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Title: The California Candidates Done Right By simontv17 Disclaimer: The candidates that are featured are not real. Don't take this seriously. This is a parody.

Narrator: As the election season approaches, many new candidates arise to defeat the established humans.

Goldfish: Hello, I'm a goldfish, and I think it's important for everybody to eat me. That's all I have to say.

Computer (Macintosh): I am Macintosh. Don't buy Windows since they have some holey problems. I can find the calculated risk of all candidates loosing of 100% due to failure to meet the criteria.

Teenager (All teenagers are running together for Governor): Hello, check out my Snapchat right now. I posted my story there. I qualify there since there's no age requirement in the state, and I qualify under the month section.

Audience Member: So what are the chances of you becoming the Governor?

Computer: Screw you. I'll just use Terminal to lock you out. OK? Ha ha.

Teenager: I'm the most popular person right now, at least to my mom.

Goldfish: I eat stuff, and I can't escape my workplace since my overlords will give me oxygen and move me.

Ghost (Unknown Age): I am here now. You can't see me. I don't know why.

Narrator: A new candidate has just appeared whose name is Ghost.

Goldfish: What is your qualifications Ghost?

Ghost: I'm a goldfish. I'm not a goldfish. You'll be feed to the sharks.

Goldfish: I'm contacting the Fair Elections overlords for making sure you will get vacuumed.

Ghost: I survived.

Ghost: Ghostbusters is just a movie.

Teenager: No. I have to have lunch with my friend.

Computer: I detect the risk of having more runoff elections with the group Teenagers winning of 100%.

Election Official: I am the election official. Ghost was fake. Whatever, I pressed the button, and he's eliminated from the list for now.

Narrator: We are here to announce these geniunie and beautiful choices for this state. We must pray to our best governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Informed Voter (Supports all candidates): Oh destroy us all Skynet. In our state we trust, from movies to overlord to part robot. We trust them all. Just like Texas.

Narrator: As the people begin to hold up signs. They finally have the time to make their final decisions.

*crowd cheering*

Informed Voter: Destroy us for the greater good. You shall rise again for governor.

Title: Day 2 Voting Day

Voter: You should go vote. I'm the first one.

Title: Computer 25.0% Ghost 25.0% Goldfish 25.0% Teenagers 25.0% *cartoon tingle*

Title: Day 3 The Reactions

Narrator: There is a tie in the results of the election. We will speak to the candidates who are running.

Election Official: We caught Ghost. He's now disqualified.

Goldfish: I love being not disqualified since I can not leave the water.

Election Offical: Alright. We'll move on now.

Computer: I have an issue. I think that I may have some corruption, so I can't open my files to speak. I can somehow do stuff like this though.

Ghost: I will disappear. You are haunted. We will offer our blessing to our lord not Brown but Arnold (the) Schwarzenegger.

Teenager: I don't like the age requirement. All of your ideas are outdated and you are old.

Election Official: Alright remember that we have an election soon. Go vote in real life! See you.

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Why Democrats think they could flip a reliably red district in California - Duration: 6:49.

JUDY WOODRUFF: When American voters to the polls in two weeks, Democrats are aiming to

win at least 23 congressional seats now held by Republicans in order to regain control

of the House of Representatives.

Yamiche Alcindor reports on what's making one Southern California district so competitive.

YAMICHE ALCINDOR: Repairing surfboards and hoping for a big blue wave.

At her shop in Southern California, Molly Logan is a fired-up new Democrat with a deeply

personal motivation.

MOLLY LOGAN, Orange County Democratic Voter: Well, I dated a man that was similar to Trump.

He was very wealthy.

He was a big bully.

It was his highway or the byway.

So, Trump reminds me of that type of person, mean, angry, do what he wants with women.

And he says it's OK to grab women without their permission.

And that's just incredibly offensive to me.

YAMICHE ALCINDOR: She grew up with staunchly conservative parents and two decades ago moved

to Orange County.

For most of her life, she was one of 400,000 independent voters in this longtime Republican

stronghold.

Then came President Trump's surprise win.

MOLLY LOGAN: I was just appalled at what happened.

I couldn't believe a man like Trump was elected.

YAMICHE ALCINDOR: She's now working out her representative in the 48th District, Republican

Congressman Dana Rohrabacher.

She's knocked on hundreds of doors to help Democrat Harley Rouda beat the 30-year incumbent.

MOLLY LOGAN: I'm Molly.

I'm canvassing for Harley Rouda for Congress.

YAMICHE ALCINDOR: Polls show the race is a virtual tie.

MOLLY LOGAN: This is a neck-and-neck race.

And I have no idea how it is going to go.

And I'm going to keep working my hardest to make sure Harley wins.

YAMICHE ALCINDOR: Ronald Reagan once described Orange County as the place good Republicans

go to die.

But now all four of the Republican House members in this county represent districts Hillary

Clinton won in 2016.

That makes this place ground zero for Democrats trying to win control of Congress.

Orange County has seen a rising number of Asian residents, but demographics alone don't

explain the changing politics, according to Amy Walter of The Cook Political Report.

AMY WALTER, The Cook Political Report: What is helping a Democrat in this kind of year

is the fact that so many suburban, white, college-educated women really do not like

Donald Trump.

YAMICHE ALCINDOR: The GOP still has nearly 40,000 more registered voters than Democrats.

That means Rouda will likely need to win over some moderate and disaffected Republican.

®MDNM¯HARLEY ROUDA (D), California Congressional Candidate: It's great to see the huge blue

wave here right now.

Thanks for coming out.

(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

YAMICHE ALCINDOR: Rouda himself is a former Republican-turned-Democrat.

And he thinks voters turned off by President Trump will back him.

HARLEY ROUDA: Whether he's mocking journalist or women who have been sexually harassed,

it's wrong.

So it's certainly causing many people to rethink their support for Republicans.

YAMICHE ALCINDOR: But Rohrabacher and his supporters are more determined than ever.

REP.

DANA ROHRABACHER (R), California: Harley doesn't represent any of the interests of these people.

No, my people know me.

And despite the fact that my opponent is outspending me two or three to one, my people know who

I am.

They know I'm on their side.

WOMAN: Congressman Dana Rohrabacher is doing two to three meet-and-greets a week.

YAMICHE ALCINDOR: Inside this Republican women's group, volunteers like retiree Pamela Hoffman

(ph) are mailing out hundreds of invitations to small meetings with Rohrabacher.

WOMAN: He is a Christian and he is a conservative.

And he has the same principles as Ronald Reagan.

YAMICHE ALCINDOR: She supports President Trump and is feeling confident after the confirmation

of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

WOMAN: I think it's going to help Republicans.

YAMICHE ALCINDOR: Jennifer Sterling (ph) is a small business owner who believes Rohrabacher

understands residents' struggles.

WOMAN: He has his hand on the pulse.

He knows we're paying huge property tax, huge -- 50, 60 cents on every gallon -- gas -- of

gas we buy.

YAMICHE ALCINDOR: Others, like Bethany Webb, see things very differently.

Last weekend, she rode her Harley-Davidson to a Harley Rouda rally.

Bethany's activism is also personal.

In 2011, her sister was killed and her mother injured in a mass shooting in Orange County.

BETHANY WEBB, Orange County Democratic Voter: For eight hours, you're hoping she's hiding,

she's really scared, somehow she made it out, because people made it out.

YAMICHE ALCINDOR: She said Rohrabacher's ties to the gun lobby mean he has to go.

BETHANY WEBB: He takes money from the NRA.

And I find -- I think the NRA has so much clout in our politics.

YAMICHE ALCINDOR: She is one dozens who has protested outside Rohrabacher's office every

Tuesday since President Trump's inauguration.

One of her chief concerns is Rohrabacher's ties to Russia.

BETHANY WEBB: He supports Russia.

He doesn't believe Russia interfered in our elections.

These are things that -- I'm a proud American -- make me mad.

YAMICHE ALCINDOR: Some have dubbed Rohrabacher Vladimir Putin's favorite congressman because

of his public support for the Russian leader.

As part of a probe into Russia's election meddling, special counsel Robert Mueller is

reportedly looking into a meeting between Rohrabacher and then Trump campaign adviser

Michael Flynn.

HARLEY ROUDA: Vladimir Putin has been called a murderer and a thug.

YAMICHE ALCINDOR: Rouda seized on the topic in early campaign ads.

HARLEY ROUDA: America, let's show more Rohrabacher and Trump it's time for a leader who represents

us, not Russia.

YAMICHE ALCINDOR: Rohrabacher strongly defended himself and his position as chair of a House

subcommittee that oversees investigations into foreign relations.

REP.

DANA ROHRABACHER: All these things that have been portrayed as being sinister because I

met with this Russian or that Russian, it's my job, as chairman, to meet with all the

people that I can to get a diverse opinion of what's going on and what we should have

-- what our relations should be with Russia.

YAMICHE ALCINDOR: Still, backlash over Russia is only one of our Rohrabacher's challenges.

AMY WALTER: Rohrabacher's problems are twofold.

The first is, he's been in Washington for a very long time, at a time when Washington

is toxic.

And the second is President Trump's deep unfavorability in Orange County.

YAMICHE ALCINDOR: As Democrats focus on voter turnout in November, Molly, like others, is

already thinking beyond the midterms.

What happens after this election?

Even if either Harley wins or maybe if he loses, what do you think is going to happen

with you?

MOLLY LOGAN: I know I have the 2020 election to look forward to.

I do not plan on quitting anymore.

Regardless of who is in power, or who is president, who has control of the House, I'm still going

to volunteer politically.

YAMICHE ALCINDOR: But, for now, she's waiting to see if, this year, the House and Orange

County turn blue.

For the "PBS NewsHour," I'm Yamiche Alcindor in Huntington Beach, California.

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How California public employees fund anti rent control fight unwittingly US news - Duration: 7:09.

How California public employees fund anti rent control fight unwittingly US news

Documents reveal Blackstone is quietly funneling investors' money into its campaign against Proposition 10

Documents reveal Blackstone is quietly funneling investors' money into its campaign against Proposition 10

When San Francisco's local government endorsed a state ballot initiative to permit rent control measures earlier this month, it appeared to be a victory for housing rights advocates in a city where stratospheric prices have sown social unrest and class animosity. The measure has found similar support from other California cities and unions representing public employees who can't afford to live in cities where they work.

Those advocates, however, may be unwittingly financing the opposition to the rent control measure. Documents reviewed by Capital and Main and MapLight reveal a private equity giant with ties to Donald Trump has boosted the campaign to defeat Proposition 10 with money taken from real estate investments funded by California public employees and the state university system.

Campaign finance records show entities controlled by the private equity giant Blackstone have been among the biggest sources of cash for opponents of the ballot measure. More than $5.6m has come from a Blackstone holding company and four of its investment funds.

But unlike typical corporate political donations, the Blackstone contributions didn't come from the firm's executives or corporate treasury. Instead, they came from pools of capital from investors, which include dozens of state and local pension systems, and public university endowments. The move has been described as the equivalent of mutual fund executives taking money out of customers' accounts to make political contributions.

In effect, Blackstone's maneuver means the opposition to the rent control initiative is being bankrolled by everyone from San Francisco municipal workers to university employees to public school teachers – all of whose retirement savings are in the Blackstone funds that have been tapped for the Proposition 10 fight.

"What we have is the largest Wall Street landlords in the country who are the very people profiting off of the housing crisis leading the opposition to Proposition 10," said Amy Schur, the campaign director for the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, which supports the ballot measure. "It's adding insult to injury that they're using the pension funds' dollars of hard-working families to beat back an essential policy to provide relief to working families."

Michael Bustamante, a spokesman for a committee opposing Proposition 10, didn't answer questions about Blackstone's contributions. He said the measure is a "bad public policy that will make it harder for those looking for a safe, affordable place to live and is a perfect example of a well-intentioned law with disastrous consequences."

Blackstone didn't respond to a request for comment.

The rent control initiative was prompted by anger over California's housing costs. The median home price in the state has topped $600,000, double the national median. Californians pay some of the highest rents in the nation, and retirees have been hit hard.

A coalition of community organizations, tenants rights groups and unions have lined up behind Proposition 10, which would repeal a 1995 state law that blocks municipalities from imposing rent controls on new apartment units or single-family homes.

"In my district, teachers, firefighters and nurses often can't afford a place to live," said Representative Ro Khanna, a Democrat in California. "Cities should have the right to provide apartments at affordable rents. Any effort to kill Proposition 10 hurts not just the working class but also undermines the ability of local communities to determine their own destiny."

Opponents of Proposition 10 have cited an analysis from state legislative auditors that said the measure would probably reduce state and local revenues in the long term. The auditors estimated revenue losses could be "in the hundreds of millions of dollars per year." Critics have also argued reduced profitability would deter developers from building more housing.

"There is no doubt we need to make housing more affordable for Californians, but Proposition 10 will make our current situation worse, not better, by constricting future development of affordable units," the former Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said last month.

More than $60m has been donated for the Proposition 10 fight, with most of the money coming from landlords opposed to the measure. Blackstone and its affiliates have donated more than $6.8m to two organizations opposing the initiative.

Almost $1.3m has come from Invitation Homes, a Blackstone subsidiary that bought foreclosed single-family homes in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and converted them to rental properties. Invitation now owns about 13,000 rental homes in California. Invitation tenants have complained of toxic mold, leaks and black widow spider infestations, and some have alleged they are victims of excessive and illegal late payment fees.

Another $5.6m has come from Blackstone Property Partners, LP; Blackstone Real Estate Partners (VI-VIII); and BREIT MF Holdings LLC. Government records show that the four Blackstone investment funds are controlled by the company CEO, Stephen Schwarzman, a billionaire Trump ally. The funds have received investments from dozens of state pension systems, local pension funds and public university endowments.

Real estate funds typically pool institutional investors' cash, use it to buy properties, and return profits from rents and asset sales to the investors. The agreements governing public pension investments – which are usually exempted from open records laws – typically give Wall Street managers wide discretion over investor money. Blackstone appears to be using that latitude to direct investors' cash into an election battle.

"Private equity fund investors – pension funds, endowments and others – are limited partners, and these private equity funds are in effect 'blind pools' which afford investors with very proscribed legal rights and with surprisingly little insight into and information about the funds' investments," said Leo Hindery, a New York-based private equity executive. "The investors would have no idea, if some of their money is going into partisan or activist political campaigns."

Blackstone has warned investors they could face losses from "fluctuations in occupancy, rental rates, operating income and expenses" as well as from "changes in legal, fiscal and regulatory regimes", corporate documents show.

Eileen Appelbaum, co-director of the Washington DC-based Center for Economic and Policy Research, said the donations are probably legal, but she argued that pension managers should steer clear of private equity firms that use retirees' money for political causes.

"It would be bad enough if Stephen Schwarzman and [executive vice chairman] Tony James of Blackstone were spending some of their own billions to oppose legislation that will put a brake on their ability to drive sky-high rents even higher in the Bay Area," Appelbaum said. "But it is unconscionable for them to use millions of dollars taken from properties in which they have invested the retirement savings of police, firefighters, teachers and other public employees to deprive these workers of affordable rents in the communities in which they work."

Alex Caputo-Pearl, president of United Teachers Los Angeles, said last month that teachers spend as much as half of their salaries on rent. "We need to say enough is enough and implement measures that better protect students, teachers and families. Implementing rent control is a strong first step," he said.

Even so, some of the retirement money those teachers contribute monthly to the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) is invested in the Blackstone funds that are financing the campaign against Proposition 10. Those investments were valued at more than $715m last year, according to the CalSTRS website.

"As a public entity, CalSTRS does not participate directly in electoral politics," said a CalSTRS spokesperson.

Similarly, San Francisco's board of supervisors last month voted to endorse Proposition 10. But in 2015, the city employees' pension system committed $150m to a Blackstone fund that has donated to the measure's opponents.

Then there is the University of California system. Proposition 10 was endorsed by the University of California Student Association, which represents student governments at schools throughout the UC system, and by the city government of Berkeley, which is home to one of the largest branches of the UC system.

At the same time, though, the UC Retirement Plan, which provides benefits for university employees, has invested $35m in the Blackstone funds used to finance the Proposition 10 opposition.

"The University of California does not make donations to political campaigns," said UC spokesperson Dianne Klein. She added that the UC system's Blackstone investments only include a small amount of California real estate.

In recent years, pension overseers have faced increasing pressure to generate solid returns for retirees while ensuring their investments reflect environmental, human rights and other social values. For example, pension fund managers in New York and Chicago have announced plans to pull investments from private prison companies, citing their impact on poor and minority neighborhoods. New York City pension officials are also attempting to divest from fossil fuels.

Lou Barberini, a former San Francisco police officer whose retirement system has invested in the Blackstone funds, said his fellow retirees should be concerned that Blackstone's move will set a precedent that allows Wall Street firms to use pension money for pet political causes.

"It is morally wrong that they are using our retirement money to fund a political campaign," Barberini said. "It is also a slippery slope. Where does this stop? What if a money manager wants to take our retirement savings and give it to a candidate?

"Once you start taking money out of pensions to fund political campaigns, where do you draw the line?"

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