Bonus Episode: Re-Pete

This is California: The Battle of 187

Los Angeles Times

Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 679 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve listened to the first three parts of this podcast, you know former California governor Pete Wilson played a big role in setting the stage for Proposition 187. We tried to arrange an interview with him for months. And the day The Battle of 187 got released, we finally got a date on the calendar. So here’s a special bonus episode of our podcast, in which host Gustavo Arellano asks Wilson questions that have been bothering him forever. Like, who created that crazy “They Keep Coming” ad? And did undocumented families like Gustavo’s ruin California? To learn more, go to latimes.com/thisiscalifornia.

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0:00.0	From the Los Angeles Times and Futuro Studios, I'm Gustavo Ariano, and you're listening to a special bonus episode of This Is California, the Battle of 187.
0:13.3	Hi, we're here to have a 10 o'clock with Pete Wilson.
0:17.3	If you haven't listened to the first three parts of our podcast, do it right now,
0:21.2	por favor.
0:22.1	They'll tell you about Proposition 187, a 1994 California ballot initiative that targeted illegal
0:28.0	immigrants and changed the state forever.
0:30.3	And it affects a national debate on the issue even today.
0:33.2	Martin, 28, please.
0:34.7	Former California governor Pete Wilson played a big role in setting the stage for 187.
0:40.0	I tried to arrange an interview with him for months to ask him questions that have been bothering me forever.
0:45.4	Like, who created that crazy?
0:47.7	They keep coming, ad.
0:49.3	And did undocumented immigrants like my father ruin California?
0:52.5	Well, the day our podcast got released, we finally got a date on the calendar.
0:58.0	So here I am at Wilson's Law Offices with my producer, Abby Fentra Swanson, to have that conversation.
1:04.3	Yeah, so tell us where we are.
1:05.6	We're in Century City.
1:07.1	We're going to go meet Pete Wilson to do an interview that we've been working on for
1:12.6	months, and let's see how it goes.
1:15.3	Em, thank you.
1:16.2	Appreciate it.
1:17.3	Three security guards to get to Pete Wilson.
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