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Speaker 1: on the John Phillips Show. Mister Randy Wangs in Culver City.

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Speaker 1: California Policy Center and he is the host of National

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Speaker 1: at will Swam, will Swam Welcome.

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Speaker 3: Hey John, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Well, thanks so much for stopping by. So let's start

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Speaker 1: out with the gubernatorial race, because there has been a

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Speaker 1: That story might drop as soon as tomorrow. According to

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Speaker 4: Well, I think what's fascinating to watch for those of

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Speaker 3: To identity politics. So what do I think.

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Speaker 4: The knowledge that Swalwell has been accused, not just accused.

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Speaker 3: You can't deny the science. I think your.

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Speaker 3: Nobody will back.

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Speaker 3: What do you think of that?

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Speaker 1: that's what I'm going to do, and anyone who asked

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Speaker 3: John.

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Speaker 4: I would never play poker against you in Vegas or anywhere.

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Speaker 4: That is a really smart analysis.

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Speaker 4: I've heard a lot of people on our side say, look,

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Speaker 3: That makes a lot of sense to me.

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Speaker 4: But I've talked to a lot of folks on our side,

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Speaker 4: He's got a business background and a couple of billion

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Speaker 4: He is a climate alarmist of the most extreme sort

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Speaker 3: Budget, that ain't going to be enough.

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Speaker 4: You've got a legislature that is fully overstocked with the

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Speaker 4: like your analysis. I think it's very subtle, very nuanced,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you this about Stier, and this is the

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Speaker 3: More what sort I'm looking forward. They're much more earnest

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Speaker 4: They didn't simply grow up this way, Get on a bus,

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Speaker 4: For him, You're right, this is a propitiation for many

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Speaker 3: That is big. It dominates the news.

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Speaker 4: Find the Californian who knows more about the state budget,

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Speaker 4: So I think that's what we've the problem we've got

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Speaker 4: I would argue Chad Bianco has run a department He

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Speaker 4: You could argue doesn't have that kind of experience, But

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Speaker 4: So who would I vote for a guy who has that.

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Speaker 3: Just they can't understand it.

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Speaker 4: They do not understand the connection between total incompetence and

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Speaker 1: We have about one minute left, one of them is

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Speaker 4: It's worse than most Californians can really appreciate every year

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Speaker 1: All Right, we know that there are a number of

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Speaker 2: We have heard doom report after doom report about how

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Speaker 7: Sc Transit board of Directors is looking into potential service cuts.

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Speaker 8: The transit agency is facing a fifty million dollar budget shortfall.

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Speaker 9: There have been no changes to AC Transit bus lines yet,

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Speaker 10: transit riders in our region, and so these level of service.

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Speaker 2: By the way, if I was somebody that was being

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Speaker 2: forced to go into the office in San Francisco and

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Speaker 2: I would tell my boss, Hey, AC transit shut down,

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Speaker 2: BART shut down. I got to work remotely, Sorry, buddy.

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Speaker 1: And they'd say, yeah, right, sit in traffic.

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Speaker 10: These level of service cuts that they're projecting would be

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Speaker 10: really catastrophic, not just taking away the transit options for

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Speaker 10: people who depend on them to get to work or

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Speaker 10: to school wherever they're going, but also for drivers. Now,

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Speaker 10: all of those transit riders would end up on our

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Speaker 10: roads and it would cause a traffic nightmare.

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Speaker 2: Commuters are wait, the Bay Area is already a traffic nightmare.

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Speaker 1: I guess it would be more of a nightmare.

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Speaker 9: Commuters are already reacting.

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Speaker 4: I think it would be foolish if we didn't have them,

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Speaker 4: because then all.

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Speaker 2: The cars would be this is the new trend, and

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Speaker 2: it's going to be this bizarre situation where now every

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Speaker 2: single year when we have an election, there's going to

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Speaker 2: be some part of what just should be the general

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Speaker 2: budget of the state of California or the county that

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Speaker 2: you're in. You're going to have a special sales tax

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Speaker 2: for this and a special sales tax for this, because

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Speaker 2: none of these budgets can, none of these agencies can

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Speaker 2: live within their means. The fact that there's going to

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Speaker 2: be a ballot measure in LA to bail out the

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Speaker 2: fire department is an indictment of the City of Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: Well, and they don't ask the relevant questions. They're asking

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Speaker 1: this woman, should there be a tax and increase to

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Speaker 1: prevent service cuts for public transit? But isn't the more

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Speaker 1: appropriate question weren't they dumb and derelict in their duty

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Speaker 1: to use one time COVID funds for pay increases.

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Speaker 11: I think it would be foolish.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you talked to the former director of BART,

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Speaker 2: Deborah Allen. She'll talk about that the labor contracts that

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Speaker 2: they negotiated were so generous, including all of this overtime

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Speaker 2: that they've been spending on people not doing a whole

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Speaker 2: lot of work. That's how they got into the red

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Speaker 2: so fast. Sure, sure, COVID had something to do with it,

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Speaker 2: but also it was BART that decided to defer maintenance,

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Speaker 2: which has led to all these shutdowns recently. And it

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Speaker 2: was BART and all the other transit agencies that went

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Speaker 2: along with Gavin in twenty twenty and said, yeah, let's

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Speaker 2: make transit free and turn all of these things into

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Speaker 2: a giant homeless shelter, which drove away people for a

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Speaker 2: very long time.

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Speaker 4: I think it would be foolish if we didn't have them,

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Speaker 4: because then all the cars would be on the roads

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Speaker 4: and nobody would enjoy it.

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Speaker 11: I think we need it.

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Speaker 4: I got to worry that BART just hasn't come back

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Speaker 4: the way I would have expected it to after COVID and.

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Speaker 2: UH and I get it. A lot of that is

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Speaker 2: BART shooting themselves in the foot. The ridership is coming

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Speaker 2: back and at the exact same time they have had

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Speaker 2: how many shutdowns in the Transbay Tube they just had

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Speaker 2: one of the Embarcadero station. It's happening a lot. It

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Speaker 2: is making that service a lot less reliable, and that's

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Speaker 2: all on them. You can't blame that on COVID or

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Speaker 2: remote work.

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Speaker 1: And you notice a management change is not something that's

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Speaker 1: part of this.

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Speaker 2: And the other thing that's never talked about is if

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Speaker 2: you need more money, why don't you increase the fares.

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Speaker 2: The idea is always to make the people who aren't

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Speaker 2: using the system pay for it, not the people that

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Speaker 2: are using the system.

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Speaker 1: That's ridiculous, and.

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Speaker 4: I'm glad we're seeing a few more people out there,

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Speaker 4: but we really need to use.

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Speaker 9: These saying temporary funding helped keep systems running, but that

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Speaker 9: support is set to expire next year.

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Speaker 10: Going to the ballot in November is really our only

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Speaker 10: option to prevent these massive cuts.

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Speaker 2: And then what happens when you balloon that budget you

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Speaker 2: put another sales tax increase next year, of course, and.

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Speaker 9: As for AC Transit situation, the board is expected to

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Speaker 9: vote on the two options in June, and if approved,

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Speaker 9: there would still be a public input process before any

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Speaker 9: final decisions on.

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Speaker 1: Which bouts would be cut.

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Speaker 9: Reporting here in the newsroom, gil on cron for neis

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Speaker 9: all right.

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Speaker 1: Gail, thank you, So there you go.

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Speaker 2: AC Transit the latest Bay Area transit agency to warn

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Speaker 2: that if they don't get that sales tax increase in November,

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Speaker 2: they're going to be making all kinds of service cuts,

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Speaker 2: making this system even less reliable than it already is.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Jack and Escondido. Jack hello.

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Speaker 6: Ulcher was saying, is just tragic. Fifteen years ago Mart's

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Speaker 6: unicible bonds when investment grad Now they are junk and

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Speaker 6: I'm in that business and we're getting killed on both

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Speaker 6: ends because if the billionaire and millionaire tax passes, all

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Speaker 6: the people that buy these bonds are leaving the state

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Speaker 6: if they haven't already left, and will really change things

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Speaker 6: even more than Hilton winning. Is some major defaults in

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Speaker 6: the California bond market, and the coverages on these bonds

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Speaker 6: are not who wouldn't have free to want anymore. They're

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Speaker 6: barely making enough money to pay just cover the interest

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Speaker 6: on these bonds. And your earlier guest about the structural

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Speaker 6: depthsit in the state of California is exhibit A. Even

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Speaker 6: the State of California's general obligation bonds are being downgraded.

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Speaker 1: It is a very scary future, particularly when you're dealing

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Speaker 1: with candidates who are running for the office office of

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Speaker 1: governor who aren't even running on state issues. They're running

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Speaker 1: on federal issues. So all of these problems are going

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Speaker 1: to catch them by surprise and they're going to not

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Speaker 1: have the skills needed to be able to fix it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for the call, Sarah. Let's go to Lesson

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Speaker 1: Pasadena Lass.

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Speaker 5: Hello John Randy. Two things. First of all, I don't

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Speaker 5: know if you guys ever got a Golden Mic Award,

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Speaker 5: but you deserve one for your hilarious episode Katie Porter

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Speaker 5: in the Kitchen. It's as good as Lucy and Ethel

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Speaker 5: in the candy Factory. Well, anyway, I'm calling with good news.

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Speaker 1: As you know.

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Speaker 5: I called into the station on March eleventh, the day

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Speaker 5: after I went to a Glendale City Council meeting and

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Speaker 5: demanded the Southern California Railway Authority, which owns the track

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Speaker 5: shoes by Amtrak, Mentro Lincoln Union Pacific, remove a homeless

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Speaker 5: encampment under a bridge halfway between Glendale Station and Union Station. Well,

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Speaker 5: I think that mayor aar Nazarian who is on the

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Speaker 5: board of Metro and Mentoral life. I got the message.

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Speaker 5: The encampment was removed on or about March twenty fourth,

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Speaker 5: and the story gets better. Last Friday, I took the

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Speaker 5: train from Union Station to Northridge after a Metrolink conductor

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Speaker 5: tipped me off about homeless encampments on the railroad right

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Speaker 5: of way between Northbridge and Van Eyes. He was right,

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Speaker 5: three encampments on the west side of the tracks and

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Speaker 5: twenty one encampments on the east side of the tracks.

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Speaker 5: Before I could demand that the railway authority remove those encampments,

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Speaker 5: another Metrolink conductor told me that Cruz removed those encampments

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Speaker 5: on Tuesday. And my advice to anyone who is angry

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Speaker 5: or frustrated about a homeless encampment in or around the neighborhood,

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Speaker 5: please remember that liberal politicians are like cockroaches. They don't

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Speaker 5: like the glare of bad publicity. And last for John

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Speaker 5: and Randy, I want to be in the same company

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Speaker 5: with Spencer Pratt, Seneca Scott, Nick Shirley and others who

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Speaker 5: are trying to turn this corrupt one party stayed around.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you for the call, Sir. Eight hundred

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Speaker 1: two two two five two two two is the telephone

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Speaker 1: number one eight hundred two two two five two two two.

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Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is

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Speaker 1: telephone number one eight hundred two two two five to

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Speaker 1: two two two. If you'd like to email the show,

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Speaker 1: you can do so at Johnny Don't like show at

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Speaker 1: gmail dot com. That's Johnny don't like show at gmail

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Speaker 1: dot com. Let's go to Travis and Oakland and Travis.

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Speaker 3: Hello, John.

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Speaker 6: If AC Transit shuts down, there's gonna be a lot

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Speaker 6: less guns than people's faces, because that's what goes on

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Speaker 6: in AC Transit Oakland.

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Speaker 3: And let me say one more thing.

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Speaker 6: Those people in sam Pablo were lucky to get a

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Speaker 6: cop that wasn't busy, because there are more fistfights in

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Speaker 6: big parking lots in Sam Pablo, California than just about

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Speaker 6: anywhere else in.

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Speaker 3: The world world.

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Speaker 4: So they really lucked out finding one that wasn't busy.

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Speaker 1: I love it. Thank you for the call, sir. Let's

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Speaker 1: go to Craig I San Jose, Craig Hello.

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Speaker 12: Hello John, if bart limit's uh service? Where will the

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Speaker 12: bums void their bladders? Where will the junkies empty their bowels?

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Speaker 1: I think that's one of those questions where you probably

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Speaker 1: don't want to know the answer to it.

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Speaker 12: With if evidence is on your side.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for the call, sir. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: I needed that mental image in my head, but here

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Speaker 1: we are all right. Yesterday we had Matthew Seedorf on

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Speaker 1: the program, who is a reporter extraordinariy for Fox eleven

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Speaker 1: and we had a discusis about all the unusual places

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Speaker 1: where homeless people are now living in Los Angeles. Well,

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Speaker 1: on the subject of unusual, Oh boy, did Matthew Cedorf

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Speaker 1: have a humdinger last night?

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Speaker 2: A homeless encampmen outside of a school in South LA.

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Speaker 2: Where you're walking on top of tons and tons and

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Speaker 2: tons of discarded condoms. Not exactly Norman rockwells America for more.

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Speaker 2: Here is Fox eleven in Los Angeles and.

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Speaker 7: Tonight long standing concerns of safety at a South LA

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Speaker 7: elementary school, parents complaining about dodging homeless encampments, drugs, and

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Speaker 7: prostitutes while walking their kids to class. Fox elevens of

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Speaker 7: Matthew Pseudo reporting live tonight in South LA was the

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Speaker 7: latest Matthew Well.

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Speaker 13: Christine, this is something that parents say that they've been

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Speaker 13: complaining about for years, and today finally city crews cleared

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Speaker 13: out those encampments, but already some are back.

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Speaker 1: Of course, it is a game of black them all.

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Speaker 13: Only hours after a city cleanup, a notorious and cam

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Speaker 13: in returns near an elementary school with flames.

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Speaker 14: They come back within an hour. Someone just said, oh,

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Speaker 14: which is waiting for them to clean up and we

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Speaker 14: gonna get back.

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Speaker 1: It's almost like we have a maid that comes and

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Speaker 1: cleans up their house. Is the maid like the one

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Speaker 1: on the Brady Bunch who dates the butcher?

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Speaker 11: That's how bad it is.

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Speaker 13: About a block from sixty first Street Elementary School is

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Speaker 13: the one ten freeway underpass.

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Speaker 14: Not that A pipes that are broken, epheesist, massive condoms used?

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Speaker 1: Whoa wait, massive condoms used? Is she talking about the

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Speaker 1: size of the condoms or the number of the condoms

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Speaker 1: on the street. It's unclear.

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Speaker 14: No, that ap pipes that are broken epheesist, massive condoms used.

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Speaker 1: It could just be one person If it's massive condoms a.

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Speaker 13: Spot parents and their kids, daily dodge tents, mounts, trash,

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Speaker 13: drugs and violence just to get to class.

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Speaker 11: And people having sex in their cars.

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Speaker 2: Oh boy, Oh so this is also on a blade

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Speaker 2: and there's a bunch of prostitution going on.

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Speaker 1: If that cars are rocking, don't go and knocking.

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Speaker 2: Okay, maybe that's where the condoms are coming from. Maybe

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Speaker 2: they just discard them at the homeless encampment.

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Speaker 8: And once they're done, they throw the used condoms on

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Speaker 8: the sidewalk in on the street and this.

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Speaker 1: Is I can't wait for the Olympics to come. So

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Speaker 1: what goes on when they do that? They just throw

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Speaker 1: the condom on the street. They go back to mother

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Speaker 1: nature from which it came.

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Speaker 11: Directly where children are walking to and from school.

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Speaker 14: Had a parent that actually comes into school and she

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Speaker 14: has two kids, and she was snatched by one of

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Speaker 14: the homeless and comment and was placing the tent.

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Speaker 1: WHOA, that's no fun.

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Speaker 13: Several residents have voiced concerns.

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Speaker 11: I've been in contact with City nine and also.

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Speaker 2: The Oh current price and answer in your calls, he's

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Speaker 2: got a corruption trial to deal with.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, all those calls are followed on deaf ears.

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Speaker 8: I've been in contact with City nine and also the

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Speaker 8: school for since twenty twenty one, trying to get them

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Speaker 8: to come up with permanent solutions.

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Speaker 13: What's been the solution so far?

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Speaker 11: Zero?

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Speaker 1: Well, it's on brand zero.

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Speaker 14: I've called three one one, I've done it through the app.

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Speaker 14: I report when there's actually fires, when I have got

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Speaker 14: him here at the fire department, journey, Oh yeah, we

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Speaker 14: know the boy the names, but we can't do nothing

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Speaker 14: about it.

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Speaker 2: We know these homeless people buy their names. Ones that

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Speaker 2: start fires every day, but there's nothing we can do

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Speaker 2: about it.

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Speaker 1: This is how we live in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 2: This is the kind of nonsense that leads to over

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Speaker 2: half of all response from the fire department being homeless related.

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Speaker 13: Finally, Wednesday, city crews cleared it out, but within hours

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Speaker 13: some homeless return to trash cans back. We walked in

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Speaker 13: and found this fire burning over motor oil.

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Speaker 1: Oh my, I'm telling you, it's like the day after

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Speaker 1: the end of the world.

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Speaker 13: Then turned around after seeing a man neighbors say consistently

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Speaker 13: carries a machete that I.

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Speaker 11: Am very, very disappointed with.

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Speaker 13: The CD parents demanding a lasting fix so kids can

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Speaker 13: walk to school safely, respectfully.

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Speaker 14: Come as Jo Dessy, come and do your job because

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Speaker 14: these kids deserve better.

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Speaker 2: Well, you're gonna have to get different representation at the

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Speaker 2: city council level, and you're going to need to have

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Speaker 2: a different mayor.

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Speaker 1: If you want to see anything change, yep, start voting differently,

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Speaker 1: Rosie Perez.

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Speaker 13: We reached out to counsemember Current Price as well as

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Speaker 13: the school district is so far tight, we're still waiting

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Speaker 13: to hear back. Reporting live Matthew Seedorf Fox elevenues.

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Speaker 2: There you go, the latest in Matthew Seedorf's what seems

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Speaker 2: like never ending series of where are the Homeless Today?

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Speaker 1: He could turn all this into a book. All right,

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Speaker 1: that's going to do it for us. Today we'll be