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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. Well. The top story today is that
Speaker 1: the California Democratic Party officially endorsed the wealth confiscation text
Speaker 1: that's going to be on the November ballot, and Randy,
Speaker 1: as soon as I saw that, I thought to myself, great,
Speaker 1: as a state, if the Democratic Party gets their way,
Speaker 1: we're going to kick out all the productive people and
Speaker 1: we're going to keep all the losers. And if you
Speaker 1: want to know what happens when you do that, you
Speaker 1: talk to any Clipper fan from the nineteen eighties or now.
Speaker 1: That true.
Speaker 3: So there was a couple of instances where there was
Speaker 3: a little opposition to this, but ultimately the party endorsed
Speaker 3: Prop forty the Billionaire's Tax, despite opposition from who you
Speaker 3: could argue are the two most prominent figures in the
Speaker 3: California Democrat Party, one being Gavin Newsome.
Speaker 1: That is something we are mindful of, and one.
Speaker 2: Being Javier Bacharia scrub it.
Speaker 1: You know what it was that apparently pushed them over
Speaker 1: the edge was to get behind this tax. I'm not
Speaker 1: making this up. Apparently Maxine Waters made an appearance and
Speaker 1: it looked like there wasn't going to be enough votes
Speaker 1: to get it over the top. But then Maxine walks
Speaker 1: in and steals the show, and that gives them the
Speaker 1: votes that they need to get behind it.
Speaker 3: Mad Max got the support for this thing huh, that's
Speaker 3: who did it. Well, let's see what the after effects
Speaker 3: are now that Prop forty has been endorsed by the
Speaker 3: California Democrat Party. This is, of course, the SEIU Healthcare
Speaker 3: Union backed initiative that would take a five percent asset
Speaker 3: seizure of the two hundred or so billionaires in the
Speaker 3: state of California and use that money for healthcare.
Speaker 1: You know what else this is, it's the SCIU having
Speaker 1: complete control of that party. When it comes to the SCIU,
Speaker 1: the California Democratic Party does not have the ability to
Speaker 1: say no. If the California Democratic Party was an actual girl,
Speaker 1: they'd be pregnant by thirteen.
Speaker 2: Just gonna move past that one. Here's ABC.
Speaker 4: Ten named Democrats, including Governor Gavin Newsom, have opposed the
Speaker 4: billionaires tax, but over the weekend, the state Democratic Party
Speaker 4: voted to endorse the ballot measure.
Speaker 3: Gavin doesn't have a great track record in backing horses
Speaker 3: for these statewide elections. He had a big win with
Speaker 3: Prop fifty, but he was on the complete wrong side
Speaker 3: of Prop thirty six, And even though he may be
Speaker 3: on the right side of this issue, the public's not
Speaker 3: with him.
Speaker 1: Nope, do not forget when it came to Proposition thirty six,
Speaker 1: it passed in all fifty eight counties in California, all
Speaker 1: fifty eight.
Speaker 3: And by most of them in margins where it was
Speaker 3: seventy thirty. Despite that, Sacramento politicians and Gavin Newsom don't
Speaker 3: want to fully fund it, and now there are all
Speaker 3: kinds of diversion programs to handicap it.
Speaker 4: ABC ten State Matters political reporter Jenny huh is here
Speaker 4: now to explain.
Speaker 5: Well, Chris, the wolf tax has been a divisive issue
Speaker 5: within the Democratic Party and with members of the state
Speaker 5: Democratic Party.
Speaker 3: I wonder when people were collecting signatures. You know, sometimes
Speaker 3: you have to you know, when you're standing outside of
Speaker 3: Farmers Market or you're standing outside of target. What have
Speaker 3: you've got the table? You've got to collect the signatures.
Speaker 3: You've got to say something to get people's attention. How
Speaker 3: many people over the spring we're screaming out, do you
Speaker 3: want to take Tom Steyer's money away? Would you like
Speaker 3: to stop seeing those stupid ads take his money away
Speaker 3: so he can't afford any.
Speaker 1: I'm Tom Steyer. I'm about to ride the d.
Speaker 5: Voting to bug the opinion of Governor Newsom. The road
Speaker 5: to November could be bumpy.
Speaker 6: We weren't surprised. I think the establishment was surprised.
Speaker 7: Dave Reagan with Seius.
Speaker 3: This is the real power players in the state of California.
Speaker 3: The Union still pull a lot of the strings.
Speaker 7: To HW the helped her union behind the proposed one
Speaker 7: time tax on the states two hundred or so billionaires.
Speaker 7: Is celebrating the endorsement by the California Democratic Party.
Speaker 3: And if this passes by the margins that it looks
Speaker 3: like it may pass according to the most recent poll.
Speaker 3: Why would any of the other unions that are not
Speaker 3: getting this five percent not put one up in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty eight or twenty thirty. The teachers aren't getting any
Speaker 3: money from this. Ceesely wants her five percent that money.
Speaker 1: What was the thing that was in the hunter byden
Speaker 1: emails ten percent? The big guy?
Speaker 2: Nope, wrong start.
Speaker 7: Reagan says it sends a clear message to Democratic leaders
Speaker 7: in opposition like Governor Gavin Newsom and leading gubernatorial candidate
Speaker 7: Javier Basera.
Speaker 3: Frankly, nobody cares what Besarah put out a list of
Speaker 3: the the propositions he's endorsing.
Speaker 2: Who's paying attention to that?
Speaker 1: No? And this shows you, by the way, where the
Speaker 1: power is in California. The power is in the unions,
Speaker 1: and the people who get elected to office are just
Speaker 1: the figureheads of the coalition. It was Gavin and now
Speaker 1: it's going to be passed down to Bakariea. But the
Speaker 1: people calling the shots will not change. It's the SCIU.
Speaker 1: They're going to get their initiative through despite the objections
Speaker 1: of all the elected Democrats. And they just act like
Speaker 1: they don't matter. And guess what they don't.
Speaker 6: If I were in their shoes, I would be reevaluating
Speaker 6: that they are out of step.
Speaker 7: Over the weekend, executive board member of the state Democratic Party,
Speaker 7: including party officers and representatives from.
Speaker 2: All everyone looks so excited to be there at that convention.
Speaker 1: And these people, by the way, are the most radical
Speaker 1: activists on planet Earth. They were the ones that blewed
Speaker 1: Dianne Feinstein when she came out and favored the death penalty.
Speaker 1: They were the ones that endorsed Kevin de Leone over
Speaker 1: Dianne Feinstein when he challenged her for her US Senate seat.
Speaker 1: If given the opportunity, they'd probably nominate Luigi Mangioni for president.
Speaker 2: It is hot as hell, and I knew there was
Speaker 2: a reason I keep that on the board.
Speaker 7: Fifty eight counties met in San Diego to endorse candidates
Speaker 7: and ballot measures on the November ballot. Chair Rusty Hicks
Speaker 7: was not available for an interview for this story, but
Speaker 7: a spokes.
Speaker 2: What is he busy doing?
Speaker 1: Didn't he run for Assembly and losing the primary.
Speaker 7: First and confirmed?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: Typically, that's who the consultants are, the people that couldn't
Speaker 3: go the distance themselves.
Speaker 7: It was a narrow vote to endorse proposition forty sixty
Speaker 7: one percent. Sixty percent is the threshold for an endorsement.
Speaker 5: I mean, what political message do you think this sense that? Again,
Speaker 5: despite those two leaders so firmly opposing this tax, the
Speaker 5: party and its delegates nevertheless are moving forward with this endorsement.
Speaker 3: Well, Gavin is soon to be a non factor. He
Speaker 3: has an expiration date and it's coming up real soon.
Speaker 3: Javier Bessera is a buffoon and nobody pays attention to him.
Speaker 3: These are the real power players here and they know it.
Speaker 6: What it says very clearly is this is where people
Speaker 6: are at. I don't think it's lost on anybody that
Speaker 6: Governor Newsom is running to be the President of the
Speaker 6: United States and the party that he wants to claim
Speaker 6: the nomination of in his home state, just did exactly
Speaker 6: what he was very vocally asking people not to do.
Speaker 3: Spokes I got to say, between this and then the
Speaker 3: fight to send the other SEIU were workers back to
Speaker 3: the office, I don't see the unions getting behind him
Speaker 3: in the primary.
Speaker 1: No, No, especially when you're gonna have two other Californians
Speaker 1: in the race. You're gonna have Kamala Harris and you're
Speaker 1: gonna have Rocanna. And my guess is that many of
Speaker 1: those unions will get behind one of those two candidates.
Speaker 3: Well, Rocana has come out strongly for the billionaire tax.
Speaker 3: Kamala I don't think has even been asked about it
Speaker 3: because she's busy doing nothing.
Speaker 7: Person for the opposition coalition led by Newsom. Stop the
Speaker 7: Squeeze tells us Democratic voters will oppose a tax quote
Speaker 7: when they learn it, what force cuts to schools, healthcare, transportation,
Speaker 7: and housing or trigger massive broad based tax hikes due
Speaker 7: to hundreds of millions per year lost in revenue.
Speaker 3: And how are they going to learn that? Are they
Speaker 3: going to read the voter guide? Because most people don't.
Speaker 1: Well and His objection to the tax isn't that it's
Speaker 1: going to drive out all the tech people. His objection
Speaker 1: is that they didn't spread it around to the other
Speaker 1: leeches well.
Speaker 3: And remember, the teachers Union specifically has a vested interest
Speaker 3: in this not passing, because if this causes some of
Speaker 3: the top earners in the state to leave, if it
Speaker 3: causes some of the top companies in the state to leave,
Speaker 3: that is lower revenue for the state. And Prop ninety
Speaker 3: eight says that a whole bunch of revenue has to
Speaker 3: go towards the teachers and the schools, So they're going
Speaker 3: to lose money out of this. It's interesting when people
Speaker 3: are pulled, are they polled knowing where the money goes,
Speaker 3: or do they even care? They just hate Elon and
Speaker 3: this is a way to go after the billionaires.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is going to blow the budget. I don't
Speaker 1: think people understand how the budget works in California. The
Speaker 1: rich people, specifically the rich people in Silicon Valley, pay
Speaker 1: a disproportionate amount of the taxes, and not even from
Speaker 1: W two income, it's from capital gains. When their stocks
Speaker 1: do well, when Apple stock does well, when Tesla stock
Speaker 1: does well, when Amazon stock does well. That's when those
Speaker 1: people make a ton of money. And when they make
Speaker 1: a ton of money, they have to pay taxes to Sacramento,
Speaker 1: which is the reason that the income for the state
Speaker 1: is not terribly reliable. When it's a good year on
Speaker 1: the stock market, they pay a ton. When it's a
Speaker 1: bad year on the stock market, they don't pay as much.
Speaker 1: But you get all of these people to leave the state.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if the stock market has a good
Speaker 1: year or a bad year because they're no longer paying
Speaker 1: California taxes. And guess what, I don't think it's one
Speaker 1: of these deals where they're going to come back where
Speaker 1: they're going to go to Florida, or they're going to
Speaker 1: go to Nevada, or they're going to go to some
Speaker 1: other state and they're going to go you know what,
Speaker 1: we have to go back to California. I mean, I
Speaker 1: miss seeing that friendly neighborhood homeless encampment that was right
Speaker 1: next to my kids' school. It's not going to happen.
Speaker 1: They're going to go establish residency in some other state
Speaker 1: and when they want to come back to go to
Speaker 1: Disneyland or do whatever, they're going to do it as
Speaker 1: a visitor, not as a resident, and that money is
Speaker 1: going to be gone for good.
Speaker 3: I mean, we might get to a point where Zuckerberg
Speaker 3: might leave and just buy the rest of Kawhi.
Speaker 1: Could happen.
Speaker 2: Actually, that's a whole point for the billionaire tax.
Speaker 7: That's been the main opposition that if billionaires leave the
Speaker 7: state or move assets, the state would lose significant income
Speaker 7: tax revenue. There's also opposition all the ballot via Propositions
Speaker 7: forty one and forty two.
Speaker 2: Now, this is what's going to be.
Speaker 3: Probably the saving grace of Prop forty possibly not passing,
Speaker 3: is that there are actually three competing measures. It's like
Speaker 3: the sports gambling thing and then some because there's Prop
Speaker 3: forty which is the billionaires tax, but then there's Prop
Speaker 3: forty one and Prop forty two, which are back to
Speaker 3: buy the billionaires, which if either of those passing, it's
Speaker 3: more votes than the billionaires tax, it invalidates the billionaire's tax.
Speaker 3: It is going to be a very confusing and very
Speaker 3: expensive ballots.
Speaker 1: I love the fact that we've turned the election into
Speaker 1: one great, big trick question and then we send ballots
Speaker 1: to every dead person in the state.
Speaker 3: Although if you're the SEIU side, you could definitely argue,
Speaker 3: look how much money the billionaires are wasting just to
Speaker 3: not pay their fair share?
Speaker 2: Sick of hearing that term.
Speaker 7: The main purpose of Prop forty one is to prevent
Speaker 7: new taxes like the billionaire tax from being excluded from
Speaker 7: the state's annual spending limit, so it would likely limit
Speaker 7: the entirety of the Walt tax revenue from being used
Speaker 7: as intended. As for Prop.
Speaker 5: Forty two, it says retroactive taxes or prospective taxes on
Speaker 5: any retirement holdings or other There is.
Speaker 3: The question of how you implement this tax because it's
Speaker 3: not a tax on the money that you literally have
Speaker 3: in the bank. It's a tax on not your liquid assets,
Speaker 3: but your assets that are tie up in the market.
Speaker 3: So how do you do that assessment because the market
Speaker 3: goes up and down on a daily basis, And how
Speaker 3: exactly do you decide how much they're going to pay,
Speaker 3: and how do you get it?
Speaker 1: Well, and think about this too, there's no real way
Speaker 1: to find out what the actual worth is of certain items.
Speaker 1: So Zillow says your house is worth one amount, redfin
Speaker 1: says your house is worth another amount. Sometimes those numbers
Speaker 1: are very different from one another, but The reality is
Speaker 1: your house is only worth what someone's willing to pay
Speaker 1: for it. So unless you have a house on the
Speaker 1: market and you have entertained offers and accepted one, your
Speaker 1: idea of what your home is worth maybe very different
Speaker 1: from what the government's idea of what your home is worth.
Speaker 1: So they're going to claim that you cheated on your
Speaker 1: taxes if you value your home at the low end
Speaker 1: and they value it on the high end. I mean,
Speaker 1: when my friend Suzanne Summers listed her house here in
Speaker 1: Palm Springs, she initially listed it for something like eleven
Speaker 1: or twelve million dollars, and it sat on the market
Speaker 1: for a very long time, and she had to lower
Speaker 1: the price and lower the price and lower the price,
Speaker 1: and I think she finally sold it at six or
Speaker 1: seven million dollars. Well, that's what the home was worth,
Speaker 1: because that's what someone was willing to pay for it.
Speaker 1: But if the government steps in and goes would you
Speaker 1: need to pay taxes on it? As if the property
Speaker 1: is worth eleven million dollars, it's not worth eleven million dollars.
Speaker 1: You're stealing from that person.
Speaker 6: They're personally held assets like the wealth tax are prohibited.
Speaker 5: And we reached out to the governor's office for comment
Speaker 5: on the political implications, and we were referred to as
Speaker 5: political team, but did not hear back as of airtime. Now,
Speaker 5: both Props forty one and forty two are backed by
Speaker 5: billionaire and Google co founder Sergey Brinn. If either of
Speaker 5: those propositions we get more votes than does Prop forty
Speaker 5: in November, they will essentially undo the wealth tax.
Speaker 4: Chris, Okay, Jenny, we thank you for that.
Speaker 3: It looks like the strategy is, if you're the billionaires
Speaker 3: backing the anti billionaire tax, is confuse the hell out
Speaker 3: of people, so they vote no for everything. And that
Speaker 3: was the strategy back when you had two competing sports
Speaker 3: gambling measures because the tribal casinos wanted to cut out
Speaker 3: the regular casinos, and the regular casinos wanted to cut
Speaker 3: out the tribal casinos, and then sports gambling never got
Speaker 3: legalized until cal She said, Nah, it's just legal.
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Speaker 1: Those were the days. Eight hundred two two two five
Speaker 1: two two two is telephone number one. Eight hundred two
Speaker 1: two two five two two two. There was a big
Speaker 1: shakeup that happened in Sacramento yesterday, and it has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with the Sacramento Kings getting a new shooting guard.
Speaker 3: No, the uh, there's been a big change up and
Speaker 3: how the Republican caucus is going to operate as Alexandra
Speaker 3: Machado is replacing Heathato Mercedo excuse me, is replacing Heath
Speaker 3: Flora as the new Republican leader in the Assembly. Johnny,
Speaker 3: what I've heard is there were some people very upset.
Speaker 3: Flora decided that, uh, why don't we just go ahead
Speaker 3: and allow some more tax hikes to go on, because
Speaker 3: that's what they should be opposing.
Speaker 1: No, you know what he did. It was even worse
Speaker 1: than that. It was a tax or a bill that
Speaker 1: would allow two different counties to raise taxes beyond the
Speaker 1: legal limit Los Angeles, and it was one in the
Speaker 1: Bay Area, I forget. And what the Democrats wanted to
Speaker 1: do was make it so that none of the Democrats
Speaker 1: that live in those areas had to vote for it,
Speaker 1: so they would not be accused of raising taxes on
Speaker 1: their constituents. So what Heath Flora did was he and
Speaker 1: some other guy want a Lanis another Republican member of
Speaker 1: the Assembly. They voted for so the Democrats could either
Speaker 1: abstain or vote against it so they wouldn't take heat
Speaker 1: in their reelection, and what it did is it killed
Speaker 1: the narrative that Republicans were the ones that were trying
Speaker 1: to cut taxes and cut costs because it was a
Speaker 1: technically bipartisan vote and he was the Republican leader. So
Speaker 1: that guy had to go.
Speaker 3: What exactly did the Republican caucus get out of that deal?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, he basically acted as a member of the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party that just happened to control the Republican Caucus.
Speaker 1: So my guess is the unions were happy with him.
Speaker 1: My guess is the Democratic leadership was happy with him,
Speaker 1: and they found a way to kick in some way
Speaker 1: or another. Well.
Speaker 3: For more on this shakeup in the Assembly, here's a
Speaker 3: report from KCRA three and yes, you guessed it. Though
Speaker 3: wonderful Ashley Zavalla.
Speaker 4: Day lawmaker's return to the Capitol today for a busy
Speaker 4: month of debating legislation.
Speaker 5: They now have four weeks to pass any proposed laws
Speaker 5: and send them to the Governor's desk.
Speaker 8: But on day one back at the office, there was
Speaker 8: an unexpected shake up in leadership. Republicans today abruptly voted
Speaker 8: to remove rippin Assemblyman Heath Flora.
Speaker 1: That's a great file photo of Heath. He looks like
Speaker 1: he screamed at someone to get off his lawn.
Speaker 8: You're a minority leader. The new leader of the Republicans
Speaker 8: in the Assembly is Tilarry. Assembly Woman Ali Messdo. Case
Speaker 8: Herey three political director Ashleys of Ala was at the
Speaker 8: state Capitol as all of this was unfolding.
Speaker 9: I'm told this is the result of a series of
Speaker 9: events and disagreements within the assemblies Republican caucus this year.
Speaker 9: The new Republican leader, assembly Woman Alexandra Messido, noted that
Speaker 9: Assemblyman Heath Flora recently sided with Democrats to pass new
Speaker 9: taxes across the state. We did see Flora walk into
Speaker 9: Flora session briefly today and quickly walk out, and we
Speaker 9: did not see him again. You're looking at file a
Speaker 9: video of him on your screen.
Speaker 2: He went to hide.
Speaker 1: Did you see that story about him in the California
Speaker 1: Post about his bar tab Oh, please elaborate eleven thousand
Speaker 1: dollars from a dive bar.
Speaker 2: How do you do that?
Speaker 1: You know how much you have to drink to spend
Speaker 1: eleven thousand dollars at a dive bar.
Speaker 3: It's not like the dive bar has close. Azul so
Speaker 3: if you're paying that munch, you're buying in bulk, to
Speaker 3: say the least.
Speaker 9: My sources said as soon as Republicans met at the
Speaker 9: state Capitol in their closed door meeting this afternoon at
Speaker 9: around twelve thirty, Mesito called a leadership vote. This comes
Speaker 9: a day after The California Post reported Flora was at
Speaker 9: the center of ethics investigations and reported some questionable use
Speaker 9: of thousands of taxpayer dollars taking meetings at an East.
Speaker 1: Salin wasted in every single photo they've put up on
Speaker 1: the screen of him.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of stories coming out about Heath all
Speaker 3: over the internet right now, and it's another one of
Speaker 3: those situations where, much like with Swalwell and DC, everyone
Speaker 3: in Sacramento's like, oh, yeah, I know all about this.
Speaker 1: I don't know what his ethnic background is, but he
Speaker 1: looks about half Scotch and half soldier to.
Speaker 9: Mere Mesito said that was not the reason and called
Speaker 9: some of that reporting and accurate. Today, some of my
Speaker 9: Republican sources expressed serious concern about the timing of this,
Speaker 9: specifically ahead of an election where Republicans in the State
Speaker 9: Assembly are trying to pick up seats Democrats right now
Speaker 9: don't need a single Republican vote to pass anything because
Speaker 9: there are so few Republicans at our state capitol.
Speaker 2: Oh, just twisting the knife.
Speaker 9: I asked Mesito about this when she spoke with reporters today.
Speaker 9: Some members are.
Speaker 10: Worried that this is happening before an election, and this.
Speaker 9: Presents the perception that there's possible instability in your caucus.
Speaker 1: How would you respond?
Speaker 11: There is absolutely no instability in our caucus.
Speaker 3: Our candidate are all right, you're getting get used to
Speaker 3: the CA but you're starting a little robotic and you use.
Speaker 2: The A word absolutely.
Speaker 10: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: She looks like she could be a host on Fox News,
Speaker 1: doesn't she?
Speaker 11: Little bed Our amazing candidates are.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to dig the other guy on that
Speaker 1: one because both of them could be on television. She
Speaker 1: could be on Fox News and he could be on Cheers.
Speaker 11: Oct In. They are ready to fight, as is the
Speaker 11: rest of our caucus, and they have my commitment that
Speaker 11: I will spend every minute all the way through the
Speaker 11: time that the new members are sworn in, fighting for
Speaker 11: every vote. We want to bring Republicans home. We want
Speaker 11: to make sure that they show up to vote in November,
Speaker 11: and we also want those that are dated by the
Speaker 11: California policies that have left this building, that have left
Speaker 11: them behind, and tell them that voting for a Republican
Speaker 11: means voting for common sense and voting for money staying
Speaker 11: and their bank accounts that they worked hard for.
Speaker 2: Okay, she finished very strong, and you.
Speaker 1: Know what, hopefully she does meeting because the old Republican
Speaker 1: leader was James Gallagher who's now in Congress, and he
Speaker 1: did media all the time. He was always on the show.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen Heath Flora anywhere. Have you?
Speaker 3: I haven't, and I'll tell you I pay a lot
Speaker 3: of attention to what's going on in Sacramento. I don't
Speaker 3: think I've even heard the name heath Flora until a
Speaker 3: week ago.
Speaker 9: We have been in contact with Assembly in Heath Flora
Speaker 9: and we are working on getting his side of the story.
Speaker 1: Did she call the payphone at that bar?
Speaker 9: Reached out to the Democratic leader of the State Assembly,
Speaker 9: Speaker Robert Reeves for comment. I'm waiting to hear back
Speaker 9: from his spokesman.
Speaker 2: Oh, you'll be waiting for a long time.
Speaker 9: Back to you.
Speaker 8: Thank you. Lawmakers have until August thirty first to pass bills.
Speaker 8: This legislative session, and then the governor has until the
Speaker 8: end of September to sign them into law or veto them.
Speaker 3: So there you go, big shakeup on the Republican caucus
Speaker 3: in the California Assembly.
Speaker 1: Oh good for them, because if you're a Republican and
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Speaker 1: All right, if your house was robbed and you want
Speaker 1: to go buy back your stolen stuff, Randy, you have
Speaker 1: an update.
Speaker 3: For us on that San Francisco is actually starting to
Speaker 3: crack down on the sale of stolen goods. In the mission,
Speaker 3: thanks to and I can't believe I'm saying this a
Speaker 3: bill that actually made a little sense written by Scott Wiener.
Speaker 3: Oh come on, so let's take you back in time
Speaker 3: when a different destructive politician by the name of Ricardo.
Speaker 1: Laura, I'm very kind of sketch.
Speaker 3: Wrote a bell SB nine forty three I might have
Speaker 3: the number wrong, which decriminalized all aspects of street vending
Speaker 3: and an incredibly misguided attempt to protect illegal immigrant street vendors.
Speaker 3: It created loopholes in the law where law enforcement were
Speaker 3: not allowed to do anything about selling stolen goods, like literally,
Speaker 3: the deodorant you steal from Walgreens, you can sell it
Speaker 3: on a stand in the mission.
Speaker 1: How in the world did Scott Wiener get this right?
Speaker 1: Is there some kind of writer in the legislation that
Speaker 1: says that all of the stolen books have to get
Speaker 1: confiscated and donated to drag Queen's story hour.
Speaker 3: Well, let me clarify here. It's push it in the
Speaker 3: right direction, but at a very slow pace. So law
Speaker 3: enforcement not allowed to deal with illegal street vending, even
Speaker 3: when public works employees were getting harassed and sometimes beat
Speaker 3: up by the criminals in the mission. Scott Wiener for
Speaker 3: five years tried to get a bill through the legislature
Speaker 3: to fix this, and the legislature and again you got
Speaker 3: to remember, Scott Wiener even couldn't get this thing passed
Speaker 3: for five years, decided all right, what we're gonna do
Speaker 3: is come up with a list of twenty things that
Speaker 3: of the most commonly stolen items at Walgreens. The board
Speaker 3: of supervisors will vote on what that list is, and
Speaker 3: you have to get a permit if you're going to
Speaker 3: sell in the mission. And if we see you selling
Speaker 3: deodorant in the mission and you don't have a receipt
Speaker 3: for that deodorant, you're gonna get a warning. And then
Speaker 3: the second time you're gonna get a warning, and then
Speaker 3: the third time you're gonna get a ticket.
Speaker 1: Oh great, that's the.
Speaker 2: Cracked on illegal vending going on in the mission.
Speaker 3: It is a step in the right direction, but it
Speaker 3: is a very small step. For more on this, here
Speaker 3: is ABC seven in the Bay.
Speaker 1: Well, it's been a year since the state law gave
Speaker 1: police new tools to track down a crackdown rather on
Speaker 1: street vendors selling stolen merchandise.
Speaker 7: But is the law working.
Speaker 9: ABC seven Eyewitness News reporter Loose Pena looked at the data,
Speaker 9: then went to San Francisco's Mission District to find.
Speaker 3: Out, Oh, that's one of the neighborhoods I don't go
Speaker 3: to when I go to San Francisco.
Speaker 1: Oh, you drive through it, It's like a never ending
Speaker 1: mall of stolen goods.
Speaker 3: If you want to have a great time in San Francisco,
Speaker 3: go to North Beach, go to Golden Gate Park, go
Speaker 3: to all the fun restaurants and neighborhoods. But stay out
Speaker 3: of the tenderloin, stay out of Soma, and stay out
Speaker 3: of the Mission and you'll have a great time. What
Speaker 3: if you want to buy stolen deodorant, then go to
Speaker 3: the mission.
Speaker 7: The figure's match reality.
Speaker 10: The difference it is clear. For years, this is what
Speaker 10: San Francisco Mission Residence witnessed every day, people selling items
Speaker 10: presumed to be stolen on the sidewalks. Fast forward to
Speaker 10: August of twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: Looks like everything is under control. Walked through.
Speaker 3: There was one point where then Supervisor Hillary Ronan said, Okay,
Speaker 3: in order to crack down on this, we just have
Speaker 3: to ban all street vending in the Mission. To the
Speaker 3: people that were doing it legitimately, they were very upset.
Speaker 10: Brodrico Lopez, president of the Mission Street Vendors Association. He
Speaker 10: said that thirty three permitted vendors are now stationed in
Speaker 10: specific areas. He's also glad people who don't have receipts
Speaker 10: for the items they're selling are getting sided. Well, I
Speaker 10: can say right now at this point, the city have
Speaker 10: control over that issue. Last year, the California Senate approved
Speaker 10: SB two seventy six allowing San Francisco to require street
Speaker 10: vendors to obtain a permit to sell merchandise.
Speaker 3: And this was a state law that I believe only
Speaker 3: affects sam Fisco. So you can still sell plenty of
Speaker 3: stolen goods in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles. But just
Speaker 3: remember it took Scott Wiener five years for the legislature
Speaker 3: to pass this.
Speaker 10: Way to crack down on people selling stolen items on
Speaker 10: the streets. Senators got Wiener authored SB two seventy six,
Speaker 10: and city supervisors approved a list of over one hundred
Speaker 10: commonly stolen retail items that SFPD now looks over before
Speaker 10: citing someone.
Speaker 3: Okay, the list I thought was twenty, it's up to
Speaker 3: one hundred. So even if people are selling stolen kens
Speaker 3: a big sexy hair, you could get sighted.
Speaker 1: You think Pokemon cards are on the list. Possibly, what
Speaker 1: we want is to go back to the way it's
Speaker 1: been in the mission for a long time, where we
Speaker 1: have street vendors who have permits, who are running small businesses.
Speaker 3: I love that the answer wasn't just repeal Ricardo Laura's
Speaker 3: incredibly stupid law.
Speaker 2: That would have been the smart thing to do.
Speaker 1: For whatever reason, they can not go after him by name.
Speaker 1: Have you noticed that?
Speaker 2: I wonder if he has dirt on people.
Speaker 10: Since implementing this law. In the last two months, city
Speaker 10: data shows that SFPD has given out three hundred and
Speaker 10: ninety six.
Speaker 1: Warnings zero arrests. I love it.
Speaker 3: Where did you get that sense of dine? By the way,
Speaker 3: if you want to know why so many walgreens have
Speaker 3: closed in San Francisco, it's this.
Speaker 10: Forty six citations, six citations for a third violation, and
Speaker 10: no misdemeanor arrests yet.
Speaker 1: Okay, so it's a toothless bill.
Speaker 2: Well, it's got baby teefs.
Speaker 1: No, it has meth teeth.
Speaker 12: It's really about teaching these violators that there's better ways
Speaker 12: to conduct business.
Speaker 10: Despite the progress, ASFPD confirmed, there is still an enforcement
Speaker 10: gap at night.
Speaker 3: Well, that's when most of the illegal stuff is going on.
Speaker 3: That's when people are selling the stolen laptops.
Speaker 1: We're going to enforce it only when you're not open
Speaker 1: for business right now.
Speaker 12: We are challenged with our staffing. As our staffing improves,
Speaker 12: as our staffing increases, we're going to be able to
Speaker 12: increase those enforcement operations.
Speaker 10: The owner of Materira Market pointed to homelessness and the
Speaker 10: drug crisis as other persistent issues here, but disenforcement.
Speaker 3: Hey, there's a feedinl fold right there in the middle
Speaker 3: of the street. It's a big fold.
Speaker 10: Is giving him hope? Now, I'm getting excited for expanding
Speaker 10: in San Francisco. Loose Paya, ABC seven at Witness News.
Speaker 3: So it is a very very very very small step,
Speaker 3: but a step in the right direction as San Francisco
Speaker 3: cracks down on illegal street vending by giving you a
Speaker 3: warning and giving you a ticket, then maybe another ticket,
Speaker 3: and then I'm not actually arresting you if you keep
Speaker 3: doing it over and over and over again.
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Speaker 1: American Bandstand?
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I had a bunch of women with bouffont hair doing that.
Speaker 3: It's pretty easy dance, you inject and you fold over.
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