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Speaker 1: It is the News Blitz with Randy Wang on talk

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Speaker 1: radio seven to ninety KABC. Let's get right to today's

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Speaker 1: California Report at Randywangradio dot substack dot com, and we

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Speaker 1: start in the Pacific Palisades, where yet another insult is

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Speaker 1: being placed with the injury the victims of the Palisades

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Speaker 1: Fire have already felt for the past year and a half,

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Speaker 1: and that is in order from the City of Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles and Karen Bass to have anyone in the Palisades

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Speaker 1: that has a burned out lot or a home that

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Speaker 1: they can't live in. A lot of them have been

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Speaker 1: using storage containers to store some of their furnitures and

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Speaker 1: their belongings because they can't live in their house. And

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Speaker 1: of course those storage containers are in front of their

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Speaker 1: house on the street, and that caused the City of

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles to not read the room send out notices

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Speaker 1: saying no, no, no, no no, you need to move

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Speaker 1: those or they're going to be towed in. You're going

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Speaker 1: to be fine. This is the same city of Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles that does not tow RVs that are not supposed

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Speaker 1: to be there, that does not tow derelict unsafe RVs

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Speaker 1: in all different parts of the city of Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: There's that video of Matthew Seedorf in South LA where

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Speaker 1: everyone was covering the hopeless woman living in a sewer,

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Speaker 1: and one of the things you saw is the street

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Speaker 1: sweeper bobbing and weaving around all the RVs because they

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Speaker 1: don't do anything about that. The only time they care

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Speaker 1: about public space is when they can go after a homeowner,

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Speaker 1: and they don't even care that they're going after the

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Speaker 1: victims of the fire, who were still, for the most

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Speaker 1: part kind of in a holding pattern because insurance still.

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Speaker 2: Hasn't paid them out.

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Speaker 1: The city is doing minimal to do anything about that,

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Speaker 1: the state is doing minimal to do anything about that,

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Speaker 1: and the federal government is doing minimal to do anything

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Speaker 1: about that. So as soon as this went out, obviously

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Speaker 1: the mayor who's running for reelection realized that this looks bad,

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Speaker 1: so she said, oh, we're positing that. Never mind, were

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Speaker 1: not a big deal. We don't need to move them

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Speaker 1: right now. But it is just another instance of where

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Speaker 1: this city gets in its own way, and the processes

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Speaker 1: are so entrenched in bureaucracy nobody even thinks, Like when

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Speaker 1: the LAFD sent out notices to these same people in

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Speaker 1: the palisades to clear out the brush and they're burned

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Speaker 1: out lots, so they're going to get fined. Like, seriously,

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Speaker 1: is nobody paying attention to what we're doing here? And

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Speaker 1: if somebody is paying attention, but they're afraid to raise questions,

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Speaker 1: They're afraid to challenge the bureaucracy, challenge the structure, challenge

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Speaker 1: the mayor on some of this idiocy.

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Speaker 2: There's something needs to be done.

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Speaker 1: Here now, an issue that drives me crazy in the

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Speaker 1: city of la because this is not a thing in

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Speaker 1: other cities around the world. This might be a thing

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Speaker 1: in a few other cities in the state, but for

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Speaker 1: the most part, this rampant copper wire theft that we

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Speaker 1: see all throughout Los Angeles, it drives me crazy.

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Speaker 2: You know, let's criminalize kind of list of converters, let's

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Speaker 2: criminalize copper.

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Speaker 1: In fact, my home, the neighborhood that I'm in, was

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Speaker 1: the victim of a copper wire theft a few years ago.

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Speaker 1: It took about three months to get that repaired. The

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Speaker 1: timeline's only gotten significantly worse since then. Where Now, if

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Speaker 1: your street lights are out, good luck if they get

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Speaker 1: fixed within a year. And what do you know it

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Speaker 1: happened again in vent Eyes And they're not just stealing

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Speaker 1: copper now, they're also stealing internet cables. So they're opening

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Speaker 1: up a vault box from AT and T and they're

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Speaker 1: literally trying to drag them out of the ground by

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Speaker 1: using a car. It's completely insane that we allow this.

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Speaker 1: And there are two sides to allowing this. One is

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Speaker 1: that we are not going after the people who are

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Speaker 1: doing this brazenly when there's so much film and video

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Speaker 1: of this. We don't hear about a whole lot of arrests,

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Speaker 1: but I do understand maybe that's hard to do one

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Speaker 1: lot easier. And this is a question than I have

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Speaker 1: for the La City Attorney and anybody who's running for

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Speaker 1: It's a question I have for code enforcement and so

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Speaker 1: many other situations where the City of La.

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Speaker 2: The City of La.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't seem to want to go after the people who

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Speaker 1: are buying these products. When you steal copper wire, you

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Speaker 1: don't just say that at MacArthur Park. You don't just

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Speaker 1: sell it on eBay, you don't just fence it the

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Speaker 1: way you fence so many other stolen goods. You have

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Speaker 1: to take it to a recycler or a junker or

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Speaker 1: a smelter, and as far as I know, those are

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Speaker 1: all licensed businesses. So the question that I have is

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Speaker 1: business is that, in effect, you're probably selling the same

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Speaker 1: smelted copper back to the city. Now all that is

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Speaker 1: going on, you also have to think about Karen Bass's

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Speaker 1: latest ploy as she runs for reelection, that hey, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna raise taxes by raising property tax fees to pay

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Speaker 1: for sixty thousand solar lights. And solar lights are the

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Speaker 1: answer to all of this because there is no copper now.

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Speaker 1: They actually haven't figured out how they do solar lights

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Speaker 1: for much taller lights than regular street lights.

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Speaker 2: So that's an.

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Speaker 1: Issue, but something that really irked me when Karen Bass

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Speaker 1: was announcing this. She was asked, how are you going

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Speaker 1: to prioritize the lights that you're going to install?

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Speaker 2: Which ones are you going to do first?

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Speaker 1: And you figure, Okay, maybe it's the places that have

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Speaker 1: the highest likelihood of car accidents, the highest likelihood of

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Speaker 1: pedestrians getting run over, or the highest corridors of crime.

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Speaker 2: No, you know what, she.

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Speaker 1: Said, The priority will be the places where we're going

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Speaker 1: to have the World Cup watch parties. And that is

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Speaker 1: so tone deaf, and in fact, every single time Karen

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Speaker 1: Bass talks about the World Cup or she talks about

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Speaker 1: the Olympics, me, as a local born and raised here,

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Speaker 1: I get even more irritated with her because it sure

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Speaker 1: seems like her priorities are pretending that the city looks

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Speaker 1: good for some international visitors for a couple of weeks

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Speaker 1: this summer and a couple of weeks and two summers,

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Speaker 1: then making sure that the lives of the people here

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Speaker 1: are improved. And another way that you can definitely see

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Speaker 1: that is the continuing devastation on our streets that we

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Speaker 1: see with the homelessness crisis, including yet another just completely

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Speaker 1: bonker scene. This time it's an entire bus bench, an

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Speaker 1: entire bus shelters that's been taken over by an obviously

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Speaker 1: mentally ill homeless person. There is trash everywhere. He is

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Speaker 1: speaking complete gibberish. There was a situation where Fox eleven

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Speaker 1: tried to interview the guy. NBC four tried to interview

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Speaker 1: the guy. And you call the city, you say, hey,

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Speaker 1: all the stuff that you're saying about your doing about

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Speaker 1: Project Insight safe and clearing encampments. Here's a very obvious

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Speaker 1: case of somebody that is not only obstructing the right

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Speaker 2: He needs help. And you know what happened. It's wild.

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Speaker 1: This is a Christina Gonzales piece and you gotta watch

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Speaker 1: the entire thing. It's at Randy Wangradiodt substack dot com.

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Speaker 1: Because Karen Bass puts out a statement showing that everything

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Speaker 1: that Karen Bess said when she became mayor is crap.

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Speaker 1: Because when Karen Bass became mayor, she said, we are

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Speaker 1: locking arms with the county. We declared a state of emergency.

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Speaker 1: The county declared a state of emergency. We are no

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Speaker 1: longer pointing fingers at each other. And what is Karen Bass,

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Speaker 1: who's running for reelection due when she sees the video

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Speaker 1: she says, oh, well, he's mentally ill. That's the county's problem.

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Speaker 1: And it doesn't end there then, apparently, because they sat

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Speaker 1: eleven's Christina Gonzalez, as long as you're here filming this,

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Speaker 1: we're not going to help him. Yeah, you heard me right.

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Speaker 1: They don't want on camera all of the things they're

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Speaker 1: doing to help the home bless So as long as

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Speaker 1: Fox eleven was there, they left. They didn't do a

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Speaker 1: damn thing. And between the woman living in the storm

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Speaker 1: that is going everywhere, it shows that the city and

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Speaker 1: the county do not care about helping the people that

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Speaker 1: need to help the most. And I am done with

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Speaker 1: anybody saying, well, it's their right, it's their right to

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Speaker 1: health hazard for the rest of us. No, it's not,

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Speaker 1: and it is on us. If you were going to say,

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Speaker 1: if your campaign on taking care of the homeless problem,

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Speaker 1: why wouldn't you work on taking care of the most

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Speaker 1: obvious parts of the homeless problem, the most visual parts

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Speaker 1: of the homeless problem. But of course we have a

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Speaker 1: whole bunch of corrupt ideologues who don't actually want to

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Speaker 1: do anything to solve this problem. And that's why they all.

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Speaker 2: Got to go.

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Speaker 1: Every single member of the Board of Supervisors is a

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Speaker 1: complete failure on this, including Catherine Barger and Karen Bass

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Speaker 1: has to go, and the vast majority of the city

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Speaker 1: Council has to go because these people are not taking

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Speaker 1: Why are we not even seeing La County or the

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Speaker 1: to help yourself. Now onto something a little more fun.

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Speaker 1: The ninety one freeway is pretty notorious at this point

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Speaker 1: they're not supposed to.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: The way it works is you can pay you can

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Speaker 1: pay that expensive toll or if you've got three people

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Speaker 1: They're showing people that are putting a wig on top

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Speaker 1: are very, very, very creative when it comes to getting

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Speaker 1: You know, they keep talking about adding these express lanes

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Speaker 2: And I am torn about.

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Speaker 1: It because I'm in a situation where I could probably

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Speaker 1: all those other lanes and the people that can't afford it,

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Speaker 1: although I would definitely be trying to expense that to

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Speaker 1: the company. But still, I don't know if these things

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Speaker 1: it takes cars off the road. I'm going to keep

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Speaker 1: saying this, especially as we're in this war with Iran

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Speaker 1: and who knows how long that thing's going to go

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Speaker 1: on for. And gas prices just hit six dollars in

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Speaker 1: the state of California, and yeah, that's pretty bad for California,

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Speaker 1: but gas prices just hit four dollars in the rest

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Speaker 1: The entire country's hurting with this. If we need to

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Speaker 1: lower our demand on gasoline, it's not that difficult. We

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Speaker 1: did it inadvertently during COVID. I'm not saying that the

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Speaker 1: lockdowns were a good thing, but I'm saying there are

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Speaker 2: To check that out.

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Speaker 1: In Oakland, they're closing another supportive housing site, one of

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the News Blitz.

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Speaker 3: Hi Randy, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and start off by telling us about

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you you probably have tons and tons and

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Speaker 1: You know, where do the specifically in California, where do

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Speaker 1: don't think we've ever never reduced the population of prison guards.

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Speaker 1: So in one instance, you can look at that and say, well,

436
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Speaker 1: the reason that the cost per prisoner keeps going up

437
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Speaker 1: is because we've reduced the available bed space, but we

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Speaker 1: haven't reduced one prison card exactly.

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Speaker 3: And I think the budget this year is eighteen billion,

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Speaker 3: which is four billion more than it was last year,

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Speaker 3: and that makes absolutely no sense with the prison closure.

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Speaker 3: It just it doesn't make sense. But I mean, you

443
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Speaker 3: could kind of counter in the aging prison population, but

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Speaker 3: the care that they get is so poor and constitute

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Speaker 3: a need for four billion more dollars at all.

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Speaker 1: Now, are there any you know, guidelines that you have

447
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Speaker 1: to you know, qualify for to be able to be

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Speaker 1: transferred to a women's prison? Or you just say that

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Speaker 1: you are that sex and because of the state law

450
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Speaker 1: that we just have to say, Okay, that's who you are,

451
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Speaker 1: that's who you identify as, welcome to the women's prison.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I wish there that I can tell you different,

453
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Speaker 3: but the only requirement is self identification. There is a

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Speaker 3: wit long waiting list of almost nine hundred people now

455
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Speaker 3: men from the men's prisons, and the committee does move slow,

456
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Speaker 3: but that is the only requirement. The law specifically says

457
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Speaker 3: that was so evil geniously written by Senator Scott Whiner

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Speaker 3: that nobody's you know, criminal history, physical attributes, sexual orientation

459
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Speaker 3: can be taken into consideration when deciding whether or not

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Speaker 3: someone is appropriate for the move, and there are no

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Speaker 3: requirements for hormone replacement therapy, sexual reassignment surgery. All someone

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Speaker 3: has to do is tell a staff member, not even

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Speaker 3: a medical staff member, that they are female. Now and

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Speaker 3: they don't even require a diagnosis of gender dysphoria.

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Speaker 1: Seems like a system that can be very easily exploited.

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Speaker 1: And I got to imagine for the you know, the

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Speaker 1: kind of work that you originally started this organization for,

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Speaker 1: you know, helping women get set up on the outside,

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Speaker 1: helping them with the rehabilitation we call it the California

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Speaker 1: Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. That's got to be a

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Speaker 1: lot harder when you're constantly looking over your shoulder because

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Speaker 1: you're worried that you may get sexually assaulted.

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Speaker 3: Right, right, If women are currently in a constant state

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Speaker 3: of hypervivalance, I think rehabilitation is if it's not on

475
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Speaker 3: the back burner, it's just completely out the window. And

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Speaker 3: you know, my my concern doesn't just include the women,

477
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Speaker 3: but even for the sex offenders, for the racists, for

478
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Speaker 3: the men, they're not being afforded any opportunity to rehabilitate either,

479
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Speaker 3: because you're the system is encouraging them to maintain their

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Speaker 3: status and their active criminal thinking. You're putting people in

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Speaker 3: a position where they're they're going to reoffend no matter

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Speaker 3: it's not if, it's when. So it's just a huge

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Speaker 3: disservice to everybody. And I don't think that the author

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Speaker 3: of the bill, you know, has any concern because this

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Speaker 3: is all part of a greater agenda just to erase

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Speaker 3: women entirely.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it definitely seems in Scott Wiener has been

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Speaker 1: a huge offender of this of you know, in the

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Speaker 1: name of ideology and some kind of equality. It's actually

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Speaker 1: making a lot of people, especially women, less safe.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about you know, him trying to decriminalize, you know, prostitution,

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Speaker 1: which actually has led to a rise in human trafficking.

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Speaker 1: So this is just par for the course with Scott Wiener.

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Speaker 3: Yes, and he's really you know, we've come a long

496
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Speaker 3: way in our I don't know, love hate relationship, you know,

497
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Speaker 3: I just despised him early on in the game, but

498
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Speaker 3: I've I don't know what happened in my heart is softening,

499
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Speaker 3: and I praise for the guy regularly, but his responses

500
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Speaker 3: to the most basic human rights issues are absolutely off

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Speaker 3: the wall. Last year, we sponsored a bill by Senator

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Speaker 3: Shannon Grove SD three eleven that would have created separate

503
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Speaker 3: housing units for the men in the women's prison, which

504
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 3: was a pretty mild ass It was a pretty you know,

505
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Speaker 3: low bar reset. We weren't saying get them out, we

506
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Speaker 3: weren't saying, you know, we weren't being extremist. It was

507
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Speaker 3: just a very simple ass They still could a program together.

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Speaker 3: But Stott Wahner publicly said, well, they need their girl time.

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Speaker 3: That's interesting. And then there was also a part of

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Speaker 3: the law where it would have prohibited sex offenders registered

511
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Speaker 3: sex defenders from being able to qualify for a transfer,

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Speaker 3: and his response to that was he can't discriminate against

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Speaker 3: sex defender registrants because there's people on the sex offender

514
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Speaker 3: Registry for crimes as simple as having sex and public.

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Speaker 3: And I had to like pick my job up off

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Speaker 3: the floor in the committee room. I couldn't believe that

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Speaker 3: there is an elected official just you know, defending sex

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Speaker 3: offenders so hard.

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Speaker 2: It was.

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Speaker 3: It was we were all flabbergasted. Thank god for Senator

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Speaker 3: Kelly Sarto, who really got into him and I thought

522
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Speaker 3: his head was going to explode, he was so mad.

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Speaker 3: But he explained why the sex Offender Registry was created,

524
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Speaker 3: because Scott Winer was trying to say that it was

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Speaker 3: created to further marginalize LGBTQ people and Senator Sarto went

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Speaker 3: to tell, you know, very graphic story about exactly why

527
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Speaker 3: the sex Offender Register was created, and we all know

528
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Speaker 3: it's for people who can't control themselves sexually, and it

529
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Speaker 3: was just horrible to have to sit there and watch

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Speaker 3: Senator Wiener just make excuse after excuse for you know,

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Speaker 3: having a pro pedal agenda and being so pro predator

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Speaker 3: in the state, and everybody's just shaking in their boots,

533
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,640
Speaker 3: not even wanting to vote the right way because they're

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Speaker 3: so scared of him.

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Speaker 1: We'll speaking with Amy Atchikawa. She is with an organization

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Speaker 1: called Woman to Woman. You can check out their website

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Speaker 1: at womaniiwoman dot org. Now, is there any legislation that

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Speaker 1: your group is sponsoring this year that you need more

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Speaker 1: attention on that hopefully we can get across the finish line.

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Speaker 3: We don't have anything cooking this year. We're kind of,

541
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Speaker 3: you know, really trying to focus on a federal legislation.

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Speaker 3: We're hoping to get the Prison Rate Elimination Act refurbished.

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Speaker 3: It really needs an overhaul to include, you know, the

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Speaker 3: current female human rights crisis in our nation's women's prison

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Speaker 3: and we're going to be working closely with the dj

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Speaker 3: and their upcoming investigation into the practice of housing men

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Speaker 3: and women's prison in California, and we really hope that

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Speaker 3: that leads to a nationwide investigation because we don't want

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Speaker 3: to leave any woman forgotten well.

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Speaker 1: And that's the thing, and that's why it's so important

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Speaker 1: that you're speaking out about this, because this is a

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Speaker 1: particular portion of the population that is completely ignored and

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00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:13,560
Speaker 1: completely forgotten. And you may have some people that don't

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Speaker 1: care what happens to the people in prison, but eventually

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Speaker 1: they're going to get out. The question is are they

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Speaker 1: going to get out more well adjusted or less well adjusted?

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Speaker 1: And this seems like a situation where they mean way

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Speaker 1: less well adjusted when they get out.

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Speaker 3: Rights. And for the folks who don't think that this

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Speaker 3: deserves to be headlined or it shouldn't even be covered

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Speaker 3: because you know, they shouldn't have committed crimes or that's

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Speaker 3: what they get, I really have to say, you know,

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Speaker 3: a lot of people are just one glass of sharden

564
00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 3: nay away from particular manslaughter and being right in that

565
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 3: same situation being funked up with Bubba. And you know

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Speaker 3: what the nation, what the government will do to the

567
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Speaker 3: least of us. They will most definitely at some point

568
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Speaker 3: due to the rest of US. So I try and

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Speaker 3: encourage people to understand you can tell so much by

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00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 3: a country in accordance to the way they treat their prisoners.

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Speaker 3: And right now, it would be very easy for an

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Speaker 3: outsider to look in and say that America hates women.

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Speaker 1: We'll speaking with Amy at Chikawa from Woman to Women.

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Speaker 1: Now we've talked about this insane policy where men are

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Speaker 1: being allowed to transfer into women's prisons. Are there any

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Speaker 1: other specific areas where you think California is failing the

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Speaker 1: incarcerated female population.

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Speaker 3: Well? Absolutely, I mean the way that funding works, you know,

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Speaker 3: we are women are only ten percent of the incarcerated population,

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Speaker 3: so I understand that they can't pay a whole lot

581
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Speaker 3: of attention to them. But as far as programming is

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Speaker 3: concerned and staffing is concerned, CCWF, which is apparently a

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Speaker 3: level four California State Prison, gets the funding that's the

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Speaker 3: equivalent of a men's level two. They have the staff

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00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 3: that's the same as a men's level too, and they

586
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Speaker 3: expect them to perform at a level four. And it's

587
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 3: not fair on the staff, it's not fair on the inmates.

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00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 3: It's not fair on their families. It's it's not right

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00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:10,240
Speaker 3: for the community. It's such a horrible imbalance. And also medical,

590
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 3: you know, there's women that have to petition for things

591
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 3: like knee replacements, stack surgery, and they have to do

592
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:19,799
Speaker 3: this while they're watching men come back from you know,

593
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:25,920
Speaker 3: Beverly Hills plastic surgeons with brand new breasts, new facelifts,

594
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:29,680
Speaker 3: you know, will gain for their male pattern baldness that

595
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:32,880
Speaker 3: is exaggerbated by the wrong sex hormones. I mean, there's

596
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:37,719
Speaker 3: there's a lot of imbalances there, and you know, there's

597
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:40,560
Speaker 3: just so much work to be done, and I'm hoping that, uh,

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00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:42,960
Speaker 3: you know, a new governor is really going to make

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Speaker 3: an impact in that area.

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Speaker 1: If there are any women listening and they want to

601
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Speaker 1: get involved with your organization, what can they do?

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Speaker 3: Please, you know, send us a message to the website

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Speaker 3: at www. Woman I woman dot org. We're happy to

604
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:02,000
Speaker 3: you know, see to anybody. Anybody that has great ideas

605
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,400
Speaker 3: being the bad ideas will take him. Prayers and stamps

606
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 3: are always high in demand. And if you happen to

607
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 3: have a loved one who's incarcerated, she's struggling with something

608
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:16,040
Speaker 3: like this, We are here to help, and you know,

609
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:20,399
Speaker 3: we respond to everybody, not always quickly, but we will

610
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Speaker 3: respond to absolutely every message we get.

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Speaker 1: Amy Atchikawa from the organization Woman to Woman, you can

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Speaker 1: go to the website WOMANII woman dot org. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for coming on today and telling us about

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Speaker 1: this situation.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Randy, You're awesome.

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Speaker 1: It's the News Blitz with Randy Wang on KABC. It's

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Speaker 1: the News Blitz with Randy Wang on KABC. The city

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Speaker 1: of Sacramento is considering allowing tiny cottages on wheels. Wait,

619
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Speaker 1: isn't that just a mobile home? You ever wonder why

620
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 1: we don't just put the homeless in mobile homes? Because

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Speaker 1: a single wide manufacturer's cost is just eighty seven thousand dollars,

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Speaker 1: double wide one hundred and fifty seven thousand dollars. You

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Speaker 1: can probably put four or five people in there. But no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: we need to build million dollar apartments or one hundred

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00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 1: thousand dollars tiny homes. Isn't it just weird that we

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Speaker 1: don't want to just build more trailer parks?

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Speaker 2: Why is that?

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Speaker 1: It's the News Blitz with Randy Wang on KABC. It's

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Speaker 1: the News Blitz with Randy Wang on KABC. Over the weekend,

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Speaker 1: we had one of my favorite meals. I'm so glad

631
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Speaker 1: my wife suggested it. Salmon avocado pesto over chickpea pasta

632
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Speaker 1: and roasted tomatoes.

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Speaker 2: It's so easy. Take your salmon.

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Speaker 1: You can just get the boneless, skinless salmon at Trader Joe's.

635
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:41,719
Speaker 1: Cook it at three point fifty for thirty minutes on

636
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Speaker 1: a sheet pan, just salt and pepper, maybe a little oil.

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00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:47,280
Speaker 1: And then in a separate sheet pan, have cherry tomatoes.

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00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 1: Toss those in oil, in a little bit of salt.

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00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:53,120
Speaker 1: Those go for a half hour. Then you've got your pasta.

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Speaker 1: I like the Trader Joe's chickpea pasta six minutes and

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00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 1: it's good to go. Now the pesto, which I do,

642
00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:02,320
Speaker 1: avocado pesta. It's much healthier, but it gives you that flavor.

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00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 1: Take a ball at basil, garlic, avocado, lemon, and olive

644
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:12,920
Speaker 1: oil and use an immersion blender and it becomes this creamy, delicious,

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00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 1: healthy pesto sauce. You toss that in your pasta. You

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Speaker 1: top it with the roasted tomatoes, and top it with

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Speaker 1: your salmon filet. Mix all that together and it is perfection.

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Speaker 1: You can pair it with an Italian wine, or we

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Speaker 1: pairt it with a Fiddlehead Birdie Baby twenty fifteen Pano noir,

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Speaker 1: which is a bigger Peano noir than Kathy usually does,

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Speaker 1: but it was perfect with this. I'll have the picture

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Speaker 1: at some point on my socials to check it out.

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Speaker 1: It's the News Blitz with Randy Wang on Kabac