WOW: Republicans suffer RARE BAD NEWS in deep red state

So, we've got a rare strategic win here. in a very unlikely state, the state of. Nebraska. So, here's what just happened. There are two top candidates vying for. the Democratic nomination in Nebraska. One is a guy named William Forbes. Forbes is an anti-abortion candidate who. voted for Donald Trump and attended. conservative candidate trainings. So, if. it sounds like he is a plant intended to. ultimately boost incumbent Republican. Senator Pete Ricketts chances, that. sounds about right. But the other. candidate is a woman named Cindy.

Burbank. She's a pharmacy technician and. a community college instructor from. Omaha. But Cindy's race is very. interesting because she's indicated that. she would drop out of the general. election to allow independent candidate. Dan Osborne a head-to-head race against. Pete Rickettts. And the numbers would. suggest that that is a very good idea. because according to a brand new poll, if Democrat Cindy Burbank ran against. Pete Rickettts, she trails him 49 to 38. But if independent Dan Osborne ran. against Pete Rickettts, he actually.

leads the Republican 46 to 42. So that. would suggest that it would be very. beneficial to have Dan Osborne run. against Pete Rickettts. However, that. can only happen if Cindy Burbank is able. to defeat this Republican plant, William. Forbes. So the good news, Tuesday night, that is exactly what happened. Cindy. Burbank won the Democratic nomination. with more than 90% of the vote, meaning. she's the Democratic nominee, and she's. widely expected now to immediately step. down so that the Democratic voters and.

independent voters in Nebraska can all. consolidate behind one candidate who is. not a Republican, and that's Dan. Osborne. So, right now we have basically. the ideal situation playing out in. Nebraska where polling suggests that the. guy who now has a glide path among. Democrats and independents would win if. the race were held today. But there's. even better news here, and that is the. fact that Nebraska isn't even the best. prospect for Democrats in the Senate. Maine, North Carolina, and Alaska all. have Democratic candidates who are.

polling ahead of the Republican. incumbents, better than even Dan. Osborne's polling shows. and then. Democrats would only need one of the. following states: Iowa, Ohio, Nebraska, and Texas. Which is to say, it is. certainly possible that Democrats take. the Senate come midterms. Now comes the. buzzkill part. The notion that. Republicans will sit idly by while this. happens is effectively zero. This is a. Republican party that waited 60. years to gut the Voting Rights Act, and. it took them one day to start.

eliminating virtually all black. representation when it was struck down. a Republican party that is sitting by. and watching as Trump signs executive. orders, revoking mail-in voting and. trying to gut the voter roles and. sending his henchmen to take ballots. from past elections. The guy incited a. insurrection, pardoned everyone. involved, and the rest of his party. can't even bring themselves to say that. he lost the 2020 election. They are. fundamentally anti-democracy. They will. continue to attack voting rights, continue to close precincts and majority. minority districts. They'll kick people.

off the rolls who are eligible to vote. They'll send masked ICE agents uh to the. polls to to scare people. They will do. whatever they possibly can because they. know that if they control Congress gives. them a lot of power to allow Trump to. continue consolidating power for himself. and acting corruptly with impunity. And. it allows the Republicans to have a leg. up to interfere in the upcoming general. election in 2028. And I know that it. feels hopeless to hear everything that. we're up against, but in fact, it should.

inspire you because while the window is. closing, it's not closed yet. Meaning, we have a chance. We can take control of. the entirety of Congress come November. We can see some accountability for the. first time in years, and we're close to. seeing it happen. So, that means that we. work from now until November. Donate. where you can, knock doors, and canvas. where you can. Make sure that your. circles of people are engaged and. registered and have a plan to vote. that. you're speaking uh out about this stuff. in your digital spaces and your. professional spaces and your personal. spaces. Trump and Republicans would not.

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because of the way that he's been able. to kind of game the media uh garner. attention, be politically incorrect. Can. you speak about your reaction to Spencer. Pratt's rise in this race and what do. you attribute it to? >> Uh sure. Well, I attribute it to social. media and uh all of the artificial. intelligence that has gone in. I mean, I. think he has done a blitzkrieg on social. media, but I also attribute it to him. tapping into the anger that we see going. on nationally. Of course, tapping into.

the his own personal anger and the. tragedy of the Palisades. I absolutely. do not want to minimize that. But. obviously his anger about the Palisades. has gone national because I think he's. tapping into national anger and. frustration with politics period. And I. think it's sad because when those kind. of things happen, it discourages people. from participating, from believing in. their government uh and also from.

voting. Well, you know, Spencer has been. very outspoken about this idea that you. and California Democrats, current. leadership, are responsible uh basically. for the tragedy that that befell him. And so, what would your reaction to that. be? Well, you know what I have felt. about uh Spencer all along because I've. watched this very closely in the. Palisades is I understand obviously his. personal tragedy and all of that, but I. think that it is really really sad to. play on people's grief and to create an.

atmosphere of nothing is happening and. hostility. There were absolutely. mistakes. uh the city uh really was not. prepared for uh a disaster of that. magnitude with a weather event that we. had never experienced before. And so. hindsight is is everything. But this. also was not just the city of Los. Angeles, the county as well. And when I. talked to the uh fire department. afterwards, uh their response was, "We.

are very used to Santa Ana winds, but we. have never had anything like this." Uh. and so I think that the the lesson uh. for me and for Angelinos is is that now. given climate change, we have to expect. things. I mean, I'm born and raised. here. So this is the climate I know. And. we now have to expect things that we. would have never imagined. But that's. just one. I mean, I can go down a list. of of problems that happened. But uh but.

it's time to help inspire people to get. back home. and we've issued over 2600. permits for about,00 properties. 400. homes are currently under construction. now and people are slowly uh preparing. to move back home. you know, in terms of. the list of issues in Los Angeles, um, is it is it not fair to say that that is. a referendum on on in part the fact that. you have been mayor for the last several.

years? And so when somebody like Spencer. Pratt comes forward and taps into the. anger that people might feel about the. issues that are presenting themselves in. Los Angeles, how would you respond to. people saying, "Well, this is a. referendum on you." Well, I mean, I can. understand people saying that, but I. also think that Angelinos in general. will look at the overall progress that. has happened in my administration. The. first time we've had a reduction of. homelessness, period, 17.5% while it's.

going up nationally. Crime that is down. to 1960 levels. 42,000 homes that um are. are been fasttracked. uh with for affordable housing. Uh. 43,000. that are potential with adaptive reuse, a policy I made now citywide, which. means you can change office buildings. into housing. So I think that there have. been tremendous accomplishments. But you.

know uh pretty well I am sure is that a. lot of the problems that we face in Los. Angeles are 30 40 year old problems. So. if the charge is is that in three and a. half years I've not changed 30 to 40year. uh problems that's correct but we have. made headway in some very significant. ways and I would hate to leave now. before I am able to finish my job. and. um and there's a lot of of areas where I. think we have made a difference are.

definitely put the policies in place to. make a difference and now it's a. question of pushing them and uh. evaluating them along the way. >> Okay. So I want to dig into a few of. those issues and these are the same. issues that I spoke with Nitia Ramen a. couple of days ago about um and those. issues are homelessness, housing and. Hollywood. So in terms of in in terms of. homelessness. >> Yeah, that's right. In terms of. homelessness here, um you said that. there has been a 17% reduction. I think. uh Nitia Ramen mentioned that the the.

spending um in the last year has been, if I'm not mistaken, $700 million on. homelessness. Is that correct? >> Yeah. Yeah. More or less. That that's. correct. That is not different than. previous years. >> And and how many people has that. impacted? How many people were were. taken off the street off of that $700. million? Well, there's thousands of. people that were taken off the street, but let me just say that there are. 46,000 people that are unhoused within. our city. And so, uh, do we have the.

resources to clear all of those, uh, individuals and put them into housing? You know, New York City made a different. decision about 20 years ago, which is. why they don't have the level of street. homelessness that that we do. Uh our. decision here was we were going to build. housing and until we built housing we. were going to leave people on the. street. So we could have removed far. more people than that. But uh I have. been in battle again with a system that.

has been in existence for over 30 years. that has been dysfunctional from day. one. And uh my mission in coming in was. to get people off the streets. That was. my mission. That was my focus. I didn't. want to spend a year studying the. system. I wanted to act while looking at. it at the same time building the plane. while flying it. But uh but we have much. much more work to do. But again, this is. a system that has been dysfunctional for.

a very very long time. >> And so what does the next four years. look like recognizing that you've got. you've got one term under your belt. already. >> And and the reason that I asked this. more broadly is, you know, If we've spent $700 million to tackle. homelessness in just the last year, and. yes, thousands of people have been taken. off the streets and and that is. objectively a good thing. But if you. look at the amount of money that's spent. per per person, I mean, that's that's. what upsets people, I think, in large. part when you look at when when when you.

when you divide the total number of. spending by the amount of people who've. been who've been impacted here. And so, what does what does success look like. over the next four years if you're. reelected? What is the the plan to take. it from 17% to a a 50 or 100% reduction? >> Right. Right. Right. Well, first of all, you know, we started coming up with. models to reduce the costs uh of of. housing and to reduce the cost of. interim housing and we have been moving.

forward with that. We need to catapult. that. The other thing is is that you. know we're in this situation with the. county right now and that needs to be. resolved. But what I have found is is. that it is easy to get people off the. street. When we get them off the street, we turn them over to a community-based. organization, but they're not provided. with adequate services. So, when you ask. me, what does it look like in a second. term? Now, I know from acting and. studying, I'm very clear about what.

needs to happen to change this entire. situation. But one of the keys that. people consistently do not address is. the needs of the individual. You know, I. used to work in the emergency room. My. patients were unhoused. And I have found. over the years that people have a lot of. academic and theoretical knowledge about. this problem. Uh but they have very and. they're also experts in housing, but. they have very little knowledge about. the people. the people, why somebody.

winds up homeless, how to improve their. lives so that they become stable. That's. why when LA made that decision 20, 25. years ago, not to focus on getting. people off the street, just to focus on. building, we have the problem that we do. now. So, what I would do in a next term. is basically to end all of the major. encampments that you see at the end of. four years. What I want the city to look. like on this particular issue is that.

Angelinos would see an individual tent. here and there. But encampments would be. a way of the past. And it's very easy to. resolve a tent here or a tent there. It's much more difficult to resolve an. entire encampment because what we have. done different which is the reason it. has worked and the reason street. homelessness has gone down is that we uh. get rid of the entire encampment by. housing everybody at once. What had been. done in the past why it looked like.

nothing ever changed was they would. pluck a person here and a person there. and the encampments never went away. So. we do absolutely still have encampments. that's for sure. But we have far fewer. encampments than we did uh three and a. half years ago. >> And last question on this point um what. happens if there are people within the. encampment that don't want to be housed. >> So you know that we that is a very very. rare experience for us but usually those. are two types of folks. One who are.

immersed in the criminal element and. that exists and they should be dealt. with. The other are people who are so. profoundly ill that half the time. they're not even sure that they're. homeless. So there's good news on that. front that I'm very excited about. because this is more consistent with who. I am. Uh we are finally be building and. getting ready to open up mental health. facilities. The next thing that needs to. happen though is state policy that. allows for involuntary hospitalization.

And I'm a big proponent of that. And I. realize a lot of people think that's a. civil liberties abuse, but the same. people who might feel that that's a. civil liberties abuse don't seem to. object to incarcerating people because. that's exactly what we do now. I'm sure. you know that that Twin Towers is the. nation's most expensive mental health. institution and it is a jail. Uh and so. I want to see us uh open up these. facilities and begin to house people. while I will be working on the state.

policy. Being in this job, it has served. me tremendously that I served in the. state legislature and in Congress. I. know how those areas work, those. institutions work. And by the way, one. of the things I've had to do on my. journey over these last three and a half. years, I've had to get federal policy. changed and I had to get state policy. changed because I know those two. institutions, I've been able to do that. >> Okay. So, as we speak about the homeless. population and and creating housing, that does bring us to the next topic,

which is housing more broadly in Los. Angeles. Um, something that obviously. this city is contending with. It's no. secret that it is difficult to build. housing here. Um, even from an anecdotal. perspective, I'm building a house. I. can't put a shovel in the ground for I. think 18 months uh because of the the. sheer amount of permits that I have to. go through. And there is a whole system. built into that process. I'm not I'm. sure a lot of people don't know this. that like if you want to expedite the. process uh to make it, you know, mildly.

reasonable, you can pay, but that's. that's 10 or 20 or 30 or 40 or $50,000. in additional cost that you have to. shoulder just so that the system can. work in in a reasonable amount of time. That's how the system should work. regardless. And so the question more. broadly is um what is being done to. expedite uh construction here in Los. Angeles so that this isn't one of the. most expensive cities in the country to. build in. >> Yes. And let me just tell you something, you know, because I'm born and raised. here. I remember when the city was very.

affordable, but that was one of the. problems I started tackling from day. one. I declared a state of emergency to. get people off the street and about a. week later I did executive directive one. which expedited building. It was focused. on just affordable housing, but we have. taken the lessons learned from that. We've actually applied a lot of those. lessons in the Palisades to expedite to. continue to further expedite in the. Palisades. We are uh learning with.

artificial intelligence and uh. self-certification of architects so that. things could go faster. the DWP, which. is one of the biggest headaches that. everybody talks about, uh, is beginning. to establish a concier service because. people were getting buildings finished. and they would have to wait a year with. an empty building waiting for the DWP, right? These kind of things make me. crazy. development process goes through. all these different hands and god forbid. somebody goes on vacation because then.

they handle your fi hand your fire file. over to someone completely new who then. starts over. So all of that all that I. described is in the midst of changing. I. did another executive directive based on. these lessons and now we are beginning. to change the entire development process. so it's more centralized. It's more. transparent so that development can go. through. And by the way, the way I. believe in doing policy is I bring.

together the people who are handson in. the field. Not the professors, not the. academics, the people who are actually. doing the work and I've worked together. with them to troubleshoot what the. problems are, but to build policy around. changing those uh those problems. But. once again, these things take a while. And so this is about correcting or. blowing up a process that has been in. existence for many, many years. You get. resistance on all levels. I've gotten a.

lot of resistance from departments and. I've had to change the leadership. because it's like either you got to move. past this stuff or you have to move on. Uh but what I have not done is I'm not a. flashy person. I'm a workhorse. I'm not. a show horse. So I don't run and have. press conferences every time I ask. somebody to retire. I believe in letting. them retire with dignity. I have no. reason to destroy their reputation. But. it does not mean that I have made. changes and I've made plenty of them and.

more to come. In terms of the people. who've pushed back uh who needed to be. replaced, what is the point of pushing. back against the reform of a process um. that makes building easier and simpler. in Los Angeles, which is notoriously. difficult to build in? Like why would. somebody take a position where where. where they don't want um the the process. to be expedited in some way? >> Well, you know what? After a while, I. call it a virus, but after a while, you. work in a bureaucracy and you begin to.

adopt a lot of this. So, with me, they'll tell me, "Well, we have to do it. this way because we've always done. that." That's like fingers on a. chalkboard. >> Yeah. >> Then it's like, "Well, the rules say we. can't blah blah blah blah. Show me the. rule in writing." Well, that's going to. take a while. Show me the rule in. writing. Oh, I can't find it. There's no. rule. My line is, is it a felony? if. it's not a felony, get it done. But I. think the culture of city hall is slow. and no. And most politicians come.

through and they don't really try that. hard to make the changes. Uh this is it. for me. I mean, I have viewed the. positions I've done over the years as, you know, I I'm not I didn't have. ambition to say, well, I'm doing this. and now I'm going to do that. Uh I have. been driven by issues. Uh I certainly. never planned to leave Congress. I I. didn't leave Congress because I was. tired of it. I left Congress because I. was terrified of what was happening here. and because I had worked so hard in the.

'9s against what led what became mass. incarceration. and I was having. flashbacks seeing it happen all over. again except for instead of wanting to. lock up every young black and brown uh. young person um this backlash was going. to be against people in the streets and. the push to just round them up and I. don't know to do what with them but I. didn't want to see that happen. >> I want to switch over to the last topic. here which is the entertainment industry. Hollywood. Um this has been been a a.

personal focus of mine. And I moved here. 15 years ago because I love the. entertainment industry. I'm not in it. anymore, but I still um want to see it. thrive. All of my friends are part of. the entertainment industry and and I've. watched as people have left this city. and left this state and and in some. cases left the country uh to seek work. elsewhere where the industry has. thrived. And I'm talking, you know, the. UK, Canada, New Jersey, Atlanta, New. Orleans, I mean New Mexico, you name it. um what is being done? Okay, let me let.

me ask this first question. What would. you like to see in terms of a tax credit. to revitalize the industry here in LA? >> So, let me let me just say uh well, let. me I'll answer that, but I also want to. tell you my background because this has. been an issue that has been near and. dear to me for many many many years. Um. so, we can't do a local tax credit right. now. I mean, we just can't we can't. afford to do that. uh big advocate for.

what happened at the state level. But. again, I established an entertainment. industry cabinet. I have worked with. them through my three and a half years. They've helped me develop policy that. they feel will be helpful to the. industry. And so I've done that. They. wanted the permit uh fee, they wanted. the permit fees reduced. They wanted um. the permits expedited. They wanted a. person, one or two individuals with deep. knowledge of the city to uh work as our.

films are. I even opened it up to them. and said, "Give me resumes of who you. want." And they grappled with it and. thought about it and argued about it for. a long time. And anyway, they decided. they didn't want somebody from the. industry. They wanted somebody that was. immersed in the city and that could. expedite the city process. So, we have. two people that are dedicated to. providing concier service. I reduced the. amount of money uh you have to pay to. film here. So, for example, at the.

Griffith Park Observatory, it was. $100,000 to shoot. We've reduced it by. 70%. It's 30,000 now. We've opened up a. lot of the city's iconic buildings uh. for filming like like our central. library which is magnificent uh. structure and then uh also reduce the. number of staff that need to be on. location. All of those are things that. the industry specifically requested and. basically that's now been in place for.

maybe eight or nine months. But uh but I. don't believe in just doing policy and. then walking away. I want to know let's. see if it's working. Let's see is it. helping and then we evaluated and figure. out what more we can do. But uh the. indust industry has been near and dear. to me. I'm third generation. My. grandmother who I never met because she. died young worked at uh what is now the. Sony um uh studios. She worked there in.

1932. Um she that was during segregation. and she took care of the black actors. She was an entertainer too. But you know. the the black the movies that black. people were in were not the best movies. Those were the Tarzan plantation scenes. My mother was involved. My brothers uh. are also involved in ancillary. businesses. And uh years before I ever. thought of being an elected official, I. was on the board of an organization. where there was community representation. and studio representation and we were.

building out the belowtheline crafts so. young people the next generation could. learn those crafts. I made a commitment. that if I uh ran if I was going to win. in office because I started running then. that I would work on tax credits in. Sacramento. It was fortunate that in my. last term I was speaker of the house. So. I was able to do the first tax credit. that the state of California had when. Arnold was governor. It was a little. tiny bit because we were in the middle.

of a a recession, the worst recession. since the Great Depression. But the idea. was that it was going to increase over. time. Those were back in the days when. people were just worried about Toronto. and I watch the explosion of all of the. states that you mentioned and then the. international side. When I went on to. Congress, I served on the judiciary. committee uh on the intellectual. property side. So, I was dealing with uh. all of those issues uh copyright and and.

uh wage theft and all that. >> And so, what would you like to see on on. the state side in Sacramento? You know, we have obviously a gubanatorial race. happening right now. the candidates are. vying for support for those like myself. for whom uh the resurrection of the. entertainment industry is a major issue. What would you like them to to put. forward? >> Well, I well one continue if not expand. uh the tax credits, no cap. Um I think. that there's other things, you know, um.

that they could do statewide. What I. really want to see is federal. >> is federal tax credits. And that's. something that, you know, is potential. with him. That's it was potential with. Arnold because Arnold was an actor. Arnold just didn't want to do it himself. because he said if he did it, it would. look self- serving. So, he wanted us to. do it. So, we did it like at 2 in the. morning. We slipped it in. But, uh, but. a focus on the industry and a promotion. of the industry in the states. the.

challenge that we had with tax credits. the first time again we got it done but. most of the state does not know about. the industry they think it's all Brad. Pitt and it's all LA and they don't. realize that every single city in this. in the uh well maybe not every city but. every county in the state has. entertainment industry business going on. that they never even knew was happening. So back when I was there we spent a lot. of time educating the legislators. So, if we have a a governor who champions it.

from day one, that will go a long way in. getting the cooperation of of the. legislators. But what I do know from. working up there is that whenever you do. a big bill, it's always messy. It's like. a Christmas tree. after it's passed and. signed, then you spend the next three or. four years cleaning up, correcting uh. mistakes or uh knowledge that you didn't. that you didn't have. >> Is an uncapped tax credit something that. you would advocate for uh for the next.

governor? >> Yeah. >> Okay. And and finally, the last question. here, what would you like to see. different in terms of uh in terms of. local reforms uh that hasn't been. implemented yet? I know that you. mentioned, you know, lowering some. costs, but uh lowering the amount of. people who are required to be on set, and that includes police officers, for. example. Yes. >> What is four years from now, what does. success look like in terms of what. you've been able to do? And I asked this. because I I I I want to stress that it's.

not just, >> you know, um kind of tinkering around. the edges that's going to take this. industry back from other cities who are. offering, you know, the the the sun and. the moon. I mean, when when Atlanta had. a better tax credit than Los Angeles, the whole industry moved there. And even. the UK offered something that was more. attractive than Atlanta was offering. And so Marvel, for example, moved from. Atlanta over to the UK. And so, you. know, there are there are not only other. states but entire countries who are. vying um for this business because it's.

lucrative. It's sexy. And so-. with that in mind, like it's going to. take not just some, you know, incremental changes. It's going to take. some pretty sweeping changes to to to. grab that industry back from entire. countries that are advocating for it. Well, again, you know, everything that. uh that I have been doing and will. continue to do is with the industry. So, the industry is guiding it. Now, I.

think that uh what it would be very. helpful is expanding that in terms of. making sure that all parts of the. industry are represented. But uh but I. do believe and and when I say uh the. industry I'm talking about people at all. levels in terms of the unions I'm. talking about uh individual producers I. am talking about major studios too. So. I'm not talking about one side, you. know. I do think though that the way our. city functions and the way our budget.

is, there are a lot of constraints on. that and I have to make sure that the. city continues to provide basic city. services. Uh and so I that is absolutely. essential. So again, what we have done. so far has been guided by the industry. I intended to continue taking their. guidance. But when you look at states. like Georgia, you also have to look at. how they provide services because they. don't.

And a lot of what we do here is because. we're a liberal state that focuses on a. social safety net needs to do it much. much more. But it's a tradeoff. And uh I. know in the state of Georgia and the. southern states, their concern about. their people is qualitatively different. than it is here. >> For those who are looking to help your. campaign, where can they go? Oh, they can go to karenbass.com. They. can go to Karenbass for mayor. Uh, by. the way, we have a very vibrant youth. component of high school students and.

college students. Youth forbass. We had. them uh we had a component of that four. years ago. Now they're grown up. Now, this is this is another wave of young. people. So, people of all ages can come. They can come down to the headquarters. and do phone banking. Of course, you can. do phone banking virtually, but you. know, it's fun in a campaign to be. physically in uh in a location. We walk. uh every weekend. We do have people. walking every day, too. Uh so, there's a. lot of ways for people to participate. And I would just remind everybody who's.

watching and listening right now that. the uh election here, the primary. election here in uh in Los Angeles is. going to be June 2nd. So, if uh if. you've gotten your ballot, please make. sure to fill them out, send them in, or. make sure to head to the polls um on or. before June 2nd. Mayor Bass, I. appreciate taking the time. >> Thank you. Thanks for having me on. Again, >> to listen to the audio version of this. episode, click the link right here on. the screen. And please make sure to. subscribe. And of course, to see more. video content, that subscribe button's. on the screen as well.