1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,160 Speaker 1: And very Happy Friday to you at twelve oh seven 2 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:06,720 Speaker 1: in the West each the John Phillips Show, Mister Randy 3 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:10,920 Speaker 1: Waggings across the Glass John. The California Secretary of State's 4 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:15,920 Speaker 1: office has posted the final certified list of candidates running 5 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:19,480 Speaker 1: for governor in the June second primary, and there are 6 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:25,680 Speaker 1: twenty four Democrats, twenty three Independents, twelve Republicans, one libertarian, 7 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 1: and one Piece and Freedom Party candidate for a grand 8 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:33,520 Speaker 1: total of sixty one candidates on the ballot. How many 9 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:37,879 Speaker 1: porn stars or actors who started different strokes? None this 10 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 1: time around. Well, that's a change of pace. I wonder 11 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 1: what the polling would look like if they put all 12 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 1: sixty one candidates on the polls. You do realize this 13 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:54,640 Speaker 1: ballot is going to look like a menu at the 14 00:00:54,720 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 1: cheesecake factory. Yes, and it's going to be a complete mess. 15 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:05,120 Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 16 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:06,120 Speaker 1: telephone number? 17 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:06,280 Speaker 2: What? 18 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:08,800 Speaker 1: Eight hundred two to two two five two two two. 19 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:10,840 Speaker 1: I have to admit I have a little pep in 20 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:15,319 Speaker 1: my step today because the Angels defeated the Houston Astros yesterday, 21 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:20,839 Speaker 1: So the negativity and defeatism hasn't set in yet cherish 22 00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 1: this moment, John, It's not gonna last long. That is 23 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:28,280 Speaker 1: very true. And the Dodgers they ended up beating Arizona yesterday. 24 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:32,119 Speaker 1: Oh wow, so there's gonna be about two million angry 25 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:37,440 Speaker 1: people with melanoma. How about the West Sacramento as they 26 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 1: start playing today? Right? I think? 27 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 3: So? 28 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:43,640 Speaker 1: Their building is coming along in Las Vegas? Have you 29 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 1: seen that? No? Yeah, where the Tropicana used to be, 30 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 1: right across from the Mandalay Bay. There. Are you going 31 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 1: to be safe going to those games? I'm not going 32 00:01:56,520 --> 00:01:58,160 Speaker 1: to Raiders games? What are you talking about? 33 00:01:58,320 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 4: No? 34 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 1: I mean when the the A's inevitably moved to Vegas 35 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 1: and the Angels will be playing the As several times, 36 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:08,959 Speaker 1: are you gonna have to go to a meeting beforehand? Oh? 37 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 1: I'm going to go to just about every homestand that 38 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 1: is played in Las Vegas involving the Angels. You might 39 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:23,800 Speaker 1: need to get a condo out there. I might. All Right, 40 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 1: it's Friday, It's Jimmy Buffett Friday, and we're going to 41 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:28,799 Speaker 1: start out with a treat for all the people in 42 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 1: radio land because it is an ed Lasco's Friday too, 43 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:36,360 Speaker 1: and it's on like Donkey Kong. It is not a 44 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:40,520 Speaker 1: crime blodder story though it is actually something far worse 45 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 1: and something that I'm sure a lot of people listening 46 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 1: and even in the studio have experience with. Imagine that 47 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:53,600 Speaker 1: you are a survivor of the Eaton fire, whether your 48 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 1: home burned down or your home was damaged. Well, there 49 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: are some survivors of the Eaton Fire that live in 50 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 1: an hoa. Mind you, it's an hoa full of burned 51 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:10,640 Speaker 1: down in damaged buildings, and the Hoa, doing what hoas do, 52 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:16,120 Speaker 1: has put down a twenty four thousand dollars assessment on 53 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:20,040 Speaker 1: all homeowners and burned out lot owners that they must 54 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 1: pay in thirty days. You know, in the old days, 55 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:27,240 Speaker 1: I would have said that hoas are filled with neighborhood Napoleons, 56 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:32,400 Speaker 1: but I think napoleon is not the accurate term. They're 57 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 1: filled with Karens, and the Karens have been unleashed. 58 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 4: Karen, why are you doing this? 59 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 1: For more on the hoa in Alta Dina that is 60 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 1: foicing the victims of the Eden Fire. Here's Ed Laskos 61 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:50,520 Speaker 1: and Fox eleven. 62 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 2: Recovery efforts from the Eaton Fire take a dramatic turn 63 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 2: with neighbors at odds. Lawsuits flying, and now some homeowners 64 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 2: are getting hit with an HOA bill almost twenty four 65 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 2: thousand dollars each. 66 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:08,240 Speaker 1: That's oh wow, right? How are people supposed to plan 67 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 1: for these special assessments when their house didn't burn down, 68 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 1: let alone when you have no house. I am a 69 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:19,159 Speaker 1: pretty even keeled guy. How many times have you seen 70 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:23,160 Speaker 1: me raise my voice in my life? It's almost never happened. 71 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:28,040 Speaker 1: If they sent me an assessment for twenty four thousand 72 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:33,200 Speaker 1: dollars after my home burned down, I would go to jail. 73 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:38,480 Speaker 1: I think the angriest I ever seen you was that 74 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:42,120 Speaker 1: video you sent me early in COVID where you threw 75 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:45,960 Speaker 1: your la times in the garbage. Oh yes, but I 76 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 1: didn't even yell then. I never raise my voice. I 77 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:55,039 Speaker 1: never get really truly mad. This would piss me off. 78 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:59,400 Speaker 1: This would be a bleepfest. Oh yes, those expletives would fly. 79 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:01,560 Speaker 1: How are residents dealing with it all? 80 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:04,359 Speaker 5: We go live to Fox eleven's Atlaskos and Altadena with 81 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:09,480 Speaker 5: more on that story edge chrisina wild situation here. Imagine 82 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:12,120 Speaker 5: getting hit with an assessment almost twenty four thousand dollars. 83 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:13,800 Speaker 5: You have a short period of time to pay it, 84 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 5: and you're one of those who lost everything. You have 85 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 5: nothing left but a burnt out land. Your home is gone. 86 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 5: That's the situation here. That's the controversy. Let's get this. 87 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:25,240 Speaker 1: Might be worse than when the LAFD sent bills to 88 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 1: clear your brush on your burned out lots in the Palisades. 89 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:32,279 Speaker 5: It's just rude. That's the situation here. That's the controversy. 90 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:33,120 Speaker 5: Let's get right to it. 91 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:33,600 Speaker 1: To the video. 92 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:36,679 Speaker 5: We go talking about the gated high end community of Levina. 93 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:40,080 Speaker 5: If you're familiar with it, it's high in the hills up 94 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 5: on the northwestern side of Altadena. Some three hundred homes here, 95 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:46,360 Speaker 5: more than fifty of them burned, destroyed in the devastating 96 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:49,360 Speaker 5: Eaten fire, several others heavily damaged. And now you have 97 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:51,720 Speaker 5: the HIAA a year later trying to rebuild, saying it 98 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:55,320 Speaker 5: needs some sixty one million dollars for those fire repair costs, 99 00:05:55,360 --> 00:06:00,400 Speaker 5: everything from infrastructure like fencing, landscaping, irrigation, but the ha 100 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:00,800 Speaker 5: doesn't have. 101 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:03,520 Speaker 1: Of course, in HOA would figure out a way to 102 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 1: charge you sixty one million dollars for landscaping. Okay, let's 103 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:11,400 Speaker 1: just walk this through here for a second. Whenever I 104 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 1: get a bill from my HOA, it comes where to 105 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:22,440 Speaker 1: your mailbox? Okay, those burned down? If you don't pay 106 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:25,720 Speaker 1: the bill that comes to your mailbox, where do they 107 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:29,240 Speaker 1: post to notice letting you know that you haven't paid 108 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:33,480 Speaker 1: your bill? I guess they just use a sticky and 109 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 1: put it on the ground of where your house used 110 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:40,159 Speaker 1: to be. It's typically the front door, right, they put 111 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 1: the notice on the front door. Well, that burned down too, 112 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:49,120 Speaker 1: So what do they do? Send carrier pigeons. 113 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 5: For those fire repair costs, everything from infrastructure like fencing, landscaping, irrigation. 114 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:57,440 Speaker 5: But the HOA doesn't have all of that money. Their 115 00:06:57,480 --> 00:06:59,840 Speaker 5: insurance won't cover. So you and I know what this. 116 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:03,920 Speaker 1: So, when the insurance industry is screwing over the HOA, 117 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:07,680 Speaker 1: what does the HOA say, Like a bully getting bullied, 118 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:13,200 Speaker 1: I'm gonna screw over the people inside the HOA. I 119 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:15,360 Speaker 1: love the fact that they look at all of these 120 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:18,000 Speaker 1: fire victims, all of these people that have lost everything 121 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:21,320 Speaker 1: down to their baby pictures and toothbrush, and they go, 122 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 1: you know what, it's been a while since that person's 123 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:27,080 Speaker 1: been screwed. What do you say we charge them twenty 124 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:29,960 Speaker 1: four thousand dollars and if they don't pay them thirty days, 125 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:32,240 Speaker 1: we're going to auction off their house or what's left 126 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:36,560 Speaker 1: of it. You and I know what does the HOA do? 127 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:39,080 Speaker 5: And it needs money. Yes, it hits everybody, the homeowners 128 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:41,400 Speaker 5: with an assessment. But wait until you hear how much 129 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:44,520 Speaker 5: this assessment is and especially the terms of when it 130 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 5: has to be paid and what happens if you can't 131 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 5: pay it. 132 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 1: Listen, expect us. The only thing enjoyable about this story 133 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 1: is ed Lasko's. 134 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:56,200 Speaker 3: Ed is the king and expect us to give them 135 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:59,720 Speaker 3: twenty four thousand dollars with thirty days notice twenty four 136 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:03,520 Speaker 3: twenty four grand or risk Leans, How. 137 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:08,239 Speaker 1: Can you justify a thirty day window for that massive 138 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:11,840 Speaker 1: of a payment? No, and then how do you come 139 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:14,480 Speaker 1: up with twenty four thousand dollars If I'm sure you've 140 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:19,920 Speaker 1: exhausted your bank account trying to rebuild, finding temporary lodging, 141 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:22,680 Speaker 1: all of the issues that have popped up since the 142 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:26,000 Speaker 1: fire took out your house. Well, and imagine trying to 143 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 1: get a loan and they would use your house as collateral, 144 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:30,000 Speaker 1: except you don't have one anymore. 145 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:37,559 Speaker 3: Leans, late fees, twelve percent interests, and the removal of 146 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 3: your house is actually auctioning off your home. 147 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 5: A lot of these people's fifty some of them they 148 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:44,120 Speaker 5: have nothing. There's anything burned down exactly. 149 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 1: And you noticed that Newsom is nowhere. These people have 150 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:55,680 Speaker 1: been abused since the fire started and nothing is changing, 151 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:58,679 Speaker 1: and you talk to people in local government and they go, well, 152 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 1: we're doing everything we can help these people. And then 153 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 1: we cover the news on a daily basis and it's 154 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:08,520 Speaker 1: always something like this happening, and there's no one there 155 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 1: to protect them. They are on their own. You know, 156 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:15,679 Speaker 1: I was once again wasting my life listening to yet 157 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:19,040 Speaker 1: another Newsom interview. He was on with John Avlon, who's 158 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:21,840 Speaker 1: now with The Bulwark, and he was asked about the 159 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:24,960 Speaker 1: fact that only thirty homes have been rebuilt in all 160 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:29,120 Speaker 1: of southern California since the fires, and his answer was, well, 161 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:35,320 Speaker 1: that's faster than in Paradise. And that's the attitude. That 162 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:38,480 Speaker 1: is one hundred percent Govin Newsom's attitude. And he was 163 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 1: probably irritated that he was even asked the question and. 164 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:43,360 Speaker 5: They got to pay twenty four minute. 165 00:09:43,559 --> 00:09:44,000 Speaker 1: Yes they do. 166 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 3: Let's negotiate with all of these companies. Maybe there's a 167 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:51,080 Speaker 3: way to bring it down and figure out a payment plan. 168 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:56,560 Speaker 1: Also, if the insurance companies are not paying out the HOA, shouldn't. 169 00:09:56,600 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 1: I don't know. Somebody like the governor or the insurance 170 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:05,480 Speaker 1: commissioner be down there trying to figure that one out. 171 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:08,480 Speaker 1: I'm very kind of sketch. Yeah, good luck getting him 172 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:11,600 Speaker 1: to move. What do you think his vacation calendar is 173 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:14,400 Speaker 1: like on his last year of his term and he 174 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:17,880 Speaker 1: is termed out. Oh, he's going to follow DJ Kitty 175 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:19,800 Speaker 1: Glitter around like he's Pat Robertson. 176 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:23,760 Speaker 3: Bring it down and figure out a payment plan that's 177 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:26,760 Speaker 3: fair to everybody. If you can pay it now, great, 178 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:30,040 Speaker 3: If you can't pay it for six months, we feel 179 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:30,680 Speaker 3: bad for you. 180 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:33,880 Speaker 1: This isn't how hoa's worked. Dude, you knew what you 181 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:38,440 Speaker 1: were getting into. I feel awful for these people, but 182 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:40,600 Speaker 1: you know what you're getting into when you go into 183 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:43,240 Speaker 1: an HOA. There are certain things you get from it, 184 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:46,079 Speaker 1: especially being in a gated community, but there are certain 185 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:49,880 Speaker 1: trade offs. Well, it's a protection racket. It's like what 186 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:52,559 Speaker 1: the mob used to do in the old days. We 187 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:54,600 Speaker 1: live in a state where you know that you're on 188 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:57,280 Speaker 1: your own. So if you want to live in a 189 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:01,120 Speaker 1: place that is clean, that is not taken over by 190 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 1: the homeless. Typically, what you have to do is you 191 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:07,440 Speaker 1: have to live behind a locking gate, but you have 192 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:09,320 Speaker 1: to make a deal with the devil to do it, 193 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:13,239 Speaker 1: because the people who enforce the rules are the Karens. 194 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:18,800 Speaker 1: And by buying into an HOA, you are unleashing the Karens. 195 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:22,959 Speaker 1: And once you unleash the Karens, they not only fight 196 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 1: the evil, they fight the good too, because the Karens 197 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:28,520 Speaker 1: just live to be at war twenty four to seven. 198 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:32,480 Speaker 1: And if there's no homeless people causing any problems, they're 199 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 1: going to turn their anger towards you. And then every 200 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:39,199 Speaker 1: time you pass them on the street, there's gonna be 201 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:43,360 Speaker 1: some screeching metopausal explosion. And that's just coming from the men. 202 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:48,640 Speaker 1: Your hedges are a half inch too high. The Karens 203 00:11:48,679 --> 00:11:52,960 Speaker 1: can't turn it off. They have one speed. It doesn't 204 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:55,800 Speaker 1: matter if they're at the airport, they're at the post office, 205 00:11:55,920 --> 00:12:00,640 Speaker 1: they're at home, it doesn't matter. I can only imagine 206 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:03,800 Speaker 1: what it's like to be married to one of them. Well, 207 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:06,040 Speaker 1: most of them are divorced, I guess I should say. 208 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:10,440 Speaker 1: But that's who you're dealing with here. You made the 209 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:14,040 Speaker 1: deal with the devil, and the devil is good to 210 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:18,880 Speaker 1: enforce every clause in that contract. So just go into 211 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:24,280 Speaker 1: it knowing if you buy into an HOA that John 212 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:27,600 Speaker 1: and Kate plus eight haircut is gonna haunt you in 213 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:28,200 Speaker 1: your sleep. 214 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:31,720 Speaker 3: But we're gonna allow you to pay it off over 215 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:35,479 Speaker 3: six months because your house just burned. The pain continues, 216 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:38,520 Speaker 3: and it's really split this community. I don't know how 217 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:41,480 Speaker 3: we get back from this. I think it's pitted neighbor 218 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:45,240 Speaker 3: against neighbor. People think I'm a troublemaker just because I'm 219 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:47,520 Speaker 3: asking questions and want fairness. 220 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:50,880 Speaker 1: Yes, this guy's getting branded now because he said, wait, 221 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:53,240 Speaker 1: how am I supposed to pay a twenty five thousand 222 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:56,400 Speaker 1: dollars bill in my house burned down? He needs one 223 00:12:56,440 --> 00:12:58,840 Speaker 1: of those Karen Voodoo dolls now live. 224 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:01,920 Speaker 5: Ryan says he wants does he really wants transparency? Says 225 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:05,560 Speaker 5: he's been trying pressing the HOA for that transparency. Unhappy 226 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:08,280 Speaker 5: he's not getting ay the answers he wants. We've been 227 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:11,199 Speaker 5: trying to contact the Hoaight, no luck there as well. 228 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 5: There's been some lawsuits filed. But ladies, it's a tough 229 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:17,040 Speaker 5: battle almost as they say, think about. It's like fighting 230 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:19,800 Speaker 5: city hall. You can't win. The ho ways right through 231 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:21,000 Speaker 5: the state they have a great You. 232 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:23,680 Speaker 1: Can sometimes win against city hall, you cannot win against 233 00:13:23,679 --> 00:13:27,920 Speaker 1: an hoa. It is the most oppressive form of government 234 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:32,040 Speaker 1: out there, including dictatorships. That is true. 235 00:13:32,679 --> 00:13:34,680 Speaker 5: The ho ways right through the state, they have a 236 00:13:34,679 --> 00:13:36,440 Speaker 5: great deal of power. A lot of us have been 237 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:38,640 Speaker 5: through it before, and that's what these folks are dealing 238 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:41,319 Speaker 5: with here. But they're really upset because they understand you're 239 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:43,880 Speaker 5: rebuilding from that horrible fire, but the high cost and 240 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:47,199 Speaker 5: then the quick payment plan and then the threats if 241 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:49,240 Speaker 5: you can't make the payment plan, what happens in terms 242 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:51,120 Speaker 5: of interest and everything else that goes on. 243 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:54,000 Speaker 1: So there you go. That's the latest out of an 244 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:58,040 Speaker 1: howay in Alta Dina where the residents are getting a 245 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:02,680 Speaker 1: twenty five thousand dollars assessment, you know, for their burned 246 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:05,760 Speaker 1: out lots, and they get to pay it in thirty 247 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:08,640 Speaker 1: days or they're going to get leans, they're going to 248 00:14:08,679 --> 00:14:11,199 Speaker 1: get fines, they're going to get interest, and they're even 249 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:15,000 Speaker 1: getting threatened to auction off their non existent home. I 250 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:18,720 Speaker 1: could speak from experience. I have lived in a neighborhood 251 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:22,440 Speaker 1: that got taken over by the homeless in crime, and 252 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:25,760 Speaker 1: I have lived in a neighborhood that has been governed 253 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:28,520 Speaker 1: by an hoa and the Karens, who make it up 254 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:34,040 Speaker 1: pound for pound. If you put them up against one another, 255 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 1: and you gave me a binary choice, I think I'd 256 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:44,200 Speaker 1: rather deal with the homeless than the Karens, because at 257 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:48,440 Speaker 1: least you can talk some sense into a schizophrenic at times. 258 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:53,840 Speaker 1: With the Karens, there's no way. It's just a brick 259 00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:55,160 Speaker 1: wall with blonde hair. 260 00:14:56,720 --> 00:14:58,080 Speaker 4: Karen, why are you doing this? 261 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:02,440 Speaker 1: It's a eight hundred two two two five two two 262 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 1: two easy telephone number one eight hundred two two two 263 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:09,280 Speaker 1: five two two two. If you'd like to email the show, 264 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:11,480 Speaker 1: you can do so at Johnny don't like show at 265 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:15,280 Speaker 1: gmail dot com. That's Johnny, don't like show at gmail 266 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:20,800 Speaker 1: dot com. And Randy. The weekend is quickly approaching. We 267 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:24,720 Speaker 1: don't do live shows on Saturday or Sunday, but if 268 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:27,120 Speaker 1: you want to listen to us over the weekend, that's 269 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:29,680 Speaker 1: easy to do. 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So many different ways to listen live 293 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:42,160 Speaker 1: to this show when it's happening wherever you are, and 294 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:44,880 Speaker 1: if it's not between noon and three or noon on 295 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:48,200 Speaker 1: a Saturday, you can listen to us on your time 296 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:51,800 Speaker 1: with the podcasts of this show. Eight hundred two two 297 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:55,000 Speaker 1: two five two two two is the telephone number one 298 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:59,080 Speaker 1: eight hundred two two two five two two two. Well, 299 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:02,200 Speaker 1: we know that voters in the state of California had 300 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:05,800 Speaker 1: had it with retail theft, and that is how we 301 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:09,800 Speaker 1: got Proposition thirty six not just to pass statewide, but 302 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:14,199 Speaker 1: in all of California's fifty eight counties. But the trick is, 303 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:17,679 Speaker 1: you not only need Prop thirty six to pass, you 304 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:21,479 Speaker 1: need county district attorneys who are willing to prosecute, and 305 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:23,919 Speaker 1: you need a governor who's willing to fund it. And 306 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:26,639 Speaker 1: so far we haven't really had that much of the 307 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:30,040 Speaker 1: funding aspect for it, which is why Huntington Beach State 308 00:17:30,119 --> 00:17:33,399 Speaker 1: Senator Tony Strickland has put forth a bill that would 309 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:36,959 Speaker 1: fully fund Prop thirty six, but it's probably not going 310 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:41,040 Speaker 1: to pass because you know, California's California. For more here 311 00:17:41,119 --> 00:17:42,280 Speaker 1: is Fox forty, So. 312 00:17:42,359 --> 00:17:45,120 Speaker 7: Fox forty Capitol reporter Asoon Wallace spoke with a state 313 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:47,880 Speaker 7: senator behind a new bill that would require more Prop 314 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:50,520 Speaker 7: thirty six funding and has reaction from the governor. 315 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:54,000 Speaker 8: He's a failing in every step of the way. 316 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:58,840 Speaker 4: GOP Huntington Beach State Senator Tony Strickland blasting Governor Gavin Newsom, 317 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:02,200 Speaker 4: arguing he's falling short on funding for Prop thirty six 318 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:06,600 Speaker 4: programs across the state. Back in twenty twenty four, voters 319 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:09,800 Speaker 4: approved Prop thirty six with sixty eight percent of the 320 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:13,240 Speaker 4: vote to toughen penalties for certain theft and drug offenses. 321 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:17,439 Speaker 1: Ballot measures never have those kind of margins, no, especially 322 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:20,960 Speaker 1: with the two term governor actively campaigning against it. 323 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:25,560 Speaker 4: Including fentanel possession and to expand treatment programs for repeat 324 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:26,880 Speaker 4: drug offenders in. 325 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:29,119 Speaker 8: Law enforcement tools they need to keep us safe. 326 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:32,320 Speaker 4: Prop thirty six was unfunded when it passed, meaning the 327 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:36,359 Speaker 4: legislature and governor had to fund its programs, including drug courts, 328 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:41,400 Speaker 4: treatment services, and operational costs. The governor and a majority 329 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:42,600 Speaker 4: of legilative demos. 330 00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:44,600 Speaker 1: Which by the way, they're talking about, they need about 331 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:47,760 Speaker 1: four hundred million dollars to fully fund this program, which 332 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:50,240 Speaker 1: means fully funding the treatment beds and all the other 333 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:53,160 Speaker 1: things we need to make sure this program works. Four 334 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:57,200 Speaker 1: hundred million dollars is a fraction of less than one 335 00:18:57,359 --> 00:19:00,719 Speaker 1: percent of the budget. What do you think this is? 336 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:04,879 Speaker 1: Do you think that Newsom thinks that if he fully 337 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:08,240 Speaker 1: funds it and we start putting people in prison, he's 338 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:10,840 Speaker 1: going to be called a racist in those early primaries, 339 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:14,159 Speaker 1: or do you think this is personal to him and 340 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:17,600 Speaker 1: he just fundamentally really does not believe in clean and 341 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:22,440 Speaker 1: sober and because Prop thirty six is geared towards trying 342 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:25,520 Speaker 1: to get people off of drugs and off of alcohol 343 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:29,480 Speaker 1: who have severe problems with it, that he just fundamentally 344 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:31,120 Speaker 1: philosophically disagrees. 345 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:35,560 Speaker 4: The governor and a majority of legislative Democrats approved allocating 346 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:38,800 Speaker 4: one hundred million dollars for Prop thirty six over three years, 347 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:42,040 Speaker 4: but Strickland, along with several law enforcement leaders and a 348 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:45,280 Speaker 4: handful of Democrats, say that is not enough. 349 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:48,160 Speaker 1: In fact, right now, Matt Mayhan is doing a press 350 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:52,119 Speaker 1: conference with the San Diego County DA Summer Stephan saying 351 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:55,639 Speaker 1: we need to fund Prop thirty six. How much do 352 00:19:55,640 --> 00:20:00,720 Speaker 1: you think Gavin Newsom hates Matt Mayheon. Well, Gavin was 353 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:04,120 Speaker 1: at that big Bloomberg conference and he was asked on 354 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:07,440 Speaker 1: the spot that hey, Matt mahon's running for Governor Gavin 355 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:09,400 Speaker 1: did a. I don't know her. 356 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:14,320 Speaker 4: They argue Prop thirty six needs four hundred million dollars 357 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:18,320 Speaker 4: each year to fully fund public safety programs and treatment costs. 358 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:22,200 Speaker 4: Without that funding, they worn Prop thirty six will not succeed. 359 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:24,440 Speaker 8: It's a slap in the face what Governor Newsom did 360 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:29,040 Speaker 8: and just gives pennies and put no money into, for example, probation, 361 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:31,840 Speaker 8: which is a whole centerpiece of the whole initiative, and. 362 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:34,760 Speaker 1: We don't do probation anymore in Los Angeles, by the way, 363 00:20:35,119 --> 00:20:37,200 Speaker 1: because no one wants to work in the juvie halls 364 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:39,119 Speaker 1: and everyone's calling out six, So they made all the 365 00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:41,840 Speaker 1: field deputies go into the juvie hall, so there's nobody 366 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:44,560 Speaker 1: actually checking on anyone on an ankle monitor. You know 367 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:47,160 Speaker 1: what this could be. This could be the same approach 368 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:50,320 Speaker 1: that he's taken to the death penalty, which is sign 369 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:53,600 Speaker 1: on to every idiotic policy that makes it cost a 370 00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:56,800 Speaker 1: fortune and take forever, and then say, you know, we 371 00:20:56,840 --> 00:20:58,600 Speaker 1: need to get rid of it because it just costs 372 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:01,880 Speaker 1: a fortune and it takes forever, and I'm just looking 373 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:05,359 Speaker 1: out for taxpayers here with Prop thirty six. If he 374 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:09,040 Speaker 1: doesn't fund it, and then Prop thirty six doesn't produce 375 00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:12,399 Speaker 1: the desired results, He's going to go, well, look, we 376 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:14,480 Speaker 1: should just get rid of Prop thirty six because it's 377 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:19,160 Speaker 1: clearly not working. Although not funding Prop thirty six actually 378 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:22,080 Speaker 1: works against what he wants because he doesn't want more 379 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:24,480 Speaker 1: people in the jails. But if you're not funding Prop 380 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:28,000 Speaker 1: thirty six and you're not funding those treatment programs, well 381 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:30,800 Speaker 1: that means that on your third bust for drug possession, 382 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:33,200 Speaker 1: the only place we have to put you is the jail. 383 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:36,240 Speaker 1: From my point of view, I don't really care put 384 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:39,120 Speaker 1: him in rehab, put him in jail, whatever, just keep 385 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:41,440 Speaker 1: them away from me. Well, one thing that I will 386 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:44,280 Speaker 1: tell you, and it is an interesting thing that happened 387 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:48,159 Speaker 1: in La County. We changed das we got rid of 388 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:53,120 Speaker 1: this jackass boy Frankly who if you don't know his nickname, 389 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 1: we used to tell everyone by email, well, so allies 390 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:02,320 Speaker 1: in the nineteen ninety his nickname would be every other 391 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:05,840 Speaker 1: word out of my mouth, yep. But we replaced it 392 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:08,800 Speaker 1: with Nathan Hawkman. And Nathan Hakman got put in the 393 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:11,959 Speaker 1: same time as Prop thirty six, and he started filing 394 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:14,520 Speaker 1: Prop thirty six in the first year. I believe there 395 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:17,560 Speaker 1: were over eight hundred Prop thirty six cases in La 396 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:21,720 Speaker 1: County and LA County famously has been trying to shut 397 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:24,760 Speaker 1: down Men's Central Jail and replace it with nothing, because 398 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:28,840 Speaker 1: of course that makes sense. In an update about closing 399 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:33,480 Speaker 1: Men's Central Jail, the supervisors that want everybody out, we're 400 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:37,679 Speaker 1: told because of Hawkman's Prop thirty six, we don't know 401 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:40,399 Speaker 1: if we can close the jail now. 402 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:44,160 Speaker 8: And that's an accountability piece of the initiative. And he 403 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:46,000 Speaker 8: refused a fund it. He wants to see a bill. 404 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:47,119 Speaker 8: He campaigned against it. 405 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:50,000 Speaker 4: Now, Strickland is authoring a new bill to create a 406 00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:53,240 Speaker 4: new fund dedicated to funding Prop thirty six with four 407 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:55,000 Speaker 4: hundred million dollars annually. 408 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:57,880 Speaker 8: Don't tell me that you don't have the money. That's 409 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:01,240 Speaker 8: that's a lappable argument. In fact, California doesn't have a 410 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:03,840 Speaker 8: revenue problem, it has a wasteful spending problem. When you 411 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:05,720 Speaker 8: can spend billions of dollars on the high speed rail, 412 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:07,760 Speaker 8: we only asked for four hundred million dollars to keep 413 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:09,120 Speaker 8: it safe across the state of California. 414 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:11,639 Speaker 1: Yeah, we're spending a billion dollars of cap and trade 415 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 1: money every single year on the high speed rail, and 416 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:18,040 Speaker 1: that's still not enough to fund even the initial line 417 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:22,199 Speaker 1: from Losco to Maderra. It would actually be an interesting 418 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:26,600 Speaker 1: question to have answered if we were to eliminate the waste, fraud, 419 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:30,639 Speaker 1: and abuse in California, how much money would we have 420 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:35,640 Speaker 1: left over and how much could they lower the taxes? Well, 421 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:39,439 Speaker 1: you just look at COVID where thirty billion dollars went 422 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:43,040 Speaker 1: out the window with unemployment fraud all across the country, 423 00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:46,679 Speaker 1: but coming out of California, that buney could have been 424 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:48,440 Speaker 1: used for a whole lot of things. 425 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:50,560 Speaker 8: When you can spend billions of dollars on the high 426 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:52,800 Speaker 8: speed rail, we only asked for four hundred million dollars 427 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:54,400 Speaker 8: to keep it safe across the state of California. 428 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:57,159 Speaker 4: The California Department of Finance sent us a breakdown of 429 00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:00,359 Speaker 4: Newsom's one hundred million dollar Prop thirty six allocation. It 430 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:04,119 Speaker 4: includes fifty million for county behavioral health services and another 431 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:07,919 Speaker 4: fifty million for court related costs, including pre trial services 432 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:09,200 Speaker 4: and public defense. 433 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:12,240 Speaker 1: We don't need to be given the public defender offices 434 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:16,560 Speaker 1: any more money. They're already refusing cases of being held 435 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:20,560 Speaker 1: in contempt of court. In San Francisco, it's amazing that 436 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:22,040 Speaker 1: they were able to get away with that. 437 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:26,520 Speaker 4: Niney Moore and another fifty million for court related costs, 438 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:30,600 Speaker 4: including pre trial services and public defense. At a Wednesday 439 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:34,320 Speaker 4: press conference, Newsom defended his Prop thirty six funding decisions, 440 00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:37,200 Speaker 4: adding he's allocated hundreds of millions of dollars over the 441 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:40,760 Speaker 4: years for behavioral health programs that he says will help 442 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:42,760 Speaker 4: implement Prop thirty six. 443 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:50,080 Speaker 3: An unprecedented investment in mental health, homelessness, and housing that 444 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:53,600 Speaker 3: has no comparable nothing. 445 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:57,399 Speaker 9: They've never had this kind of investment. 446 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,720 Speaker 1: By the way, if he's talking about Prop wy, that's 447 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:04,639 Speaker 1: interesting because he kept getting asked on the campaign trail 448 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:07,159 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four, well, you just got everyone to 449 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:09,240 Speaker 1: pass Prop one and that's supposed to fund a whole 450 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:11,520 Speaker 1: bunch of beds. Couldn't some of those be treatment beds 451 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:14,000 Speaker 1: for substance abuse? For Prop thirty six? He said no, 452 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:17,320 Speaker 1: But now he's saying that's exactly what it is, and 453 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:21,159 Speaker 1: Prop one is a disaster. He promised us that so 454 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:24,360 Speaker 1: many things would be going on in year one due 455 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:27,760 Speaker 1: to Prop one passing and that funding being set aside. 456 00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:31,480 Speaker 1: But Randy, we've learned that that in fact is not happening. Well, 457 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:33,800 Speaker 1: what's happening is the money's going out the window. What 458 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:36,720 Speaker 1: the money's actually going towards? Nobody knows. 459 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:40,640 Speaker 4: It's Trickland though, doubling down and his demand for more 460 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:42,040 Speaker 4: Prop thirty six funding. 461 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:44,399 Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna let go until it fully gets funded. 462 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:47,640 Speaker 4: And the governor is expected to present his updated budget 463 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:48,120 Speaker 4: in May. 464 00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:50,400 Speaker 1: We should have a cecily. Can I get an assist 465 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:50,880 Speaker 1: on that one? 466 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:55,560 Speaker 4: And the governor is expected to present his updated budget 467 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:57,960 Speaker 4: in May. He should have a better idea then whether 468 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:00,680 Speaker 4: he plans to add funding for Prop thirty six. 469 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,320 Speaker 1: He doesn't at the state. 470 00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:07,600 Speaker 4: Capitol covering local news that matters. Hey, Tom Wallace, Fox 471 00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:08,720 Speaker 4: forty News. 472 00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:11,119 Speaker 1: So there you go, the latest on the fight to 473 00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:14,160 Speaker 1: fully fund Prop thirty six. You got Tony Strickland's bill. 474 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:16,480 Speaker 1: And as I mentioned, Matt Mayhan and this might just 475 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:18,960 Speaker 1: be a campaign stunt, it might not be, but he's 476 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,840 Speaker 1: down in San Diego with Summer Stephan and they are 477 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:26,400 Speaker 1: announcing their full fledged campaign to get Prop thirty six 478 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:29,119 Speaker 1: fully funded. Is he going to take his pilgrimage to 479 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:32,000 Speaker 1: the Tiawater River while he's down there? I think he already? 480 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:35,080 Speaker 1: Did you know if I look back in the rundowns. 481 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:36,800 Speaker 1: I think I have a story of Mayhean going to 482 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:41,800 Speaker 1: the Tijuana River. Katie. Now, I don't know if Matt 483 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:44,000 Speaker 1: Mayhan put on the gas mask. 484 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:45,480 Speaker 10: You can st right here. 485 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:51,400 Speaker 1: We know that Katie did. Never changed, Katie, never change. 486 00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:55,000 Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two East 487 00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:58,720 Speaker 1: telephone number. What eight hundred two two two five two 488 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:02,840 Speaker 1: two two. Well, we've seen a number of cases recently 489 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:07,240 Speaker 1: where inmates who are regarded as quote unquote elderly are 490 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:09,639 Speaker 1: being let out of prison early, or at least the 491 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:13,399 Speaker 1: parole boards are voting to do that because of a 492 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:17,160 Speaker 1: state law that was signed by Galvin Newsom. Galvin Newsom 493 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:20,040 Speaker 1: does not want the prisons to be filled with inmates, 494 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:22,840 Speaker 1: so he figured, why not let the old ones out 495 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:25,560 Speaker 1: first so we can shift their healthcare cost to Medicare. 496 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:29,639 Speaker 1: And specifically, what Gavin did was he changed the definition 497 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:34,600 Speaker 1: of old from sixty five to fifty and the time 498 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:38,480 Speaker 1: you have had to serve from thirty years to twenty. 499 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:43,280 Speaker 1: How old is Gavin in his late fifties? And didn't 500 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:46,040 Speaker 1: you just write a book called young Man in a Hurry? Yes, 501 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:51,240 Speaker 1: it's a biography. It's about when he was a young 502 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,679 Speaker 1: man and he was in a hurry. But fifty is 503 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:59,600 Speaker 1: now elderly according to the California State Parole Board. Yes, 504 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:02,439 Speaker 1: do you realize, Randon, you and I are knocking on 505 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:10,399 Speaker 1: the door of elderly at least when it comes to 506 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:15,280 Speaker 1: the California Parole Board. Okay, but here's the problem. Perverts 507 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:18,879 Speaker 1: don't age out, they just become old perverts. And now 508 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:22,240 Speaker 1: Newsome is trying to let the old perverts out of prison, 509 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:25,679 Speaker 1: and a former Democratic member of the legislature who's now 510 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:28,720 Speaker 1: a county sheriff says it's time to end this practice. 511 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:33,480 Speaker 1: Jim Cooper, the Sacramento County Sheriff, has been all over 512 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:36,160 Speaker 1: the elder release stories that have been going out there, 513 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:40,040 Speaker 1: getting attention to them, and now he is starting a 514 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:44,240 Speaker 1: campaign for a ballot measure that he says would reform 515 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:47,240 Speaker 1: the root of all of this, which he says goes 516 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:50,920 Speaker 1: back to even before the elder parole law. This all 517 00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:55,480 Speaker 1: goes back to Prop fifty seven, which let everyone out 518 00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:59,920 Speaker 1: with halftime. For more on this, we go to AB 519 00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:01,360 Speaker 1: ten in Sacramento. 520 00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:04,200 Speaker 4: We start tonight with a new push from Sacramento County 521 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:05,240 Speaker 4: Sheriff Jim Cooper. 522 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:07,080 Speaker 1: Who says enough is enough. 523 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:10,840 Speaker 7: Yeah, he's launching a ballot initiative to change Prop fifty seven. 524 00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:12,880 Speaker 1: There's going to be so much stuff on this ballot. 525 00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:16,560 Speaker 1: Oh can you imagine. Well, there's going to be sixty 526 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:19,920 Speaker 1: one candidates on the primary, and when you get to 527 00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:23,760 Speaker 1: the statewide ballot in November, there's going to be sixty 528 00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:25,680 Speaker 1: one propositions. 529 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:30,160 Speaker 7: Aiming to keep sexually violent predators from being released under 530 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:31,520 Speaker 7: elderly parole laws. 531 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:34,680 Speaker 5: The move comes after recent cases here in Sacramento involving 532 00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:37,240 Speaker 5: convicted offenders being considered for release. 533 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:41,640 Speaker 7: ABC ten's Roxanealus explains what this proposal would do and 534 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:44,760 Speaker 7: why the sheriff says it's all about protecting kids. 535 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:49,440 Speaker 9: I've fed up. I'm frustrated. It has to change. We 536 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:50,920 Speaker 9: have to put victims first. 537 00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:54,880 Speaker 6: With strong words, Sacramento County Sheriff Jim Cooper is calling 538 00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:58,040 Speaker 6: on voters to change Prop fifty seven. On Wednesday, he 539 00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:01,600 Speaker 6: launched a new ballot initiative, Protect Our Kids Reform Prop 540 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:05,480 Speaker 6: fifty seven, which he says would block sexually violent predators 541 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:08,040 Speaker 6: from being released under elderly parole laws. 542 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:11,600 Speaker 1: That seems pretty common sense. I want to just remind 543 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:14,920 Speaker 1: you one more time. When I was on jury duty 544 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:18,120 Speaker 1: that month. It was a sexual molestation case and the 545 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:23,120 Speaker 1: defendant was eighty nine years of age. 546 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:25,400 Speaker 9: The real damage after. 547 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:28,880 Speaker 1: What was more scarring from that month, the testimony or 548 00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:31,600 Speaker 1: the Applebays, They were both awful. 549 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:36,520 Speaker 9: The real damage of fifty seven that it gave the 550 00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:39,760 Speaker 9: parole board way too much unfeathered power. 551 00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:43,200 Speaker 1: They routinely and then when you get that parole board 552 00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:48,360 Speaker 1: full of appointees from Gavin Newsom, they go crazy. I 553 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:50,760 Speaker 1: love the fact that, like so many of them, the 554 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:54,280 Speaker 1: moment this guy got out of the legislature, he found Jesus. 555 00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:59,560 Speaker 9: They routinely released violent inmates early, even after a jury 556 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:01,400 Speaker 9: trial and judicial sentencing. 557 00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,160 Speaker 6: Cooper says, the voters never really knew what they were 558 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:06,720 Speaker 6: voting for, and that's why it needs to go back 559 00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:08,880 Speaker 6: to the voters. The response comes. 560 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:10,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, and what do you think the title in summary 561 00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:13,960 Speaker 1: of that one's going to be? Oh? Would Bob Bonta 562 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,320 Speaker 1: writing it? Bob Bonta? 563 00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:22,480 Speaker 6: The response comes after recent cases of convicted sexually violent 564 00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:26,959 Speaker 6: predators being considered for release under California's elderly parole laws. 565 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:29,880 Speaker 9: What makes it so eronic? And Sacramento we have David 566 00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:34,640 Speaker 9: Allen Funston. Mister Vogelsong, he molested seven girls and one boy, 567 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:38,360 Speaker 9: and I'm sure there are many more. Mister Vogelsong molested 568 00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:41,400 Speaker 9: six boys. That is the issue. What is the moral 569 00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:42,120 Speaker 9: compass of this? 570 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:46,200 Speaker 10: Detectives with the Sheriff's Office also say in many cases 571 00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:50,480 Speaker 10: there are more victims who have never spoken up, amplifying 572 00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:52,960 Speaker 10: the need to keep predators locked up. 573 00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:56,920 Speaker 11: I can't help but wonder how many of you may 574 00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:02,239 Speaker 11: have been a victim in your childhood, because unfortunately not 575 00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:07,640 Speaker 11: all these cases, the vast majority don't get reported, so 576 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:14,080 Speaker 11: scars are forever. And I hope that the public will 577 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:18,600 Speaker 11: understand what Sheriff Cooper is trying to do here. 578 00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:21,080 Speaker 1: I mean, currently we are in a situation where the 579 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:25,000 Speaker 1: pendulum has swung in one direction. Prop thirty six was 580 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,320 Speaker 1: a start, but there are plenty of other things we 581 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:31,240 Speaker 1: need to reform, this being a major one, the mental 582 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:33,960 Speaker 1: health diversion being another one. Another thing Jim Cooper, by 583 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:37,280 Speaker 1: the way, has been all over I wonder if he's 584 00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:38,920 Speaker 1: going to stay a Democrat long. 585 00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:43,240 Speaker 6: Sheriff Cooper says it's scary that the parole Board could 586 00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:47,680 Speaker 6: release other sexually violent predators. Detectives are also not convinced 587 00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:50,800 Speaker 6: that sexually violent predators can be reformed, and. 588 00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:56,720 Speaker 1: Mister Funston said, I can control it. I don't think so. 589 00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:59,400 Speaker 11: Once a pedophile, always a pedophile. 590 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:01,560 Speaker 1: He's not wrong. 591 00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:05,360 Speaker 6: Plan is now to raise money for signature gathering, which 592 00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,560 Speaker 6: Sheriff Cooper says shouldn't be difficult to do since it 593 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:10,000 Speaker 6: means protecting children. 594 00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:13,600 Speaker 9: If you're against a proposition to protect our kids, that 595 00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:15,640 Speaker 9: means you stay with pedophiles and predators. 596 00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:19,760 Speaker 7: That was our Roxana Liis reporting. The sheriff says this 597 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:23,840 Speaker 7: isn't a political issue and every child deserves protection. When 598 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:26,720 Speaker 7: signatures are collected, the measure could go on the twenty 599 00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:29,440 Speaker 7: twenty eight ballot, giving voters the final say. 600 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:32,160 Speaker 1: Oh he's waiting for twenty twenty eight for this one. 601 00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:38,080 Speaker 1: Let's go to Robert in San joseer Robert, Hello, Yeah, I. 602 00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:41,080 Speaker 12: Just wanted to make a comment on this. Nick Shirley Leo. 603 00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:44,200 Speaker 13: I saw where he was asking this guy and read 604 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:45,800 Speaker 13: out by NWSOM Matthew and vote for news. 605 00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:48,000 Speaker 12: And he's so sure because NWSOM gave me my freedom. 606 00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:52,000 Speaker 12: The guy was in for murder and carjacking and another offense, 607 00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:54,920 Speaker 12: and he had a life sentence and I mean this 608 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,800 Speaker 12: is a nuisances act like he's got He's got this 609 00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:03,840 Speaker 12: narcissistic sort of he's some mythical figure like Robinhood and 610 00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:06,880 Speaker 12: everybody in the you know, the normals in the middle 611 00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:08,759 Speaker 12: class across the where they wanted a normal life and 612 00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:10,920 Speaker 12: the almost safe streets are. You have to put up 613 00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:14,640 Speaker 12: with his garbage, and we're the guilty ones for disagreeing 614 00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:15,520 Speaker 12: with him. I'm sick of it. 615 00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:22,160 Speaker 1: I don't know how you defend this and remain intellectually honest. 616 00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:24,520 Speaker 1: Who could look you in the eye and go, yeah, 617 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:27,719 Speaker 1: you know, I know that these people molested a bunch 618 00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:29,799 Speaker 1: of people, but they're over the age of fifty, So 619 00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:31,920 Speaker 1: I mean, come on, what do you think they're going 620 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:33,600 Speaker 1: to do molest people from the walker. 621 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,799 Speaker 13: It's just not fair and the victims, and you've got 622 00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:42,440 Speaker 13: to put these We would create the Big House for 623 00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:45,200 Speaker 13: to separate these people. They've earned their position at the 624 00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:46,839 Speaker 13: Big House. They're lucky, you know, back in the day 625 00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:49,520 Speaker 13: they've been they've been strung up. We're giving him four 626 00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:52,279 Speaker 13: squares and a cot and a bunch of entertainment. I mean, 627 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:53,600 Speaker 13: they got it made in the shade. You got better 628 00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:55,000 Speaker 13: than I'm doing. I'm living out of my car and 629 00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,520 Speaker 13: we're working to because I have to roll an uber 630 00:34:57,520 --> 00:34:59,120 Speaker 13: after I get out of my main job, you know, 631 00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:00,200 Speaker 13: seven days a week, just. 632 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:00,919 Speaker 12: To make ends meet. 633 00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:03,640 Speaker 1: All right, thank you for the call, sir. I appreciate it. 634 00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:06,760 Speaker 1: I say, keep them in the big house where everyone 635 00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:08,640 Speaker 1: around them is a little long on the tooth for 636 00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:10,160 Speaker 1: their taste.