# Is There A Good Choice For Insurance Comissioner?

An episode of [The John Phillips Show](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/824357555), 16 Oct 2026, 39 min.

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This episode of the John Phillips Show is a must-listen for California voters, as the host and his guest dive into the state's upcoming election. With the midterms just around the corner, it's time to get informed and make your voice heard. In this episode, John and his guest discuss the key races and issues that will shape California's future. The conversation covers a range of topics, from the state's top court justices to the Bay Area Regional Transit Measure. The hosts share their thoughts on the candidates and ballot initiatives, providing valuable insights and analysis. They also discuss the importance of fiscal discipline in government and the need to exercise caution when voting on tax increases. With their trademark humor and wit, John and his guest break down the complexities of California politics, making it easy to understand for listeners. One of the key takeaways from this episode is the hosts' discussion on the Board of Equalization, where they highlight the importance of choosing a candidate who will represent the people of California, not just special interests. They also delve into the world of California's Supreme Court justices, where they share their thoughts on the current justices and the potential implications of their re-election. Additionally, the hosts discuss the Bay Area Regional Transit Measure, a massive tax increase that has sparked controversy and debate. If you're a California voter looking to stay informed and make a difference in the upcoming election, this episode is a must-listen. Tune in to hear John and his guest discuss the key issues and candidates that will shape California's future. Don't miss out on this insightful conversation and make sure to check out the full episode at johnnydontlike.com. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

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[1:13] Speaker 2: newest edition of the accountability podcast. Last week was the
[1:18] Speaker 2: most watched edition of accountability that we've done so far.
[1:23] Speaker 2: And that included John Fleischman going through all the ballot propositions.
[1:28] Speaker 2: This week, we decided to invite John Fleischman back. But
[1:31] Speaker 2: this time, instead of talking about the ballot propositions, we
[1:35] Speaker 2: talked about the races that are on your ballot here
[1:38] Speaker 2: in California. We went through the statewides. We went through
[1:42] Speaker 2: the L.A. mayor's race. We talked about the Supreme Court
[1:45] Speaker 2: justices who are on the ballot and the Bay Area
[1:48] Speaker 2: transit tax. Yesterday, we played part one of the accountability podcast.
[1:54] Speaker 2: And today, Randy, we're going to play the rest of it.
[1:57] Speaker 3: Here are the rest of John Fleischman and Johnny's picks
[2:01] Speaker 3: on the second part of the voter guide of the
[2:05] Speaker 3: accountability podcast. You can watch the whole thing whenever you
[2:08] Speaker 3: want at johnnydontlike.com. Johnny with a Y.
[2:17] Speaker 4: Come on.
[2:19] Speaker 3: I hit the button.
[2:21] Speaker 4: Is it going to play?
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[2:24] Speaker 5: Here we go.
[2:26] Speaker 2: Let's move on to one where you and I disagree on,
[2:28] Speaker 2: and that's the race for insurance commissioner, where you have
[2:31] Speaker 2: a choice between two Democrats, a DSA Democrat and a
[2:35] Speaker 2: standard Democrat.
[2:37] Speaker 6: Okay, so in this race, we've got, I guess using
[2:40] Speaker 6: your terminology, the standard Democrat is State Senator Ben Allen,
[2:45] Speaker 6: and the DSA Democrat is... I know this theme keeps
[2:49] Speaker 6: going on, but you've got another former San Francisco supervisor,
[2:54] Speaker 6: Jane Kim, who is completely nuts. So let me first
[3:00] Speaker 6: and foremost tell you that nobody in their right minds
[3:05] Speaker 6: watching this podcast should be voting for Jane Kim. I mean,
[3:08] Speaker 6: she is completely... She makes Mamdani look reserved and conservative.
[3:13] Speaker 6: I mean, she's really, really crazy.
[3:15] Speaker 3: She.
[3:15] Speaker 6: who was out campaigning last week with her godfather, Bernie Sanders,
[3:19] Speaker 6: if that tells you anything. But this is where John
[3:22] Speaker 6: and I disagree, and we can get into it at
[3:26] Speaker 6: some other time at length. But Ben Allen is, when
[3:30] Speaker 6: you say a standard Democrat, he's a standard Gavin Newsom Democrat.
[3:34] Speaker 6: During his almost 12 years in the California State Senate,
[3:37] Speaker 6: I actually spent two and a half hours chatting with
[3:40] Speaker 6: Grok in my Tesla, going over the record of Ben Allen.
[3:44] Speaker 6: And suffice it to say, He's extremely liberal. He has
[3:48] Speaker 6: championed all the climate change stuff, the higher gas taxes,
[3:52] Speaker 6: is a big champion of the high-speed rail, waste boondock,
[3:55] Speaker 6: all the stuff that.
[3:56] Speaker 4: Gavin Newsom does, he does.
[3:58] Speaker 6: And so for me, my position is I can't in
[4:02] Speaker 6: good conscience vote for either one of them because of that.
[4:05] Speaker 6: But I am going to turn it over to the
[4:07] Speaker 6: Angels fan so that he can explain to you why
[4:11] Speaker 6: the rat poison is actually better to drink than the
[4:13] Speaker 6: battery acid.
[4:14] Speaker 4: So you guys, How's that for framing, John?
[4:17] Speaker 2: Okay, on this one, I am a single-issue voter. If
[4:21] Speaker 2: Jane Kim were to be elected, she said her priority
[4:25] Speaker 2: is to make it so that you buy your insurance
[4:27] Speaker 2: through the state of California. I don't want to buy
[4:31] Speaker 2: my insurance through the state of California. I have State Farm.
[4:35] Speaker 2: They're not great, but they're not the state of California.
[4:40] Speaker 2: If I bought my insurance through the state of California,
[4:43] Speaker 2: it would be like dealing with EDD. which doesn't answer
[4:46] Speaker 2: the phone, doesn't answer emails, sends billions of dollars to criminals.
[4:52] Speaker 2: People who are supposed to get money from EDD can't
[4:55] Speaker 2: get it because the criminals are taking all of it.
[4:58] Speaker 5: And you know, you know.
[5:00] Speaker 2: If the state of California was in the insurance business,
[5:03] Speaker 2: it would be run like EDD. I have no interest
[5:08] Speaker 2: in that. And I'd also add this. If those two
[5:12] Speaker 2: were running for, let's say, the state assembly in my district,
[5:16] Speaker 2: or Congress, or mayor, or whatever, then I'd probably leave
[5:21] Speaker 2: it blank because neither one of them are any good.
[5:24] Speaker 2: They don't see the world the same way I do.
[5:27] Speaker 2: But because they're running for insurance commissioner for this specific office,
[5:33] Speaker 2: the fact that he would block her and other Democrats
[5:37] Speaker 2: from creating a new state agency, which I also have
[5:40] Speaker 2: no interest in, to sell me insurance... That's enough to
[5:46] Speaker 2: earn my vote.
[5:48] Speaker 6: Well, I'll take the final point here. I'll simply say this,
[5:52] Speaker 6: that if he is elected, which I guess John is
[5:54] Speaker 6: hoping he gets elected, I'm looking forward to teasing everyone
[6:01] Speaker 6: who has the don't blame me, I voted for Ben
[6:03] Speaker 6: Allen t-shirts on, and they're all set. He's going to
[6:07] Speaker 6: make sure you get a discount. He's the guy who
[6:09] Speaker 6: authored plastic bag bans, styrofoam bans, Right. So I'm sure
[6:14] Speaker 6: you're going to get a discount on your insurance as
[6:15] Speaker 6: long as you're green. So but anyway, to sum it
[6:20] Speaker 6: all up, John says in this case, there's somebody so
[6:23] Speaker 6: evil on the ballot that bad is better than evil.
[6:27] Speaker 6: And my position is a pox on both of their houses.
[6:31] Speaker 6: I have a floor below which I will not go.
[6:34] Speaker 6: And I could not cast a ballot for either of
[6:36] Speaker 6: these people. You at home are going to have to
[6:38] Speaker 6: make a decision. And good luck to you in that decision.
[6:41] Speaker 6: It's very deep. If something wasn't more personal than this,
[6:45] Speaker 6: I don't know what is. So John and I are
[6:47] Speaker 6: telling you what we would do and fully respect you
[6:50] Speaker 6: doing what you think you should do.
[6:53] Speaker 5: All right.
[6:54] Speaker 2: Let's move on to state superintendent of public instruction. This
[6:58] Speaker 2: is a nonpartisan race, but it's a Democrat versus a Republican.
[7:02] Speaker 5: Yeah.
[7:03] Speaker 6: So in this case, you've got Sonia Shah, who is
[7:06] Speaker 6: on the Chino Valley Unified School program.
[7:08] Speaker 4: District board.
[7:09] Speaker 6: I think she's the president right now. And she has
[7:11] Speaker 6: been a leader in fighting against what Sacramento has been
[7:14] Speaker 6: trying to do to destroy public education, including fights on
[7:19] Speaker 6: issues like letting biological males participate in women's sports. But
[7:24] Speaker 6: I don't want to simplify her position to that. She
[7:27] Speaker 6: has been a full-throated and smart, articulated opponent to all
[7:32] Speaker 6: of the crap coming out of Sacramento, as opposed to
[7:35] Speaker 6: Richard Barrera who He's the president of the San Diego
[7:38] Speaker 6: Unified School District.
[7:39] Speaker 4: And this is very, very important for everybody to understand.
[7:42] Speaker 6: He was plucked out of nowhere and drafted by the
[7:47] Speaker 6: California Teachers Association, who spends inordinate amounts of money to
[7:51] Speaker 6: control this particular office for obvious reasons. The position itself
[7:55] Speaker 6: is not all powerful. In California, much of the laws
[7:58] Speaker 6: that govern the state actually drive the schools, not the superintendent.
[8:02] Speaker 6: It's a powerful bully pulpit office, though. And it is
[8:05] Speaker 6: one that should be occupied by somebody who is actually
[8:07] Speaker 6: concerned that as more and more money is being piled
[8:10] Speaker 6: into our public schools, the outputs, the level of education
[8:14] Speaker 6: that the kids are getting is getting worse and worse
[8:16] Speaker 6: and worse. And he literally, like, when you listen to debates,
[8:21] Speaker 6: all Barrera talks about is our teachers don't get paid enough.
[8:25] Speaker 6: Our teachers don't get paid enough. And no matter what
[8:27] Speaker 6: you ask him, the answer is our teachers don't get
[8:30] Speaker 6: paid enough.
[8:30] Speaker 4: He's literally a bitch.
[8:32] Speaker 6: For the California Teachers Association, running for this office so
[8:35] Speaker 6: that he will be not, his main lobbying will not
[8:38] Speaker 6: be to the people of California. He'll be in the
[8:40] Speaker 6: legislature calling for more pay and more compensation for the teachers.
[8:46] Speaker 5: All right.
[8:47] Speaker 2: We're moving on right now to the Board of Equalization,
[8:50] Speaker 2: which is a board that's supposed to give taxpayers a
[8:53] Speaker 2: fair shake when there's a tax dispute between them.
[8:56] Speaker 5: And the state.
[8:58] Speaker 2: Although the role of this board changed dramatically under the
[9:01] Speaker 2: rule of Jerry Brown when he was governor, who thought
[9:05] Speaker 2: that it was a pay-to-play board, and he neutered them
[9:08] Speaker 2: for much of their power.
[9:10] Speaker 5: There are four districts.
[9:11] Speaker 2: It used to be two districts were Republican safe seats,
[9:15] Speaker 2: two districts were Democratic safe seats, and that has also changed.
[9:20] Speaker 6: Right, and it's important to remember that the Board of
[9:22] Speaker 6: Equalization has a fifth member, the state comptroller. is a
[9:26] Speaker 6: member of the Board of Equalization. And that's how the Democrats,
[9:29] Speaker 6: even when we had two Republicans to two Democrats in
[9:31] Speaker 6: these four elected posts, they still had a majority on
[9:34] Speaker 6: the Board of Equalization. So there's four districts. And so
[9:38] Speaker 6: you'll have to look on your ballot to see where
[9:41] Speaker 6: you live. But basically to run through this pretty quick,
[9:46] Speaker 6: the largest district that kind of geographically that runs up
[9:48] Speaker 6: the Central Valley and covers the whole north part of
[9:51] Speaker 6: the state up through Sacramento and all the way up
[9:53] Speaker 6: That's District 1 where Ted Gaines, who's been serving for
[9:56] Speaker 6: eight years, is term-limited out.
[9:58] Speaker 4: It's the one safe.
[10:00] Speaker 6: Republican seat. Shannon Grove, a state senator from Bakersfield who
[10:04] Speaker 6: is a friend of the pod, as we would say.
[10:06] Speaker 6: She's a strong conservative voice. She'll do an outstanding job
[10:11] Speaker 6: on the board. She's running against a Fresno council member
[10:14] Speaker 6: by the name of Nathan Esparza. who's just right out
[10:18] Speaker 6: of central casting from the Democrat, you know, you know, you.
[10:23] Speaker 4: Know, playbook.
[10:24] Speaker 6: So Shannon Grove would be your vote there. I'm going
[10:27] Speaker 6: to run through these unless you want to.
[10:28] Speaker 5: Yeah, go right through them.
[10:29] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[10:29] Speaker 6: And then we have Board of Equalization District two. This
[10:32] Speaker 6: is the district that is like San Francisco Bay Area dominated.
[10:38] Speaker 6: Sally Lieber is an incumbent member. She, of course, previous
[10:41] Speaker 6: to that was the speaker pro tem of the state assembly.
[10:45] Speaker 6: Unlike a lot of these Bay Area Democrats, she has
[10:47] Speaker 6: not served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, but
[10:51] Speaker 6: she could have. She's very liberal, very terrible. Her favorite
[10:56] Speaker 6: causes in the legislature were environmental issues and going after
[11:00] Speaker 6: anyone who wants to own a handgun. So unfortunately, this
[11:06] Speaker 6: is one of those races where the other candidate, it's
[11:08] Speaker 6: such a Democrat seat that the other candidate, John Pimentel,
[11:13] Speaker 6: out of San Mateo is also a Democrat and is
[11:16] Speaker 6: also very liberal. And also, you know, if you like,
[11:20] Speaker 6: if you hear them debate, they don't really debate the
[11:22] Speaker 6: issues as much. So this is another one of those
[11:25] Speaker 6: seats where I wouldn't, if I lived there, I couldn't
[11:27] Speaker 6: vote for either one of them. You know, we'll talk
[11:30] Speaker 6: about the mayor's race. You could argue that somebody is
[11:33] Speaker 6: an incumbent is doing a bad job. You may as
[11:35] Speaker 6: well at least do a mulligan and see what the
[11:36] Speaker 6: other person does, which is an argument that some people
[11:39] Speaker 6: will use for Karen Bass in L.A. Um, uh, I mean,
[11:42] Speaker 6: sorry for Nithya Raman in LA. So, uh, there's no
[11:45] Speaker 6: recommendation out of me for that seat. District three is
[11:49] Speaker 6: the Los Angeles dominated seat. That's where you get assembly member,
[11:53] Speaker 6: Mike Gibson, who has termed out after eight years.
[11:57] Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
[11:57] Speaker 5: Yeah.
[11:58] Speaker 6: He's either termed out or he he's about to term out, um, uh,
[12:03] Speaker 6: his professional occupation before he went into the legislature, uh,
[12:07] Speaker 6: was a union community organizers for the teachers union in
[12:10] Speaker 6: Los Angeles. So like literally that's where he comes from. Um,
[12:15] Speaker 6: and so, and he's, uh, so, so, you know, I
[12:18] Speaker 6: wish I could tell you that he had a robust
[12:22] Speaker 6: opponent who sees the world the way, uh, Randy, John
[12:25] Speaker 6: and I do, but instead we've got Sam Suketan. I'm
[12:29] Speaker 6: hopefully pronouncing his name, right? Another Democrat who get this,
[12:33] Speaker 6: He's a labor organizer who's currently the lead organizer.
[12:36] Speaker 4: For the LA Community College Faculty Guild.
[12:40] Speaker 6: But under John's theory, he is associated with the Democratic
[12:44] Speaker 6: Socialists of America. And so under John's theory, you may
[12:49] Speaker 6: want to vote for Mike Gibson because he's a normal
[12:52] Speaker 6: labor Democrat as opposed to a DSA labor Democrat.
[12:56] Speaker 4: You let us know how that turns out, folks. And
[12:58] Speaker 4: then in.
[12:58] Speaker 6: District 4, this is the seat that used to be competitive.
[13:03] Speaker 6: It hasn't been competitive, but it could be. We'll see
[13:06] Speaker 6: what happens. You actually have a contrast here. So you've
[13:10] Speaker 6: got State Senator Tom Umberg, who is retiring, who styles
[13:14] Speaker 6: himself as moderate because he's a former prosecutor. But frankly,
[13:18] Speaker 6: if you look at his voting record in the California legislature,
[13:21] Speaker 6: which I have done, this is a very liberal Democrat
[13:25] Speaker 6: who periodically picked an issue to champion to make him
[13:28] Speaker 6: his perception in Orange.
[13:29] Speaker 4: He's from Orange County. that he's slightly adult supervision oriented,
[13:33] Speaker 4: but he's not.
[13:35] Speaker 6: His opponent is a city councilman from the city of Orange,
[13:38] Speaker 6: Dennis Bilodeau. Dennis is the head of the Orange Taxpayers Association.
[13:44] Speaker 6: And Dennis actually got in the high 40 percentile, I think,
[13:49] Speaker 6: or actually, you know, Dennis and the other Republican together
[13:52] Speaker 6: got like 47, 48 percent of the vote in this district.
[13:55] Speaker 6: So it is a winnable seat. We'll see what happens.
[13:58] Speaker 6: As usual, the list of special interests piling money. into
[14:02] Speaker 6: Tom Umberg is long, and the list of patriots giving
[14:05] Speaker 6: money to Dennis Bilodeau is short. But this is a
[14:09] Speaker 6: clear contrast race, so I recommend Dennis Bilodeau for your vote.
[14:14] Speaker 2: Whenever a whack job tries to say, oh, I'm moderate
[14:18] Speaker 2: because I used to be a prosecutor, I always remind people,
[14:22] Speaker 2: George Gascon used to be a prosecutor, Chesa Boudin used
[14:25] Speaker 2: to be a prosecutor, and Adam Schiff used to be
[14:28] Speaker 2: a prosecutor.
[14:29] Speaker 5: So take that for what it's worth. Right. All right.
[14:33] Speaker 2: Let's move on to the California Supreme Court justices that
[14:36] Speaker 2: are on the ballot. There are two who are seeking
[14:40] Speaker 2: to retain their status on the state's top court.
[14:44] Speaker 5: All right.
[14:45] Speaker 6: So you've got two Supreme Court justices up, Kelly Evans
[14:48] Speaker 6: and Josh Groban.
[14:50] Speaker 4: No relation. And although maybe he could sing, I don't know.
[14:56] Speaker 6: Anyways, both of these people have the distinction of being
[14:58] Speaker 6: appointed by Democrat governors. Kelly Evans is was appointed by
[15:02] Speaker 6: Gavin Newsom. Her career, long-time career, is with the ACLU,
[15:08] Speaker 6: if that tells you anything, before she became a judge,
[15:12] Speaker 6: probably appointed by Newsom or Brown. And now, obviously, she's
[15:15] Speaker 6: on the state Supreme Court. And she had a senior
[15:20] Speaker 6: legal position with Governor Newsom before she was appointed. So
[15:24] Speaker 6: he basically appointed his own legal advisor to the Supreme Court.
[15:28] Speaker 4: Go figure.
[15:29] Speaker 6: And then Joshua Groban is a Jerry Brown appointee. And again,
[15:33] Speaker 6: he was a senior advisor to Jerry Brown. So notice
[15:36] Speaker 6: the way that works. The people that are in the
[15:38] Speaker 6: governor's offices are then put onto the Supreme Court. So
[15:42] Speaker 6: I would recommend voting against both of them, but understand
[15:46] Speaker 6: what we're dealing with here, right? Because if either of
[15:48] Speaker 6: them fail to receive their confirmation vote, they are off
[15:51] Speaker 6: the court and the governor of the state appoints a
[15:56] Speaker 6: new one. So- The question is whether you want the
[15:59] Speaker 6: flavor of ice cream that is Newsom and Brown or
[16:02] Speaker 6: whether you'd like some Becerra judges. So there's no good
[16:06] Speaker 6: answer for the poor people here in California. But the
[16:08] Speaker 6: current Supreme Court is made up of six appointees of Democrats,
[16:12] Speaker 6: one Schwarzenegger appointee who votes an awful lot like a Democrat.
[16:16] Speaker 6: And so bad things come out of the Supreme Court
[16:20] Speaker 6: all the time.
[16:20] Speaker 4: It's really unfortunate. So that's where we are.
[16:23] Speaker 6: So I have no recommendations for either of those seats
[16:26] Speaker 6: because you're damned if you do.
[16:27] Speaker 4: You're damned if you don't.
[16:29] Speaker 5: All right.
[16:31] Speaker 2: Let's move to the Bay Area Regional Transit Measure, which
[16:35] Speaker 2: is a tax increase for public transit in the San
[16:38] Speaker 2: Francisco Bay Area. That is something that has been championed
[16:42] Speaker 2: by Scott Weiner, of all people, for quite some time.
[16:46] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[16:47] Speaker 6: So let me start this really quick by saying, hey,
[16:49] Speaker 6: there are a ton of tax increase measures, hundreds of them,
[16:53] Speaker 6: all around the state of California this November.
[16:56] Speaker 4: And you should be defaulting to voting no on all
[16:58] Speaker 4: of them.
[16:59] Speaker 6: I mean, as a practical matter, unless you think government
[17:02] Speaker 6: isn't big enough and doesn't spend enough, the only thing
[17:05] Speaker 6: that causes a state dominated by Democrats to exercise any
[17:09] Speaker 6: fiscal discipline is the potential that they run out of money,
[17:12] Speaker 6: which is why they keep coming back to you for.
[17:14] Speaker 4: More and more money.
[17:17] Speaker 6: So unless someone you trust has a compelling reason on
[17:20] Speaker 6: a particular local tax, that they think it's a good
[17:22] Speaker 6: idea and that's compelling to you, your default should simply
[17:25] Speaker 6: be to vote no on a tax. We're highlighting this
[17:28] Speaker 6: particular one because it's a massive tax that covers a
[17:32] Speaker 6: whole swath of the Bay Area, five big counties. It's
[17:36] Speaker 6: a 14-year sales tax to try to rescue the Bay
[17:40] Speaker 6: Area Rapid Transit, the Muni system, Caltrain, AC Transit, other
[17:44] Speaker 6: transit services. It's a 50 cent per $ 100 of taxable purchases.
[17:49] Speaker 6: Let me kind of very quickly explain what's going on here.
[17:52] Speaker 6: The Bay Area Rapid Transit District, the BART trains and
[17:55] Speaker 6: all that, this has been a Faustian deal between the
[17:58] Speaker 6: environmental wackos and the public employee unions. And so they
[18:02] Speaker 6: literally are overspending like nobody's business. They've invested in lots
[18:07] Speaker 6: of technology that does nothing to change planet-wide carbon emissions,
[18:11] Speaker 6: but costs vast sums of money. All the employees there,
[18:14] Speaker 6: it's bloated, it's huge. They don't reform anything. There are
[18:17] Speaker 6: no reforms contemplated with this ballot measure. Sometimes they're like, well,
[18:21] Speaker 6: if you're willing to impose a tax, we will make
[18:23] Speaker 6: the following reforms.
[18:25] Speaker 4: Nope. None of that is there.
[18:27] Speaker 6: And in case you live in the Bay Area, here
[18:29] Speaker 6: are the reality numbers for you. This is if you're
[18:32] Speaker 6: in Alameda County, your base tax rate goes up to 10.75%
[18:37] Speaker 6: on every sale. That's before any city taxes that are
[18:41] Speaker 6: added because each city can also add more sales taxes.
[18:45] Speaker 6: Contra Costa County would go up to 9.25%. San Francisco
[18:49] Speaker 6: would go to 9.62%. They get a full percentage point increase.
[18:54] Speaker 6: San Mateo, 9.875%. And Santa Clara, 10.25%. These are absurd
[19:01] Speaker 6: tax rates that are just awful in an age of affordability.
[19:05] Speaker 6: I think I could speak for Batman, Robin, and myself.
[19:09] Speaker 6: We all encourage you to vote no on this. which
[19:12] Speaker 6: will force reform from this god-awful district. And as John
[19:17] Speaker 6: said in the introduction to this section, Scott Wiener is
[19:21] Speaker 6: for it. And let me tell you, folks, if Wiener's
[19:24] Speaker 6: for it, we're against it.
[19:27] Speaker 4: All right.
[19:29] Speaker 3: So there you go. Those are some of the other
[19:31] Speaker 3: picks that you can see in the John Fleischman, John
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[23:21] Speaker 3: at 7 o'clock Pacific.
[23:23] Speaker 2: And right now it's time to open up the California
[23:26] Speaker 2: Crime Blotter.
[23:28] Speaker 1: It's happened yet again. I see. Time for the California
[23:35] Speaker 1: Crime Blotter.
[23:36] Speaker 5: And the first edition takes us to Eagle Rock.
[23:40] Speaker 3: Someone got a bunch of fancy handbags stolen. For more,
[23:45] Speaker 3: here's ABC 7 Eyewitness News.
[23:50] Speaker 7: An Eagle Rock says thieves broke into her home and
[23:52] Speaker 7: stole hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of designer handbags.
[23:56] Speaker 7: But she says some of the most valuable things can't
[23:58] Speaker 7: even be replaced with money. Eyewitness News reporter Abigail Velez
[24:02] Speaker 7: live in Eagle Rock with how this happened.
[24:05] Speaker 3: Birkin bag burglary. Now there's some alliteration for you.
[24:09] Speaker 5: We might need Mark Brown for this one. You know what?
[24:11] Speaker 3: We haven't played that in so long. Do I have
[24:14] Speaker 3: that on the computer easily accessible here? I bet you
[24:17] Speaker 3: I do. I think I have a page that's like newscasters,
[24:21] Speaker 3: news people. And then I go to Mark Brown.
[24:24] Speaker 8: Naked and unafraid and just a feet away from the
[24:27] Speaker 8: Beverly Hills border as the tents go up, the clothes
[24:30] Speaker 8: come off, and now outraged locals are fighting back against
[24:33] Speaker 8: the nudity, narcotics, and negative impact on their businesses.
[24:38] Speaker 3: That's how you do it.
[24:43] Speaker 9: Well, Rachel, this woman says that she spent 20 years
[24:46] Speaker 9: collecting designer handbags, and in just one afternoon, she says
[24:50] Speaker 9: that most of them were gone. We're talking about Hermes
[24:53] Speaker 9: Birkin bags, some of the most expensive handbags in the world.
[24:57] Speaker 3: You know how I know I'm not a snoot? I
[24:59] Speaker 3: didn't know it was pronounced Hermes. I thought it was Hermes.
[25:05] Speaker 2: I don't understand the impulse to spend insane amounts of
[25:09] Speaker 2: money on a handbag.
[25:11] Speaker 4: Vanity.
[25:12] Speaker 3: And as you can see by John's white t-shirt, he
[25:15] Speaker 3: has none. Very humble man.
[25:19] Speaker 9: She says that she had an in-depth security system, including
[25:22] Speaker 9: reinforced windows, even a lock on her closet where she
[25:25] Speaker 9: kept these bags, and still somehow thieves were able to
[25:28] Speaker 9: make their way inside. Take a look at your screen.
[25:30] Speaker 9: This is what this woman was left with. You can
[25:33] Speaker 9: see shattered glass and a broken closet door where Patricia
[25:36] Speaker 9: Vanya once kept her prized collection. She says it was
[25:40] Speaker 9: Monday afternoon when someone broke into her Eagle Rock home.
[25:43] Speaker 9: Her husband had left the house just 15 minutes earlier.
[25:46] Speaker 3: Now, here's my question, because this is a very specific crime,
[25:50] Speaker 3: and I don't know how exactly you case a joint
[25:53] Speaker 3: to find out that a random person has a bunch
[25:56] Speaker 3: of Hermes handbags. So, Johnny, do you think that this
[25:59] Speaker 3: is a completely random burglary, or is this a no-good relative?
[26:06] Speaker 2: No, this is someone who knows her for sure. And
[26:09] Speaker 2: by the way, why is it that in a woman's closet,
[26:12] Speaker 2: there's a bunch of men's suits in there? Do you
[26:15] Speaker 2: think it's Paula Poundstone? I think that was a woman's suit.
[26:20] Speaker 2: You could see the shoulder pads.
[26:22] Speaker 9: She believes the thieves avoided the ring camera out front,
[26:25] Speaker 9: came in through the side of the house, and went
[26:27] Speaker 9: straight for her bedroom closet. Inside were over a dozen
[26:31] Speaker 9: Birkin bags worth an estimated $ 250, 000 to $ 300, 000.
[26:33] Speaker 3: I wonder how many of them are already on Facebook
[26:37] Speaker 3: Marketplace or eBay.
[26:39] Speaker 5: Oh, they've already been sold.
[26:42] Speaker 9: Patricia says that she started collecting them two decades ago
[26:44] Speaker 9: and considered them part of her retirement savings. Well, now
[26:48] Speaker 9: she's warning other homeowners that.
[26:49] Speaker 3: That's not any dumber than people that invest in Pokemon cards.
[26:53] Speaker 9: Even expensive security measures may not be enough.
[26:59] Speaker 7: They were strategic enough to avoid the ring camera in
[27:02] Speaker 7: the front, so they came through the side.
[27:04] Speaker 6: So they knew exactly what they were doing.
[27:06] Speaker 1: You know, I told my husband.
[27:08] Speaker 3: Are any of their relatives or friends currently addicted to
[27:12] Speaker 3: any kind of psychotropic drugs? All I'm saying is this
[27:18] Speaker 3: is a very specific crime. And sometimes when you have
[27:21] Speaker 3: an addict in your circle and they are starting to
[27:24] Speaker 3: run out of money, they will rob you.
[27:26] Speaker 2: I think I told you one time I had my
[27:31] Speaker 2: wisdom teeth out and I was given some Vicodin, I
[27:36] Speaker 2: think like 10 pills, Vicodin pills to take home with me.
[27:41] Speaker 2: And I tried one and it just knocked me out
[27:44] Speaker 2: for a day. And that was no fun. So I
[27:47] Speaker 2: switched to Advil almost immediately. And so I had this
[27:51] Speaker 2: bottle of Vicodin that was in my medicine cabinet that
[27:55] Speaker 2: was there for a very long time. When I moved
[27:58] Speaker 2: from that particular location, I noticed that the bottle was
[28:03] Speaker 2: still in there, but it was completely empty. So someone
[28:07] Speaker 2: who came to my house, who did not break in,
[28:11] Speaker 2: I mean, there was never any sign of forced entry,
[28:14] Speaker 2: stole all the Vicodin out of the bottle and left
[28:18] Speaker 2: the empty bottle there.
[28:23] Speaker 3: Maybe on tomorrow's show, we'll put up a poll. When
[28:25] Speaker 3: you go to a friend's house, do you check their
[28:27] Speaker 3: medicine cabinet for goodies?
[28:29] Speaker 2: Somebody did at my house and boy, when they hit
[28:33] Speaker 2: the pinata, candy came out.
[28:35] Speaker 3: I'm going to try to be as generic as I
[28:37] Speaker 3: can because I don't want to incriminate anybody. But let's
[28:41] Speaker 3: just say that I am aware of an instance where
[28:43] Speaker 3: There was somebody who was very addicted to certain drugs,
[28:48] Speaker 3: and they were trying to figure out a way to
[28:50] Speaker 3: pay for this habit. And so they went to a
[28:54] Speaker 3: friend's house, and when the friend was in the bathroom,
[28:58] Speaker 3: they tried stealing some of their very expensive vintage wine bottles. Johnny,
[29:05] Speaker 3: you know who I'm talking about, and you're not going
[29:07] Speaker 3: to say it, right?
[29:08] Speaker 2: I know who the victim of this crime is, and
[29:11] Speaker 2: I know who did it.
[29:13] Speaker 3: That's as specific as we're going to get, but it's
[29:16] Speaker 3: quite a story.
[29:19] Speaker 6: I was like, can we just move? Can we just move?
[29:22] Speaker 2: I mean, that's really how I felt.
[29:23] Speaker 7: I was like, let's just get.
[29:24] Speaker 5: Out of here.
[29:25] Speaker 3: That's how I feel when I see a coyote in
[29:27] Speaker 3: my neighborhood. If I got robbed, I'd say it a
[29:29] Speaker 3: lot louder.
[29:29] Speaker 1: There's been a lot of burglaries in Eagle Rock, and
[29:35] Speaker 1: I feel like.
[29:36] Speaker 3: By the way, if you're confused as to who runs
[29:39] Speaker 3: Eagle Rock, that is the territory of DSA Isabel Jurado.
[29:47] Speaker 7: Just nothing gets done.
[29:51] Speaker 9: Patricia says the thieves also stole watches and a jewelry
[29:54] Speaker 9: box that held her daughter's baby teeth. That's what she
[29:57] Speaker 9: says hurts the most.
[29:58] Speaker 5: Okay.
[30:00] Speaker 3: I understand stealing the handbags. Who's buying baby teeth on eBay?
[30:06] Speaker 5: That's just weird.
[30:08] Speaker 9: Hearing about other high-profile robberies across the L.A. area, she
[30:11] Speaker 9: says that this has left her questioning whether she even
[30:14] Speaker 9: wants to stay in her own home. Now, we reached
[30:17] Speaker 9: out to LAPD for more information.
[30:18] Speaker 3: You know, if you live in Eagle Rock and you
[30:21] Speaker 3: kind of like that general area, you're not far away
[30:25] Speaker 3: from Glendale. You're not far away from Burbank or Pasadena,
[30:30] Speaker 3: cities where this kind of stuff happens way less frequently
[30:35] Speaker 3: because those elected bodies actually care about their people.
[30:40] Speaker 5: Or at least they used to.
[30:42] Speaker 9: We're still waiting to hear back. But for now, she
[30:44] Speaker 9: says that she's just grateful that her family wasn't home
[30:47] Speaker 9: when this all happened. And she's grateful, of course, for
[30:49] Speaker 9: her safety, but worries if she can ever feel comfortable
[30:52] Speaker 9: at home again. For now, reporting live in Eagle Rock,
[30:55] Speaker 9: Abigail Velez, ABC7 Eyewitness News.
[30:58] Speaker 3: So there you go. The woman in Eagle Rock that
[31:00] Speaker 3: got a bunch of her fancy handbags stolen. I'm convinced
[31:04] Speaker 3: this is an inside job. And so far, everyone who's
[31:07] Speaker 3: trying to make guesses of my story in the chat,
[31:09] Speaker 3: you're wrong. And I'm not going to confirm or deny
[31:13] Speaker 3: even if you get it right.
[31:14] Speaker 5: Yeah.
[31:17] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[31:17] Speaker 2: I don't understand the fancy, expensive handbags. I don't understand
[31:21] Speaker 2: the fancy, expensive watches. I don't understand fancy, expensive jewelry
[31:27] Speaker 2: of any kind. It seems like, especially in modern day California,
[31:32] Speaker 2: if you wear that stuff or you have that visible
[31:36] Speaker 2: on you, you're going to make yourself a target for criminals.
[31:40] Speaker 3: Sure seems like it. If you want to wear fancy
[31:43] Speaker 3: jewelry and fancy handbags, come to Santa Fe. It's safe here.
[31:48] Speaker 2: All right, Randy, it's time to reopen the California crime blotter.
[31:52] Speaker 4: It's happened yet again.
[31:54] Speaker 5: It's wild, wild west out here.
[31:57] Speaker 1: It's the California crime blotter with John and Randy.
[32:04] Speaker 2: And Randy, this edition involves a fake heiress.
[32:07] Speaker 3: This is a insane story if I've ever heard one.
[32:12] Speaker 3: But the FBI has published a new list of their
[32:16] Speaker 3: most wanted fraudsters. You know, typically your most wanted is
[32:20] Speaker 3: fugitives and murderers, what have you. Now they've got a
[32:24] Speaker 3: most wanted fraudster. And let's just say there's a woman
[32:28] Speaker 3: with a California connection who has been pulling quite the
[32:32] Speaker 3: unique scam. And at least until this point, getting away
[32:35] Speaker 3: with it. I'm just going to tell you right now,
[32:39] Speaker 3: you're not going to believe this story. Here is CBS LA.
[32:45] Speaker 9: 75-year-old woman with ties to LA has been added to
[32:48] Speaker 9: the FBI's most wanted fraudsters list.
[32:51] Speaker 7: And CBS LA assignment editor Mike Rogers at the desk now.
[32:54] Speaker 9: Mike, the feds accused this woman of pretending to be
[32:58] Speaker 9: an heiress.
[32:58] Speaker 5: Apparently you can go to the bank.
[33:28] Speaker 3: And if you have the same last name as a
[33:30] Speaker 3: rich family, they'll write you a check?
[33:33] Speaker 2: Okay, so what am I supposed to do? Go to
[33:36] Speaker 2: a bank and go, hey, I know on paper it
[33:40] Speaker 2: looks like I'm a deadbeat, but I think you should
[33:44] Speaker 2: loan me $ 100 million because I'm related to the mamas
[33:49] Speaker 2: and the papas.
[33:51] Speaker 5: All that music money, that's me.
[33:55] Speaker 3: Maybe I should go to the bank and say that
[33:57] Speaker 3: I'm Vera Wang's nephew.
[34:02] Speaker 10: The ones obviously that had the major aircraft manufacturer for
[34:05] Speaker 10: so long before it got purchased out by Boeing. Now,
[34:07] Speaker 10: according to the feds, she went to Bank of California
[34:10] Speaker 10: and got them to give her nearly $ 14. 9 million, saying
[34:14] Speaker 10: that she had $ 80 million in an account that she
[34:17] Speaker 10: would soon come into to be able to pay all
[34:19] Speaker 10: of the money back.
[34:21] Speaker 3: Boy, I didn't realize the banks operate this way with
[34:24] Speaker 3: the glitterati or the fake glitterati.
[34:27] Speaker 2: Someone in the chat room just said Phillips Petroleum. I
[34:31] Speaker 2: actually do know the person who is the heir to
[34:34] Speaker 2: the Phillips 66 fortune, and his name is John. So
[34:38] Speaker 2: I guess I could impersonate him, but then I'm doing
[34:41] Speaker 2: bad things to someone I know.
[34:43] Speaker 10: And you'll get on this list and say she is
[34:45] Speaker 10: not a McDonald heiress at all, does not have $ 80 million.
[34:48] Speaker 10: And in fact, after she fraudulently gained to that 14.9,
[34:53] Speaker 10: according to the feds, she then went to other banks
[34:55] Speaker 10: and gained $ 15 million more.
[34:58] Speaker 3: How the heck do banks just give away money like this?
[35:03] Speaker 2: People think that banks exist to say no to you
[35:07] Speaker 2: when the opposite is true. Banks love to loan money
[35:11] Speaker 2: because they don't make money unless they loan money. And
[35:15] Speaker 2: they're willing to twist themselves into pretzels to justify giving
[35:19] Speaker 2: money to people that they have no business giving money to.
[35:22] Speaker 2: It's like all those homeowners in Corona before the 2008
[35:26] Speaker 2: market crash. I'm guessing that it wasn't just one person
[35:32] Speaker 2: who said yes to her. I'm guessing it went up
[35:34] Speaker 2: the food chain and they all said yes.
[35:38] Speaker 10: Obviously, she's got a wealth of money now that she
[35:40] Speaker 10: has illegally obtained, according to the federal government. She is
[35:42] Speaker 10: known to have ties here in L.A., but they believe
[35:45] Speaker 10: now she may be hiding out in Dubai.
[35:50] Speaker 5: Of course, with all the other heiresses.
[35:53] Speaker 3: Well, and she can live pretty high on the hog
[35:56] Speaker 3: for the rest of her life on that $ 30 million
[35:58] Speaker 3: in Dubai.
[36:01] Speaker 10: They're trying to put her flyer out there again tonight,
[36:03] Speaker 10: Pat and Rudy Bay, hoping that somebody will recognize her,
[36:06] Speaker 10: know where she is and turn it over. There is
[36:08] Speaker 10: a $ 150, 000 reward for information leading.
[36:12] Speaker 5: To her arrest.
[36:13] Speaker 3: She could probably double that offer to keep her secret.
[36:16] Speaker 5: She's never coming home. Of course not. Why would you?
[36:21] Speaker 8: All right.
[36:23] Speaker 5: Very bizarre. Thank you so much, Mike.
[36:26] Speaker 3: So there you go. A woman pretending to be the
[36:30] Speaker 3: heiress to the McDonnell Douglas fortune went to several banks
[36:35] Speaker 3: up and down the state of California and was given
[36:38] Speaker 3: $ 30 million. Now, of course, the FBI wants to go
[36:43] Speaker 3: after her. My question to you, Johnny, is do you
[36:46] Speaker 3: think anybody at those banks got fired?
[36:49] Speaker 1: No.
[36:50] Speaker 2: Nobody in the bank got fired. They just wrote it
[36:53] Speaker 2: off as a loss. And here's another prediction. If she
[36:56] Speaker 2: actually is in the Middle East... They said she was
[36:59] Speaker 2: in what, Dubai?
[37:00] Speaker 5: That's what they said. Okay.
[37:02] Speaker 2: How much do you want to bet she's reinvented herself
[37:05] Speaker 2: already because you can't stick with the McDonnell Douglas lie
[37:09] Speaker 2: over there because people talk and eventually word would get
[37:13] Speaker 2: back to the feds that you were living in Dubai
[37:16] Speaker 2: in a certain building and they would come arrest you.
[37:20] Speaker 2: So my guess is she went over there and created
[37:24] Speaker 2: a new identity for herself And the people of Dubai
[37:28] Speaker 2: know her as the heiress to Welch's grape juice or something.
[37:34] Speaker 3: And then when they catch on to that, she'll get
[37:35] Speaker 3: more facial reconstruction surgery, move to another country and be
[37:39] Speaker 3: yet another heiress because apparently it's worked out well for her.
[37:43] Speaker 2: Well, unless she's totally reckless with her money, I don't
[37:46] Speaker 2: think she needs to steal anymore, does she?
[37:49] Speaker 3: If you've got $ 70 million and you still got to
[37:52] Speaker 3: keep this going, you're addicted to the thrill of it,
[37:55] Speaker 3: not the money.
[37:57] Speaker 2: She's probably going to marry some rich Arab over there,
[38:01] Speaker 2: convincing them that she's got just as much money as them.
[38:05] Speaker 2: They'll probably kick the bucket before her, and she'll inherit
[38:08] Speaker 2: a bunch more money.
[38:10] Speaker 3: She'll go from a fake heiress to a real heiress.
[38:13] Speaker 2: I think it's entirely possible. Because rich always marries rich.
[38:18] Speaker 2: Rich never marries poor. So she's going to find some
[38:21] Speaker 2: rich guy over there, some mark, some sucker, and she's
[38:25] Speaker 2: going to expand her empire.
[38:27] Speaker 3: Occasionally rich marries poor, but that was Anna Nicole Smith,
[38:31] Speaker 3: and that was a weird one.
[38:32] Speaker 2: Yeah, well, he married her for two reasons.
[38:36] Speaker 5: I'll let you guess what they are.

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