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Sept. 11, 2019 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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Is San Francisco Worse Than a Third World Country?
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Hi, everybody. I'm here with Ellen Li Zhao.
She is a mayoral candidate in San Francisco in November of 2019.
You may remember her as a starring member of Episode 6 of my documentary series on California, Sunset in the Golden State.
Ellen, thanks so much for taking the time today.
Well, thank you. Thank you for bringing me on.
Thank you. My pleasure.
Now, On your website, it says ellenformayor2019.com.
I'll put a link below. You compare San Francisco to a third world city.
This is shocking to a lot of people who have not visited in some time.
I actually spent a lot of time in San Francisco in the 90s on business.
And when we were together there in February of 2019, yeah, it looked like things had changed a little bit.
So for those who haven't been to San Francisco for a while, third world city, does that not seem like hyperbole?
Well, I'm sorry to say that it is worse than the third world.
I was coming from a third world in the old days.
I came to San Francisco in 1986.
As a teenager, 33 years later, which is 2019, we have a lot of victims every day that have been assaulted.
That their car get breaking.
The local people, a lot of people become victimized from the crimes.
But to qualify as a third world is not about this crime, but also the thesis.
I personally have been going to the heart of San Francisco, checking in and talking to a lot of homeless people.
And I realized that there's more human thesis than That's why I said it's worse than the Third World, that people are digging garbage out from garbage cans to eat from the garbage cans.
It's just heartbreaking for me.
In San Francisco, you've got 900,000 residents, you've got a $12.3 billion budget every year, 32,000 government employees.
How is it possible for it to be in such a mess with so much money being firehosed throughout the entire public sector of the economy?
You're talking to the right person.
I ask the same questions.
When I go to City Hall, meeting with people at City Hall, my question is, I don't get it.
We have 32,000 government employees.
I am one of the 32,000 government employees.
You're exactly right.
We have $12.3 billion budget.
You know what I calculated?
If you divide it by 900,000 residents, San Francisco is the number one.
Richer city in the entire global, the entire world.
If the money per person, not per household, but per person, it comes down to 1,300 US dollars per person.
If you compare to the lower part of the other cities in California, people only have like $900 a year, but we have more than $14,000 a person for the budget that we have.
I personally do not know a lot of those calculations before.
Now I'm kind of having a lot of questions, so I personally think Further, and I found, this is what I found.
Of $12.3 billion, 45% of the money spent on government employees' benefits, salaries, health care.
So can you imagine?
45% of the total budget, almost half the budget, going to We have 32,000 government employees that are active, and we have approximately 30,000 retired employees.
Altogether, it's about 62,000 government employees, depending on 45% of the total government budget.
I believe something is not right in this picture.
Well, to put it mildly, I mean, they're supposed to be taking that money, having a lean overhead and using it to fix the streets and using it to upgrade the bus lines and using it to clean the streets of all of the accumulated human detritus and waste.
So, do you have any sense of where the rest of the money is going?
I personally have Trying to get some data through the city and from the city, you know, that the city is pretty open with some data, except some of the data may not be 100% accurate.
So August, which is last month, August 2019, I was at one of the police public hearing.
I was informed that San Francisco, now we have 21,000 homeless people.
So if you calculate the homeless people and the budget that was designated for the homeless, then you are talking about $2 billion, like $2 billion that related to homeless and the people who are on the street.
That includes 25,000 drug abusers, drug dealers and drug users.
And to me, I'm talking about insane.
We are living in an insane city.
I'm talking about insanity now.
I'm not sure if people know about San Francisco.
San Francisco, there's no rule of law in San Francisco right now.
Many of the public issues Going nowhere.
Public problems going nowhere.
I don't see a lot of solution.
We've talked about solution.
Every time you talk about a solution, and there's more problem.
And I personally have been going to the street and talking to government employees and talking to different agents about the 21,000 homeless people.
And I realized that about 10 years ago, we only had about 2,000 homeless.
Ten years later, we're 10 times about the homeless.
We are now, 2019, we are 21,000 homeless.
Then I dig further, I ask people, I personally went to a lot of streets and talked to many of the homeless.
I think when you came to San Francisco, I was with you on the street at late night, at 10 o'clock at night, and many of the people I would say more than half the homeless people, they are not local people from San Francisco.
So I think the money itself is a problem for the people who are managing our public resources that we are attracted non-San Francisco local people from other cities throughout the country to come and use our local San Francisco public resources I personally spoke to a lot of homeless.
They told me that their social workers from their cities, that they are paid to come here.
They are paid for a bus ticket or even an airplane ticket or some kind of venues to come to San Francisco because San Francisco, we are very open.
We are giving free shelter, free breakfast, free lunch, free dinner, Free medical, free education, free medical.
So you name it, we kind of attracted a lot of homeless to come.
Well, that is a big challenge, of course, because you have a big budget for the homeless, but the more money you spend on the homeless, the more homeless you are going to, in a sense, tempt to get on the public purse, both within San Francisco and, of course, as you say, grabbing an armful of Greyhound and coming in by bus or by plane from other cities.
And then you say, well, you see, we need to spend more money on the homeless, but that just exacerbates or makes the cycle even worse, right?
Yes. I personally...
I talked to a lot of government employees.
We come to a conclusion.
The more money we spend in San Francisco for homeless, the more homeless that we will be attracting from other cities.
For one thing, San Francisco has pretty good weather.
We have four seasons in one day, and plus all the resources we're giving out to people.
We have a team It's called a hot team outreaching to people just to give, you name things, we just have it for free.
Lately, for the last about, let's say eight months in San Francisco, the politicians, when I say politicians, we have 11 board of supervisors and one mayor.
We have 11 board of supervisors because we have 11 districts and plus the mayor, so 12 people.
They keep talking about they're going to be open navigation centers or navigation shelters or more homeless shelters in each neighborhood that inflame a lot of people in San Francisco, especially the one in Embarcadero.
Embarcadero near the end of Market Street, which is the The people who are tourist area, who are financial area, and high, you know, upscale neighborhoods.
The people live there, they're talking about, you know, million dollar apartments.
So people have been protesting.
I was contacted by the people and asked me my opinion.
So I went out there to join them to protest.
It's simple. If we have 21,000 homeless people in San Francisco as of today, September 2019, each of the navigation center is only good between 50 people to about 200 people.
Every time they open a shelter or navigation center, you are talking about Millions and millions.
The money itself is not going to the homeless people, but the homeless people, the number of homeless people will be allocated the fund from the government departments and going out to a lot of nonprofits.
To me, it's a government scam.
It's a government scam using the homeless people To get the public money out, transfer to different non-profit organizations that we have no idea why all those money going to different places.
Yet, the more money we spend, the more homeless we will continue to have.
Well, there's a strange thing, and we talked about this when I was there in February, but if you could expand on it a little bit more, it would be great.
So, there seems to be a combination of a lack of affordable housing along with 50,000 or more apartments that are not on the market.
So, from a free market perspective, that seems like supply and demand.
What's in the way from getting people into these empty apartments?
You are exactly right on the spot.
So I've been in San Francisco for 33 years.
I have been working for the government, San Francisco City and County Government, as a social worker for 15 years.
I work with many department heads and many of the leaders, government leaders.
When we have meetings, when we discuss Supply and demand about housing.
We realized that many of the electoral office, remember 11 border supervisors and one mayor?
They're all one party.
It's Democratic Party.
No other party.
In America, we had about seven parties.
Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, Green Party, Independent, Nonpartisan, Well, six or seven parties.
But in San Francisco, we have only one party running by Democrats for the last 45 years.
I believe that has to do with failing policies that are supported by no other parties but one party.
Because the Democratic Party, the agenda itself is a problem.
No, I did not notice that until I'm running for mayor right now.
And I am told the last non-democratic mayor in San Francisco who was Republican was 55 years ago.
The last non-democratic border supervisor, which was Republican, was 45 years ago.
So it tells me the reason we have so many of those Social problems that we are facing and so many empty apartments that refused to run it out to the market.
So I personally have been approached by many of the Asian and many of the non-Asian property owners came and looked for help.
And the reason people came look for me for help is because I volunteer in the community and I sometimes organize seminars with people who have knowledge about housing policies.
And then I realized that many of the small property owners that they are sued.
They are sued on purpose.
And I've been told by some of the tenants who were not victims But some of those people, I'm talking about the government giving free money to nonprofits to organize, to me it's organized crimes, to look for tenants who are not victims and tell them and teach them what to do, to sue property owners for little things.
And so they drain, number one, the insurance money, number two, Some of those property owners, they have money in the bank, and some of them, they only have equities.
For example, they bought the house, let's say 20 years ago, and still not pay off because it's 30 years of payment, the loan payment.
But the house itself has been jacked up the price because of inflation, because of the value of the house.
Used to be a quarter million.
Now it could be a million, 1.5 million.
So they have a lot of equity in there.
So when they sue them, the property owner, besides the insurance money that they sue for, and also the money that they have in equity.
So many of the property owner has been sued and lost.
There's quite a number of property owners.
They lost their housing, 100% lost what they have.
So when that happens and people talk about stuff in the community, so people refuse to put housing out to the market.
And lately, San Francisco do more rent control on property owners.
So I'm not sure if you know San Francisco situation.
In the 1980s, San Francisco had rent control Before the 1980s, we had approximately 70% of the property that is running out, it's already in control.
So you're talking about only approximately less than 25% of the property that has no control.
They are talking about the new development, the new developing housings.
When the unfair housing policy came out and when the city giving out more than 13, I'm talking about 13 million dollars and give it to the nonprofit agencies.
And when you have a contract to help the tenants who are victims and when there's no victims, what are you going to do?
Make some victims. That's right.
You look for victims and make them victims and teach them how to be a victim.
And those stories that I collected, so many of them, because many of them looking for help, I personally have been going to a few courts because that was too devastating.
For example, I'll give you an example.
For the last two years, there was a case in the Asian community.
This lady, her house, it's only worth $900,000, her house.
Right now, I think that her house is more than a million now because it's up according to the market value.
But when she was sued, her house was worth $900,000, but the lawsuit was $14.4 million.
$14.4 million on a $900,000 house from the tenants in the house?
Yes. And not only that, they framed her That she is evil, bad, you name anything that is bad related to her and frame her.
So I did an investigation on her.
Sorry to interrupt.
What was the complaint that was north of $14 million?
What were they asserting that the landlord had failed to do?
So here's the story.
The landlord lived upstairs.
She rented out three different units downstairs.
It's a pretty huge house in San Francisco.
And everything's fine.
There's no major problems.
Until this property owner, her father was very sick in China, so she left the country for a few months.
So when she was left for a few months, the tenants, one of them, two of them, they went to one of the The agents in San Francisco and ask for some kind of question and then immediately They become victims.
They gang up together and start suing them.
But sued based on what?
I mean, if you know, what would they...
Yes, it was very open in the community.
It would become almost an icon lawsuit in San Francisco for a 900,000 home to sue for $14.4 million.
I think it's a historic record in America.
So far that I know of.
They based on her house.
Her house was not in a proper permit when they renovated and it has mow.
It is not in a standard that is meeting the basic requirement from the housing department.
But you got to understand Everything's fine until she left the country for a couple of months.
Then she become a victim herself because she works two jobs, a single mom with a son.
And she came to me for help.
She came to a lot of neighbors for help.
So we organize a lot of groups and talk about the case.
We went to court with her.
I have no idea what happened to her case now because I'm running for mayor.
I do not have all the time to devote in each case.
This is one of the extreme case that I'm giving you and that's why one of the reasons when people are sued for no reason and that's what happened.
So the people, sorry to interrupt, but the people were saying, the detenants I guess were saying, well there was mold and this is bad for our health and we may have ongoing medical expenses.
Is that the kind of story behind it?
Yes, but you got to understand, when the house was ready for run on the market, her house is beautiful.
It's one of those beautiful homes that you can imagine.
Nobody is going to run you a place that is mowed with other stuff.
I mean, of course, that's my opinion.
They lived there.
I think one of them lived there for three years, the other one lived there for six years, and the other one was three households.
I'm just giving an example.
Of course, this example is very extreme.
I can give you another example.
I find this stuff fascinating.
So yeah, please, if you could, that'd be great.
Yes. So another example, this house is approximately a million dollar house.
They were sued for $2 million.
It is the same thing.
When the property owner Had an injury, fell on the stairs, and went to get the house back from the lower part.
And then immediately, you get a lawsuit.
It's because San Francisco set it up to have a lot of public money to give it to nonprofits and tell them to help the tenants who are evicted.
Well, I believe the idea itself is good, except they don't have victims To access the service.
And the government contract, when you're contracted with the government, and they said, okay, I'm going to give you, let's say, a million dollars for, let's say, 50 clients for a year.
Now, when the nonprofits do not have 50 victims to access the service, so they have to do something, so what do they do?
Some of those organizations, they set up tables in front of the courthouse and looking for victims and tell them, we sue for you at no charge.
Come and talk to us about your legal help.
Now, the property owners, because they own property, the government is not giving them any help at all.
The property owner has to pay a minimum $400 an hour to about $600 an hour to hire a lawyer to defend all those allegations.
Some of them may be true.
Some of them may not.
But you got to understand, they were friends to start with as tenants and property owners.
They are having good relations.
A good relationship until they're contacted with one of those contracted non-profit lawyers or legal firms and their job is to look for victims to sue people.
So to answer your question, the reason that in San Francisco we have more than minimum 50,000 to approximately 75,000 empty apartments include the empty front stores, apartments, lower floor, second floor, that is not Going out to the market, it's because many of the property owners have been sued and many of those regulations, they are not helping any property owners at all.
So this is what I'm going to do.
When I become a mayor of San Francisco, I'm going to create probably two to three programs.
I'm going to do assessment.
Assessment means I'm going to do an app.
I'm going to look for all the people Who has no housing or who has unaffordable housing, especially the people who are working in San Francisco, who work in San Francisco, who live in San Francisco, especially teachers, workers, and people who have children and the family, they're local people.
I'm going to ask people how much they can afford to run places.
Then at the same time, I'm going to do an app to look for people Who are withholding the empty apartments?
I'm going to talk to the people and ask them and I will let them know that they will not be sued.
If people run housing, they will be matching with the right property owner, property location.
If they do not like the location, if they have problems with a specific owner, Then they can welcome to relocate to another property or do mediation.
So this way, when I am the mayor, I can do that.
You know why I can do that?
I used to be a property manager for Section A housing.
Section A housing is 30% of people's income.
The 70% of the housing, it's matching by government dollars.
I've done that for a long time.
And Section 8 housing is subsidized by federal government, state government, and local government.
I believe the question is why the local electoral officers, I'm talking about 11 border supervisors and the mayor, 12 people, why they are not helping the property owners To give out all those empty apartments to help the workers.
Why they are continuing to giving all these millions and millions of dollars to the nonprofit legal firms to look for victims when there's no victims.
I don't get that part. But as a mayor to be, I can take care of this part.
It's common sense.
I've talked to my team already.
When I say my team means I have a lot of government employees.
I have a lot of good people.
I have a lot of legal staff.
They understand the laws.
I understand the law.
For me to be a mayor, to create two or three programs, to give incentive to property owners who are withholding the empty apartments, they will be.
Because I talk to many of them.
As long as they're not sued, as long as they're not accused for things that they not do, they will.
They will open their house.
They will open their heart to help the people who are workers, who are family with children, who are teachers.
They will. Because everybody, everybody wants incentive.
Nobody likes to leave the house empty.
And if you can collect a $2,000 payment or $3,000 income or $4,000 income a month, and many of the people, they still have to pay the bank.
For their loan that they original when they bought the house.
So that's one thing I can do.
Utilities and property taxes. I mean, it's all, and maintenance.
I mean, they're losing a lot of money by not having these apartments, these houses on the market.
It's brutal. Yes.
So, okay, do a basic calculation.
If people have 50,000 minimum empty apartments, if you can average to run it out, In San Francisco, it's very expensive.
Let's say average, just make it very average, $2,000 for 50,000 empty apartments, that goes to $100 million a month.
With $100 million, we're talking about economy.
For people who are working people, And for people who are surviving.
Because the people want to run the place, they're surviving.
And the reason we have...
Remember when I was going out to the street, we kind of getting the data.
Approximately 15 to about 20% of the homeless people, they're living on the tent on the street.
They are working people.
They have jobs.
Many of them, they work full-time or part-time or two-part-time.
And then they have to take shower in the gyms.
They pay a membership. And then when they eat, they eat locally in the restaurants to survive until they are able to run a normal place.
So as a mayor, I can help this.
It's not hard.
It's a no-brainer. It's common sense, which I will do that because I am not one of What do I say?
You're a common sense candidate, right?
I mean, you've worked in the private sector as a property owner.
You understand the concerns and you want to get people into apartments, which they want to get into and the people want to rent them.
So let's touch on one or two other topics today.
Of course, the big issue in San Francisco, as California whole, is illegal aliens.
And the other, of course, is, well, the rule of law, voter fraud.
I guess if you could just give me a couple minutes on those topics, because that's got to be huge concerns for the voters.
Yes. Yes. You're talking to the right mayor candidate.
So because I'm running for mayor, and I'm also working for the government, and I have investigated some of those complaints from the people that how come Democrats have been in control of San Francisco for 45 years?
Minimum 45 years.
And one of the key issues is election fraud.
So election fraud in San Francisco.
Let me give you a funny statistics.
So a couple of months ago, I got the voters' information because I'm running for mayor.
And I realized that when I'm reading those voters' information, guess what happened?
We have more than 900 voters.
They are 100 years old to 151 years old.
They're still voting. Do you understand what it means?
It's voter pride. Some very healthy people in San Francisco.
They can defy mortality.
Yes! 150 years old, we have two people.
150 years old, we have three people.
I immediately went to the election office.
I said, you think that I can call them and talk with them because they break the world record if they're still alive?
You might need to speak up a little because you have to pierce the veil of death, right?
Yes. That's right.
So another thing that I find out is that in San Francisco, we have 900,000 residents and we have approximately 900, approximately 490,000, which is 50% of the people able to vote according to the voters row.
Unfortunately, I also found out the fraud, that possible fraud, that more than 75,000 people, they are no longer They're no longer qualified in the voting role, but they're sitting in there.
I believe some of them still voting, include the people who are dead.
They're no longer able to vote.
And include the people who are undocumented.
They're not qualified.
They're non-citizen. Include the people who are no longer living in San Francisco.
They moved away from San Francisco for a long time.
And include the people, they are, what's that called?
No such address.
Do you understand? Some of those voters' registrations, there's no such address, there's no existing address, but the voters have those addresses.
So another thing that I also found- Maybe they're squatting in some of those 50,000 to 70,000 departments.
That's one possibility, but go on.
I also found out the voting role, a possible fraud is that You know how many homeless we have, right?
We have 21,000 homeless as of August 2019.
And many of the homeless are transitioning.
Approximately between 10% to 15% homeless people are professional homeless.
They live in San Francisco a little bit and then they go to other cities.
And when they get tired, they come back to San Francisco.
So when it's voting time, many of those homeless people, they are not the ones who voted.
But their vote is counted in the voting row.
That means somebody is registered, the homeless, and using the homeless information to vote on their behalf.
Now, how do I know?
Because we have a project in California, it's called The California Integrity Project, and many of the people, they study the statistics throughout the entire California, and of course, include San Francisco, and that's exactly the information that we get.
That people vote, no longer qualified vote, undocumented vote, illegal vote, and San Francisco, openly.
Openly invite undocumented people to register to vote in San Francisco because they passed the law last year.
Then they said all illegal people, I assume illegal people, undocumented immigrants, that they are welcome to register to vote for the unified school.
Which means some of the parents, they have children in the unified, even the undocumented United States.
We have different laws, child protective services, adult protective services, disabled protective services, which means anyone who comes to America, as long as you're under those protective categories, then you are getting free Medicare, free education, free food, free housing.
With undocumented people are qualified for all everything, public assistance, and we have an open border in San Francisco.
So the problems are, number one, the entire California, on average, we spend $28 billion on illegal, undocumented Immigrants with open border that is supported by our current governor Gavin Newsom and supported by our current mayor,
Landon Breed. The message for anyone in the entire United States and the entire world, the message is like this.
Welcome to San Francisco.
I don't care who you are, but you're welcome to San Francisco.
I don't care if you kill anybody.
I don't care if you're on drugs.
I don't care if you're a cartel.
I don't care. Just come to San Francisco because San Francisco, we are sanctuary for all people, including felons, drug dealers, criminals.
And that's what the message is.
Same thing in California.
Welcome to California.
We have open border policy.
Who cares who you are?
As long as you're in San Francisco, everything is for free.
Free housing, free medication, free education, free food stamps, free money.
You know many of those people who came across the border, I call them invaders.
And many of them, they bypass the health screening.
That make me, that make me, that make me as a legal immigrant, I think about like, why should I follow the law then?
You understand?
California is out of order.
That is why California is dying.
Many of the big corporations are leaving San Francisco.
Many of the investors are leaving San Francisco.
And we attract so many people.
You are talking about illegal immigrants, criminals, felons.
And we are at risk.
If California spent $28 billion a year just to take care of the illegals, then we have...
California right now, we are broke.
In fact, a couple of days ago, we had the news out there saying that schools need to be closed because they have no money.
But San Francisco and California, we are almost the highest tax cities and the highest tax states.
And that's what's wrong with San Francisco and California.
And the sad part is that whatever comes in San Francisco is spread to California and it goes to the east.
You're talking about Washington, D.C. I as a government employee and I as a mother and I as an immigrant and I As an average common sense person.
My question to Gavin Newsom, the governor, why can we follow the laws?
The United States Constitution, that is the rule of the land.
If we can use $28 billion to build this housing, California will not have 170,000 homeless who are dying on the street, who are dying in Los Angeles, Skid Row, who are dying in Oakland, who are dying in San Jose, who are dying in San Francisco.
In fact, in the last two years, more than 400 people Pass away on the street in San Francisco.
If Gavin Newsom continue to abuse our public resources, he should be using his own money to help the illegals himself and allow us, the regular people,
able to have life, able to have a good road that we can drive, not the bumpy road that we are facing, And right now, because we are sanctuary state in California, and because we are sanctuary city in San Francisco,
the message itself, it's very dangerous that we welcome all criminals, all illegals, and all felons to come and invade us.
That is why San Francisco, every day, we have Minimum 100 car break-ins every day.
And many of the tourists, they did not know, they don't know how bad our crime, property crime.
In fact, you kind of did the study, right?
San Francisco is the number one property crime in the entire nation right now.
That's right. If your car gets broken into, they just give up.
They're barely even going to investigate it at all.
Yes, because we have a law, it's called Proposition 47.
Anything below $950, they will not even bother sometimes to make a police report.
There's just no end to it.
And this is the message.
The petty theft, the thief, the criminals, they exactly target the San Francisco And especially the Asian people.
You know that from the documentary that I was at a community meeting and the Asian people were saying, you know, why can't we get cameras?
Why can't we get police presence?
Why can't we get these streets cleaned up?
And the police woman and the cops were all like, well, don't keep your cell phones out and make sure you lock your doors and get a security system.
And it's like, what are we, South Africa?
That's exactly what's the problem.
We, in San Francisco, we have a $12.3 billion budget, 45% spent on government employees, and $2 billion on illegals and criminals and drug dealers and free needles, $5 million free needles to support drug dealers to sell more drugs to drug San Franciscans.
We are What's it called?
We're no longer a common sense city.
We're talking about insanity.
I don't care people who are Democrat, Republican, Green Party, Libertarian.
I don't care. This is not talking about parties.
We're talking about insanity.
We are no longer with common sense in San Francisco.
If you think the current mayor, Landon Breed, is going to change for you, forget it.
Look at my face.
I am one of the people fighting for life, fighting for all of the people in San Francisco to get rid of the drug dealers that is supported by our current mayor, Landon Breed.
That is common sense. She wants to open more illegal side injections for the drug dealers to go in and suit more drugs under the expenses of you, the taxpayers in San Francisco.
And you know what happened? When the federal government comes, It will be confiscate the properties, arrest drug dealers, that include arresting the mayor and the board of supervisors who supported illegal drugs.
That is the federal law.
Same thing with all those drugs.
About three to four weeks ago, San Francisco, we have the federal government came in, arrest 32 drug dealers, leaders, And some of them are named.
The question is, why?
Why the local electoral officers, all 11 border supervisors and the mayor right now?
Why?
Why? Why using the public money to give people free needles, encourage the drug dealers, sell more drugs for the people to drug them, then send them to public health to rehab?
I never understand this part, but this is what I find now.
Remember, I do government investigation from government employee complaints.
And when I go out to the community, I also complain.
I also reinvest the complaints from the residents and the people on the street who ask me questions.
I pay attention to what people said.
So this is what I found out.
Our local government, it's been paid and bought by the same people who have corrupted our government.
And I'm sorry to say that.
For the last many years, the election fraud has supported peer range with insiders, with their candidates, ideal candidates, pay and borrow.
You know how I know?
It's common sense.
For 45 years, there's no other parties other than Democrats only.
And this is what I know.
2018, the city government paid $4.16 million for matching funds for Land and Breed, for Jane Kim, for Mark Leno, who are running for mayor and other people at that time, 2018.
It's all public information.
My question is, who?
Who are the people behind those arrangements?
Maybe the people in San Francisco should go to the Ethic Commission and inquire public information, like I do.
I did. $4.16 million for matching funds, so they can go to the office.
And then they have Super PAC, its political Action Committee.
They prearrange with people with inside information and continue to corrupt the system.
So once the people in City Hall and that's why San Francisco we have 992 nonprofit organizations.
If San Francisco if the voters in San Francisco continue to vote the same people the same party The same people behind them?
Then you do not expect any change.
We will be having more homeless to come.
Last year we had 15,000 homeless.
This year we have 21,000 homeless.
We are talking about open homeless navigation center in each neighborhood.
That means San Francisco will be turning into Islam.
We'll be turning into worse than third world country.
Because what we see in the Tenderloin area, it's an example about a third world country.
Third world country, the people will have a bathroom to go to.
But in Tenderloin, people just pee, poo, suit up drugs openly.
While the police passing by, nothing happened.
We are We are dealing with insanity.
Insane. We are living in a world that is no longer making common sense.
And it's no longer a regular, normal city.
I'm a normal, regular person.
I consider myself having basic common sense.
What is common sense?
If you have pain, you would take a painkiller.
If you thirst, you would drink some water.
If you have a dental problem, you will go to see a dentist.
That is called basic common sense.
In San Francisco, when we have 25,000 drug dealers and drug users and drug users, the government will not stop them instead of giving them 5 million free needles for them to suit drugs openly in front of schools.
In front of bus stops, in front of city hall, in front of bus stations.
No, I don't get that part.
If people in San Francisco continue to think that things will change, I'm telling you right now, San Francisco will not change unless you have a new leader.
Oh, it'll change.
No, no, no. It'll change.
It will just change for the worst, right?
Yeah, it will change for the worst.
So the people in San Francisco, Think about the statistic that I'm giving you right now.
We have $12.3 billion budget divided by 900 residents equal to everyone is entitled to minimum $1,300 a month.
We are a welfare city We should not see anybody pass away and die on any of the San Francisco streets.
Why? It's because we have the money.
And why? It's because we have so many empty housing units.
And why? It's because this is America.
America was founded with love.
Integrity and hope and that's why in America we say in God we trust and that's why in America we said we are one God, one nation.
We said it, we proclaim it.
If people in America suffering, dying on the street and eating from the garbage can, we are not in America.
This is Some of those issues, I personally believe that we may have other people from other countries purposely pay and bought our current elected officers who are representing our government.
They are not representing the people.
Something must be going on.
This is very common sense.
People should wake up and use the number, use the figures.
Think about it. If we have 32,000 active government employees with 60 departments, nobody, nobody should be hungered and should be sleeping on the street and should be naked and mentally ill,
harassing people who are walking by and nobody Nobody's property should be invaded and no Asian people should be robbed or raped.
But this year, we have so many Chinese, so many Asian people assaulted, robbed.
Why? It's because we are lawless.
We have no rule of law.
Two months ago, we had a meeting in Chinatown, San Francisco Chinatown.
We, the public, asked for help.
The mayor's office and many of the police and other departments include the DA office.
They tell the Chinese, shut up!
We don't want to hear it.
They end the meeting with no answer.
That's how I know our government is not for the people.
If people in San Francisco have some common sense, For 45 years, no other party but Democrats, for 45 years with all those election fraud, that people are 100 years old and 151 years old and still able to vote, that people, 21,000 homeless people dying on the street, and we have 25,000 drug dealers dominate our street, and you're still thinking that things will be changed.
Nothing is going to improve unless you have new leadership, and that new leadership That will be me.
And why do I say that?
Because I have enough of those garbage.
I have enough of those problems that I'm seeing.
I'm not the only one.
I am campaigning for better San Francisco.
I was nominated by the San Francisco Coalition for Good Neighborhoods from all 11 districts.
People came in and asked me to leave.
To lead this city and back to a common sense city.
And here I am campaigning for change.
You know what city hall people?
In my opinion, many of them, they should be detained.
They should be detained.
You know why they should be detained?
Because sanctuary city and sanctuary state, it's against our constitution that is called treasonous.
That is selling America for other countries.
We have so many people dying on the street inside California.
In the entire United States, we have approximately 600,000 homeless.
California alone, we have minimum 170,000 homeless.
San Francisco, we have 21,000 homeless people.
In San Francisco, we spent so much money on welcoming non-local San Franciscans to become homeless and stay homeless so they can use their information to vote on the homeless behalf.
The dead people voted on their behalf.
That was all government corruption.
And how come people don't say anything?
Why? How come the leaders, the voters, the people in San Francisco?
I heard so many complaints.
They know the problem, but they are so afraid to say it.
I'm asking the people in San Francisco.
I'm asking the people in California.
Get up.
Get out there to vote.
Not only vote, but demand transparent On the voting system that has been corrupted for 45 years.
I want to make sure that people get the website.
So the website is ellenformayor2019.com and you have lots of information out there, lots of media out there.
I certainly encourage people to have a look at your website.
I think it's very interesting. I would...
Take ringside seats to see you do battle with...
Vote November 15, 2019, Ellen Lee Zhao, new San Francisco mayor.
There's the Chinese there.
And I'll fly down to see you do battle with the City Hall once you're in there because I think that would be quite a spectacle.
And I really, really do appreciate your time today and your passion for what was a beautiful city and hopefully will be again.
Ellen, thank you so much for your time today.
Thank you. I hope the people in San Francisco are helping themselves by coming out, not only vote, but re-register as a Republican or any party, but not Democrats.
Because Democrats are not for America.
They are for themselves. They are for their political agenda.
I am. I am your voice in San Francisco.
And when I win this mayor's race, we're going to be explosively expanding the agenda that I'm about to head to save San Francisco.
And we're going to help save California, one city at a time.
We're going to collaborate with our federal government to arrest The people who violate the law and put them in an appropriate place.
So we will not have copyright ends every day.
We will not have robbery every day.
We will not have the victims that we continue to face and waste our government money.
I will be cutting taxes to save people.
I will be working with reasonable people to reform a government with law and order, and I will be the one.
The only one that you can trust right now.
Because if I am publicly acknowledging all those corruption that I personally investigating, and I can't say I personally investigating.
There's a lot of people, a team investigating and only become a spokesperson, a voice to deliver to people so people can wake up from the nightmare.
I came from China to come to San Francisco for a better life.
But the life that I'm facing right now, it's a nightmare.
We're no longer able to have American dream, the way that we're going in San Francisco.
So I'm begging, I'm asking, please, Head of heart for San Francisco.
Please, save the homeless people from the politicians, the career politicians, using them, abusing them, using the government money for their own gangs.
Please, I'm asking the people in San Francisco, vote for me, Ellen, for mayor, on November 5th.
When I am in the office, I will be creating the programs to help the teachers with the empty apartments and the property owners.
At the same time, I will be working with the federal government To enforce our United States Constitution so the local people will be benefit.
Nobody should be dying on the street.
Nobody should be eating food from the garbage can.
And nobody should be abused for a government that we are facing.
It's called the tyranny government.
And I appreciate the time for today.
And I thank you.
I am trying my best.
Well, I appreciate your passion for your city.
And thank you again so much for your time.
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