[speaker001:] okay what do you think about our politicians
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] yeah I do too uh of course
[speaker002:] and and power corrupts
[speaker001:] yeah you're right
[speaker002:] so
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] for honest uh reasons and honest maybe wanting to improve improve the community or country or whatever
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] but um to get elected you have to um sell your soul it seems like to
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] uh it it it's absolutely irrelevant uh the only thing people should be talking about are what are your ideas uh for
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] about education about health insurance about foreign affairs or whatever
[speaker001:] right right
[speaker002:] and none of this other stuff should and what are and how do you plan to implement uh programs
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] um and you don't hear any of that
[speaker001:] no right all you hear is the bad things about them uh
[speaker002:] but um
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] well I really liked uh the meyer of San Francisco I used to live there and voted for him uh
[speaker001:] oh the one that just got out of Agnus uh-huh um-hum
[speaker002:] yes Agnus and for example he had a really good plan for the homeless
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] which is a huge problem here
[speaker001:] oh I know it's all over isn't it
[speaker002:] and it just got some award a national sort of recognition as being uh a program that really looks at the roots of problems
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] but the problem was that it wasn't quickly implemented uh or that it wasn't the band aid
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] so it didn't look good immediately immediately
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] it really if you go to to uh to solve root problems they take a while
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and I think they public wants uh quick fixes
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and they don't want thoughtful long-term planning and uh
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] so we we get disgusted if it's not glitzy
[speaker001:] yeah yeah he wasn't in office very long was he
[speaker002:] four years
[speaker001:] you know
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] that sounds funny doesn't it tell him to send him down here to Patterson so what do you think about Oakland's mayor
[speaker002:] oh dear I don't  I don't know and I don't know
[speaker001:] I mean Oakland seems like they have an awful lot of problems there
[speaker002:] oh God we certainly do
[speaker001:] you know have you lived there long
[speaker002:] uh I last three years three and a half years
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] oh it's terrible uh it's just
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] that's a whole other topic
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] uh but I think he has been trying to um you know curve some of the you know address some of the problems
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and uh