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Speaker 2: two two two. Here with an update on California's Well
Speaker 2: I'm not going to call it high speed rail because
Speaker 2: none of it exists, but let's just call it the
Speaker 2: bullet train in theory, mister Randy Way.
Speaker 3: There was an explosive report posted late last night from
Speaker 3: our friend Julie Watts at CBS News Investigates. She actually
Speaker 3: posted this as an X article so you can watch it.
Speaker 3: You can read it by going to X at Julie
Speaker 3: Watts TV, which you should all subscribe to. I just
Speaker 3: realized I didn't write a lower third for this. We're
Speaker 3: gonna call it still no train, and check out Julie
Speaker 3: Watts's article.
Speaker 4: I'm so fast at this. There we go. Here's the thing, Johnny.
Speaker 3: You remember how when Gavin Newsom at the beginning of
Speaker 3: the second Trump administration said We're going to be sending
Speaker 3: a whole bunch of money to Attorney General Bob Bonta.
Speaker 3: So Bob Bonta can file lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit
Speaker 3: after lawsuit against the federal government and pretty much be
Speaker 3: in a press conference almost on a daily basis. In fact,
Speaker 3: I think Bob Bonta had another one of those today.
Speaker 3: Some of those lawsuits have been successful, some of them
Speaker 3: have been challenged, but only one was straight up withdrawn,
Speaker 3: and that was when Gavin Newsom and Bobert Bonta sued
Speaker 3: the federal government for cutting four billion dollars of high
Speaker 3: speed rail funding. They said this was purely political, This
Speaker 3: was revenge and retaliation against the state of California, and
Speaker 3: the President himself definitely made it seem that that was
Speaker 3: going on with how he will trash high speed rail
Speaker 3: any chance he gets, notably because it's a disaster. But
Speaker 3: Julie Watts found out that there is much much more
Speaker 3: to this story when it comes to why it was
Speaker 3: four billion dollars, why it was cut, and most importantly,
Speaker 3: why and Bonta decided to drop this lawsuit late last year.
Speaker 2: You notice when they filed the lawsuit, they make a
Speaker 2: lot of noise and they generate a lot of attention.
Speaker 2: But when they realized there's no merit to their lawsuits
Speaker 2: and they withdraw the lawsuits, you don't hear a peep
Speaker 2: out of these people.
Speaker 3: And this one is specifically again I highly recommend that
Speaker 3: you read the entire article that's on Julie Watts's Twitter
Speaker 3: x dot com slash Julie Watts TV. If you want
Speaker 3: to know why it was four billion dollars that the
Speaker 3: federal government cut from the high speed rail, it's because
Speaker 3: when Biden was president, he had promised four billion dollars
Speaker 3: to the high speed rail. But that wasn't no strings
Speaker 3: attached money. There was a very important string, and that
Speaker 3: string was very simply that the California High Speed Rail
Speaker 3: had until December thirty first of twenty twenty to secure
Speaker 3: a contract for the actual train for the high speed Rail,
Speaker 3: something that as of August third, twenty twenty six, they
Speaker 3: still have not done.
Speaker 2: Of course, because that train is never going to be completed. Ever,
Speaker 2: whenever they rework how much it's going to cost, I
Speaker 2: always tell people, don't even think about that in dollars,
Speaker 2: don't think about it in bitcoin, think about it in baniinas,
Speaker 2: because apes will be controlling the world by the time
Speaker 2: they actually get done with this project.
Speaker 3: We told the Biden administration in a federal contract that
Speaker 3: we would have the train purchased. We didn't need to
Speaker 3: have it all built, but we needed to have a
Speaker 3: contract for the plane and a design and guess what,
Speaker 3: that never happened. In fact, the new CEO at the time,
Speaker 3: Ian Chaudri, the guy that had all those questions about
Speaker 3: the domestic, was very silent about if we were even
Speaker 3: working on a design contract for the actual train. We
Speaker 3: are now supposed to be like seven years away from
Speaker 3: Fresno and merced to Wasco, and we don't have any
Speaker 3: train and we don't have any track.
Speaker 2: I think the plan all along was for Biden to
Speaker 2: be reelected and any strings that are attached to this
Speaker 2: money would result in a waiver being given to the
Speaker 2: state of California, and the waiver would allow us to
Speaker 2: continue to collect the money without having to produce a
Speaker 2: train that people can actually ride, because that's never going
Speaker 2: to happen. What they didn't anticipate was that Donald Trump
Speaker 2: would win the election, enforced the contract as written and
Speaker 2: cut off the money.
Speaker 3: In fact, there was supposed to be a board meeting
Speaker 3: where the High Speed Rail Authority would secure the contract
Speaker 3: that was required to get this federal money, and that
Speaker 3: board meeting was canceled.
Speaker 2: Well, this is what they always do. They have a
Speaker 2: persecution complex. Whenever they don't get what they want. It's
Speaker 2: never because it's a bad idea. It's because they're being
Speaker 2: picked on by Donald Trump and the federal government. This
Speaker 2: is what they told us about the investigation into the newsoms.
Speaker 2: They said it was a political witch hunt, and they
Speaker 2: conveniently leave out the fact that the investigation started under
Speaker 2: the Joe Biden administration, and it started when a California
Speaker 2: whistleblower set information to a California office. The investigation was
Speaker 2: started in California, not in Washington DC. Their own claims
Speaker 2: don't hold up, but they continue to repeat them over
Speaker 2: and over and over again. Same thing with the Bullet Train.
Speaker 2: We were getting the money cut because we're getting picked
Speaker 2: on by Donald Trump because he rather spend the money
Speaker 2: on his reflecting pool. Well, guess what. None of that
Speaker 2: had anything to do with it. We did not fulfill
Speaker 2: our obligations in the contract, and they cut off the
Speaker 2: funds the way they were supposed to. It is as
Speaker 2: simple as that.
Speaker 3: And you got to ask yourself, well, then, with that
Speaker 3: four billion dollars we were getting from the FEDS that
Speaker 3: was supposed to be to secure a contract for the train,
Speaker 3: where did that money go? Where has the majority of
Speaker 3: the money gone towards this project outside of digging a
Speaker 3: bunch of holes that will never get filled.
Speaker 2: Maybe that went to Dana Williamson's liver too.
Speaker 3: So it was a big, bold proclamation, Bobert Bonta putting
Speaker 3: out a press conference that we are suing the federal
Speaker 3: government over there immoral cuts to California's high speed rail
Speaker 3: and a cleaner, greener future. But two weeks before Christmas
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty five, without any press conference, just a
Speaker 3: notification with the courts, California dropped its lawsuit, the only
Speaker 3: lawsuit against the Feds they have dropped, and we all
Speaker 3: were wondering what it is. Well, it's because this one
Speaker 3: was a loser upon arrival, thanks to what we know
Speaker 3: now from Julie Watts that yes, the high Speed Rail
Speaker 3: was supposed to fulfill their end of the deal with
Speaker 3: the federal government, the former federal government, specifically for securing
Speaker 3: a contract for the train, and they have not done,
Speaker 3: by the way. A couple of weeks later, Gavin Newsom
Speaker 3: holds in Bakersfield where the podium said laying the tracks,
Speaker 3: building the future. They still haven't been laying the tracks yet.
Speaker 2: You know, we know that Bob Bonta is corrupt as
Speaker 2: attorney general. We know that Bob Bonta is the king
Speaker 2: of the cliches. We know that Bob Bonta has no ethics.
Speaker 2: But one of the things that we forget about Bob
Speaker 2: bonhas is that he is a horrible attorney too. Because
Speaker 2: if you were an attorney who knew the basics about
Speaker 2: the law, wouldn't you tell Gavin Newsom when he asked
Speaker 2: you to file this lawsuit? Guess what. We're in violation
Speaker 2: of the contract, and not only would we lose, but
Speaker 2: we would be embarrassed. So let's not do this. But
Speaker 2: instead of saying that, Bob Bonta just marches right along
Speaker 2: with Galvin Newsom and files this lawsuit. We're all lucky
Speaker 2: that this guy is not a criminal defense attorney, because
Speaker 2: if you were accused of a crime and Bob bonto
Speaker 2: was representing you, you'd get the gas chamber.
Speaker 3: Every type of leadership is about meeting the moment and
Speaker 3: rising to the occasion, and this is what's required, and
Speaker 3: so we're stepping up and getting it done.
Speaker 4: Listener, let's see listener.
Speaker 3: Jay to Stepha writes in Are John and Randy, saying
Speaker 3: that I cannot take the high speed rail from San
Speaker 3: Francisco to Los Angeles on Friday. It was to be
Speaker 3: completed in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you want memories of riding the high speed rail,
Speaker 2: I suggest dropping acid.
Speaker 3: The train contract is still to be determined.
Speaker 4: We do not have it.
Speaker 3: And once you have the contract, you need four years
Speaker 3: to build the train and two years to test it.
Speaker 3: So even if they fulfilled that deal today, it's another
Speaker 3: six years until it's operational, which means as much as
Speaker 3: they keep saying we're getting this central Valley line that
Speaker 3: nobody's asking for by twenty thirty three, based on what
Speaker 3: we're doing right now, not laying the track, still don't
Speaker 3: even have a contract for the train. John, what are
Speaker 3: the chances that the Merced Touasco line is even done
Speaker 3: by twenty thirty three.
Speaker 2: Well, chick hern would say slim and none, and Slim
Speaker 2: just left the building.
Speaker 3: It is an excellent piece. The link to the art
Speaker 3: on CBS News is there as well. Julie Watts one
Speaker 3: of the best reporters in the state of California, holding
Speaker 3: the State of California accountable and letting us all know
Speaker 3: why Gavin and Bob Bonta decided to, uh, just kind
Speaker 3: of drop that lawsuit against the Feds because the FEDS
Speaker 3: were completely in the right of clawing back that four
Speaker 3: billion dollars because not only we are not are we
Speaker 3: wasting that money and putting it in all kinds of unnecessary
Speaker 3: things in overpaying contractors with change orders, what have you.
Speaker 3: We also weren't fulfilling the basics of the deal. We're
Speaker 3: going to give you money to buy a train, and
Speaker 3: then you don't buy the train.
Speaker 2: Well, and then you look at the budget where they
Speaker 2: claimed they don't have the money they need for education,
Speaker 2: they don't have the money they need for fire mitigation,
Speaker 2: they claim they don't have the money they need for
Speaker 2: any number of other projects healthcare. Okay, if you don't
Speaker 2: have the money, that means you either need to raise revenue,
Speaker 2: which is people need to do better on the stock
Speaker 2: market so more money comes in, or you raise taxes,
Speaker 2: which they love to do, or you need to cut
Speaker 2: somewhere and redirect that money to more important priorities. I
Speaker 2: cannot believe that we're still spending money on high speed rail,
Speaker 2: given the fact that no one in the state with
Speaker 2: a brain in their head thinks that train will actually
Speaker 2: ever be completed. If you want to find money without
Speaker 2: having to raise taxes or without having to hope that
Speaker 2: the stock market does better, you can do it real fast.
Speaker 2: All you have to do is cut bait on the
Speaker 2: bullet train get for whatever reason, they refuse to do it.
Speaker 2: And I am convinced. I'm convinced that the only reason
Speaker 2: that we have that stupid project in the first place
Speaker 2: is because Jerry Brown feels inferior to his father. Father
Speaker 2: gave us our freeway grid, his father gave us the
Speaker 2: state university system. His father gave us our water. His
Speaker 2: father gave us a lot of the infrastructure that we
Speaker 2: use in California today. And then Jerry comes along in
Speaker 2: the seventies with a minimalist approach and buys into the
Speaker 2: theory if you don't build it, they won't come. That
Speaker 2: was back before global warming, when overpopulation was a thing
Speaker 2: that they all bought into. So we didn't build anything
Speaker 2: in California for a long time, and because of that,
Speaker 2: our infrastructure is an abysmal shape. So Jerry doesn't want
Speaker 2: to be remembered for that. So okay, fine, let's build
Speaker 2: something big. Let's build something grand. Let's build something that
Speaker 2: everyone will look at in the future when I am
Speaker 2: dead and gone and it will remind them of me.
Speaker 2: And to Jerry, that was the bullet train. That's what
Speaker 2: he wanted for his legacy. Well, how long has it
Speaker 2: been since Jerry Brown has been governor?
Speaker 4: Eight years?
Speaker 2: Okay? Could we stop playing this game and feeding his
Speaker 2: ego and just cut off a project that is obviously
Speaker 2: never gonna happen.
Speaker 3: Well, at this point, this isn't even Jerry's baby anymore.
Speaker 3: This is Gavin's baby, because you remember Gavin, very soberly
Speaker 3: when he started his term as governor in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 3: was like, I don't think this project's going to actually
Speaker 3: be a thing. I think we need to cut bait,
Speaker 3: and then decided to double and triple down to the
Speaker 3: point where we just extended our cap and trade program,
Speaker 3: which is part of the reason it's so expensive to
Speaker 3: buy gasoline in the state of California for another twenty years,
Speaker 3: all to fund one billion dollars a year going to
Speaker 3: high speed rail and spoiler alert, it's not nearly enough.
Speaker 2: Well, if high speed rail is now Gavin's baby, it's
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Speaker 2: We are learning more details about California Governor Gavin Newsom's
Speaker 2: tax returns and Randy. As I was looking through all
Speaker 2: the news articles about Gavin's taxes over the weekend, I
Speaker 2: thought to myself, I wonder how many kids in Africa
Speaker 2: he's claiming to raise. Because if he's doing that, I
Speaker 2: want to take the list of names and compare it
Speaker 2: to the list on the roster at Oprah School in
Speaker 2: Africa and see if they match up.
Speaker 4: See if there's any cross referencing there.
Speaker 2: Because if there is, I think I want to blow
Speaker 2: the whistle on fraud.
Speaker 4: Oh boy.
Speaker 3: Well, for more on Gavin's taxes, here's a report from
Speaker 3: CACRA three and Sacramento and Ashley's Evalla.
Speaker 6: Governor Gavin Newsom allowed us to inspect his most recent
Speaker 6: tax returns, so the first time he's done this in
Speaker 6: four years.
Speaker 7: This comes as he and his wife are a parent's
Speaker 7: so transparent, very transparent, only the target of a US
Speaker 7: Department of Justice investigation, and as he's considering a run
Speaker 7: for president.
Speaker 3: Casey are three p I love that the top billing
Speaker 3: is he's under investigation and the footnote is, oh yeah,
Speaker 3: and he's running for president.
Speaker 7: It was the only TV organization to review these records.
Speaker 7: Our political director, Ashley Zavalla, looked through hundreds of pages
Speaker 7: of documents. So, Ash, what are the main takeaways here?
Speaker 3: The strange thing about this was they released it with
Speaker 3: certain reporters being able to look at it in a
Speaker 3: room for just a few hours, and they could take notes.
Speaker 3: And I'm sure they were well aware that if they
Speaker 3: did not include Ashley, they were never going to hear
Speaker 3: the end of it.
Speaker 2: And they put all kinds of restrictions on them too.
Speaker 2: I don't think they could bring their phones in. I
Speaker 2: don't think they could bring certain items in. They could
Speaker 2: bring empty tax forms with them and I guess fill
Speaker 2: them out with a pen. It was really weird how
Speaker 2: they set this up.
Speaker 8: Eighty Well, first, let me just lay out the ground
Speaker 8: rules in order to go through any of this. We
Speaker 8: could not take photos.
Speaker 4: We couldn't make photo.
Speaker 8: Copies or take video of these documents. We could just
Speaker 8: record information with pen and paper.
Speaker 4: We were providing.
Speaker 2: Why this is like going to a stand up comedy concert.
Speaker 4: You know what this is.
Speaker 3: This is yet another emblematic Gavin Newsom move. What's the
Speaker 3: big headline? Gavin Newsom releases his taxes. What's the details?
Speaker 3: He let five reporters in a room take some notes.
Speaker 8: I did with tax returns for the governor and his
Speaker 8: wife for years twenty twenty one through twenty twenty four,
Speaker 8: they filed their taxes jointly twenty twenty five was not
Speaker 8: available because the Newsom's filed for an extension.
Speaker 3: What they can't pay their taxes on time? What are
Speaker 3: they busy doing?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's also fishy. I wonder somebody podcasts.
Speaker 3: Does he get revenue for the podcast? How does that work?
Speaker 3: What is the relationship with him and iHeartRadio? I really
Speaker 3: would like to know this was although notably they got
Speaker 3: a lot of PSA money during COVID. I know because
Speaker 3: our company did not.
Speaker 8: Even one hundred and eighteen pages total worth of documents.
Speaker 8: So just first the takeaways. The Neusoms are still multimillionaires,
Speaker 8: which they have been for years because of investments.
Speaker 4: And Jenny's families loaded.
Speaker 2: And he has access to the gettys.
Speaker 8: Usum's wine and hospitality business that's mostly all in blind trusts.
Speaker 3: And he'd better be making two million dollars a year.
Speaker 3: I see how much they charge for plump Jack.
Speaker 2: That company is that profitable? Huh?
Speaker 4: It seems to do well.
Speaker 2: Is that what Dana Williamson drinks?
Speaker 3: If she does, she must have been getting paid very well.
Speaker 3: It's like two hundred dollars cabs.
Speaker 8: Their income over the years has averaged about two million
Speaker 8: dollars a year, according to these tax returns overall.
Speaker 4: A bit although for where they live in Marin that's low. Income.
Speaker 8: Boost came in twenty twenty one when they sold their
Speaker 8: Marin County home, which earned them an extra one point
Speaker 8: five million dollars that year. Now one of the bigger
Speaker 8: takeaways in the bigger picture of all of this with
Speaker 8: the US Department of Justice investigation, the income the Newsoms
Speaker 8: bring in from Jennifer Siebel Newsom's nonprofit organizations make up
Speaker 8: a small, if not tiny, fraction of their income about
Speaker 8: ten percent. One of them, Girls Club Entertainment, has actually
Speaker 8: been losing money for the last three years.
Speaker 2: With Girls Club Entertainment, that sounds like a company that
Speaker 2: produces barely legal born.
Speaker 3: If it's losing money, can they write that off on
Speaker 3: their taxes.
Speaker 8: Their other nonprofit, the represent Haiti Project. Sebill Newsom pays
Speaker 8: herself about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year
Speaker 8: from that.
Speaker 3: Is that the one that gets the contracts with the
Speaker 3: schools to show her movies.
Speaker 2: I think that's it great.
Speaker 8: Also, their income has actually decreased since Newsom became governor.
Speaker 8: These latest tax returns show there's been an eighteen percent
Speaker 8: decline in the reported income since twenty nineteen. To put
Speaker 8: that into numbers, for example, their taxable income in twenty
Speaker 8: nineteen was one point seven million. In twenty twenty four
Speaker 8: it was one point thirty nine. On California Politics three sixty,
Speaker 8: our panel of experts is weighing into this this weekend.
Speaker 8: I asked them, did these tax returns provide a full
Speaker 8: picture of their benefits and their wealth?
Speaker 2: Absolutely?
Speaker 5: Not shanky, Absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 2: How did Gavin make more money as lieutenant governor than
Speaker 2: he did as governor?
Speaker 3: Well, he had a lot more free time, and I
Speaker 3: would imagine as lieutenant governor there's a lot less restrictions
Speaker 3: than what you can do while also being lieutenant governor, because,
Speaker 3: as we've learned, it's not really a job.
Speaker 2: No, you have nothing to sell.
Speaker 9: Worked with candidates who are very, very wealthy, and they
Speaker 9: release their tax returns and I've had reporters sit there
Speaker 9: and say, well, where's all the money where they pay tax.
Speaker 3: I mean, think about when John Cox ran for governor
Speaker 3: the last time you could see his taxes and see
Speaker 3: how much money he spent on the bear.
Speaker 9: So well, you know, no surprise to the general public
Speaker 9: out there. Wealthy people have their money all over the place,
Speaker 9: and it's not necessarily reflected all the time in income taxes,
Speaker 9: and they can there's other ways in which to get
Speaker 9: that information out there or to ask about it. But
Speaker 9: it just the full picture is not always painted by
Speaker 9: what's on your tax return.
Speaker 8: Chris depersonal tax and personal tax returns show like the
Speaker 8: full picture of how these two benefit.
Speaker 6: No, because remember, just by its name, an income tax
Speaker 6: return shows income. Many wealthy individuals their wealth is in
Speaker 6: assets they're holdings, whether it's stock, real estate, property, etc.
Speaker 2: And this I'm spry the SCIU is going after the
Speaker 2: wealth confiscation because if that's what they target instead of
Speaker 2: a regular income tax or a tax on whatever capital gains,
Speaker 2: you're going to force them to sell their stocks. You're
Speaker 2: going to force them to sell real estate. You're going
Speaker 2: to force them to have to unload companies so they
Speaker 2: have the capital available to pay the tax.
Speaker 3: That tax, by the way, was just endorsed by the
Speaker 3: California Democratic Party.
Speaker 6: Shocker, just the income that they're receiving. But keep in
Speaker 6: mind that the governor, just like all local and state
Speaker 6: elected and appointed officials every year, have to file what
Speaker 6: we call a Form seven hundred a statement of economic
Speaker 6: interests that describes in greater detail those assets, not just
Speaker 6: their income. So there is information available on the assets
Speaker 6: of the governor and other officeholders.
Speaker 3: Just wait until Gavin Newsom's out of office, and then
Speaker 3: iHeart wants to monetize his podcast and Gavin Newsom's going
Speaker 3: to start doing ads for penis pills.
Speaker 8: Now, the Newsom's paid a federal tax rate between thirty
Speaker 8: to thirty five percent. They also paid hundreds of them.
Speaker 4: I pay more than that.
Speaker 3: Something's wrong there some of my paychecks, and I don't
Speaker 3: make a lot of money. It's like forty percent when
Speaker 3: I have an endorsement check, Like what the hell?
Speaker 8: Thousands of dollars in state taxes in that four year period.
Speaker 8: The Governor's office tells us they don't have any money
Speaker 8: in crypto. They also don't have any foreign bank accounts.
Speaker 7: People may be wondering, why release all this information right now?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, it depends on who you ask. In
Speaker 8: terms of that answer, the governor has promised to release
Speaker 8: these even though state law really doesn't require him to
Speaker 8: at this point, since he's no longer running for governor
Speaker 8: of California. One of our panelists did say, the governor
Speaker 8: wants to be president, and other presidential candidates have already
Speaker 8: done this. They've already release least the returns for the
Speaker 8: recent years that the governor has released this week, So
Speaker 8: I mean that's another answer.
Speaker 7: So yeah, all right, Ashley.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 4: So there you go.
Speaker 3: Gavin releases his taxes kind of so.
Speaker 2: As she said, there's no requirement that he do this,
Speaker 2: it is politically helpful. I think for Gavin Newsom to
Speaker 2: release his taxes from the point of view of being
Speaker 2: a candidate for president, I don't think he's worried about
Speaker 2: how people see him as governor of California. He's moved
Speaker 2: well beyond that. However, if what you're looking for is
Speaker 2: you're looking for, I guess, a public relations boost where
Speaker 2: it looks like you're doing something altruistic, you're doing something
Speaker 2: that is ethically solid, You're doing something that will prove
Speaker 2: to Democratic voters that you are a solid, credible can anidate,
Speaker 2: and there's nothing in your taxes that it's gonna come
Speaker 2: back to haunt you should you win the Democratic nomination
Speaker 2: for president. I don't think this helps him because he
Speaker 2: put so many squirrely rules on what the reporters can
Speaker 2: do when they were in the room, how long they
Speaker 2: could be there, what they could bring with them when
Speaker 2: they were looking at the taxes. It doesn't look like
Speaker 2: he's being transparent. It looks like he's playing hide and
Speaker 2: seek and he's going to rig the game so you
Speaker 2: can't find the prize. And I don't think anyone looks
Speaker 2: at this story and goes, yeah, his taxes are clean. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there's nothing to see in there. You go, oh, he's
Speaker 2: doing the bare minimum to get the credit. But we
Speaker 2: don't actually know if there's anything in those taxes that
Speaker 2: we should be concerned about.
Speaker 3: Hey, look at this, Jennifer Van Lah writes in on
Speaker 3: the YouTube chat Gavin can't get run from the podcast
Speaker 3: while in office. BBF Productions LLC owns the podcast, Gavin
Speaker 3: and Doug and Shilah Hendrickson own the LLC, and she
Speaker 3: runs the Blind Trust too. Very incestuous. I love the
Speaker 3: gens hanging out in the chat. This chot is lively, people.
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Speaker 2: two two the fixed California hour coming up after the
Speaker 2: news at one. Here is an update on illegal dumping
Speaker 2: in the City of Dumpy. Mister Randy Wayne.
Speaker 5: You know this has really been an issue for the
Speaker 5: City of Dumpy.
Speaker 4: Excuse me.
Speaker 3: Kevin Jenkins, the City council president of the City of Oakland,
Speaker 3: is getting a lot of positive attention for his efforts
Speaker 3: on social media to publicly share the dumpers. He even
Speaker 3: wants to rip off Chris Hansen and start calling it
Speaker 3: to catch a dumper.
Speaker 4: For more. Here is ABC seven in the Bay in
Speaker 4: the East.
Speaker 10: By now, illegal dumping continues to be a problem, but
Speaker 10: one Oakland city leader is gaining attention for taking a
Speaker 10: different approach to stop this illegal activity. ABC seven nine
Speaker 10: witness news reporter Loose Penya spoke to city council member
Speaker 10: Kevin Jenkins about what he's doing.
Speaker 5: Louse, Yes, Larry finds for illegal dumping in Oakland range
Speaker 5: anywhere between fifteen hundred dollars to five thousand dollars after
Speaker 5: multiple offenses.
Speaker 4: If they get caught, which is very very rare, but.
Speaker 5: Even these fines are not stopping everyone. So city council
Speaker 5: Member Jenkins is hoping his strategy. That's a trick. It's
Speaker 5: a bold strategy by an Oakland City council member who
Speaker 5: said he was fed up.
Speaker 11: And within one hour we had a name in an
Speaker 11: Instagram page.
Speaker 4: But I love this.
Speaker 3: I don't know how legal it is, but I love
Speaker 3: the dosing and publicly shaming the illegal dumper.
Speaker 2: Imagine if they get the wrong person though, and they
Speaker 2: put it up on the billboard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that is where I feel like the Oakland legal
Speaker 3: team is going to need to have all their ducks
Speaker 3: in a row.
Speaker 11: The person who stuffed this.
Speaker 5: Is tired of illegal dumping throughout Oakland.
Speaker 4: Come on Oakland.
Speaker 2: Like that.
Speaker 4: One's not a contractor.
Speaker 8: No.
Speaker 5: Also, remember Kevin Jenkins asked his social media followers to
Speaker 5: track down the person in this video and promised a
Speaker 5: cash price. The internet got to work.
Speaker 11: As you can see below. We found her and I
Speaker 11: kindly asked her to come get her belongings. Unfortunately she
Speaker 11: deleted her pages or black me either one who cares.
Speaker 4: He's one of the good ones.
Speaker 2: Well, it sounds like she took care of him, as you.
Speaker 11: Guys can see I'm a man of my word. Five
Speaker 11: hundred dollars was sent to the person who first identified
Speaker 11: what was it about the situation that used.
Speaker 4: To be a brand new game show.
Speaker 5: That I'm gonna make a video.
Speaker 11: I just didn't want my neighbors to continue to be victimized,
Speaker 11: and I wanted to get a handle on these things.
Speaker 2: Did it work, I believe so.
Speaker 5: Over one hundred and eighty thousand people have watched his
Speaker 5: last two videos, and many residents are glad.
Speaker 1: I think it's time for something to be done about it.
Speaker 1: You know, it's really getting way out of hand.
Speaker 4: Michael just put it lightly.
Speaker 5: Yes, mostly has lived in Oakland for forty one years
Speaker 5: and wants the city to take the fines to the
Speaker 5: next level.
Speaker 1: Final man, the vehicles too, I mean maybe even you know,
Speaker 1: get their vehicles. I mean, if they dumping there on
Speaker 1: the truck, it need to be confiscated.
Speaker 5: According to data from the City of Oakland, illegal dumping
Speaker 5: complaints have increased by nearly nineteen percent since twenty twenty two.
Speaker 8: Here, our crews picked up almost ten thousand tons of
Speaker 8: illegal dumping across the city.
Speaker 3: Like physical space wise, Oakland's not that big of a.
Speaker 2: City, but the city has trained the population to just
Speaker 2: leave your trash anywhere.
Speaker 5: This junk removal company said, Oakland is where the majority
Speaker 5: of business is at, but not everyone is willing to pay.
Speaker 1: So here we have one matris.
Speaker 4: I don't even want to know what those stains are.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 10: We got more stuff.
Speaker 5: Oakland Public Works does have a service for residents to
Speaker 5: get rid of items for free and for those who
Speaker 5: are doing it illegally. More cameras are watching.
Speaker 3: Now well, and it's funny to look at these images.
Speaker 3: But the thing you always have to remember whenever we
Speaker 3: talk about the illegal dumping problem in Oakland is part
Speaker 3: of the problem is that Oaklanders are getting fleece left
Speaker 3: and right from the trash contractor in the city of Oakland,
Speaker 3: and that contractor is California Way Solutions aka the Dong family.
Speaker 2: I wonder if there are any bums in Oakland who
Speaker 2: look around at all of the trash everywhere and go,
Speaker 2: you know, this place is really a dump. They ought
Speaker 2: to clean this up.
Speaker 8: An additional fifty cameras to our network of cameras.
Speaker 5: As to Council Member Jenkins, he is giving a name
Speaker 5: to this strategy to catch a dumber and plans to
Speaker 5: take it to new height.
Speaker 3: That could mean something totally different if you google it,
Speaker 3: just saying.
Speaker 5: This week it was a video. What's next billboard?
Speaker 2: Okay, what do you think the odds are He's gonna
Speaker 2: get the wrong person and the city's gonna get sued.
Speaker 3: I would imagine they got to have the person dead
Speaker 3: to rights before they put their face on a billboard
Speaker 3: like three billboards and billings.
Speaker 5: Erks said they are investigated and have contacted a U
Speaker 5: haul to get the information of that woman in the
Speaker 5: video and said they will take for their action in
Speaker 5: Oakland loose Pana ABC seven Eyewitness News.
Speaker 3: So there you go, little positive action in the city
Speaker 3: of Dumpy. As Kevin Jenkins is getting a lot of
Speaker 3: attention for offering that reward and outing the illegal dumper
Speaker 3: that dumped a mattress out of an uhul van.
Speaker 2: It's Oakland, No due diligence is going to be performed
Speaker 2: at all. I think the odds are fifty to fifty.
Speaker 2: They put a wrong person up on the billboard and
Speaker 2: they get sued for millions of dollars.
Speaker 4: Oh boy,