Leftist comedian Bill Maher gushed over Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt on his Club Random podcast on Monday.
Pratt sat down with Maher for a cozy, wide-ranging discussion that centered on the candidate’s desire for change in the city of Los Angeles. The tone of the interview, which flowed more like a discussion between two friends, was warm and open, with Maher at one point begging Pratt to do something about the local education situation.
Watch:
(Video Credit: Club Random Podcast)
“But, you know, the numbers are not good. Facts don’t lie. We spend a lot more trying to educate a kid in this state and do worse than places that spend way less. And part of that is because the teachers’ union is so strong. Are you– there’s a great question for you, Mr. Candidate. Are you strong enough to buck the unions?” Maher asked.
“This is the biggest thing that I go against because you know my opponent, Mayor [Karen] Bass, says every single union endorses her, and they go ‘How you going to win with the unions?'” Pratt responded. “Every person that comes in them up to me in the streets, they’re connected to some union, and they say, ‘We all love you.’ But it’s the leadership, political powers, whether it’s the police department, the fire department. Any union, the longshoreman. I was in San Pedro this weekend with the longshoremen. These people all support my message. The union leadership never reflects actually what the people who have kids and the community, they don’t connect. That’s the backroom dealing that, as mayor, I will do whatever I can to make sure the membership – because the disconnect from the membership to then the politicians, because even the people in the unions, they’re politicians, even the police department, that’s at the higher – politician. The chief of the fire department? Politician. The people below him? Politicians. We need the people that are actually the ones on the ground level to get their say, connecting to what the mayor or the city council. That’s the disconnect. People think these unions reflect with the leadership. I’m talking to the members, they’re all voting for me. They don’t agree with the little backroom dealing, the little they want the same things as the rest of Los Angeles, the Angelenos want. Even though it’s that small percentage, they’re still moms, husbands, hardworking people paying their taxes, having to go to these same parks, go to the street. So, as mayor, I’m not anti-union, but I’m going to make sure the union leadership actually connects to the people that are in the unions, not this, you know, we’re just being scammed.”
“You had me at hello,” Maher smiled. I’m just saying on this, I mean on so many of these things, and you just have the exact right– I didn’t know until I talked to you, honestly, today– but you have the exact right um impatience with this sh*t. It’s very authentic, your impatience with it. And, you know, you’re just– it’s good. Just keep doing what you’re doing, we’ll see where the chips fall.”
Watch the entire interview:
(Video Credit: Club Random Podcast)
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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