what do you think that Virginia
race is telling us, if you can connect it to
what is happening nationally from where you're where you stand
right now, David.
Speaker 11 (36:06):
So, just for your your listeners.
Speaker 15 (36:09):
Pleasure, we are going to be releasing a Virginia poll
tomorrow morning, and then next week we'll be releasing a
New Jersey poll. And in between these two releases, we're
going to Yeah, we're going to Sandwich in a New
York City mayor's poll also, so we're going to get
three on in the next seven days. In terms of
(36:32):
your question, in both if you look at real clear
politics or any of the polling averages, most of the
polls have the Democrat winning in each of those two states.
The question is by how much and whether or not
those candidates in the polling averages.
Speaker 11 (36:52):
Can be above fifty percent. And right now.
Speaker 15 (36:58):
The average is fifty percent in Virginia and it's right
it's right there. So both states should survive a Republican challenge.
From what I'm seeing right now today is snapshot in time,
but of course a lot can change between now in
the election.
Speaker 8 (37:18):
Sure, no doubt.
Speaker 17 (37:19):
Talking with David Pelogus, one of the top I think
he's the top best poster in the country, of course,
director of polling at Suffolk University and polls for both
USA Today as well as the Boston Globe. Here on
the Jeff Santo Show phone number to join us eight
three to three five four five five three three three.
That's eight three three five four five. Jeff spell it
(37:42):
out with a J J E F F. No gofs
allowed too long anyways, David, talk to me about how
you are seeing the Democrats versus Republicans on the shutdown.
I saw a couple of polls today that show the
Democrats are blamed less by BB five or six points.
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Is this something that the Democrats need to do a
better job of communicating. I mean, one of the reasons
why we're on the air here in Boston on wcapam
nine to eighty, but also why we're now live and
we're so happy to be on KCAA in a shout
out to Mark and the gang there in Sam Bernardino
that gets throughout greater Los Angeles into cities like Long Beach,
(38:27):
Anaheim and so forth, and the OC and East LA.
Talk to me about how they my opinion, this should
be a GOP shutdown and it should be about a
twenty point lead for the Democrats, but they don't have
the infrastructure of talk radio. I mean, you know, we
are on you know, big stations that are primarily you know,
(38:49):
right wing stations. You know KSFO in San Francisco, fantastic station.
They've given us the opportunity, and of course that's fifty
thousand Reno to the east, Santa Barbara to the south,
KABC more moderate but still conservative. And that is another flamethrower,
fifty thousand watts from the border in the great San
(39:13):
Diego Area Mexican border all the way up to Santa Barbara.
So we're covering the entire state and again with our
friends at KCAA, we're live. So I think that the
opportunity is there, but you know, we can't we can't
do this without infrastructure that the Republicans have been doing
for some forty to forty five years. Is that really
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the difference when it comes down to these polls is
that the ability for Republicans to amplify and Trump knows
how to do that and has the infrastructure to do it.
Speaker 8 (39:43):
So until we get.
Speaker 17 (39:44):
To the point where we put you know, financial resources
into talk radio and the talk TV and so forth
and just reach out to people where they are, that's
always going to be sort of you know, it's always
going to be nip and tuck. Is that where the
plane surfaces that we're dealing with now and have been
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for a number of years?
Speaker 15 (40:05):
Yes? Yeah, I mean there have been studies that go
back to nineteen ninety two that just show, you know,
back then there was a big, massive, people who could
be swayed one way or the other, and very few
people on the fringes. And now it's totally shifted where
you've got a large block of likely voters on the
left side and on the right side and very few
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in the middle. That's why you're not seeing the kind
of shifts that a lot of political experts would like
to see. It's pretty much fixed. But in terms of
the blame question, we are releasing that question as well tomorrow.
Speaker 11 (40:44):
We show a little.
Speaker 15 (40:45):
Bit bigger lead than six or seven points in terms
of the blame being a side, but it's divided. Some
people said congressional Republicans, others blamed Trump, and the thumb
total of those two exceeds congressional Democrats by more than
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ten points. And so you'll see that tomorrow in the
in the UH in the release in Virginia, and again,
Virginia is the state that Kamala Harris won and won
by about five points, so it excus a little bit
more blue than the country and that's probably why those
polls are showing a you know, a six or seven
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point margin.
Speaker 8 (41:31):
Understood.
Speaker 17 (41:32):
Talking with David Palliologus here on the Jeff Santo Show,
so you're saying that both Spanberger and mikey Ryl in
New Jersey, the two Democratic nominees and respectively from Virginia
and Jersey, are doing very well, and that it's the
Democratic messaging is better, uh than maybe it was.
Speaker 8 (41:52):
Two weeks ago.
Speaker 17 (41:53):
One thing I have noticed is that Hakeem Jefferies is
on practically every MSNBC show.
Speaker 8 (42:00):
Him on this show.
Speaker 17 (42:01):
Of course, we just spoke with his number two and
majority a minority whip, Catherine Clark from Massachusetts yesterday, and
you know she understands the economic issues, David. And one
thing that I wanted to bring to your attention. You
can't see this because not on video, but we've been
using a prop of a Dunkin Donuts one pound coffeeback.
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The fact is is that about three weeks ago would
go to the local SNS and it was about seven
dollars in ninety nine cents.
Speaker 8 (42:34):
Today it's fourteen dollars.
Speaker 17 (42:37):
You know, when it goes up seven dollars, the average
person who makes thirty five forty five fifty thousand dollars
a year, that's a big income. If you're making twenty
five thousand dollars a year, that means you may not
necessarily want to buy a pound of dunkin Donuts coffee,
or for that matter, any other coffee. This is an
issue I think the Democrats should really put their fingers on.
We just talked to Jim Roosevelt, grandson of FDR, and
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he says, look, it's always been on economics.
Speaker 8 (43:01):
That's how we win.
Speaker 17 (43:02):
And I concur exactly is that going to be the
difference here? This is the tariff Trump tariff. You know,
it's Brazil coffee. You know, put the uh, put the
cabash on that by going after Da Silva, the leader
prime minister president of Brazil, because he wanted to get
at his help his buddy Boalsonario, who's you know, been
(43:24):
indicted for his malfeasance, another dictator in Brazil. So, uh,
talk to me about the idea of the economic message
and how Democrats should take advantage of this and how
this plays.
Speaker 8 (43:38):
Of course, we all know how you know.
Speaker 17 (43:40):
They they warped the whole issue with inflation against Biden,
and of course Biden was ineffective in the last I
think the last year and a half of his his
office is the tenure as president, and that I think
gave the Democrats and the Republicans an opening because they
couldn't answer back, and they don't have the infrastructure to
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answer back either.
Speaker 15 (44:01):
Your thoughts, David, So, one of the fun parts of
being a poster is that we talk to real people
who are likely voters all across whatever the universe of
voters that we are pulling. And a lot of times
the messages get messed up on what people are talking about.
But what you're referring to are the bread and butter
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issues that matter to people.
Speaker 11 (44:25):
You get up in.
Speaker 15 (44:27):
The morning, you have a cup of coffee. You know
you've got to go to the gas station. If you
don't have an EV and you've got to fill your
gas tank. Then you have to make a decision about
whether you go out to eat or you shop at
a grocery store. If you shop at the grocery store,
or there's substitutes available, And so people are calibrating their
own day to day to decisions to survive, to survive
(44:52):
right that they don't run out of money at the
end of the month, and they're crossing off the days
until they get their next Social Security or their next paycheck.
And so those issues do resonate and this is why
Mondani shocked the world on an afforda.
Speaker 8 (45:09):
Million message and can get to him right.
Speaker 11 (45:15):
We did.
Speaker 15 (45:15):
We did a survey I don't know, a month or
so ago in New York City. We're doing another one
and we tested the negatives that people.
Speaker 11 (45:24):
Have thrown out.
Speaker 15 (45:24):
He's a socialist, he's anti Semitic. We tested all of
those negatives against him, and it turns out that among
likely voters, they don't buy it. They don't think that
at his core he's an anti semi We asked the
question point blank. They don't believe that the businesses.
Speaker 11 (45:43):
Are going to swarm and leave New York.
Speaker 15 (45:44):
City because he's he's going to try to enact as
socialist agenda. We tested that negative that was all over
social media. Majority of people rejected that too. And so
what you have now is and it's hard for older
New York or to accept, especially those people who view
socialism as the you know, the kooties of politics, and
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so they're they're having to try and figure out is
this something that can be managed? Is he somebody that
won't mess up the greatest city in the United States?
And so, I mean, we have Michelle wou A lot
of people called her a socialist too in Boston, right, and.
Speaker 8 (46:30):
They call everybody socialists. They call me a socialist too.
Speaker 17 (46:33):
I love capitalism, you know, long it's distributed, uh to
a point where everybody has equal chance, and you know,
and obviously race and and uh, sexual orientation and uh
a gender, you know, all that plays into it. Uh
if you if everybody gets an equal chance, you know,
we we're we're all good with, you know, having somebody
make a million bucks. I don't think they should make
(46:54):
a billion bucks, but a million bucks, that's that's kosher
in my view.
Speaker 8 (46:59):
You know.
Speaker 17 (46:59):
Look, it's it's just a lot of bs from the
other side. This is what they do. They'll have to
throw out a bunch of manure, and that's what ends
up sticking, unfortunately, because in some cases the Democrats don't
respond and don't respond hard enough or in enough places
that really make a difference. Talking to David palliolocus here
on the Jeff Santo Show, and Kevin you can tell
(47:20):
me in my here who we have on the line again.
The phone number to join is A three three five
four five five three three three. Let me ask you this, David,
do you sense that there is a tide turning. You
mentioned Mom, Donnie, and I'm I think he is a
(47:40):
superstar in the making. Now can't you can't run for
president because he was born in Africa and Uganda. But
the point is is that I think this guy has
the ability to be well a new Bernie Sanders, you know,
somebody who can push the envelope and push the Democratic
Party in a more progressive of direction and a more
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progressive populist direction, which is how I define myself on
this show and in general. Do you believe that the
Mandani and if you take with what Gavin Newsom and
particularly his communication and his fatility and his ability to
fight back against against Trump, those two combinations East West,
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I think can make it very dynamic scenario as we
head into twenty twenty six, because if those two are
the focus and they are communicating the Democratic message for
their colleagues in Washington who always don't necessarily understand a
way to communicate to the working class in the House
and Senate, I think that that bodes very well for
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the Democrats. And I hope that they are both brought
in by the House and Senate Democrats because I think
they can make a difference. Now, you know a lot
of people say, well, you know, I don't know what
Mandani is going to do in Ohio or in Georgia. Look,
you can if you can communicate, you can communicate anywhere
in the country.
Speaker 8 (49:03):
I mean, if you're speaking English, you can.
Speaker 17 (49:06):
Communicate whether they're in Atlanta or Columbus or wherever. Your
thoughts on that, and do you agree with my premisey
and that if you're a great communicator, and the newsom
and Mamdani, who of course is now an assembly guy
in New York but will be if polls show correctly
that he will be the next mayor in New York City,
That to me is a very powerful one two punch
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your view.
Speaker 15 (49:30):
So I look at this more digitally, and I look
at it uh with the thought of who has the
who comes into office potentially with the lowest expectations. That's
somebody like Mondani. The average voter is skeptical. There are
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some Union Democrats who are voting Mandani, but they're nervous.
There are businesses that are nervous, and I belie that's
an opportunity. I saw Michelle wou clear the field, and
everybody thought she was going to get knocked out when
she reelection, and she you know, she'd be craft of
the preliminary so bad he took his name off the ballot.
(50:14):
So she's she's on at in effect, and and and
so and so I look at Mondani and I say,
if he came in with high, high expectations that the
world was going to change in New York City and
and and then he flopped, you have more downside risk.
Speaker 11 (50:33):
But a guy like him has more upside risk.
Speaker 15 (50:37):
Now he may disappoint, he may get in. And the
criticism on him is he can't he can't afford and
he can't finance his ideas. He doesn't he's not telling
voters how he's going to fund the programs that he
wants to fund. And so he either makes a choice,
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pursues some and not others, or does find a way
to finance it so that not everybody is hurting. And
so that's the challenge ahead. One of the most one
of the earliest tests, and this is kind of an
insider thing, is that right now the Mamdani people are
navigating the Curtis Sliwa people. They don't want Sliwa. The
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Republican nominee to drop out. So they're they're not coordinating
anything with them, but they're very much being respectful and
encouraging Sliwa to stay in the race pursue his dream
of becoming mayor knowing full well that Sliwa is drawing
some voters away from Cuomo. And there you having the ability,
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having the ability to navigate with quote the enemy and
doing it in a and a in a pro democracy
kind of way, is the kind of thing that makes
for a successful politician if he got you know, if
he gets elected.
Speaker 8 (52:03):
That's fascinating. I didn't know that.
Speaker 17 (52:05):
And brought to you by our insider David Palliologus, again
the great poster, the best in the business, Suffolk University's
director of polling and of course polster for both the
USA Today and The Boston Globe.
Speaker 8 (52:19):
I wanna kind of get another.
Speaker 17 (52:22):
Perspective here because we are in California again listening live
on Casey aam ten fifty in a shout out to
Mark and the gang down at San Bernardino. The importance
of Prop fifty to the House. You could potentially have
five new seats in California. That offsets what's happening in Texas.
It opens the door for a blueprint to other states Illinois,
(52:45):
New York and others that have you know, a preponderance
of Democrats in the congressional delegation, but have Democratic governors.
Speaker 8 (52:54):
On the reason why the New Jersey race is so important.
Speaker 17 (52:57):
Similarly Virginia too, how do you look at it from
a polling director. The polls look good in California from
what I understand. We've been talking to some folks about
it out there who are in the consultant world. But
you got to get people out to vote, and you know,
you know, we're trying to get as many people on
(53:18):
from California in the next few days, few weeks to
make that point how important it is to the other
forty nine states and again to someone like Catherine Clark
to make her go from minority whip to majority leader
and make a Keen Jeffreys the first ever African American
Speaker of the House. Your thoughts on that, because California,
(53:38):
in my opinion, is center stage.
Speaker 8 (53:40):
As one of our listeners said the other day, you know.
Speaker 17 (53:43):
They're usually in the back of the lot, even though
the biggest state, even though they're what the eighth largest economy,
in the world. The point is is that because it
usually ends up in June in the primary is you know,
everything is decided by them primary wise, they didn't move
up a couple of years ago to become more relevant.
And then of course, uh, in the in the in
(54:05):
the general election, the way it comes east to west,
with the electoral college, it doesn't it doesn't work for
them either to be center stage. Now they are your
thoughts about that and maybe how things change, because if
California comes through and and you know, and gets a
majority for this, uh, for this referendum, that could change
(54:27):
some things too, I believe for how other people do this,
maybe some Midwestern governors and others are.
Speaker 11 (54:35):
Nervous.
Speaker 8 (54:36):
Yeah, this could be this could be very problematic. You know,
people are going to think there were California progresses. Oh
my god, what a horrible thing that would be.
Speaker 17 (54:46):
You know, I'm being facetious, of course, but that is
I think under some you know, Democrats who barely win
and you know a place like Kentucky, you know, they
may feel, oh my god, California. But I think this
is exactly what they need. Bold Jim Roosevelt and I
were talking about it. Bold progresses very important, David, Sorry
(55:06):
for long questions.
Speaker 15 (55:07):
So, yeah, no, it's it's a valid one, and it's
it's kind of insurance against what's going on in some
of the other red states. So you know, if people
don't like this mid decade shenanigans, then it should stop
on both sides. You can't criticize one side or the other.
(55:30):
And it's perfectly within their purview and that's in our
democracy for people to vote on it. And if they
vote on it, it can be done. I find it
interesting on the on the Texas situation, when Texas redistricted
mid decades, that the idea that you're taking less people
(55:53):
out of the middle continues. We talked about that earlier.
When you do what California and Texas doing, and you know,
for the respective sides, you're basically making red districts for
raet ate blue districts bluer, and you're taking away the
swing districts. Well, why would Republicans want to take away
swing districts and Texas or in any other state.
Speaker 11 (56:18):
And the answer is they want.
Speaker 15 (56:20):
To take those districts away because they feel that there's
an anti incumbency wave out there that's sitting among independents,
we know how Democrats are going to vote. In Republicans,
it's all about independence. And one of the findings tomorrow in.
Speaker 11 (56:36):
The Virginia Pool.
Speaker 15 (56:38):
Will will accentuate that that if you look at independent
in Virginia, and there aren't a lot of people who
identifies independence, by the way, it's less than twenty percent.
But even in that small group of people, the tendency
right now is to reflect what history says, which is
it tends to go against the pot in power. And
(57:02):
so when Texas takes away those swing districts and makes
more districts read then in essence you're doing you're doing
your own flipping. You're flipping just based on redistricting. And
and some people aren't going to like the election engineering
(57:23):
of redistricting in mid just you know, mid decade, because
then where does it stop. It's like a ten dollar
scratch ticket becomes a twenty becomes a fifty. Well, if
you do it in mid decade, well, why can't you
do it every two years?
Speaker 17 (57:38):
And REDI Well, the only thing about that, though, David,
is that Republicans are doing it to trash and keep
people from voting the Democrats. In the case of Gavin
Newsom in particular, they're going back to their independent you know,
Assembly Schwarzenegger role in twenty thirty two. So you know,
there's two different things. It's not the same for the
two parties. But yeah, with you, I mean, people you
(58:01):
know don't like, uh, any kind of change. But this
is Donald Trump that did it. And that's the reality
that mainstream media and others have to realize.
Speaker 8 (58:09):
This is not he said, she said.
Speaker 17 (58:11):
This is Trump and the ability to be a dictator
and that's what he's doing. And we all know, you know,
that has been the case from day one with.
Speaker 15 (58:19):
Him and the motive and the motivation and the motivation
for that back to the original point is to take
swing districts off the table because independence right now are
moving against the party in power. So it's a it's
you know, it's electoral chats. You know, it makes sense
(58:39):
from a statistical standpoint, but it stinks and uh and
it doesn't speak well about democracy and now it forces California.
Speaker 8 (58:49):
Do we answer, no doubt, No doubt, David is much
too short.
Speaker 17 (58:54):
But we look forward to a uh, you know, a
visit from you on a on a frequent basis as
we move along on. These are crazy times for you again, folks.
You can look out for a polling data coming out
of out of Suffolk and out of USA Today.
Speaker 8 (59:09):
Is that right, David? For the Virginia poll.
Speaker 15 (59:12):
Yeap, horrible, Probably about nine o'clock Eastern time.
Speaker 8 (59:17):
Fantastic.
Speaker 17 (59:18):
Lookout for that on both Suffolk University website as well
as USA Today. David Paliologus, thank you so much, my friend.
Great to have you back on our ear. Look forward
to our next visit, and again check out the websites
of both of those organizations, Suffolk dot.
Speaker 8 (59:38):
Edu and of course USA Today.
Speaker 17 (59:42):
David, I have a good one, my friend. Thank you,
Take care you too. We'll be right back, folks. It's
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Hour with Randy Corrigan, a brand new show about labor
and worker issues. The host of the show is Randy Corrigan,
Secretary Treasurer and Principal Office and Leader of Teamsters nineteen
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thirty two, one of the largest public sector labor unions
on the West Coast, representing workers in government and non
sworn law enforcement personnel. Randy Corgan is a thirty year
Teamster who first became involved in the labor movement by
volunteering his time as an organizer with the Teamsters Union at.
Speaker 4 (01:04:32):
The age of twenty one.
Speaker 10 (01:04:34):
Since then, he's helped thousands organize, mobilize, and achieve bargaining rights.
He accomplished this by spending countless hours with brave men
and women all over southern California in their living rooms
on the picket line to bring workers towards victory. This
is the Worker Power Hour, and now here's the host
of the show, Randy Corrigan.
Speaker 7 (01:05:12):
We're back.
Speaker 2 (01:05:13):
This is the Worker Power Hour with Randy Corgan on
the team. Starts Local nineteen thirty two, Broadcast Network. A
little late to the splipping the switch over there, Mark,
Did I just see that?
Speaker 7 (01:05:23):
Did you catch up?
Speaker 24 (01:05:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:05:25):
I can, I can tell by the ticker up there.
Speaker 7 (01:05:27):
Yeah it was, but it's on. I got it before
you spoke. So technically I made that means I didn't
drop the ball before I put my foot.
Speaker 2 (01:05:35):
Over the means people didn't get to hear the news.
No on the recorded version. Well there's that anyway, I
don't want to hear it anyway. Long time organizer, first
time radio host, apparently, first time border operator. That's a
you know, that's a crazy thing about a live show,
right Like, you can't like, say, let's restart You're you're
(01:05:59):
going at a certain time, and if you don't push
a button, guess what, no one gets to see you
or hear you. Anyway, It's another show. We have a
great lineup, a lot of good guests coming on, and
a lot of stuff to cover. I could tell you this.
I think last week most people felt like I was
shot out of a cannon on that show. Would would
you guys agree?
Speaker 7 (01:06:20):
Yeah, we were here.
Speaker 2 (01:06:21):
Well I've been. I've been. I've been shot out of
that cannon all week long. And I have literally been
issuing challenge after challenge after challenge over the last few days,
including last night at a labor council meeting where I,
you know, basically challenged the labor movement in the region
(01:06:42):
to step up and start to do some of the
same things that we're doing in addition to asking them.
You know, look, you can come on the show. Your
members can come on the show. Your unions, your organizations,
come on the show. You know, let's let's let's get
more unions having their shows and podcasts and start to
fill the space. We got to get ahead of corporate America.
(01:07:02):
We got to stop playing defense and we need to
start playing offense. So, as far as I'm concerned, it's
time to just start to make things happen. I was
on the Rick Smith Show just a couple of days ago.
Maybe that was just yesterday, and I'm not remembering the days.
I've been going to a lot of places and kind
of agitating and pushing, pushing, Why are you laughing?
Speaker 7 (01:07:27):
Yeah, it was very inspiring last night.
Speaker 2 (01:07:31):
Yeah, I think it was inspiring, depending on maybe you
know what seat you were in. But hopefully, hopefully I
did it in a way where it was meant to
engage a process and you know, really get to to
get people to think outside the box and move into
a space where we make some things happen. So I
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felt good about it. I felt like I could have
went on rambled on for much longer. I keep getting
cut off at a certain point because I get it
other there's other things people got to get to on
the agenda besides ourselves. And we will be giving away
a blanket here as soon as I call out the number,
So don't call in now. He's still got a little
bit of time. I'll do it in a few minutes,
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so don't try to get ahead of it. So Michelle
at the front desk, don't don't allow anybody to jump
in on this right away. I do want to let
you know in the next few weeks we're going to
be moving our show just a little bit. We're going
to be actually moving it from the three to five
time slot on Wednesday three to five time slot on
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Wednesday and a few weeks. We haven't set a heart date,
a hard date yet, but that will be happening. We're
going to make room for another show that's going to
be backing up against ours. So not a problem, you know.
Caa came to us and said, hey, Rian, Randy, can
can we work through this? This is we're going to
be carrying another show from another area. Absolutely, moving an
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hour is easy for us. If they were trying to
hit me to move like four or five hours. That
would probably be really difficult, but what's that. Yeah, And
it's actually I like the fact that it's it's going
to be easier for me that you know, three to five.
Sometimes it's a bit tough turning on right at two
doing the two to four. So as usual, I'm going
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to go right into my live shoutouts. The first live
shout out we got is ERC is going to be
listening in live, which is our steward meeting. We have
somewhere between about seventy and one hundred stewards show up
every week and excuse me, once a month, not every week,
once a month, and we do a little bit of
a training, get them up to speed on current events
and try to educate them on what's going on. So
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they're they're they're literally on the other side of the building,
going to be listening in live here very shortly. Live
shoutouts start with Krystal Hunter, Amanda Montoya, Chaz Kelly Chaz.
Saw you at the San Manino State of the City yesterday.
It was good to see you there. Obviously, saw a
lot of people there. Mary Letitia Metta, Olivia Cabera, GMME
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Department at r MC, Daval Shaw, Amber Sidel, DBH, Michael
Aragon CFS, Loray Robinson, TAD, Jenny Hernandez Public Health, Karen
michaels ikis from TAD Nadal Raffiti, Good Old Dollar Vice President,
Gabe shadeou Kucho. Maybe that's it. That's see I got.
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I'm gonna have a couple of hard pronunciations here, so
I'm apologize ahead of time for butchering your name when
I do. Sandy Cabrera RMC, and Gabe was at Ukapa
Regional Native Dad Manzarina. Hopefully I did that right, Manzanerda.
Did I do it all right? All right? Brenda Mahaley
(01:10:53):
did my best. Lisa Mosquez. Everybody's laughing at me right now,
Richard Herrera, Rigo Morale, no one's you know, obviously, if
I'm butchering your name and you're listening live, I apologize,
you know, sincerely. Like I said before, I'm not as
good as I used to be at this pronouncing names.
I don't know why. I guess I'm getting older and
it's one of the things you lose. Sussan Loftus, Kurt Garrison,
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Sheriff's Department, Connie Bottini ryal To Library listening to the
podcast podcast Afterwork, Rohnda Wholigan from City of Sambordino, I
Think we saw you yesterday. Rebecca Romero, Robert Lee, Peer
and Family Advocate with DBH, the Barstow Clinic, TATO One,
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TAD eighteen, Victorville and DBH. Stewart's also have Laurie McMillan,
Ryan from the Day's Office, annett lera from City of
Colton mid Managers, Ruben Saylor Auditor, tax Collector's Office, Sheriff's
Aviation is listening in live, the Laurus Joy from Public
Health Beatris Garcia, Warren Pennington DWA also have Michelle from
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p Town, Michelle Ethrich and I have Ryan Frankin listening
in live all the way out in the middle of
the Arizona Desert Retiree. Thank you for listening in live,
all of you, and we're gonna do something fun in
the future with our live listeners. We've came up with
an idea here recently or probably in the next few shows,
(01:12:24):
we'll roll it out for those of you that do
listen live, and especially if you listen live regularly, it'll
give you more shots what we're gonna do is if
we call out your name, we're going to aside from
it like it's some part of the show. We'll call
out your name, and if you call back within a
certain period of time, we're going to give you a
sweater or a blanket. And so we'll start that. We're
(01:12:46):
gonna do a lottery for that. We'll put all the
names that are listening in live, put it in and
pull something random out and then when we grab that name,
if you call back within a certain period of time,
we have a We actually are live listener. Listenership is
rising pretty quickly, and so we want to reward you
for doing that in addition to having a little bit
of fun with it. So uh really look looking forward
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to that and the next part of our show because
I'm forgetting something? Am I forgetting something?
Speaker 15 (01:13:13):
Robert?
Speaker 11 (01:13:14):
Robert?
Speaker 2 (01:13:14):
Were we fired up at the meeting last night? Did
we light that meeting up or what?
Speaker 12 (01:13:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:13:19):
I haven't forgot to do it yet. Yeah, I'm going
to do it. I've got it right here on my agenda.
Thanks for reminding me, though I appreciate it. I appreciate
I appreciate him trying to keep me on task because
you know sometimes I get lost here. You know, I'm
a long time organizer. I'm not a radio host. I
don't always know what I'm doing here behind the mike.
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That's getting them.
Speaker 9 (01:13:43):
No.
Speaker 2 (01:13:43):
No, Like I said, until someone sits over here and
gives me a compelling argument that I can't say it anymore,
I'm going to keep saying it's my show.
Speaker 7 (01:13:52):
Oh that's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (01:13:54):
Anyway, last night we had a great time, like our
staff and some members, you know, we had it was
a great time, and we really threw down and send
a message. And there's like, look, the labor movement's got
to be really assertive right now. And I'm many of
you on social media may see a little bit more
of a presence where we're pushing some messages out a
little bit more, being a little bit more assertive and
a little more aggressive. And I really don't think we
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have much of a choice, So you're going to see
a lot more of that. Don't forget this is CASEAA
ten fifty AM one O six point five FM. When
it comes to station identification, and you can always email
us at Radio Show at Teamsters nineteen thirty two dot org.
Listen on the app live anytime download the KSEAA app
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and you can listen live. You just push that little
button boom, and you can actually be listening to the
show live. That's where finding that's where most of the
people are actually listening live or I don't know if
it's most, but there's a lot that are listening live
because it's really easy to use the app, and clearly
we're integrating a lot of this stuff into our app
at the local in addition to other platform forms. Some
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stuff we're working on will be rolling out here pretty soon.
Fun fact, actually no teams for Tuesday. Let me do
teams for Tuesday. First. Every Tuesday we highlight a member
or a member group on our social media to show
the public the important work our members do. You can
follow us at nineteen thirty two Teamsters on all platforms.
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This last Tuesday, we highlighted our Teamster brothers and sisters
out of Local one sixty six who are supporting the
Alliance of Healthcare Workers strike against Kaiser Permanente, who is
putting profits over patients. Over a thousand nurses across the
IE walked off the job and thousands more across the state. So, uh,
(01:15:42):
did a you guys did a little profile for the
one sixty six members yesterday, right video, and I'm checking
how the views do thirty thousand views? Nice from the picket.
Speaker 25 (01:15:55):
Line and everyone else collaborated.
Speaker 2 (01:15:58):
Oh good, that's really good, he said, thirty thousand views.
That's great. That's a really really good reach, especially just
in less than a day. So, you know, keep up
the good workout there, everybody. We you know, I get it.
There's a lot of parts of social media that's full
of negativity and toxicity. We try to utilize those platforms
in a positive way where we're punching out a positive
(01:16:20):
message about our members, about what they're doing and what
you can do to get involved in help out. And
those platforms seem to be working well, So keep accelerating
that message out there. Yeah, only one negative comment, thirty
thousand views, one negative comment. I will take those numbers
every single day, every single day. Fun fact brought to
you by the San Diego Labor Council. This is we've
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actually talked a little bit about this before in the past. Yeah,
we know, we can't hear I got somebody comment, and
we can't hear Robert when he talks is because he's
a little bit off to the side right now, and
I'm not putting him in front of a mic. So
I appreciate you calling us out on that. And maybe
one day we're just going to give Robert a little
mic that he can just walk around and talk to
because he's kind of helping us in the studio doing stuff. No,
I don't want to I don't want to sit him
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over there. He doesn't want to sit over here. He
can't sit still.
Speaker 7 (01:17:08):
We need to get him a lapel mic.
Speaker 2 (01:17:12):
Maybe we do a look whatever. I don't know if
I want him to have a my ca all the time,
especially you know, you guys do this chatty stuff over
there sometimes that you know. I don't know if you're
gossiping about what's going on in the show or what.
Speaker 7 (01:17:24):
But we're talking about you, Randy, I hope so. And
I have control of the mic, so I can turn
him off.
Speaker 2 (01:17:32):
That's true. We'll have to have a little signal and
I can just say this little I do this little
signal and boom he's off cut. See See see how authoritary?
Speaker 8 (01:17:42):
That's right?
Speaker 2 (01:17:43):
Hey man, Apparently it's the new way, right and this
is the way you do things. Trending give me a
paper to sign. I'm just gonna put my signature on
the paper and make something go away.
Speaker 7 (01:17:51):
Gotta hold it up there. You gotta hold it up
for everybody to see, though, But.
Speaker 2 (01:17:55):
I appreciate you pointing it out. You know, this is
what this platform over here is about, is giving us
live feedback while this is going on. Anyway, let's get
back to the show. Fun fact brought to the brought
to us by the San Diego Labor Council when corporate
greed crashed the stock market in nineteen twenty nine and
sent America spinning into the Great Depression. Yeah, corporate America
(01:18:18):
did it. You know, they want to blame everybody else
as they are right now, but it's always corporate America
that makes these things happen. Anyway, the ladies garment industry
was one of the least affected. While men struggled to
find work, the growing garment industry was hiring, but nearly
all jobs were for women. For immigrant families, the only
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options were often jobs in the garment industry. Garment houses
used desperation to exploit workers, especially Mexican immigrants. By nineteen
thirty three, these women made up seventy five percent of
the workforce in Los Angeles. At the time, Los Angeles
was one of the most anti union cities in America.
What a crazy time, What a crazy shift. Ninety years later,
(01:19:02):
right even many unionists, including some of the leaders of
the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, believe the Mexican women
in the garment factories couldn't be organized. Nearly one hundred
years later, garment workers in La are still fighting that
same exploitation and state violence. One of the first targets
(01:19:23):
when ICE launched their campaign of terror, undocumented workers of
the La garment industry were the target. The billionaire class
is aligning to roll back the victories that workers have
won through struggle and sacrifice over the last hundred years.
We must fight them as a united working class if
we hope to build a future where working people can thrive.
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Thank you, Sambrigino, excuse me, San Diego Labor Council. We
really appreciate you pulling out the fun fact for us,
especially every week now. They're doing a really good job
giving us something different, kind of switching around. We know
that you're listening in now regularly. We appreciate that. Appreciate
your share on the show and we really appreciate your contribution. Again,
any other organization, labor organization that wants to do something similar,
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send us something that we cover every single week on
the show. We're willing to do the very same thing.
And just don't forget. You can always subscribe to the
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show at Teamsters nineteen thirty two dot org. And don't
forget our live show is going to be moving in
a few weeks. Again, I'll give you a hard date,
hopefully next week from the four slot, we'll be moving
actually three to five. And I kind of like it
that it's a little bit later. I think it's going
to help with a couple of things in the end. Obviously,
you got the podcast that you're able to listen to
(01:20:51):
and guess what, Yeah, you got something Robert Luca Lucas
Luca Barton from from the Labor Councils listening in live
kind of echo. All of a sudden, what happened?
Speaker 7 (01:21:04):
I was trying to get Robert on the air with
the distant mic.
Speaker 2 (01:21:07):
No, no, don't do that. Yeah, no, just try it. No,
we're just not gonna give him a mic. Now, I
do actually like this idea. Let's get him a little
mic to clip on. I wonder if we can. I'm
sure we got some technology to do that. Guess what
nine nine eight eight nine eight three seven seven. You
call in. You're the fifth caller right now, Michelle is ready.
(01:21:28):
She is always ready, and she is ready to go.
So the fifth caller will be getting a blanket. Our
office managers on vacation this week. So guess what. I
get to give away a blanket. She freaks out whenever
I give more expensive stuff away. I like to give
the expensive stuff away. You know, it's one of those
fun things. Now she can't do anything about it because
guess what, she's not here, so I don't have to
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hear her complaining about it. Oh, the blankets are expensive. Anyway,
fifth caller gets a blanket. Everybody loves these blankets. These
blankets are great. They are ten ten year anniversary blanket.
It's good to see that, we of It's good to
see that they went over as well as we thought
they would. We when we saw when we saw what
it was and how good they looked, and heck, you
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got I don't know if you have, You're not going
to have a choice between the two if you come
in and win right now. So as soon as we
get that winner, let us know who is the winner,
and I will announce it on the show. Whoever the
fifth caller is, all right, I'm going to roll right
into the news. The team stars in nineteen thirty two News.
I first wanted to let you know we have stickers
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for the Worker Power Radio Network. We started giving them
out yesterday. And if you want a sticker, they're really
really cool stickers. If you have one in here, we
can put it in front of the camera so we
can show you. If not, no big deal, but if
you want one, just kind of come in, come into
the building and yeah, just hold that up in front
of the camera. Robert, come into the building and they're
(01:22:54):
at the front desk. If we run out, we'll definitely
order some more. They everybody seems to really like the stickers,
and so yeah, get a little closer to the camera,
a little closer to the camera, a little close to
the camera.
Speaker 8 (01:23:03):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (01:23:04):
Yeah, cool sticker came out really really good. It's going
to look really good off the back window of a
of a car or vehicle. And again, we're just trying
to get the word out. And if you want to
get a sticker, put it on your lunch pail or
you know, on your office cubicle, or your window or
your glass, or your your store front or the back
of your car lunch pail. Hey, Robert, do you know
what a lunch pail is? Scooby doo? You got a
(01:23:25):
lunch pay Oh, so you do know what lunch pail is.
That's not a generational There's not a generational gap in
what a lunch pale is. Do I know what Instagram is?
Speaker 11 (01:23:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:23:36):
Okay, okay on on Teamster News. Enough enough, you guys.
You can't do this to me. I'm having a hard day. Anyway.
Career Day. We're having another career Day November fifth, nine
am to noon here at the building. Boy, what an
amazing event. It was last or earlier this year in March.
(01:23:59):
We will be doing it in November fifth. We have
more than a thousand students connected, more than forty jobs,
thirty high schools are connected. It's an incredible event to
see everything come together where these these young adults, these
high school students are able to get an idea of
what they may do after high school. And this was
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transformational for these these kids earlier this year when they
saw it because they just didn't know these jobs were available.
And we'll be repeating all of that again on November
fifth here, nine am to noon. So make sure you
participate if you want your job highlighted and can participate
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in making sure that you're helping explain that job so
kids are working in that direction when they graduate from
high school. Make sure you reach out to the training center,
reach out to Becky Leppens nine nine nine five seven
six seven two four. The next thing that we're I
want to report on is we're having a law enforcement
expo and I'd like to if those of you haven't noticed,
(01:25:05):
pay attention to the billboards we're actually public safety. We're
doing that this week where we have a few of
our members I think it's the Pomona Police Department, right,
Pomona Police Department, and there's just talking about how teamsters
make the area safer and really appreciate the work that
they do. We've highlighted them on billboards. Throughout the Inland
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Empire and Law Enforcement Expo will be October twenty fifth
at nine am here at the Training Center at the
complex here at our compound here I call it compound, Yeah,
compound right, complex at the facility. So make sure you
come out and participate, really really really good event. Don't
forget the Spring Fling Car Show and cruise. April eleventh
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of next year, we will be making sure we have
a even bigger event again as each year it continues
to grow, continues to get better, continues to get more efficient,
and we have more and more fun with it. The
next is the nhr A. We have the November thirteenth
through sixteenth event special ticket offer. The race tickets start
(01:26:11):
at only fifty eight dollars through Teamster advantage and if
you use the promo code Teamsters by going to nhr
dot com slash super you can get in. And you
know it's still the old fashion two funny cars or
you know, to stock cars and all these you know
(01:26:31):
just run, they get out and they go nuts down
to you know, it's not a quarter mile anymore for
the faster ones, because they're so darn fast, they had
to shorten it down to one thousand feet because they're
they're hitting like three hundred and fifty miles an hour
and just in a thousand feet. It's insane. What is happening?
(01:26:52):
And obviously that's still a very popular event sponsored by
In and Out and we partner with them to get
good tickets. So number thirteenth through the sixteenth. If you
want to participate, make sure you reach out. We also
have UCLA Bruins. There is in October eighteenth game, which
is just in a few days. If you want tickets,
tickets are available for as low as thirty two dollars
(01:27:14):
a piece, so make sure you go on Where do
they got to go on for that one?
Speaker 7 (01:27:20):
The easiest way is the teams to advantage Facebook page.
It's all there, everything that we're offering.
Speaker 2 (01:27:27):
Good all right. And in the news, I got a
lot of news here. My favorite one to point out
is actually, I can't believe I missed this. This is
Greece has its second general strike this month? How did
I miss this? For those who don't know, I went
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on vacation. I happen to go to Greece and in Athens,
which I was there for just a short time.
Speaker 24 (01:27:53):
How did I met you?
Speaker 2 (01:27:54):
Know, so all the very operators for none of you
that understand how grease operates. I didn't understand. I went
there's like one hundred fairies all the time going to
all those islands, and it's just this well oiled machine
of transportation that's just incredible. And apparently you know, they're
all union there. And Greece is a good, strong union
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country where they really support union workers and they have
a lot of laws that support them. I mean, they
shut down Athens again, thousands of protesters march and Athens
Darren Greece's second general strike this month. They've already had
two man good, that is what we gotta do. Like see,
I went to Greece and came back and I'm fired up.
And this is why these these people from Greece they
(01:28:38):
get it. They not only have great food, do they
have a great attitude. They're like, yeah, we're just gonna
shut the city down. We're gonna do it twice. We're
gonna shut down a capital and the biggest city in
the country twice in a month until you pay attention
to what we need. Organized by labor unions opposing a
new labor law, the twenty four hour strike disrupted fairies,
halted trains, and limited public transportation. Good for them. Unions
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for both private and public sector workers argue that the
proposed law allowing longer, more flexible work hours up to
thirteen hour shifts undermines the eight hour work day and
exposes workers to exploitation. They are demanding the bills withdraw
shorter thirty five hour work weeks, higher pay, and return
of collective bargaining rights. See that's what you do when
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you take away someone's collective bargaining rights. You strike, you
withhold your labor, you shut down the city, you shut
down their ability to operate transportation.
Speaker 7 (01:29:40):
You wouldn't have come back. You would have said it,
I got to help.
Speaker 2 (01:29:42):
It, Like no, no. I would have been like, yeah,
I can't get anywhere because there's a strike in the transportation.
Will let me go anywhere? So I got to hang
out with all these striking workers, you know, and we'd
have just chill. Then I would have been like, yeah,
sorry guys, you guys better figure out how to run
the show. And maybe I could just Eve Muxton. I
could do the show from Greece. Yeah, monern technology, you'll
let us do that, right, I'm getting too comfortable, see Robert, Yeah,
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see anyway. So in IBT news, healthcare workers fight back
against the illegal threat to close a local clinic. Members
of Local thirty at Allegheny Health Network New Kensington Express
and Primary Care Facility. That's boy, is that a mouthful
rallied alongside local elected officials, members of the community, and
Teamsters across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to demand a HN
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keep the clinic open. Our community relies on the care
provided by Teamsters and needs this facility to stay open,
said Gino Brissetti, president of Local thirty. He's a great guy.
By the way, it would be shameful to close this
thriving facility. AHN is attempting to break our members hard
won union. Every worker should have the freedom to form
and join a union without fear of retaliation, said Congressman
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Chris de Lazio, who's a from Pennsylvania seventeenth District. My
message is simple, our country, you should always respect that
freedom and we need more healthcare options in our region,
not fewer graduations. Then we'll keep you up to speed
on that. Teamsters at West Contra Costa Unified School District
authorized a strike. Members of Teamsters Local eight fifty six
(01:31:15):
of the West Contra Coastal Unified School District have voted
overwhelmingly to authorized strike. The vote comes ahead of fact finding,
the next stage of the state run impass procedure should
a fair agreement not be reached for more than six months.
The WCCUSD Teamsters have been fighting to secure a collective
(01:31:35):
barring agreement that addresses key issues like staffing in wages.
The most recent contract expired June thirtieth of twenty twenty five.
Teamsters are the backbone of the West West Contra Costa
Unified School District and should be treated as such, said
Peter Finn, secretary treasurer of Local eight fifty six and
director of the Teamsters Public Services and Healthcare Division. Workers
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know the essential services they provide to students and their
families throughout the region and won't settle for less than
they deserve. Striking is always a last resort, but the
school district has left us little to no choice. You go, Peter,
you go, workers in that school district, and we will
keep you posting on what's going on. Thirty one thousand
nurses launch historic five day strike. An estimated thirty one
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thousand registered nurses and other frontline Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers.
You actually have a quote on this right, Okay, winner
is Erica Ochoa. Erica Ochoa is the winner of the blanket.
So yeah, always got to inter Thank you for interrupting
me and hanging that up there so that I see it.
Organizers say the five days strike across five hundred medical
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centers and offices in California, Hawaii and Organized is the
largest in the fifty year history of the United Nurses
Association of California Union of Healthcare Professionals. The strike could
grow to forty six thousand people. Those on strike, including pharmacists, midwives,
and we have therapists, say wages have not kept up
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with the pace of inflation and there is not enough
staffing to keep up with the patient demand. They're asking
for a twenty five percent increase over the four years
to make up for wages they see is seven percent
behind their peers. Kaiser Permanente has countered with a twenty
one and a half percent increase over four years. The
company says that what they represent is sixteen percent more
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than their peers. So it's interesting to see how we're
always on the opposite side of something like this, But
I have a tendency to believe the union's perspective on
where they're at because it's always interesting to see how
the employer kind of plays the game. I think we
have our next guests, and let me take a just
a quick break so we can get our next guests.
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Speaker 11 (01:35:19):
Yes?
Speaker 24 (01:35:19):
Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (01:35:20):
Oh see Gracey she already jumped. She on cue boom.
Speaker 7 (01:35:24):
I haven't introduced her yet, don't need us anymore.
Speaker 2 (01:35:26):
Right, we'll just turn over the show to you. How
about that, Grace, let's go, ready, let's go. She's like
she's sat down and she's like, man, that's a real studio.
I said, yeah, it's live too. When we come back,
it's we can't push pause, go back in the race anyway.
So remember bad language. He hovers over a button over there.
We got it like about a four or five second
delay that we can push, so try not to. We
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don't have to push it very often. People are is,
you're pretty good about it.
Speaker 24 (01:35:50):
I can't warn you, just kidding.
Speaker 2 (01:35:52):
That's a good idea. Then come and we'll bleep you.
So we're joined by Gracie Torres. She is currently the
Western Municipal water Board member. Correct, and you are also
running for Riverside City Council. Correct And if I know correctly,
you've actually gotten the endorsement of Teamster's Local nineteen thirty two.
Speaker 24 (01:36:10):
Yes, very proud of that.
Speaker 2 (01:36:11):
Okay, great, So instead of me doing all the talking,
which people get to hear me a lot throughout the
show and the rest of the show when you're not
here and after you're gone, why don't you introduce yourself
and tell us why you're running for office, but also,
most importantly, what it is about working people and work
or power that you believe you can help your constituents.
(01:36:32):
And I've got something i want to ask you to
do if you win on the city council, which I'm
sure everybody's always lined up saying if you win, I
want this, I want that, but I think you're gonna
like it. So with that, why don't you introduce yourself
and tell us a little bit about what you got
going on. Which platform is yeah?
Speaker 24 (01:36:46):
Absolutely so well, as you said, I'm Gracie Torres and
I'm running for War two in Riverside for Riverside City Council.
You know when I first ran for waterboarding was in
twenty eighteen, I didn't know what I was doing. I'm professionally,
I'm a water chemist. That is what I'm very very
passionate about. Kind of switched from medical school to environmental
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chemistry just because I became very passionate about it.
Speaker 2 (01:37:10):
So real quick. One of the things I always say
about people in the water industry is you save more
lives every single day than police and firefighters do combine.
Because you're protecting You're protecting the general public from these
corporations that have killed millions of people by putting stuff
in the water and polluting our groundwater. So thank you
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for what you do. I know some people may not
think that's very sexy, but the reality is is this
job actually saves more people's lives than arguably any other
job out there. So thank you for doing.
Speaker 24 (01:37:45):
Sorry for interrupting, no, and I'm going to take that
tangent real quickly. Actually, this year, well in my time
at Western, we decided that we were going to hold
manufacturing companies accountable. So I know a lot of people
talk about like PFOSS, pfos, those contaminants, will Western and
other agencies throughout southern California sued them and we are
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now collecting those settlement payments and in order to begin
treatment programs in order to not just hold them accountable,
but to treat that water for just the reasons that
you said that people have access to clean, reliable drinking wine.
Speaker 2 (01:38:19):
Isn't it crazy? For thousands of years, literally thousands of years,
what these corporations, land owner whatever they were, of the
time industrialists like. It depends on what time and history
we're referring to. It's insane that they have did they
just put stuff in the ground. It poisons the water.
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And these people, you know, a few miles away, down
down the road, down the road, end up dying like
thousands of them. By the way, in New York in
eighteen sixties, millions literally millions died. And they go, oh, yeah,
we didn't do that. We don't want regular right, we
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don't need the EPA right anyway. Sorry. And I can
obviously get on a tangent on this.
Speaker 24 (01:39:06):
I mean, I'm happy to come back and you and
I can talk about water all day. My team's probably
like stop it, move on.
Speaker 2 (01:39:13):
Which stituents need to know that you understand these very
basic things. You turn on your tap water. It's really important.
Even if you don't drink it, sitting in it, being
exposed to it, cooking with it is going to affect
your family.
Speaker 24 (01:39:29):
It absolutely is. And I mean I see that you
have a water bottle, Just so you know. Water bottles
are regulated by the FDA, that's Food and Drug right,
So the regulation is very minor compared to the regulations
for your tap water. So when people ask, like what's
good to drink, drink your tap water. It is regulated
federally and in the state of California, we're very lucky
that it's regulative and higher. So that is the water
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that you want to be drinking because of those regulations.
And you know, for the history portion of it. In
nineteen sixty nine, there was a lake that caught on
fire in Ohio and that is what led to the
Clean Water Act.
Speaker 2 (01:40:05):
The first one a lake.
Speaker 24 (01:40:06):
So you think of water and fire, they don't got
on a lake was on fire. So people were like this,
this isn't right, like there shouldn't be fire here. No,
it caught on fire. That is literally what pushed the
Clean Water Act, what push the Port Cologne, which is
what regulates water here in California. And so it is
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and I am a total geek about it. Like I said,
I switched from medical school to water water compliance and
water chemistry because it is fascinating and it's fascinating I
had and I going back to that, I had the
opportunity to run for Open Sea on the water board
and people really like to see water chemists next to waterboard.
So we were successful. We were successful in that race.
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And one thing that I learned I have learned through
my time at the Waterboard, is that these special districts,
these planning commissions, the railroad district, cemetery districts, hospital districts
don't get very much attention. And that's by design, that's right, right.
You cannot develop anywhere in California, anywhere without water rights,
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without water permissions. So these people are a lot of
these board members sit there for twenty years very quietly.
No one knows, like, no one's paying attention when there's oountable.
Speaker 2 (01:41:20):
I got someone here saying I live within the water district. Thankfully,
she is part of the process to keep our water safe.
Thank you very much, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 24 (01:41:29):
I mean, and sometimes that's what you need is an
actual expert at the table to be like, wait a minute,
let's let's take let's take a look at what these
policies are or before making decisions. And I mean that's
going to segue into into my Riverside City Council campaign.
I am a public works expert. I understand development in
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a very intimate way from start to finish. I understand
grant funding to get development going through. Currently, I work
on federal federal projects. So the Santa Anna River is
one of those projects that we're making sure those levees
are staying alive, alive and well constantly, and that that's
federal land that we that we work on. And so, uh,
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the sea opened up and we're you know, it became
it's going to be vacant. The current council person is
running for assembly. Uh, and so it's it's opening up,
and it gave me an opportunity. The work that I've
done on the water board, while it's been significant, it's
it's become you know, kind kind of rubber stamp. I
have a good board that when we all tend to
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agree and it's limited and it's limited. So when you know,
I like to do that huge community outreach and a
lot of people are like, why is a water board
member here and that, But that's what I'm passionate about.
So the sea opened up, a few of the council
people approached me and said, hey, we we can work
with you, and we can work with you. We want
to we want to to you to run. And I said,
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you know, that's a good I spend a lot of
time Randy away from my kids, because I'm an elected official,
and so the Riverside City Councils gott to give me
an opportunity to turn that time away from them into
something very significant for my community. And so that's why
we jumped at the at the opportunity to run. And
we you know where we hit the ground running in
this race. And obviously we know I don't think it's
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a secret that the teamsters pick winners. So having your
endorsement means.
Speaker 2 (01:43:22):
It means best, we do our best. So I have
somebody here from Ohio said learned about the incident when
they were young because they're from Youngstown, Ohio, WO. So
we have obviously it's a live show, so we get
a little bit of this interaction where people it's it's
always interesting to see how small the world is, right,
and that how when people tell stories and share stories
(01:43:43):
like you're explaining right now, that they do connect to
others that are closer than we realize, right, and.
Speaker 24 (01:43:48):
It affects us and in so many ways that we
don't know. I mean, like I said, I can I
can talk about just like infrastructure alone is just one
component of what we talk about when we're in governance, right,
And but It is something that affects you daily, like
in every single aspect of your life. That pothole that
you know, you're you're on your way driving to ups
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as a Teamster member, you hit that pothole. Now you're
late for work. Now your boss is mad, Now you're
having to contact your union seasters, we.
Speaker 2 (01:44:18):
Don't have, We don't worry about the boss over.
Speaker 24 (01:44:23):
But that's effect. And why why why is there a
pothole there?
Speaker 9 (01:44:27):
Oh?
Speaker 24 (01:44:27):
Because my council member is focused outside of city issues
or on something else, or isn't picking up phone calls
when someone says, hey, this pothole has busted a ton
of tires. And and that is why I think I
appreciate the work that the Teamsters does and other labor
unions that focus on what matters. And that's the kitchen
table conversation, right.
Speaker 2 (01:44:46):
Yeah, And we're not just having at least with us,
we're not just having with the work or Power Hour
and with our program here, we're not just having it
at the kitchen table. We're having it live on the
radio where thousands of people can hear it obviously over
a M and F. And then the podcast goes out
and everybody's listening to it. We're we're getting really assertive
at making sure that these messages, this narrative, this information
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gets connected. We're doing the best we can to amplify
your voice, amplify a worker's voice, amplify the community's voice,
small business's voice, so that they can all work together
to make something happen in their local community.
Speaker 24 (01:45:23):
And that's I think that's powerful because you know, I
think you know, I'm very lucky. I'm a union member
myself through elected office. I'm also connected with labor in
that aspect, and so I know my rights. So you
and ever, if I have any issues when it comes
to my rights, I know who to go to. I
know who to talk to. I'm texting different union leaders
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or asking for advice. The regular working family doesn't know
that they do. But they have these rights they have,
and so.
Speaker 2 (01:45:54):
Take they have more rights when their unions, Yes, and they.
Speaker 24 (01:45:57):
Have a lot more rights when they're and they have
the collective bargaining power right, they have a group of
people behind them making sure that they're taken care of.
But they don't know that. And so you see, you
see these working families that are you know, taking crap,
taking crap from their bosses and you're like, hey, you
don't need to do that. You have more power by
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being a union member than you realize. And so, you know,
I try to take it upon myself to whenever I
see something, I'm like, call do this, Like here's your
wine garden card, make sure to show that to your boss,
like those types of things. And so this platform obviously
allows you to get those messages out and focus on
what matters. What matters to me are my three kids
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making sure they're healthy and making sure that they're successful
when they leave my when they leave my nest. And
that happens through through the work that unions do.
Speaker 2 (01:46:49):
So when you become city council, which is what we
believe is going to happen. When you become a city
council member, what is going to be What are some
of the things you're going to do to help support labor.
Speaker 24 (01:47:01):
Look, I'm I'm since twenty eighteen when I first round,
my platform point has always been job creation. The Inland
Empire is a career desert. It is becoming more more
difficult to find the career that you love in the
Inland Empire. And that's that's just not good, right, you
want to be able to know that you graduated from
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high school, you're graduated from college, you finish your trade,
your trades program, whatever it is, that you can stay
in the city that you love, that you grew up
in with your friends, you know your professors that you
got close to, and be successful. And so job creation
is the number one thing. Good job creation, good job creation.
That's why I said careers. You want to be able
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to stay in one career for the rest of your
life like it used to be, right, And so that's
the very first thing. And I know that partnering with
labor organizations is what's going to get that done. In
Ward two, there's a major hospital being built. That's a
job creator, right, it's a career creator. But labor should
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be at the table when we're having the conversations about
what's happening around that hospital. They should be at the
decision making table, not way later after it's built. And
let's see if like what unions we need, they need
to be at the decision making table.
Speaker 2 (01:48:18):
And that's because we're the experts in the industry. We're
the experts that make sure that that that those jobs
in the future are going to be good jobs. Like
I always love to hear these experts that say, oh,
this is what jobs should look like, and they're good jobs,
and like I'm always like, well, what made you the expert? Like,
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what's the expertise that you have to define what a
good job is? Like, this is what our space has
been since our inception, which is over one hundred years.
And and a lot of times elected leaders their last
to ask us to the table. I'll give you an example.
When Amazon built this facility here at the airport, man
and all I really really, you know, jammed up a
(01:49:02):
bunch of the elected officials saying you went out and
talked to everybody, all the so called experts, but you
never called the teamsters who have represented the industry for
since before there were planes flying around, since before there
were power vehicles, like the wheel in the horse, the horses.
The reason why it's in the logo is because we've
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been around since there were horses pulling carriages, and so
we understand transportation better than anybody does. You never called
you You cooked up this idea on what you thought
were good jobs, and they're horrible jobs. There are they
jobs that are needed at an airport, sure, but you
need to define and spell out what the future of
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those jobs actually look like, and how those workers have protections.
Speaker 24 (01:49:50):
And how there is longevity and and you know every
like I said, you want someone to start that job
and make it a career. You don't want them bouncing around,
you know, from job to job. And so so that's
as a as a elected council person that's going to be.
I mean, it's been my commitment. I have the track record,
I have the time to show for that whenever, and
(01:50:12):
I'm pushing anything. So I'll give you an example. My
very first day on the DAIS, I wanted a veterans
hiring policy. Seems like a slam dunk, right, like, hey,
I want if you're a veteran and you're qualified, you
get an interview.
Speaker 15 (01:50:25):
Right.
Speaker 24 (01:50:26):
And it died on arrival. It was dead on arrival
for some reason.
Speaker 11 (01:50:30):
Was not.
Speaker 24 (01:50:33):
It wasn't. It didn't pass. And so rather than waiting
and pouting, I went to the you know, I went
to a friend of mine, Channing Hawkins, and we and
we ended up beginning what's called a works And it's
a nonprofit that trains a person that has no experience
in water, someone that may have a little experience in water.
Someone just wants to a high school kid that's like,
let me explore this. We train them and we get
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them placed at a water district, right, creating careers. These
are careers, right, and so very much.
Speaker 2 (01:51:01):
So good jobs that people can buy homes, buy homes,
like retire.
Speaker 24 (01:51:06):
I mean, and I say this all the time, it's
the union members on your block, on your street that
have the toys, that have the They're the ones that
are having a ton of fun. They like it. Those
are the ones that are like when you're like getting
home super tired and you know, you feel like ends
can't meet, and then you turn around your neighbors like
getting you know, getting their quadra.
Speaker 2 (01:51:27):
Side right.
Speaker 24 (01:51:29):
They're definitely marked on the side right. And so so
that I mean, I have a track record that whenever
I'm any adventure that I'm going through, going to labors
at the table there, they have a representative in me.
Speaker 2 (01:51:43):
So I'm being told here in these other spaces that
that you're willing to partner with us on your experience
in water with our training center, because we represent a
bunch of water districts ourselves, and so what we what
we want to do is build these partnerships where we
do the same thing. Like, obviously we can bargain into
the contract that that the job's placement, the job placement
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actually happens based on coming out of the training center, right,
So you obviously have the curriculum, you have the jobs,
they land there, and then you place them right into
the water district, cities, county, whatever the public entities are
for those different positions. Kathleen Brennan our president, which you
obviously know pretty well. She's saying hi, by the way,
(01:52:28):
and she appreciates your willingness to partner on that.
Speaker 15 (01:52:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 24 (01:52:33):
Absolutely, I mean and and that'll be the same thing.
At the city level. We should create these partnerships with
labor in order to, like you said, make sure that
when they get in they have good union jobs but
essentially careers.
Speaker 2 (01:52:46):
So somebody's asking me, did it ever work out for
the veterans? No, not the one unfortunately.
Speaker 24 (01:52:51):
But guess what, we have another round at the city level.
If my council people that are watching just know that
that's coming.
Speaker 2 (01:52:59):
So I've got I got to ask for everybody. When
you run for counsel, everybody's.
Speaker 11 (01:53:03):
Like, can you do this?
Speaker 2 (01:53:04):
Can you do that?
Speaker 11 (01:53:04):
Can you do this?
Speaker 2 (01:53:06):
So I got one. Okay, it's not a simple one.
It's pretty tough. New York City just passed an ordinance
called the Delivery Protection Act. And what that does is
that's an act that the Council is now approving to
make sure that companies like Amazon, whom have delivery packages
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make a few bucks, right, pretty profitable company that that
when they are going to be delivering and operating in
a particular area, that they're required to employ those drivers
versus having this so called subcontracted system that they have.
Because you saw the work. You saw the Amazon workers
(01:53:52):
on strike last year, right right. One of the big
reasons why they were on strike is that Amazon is
refusing to bargain because they say they're not the employer,
even though they're wearing an Amazon uniform, an Amazon van
coming out of an Amazon facility with Amazon equipment, and
Amazon has complete control over that subcontractor they're doing the
subcontracting just to hide from their responsibility.
Speaker 11 (01:54:12):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:54:13):
Passing policy at the city level protects the workers that
are living and working in the very community. One of
the statistics that are shocking of Amazon workers in this
country is it's say a worker goes to Amazon, whether
it's a driver or in their warehouse. Within a couple
of years of getting to top scale, they cannot afford
(01:54:34):
to buy a home anywhere in the country.
Speaker 9 (01:54:39):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (01:54:40):
People say, oh, well, the market's high here, it's high
over there, it's high. In LA it's high.
Speaker 11 (01:54:46):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:54:47):
I've said this over and over again for like the
last year, and I have not had anybody correct me
yet to say no, in mid Alabama, somewhere you can
afford to actually buy a home at that at that wage.
Nobody has corrected me. I've actually done the math on
this already and looked at what it takes to buy
a home in every single area and obviously what they pay,
(01:55:10):
and you can see that the math just doesn't add up.
So how does one of the wealthiest individuals in the world,
who operates a company that's making billions of dollars every
single year? How are we not holding them accountable? And
I just want to preface with taking the position and
trying to push things back. At the city level, cities,
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city governments, and municipalities have given up their responsibility to
take care of their constituents at the employment level, where
people are working and living In addition, because that they've
said as oh, well they can go through the NLRBA,
they can go through OSHA, or they can go through
all these federal agencies. Well we kind of see what's
going on with that right now, right, So not much stability, correct,
(01:55:54):
So there's that part of it. Clearly, those institutions have
had their chain challenges over the last few decades, which
has made it extremely difficult for those workers to advocate
for themselves. And the reality is is the city has
always had the ability to make these things happen. They
just have kind of acquiesced. Elected leaders at the city
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level said no, I'm I'm you know, that's someone else's responsibility.
Guess what we have to do. I think what this
is telling us right now is we got to shift it,
kind of like AB two eighty eight did for the
state where it's trying to protect workers. Ironically, these big
corporations step in in saying no, the federal governments supposed
to do it. But those same big corporations in those
lawsuits are saying no, it's unconstitutional. They're actually arguing both sides. Right.
(01:56:40):
So now when a city does it, a city can
step in and say, hey, we're going to protect you.
You're living and working in our community. We're going to
set the rules. We have the right to set the rules.
What do you think about that?
Speaker 24 (01:56:51):
Well, I mean, first of all, like I said before,
I want, I'm sorry, you.
Speaker 2 (01:56:56):
Got three and a half minutes my life. That's yeah,
it's blue by.
Speaker 24 (01:57:00):
Yeah, it did okay. Well, like I said before, I
want in Riverside, I saw my daughter's eighteen years old.
She just graduated high school. She's at RCC. The reality
Randy for her to be successful in the city of Riverside,
which I love, I never left, is pretty low. So
she is going to study abroad and hopefully be able
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to come back to have a job. You don't want
that in your city. You don't want that to continue
to happen. And so I think it makes sense. I'm
happy to be a champion for something like that because
I think it makes sense that if you're working in
the city of Riverside, you should be able to live
in the city of Riverside, you should be able to
shop in the city of Riverside, buy a home, buy
a home in the city of Riverside. And if there's
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so many people that argue for local control. If there
is some way that we can take control of that,
I am one hundred percent for it.
Speaker 2 (01:57:54):
Well, we really appreciate you coming on the show. We
got a couple of minutes left. I don't know if
you want to close out this part, so I appreciate
you committing. I got that as a yes, you're going
to support to support our position on the Delivery Protection
Act for the City of Riverside. We are getting really
assertive on this kind of stuff because workers are stepping
out and making something happen, and elected leaders need to
look and see what these workers are doing and say, hey,
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we're going to build a policy to help you. Right right.
Other than that, where what do you want to close on?
Speaker 24 (01:58:21):
You got a couple of minutes, Well, I mean again,
I want to thank the Teamsters for their support. Just
a couple of shout outs because you are not the
only union. But there's you know.
Speaker 2 (01:58:30):
We have only with the Counts right now today right now,
but they have a live radio show.
Speaker 24 (01:58:35):
But we you know, labor has really come behind us,
and and you know, one of the things that I
just want to say is the way that you can
support the way that you can make sure that you
have somebody that is a fighter for Teamsters is visit
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spring walking next to me. My team knows that I'm
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going to walk harder or or not, if not, more
than any of my volunteers. I wouldn't ask anyone to
do something I'm not willing to do, but I think
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That's your commitment from me. But and you always have
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Speaker 2 (01:59:20):
Yeah, and you're knocking on doors, you're out meeting people,
you're mixing it up, and you're making it happen, and
that's the best way to do it. I think that
you know, it's good to see you got all these
platforms working at the same time. We really appreciate the
relationship that you have in your openness to throw down
in this space. Workers need it. Workers are a lot
of workers struggling in America right now. Not everybody is,
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but a lot more than should be, and we need
more people like you. Advocating for those workers, so hopefully.
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Now here's Jeff.
Speaker 17 (07:00):
It is our three of the Jeff Santio Show, and
welcome to it, folks, coming to you live from the
South Coast and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is my
pleasure to talk to the minority whip in the Democratic House.
Speaker 8 (07:17):
It's so great.
Speaker 17 (07:19):
From a fan of somebody who I knew when she
was a state legislator here in the great Commonwealth of
Massachusetts and now the number two person behind Kim Jeffries,
it is my pleasure to bring to the Jeff Santo
Show for the first time in a long time, our
(07:39):
good friend again, Congresswoman Catherine Clark of Massachusetts, again the
minority whip in the Democratic side.
Speaker 8 (07:47):
So great to have you, Congresswoman.
Speaker 9 (07:48):
How are you today, Oh Jeff, Nice to be on
your show again.
Speaker 8 (07:56):
It's a pleasure. It's great to have you on the program.
Speaker 17 (08:01):
I must tell you, it's an exciting time to be
a Democrat, to be a progressive. We're excited to be
on in California, and we'll be replaying this interview throughout
the next couple of days for our audiences in Boston
and San Francisco and other parts of southern California as well,
so people will have a chance to get to hear
(08:24):
what a good Massachusetts representative for so many years and
of course now number two in the House of Leadership. Well,
first of all, let me start with no King's Day.
What was your experience Like I had a chance to
go to small towns in the South Coast and some
(08:44):
mid size cities, and I found that the vibes were
great from people who were very political to people who
never went to a rally before. What was your impressions
and the tour that you had around the Commonwealth country
if you were in different states.
Speaker 9 (09:04):
Yeah, I was only in Massachusetts and it was a great,
great day, Jeff, Just as you said, across the country,
over twenty seven hundred events, seven million people peacefully coming
out to say that we are patriots and patriots don't
believe in kings. And from the people I talked to
(09:28):
to the over one hundred and twenty five thousand people
that came down to the Boston Commons, everybody was there
because they believe in this country. They believe in an
economy that includes them, they believe in having healthcare as
(09:50):
a right. And it was just a really picture perfect
weather day and just a lot of community building and
a really great atmosphere.
Speaker 17 (10:06):
We're talking with minority whip in the Democratic House, Catherine Clark,
Congressman Clark represents, of course a Cambridge Metro West in
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. I must tell you it was
not only a great day, but I saw people from
every walk of life. You know, Tino, African American, Asian American,
(10:28):
you know, young old people in their military garb, folks
who you know were retired and not necessarily very political,
but they feel that this country is off on the
wrong tract to a point where they say, look, I
have to get engaged. Did that also come across in
your visits across the Commonwealth?
Speaker 9 (10:48):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (10:49):
The crowd was beautiful ever where we went, and just
like you said, a very diverse crowd through a lot
of students and young people there. We had a lot
of babies and toddlers running around, young families to you know,
I know, I brought my eighty six year old in
(11:11):
laws and for my father in law, was his first
sort of political rally. And you know, you couldn't help
but feel in a time that is so challenging to
families at home, you know, when we have sixty percent
of families in this country who are unable to afford
(11:32):
the basics to you know, people who have given so
much to this country. It was just there was an
optimism there that is sometimes hard to find in these
very difficult times and days, and an optimism and a
(11:54):
vision for our country, for our security, for our economy.
That was just a great reminder of what we're doing
and how we are meeting this moment with community as
we see this administration and Republicans literally shutting down government
(12:18):
in order to take away people's healthcare. And so it
was not only a wonderful part of being part of
a movement to reclaim our country and to stand for
those values of quality and justice, but also to be
(12:41):
a great split screen too. We're seeing Republicans refusing to
come to work, refusing to come to the negotiating table
and standing aside as American families received these health insurance
premium notices that are just skyrocketing in adding to real
(13:01):
economic pain that people are already experiencing.
Speaker 17 (13:05):
You know, I held this up Congresswoman the other day.
It was a you know, stop and shop had this,
but probably other stores too. It was seven dollars back
in early September for a pound of dunkin Donuts coffee.
It's fourteen dollars now. That is the Trump tariff economy.
I use it as a prop on the show for
the video portion of it, and I think that's what
(13:27):
people should be doing across the country. And I'd be
glad to give it to you or anybody else if
thereant was to use that prop next time they're in
front of the US Capital whatever. This is where where
we're at, And I'm wondering, is that now how we leave,
how we keep the momentum and take the next steps,
you know, beyond Saturday? Is the economic message that to
(13:51):
me is so critical. You know, it's insurance, it's the ACA,
it's it's education. Everything in Americans are, you know, are
in a ditch and Trump is throwing dirt on them.
Speaker 9 (14:03):
Your thoughts, yeah, yeah, And you know we see it
in just the arrogant way that he treats what's happening
to people while he enriches himself and his own family.
And listen, we're really clear what our message is as
House Democrats, and our message to Americans is you deserve better.
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You deserve lower costs, whether that's housing or groceries or
utility bills. You deserve to be able to afford healthcare
and be able to get it when you need it
and where you need it. And you deserve to have
a government that works for you. And that means we
are ready to go after corruption and make sure that
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government services that people serving our country from the highest
office on down are working for you and not for
their own not for their own enrichment, and not for
their own purposes. And those are the three pillars that
(15:11):
we are going to be putting forward to the American people.
And central to that is healthcare. And you know, it
is astounding that for an administration and Republicans who ran
saying they would lower costs on day one have done
(15:31):
just the opposite. And with healthcare, it's you know, over
trillion dollars taken out of Medicare, Medicaid, the ACA Veterans'
health programs, all of this with huge cuts that are
just you know, more than a family can afford. And
(15:55):
it seems that with the Republicans in the House and
the Senate and sourrently with Donald Trump and the White House,
those American families are forgotten. And this is a game
about uh pleasing Donald Trump. He is where the loyalty
of the members of Congress lies. And for Donald Trump,
(16:16):
it's about doing the very best, buy himself for himself
at the expense.
Speaker 8 (16:22):
In his pocket. That's what he does every time.
Speaker 17 (16:27):
Take the money from the American people put in his
back pocket.
Speaker 9 (16:33):
So you know, we are very aware of how painful
a shutdown is, and we just want the Republicans to
get back to work, start working again for the people
who elected you and are are looking for your leadership
(16:54):
to help them be able to afford the basics for
their families and get ahead.
Speaker 17 (17:01):
You know, one of the things that I think coming
out of this is a unified approach. And you know,
we're here, you know, in Massachusetts, but we're out there
communicating what is important in California with Prop fifty and
the idea of making sure that Catherine Clark is a
majority whip, our majority leader in the new Democratic House
(17:23):
come November twenty twenty six, come January twenty twenty seven.
You know, to me, unifying around some of these issues
economic issues is the is the key element here as
you talk to Democrats in Washington and around the country.
Is that sort of how people are kind of coming
together because you have some great progressive leaders. You see
(17:44):
what Mom Donnie is doing in New York City, You
see what Gavin Newsom is doing in California with Prop
fifty and fighting back against Trump. Your final thoughts, because
I know you have to run, but to me, a
unified Democratic Party is a very very difficult party to beat.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
We have to get there, of course, your final thoughts.
Speaker 9 (18:05):
That's right, And I will just close on Prop fifty
because you brought it up. We know that this message
that connecting with people who work for a living and
who just want to have a solid floor and no
ceiling on their family's success are the people that we
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are working with, and they are the ones who feel
so betrayed by Donald Trump. And this is showing up
in all the polling, so they have decided to try
and change the voters and redistrict mid decade, which is
just you know, it is preposterous that they're undertaking this,
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but we have to fight back. Ye cannot stand aside
and let them do it. And Prop fifty, the California redistrict,
which complies with the Voting Rights Act, which is going
before the voters, is not being done in a back
room in a state House without the public's involvement, is
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not only leading the polls, but is leading in the
way that we get to protect our democracy by winning
back the majority in the House. So we had no
Kings Day and all lives on November fourth and getting
out that vote for Proposition fifty and for making sure
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that we elect Abigail Spamberger in Virginia and Mikey Cheryl
in New Jersey as their new governors. So you know,
we hope all your listeners will will do what they can.
You can help with Prop fifty from anywhere in the country,
and it truly is what we have to do to
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make sure that we have a chance at a level
playing field because we have have a level playing field
their districts and elections Democrats are gonna win, right.
Speaker 8 (20:07):
What happens in California.
Speaker 17 (20:08):
You know they've been They've been doing everything from you know,
the convertible to hula hoops, as you know. And this
is an opportunity to follow California because it helps the
other forty nine states, as you will know. So great
to have you on, congresswoman. We look forward to doing
it again hopefully over the coming weeks. And appreciate you
(20:28):
very much. I know it's a it's a whirlwind for
you today. Keep on fighting for us from Massachusetts and
for the country against those Republicans in the shutdown.
Speaker 8 (20:38):
I know you're doing the right thing. Thank you so
much for joining us this afternoon.
Speaker 9 (20:42):
Ye good to talk to you. Congrats on the show, guys.
Speaker 17 (20:46):
Thank you appreciate it. That is a minority whip. Catherine
Clark here on the Jeff Santo Show. Open up the
phones for any comments you may have about the interview.
And again we'll be replaying this interview tomorrow at four
o'clock in Boston, and we will also replaying it tomorrow
(21:08):
evening or Thursday evening in both San Francisco and eventually
Friday in KABC. So we're going to be putting this
out there. Of course, it's on demand at the Jeff
Santo Show. Our great team, the A team, Rocky and
Company are going to be putting this out so you'll
be able to watch it at your own leisure. But
(21:31):
again tomorrow and WCAP in Boston at four pm again
Eastern time at t one o'clock Pacific.
Speaker 8 (21:40):
We'll replay this interview.
Speaker 17 (21:41):
Also again have it on both KSFO and KBC later
in the week. We'll let you know more about that
in the next twenty four hours. Again the phone number
to join us A three three five four five five
three three three. We look forward to having the congresswoman
on the Minority Whip in the House on over the
(22:03):
coming weeks. It was so much to talk about. We
had a small window because of her tight schedule and
all of the course of the negotiations and shut down what
she's involved with with the Republicans.
Speaker 8 (22:14):
Please, and this is this is an opportunity, folks.
Speaker 17 (22:20):
You know you heard how she connected that Prop fifty
in California that our listeners at casey AA are listening
to right now live at ten fifteen in sam Bernardino
and across Greater Los Angeles, the point is is that
we're all tied into this together. As I've been saying,
(22:40):
as Jerry Austin was talking about before, you know, this
is going to be you know, a big decision by
California voters. You know, don't listen to the you know,
the terminator in Schwarzenegger, who is a better actor than
he was a governor. And the fact is is that
he you know, had with the Democratic Assembly in the
(23:03):
Senate in two thousand and two, put together this independent
you know that wasn't partisan one way or the other.
And that's what's going back in twenty thirty two. That's
the genius of what Gavin Newsom has done. He's been
able to fight back, he's been able to kick butt,
and he is doing it within the law, as Catherine Clark,
(23:24):
Congresswoman Clark has just said, you know, they're doing it
within the voting rights parameters Texas, you know, Trump, They're
kicking the whole thing to the curb. They want, they
want the Supreme Court to get rid of this. Ah,
they don't need it anymore. You know, you know, racism
doesn't exist. That's only like fifty years ago or one
hundred years ago. This is all BS. But this is
(23:46):
who the Republicans are. It's a BS party. But they
have the platforms and they can lie all night long.
As that good friend John from Minnesota said, you know,
it's easy to lie.
Speaker 8 (23:56):
That's the easy way to communicate.
Speaker 17 (23:57):
You know, this guy's terrible, This guy's you know, your
situation is bad because his Democrats are Joe Biden, you know,
on and on and on, and they just make it
up as.
Speaker 8 (24:05):
You go along. It all it's all BS. But that's
who they are.
Speaker 17 (24:09):
So again, folks, Uh, the opportunity now is for the
Democrats to push hard. I'm really glad to hear on
the economic issue. The more you expand that economic issue,
not only on healthcare again, the prices, housing cost, you know,
the whole New York. The African American candidate ran for
(24:30):
a mayor, I forget his name. I think it was Coleman,
you know it. It knew very well in the race
several years ago. But he got the line down. The
rent is too damn high. The rent is too damn high.
And that's the case for New Yorkers, that the people
for all around the country in big cities and if
you unless you do something about it, and that's state government,
(24:51):
that's municipalities. You're gonna end up being in a very
very difficult situation. The ditch has been built by Trump
and he's thrown a lot of people in there, and
he's now putting the crap, as he says, on top
of it. We've got to make sure we get out
of the hole. And you know, the only way they
can do that is the Democrats and progressive Democrats with
(25:12):
moderate Democrats coming together, are going to have to lead
the way. Five four five five three three three And Kevin,
let me know who we have online and we'll go
to the phones momentarily. All right, let's go to Tom
from Los Angeles. Uh, you are next here on the
(25:35):
Jeff Santo Show. Your thoughts on what Minority Whip Clark
had to say and where you think the Democrats are going.
Speaker 8 (25:45):
Uh, you know from this point.
Speaker 18 (25:47):
On, well, you know me, joff I, I would love
to hear you know, more of talking about FBR, whether
that's educating people right album the start, you know, and
i'd love to hear you know, we actually get to
a point where Democrats can start staying you know that
(26:08):
they're at the our Democrats.
Speaker 8 (26:10):
That would be a really really interesting thing.
Speaker 18 (26:14):
However, I would say to all my friends in California,
you know, it's pretty disgusting that we're the fourth largest
economy in the world and when we left, when we
and when we elect a president, it really doesn't even
matter in California because of the stupid electoral college.
Speaker 8 (26:38):
This is another biggest.
Speaker 18 (26:42):
This is this is the one time with top fifty
that we actually can make a difference in terms of
the whole country. And I hope that everyone gets out
and I hope everyone votes early for yes on fifty,
because honestly, you know, if we had a national popular vote,
you would probably see in California the numbers double in
(27:05):
terms of the election returns. But when we really don't
even have a say because the election has already decided
by the time they even get to California.
Speaker 11 (27:17):
You know, it's toll bs.
Speaker 18 (27:19):
And I hope that, like I said, all my California
friends and people in our state get out and vote
yes I'm fifty, because so one time, actually we do
have some type of power to change what's happening here
in this country.
Speaker 17 (27:35):
So well said, you know, well, look, we whether it's
the idea of the expansion in the Supreme Court, which
we've talked about on this program, whether or not we've
talked about, you know, the statehood for DC and Puerto
Rico if they decide that they want to become part
of the country and not just take off because of
Trump and again uh end in end of the electoral College.
(27:56):
Having as we talked with our good friend John Bussinger
about a couple of weeks ago, who was a real
maverick in the Massthusetts legislature, you know, going back to
the seventies for longer hours for voters to go there.
It was at five or six o'clock at night. Now
now it's eight o'clock. And thanks to people like Bussinger,
all these reforms Democrats have to run on them. These
(28:19):
are great ideas that have been around for forty years
and they've been on the table and you got to
make it move. And basically, if you want to fight
fire with fire, you know, you want a Jerry Mander
to get yourself seats, Well, the Democrats will give statehood
to d C. That's probably two Democratic senators right there.
And if Puerto Rico agrees to be part of America
(28:39):
and they want to have two senators from that great island. Then,
in my opinion, that is another two Democratic seats. Not
a guarantee, but close to it. So I just think
all of these things. You know, you want to have
a Supreme Court that works. Well, let's get to eleven,
let's get to thirteen, you know, I mean, let's make
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it happen. So when the next president gets in there, Newsome, Pritzker,
you know, whomever it might be, Murphy, you got to
go and you've got to make it clear that we
are going for the gold. I'm sick, guitared and going
for the bronze. And that's how I looked at it.
Thanks so much, Tom, You're spot on. Great ideas. All right,
let's go back to Minnesota and get a quick comment
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from my good friend John D before we go to break.
Speaker 8 (29:25):
John D, I got about thirty seconds. You can go
ahead and have it.
Speaker 19 (29:30):
Yeah, I used to live in California. I lived in
San Bernardino. I did a residency at Lomlinda. You know,
I love California. I you know, for various reasons, did
not settle there but came back.
Speaker 11 (29:45):
Well, I lived in New Mexico.
Speaker 8 (29:46):
And fifteen seconds and then.
Speaker 19 (29:48):
The last Yeah, yeah, in the last thirty years lived here,
and I think that proportional representation, you know, representation, not
on the basis of I.
Speaker 17 (29:59):
Got to run my friend, Thank you so much. I
hear what you're say. Yep, right on, thank you John. Look, folks,
we're gonna give a tape replay of John Nichols coming up,
and then we'll say goodbye, maybe don't you.
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the majority a minority whip. Hopefully she'll be the majority
Whip come early twenty twenty seven when the new House
is sworn in.
Speaker 8 (34:04):
Couldn't wait much longer than that.
Speaker 17 (34:07):
I tell you, it's destruction, as we see in the
screens in our studio here of the destruction of the
East Ballroom, the East wing of the White House by Trump.
And that's destruction he's doing to the economy. That's the
symbolism of what word is going on right now in
twenty twenty five, and we'll be in twenty twenty six
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until we can get Democrats in control of the House
and hopefully the Senate too. All that is subject to
a lot of polling data and a lot of information
that we need to seek and what's going to be
the key issues and where the Democrats are. You know
how I stand on the FDR pathway. Well, let's see
where things stand. And a couple of important races to
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judge that are in Virginia and New Jersey and our
good friend, the best pollster in the country first time
back in twenty twenty five, Suffolk University's director of polling.
He pulls for USA today in the Boston Globe.
Speaker 8 (35:07):
He is the best.
Speaker 17 (35:08):
He is David Palliologas, and he joins us on the
phone from his offices in downtown Boston.
Speaker 8 (35:13):
David, great to have you back, my friend. How are
you great to be back?
Speaker 11 (35:19):
Congratulations, Well, thank you.
Speaker 8 (35:22):
It is good to be back.
Speaker 17 (35:23):
Good to be back talking about all these issues that
are important to the American people and important to really mankind,
because as goes America, as goes the world. Unfortunately, it's
not going very well right now. So first of all,
I don't know what you can release because I know
(35:44):
you're involved in the Virginia primary or the Virginia general election,
I should say in two weeks and if you can
tell us that, But what do you think that Virginia
race is telling us, if you can connect it to
what is happening nationally from where you're where you stand
right now, David.
Speaker 11 (36:06):
So, just for your your listeners.
Speaker 15 (36:09):
Pleasure, we are going to be releasing a Virginia poll
tomorrow morning, and then next week we'll be releasing a
New Jersey poll. And in between these two releases, we're
going to Yeah, we're going to Sandwich in a New
York City mayor's poll also, so we're going to get
three on in the next seven days. In terms of
(36:32):
your question, in both if you look at real clear
politics or any of the polling averages, most of the
polls have the Democrat winning in each of those two states.
The question is by how much and whether or not
those candidates in the polling averages.
Speaker 11 (36:52):
Can be above fifty percent. And right now.
Speaker 15 (36:58):
The average is fifty percent in Virginia and it's right
it's right there. So both states should survive a Republican challenge.
From what I'm seeing right now today is snapshot in time,
but of course a lot can change between now in
the election.
Speaker 8 (37:18):
Sure, no doubt.
Speaker 17 (37:19):
Talking with David Pelogus, one of the top I think
he's the top best poster in the country, of course,
director of polling at Suffolk University and polls for both
USA Today as well as the Boston Globe. Here on
the Jeff Santo Show phone number to join us eight
three to three five four five five three three three.
That's eight three three five four five. Jeff spell it
(37:42):
out with a J J E F F. No gofs
allowed too long anyways, David, talk to me about how
you are seeing the Democrats versus Republicans on the shutdown.
I saw a couple of polls today that show the
Democrats are blamed less by BB five or six points.
(38:03):
Is this something that the Democrats need to do a
better job of communicating. I mean, one of the reasons
why we're on the air here in Boston on wcapam
nine to eighty, but also why we're now live and
we're so happy to be on KCAA in a shout
out to Mark and the gang there in Sam Bernardino
that gets throughout greater Los Angeles into cities like Long Beach,
(38:27):
Anaheim and so forth, and the OC and East LA.
Talk to me about how they my opinion, this should
be a GOP shutdown and it should be about a
twenty point lead for the Democrats, but they don't have
the infrastructure of talk radio. I mean, you know, we
are on you know, big stations that are primarily you know,
(38:49):
right wing stations. You know KSFO in San Francisco, fantastic station.
They've given us the opportunity, and of course that's fifty
thousand Reno to the east, Santa Barbara to the south,
KABC more moderate but still conservative. And that is another flamethrower,
fifty thousand watts from the border in the great San
(39:13):
Diego Area Mexican border all the way up to Santa Barbara.
So we're covering the entire state and again with our
friends at KCAA, we're live. So I think that the
opportunity is there, but you know, we can't we can't
do this without infrastructure that the Republicans have been doing
for some forty to forty five years. Is that really
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the difference when it comes down to these polls is
that the ability for Republicans to amplify and Trump knows
how to do that and has the infrastructure to do it.
Speaker 8 (39:43):
So until we get.
Speaker 17 (39:44):
To the point where we put you know, financial resources
into talk radio and the talk TV and so forth
and just reach out to people where they are, that's
always going to be sort of you know, it's always
going to be nip and tuck. Is that where the
plane surfaces that we're dealing with now and have been
(40:04):
for a number of years?
Speaker 15 (40:05):
Yes? Yeah, I mean there have been studies that go
back to nineteen ninety two that just show, you know,
back then there was a big, massive, people who could
be swayed one way or the other, and very few
people on the fringes. And now it's totally shifted where
you've got a large block of likely voters on the
left side and on the right side and very few
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in the middle. That's why you're not seeing the kind
of shifts that a lot of political experts would like
to see. It's pretty much fixed. But in terms of
the blame question, we are releasing that question as well tomorrow.
Speaker 11 (40:44):
We show a little.
Speaker 15 (40:45):
Bit bigger lead than six or seven points in terms
of the blame being a side, but it's divided. Some
people said congressional Republicans, others blamed Trump, and the thumb
total of those two exceeds congressional Democrats by more than
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ten points. And so you'll see that tomorrow in the
in the UH in the release in Virginia, and again,
Virginia is the state that Kamala Harris won and won
by about five points, so it excus a little bit
more blue than the country and that's probably why those
polls are showing a you know, a six or seven
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point margin.
Speaker 8 (41:31):
Understood.
Speaker 17 (41:32):
Talking with David Palliologus here on the Jeff Santo Show,
so you're saying that both Spanberger and mikey Ryl in
New Jersey, the two Democratic nominees and respectively from Virginia
and Jersey, are doing very well, and that it's the
Democratic messaging is better, uh than maybe it was.
Speaker 8 (41:52):
Two weeks ago.
Speaker 17 (41:53):
One thing I have noticed is that Hakeem Jefferies is
on practically every MSNBC show.
Speaker 8 (42:00):
Him on this show.
Speaker 17 (42:01):
Of course, we just spoke with his number two and
majority a minority whip, Catherine Clark from Massachusetts yesterday, and
you know she understands the economic issues, David. And one
thing that I wanted to bring to your attention. You
can't see this because not on video, but we've been
using a prop of a Dunkin Donuts one pound coffeeback.
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The fact is is that about three weeks ago would
go to the local SNS and it was about seven
dollars in ninety nine cents.
Speaker 8 (42:34):
Today it's fourteen dollars.
Speaker 17 (42:37):
You know, when it goes up seven dollars, the average
person who makes thirty five forty five fifty thousand dollars
a year, that's a big income. If you're making twenty
five thousand dollars a year, that means you may not
necessarily want to buy a pound of dunkin Donuts coffee,
or for that matter, any other coffee. This is an
issue I think the Democrats should really put their fingers on.
We just talked to Jim Roosevelt, grandson of FDR, and
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he says, look, it's always been on economics.
Speaker 8 (43:01):
That's how we win.
Speaker 17 (43:02):
And I concur exactly is that going to be the
difference here? This is the tariff Trump tariff. You know,
it's Brazil coffee. You know, put the uh, put the
cabash on that by going after Da Silva, the leader
prime minister president of Brazil, because he wanted to get
at his help his buddy Boalsonario, who's you know, been
(43:24):
indicted for his malfeasance, another dictator in Brazil. So, uh,
talk to me about the idea of the economic message
and how Democrats should take advantage of this and how
this plays.
Speaker 8 (43:38):
Of course, we all know how you know.
Speaker 17 (43:40):
They they warped the whole issue with inflation against Biden,
and of course Biden was ineffective in the last I
think the last year and a half of his his
office is the tenure as president, and that I think
gave the Democrats and the Republicans an opening because they
couldn't answer back, and they don't have the infrastructure to
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answer back either.
Speaker 15 (44:01):
Your thoughts, David, So, one of the fun parts of
being a poster is that we talk to real people
who are likely voters all across whatever the universe of
voters that we are pulling. And a lot of times
the messages get messed up on what people are talking about.
But what you're referring to are the bread and butter
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issues that matter to people.
Speaker 11 (44:25):
You get up in.
Speaker 15 (44:27):
The morning, you have a cup of coffee. You know
you've got to go to the gas station. If you
don't have an EV and you've got to fill your
gas tank. Then you have to make a decision about
whether you go out to eat or you shop at
a grocery store. If you shop at the grocery store,
or there's substitutes available, And so people are calibrating their
own day to day to decisions to survive, to survive
(44:52):
right that they don't run out of money at the
end of the month, and they're crossing off the days
until they get their next Social Security or their next paycheck.
And so those issues do resonate and this is why
Mondani shocked the world on an afforda.
Speaker 8 (45:09):
Million message and can get to him right.
Speaker 11 (45:15):
We did.
Speaker 15 (45:15):
We did a survey I don't know, a month or
so ago in New York City. We're doing another one
and we tested the negatives that people.
Speaker 11 (45:24):
Have thrown out.
Speaker 15 (45:24):
He's a socialist, he's anti Semitic. We tested all of
those negatives against him, and it turns out that among
likely voters, they don't buy it. They don't think that
at his core he's an anti semi We asked the
question point blank. They don't believe that the businesses.
Speaker 11 (45:43):
Are going to swarm and leave New York.
Speaker 15 (45:44):
City because he's he's going to try to enact as
socialist agenda. We tested that negative that was all over
social media. Majority of people rejected that too. And so
what you have now is and it's hard for older
New York or to accept, especially those people who view
socialism as the you know, the kooties of politics, and
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so they're they're having to try and figure out is
this something that can be managed? Is he somebody that
won't mess up the greatest city in the United States?
And so, I mean, we have Michelle wou A lot
of people called her a socialist too in Boston, right, and.
Speaker 8 (46:30):
They call everybody socialists. They call me a socialist too.
Speaker 17 (46:33):
I love capitalism, you know, long it's distributed, uh to
a point where everybody has equal chance, and you know,
and obviously race and and uh, sexual orientation and uh
a gender, you know, all that plays into it. Uh
if you if everybody gets an equal chance, you know,
we we're we're all good with, you know, having somebody
make a million bucks. I don't think they should make
(46:54):
a billion bucks, but a million bucks, that's that's kosher
in my view.
Speaker 8 (46:59):
You know.
Speaker 17 (46:59):
Look, it's it's just a lot of bs from the
other side. This is what they do. They'll have to
throw out a bunch of manure, and that's what ends
up sticking, unfortunately, because in some cases the Democrats don't
respond and don't respond hard enough or in enough places
that really make a difference. Talking to David palliolocus here
on the Jeff Santo Show, and Kevin you can tell
(47:20):
me in my here who we have on the line again.
The phone number to join is A three three five
four five five three three three. Let me ask you this, David,
do you sense that there is a tide turning. You
mentioned Mom, Donnie, and I'm I think he is a
(47:40):
superstar in the making. Now can't you can't run for
president because he was born in Africa and Uganda. But
the point is is that I think this guy has
the ability to be well a new Bernie Sanders, you know,
somebody who can push the envelope and push the Democratic
Party in a more progressive of direction and a more
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progressive populist direction, which is how I define myself on
this show and in general. Do you believe that the
Mandani and if you take with what Gavin Newsom and
particularly his communication and his fatility and his ability to
fight back against against Trump, those two combinations East West,
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I think can make it very dynamic scenario as we
head into twenty twenty six, because if those two are
the focus and they are communicating the Democratic message for
their colleagues in Washington who always don't necessarily understand a
way to communicate to the working class in the House
and Senate, I think that that bodes very well for
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the Democrats. And I hope that they are both brought
in by the House and Senate Democrats because I think
they can make a difference. Now, you know a lot
of people say, well, you know, I don't know what
Mandani is going to do in Ohio or in Georgia. Look,
you can if you can communicate, you can communicate anywhere
in the country.
Speaker 8 (49:03):
I mean, if you're speaking English, you can.
Speaker 17 (49:06):
Communicate whether they're in Atlanta or Columbus or wherever. Your
thoughts on that, and do you agree with my premisey
and that if you're a great communicator, and the newsom
and Mamdani, who of course is now an assembly guy
in New York but will be if polls show correctly
that he will be the next mayor in New York City,
That to me is a very powerful one two punch
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your view.
Speaker 15 (49:30):
So I look at this more digitally, and I look
at it uh with the thought of who has the
who comes into office potentially with the lowest expectations. That's
somebody like Mondani. The average voter is skeptical. There are
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some Union Democrats who are voting Mandani, but they're nervous.
There are businesses that are nervous, and I belie that's
an opportunity. I saw Michelle wou clear the field, and
everybody thought she was going to get knocked out when
she reelection, and she you know, she'd be craft of
the preliminary so bad he took his name off the ballot.
(50:14):
So she's she's on at in effect, and and and
so and so I look at Mondani and I say,
if he came in with high, high expectations that the
world was going to change in New York City and
and and then he flopped, you have more downside risk.
Speaker 11 (50:33):
But a guy like him has more upside risk.
Speaker 15 (50:37):
Now he may disappoint, he may get in. And the
criticism on him is he can't he can't afford and
he can't finance his ideas. He doesn't he's not telling
voters how he's going to fund the programs that he
wants to fund. And so he either makes a choice,
(50:57):
pursues some and not others, or does find a way
to finance it so that not everybody is hurting. And
so that's the challenge ahead. One of the most one
of the earliest tests, and this is kind of an
insider thing, is that right now the Mamdani people are
navigating the Curtis Sliwa people. They don't want Sliwa. The
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Republican nominee to drop out. So they're they're not coordinating
anything with them, but they're very much being respectful and
encouraging Sliwa to stay in the race pursue his dream
of becoming mayor knowing full well that Sliwa is drawing
some voters away from Cuomo. And there you having the ability,
(51:46):
having the ability to navigate with quote the enemy and
doing it in a and a in a pro democracy
kind of way, is the kind of thing that makes
for a successful politician if he got you know, if
he gets elected.
Speaker 8 (52:03):
That's fascinating. I didn't know that.
Speaker 17 (52:05):
And brought to you by our insider David Palliologus, again
the great poster, the best in the business, Suffolk University's
director of polling and of course polster for both the
USA Today and The Boston Globe.
Speaker 8 (52:19):
I wanna kind of get another.
Speaker 17 (52:22):
Perspective here because we are in California again listening live
on Casey aam ten fifty in a shout out to
Mark and the gang down at San Bernardino. The importance
of Prop fifty to the House. You could potentially have
five new seats in California. That offsets what's happening in Texas.
It opens the door for a blueprint to other states Illinois,
(52:45):
New York and others that have you know, a preponderance
of Democrats in the congressional delegation, but have Democratic governors.
Speaker 8 (52:54):
On the reason why the New Jersey race is so important.
Speaker 17 (52:57):
Similarly Virginia too, how do you look at it from
a polling director. The polls look good in California from
what I understand. We've been talking to some folks about
it out there who are in the consultant world. But
you got to get people out to vote, and you know,
you know, we're trying to get as many people on
(53:18):
from California in the next few days, few weeks to
make that point how important it is to the other
forty nine states and again to someone like Catherine Clark
to make her go from minority whip to majority leader
and make a Keen Jeffreys the first ever African American
Speaker of the House. Your thoughts on that, because California,
(53:38):
in my opinion, is center stage.
Speaker 8 (53:40):
As one of our listeners said the other day, you know.
Speaker 17 (53:43):
They're usually in the back of the lot, even though
the biggest state, even though they're what the eighth largest economy,
in the world. The point is is that because it
usually ends up in June in the primary is you know,
everything is decided by them primary wise, they didn't move
up a couple of years ago to become more relevant.
And then of course, uh, in the in the in
(54:05):
the general election, the way it comes east to west,
with the electoral college, it doesn't it doesn't work for
them either to be center stage. Now they are your
thoughts about that and maybe how things change, because if
California comes through and and you know, and gets a
majority for this, uh, for this referendum, that could change
(54:27):
some things too, I believe for how other people do this,
maybe some Midwestern governors and others are.
Speaker 11 (54:35):
Nervous.
Speaker 8 (54:36):
Yeah, this could be this could be very problematic. You know,
people are going to think there were California progresses. Oh
my god, what a horrible thing that would be.
Speaker 17 (54:46):
You know, I'm being facetious, of course, but that is
I think under some you know, Democrats who barely win
and you know a place like Kentucky, you know, they
may feel, oh my god, California. But I think this
is exactly what they need. Bold Jim Roosevelt and I
were talking about it. Bold progresses very important, David, Sorry
(55:06):
for long questions.
Speaker 15 (55:07):
So, yeah, no, it's it's a valid one, and it's
it's kind of insurance against what's going on in some
of the other red states. So you know, if people
don't like this mid decade shenanigans, then it should stop
on both sides. You can't criticize one side or the other.
(55:30):
And it's perfectly within their purview and that's in our
democracy for people to vote on it. And if they
vote on it, it can be done. I find it
interesting on the on the Texas situation, when Texas redistricted
mid decades, that the idea that you're taking less people
(55:53):
out of the middle continues. We talked about that earlier.
When you do what California and Texas doing, and you know,
for the respective sides, you're basically making red districts for
raet ate blue districts bluer, and you're taking away the
swing districts. Well, why would Republicans want to take away
swing districts and Texas or in any other state.
Speaker 11 (56:18):
And the answer is they want.
Speaker 15 (56:20):
To take those districts away because they feel that there's
an anti incumbency wave out there that's sitting among independents,
we know how Democrats are going to vote. In Republicans,
it's all about independence. And one of the findings tomorrow in.
Speaker 11 (56:36):
The Virginia Pool.
Speaker 15 (56:38):
Will will accentuate that that if you look at independent
in Virginia, and there aren't a lot of people who
identifies independence, by the way, it's less than twenty percent.
But even in that small group of people, the tendency
right now is to reflect what history says, which is
it tends to go against the pot in power. And
(57:02):
so when Texas takes away those swing districts and makes
more districts read then in essence you're doing you're doing
your own flipping. You're flipping just based on redistricting. And
and some people aren't going to like the election engineering
(57:23):
of redistricting in mid just you know, mid decade, because
then where does it stop. It's like a ten dollar
scratch ticket becomes a twenty becomes a fifty. Well, if
you do it in mid decade, well, why can't you
do it every two years?
Speaker 17 (57:38):
And REDI Well, the only thing about that, though, David,
is that Republicans are doing it to trash and keep
people from voting the Democrats. In the case of Gavin
Newsom in particular, they're going back to their independent you know,
Assembly Schwarzenegger role in twenty thirty two. So you know,
there's two different things. It's not the same for the
two parties. But yeah, with you, I mean, people you
(58:01):
know don't like, uh, any kind of change. But this
is Donald Trump that did it. And that's the reality
that mainstream media and others have to realize.
Speaker 8 (58:09):
This is not he said, she said.
Speaker 17 (58:11):
This is Trump and the ability to be a dictator
and that's what he's doing. And we all know, you know,
that has been the case from day one with.
Speaker 15 (58:19):
Him and the motive and the motivation and the motivation
for that back to the original point is to take
swing districts off the table because independence right now are
moving against the party in power. So it's a it's
you know, it's electoral chats. You know, it makes sense
(58:39):
from a statistical standpoint, but it stinks and uh and
it doesn't speak well about democracy and now it forces California.
Speaker 8 (58:49):
Do we answer, no doubt, No doubt, David is much
too short.
Speaker 17 (58:54):
But we look forward to a uh, you know, a
visit from you on a on a frequent basis as
we move along on. These are crazy times for you again, folks.
You can look out for a polling data coming out
of out of Suffolk and out of USA Today.
Speaker 8 (59:09):
Is that right, David? For the Virginia poll.
Speaker 15 (59:12):
Yeap, horrible, Probably about nine o'clock Eastern time.
Speaker 8 (59:17):
Fantastic.
Speaker 17 (59:18):
Lookout for that on both Suffolk University website as well
as USA Today. David Paliologus, thank you so much, my friend.
Great to have you back on our ear. Look forward
to our next visit, and again check out the websites
of both of those organizations, Suffolk dot.
Speaker 8 (59:38):
Edu and of course USA Today.
Speaker 17 (59:42):
David, I have a good one, my friend. Thank you,
Take care you too. We'll be right back, folks. It's
the Jeff Santo Show. Corbyn Garvey for the entire hour.
Foreign Policy on Steroids here on.
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Here's the KCAA community calendar for the month of October.
The Sam Bernardino County Public Defender's Office is hosting a
spectacular Trunk or Treat event. Dress up in costume and
bring family and friends. The event promises to be a
treat filled extravaganza with decorated trunks, delicious candy and games.
October sixteenth, from three to six pm, located in San
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Bernardino at nine hundred East Gilbert Street. In Riverside, It's
the Paws and Pumpkins Halloween Bash at the Marius Roberts
Pet Adoption Center October twenty fifth, from ten am till noon.
This fun filled morning is designed just for kids ages
six through thirteen. Pumpkin paignting trick or treat tour at
the adoption Center with treats along the way, Meet and
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spend some time with the friendly, adorable pets. Costumes are encouraged.
Advance online registration is required. Halloween High Jinks in Royalto
It's Showtime. The annual Halloween High Jinks is Thursday, October
thirty first, from five thirty to nine thirty pm at
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Hour with Randy Corrigan, a brand new show about labor
and worker issues. The host of the show is Randy Corrigan,
Secretary Treasurer and Principal Office and Leader of Teamsters nineteen
(01:04:16):
thirty two, one of the largest public sector labor unions
on the West Coast, representing workers in government and non
sworn law enforcement personnel. Randy Corgan is a thirty year
Teamster who first became involved in the labor movement by
volunteering his time as an organizer with the Teamsters Union at.
Speaker 4 (01:04:32):
The age of twenty one.
Speaker 10 (01:04:34):
Since then, he's helped thousands organize, mobilize, and achieve bargaining rights.
He accomplished this by spending countless hours with brave men
and women all over southern California in their living rooms
on the picket line to bring workers towards victory. This
is the Worker Power Hour, and now here's the host
of the show, Randy Corrigan.
Speaker 7 (01:05:12):
We're back.
Speaker 2 (01:05:13):
This is the Worker Power Hour with Randy Corgan on
the team. Starts Local nineteen thirty two, Broadcast Network. A
little late to the splipping the switch over there, Mark,
Did I just see that?
Speaker 7 (01:05:23):
Did you catch up?
Speaker 24 (01:05:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:05:25):
I can, I can tell by the ticker up there.
Speaker 7 (01:05:27):
Yeah it was, but it's on. I got it before
you spoke. So technically I made that means I didn't
drop the ball before I put my foot.
Speaker 2 (01:05:35):
Over the means people didn't get to hear the news.
No on the recorded version. Well there's that anyway, I
don't want to hear it anyway. Long time organizer, first
time radio host, apparently, first time border operator. That's a
you know, that's a crazy thing about a live show,
right Like, you can't like, say, let's restart You're you're
(01:05:59):
going at a certain time, and if you don't push
a button, guess what, no one gets to see you
or hear you. Anyway, It's another show. We have a
great lineup, a lot of good guests coming on, and
a lot of stuff to cover. I could tell you this.
I think last week most people felt like I was
shot out of a cannon on that show. Would would
you guys agree?
Speaker 7 (01:06:20):
Yeah, we were here.
Speaker 2 (01:06:21):
Well I've been. I've been. I've been shot out of
that cannon all week long. And I have literally been
issuing challenge after challenge after challenge over the last few days,
including last night at a labor council meeting where I,
you know, basically challenged the labor movement in the region
(01:06:42):
to step up and start to do some of the
same things that we're doing in addition to asking them.
You know, look, you can come on the show. Your
members can come on the show. Your unions, your organizations,
come on the show. You know, let's let's let's get
more unions having their shows and podcasts and start to
fill the space. We got to get ahead of corporate America.
(01:07:02):
We got to stop playing defense and we need to
start playing offense. So, as far as I'm concerned, it's
time to just start to make things happen. I was
on the Rick Smith Show just a couple of days ago.
Maybe that was just yesterday, and I'm not remembering the days.
I've been going to a lot of places and kind
of agitating and pushing, pushing, Why are you laughing?
Speaker 7 (01:07:27):
Yeah, it was very inspiring last night.
Speaker 2 (01:07:31):
Yeah, I think it was inspiring, depending on maybe you
know what seat you were in. But hopefully, hopefully I
did it in a way where it was meant to
engage a process and you know, really get to to
get people to think outside the box and move into
a space where we make some things happen. So I
(01:07:53):
felt good about it. I felt like I could have
went on rambled on for much longer. I keep getting
cut off at a certain point because I get it
other there's other things people got to get to on
the agenda besides ourselves. And we will be giving away
a blanket here as soon as I call out the number,
So don't call in now. He's still got a little
bit of time. I'll do it in a few minutes,
(01:08:14):
so don't try to get ahead of it. So Michelle
at the front desk, don't don't allow anybody to jump
in on this right away. I do want to let
you know in the next few weeks we're going to
be moving our show just a little bit. We're going
to be actually moving it from the three to five
time slot on Wednesday three to five time slot on
(01:08:34):
Wednesday and a few weeks. We haven't set a heart date,
a hard date yet, but that will be happening. We're
going to make room for another show that's going to
be backing up against ours. So not a problem, you know.
Caa came to us and said, hey, Rian, Randy, can
can we work through this? This is we're going to
be carrying another show from another area. Absolutely, moving an
(01:08:57):
hour is easy for us. If they were trying to
hit me to move like four or five hours. That
would probably be really difficult, but what's that. Yeah, And
it's actually I like the fact that it's it's going
to be easier for me that you know, three to five.
Sometimes it's a bit tough turning on right at two
doing the two to four. So as usual, I'm going
(01:09:18):
to go right into my live shoutouts. The first live
shout out we got is ERC is going to be
listening in live, which is our steward meeting. We have
somewhere between about seventy and one hundred stewards show up
every week and excuse me, once a month, not every week,
once a month, and we do a little bit of
a training, get them up to speed on current events
and try to educate them on what's going on. So
(01:09:40):
they're they're they're literally on the other side of the building,
going to be listening in live here very shortly. Live
shoutouts start with Krystal Hunter, Amanda Montoya, Chaz Kelly Chaz.
Saw you at the San Manino State of the City yesterday.
It was good to see you there. Obviously, saw a
lot of people there. Mary Letitia Metta, Olivia Cabera, GMME
(01:10:05):
Department at r MC, Daval Shaw, Amber Sidel, DBH, Michael
Aragon CFS, Loray Robinson, TAD, Jenny Hernandez Public Health, Karen
michaels ikis from TAD Nadal Raffiti, Good Old Dollar Vice President,
Gabe shadeou Kucho. Maybe that's it. That's see I got.
(01:10:28):
I'm gonna have a couple of hard pronunciations here, so
I'm apologize ahead of time for butchering your name when
I do. Sandy Cabrera RMC, and Gabe was at Ukapa
Regional Native Dad Manzarina. Hopefully I did that right, Manzanerda.
Did I do it all right? All right? Brenda Mahaley
(01:10:53):
did my best. Lisa Mosquez. Everybody's laughing at me right now,
Richard Herrera, Rigo Morale, no one's you know, obviously, if
I'm butchering your name and you're listening live, I apologize,
you know, sincerely. Like I said before, I'm not as
good as I used to be at this pronouncing names.
I don't know why. I guess I'm getting older and
it's one of the things you lose. Sussan Loftus, Kurt Garrison,
(01:11:14):
Sheriff's Department, Connie Bottini ryal To Library listening to the
podcast podcast Afterwork, Rohnda Wholigan from City of Sambordino, I
Think we saw you yesterday. Rebecca Romero, Robert Lee, Peer
and Family Advocate with DBH, the Barstow Clinic, TATO One,
(01:11:36):
TAD eighteen, Victorville and DBH. Stewart's also have Laurie McMillan,
Ryan from the Day's Office, annett lera from City of
Colton mid Managers, Ruben Saylor Auditor, tax Collector's Office, Sheriff's
Aviation is listening in live, the Laurus Joy from Public
Health Beatris Garcia, Warren Pennington DWA also have Michelle from
(01:12:03):
p Town, Michelle Ethrich and I have Ryan Frankin listening
in live all the way out in the middle of
the Arizona Desert Retiree. Thank you for listening in live,
all of you, and we're gonna do something fun in
the future with our live listeners. We've came up with
an idea here recently or probably in the next few shows,
(01:12:24):
we'll roll it out for those of you that do
listen live, and especially if you listen live regularly, it'll
give you more shots what we're gonna do is if
we call out your name, we're going to aside from
it like it's some part of the show. We'll call
out your name, and if you call back within a
certain period of time, we're going to give you a
sweater or a blanket. And so we'll start that. We're
(01:12:46):
gonna do a lottery for that. We'll put all the
names that are listening in live, put it in and
pull something random out and then when we grab that name,
if you call back within a certain period of time,
we have a We actually are live listener. Listenership is
rising pretty quickly, and so we want to reward you
for doing that in addition to having a little bit
of fun with it. So uh really look looking forward
(01:13:07):
to that and the next part of our show because
I'm forgetting something? Am I forgetting something?
Speaker 15 (01:13:13):
Robert?
Speaker 11 (01:13:14):
Robert?
Speaker 2 (01:13:14):
Were we fired up at the meeting last night? Did
we light that meeting up or what?
Speaker 12 (01:13:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:13:19):
I haven't forgot to do it yet. Yeah, I'm going
to do it. I've got it right here on my agenda.
Thanks for reminding me, though I appreciate it. I appreciate
I appreciate him trying to keep me on task because
you know sometimes I get lost here. You know, I'm
a long time organizer. I'm not a radio host. I
don't always know what I'm doing here behind the mike.
(01:13:40):
That's getting them.
Speaker 9 (01:13:43):
No.
Speaker 2 (01:13:43):
No, Like I said, until someone sits over here and
gives me a compelling argument that I can't say it anymore,
I'm going to keep saying it's my show.
Speaker 7 (01:13:52):
Oh that's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (01:13:54):
Anyway, last night we had a great time, like our
staff and some members, you know, we had it was
a great time, and we really threw down and send
a message. And there's like, look, the labor movement's got
to be really assertive right now. And I'm many of
you on social media may see a little bit more
of a presence where we're pushing some messages out a
little bit more, being a little bit more assertive and
a little more aggressive. And I really don't think we
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have much of a choice, So you're going to see
a lot more of that. Don't forget this is CASEAA
ten fifty AM one O six point five FM. When
it comes to station identification, and you can always email
us at Radio Show at Teamsters nineteen thirty two dot org.
Listen on the app live anytime download the KSEAA app
(01:14:40):
and you can listen live. You just push that little
button boom, and you can actually be listening to the
show live. That's where finding that's where most of the
people are actually listening live or I don't know if
it's most, but there's a lot that are listening live
because it's really easy to use the app, and clearly
we're integrating a lot of this stuff into our app
at the local in addition to other platform forms. Some
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stuff we're working on will be rolling out here pretty soon.
Fun fact, actually no teams for Tuesday. Let me do
teams for Tuesday. First. Every Tuesday we highlight a member
or a member group on our social media to show
the public the important work our members do. You can
follow us at nineteen thirty two Teamsters on all platforms.
(01:15:21):
This last Tuesday, we highlighted our Teamster brothers and sisters
out of Local one sixty six who are supporting the
Alliance of Healthcare Workers strike against Kaiser Permanente, who is
putting profits over patients. Over a thousand nurses across the
IE walked off the job and thousands more across the state. So, uh,
(01:15:42):
did a you guys did a little profile for the
one sixty six members yesterday, right video, and I'm checking
how the views do thirty thousand views? Nice from the picket.
Speaker 25 (01:15:55):
Line and everyone else collaborated.
Speaker 2 (01:15:58):
Oh good, that's really good, he said, thirty thousand views.
That's great. That's a really really good reach, especially just
in less than a day. So, you know, keep up
the good workout there, everybody. We you know, I get it.
There's a lot of parts of social media that's full
of negativity and toxicity. We try to utilize those platforms
in a positive way where we're punching out a positive
(01:16:20):
message about our members, about what they're doing and what
you can do to get involved in help out. And
those platforms seem to be working well, So keep accelerating
that message out there. Yeah, only one negative comment, thirty
thousand views, one negative comment. I will take those numbers
every single day, every single day. Fun fact brought to
you by the San Diego Labor Council. This is we've
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actually talked a little bit about this before in the past. Yeah,
we know, we can't hear I got somebody comment, and
we can't hear Robert when he talks is because he's
a little bit off to the side right now, and
I'm not putting him in front of a mic. So
I appreciate you calling us out on that. And maybe
one day we're just going to give Robert a little
mic that he can just walk around and talk to
because he's kind of helping us in the studio doing stuff. No,
I don't want to I don't want to sit him
(01:17:03):
over there. He doesn't want to sit over here. He
can't sit still.
Speaker 7 (01:17:08):
We need to get him a lapel mic.
Speaker 2 (01:17:12):
Maybe we do a look whatever. I don't know if
I want him to have a my ca all the time,
especially you know, you guys do this chatty stuff over
there sometimes that you know. I don't know if you're
gossiping about what's going on in the show or what.
Speaker 7 (01:17:24):
But we're talking about you, Randy, I hope so. And
I have control of the mic, so I can turn
him off.
Speaker 2 (01:17:32):
That's true. We'll have to have a little signal and
I can just say this little I do this little
signal and boom he's off cut. See See see how authoritary?
Speaker 8 (01:17:42):
That's right?
Speaker 2 (01:17:43):
Hey man, Apparently it's the new way, right and this
is the way you do things. Trending give me a
paper to sign. I'm just gonna put my signature on
the paper and make something go away.
Speaker 7 (01:17:51):
Gotta hold it up there. You gotta hold it up
for everybody to see, though, But.
Speaker 2 (01:17:55):
I appreciate you pointing it out. You know, this is
what this platform over here is about, is giving us
live feedback while this is going on. Anyway, let's get
back to the show. Fun fact brought to the brought
to us by the San Diego Labor Council when corporate
greed crashed the stock market in nineteen twenty nine and
sent America spinning into the Great Depression. Yeah, corporate America
(01:18:18):
did it. You know, they want to blame everybody else
as they are right now, but it's always corporate America
that makes these things happen. Anyway, the ladies garment industry
was one of the least affected. While men struggled to
find work, the growing garment industry was hiring, but nearly
all jobs were for women. For immigrant families, the only
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options were often jobs in the garment industry. Garment houses
used desperation to exploit workers, especially Mexican immigrants. By nineteen
thirty three, these women made up seventy five percent of
the workforce in Los Angeles. At the time, Los Angeles
was one of the most anti union cities in America.
What a crazy time, What a crazy shift. Ninety years later,
(01:19:02):
right even many unionists, including some of the leaders of
the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, believe the Mexican women
in the garment factories couldn't be organized. Nearly one hundred
years later, garment workers in La are still fighting that
same exploitation and state violence. One of the first targets
(01:19:23):
when ICE launched their campaign of terror, undocumented workers of
the La garment industry were the target. The billionaire class
is aligning to roll back the victories that workers have
won through struggle and sacrifice over the last hundred years.
We must fight them as a united working class if
we hope to build a future where working people can thrive.
(01:19:46):
Thank you, Sambrigino, excuse me, San Diego Labor Council. We
really appreciate you pulling out the fun fact for us,
especially every week now. They're doing a really good job
giving us something different, kind of switching around. We know
that you're listening in now regularly. We appreciate that. Appreciate
your share on the show and we really appreciate your contribution. Again,
any other organization, labor organization that wants to do something similar,
(01:20:09):
send us something that we cover every single week on
the show. We're willing to do the very same thing.
And just don't forget. You can always subscribe to the
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get notified once our shows and podcasts are uploaded. And
if you want to reach out to the radio show,
please never forget that you can contact us at Radio
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show at Teamsters nineteen thirty two dot org. And don't
forget our live show is going to be moving in
a few weeks. Again, I'll give you a hard date,
hopefully next week from the four slot, we'll be moving
actually three to five. And I kind of like it
that it's a little bit later. I think it's going
to help with a couple of things in the end. Obviously,
you got the podcast that you're able to listen to
(01:20:51):
and guess what, Yeah, you got something Robert Luca Lucas
Luca Barton from from the Labor Councils listening in live
kind of echo. All of a sudden, what happened?
Speaker 7 (01:21:04):
I was trying to get Robert on the air with
the distant mic.
Speaker 2 (01:21:07):
No, no, don't do that. Yeah, no, just try it. No,
we're just not gonna give him a mic. Now, I
do actually like this idea. Let's get him a little
mic to clip on. I wonder if we can. I'm
sure we got some technology to do that. Guess what
nine nine eight eight nine eight three seven seven. You
call in. You're the fifth caller right now, Michelle is ready.
(01:21:28):
She is always ready, and she is ready to go.
So the fifth caller will be getting a blanket. Our
office managers on vacation this week. So guess what. I
get to give away a blanket. She freaks out whenever
I give more expensive stuff away. I like to give
the expensive stuff away. You know, it's one of those
fun things. Now she can't do anything about it because
guess what, she's not here, so I don't have to
(01:21:49):
hear her complaining about it. Oh, the blankets are expensive. Anyway,
fifth caller gets a blanket. Everybody loves these blankets. These
blankets are great. They are ten ten year anniversary blanket.
It's good to see that, we of It's good to
see that they went over as well as we thought
they would. We when we saw when we saw what
it was and how good they looked, and heck, you
(01:22:12):
got I don't know if you have, You're not going
to have a choice between the two if you come
in and win right now. So as soon as we
get that winner, let us know who is the winner,
and I will announce it on the show. Whoever the
fifth caller is, all right, I'm going to roll right
into the news. The team stars in nineteen thirty two News.
I first wanted to let you know we have stickers
(01:22:33):
for the Worker Power Radio Network. We started giving them
out yesterday. And if you want a sticker, they're really
really cool stickers. If you have one in here, we
can put it in front of the camera so we
can show you. If not, no big deal, but if
you want one, just kind of come in, come into
the building and yeah, just hold that up in front
of the camera. Robert, come into the building and they're
(01:22:54):
at the front desk. If we run out, we'll definitely
order some more. They everybody seems to really like the stickers,
and so yeah, get a little closer to the camera,
a little closer to the camera, a little close to
the camera.
Speaker 8 (01:23:03):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (01:23:04):
Yeah, cool sticker came out really really good. It's going
to look really good off the back window of a
of a car or vehicle. And again, we're just trying
to get the word out. And if you want to
get a sticker, put it on your lunch pail or
you know, on your office cubicle, or your window or
your glass, or your your store front or the back
of your car lunch pail. Hey, Robert, do you know
what a lunch pail is? Scooby doo? You got a
(01:23:25):
lunch pay Oh, so you do know what lunch pail is.
That's not a generational There's not a generational gap in
what a lunch pale is. Do I know what Instagram is?
Speaker 11 (01:23:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:23:36):
Okay, okay on on Teamster News. Enough enough, you guys.
You can't do this to me. I'm having a hard day. Anyway.
Career Day. We're having another career Day November fifth, nine
am to noon here at the building. Boy, what an
amazing event. It was last or earlier this year in March.
(01:23:59):
We will be doing it in November fifth. We have
more than a thousand students connected, more than forty jobs,
thirty high schools are connected. It's an incredible event to
see everything come together where these these young adults, these
high school students are able to get an idea of
what they may do after high school. And this was
(01:24:22):
transformational for these these kids earlier this year when they
saw it because they just didn't know these jobs were available.
And we'll be repeating all of that again on November
fifth here, nine am to noon. So make sure you
participate if you want your job highlighted and can participate
(01:24:43):
in making sure that you're helping explain that job so
kids are working in that direction when they graduate from
high school. Make sure you reach out to the training center,
reach out to Becky Leppens nine nine nine five seven
six seven two four. The next thing that we're I
want to report on is we're having a law enforcement
expo and I'd like to if those of you haven't noticed,
(01:25:05):
pay attention to the billboards we're actually public safety. We're
doing that this week where we have a few of
our members I think it's the Pomona Police Department, right,
Pomona Police Department, and there's just talking about how teamsters
make the area safer and really appreciate the work that
they do. We've highlighted them on billboards. Throughout the Inland
(01:25:26):
Empire and Law Enforcement Expo will be October twenty fifth
at nine am here at the Training Center at the
complex here at our compound here I call it compound, Yeah,
compound right, complex at the facility. So make sure you
come out and participate, really really really good event. Don't
forget the Spring Fling Car Show and cruise. April eleventh
(01:25:48):
of next year, we will be making sure we have
a even bigger event again as each year it continues
to grow, continues to get better, continues to get more efficient,
and we have more and more fun with it. The
next is the nhr A. We have the November thirteenth
through sixteenth event special ticket offer. The race tickets start
(01:26:11):
at only fifty eight dollars through Teamster advantage and if
you use the promo code Teamsters by going to nhr
dot com slash super you can get in. And you
know it's still the old fashion two funny cars or
you know, to stock cars and all these you know
(01:26:31):
just run, they get out and they go nuts down
to you know, it's not a quarter mile anymore for
the faster ones, because they're so darn fast, they had
to shorten it down to one thousand feet because they're
they're hitting like three hundred and fifty miles an hour
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Speaker 2 (01:27:27):
Good all right. And in the news, I got a
lot of news here. My favorite one to point out
is actually, I can't believe I missed this. This is
Greece has its second general strike this month? How did
I miss this? For those who don't know, I went
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on vacation. I happen to go to Greece and in Athens,
which I was there for just a short time.
Speaker 24 (01:27:53):
How did I met you?
Speaker 2 (01:27:54):
Know, so all the very operators for none of you
that understand how grease operates. I didn't understand. I went
there's like one hundred fairies all the time going to
all those islands, and it's just this well oiled machine
of transportation that's just incredible. And apparently you know, they're
all union there. And Greece is a good, strong union
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country where they really support union workers and they have
a lot of laws that support them. I mean, they
shut down Athens again, thousands of protesters march and Athens
Darren Greece's second general strike this month. They've already had
two man good, that is what we gotta do. Like see,
I went to Greece and came back and I'm fired up.
And this is why these these people from Greece they
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get it. They not only have great food, do they
have a great attitude. They're like, yeah, we're just gonna
shut the city down. We're gonna do it twice. We're
gonna shut down a capital and the biggest city in
the country twice in a month until you pay attention
to what we need. Organized by labor unions opposing a
new labor law, the twenty four hour strike disrupted fairies,
halted trains, and limited public transportation. Good for them. Unions
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for both private and public sector workers argue that the
proposed law allowing longer, more flexible work hours up to
thirteen hour shifts undermines the eight hour work day and
exposes workers to exploitation. They are demanding the bills withdraw
shorter thirty five hour work weeks, higher pay, and return
of collective bargaining rights. See that's what you do when
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you take away someone's collective bargaining rights. You strike, you
withhold your labor, you shut down the city, you shut
down their ability to operate transportation.
Speaker 7 (01:29:40):
You wouldn't have come back. You would have said it,
I got to help.
Speaker 2 (01:29:42):
It, Like no, no. I would have been like, yeah,
I can't get anywhere because there's a strike in the transportation.
Will let me go anywhere? So I got to hang
out with all these striking workers, you know, and we'd
have just chill. Then I would have been like, yeah,
sorry guys, you guys better figure out how to run
the show. And maybe I could just Eve Muxton. I
could do the show from Greece. Yeah, monern technology, you'll
let us do that, right, I'm getting too comfortable, see Robert, Yeah,
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see anyway. So in IBT news, healthcare workers fight back
against the illegal threat to close a local clinic. Members
of Local thirty at Allegheny Health Network New Kensington Express
and Primary Care Facility. That's boy, is that a mouthful
rallied alongside local elected officials, members of the community, and
Teamsters across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to demand a HN
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keep the clinic open. Our community relies on the care
provided by Teamsters and needs this facility to stay open,
said Gino Brissetti, president of Local thirty. He's a great guy.
By the way, it would be shameful to close this
thriving facility. AHN is attempting to break our members hard
won union. Every worker should have the freedom to form
and join a union without fear of retaliation, said Congressman
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Chris de Lazio, who's a from Pennsylvania seventeenth District. My
message is simple, our country, you should always respect that
freedom and we need more healthcare options in our region,
not fewer graduations. Then we'll keep you up to speed
on that. Teamsters at West Contra Costa Unified School District
authorized a strike. Members of Teamsters Local eight fifty six
(01:31:15):
of the West Contra Coastal Unified School District have voted
overwhelmingly to authorized strike. The vote comes ahead of fact finding,
the next stage of the state run impass procedure should
a fair agreement not be reached for more than six months.
The WCCUSD Teamsters have been fighting to secure a collective
(01:31:35):
barring agreement that addresses key issues like staffing in wages.
The most recent contract expired June thirtieth of twenty twenty five.
Teamsters are the backbone of the West West Contra Costa
Unified School District and should be treated as such, said
Peter Finn, secretary treasurer of Local eight fifty six and
director of the Teamsters Public Services and Healthcare Division. Workers
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know the essential services they provide to students and their
families throughout the region and won't settle for less than
they deserve. Striking is always a last resort, but the
school district has left us little to no choice. You go, Peter,
you go, workers in that school district, and we will
keep you posting on what's going on. Thirty one thousand
nurses launch historic five day strike. An estimated thirty one
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thousand registered nurses and other frontline Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers.
You actually have a quote on this right, Okay, winner
is Erica Ochoa. Erica Ochoa is the winner of the blanket.
So yeah, always got to inter Thank you for interrupting
me and hanging that up there so that I see it.
Organizers say the five days strike across five hundred medical
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centers and offices in California, Hawaii and Organized is the
largest in the fifty year history of the United Nurses
Association of California Union of Healthcare Professionals. The strike could
grow to forty six thousand people. Those on strike, including pharmacists, midwives,
and we have therapists, say wages have not kept up
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with the pace of inflation and there is not enough
staffing to keep up with the patient demand. They're asking
for a twenty five percent increase over the four years
to make up for wages they see is seven percent
behind their peers. Kaiser Permanente has countered with a twenty
one and a half percent increase over four years. The
company says that what they represent is sixteen percent more
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than their peers. So it's interesting to see how we're
always on the opposite side of something like this, But
I have a tendency to believe the union's perspective on
where they're at because it's always interesting to see how
the employer kind of plays the game. I think we
have our next guests, and let me take a just
a quick break so we can get our next guests.
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We're back. This is the work of Power Hour with
Randy Corgan on the team STIRS Local nineteen thirty two,
Broadcast Network. We fired up, we were ready to go
here or what?
Speaker 11 (01:35:19):
Yes?
Speaker 24 (01:35:19):
Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (01:35:20):
Oh see Gracey she already jumped. She on cue boom.
Speaker 7 (01:35:24):
I haven't introduced her yet, don't need us anymore.
Speaker 2 (01:35:26):
Right, we'll just turn over the show to you. How
about that, Grace, let's go, ready, let's go. She's like
she's sat down and she's like, man, that's a real studio.
I said, yeah, it's live too. When we come back,
it's we can't push pause, go back in the race anyway.
So remember bad language. He hovers over a button over there.
We got it like about a four or five second
delay that we can push, so try not to. We
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don't have to push it very often. People are is,
you're pretty good about it.
Speaker 24 (01:35:50):
I can't warn you, just kidding.
Speaker 2 (01:35:52):
That's a good idea. Then come and we'll bleep you.
So we're joined by Gracie Torres. She is currently the
Western Municipal water Board member. Correct, and you are also
running for Riverside City Council. Correct And if I know correctly,
you've actually gotten the endorsement of Teamster's Local nineteen thirty two.
Speaker 24 (01:36:10):
Yes, very proud of that.
Speaker 2 (01:36:11):
Okay, great, So instead of me doing all the talking,
which people get to hear me a lot throughout the
show and the rest of the show when you're not
here and after you're gone, why don't you introduce yourself
and tell us why you're running for office, but also,
most importantly, what it is about working people and work
or power that you believe you can help your constituents.
(01:36:32):
And I've got something i want to ask you to
do if you win on the city council, which I'm
sure everybody's always lined up saying if you win, I
want this, I want that, but I think you're gonna
like it. So with that, why don't you introduce yourself
and tell us a little bit about what you got
going on. Which platform is yeah?
Speaker 24 (01:36:46):
Absolutely so well, as you said, I'm Gracie Torres and
I'm running for War two in Riverside for Riverside City Council.
You know when I first ran for waterboarding was in
twenty eighteen, I didn't know what I was doing. I'm professionally,
I'm a water chemist. That is what I'm very very
passionate about. Kind of switched from medical school to environmental
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chemistry just because I became very passionate about it.
Speaker 2 (01:37:10):
So real quick. One of the things I always say
about people in the water industry is you save more
lives every single day than police and firefighters do combine.
Because you're protecting You're protecting the general public from these
corporations that have killed millions of people by putting stuff
in the water and polluting our groundwater. So thank you
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for what you do. I know some people may not
think that's very sexy, but the reality is is this
job actually saves more people's lives than arguably any other
job out there. So thank you for doing.
Speaker 24 (01:37:45):
Sorry for interrupting, no, and I'm going to take that
tangent real quickly. Actually, this year, well in my time
at Western, we decided that we were going to hold
manufacturing companies accountable. So I know a lot of people
talk about like PFOSS, pfos, those contaminants, will Western and
other agencies throughout southern California sued them and we are
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now collecting those settlement payments and in order to begin
treatment programs in order to not just hold them accountable,
but to treat that water for just the reasons that
you said that people have access to clean, reliable drinking wine.
Speaker 2 (01:38:19):
Isn't it crazy? For thousands of years, literally thousands of years,
what these corporations, land owner whatever they were, of the
time industrialists like. It depends on what time and history
we're referring to. It's insane that they have did they
just put stuff in the ground. It poisons the water.
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And these people, you know, a few miles away, down
down the road, down the road, end up dying like
thousands of them. By the way, in New York in
eighteen sixties, millions literally millions died. And they go, oh, yeah,
we didn't do that. We don't want regular right, we
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don't need the EPA right anyway. Sorry. And I can
obviously get on a tangent on this.
Speaker 24 (01:39:06):
I mean, I'm happy to come back and you and
I can talk about water all day. My team's probably
like stop it, move on.
Speaker 2 (01:39:13):
Which stituents need to know that you understand these very
basic things. You turn on your tap water. It's really important.
Even if you don't drink it, sitting in it, being
exposed to it, cooking with it is going to affect
your family.
Speaker 24 (01:39:29):
It absolutely is. And I mean I see that you
have a water bottle, Just so you know. Water bottles
are regulated by the FDA, that's Food and Drug right,
So the regulation is very minor compared to the regulations
for your tap water. So when people ask, like what's
good to drink, drink your tap water. It is regulated
federally and in the state of California, we're very lucky
that it's regulative and higher. So that is the water
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that you want to be drinking because of those regulations.
And you know, for the history portion of it. In
nineteen sixty nine, there was a lake that caught on
fire in Ohio and that is what led to the
Clean Water Act.
Speaker 2 (01:40:05):
The first one a lake.
Speaker 24 (01:40:06):
So you think of water and fire, they don't got
on a lake was on fire. So people were like this,
this isn't right, like there shouldn't be fire here. No,
it caught on fire. That is literally what pushed the
Clean Water Act, what push the Port Cologne, which is
what regulates water here in California. And so it is
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and I am a total geek about it. Like I said,
I switched from medical school to water water compliance and
water chemistry because it is fascinating and it's fascinating I
had and I going back to that, I had the
opportunity to run for Open Sea on the water board
and people really like to see water chemists next to waterboard.
So we were successful. We were successful in that race.
(01:40:48):
And one thing that I learned I have learned through
my time at the Waterboard, is that these special districts,
these planning commissions, the railroad district, cemetery districts, hospital districts
don't get very much attention. And that's by design, that's right, right.
You cannot develop anywhere in California, anywhere without water rights,
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without water permissions. So these people are a lot of
these board members sit there for twenty years very quietly.
No one knows, like, no one's paying attention when there's oountable.
Speaker 2 (01:41:20):
I got someone here saying I live within the water district. Thankfully,
she is part of the process to keep our water safe.
Thank you very much, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 24 (01:41:29):
I mean, and sometimes that's what you need is an
actual expert at the table to be like, wait a minute,
let's let's take let's take a look at what these
policies are or before making decisions. And I mean that's
going to segue into into my Riverside City Council campaign.
I am a public works expert. I understand development in
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a very intimate way from start to finish. I understand
grant funding to get development going through. Currently, I work
on federal federal projects. So the Santa Anna River is
one of those projects that we're making sure those levees
are staying alive, alive and well constantly, and that that's
federal land that we that we work on. And so, uh,
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the sea opened up and we're you know, it became
it's going to be vacant. The current council person is
running for assembly. Uh, and so it's it's opening up,
and it gave me an opportunity. The work that I've
done on the water board, while it's been significant, it's
it's become you know, kind kind of rubber stamp. I
have a good board that when we all tend to
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agree and it's limited and it's limited. So when you know,
I like to do that huge community outreach and a
lot of people are like, why is a water board
member here and that, But that's what I'm passionate about.
So the sea opened up, a few of the council
people approached me and said, hey, we we can work
with you, and we can work with you. We want
to we want to to you to run. And I said,
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you know, that's a good I spend a lot of
time Randy away from my kids, because I'm an elected official,
and so the Riverside City Councils gott to give me
an opportunity to turn that time away from them into
something very significant for my community. And so that's why
we jumped at the at the opportunity to run. And
we you know where we hit the ground running in
this race. And obviously we know I don't think it's
(01:43:18):
a secret that the teamsters pick winners. So having your
endorsement means.
Speaker 2 (01:43:22):
It means best, we do our best. So I have
somebody here from Ohio said learned about the incident when
they were young because they're from Youngstown, Ohio, WO. So
we have obviously it's a live show, so we get
a little bit of this interaction where people it's it's
always interesting to see how small the world is, right,
and that how when people tell stories and share stories
(01:43:43):
like you're explaining right now, that they do connect to
others that are closer than we realize, right, and.
Speaker 24 (01:43:48):
It affects us and in so many ways that we
don't know. I mean, like I said, I can I
can talk about just like infrastructure alone is just one
component of what we talk about when we're in governance, right,
And but It is something that affects you daily, like
in every single aspect of your life. That pothole that
you know, you're you're on your way driving to ups
(01:44:10):
as a Teamster member, you hit that pothole. Now you're
late for work. Now your boss is mad, Now you're
having to contact your union seasters, we.
Speaker 2 (01:44:18):
Don't have, We don't worry about the boss over.
Speaker 24 (01:44:23):
But that's effect. And why why why is there a
pothole there?
Speaker 9 (01:44:27):
Oh?
Speaker 24 (01:44:27):
Because my council member is focused outside of city issues
or on something else, or isn't picking up phone calls
when someone says, hey, this pothole has busted a ton
of tires. And and that is why I think I
appreciate the work that the Teamsters does and other labor
unions that focus on what matters. And that's the kitchen
table conversation, right.
Speaker 2 (01:44:46):
Yeah, And we're not just having at least with us,
we're not just having with the work or Power Hour
and with our program here, we're not just having it
at the kitchen table. We're having it live on the
radio where thousands of people can hear it obviously over
a M and F. And then the podcast goes out
and everybody's listening to it. We're we're getting really assertive
at making sure that these messages, this narrative, this information
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gets connected. We're doing the best we can to amplify
your voice, amplify a worker's voice, amplify the community's voice,
small business's voice, so that they can all work together
to make something happen in their local community.
Speaker 24 (01:45:23):
And that's I think that's powerful because you know, I
think you know, I'm very lucky. I'm a union member
myself through elected office. I'm also connected with labor in
that aspect, and so I know my rights. So you
and ever, if I have any issues when it comes
to my rights, I know who to go to. I
know who to talk to. I'm texting different union leaders
(01:45:46):
or asking for advice. The regular working family doesn't know
that they do. But they have these rights they have,
and so.
Speaker 2 (01:45:54):
Take they have more rights when their unions, Yes, and they.
Speaker 24 (01:45:57):
Have a lot more rights when they're and they have
the collective bargaining power right, they have a group of
people behind them making sure that they're taken care of.
But they don't know that. And so you see, you
see these working families that are you know, taking crap,
taking crap from their bosses and you're like, hey, you
don't need to do that. You have more power by
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being a union member than you realize. And so, you know,
I try to take it upon myself to whenever I
see something, I'm like, call do this, Like here's your
wine garden card, make sure to show that to your boss,
like those types of things. And so this platform obviously
allows you to get those messages out and focus on
what matters. What matters to me are my three kids
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making sure they're healthy and making sure that they're successful
when they leave my when they leave my nest. And
that happens through through the work that unions do.
Speaker 2 (01:46:49):
So when you become city council, which is what we
believe is going to happen. When you become a city
council member, what is going to be What are some
of the things you're going to do to help support labor.
Speaker 24 (01:47:01):
Look, I'm I'm since twenty eighteen when I first round,
my platform point has always been job creation. The Inland
Empire is a career desert. It is becoming more more
difficult to find the career that you love in the
Inland Empire. And that's that's just not good, right, you
want to be able to know that you graduated from
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high school, you're graduated from college, you finish your trade,
your trades program, whatever it is, that you can stay
in the city that you love, that you grew up
in with your friends, you know your professors that you
got close to, and be successful. And so job creation
is the number one thing. Good job creation, good job creation.
That's why I said careers. You want to be able
(01:47:43):
to stay in one career for the rest of your
life like it used to be, right, And so that's
the very first thing. And I know that partnering with
labor organizations is what's going to get that done. In
Ward two, there's a major hospital being built. That's a
job creator, right, it's a career creator. But labor should
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be at the table when we're having the conversations about
what's happening around that hospital. They should be at the
decision making table, not way later after it's built. And
let's see if like what unions we need, they need
to be at the decision making table.
Speaker 2 (01:48:18):
And that's because we're the experts in the industry. We're
the experts that make sure that that that those jobs
in the future are going to be good jobs. Like
I always love to hear these experts that say, oh,
this is what jobs should look like, and they're good jobs,
and like I'm always like, well, what made you the expert? Like,
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what's the expertise that you have to define what a
good job is? Like, this is what our space has
been since our inception, which is over one hundred years.
And and a lot of times elected leaders their last
to ask us to the table. I'll give you an example.
When Amazon built this facility here at the airport, man
and all I really really, you know, jammed up a
(01:49:02):
bunch of the elected officials saying you went out and
talked to everybody, all the so called experts, but you
never called the teamsters who have represented the industry for
since before there were planes flying around, since before there
were power vehicles, like the wheel in the horse, the horses.
The reason why it's in the logo is because we've
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been around since there were horses pulling carriages, and so
we understand transportation better than anybody does. You never called
you You cooked up this idea on what you thought
were good jobs, and they're horrible jobs. There are they
jobs that are needed at an airport, sure, but you
need to define and spell out what the future of
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those jobs actually look like, and how those workers have protections.
Speaker 24 (01:49:50):
And how there is longevity and and you know every
like I said, you want someone to start that job
and make it a career. You don't want them bouncing around,
you know, from job to job. And so so that's
as a as a elected council person that's going to be.
I mean, it's been my commitment. I have the track record,
I have the time to show for that whenever, and
(01:50:12):
I'm pushing anything. So I'll give you an example. My
very first day on the DAIS, I wanted a veterans
hiring policy. Seems like a slam dunk, right, like, hey,
I want if you're a veteran and you're qualified, you
get an interview.
Speaker 15 (01:50:25):
Right.
Speaker 24 (01:50:26):
And it died on arrival. It was dead on arrival
for some reason.
Speaker 11 (01:50:30):
Was not.
Speaker 24 (01:50:33):
It wasn't. It didn't pass. And so rather than waiting
and pouting, I went to the you know, I went
to a friend of mine, Channing Hawkins, and we and
we ended up beginning what's called a works And it's
a nonprofit that trains a person that has no experience
in water, someone that may have a little experience in water.
Someone just wants to a high school kid that's like,
let me explore this. We train them and we get
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them placed at a water district, right, creating careers. These
are careers, right, and so very much.
Speaker 2 (01:51:01):
So good jobs that people can buy homes, buy homes,
like retire.
Speaker 24 (01:51:06):
I mean, and I say this all the time, it's
the union members on your block, on your street that
have the toys, that have the They're the ones that
are having a ton of fun. They like it. Those
are the ones that are like when you're like getting
home super tired and you know, you feel like ends
can't meet, and then you turn around your neighbors like
getting you know, getting their quadra.
Speaker 2 (01:51:27):
Side right.
Speaker 24 (01:51:29):
They're definitely marked on the side right. And so so
that I mean, I have a track record that whenever
I'm any adventure that I'm going through, going to labors
at the table there, they have a representative in me.
Speaker 2 (01:51:43):
So I'm being told here in these other spaces that
that you're willing to partner with us on your experience
in water with our training center, because we represent a
bunch of water districts ourselves, and so what we what
we want to do is build these partnerships where we
do the same thing. Like, obviously we can bargain into
the contract that that the job's placement, the job placement
(01:52:07):
actually happens based on coming out of the training center, right,
So you obviously have the curriculum, you have the jobs,
they land there, and then you place them right into
the water district, cities, county, whatever the public entities are
for those different positions. Kathleen Brennan our president, which you
obviously know pretty well. She's saying hi, by the way,
(01:52:28):
and she appreciates your willingness to partner on that.
Speaker 15 (01:52:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 24 (01:52:33):
Absolutely, I mean and and that'll be the same thing.
At the city level. We should create these partnerships with
labor in order to, like you said, make sure that
when they get in they have good union jobs but
essentially careers.
Speaker 2 (01:52:46):
So somebody's asking me, did it ever work out for
the veterans? No, not the one unfortunately.
Speaker 24 (01:52:51):
But guess what, we have another round at the city level.
If my council people that are watching just know that
that's coming.
Speaker 2 (01:52:59):
So I've got I got to ask for everybody. When
you run for counsel, everybody's.
Speaker 11 (01:53:03):
Like, can you do this?
Speaker 2 (01:53:04):
Can you do that?
Speaker 11 (01:53:04):
Can you do this?
Speaker 2 (01:53:06):
So I got one. Okay, it's not a simple one.
It's pretty tough. New York City just passed an ordinance
called the Delivery Protection Act. And what that does is
that's an act that the Council is now approving to
make sure that companies like Amazon, whom have delivery packages
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make a few bucks, right, pretty profitable company that that
when they are going to be delivering and operating in
a particular area, that they're required to employ those drivers
versus having this so called subcontracted system that they have.
Because you saw the work. You saw the Amazon workers
(01:53:52):
on strike last year, right right. One of the big
reasons why they were on strike is that Amazon is
refusing to bargain because they say they're not the employer,
even though they're wearing an Amazon uniform, an Amazon van
coming out of an Amazon facility with Amazon equipment, and
Amazon has complete control over that subcontractor they're doing the
subcontracting just to hide from their responsibility.
Speaker 11 (01:54:12):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:54:13):
Passing policy at the city level protects the workers that
are living and working in the very community. One of
the statistics that are shocking of Amazon workers in this
country is it's say a worker goes to Amazon, whether
it's a driver or in their warehouse. Within a couple
of years of getting to top scale, they cannot afford
(01:54:34):
to buy a home anywhere in the country.
Speaker 9 (01:54:39):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (01:54:40):
People say, oh, well, the market's high here, it's high
over there, it's high. In LA it's high.
Speaker 11 (01:54:46):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:54:47):
I've said this over and over again for like the
last year, and I have not had anybody correct me
yet to say no, in mid Alabama, somewhere you can
afford to actually buy a home at that at that wage.
Nobody has corrected me. I've actually done the math on
this already and looked at what it takes to buy
a home in every single area and obviously what they pay,
(01:55:10):
and you can see that the math just doesn't add up.
So how does one of the wealthiest individuals in the world,
who operates a company that's making billions of dollars every
single year? How are we not holding them accountable? And
I just want to preface with taking the position and
trying to push things back. At the city level, cities,
(01:55:33):
city governments, and municipalities have given up their responsibility to
take care of their constituents at the employment level, where
people are working and living In addition, because that they've
said as oh, well they can go through the NLRBA,
they can go through OSHA, or they can go through
all these federal agencies. Well we kind of see what's
going on with that right now, right, So not much stability, correct,
(01:55:54):
So there's that part of it. Clearly, those institutions have
had their chain challenges over the last few decades, which
has made it extremely difficult for those workers to advocate
for themselves. And the reality is is the city has
always had the ability to make these things happen. They
just have kind of acquiesced. Elected leaders at the city
(01:56:16):
level said no, I'm I'm you know, that's someone else's responsibility.
Guess what we have to do. I think what this
is telling us right now is we got to shift it,
kind of like AB two eighty eight did for the
state where it's trying to protect workers. Ironically, these big
corporations step in in saying no, the federal governments supposed
to do it. But those same big corporations in those
lawsuits are saying no, it's unconstitutional. They're actually arguing both sides. Right.
(01:56:40):
So now when a city does it, a city can
step in and say, hey, we're going to protect you.
You're living and working in our community. We're going to
set the rules. We have the right to set the rules.
What do you think about that?
Speaker 24 (01:56:51):
Well, I mean, first of all, like I said before,
I want, I'm sorry, you.
Speaker 2 (01:56:56):
Got three and a half minutes my life. That's yeah,
it's blue by.
Speaker 24 (01:57:00):
Yeah, it did okay. Well, like I said before, I
want in Riverside, I saw my daughter's eighteen years old.
She just graduated high school. She's at RCC. The reality
Randy for her to be successful in the city of Riverside,
which I love, I never left, is pretty low. So
she is going to study abroad and hopefully be able
(01:57:22):
to come back to have a job. You don't want
that in your city. You don't want that to continue
to happen. And so I think it makes sense. I'm
happy to be a champion for something like that because
I think it makes sense that if you're working in
the city of Riverside, you should be able to live
in the city of Riverside, you should be able to
shop in the city of Riverside, buy a home, buy
a home in the city of Riverside. And if there's
(01:57:47):
so many people that argue for local control. If there
is some way that we can take control of that,
I am one hundred percent for it.
Speaker 2 (01:57:54):
Well, we really appreciate you coming on the show. We
got a couple of minutes left. I don't know if
you want to close out this part, so I appreciate
you committing. I got that as a yes, you're going
to support to support our position on the Delivery Protection
Act for the City of Riverside. We are getting really
assertive on this kind of stuff because workers are stepping
out and making something happen, and elected leaders need to
look and see what these workers are doing and say, hey,
(01:58:15):
we're going to build a policy to help you. Right right.
Other than that, where what do you want to close on?
Speaker 24 (01:58:21):
You got a couple of minutes, Well, I mean again,
I want to thank the Teamsters for their support. Just
a couple of shout outs because you are not the
only union. But there's you know.
Speaker 2 (01:58:30):
We have only with the Counts right now today right now,
but they have a live radio show.
Speaker 24 (01:58:35):
But we you know, labor has really come behind us,
and and you know, one of the things that I
just want to say is the way that you can
support the way that you can make sure that you
have somebody that is a fighter for Teamsters is visit
our website. You can find ways to volunteer to contribute
to our campaign. I hope to see you in the
spring walking next to me. My team knows that I'm
(01:58:57):
going to walk harder or or not, if not, more
than any of my volunteers. I wouldn't ask anyone to
do something I'm not willing to do, but I think
that speaks to the work that the Teamsters does. I'm
your candidate because I'm going to outwork everyone in this campaign.
That's your commitment from me. But and you always have
(01:59:17):
a seat at the table when it comes to Gracy Taurus.
Speaker 2 (01:59:20):
Yeah, and you're knocking on doors, you're out meeting people,
you're mixing it up, and you're making it happen, and
that's the best way to do it. I think that
you know, it's good to see you got all these
platforms working at the same time. We really appreciate the
relationship that you have in your openness to throw down
in this space. Workers need it. Workers are a lot
of workers struggling in America right now. Not everybody is,
(01:59:43):
but a lot more than should be, and we need
more people like you. Advocating for those workers, so hopefully.
Speaker 12 (01:59:51):
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