Reason TV: Richard Riordan on Unions, Dysfunctional LA, and Golfing with the (Ex) Governator (Extended Interview)

"They put incompetent adults ahead of children," Richard Riordan says of teachers unions who stand in the way of school reform.

The former mayor of Los Angeles took office shortly after the 1992 riots and shortly before the massive 1994 Northridge earthquake. Today, notes Riordan, the City of Angels faces a slate of different crises, from failing public schools to a fiscal calamity that has put the city on the brink of bankruptcy.

In this wide-ranging extended version of an interview that aired in January (and was shot in December), Riordan sits down with Reason.tv's Tim Cavanaugh to discuss public-sector unions, privatization, LA's dysfunctional government, why businesses are leaving the city, and why Arnold Schwarzenegger won't golf with him.

Approximately 40 minutes.

Shot by Zach Weissmueller, Paul Detrick, and Alex Manning. Edited by Detrick.

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[Fiscal Meth]

I heard Riorden talk at a school choice thing. Right after he got through explaining that he doesn't like vouchers because people could just take their vouchers to any school they wanted and con men would put together all kinds of sham schools to scam people out of their money, he called himself a libertarian. My wife and I laughed aloud. The idea that the Government should be telling parents which schools they are allowed choose for their kids as a way to AVOID corruption is an idea only a politician could come up with.

Sorry Riorden, a distaste for unions does not a libertarian make.

[David Augustyn]

For longer videos like this, it would be very useful for someone at Reason to put time indicators for different topics.

I wanted to listen specifically to Riordan's comments about businesses leaving LA.

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