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It is my substack I post 10 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:33,199 Speaker 1: every single day of all the news stories up and 11 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:35,280 Speaker 1: down the state of California that matter. 12 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 2: It is free. 13 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:40,600 Speaker 1: Go to randywangradio dot substack dot com. And with that that, 14 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:45,279 Speaker 1: let's start the California Report in La County, where this 15 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:49,640 Speaker 1: afternoon the La County Board of Supervisors has voted to 16 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:55,960 Speaker 1: put yet another sales tax increase on the June ballot, 17 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:59,600 Speaker 1: not even waiting for November. This one would be for June, 18 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:03,000 Speaker 1: and they say they need this sales tax increase, a 19 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 1: half cent sales tax increase, pushing the county's tax rate 20 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 1: up to ten point two five percent unless you have 21 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:14,720 Speaker 1: city taxes on top of that. And this would be 22 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:20,479 Speaker 1: true if this passes Lancaster and Palmdale, who passed their 23 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:24,600 Speaker 1: own tax hikes recently, would have the highest sales tax 24 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:30,360 Speaker 1: of any city in the nation, not just in the county, 25 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:33,400 Speaker 1: not just in the state. In the country, no one 26 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:40,279 Speaker 1: would have a higher sales tax than Lancaster and Palmdale. Now, 27 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 1: the Board of Supervisors say that they need this tax 28 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:47,600 Speaker 1: because of all of the federal cuts to healthcare and 29 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:50,960 Speaker 1: to Medicaid known as medical here, and that they need 30 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 1: to make up these gaps because we're going to be 31 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 1: losing a whole lot of grant funding to the Department 32 00:01:55,760 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 1: of Health Services and the Department of Public Health. Yeah, 33 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 1: Barbara Ferrer's department's getting defunded, and apparently we can't have that. 34 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 2: No, thank you, We can't. 35 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:11,320 Speaker 1: Do any belt tightening in that department. We need to 36 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:14,799 Speaker 1: increase your taxes for I guess five years. But if 37 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 1: this is because of who's currently in the White House 38 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:21,720 Speaker 1: and their cuts, that could change in two years. So 39 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 1: here we go. Now, here's a couple of things you 40 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 1: need to know. One, because the county is the one 41 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:31,840 Speaker 1: putting this on the ballot, the Prop thirteen rules do apply. 42 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:37,080 Speaker 1: They need to get sixty seven percent support to get 43 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:40,359 Speaker 1: this tax hike across the finish line. If they do 44 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:44,440 Speaker 1: a citizen's initiative where let's say the SEIU puts this 45 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 1: on the ballot, the threshold is much lower. Although I 46 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if this does not pass, and it 47 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:52,160 Speaker 1: might not. 48 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:56,800 Speaker 2: It's very possible. Yeah, that probably pass it. 49 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:00,120 Speaker 1: But if they didn't, what'll happen is what's going on 50 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:03,120 Speaker 1: in San Diego, where they tried to put sales tax 51 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 1: increases at the county and the city. They failed because 52 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:08,720 Speaker 1: of the two thirds threshold. So now this time they're 53 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:11,679 Speaker 1: trying to go with a citizen's initiative where the Union. 54 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 2: Puts it on the ballot. 55 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:15,800 Speaker 1: But of course they need this because there are going 56 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 1: to be so many cuts that they have to backfill. 57 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 1: Although when you look at where this money is going 58 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 1: to go, apparently a lot of it's going to go 59 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:26,840 Speaker 1: to a whole bunch of different nonprofits, which already raises 60 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:30,760 Speaker 1: an eyebrow. But ten percent of all the money raised 61 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:35,720 Speaker 1: is going to the Department of Public Health. And you know, 62 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 1: and while I happen to believe from experience that the 63 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: person running that department is ill equipped for anything in everything, 64 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 1: based on all of our coverage during the COVID days. 65 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 2: I would argue the. 66 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 1: Department of Public Health has some legitimate uses, like giving 67 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 1: out the letter grades for restaurants, and I guess if 68 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 1: there really wasn't out BREA, well we'd probably want someone 69 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 1: more competent in charge. But here's my issue, and you 70 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 1: tell me if I'm crazy. Before we go to the 71 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:17,840 Speaker 1: voters asking to raise taxes again in an already unaffordable 72 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:20,920 Speaker 1: place where there are more poor people in this county 73 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:25,400 Speaker 1: than anywhere else, shouldn't we look at, I don't know, 74 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:29,800 Speaker 1: a little belt tightening from the top, just as a 75 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:32,599 Speaker 1: show that you've got some skin in the game. You 76 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:34,919 Speaker 1: could start with the five members of the Board of 77 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 1: Supervisors themselves. They each make about three hundred thousand dollars. 78 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:43,360 Speaker 1: Maybe they should go down to two. Should they really 79 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:46,360 Speaker 1: be making three hundred thousand dollars. I have long advocated 80 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:49,919 Speaker 1: if you're in public service, you should make the people's salary. 81 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:55,240 Speaker 1: Your salary cannot be higher than the average median salary 82 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 1: of the people you represent. Gives you a vested interest. 83 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:02,080 Speaker 1: And if if that salary's too low, well you should 84 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 1: figure out how to improve the lives of your constituents. 85 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:10,040 Speaker 1: But here's what's interesting, because, sure, you think about the 86 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:13,320 Speaker 1: Board of Supervisors, they're making three hundred thousand dollars. But 87 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:15,359 Speaker 1: do you know how many departments there are in the 88 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:19,120 Speaker 1: county and how many department heads are making an obscene 89 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 1: amount of money? Now, the one that we have pointed 90 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 1: out for years and years and years, and I have 91 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:30,280 Speaker 1: the current twenty twenty six numbers from La County's website, 92 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 1: Barbara Ferrer, and this is before benefits and all the 93 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:35,120 Speaker 1: other fun stuff. 94 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:37,480 Speaker 2: The director of Public Health. 95 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:38,240 Speaker 3: I have no idea. 96 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:44,560 Speaker 1: She's making five hundred and eighty one thousand dollars. And 97 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:47,480 Speaker 1: as we have pointed out many times on this radio station, 98 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:50,360 Speaker 1: she is not a doctor. 99 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:51,320 Speaker 3: No thank you. 100 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:56,479 Speaker 2: But that's just one department. How about this. 101 00:05:56,880 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 1: Do you know who Ricardo Garcia is, why he is 102 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 1: the La County Public Defender? Do you know how much 103 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 1: the public defender, the head of the public Defender's office 104 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 1: makes four hundred and sixty six thousand dollars. And we 105 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:17,880 Speaker 1: have an alternate public defender, Erica Azeraki. She makes four 106 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 1: hundred and thirty eight thousand dollars. I don't even think 107 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:25,320 Speaker 1: Hawkman makes that. Okay, let's look. District Attorney Hakman makes 108 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 1: four hundred and thirty and the Public Defender makes four 109 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:31,800 Speaker 1: hundred and sixty six. So the elected District Attorney of 110 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:36,839 Speaker 1: La County makes less than the appointed head of the 111 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:41,360 Speaker 1: Public Defender's office. And that's just one of many departments. 112 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:45,280 Speaker 1: Germo v A Rosa of Probation, who's been a complete 113 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:48,599 Speaker 1: failure at every single level. He cashes in three hundred 114 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:50,520 Speaker 1: and ninety three thousand dollars a year. 115 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:51,279 Speaker 4: No more. 116 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 1: Garcia, the head of La County Parks in rec three 117 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:57,599 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty one thousand dollars a year. Michael Govin, 118 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 1: who runs the Museum of Art Department three one hundred thousand. 119 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:04,120 Speaker 1: Doctor Lisa Wong of Department Mental Health five hundred and 120 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:06,400 Speaker 1: sixty eight thousand, which she makes less than for Rare. 121 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 1: The actual doctor of mental health makes less than for Rare. 122 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:14,440 Speaker 1: The head of the Library three hundred and eighty four thousand, 123 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 1: The head of the La County Development Authority three hundred 124 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:22,239 Speaker 1: and forty three thousand, The head of Justice, Care and Opportunities, 125 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 1: which is the department that is supposed to depopulate the jails. 126 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:28,800 Speaker 2: Well, the head. 127 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:31,400 Speaker 1: Of that department's making three hundred and eighty one thousand dollars. 128 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 1: I could go on and on and on. There is 129 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 1: so much money being wasted in this county that and 130 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:44,520 Speaker 1: you just look at the incredibly bloated salaries. How about 131 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 1: the chief executive officer, Vijia Davenport before that million dollar 132 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:53,400 Speaker 1: lawsuit because Lindsey Horvath wrote a ballot measure to take 133 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:56,880 Speaker 1: away her job and make it elected. Before that, she 134 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:00,440 Speaker 1: was making six hundred and thirty thousand dollars a year. 135 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:02,200 Speaker 2: It's insane. 136 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:04,920 Speaker 1: You know what, Maybe I will put this list if 137 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:08,120 Speaker 1: I could remembered, on tomorrow's California report, because when you 138 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:10,680 Speaker 1: see how much all these people are making, it makes 139 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:12,920 Speaker 1: sense how this county, with as much money as it 140 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 1: brings in, is broke because this is just the people 141 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:18,640 Speaker 1: at the very top. How much are all the bureaucrats 142 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:21,360 Speaker 1: under them making, and how much of all of this 143 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:23,200 Speaker 1: money they want to bring in with Yet any other 144 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:27,200 Speaker 1: sales tax increase is going to go towards anything but 145 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:30,880 Speaker 1: more bloated salaries for more bureaucrats. 146 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:33,360 Speaker 2: So that's what's going on there. 147 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:36,840 Speaker 1: On Fox eleven, once again Matthew Siedarf putting himself in 148 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:40,520 Speaker 1: harm's way went along Western Avenue, where yet another homeless 149 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:45,280 Speaker 1: encampment is also a prostitution encampment. It's not looking great, 150 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:50,080 Speaker 1: especially for if the voters would pay enough attention as 151 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:52,680 Speaker 1: to where these districts are and to who is running 152 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:58,200 Speaker 1: these districts. Hugo Soto Martinez has been a disaster. Now 153 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:02,000 Speaker 1: let's go to the fires. NBCLA has an interesting piece 154 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 1: and I've covered a little bit of this recently. While 155 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 1: you hear it just top level, it sounds great. So 156 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:13,040 Speaker 1: Cal Edison, because of the destructive fires that they most 157 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:16,920 Speaker 1: likely cause, are going to be undergrounding the power lines 158 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:21,720 Speaker 1: in Alta Dina. That's great now that we're in practice. 159 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:24,440 Speaker 1: What does that mean, Well, I'll tell you what it means. 160 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:28,400 Speaker 1: It means, for one, they are sending bills to homeowners 161 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:30,920 Speaker 1: when they need to drill under their houses to put 162 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:33,560 Speaker 1: these power lines in. I don't know how that makes sense. 163 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:35,720 Speaker 1: There are people who can't go back into their homes 164 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:38,400 Speaker 1: that are now getting billed for undergrounding of power lines. 165 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:42,440 Speaker 1: And the way that so Kel Edison has decided to 166 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:47,160 Speaker 1: dig these trenches in all these tunnels. It is currently 167 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:51,320 Speaker 1: they have a plan to do a lot of damage 168 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:53,360 Speaker 1: to a lot of the oak trees that are standing 169 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:56,760 Speaker 1: in those neighborhoods, and so residents are a little irritated 170 00:09:56,760 --> 00:09:57,200 Speaker 1: about that. 171 00:09:57,679 --> 00:09:57,800 Speaker 3: Now. 172 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:00,120 Speaker 1: I'm sure you've heard a little about this lawsuit that's 173 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:03,040 Speaker 1: going on in Los Angeles. NBCLA and our buddy Royal 174 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:08,200 Speaker 1: have a good piece on it. A former child because 175 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:12,000 Speaker 1: I think they're in their twenties now, is suing all 176 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:14,959 Speaker 1: the social media companies, although I think Snapchat and TikTok 177 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:18,360 Speaker 1: settled already. So they're suing mostly Meta which is Facebook 178 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 1: and Instagram, and YouTube, which their owner is Google, because 179 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 1: they say their products are harmful and addictive to kids. 180 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:31,880 Speaker 1: Jury selection has went underway, but now this trial has 181 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:35,280 Speaker 1: begun and the plaintiffs say they've got evidence that they 182 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:37,720 Speaker 1: know this stuff was addictive, they knew it was bad 183 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 1: for kids. But I mean, ultimately, is that a parental 184 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:45,720 Speaker 1: responsibility thing. We're all addicted to this stuff. I mean, 185 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:48,160 Speaker 1: it's harmful to everybody. But this is also the way 186 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:50,840 Speaker 1: life is now, so we'll see how that goes. We 187 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:55,160 Speaker 1: told you yesterday that Nithea Rahman is running for La Mayor. 188 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 1: It's still weird. We're still not totally sure why, especially 189 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:02,360 Speaker 1: when she doesn't have the one policy difference from Karen Bass. 190 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:04,000 Speaker 2: She just thinks she can win. 191 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:04,520 Speaker 3: Well. 192 00:11:04,559 --> 00:11:07,280 Speaker 1: She sat down for an interview it is twenty seven 193 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:10,360 Speaker 1: minutes long with Conan Nolan of NBC four. I have 194 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:14,920 Speaker 1: it on the California Report, and I highly recommend if 195 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:17,080 Speaker 1: you've got the time, you should watch the entire thing 196 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 1: because she very well could likely be our mayor, and 197 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 1: she had horrible answers for every single question. She was 198 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:29,720 Speaker 1: either being incredibly evasive or incredibly disingenuous, or just did 199 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:32,440 Speaker 1: not have a concrete answer as to what the difference 200 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:35,800 Speaker 1: is between her and Karen Bass. So highly recommend you 201 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:38,280 Speaker 1: give that a view. Conan Nolan is one of the 202 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:40,760 Speaker 1: best we have in southern California and he does a 203 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 1: great job. Now in the Bay Area, still Super Bowl hangover, 204 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:46,480 Speaker 1: So that's most of the stories going on up there. 205 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:50,600 Speaker 1: But the strike is still continuing at SFUSD and it's 206 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:52,839 Speaker 1: in day two now and it doesn't look like it 207 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:57,199 Speaker 1: is anywhere closer to a resolution in Sacramento. And we're 208 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:00,240 Speaker 1: going to spend some time on this story later. There 209 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:03,840 Speaker 1: is a new bipartisan piece of legislation that is going 210 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 1: to piss off Gavin Newsom, So I'm already excited. 211 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:08,400 Speaker 2: What does it do. 212 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:12,040 Speaker 1: It would make it so every state department, every state 213 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:16,560 Speaker 1: agency can make their own plans for if their employees 214 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:19,320 Speaker 1: are going to return to work in office or not. This, 215 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 1: of course, spits in the face of Gavin Newsom's return 216 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:25,760 Speaker 1: to work order that he put forth two years ago, 217 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:26,559 Speaker 1: that the. 218 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 2: Union said no. 219 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:32,120 Speaker 1: And one of the things that's interesting is the nonpartisan 220 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:35,800 Speaker 1: state legislative analyst has found out that if Gavin Newsom 221 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:38,240 Speaker 1: went through with his return to work order, because of 222 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:41,559 Speaker 1: the lack of office space, because of all the other issues, 223 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:45,079 Speaker 1: it would actually cost the state another two hundred million 224 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:48,319 Speaker 1: dollars a year. And I'm a big advocate of remote 225 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:50,440 Speaker 1: work where it makes sense, and I think it makes 226 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 1: a hell of a lot of sense, and a lot 227 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:56,840 Speaker 1: of these bureaucratic government jobs. If you're not facing the public, 228 00:12:56,920 --> 00:13:00,440 Speaker 1: if you're not facing the customer, why we're just going 229 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:02,720 Speaker 1: to send more people to downtown Sacramento. You could turn 230 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:05,160 Speaker 1: all those buildings, and some of them already getting bought 231 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:08,200 Speaker 1: by the universities, turn them into housing, turn them into 232 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:11,679 Speaker 1: mixed use, but turn them loose. If people don't want 233 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:14,240 Speaker 1: to go back to work, and they're doing their job efficiently. 234 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:15,720 Speaker 2: I am in full support of that. 235 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 1: And is that selfishly because I'd like to be broadcasting 236 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:22,439 Speaker 1: full time from Santa Fe. Yes, yes it is. You 237 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:26,320 Speaker 1: know who was in Sacramento yesterday, Karen Bess. She is 238 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:30,320 Speaker 1: advocating for more wildfire support from the state. She spoke 239 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:32,880 Speaker 1: to the press who was up there, and she says 240 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:35,240 Speaker 1: that and this is true, but I don't know what 241 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:37,720 Speaker 1: she can do about it, although I'd love to hear 242 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:40,600 Speaker 1: what her conversation was like with Ricarlo Laura. That one 243 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:42,920 Speaker 1: of the biggest issues for the people who are in 244 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:45,600 Speaker 1: recovery and the Palisades, and of course also Alta Dina 245 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:49,079 Speaker 1: is even if you got all the permits, you can't rebuild. 246 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:52,440 Speaker 1: Tell Insurance pays your claim. And we're seeing a hell 247 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:56,959 Speaker 1: of not that happening. Now here's an interesting political story. 248 00:13:57,120 --> 00:13:59,880 Speaker 1: Prop fifty has been upheld by the Supreme Court, which 249 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:03,120 Speaker 1: means that now is the filing time where who's going 250 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:06,160 Speaker 1: to run for these seats and all these new districts. Well, 251 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:09,040 Speaker 1: Kevin Kylie, who was actually the one leading the charge 252 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:12,000 Speaker 1: not only against Prop fifty but against all of this 253 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:15,960 Speaker 1: redistricting nationwide. Of course, Speaker Johnson never took his bill 254 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:18,959 Speaker 1: up because that guy's a coward. And we couldn't all 255 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:21,800 Speaker 1: just be adults about this and say I didn't like 256 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 1: what Texas did and I didn't like what Californias did. 257 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:26,720 Speaker 1: How hard was that? But no, we can't do that. 258 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:29,640 Speaker 1: So now Kevin Kylie has to figure out which district 259 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:32,080 Speaker 1: he's going to run in, and that might put him 260 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:34,720 Speaker 1: in a face off with Tom McClintock because that might 261 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:37,440 Speaker 1: be the only safe district where a Republican is likely 262 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:40,400 Speaker 1: to win. There's a similar fight going down in southern 263 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:42,960 Speaker 1: California where Ken Calvert at a Riverside is going to 264 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:45,200 Speaker 1: be running in the same seat against Young Kim in 265 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:48,840 Speaker 1: Orange County. All this is irritating, All of this is awful. 266 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 1: We get a lot more coming up here on the 267 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:54,640 Speaker 1: California Report, so stick with us. It's the News Blitz 268 00:14:54,640 --> 00:15:01,160 Speaker 1: with Randy Wang on KABC. It's the News Blitz with 269 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:04,120 Speaker 1: Randy Wang on KABC. I just put up on my 270 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:06,800 Speaker 1: substack and my Twitter that list of all of the 271 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:09,440 Speaker 1: department head salaries in La County, so you can check 272 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:12,560 Speaker 1: that out at Randy Wang Radio in Sacramento. I found 273 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:16,000 Speaker 1: this story interesting coming out of CBS News Sacramento. The 274 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:20,920 Speaker 1: UC Davis equestrian team is suing UC Davis. Why because 275 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:23,320 Speaker 1: they feel defrauded because you had a whole bunch of 276 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:25,720 Speaker 1: students that applied for that program. 277 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:26,360 Speaker 2: It's a very. 278 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:29,360 Speaker 1: Prestigious equestrian program that can lead to a whole bunch 279 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:31,600 Speaker 1: of different things, including going on to things like the 280 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:34,840 Speaker 1: Olympics or the Grand Prixx or thermal or the one 281 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:38,800 Speaker 1: in Florida. Them my wife watches on the TV. They're 282 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:42,520 Speaker 1: cutting their varsity program and they did this after students 283 00:15:42,520 --> 00:15:44,840 Speaker 1: had the ability to transfer to other schools. So they 284 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:48,320 Speaker 1: feel completely defrauded. And of course the school knew that 285 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:51,280 Speaker 1: they were going to do this, and that completely upends 286 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 1: people's lives when it comes to their path. If this 287 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:56,960 Speaker 1: is their career path, and if you didn't know, you 288 00:15:56,960 --> 00:15:59,520 Speaker 1: can make a whole lot of money as a horseback rider. 289 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:02,320 Speaker 1: Of course, it also costs you a whole lot of money. 290 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 1: And I don't know who asked for this regulation, oh, 291 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:08,800 Speaker 1: except I do. It's the tribal casinos. Rob Bonta is 292 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:12,680 Speaker 1: going forward with his plan to ban Blacksheck style games 293 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:15,360 Speaker 1: in card rooms like the Commerce Casino and the bike 294 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:17,480 Speaker 1: no longer will you be allowed to do that? 295 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:19,040 Speaker 2: Who is asking for this? 296 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:24,240 Speaker 1: Why Rob Bonte's political benefactors. And of course, once again 297 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:27,520 Speaker 1: we're asking about transparency concerns with the high speed rail 298 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 1: after they settled with a contractor for five hundred and 299 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:33,720 Speaker 1: thirty seven million dollars of your money because of a 300 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:37,160 Speaker 1: change order. Why sure didn't make any sense to me? 301 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,440 Speaker 1: And how much money we are spending. Maybe we spent 302 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:42,960 Speaker 1: so much money on vendors and then never bought any 303 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:46,080 Speaker 1: track and now we have to figure out a different vendor. 304 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:49,680 Speaker 1: It's just it's a mess. San Diego has a fun 305 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:53,240 Speaker 1: story because I like dining out and I'm always excited 306 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:56,360 Speaker 1: to see when a city is expanding outdoor dining. L 307 00:16:56,480 --> 00:17:00,120 Speaker 1: Maysa is looking to expand their sidewalk dining policies, to 308 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:03,360 Speaker 1: open later and to have more patio seating, and I'm 309 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:05,320 Speaker 1: all about that. It's one of the few good things 310 00:17:05,320 --> 00:17:08,879 Speaker 1: that came about COVID remote work. I liked it, except 311 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:12,080 Speaker 1: I didn't get to do it. But outdoor dining like that, 312 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:14,679 Speaker 1: especially for the climate in southern California. 313 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:15,919 Speaker 2: Come on, and you. 314 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:18,399 Speaker 1: Want to talk about waste, fraud and abuse. ABC thirty 315 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:20,960 Speaker 1: Action News in the Central Valley has a great piece 316 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:25,320 Speaker 1: on the FBI and Fresno Police looking into one point 317 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:29,720 Speaker 1: five million dollars of taxpayer funds that were embezzled through 318 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:35,000 Speaker 1: something called the Fresno Arts Council. There is so much 319 00:17:35,119 --> 00:17:38,159 Speaker 1: grant money that we never follow where it goes, and 320 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:41,920 Speaker 1: apparently if you're connected, it is very easy to steal 321 00:17:42,119 --> 00:17:45,119 Speaker 1: this money. So anytime we see somebody get caught, we 322 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:49,560 Speaker 1: get to elevate that. Upsetting stories today in the crime 323 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:53,800 Speaker 1: blodder including a Hayward little League that got burglarized they 324 00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:58,560 Speaker 1: stole their vintage popcorn machine seriously, and a nice little 325 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:00,959 Speaker 1: drug bust going on in Sandy Diego where they busted 326 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:03,320 Speaker 1: a whole bunch of drug dealers, but they didn't want 327 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:06,760 Speaker 1: to bust the drug users, which okay, can we prop 328 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:09,480 Speaker 1: thirty six of them offer them treatment? And San Diego 329 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:12,639 Speaker 1: they're actually funding that unlike most other counties. And I 330 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 1: thought this story was wild, and we covered a little 331 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 1: on the John Phillips Show today. But teams are breaking 332 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:23,040 Speaker 1: into homes that are for sale in San Diego County 333 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:27,480 Speaker 1: and throwing massive parties that include throwing people through walls, 334 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:33,200 Speaker 1: destroying smoke detectors and launching fireworks inside homes. 335 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:34,480 Speaker 2: It is wild. 336 00:18:34,840 --> 00:18:37,639 Speaker 1: It is crazy, and apparently because most of them are 337 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:41,320 Speaker 1: juveniles and kids, not many people are actually getting arrested 338 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:43,760 Speaker 1: for this and still trying to figure out how they 339 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:46,359 Speaker 1: make money off of it, because they're taking a home 340 00:18:46,359 --> 00:18:49,920 Speaker 1: that's listed on Zillo, they're breaking into it, and then 341 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:54,920 Speaker 1: what are they doing. They are sending They're selling tickets 342 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:58,040 Speaker 1: to get in, like a bouncer fee for ten dollars. 343 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:02,719 Speaker 1: It's so bizarre, But there you go. That is California's 344 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:05,639 Speaker 1: That's the California Report right there. You can get it 345 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:10,119 Speaker 1: at Randywangradio dot substack dot com. And boy, do I 346 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:12,000 Speaker 1: have something nice for you. First time we've had a 347 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:16,280 Speaker 1: giveaway in a little bit. Seven ninety KABC welcomes Noah 348 00:19:16,359 --> 00:19:19,800 Speaker 1: Kahn The Great Defied Tour at the Rose Bowl on 349 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:24,160 Speaker 1: August fifteenth. Tickets are on sale Thursday at ticketmaster dot com. 350 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:26,800 Speaker 1: But right now, caller number nine at one eight eight 351 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:29,520 Speaker 1: eight seven ninety five two two two gets a pair 352 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:32,680 Speaker 1: of tickets to the show. Tickets furnished by Live Nation. 353 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:36,840 Speaker 1: Good luck dialing. As I said at the top, the 354 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:39,679 Speaker 1: biggest story going on in La County right now is 355 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:43,520 Speaker 1: the Board of Supervisors voting to put on this sales 356 00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:47,280 Speaker 1: tax increase on the June ballot. We're gonna be speaking 357 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:51,560 Speaker 1: to a candidate for La County Supervisor. Tanya Airy will 358 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:54,800 Speaker 1: join us next. 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Search for the KABC News Blitz 368 00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:26,520 Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts, and subscribe to my substack 369 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:30,200 Speaker 1: The California Report. Get all the big stories going on 370 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:33,480 Speaker 1: in Southern California, Northern California, up and down the state 371 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:38,400 Speaker 1: in your inbox for free every day Randywang Radio dot 372 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:42,520 Speaker 1: substack dot com. Our next guest is running for La 373 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:46,200 Speaker 1: County Supervisor in the third District. Up until a couple 374 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:48,240 Speaker 1: days ago, we weren't sure if she was actually gonna 375 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:50,960 Speaker 1: be running against anybody, But now it's confirmed she will 376 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:54,639 Speaker 1: be running against Lindsey Horrovath, who is seeking another term. 377 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:57,120 Speaker 1: Tanya Airy, welcome back to the. 378 00:20:57,080 --> 00:21:01,720 Speaker 3: News Blitz, Hi, Randy, thank you for having me. But 379 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:05,080 Speaker 3: let's so, Tanya, go ahead, please go ahead. 380 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:08,720 Speaker 1: Well, let's go ahead and start off with the news 381 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:11,520 Speaker 1: that we found out last week, which was that after 382 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:15,480 Speaker 1: teasing everybody for weeks and weeks, Lindsey Horvat decided she's 383 00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:18,480 Speaker 1: going to run again for this job instead of challenging 384 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:19,600 Speaker 1: Karen Bass for mayor. 385 00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:24,160 Speaker 3: Well that, so, she says, because she said a lot 386 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:28,159 Speaker 3: about the mayor. But she put out a clip on 387 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:31,920 Speaker 3: her social media to say that she was running again, 388 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:35,439 Speaker 3: and she used the same words as Bass. There's a 389 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:38,440 Speaker 3: lot more to do here. What more do you need 390 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:41,280 Speaker 3: to do to continue destroying the district and the rest 391 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:44,439 Speaker 3: of La County. So she says that, but she's not 392 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:49,320 Speaker 3: officially filed her paperwork yet with the Registrar's office. When 393 00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:52,959 Speaker 3: I was down there yesterday, I mean there were candidates, 394 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:57,199 Speaker 3: the place was packed. If she's that serious, why is 395 00:21:57,240 --> 00:21:59,800 Speaker 3: she not there doing it on day one? Is my question. 396 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:03,600 Speaker 1: Maybe she thinks she's going to run for governor because 397 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:06,320 Speaker 1: you can still follow that job. Now, Tanya, let's talk 398 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:08,199 Speaker 1: about the big news that came out of the La 399 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:11,479 Speaker 1: County Board of Supervisors today where and this was an 400 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:15,040 Speaker 1: idea brought forth by Holly Mitchell and Hildeeslise, but everyone 401 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:18,720 Speaker 1: except for Catherine Barger, voted to put a half cent 402 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:23,160 Speaker 1: sales tax ballot measure on the June ballot because of 403 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:26,240 Speaker 1: all the funding cuts that we're getting in the healthcare 404 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:27,680 Speaker 1: field from the federal government. 405 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:31,919 Speaker 3: What do you think, Well, I think it's ridiculous because 406 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:34,280 Speaker 3: they can't even be trusted with the taxes that they 407 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:37,600 Speaker 3: collect now. And what you were saying earlier about you know, 408 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:41,359 Speaker 3: the salaries and everything, and what Barger said, it's like, Okay, 409 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:45,119 Speaker 3: it's obvious there's a problem, but you can't keep raising 410 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:48,480 Speaker 3: money and taking money from others. This is going to 411 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:52,480 Speaker 3: push the working class further into despair. And it's not 412 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:57,400 Speaker 3: there to the working class or to anybody. When you're 413 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:00,840 Speaker 3: sitting on a throne making two hundred and four two 414 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:05,400 Speaker 3: hundred and seventy five thousand, three hundred thousand dollars a year, 415 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:11,639 Speaker 3: it's it's ridiculous where they should find the money. Because 416 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 3: the money is there, it stops spending it on the homeless, 417 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:19,920 Speaker 3: because every other minute there's a homeless you know, facility 418 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:22,640 Speaker 3: that they want to open or put money into. Well, 419 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:25,960 Speaker 3: that's not working out now, is it. Well? 420 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,760 Speaker 1: And in fact, La County, thanks to Lindsay Horvath, just 421 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:33,200 Speaker 1: launched their new Department of Homelessness, Services and Housing and 422 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:37,160 Speaker 1: their new department head for that Sarah Mahon. She's making 423 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:40,000 Speaker 1: three hundred and seventy five thousand dollars. And the day 424 00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:43,920 Speaker 1: that department opened, they had a budget presentation and even 425 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:47,399 Speaker 1: though Measure A just passed, they're already broke and they 426 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:49,560 Speaker 1: already don't have enough money for all the things they 427 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:50,000 Speaker 1: want to do. 428 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:54,159 Speaker 3: So here, here's a here's it's not a perfect solution, 429 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:57,480 Speaker 3: but it will help and it will make sense because 430 00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:02,040 Speaker 3: it was working up until two thousand nineteen. When a 431 00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:05,959 Speaker 3: person was arrested, a homeless person, they were arrested, they 432 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:09,000 Speaker 3: were placed in jail, and they were offer care. That 433 00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:12,520 Speaker 3: care was in house social services, and eventually they would 434 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:15,919 Speaker 3: get into transitional housing, get a job, and before you 435 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:18,800 Speaker 3: know it, while with some time, they would be living 436 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:21,160 Speaker 3: on their own and they would have a job. Now, 437 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:26,600 Speaker 3: it wasn't perfect. Not everybody took the offer and went 438 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:29,520 Speaker 3: with it, but there was a lot less homeless on 439 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:32,560 Speaker 3: the streets. Well, in twenty and nineteen, the Board of 440 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:36,960 Speaker 3: Supervisors said, no, let's turn that around. When they're arrested, 441 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:41,920 Speaker 3: let's offer them care and then let's jail them. Well, 442 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:45,760 Speaker 3: what homeless person who strung out on drugs is going 443 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:48,679 Speaker 3: to say, yes, make me better right now? They're not 444 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:52,760 Speaker 3: in the mindset. By twenty and twenty one, in the 445 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:57,359 Speaker 3: entirety of La County, homelessness went up by about four 446 00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:02,520 Speaker 3: point one percent. The entirety of LA County, it's approximately 447 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:06,600 Speaker 3: ten million. People. Will do the math because five years later, 448 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:11,000 Speaker 3: where are we at. I mean, it's ridiculous. You also 449 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:16,840 Speaker 3: have to take into consideration COVID. But before twenty and nineteen, yes, 450 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:19,439 Speaker 3: we did have a homeless problem, but it was not 451 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:20,719 Speaker 3: like it is today. 452 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:25,160 Speaker 1: So I got to imagine you are not a supporter 453 00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:28,399 Speaker 1: of the care first, jail's last initiative. 454 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:34,159 Speaker 3: Oh absolutely not. When I'm elected one of the first things. 455 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:37,159 Speaker 3: There's many first things, but since that is such a 456 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:42,560 Speaker 3: hot ticket item, it's the author of bill saying let's 457 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:47,639 Speaker 3: put back jail first and the care and when I 458 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:51,240 Speaker 3: do get in, you know, Barger is the only like 459 00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:56,119 Speaker 3: same voice on that board, and I'm sure I can't 460 00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:58,600 Speaker 3: guarantee it, but I'm sure we can have a conversation 461 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:02,440 Speaker 3: and she'll second that, you know, she'll second the oance 462 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:05,200 Speaker 3: and we can get something going because it was working, 463 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:07,920 Speaker 3: and this is what the board does, and usually it's 464 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:11,320 Speaker 3: led by you know, Horvath. Is that there's something that's 465 00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:16,199 Speaker 3: working perfectly, well, let's break it. And she just she 466 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:20,439 Speaker 3: has a track record of doing that. And I'm not. 467 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:25,359 Speaker 1: Taking us up well speaking of something that Horrvath did 468 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:27,399 Speaker 1: to you know, break a system. I don't know if 469 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:30,399 Speaker 1: you could say any of this was working, but you know, 470 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:34,360 Speaker 1: Horvath was the lead behind Measure G changing the Board 471 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:38,200 Speaker 1: of Supervisors from five members to nine members and turning 472 00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:41,719 Speaker 1: the appointed CEO position, which by the way, that person, 473 00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:44,800 Speaker 1: Phesia Davenport makes six hundred and thirty thousand dollars a 474 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:49,280 Speaker 1: year to an elected position. Well, apparently in doing that, 475 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:54,000 Speaker 1: Fisia Davenport was so upset that she sued the county 476 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:57,520 Speaker 1: for losing her appointed job, and they settled with her 477 00:26:57,560 --> 00:27:01,040 Speaker 1: for millions of dollars and now she's on's some paid 478 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,200 Speaker 1: leave for nobody knows how long. 479 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:08,919 Speaker 3: They gave her an NDA and two million dollars and 480 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,359 Speaker 3: they let the door slam on her back. And this 481 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:15,040 Speaker 3: measure g like you said, was initiated by Horvath, And 482 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:18,880 Speaker 3: as you said, it goes from five supervisors to nine. Well, 483 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:22,800 Speaker 3: what's that going to do? What I mean, where's that 484 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:25,520 Speaker 3: money coming from? Is what I want to know. Also, 485 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:29,720 Speaker 3: it creates the executive position, which is a role that's 486 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:32,320 Speaker 3: a lot more. There's a lot more to it than 487 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:36,280 Speaker 3: just a supervisor. And if Davenport was making six hundred 488 00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:38,320 Speaker 3: and fifty thousand dollars, how much do you think this 489 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:43,200 Speaker 3: executive role is going to cost? Right? It costs the taxpayers, right. 490 00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:47,480 Speaker 3: And horvav created this with in mind that she was 491 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:50,520 Speaker 3: going to take that executive seat. So, as I just 492 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:54,080 Speaker 3: said before, she's not filed with the Registrar's office. And 493 00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:57,320 Speaker 3: I was talking about this with a friend today. Maybe 494 00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:00,520 Speaker 3: it's the case she'll step this one out week. Then 495 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:04,119 Speaker 3: in twenty twenty eight, when the executive heat becomes available 496 00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:07,119 Speaker 3: and it is a elected position, she'll go for that. 497 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:11,560 Speaker 3: Because if she does go for supervisor, if she does win, 498 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,560 Speaker 3: what is she going to do? Bail on her constituents. 499 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,639 Speaker 3: I wouldn't surprise me if that happened, because you know, 500 00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:20,480 Speaker 3: pretty much since the fall she was toying out for 501 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:25,359 Speaker 3: mayor and not paying attention about her constituents. And this 502 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:29,480 Speaker 3: clearly says she does not value or put priority on 503 00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:32,480 Speaker 3: constituents in the county. It's all about personal gain. 504 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,320 Speaker 1: We'll speak with Tanya Airy. She is running for La 505 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,960 Speaker 1: County Supervisor against Lindsey Horvath. If you want to check 506 00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:42,840 Speaker 1: out her website, you can do so. It's Tanya t 507 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:46,120 Speaker 1: O n I A Airy aar e Y the number 508 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:51,160 Speaker 1: four supervisor dot com. Now, as I was discussing earlier 509 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:54,360 Speaker 1: in the show, when we're discussing this sales text increase, 510 00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:58,160 Speaker 1: I happen to come upon the official list revised this 511 00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:01,280 Speaker 1: year of all the department had said salaries in La County, 512 00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:04,200 Speaker 1: and the list is quite shocking. You know, the average way, 513 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:07,240 Speaker 1: the average salary of someone who lives and works in 514 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:10,600 Speaker 1: La County is between eighty nine to ninety thousand dollars 515 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:13,920 Speaker 1: a year. But we have department heads that are making 516 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:18,280 Speaker 1: three four five, six hundred thousand dollars a year for 517 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:20,920 Speaker 1: jobs that you don't even know what exactly it is 518 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:24,200 Speaker 1: they do. What does the Justice Care and opportunities department 519 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:27,760 Speaker 1: do besides figure out ways to depopulate the jails. Well, 520 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,400 Speaker 1: that person's making three hundred and eighty one thousand dollars. 521 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:32,800 Speaker 1: And then, of course the event the name that we 522 00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:35,480 Speaker 1: have been bringing up for six years on this radio station, 523 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:39,360 Speaker 1: Barbara Ferrara, who is not a medical doctor of the 524 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:42,040 Speaker 1: Department of Public Health, which by the way, on the 525 00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:45,280 Speaker 1: official website they list her as doctor Barbara Ferrara. Even 526 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:48,040 Speaker 1: though she is not a doctor. She has a salary 527 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:52,280 Speaker 1: before benefits of five hundred and eighty one thousand dollars. 528 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:56,120 Speaker 1: Is it time to reevaluate these bloated salaries for so 529 00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:58,920 Speaker 1: many different positions within the county because these are all 530 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:00,640 Speaker 1: appointed position. 531 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:06,840 Speaker 3: Absolutely, not only that, you need to show accountability because 532 00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:08,520 Speaker 3: like you said, it's like I don't know what these 533 00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:11,360 Speaker 3: people do. If you can see how your money is 534 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:14,160 Speaker 3: being spent and I'm not justifying you know, the three 535 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:18,160 Speaker 3: hundred to six hundred thousand dollars, you need to see 536 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:21,000 Speaker 3: how the money is being spent and the person receiving 537 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:23,920 Speaker 3: that type of salary, they need to have boots on 538 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:26,200 Speaker 3: the ground, They need to be in front of the people. 539 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:30,320 Speaker 3: They they they should have to create, like, you know, 540 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:35,520 Speaker 3: an itemized list, basically like an invoice of what they've 541 00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:39,040 Speaker 3: done and what they've accomplished. Because it's unfair to a 542 00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:44,000 Speaker 3: taxpayer to give somebody money who didn't even earn that seat. 543 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,360 Speaker 3: It was given to them. So even if they do create, 544 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:50,640 Speaker 3: let's just go with that invoice. Yeah, the salaries are 545 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:54,120 Speaker 3: a bit bloated. I mean, the governor doesn't even make 546 00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:56,880 Speaker 3: you know that much money. Believe he makes two fifty 547 00:30:56,960 --> 00:31:00,440 Speaker 3: same as the President of the United States. So how 548 00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:04,120 Speaker 3: is somebody making for the four or five six hundred 549 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:07,840 Speaker 3: thousand dollars when honestly, I don't even know the names 550 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:10,600 Speaker 3: you just said right now because they're not present in 551 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:16,440 Speaker 3: what I see or on a daily basis. It's ridiculous. 552 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:19,920 Speaker 1: Tanya Airy is running for La County Supervisor. I'm going 553 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,600 Speaker 1: to give you sixty seconds make your pitch to the voters. 554 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:24,200 Speaker 1: Why should they support you in. 555 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:30,280 Speaker 3: June because I'm not I'm not a politician Corvas pissed 556 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:34,360 Speaker 3: off the wrong constituent. I'm doing this for people. I'm 557 00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:38,440 Speaker 3: doing this people over politics. I'm doing it for everybody 558 00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:41,760 Speaker 3: who has been suffering for as long as they have 559 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:48,000 Speaker 3: been suffering. It's about us. It should be about us. 560 00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:51,640 Speaker 3: Everything is us. It's not me, it's not I, it's 561 00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:54,440 Speaker 3: all of us. And it's dark outside. I have to 562 00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:56,440 Speaker 3: walk my dog soon and I'm kind of scared to 563 00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:58,240 Speaker 3: go walk my dog. And I should not have to 564 00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:00,880 Speaker 3: feel that way. Nobody should should feel that way. 565 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:09,600 Speaker 1: Tanya airfoursupervisor dot com. That's Tanya airfoursupervisor dot com. Tanya Airy, 566 00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:11,480 Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us today. 567 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:14,000 Speaker 3: Thank you Randy Night speaking with you. 568 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:18,920 Speaker 1: It's the News Blitz with Randy Wang on KABC. It's 569 00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:22,680 Speaker 1: the News Blitz with Randy Wang on KABC. If you'd 570 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:24,720 Speaker 1: like to email us, you could do so at Randy 571 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:28,800 Speaker 1: Wangradio at gmail dot com. Ed writes in, Hey, Brandy, 572 00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:31,240 Speaker 1: I want to remind you that on top of their salaries, 573 00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:33,720 Speaker 1: you need to figure out that the benefits cost fifty 574 00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:37,480 Speaker 1: five percent of their salary. Okay, well, let's do a 575 00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:40,200 Speaker 1: little math here. Let me pull out my trustee calculator, 576 00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:44,880 Speaker 1: Barbara Ferrara. Five eighty one zero zero zero times point 577 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:48,760 Speaker 1: five five is three nineteen five five zero plus five 578 00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:52,120 Speaker 1: eight one zero zero zero. All right, so we're paying 579 00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:57,840 Speaker 1: about nine hundred thousand dollars a year for Barbara for rare. 580 00:32:58,160 --> 00:32:59,760 Speaker 4: The evidence is like crystal Clear. 581 00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:00,240 Speaker 3: Up that. 582 00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:04,960 Speaker 1: Love your show and your subset that provides us with 583 00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:08,840 Speaker 1: much needed information. Well, thank you Ed for that nugget. 584 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:13,000 Speaker 1: It's the news Blitz with Randy Wang on KABC. It's 585 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:16,520 Speaker 1: the News Blitz with Randy Wang on KABC. For two 586 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:21,160 Speaker 1: years now, Gavin Newsom has been making all kinds of 587 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:24,960 Speaker 1: proclamations that he was going to get all state employees 588 00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:28,920 Speaker 1: back to in person work in Sacramento four days a week. 589 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:31,680 Speaker 1: He even signed an executive order and it was supposed 590 00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:35,400 Speaker 1: to take effect in July of twenty twenty five, and 591 00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:38,440 Speaker 1: then the union said no, And they said how about 592 00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:41,600 Speaker 1: July twenty twenty six? And what do you know, when 593 00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:44,120 Speaker 1: we get to July twenty twenty six, they'll most likely 594 00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:47,480 Speaker 1: say how about never. Well, now you actually have a 595 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:51,200 Speaker 1: bipartisan effort in the legislature to do away with that 596 00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:55,840 Speaker 1: whole idea. Have departments decide for themselves if employees need 597 00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:57,840 Speaker 1: to go back to work in person or not, because 598 00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:02,000 Speaker 1: apparently forcing everyone to go back to Sacramento in person 599 00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:05,240 Speaker 1: four days a week would actually cost the state another 600 00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:08,680 Speaker 1: two hundred million dollars. From more on this, we get 601 00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:10,359 Speaker 1: a Fox forty in Sacramento, PHI. 602 00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:13,440 Speaker 5: New state Assembly bill could allow state workers to continue 603 00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:17,360 Speaker 5: working remotely even as Governor Newsom's return to office mandate 604 00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:19,640 Speaker 5: is set to take effect this summer. Fox fortys no 605 00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:21,880 Speaker 5: Anderson joining us live in the studio tonight with what 606 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:24,360 Speaker 5: this proposed legislation Noah would really do? 607 00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:27,320 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right, Eric Aby. Seventeen to twenty nine was 608 00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:30,160 Speaker 4: introduced on Thursday, authored by Assembly Member Alex Lee of 609 00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:33,680 Speaker 4: San Jose and co authored by local assembly Member Josh Hoover, 610 00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:35,800 Speaker 4: who represents parts of Sacramento County. 611 00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:36,480 Speaker 2: Look at this. 612 00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:40,120 Speaker 1: Both Democrats and Republicans in the legislature teaming up to 613 00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:41,080 Speaker 1: stick it to Gavin. 614 00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:44,799 Speaker 4: Supporters say it preserves flexibility for remote work where it 615 00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:47,200 Speaker 4: makes sense. Today, I spoke with the members of the 616 00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:50,959 Speaker 4: group know to RTO, along with assembly Member Hoover, about 617 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,000 Speaker 4: why they believe this bill is necessary. As Governor Newsom 618 00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:56,279 Speaker 4: continues to push for state workers to return to the 619 00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:58,040 Speaker 4: office four days a week. 620 00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:00,160 Speaker 3: It is a waste of taxpayer dollars. 621 00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:02,560 Speaker 4: July first is the deadline for state workers to return 622 00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:04,480 Speaker 4: to the office at least four days a week, an 623 00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:07,600 Speaker 4: extension of twelve months from the original July first, twenty 624 00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:08,880 Speaker 4: twenty five deadline. 625 00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:11,160 Speaker 1: But you think by July of this year, Gavin's going 626 00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:14,160 Speaker 1: to be even paying attention to this. They're not coming back, 627 00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:17,160 Speaker 1: and nor should they need to. There's less traffic. The 628 00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,680 Speaker 1: traffic still isn't great up there, but there's less traffic 629 00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:20,360 Speaker 1: on the roads. 630 00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:21,759 Speaker 2: Do you know if we just. 631 00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:26,160 Speaker 1: Figured out a system where for the jobs it makes sense, 632 00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:29,239 Speaker 1: and there's plenty of jobs where it doesn't make sense. Obviously, 633 00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:31,360 Speaker 1: your plumbers, your gardeners, what have you. There's lots of 634 00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:33,880 Speaker 1: jobs where you have to be around in person. But 635 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:37,080 Speaker 1: for all the office jobs, even if we took twenty 636 00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:40,880 Speaker 1: percent of the workforce one day a week and rotated it, 637 00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:43,880 Speaker 1: if you took twenty percent of the cars off the freeway, 638 00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:47,600 Speaker 1: the four or five would move. We could incentivize that, 639 00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:50,640 Speaker 1: we could organize around that. But you ever notice how 640 00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:52,880 Speaker 1: even though we're in a mayor's race right now, nobody 641 00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:56,719 Speaker 1: ever talks about solving traffic. They don't even think about it. 642 00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:59,840 Speaker 4: But many state workers say remote work is the better option. 643 00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:03,439 Speaker 3: Annually, we would be looking at potentially saving two hundred 644 00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:06,520 Speaker 3: and twenty five million dollars as part of the California budget. 645 00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:11,040 Speaker 6: Especially right now considering the billions of dollars of deficit 646 00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:13,520 Speaker 6: that we are in with our state budget this year. 647 00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:16,080 Speaker 1: I mean, sure, say that this is about the state budget, 648 00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:18,200 Speaker 1: but really it's because you don't want to leave the house. 649 00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:22,439 Speaker 1: And I understand. I get to do this show from home, and. 650 00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:23,200 Speaker 2: I love it. 651 00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:25,759 Speaker 1: State workers new ine to three. I have to be 652 00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:28,359 Speaker 1: in Culver City and I don't love it. 653 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:31,960 Speaker 4: State workers also point to environmental benefits on top of 654 00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:33,760 Speaker 4: significant budget savings. 655 00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:39,640 Speaker 6: It reduces traffic, congestion and air pollution when we stay 656 00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:43,360 Speaker 6: home because there is such a fast amount of state 657 00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:45,560 Speaker 6: workers that have to commute those argument. 658 00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:47,480 Speaker 1: By the way, I think this should be true for 659 00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:50,640 Speaker 1: government employees in the city and the County of Los Angeles. 660 00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:53,560 Speaker 1: If you're just a pencil pusher, you don't need to 661 00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:55,680 Speaker 1: be taking up that space. I think we should have 662 00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:58,719 Speaker 1: everyone at LA City Hall work from home permanently, and 663 00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:00,720 Speaker 1: then we could turn LA City Hall into a giant 664 00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:03,120 Speaker 1: homeless shelter. It already smells like one. 665 00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:06,839 Speaker 4: Those arguments help drive the introduction of AB seventeen twenty nine, 666 00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,719 Speaker 4: authored by assembly Member Alex Lee of San Jose and 667 00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:12,840 Speaker 4: co authored by Josh Hoover of District seven, which includes 668 00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:14,280 Speaker 4: parts of Sacramento County. 669 00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:17,320 Speaker 3: Embracing remote work where it makes sense for state workers 670 00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:20,799 Speaker 3: is good for taxpayers. It's obviously good for workers, and 671 00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:22,160 Speaker 3: it's also good for commuters. 672 00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:24,000 Speaker 1: And for as much as we talk about we have 673 00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:26,200 Speaker 1: a lack of space and a lack of places to 674 00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:29,560 Speaker 1: build things, there are so many buildings in Sacramento that 675 00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:32,919 Speaker 1: you could turn into mixed use, you could turn into residential. 676 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:33,759 Speaker 2: And that's true for. 677 00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:37,160 Speaker 1: How many county and city owned buildings are we wasting 678 00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:39,719 Speaker 1: space with when we talk about tearing down a single 679 00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:42,200 Speaker 1: family home, but we tear down a government building. 680 00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:44,680 Speaker 4: Under the bill, every state agency would be required to 681 00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:47,960 Speaker 4: develop and implement a telework plan, with a review every 682 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:51,120 Speaker 4: ten years. State agencies also have to provide a written 683 00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:54,800 Speaker 4: justification when a position is required to be performed in person. 684 00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:56,759 Speaker 1: And now I can see why they're doing this as 685 00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:58,239 Speaker 1: the state. I'm going to tell you right now, no 686 00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:01,960 Speaker 1: matter who is running LA, nobody's ever going to implement 687 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:05,879 Speaker 1: an incentive to telework. For a very simple reason. There 688 00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:10,279 Speaker 1: is a certain portion of the population myself included. If 689 00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:12,960 Speaker 1: I did not need to be here, if I could 690 00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:18,480 Speaker 1: work from anywhere, I would seriously consider moving to New Mexico, 691 00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:22,759 Speaker 1: not even kidding. Thank y'all so much for listening and 692 00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:37,239 Speaker 1: checking out that substack Randywang Radio dot substack dot com