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MSNBC Rachel Maddow (audio)
California Has a Lot of Recall Attempts, and Not Just for Governors
"The city of los angeles alone. There are currently three efforts underway right now to recall members of the los angeles city council and the tone of the l. a. times here is telling quote another day another recall notice in the city of los angeles. You need a grand total of five voters to get together to begin the process of calling for a recall for los angeles official five voters. Literally you can start a recall with the number of people you can fit in your camry and it's not just lay across the state of california. There are more than seventy elected officials who are facing the threat of recall just this year. Because that's how they do it in california california asked for recalls all the time you can mount a recall campaign against any statewide elected official for any reason at all if you can achieve the grand results of collecting signatures from just twelve percent of people. Who voted in the last election for that seat. Not twelve percent of registered voters but twelve percent of the number of people who voted in the last election for that seat specifically. That's all you need to be able to get that. Statewide elected official. Put up for recall as low bars. Go this is kind of so low. It just sits there on the floor and invites you to walk on it. And so every governor in california for the past sixty years as faced at one attempt to recall them And you will of course recalled the successful two thousand and three recall of democrat. California governor gray davis. That's how we ended up. Bizarrely with governor arnold schwarzenegger for a hot but now the republicans are trying again with this. Recall attempt that they are mounting against democratic governor gavin. Newsom the polls close tomorrow tonight Excuse me close tomorrow night at eight. Pm pacific time
KFI AM 640
"gray davis" Discussed on KFI AM 640
"Korea says it has successfully tested what it calls a new long range cruise missile system. And boy, these two stories could not be more different, and Britney Spears has announced her engagement to longtime boyfriend Sam Asgari. Over the weekend. Congratulations to you two kids. Well, we got a recall campaign. And it's really looking like Governor Newsom is going to keep his job. But there's always a possibility that the polling is wrong and that he is kicked out in which case we'll have a different governor. And how much damage or improvement Depending on your point of view. Can a new governor do in California? Well, let us go back in the time machine to when Governor Gray Davis was recalled and replaced by Arnold Schwarzenegger. And take a look at what he was able to do, which was quite a lot. One thing I want to say when Arnold Schwarzenegger ran in the recall. First of all, he got more votes. As a replacement. Candidate. Then Gray Davis got to keep his job. So it wasn't It wasn't the weird thing that we might see this time where you have somebody in the governor's mansion who got a tiny number of votes compared to what Newsom got, but The other thing is that Schwarzenegger had A very highly competent, experienced team of political and policy advisers behind that guy went top shelf. In terms of the team, and by the time the recall happened He was well prepared. He had his plans down his ducks in a row, which is why His first day as governor. He called all the state lawmakers into a special session and he said You know, you passed that law that said illegal aliens can get driver's licenses. I want you to get rid of that. And they did. They got rid of it. That's not the only law that he was able to convince them. To get rid of you may recall. If you were watching the news back then they passed a pretty substantial increase. To the States vehicle license fee. When Davis was the governor. Schwarzenegger went to the Legislature and he said, I want you to get rid of that two. People don't want that. It's no good for the state. Get rid of it, and they got rid of it. Now. That was just the power of the bully pulpit and the fact and the fact that Schwarzenegger even though yes, he was an actor. He was the biggest action figure Action star in the world at that time. But he really he was not looked on as a joke. He had a lot of experience, and he had such a good team around him that most people took him very seriously. And by the way, he did a pretty good job. He also was not Extreme. In any political way. So he was able to do those two things. He also did some executive orders. And He made some big changes in the state. So now we fast forward If we have a new governor, what can they do? There's a super majority of Democrats in the Legislature, so any vetoing of legislation won't work. They can override any governors veto, but Just as a Newsome. Has wielded a bunch of executive authorities. So can a new governor. Everybody's thinking right now about the state of emergency that, Newsome declared. And about the various pandemic related requirements and restrictions that he put into place and we're forgetting. This is a guy who used executive power to put a moratorium on the death penalty. This is a guy who used executive power to ban fracking. This is a guy who issued an executive order that said Every car in California has to be zero emission by 2035. So it wasn't just pandemic related. This guy was flexing his executive power muscles long before the pandemic. Well, if you get a new governor all of that all the pandemic related stuff. And all of this, the fracking and the death penalty. Can be undone. Like that. That's me snapping my fingers. Now. Larry Elder, the most likely person to take over for Newsom. If Newsom is recalled, said he's going to undo everything. That Newsome did by executive order. He will put into place his own states of emergency for the schools and for homelessness and then use that Two. For the first problem, Fire the worst teachers in the state and for the second problem, suspend the Environmental quality Act and make it a lot easier for builders to build housing. He also could try to appoint people to all these vacancies you see, has a couple of vacancies on their border regions. Cal State system, I think has three openings on their board of trustees. There's an opening on the Water Resources control board. Here's the thing, though, with a super majority of Democrats, they can block his appointments. And they can actually vote to end any states of emergency. That he might put into place. So it's a mixed bag. An incoming governor would in some ways have a lot of power and in other ways. Have their hands tied in a way that Schwarzenegger didn't And that's only because there's a supermajority in Sacramento of Democrats and because the likely replacement governor would just be so controversial. Get a news update from Jennifer Jones Lee And then people want to get and religious exemption to getting a vaccine. But what do you got to do to get one of those? It's K f I am 6 40 live everywhere on the I heart radio app. L. A County.
The Erick Erickson Show
"gray davis" Discussed on The Erick Erickson Show
"And see. Here's the thing this is important. They the democrats were able to make it about larry elder and the republicans played into their hands and there is a way to avoid and i get this all the time for. You can't avoid it. The media's gonna make it all about the republic's well the republicans made it about the republicans the republicans without an aggressively campaign. Now the reason they're doing it because the way the will recall on forty works. Is you get to questions about number one is should there be a recall. Yes or no if yes who do you want to replacement. And whoever gets the maju whoever gets the most votes wins not fifty plus one but the most votes so you can have someone. There are so many people running you can have someone with seventeen percent win. If all the other people out there are getting less than seventy percent he wins even though we only got seventy percent of the vote because of one of the recall. So here's here's here's what the republicans could have should have done. It's what arnold did in the two thousand three recall against gray davis and it's simply this isn't about me this is about whether or not gavin newsom has failed the people of california. But what are you going to do. What are you gonna do. What are you gonna do. This isn't about what i'm going to do. This is about would avenue did. But you're going to be the governor. You're going to be the governor will. I won't be the governor. A the recall goes forward in the recall. Should go forward because of what gavin used. but what are your policies. what are your policies. What are your policies will. My policies are to correct the things gavin newsom. Did that led to the recall specifics. We want specifics. We'll specifically the voters of california. Think gavin newsom mishandled. The corona virus in ran our economy into the ground and our revive our economy. And i will deal with the girl of irish in ways. That don't have a double standard. Where i'm in restaurants while i'm telling you to stay home like avenues. Did there were ways for the republicans to do this. But they made it about themselves the moment the republicans made the recall about themselves. It became gavin newsom versus republican. And if it's gavin newsom versus republican gavin newsom winds. Now they're still time but the reason again. I don't trust any the anymore. You're kind of flying blind and the stuff but when the people who have gone out there the the the smart people who have gone out and said who has returned their ballots already overwhelmingly it is progressive. Who are returning their ballots for gavin newsom. Mean all you have to go down the list and say who are the people who returned the ballots all right..
1A
"gray davis" Discussed on 1A
"He'll often de recalls happened in california. David depends on how you look at it in california recalls attempted quite frequently since nineteen thirteen or one hundred zero nine attempts to recall state officials in california. But only ten of those eleven now with governor. Newsome's recall have qualified for the ballots. That's just five point. Six percent of those official was recalled in six since this is so far. That's three point. Three percent of the total attempts but it also means it in sixty percent of the elections official lost. Fifty five of those attempts were against governors but the overwhelming majority of them were against members of the california legislature. Recalls happen much more frequently at the local level. They tend to be more successful at the local level. So i think the takeaway is that at the state level recalls in california. There attempted very frequently. Jerry brown for example was targeted. Twelve times governor newsom. This is the sixth attempt to recall him. In with governor. Gray davis When he was actually recalled that was the second recall attempt against him. So they're often attempted. They rarely qualify when they do qualified. They seem more often than not libby. Give us an understanding of the political makeup of the state right now. Well right now. Registered voters in california outnumber republicans to one the no party preference. Her independent voters have been surging in california and the state legislature has a super majority control by democrats so this is a solidly blue state and they have not. Voters here elected a republican statewide since two thousand six. When governor schwarzenegger was reelected after he was successful in Winning the recall. Election of gray davis so absolutely not a state that republicans have seen a lot of success and over the years You know joe biden one by twenty nine points in california but when you look at the support for the recall which initially about six weeks ago or so was polling. Pretty close to even recall or retain the governor That has widened a bit for in favor of newsom in favor of keeping the governor in office the average of polls right now from fivethirtyeight. Newsome's running ahead To stay in office by about ten points but again that's With likely voters not the kind of sport you saw four President biden when he went by twenty nine points in california so even though currently the Polling is looking better for the governor. This recall process has sort of become a way that republicans could be thinking. You know in a state where we are not able to win in you know even year regular election. perhaps this is the long way sneak in With voters who you know may turn out in a recall and not in a in not the numbers that they do in general elections. We're talking about the california recall.
The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times
"gray davis" Discussed on The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times
"Newsome's political career over. Well i mean let's put it this way. If he wins if he prevails in this recall now his political career is not over. I think he's automatically the guy that runs for another four year term and twenty twenty two now some people thought gavin newsom could be president one day. That doesn't look quite as good anymore. Thanks to comma harris. Who is kind of by the way a frenemy. I would say a little bit of a san francisco politician that they've gravitated toward. I don't think president may be but maybe the senate dianne feinstein you know if she steps down gavin newsom could be in the us senate if you wanted to again. These are scenarios if he prevails and again i think it depends on the way he would handle winning this election if he loses and he's recalled. I don't wanna say it's over but you haven't seen gray davis on the stage since he lost that election and that would be a major major blow and it would be a major shakeup of california politics because some other democrat.
Politically Sound
"gray davis" Discussed on Politically Sound
"California energy crisis. I remember joke going around at the time. What's the difference between the titanic and california. When the titanic went down the lights were still alive in two thousand three tom. Mcclintock was california. Republican state senator and recall candidate today. Mcclintock is a congressman and he'll never forget statewide blackouts that were ordered back in march of two thousand one when more than one point five million. Californians lost electricity. We'd really never seen anything quite like that before. Okay so here's how it all started in the late nineties. California's economy was soaring. Because of the tech boom electrical power. Consumption was spiking to make matters worse. There weren't any new power. Plants built in california for the entire decade between nineteen ninety and two thousand now. Combine that with hot summer. Temperatures and drought and lights out. It was a nightmare scenario rolling blackouts started in the bay area and then they spread all across california. The power just went out no. Ac no traffic lights no refrigerators. A man was trapped in an elevator. In the northern california town of novado at a farm in fresno turkeys were literally roasting in their barnes with no way to stay cool in the one hundred degree temperatures for some. It was just an inconvenience. I can't imagine that they would allow businesses to be turned off in the middle of the day for others like folks who relied on home medical devices. It was life or death. People were angry and understandably so they were looking for someone to blame and governor. Davis was at a loss. We couldn't believe it was happening. Feel why is this happening. There were a couple of reasons. The first was deregulation in the years before. Gray davis was first elected in nineteen ninety eight. The previous governor. Republican named pete wilson began selling big chunks of california's electrical capacity to private companies. The idea there was that if multiple companies could provide power to californians. There would be increased competition that would drive down prices. But here's what really happened. California's approach to deregulation turn the market upside down. A lot of outside interests a lot of texas energy traders exploited that market mark z bareback covered the recall for the la times. Back in two thousand three. He says the power companies now had to energy on an open market and then resell that energy to its customers. The problem was with the market. On the fritz energy wholesalers started to manipulate the price of that energy they would do things like shut down power plants for quote unquote maintenance when none was really required that limited the production of energy and prices shot up. People didn't realize the market manipulation they didn't realize the profiteering. But the fact is all they cared about was they were hot sweaty and the food was going bad one of the companies responsible for leaving californians in the dark. You're probably familiar with it. It's been all enron all the time in the media as the scandal grows each day with the drip drip drip of new revelations yup enron the company whose executives were eventually prosecuted for pocketing millions of dollars from complex off the books partnerships. It was one of the biggest financial scandals in history. Governor davis pins the blackouts on companies like enron and believes the energy crisis was one of the biggest nails in his coffin. We've found out that. Enron who essentially wrote the laws of deregulation at the federal and state level in california and was sort of leader of the pack was a criminal enterprise. The problem for governor davis was that many voters didn't blame enron. They blamed him when the energy crisis hit his approval ratings plummeted twenty points and california republicans said that he completely mishandled the crisis. Here's congressman tom. Mcclintock again it was a classic case of government running amok and adversely affecting people's lives and people were feeling that in their electricity bills businesses. Were feeling it. La times reporter. Mark bareback gives governor davis a little more credit. I personally think. And i think the evidence suggests he was pretty much delta raw deal. I mean you can criticize him for for sending exorbitant contracts but when you have people who are burning up with their homes with no air conditioning and have food. Writing the refrigerators. California was in really really bad way. Of course hindsight is twenty twenty. But there's little doubt that the blackouts and questions about davis's leadership in the energy crisis created a tempest of outrage among voters and if one crisis wasn't enough davis had another problem that would prove very costly by mr gray davis cy suspect that californians lobbied and there is if you end up recalled. Okay you've probably figured out by now that's not. Really don mclean. It's a local california radio personality back in two thousand three. He wrote an entire song about all of gray. Davis is failures in office including a laundry list of financial problems. Your deficit estimate did not reach quite as high as it should have gone. Remember in two thousand one. The us slipped into a recession and california was hit hard. The dot com bubble burst and many of the companies that were fueling the state's rapid growth collapsed. A crisis erupted on gray davis. Watch this is how mark bareback recalls it playing out. I remember one of his consultants telling me that in one of his early meetings he sat down with a group of democratic interest groups and he's writing notes and you know filling. We want this. We want we want that. We want that and basically filled up an entire yellow legal size page. And they said. And that's just the first year. And i think gray davis wanting to secure his reelection if he could and also addressing these pent-up democratic demands gave them a lot of things they wanted it in the budget and so the money flowed and two things that plenty of californians valued like education health for kids and better pay for state employees. But still money spent diz. Money spent. Listen to these numbers. California went from having about a two and a half billion dollars surplus in two thousand one down to thirty eight billion dollar deficit only two years later and as the deficit grew governor davis knew he had to start bringing in tax revenue to balance out the recession and that democratic wishlist. One of the things he came up with may seem like a really small thing but it ended up being a powder keg the car taxes. A huge issue out here governor gray davis almost single-handedly tripled its and now even he's talking about getting rid of it. Here's mark bareback to explain. I think california baby were car. Culture was born so it's a really big deal the car tax or vehicle licensed. The was what what folks paid to own a car in california. And i believe the car tax might have been cut under pete wilson so it was one of these things where what they were doing was basically restoring what had already been there. I don't think i have to tell anybody listeners. If you really wanna hit an urban california suck people in the tailpipe one thing. I learned when you give something to.
CNN Political Briefing
"gray davis" Discussed on CNN Political Briefing
"Problems. Your deficit estimate did not reach quite as high as it should have gone. Remember in two thousand one. The us slipped into a recession and california was hit hard. The dot com bubble burst and many of the companies that were fueling. The state's rapid growth collapsed. A budget crisis erupted on gray. Davis is watch this is how mark bareback recalls it playing out. I remember one of his telling me that in one of his early meetings he sat down with a group of democratic interest groups and he's writing notes and filling. You know we want this. We want this. We want that we want that. And and basically filled up an entire yellow legal sized page. And they said. And that's just the first year. And i think gray davis wanting to secure his reelection if he could and also addressing these tent of democratic demands gave them a lot of things they wanted in the budget and so the money flowed and two things that plenty of californians valued like education health. Care for kids and better pay for state employees. But still money spent diz. Money spent listen to these numbers. California went from having about a two and a half billion dollars surplus in two thousand one down to thirty eight billion dollar deficit only two years later and as the deficit grew governor davis knew he had to start bringing in tax revenue to balance out the recession and that democratic wishlist. One of the things he came up with may seem like a really small thing but it ended up being a powder keg the car taxes. A huge issue out here governor gray davis almost single-handedly tripled its and now even he's talking about getting rid of it. Here's mark bareback to explain. I think california. Maybe we're car. Culture was born so it's a really big deal. The car tax or vehicle license. The was what what folks paid to own a con california and believe the car tax might have been cut under pete wilson so it was one of these things where what they were doing was basically restoring what had already been there. I don't think i have to tell anybody listeners. If you really wanna hit a urban california suck people in the tailpipe. One thing. I when you give something to the electric. You can't take it back. is that why. The car tax became such a contentious issue in the two thousand. Three recall when you go to register. It says here's what you paid last year and this is what you're paying next year so just right in front of your face. This is a lesson that politicians learnt from the city council. All the way up to the white house all politics is personal and the one in charge is going to get the blame. Gray davis understands that. Now do you subscribe to the old political maximum. The buck stops here. Yes i take responsibility. I mean i had to leave office but governor davis also thinks that he was hit with factors completely outside of his control in the land of hollywood. That meant running against someone who can turn an election in to a blockbuster more on that after the break this blockbuster of an election well. It had a big supporting cast. Whether it was a former child star. Like gary coleman which draw a political commentator like arianna huffington on senior this infinitely more bizarre and embarrassing than larry flame running in this race or even a comedian. Like leo gallagher. Jazz gallagher's mad. But there was only one true action hero in this race. Arnold schwarzenegger it was. All were is so gray davis as the enemy and the head him in my vision as the villain just like in the action movies in two thousand and three hollywood was buzzing. There was kill. Bill would have to kill finding nemo do anything. Something's got me and of course terminator three survivor. John giancana terminator three came out only a month before. Arnold schwarzenegger announced his run for governor and he carried the energy from one of the biggest movies in america. Right to the campaign trail. Gray davis has terminated jobs. Gray davis terminator dreams. Gray davis has terminated tone. It isn't now. It's time to terminate gray. Davis schwarzenegger was campaigning against the car..
WCPT 820
"gray davis" Discussed on WCPT 820
"But she's pushing 90. And she's losing it. I'll just say that right in front. I think she should have resigned. I think she should resign today. You know, it's it's a lot. I think there's a lot of them in Washington D C. The need to resign that are losing it forever already lost it. But my question is time if you know anything about this In Florida and in Texas. Why aren't there Democrats? Why aren't there people who are grieving for the loss of their of their loved ones? Because of misinformation and continue misinformation about these governors. Why isn't there a recall? What does the recall process and those states to to put some heat under these guys? Instead of let him just Talk all this nonsense every time. That's a damn good question, Are they? I don't know The answer to that. You know the the California recall process. Of course we're all familiar with because we saw it with Gray Davis. That's how we got Arnold Schwarzenegger, which again was pushing out a Democrat and bringing in a Republican, and they did it the same way that they're expecting to do with this one with Gavin Newsom, which is that The recall election is a special election, so only the really animated partisans will show up. You know which way and and the most recent polling shows that new? Some probably will be recalled. Just because dinner and not because the majority of Californians want him out because the majority of Californians are not going to bother elect, you know, showing up for a special election that only, you know, foaming at the mouth. Republicans care about. But you know what? The what the system is for initiating.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
GOP's Larry Elder Looks for Shock Win in California Recall
"Larry elder's up for this Recall election on the Fourteenth of september just coming up in two weeks and if governor gavin newsom who's actually being recalled in the air attempted to be recalled if he gets recalled all the polls say the winner of question to on the bounds of two part question. Western one is should get a new some be recalled as governor yes or no and a fifty one percent of the people vote. Yes he's out. There's no appeal. There's no nothing none of this foot-dragging which they always accused trump of alison trump. Wouldn't leave the white house. Trump is this that and the other and you know they're the ones who were re litigating. The hillary clinton spectacular loss from twenty sixteen and he leave it to the democrats Two weeks ago they filed a suit trying to stop this recall election that over one point seven million people signed the recall gavin newsom of the filed a lawsuit to stop it saying it was unconstitutional. That's funny yeah. Wasn't unconstitutional when gray. Davis was recalled and arnold schwarzenegger became governor wasn't unconstitutional. In the many many many recalls that have happened in california since nineteen eleven. Thank you very much or as biden would say since nineteen eleven but now larry elder is moving up in the polls and all of a sudden. They're all scared to death. And they have thrown everything but the kitchen sink at. This guy is just unbelievable. He's the face of white supremacy. Yeah larry happens to be black. But that's okay. I he's Trying to take control of the state for trump. Not really you know but thank you for playing our game.
Boston Public Radio Podcast
"gray davis" Discussed on Boston Public Radio Podcast
"That the way the recall works in california is if on the first question if fifty one percent of people say they want to recall newsom which means only forty nine percent one day even though he got forty nine percent the highest vote getter. The others becomes the governor. This larry elder nut talk. Radio host has twenty percent so at the end of the day newsom gets forty nine percent. Theoretically he's only a little higher than that in the polls he's removed larry elder gets twenty percent. Which is he where he is in the bulls and he becomes the governor of california. Look why i'm democrats think it was a mistake and that's to put somebody on the ballot you know Now what happened was in the previous recall with gray. Davis is lieutenant. Governor ran a campaign at the time was the democrat said vote no on recall but yes on cruise and and you know now now the argument that gray davis people made at the time was the fact that there was a backup plan gave people comfort in voting to recall david so the theory and this is a theory that you know get a nuisance people wanted to have. They discouraged anybody from filing because they wanted people to feel as if there was no backup plan. Like you know you may not love gavin. But you know this is what you're risking they. They preferred that now. I think you're right. Look i think the long term impact of of of gavin newsom if he blow this i think the biggest impact it would have the democratic party is it would be a reminder. You can't just trump your way out of trouble. You know gavin newsom tried to make this all about trump. and i've i've i've got california democrat. I talked to who thinks it's a huge mistake. They gavin did a terrible job telling people who was the first time he ran for governor. People don't aren't that invested in them they. They're it's not like jerry. Brown or arnold. They don't love him. He sort of governor because it was nobody else and he didn't have a connection and so he isn't that likeable and they needed to make more about the punishment you know what happens if a republican becomes governor. Now they're doing that..
Swing Left - How We Win
"gray davis" Discussed on Swing Left - How We Win
"Some mistakes which i think pretty much every elected did during the pandemic And some of his more attention because of who he is and big the state is but he he just passed an incredible budget for the state of california that is going to help people And not just prevent them from going into poverty but let them up out of poverty. The state of california is paying the back rent For all the people who Weren't able to pay their rent. During the pandemic the landlords are going to get the money that is owed to them So they're they're making everyone even so good work. All around. this is not deserved. This is all political games totally political games and and all that stuff that you just talked about his true but also people think that this is a recall about his pandemic response. It is not. It was actually initiated Way before the corona virus by A group of republicans based out of orange county. One of them. Who was on chris hayes. Last week talking about the The recall effort and said we definitely need to get gray davis out of office. And and and chris hayes was like i think you make gavin newsom but it just shows you like of course. Gray davis was the democratic governor who was effectively recalled. And the reason. We ended up with arnold schwarzenegger as our governor who won that recall effort so same. Republicans who have just are using any tool. They can to thwart the will of the voters are trying to do the same thing with gavin newsom so We're gonna we're gonna stop it. The big difference in this recall is that it was such a circus last time around the win. Davis was recalled and schwarzenegger was elected. There were so many. Weirdoes running This time there's like they're going to be seven pages worth of candidates on this on this ballot I think the most recognizable name is caitlin jenner That's why this might be on people's radar because she is running as a republican but At least it hasn't been the circus. It was last time. Yeah yeah you're right it. It hasn't been. I don't know if that's good or bad. I think at this point. We need more awareness about this. We need to make sure that democrats show up because the phone calls we've been making are really Simple calls but a lot of people just don't know about it and we're like just hey you're going to get a ballot in the mail overly wins that happening. Yeah august sixteenth. They drop and just vote. No oh yeah okay. I'll i'll do them an easy phone calls but people don't know so we need to make those calls all right good good action item. The second action item we have is another easy one. It's steve's pod blasts summer where we're asking you to get three friends to subscribe to this podcast. So tell them about it. Let them know what actions you've taken because of it or white great information you've gotten from it and encourage them to subscribe and listen and how fun the hosts are. Don't forget to mention that to them. And yeah as mariah likes to say. Text them the link to the podcast so they can subscribe right there on their phone. That's the easiest way to do it..
The Supporting Cast
"gray davis" Discussed on The Supporting Cast
"Just listen to him. He'll tell you what to do. So i spent a lot of time with tom. Bradley driving around going to make people had i just saw decent. Nanny was some of inappropriate way that people behave towards him in some of the positive ways of Demeanor never change. He was stoic. In that regard. I made more on some of that from him but he just a great presence in big there for twenty years he got. The subway started but also angeles which absolutely convinced will now be completed. My lifetime definitely yours and did a lot of good things. So but i did that in part because i just had actually gave up my law practice which is not a major issue Go back to crash lot but just spending that time was so great and clashing four. When i ran for governor. I was in fourth place depending on how you wanna count as in nineteen ninety eight for the first time ever. We had an open primary which meant everybody got the same ballot so you could vote for republican. Progressive democrat from tennessee governor. Somebody secretary state green party. So there's actually four cats on the ballot if you count that. I was in fourth less and he came out and endorsed me. In that time he was quite ill. So only do is stand there. While his chief assisted more waiters oahu was either read this wonderful positive tribute and i had just really hold it together. Because you're moving me while. But until i just had always had a wonderful relationship but then i remember one time obviously controller. He called me up and he had them nelson. Gala was coming in los angeles. I haven't been sacramento if you come down. It's gonna be maxine waters. Just you and i actually waters couple members of my staff at that was really great. Honor and privilege. Wow negative so knows survey tom. Bradley influenced me justice mayor's willingness to put up a lot of bs that most people would just never read the draft. All died and i don't think he was but it was nobody no and your career in politics kinda started from there and you were. I mean let me read this up your chief of staff for governor jerry brown when you were around thirty years old california state assembly member california state controller california lieutenant governor and then the thirty seventh governor of california was there a role among those that was most formative that you learn the most from that you feel like really prepared you. Best to become governor of california..
The Supporting Cast
"gray davis" Discussed on The Supporting Cast
"Artillery infantry and air force and just to clarify you had the two year commitment because of the rotc you had done at stanford right outright. Got an iv it deal. That exit was no war is possible the the six month program that there was a war. Vietnam that point as graduating from columbia law school in nineteen sixty seven so we were well into the war. God wanted service december nineteen sixty seven. I went to vietnam in december nineteen sixty eight. But i got out. Effectively december nineteen sixty nine and having lived in new york clinton law school in having new california. I just knew state wind. The living i made plans to come out to california. The only place i've ever interviewed law firms was in los angeles not was not a new york law firms. But just have a my day. You had to clerk One summer you had to bring an extra shirt because it was no air conditioning on the subways down there. You're perspiring pickens. You take your shirt off and put another show. So you're tougher. Californians are more innovative or creative more helpful in terms of predicting at inventing the future. But yorkshire are tougher. We'll tell me about your vietnam experience. I mean when you left your captain and you. You've earned bronze star. What about that experience. What values or virtues did you learn through vietnam. While i alive things first of all i was part of that. Nineteen fifties generation of norman rockwell. Jer used to pay pay t sort of idyllic pictures. Everyone was happy. Everything was positive. The sun was shining and that was kind of how i was so i went to be a non assume that everybody was doing their part but when i get over there became very clear to me that most of the actual combat activity was begun by african americans and latinos and that even people with my back over our view. It'd be dom job was largely administrative. But i did have at least five days a week. I was on a helicopter and i went to various division base camps. There were seven of them up and down the state. You should make sure these radios at all. We had was lying sight. Fm radio there were about this big about this wide. Almost the exact sizes the first cell phones recall used to come right like a little briefcase or almost identical to that obviously only work line of sight so acknowledging what you had said about people of color kind of bearing the brunt of combat in vietnam and folks like you who were white soldiers or white men from middle upper class backgrounds. Not facing that and seeing that inequality was that part of what spurred you into wanting to make a difference in politics. Yeah absolutely. I felt this was wrong and get no what i would do about it. But it came back to practice. Law starting january seventy with affirm in los angeles. I volunteered in a us. Senate race the tiny one. Nine hundred seventy but really had done using significant politics and someone. I met in that tiny campaign nelson. Rising was the chairman of tom. Brady's campaign then councilmember Police force for twenty years in eight years. Eight or twelve years in the city council was running for the second time. I lost the first time. I was part of that campaign and they asked me to raise money. I said never raised money for anyone my life but they said well don't worry this a maximum fuze chairman of used to.
The Supporting Cast
"gray davis" Discussed on The Supporting Cast
"It worked for you right and so for those who don't know about harvard school as a military school. What did that mean. What were the aspects of student life or school life. That made it sort of a military school well again. This was the fifties i think we had. Rotc course once a week for an hour. And i believe we had formation twice a week. Which meant you just symbol formation. They call role in Go off classes so now. Military was a part of it and you did wear military uniforms. But in terms of academic contribution it was like one hour week not even one hour a day on the military but it did sort of get me comfortable with High school version of rotc. Which reasons Later on to stamford. I needed to earn additional money. I join the rotc stanford at probably would not milk that opportunity. If i hadn't gone to harvard yes. So let's get there so you go to stanford out of harvard school and you were part of the golf team as i understand and part of rotc's at right. Yes i actually tried for the baseball team. That was my first love but in nineteen sixty you know people were like six two six three two hundred and forty pounds. God knows what the today. So i decided i wasn't because i played first base than So then i decided to play off. And i was a halfway decent golfer. Nine rate gawker. But the years i played junior and senior year. We had a pretty good team. We won about two thirds of our matches with and we went to the ncaa championships in broadmoor. We came into the second day. A we had a bad first day so but it was just a good experience teaches you a lot about life on thing i know about goff is you could make the same showing in the first. Wink reduces a great shot in the second quarter the hatchet and you just have to Great but just don't go bragging too much. The same produces a bad shot. The next time. So matter of fact. I use that as a metaphor. I was jumping ahead. But he went to columbia law school and now years later they asked me to give the commencement speech in two thousand and nine.
The Supporting Cast
"gray davis" Discussed on The Supporting Cast
"Even student nurses the volunteer advocate. People all that has to come into place yet. Vaccine gets vaccine is he gets vaccinators. He's really done a good job. Tell us everybody else. I'm sure when you went. It was a positive experience. Everyone was yup young people positive upbeat giving it just made you feel good. Absolute whole experience at very positive is a huge logistical undertaking. We've got nothing like this. It's world war two in terms of trying to mobilize the whole country to do something. Well the the other difficulty is that the knowledge around the disease was evolving. Right at first it was. We weren't sure about masks because we thought that the the ppe needed to go to frontline workers and then we realize how how important masks really were a period where we thought it was a surface borne illness where we had describe everything down and that was the most important thing and then we realized no. It's actually the proximity and it's an airborne illness so it must be incredibly difficult to not just have all the facts but when the facts are evolving at at such a speed i mean. It's the science changes a unfortunately. You've gotta use that science. You have at the time you make decisions. I look governors made hundreds and hundreds of decisions in it so of the public health. Probably nobody in the planet earth would agree with all of them but bottom line is look at california. Just remember how big we are. We are almost forty million people. That's double the size of new york. Eighteen million more than florida which is third largest state in ten million more than texas so by all rights should have the most deaths most people but to disease Rang about twenty eight to twenty ninth on. Recapitalizations has reached twenty. Seven on the stage. On the positivity rate which is very important. We've been testing people so were under two percent in taxes. Like nine or ten percents minnesota michigan there in the teams were unto sent only three state..
The Supporting Cast
"gray davis" Discussed on The Supporting Cast
"Led to strict state and local policies around public health and safety as well as education greater focus has also been placed on the work of state and local policy makers and in particular the rule of governors to help shed light on the challenges of running a state in crisis and facing the criticism. They are in the supporting cast. Welcomes gray davis thirty. Seventh governor of the state of california in this episode governor davis speaks about growing up in los angeles attending harvard school in the nineteen fifties. And how a chance encounter with a kind of encouraging. Harvard teacher matt reynolds changed the trajectory of his life. Forever governor davis also discusses his time at stanford and columbia law before serving in the war. In vietnam where he earned a bronze star seen firsthand. How in his words low income minority soldiers for the brunt of combat in far greater numbers than his white counterparts governor davis was inspired to address this inequality through the pursuit of politics holding various statewide positions before being elected california governor in nineteen ninety eight. Lastly governor davis speaks about his trademark stoicism a characteristic he credits to both the game of golf and a cherished friendship with la mayor. Tom bradley and a trait. Which through the inevitable. Ups and downs of politics including the two thousand three recall. Gray davis on governing california his passion for education leading through crisis and keeping a level. This is the supporting cast Governor gray davis while the supporting cast ready to be with you great to be with you. It's.
Newsradio 600 KOGO
"gray davis" Discussed on Newsradio 600 KOGO
"A moment about how they're looking at recalls not just about Governor Governor Gavin Newsom. But they're also looking at re calling other elected officials that they're angry with. We're on a recall kick in California. More on that in just a minute, but well, yesterday we talked about some candidates on the Republican side of the aisle that are thinking about running. We had on former congressman Doug OC on the show. Who I think did very well. In his interview, he's looking at running for governor. Um, we already know that John Cox and Kevin Faulconer have announced that they're running for governor. On the Republican side. There's major Williams. Grassroots candidate who's running for governor and getting a lot of grassroots support. But a big name. Former Deanna. Secretary Cabinet member former ambassador to Germany for the Trump administration, Ric Grenell and Ah lot of excitement around Ric Grenell. Politico, Uh, eyes out with a number of stories talking about how Trump's big donors are all clamoring for Ric Grenell to run for governor. In full disclosure. I reckon I are close. Rick worked on a number of my projects political projects over the years as a communication strategist. And since he joined the Trump administration, he has just skyrocketed. He is very, very, very favored by President Trump and supported by him. But Rick the Sky's the limit for Rick, so I don't want to be training conference confidences. I will just simply say the phone. If Ric Grenell got in the race for governor. Not only would he be the Republican nominee But I believe He would have an exceptionally strong path to win against Gavin Newsom and anyone else that they put up. If you're not familiar with record, AL You need to be He's a rising star. Let me switch gears and talk about the Democrat candidates because yesterday we didn't spend a lot of time on that. And I did my homework assignment. I told you that I'm gonna go find you know some or information out for my Democrat friends. Because here's how the recall works. The first question that you're asked, is do you want to recall? Governor Gavin Newsom from office. Yes or no. You have to vote on that question. Yes or no? Ban on the same ballot. It says should knew some actually be re called. Who would you like to replace him? There's a list of replacement candidates and let me tell you there's gonna be about 80 replacement candidates because the threshold for qualifying as a candidate to be on that ballot is really, really low. It's like, you know. As low is getting on dancing with the stars. You have to be a complete nobody. You can totally get just a little bit of paperwork your name on the ballot. S so you're gonna have 80 candidates, lots of Republicans. Lots of independence Lots of Democrats. Will the Democrats actually put up a legitimate replacement candidate? In 2000 and three, Gray Davis and the Democrat establishment, said We're not putting up a replacement candidate because our position is final. No on recall. If you put a replacement candidate on the ballot, then some of our voters might say. I kind of like him better than Gray Davis. Maybe I'll vote Yes, on recall on all know they decided to take a no one recall. Take it or leave it my way or the highway. Well. That's what they tried to do. And what happened was Cruz Bustamante, the lieutenant governor decided to betray Gray Davis and put his name on the ballot. And, of course, he lost to Arnold Schwarzenegger. But in doing so he's tainted the well and no Democrats would support him for any other office and, in fact his lieutenant His political staffer. Lorena Gonzalez admitted. Him running in the recall destroyed his very promising political career. So the question becomes. Will the Democrats once again decide? A no on recall? Is them on Lee position to take They may try. I don't think they will. I think they recognize that they can have it both ways. No one recall will be their primary message. But, you know, in order to preserve The sanity of California and to keep white supremacists out of power. What we need to do is vote no on recall, And just as an insurance policy vote yes, on Satan, OK, they're not gonna say Satan but, you know, Hey. Um, the candidate that they made, you know, coalesce around might be a candidate picked Directly with the blessing of Newsome. I don't think so. I don't think that's gonna happen. There's a couple things that are likely gonna happen if they do pick a candidate. Uh, that might represent the Democrats candidate. But it may not the Democrat Party the establishment's candidate, but it may not represent the progressive wing of the Democrat Party. You and I both know that whoever they pick has to be a minority. Because, remember, we're now you know in in, you know racial politics on the Democrat side. It's all based upon your skin color and your gender or whatever your gender is today, so People that I've talked to in the last 48 hours and gathered information of from them say that some names that might emerge would be Antonio Vieira Groza, who ran against Newsom in 2000 and 18 and lost He's Latino former mayor about Los Angeles and he's not going to be Mr Loyal. He is said if I have a shot to run for governor again, I'm gonna do it. Antonio Villaraigosa would likely step forward and tell the Democrats that he is the insurance policy. Lorena Gonzalez is angry with Gavin Newsom and I'm hearing her name Orm or she's a woman and a Latino. Uh, Antonio unless you're willing to pay and a little bit of money for that little snip, snip operation. Lorena might have an edge on you. She's a female Latino Latina on she doesn't like Gavin Newsom so she may decide to run..
WHAS 840 AM
"gray davis" Discussed on WHAS 840 AM
"I'm getting a little bit of feedback, Guster, reasonable building there in there. We got the two of us on the same site together here. We wanted to get together and chat with such a match for a few minutes story about things that have gone on lazy which I know you want it or not. I'm sorry. I'm getting it. A double thing coming back at me. There we go. I think we're straighten up for now. Coach last night, I know was a game that not leave you too happy. But I got to tell you that Florida State team is awfully tough, particularly for you to handle them for everybody to handle. They just place the darn hard to go with all that length and talent. They're tough bunch. You had a very, uh They're very long. They're unbelievably athletic and quick reacting to the basketball, they play a very unique style that's difficult on any opponent that you know has Day turnaround, and that's that's what we had with the very, very young crew and Me that as it may we didn't get off to the start. We need to and that's been a theme and about three of the last four games and some we gotta correct. But Florida State's a terrific team how they're not in the top 25. Is beyond me, but that'll happen over time, and they're terrific team and, um, you know, we gotta get to that point with a quick turnaround and they had to. They played on Saturday as well. You did play later on Saturday. But what what were you able to do on Sunday? Between the Saturday game in the Monday game in terms of preparation May not a whole lot, you know physically, you know, certainly we did what we could with film to make sure that you know our team understood who Florida State was personnel wise. What they like to run, how they how they score their points Who scores it forum on Ben trying to convey you know how we needed to play on offense and, you know Sort of states really unique. There's not a team that runs their conventional offense against them. They switch every possible screen both on and off the ball. And they basically tell you You're gonna have to beat us off the dribble in certain positions and we were too stagnant when guys didn't have the ball, But again, you have to be able to get in the lane. You know it took us 15 minutes to figure that out. And then from that point on, we were a little bit more comfortable. But you know, we have to be that way from the very, very beginning, but their length and their athleticism, their ability to switch the intensity of which they play overwhelmed our team. In the very beginning. They had five blocks shots, and I think they all came as you alluded to in about the first eight or 10 minutes of the game. And do they switch everything because they are so big. They really aren't going to get caught in that many mismatches. Um, They just have a great awareness off the ball, Paul. So if there is an advantage that the offense has on a switch, whether that's in the post and you try to lob one up, you know to to your big guy in there. You know you're gonna have two or three floors. State players reacted from help side from every angle If you tried to isolate their five man with one of your ball handlers They really shrink the floor and they forced those other guys to hit jump shots. Obviously, we way shot it miserably to start the game. But you know our inability to really shot fake get in the lane effectively be strong with the ball in those situations Heard us. You know, we missed a couple easy ones beginning of the game instead of 11 to 4. You know, now it's 98. But you know, that's that's part of it, Setting the tone the wrong way a little bit. Couple of your guys made a comment after the game about not being ready to play, and I'm not sure I really buy that. Sometimes I think players sort of offer that excuse up because they're not sure what else to say. I couldn't get what you're feeling on that. I felt like there were a few guys that were A little lethargic defensively. I felt like a couple of our guys just were a step behind and they have not been at this level long enough to understand how fast the game moves. Where you have to be how loud you have to communicate with the intensity of these games Paul are played with and we're learning some hard lessons. You know, with some young guys. I thought there was a little bit of guys playing tentative and nervous around the basket. And rather than utilize a pump fake and play out of strength and getting guy in the air and play with your mind and spray the ball out, Spray the ball down. We shot fate and then tried to shoot over a guy. And you know again. It's not something we see in practice every single day. So we're gonna have to do it, You know, through through drills through talking about you showing film. And unfortunately we didn't get to that point until it was a 15 20 point game. I mentioned at the beginning and a little incoherent cause I was getting from delayed feedback and my headset, But Jodi gambling is joining us on the program tonight and Lost your question. Yes. You mentioned that and of the Florida state block shots. All five of them came. I think in the 1st 14 minutes of the game, And I do remember one time where you're talking about specifically, And I don't know. I mean, Gray Davis went in and instead of pump, take anyone and try to shoot over and he got it blocked later in the game. No, he did kind of pull up. So I mean, did you see in the film that you felt like the guys? Kind of they learned as you went along and learn throughout the game. Yeah, I think so. Jody,.
Biz Talk Radio
"gray davis" Discussed on Biz Talk Radio
"Mike. Love from the beach boys. James Hirsen. James Hirsen should come down and play. Have you heard James Hirsen play? Get well soon, sir. Sir, There's an attorney not lies. An author. He's a lot, professor. He was He was a keyboard player of the Temptations. If you follow him on Facebook, you can hear James. What do you performance a week on there now? Because I look forward to your stuff on there now. Well, thank you. No, no, I just try to match it up with the articles. I'm writing. I stick of a little piece up to something from my heart. I miss playing alive, You know? Living here. And hotel California. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Cow that you could never leave. By the way. Can I ask you this? Just off topic off the office of the national scene, many of you our viewers and listeners that we broadcast out of San Diego, California, James lives up in the L. A area. We're in California. You might be watching us. You know, Tennessee of New York or listening to us in New Jersey. Here in California. We heard failed Republic and there should be a moat around us. Can I ask you is because of what's gone on. Because there's many blue businesses closed at the hand of Gavin Newsom, a czar are red businesses. Do you feel like this is going to be another gray Davis moment here and others? Gray Davis was the other gender that was recalled several years ago. Well, it is in terms of you know what there's over a million signatures on the recall petition, let alone 1.1 transcends political parties, however. There's one major issue that is the most important issue in America's most Porton issue in California. Voter integrity, right so if we could have a real recall election Then I do think it's possible to president who, Of course, the opposing candidate starts you mentioned Gray Davis. Of course, we had the celebrity power marbles, Schwarzenegger to propel him write that Victory. I don't know if there's somebody you know, maybe Chachi. Maybe Antonio's about sugar? No, he's left the state. There's anybody here that's left Rob Schneider's gone. S so you know, I don't know if we have a celebrity. But if we have a good articular candidate, I think there's a awful lot of passion. Yeah, you're and you could see it. Go to South Orange County. You go to San Diego County when you see a lot of defiant Small businesses that Gavin News I could see the eye could see the ad coming out now saying, Make sure you turn in all of your ballots. See, it's It's um It's funny, and it's tragic at the same time. Okay, So James, Here's my question for you with respect to the what's going on with Twitter. And parlor and Facebook and YouTube with Donald Trump. You know there are international figures like like Angela Merkel from Germany, saying You guys don't want to be doing that. And, of course, the prime minister of Australia said the same thing you like him or hate him. And of course, the events of last week were unconscionable. You know, looking, I'm no legal scholar. I don't. I don't. I don't think there was incitement. You know legally I think he probably couldn't choose chose his words better. I think there was. I do think he's complicit somehow. I'm not sure that he meant to have people stormed the capital. Aside from all that the big issue here is censorship in the United States are your lot, professor. You're gonna have to handle this stuff with your students here. Somebody make you go to class again here for a second. Isn't this a super dangerous time Number one and number two. Isn't this gonna fall back hard on the tech companies at the end of the day? The end of the day. I agree with you. I think it will fall back hard is a dangerous time. And they you know, to use the cliche. They jumped the shark. The jump. The shark moment came from Amazon. Because on the heels of Google and Apple, removing this app parlor from their stores, Amazon kicked them off of the cloud server. Now there, there is a level of censorship. We have never seen They deep platform this company and it appears as though these tech companies conspired together. To harm competitors way We all know what that's called. That's called a violation of the Sherman Act, Anti Trust that's unfair business practices. That's a breach of contract and they filed a lawsuit. And that was lawsuit may lead to other problems for believe it or not, for Jeff based doses. Mamma's, So that was a and by the way, that is a terrible business decision. I don't know which executives made that decision. But clearly that was not thought through and I think a lot of this banning that's going on like this Cos stripe. Like we just heard Curt Schilling. The from from from the I mean bloody socks? Yeah. Kurt Schilling. He has. He has said that his insurance was canceled. Over his social media profile and his political positions that this kind of stuff is unacceptable UN American and shouldn't be happening. So s So Is there any Is there any legal recourse stamps that I get that I think that there is I mean, a lot of people say, Well, there can't be because the judiciary is corrupted. Yeah, I do think we're in danger of the Supreme Court being corrupted, becoming a rubber stamp. But at the local levels there, there are there literally. Hundreds of new judges that were appointed over the last four years, and the courts still had a degree of integrity. As long as we stay away from that. Hawaiian judge who seems to want to determine US policy, But I think there will be a lot of legal recourse for these where they overplayed their hands where the tech companies have overplayed their hands. It's a debate on, for example, the Twitter keeping up the Ayatollah Khamenei keeping up the president of Iran, uh, keeping up really, in many cases, hardcore pornography, at least until they could pull it down. And to permanently banned the president. The question, of course, is. Is this really a private company? I think some courts they're gonna wrestle with that. Because section 2 30 gives them government subsidies and because really, in a way, particularly the Amazon case. That is like saying, Okay, You know, we don't like rusty nails joke, So we're gonna cut off if I had a nickel every time I heard that can you imagine, and we cut off his electrical power? See, that's the kind of thing that the Amazon cloud Shit decision is like well after the war, that we're looking at things that appear like utilities. I think the stronger the arguments will be and remember, we're talking about civil lawsuits and civil lawsuits have a lower threshold, a lower standard of proof that's not being under reasonable doubt. Which is getting close to 100% proof it Z a preponderance of the evidence, which is like a majority of the evidence. I've got to keep up the good fight of comedians and getting a little edgy and social commentary within my humor, but it used to be some people just wouldn't laughs. I wouldn't do the joke again. Now. Not only won't they laugh They threatened my family and they come after you has tagged me out of a gig. It's not even worth doing this gig anymore. Yeah, well, the interesting thing about isn't that going to be the end result of the death of social media when people like You haven't seen me on social media other than what marry our digital media director does for the band of the show Like you. I just stepped off it because you know what the end of the day it's become..
Dr. Drew Midday Live with Mike Catherwood
California, New Orleans and Lynn discussed on Dr. Drew Midday Live with Mike Catherwood
"Thanks. For taking. My, call you bet Let me just say I'm really, excited I'm part of the IMP foundation and we're having. A conference in New Orleans. In October You're going to be one of, the keynote speakers at the conference in the world yes Maybe even person bible glue