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1:01I'm pulling in to the bakery. It's going to turn into a cage match between those two. Tom Steyer is down in fifth place at 10% and then it's a big jump. Sarah at five, Viragosa in Mayhand at four, Betty Yee and Tony Thurmond at one. It'll be interesting to see if Matt Mayhand starts to gain any traction now that he's starting to spend money and do all the shows, not this one, but he did show up on the daily show and others. Yeah, that's an interesting strategy, right? Campaign for governor of California in New York. I don't understand that. I guess they figured it worked for that freak in Texas when he went on with Stephen Colbert and that turned into a big controversy and they're hoping that the same thing will happen to them. But I don't know who's voting in California that's watching those East Coast shows.
2:05Well, and he didn't just go on the daily show. Mayhand also went on Morning Joe, which I think what comes on at 3 a.m. over here, nobody's watching that. No, that is for the East Coast audience and I don't understand why a candidate for office in California flies all the way to New York City to do a national show that's on a 3 a.m. here and they treat the state of California the largest state, the union like we're a suburb of Guam. We've been trying to get Mayhand on this show. He's come on in the past and this is a statewide L.A. and San Francisco and best of's in Fresno radio show. What are you going to do 800 222 5222 is telephone number 1 800 222 5222. Well, if you woke up this morning like I did and you opened up your phone and you started looking at social media, you noticed a theme real fast.
3:07Caesar Chavez is a Chico Molo. There have been a lot of allegations in the last 48 hours about the historic labor leader Caesar Chavez as we're going into celebrating Caesar Chavez day and those allegations just exploded a few hours ago with Dolores Huerta openly admitting that she was raped by Caesar Chavez and he fathered two of her children. And she's just one of many on the list that they know of. Apparently, there was a lot going on in those fields. This is rocking the Southern California area and the Bay area, including San Jose pretty much anywhere where there's a whole bunch of stuff named after Caesar Chavez. This story is from earlier this morning, so it does not have the Dolores Huerta allegations, but here is the reaction to some of the other things that are going on when it comes to
4:10everything that we are learning about Caesar Chavez. Here is ABC seven in the Bay in San Jose where the family home of Cesar Chavez is a cultural landmark. Many are devastated by allegations about Chavez during his time as president of the United Farm Workers Union. He lived here for a couple years and this place is like a sacred site to me. He's one of my big time heroes. These allegations are very serious and I don't want that to be part of his story. I think it is now. Oh yeah. You know, people used to just say Harvey Weinstein was a great movie producer. You know, if this guy watches Nick at night on a regular basis, nobody tell him what happened to Bill Cosby. Just let the man enjoy his television of who he is. UFW statement references allegations it calls deeply troubling involving alleged abuse
5:11of young women or minors. UFW says it will not be taking part in any Cesar Chavez day activities. We have not received any direct reports and we do not have any firsthand knowledge of these allegations. However, the allegations are serious enough that we feel compelled to take urgent steps. La Ra. Yeah. It'd be really hard to be marching on Cesar Chavez day with everything that we're learning right now. Okay. I don't believe that for a second because Dolores Huerta certainly knew about it. Certainly all the other victims knew about it. Those victims talked to one another. And in the letter Dolores Huerta said that she decided to deify this guy anyway, knowing that he was a monster because she didn't want it to hurt the movement. LaRosa Historical Society founding board member Ramon J. Martinez says allegations have surfaced in the past, including in a 2014 biography titled The Crusades of Cesar Chavez by former LA Times reporter Miriam Paul.
6:13In 2014, she wrote about how Cesar's wife discovered some indiscreet letters to an 18-year-old. And they had some erotal difficulties. Cesar Chavez. It might be a little more than that. Yeah. Nope. No kidding. Cesar Chavez is honored and remembered throughout the city of San Jose, from the plaza to Cesar Chavez Park in downtown San Jose. All right. What are we going to rename that as? Name it after Don Nots. Plaza de Cesar Chavez Park in downtown San Jose to the Arch of Dignity. Here at San Jose State University. Retired SJS U-Mexican American Studies professor Dr. Gregorio Moratora says it's important to remember Chavez's work for the rights of farm workers while the troubling allegations are investigated. He thought, oh, of course, boy, they're still laying it on thick with this guy, aren't they? Sure, he may have been a monster, but he was an important monster. Oh, yeah.
7:14It's important to remember Chavez's work for the rights of farm workers while the troubling allegations are investigated. He's a sinner. Like a lot of us are sinners. Most of us don't sin that way. Yeah. How many people did he rape again? How many Mulligans is this guy willing to give him? Well, we need to look at it's basically at what he did as a labor leader and as a person who really cared for farm workers more than anything. It doesn't matter what he did while he was head of that movement to people that were in the movement. The fact that he started the movement is all that matters. Yeah. Who cares who he raped? He got them a 401k. The Cesar Chavez Foundation said in a statement, we are deeply shocked and saddened by what we are hearing in what are they going to rename themselves as? Oh, that's going to be quite a debate. In partnership with the UFW, we are establishing a safe and confidential process for those who wish to share their experience of historic harm and if they choose to participate in efforts towards repair and reconciliation.
8:16So there you go. That's at least some of the reaction over the last 48 hours again, that story was produced before the Dolores Huerta allegations. And at that point, I don't know how there's going to be a Cesar Chavez day going forward. Here's the thing, whenever they lay it on real thick with someone, you know there's an alternate reality. You know there's an alternate story. You know they're overcompensating for something. And while most of us didn't know that he was accused of doing all of these things, it was obvious the guy was a thug. You find me a union organizer that's not a thug. What are you talking about? That's what you want by the way if you're in the union. You want a fighter? Yeah. You want someone that's going to roll over to management.
9:19You want someone that's going to kick them in the crotch as hard as they can, gouge them in the eyes, slash their tires, put sugar in their gas tank, and get you as much money as possible. So what you want is the opposite of after a pretty much. You think Jimmy Hoffa was a saint? How about that witch that runs the teachers' union, Randy Winegarden? What do you think you'd find in her basement? That's who these people are. Now, the fact that they bit over backwards to make him Christlike, and if you went to fourth grade in California, you know what I'm talking about. All they did was talk about how wonderful Caesar Chavez was and how important he is and what a great man he was and how he cares for people and the evil farmers in the Central Valley hate the people. But Caesar Chavez gave up his life for the farm workers because he cares about humanity
10:25so much. That's what we were told. And the entire time this guy was a monster behind the scenes. And they're renaming things, or they were, probably not anymore now, but they were renaming things after Caesar Chavez. They were taking down schools, they were taking down street names, they were taking down, I don't know, parks and monuments, after people like the founding fathers who they have under a microscope. From their point of view, the founding fathers can do nothing right. They created a country that's been around for what, 250 years, whatever, and it's working out and we are certainly more successful than anyone on the globe, yet they hate those people. And they want to take down everything that's named after them and they want to rename it after people like Caesar Chavez. There's a whole list on Wikipedia of all the things that are named after Caesar Chavez
11:30and it is long. Oh, especially here in California. But with them, with the low crowd, everything is Hitler versus Bambi. That's the way they see the world. And either they don't know their history or their willfully ignorant. They wanted to name an aircraft carrier after Harvey Milk. I suggest they do some reading first because Caesar isn't the only one who likes him young. So did Harvey Milk. How about the Indians? Oh my God, that's the in crowd now. If only everyone could be like the Indians. If it weren't for Cortez, if it weren't for Columbus, everything would be working out just fine over here. And you hear them talk about the Indians back in the old days and they have the idea that
12:31these Indians were just driving around in preesses, shopping at whole foods, and putting solar panels on their teepees. And they seem to really believe that. Well, how about the virgins that were sacrificed? What do you think about that? Have they just not read books as to what life was like when they were here? I mean, these are California schools. There's not a lot of reading going on. That's true. That's true. Well, boy, would they be surprised what they'd find out? I wish we could do a Bill and Ted's excellent adventure sort of thing where we could take these fools that are taking the founder's names off all the buildings and put them in history whenever it was that they think that everything was great. And just let them get a little flavor. Let them get a little taste to that. Because what they have in their mind is in no way related to reality frequently.
13:36And that's what happened with Caesar Chavez. And now that's coming back to bite them. And now they're all going to pretend to be surprised. That's another part of this. It's like when Joe Biden, they finally figured out that he was senile. And finally, there was some kind of suggestion that something was off with him. That was the attitude that they had. But Dolores Huerta, in the note, put out there that they kept quiet about it, or they kept it, I guess, within the organization because of the cause. I know she's a victim and I know she's going to get a pass. But that is an odd attitude to have to me. Well, especially when we're talking about incidents like this, staying silent means that more people could be victimized. I mean, not now, obviously, he's long dead, but when he was in charge of the movement
14:40by staying silent, other people could have been victimized or were victimized. But they knew he was a rapist when they were pushing for the holiday. And they all went out and celebrated. They put his name on everything and they bullied all of these school districts. People who knew he was a rapist, bullied these school districts and bullied these cities and counties into taking names off buildings from people who did wonderful things to replace them with this criminal. It's just wild to me. It's wild to me how you could do that. Now I get people cope with trauma in different ways. And certainly these are people who are involved in politics, involved in globalization. They care about it very deeply. But let me tell you, if I were in that position, I don't think I would have done the same thing.
15:44I don't think I would have. I know the partisan pull is really strong. And certainly the pro-union pull is really strong. But how could you show up to all these ribbon-cutting ceremonies for a guy you know is a creep? You have personal knowledge. And how could you create all of these organizations that are named after him when you know the guy was a predator? I don't get it, but I will predict this. There's going to be a lot of name change going on in this state that I can promise you. When you really need care, you need 24-7 access to a care team, not a maze of paperwork from a third party. Every day, America's hospitals and health systems show up for you, navigating healthcare can feel overwhelming. But you can count on real doctors, real nurses, real people, providing quality around the clock care when you need it most.
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17:47I was talking to someone who's alumni for UC Davis and he was telling me that UC Davis, of course, is a big agricultural school. It's in Sacramento, the Sacramento area and certainly that's a dominant industry in that part of California. And so they spend a lot of time and energy and resources trying to create new inventions that will facilitate agriculture in California and beyond. And they said that he was always causing the university problems, that he didn't want them coming up with anything that would make it easier to pick the crops in the central valley because he thought it would get rid of jobs and he put all kinds of pressure on the university to kill the research. Yeah, of course, similar like what's happening now in the ports. I try to give her to some of the poor jobs through innovation and the unions are trying to stop that, which is understandable is trying to save jobs. But all this game in the book, all right. We've 800 222 5222 is a cell phone number 1 800 222 5222.
18:54If you'd like to email the show, you can do so at Johnny Don't Like Show at gmail.com. And Randy, you're monitoring the mail back Bob and Sandra fel writes in a Johnny Don't Like Show at gmail.com guys when Army Street was renamed for Chavez by San Francisco Proclamation, all the merchants and residences had to change their addresses and business cards at their own expense to reflect the change in San Francisco refused to contribute funds. Will California pay for all the name changes or will it fall outside of Newsom's budget? Presidents could handle the workload if they would simply increase the prison population. Great show guys. Yeah, that's a very good point. It costs a fortune to reprint all of your materials when they change the name of the street. And now they're going to do it again. How about all the dozens of Caesar, Caesar, Chavez, elementary schools? Well, maybe Newsom will name some of those streets after Charles Manson because his parole board
19:58let some of them out. And Randy, we're on Saturdays on KMJ in the Central Valley. I know you're wondering, why do they keep plugging this? I'll tell you why because we're on in the Central Valley. It's on Saturdays at noon, but we're still on in the Central Valley. And that is very exciting. So we give the Fresno and Bakersfield people a little taste of what you get 15 hours a week of, they get one hour, but we're trying to make that hour extra special. You can listen to it wherever you are by streaming it at KMJ now.com. You can see if you can pick up the AM signal anywhere in California, it goes pretty far. 580 on the AM dial, one of 5.9 FM FM signals don't go that far, but check it out for yourself. Everyone's talking about it. The fixed California hour replay on KMJ. In the meantime, what do you say we make a couple of listeners? Very happy.
20:59Let's do that right now. 790 K ABC welcomes the pussycat dolls, PCT forever to her at the Acrojure arena on June 5th. Tickets are on sale Friday at ticketmaster.com, but right now call her number nine at one eight at eight seven ninety five two two two gets a pair of tickets to the show tickets furnished by live nation, good luck dialing. All right, we know that the insurance crisis in California is crippling many businesses and homeowners. And the California insurance commissioner Ricardo Lara doesn't seem to have any interest in doing anything about it. Trailblazing is rarely comfortable, yo. And neither does governor Gavin Newsom. But there are members of the legislature who now believe they can contribute to making life easier for California business owners and homeowners. For more on a package of legislation meant to address the insurance crisis here is ABC 10 in Sacramento.
22:07With this record breaking heat wave in California and much of the West, whether related events are once again top of mind for state officials. For California, this means drought said wildfire season ABC 10 state matters political reporter Jenny Hutt joins us now to break down the proposals tackling those concerns Jenny. Well, Republicans say the state is at a tipping point and that the lessons now we tipped over already. Oh, yeah, we're in the ocean. Well, Republicans say the state is at a tipping point and that the lessons learned from the historic Los Angeles wildfires entail more needs for wildfire prevention. California has a problem. This is the luck of the Irish day where our luck is run out. California. Hockey. California Senate Republicans Tuesday afternoon introduced their wildfire risk reduction and insurance affordability package. You know, we'd like to work with our democratic colleagues to condense combined, but to bring real solutions to Californians.
23:10A big emphasis on wildfire prevention, especially by homeowners themselves to create more defensible space, the buffer between a structure and the surrounding area. That gives us the opportunity to get in and hopefully control the fires and push them around the homes and not burn down for our residents. Although I got to say we have regulations like that in certain areas like Orange County and it's actually becoming an incentive for ensures to drop you quicker. Uh oh. Because they changed a regulation where you needed to be you had to be a thousand feet away from a forest area to 500 feet away. And no, it went from 500 feet to a thousand feet and a whole bunch of homeowners started getting dropped. Uh oh for our residents now is the time to act clear your defensible space hard in your homes. Several bills seek to incentivize homeowners to do just that. Senator Maria Brado Gil is proposing state income tax credits for those who make their homes more fire safe like through fire resistant roofing, amber resistant vents and defensible space.
24:13Making it much more affordable to reduce ignition risk, which we're going to make it affordable by making you pay through the nose to change the way your home is. Okay, here's the problem with this and if people harden their home and they make it more resistant to fire, that's great. That will help protect you if there's a fire in your community. However, the problem is if state farm goes to the insurance commissioner and says the materials cost a fortune, I don't care if they've hardened their home. We want a rate hike, he's going to give it to him. And if he continues to give it to him, which he will, that means your premiums are going only going one way up. We're not seeing anything in this package about making it so if you harden your home, the insurance companies have to give you a discount. You know, like you're a good driver and you don't get tickets, you have a lower rate on your car insurance. We're not talking about that.
25:14Making it much more affordable to reduce ignition risk, which are often coupled with insurance discounts. If a home is quote unquote hardened, they say that can help with insurance too, which has been a key concern as major insurers like state farm pull out of California. And even the fair plan California's insurer of last resort is underwater and seeking major premium increases amid a surge in demand. Let's not forget that Ricardo Lara said his package to give all the insurers everything they've ever wanted, including expedited rate hikes, including state farm. After the whole debacle in Southern California was to get people off the fair plan. And now there's more people on the fair plan than ever before. I'm very kind of sketched and here's the wild part. So now we have evidence that what he's doing is not working. In fact, it's pushing us in the wrong direction. They will not change what they're doing. They're just doubling and tripling down. Also help to build household resilience. Okay, who gave her the bad microphone?
26:16I don't know, but she sounds like she's making a PA announcement on a cruise ship. I'm going to lower the volume just because this hurts. Also help to build household resilience without relying solely on stray utility grids. Thanks for that. Albrado Gill is also proposing tax credits for those that have backup power systems like a generator or solar battery. And for the California Department of Forestry and fire. Wait a second, you're going to get a tax credit if you have one of those backup batteries that when they all melted in the palisades led to all the toxic debris that was making it so much harder to clean up that area. Well, to be fair, everything that they own turned into toxic debris, including their electric cars. And for the California Department of Forestry and fire protection, Cal fire to prioritize areas with high insurance costs due to higher wildfire risk. Okay, that one's pretty good. Clear the forest that are the most expensive. Yeah, that makes sense.
27:18I think if they know that there's going to be available robust, affordable insurance on the back end, that will create that's not happening any time soon. No. That will create a whole nother incentive structure to encourage people to do that work in hardening their home. See, even this is bipartisan and there's just so many of the same topics being thrown around. We know we're in this together. We need to work together. And so Democratic State Senator Ben Allen is behind two of the Republican bills. One that would give state income tax credits on payments to repair or rebuild homes. And one that would require state agencies to routinely identify regulations that can be suspended post disaster to expedite the rebuilding process. The family. Okay, that's an interesting one. Or you could just get rid of those regulations all together. Like, I don't know, take the private right of action out of sequel. That would work. The family needs to be able to rebuild. We ask Governor Newsom about the Republican proposals and whereby partisanship is possible.
28:18His office declined to comment on pending legislation, but said he's invested in wildfire risk reduction like forest management and has work to stabilize. Well, when are you going to start doing that? Here's the issue. Newsom will not move on this. He's not engaged in this. If he was actually here doing his job and maybe taking his meetings with these numbers of the legislature, maybe they could come up with some sort of program. He is phoning it in. He is running for president. He's not here doing his job and he doesn't care. And has worked to stabilize whole insurance, though many still say with that increased wildfire risk, they no longer qualify for or can and for that insurance. Chris Laura. Okay, Jenny, thank you. So there's the latest package of bills. Will they really address the insurance crisis? Maybe a little. 800 222 5222 is telephone number 1 800 222 5222.
29:20As I mentioned earlier this week, I was in Arizona over the weekend to watch the angels play spring training baseball. And I noticed when I was there, how much cheaper gasoline is than the state of California? Which is why on my way back to California, I stopped at court site to top it off because why not? It's so much cheaper than what I would pay at home. Well, recently NBC LA did an investigation as to why gasoline is so much more expensive in California than in other states. And it's exactly what you think it is for more. Here's NBC LA today across Southern California in LA County. The average price for a gallon of regular is $5.63 in Orange County. It's $5.60 and $5.51 in Riverside. Of course, those prices are much higher than the rest of the country. I'm sure you know that I'm sure you've been talking to family members somewhere else in part because of the California gas tax.
30:21Now some lawmakers in Canada. It's so weird, but I honestly, when I'm at a town, whether it's in Dallas or Santa Fe, I take a picture of the gas station. Oh, yeah. When you see how cheap gas is in other places, you want to buy it and just I don't know. Fill up one of those kitty pulls with it and just. Sit and cheap gasoline. This is a true story. But when we were in Santa Fe in January, I think the gasoline at the All Sups on Pocere, Peralta was $2.50 a gallon. And my wife is driving around in my parent's car that stays at the house and she's like, well, the tanks got three quarters full, but I just want to fill up to see what this is like. In part because of the California gas tax. Now some lawmakers and candidates for governor are trying to change that. NBC Forest, Conan Nolan is in the newsroom to explain.
31:23Conan, you know, I heard this proposal this morning and thought, wow, this would be so helpful right now. But it could, but the Sacramento legislature doesn't do things that help us. Never. But it could we see an impact and what are the chances this actually goes through? A, you would see an impact, B, the chances are not very likely. The California legislature, Democrats dominated. They're unlikely to change the rules when it comes to the gasoline tax. In the past, they've offered a refund for low income Californians, but the tax itself stays in place. It didn't take long for the surge at the pump to become an issue in the campaign for governor. I'm calling on our state leaders to temporarily suspend our gas tax and provide relief to those who need it most. There will never, this will never happen. I'll tell you why and we've had so many people, not just now and the governor's race, but in the legislature on the Republican side tout for this. You can never temporarily get rid of the gas tax because when you bring it back, that's a 70 cent hike.
32:28So you just have to get rid of it entirely. Well, this is one of these issues where Sacramento, I think, has us by the short hairs because Democratic voters don't seem to be upset with the cost of gasoline. We've had opportunities to repeal the gas tax they voted down. We certainly have cap and trade legislation that they support that makes gas more expensive. And if you're all worked up over global warming, then forcing people out of their cars with things like high gasoline prices and road diets is something that will advance your agenda. Unless and until Democratic voters in California are offended at the cost of gasoline, nothing's going to change. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Matt Mayhan, the mayor of San Jose and fellow candidate and Tony Overegoza, the former mayor of Los Angeles, calling on the California legislature to cut gas prices by for the time being at least eliminating the state excise tax.
33:34We have the highest gas prices in the United States of America and with even Mr. Peanut wants to get rid of the gas tax. But you notice it's all the candidates who are at the bottom of the polls. You don't hear Eric Swalwell saying that. You don't hear America's sweetheart Katie Porter saying that. You don't hear Tom Steyer saying that. Well, if the gas stations had croissants, maybe she'd have something to say about it. I'm pulling in to the bakery. She sounds so angry saying that too. We have the highest gas prices in the United States of America and with this decision to go to war in Iran, gas prices are going up. Economist Severin Boranstein of the Energy Institute at the Hoss Business School says gas sold in California is normally at least a dollar and a half more expensive than the rest of the nation. About a dollar of that is due to the higher taxes we have, the environmental fees we have. And the fact that we use a cleaner burning gasoline, which has helped clean up air quality quite a bit in California.
34:40Here's what I don't understand about the cleaner burning fuel, which is one of the reasons we can't import gasoline from, I don't know, Texas. Texas doesn't use that and Texas's air is cleaner than California's. They call it the summer blend like it's some sort of seasonal Starbucks variety. And also I always feel like I need to point this out because when I learned the number, it just doesn't seem like it really is that big of a deal here. The gas tax raises only $8 billion a year and it goes down every year because more and more people are getting fuel efficient vehicles or electric cars. $8 billion is a pretty small fraction of the $350 billion budget. You could wipe that thing out, find plenty of ways with the existing money that we have to pave the roads that we're not paving and everyone would be happy. So why wouldn't we do that? Because California going to California. And the fact that we use a cleaner burning gasoline, which has helped clean up air quality quite a bit in California.
35:44Due to the disruption of oil markets as a result of the war with Iran, the average price in the state as of Monday is an eye popping 552 per gallon. Of that approximately 61 cents is the state excise or gas tax, which by the way, if you're wondering how it got that high. It's because when the gas tax was passed in the Jerry Brown days, it was tied to inflation, which is interesting because it also causes inflation. But it goes up every single July and we have had opportunities to repeal the gas tax and we voted down consistently. Well, if you remember when the repeal the gas tax was on the ballot in I want to say 2018, it was titled the Defund Roads and Bridges Act, which is used for road repair and cal trans projects. Most of the legislature oppose the gas tax suspension as they see it as robbing the state of needed revenue and a statement governor Gavin Newsom's office referred to gas taxes as fixed costs that do not fluctuate with the market.
36:51It's not a fixed cost. It goes up every year. Does he even know what that word means and have nothing to do? Gavin also usually his line for this because he gets asked about this every year is there's no guarantee the oil companies will pass that savings on to you. He also thinks they're colluding against one state and have nothing to do with the price spikes that Americans are experiencing. But with no end in sight for the war and continued crisis in the world's most consequential oil transit chokehold, the straight of hormones, pressure for the state to do something may only increase 13 gallons, 88 dollars. I don't know how California is going to for boy, am I glad I don't have to deal with that. You're saving so much money.
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