John Gerardi Fills In - "Value-Neutral Liberalism"

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I've often been a kind of California pessimist. I'm a
little bit more optimistic after this most recent election that
California could be slowly approaching sanity. But I don't think
we're gonna get there with value neutral liberalism that seems

(00:20):
to be coming into somewhat more vogue. I'll explain what
I mean right now. This is John Girardi. I am
filling in today for Trevor Carrie. I am the host
of the John Girardi Show, which you can hear every
Monday through Friday from six to seven pm right here
on this fine station. And I'm also the host of
Right to Life Radio Saturday mornings nine am and the
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(00:45):
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I'm I've been laughing my butt off at Gavin Newsom

(01:09):
and his public posturing ever since Trump won the twenty
twenty four election, And I'd like to imagine, I'd like
to pretend that somewhere Gavin Newsom and Joe Biden had
an election night watch party, and that as soon as
Fox News called Wisconsin, i think was the last state

(01:31):
that put Trump over the top with the necessary number
of Electoral College votes. As soon as Fox News called Wisconsin,
I'd like to imagine that Gavin Newsom and Joe Biden
both popped bottles of champagne and toasted and celebrated that
the wicked Witch had lost the election. Because there's nobody
probably who was secretly happier at Kamala Harris losing than

(01:55):
Joe Biden. But maybe other than Joe Biden, the only
other person would be Gavin Newsom. Newsom is immediately immediately
launching into position to try to position himself as the
leader of the Democrats nationally and on a certain level,
He's not totally crazy to try to position himself that way.

(02:21):
With the Democrats losing control of the Senate and not
taking the House, who is the most prominent elected Democrat
left as far as having a leadership position and prominence.
I mean saying that the governor of California, the governor
of the single largest state in the Union, is maybe

(02:43):
the leading person in your party. It's not a crazy
thing to think that's Gavin Newsom. He's pretty much the
best thing Democrats have going as far as like a
prominent elected leader. And he's immediately sprung into action, letting
every one know that he is springing into action. He

(03:03):
takes a trip out to Washington, d C. Where he
immediately says, I'm hear to huddle up with members of
Congress to talk about ways in which California can lead
the fight against Donald Trump. He calls a big special
session of the state legislature to loudly trumpet unnecessarily loudly
trumpet the fact that the state legislature is here, we're

(03:27):
going to be fighting against Donald Trump. We're having a
special session of the legislature to make sure that we're
prepared to resist Donald Trump because that's, oh, that's the
big threat to California. We'll talk about that in a
little bit, whether Donald Trump is the threat to California.
And it was a silly special session of the legislature,

(03:47):
all he was doing was getting a little bit more
money for the Attorney General's office so that Rob Bonta
can file more lawsuits against Donald Trump. That's all he's doing.
And in everything he's trying to position himself as as
mister He's going at it again. He wants to re
enact the whole legal resistance movement, the anti Trump legal

(04:13):
resistance movement, which California did really spearhead in the first
Trump administration. Basically, anytime Trump did anything, any executive action
the Trump administration put forth, California would be leading the
charge to fight against it. And a lot of that
work was done by Javier Basera, who was our attorney

(04:33):
general throughout throughout I think pretty much all of the
all of the Trump years, and Javier Basera would file
lawsuits against various Trump policies. He'd file them in the
Northern District of California. So the different federal courts are
broken up into different regions of the country, So the

(04:55):
Northern District of California, most of the judges, I think,
I think actually all of the judges within the Northern
District of California happened to have been appointed by Democrat presidents.
So that's how federal judge ships works is that they're
nominated by the president, they're confirmed by the Senate, and
they have lifetime tenure. They can serve for life. Pretty

(05:19):
much all the judges in the Northern District of California
are I think they were all Obama appointees. So Javiierbaserra
would challenge whatever Trump policy was that he disagreed with,
he'd file the lawsuit in the Northern District of California.
If it was a nationwide Trump administrative policy, then he
would have standing to sue in the Northern District California,

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and he'd get some left wing wacko judge in the
Northern District to issue some nationwide injunction to try to
stop whatever that Trump policy was. And if that got appealed, well,
it was in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which
has always been among the federal appellate courts. So the
three levels are you of the district courts, the federal
appellate courts, So the numbered circuit courts, the first Circuit,

(06:03):
second Circuit, third and Circuit. We in California lived within
the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which hears all the
appeals from California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, a
bunch of western states. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
was historically a and still is to this day, a
very left leaning court. It's a very liberal court dominated
by Democrat appointee judges. And that was the centerpiece of

(06:29):
the legal resistance to Trump was California filing these lawsuits
in California, and then other liberals filing stuff. Often they
would file these lawsuits in it was either the Northern
District of California or in the District of Hawaii because
that's where all the most liberal judges are the district. Now,
Republicans have kind of been doing the same thing a

(06:49):
lot of Biden policies Republicans were fighting against by filing
lawsuits in the Northern District of Texas, a federal judicial
district where there's only one judge and he's a Trump
appointee and he's super conservative. So Newsom is signaling we're
running it back. The whole legal resistance to Trump, the

(07:10):
maximal resistance to everything he does, things, says, and breathes.
That is what we're doing. Here in California. But he's
also trying to signal hey, I'm not just some liberal hack,
I'm here for everybody. So last week Newsom comes to
Fresno and he has some nicey nicy event at Fresnoe

(07:34):
City College's new campus that they're opening in West Fresno.
And Lisa Smith not Lisa smithyam sorry, Ashley swear Engin,
excuse me, my apologies to Lisa's mackyim. Not Lisa's mackyim.
Ashley sweer Engin, the former mayor of Fresno, who was
as squishy a Republican as they as they come, is
there to meet him. Oh, it's so wonderful to have

(07:55):
you here, Governor new So everyone's playing nice and at
one point Gavin Newsome, who at this point, you know
what he reminds me of. He reminds me of, you know,
the little puppets that mister Rogers used to have, like
the Prince Tuesday and King Friday, you know, King Friday
whatever that in the little the Magical Land of make Believe,

(08:17):
and the puppets would always have these very characteristically like
bright pink cheeks and shiny red noses, and they were
very shiny and almost like he's almost reminding me of
that he's so pampered and primped and manicured, maybe literally manicured,
and the veneers on his teeth and whatever botox, you know,

(08:40):
facial whatever treatments he's getting, and whatever hair system he's got.
He's got the pat Riley slicked back, you know, mobster
Rick Patino haircut, slicked back that he thinks looks good.
And everyone, I don't know why there isn't someone in
his life is like, Gavin, you're a good looking guy.
Why don't you just get like a crew cut or

(09:01):
something instead of this ridiculous slicked back hair. Look like
you look slim like. He looks like a paper doll
of a politician. And of course he can't ever go
anywhere not wearing like an eight thousand dollars wardrobe. So
there he is at Presno City College, surrounded by like

(09:22):
normal people, and here he is like almost luminescent, like
shining as I accidentally slap the microphone in my gesticulating
here on radio, he's like almost luminous with his shiny
face and shiny white teeth, saying I'm not just here
to represent by Harris voters. I'm here to represent Trump
supporters and Ben Shapiro's supporters and Charlie Kirk's supporters and

(09:46):
all these like people. Last I heard, those guys didn't
like run for office or anything. But he's trying to
present the while simultaneously setting California up for maximal anti
Trump resistance, simultaneously trying to do this event in you know,

(10:07):
his version of flyover Country, a support benighted SAPs in
Fresno County, which had the temerity to vote for Trump.
You know, Fresno County was a red county this year.
And to say I'm here for everyone. I intend to
be president, I mean governor for every person, well, no
matter what kind of her, I'm here for all people.

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And he's giving off these Verver Oh, he's so presidential sounding,
and he certainly sounds very impressed with himself and how
presidential he sounds. But what are his actual prospects. First

(10:49):
of all, let's understand you know how you're any of
you with high schoolers, or any of you who went
through high school or college. You know how the second
semester of your senior year, let's just say you you
lacked motivation, perhaps You're like, I'm graduating. I know, I'm
grad What am I doing busting my hump studying for

(11:09):
this test? I'm I think I'm gonna go go to
a party instead. Eh, maybe I'll skip class, Maybe I'll
Senioritis is a real thing. Gavin Newsom has had senioritis
basically ever since he got re elected in twenty twenty two.
Like he survived the recall in twenty one, he gets
re elected in twenty two, and I think this guy

(11:30):
has been pretty much checked out of being our governor
ever since, especially after COVID was pretty much done with
and he didn't have to work hard anymore. He's done.
I mean, he had stretches where, like you looked at
his Twitter account and most of his tweets, we're talking
about how terrible Ron, Desantish and Greg Abbott were rather

(11:50):
than anything having to do with California. He's gallivanting around
the country spending I don't know if it's his camp
money or sometimes state money on you know, billboards in
other states to let people know, hey come to California
to get abortions, going to Florida to record little videos
where he's talking about how terrible Ron Desantus is why why, Well,

(12:15):
everything Gavin Newsom has been doing, and this is the
lens through which you need to view these things. Everything
Gavin Newsom has been doing has been a massive dress rehearsal,
massive little performance for the approximately one hundred, one hundred

(12:38):
and fifty ultra rich California donors that he needs to
help propel him to be president. Everything he does is
so perfectly tailored to the MSNBC watching in this house,

(12:58):
we believe love his love yard sign have in super
pro abortion, super pro the whole LGBT alphabet agenda, not
really Bernie sandersites when it comes to like taxes and
stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
No, we're not doing socialized medicine. We're we're not doing
single payer healthcare. Where we're very big environmental advocacy. His
positions are perfectly tailored to fit the preferences of the
ultra wealthy donor class that already demonstrated that they have
the capacity to remove a sitting president from an election

(13:39):
mid stream and replace him with Kamala Harris. Yes, it
was those donors, these ultra wealthy California donors, who said, Joe,
you're out, Kamala you're in. If they have the power
to do that. They've certainly got the power to make
Gavin Newsome the nominee for the Democrats in twenty twenty eight,

(14:01):
and he is doing an extended eight year long performance
for that crowd.

Speaker 3 (14:09):
This is Super Tuesday with Trevor Carey on The Valley's
Power Talk.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
Do we need the Gavin Newsom regime, Gavin Newsom and
Rob Bonta to be engaged in maximal anti Trump legal
resistance to every single thing Trump does? No clearly not.
There seems to be developing a sort of this this
growing consensus within California of this sort of almost neutral

(14:41):
value neutral, a political good governance kind of attitude that hey, uh,
California doesn't need to be focused on these like anti
Trump culture war things. We just need to fix these problems.
And you can start to see even liberals getting tired
of the you know, the bowl slunk that is the

(15:05):
bs of California politics. How nothing works, crime is worse,
housing continues to be a problem, Homelessness continues to be
a problem. All these things that we have known to
be problems in California for like the last I don't know,
six or seven years just continue to be problems and
nothing seems to improve. So gv wire, well not gv wire,

(15:26):
actually calmatters dot org. So calmatters dot org, which is
Dan Walter's site for news and opinion stuff, analysis of
California stuff. He published this piece written by this guy,
Bob Stonebrook, who's a small business owner in Carlsbadden. Seems
like an odd person to pick for this, but he
writes this piece that's it's written in this sort of
very value neutral way where he's writing about basically, we

(15:50):
don't need newsome to be so hyper fixated on Trump.
You know, we need to institute policies and correct things
that are problematic can California that are going to outlast Trump.
And the focus of his piece was on, hey, there
are a lot of problems that are wrong with California.
Trump is not causing a lot of these problems, Like

(16:11):
we need to get our own house in order. And
I get the vibe from this guy that he's not
really a conservative necessarily, but and his piece is very
sort of almost value neutral. He says, we need to
overcome the disenchantment that a lot of Californians experienced by
actually delivering results. So he cites Prop thirty six as

(16:35):
like an example of Hey, Californians were really tired of
high crime. They voted overwhelmingly for Prop thirty six. He writes, this,
there are other basics that need attention. Fostering a thriving
economy calls for addressing systemic challenges with balanced policies. Attracting
businesses and promoting economic growth through supportive measures rather than

(16:56):
imposing burdensome regulations and legal obstacles. Can prevent the exodus
of businesses, preserve access to critical goods and services, and
sustain and level job opportunities. This approach offers a far
less antagonistic pathway to reduce unemployment and bring California in
line with national economic benchmarks. We need to have a

(17:16):
ruthless examination of results, he says, looking at things like homelessness,
caring for people with mental health and substance abuse issues,
et cetera, et cetera. All right, here is the problem
with this kind of value neutral approach. I don't know

(17:37):
that you can actually get to a place where California
is achieving its goals fixing its basic problems without having
the left abandon some kind of shibbleth that they refuse

(17:58):
to touch is sort of a term means like something
that's unable to be touched, unable to be addressed, unable
to be tampered with. It's taboo on the left to
even talk about, because that's the thing.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
There are a lot.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
Of problems in California that we know precisely why they exist,
and they're not going to get resolved because the one
party that's in power refuses to do the thing needed
to solve it because it would require violating some kind
of lefty priority that the Democrat donor class likes. We

(18:40):
don't have enough housing in California. There's more new homes
being built per year just in the Dallas area of
Texas than there are in all of California. We know
housing is a problem. Everyone in California has been wringing
their hands about the problem of needing more real estate development,

(19:01):
more housing, more building of housing. Everyone in California has
been wringing their hands about this for a decade plus
and the problem isn't being solved, and everyone knows why.
California has lots of really onerous restrictive environmental laws that
prevent people from building on a massive scale. They have

(19:23):
environmental laws like SIQUA that allows some outside person totally
not impacted by your development of a housing project, for example,
being able to swoop in and file a lawsuit to say, oh,
you didn't submit the right kind of environmental impact report,
and you might not even care about the environmental impact.
You could just be a competing real estate developer. You

(19:45):
could just be some environmental WACO group that just doesn't
like it. You could be some not in my backyard
rich person who doesn't want a multi unit dwelling to
be established near their house and lower their property value.
This is the thing California has. All these people who
are ant, who are yimbi activists. They call themselves yes

(20:07):
in my backyard activists, Oh getting away from those evil
rich people who don't want multi unit dwellings in their houses.
We got tons of those people on the liberal side
and state government who are angry that, like, you know,
some city council in Huntington Beach or somewhere is trying
to block, you know, an apartment complex from being built up,
but they won't do anything to address the real shibbleth

(20:30):
of California environmental law. That's the thing that makes it
hard to build California environmental law makes a whole bunch
of stuff too expensive to build, so much so that
basically all builders can do the only thing they have
the capacity to do, really is either really high end

(20:50):
stuff that they know that they can get a big
return on, so really high end condos. You'll notice there's
a lot of those being built in the present area
right now, really high end condos that charge really realridiculously
high rents. Or the only other thing being built is
California registered trademark lower income housing. Why can builders build

(21:11):
that because they get a big subsidy from the state
to do it. So we're building California registered trademark lower
income housing over here, and really high end upper you know,
upper income housing, fancy schmancy condos over here. Nothing for
the middle class, because that's all that people can build

(21:33):
and expect to get a profit out of it. We know
all the reasons why that's happening, And basically the Democratic
Party says, we're not reforming SEQUA, We're not getting rid
of any environmental rules that we've put in place that
make materials more expensive, gas more expensive. We're not changing
any of that crap. So you can say all you

(21:56):
want this kind of value neustral good governance. Oh what
what Gavin news Some needs to focus on is deliberate
results for the people of California. He shouldn't just be
focused on no opposed.

Speaker 3 (22:05):
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Speaker 1 (22:12):
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(22:34):
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All right, I want to sort of just real quickly

(22:55):
here kind of explain what I mean by you know,
I was saying in the last segment, they're these sort
of people, sort of these people who are sort of liberals,
but they're kind of fed up with California and saying,
you know what Governor knew Some needs to do. He
needs to focus on results. He can't just be focused
on being like the anti Trump resistance. He needs to
focus on California and getting results for California's because we

(23:17):
have all these problems that have been problems for too
long and nothing's been fixed. Homelessness is still really, really bad.
We need to look at all this investment we're doing
a homelessness We need why is our economy strugg with?
Why is housing so expensive? And the point I've been
trying to make is that Governor knew Some knows why
these problems exist in California. He knows the root causes

(23:40):
of them. He just refuses to fix them. And most
of the elected Democrats in the state legislature refused to
fix them because to fix them would mean they would
have to fundamentally reject the favored policy preferences of the
Democrat donor class who like the way things are. They
like the policies that the Democrats support with housing. Housing

(24:04):
is expensive because it's hard to build because of environmental regulation.
Democrats don't want to get rid of those environmental regulations.
They don't want to get rid of SEQUA. They don't
want to get rid of all these different, you know,
emissions requirements for building you know, homes like this, this
and this and all these extra costs. The Air Resources
Board is putting this requirement, this require. They don't want
to get rid of that stuff. They like those things.

(24:26):
They're not changing those things. A great example of this,
which Newsome sort of talked about a little bit last
week when he was visiting Fresno, is the decision by
the California Air Resources Board basically to institute a bunch
of changes that are going to cause gas prices to
jump somewhere between forty and sixty additional sense per gallon

(24:48):
over the course of the next year. So different researchers
have looked at the Californy Air Resources Board as a
board of fourteen people who have the ability to issue
all kinds of really sweeping emission regulations and environmental law
regulations that I think are just amazing that they're able

(25:09):
to do this without a vote by the state legislature.
I mean, you would think most of the time laws
are supposed to be made in this country by your
state legislature votes on it. And your governor signs it
into law and then it becomes the law. But no,
the Air Resources Board is appointed by fourteen members, most
of whom are appointed by the governor, and they can
just issue these regulations. I guess laws were passed to
delegate decision making authority on those things to them. So

(25:32):
they passed a series of regulations that it's going to
cost gas prices to jump by possibly another sixty cents
a gallon over the next year. In addition, Governor newsoon
had a special session of the legislature where he got
passed new state laws on oil refineries to mandate that
they have a supply of gas on hand and artificially

(25:53):
high supply of gas on hand so that when there
are spikes in demand during the summertime, the price doesn't
go up. Well, the oil refineries told him, Hey, if
we do that, we're going to have to keep up
the cost of maintaining this artificially high supply at times
when there isn't the demand for it, and that's also
going to cause prices to go up. You're just going

(26:14):
to permanently have higher prices. And by the way, we're
reconsidering our investment to keep our refineries here in California.
So maybe we'll just have fewer refineries and your gas
will go up even more. High gas prices are a choice.
Gavin Newsom understands why our gas prices are high. Every

(26:37):
Democrat in the state legislature understands why our gas prices
are high. It isn't rocket science, It isn't secret. California
has maintained for years its own rules for its own
specific California blend of gas. The gas we get at
the pump here in California is different, has a slightly

(26:59):
different blend from the gas of the pump that you
buy in Texas or Oklahoma or Virginia or North Carolina
or Florida. Because it's a different blend, it requires California
to maintain its own separate chain of oil refinery. It requires, specifically,

(27:19):
oil and gas companies to maintain a separate supply chain
of refineries in order to refine oil into gasoline that
can legally be sold on the California market. So California
is an island, a gas island where our gas is
only good for us. That additional maintenance of supply chains

(27:44):
makes our gas more expensive. That plus a bunch of taxes.
That's why our gas is expensive. We could change that.
We could pass laws this legislative session. We could pass
law of saying, hey, California is just gonna adopt the
same emission standards Fritz gasoline that all the other states have.

(28:04):
Stop being a gas island, you know, and let's just
be part of the marketplace with everyone else. We could
pass a law like that this year and it would
largely solve the problem. But no, they're not going to
do that. Why because environmentalists like these rules. They like

(28:24):
gas being more expensive. There's part of them that want
to artificially force people to stop driving cars. They like
gas being expensive. They want our gas to be a
different blend that has fewer emissions. No environmental groups would
rend their clothing, They would wail and gnash their teeth,
and their billionaire donors would get upset. If any Democrat proposed, hey,

(28:46):
why don't we stop being this bizarre little gas island
and force gas companies to maintain these ludicrously expensive separate
supply chains for us in order to lower the cost
of our gas. If a Democrat that, he would be excommunicated,
And so they don't. So in short. You know, as

(29:07):
we're heading into the next segment here like trying to
pretend like democrats will focus all just get.

Speaker 3 (29:12):
This is Super Tuesday with Trevor Carey on the Valley
Spower Talk.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
We are joined on the air by our good buddy,
he's a president city council member representing district too, Mike Carbassi.
Welcome to the show. Mike and Glad you're on to
tell us about some of the great stuff that's happening
in Fresno helping folks out this Thanksgiving.

Speaker 4 (29:36):
Hi, John, you got me all fired up about ears.
I'm ready to go on this issue.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
Yeah, there we go. All right, Well, so tell us
a little bit about tell us a little bit about
what I appologize. I'm blanking on the name Operation Gobble
twenty twenty four. So you were out at Pinedale Elementary
I saw earlier today helping folks out. Tell us a
little bit about Operation Gobble.

Speaker 4 (29:58):
Yeah, thanks for asking, Joe. It's something we do every
year I've been a council and it's really exciting. So we've
identified a part of Clovis Unified that's Nelson Elementary and
Pinedale Elementary and a lot of these families, they're experienced
food and security. I mean, we've seen inflation. Heck, we
had an election just now where clearly the economy was

(30:18):
a big issue, and so we want to make sure
that you know, you and I probably have the luxury
of loving families and parents and those memories as kids
being able to celebrate and form core memories around a
dinner table at Thanksgiving, and it's something we want to
extend to others. And we don't want food and security

(30:38):
to be an issue, so we don't use government money.
We actually raise money from nonprofits and they have helped
us to have four hundred complete boxes of groceries and
a turkey and everything you need to be able to
cook a Thanksgiving dinner. So kids innform those memories too.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
That's awesome. Well, tell us just a little bit about
some of the the nonprofit partners and other community partners
for sort of helping me out with this effort.

Speaker 4 (31:06):
Yeah, so number one, the present police chaplaincy, the police
and Fire chaplaincy. They're basically our produciary. So when someone donates,
they actually can donate it to on top it and
take the money. That's not what we all love that,
but they hand all the money and they volunteer their
time and they also help us identify families and need
as well. So we also have the Assistance League, so
Kimmy Shahati and her group, this is the best part

(31:28):
of it for me. You have dozens of teenagers in
some of them are in their own high school, some
of them are even younger and they join this program
and they volunteer their time for two days on their
vacation to help families. That for me is what I'm
very thankful for. It's a very big deal. But we
also have other groups, our partners like Marjorie Mason Center,
Valley Health Giver Resource which identifies seniors, they identify families

(31:51):
in needs. And another group is our non a nonprofit,
but our Air National Guard. We have families that are
deployed and believe they're not. They even Facebook and security.
So about over three dozen, no more than that, almost
four dozen other families. They get the food boxes too,
and they're distributed to them as well.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
Yeah, well, the Air Guard. I have a couple of
friends and family friends who are part of that, and
that's such a wonderful, wonderful program, especially for young people
who are involved in that that's such an awesome thing.

Speaker 3 (32:20):
And yeah, you're right.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
I mean, you know, I think this is such an
important thing what you're saying for people to really I
think sometimes conservatives and a lot of our listeners are conservative,
not that I don't think conservatives are bad givers by
any stretch, but to sort of know that, hey, there
really is this need out there, and I know so

(32:42):
many churches, so many places are participating in food drives,
and I just want to ask that there are any
other food drives or things within the ambit of your
what you're seeing in the city that people can help
support or donate to, because yeah, you know that this
is one of the poorer areas of the country, and
we really have a lot of people who, especially around Thanksgiving,

(33:05):
are sort of feeling that pinch.

Speaker 4 (33:14):
Felt food.

Speaker 3 (33:17):
People.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
Okay, your phone's kind of break it up a little
bit there, Mike. You can try to. I don't know
if you'd do anything different there.

Speaker 3 (33:26):
That's better.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
That's better there we go.

Speaker 4 (33:27):
Okay, So it was the Russians. I swear they're trying
to keep exactly no. You know something, John, I actually
learned a lot from our faith based communities, especially Life
Bridge Community Church, which Pastor Kevin Foster in my district,
or People's Church in Northeast Fresno. When the pandemic hit,
they actually were the first to give out food to

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feed people that were in need. They even did prayer
because we had a lot of spiritual need at the
time too. It was very a lot of chaos. That's
where I learned this whole concept of being able to
get people energized, give out food to people helpless and security.
So it actually started with faith based groups. I know
Life Bridge does a lot, so if you ever wanted
to donate, I'm sure they would put the money to
very good use. We have our of course Rescue Mission.

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It does a lot of way just have their big
event and then we have a food bank and sometimes
the food bank gives us for this event too. So
there's lots of nonprofits out there that can use the help.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
Yeah, I'll throw in prison Catholic charities doing a lot
of good stuff. Yes, and Paverarella Ouse doing a lot
of good stuff. Well, Mike, I appreciate you being on
just in the last minute or so here and any
for folks who may want to still help out. I
know obviously we're coming up on it. It's Tuesday, Thanksgivings Thursday,
but any other places where people can participate in, whether

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citywide efforts or anything else that folks should know about
as we head into Thanksgiving.

Speaker 4 (34:48):
Here, I'll say two things. One, you don't have to
give a big check to help. All those small donations,
and we've got quite a few this year, whether it's
ten dollars or twenty dollar or forty whatever it is
that really does go a long way. So don't be
don't hesitate because you say, oh I can't give a
big check. Anything you can give that works for you

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helps because it all comes together, all right.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
And tell people just real quick where to go to
send that check or send that thing the last forty.

Speaker 4 (35:15):
Seconds here, yeah, yeah, if you go to the President
Police chaplain, see if there's a link on there, or
you can just donate it to your local church or
any nonprofit you know of it's preserving the Margine Mason
Center or another creating off profit.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
Wonderful. All right, Well, thanks Mike, we really appreciate having
you on. And Mary, Thanksgiving to you and yours all right, you.

Speaker 4 (35:32):
Too, haveppy Thanksgiving.

Speaker 1 (35:33):
Thanks John, Thanks Mike. All right with that Thanksgiving cheer
out of the way. More on the Trevor Carey Show.
We'll be coming up right after this. John, you're already
feeling in for Trevor. On The Valley's Power Talk