okay what do you think about our politicians
oh my i i wish there was a way to to pick uh people who weren't um
i i think politics you have to be real interested in power
yeah i do too uh of course
and
and power corrupts
yeah you're right
so
i just uh i think all politicians are really a bunch of crooks i shouldn't say that but i bet you that ninety five percent of them are
they're all just for themselves mostly
well i i do believe there are people that are truly concerned about um
society and making a better a better world and go in it
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for honest uh reasons and honest
maybe wanting to improve
improve the community or country or whatever
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but um to get elected you have to um
sell your soul it seems like to
yeah really and then it seems like they bring out all the dirt that they can bring out about a person
you know stuff oh stuff that happened many years ago in their lives i think that's awful
uh it it it's absolutely irrelevant uh the only thing people should be talking about are what are your ideas uh for
yeah
about education about health insurance about foreign affairs or whatever
right right
and none of this other stuff should
and what are and how do you plan to implement uh programs
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um and you don't hear any of that
no right
all you hear is the bad things about them uh
but um
it'd be hard uh i don't know
what to say really about politicians like i say i just
i just can't believe too many of them at all
and i read you know about them and everything about different ideas they they all seem to have something wrong with them
well i really liked uh the meyer of San Francisco i used to live there and voted for him
uh
oh the one that just got out of Agnus uh-huh um-hum
yes Agnus
and for example he had a really good plan for the homeless
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which is a huge problem here
oh i know it's all over isn't it
and it just got some award
a national sort of recognition as being uh a program that really looks at the roots of problems
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but the problem was that it wasn't quickly implemented uh or that it wasn't the band aid
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so it didn't look good immediately immediately
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it really
if you go to to uh to solve root problems they take a while
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and i think they public
wants uh quick fixes
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and they don't want thoughtful long-term
planning and uh
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so we we get disgusted if it's not glitzy
yeah yeah he wasn't in office very long was he
four years
you know
oh
oh well what did this uh marriage you've got now over there what did he
what was he going to do that was different
one of his one of his ideas was to ship them all out to another city
i mean he's the police chief
and was just going to you know round them all up and and and put them out on a farm or something
that sounds funny doesn't it
tell him to send him down here to Patterson
so what do you think about Oakland's mayor
oh dear i don't
i don't know and i don't know
i mean Oakland seems like they have an awful lot of problems there
oh God we certainly do
you know have you lived there long
uh i last three years three and a half years
uh-huh um-hum um-hum
yeah i know that that should i say have a lot of in fact more mortgage and every thing this year than they they did
oh it's terrible uh it's just
yeah
that's a whole other topic
um-hum
uh but i think he has been trying to um
you know curve some of the you know address some of the problems
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um
yeah
and uh
