November 21, 2024 • 33 mins
John Kobylt is continuing for a bit, subbing in for an emergency with Tim Conway Jr. // ohn Kobylt meets with guest: Corrin Rankin - on running for the California State GOP // Continued - John Kobylt meets with guest: Corrin Rankin // Tim is back, and returned, after a brief emergency involving Tim’s family dog.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI Am sixty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Well, Deby and I are in overtime right now because
Tim has been called away. He's that issue he has
to deal with, and so we're gonna stick around a
little whild water until things get resolved. And we have
Alex Stone standing by waiting to come on, and all
good news. What it's about the e coli outbreak involving
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the carrots?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
It was fake news?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Everything's good, right, Oh no, the carrots had the E
coli and they were sold to grocery stores all over
the country.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
And let's get Alex on to see what the latest is.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Well, you gotta start with a ding dong, right, ding dong,
ding dong carrots? That did Tim eat a couple of carrots?
Is that what's going on right now? I'm not sure
it's possibly had a bad carrot.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
A little tied up at the moment. Uh yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
So the ongoing fear here is that there are probably
still all these carrots that are out there sitting in refrigerators,
and that people have no idea that they've got something
that they could make them really sick. Or in the
case of one person here in La County, even kill
them from this, but they're no longer being sold. They
were sold through October twenty third, but the baby carrots
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have the best buy date until November twelfth. So the
thinking is if people bought those two packs at Costco,
Cells or Sam's Club, that carrots don't go bad that quickly,
that they may still have them and still be a
munching on them, and then it could still be a
problem for people. But thirty nine cases reported eighteen states.
New York, Minnesota, and Washington have the most of them.
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One person has died in La County and now the
lawsuits are beginning. So a forty year old Belinda Pratt
the first file lawsuit from meeting the carrots after she
was hospitalized, telling us today, I had.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
A low grade fever and just thought it was the
stomach clue and it just progressively got worse each and
every day.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
She bought carrots from Sam's Club on September thirtieth and
then got really sick. And the thing is, John that
these carrots are sold under a ton of different brand
names at stores like Costco and Sam's Club and Bonds
and Ralph's and Tritter Joe's and Whole Foods. So wherever
you go, they're in different packaging, different logos, different names,
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but they all come back to this one company in
Bakersfield that that does all of the carrot packaging for
all these different companies.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
But but she says, the radiating back pain that came,
I couldn't handle this stomach cramping anymore.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
It was making me drip.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Sweat, she says, with like getting stabbed in the stomach,
and it didn't stop for days. What's that drip sweat? Yeah,
she said, it was just like dripping off of her face.
That she was sweating so badly and vomiting and vomiting
and it's notlt like got she got stabbed in the stomach, Yeah,
she said, for a couple of days, like somebody was
stabbing her. But they all come from Bakersfield, from Grimway
Far and Grimoy Farm says it is doing a thorough
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review of it's growing, of its harvest, if it's processing,
to understand how this went on. It comes right after
the the coali and the onions on McDonald's right founders,
And remember that one was they thought, yeah, cow poop
got into irrigation water and then was used on the onions.
This one they don't know yet. It typically is the
same thing. We've seen it in spinach and remain let us.
It's always kind of the same story. But they're going
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to investigate and figure out where they they have a
vegan here getting very upset with all this, Well you
know what way you're defaming vegetables.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Well, imagine you know you can buy those salad packs, right,
and there's carrots, there's there's shaved carrots in those two.
And I wonder if people are realizing that you don't
have to just buy the package of carrots.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Well, if you wash the carrots, should that take care
of the problem or is I mean, I belt not
feel you've got the threat of the e coal I
because unless you're cooking them that the e coali will
still be present depending on how well you wash those carrots.
But I mean, who on baby carrots is opening up
that pack and washing every little baby carrot right and
scrubbing it down, probably not, and spraying it with bleach.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
A lot of it says already triple wash, so you
don't bother washing it.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Yeah, that's the thing.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
And then yeah, I've had coworkers who go, oh, you
don't still wash the lettuce. No, it says it's been washed.
I'm just gonna read it. And then you end up
like Tim in the bathroom right now. I don't think
he's sick, but you can spread that rumor. That's fine
because this come. This can come from animal waste to
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draining through the fields. Yeah, I mean the in the
onions involving McDonald's. The way it was described is that
through the irrigation water that you know, you're out there
with a lot of cow pastures and different things, and
that that can get in there and uh, then it
gets into the irrigation system and they spray the crops
and the E. Coli is in the water, and then
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then that could soak right into the vegetables. I mean, yeah,
no matter how much they're they're washing, especially with like lettuce,
where you think of an onion, all the different layers
of the vegetable, and that it doesn't it gets into
the layers and then it doesn't get out of there.
So it's more understandable with something that's got layers on it,
but with a carrot, yeah, that it sticks to the
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outside and it can be harder to get off. And
vegetables you just do like I do. I never eat them, Yeah,
I never.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
I never had beef to thank you exactly chicken.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I've been telling her this for you know. It's it's
the it's vegetables that are dangerous.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
That's well, you just hear what he said.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
How many restaurants that serve beef have we done over
the years, And it goes back to the beef. It's
just dangerous to live, isn't it just just and chicken?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
What about chicken?
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Chicken? I don't like chicken.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I guess you eat it and then you wait, I guess,
And that's their numbers are probably going to go up,
kind of like they did with McDonald's even after that
was over where people now are hearing all about it
and going, hm, I did get really sick about a
month ago and ate some carrots, and then they put
two and two together and then they reported it and
people said, what do you do if you if you've
got these carrots, Well, if you bought carrots in October
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and they're still in your fridge or at the end
of September, they you should probably get rid of them,
just throw them away and buy some new carrots. By
the way, Costco. They will let you know. I got
an email from them yesterday saying we did buy these.
We didn't get sick, but they because they can track
where you buy, and I assume Sam's Club as well.
Then you'll get an email from them saying heads up,
you bought these, don't eat them. All right, Well, very good, Alex.
(06:33):
All right, thank you very much for coming on letter
ding don Alex done from ABC News.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Do not have carrots tonight for dinner.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
I keep forgetting to take my carrots back to the store.
They're still in my fridge.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
You could join that class action lawsuit. I guess. I
bet how many people are doing that.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I don't know, but they got a carrot receipt and
they're saying, you know what, I got sick.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
But see our.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Package is closed, John, I haven't opened it.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
And then you go, sure.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I'm not going to do that. That's not ethical.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Oh, I didn't know you were one of those. I
am think you're one of those ethical people.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I'm not gonna lie about something so horrible like that.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
All right, we got more coming up. Conways off for
a little bit, taking care of some business.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I am six forty.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Tim had to do a little family business.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
You're a fill in right now.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
I am now.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yes, it's a lower pay rate, much lower pay rate.
Debra is hanging around too, and we're gonna carry on
at least.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
We're going to be on too about five o'clock and.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
We're now going to speak with Corinn Rankin, who is
running to be the chairperson of the California Republican Party,
which is very timely because California is such a mess
and a lot of it has to do with being
a one party state. And instead of getting the message,
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this past election, Prop thirty six a huge victory, like
seventy thirty, George Gascon got kicked out office in LA,
the Alameda County DA got kicked out of office, the
Oakland mayor kicked out office. San Francisco mayor kicked out
of office. Okay, so ran up a pretty high body count.
And another proposition, Proposition five, that would have led to
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property tax increases that lost as well. They're not getting
the message. They're trying to trump proof California. Here in La,
we're suddenly a Sanctuary City for like the twelfth time.
And what we really need is a two party system,
and we haven't had one, although there's a little bit
of progress in the state Senate, in the Assembly and
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so Corin Ranking running for California Republican Party Chair.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Welcome, It's good to have you here.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
What does a Republican Party chair do, or any party chair, like,
what's your what's what would be your what's your daily
job duties?
Speaker 5 (09:02):
So for any party leadership, our main objective always is
to elect Republicans, and so all of the efforts behind
doing that, which would be fundraising, candidate recruitment and training,
voter registration, engaging with voters, things like that.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
So you're running the mechanics. It's like running the company.
The business end is act exactly. Why do you think
the Republican Party got so wildly unpopular over the years, Because,
I mean, I remember, you know, back in the nineties
and into the early two thousands, we had many Republican governors, right,
We had Georgia Duke Maijian, we had Pete Wilson, we
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had Schwarzeneger for like twenty four out of like thirty
years we had Republican governors and we had a Republican
Assembly up until the nineteen nineties, and then it seems
like the bottom fell out after Schwarzenegger left. What what
went on in this state? I mean, there must have
been a lot of analysis that's gone on over the years.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
You know, as chair, when I become chair, I'm really
going to focus on the opportunities that are in front
of us. And you've outlined several things that indicate that
Californians are beginning to steer away from the Democrats, and
they're fit the Democrats failed policies that we've seen again
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with Prop. Forty seven and the overturn recently with a Prop.
Thirty six to fix California. You know, there's a huge opportunity.
Many counties throughout California voted read this cycle. Many Democrat
counties changed and voted Republican. They voted for President Trump
at the top of the ticket, they voted for Steve Garvey.
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And what I see in that is a huge opportunity
for California Republicans to make a comeback in this state.
We've also had some Assembly seats flipped from blue to red,
so we've got a new freshman coming in and they
are full of energy, full of excitement, ready to represent
their districts. So that's what we're seeing across the stage.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Because I've noticed over the years that often when you
have referendums, well, California tends to vote very moderately, moderately
conservative on a lot of propositions, such as Prop thirty six,
for example, or Prop five to limit the property taxes.
And yet, and yet when they vote for individual candidates,
you end up with the most far left progressive candidates
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running the state and there's like a big gap between
the issues they vote on and the candidates they vote in.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Yeah, that's one of my missions.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
I think that we really need to get out as
a party and have real clear and concise communications. Really
put a lot of energy and effort behind communicating to
the voters. You know. When I'm chair, I plan to
have an ambassador program where we train professional media surrogates
to go out into the media, into every market and
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communicate the Republican message. I think that it's a communication
a communication gap, and there's a huge opportunity there for
me as shared to fill that gap.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yeah, just doing this show sometimes over the years it's
gotten a little better, but you know, there'd be there'd
be some terrible issue coming out of Sacramento, and there
didn't seem to be, uh a pushback from an articulate
Republican in office who could really grab attention and make
the case and get people to consider, you know, another
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point of view. It's like the person didn't exist. We
had nobody to call, to get on the air to
talk about these things.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Well, that's going to change when I'm chair of the party.
So we're going to have ambassadors or media surrogates in
every direct market throughout California. This is one of the
This is one of the main areas that I find
a huge opportunity in. I think that there's a lot
of things that go on in Sacramento that the public
should be aware about, that they need to hear about.
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And oftentimes when we do, we are able to break
through that and get our message across to Californians. Californians
react and they push back against Sacramento. They come out
and droves, They call their legislators, they asked them to
vote no or vote yes on these particular bills.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Recently, we had Elon Musk.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Who actually helped us out and did a couple of
retweets and that that took our message far. But we
really need to buckle down as a party and make
sure that we are the ones getting our message out
to every corner of California.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
You've got a great issue to run on right now,
and that's this gas price increase. I'm sure you saw
that USC did an analysis and not just the low
Carbon Standard from the California Resources Board, but all these
other all this, all these other regulations that passed. It
could cost Californians ninety cents extra per gallon of gas
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next year. Ninety cents. That's going to crush a lot
of people, absolutely, and you.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
See gas stations actually starting to push back and notifying
California as they're putting signs up to say, you know
your choice and your elected officials Sacramentos implementing these these
price increases not us.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
It's not only gas, it's it's groceries.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
It's the rising cost of energy that we're seeing throughout California.
And you know, I think that's contributing to a major
reason why so many counties flipped from blue to red
this cycle.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Yeah, because it's not only gas price increase. But every
single thing delivered in the state of California, every store
at grocery stores, big box stores.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
You name it.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
It all comes on a truck, that's right, and it's
all gas or diesel. And diesel's going up a lot too.
Everything's going up. So this is going to cause a
lot of like California inflation.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Absolutely, you know, that's another mission of mine is just
to make sure that we're recruiting candidates, good candidates in
every community. We're going to train the candidates and how
them run on these issues, getting them out there in
every single community community, to communicate our message, let people
know what's going on, let people know why this is
going on, and you know, really come from a solution
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based approached.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
It's time for us to go on the offense.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
You stick around for a little longer, a little yes, Okay,
to do another segment with the Karinn Rank and she's
running for chairman chairperson of the California Republican Party, which
definitely needs some new vigorous blood to take on what's
happening in Sacramento.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Conway is out for a bit. He's got to.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Deal with some business and we're going to be around
here till at least five o'clock.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
John Tobel here along with Deborah Mark and Tim had
to run out for a little bit, so we're gonna
keep going to at least five o'clock with us for
a few more minutes. Karinn Rankin, she is a can
date for the chair of the California Republican Party to
run the business of the party, which is looking for
a big comeback, and there certainly were encouraging signs in
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this past election. So, Karine, you talked to when I
said before about about the job of a chairperson, you
talked about recruitment and training of candidates. How do you
recruit candidates? Like, what is that process? I mean you
put an ad on LinkedIn. I mean what because a
lot of people don't want to run for office because
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it's a circus, and a lot of people who are
in office are not good people.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
So what is the whole process?
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Well, we have Republican Central Committees in every county throughout California,
so we really rely heavily on the men and women
that participate in our Republican central committees, to know their community,
to always be on the lookout, always be involved in
their community, getting to know people, going to events, chamber
of commerce or nonprofit events, and you'll always be able
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to find really good community leaders. And so those are
the kind of people we like to recruit to run
for office because they already have a high name ID.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Many people in the community already know who they are.
They're already well respected, they're known for people.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Do you need a different kind of candidate because they
have That party has not had a lot of success
obviously in recent years, so have you Are you looking
at something different, a different type of person.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Well, it's not a one size fits all for every county.
Every community is different, every community makeup, They look different,
they sound different, they care about different things. Someone who
lives in Silicon Valley won't have the same issue as
someone who lives in Fresno, for example. So it really
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has to be somebody who fits the district and is
involved in the issues that affect the people in that area.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
What is the training like, I mean, do you send
them to a school candidate school?
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Yes, absolutely so, yes, we have candidate training schools. What
they learn well, they learn everything. They learn how to fundraise,
how to communicate with the voters. They learned how to
organize a community, organize and they know how to just
rally people and host events, and you know, they learn
how to knock on doors and make phone phone calls
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to people. There's a lot that goes into a campaign
and we are here to train them, and as chair,
my plan is to expand our strategic partnerships in that
area to make sure that we're reaching even more people.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
The climate right now is we've got the highest taxes
in the state, right highest gas taxes, highest sales tax,
highest income tax. We got the most homelessness, we've got
the most poverty. We've got we've got just a lot,
a lot of crime in the cities, and we've got
the highest second highest unemployment rate. There's so much rich,
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fertile territory for an opposition movement here exactly.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
This is a huge opportunity. And you know, we've been
the party of opposition for a very long time, and
it's time for us to move into becoming the party
who's on the offense, the party who presents their ideas,
their solutions to fix California, while at the same time
still holding Sacramento accountable for these bad bills?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
All right, what's going to be the strategy to deal
with a lot of voters who are obviously unhappy? I mean,
everybody I know is unhappy, right, even all the left
wing people I have to live with on the West Side. Right,
they're unhappy with what's going on. But the idea of
voting for a Republican makes them break out in hives.
They are so resistant to the concept of voting for
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a Republican that they just have a default switch, even
though it hasn't been working out for a long time.
What's this what's the code to crack there? How do
you get through to these people and connect their vote
with their quality of life?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
It's all about communications. It's all about messaging to people,
overcoming the narrative that has plagued us, and getting out
and talking to people, letting people know that Republicans are
just like you. The same things that you're talking about
at the kitchen table in your home that you're unsatisfied
with here in California are the same things that the
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Republicans are unsatisfied, the same things that we're trying to fix.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
And at the end of the day.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
You know, we do have a one party rule out
in Sacramento, so the Republicans aren't responsible for any of
the issues that are negatively impacting you. We're here to
fix California. So again, it's all about communications. It's all
about stepping up the communications, and there's a huge opportunity
going forward. I think the people are ready to listen
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and there's a huge opportunity for us to share our message.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
So who votes for you for California Republican Party chair? Like,
who are what's the constituency you're trying to appeal to?
Speaker 6 (20:59):
Now?
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Constituency is we have what we call delegates, their delegates
to the party. So there are people who are involved
politically at every level and they get selected to become
a delegate to the California Republican Party and with that
they have an opportunity to vote.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
All right, Well, good luck, thank you. All right, there's
a lot of work to do.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Absolutely, I'm looking forward to.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
I know you have to run off.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
You got another TV interview coming up very soon on
Fox eleven tonight right at six o'clock. Okay, so you
can see Karin Rankin on Fox eleven. Alex Michaelson coming
up the after six o'clock and uh, one of the
one of the big issues. And we talked a lot
about this earlier on the show and also been talking
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a lot aboutter off the air, because, like I said,
this is one of those issues everyone's unhappy with, and
it seems like there should be a lot of resistance,
effective resistance from the Republican Party. And it's this this
gas tax or the gas price increase ninety cents a gallon.
That's no joke. That's that's from USC the Marshall School
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of Business. They studied all the regulations that have been
proposed not proposed past by the legislature and Governor Newsom,
and they said, yeah, it's a ninety cent increase next year.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
And we have that on top of inflation, the high
grocery bills. Right, people are upset that they're going to
the market and everything is so expensive. I mean, this
is really going to be hard on people.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
I mean the.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Seriously, we were talking about this on your show yesterday.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
What are we going to do.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
We're going to bike to work, We're going to walk
to work. La is not Manhattan. We don't have that
kind of mass transit, not that we would even want
to go on the mass transit out here.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Well, every time I hear the news, there is a
coverage of some kind of wacky meeting or a wacky
group and they're promoting bike riding, and I think about, well,
you imagined biking from Woodland Hills.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
No, there's no possible way. First of all, I don't
even know how I would get here, and it would
take me five hours.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I'd have to bike up and down the Supulvita Pass.
No way, imagine that doing that in August. No, it's
one hundred and ten degrees by time you get into
the valley, and I'm supposed to bike from the west
side up up Supula Book Supulvita Boulevard.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Now west And what happens when it's pouring rain and.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
There isn't a bus I can take? In fact, I
think I think I looked at a map. It would
take me like like five hours if I took a
bus from the West Side to Burbank.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
But we don't have that mindset. I mean, I know
I used Manhattan as an example, but right people in Manhattan,
that's what they grew up with that I.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Live in Manhattan, forrease something.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
You know.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Yes, it is easy and it is fun.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Actually, well it used to be before they had all
the gang members Venezuelan gang members take in the subway system.
But back in the old days, you could get on
a subway really easily, walk like a block and a
half from your apartment on the subway, end up on
the other side of the city, and it was great.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
But I lived in the Bay Area and at one
time I was actually from the East Bay. I was
taking BART into San Francisco and then you get off
of the you know, you get off of the station
and you walk a block and then there you are.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
But it's just it's not it's kind of hell too.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Yeah, I would I would not be.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
My son went to school up there.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
I think mind did too, right, And he.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Told me that he took a BART train and there
was a woman, an elderly grandmother, and she was selling
cocaine on the BART train. She had like some kind
of package opened up on her lap, and people were
lining up and buying the cocaine from this little old lady.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
That's crazy.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Remember People's Park too, I mean in I mean.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
That's oh my god, that is the most frightening.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
I mean no, no movie that depicted a mental institution
comes near what you saw in the outdoors a people's
park and b oh, I know my.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Son was in a fraternity and he used to say,
this homeless guy at People's Park. I forgot they had
a nickname for him. And I know he used to
yell a lot. Maybe his name was Roar, I don't
know something, but he would he would literally come into
the fraternity house and scare people and they would have
to call the police to get the guy out. And
it was happening all the time, dealing with like.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
The real life monsters, like real life lunatics would just scream,
and they carried weapons around with them and they're walking
in the streets. And years and years ago, I now
suddenly Berkeley is like trying to is trying to clean
up the homeless people there after all this time. But
here's the gas thing, if you haven't heard, because this
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is not covered in the news very much. So, the
California Air Resources Board has low carbon fuel standard that's
sixty five cents. Then this new requirement from Newsom and
the Assembly that the oil refiners have to keep a
stockpile of gasoline, so they have to withhold a certain
(26:01):
amount of gas from the market. That's going to drive
up the price up to twenty seven cents. As soon
as that passed, Phillip sixty six says, we're closing a
double refinery that we have in Los Angeles, so we've
lost eight percent of the total refinery capacity in California.
What do you get when you reduce supply increased price?
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They think up to fourteen cents a gallon, and then
the automatic increase on California's gas tax that happens every
July first, that's two cents. You add it all up
and it comes to ninety cents a gallon. This is
usc the Marshall School of Business. This is their study.
I've read the study, and you have a ninety cent
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increase and everybody in the Assembly and the state Senate
who could stop this. Are you going to sit there?
Because in.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
In the report, you're.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Going to have to earn up to one thousand dollars
a year extra in pre tax income to break even
with this gas price increase, which.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Is coming in early twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
This report came out almost the same day as the
news that Newsom bought a nine million dollar mansion in
Marine County.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
And as they pointed, as we had.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
We had Brian Jones, the Minoriti leader on earlier and
he said, Andy gets a chauffeur to drive him around,
and he gets a free car.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
And he doesn't pump his own gas.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
He doesn't pump his own gas, and we pay for
his gas. So we pay for his six dollars gas,
We pay for his suv or limousine, we pay for
his driver. And this is his legislation that has jacked
up the price of gas potentially ninety cents.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Next well, again, we know he's going to run for
president eventually, and this is going to come up.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
This, I mean this, what's amazing.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
He's going to run on the quality of life in California.
That is fascinating. All right, we got more coming up.
We'll be here until five o'clock, filling in for Conway.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
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Speaker 4 (28:09):
It is the Conway Show.
Speaker 7 (28:10):
And uh back on the air after my carrot incident
and those carrots wack a wallap, Hey devar do me
fair canep you grabbing it?
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Just pushing me.
Speaker 7 (28:20):
Thank you so much, John, thank you so much for
coming on and doing this. I really appreciate him. And Deborah,
thank you. I owe you guys forty five minutes of airtime.
I got ah my phone was off for some reason.
When I go to work, sometimes it's on, sometimes it's off.
When when you when you come in here, I like
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to shut it off so it doesn't bother anybody. And
so I got a call from belly Oh saying that
our dog was having a seizure. And so I called
my wife immediately, and she's hysterical. So it's my daughter,
and they said, there's blood all over the house. She
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had a radical seizure. That's blood everywhere. And so my daughter,
my wife grabbed a dog, my daughter drove. You know,
thank god, she's you know, man, I tell you I
if there's two things I've instilled in my daughter, two things,
and she nailed both of them in the last week.
(29:24):
Always be on time and never panic. Don't panic. Say
panic never helps the situation at all. You've got to
always relax and get where you're going. You can, you know,
break down later, but you've got to hold it together.
(29:44):
And man, did she hold it together. She held it together.
But it's you know, we have we have two dogs,
you know, going back to we had two cats. We
had Mandy and Tony. I got it when I was
on the air here that Tony, you know, literally fell over,
(30:06):
wasn't breathing, and I did rush home while I was
on the air, you know, we put on a tape
and I ran home, took her to the hospital, took
him to the hospital and he passed away. And then
a week later, our other cat, while I was on
the air, fell over, got sick, passed away, and I
did take, you know again, put a tape on leave
and when I go deal with that. And then today,
(30:30):
right before we went on, this all happened. And I
did have my phone on, so Belli, oh thank you
Bellio was able to track me down and and so
we called Mark Thompson, say can you go on for
an hour? We were unable to get ahold of him,
but Oscar and I really appreciate Oscar for help me
out here. And then John and Deborah volunteered to stay
(30:50):
on for another hour. They're going to stay untill seven.
They said, you know, take your time if you want to.
We'll stay on until seven. Because John never runs out
of things to say. I remember John did five hours.
This is about four or five years ago where he
came in early. Something happened where, you know, he had
to come on early. And he stated he did five
(31:10):
hours on the air. And then I came in to
follow him and and he wasn't getting up. You know,
I assume he just thought I was, you know, coming
in to say hey. And I said, John, your your
show's over. And he goes, wow, it's been five hours.
I said, yeah, it's it's over. And he goes, well,
I have more to say. Hello, Hello, Always remember that
(31:33):
I got more to say. But thank you everybody, our Krozer,
thank you, steph Uge, Belli, o Oscar, Maddie, everybody really
appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Good news.
Speaker 7 (31:45):
Oh man, she's gonna make it. Dog's gonna make it.
But you know when when those dogs, man, when they
go down, they get sick and they have seizures or
thirteen or twelve or thirteen.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
But she's a little tiny you know.
Speaker 7 (32:00):
They call it a chewini half half a chihuahua and
or no half dosin and half.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
I don't know what.
Speaker 7 (32:10):
I don't know what the other half is Uh, what
was the Uh? Yeah, I guess, uh what was the
the taco bell dog Chihuaha. Okay, it's half Chihuahua, half
a docsin And they called it Chiweni, which is h Really,
I don't know. You really can't wrap your straight around
that masculine and tell yourself or your dog, Yeah, I'm
(32:33):
an owner of a Chewini.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
What happened to you?
Speaker 7 (32:37):
But I took her to the hospital and they're at
the hospital with her right now, and it looks like
she's gonna make it. But I went I had to
go back to the house to to get the medication
to text it to the doctor. So I left here,
went straight to the hospital and then went home to
get the medication so I could texted to the doctor.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
And there is blood everywhere.
Speaker 7 (33:01):
I mean, if they were doing a CSI, they would say, hey,
we got to clean some of this blood up.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
This doesn't look real. There's just too much of it.
It's everywhere.
Speaker 7 (33:14):
And when I got to the hospital, it's on my
wife's clothing, it's all over my daughter's pants and her shoes,
and and it's a really rough thing to hand, to
have to handle it really is.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
It's you know, these these dogs. It's tough. It's tough.
We're live on KFI.
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Well, Deby and I are in overtime right now because
Tim has been called away. He's that issue he has
to deal with, and so we're gonna stick around a
little whild water until things get resolved. And we have
Alex Stone standing by waiting to come on, and all
good news. What it's about the e coli outbreak involving
(00:30):
the carrots?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
It was fake news?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Everything's good, right, Oh no, the carrots had the E
coli and they were sold to grocery stores all over
the country.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
And let's get Alex on to see what the latest is.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Well, you gotta start with a ding dong, right, ding dong,
ding dong carrots? That did Tim eat a couple of carrots?
Is that what's going on right now? I'm not sure
it's possibly had a bad carrot.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
A little tied up at the moment. Uh yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
So the ongoing fear here is that there are probably
still all these carrots that are out there sitting in refrigerators,
and that people have no idea that they've got something
that they could make them really sick. Or in the
case of one person here in La County, even kill
them from this, but they're no longer being sold. They
were sold through October twenty third, but the baby carrots
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have the best buy date until November twelfth. So the
thinking is if people bought those two packs at Costco,
Cells or Sam's Club, that carrots don't go bad that quickly,
that they may still have them and still be a
munching on them, and then it could still be a
problem for people. But thirty nine cases reported eighteen states.
New York, Minnesota, and Washington have the most of them.
(01:40):
One person has died in La County and now the
lawsuits are beginning. So a forty year old Belinda Pratt
the first file lawsuit from meeting the carrots after she
was hospitalized, telling us today, I had.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
A low grade fever and just thought it was the
stomach clue and it just progressively got worse each and
every day.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
She bought carrots from Sam's Club on September thirtieth and
then got really sick. And the thing is, John that
these carrots are sold under a ton of different brand
names at stores like Costco and Sam's Club and Bonds
and Ralph's and Tritter Joe's and Whole Foods. So wherever
you go, they're in different packaging, different logos, different names,
(02:21):
but they all come back to this one company in
Bakersfield that that does all of the carrot packaging for
all these different companies.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
But but she says, the radiating back pain that came,
I couldn't handle this stomach cramping anymore.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
It was making me drip.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Sweat, she says, with like getting stabbed in the stomach,
and it didn't stop for days. What's that drip sweat? Yeah,
she said, it was just like dripping off of her face.
That she was sweating so badly and vomiting and vomiting
and it's notlt like got she got stabbed in the stomach, Yeah,
she said, for a couple of days, like somebody was
stabbing her. But they all come from Bakersfield, from Grimway
Far and Grimoy Farm says it is doing a thorough
(03:03):
review of it's growing, of its harvest, if it's processing,
to understand how this went on. It comes right after
the the coali and the onions on McDonald's right founders,
And remember that one was they thought, yeah, cow poop
got into irrigation water and then was used on the onions.
This one they don't know yet. It typically is the
same thing. We've seen it in spinach and remain let us.
It's always kind of the same story. But they're going
(03:24):
to investigate and figure out where they they have a
vegan here getting very upset with all this, Well you
know what way you're defaming vegetables.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Well, imagine you know you can buy those salad packs, right,
and there's carrots, there's there's shaved carrots in those two.
And I wonder if people are realizing that you don't
have to just buy the package of carrots.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Well, if you wash the carrots, should that take care
of the problem or is I mean, I belt not
feel you've got the threat of the e coal I
because unless you're cooking them that the e coali will
still be present depending on how well you wash those carrots.
But I mean, who on baby carrots is opening up
that pack and washing every little baby carrot right and
scrubbing it down, probably not, and spraying it with bleach.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
A lot of it says already triple wash, so you
don't bother washing it.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Yeah, that's the thing.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
And then yeah, I've had coworkers who go, oh, you
don't still wash the lettuce. No, it says it's been washed.
I'm just gonna read it. And then you end up
like Tim in the bathroom right now. I don't think
he's sick, but you can spread that rumor. That's fine
because this come. This can come from animal waste to
(04:31):
draining through the fields. Yeah, I mean the in the
onions involving McDonald's. The way it was described is that
through the irrigation water that you know, you're out there
with a lot of cow pastures and different things, and
that that can get in there and uh, then it
gets into the irrigation system and they spray the crops
and the E. Coli is in the water, and then
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then that could soak right into the vegetables. I mean, yeah,
no matter how much they're they're washing, especially with like lettuce,
where you think of an onion, all the different layers
of the vegetable, and that it doesn't it gets into
the layers and then it doesn't get out of there.
So it's more understandable with something that's got layers on it,
but with a carrot, yeah, that it sticks to the
(05:14):
outside and it can be harder to get off. And
vegetables you just do like I do. I never eat them, Yeah,
I never.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
I never had beef to thank you exactly chicken.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I've been telling her this for you know. It's it's
the it's vegetables that are dangerous.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
That's well, you just hear what he said.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
How many restaurants that serve beef have we done over
the years, And it goes back to the beef. It's
just dangerous to live, isn't it just just and chicken?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
What about chicken?
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Chicken? I don't like chicken.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I guess you eat it and then you wait, I guess,
And that's their numbers are probably going to go up,
kind of like they did with McDonald's even after that
was over where people now are hearing all about it
and going, hm, I did get really sick about a
month ago and ate some carrots, and then they put
two and two together and then they reported it and
people said, what do you do if you if you've
got these carrots, Well, if you bought carrots in October
(06:11):
and they're still in your fridge or at the end
of September, they you should probably get rid of them,
just throw them away and buy some new carrots. By
the way, Costco. They will let you know. I got
an email from them yesterday saying we did buy these.
We didn't get sick, but they because they can track
where you buy, and I assume Sam's Club as well.
Then you'll get an email from them saying heads up,
you bought these, don't eat them. All right, Well, very good, Alex.
(06:33):
All right, thank you very much for coming on letter
ding don Alex done from ABC News.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Do not have carrots tonight for dinner.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
I keep forgetting to take my carrots back to the store.
They're still in my fridge.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
You could join that class action lawsuit. I guess. I
bet how many people are doing that.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I don't know, but they got a carrot receipt and
they're saying, you know what, I got sick.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
But see our.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Package is closed, John, I haven't opened it.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
And then you go, sure.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I'm not going to do that. That's not ethical.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Oh, I didn't know you were one of those. I
am think you're one of those ethical people.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I'm not gonna lie about something so horrible like that.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
All right, we got more coming up. Conways off for
a little bit, taking care of some business.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I am six forty.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Tim had to do a little family business.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
You're a fill in right now.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
I am now.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yes, it's a lower pay rate, much lower pay rate.
Debra is hanging around too, and we're gonna carry on
at least.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
We're going to be on too about five o'clock and.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
We're now going to speak with Corinn Rankin, who is
running to be the chairperson of the California Republican Party,
which is very timely because California is such a mess
and a lot of it has to do with being
a one party state. And instead of getting the message,
(08:04):
this past election, Prop thirty six a huge victory, like
seventy thirty, George Gascon got kicked out office in LA,
the Alameda County DA got kicked out of office, the
Oakland mayor kicked out office. San Francisco mayor kicked out
of office. Okay, so ran up a pretty high body count.
And another proposition, Proposition five, that would have led to
(08:27):
property tax increases that lost as well. They're not getting
the message. They're trying to trump proof California. Here in La,
we're suddenly a Sanctuary City for like the twelfth time.
And what we really need is a two party system,
and we haven't had one, although there's a little bit
of progress in the state Senate, in the Assembly and
(08:48):
so Corin Ranking running for California Republican Party Chair.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Welcome, It's good to have you here.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
What does a Republican Party chair do, or any party chair, like,
what's your what's what would be your what's your daily
job duties?
Speaker 5 (09:02):
So for any party leadership, our main objective always is
to elect Republicans, and so all of the efforts behind
doing that, which would be fundraising, candidate recruitment and training,
voter registration, engaging with voters, things like that.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
So you're running the mechanics. It's like running the company.
The business end is act exactly. Why do you think
the Republican Party got so wildly unpopular over the years, Because,
I mean, I remember, you know, back in the nineties
and into the early two thousands, we had many Republican governors, right,
We had Georgia Duke Maijian, we had Pete Wilson, we
(09:46):
had Schwarzeneger for like twenty four out of like thirty
years we had Republican governors and we had a Republican
Assembly up until the nineteen nineties, and then it seems
like the bottom fell out after Schwarzenegger left. What what
went on in this state? I mean, there must have
been a lot of analysis that's gone on over the years.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
You know, as chair, when I become chair, I'm really
going to focus on the opportunities that are in front
of us. And you've outlined several things that indicate that
Californians are beginning to steer away from the Democrats, and
they're fit the Democrats failed policies that we've seen again
(10:25):
with Prop. Forty seven and the overturn recently with a Prop.
Thirty six to fix California. You know, there's a huge opportunity.
Many counties throughout California voted read this cycle. Many Democrat
counties changed and voted Republican. They voted for President Trump
at the top of the ticket, they voted for Steve Garvey.
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And what I see in that is a huge opportunity
for California Republicans to make a comeback in this state.
We've also had some Assembly seats flipped from blue to red,
so we've got a new freshman coming in and they
are full of energy, full of excitement, ready to represent
their districts. So that's what we're seeing across the stage.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Because I've noticed over the years that often when you
have referendums, well, California tends to vote very moderately, moderately
conservative on a lot of propositions, such as Prop thirty six,
for example, or Prop five to limit the property taxes.
And yet, and yet when they vote for individual candidates,
you end up with the most far left progressive candidates
(11:32):
running the state and there's like a big gap between
the issues they vote on and the candidates they vote in.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Yeah, that's one of my missions.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
I think that we really need to get out as
a party and have real clear and concise communications. Really
put a lot of energy and effort behind communicating to
the voters. You know. When I'm chair, I plan to
have an ambassador program where we train professional media surrogates
to go out into the media, into every market and
(12:01):
communicate the Republican message. I think that it's a communication
a communication gap, and there's a huge opportunity there for
me as shared to fill that gap.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yeah, just doing this show sometimes over the years it's
gotten a little better, but you know, there'd be there'd
be some terrible issue coming out of Sacramento, and there
didn't seem to be, uh a pushback from an articulate
Republican in office who could really grab attention and make
the case and get people to consider, you know, another
(12:35):
point of view. It's like the person didn't exist. We
had nobody to call, to get on the air to
talk about these things.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Well, that's going to change when I'm chair of the party.
So we're going to have ambassadors or media surrogates in
every direct market throughout California. This is one of the
This is one of the main areas that I find
a huge opportunity in. I think that there's a lot
of things that go on in Sacramento that the public
should be aware about, that they need to hear about.
(13:01):
And oftentimes when we do, we are able to break
through that and get our message across to Californians. Californians
react and they push back against Sacramento. They come out
and droves, They call their legislators, they asked them to
vote no or vote yes on these particular bills.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Recently, we had Elon Musk.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Who actually helped us out and did a couple of
retweets and that that took our message far. But we
really need to buckle down as a party and make
sure that we are the ones getting our message out
to every corner of California.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
You've got a great issue to run on right now,
and that's this gas price increase. I'm sure you saw
that USC did an analysis and not just the low
Carbon Standard from the California Resources Board, but all these
other all this, all these other regulations that passed. It
could cost Californians ninety cents extra per gallon of gas
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next year. Ninety cents. That's going to crush a lot
of people, absolutely, and you.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
See gas stations actually starting to push back and notifying
California as they're putting signs up to say, you know
your choice and your elected officials Sacramentos implementing these these
price increases not us.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
It's not only gas, it's it's groceries.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
It's the rising cost of energy that we're seeing throughout California.
And you know, I think that's contributing to a major
reason why so many counties flipped from blue to red
this cycle.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Yeah, because it's not only gas price increase. But every
single thing delivered in the state of California, every store
at grocery stores, big box stores.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
You name it.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
It all comes on a truck, that's right, and it's
all gas or diesel. And diesel's going up a lot too.
Everything's going up. So this is going to cause a
lot of like California inflation.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Absolutely, you know, that's another mission of mine is just
to make sure that we're recruiting candidates, good candidates in
every community. We're going to train the candidates and how
them run on these issues, getting them out there in
every single community community, to communicate our message, let people
know what's going on, let people know why this is
going on, and you know, really come from a solution
(15:12):
based approached.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
It's time for us to go on the offense.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
You stick around for a little longer, a little yes, Okay,
to do another segment with the Karinn Rank and she's
running for chairman chairperson of the California Republican Party, which
definitely needs some new vigorous blood to take on what's
happening in Sacramento.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Conway is out for a bit. He's got to.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Deal with some business and we're going to be around
here till at least five o'clock.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
John Tobel here along with Deborah Mark and Tim had
to run out for a little bit, so we're gonna
keep going to at least five o'clock with us for
a few more minutes. Karinn Rankin, she is a can
date for the chair of the California Republican Party to
run the business of the party, which is looking for
a big comeback, and there certainly were encouraging signs in
(16:09):
this past election. So, Karine, you talked to when I
said before about about the job of a chairperson, you
talked about recruitment and training of candidates. How do you
recruit candidates? Like, what is that process? I mean you
put an ad on LinkedIn. I mean what because a
lot of people don't want to run for office because
(16:30):
it's a circus, and a lot of people who are
in office are not good people.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
So what is the whole process?
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Well, we have Republican Central Committees in every county throughout California,
so we really rely heavily on the men and women
that participate in our Republican central committees, to know their community,
to always be on the lookout, always be involved in
their community, getting to know people, going to events, chamber
of commerce or nonprofit events, and you'll always be able
(17:00):
to find really good community leaders. And so those are
the kind of people we like to recruit to run
for office because they already have a high name ID.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Many people in the community already know who they are.
They're already well respected, they're known for people.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Do you need a different kind of candidate because they
have That party has not had a lot of success
obviously in recent years, so have you Are you looking
at something different, a different type of person.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Well, it's not a one size fits all for every county.
Every community is different, every community makeup, They look different,
they sound different, they care about different things. Someone who
lives in Silicon Valley won't have the same issue as
someone who lives in Fresno, for example. So it really
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has to be somebody who fits the district and is
involved in the issues that affect the people in that area.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
What is the training like, I mean, do you send
them to a school candidate school?
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Yes, absolutely so, yes, we have candidate training schools. What
they learn well, they learn everything. They learn how to fundraise,
how to communicate with the voters. They learned how to
organize a community, organize and they know how to just
rally people and host events, and you know, they learn
how to knock on doors and make phone phone calls
(18:22):
to people. There's a lot that goes into a campaign
and we are here to train them, and as chair,
my plan is to expand our strategic partnerships in that
area to make sure that we're reaching even more people.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
The climate right now is we've got the highest taxes
in the state, right highest gas taxes, highest sales tax,
highest income tax. We got the most homelessness, we've got
the most poverty. We've got we've got just a lot,
a lot of crime in the cities, and we've got
the highest second highest unemployment rate. There's so much rich,
(19:02):
fertile territory for an opposition movement here exactly.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
This is a huge opportunity. And you know, we've been
the party of opposition for a very long time, and
it's time for us to move into becoming the party
who's on the offense, the party who presents their ideas,
their solutions to fix California, while at the same time
still holding Sacramento accountable for these bad bills?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
All right, what's going to be the strategy to deal
with a lot of voters who are obviously unhappy? I mean,
everybody I know is unhappy, right, even all the left
wing people I have to live with on the West Side. Right,
they're unhappy with what's going on. But the idea of
voting for a Republican makes them break out in hives.
They are so resistant to the concept of voting for
(19:47):
a Republican that they just have a default switch, even
though it hasn't been working out for a long time.
What's this what's the code to crack there? How do
you get through to these people and connect their vote
with their quality of life?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
It's all about communications. It's all about messaging to people,
overcoming the narrative that has plagued us, and getting out
and talking to people, letting people know that Republicans are
just like you. The same things that you're talking about
at the kitchen table in your home that you're unsatisfied
with here in California are the same things that the
(20:20):
Republicans are unsatisfied, the same things that we're trying to fix.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
And at the end of the day.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
You know, we do have a one party rule out
in Sacramento, so the Republicans aren't responsible for any of
the issues that are negatively impacting you. We're here to
fix California. So again, it's all about communications. It's all
about stepping up the communications, and there's a huge opportunity
going forward. I think the people are ready to listen
(20:47):
and there's a huge opportunity for us to share our message.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
So who votes for you for California Republican Party chair? Like,
who are what's the constituency you're trying to appeal to?
Speaker 6 (20:59):
Now?
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Constituency is we have what we call delegates, their delegates
to the party. So there are people who are involved
politically at every level and they get selected to become
a delegate to the California Republican Party and with that
they have an opportunity to vote.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
All right, Well, good luck, thank you. All right, there's
a lot of work to do.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Absolutely, I'm looking forward to.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
I know you have to run off.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
You got another TV interview coming up very soon on
Fox eleven tonight right at six o'clock. Okay, so you
can see Karin Rankin on Fox eleven. Alex Michaelson coming
up the after six o'clock and uh, one of the
one of the big issues. And we talked a lot
about this earlier on the show and also been talking
(21:46):
a lot aboutter off the air, because, like I said,
this is one of those issues everyone's unhappy with, and
it seems like there should be a lot of resistance,
effective resistance from the Republican Party. And it's this this
gas tax or the gas price increase ninety cents a gallon.
That's no joke. That's that's from USC the Marshall School
(22:08):
of Business. They studied all the regulations that have been
proposed not proposed past by the legislature and Governor Newsom,
and they said, yeah, it's a ninety cent increase next year.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
And we have that on top of inflation, the high
grocery bills. Right, people are upset that they're going to
the market and everything is so expensive. I mean, this
is really going to be hard on people.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
I mean the.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Seriously, we were talking about this on your show yesterday.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
What are we going to do.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
We're going to bike to work, We're going to walk
to work. La is not Manhattan. We don't have that
kind of mass transit, not that we would even want
to go on the mass transit out here.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Well, every time I hear the news, there is a
coverage of some kind of wacky meeting or a wacky
group and they're promoting bike riding, and I think about, well,
you imagined biking from Woodland Hills.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
No, there's no possible way. First of all, I don't
even know how I would get here, and it would
take me five hours.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I'd have to bike up and down the Supulvita Pass.
No way, imagine that doing that in August. No, it's
one hundred and ten degrees by time you get into
the valley, and I'm supposed to bike from the west
side up up Supula Book Supulvita Boulevard.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Now west And what happens when it's pouring rain and.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
There isn't a bus I can take? In fact, I
think I think I looked at a map. It would
take me like like five hours if I took a
bus from the West Side to Burbank.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
But we don't have that mindset. I mean, I know
I used Manhattan as an example, but right people in Manhattan,
that's what they grew up with that I.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Live in Manhattan, forrease something.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
You know.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Yes, it is easy and it is fun.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Actually, well it used to be before they had all
the gang members Venezuelan gang members take in the subway system.
But back in the old days, you could get on
a subway really easily, walk like a block and a
half from your apartment on the subway, end up on
the other side of the city, and it was great.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
But I lived in the Bay Area and at one
time I was actually from the East Bay. I was
taking BART into San Francisco and then you get off
of the you know, you get off of the station
and you walk a block and then there you are.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
But it's just it's not it's kind of hell too.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Yeah, I would I would not be.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
My son went to school up there.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
I think mind did too, right, And he.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Told me that he took a BART train and there
was a woman, an elderly grandmother, and she was selling
cocaine on the BART train. She had like some kind
of package opened up on her lap, and people were
lining up and buying the cocaine from this little old lady.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
That's crazy.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Remember People's Park too, I mean in I mean.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
That's oh my god, that is the most frightening.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
I mean no, no movie that depicted a mental institution
comes near what you saw in the outdoors a people's
park and b oh, I know my.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Son was in a fraternity and he used to say,
this homeless guy at People's Park. I forgot they had
a nickname for him. And I know he used to
yell a lot. Maybe his name was Roar, I don't
know something, but he would he would literally come into
the fraternity house and scare people and they would have
to call the police to get the guy out. And
it was happening all the time, dealing with like.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
The real life monsters, like real life lunatics would just scream,
and they carried weapons around with them and they're walking
in the streets. And years and years ago, I now
suddenly Berkeley is like trying to is trying to clean
up the homeless people there after all this time. But
here's the gas thing, if you haven't heard, because this
(25:41):
is not covered in the news very much. So, the
California Air Resources Board has low carbon fuel standard that's
sixty five cents. Then this new requirement from Newsom and
the Assembly that the oil refiners have to keep a
stockpile of gasoline, so they have to withhold a certain
(26:01):
amount of gas from the market. That's going to drive
up the price up to twenty seven cents. As soon
as that passed, Phillip sixty six says, we're closing a
double refinery that we have in Los Angeles, so we've
lost eight percent of the total refinery capacity in California.
What do you get when you reduce supply increased price?
(26:23):
They think up to fourteen cents a gallon, and then
the automatic increase on California's gas tax that happens every
July first, that's two cents. You add it all up
and it comes to ninety cents a gallon. This is
usc the Marshall School of Business. This is their study.
I've read the study, and you have a ninety cent
(26:46):
increase and everybody in the Assembly and the state Senate
who could stop this. Are you going to sit there?
Because in.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
In the report, you're.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Going to have to earn up to one thousand dollars
a year extra in pre tax income to break even
with this gas price increase, which.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Is coming in early twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
This report came out almost the same day as the
news that Newsom bought a nine million dollar mansion in
Marine County.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
And as they pointed, as we had.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
We had Brian Jones, the Minoriti leader on earlier and
he said, Andy gets a chauffeur to drive him around,
and he gets a free car.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
And he doesn't pump his own gas.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
He doesn't pump his own gas, and we pay for
his gas. So we pay for his six dollars gas,
We pay for his suv or limousine, we pay for
his driver. And this is his legislation that has jacked
up the price of gas potentially ninety cents.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Next well, again, we know he's going to run for
president eventually, and this is going to come up.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
This, I mean this, what's amazing.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
He's going to run on the quality of life in California.
That is fascinating. All right, we got more coming up.
We'll be here until five o'clock, filling in for Conway.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I Am sixty.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
It is the Conway Show.
Speaker 7 (28:10):
And uh back on the air after my carrot incident
and those carrots wack a wallap, Hey devar do me
fair canep you grabbing it?
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Just pushing me.
Speaker 7 (28:20):
Thank you so much, John, thank you so much for
coming on and doing this. I really appreciate him. And Deborah,
thank you. I owe you guys forty five minutes of airtime.
I got ah my phone was off for some reason.
When I go to work, sometimes it's on, sometimes it's off.
When when you when you come in here, I like
(28:41):
to shut it off so it doesn't bother anybody. And
so I got a call from belly Oh saying that
our dog was having a seizure. And so I called
my wife immediately, and she's hysterical. So it's my daughter,
and they said, there's blood all over the house. She
(29:02):
had a radical seizure. That's blood everywhere. And so my daughter,
my wife grabbed a dog, my daughter drove. You know,
thank god, she's you know, man, I tell you I
if there's two things I've instilled in my daughter, two things,
and she nailed both of them in the last week.
(29:24):
Always be on time and never panic. Don't panic. Say
panic never helps the situation at all. You've got to
always relax and get where you're going. You can, you know,
break down later, but you've got to hold it together.
(29:44):
And man, did she hold it together. She held it together.
But it's you know, we have we have two dogs,
you know, going back to we had two cats. We
had Mandy and Tony. I got it when I was
on the air here that Tony, you know, literally fell over,
(30:06):
wasn't breathing, and I did rush home while I was
on the air, you know, we put on a tape
and I ran home, took her to the hospital, took
him to the hospital and he passed away. And then
a week later, our other cat, while I was on
the air, fell over, got sick, passed away, and I
did take, you know again, put a tape on leave
and when I go deal with that. And then today,
(30:30):
right before we went on, this all happened. And I
did have my phone on, so Belli, oh thank you
Bellio was able to track me down and and so
we called Mark Thompson, say can you go on for
an hour? We were unable to get ahold of him,
but Oscar and I really appreciate Oscar for help me
out here. And then John and Deborah volunteered to stay
(30:50):
on for another hour. They're going to stay untill seven.
They said, you know, take your time if you want to.
We'll stay on until seven. Because John never runs out
of things to say. I remember John did five hours.
This is about four or five years ago where he
came in early. Something happened where, you know, he had
to come on early. And he stated he did five
(31:10):
hours on the air. And then I came in to
follow him and and he wasn't getting up. You know,
I assume he just thought I was, you know, coming
in to say hey. And I said, John, your your
show's over. And he goes, wow, it's been five hours.
I said, yeah, it's it's over. And he goes, well,
I have more to say. Hello, Hello, Always remember that
(31:33):
I got more to say. But thank you everybody, our Krozer,
thank you, steph Uge, Belli, o Oscar, Maddie, everybody really
appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Good news.
Speaker 7 (31:45):
Oh man, she's gonna make it. Dog's gonna make it.
But you know when when those dogs, man, when they
go down, they get sick and they have seizures or
thirteen or twelve or thirteen.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
But she's a little tiny you know.
Speaker 7 (32:00):
They call it a chewini half half a chihuahua and
or no half dosin and half.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
I don't know what.
Speaker 7 (32:10):
I don't know what the other half is Uh, what
was the Uh? Yeah, I guess, uh what was the
the taco bell dog Chihuaha. Okay, it's half Chihuahua, half
a docsin And they called it Chiweni, which is h Really,
I don't know. You really can't wrap your straight around
that masculine and tell yourself or your dog, Yeah, I'm
(32:33):
an owner of a Chewini.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
What happened to you?
Speaker 7 (32:37):
But I took her to the hospital and they're at
the hospital with her right now, and it looks like
she's gonna make it. But I went I had to
go back to the house to to get the medication
to text it to the doctor. So I left here,
went straight to the hospital and then went home to
get the medication so I could texted to the doctor.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
And there is blood everywhere.
Speaker 7 (33:01):
I mean, if they were doing a CSI, they would say, hey,
we got to clean some of this blood up.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
This doesn't look real. There's just too much of it.
It's everywhere.
Speaker 7 (33:14):
And when I got to the hospital, it's on my
wife's clothing, it's all over my daughter's pants and her shoes,
and and it's a really rough thing to hand, to
have to handle it really is.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
It's you know, these these dogs. It's tough. It's tough.
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