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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, it's the John of Philip Show, Mister

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Speaker 1: Randy Wggings in Culver City. John.

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Speaker 2: After another violent, deadly shooting weekend in Oakland, Oakland Mayor

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Speaker 2: Barbara Lee had to explain to kron four that don't worry,

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Speaker 2: we've got enough police officers.

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Speaker 3: We're not short of seven hundred police officers. Our goal

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Speaker 3: probably about six hundred and fifteen officers right now who

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Speaker 3: leave or administrative even quite frankly, they're coming back.

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Speaker 1: Boy, you got rid of Shang Tao for that.

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Speaker 2: I do not understand you removed Shang Tao, and I

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Speaker 2: understand why, but you replaced her with someone who is

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Speaker 2: just as bad and not nearly as entertaining.

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Speaker 1: Good question. Yes, it's been amazing. It's crazy how their

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Speaker 1: ideology is exactly the same. It's just she's performing Shang's

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Speaker 1: act in the body of a tired eighty year old woman. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: absolutely good job. Oakland. Eight hundred two two two five

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Speaker 1: two two two five two two two. Well, it's time

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Speaker 1: to move from one failed mayor to another. In Los Angeles,

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Speaker 1: in battled mayor Karen Bass is seeking another four years

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Speaker 1: as mayor of America's second largest city. However, a new

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Speaker 1: poll says that eighty percent of Angelino's either support someone

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Speaker 2: No, these are unprecedented numbers for an incumbent. These are

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Speaker 2: Eric Adams numbers for an incumbency reelection, and the latest

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Speaker 2: inside California politics Emerson polling shows that only nineteen and

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Speaker 2: a half percent of respondents will be voting for Karen

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Speaker 2: Bass's reelection. Spencer Pratt comes in second place with just

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Speaker 2: over ten percent, then Nathia Rahman at nine percent, Adam

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Speaker 2: Miller at four percent, and Ray Huang no relation at

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Speaker 2: three percent, three percent for someone else, and fifty percent

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Speaker 2: have no idea who they're going to be voting for

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Speaker 2: in the LA mayors race that is less than three

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Speaker 1: The first thing that I thought of when I saw

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Speaker 2: I thought the exact same thing. This morning, I am

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Speaker 2: on my walk, and I'm like, Rick Caruso could have

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Speaker 1: I wonder if he can run as a write in

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Speaker 1: candidate at this point.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I think it's it's already over. I mean, he

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Speaker 2: of things as a private citizen and not have half

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Speaker 2: been an easy win for him. It looks like because

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Speaker 2: Karen Bass is historically unpopular. I don't think Eric Garcetti

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Speaker 4: I receive things on both ends.

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Speaker 1: No, I think you're right. And what was crazy to

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Speaker 1: me is that Rick Caruso never really expressed much interest

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Speaker 1: I thought he would be much more formidable as a

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Speaker 2: Right now, Well, and you're looking at where Karen Bass

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Speaker 2: is with just twenty percent support. That almost guarantees that

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Speaker 2: will be a runoff where it's either going to be

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Speaker 1: Well, what Karen Bass is hoping for, based on her

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Speaker 1: behavior is she wants a November matchup between her and

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Speaker 1: her campaign emails? They're going after not Spencer Pratt's politics,

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Speaker 1: They're going after the fact that he was on a

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles is a safe city and she has control

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Speaker 1: of the street takeovers well. And that street takeover that

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Speaker 1: coverage that she didn't necessarily want so I in all

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Speaker 1: downtown LA. For more, here's KTLA now six.

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Speaker 5: Mayor Bass is announcing public safety changes after a mob

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Speaker 2: Notice how there was no public safety changes when the

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Speaker 2: mob rushed an AutoZone.

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Speaker 1: No, or the seven elevens, or any of the other

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Speaker 1: have one of these street takeovers. It is wild how

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Speaker 5: Smashing glass windows and assaulting employees inside, and it was

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Speaker 2: And by the way, if you see the video, what's

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Speaker 1: They're all holding their phones filming all of it because

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Speaker 1: no one worries about going to jail for anything in

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Speaker 6: Rachel bennataffis live at Crypto dot com arena where Mayor

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Speaker 6: Bash has lighted.

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Speaker 2: Out such a stupid name, it really is. It's gonna

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Speaker 2: see the Lakers at the crypt you know.

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Speaker 1: The only thing worse is the Honda Center in Anaheim,

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Speaker 6: Rachel benataffis live at Crypto dot com arena where Mayor

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Speaker 6: Bash has lighted out her plan to ensure safety in

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Speaker 7: Rachel sher Micah, the chief of police, describes this as

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Speaker 2: And oh, is bas gonna let McDonald do his job

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Speaker 2: for once? No, she's gonna make it look like it poorly,

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Speaker 7: Sher Micah, the Chief of Police, describes this as a

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Speaker 1: Dozens of sounds safe to me.

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Speaker 7: Dozens of people flooded the streets of downtown LA as

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Speaker 7: the Circa apartment buildings on FIGAROA and twelve, broke down

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Speaker 7: latest example of chaos and lawlessness, prompting city officials to

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Speaker 7: crack down on safety measures in and around the luxury

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Speaker 2: These takeovers happen every single weekend. In fact, they happen

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Speaker 2: every single weekend near the sixth Street Bridge. But now

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Speaker 2: that a luxury apartment building was the target, all of

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Speaker 1: How often do we cover these stories? And the tagline

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Speaker 1: is zero arrests were made. Well in this story, zero arrests.

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Speaker 7: Were men in and around the Luxury apartment building, La Live,

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Speaker 2: And by the way, if you've ever taken La Metro

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Speaker 2: the Staples Center, that is a scary walk. I did

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Speaker 2: that once to a Clipper game, never again.

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Speaker 7: Between Thursday night and Sunday morning, which are considered surge periods,

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Speaker 7: LAPD will be adding ten more officers patrolling on foot,

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Speaker 1: Additional resources are deployed to ensure continuous visibility and enforcement

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Speaker 1: presence during the corridor as busy as periods.

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Speaker 7: Regional partners like CHP will take part, also mounted units.

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Speaker 7: Mayor Bass and Chief McDonald.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if I want the mounted units involved

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Speaker 2: in this. I'm afraid of what those monsters will do.

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Speaker 2: The horse.

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Speaker 1: Well, hopefully the horse is just run over the monsters.

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Speaker 7: Regional partners like CHP will take part also mounted units.

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Speaker 7: Mayor Bass and Chief McDonald say this is an effort

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Speaker 7: to support the ninety thousand people who called downtown La home.

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Speaker 2: And for the people, I wonder how many of those

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Speaker 2: ninety thousand people regret that decision.

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Speaker 1: They're all from some place else. Nobody who lives down

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Speaker 1: there is from here. They're from some other place. They

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Speaker 1: in for a rude awakening.

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Speaker 2: This is not a real city. This is not San Francisco,

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Speaker 2: this is not New York. Downtown La is awful.

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Speaker 7: And for the people working late nights who need to

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Speaker 8: Those who live here, who walk their dogs, who push

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Speaker 8: have have to feel as though they are safe.

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Speaker 1: The area has happen, not they need to be safe.

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Speaker 1: They have to feel as if they're safe. What she's

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Speaker 1: advocating for is a placebo. Well, she's not gonna do

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Speaker 1: anything to crack down on this, No, because then we'd

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Speaker 1: have to put people in jail, and she doesn't want

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Speaker 1: to do that because Boss Castro thinks that that's a

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Speaker 7: The area has had a loss of anywhere from three

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Speaker 7: hundred to five hundred thousand employees who opt to work

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Speaker 2: Also, and that's because downtown La sucks. It's difficult to

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Speaker 2: that much fun stuff to do.

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Speaker 1: It is one of the worst.

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Speaker 2: It might be the worst downtown of any major city

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Speaker 2: in the country. Well, there's a reason that the Lakers

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Speaker 2: played in Inglewood and the Kings played in Inglewood for

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Speaker 2: so many years. They didn't want to play downtown. Well,

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Speaker 2: why has all the major sports French moves in Los

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Speaker 2: in Inglewood, the Chargers are in Englewood, the Clippers are

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Speaker 2: in Englewood. Reard and cleaned up downtown and that's when

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Speaker 2: it became safe to go back there again. But after

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Speaker 2: Dick Reardon left the office, there was a residual period

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Speaker 2: where it was okay to be down there. But there's

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Speaker 2: been too much time in between and now it's a hellscape.

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Speaker 7: Also, in just over three months, city officials anticipate thousands

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Speaker 7: for the FIFA World Cup.

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Speaker 2: You think about the eighteen boy international visitors are going

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Speaker 2: to get again quite an education.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you think about.

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Speaker 9: The eighteen million visitors who come to downtown annually and

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Speaker 2: There you go a very desperate Karen Bass trying to

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Don and Elsa Rito. Don. Hello, Yeah,

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Speaker 10: I think I know how we can sell the problem

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Speaker 1: Well, if saying the cops on tricycles instead of sending

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Speaker 1: put them in the sandbox. Thank you for the call, sir.

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Speaker 1: On Pilla show, eight hundred two two two five two,

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Speaker 1: You know that's not true. But Randy, that's not stopping

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Speaker 2: Are you claiming that LA doesn't pass the smell test?

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Speaker 2: So, Karen Vass was at the ribbon cutting of a

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Speaker 11: A new mental health center is opening up in LA's Chinatown.

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Speaker 2: Was everyone on zoloft sounds like it. This is the

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Speaker 1: Wouldn't you have to be to be participating in an

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Speaker 13: Do you think this is gonna help with homelessness?

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Speaker 13: Do you think this is gonna help with homelessness?

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Speaker 8: Absolutely?

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Speaker 13: I couldn't agree with you more. What do you drive

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Speaker 8: Well, of course there are still in campus there.

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Speaker 2: There is a very simple metric or a mayor that

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Speaker 2: Is skid Row better than it was four years ago?

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Speaker 1: It's filthy.

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Speaker 12: The conversation didn't last long.

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Speaker 10: We shouldn't got a hot second.

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Speaker 12: But as the mayor left. We managed to squeeze in

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Speaker 14: This is the second year in a row that street

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Speaker 1: Yes, that's true. And again I know that we repeat

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Speaker 14: That street homelessness is down.

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Speaker 14: I understand that, but I will tell you something. It

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Speaker 1: If that was going on across the city, she would

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Speaker 1: Remember back, and I think it was the nineteen eighties

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Speaker 2: And this is the same homeless services authority that has

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Speaker 2: being a doctor. Doctor yes, doctor Valicia Adams Kellum, formerly

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Speaker 13: Hey offered you shelter at all?

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Speaker 12: Or yeah?

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Speaker 10: I refuse it?

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Speaker 1: Why is that?

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Speaker 7: I don't like shelters to me bed bugs?

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Speaker 1: But the problem is the high cost of housing. You see.

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Speaker 2: I don't ever want to stereotype people. But you can

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Speaker 13: Yeah, I refuse it.

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Speaker 2: Why's that people who don't do math don't sound like that?

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Speaker 1: No, they don't.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, I refuse it.

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Speaker 7: Why is that I don't like shelters, do me bed

448
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Speaker 7: bugs beside safety made a lot of money for the

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Speaker 7: city in using underutilized hotels to spend a third of

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Speaker 7: a billion dollars, and most.

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Speaker 13: Of us are back when we started.

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Speaker 2: If you couldn't hear that, this homeless person says, hey,

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Speaker 2: Karen Bass sent over half a billion dollars and most

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Speaker 2: of us are back where we started. Good job, Karen,

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Speaker 2: because putting people indefinitely in motels did not solve the problem.

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Speaker 2: And even the people that she has put in the

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Speaker 2: motels as a tiny percentage of the people that are

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Speaker 2: on the streets every single day, which is why your

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Speaker 2: average citizen of Los Angeles does not feel this change

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Speaker 2: that Karen Bass said happened.

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Speaker 13: Well, also should get more money.

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Speaker 14: Uh No, The question is we have to make sure

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Speaker 14: that the system runs better.

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Speaker 8: There's a lot of problems with the system.

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Speaker 1: And you've been in charge of it. And she acts

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Speaker 1: like she's a writer in the letters to the editor

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Speaker 1: section of the newspaper.

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Speaker 2: In fact, she has resisted audits of that she doesn't

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Speaker 2: want the city council to have any control over where

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Speaker 2: that spending goes. Where we are spending and this is

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Speaker 2: true thanks to Monica Rodriguez the La City Council seventeen

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars per person per month to stay in one

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Speaker 2: of those motels. That's how much money we are wasting

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Speaker 2: on Inside Safe.

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Speaker 1: That is Minnesota level theft.

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Speaker 2: And it's been three and a half years since this

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Speaker 2: program started. So you would think at this point wouldn't

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Speaker 2: Karen Bass's reelection campaign be full of testimony of people

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Speaker 2: that say, Hey, I went into Inside Safe and I

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Speaker 2: got my life together and now I'm an upstanding citizen.

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Speaker 2: As far as I know, there are zero of those people.

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Speaker 8: There's a lot of problems with the system. We have

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Speaker 8: to address that.

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Speaker 1: When are you gonna do that? Oh, that's why she

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Speaker 1: needs four more years.

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Speaker 12: The mayor insists progress is being made as political pressure builds.

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Speaker 8: Well, there's a lot of things that we can do.

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Speaker 14: Are doing much more to do.

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Speaker 12: The primary election now less than three months away.

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Speaker 13: How would you grade so far as mayor?

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Speaker 8: Thank you?

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Speaker 10: How was you as mayor?

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Speaker 2: She didn't want to answer that one, of course, would

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Speaker 2: you like to answer it for him? Well, she could

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Speaker 2: have one of her professors do it for her, because

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Speaker 2: she didn't she get one of those phony Bologny master's

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Speaker 2: degrees from USC. Yes, it's a bizarre story. But if

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Speaker 2: you don't remember this, because this did come out at

499
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Speaker 2: the time of the twenty twenty two election, but still

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Speaker 2: people chose her over Rick Caruso. The same exact school

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Speaker 2: of Social Work at USC that Mark Ridley Thomas got

502
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:58,840
Speaker 2: busted for funneling money through to his son's nonprofit also

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Speaker 2: gave Karen Bass it's an honorary degree.

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Speaker 1: And she talks about having a master's degree in social

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Speaker 1: work all the time.

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Speaker 12: Since before Christmas, we've been asking Marivaths for a one

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Speaker 12: on one sit down interviewed to go over a long

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Speaker 12: list of topics. We're going to continue putting in those requests.

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Speaker 12: Reporting in Downtown La Matthew Sedor, Fox eleven.

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Speaker 2: News, Maddie, I love you. I don't think she's going

511
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Speaker 2: to sit down with you.

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Speaker 1: By the way, I don't think that was an honorary degree.

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Speaker 1: I think she claims that she completed the courses over

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Speaker 1: the computer. Oh boy, I wonder how rigorous those were.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to lesson Pasadena less. Hello.

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Speaker 15: Yes, I wanted to tell you and Randy that last

517
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Speaker 15: month I was assaulted by a homeless man at Union

518
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Speaker 15: Station as I made my way up the stairs and

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Speaker 15: the security officer who had a gun at the top

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Speaker 15: of the stairs, ignored me because he was too busy

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Speaker 15: a texting. And on Tuesday, I boarded the Metro at

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Speaker 15: the Allen station only to encounter a man passed out

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Speaker 15: on the floor of the car. On Thursday, I boarded

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Speaker 15: the last train, the car of the last car of

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Speaker 15: the train that is at Union Station, only to see

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Speaker 15: a man hunched over in a chair with a hypodermic

527
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 15: needle stuck in his arm. And on Friday night, I

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Speaker 15: returned to the Allen station, where I stepped over a

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Speaker 15: man passed out in the elevator. I decided that the

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Speaker 15: Karen Bass Memorial Metro serves as a drunk tank, flophouse

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Speaker 15: and shooting gallery. Transportation is second. But here's the kicker.

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Speaker 15: Last night, I attended a Glendale City Council meeting and

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Speaker 15: demanded that they tell the Southern California Railroad Authority to

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Speaker 15: remove a homeless encampment under the freeway bridge between the

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Speaker 15: Glendale Station and Union Station. This dangerous and illegal encampment

536
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Speaker 15: is on the railroad right of way and spills over

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Speaker 15: onto a spur track that's used by Union Pacific. Well,

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Speaker 15: this is the Karen Bass Memorial metro for you, and

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Speaker 15: the state of homeless does here in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you for the call. And they want

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Speaker 1: all of us to take those trains, which is why

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Speaker 1: they have road diets, which is why they don't repair

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Speaker 1: our failing roads, which is why they're not requiring developers

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Speaker 1: to include parking and new build. This is what they

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Speaker 1: want us to do. They want us to be in

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Speaker 1: dangerous situations all the time, in confined, split spaces like

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Speaker 1: a train. Let's go to Jonathan and West La Jonathan.

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Speaker 4: Hello, Hi John and Randy. My basic question is what

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Speaker 4: is the difference in amount of money that they spent

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Speaker 4: on just the funding to house somebody in a hotel,

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Speaker 4: and then was it two or three times more to

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Speaker 4: repair the hotel after they, you know, sued the city

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Speaker 4: for the damage that was done by the homeless person

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Speaker 4: that they put in there. Do you guys have any

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00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 4: ball park figures or percentages on how much more was

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Speaker 4: spent to repair the place.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you this based on what we know

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Speaker 2: about a program very similar during COVID in San Francisco,

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Speaker 2: the Project Room Key and the Project Home Key where

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Speaker 2: they decided to take all the homeless and shove them

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Speaker 2: into motels. The city of San Francisco was on the

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Speaker 2: hook for over four hundred million dollars in repairs to

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Speaker 2: those motels.

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Speaker 4: So was that more than they spent to put them in?

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Speaker 4: And what is the difference, Like, did they spend one

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Speaker 4: hundred hundred million to get them in or one hundred

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Speaker 4: thousand and then they got to spend another three hundred

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Speaker 4: and twenty thousand to repair the place. So it's actually

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Speaker 4: whatever they say that they're spending isn't true. Numbers that's

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Speaker 4: where they well I.

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Speaker 1: Don't have the exact numbers in front of me. I

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Speaker 1: can tell you this. It was so bad Tom Bodett

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Speaker 1: turned the light.

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Speaker 4: Off for them, right right right, yeah, Well the thing

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Speaker 4: all right, Thank you.

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Speaker 1: For the call, Sir. Eight hundred two two two five

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Speaker 1: two two two is a telephone number one eight hundred

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Speaker 1: two two two five two two two. If you'd like

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Speaker 1: to email the show, you can do so at Johnny

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Speaker 1: Don't Like Show at gmail dot com. That's Johnny Don't

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Speaker 1: Like Show at gmail dot com. Coming up after the

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Speaker 1: News at one, it's the Fixed California hour, and we're

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Speaker 1: gonna check in with independent journalist JJ Smith, who recently

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Speaker 1: filmed on the streets of San Francisco and the illegal

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Speaker 1: ballot signature scheme. This is a scheme where homeless people

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Speaker 1: are being paid to sign petitions trying to get legislation

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Speaker 1: on the ballot. You're not supposed to be paid to

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Speaker 1: do something like that. I guess you can be paid

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Speaker 1: to collect the signatures, but you can't pay someone directly

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Speaker 1: for their signature. But that's in fact what's being done

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Speaker 1: on the streets of San Francisco.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's worse than that because they're not even using

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Speaker 2: their own names. What they were doing was they had

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Speaker 2: a table and a line all the way down the

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Speaker 2: block on the Tenderloin where you had people, homeless people

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Speaker 2: getting paid five dollars to look at a list of

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Speaker 2: voter registration information, write down somebody else's name, somebody else's address,

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Speaker 2: and sign their signature.

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Speaker 1: It was straight up fraud. Yeah, that is illegal on

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Speaker 1: so many different levels, and of course it is going

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Speaker 1: on on the streets of San Francisco. We now have

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Speaker 1: the proof with the videos. According to everything that I've

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Speaker 1: seen in the state of California has now contacted JJ

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Speaker 1: about what he was able to record. But all this

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Speaker 1: leads to the question, Okay, what happens when these ballots

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Speaker 1: go out in the mail and the same sort of

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Speaker 1: scheming is going on. Can you even trust an election

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Speaker 1: where this type of fraud takes place in broad daylight

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Speaker 1: and nobody seems to care how many things.

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Speaker 2: Have qualified for the ballot with this kind of practice.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, it's pretty funny. One of the

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Speaker 2: ballot initiatives that the firm that was collecting the signature

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Speaker 2: was going towards was the anti wealth tax initiative that

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Speaker 2: would ban a wealth tax. So the billionaires apparently were

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Speaker 2: hiring a really crooked firm to collect those signatures.

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Speaker 1: Well, what you do is you go to a firm

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Speaker 1: and the firms just do how business is done in California.

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Speaker 1: Because the firms don't care which side they're collecting signatures for.

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Speaker 1: They just want to be paid for the signatures. So

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Speaker 1: I'm sure that anyone who goes to one of these

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Speaker 1: crooked organizations looking to get something on the ballot, that's

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Speaker 1: something akin to this is going on. But what goes

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Speaker 1: on in November? What goes on when these ballots go

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Speaker 1: out in the mail, because it's not as if these

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Speaker 1: organizations just go away.

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Speaker 2: It's all starting to make sense now why every two

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Speaker 2: years we have to vote on kidney bills.

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Speaker 1: Well, there are certain things that just make no sense.

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Speaker 1: People just cannot believe that certain results happen in the state.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, the state's pretty left wing, and you talk

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Speaker 1: to a lot of people and they subscribe to a

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Speaker 1: lot of what's coming out of Sacramento. But who out

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Speaker 1: there is signing these initiatives for the kidney bills, for example,

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Speaker 1: But you just brought up I don't know anyone, whether

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Speaker 1: they be Republican, Democrat, independent, whatever, who can't wait to

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Speaker 1: get to the Thanksgiving table to start pounding their fists

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Speaker 1: on the table to yell about kidneys. Yet these initiatives

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Speaker 1: qualify for the ballot. It seems like every cycle, and

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Speaker 1: sometimes multiple bills, multiple initiatives. I'm telling you, this has

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Speaker 1: been standard practice for a really long time. And now

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Speaker 1: JJ has it on video of exactly what is going on,

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Speaker 1: paying homeless people to impersonate you on signing a petition