Speaker 1: And we continue at one oh five in the afternoon
Speaker 1: on the John Phillips Show, Mister Randy Wings in Culver City.
Speaker 2: John, we are truly living in the future. The DMV
Speaker 2: has just authorized changes. The cops can now give traffic
Speaker 2: tickets to weaymos.
Speaker 1: Wait, how do you give a traffic ticket to someone
Speaker 1: who doesn't exist?
Speaker 2: Good question. I guess they call the company and send
Speaker 2: them a ticket through email.
Speaker 1: What if the weaimo's drunk.
Speaker 2: Well, if you put some of that ethanol in there,
Speaker 2: it would be drunk.
Speaker 1: Maybe they can play it down to a wet, reckless
Speaker 1: eight hundred two two two five two two two is
Speaker 1: a telephone number one eight hundred two to two two
Speaker 1: five two two two. Well, we know that the greedy
Speaker 1: SCIU wants a wealth confiscation tax on the ballot this November,
Speaker 1: targeting billionaires because they know the states broke and they're
Speaker 1: trying to grab as much cash as possible while it's available.
Speaker 1: Since they announced that they were pursuing this, over a
Speaker 1: trillion dollars in wealth has already left the state of California.
Speaker 1: And as we learn more about this initiative, an initiative
Speaker 1: by the way, where they say they have the required
Speaker 1: number of signatures to qualify for the ballot. Randy, there
Speaker 1: are even more disturbing details than we initially thought.
Speaker 2: A business group that opposes the billionaire tax has read
Speaker 2: the language of this thirty five page proposition, and inside
Speaker 2: it apparently is language that would allow the legislature to
Speaker 2: change the terms whenever they want. Like let's say they
Speaker 2: decide they want to make this a millionaire.
Speaker 1: Tax, or they can say, look look at all of
Speaker 1: the people who are millionaires on paper because they bought
Speaker 1: a home in the San Fernando Valley in the nineteen
Speaker 1: eighties and they're paying Prop thirteen taxes on it. Let's
Speaker 1: go get them for unrealized games.
Speaker 2: For more on this, here is kcra three and Ashley
Speaker 2: Zavala go live.
Speaker 3: Look at the state capitol right now. We're supporters of
Speaker 3: the California Billionaires tax say that the proposal is now
Speaker 3: a step closer to possibly going to voters this November.
Speaker 3: That proposal places a one time they say, five percent
Speaker 3: tax on billionaires and their assets to fund.
Speaker 2: Does anybody believe that this is a one time assessment?
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, this is testing the waters to see
Speaker 1: how far they can go. Healthcare programs.
Speaker 4: What a major business group is warning there is a
Speaker 4: hidden piece of this proposal that could expand the tax
Speaker 4: to more people in different ways. Our CACRI and three
Speaker 4: political director Ashes of Alla joins us with what both
Speaker 4: sides are saying.
Speaker 5: Ashley, Yeah, this is a discussion that's happening online right
Speaker 5: now about this piece of the proposal. The California Business
Speaker 5: Roundtable lobbies on behalf of the state's largest businesses. That
Speaker 5: group is warning that buried in the Billionaire's Tax is
Speaker 5: a line that could allow state lawmakers to impose this
Speaker 5: tax beyond billionaires without voter approval. The Billionaire's Tax Proposal
Speaker 5: is thirty two pages long and talks about.
Speaker 2: How why would this need to be thirty two pages
Speaker 2: long unless they're trying to hide stuff in there.
Speaker 1: It's like Judge Judy always used to say, the world
Speaker 1: isn't that complicated. If you make something complicated, it's because
Speaker 1: you're trying to hide something from me.
Speaker 5: The Billionaire's Tax Proposal is thirty two pages long and
Speaker 5: talks about how this whole tax would work.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 5: The group is worried specifically about a section on page
Speaker 5: twenty six that states, quote the Legislature.
Speaker 7: May amend the twenty twenty six.
Speaker 5: Billionaire tax by statute passed in each House of the
Speaker 5: Legislature by roll call vote entered into the journal two
Speaker 5: thirds of the membership concurring if the statute is consistent
Speaker 5: with and furthers the purpose of the twenty twenty six
Speaker 5: billionaires tax.
Speaker 1: Armor.
Speaker 5: The spokesperson for the California Business Roundtable explains the group's
Speaker 5: concern with that it's.
Speaker 8: A massive expansion of the legislature's ability to tax not
Speaker 8: just billionaires. But they can choose to change the tax threshold,
Speaker 8: they can choose to pick different property that gets taxed.
Speaker 9: But what it really does is it gives the legislature the.
Speaker 8: Ability and the power to tax anybody's savings account, retirement accounts.
Speaker 8: It puts all of that path.
Speaker 2: Wait, they're going to tax my savings account, all one
Speaker 2: hundred dollars I have in there.
Speaker 1: Well, and just think about this. If they want to
Speaker 1: get creative, they can tax just about anything. So a
Speaker 1: pension is something you haven't drawn yet. If you're under
Speaker 1: the age of sixty five or under the age of whatever,
Speaker 1: it is that you can start to tap into your
Speaker 1: pension or thank any heart condition. HiT's a little close
Speaker 1: to home, doesn't it. But they could go after that.
Speaker 1: But how about this, And people don't talk about this often,
Speaker 1: but I think we're headed in this direction. Randy, You
Speaker 1: and I like Hilton Honors points. If you really think
Speaker 1: about it, Yeah, if you really think about it, your
Speaker 1: American Airlines advantage miles, your Hilton Honors points, all of
Speaker 1: those programs you have through your credit card or through
Speaker 1: loyalty to a specific brand that's really currency by a
Speaker 1: different name. So if they want to go after that,
Speaker 1: they can go after that too. The sky is the
Speaker 1: limit here.
Speaker 2: If they start going after points, I'm going to Sacramento
Speaker 2: with a torch.
Speaker 8: Power in the legislature after voters if they pass this.
Speaker 5: You know, technically the legislature.
Speaker 7: Can already impose new taxes.
Speaker 5: But the concern here, I guess, is that because voters
Speaker 5: approve it, they could point back to this and make
Speaker 5: it a bit easy to go through that.
Speaker 9: Process as that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the voters said we could do this, they voted
Speaker 2: for it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, at this point, the framework would have been laid.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's the same nonsense every time the legislature
Speaker 2: defends the gas tax. They point to when the gas
Speaker 2: tax was on the ballot to be repealed in twenty eighteen,
Speaker 2: and it got it did not pass because it was
Speaker 2: titled the Defund Roads and Bridges Act. The legislature can
Speaker 2: say the population likes the gas tax, they voted to
Speaker 2: uphold it, and keep.
Speaker 1: In mind, even though they have a two thirds majority,
Speaker 1: they are not going to go against the will of
Speaker 1: the public too often, particularly in the Assembly where they're
Speaker 1: up for reelection every two years. But we also live
Speaker 1: in a state that has voter imposed term limits. So
Speaker 1: even if you're in the state Senate and you have
Speaker 1: a four year term, after twelve years, you turn into
Speaker 1: a pumpkin. So you're going to want to go back
Speaker 1: and be the of your city. You're going to run
Speaker 1: for Congress, you're going to run for a statewide office.
Speaker 1: You're going to go to your board of supervisors. And
Speaker 1: if you are the author or you were someone who
Speaker 1: voted for something that is politically unpopular, that's going to
Speaker 1: be used against you. So it's really important for voters
Speaker 1: to send a clear message to Sacramento that we don't
Speaker 1: want this.
Speaker 9: How you're interpreting it certainly. And then there it also allows.
Speaker 2: Could the legislature also change where the money goes. I
Speaker 2: wonder because one of the strange things about this tax
Speaker 2: is it would not go to the general fund. The
Speaker 2: money is specifically directed towards the SEIU Healthcare Union that
Speaker 2: put it on the ballot, and some of it to
Speaker 2: the teachers Union. I wonder if that language allows the
Speaker 2: legislature to say, Nope, we're not given SEIU that money.
Speaker 9: Who knows how you're interpreting it, certainly, And then there
Speaker 9: it also allows for certain property that's a tax that's
Speaker 9: you know, protected right now by taxpayers, like Prop thirteen
Speaker 9: and different proper.
Speaker 8: It gives a legislature a workaround on things like Prop
Speaker 8: thirteen where the lege lature can.
Speaker 2: Now it would not be an election if there wasn't
Speaker 2: some way to damage Prop thirteen.
Speaker 1: No, it's funny because I remember this going back to
Speaker 1: my days as an undergraduate at cal State Fullerton. You
Speaker 1: talk to the old timey lefties, the people who were
Speaker 1: around in the nineteen seventies when we had the debate
Speaker 1: over Prop thirteen, and they regard Prop thirteen as original sin.
Speaker 1: They really despise Prop thirteen. They from their point of view,
Speaker 1: the state went to hell or started going to hell
Speaker 1: when Prop thirteen passed. Prop thirteen to them was the
Speaker 1: beginning of the end.
Speaker 8: It gives a legislature a workaround on things like Prop
Speaker 8: thirteen where the legilature can now tax property under the
Speaker 8: wealth tax provisions and they can expand that, which they
Speaker 8: can't do right now because that's constitution protected. But this
Speaker 8: measure would be a workaround on that as well, which
Speaker 8: is also very concerning.
Speaker 2: We can't tax you an increase rate in your property
Speaker 2: taxes because of Prop thirteen, but like you said, they
Speaker 2: can figure out a way to tax your unrealized gains
Speaker 2: in the equity in your home. That is a disaster.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and again I know I sound like a
Speaker 1: broken record. That gives them the ability to go after
Speaker 1: any number of things that you're not thinking about right now.
Speaker 10: Now.
Speaker 5: Rereached out to the healthcare union backing and trying to
Speaker 5: get this on the ballot the UHW for comment, It's
Speaker 5: chief of staff Susan.
Speaker 2: What if they go as far is right into your
Speaker 2: wallet and you've got one of those punch cards at
Speaker 2: the sub shop and they're going to tax your tenth
Speaker 2: free sub. They could that's an unrealized gain.
Speaker 5: Now rereached out to the healthcare union backing and trying
Speaker 5: to get this on the ballot. The UHW for comment,
Speaker 5: it's chief of staffs and Jimenez had quote, the California
Speaker 5: Business Roundtable is lying, period, and they are once again
Speaker 5: ignoring the fact that federal healthcare cuts from the Big
Speaker 5: Beautiful Bill are already crushing the businesses they are supposed
Speaker 5: to represent. She goes on to say, as section five
Speaker 5: oh three one zero of the Billionaire's Tax says, any
Speaker 5: amendments cannot change the fundamental purpose of the act, which
Speaker 5: is to impose a one time tax on billionaires. Obviously,
Speaker 5: there are two very different interpretations of this line that's
Speaker 5: in this proposal. It's really to be seen first if
Speaker 5: the steven gets on the.
Speaker 4: Ballot well, and the group says it turned in enough
Speaker 4: signatures for it to qualify for the ballot yesterday, where's
Speaker 4: the update with that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it'll take some time before we know if that's
Speaker 5: for sure. According to the Secretary of State's website.
Speaker 2: Now we do know the SEIU Healthcare Union says that
Speaker 2: they have nearly double the signatures that they need to
Speaker 2: get this thing on the ballot. But what we do
Speaker 2: know anecdotally from some of our listeners is that anytime
Speaker 2: they've been asked to sign that petition, they have signed
Speaker 2: it with just the best names ever, Harry Chek, he
Speaker 2: loves the billionaire tax.
Speaker 1: Keep in mind also, when you look at this, is
Speaker 1: that you're always lied to. When there's a tax increase
Speaker 1: on the bellet. They always tell you it's temporary, and
Speaker 1: then they make it permanent. And then they go, well,
Speaker 1: you don't want to cut healthcare, do you. You don't
Speaker 1: want to cut education, do you. You don't want to
Speaker 1: cut social services, do you? And if you allow this
Speaker 1: tax to expire, then that's what you're doing. So they
Speaker 1: sell it as a one time thing or a temporary thing,
Speaker 1: and then they go back on their word almost immediately
Speaker 1: and act as if yesterday doesn't exist. And we know,
Speaker 1: because we've caught them doing this. They are already polling
Speaker 1: whether or not it would be politically palatable in California
Speaker 1: to shift it from billionaires to millionaires. And we know
Speaker 1: this because one of the ways that polling is done
Speaker 1: now is not just over the phone. It's over email
Speaker 1: or they text you, and there are people, there are
Speaker 1: listeners who screenshot those questions and sent them in.
Speaker 2: You remember in twenty sixteen when La County was trying
Speaker 2: to get everyone to pass Measure H and La City
Speaker 2: was trying to get everyone to pass Measure HHH. This
Speaker 2: was the homeless sales tax increases that were for ten years,
Speaker 2: and Eric Garcetti and the then Bord of Supervisors promised,
Speaker 2: if we pass this, we will wipe out homelessness in
Speaker 2: ten years. Well you know what happened. Ten years later.
Speaker 2: Homelessness went up, and they decided to put all.
Speaker 1: This passes just as bad as it ever was, and they.
Speaker 2: Also decided to increase the tax to double and make
Speaker 2: it in perpetuity with no plan to ever end the tax,
Speaker 2: because we're going to need it forever.
Speaker 5: The signature verification process has not yet started on this
Speaker 5: as CiU UHW says it collected and submitted about one
Speaker 5: point five million signatures, which is more than enough to
Speaker 5: go to voters in November again if those signatures are verified,
Speaker 5: but again it could be months before that signature counting
Speaker 5: process is finalized and that the initiative is official.
Speaker 3: We'll keep following it along with you, Thanks, Ashley.
Speaker 2: So there you go. That is the latest on some
Speaker 2: hidden language that might make the billionaire's tags eventually affect you.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's not just statewide where labor is looking to
Speaker 1: go after California business leaders. They're looking to do so
Speaker 1: in the City by the Bay as well.
Speaker 2: In San Francisco. There is going to be a measure
Speaker 2: on the ballot to increase the overpaid CEO tags, which
Speaker 2: is a gross receipts tax, which if passed, will increase
Speaker 2: the cost of pretty much everything formar. Here's ABC seven
Speaker 2: in the Bay. All right, now, do your voice your
Speaker 2: vote in the upcoming elections. We're talking about San Francisco's
Speaker 2: proposed CEO.
Speaker 11: Tax ABY to seven nine.
Speaker 12: Winness News political reporter Monica Madden is here now with
Speaker 12: a look at prop D.
Speaker 7: Alcock Kristen Larry.
Speaker 13: If you haven't been following this yet, Proposition DEEP would
Speaker 13: increase in existing San Francisco business tax tied to executive pay.
Speaker 13: It would apply to companies whose CEOs make at least
Speaker 13: one hundred times more than the median salary of their workers.
Speaker 4: But a new report, and I.
Speaker 2: Don't think any of those CEOs are going to let
Speaker 2: that go to ninety nine just to avoid the tax.
Speaker 13: But a new report out today is sharpening the debate
Speaker 13: over a central question, who would actually pay? A new
Speaker 13: study is adding fuel to the fight over Proposition D,
Speaker 13: a measure that would increase San Francisco's existing overpaid executive tax.
Speaker 11: Propt tax doesn't actually tax eeos. What it does is
Speaker 11: taxes transactions.
Speaker 2: The tax would apply, so it's called the Overpaid CEO Act,
Speaker 2: But it does not tax the CEO. It taxes the
Speaker 2: receipts of a business who will pass that cost on
Speaker 2: to you almost immediately.
Speaker 1: I love the title of this initiative too. It's like
Speaker 1: they're just out of the gate with just objective terminology.
Speaker 13: The tax would apply to companies with large pay gaps
Speaker 13: between their executives and workers.
Speaker 11: So we're going to see arise in grocery prices, arise
Speaker 11: in pharmacy prices, home goods prices, clothing prices. All of
Speaker 11: that is going to affect regular San Franciscos.
Speaker 13: And the new analysis estimates low margin businesses like grocery
Speaker 13: stores could see profits drop by about a quarter grow SF,
Speaker 13: which is a post.
Speaker 2: Wait, is the head of Kroger making one hundred times
Speaker 2: what the bag boys making? Actually, he probably.
Speaker 1: Is well and then he doesn't even have to get
Speaker 1: carpal tunnel.
Speaker 7: The Posed Property Commission the study.
Speaker 11: We believe in a well functioning government, and that means
Speaker 11: it needs to have a budget to operate, So we
Speaker 11: don't want to get rid of all the taxes. We
Speaker 11: support everyone paying.
Speaker 1: Their fair sure.
Speaker 2: Economic experts say it would that's a term, by the way,
Speaker 2: that I'd like to have go away. I'm so sick
Speaker 2: of anybody saying the phrase pay their fare.
Speaker 1: Share, Yeah, because that's another subjective term.
Speaker 13: Economic experts say it would function almost like a sales tax.
Speaker 2: I looked at my taxes this year. I don't make
Speaker 2: that much, and I feel like I was more than fair.
Speaker 1: Oh. I looked at my taxes after everything that I've
Speaker 1: already paid, and then they wanted more from me. I
Speaker 1: turned into a complete rage of haul. I was like
Speaker 1: Donald Duck with pans.
Speaker 13: Economic experts say it would function almost like a sales tax.
Speaker 14: What is a grocery seats tax. It's basically a tax
Speaker 14: on the sales revenues that the company gets in the city.
Speaker 7: And might not have its intended effect.
Speaker 14: It might cause them to raise the prices they charged
Speaker 14: in San Francisco in terms of cutting their CEO's pay,
Speaker 14: raising the uh, you know, wages of their workers. I
Speaker 14: think that's not really very likely.
Speaker 2: But support so if the intent of this is to
Speaker 2: raise wages so they don't have that differential, that's not happening.
Speaker 7: But supporters say that frame miss is the bigger picture.
Speaker 15: It is really targeted just at the biggest corporations in
Speaker 15: the city, and it would raise about three hundred million
Speaker 15: dollars two hundred and fifty to three hundred million dollars
Speaker 15: in revenue. It's enough to at least stop some of
Speaker 15: the most devastating cuts to services SAT And.
Speaker 2: How many businesses are you going to chase the San
Speaker 2: Jose with this one.
Speaker 1: We're not going to have any rich people left, which
Speaker 1: means we're not going to have any employers left. Remember
Speaker 1: the old congressman from Ohio, Jim Trafficant, who had the
Speaker 1: hair that looked like it was cut by a weed whacker.
Speaker 1: He'd always give those speeches on the house floor. Beam
Speaker 1: me up, Scottie. He always said it was the son
Speaker 1: of a truck driver, but he would remind people his
Speaker 1: truck driver father never worked for a poor man. And
Speaker 1: I think that labor in California needs to remember that.
Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is
Speaker 1: the telephone number one eight hundred two two two five
Speaker 1: two two two. If you'd like to email the show,
Speaker 1: you can do so at Johnny Don't Like Show at
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Speaker 1: dot com. As Randy said earlier in the program. We
Speaker 1: are now entering a phase where it's not just men
Speaker 1: and women and I guess sixteen year olds who can
Speaker 1: get cited by the CHP and law enforcement for traffic infractions,
Speaker 1: now the robots can too.
Speaker 2: The DMV is authorized ticket finding when weamos break the law.
Speaker 2: What does this even mean? Let's find out here is
Speaker 2: kpix in the Bay.
Speaker 16: California is putting a new rule in place to make
Speaker 16: sure robotaxis are not above the law.
Speaker 2: So it comes at time how many violations have the
Speaker 2: weimos had, because I'm going to guess not that many.
Speaker 2: Do you know how patient the weimo is. I was
Speaker 2: taking once in San Francisco and we were going around
Speaker 2: Chinatown and there was a person on a bicycle on
Speaker 2: a very narrow street who was going so slow, and
Speaker 2: the Waimo doesn't honk at him. The Weimo doesn't try
Speaker 2: to go around him. The Weimo just sits there and
Speaker 2: is patient. And I need to distract myself by staring
Speaker 2: at my phone so I don't get angry.
Speaker 1: Well, we don't want to make the robots more aggressive
Speaker 1: because then they'll eventually kill us all.
Speaker 16: So it comes after incidents like this. Well, back in September,
Speaker 16: San Bruno police officer pulled over a Weimo that made
Speaker 16: an illegal U turn, but without a human in the car.
Speaker 2: You know, the way the weymos work is they've been
Speaker 2: studying driver data for years and years and years before
Speaker 2: they put them on the roads. So I'm going to
Speaker 2: guess the AI learned that everybody does that illegal U
Speaker 2: turn in San Bruno.
Speaker 1: Maybe the robot was studying me, but.
Speaker 7: Without a human in the car, he had no one
Speaker 7: to ticket.
Speaker 16: Now that's changing. The DMB is getting police the green
Speaker 16: light to issue tickets to driverless cars. Kenny Joy breaks
Speaker 16: down the new rules.
Speaker 17: For years, the big question when it comes to driverless
Speaker 17: cars is what happens when they break the law. The
Speaker 17: DMV has implemented new rules, but the overall impact is
Speaker 17: still unclear. Driverless cars like Waimo robotaxis can now be
Speaker 17: ticketed just like any other car on the road. New
Speaker 17: DMV rules give law enforcement the green.
Speaker 2: Did they also ask the robot a whole bunch of
Speaker 2: questions like so what are you doing out tonight?
Speaker 1: Or maybe they send the robots to comedy traffic school.
Speaker 10: New DMV rules give law enforcement the green light to
Speaker 10: cite av companies for moving violations. Companies like Waimo will
Speaker 10: also be forced to respond to calls from police and
Speaker 10: fire within thirty seconds. Ahmed Binaffa is an engineering professor
Speaker 10: at San Jose State.
Speaker 18: There would be some kind of you know, no punishment
Speaker 18: penalties for that, and that's going to force them to
Speaker 18: do it better, because this is the only way that
Speaker 18: can force a company to do better if that's going
Speaker 18: to reflect in their reputation with their customers.
Speaker 10: The changes come after high profile issues, including hundreds of
Speaker 10: waymos stalling and blocking intersections during a San Francisco blackout
Speaker 10: last December.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but here's the thing about that blackout, and yes,
Speaker 2: that was the PG and E blackout, and one issue
Speaker 2: was you had a few dozen waymos that were completely
Speaker 2: stopped in the road. And that is actually because of
Speaker 2: a California regulation that says in order for the weimo
Speaker 2: to operate, they need to be connected to the internet
Speaker 2: one hundred percent of the time. So if there's a
Speaker 2: PG and E blackout and then the internet goes out
Speaker 2: for the entire city, because of the regulation that there
Speaker 2: is the technology already where the weamo could pull over
Speaker 2: safely with the autonomous technology, but because it has to
Speaker 2: be connected to the internet one hundred percent of the time.
Speaker 2: If the Internet goes down, the Waimo's just gonna sit there.
Speaker 1: And then if you're behind the waimo, so do you?
Speaker 10: Blocking intersections during a San Francisco blackout last December. The
Speaker 10: San Francisco Fire Department has repeatedly complained about driverless cars
Speaker 10: entering emergency zones and impacting responses. AV companies can face
Speaker 10: penalties if their cars drive through these zones. The Autonomous
Speaker 10: Vehicle Industry Association, which represents waymo's industry interests, you.
Speaker 2: Would be really great if their spokesperson was a robot.
Speaker 1: It could be robot Barbara Ferrara for all we know.
Speaker 1: I mean she deals with the public all the time,
Speaker 1: holding press conferences in those white lab coats.
Speaker 11: I don't like wearing a mask.
Speaker 13: I find it annoying.
Speaker 10: Did not specifically address the ticketing rules, but commended the
Speaker 10: new DMV regulations as a whole, saying, in part, autonomous
Speaker 10: vehicle innovators operating in California have a clear, workable path
Speaker 10: to test and deploy, ensuring the state will continue to
Speaker 10: benefit from autonomous technology. Through safer roads, enhance accessibility and
Speaker 10: strength and supply chains. State Senator Dave Cortesis called autonomous
Speaker 10: vehicles unfinished technology.
Speaker 2: Okay, something you need to know about Dave Cortesi. This
Speaker 2: is the biggest champion of high speed rail and seems
Speaker 2: to always have a b in his bonnet about weaimos.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, as if the high speed rail is working
Speaker 1: like a Swiss clock.
Speaker 10: State Senator Dave Cortesius.
Speaker 2: I wonder, by the way, I would just love to
Speaker 2: look this up. Dave Cortesi, who has always outspoken anytime
Speaker 2: there's a story about weimos he wants to regulate them.
Speaker 2: How much money is he getting from lyftin Uber?
Speaker 10: State?
Speaker 1: Well, doesn't Uber own Waimo now or they have some
Speaker 1: kind of deal with them?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, they're they're working on their
Speaker 2: own technology. Weimo is owned by Google.
Speaker 10: State Senator Dave Cortesis called autonomous view and.
Speaker 2: The robotaxis that elon Proma is ten years ago, they're
Speaker 2: still not operational.
Speaker 10: State Senator Dave Cortesius called autonomous vehicles unfinished technology and
Speaker 10: has introduced the legislation SB twelve forty six calling for
Speaker 10: more oversight, including ending the practice of one person in
Speaker 10: a control room monitoring more than three vehicles.
Speaker 2: So wait, you want to have one person who, when needed,
Speaker 2: which is rare, can operate every individual vehicle, because then
Speaker 2: WAIMO is going to be incredibly expensive to operate.
Speaker 1: No, that's what they're trying to do, though they're trying
Speaker 1: to regulate it out of existence.
Speaker 2: Right now, the car drives itself, and if there's some
Speaker 2: kind of situation where the car cannot figure out what's
Speaker 2: going on, like when it gets stuck at that intersection
Speaker 2: in Culver City, somebody in a command center with a
Speaker 2: whole bunch of way moos can control it. He doesn't
Speaker 2: need to be responsible for just one car. That's not feasible.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 19: So if you don't have a driver in the car,
Speaker 19: where is then there is human Okay, it's a remote operator,
Speaker 19: all right, Well, we want those remote operators to be
Speaker 19: at the right ratio. We want them to understand California law.
Speaker 19: It's just like we'd want a human driver.
Speaker 2: Don This is like the same nonsense where they try
Speaker 2: to create laws in order to crack down on shoplifting
Speaker 2: at supermarkets. They need one employee for every two self
Speaker 2: checkout stands, which of course is a push by the grocers' unions.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, because they want more jobs and more union
Speaker 1: dues coming in. It has nothing to do with what's
Speaker 1: efficient or what's better for the consumer.
Speaker 19: A human driver under stain California laws.
Speaker 2: Fortesi believes the new job most human drivers don't understand
Speaker 2: California laws. Have you seen the way people drive?
Speaker 1: And here's what I'd like to know. How does he
Speaker 1: come down on giving trucker's licenses to people who don't
Speaker 1: speak English.
Speaker 10: Fortessi believes the new DMV rules won't dramatically change the
Speaker 10: way companies like Waymo operate in the short run, but
Speaker 10: Banafa believes more legislation and oversight rules will eventually give
Speaker 10: the public more safety data and lead to other chain
Speaker 10: changes within the industry.
Speaker 2: And that's will really Waimo's safety track record is so
Speaker 2: much higher than us awful human drivers, and.
Speaker 1: That's it's not even comparable.
Speaker 18: And that's will really identify them how safe they are,
Speaker 18: and that's going to build some kind of a trust
Speaker 18: by saying, okay, you know, in how many how many
Speaker 18: incidents this car or this company face so far, so
Speaker 18: they would be forced to change the hardware and the
Speaker 18: software to you know, to to interact with the with
Speaker 18: the with the police.
Speaker 17: The DMV says the new regulations.
Speaker 2: Are they going to train the weimo to come up
Speaker 2: with excuses that the cops might buy into, like, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I was just running late and I blew past that
Speaker 2: stops and I'm sorry I got out of a ticket
Speaker 2: one time, just being completely honest about.
Speaker 1: That the way MO tells the cop. No, I swear
Speaker 1: I only had two glasses of wine with dinner.
Speaker 17: The DMV says the new regulations are the most comprehensive
Speaker 17: in the country.
Speaker 16: Here are some of the other new rules from the DMV.
Speaker 16: Car companies can now apply for permits to test and
Speaker 16: use heavy duty autonomous vehicles like big rigs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the robo trucks are on their way, and you
Speaker 2: know who hates that, Loraina Gonzalez. She tweeted out, unacceptable.
Speaker 2: We cannot allow robo trucks, even though we are right
Speaker 2: now in a state where it is so hard to
Speaker 2: hire truck drivers and we don't want to lower the standards.
Speaker 2: And when you have fewer truck drivers on the roads,
Speaker 2: you're going to have to increase the cost for everybody.
Speaker 1: Well, and She's another one who wants illegal alien truck
Speaker 1: drivers who can't read the signs to be able to
Speaker 1: drive lawfully in California.
Speaker 16: Here are some of the other new rules from the DMV.
Speaker 16: Car companies can now apply for permits to test and
Speaker 16: use heavy duty autonomous vehicles like big rigs. Robo taxi
Speaker 16: companies also need to have plans to allow first responders
Speaker 16: to manually override their car, and cities can now create
Speaker 16: geil fences in emergencies. These fences would keep the robotaxis
Speaker 16: out of certain areas.
Speaker 2: So there you go. Those are all the newest regulations
Speaker 2: coming to waymos, including being able to ticket them when
Speaker 2: they rarely break our traffic laws.
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Speaker 1: fresh offer, black market rape hotline. Our girl, Pammy Price
Speaker 1: is back in the news absolutely.
Speaker 2: Pamela Price participated in a forum where she's trying to
Speaker 2: get her old job back.
Speaker 7: She called me a crime boss.
Speaker 2: Pamela Price was the district attorney for Alameda County until
Speaker 2: she was recalled overwhelmingly by her constituents fear, Fear, doom
Speaker 2: and gloom see then decided to start a revenge podcast
Speaker 2: quite frankly, and then when that wasn't getting enough attention,
Speaker 2: she decided to run for reelection to get the job
Speaker 2: back that she was ousted from. She won't prosecute cases,
Speaker 2: and what do you know? When she participated in the
Speaker 2: forum that included the current da Ursula Jones Dixon and
Speaker 2: another contender, some of the residents weren't too happy to
Speaker 2: see her.
Speaker 1: I've been bipped several times.
Speaker 2: For more you don't say here is kron four.
Speaker 6: Callomenia County voter has had the chance to hear from
Speaker 6: three candidates for district Attorney. This evening, current da Ursula
Speaker 6: Jones Dixon recalled District Attorney Pamela Price.
Speaker 2: That's her full name. Now recalled District Attorney Pamela Price.
Speaker 1: That's quite an introduction.
Speaker 2: Do you remember she said on a memo when she
Speaker 2: first started, where she wanted everyone to refer to her
Speaker 2: as Madame District Attorney.
Speaker 1: I think Heidi Flies did the same thing.
Speaker 6: And Gobel Krishnan participated in a forum in Oakland. Crawford's
Speaker 6: men and Harry was there and explains what those candidates
Speaker 6: had to say.
Speaker 12: The three candidates all had a chance to answer questions
Speaker 12: from the moderators as well as people in the community.
Speaker 12: We spoke to some people who came to listen and
Speaker 12: said they're still on the fence and they wanted to
Speaker 12: hear from all the candidates before making a decision.
Speaker 2: Well, they probably want to hear from Ursula, and they
Speaker 2: want to hear from Gopul. But I'm pretty sure the
Speaker 2: majority of people there they know what they're getting with
Speaker 2: Pamela Price, and they decided to get a refund.
Speaker 1: Well, they've seen the end of that movie before.
Speaker 12: In his back, an incumbent, a recalled district attorney hoping
Speaker 12: to reclaim her old job, and a newcomer all had
Speaker 12: the chance to address voters. Rose Pratt, nervous, was there early,
Speaker 12: eager to learn about each of the candidates and how
Speaker 12: they would address local issues with politics.
Speaker 11: Knowing the way they are, we first must fight at
Speaker 11: home in our own grounds before we start going any
Speaker 11: where else.
Speaker 12: Ursula Jones Dixon is the current DA. She was appointed
Speaker 12: by the Alameda County Board of Supervisors in January of
Speaker 12: twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: She's had that job for over a year now, and
Speaker 2: there have been almost no headlines about any crazy things
Speaker 2: going on at that office, because typically what goes on
Speaker 2: in a DA's office doesn't make the news if you
Speaker 2: just enforce the law.
Speaker 1: With Pamela Price, the headlines were like machine gun fire,
Speaker 1: which was also heard on the streets of Oakland on
Speaker 1: a regular basis when she was DA.
Speaker 7: She's too soft on crime, She says.
Speaker 12: Her goal is to continue prioritizing victims.
Speaker 2: A reason I llowed the best to do this job
Speaker 2: is because I think that victims' rights are important, and
Speaker 2: I felt like we lost sight of them over the
Speaker 2: last several years. So you're telling me Ursula Jones Dixon
Speaker 2: doesn't take a crime victim like Brenda Grisham and just
Speaker 2: hang up on her when she calls.
Speaker 18: As a result of.
Speaker 2: Them, I am building an office that absolutely focuses on
Speaker 2: the controls.
Speaker 12: Many community members were meeting candidate Gopal Christian for the
Speaker 12: first time, an immigrant from India who says he wants
Speaker 12: to protect everyone, but highlighted other immigrants and marginalized communities.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm gonna be DA on the organized clime. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be DA on the ice.
Speaker 2: There would be no ice in Alameda County. I think
Speaker 2: they'll be there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a thing called federal supremacy. Bud better go
Speaker 1: back to law school.
Speaker 2: And the no hate clime goal unfunblished.
Speaker 12: Pamela Price was overwhelmingly ousted as DA in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Oh, I love hearing that it was like sixty seven percent.
Speaker 12: Pamila Price was overwhelmingly ousted as DA in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 12: but decided to run again. She says she still has
Speaker 12: the same goal.
Speaker 8: I still believe in the core values that brought me
Speaker 8: to the District Attorney's office.
Speaker 1: In fairness in.
Speaker 2: Assistance, fairness meaning that the criminals are the real victims,
Speaker 2: which is something she said over and over and over again,
Speaker 2: including the bippers.
Speaker 3: His back.
Speaker 2: In fairness in assistem that treats everyone equally, and a
Speaker 2: clear commitment to public safety.
Speaker 12: Christ did address to recall campains against charge the miss voters.
Speaker 8: They told voters, I was responsible for all the crime
Speaker 8: in Oakland and all the business is closing.
Speaker 2: Well, you definitely had a part in it. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: some of it you could blame.
Speaker 7: On Shanghy, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 2: But even when OPD made an arrest it was rare.
Speaker 2: Nothing would happen with that DA.
Speaker 1: I've been bipped several times.
Speaker 8: They told voters I was responsible for all the crime
Speaker 8: in Oakland and all the business is closed.
Speaker 7: She went on to say she supports victims.
Speaker 2: Well, if it was only Oakland, then how come everyone
Speaker 2: in Fremont recalled you too.
Speaker 7: She went on to say she's pretty much.
Speaker 1: Got nailed all over the county.
Speaker 2: To the wall.
Speaker 12: She went on to say she supports victims, but some
Speaker 12: of the crowd still pushed back on her approach.
Speaker 10: The guy Sola got words somebody a year later because
Speaker 10: she whoa.
Speaker 1: Vox popular guy Sola got words somebody a year later
Speaker 1: because she st.
Speaker 12: The primary election for District Attorney is June second. The
Speaker 12: top two vote getters will then move on to the
Speaker 12: November election. Unless one of the candidates gets more than
Speaker 12: fifty percent of the vote, then there is no runoff
Speaker 12: in Oakland. Amanda Harry Crownford.
Speaker 2: New So there you go the latest on the Alameda
Speaker 2: County DA's race. Pamela Price is still trying to get
Speaker 2: her old job back, but it doesn't look like the
Speaker 2: locals are going to take her up on that.
Speaker 1: Nope, But she might be a perennial candidate who runs
Speaker 1: for office every single cycle.