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Speaker 1: And very happy Wednesday to you at twelve oh seven

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Speaker 1: in the West to each the John Phillips Show, Mister

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Speaker 1: Randy Weggs in Culver City.

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Speaker 2: John. Later on in the show, we have another update

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Speaker 2: on the San Leandro Police Department, as the San Leandro

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Speaker 2: Police chief was involved in a hit and run and

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Speaker 2: tried to cover it up when she clipped somebody's mirror

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Speaker 2: going sixty miles an hour.

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Speaker 1: Oh, dear Dan, have you ever seen that before? A

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Speaker 1: mirror getting clipped? Yeah, a mirror being taken off.

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Speaker 2: I remember a high speed chase where a guy was

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Speaker 2: on a motorcycle and he was clipping people's mirrors with

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Speaker 2: his arm because he was definitely high on meth.

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Speaker 1: But that was on purpose. I'm talking about accidentally. I

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Speaker 1: have not seen it up front, have you. I saw

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Speaker 1: it one time and it was hilarious, although the person

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Speaker 1: whose mirror got taken off seemed to be really angry.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I don't think they would find it funny.

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Speaker 1: No, but watching it happen in front of you is

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Speaker 1: like a slapstick comedy. Eight hundred two two two five

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Speaker 1: two two two is the telephone number? What eight hundred

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Speaker 1: two two two five two two two Back in the

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Speaker 1: old days, there used to be a program on PBS

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Speaker 1: called Where in the World Is Carmen San Diego.

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Speaker 3: It was.

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Speaker 1: A show about geography, a show about travel. How much

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Speaker 1: do you know about the rest of the country and

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Speaker 1: the rest of the world. Well, Where in the World

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Speaker 1: is Carmen San Diego is no longer on the air,

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Speaker 1: But Randy, today you and I are going to play

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Speaker 1: a game called where in the world is Katie Porter?

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Speaker 2: More specifically, where in California is Katie Porter? Because Katie

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Speaker 2: Porter is barnstorm in the state. As we are just

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Speaker 2: a little over two months away from the June primary,

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Speaker 2: we're just a little more than a month away from

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Speaker 2: the ballot's going to your mailbox. And she fired up

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Speaker 2: that mini van and took off on the road. Apparently

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Speaker 2: she dragged her daughter with her to all these things too,

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Speaker 2: And the road trip's gonna end in San Jose because

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Speaker 2: apparently they're really big Sharks fans.

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Speaker 1: Is that so that's what she claims? Wait, she lives

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Speaker 1: making this up.

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Speaker 2: I chose not to download the video because I don't

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Speaker 2: think it's fair to play any videos where she's exploitating

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Speaker 2: one of her children. But she said, we love the

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Speaker 2: Sharks because there's a Sharks player that wears a Pride

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Speaker 1: Stick, and that's why they like that particular team.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I don't know if they know anything about hockey,

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Speaker 2: but they're really pro into the lgb's and t's.

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Speaker 1: I see.

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Speaker 2: I don't know about the q's and the eye in

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Speaker 1: And that's what the daughter said.

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Speaker 2: That's what Katie said. The daughter said, I see, okay.

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Speaker 2: But again, the line that I won't cross with Katie

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Speaker 2: Porter is when she tries to put her children in

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Speaker 2: I don't think we should be making fun of her children.

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Speaker 2: That's not making fun of Paul. That's making fun of

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Speaker 1: All right. So those are the rules.

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Speaker 2: Those are my rules. You can have a different set

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Speaker 2: of standards for yourself. That is totally fine, but that's

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Speaker 1: So the first stop for Katie Porter on this tour

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Speaker 1: across the state is the city of Bakersfield.

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Speaker 2: Katie goes to Kern County. For more, here's k e

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Speaker 4: Kern Democratic governor candidate Katie porterfielding questions from Kern Kenny

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Speaker 4: rez in so on everything from healthcare to high speed rail.

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Speaker 1: You mean theoretical high speed rail.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's got to be real irritating if you're in Bakersfield,

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Speaker 1: No, but there is a prison there and that's where

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Speaker 1: I sent Graandpaul when I did that month the jury duty.

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Speaker 4: I'm Sam Weylla, your neighborhood reporter. Let's hit inside Tuesday's

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Speaker 4: town hall. Porter, a former congresswoman from Orange County, is

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Speaker 4: making your fourth stop in Kern County amidst this crowded primary.

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Speaker 4: That is a healthy list of competition, the most recent

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Speaker 4: ever since College. Pole noted that Porter has fallen behind

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Speaker 4: Democratic candidates Eric Swowell and Tom Steyer, as well as

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Speaker 2: How much do you want to bet that she's got

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Speaker 2: she's hitting the bull's eye every single time.

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Speaker 1: Now what's funny is well Via Ragos had told us

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Speaker 1: if she could go directly after Tom Steyer to his face.

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Speaker 2: It would get by the way, the thing that was

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Speaker 2: So we missed out on all of that.

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Speaker 1: And I think Tom Styer intended on spending a lot

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Speaker 1: of time talking about big asses, wasn't it.

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Speaker 2: Well, yes he did, but I don't have that one

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Speaker 2: that has all these drops, and where is it? Where

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Speaker 2: is tom Stier? When did we do that? It wasn't

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Speaker 2: that long ago, last week. It's under Stier, big ass.

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Speaker 3: We're to big ass crisis, all right.

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Speaker 2: So during the break, I need to find a place

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Speaker 2: on the hot bar for that. Okay, Back to Katie Porn.

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Speaker 4: When asked about how she envisioned shaping rules on the

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Speaker 4: oil and gas industry while't balancing environmental regulations, Porter says

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Speaker 4: she believes California needs more green energy to get online

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Speaker 4: and quickly. However, it won't usurp the oil and gas

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Speaker 2: We need to well, the oil and gas industry will

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we can't rely on solar roofs to make the

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Speaker 1: state run. We need to go to where there's oil

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Speaker 1: and drill like a crazed dentist.

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Speaker 5: We need to permit and build green energy faster in

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Speaker 5: California to meet that increase in the Maya. In the meantime.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but Katie, this is California. We don't build anything fast.

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Speaker 1: No, we don't.

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Speaker 2: Everyone's celebrating at La Metro that they approved this extension

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Speaker 5: In the meantime, we need to keep our existing energy

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Speaker 2: So she's going with high pitched Katie for this town hall.

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't think she would use little girl Katie

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Speaker 5: So I think there will be lots of jobs for

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Speaker 5: energy workers. In California's future, it will be a mix

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Speaker 5: for the foreseeable future of traditional sources of energy oil, gass,

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Speaker 5: other things, but it will also be ass today about

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Speaker 5: half of our energy comes from green sources.

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Speaker 2: Well during the day. At night, half our energy comes

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Speaker 2: from like Utah.

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Speaker 1: You notice, by the way, how guarded she is with

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Speaker 1: this answer, because the oil industry is a big industry

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Speaker 1: in Bakersfield.

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Speaker 2: One point, it's pretty much the first question any candidate

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Speaker 2: gets when you're touring Bakersfield.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and you know what she would say if

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Speaker 1: she was in San Francisco. All those guys in hard

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Speaker 1: hats in Bakersfield can go to the junior college and

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Speaker 1: get retrained and become beauticians.

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Speaker 5: Winter chicken dinner.

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Speaker 4: When pointed towards water, Porter says, in her eyes, the

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Speaker 4: conversation has been residential versus commercial water and north versus South,

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Speaker 4: But her focus is on ensuring that the state is

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Speaker 4: capturing more of it.

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Speaker 5: We can have the water to meet all of California's needs,

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Speaker 2: We already invested in it. We passed a bond measure

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Speaker 2: that was supposed to build a whole bunch of reservoirs

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Speaker 2: and they never got done.

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Speaker 1: She is totally clueless. See this is what happens when

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Speaker 1: they get asked about California issues. They don't know the basics,

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Speaker 5: What does that look like? It looks like more storm

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Speaker 5: water capture. Our storms are getting bigger and we don't

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Speaker 5: have the infrastructure to capture all that rain that is

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Speaker 4: Following the town hall, we spoke with a resident who

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Speaker 4: said they came out because they wanted to hear what

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Speaker 4: Porter had to say amidst the crowded field.

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Speaker 2: Important is that why they came out or they wanted

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Speaker 2: to see if she were going to do something they

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Speaker 2: went viral. Oh, if I lived in Bakersfield and I

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Speaker 2: didn't have a lot going on, I'd show up to

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Speaker 2: the Katie Porter event to see if she was going

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Speaker 2: to hit anyone too out.

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Speaker 5: Of my shot.

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Speaker 4: Following the town hall, we spoke with a resident who

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Speaker 4: Porter had to say amidst the crowded field, and implored

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Speaker 4: her community to do the same this election season.

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Speaker 6: I think it's important that voters take the time out

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Speaker 6: to hear from candidates before they place their vote.

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Speaker 2: Californians don't usually do that, No, they don't. I wonder

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Speaker 2: which name seems the most interesting, I'll vote for that person.

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Speaker 6: Learn about every single candidate and every single measure on

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Speaker 6: your ballot.

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Speaker 2: And that's going to take a while. This ballot is

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Speaker 2: going to the June one's going to be massive, and

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Speaker 2: the November one is going to be insane. Just on

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Speaker 2: the governor question alone, there's going to be sixty one candidates.

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Speaker 1: No, it's going to look like a menu at the

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Speaker 1: cheesecake factory.

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Speaker 7: And above all else, vote Porter and a whole host

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Speaker 7: of candidates looking to move forward through this primary election

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Speaker 7: that slated for June second of this year in Bakersfield.

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Speaker 4: I'm Sam Well, your neighborhood reporter.

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Speaker 2: So that was Katie in Beggersfield. But Johnny, the tour

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Speaker 2: didn't stop there, Nope.

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Speaker 1: After she siphoned some gas and threw away all the

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Speaker 1: parking tickets, she pointed that MIDI van towards Hanford.

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Speaker 2: Here's CBS forty seven.

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Speaker 5: You at eleven.

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Speaker 8: Gubernatorial candidate Kittie Porter is in the valley. Tonight, the

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Speaker 8: Democrat heldi town hall in Hanford as she continues on

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Speaker 8: a tour of central California. I spoke with her about

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Speaker 8: the state of her campaign and her take on recent

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Speaker 8: polling showing Republicans were leading the race.

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Speaker 5: I'm proud of my record and I'm ready to talk.

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Speaker 2: To kel What record.

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Speaker 1: Wasn't she in Congress for like two or three terms?

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Speaker 2: She was in Congress for about six years. Don't really

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Speaker 2: know of any notable legislation. What she loves to tout

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Speaker 2: all the time was that she grilled the head of

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Speaker 2: the CDC in the early COVID days to make them

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Speaker 2: COVID tests free.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she harangued a bunch of executives.

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Speaker 5: I'm proud of my record and I'm ready to talk

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Speaker 5: to Californians about it.

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Speaker 8: It's a crowded racer. California governor and former Orange Chanty

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Speaker 8: hungresswoman Katie Porter knows it. She's campaigning in Hanford tonight.

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Speaker 2: This is where California gees.

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Speaker 8: Wrong, taking questions during a town hall covering topics ranging

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Speaker 2: Everyone's talking about the rail.

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Speaker 1: You know who's from Hanford.

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Speaker 2: Who's that?

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Speaker 1: Tyler Henry the Psychic?

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, right.

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Speaker 5: Now, this race is about a five way tie two Republicans.

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Speaker 2: No, it's not.

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Speaker 1: That's the way she's going to frame it, because otherwise

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Speaker 5: Right now, this race is about a five waight tie.

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Speaker 5: Two Republican candidates, three Democratic candidates, and I'm one of them.

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Speaker 8: Across California, Reason polling released by the California Democratic Party

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Speaker 8: With multiple Democrats in the race, Porter is bowling near

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Speaker 2: That's one heck of a three way tie.

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Speaker 1: I would love to know who is voting for her.

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Speaker 1: Look what is her constituency.

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Speaker 2: Well, if you look at what she's promising, she wants

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Speaker 2: you go Katie. If you want to break up PG

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Speaker 1: Do you think when you go to a Katie Porter event.

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Speaker 8: With multiple Democrats drinding beneath them, polling at less than

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Speaker 2: California, including Mayhan, who this ad spend is so far

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Speaker 1: No, he is blown up on takeoff.

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Speaker 2: Well, and we talked about this, but it's just what's

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Speaker 1: No, and Morning Joe and all of those national podcasts.

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Speaker 1: He is talking to an audience that doesn't get to

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Speaker 5: Californians who want to vote for a Democrat and need

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Speaker 8: Porter was once seen.

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Speaker 2: But you lost in the Senate primary by a lot.

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Speaker 1: Well, that was the shift gift.

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Speaker 5: I call it the shift gift.

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Speaker 8: Porter was once seen as the Democratic front runner until

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Speaker 2: Oh, they're gonna play the Julie Watts tape.

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Speaker 1: Oh, we're very familiar with that on this program.

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Speaker 8: Showing Porter becoming combative saying she didn't want to continue

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Speaker 5: I don't want to keep doing this. I'm gonna call.

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Speaker 2: It still makes me laugh every single time I heard

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Speaker 2: I started breaking out laughing, I was gonna cut my face.

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Speaker 1: Okay, We'll just be lucky it was your face for shaving.

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Speaker 8: Showing Porter becoming combative saying she didn't want to continue

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Speaker 5: And I don't want to keep doing this. I'm gonna

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Speaker 8: We as Porter if she feels like her campaign has

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Speaker 2: Inist, Well, we know who she is.

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Speaker 1: Oh, we're very familiar with that.

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Speaker 5: Sorry for the noise. I'm cutting carrots. Yeah, I've always

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Speaker 5: run tough races. I used to represent Huntington Beach, a

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Speaker 5: it's my job to keep showing Californians that I'm steady

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Speaker 2: My job is, well, the whole thing was you wouldn't

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Speaker 1: It wasn't even like she was being badgered. She was

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Speaker 5: I'm ready to answer tough questions. My job as a

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Speaker 5: Proud to be in a tie and ready to go

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Speaker 2: I have been running for a year and I'm at

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Speaker 2: ten percent, But I guess that's better than Tony Thurman,

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Speaker 2: He might be on the show next week, Oh boy.

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Speaker 8: If you'd like to read more from.

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Speaker 2: Mark, we could ask him about what it was like

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Speaker 1: I wonder if he regrets that Tony Atkins dropped out,

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Speaker 8: If you'd like to read more from our interview with

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Speaker 8: Coverage continues on air and online tomorrow as multiple candidates

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Speaker 2: Oh boy, I'm sure I'll be sitting in the car

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Speaker 1: You think that one will actually happen.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's a forum, so it's not a debate. They

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Speaker 2: I have listened to so many of them, and while

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Speaker 1: So there you have it, Katie Porter on the road Bakersfield, Handford,

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Speaker 1: and it's going to end in San Jose to watch

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Speaker 1: So we know that Katie Porter is campaigning in Bakersfield

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Speaker 3: We're gonna big ass crisis.

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Speaker 2: He is touring the most southern part of the state.

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Speaker 1: When did that become a rite of passage where all

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Speaker 2: Well, it's an environmental crisis, and everyone seems to be

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Speaker 1: Well why did these candidates ignore it when they were

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Speaker 2: That's true, Tom Steyer was never in elected office. So Okay,

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Speaker 1: That's true.

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Speaker 2: Let's hear what Styer had to say in San Diego.

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Speaker 10: Okay, so here, we are about two months from the

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Speaker 1: Weeks the governor thanks Cecily.

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Speaker 10: Okay, so early voting starts and five weeks.

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Speaker 11: The governor's race continues to pick up speed, and voters

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Speaker 2: And it's not the ten candidates you've heard of. They

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Speaker 1: It's so wild.

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Speaker 11: The governor's raise.

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Speaker 2: I think the recall it was only about forty candidates.

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Speaker 1: By the way, we're going to have one of those

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Speaker 1: where he's going to be here too? Have you ever

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Speaker 11: The governor's race continues to pick up speed and voters

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Speaker 12: We are continuing to see the gubernatorial candidates make their

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Speaker 12: He's the billionaire environmentalist. He's consistently pulling towards the top

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Speaker 1: So that's quite a sandwich. Don't put that visual in

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Speaker 12: And Eric Swalwell. So we asked what he needs to

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Speaker 12: Why should Californians trust that?

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Speaker 2: Okay, this is once again, how are you going to

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Speaker 1: If I had that amount of money and no job,

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Speaker 1: I would have the worst habits on planet Earth.

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Speaker 12: You brought home nearly forty million dollars last year. You're

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Speaker 12: the only billionaire on the ballot. Why should Californians trust

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Speaker 12: that you are going to be able to sympathize with

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Speaker 12: their plight and make this state cheaper.

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Speaker 13: Well, I think there's two things going on here. One

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Speaker 13: is the fact that I am getting around and seeing

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Speaker 13: as many people face to face as possible. The other

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Speaker 13: thing is this, He's.

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Speaker 2: Going to go face to face with the TJ. River

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Speaker 2: next week.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he may want to reconsider that one.

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Speaker 13: I'm not taking the money from the special interests.

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Speaker 2: No, you have one special interest, and it's you and

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Speaker 2: your ego.

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Speaker 13: I may be the only billionaire on the ballot. But

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Speaker 13: I'm not the only billionaire in the election. All of

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Speaker 13: these other people are taking money from billionaires.

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Speaker 2: Well, Matt Mayhan, and that's not really helping.

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Speaker 1: He's at what three percent.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think that campaign's going anywhere. It's too bad.

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Speaker 2: But you know, California, get to California.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think the Democratic voters just don't care about

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Speaker 1: state and local issues right now. And you see evidence

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Speaker 1: of that by the fact that Matt Mayhan and Antonio

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Speaker 1: via Ragosa, who are two Democrats, one has a lot

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Speaker 1: of money Matt Mayhan and one has pretty good name

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Speaker 1: ID after being the two term mayor of Los Angeles,

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Speaker 1: and neither one of them are leaders of the pack.

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Speaker 13: The truth is, I'm the person who has no conflict,

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Speaker 13: only represents the people of California. I'm not taking money

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Speaker 13: from anyone who wants any different. The truth is, I'm

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Speaker 13: the person who can stand up to every one of

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Speaker 13: the special interests. They're mad at me because I'm standing

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Speaker 13: up to them.

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Speaker 2: Here is the only thing that works for him with

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Speaker 2: this argument, because most people, they don't care for that.

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Speaker 2: First of all, they the average voter doesn't really know

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Speaker 2: anything or care about who's donating to which campaign that's

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Speaker 2: a little above their pay grade. But the one thing

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Speaker 2: you can say with Tom Steyer and the one strategy

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Speaker 2: he has said is Hey, I'm campaigning to break up

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Speaker 2: PG and E. The other candidates are not because they're

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Speaker 2: probably getting funded by PG and E.

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Speaker 1: But it's not as if he doesn't have interest groups

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Speaker 1: who are behind him. He's received a number of union endorsements,

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Speaker 1: for example.

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Speaker 2: Yes, but when we're talking about a Democratic primary, we

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Speaker 2: don't consider unions a special interest even though they are

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Speaker 2: maybe the largest special interest in the state.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, who has more Sway and Sacramento than them?

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Speaker 13: Because I'm standing up to them, they're supporting.

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Speaker 2: By the way, if you're wondering, I may hence at

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Speaker 2: three percent, the unions don't like him.

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Speaker 1: They hate him.

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Speaker 13: Because I'm standing up to them. They're supporting other candidates.

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Speaker 13: They're coming after me because I want to represent the people,

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Speaker 13: the working people of California.

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Speaker 2: I would like to see a breakdown who has taken

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Speaker 2: the most money from PG and E. Because I'm not

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Speaker 2: voting for that person.

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Speaker 1: I would imagine it would be smallwell, because that's the

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Speaker 1: part of the world that he comes from. He comes

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Speaker 1: from the East Bay.

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Speaker 13: Because I want to represent the people, the working people

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Speaker 13: of California.

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Speaker 12: Experts have said that your plans to lower electricity costs

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Speaker 12: by double digits might be pie in the sky.

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Speaker 2: Well it is the governor's race. Everyone's got pie in

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Speaker 2: the sky.

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Speaker 3: Ideas pie in the sky?

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Speaker 12: Are they?

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Speaker 13: Experts believe that monopolies work. That's that's pie in the sky.

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Speaker 13: You know what's high in the sky. Believing that an

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Speaker 13: electric monopoly is going to deliver low rates. We pay

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Speaker 13: double the rates of everyone else in the United States.

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Speaker 2: You know, if he really wanted to put his money

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Speaker 2: where his mouth is instead of spending money on ads

525
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Speaker 2: for the past ten years, he probably could have just

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Speaker 2: bought PG and HE and broken it up himself.

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Speaker 1: Now think about this, though, If he replaces PG and E,

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Speaker 1: he's going to be the one to decide what comes

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Speaker 1: after it, and he's going to put the people in

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Speaker 1: charge of whatever comes after it. And I have a

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Speaker 1: feeling it's going to look a whole lot like the

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Speaker 1: DWP in Los Angeles with our favorite kenyone as in charge.

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Speaker 2: She left, she went to Puerto Rico and she got eos.

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Speaker 2: She got some big ovation at city council for it.

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Speaker 2: How great of a job she did, What a great

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Speaker 2: leader she was with her seven hundred and fifty thousand

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Speaker 2: dollars a year. And by the way, John, guess where

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Speaker 2: Jennie Kennonis worked before the DWP.

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Speaker 1: Oh God, I'm afraid to ask PG and E. Well,

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Speaker 1: there you go.

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Speaker 13: The idea that we would drop it by a quarter

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Speaker 13: means we'd be paying fifty percent more than everybody else

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Speaker 13: in the unixation. Not what I would consider a great outcome.

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Speaker 2: And why is he talking so fast? Because he's super

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Speaker 2: Dave Osborne.

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Speaker 13: Then everybody else in the unixation not what I would

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Speaker 13: consider a great outcome, And especially at a time when

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Speaker 13: the cost of electricity and the cost of storage is plummeting.

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Speaker 3: So do I think that that's hard to believe?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely not, Shane. Can you give him an assist?

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Speaker 2: You know, if I was at my home studio, I

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Speaker 2: have a drop of hers saying absolutely not, but this'll

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Speaker 2: have to do.

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Speaker 3: So do I think that that's hard to believe? Absolutely not.

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Speaker 13: Everybody around the world knows that the cost of generating

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Speaker 13: and scoring electricity is going down.

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Speaker 2: Except in California pretty much well, and one of the

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Speaker 2: things that the utilities have done. And this shows you

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Speaker 2: how bought and paid for the California State Legislature is

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Speaker 2: and how many members of the California State Legislature literally

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Speaker 2: come from PG and E or so cal edison that

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Speaker 2: a state they gave incentives for people to get rooftop solar,

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Speaker 2: changed the law and voided contracts to change those incentives

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Speaker 2: to now gotten to a point where there is no

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Speaker 2: incentive to get rooftop solar. They made it too expensive

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Speaker 2: because it was competing too much with PG and E.

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Speaker 1: This state, although they claim to be environmentalists, this state

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Speaker 1: is really pay to play more than anything. And when

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Speaker 1: one party is in charge, they're the ones that are

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Speaker 1: selling everything. Now, are the Republicans and Sacramento any better?

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Speaker 1: Who knows? Certainly the Democrats don't deserve to have a

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Speaker 1: monopoly over state government anymore, but right now the Republicans

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Speaker 1: don't have anything to sell, so who knows if they'd

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Speaker 1: be any better.

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Speaker 13: Eighty percent we should be part of that. We need

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Speaker 13: to take advantage of it. And monopolies always do one thing.

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Speaker 13: They charge you too much and they don't care about

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Speaker 13: the service because you know what, they're a monopoly. If

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Speaker 13: you don't like it, don't have any electricity.

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Speaker 12: Stier has a town hall here in town this evening

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Speaker 12: and is touring the t you Wanna River Valley to

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Speaker 12: learn more about the sewage crisis tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Well he could have just asked Katie about it.

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Speaker 5: You can smell it right here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think she's doing any favors for him.

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Speaker 12: Joey Savchik MBC seven.

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Speaker 2: So there you go. Tom Steyer in San Diego selling

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Speaker 2: everyone on the concept of taking pag and e in

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Speaker 2: the north so cal Edison in La County and Orange

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Speaker 2: County and San Diego Gas an electric and breaking up

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Speaker 2: the monopolies. Eight hundred two two two five two two

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Speaker 2: two is telephone number one eight hundred two two two

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Speaker 2: five two two two fixed California Hour coming up after

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Speaker 2: the news at won. Well, it's not just the candidates

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Speaker 2: for governor who are making the pilgrimage to the Tijuana River.

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Speaker 1: So are the FEDS.

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Speaker 2: The SBA administrator went down to smell it right here.

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Speaker 5: You can smell it right here.

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Speaker 2: And see how it's impacting small businesses. For more here

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Speaker 2: is CBS eight.

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Speaker 9: We begin tonight with the ongoing sewage crisis. In the

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Speaker 9: South Bay and the impact it's having on small businesses.

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Speaker 9: Good evening, and thank you.

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Speaker 2: For there was a story yesterday about how it's spring

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Speaker 2: break right now in Imperial Valley and kids can't even

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Speaker 2: go outside because it stinks so bad.

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Speaker 1: Here's what I don't understand. It's Mexico that's putting the

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Speaker 1: sewage in the river. Has it ever occurred to anyone

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Speaker 1: to just tell them to knock it off? And if

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Speaker 1: they don't, there's going to be repercussions.

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Speaker 2: What would those repercussions be? I don't know, something they're

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Speaker 2: not gonna like. So far, the answer has been ignore.

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Speaker 1: It, well, go kill another drug lord or something. I

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Speaker 1: don't know.

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Speaker 5: Good evening, and thank you for joining us. I'm Carlo Chakoto,

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Speaker 5: I'm Marcella Lee.

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Speaker 14: Businesses have faced fewer visitors, less foot traffic, and tough choices,

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Speaker 14: but today they had a chance to share their concerns

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Speaker 14: with the top federal small business official.

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Speaker 9: News It's Brian White joins us live from Imperial Beach

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Speaker 9: with what they had to say.

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Speaker 15: Brian, Yeah, it's been more than one thousand consecutive days.

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Speaker 15: That's nearly three years since these beaches have been fully open,

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Speaker 15: and it's taken a toll on local businesses. Today they

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Speaker 15: had a chance to air out their concerns with the

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Speaker 15: top federal official.

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine that, you know, we have beach closures

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Speaker 2: for a day here or there because it rained in.

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Speaker 2: All the sewage, all the homeless poop goes in the ocean.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Barbara for air in this area. In Imperial Valley,

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Speaker 2: the beaches have been closed for three years.

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Speaker 1: Think about this for a second. If you're remodeling the house,

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about. You can't legally buy

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Speaker 1: a pot filler for your coffee machine in California because

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Speaker 1: sacrament I know, has decided that'll destroy the environment. You

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Speaker 1: have to have your shower heads ship to other states

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Speaker 1: because you can't get the ones that you want in California.

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Speaker 1: We have to buy a summer blend of gas that's

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Speaker 1: more expensive because it's good for the environment. We have

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Speaker 1: to jump through every imaginable hoop to prove that we're green.

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Speaker 1: Yet they're unwilling to tell the Mexicans to stop dumping

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Speaker 1: raw sewage directly into a river because I guess that's

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Speaker 1: anti woke.

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Speaker 16: Small Business Administration Deputy Administrator Bill Briggs touring contaminated flood

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Speaker 16: zones along the Tijuana River Valley.

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Speaker 7: This is sewage frumpy Ona straight untreated the out card.

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Speaker 16: The visit is part of a federal effort to address

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Speaker 16: the decades long cross border sewage crisis. When the administration

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Speaker 16: says it's committed to solving.

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Speaker 2: By giving out loans to the small businesses, that's no.

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Speaker 1: On the Mexican government. That's what you have to do.

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Speaker 1: You could solve this problem by getting Mexico to get

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Speaker 1: their act together.

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Speaker 2: Well, several administrations of the federal government, including the current one,

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Speaker 2: the past one, and the one before that that's technically

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Speaker 2: the same one as now, have ignored this problem.

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Speaker 1: Well they're not yelling loud enough at the Mexicans.

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Speaker 17: Then APA is the lead on it right now and

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Speaker 17: they have themlu with Mexico, and part of that is

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Speaker 17: ensuring that Mexico is.

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Speaker 1: Working and doing its part.

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Speaker 2: But they're not, no, and they've shown zero interest in

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Speaker 2: doing so.

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Speaker 16: Before talking solutions, Briggs says, his focus right now is listening.

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Speaker 1: Marco's out to them, right.

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Speaker 2: I mean, what about smelling.

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Speaker 1: Isn't that new lady president of Mexico a big environmentalist too?

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Speaker 1: Isn't she all about the global warming? She's got a

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Speaker 1: million and one problems that might be a little low

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Speaker 1: on her priority list. I guess you can.

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Speaker 5: Smell it right here.

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Speaker 1: Marco's out to them, right. I mean it's important.

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Speaker 17: I'm trying to understand how their businesses may or may

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Speaker 17: not have been impacted, and.

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Speaker 1: You know, I want them to succeed.

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Speaker 16: At a roundtable near the Imperial Beach Pier.

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Speaker 17: I really would welcome the input, and I welcome the

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Speaker 17: opportunity to hear from folks.

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Speaker 16: Local owners like Cesci Minichini shared how nearly three years

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Speaker 16: of closures have taken a toll.

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Speaker 5: We're hopeful.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, imagine if you operate a shack near the beach

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Speaker 2: and the beach has been closed for three.

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Speaker 1: Years, here's what we should do. We should send plane

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Speaker 1: after plane after plane after plane filled with trash, and

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Speaker 1: we should dump it out of the plane right on

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Speaker 1: Claudias Shinebomb's house.

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Speaker 14: We're hopeful that there's relief, but I would rather have

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Speaker 14: it fixed than have a loane. So that's my bottom line.

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Speaker 14: You know, we're losing out on tourism. Our clients are

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Speaker 14: moving away. People don't want to come here because.

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Speaker 2: It's a health risk now well, and it's one of

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Speaker 2: those situations where it's gotten so bad you're going to

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Speaker 2: be selling your home at a loss or just abandoned

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Speaker 2: because who's buying in this area.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, this is a primo example as

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Speaker 1: to why you should never buy a house because there's

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Speaker 1: pretty pictures on the internet before you've actually physically seen it.

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Speaker 16: Others like Jim Own or Lee Gray say the impacts

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Speaker 16: stretched beyond the shoreline.

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Speaker 1: People came down here for the beach.

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Speaker 5: We're in southern California, but now that is closed.

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Speaker 1: Business has been impacted.

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Speaker 5: So many business been going out of business because we

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Speaker 5: don't have a foot traffic for it.

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Speaker 16: A crisis many here say is long overdue for a

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Speaker 16: real fix.

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Speaker 2: It does give us some hope.

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Speaker 14: I mean, we kind of feel that we're being forgotten

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Speaker 14: and that nothing's really being done about it because it's

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Speaker 14: been going on for so long.

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Speaker 2: I mean, to their credit, the local news stations are

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Speaker 2: down there every week, it seems, and one of the

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Speaker 2: supervisors is the one that's inviting all the candidates down

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Speaker 2: there to go smell it right here.

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Speaker 5: You can smell it right here.

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Speaker 1: A friend of ours who's a restaurant tour just messaged

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Speaker 1: us and said we were offered a restaurant on Imperial

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Speaker 1: Beach in the sand opportunity. The smell was so foul

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Speaker 1: you would be nauseous having lunch.

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Speaker 15: We may eventually see some relief, some small business loans

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Speaker 15: that may be in the works, but there was no

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Speaker 15: official talk of that today, no promises made. These business

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Speaker 15: owners say they appreciate the visit, but they're still waiting

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Speaker 15: on lasting change.

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Speaker 1: Marcella Carlo.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so this deputy director of the SBA drew the

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Speaker 2: short straw. Go down there and listen to the people

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Speaker 2: talk about the stink. There's no action from the state,

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Speaker 2: there's no action from the FEDS.

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Speaker 1: That's where that guy gets to go, and Ricardo Lara

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Speaker 1: gets to go to Bermuda. I'm very kind of sketch