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

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

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Speaker 1: report at Randywangradio dot substack dot com. And we start

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Speaker 1: in Venice, where one of Karen Bass's major promises when

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Speaker 1: she ran and wan the mayor's job was broken. Karen

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Speaker 1: Bass said that, hey, if you elect me mayor and

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Speaker 1: we enact my project inside Safe, where we clear out

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Speaker 1: the encampments, put everyone in a motel, that encampment will

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Speaker 1: not come back. Well, the second project Inside Safe happened

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Speaker 1: to be in Venice on Rose and Karen Bass and

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Speaker 1: Tracy Park at all the accolades for clearing that encampment.

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Speaker 1: But now that encampment is back, and I'm disappointed in

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Speaker 1: both Karen Bass and Tracy Park. Why are we allowing this?

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Speaker 1: You told the residents if we spent all the money

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Speaker 1: we have, we could not see this anymore. The encampments

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Speaker 1: would not return. Why are we tolerating this? And I

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Speaker 1: don't care about any bureaucratic nonsense like well, it's into

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Speaker 1: between two forty one eighteen zones and we need to

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Speaker 1: put forth another forty one to eighteen restriction here. It's

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Speaker 1: just it's such nonsense. You told the residents the encampments

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Speaker 1: wouldn't come back, and that is bs now. It could

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Speaker 1: be for a whole lot of reasons. One, we've been

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Speaker 1: keeping people indefinitely in motels for a very long time,

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Speaker 1: and they don't live there, they don't stay there all

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Speaker 1: the time. Sometimes they have to go back to the

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Speaker 1: streets because that's where the drugs are. There's also no

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Speaker 1: rules in the encampments, and apparently there's no enforcement of

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Speaker 1: public sidewalks. You cannot tout victory saying we got the

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Speaker 1: sidewalk back for the public, and then just a couple

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Speaker 1: of years later, here we are again. Both Karen Bass

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Speaker 1: and Tracy Park are up for reelection, and Tracy Park

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Speaker 1: is in a two person race where she's running with

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Speaker 1: someone far to the left of her, someone who's more

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Speaker 1: of a Mike Bonnen. But Tracy, if you want another

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Speaker 1: four years, you got to clean this up. And if

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Speaker 1: the mayor's not letting you clean this up, you gotta

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Speaker 1: start calling out the mayor. No more locking arms with

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Speaker 1: Karen Bass. Nobody gets anything from it now. Gas prices

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Speaker 1: are top of mind for all Californians, including people in

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Speaker 1: electric cars. Because gas prices raise the cost of everything,

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Speaker 1: and the gas prices in California are higher than anywhere

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Speaker 1: else in the country because of a few different things.

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Speaker 1: Cod and Nolan from NBC four actually looked at the

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Speaker 1: numbers and tried to figure out what it is. And

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Speaker 1: part of it is our sixty one cent gas tax.

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Speaker 1: Part of it is cap and trade. That's right, every

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Speaker 1: time you fill up at the pump. You are also

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Speaker 1: funding high speed rail and rebates for e bikes. And

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Speaker 1: part of it is California's cleaner blending gasoline. But the

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Speaker 1: thing about that is, and look, I'm not an expert

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Speaker 1: in any of this, but I have traveled to Texas.

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Speaker 1: Texas is a state that is nearly as big as

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Speaker 1: we are. Texas produces a lot of oil, Texas Texans

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Speaker 1: use a lot of gasoline. They don't have this summer blend.

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Speaker 1: And the air in Texas is cleaner than the air

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Speaker 1: in California, specifically in Los Angeles. So I just I

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Speaker 1: don't know why that is. But I don't really think

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Speaker 1: what we're doing makes a whole lot of sense. And

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Speaker 1: the fact that we've destroyed refining capacity to the point

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Speaker 1: where two major refiners closed in just the last few months. Well,

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Speaker 1: we're importing more oil than ever from other countries, and

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Speaker 1: not only does that increase the price, but it's not

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Speaker 1: really helping out the atmosphere because the same amount of

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Speaker 1: gasoline is being produced, it's just being produced and refined

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Speaker 1: in much dirtier places then getting put on a boat

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Speaker 1: and being brought over here. I don't think any of

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Speaker 1: this stuff makes any sense anymore, and it's time to

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Speaker 1: rethink all of these policies. I'm all for transitioning to

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Speaker 1: clean energy when it's feasible, and it's not feasible at scale,

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Speaker 1: and we're not even trying to make it feasible at scale.

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Speaker 1: And I'll give you a proof point on that. To

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Speaker 1: use a Gavenusom term, this state could go all in

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Speaker 1: on solar, Incentivize every single home to have a solar rooftop,

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Speaker 1: Incentivize backup batteries in micro grids so we don't have

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Speaker 1: to depend on our massive utilities. But we're not doing

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Speaker 1: that because a major portion of the legislature and the

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Speaker 1: governor's office is bought and paid for by those utility companies.

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Speaker 1: So what did we do we incentivize solar, including making

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Speaker 1: sure that when you bought these things, you at a

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Speaker 1: the excess energy that you're creating back to the utilities.

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Speaker 1: The utility said that's not fair. Their new thing they

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Speaker 1: screwed over all the home rooftop solar, and people are

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Speaker 1: buying solar less and less. You know what, states are

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Speaker 1: developing more solar Texas, California. Beholden to the utility companies,

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Speaker 1: And as long as they're beholden to the utility companies,

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Speaker 1: all this nonsense about a transition to a cleaner energy

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Speaker 1: of an electric car, and I'm glad I have an

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Speaker 1: affecting that for me. I'm sure they're going to affect

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Speaker 1: a whole bunch of other things. But I don't have

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Speaker 1: to worry about paying more at the pump because they

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Speaker 1: don't go to the pump. It is one of the

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Speaker 1: nice features. But I'm in a situation where that works

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Speaker 1: for me. I have a single family home, I have

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Speaker 1: a charger here in front of my garage, and I

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Speaker 1: can charge it at night. I charge it when it

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Speaker 1: doesn't cost me a whole lot of money, and it

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Speaker 1: works out pretty well. But if you live in an apartment,

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Speaker 1: what exactly are you're supposed to do? Because unless you

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Speaker 1: have a way to charge at home, the charging infrastructure

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Speaker 1: is not there. The fact is, even the fastest chargers

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Speaker 1: you're looking at sitting somewhere for a half hour compared

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Speaker 1: to five minutes, which means you're going to need a

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Speaker 1: hell of a lot more than them than we have

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Speaker 1: now because you don't want to be in a situation

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Speaker 1: where you need to charge and every single pump is full.

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Speaker 1: It's happened to me last summer. I wanted to try

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Speaker 1: an experiment. I wanted to take my Chevy Bolt SUV

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Speaker 1: to Santa Barbara Wine Country. And I wanted to do

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Speaker 1: this for a few reasons. One, my neighbor has a

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Speaker 1: Tesla and he's done it, so I'm like I should

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Speaker 1: be able to do it. Of course, Teslas have their

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Speaker 1: own network of chargers, but don't you worry. Chevy is

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Speaker 1: now allowed to be in that as long as you

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Speaker 1: buy an adapter. Well, I bought a cheap adapter from

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Speaker 1: home depot that didn't work, so the Tesla network was

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Speaker 1: not available to me. But don't you worry. There are

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Speaker 1: so many other networks of chargers all around, and I

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Speaker 1: have all these apps on my phone that tell you

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Speaker 1: where all the chargers are and what kind of chargers

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Speaker 1: there are. And here's a couple of things you need

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Speaker 1: to know. There are great portions of this state that

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Speaker 1: do not have very good Wi Fi or Internet access,

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Speaker 1: the Santinez Valley being one of them. You need to

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Speaker 1: get on the internet to access all of these apps,

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Speaker 1: to turn on the chargers. They're all based on QR

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Speaker 1: doesn't work. And because they take so long to charge again,

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Speaker 1: you're lucky if a high speed fast charger is charging

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Speaker 1: got to charge a little more than that. And if

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Speaker 1: you go into the service station, you get your slurpee,

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Speaker 1: what have you. You're sitting in the car for thirty minutes.

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Speaker 1: What are you supposed to do now? The engine's off

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Speaker 1: so you can't have the air on. Look, it was

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Speaker 1: a disaster, and this was only in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: So what are we doing about that? Because until we

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Speaker 1: do something about that, there's a whole lot of people

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Speaker 1: still be a demand for gasoline. Now, I'll just tell

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Speaker 1: The plug and hybrids are great, best of both worlds.

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Speaker 1: You have a gas tank, but you almost never need

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Speaker 1: to use it if you're just doing city driving, like,

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Speaker 1: for instance, my mother in law has the Volvo and

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Speaker 1: that thing is forty miles of electric battery. It's pretty

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Speaker 1: much all the blood driving some people do and she

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Speaker 1: And in Santa Monica, residents are upset over a seventy

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Speaker 1: seven million dollar affordable housing project. This was a vacant

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Speaker 1: pet store that Santa Monica decided we need to turn

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Speaker 1: into affordable housing. And the first thing you need to

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Speaker 1: know about any affordable housing story is the word affordable

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Speaker 1: means subsidized. It means that is subsidized through city budgets,

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Speaker 1: like the city is actually paying for it, and it's

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Speaker 1: subsidized through higher rents. Everywhere else you were subsidizing the

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Speaker 1: affordable housing. Apparently the city bought this land for more

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Speaker 1: are so many better ways to be doing this, and honestly,

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Speaker 1: a lot of people moved away because summers in Austin

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Speaker 1: are hellish. Now a big story that's been going around

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Speaker 1: Jose are reacting to this because that's where his house was.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of monuments to him. In fact, every

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Speaker 1: this morning that Delores Sualta and Utwerta, another longtime labor

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Speaker 1: A story that NBC in the Bay has been following

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Speaker 1: for a really long time is the state of California

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Speaker 1: and they're pushed towards next Gen nine one one and

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Speaker 1: it's been a total disaster. It is a transition that

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Speaker 1: we have spent eight hundred million dollars on and we

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Speaker 1: still have no next Gen nine one one. Well, the

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Speaker 1: California Office of Emergency Services is firing the contractor that

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Speaker 2: Hey, Rany Wang, appreciate you having me on.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so let's do first things first, just a little education,

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Speaker 1: can you tell us fairly simply, what does the California

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Speaker 3: Sure, So, the California State Treasurer's job is to manage

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Speaker 3: And what it is is it is extortion that separates

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Speaker 3: And so I would take six steps to doing that

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So what I would do is I would start

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Speaker 3: We don't need to keep spending money there and then

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Speaker 3: that way, you know, we already know that they're failing.

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Speaker 3: We already know that there are arrests that are happening,

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Speaker 3: but we need more prosecutions in order to establish that trust.

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Speaker 3: So that's the first step, is defunding the failure that

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Speaker 3: we already know currently exists.

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Speaker 1: And then after that we move on to divesting. What

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Speaker 1: are we divesting from?

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Speaker 3: Divesting away from these systems that create death, decay and

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Speaker 3: destruction in our streets, that create the homeless industrial complex,

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Speaker 3: the mental health epidemic, the drug abuse, the death and decay,

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Speaker 3: destruction in our housing, all of these systems that we

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Speaker 3: keep throwing money at, but they're not giving us a

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Speaker 3: yield back for our dollar. We're not getting a return

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Speaker 3: on investment in either the public wellbeing or a return

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Speaker 3: on investment in our financial.

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Speaker 1: Well being well and I think on that one you

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Speaker 1: would have broad support from the locals that see all

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Speaker 1: of the money. Specifically, when you talk about the billions

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Speaker 1: of dollars that California has spent on homelessness, and no

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Speaker 1: one has any idea where it went or if it

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Speaker 1: helped anybody, or if it just went to nonprofits that

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Speaker 1: for instance, there's one in Los Angeles. That is getting

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Speaker 1: county and state money and at one point federal money

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Speaker 1: to pass out meth pipes in MacArthur Park.

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Speaker 3: That's right, And I was just there a few days ago,

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Speaker 3: and of course we had Nick Sureley just released his

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Speaker 3: new video highlighting a lot of these problems that we're

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Speaker 3: having in Los Angeles. But the truth is it's throughout

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Speaker 3: the country, it's throughout the state. We want to have

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Speaker 3: tax rebellion and decentralization of government, which this state and

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Speaker 3: this country were founded on. That returns in that money

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Speaker 3: and that funding, power and authority back to the people,

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Speaker 3: back to the county, and then that way, the money

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Speaker 3: doesn't leave for Sacramento and then get laundered back. It

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Speaker 3: doesn't leave for Washington, DC and get laundered back. The

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Speaker 3: way that the tax code used to work in the

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Speaker 3: fifties and sixties and seventies was we balanced the budget

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Speaker 3: and we handled dispersements at the county level, and then

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Speaker 3: we sent it to Sacramento. It didn't happen the other

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Speaker 3: way around.

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Speaker 1: And you know, you look at the budget of the

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Speaker 1: state of California have very similar to the budgets of

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Speaker 1: cities and counties. We're bringing in more money than ever before.

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Speaker 1: But the schools all say that they're broke. The police

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Speaker 1: and fire departments say that they're broke. Where are we

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Speaker 1: spending our money If we're not spending it on those basics.

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Speaker 3: Well, they're not serving the people who live here, you know.

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Speaker 3: Sonya Shaw is highlighting this story that came out of

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Speaker 3: Riverside County, which is where I live, where there's a

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Speaker 3: school here that is giving diplomas, high school diplomas to

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Speaker 3: Chinese nationals that have never lived in the county. They've

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Speaker 3: never gone to our schools so that they could attend

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Speaker 3: our university system. And so what we've gotten away from

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Speaker 3: is a high school, state college, and university system that

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Speaker 3: used to serve the public here that pays taxes, and

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Speaker 3: it's become a system that serves the elites throughout the

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Speaker 3: world throughout the country, but no longer serve the Californians

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Speaker 3: who live here.

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Speaker 1: Oh and on top of that, we saw the story

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Speaker 1: a few weeks ago of what's going on at California

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Speaker 1: Community colleges where scammer is using AI chat are applying

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Speaker 1: for and getting slots into California community colleges and getting

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Speaker 1: state and federal grants. That's money that we're paying to

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Speaker 1: scammers on the other side of the world.

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Speaker 3: That's right, and it's leaving and they know that these

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Speaker 3: systems are happening. It's happening in its rampant waste, fraud,

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Speaker 3: and abuse. In addition to the six hundred thousand you know,

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Speaker 3: Chinese nationals that we approved on student visas to come

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Speaker 3: into our university system. And so what we have is

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Speaker 3: we have public systems that no longer serve the public

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Speaker 3: good that built it.

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Speaker 1: So let's go to the third step of your six

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Speaker 1: point planned. This is, by the way, the platform of

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Speaker 1: David Serpa. He's running for California Treasurer. Invest if your treasurer,

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Speaker 1: what are we investing all of our money into.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so we're going to invest in things that support

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Speaker 3: life and that support liberty and the pursuit of happiness

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Speaker 3: for Californians. And that's going to be you know, things

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Speaker 3: that we already know yield to dividend. And because these

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Speaker 3: were once very successful programs, things like our education system,

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Speaker 3: which once serve the public, our state park system, which

513
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Speaker 3: we spend about one billion dollars annually on and we

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Speaker 3: get about eight billion dollars on an ROI.

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Speaker 2: We should serve the public.

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Speaker 3: People that live here in the state of California should

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Speaker 3: have reduced fees or no fees at all in our

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Speaker 3: state parks, that they have an opportunity to actually go

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Speaker 3: on vacation with their families, and then the pursuit of happiness.

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Speaker 3: We want people that live here to love living here.

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Speaker 3: We want it to be a place where ordinary people

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Speaker 3: can live extraordinary lives, where teachers can buy homes, where

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Speaker 3: we have a thriving main street, where we have neighborhoods

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Speaker 3: that are owned by the people that live there instead

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Speaker 3: of corporations. And we could do all of this by

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Speaker 3: divesting away from these systems that we know destroy communities

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Speaker 3: and destroy main street, and investing back into main Street,

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Speaker 3: back in our high schools, back in our communities, and

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Speaker 3: by eliminating more and more fees, in reducing a lot

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Speaker 3: of the garbage that is in people's way, a lot

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Speaker 3: of that bureaucratic red tape that prevents us from having

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Speaker 3: the people be the answer to a lot of the

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Speaker 3: problems that government has created.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, for instance, when you're talking about fees,

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Speaker 1: you just look at what's going on when it comes

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Speaker 1: to building housing, which is one of the biggest drivers

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Speaker 1: in the state of the cost of living, and cities

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Speaker 1: and counties impose these things called impact fees that add

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Speaker 1: twenty to thirty percent of the cost of the house,

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Speaker 1: and those numbers add up, and there's all kinds of

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Speaker 1: things that the state and the cities and the counties

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Speaker 1: make you jump through hoops for just to be able

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Speaker 1: to build a home, even when you're just rebuilding a home,

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Speaker 1: as we're seeing in the Palisades in Altadena.

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Speaker 3: That's correct, and so that's actually where my background is,

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Speaker 3: and that's one of the things that drew me to

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Speaker 3: the Treasurer's office is I gave my housing plan to

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Speaker 3: Steve Hilton, I gave it to Sheriff Fianco. I've been

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Speaker 3: talking about it with Mike Gates because one of the

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Speaker 3: best ways that we could build more housing is allow

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Speaker 3: people to build housing again, you know, through something that

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Speaker 3: are it's called charter cities, where there's no county red tape,

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Speaker 3: there's no state red tape. You allow people to actually

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Speaker 3: build and develop the land that they sit on if

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Speaker 3: they want to build multiple structures so that they've got

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Speaker 3: a family ranch, a family compound, a place for them

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Speaker 3: to live and do business. That's between them and the

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Speaker 3: dirt that they live on, and it shouldn't be up

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Speaker 3: to government. Because when we had our largest housing boom

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Speaker 3: in American history, it was through the Sears catalog. It

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Speaker 3: was through housing being manufactured offsite, built on site by

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Speaker 3: our grandparents who used to build the home. And when

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Speaker 3: that was happening, you could buy a home for about

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Speaker 3: three times your annual salary versus what it is currently,

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Speaker 3: which is eleven times your annual salary here in the

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Speaker 3: state of California.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's funny. I hear a lot of people

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Speaker 1: on the gubernatorial trail talking about this on both sides

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Speaker 1: of the isle. There's actually there was this incredible forum

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Speaker 1: with the California Association and real estate agents, and it

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Speaker 1: seemed like the Democrats on stage and Steve Hilton were

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Speaker 1: agreeing on almost everything, especially when it comes to building

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Speaker 1: on site and building modular. What I always wonder is, like,

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Speaker 1: why aren't we doing that right now? Building trades unions?

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Speaker 1: Are they the roadblock to building housing in a much

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Speaker 1: more efficient way because we haven't really changed the way

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Speaker 1: we build housing since the nineteen eighties.

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Speaker 3: That's correct, Well, it's because it benefits the people who

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Speaker 3: we're putting on the forum, which is you know, real

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Speaker 3: estate agents, which is bankers, which is you know lenders.

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Speaker 3: Because the thing is is that I can sell you, Randy,

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Speaker 3: a nine hundred thousand dollars home, which is the average

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Speaker 3: home in the state of California, and I could give

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Speaker 3: you a thirty year loan for it. You're going to

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Speaker 3: pay one point two million dollars in interest over the

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Speaker 3: course of thirty years, and an amortized loan that front

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Speaker 3: loads your interest on the front half of it, so

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Speaker 3: you're not paying down your principle. And so what that

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Speaker 3: does is it creates more financial destitution. It creates more

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Speaker 3: opportunities for us to have more annual taxes that are

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Speaker 3: hidden in the to the fees because people don't even

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Speaker 3: realize what a their PI TI is in a mortgage statement.

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Speaker 3: You know, their principle, their interests, their taxes, and their insurance,

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Speaker 3: and it's more ways for them to separate us from

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Speaker 3: our dollar. And if we could give people the opportunity

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Speaker 3: to address that by building our own housing again, getting

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Speaker 3: the state of California out of the way, getting our

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Speaker 3: localities out of the way, then you could have people

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Speaker 3: building with these kits that are, you know, thirty forty

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Speaker 3: five thousand dollars for a two to three bedroom home

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Speaker 3: building on land, and there's such an abundant amount of land,

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Speaker 3: and my housing plan has been out there. But we

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Speaker 3: have forty eight million acres in the state of California.

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Speaker 2: For example.

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Speaker 3: You know, the city of Sacramento is a sixty thousand

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Speaker 3: acre city with two hundred thousand homes. The city of

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Speaker 3: San Francisco is a thirty thousand acre city with four

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Speaker 3: hundred and twenty thousand homes. But we have so much

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Speaker 3: public land, but people don't realize it. They think that

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Speaker 3: you're gonna have to pave over and build on Yosemite,

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Speaker 3: or that we have to completely start building vertically, when

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Speaker 3: what we can really do is start developing more of

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Speaker 3: California that just hasn't been developed that would bring down

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Speaker 3: the cost of housing.

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Speaker 1: We're speaking with David Surpa. The website is Surpafourca dot com.

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Speaker 1: Last question before where you go. California has a lot

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Speaker 1: of debt, including the pension liabilities, and we're about to

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Speaker 1: go into an election year where there may be half

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Speaker 1: a dozen or more bond measures on the ballot. Do

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Speaker 1: you think the State of California can tack on any

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Speaker 1: more debt at this point.

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Speaker 3: No, But we also need to understand when we manage

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Speaker 3: our CalPERS and calisters, and when they were doing better,

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Speaker 3: it was because we backed them with natural resources here

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00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:28,080
Speaker 3: in the State of California, like oil. So when oil

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Speaker 3: was booming and we were exporting, you know, those were

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Speaker 3: in the green and so we need to get back

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Speaker 3: to that, get back to being exporters, eliminate the wasteful

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Speaker 3: government spinning that we have, and protect the programs that

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Speaker 3: people have already paid into. Stop borrowing against them, which

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Speaker 3: is really what we're doing. We're mortgaging tomorrow to pay

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Speaker 3: for today, which is what Eisenhower warned about in his

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Speaker 3: farewell address when he said that we were going to leave

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Speaker 3: our grandchildren spiritually and financially bankrupt.

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Speaker 1: David Surpa the website night surpafourca dot com. He is

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Speaker 1: running for California State Treasurer. David Surpa thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for joining us today.

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Speaker 2: Randy Wang, it was a pleasure.

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

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Speaker 1: Blitz with Randy Wang on KABC. So last night, in

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Speaker 1: our little celebration of Saint Patti's Day, my wife and

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Speaker 1: I made a shepherd's pie with lean ground beef and

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Speaker 1: celery and carrots and onion and garlic and peas you

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Speaker 1: gotta have peas, tomato paste and mashed potatoes on top,

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Speaker 1: baked it in the oven, and it was It was divine.

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Speaker 1: It was so perfectly savory. The potatoes, we don't have

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Speaker 1: potatoes often these days, so when we do, it's a

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Speaker 1: nice treat. They were so fluffy and little buttery, and

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Speaker 1: the meat mixtuear, which had fresh rosemary and time in

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Speaker 1: it was really solid. But the winner wasn't just the meal.

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Speaker 1: It was what we paired it with. I opened a

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty Foxin' Vogelsong Vineyard Cabernet, and I've had this

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Speaker 1: wine before. In fact, I opened the exact same wine

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Speaker 1: when we did Shepherd's Pie last year, and it was

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Speaker 1: the twenty nineteen. But this twenty twenty was such an

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Speaker 1: incredible cab. I think at the price that we pay

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Speaker 1: for it, it's like fifty dollars a bottle, and we

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Speaker 1: have like four five of them in the wine fridge.

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Speaker 1: It paired so perfectly with that savory beef mixture. I

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Speaker 1: loved it, and then we needed more because we had leftover,

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Speaker 1: So I opened a Bukanoogan cab which is up in

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Speaker 1: the Santa Lucia Highlands. Not as good, but still pretty

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Speaker 1: damn great. And that one's another fifty dollars price point.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to go too crazy for cabs. It's

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