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Speaker 2: Much to cover next seven We're gonna give Way one

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars and we're also going to I'm gonna read

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Speaker 2: a little piece written by Andy Caldwell the California Globe.

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Speaker 2: It's something we've discussed a lot, and he goes through

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Speaker 2: all the things that Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass did

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Speaker 2: not do, comparing it to the rhetoric of what they

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Speaker 2: say should be done. It shows you what a fraud

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Speaker 2: Bass and Newsom are and why they both should be

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Speaker 2: removed immediately, because what they say and what they do

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Speaker 2: is is such a there's such a gap in that

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Speaker 2: it's life threatening and it threatens your homes and neighborhoods

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Speaker 2: because there's so much they don't do. We'll talk about that.

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Speaker 2: We have discussed extensively this shocking Santa Anez Reservoir, which

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Speaker 2: is sitting in the middle of Pacific Palisades, empty one

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Speaker 2: hundred and seventeen million gallons it holds and it has

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Speaker 2: been unfilled for at least the last year. The story

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Speaker 2: they tell is that the cover there was a tear.

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Speaker 2: The water was getting contaminated with bird droppings and everything

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Speaker 2: else that falls from the sky, and so they drained it,

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Speaker 2: closed it. They should have repaired it in a month.

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Speaker 2: A year later, they still haven't fixed it, and so

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Speaker 2: there were there was not one hundred and seventeen million

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Speaker 2: gallons available for the firefighters. Imagine that one hundred and

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Speaker 2: seventeen million gallons DWP. Genis Kines runs it another person

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Speaker 2: who needs to be fired. We're not going to let

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Speaker 2: up on these people. They need to go. Excuses, No

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Speaker 2: more debates, no more arguing, no more spin. Don't want

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Speaker 2: to hear your side of the story.

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Speaker 3: Go.

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Speaker 2: You failed fatally. People died, thousands of homes burned to

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Speaker 2: the ground. You failed horribly because of what you did

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Speaker 2: and what you didn't do. Let's talk to Roger Bailey. Now,

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Speaker 2: he is an attorney and he knows what happens in wildfires.

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Speaker 2: His own family lost their home in twenty twenty, and

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Speaker 2: he's representing a group of survivors of the Palisades fire

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Speaker 2: suing LADWP over the water issues, including this whole Santa

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Speaker 2: Inez Reservoir controversy. Roger Bailey, Welcome, How are.

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Speaker 3: You hi, John? Hi, Thanks for having me John.

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Speaker 1: Thanks afternoon. Oh yeah, good afternoon.

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Speaker 2: What what have you learned about this now infamous Santa

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Speaker 2: Inez Reservoir.

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Speaker 3: Well, I first want to begin by saying that as

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Speaker 3: we begin talking to people from the Palisades community that

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Speaker 3: lost their homes, one after the other kept telling the

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Speaker 3: same story that the firemen would arrive and would say,

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Speaker 3: I think I can save your house, and they tie

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Speaker 3: into the local hydrant that was in the area and

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Speaker 3: discover there was no water, and they, without fail said

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I can't do anything. And this is story

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Speaker 3: after story after story, and again we have nothing but

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Speaker 3: the best to say about the firefighters. They were there

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Speaker 3: trying to do their job, trying to save house.

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Speaker 1: Yes, they tried like hell, but they weren't given water.

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Speaker 3: Exactly right, And the response from the government thus far

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Speaker 3: has been, well, you know, it wouldn't have made a difference.

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't have exactly Not true.

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Speaker 2: Because I am reading stories about people who were able

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Speaker 2: would make a difference.

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Speaker 1: One hundred and seventy.

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Speaker 2: Million gallons would have made a big difference for a

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Speaker 2: lot of people. Not everybody, but would have made a

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Speaker 3: Even if it's saved one home or ten homes, or

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Speaker 3: been there, should have been made available to the firefighters

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Speaker 3: they were basically had both cut hands side behind their back,

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Speaker 3: weren't able to do their job, and people lost everything

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Speaker 3: as a result. And we're going to get answers to

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Speaker 3: that in the case. That's what we're doing here, where

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Speaker 3: first of all, making sure people have what they need

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Speaker 2: Uh, what if they responded how they responded rather the DWP.

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Speaker 2: Have they sent you so a letter, have they met

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Speaker 3: Nothing other than what you've read in the media, the

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Speaker 3: same thing I've read. It's under investigation. I mean, as

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Speaker 3: you know, Newsom's got his own investigation going. He said

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Speaker 3: it was deeply troubling and it likely impaired firefighters ability

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Speaker 3: which will be forthcoming, probably within the next thirty days,

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Speaker 3: we'll get something formal from him.

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Speaker 2: I mean, what insiders union people are saying is it

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Speaker 2: should have taken a month to fix the tear in

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Speaker 1: That's right.

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Speaker 3: It could have been done internally, and instead they put

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Speaker 3: months and months, and finally November they finally signed a contract,

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Speaker 3: and of course two months later we have the fire

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Speaker 3: and nothing was done. The reservoirs sat empty.

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Speaker 2: What I don't understand is they always talk about with

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Speaker 2: climate change and fire season all year round. It seems

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Speaker 2: like they would have reacted as if this was a

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Speaker 2: big emergency one hundred and seventeen million gallons suddenly not

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Speaker 2: available in an oncoming fire season. How did they not react,

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Speaker 3: Well, the other thing we've heard is that Well Palisades

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Speaker 3: wasn't a high fire prone area. But I don't know

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Speaker 3: whether you realize this, but neighboring Malibu in the last

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Speaker 3: ninety years has had over thirty wildfires.

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Speaker 2: I know.

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Speaker 3: To say that Palisades isn't fire prone is ridiculous. Those

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Speaker 3: every fall and early winter the santanas blow in inevitably

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Speaker 3: there's wildfires, and knowing that should have prompted them to

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Speaker 3: have this completely repaired by the summertime.

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Speaker 1: That's the latest they, like you said, thirty fires in Malibu. Pacific.

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Speaker 2: Palisades and Malibu run into each other. They blend into

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Speaker 2: each other. That's nonsense. There was a fire in the

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Speaker 2: Brentwood area a few years ago, the Getty Fire, that

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Speaker 2: is right adjacent to the Palisades as well. We had

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Speaker 2: the bel Air fire back in nineteen sixty one. That's

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Speaker 2: just the next town over from Brentwood.

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Speaker 1: Of course, that's all high fire danger. They know this.

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Speaker 2: See, that's what makes me crazy. They're blatantly lying. They're

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Speaker 2: just lying, claiming, oh, wouldn't have made a difference. That

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Speaker 2: a high fire area. I mean, I can't believe what

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Speaker 2: they're saying. Shameless.

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Speaker 3: It is agreed. Those of us that, like I said,

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Speaker 3: that have lived hered know everywhere in southern California is

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Speaker 3: susceptible to wildfire. Everybody, I don't care where you are,

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Speaker 3: you're vulnerable for a wildfire. And that puts the government

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Speaker 3: the people. Period, end of story.

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Speaker 2: It's all the Santa Monica Mountains. It's dense brush, dense

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Speaker 2: forest land, lots of fire hazards in the area.

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Speaker 1: I mean there are a lot of vagrants living up

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Speaker 2: All right, Just well listen, you need anything, you need

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Speaker 2: more publicity. You're getting stonewalled in some way. You let

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Speaker 2: us know. Okay, we'll put you right back on.

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Speaker 3: I really appreciate it, John, and you know we're all

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Speaker 3: fans of the show and appreciate the covers you've done.

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Speaker 1: Well. Thank you, and we're on your side here, So

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Speaker 1: you just let us know.

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Speaker 2: Roger Bailey, one of the attorneys representing some Palisades Pacific

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Speaker 2: Palisades residents, the preposterous liars that they are one hundred

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Speaker 2: and seventeen million gallon empty reservoir. It would make it different.

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Speaker 2: Everything wouldn't make a difference. The firefighters had been there, Earth,

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Speaker 2: that wouldn't make a difference. One hundred and seventy million dollars. Oh,

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Speaker 2: that wouldn't make a difference. If the mayor had been here, Oh,

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Speaker 2: that wouldn't made a difference. Nothing would have made a difference.

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Speaker 2: Huh really, all right.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI sixty.

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Speaker 2: One of the many, many questions that we're going to

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Speaker 2: be tackling over the coming days and weeks. Andy Caldwell

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Speaker 2: wrote about this in California Globe. If climate change has

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Speaker 2: created a much uh, much more frightening danger when it

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Speaker 2: comes to wildfires, now, how come the state and the

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Speaker 2: city don't do anything or spend any money to mitigate

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Speaker 2: the problem. They're the ones who run around screaming climate change,

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Speaker 2: climate change, year round, fire season, uh and and all

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Speaker 2: you know that were there, that were all that we're

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Speaker 2: all in for all kinds of travesties and disasters. Right,

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Speaker 2: they're the ones who keep saying that, And I'll read you,

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Speaker 2: Andy Caldwell. The fact is that the doomsayers claim that

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Speaker 2: climate change will result in greater catastrophes in the future,

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Speaker 2: we'll experience where strouts, floods and fires than ever before.

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Speaker 2: Yet what have they done to prepare? Have they built

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Speaker 2: more dams and reservoirs to alleviate floods and help us

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Speaker 2: through the droughts?

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Speaker 1: No, he writes, Think about that.

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Speaker 2: Think about how much climate change rhetoric and nonsense you've heard,

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Speaker 2: And they have built exactly zero dams and reservoirs. I

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Speaker 2: don't think there's a new state dam has gone up

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Speaker 2: in since the late nineteen seventies. We authorized in twenty

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Speaker 2: fourteen seven billion dollars worth of borrowing to build new reservoirs.

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Speaker 2: Ten years later, none of them have been built.

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Speaker 1: Zero.

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Speaker 2: Well, if it's such a serious problem, why wasn't that

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Speaker 2: fast tracked, he continues, writing, Have they built fuel brakes

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Speaker 1: No, they have none.

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Speaker 2: Have they conducted regularly scheduled controlled burns.

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 2: And you know why, because environmental activists whack job mental

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Speaker 2: patients have protested, ensued every time anyone in the state

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Speaker 2: has wanted to thin out the forests. They don't even

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Speaker 2: want dead trees to be carried out. It's true, And

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Speaker 2: Newsim and Jerry Brown and all the rest of those

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Speaker 2: little cowards gave in every time to the crazy people.

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Speaker 2: This is why progressive politics, I hope died on January

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Speaker 2: seventh in the Palisades, because that's made everything more dangerous.

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Speaker 2: No controlled burns, no fuel brakes, no dams and reservoirs.

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Speaker 2: Here are more questions. Have they thinned the brush and

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Speaker 2: the trees and created a wider buffer zone between the

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Speaker 2: urban rural interface?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 2: Have they deployed thousands of goats and cows into our

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Speaker 2: foothills to help manage the fuels? Let him eat the brush,

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Speaker 2: it works.

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 2: Have they compared the greenhouse gas emissions from wildfires to

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Speaker 2: that of the transportation sector that they're focusing on, claiming

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Speaker 2: it's the biggest emission source.

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, how much? How much carbon was released through the

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Speaker 2: air when you burned down an entire town, burned down

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Speaker 2: almost all Pacific Palisades? How much carbon was that? Meanwhile,

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Speaker 2: what has our government done, he writes, besides spending billions

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Speaker 2: on high speed rail, tens of billions on the homeless.

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Speaker 2: At least two homeless people in LA were detained by

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Speaker 2: law enforcement his arts and suspects. Yes, we spend billions

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Speaker 2: on the homeless who start fires, and very little on

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Speaker 2: the firefighters. Who put them out, that's me talking. Spent

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Speaker 1: What you wanted to do?

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Speaker 1: You tell me which do you vote for?

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Speaker 2: Juneteenth celebrations. You could celebrate Juneteenth. Why do we have

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Speaker 1: We just had him on the other day. He's got

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: And he's been covering this this fire situation. And we

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Speaker 2: It's pretty clear that the the commanders in the LA

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Speaker 1: And if you remember it.

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Speaker 2: Was there was there was a Michael Valentine and his

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Speaker 1: Going to blow a blood vessel.

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Speaker 2: They were not blowing out one hundred miles an hour,

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Speaker 2: if they if they were on alert, Pacific Palisades is

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Speaker 2: very high fire danger. I can't tell you how many

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Speaker 2: bald faced lies from these psychotics I've heard and amplified

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Speaker 2: mayor being here wouldn't have made a difference. Having one

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Speaker 2: Well Sallenberger says, a second firefighter has come forward to

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Speaker 2: This firefighter said there was not enough mechanics, engines or

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Speaker 2: it should. It should have two firefighters for every thousand people.

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Speaker 2: It has less than one. It's missing sixty two fire stations.

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Speaker 2: It has one hundred engines, fire engines that are broken

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Speaker 2: especially the billions of dollars on the homeless. I mean,

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Speaker 2: what's the point. What's the point of shoveling money at

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Speaker 2: your buddies who started those fake nonprofits. Schellenberger says LA

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Speaker 2: extreme end, thirty minutes. How much does a fire burn

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Speaker 2: Tell me it wouldn't made a difference. Of course, it

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Speaker 1: Guess didn't want to pay the overtime.

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Speaker 2: Now, he says, the response time is ten minutes all

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Speaker 2: The other day they had a cardiac arrest call that

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Speaker 1: Why Why?

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Speaker 2: Because we're spending billions of dollars on failed homeless programs,

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Speaker 2: why do we let them do this? The whistleblower said,

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Speaker 2: staffing an equipment shorta just create two tragedies. The first

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Speaker 2: According to the whistleblower, a family member is dying and

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Speaker 2: Why is there no money? Why can't we pay people.

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Speaker 2: We're eighty fire stations short. Why aren't we building them.

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Speaker 2: Why aren't we paying firefighters they're contracted wages And Schellenberger

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Speaker 2: didn't know this, but the Legislative analy Office in Sacramentos, nonpartisan,

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Speaker 2: cutting millions for prescribed burns, forest fire monitoring, and twelve

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Speaker 2: million dollars to make homes more fire resistant. Gavin Newsom

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Speaker 1: So I'm telling they're.

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Speaker 2: Running around screaming about climate change year round fire seasons.

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Speaker 2: We're all in danger like we've never been before. And

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Speaker 2: they take wildly underfunded fire departments and cut more money

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Speaker 2: from them. They spend billions on homeless, billions on high

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Speaker 1: Karen Bass, this.

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Speaker 2: Can't be overlooked, proposed cutting the fire department in the

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Speaker 2: coming year by another forty eight zero point eight million dollars,

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Speaker 2: almost fifty million. How could we possibly have her remain

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Speaker 2: as mayor when her intention was to cut another fifty million.

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Speaker 2: The budget should be doubled. We should have twice as

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Speaker 2: We need sixty this guy says, eighty fire stations. Now,

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Speaker 2: are we going to do that? Are we going to

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Speaker 2: all die in a fire? Because Karen Bass is woke

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Speaker 2: and Gavin Newsom is woke, and they want to shovel

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Speaker 2: the money to their crooked nonprofit homeless agents that their

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Speaker 2: crooked friends run. Since twenty nineteen, California has spent twenty

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Speaker 2: That does not include the spending on firefighting, police, or

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Speaker 2: emergency medical services for the homeless. It doesn't include the

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Speaker 2: forty billion the state spent on affordable housing. California spends

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Speaker 2: over thirty billion a year to provide benefits and services

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Speaker 2: to illegal aliens. According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform.

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Speaker 1: So let's at add that to the list.

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Speaker 2: Thirty billion a year for illegal aliens, twenty seven billion

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Speaker 2: dollars on those vagrants and drug addicts in the street,

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Speaker 2: ten billion dollars on high speed rail, fifty billion dollars

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Speaker 2: to criminals around the world who took our COVID unemployment money.

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Speaker 2: Why do you do this? Why do you keep voting

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Speaker 2: for these people? I'd say, I don't understand this. Nobody's

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Speaker 2: saying understands this. I don't vote for these people. I

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Speaker 2: don't understand it. I want the firefighters fully funded, the

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Speaker 2: police fully funded.

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Speaker 1: I don't.

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Speaker 2: I don't want high speed rail. I don't want homeless

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Speaker 2: people giving billions of dollars. It doesn't do any good.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to legal aliens getting billions of dollars.

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Speaker 2: They don't they're not entitled, they don't deserve it.

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Speaker 1: I take a break.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.

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Speaker 2: Let me read more from Michael Schellenberg Schollenberger Public Dot News.

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Speaker 1: All right, get this, you tell me what you want?

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Speaker 1: All right?

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Speaker 2: If you saw this on the ballot to vote on,

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Speaker 2: which do you want California spends forty one billion dollars

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Speaker 2: a year on the homeless, right, the mental patients, and

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Speaker 2: drug addicts, and legal immigrants, and climate change forty one

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Speaker 2: billion in those three categories. If we just spent two

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Speaker 2: percent of that money, a billion dollars on LA's fire department,

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Speaker 2: it would have doubled its budget. They would have doubled

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Speaker 2: the amount of firefighters, which would get us to an

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Speaker 2: adequate level, the recommended minimum level. We'd have to double

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Speaker 2: the budget to get the minimum number of firefighters that's

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Speaker 2: recommended by these national fire agencies. And then we could

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Speaker 2: have double the engines, double the resources. Maybe they could

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Speaker 2: fill the reservoir with water. Maybe they could build news reservoirs.

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Speaker 2: That's what you should do in a city, in a

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Speaker 2: state with the newsom always brags about all the wealth

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Speaker 2: created in California. Well, how is it that we have

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Speaker 2: all this wealth three point eight trillion dollar GDP. He's

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Speaker 2: always bragging about that, and the highest taxes, So it's

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Speaker 2: not like we're not paying and we have no water,

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Speaker 2: no fire engines, half the firefighters, police undefunded.

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Speaker 3: I don't.

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Speaker 1: Listen to this. LA spent.

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Speaker 2: Six to time six to twelve times more for an

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Speaker 2: electric fire engine than a normal fire engine. Don't know

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Speaker 2: the exact cost, but apparently electric fire engines cost six

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Speaker 2: to twelve times more.

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Speaker 1: They bought one electric fire engine. You're not going to

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Speaker 1: believe this.

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Speaker 2: The electric fire engine is broken and hasn't been fixed,

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Speaker 2: and said this firefighter whistleblower. Why are they spending six

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Speaker 2: million on an electric fire engine that doesn't work rather

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Speaker 2: than buy a new station. The engine went into service

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Speaker 2: for a month, it broke and it hasn't been back.

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Speaker 2: They had to retrofit the whole fire station to charge

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Speaker 2: the engine.

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Speaker 1: Between all the work to.

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Speaker 2: The station and the vehicle, it was six million dollars.

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Speaker 1: Why would you do that?

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Speaker 2: Why would you spend six million dollars on one fire

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Speaker 2: engine retrofit the station. It doesn't work and they can't

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Speaker 2: fix it. That's what happened in Los Angeles. What are

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Speaker 2: we doing? You're going to keep voting for Karen Bass.

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Speaker 2: You're not going to demand a resignation. Really, you're not

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Speaker 2: going to do you should demand a resignation, and nearly

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Speaker 2: an entire city council. I would say Tracy Park is

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Speaker 2: the only intelligent, level headed, rational person on that entire council.

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Speaker 2: She should be the next mayor, and I've told her

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Speaker 2: that a couple of times. What's going on right now,

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Speaker 2: city govern From what I'm told by sources, you just

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Speaker 2: wouldn't believe. Everyone's covering their ass. They're holding meetings, everybody's arguing,

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Speaker 2: everybody's full of crap. Nobody's doing anything for the people.

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Speaker 2: It is completely dysfunctional. There is no help coming. They

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Speaker 2: just stand there and do their fake nonsense press conferences,

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Speaker 2: and there's almost nobody in the press corps in LA

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Speaker 2: who challenges them. I grew up in the New York

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Speaker 2: media market as a kid, I grew up in Jersey.

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Speaker 2: I watched the New York reporters. They certainly had plenty

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Speaker 2: of disasters in New York City over the years. You

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Speaker 2: would have been from the public. They're letting the public down.

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Speaker 2: They're not doing their jobs. We pay for this everything

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Speaker 2: I just told you about, all the money that we

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Speaker 2: paid for, the homeless population, the illegal aliens, that's all

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Speaker 2: our money. That's what you work for. They took the

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Speaker 2: money and spent it on one didn't spend it on

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Speaker 2: our fire stations. They don't spend it on the police. Instead,

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Speaker 2: they embarrassed, the police, demonize them. I hope Eric Arsetti

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Speaker 2: rots in hell for eternity for taking that knee in

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Speaker 2: front of those terrorist groups that were protesting. Worst thing

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Speaker 2: I've ever seen in my life. And all along here

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Speaker 2: when I'm reading about the dispirited police department, the spirited

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Speaker 2: fire department, underfunded, defunded, no equipment, this and that, and

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Speaker 2: I'm always flashed back to erk r said he'd taken

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Speaker 2: a knee. He ran LA for nine and a half years.

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Speaker 2: A lot of this extreme decay happened because of him.

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Speaker 2: I was going to say under his watch, not his watch,

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Speaker 2: because he made the decisions to make it happen because

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Speaker 2: of the contempt he had for police and firefighters. And

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Speaker 2: Bass has the same contempt, because progressives have contempt for

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Speaker 2: those in uniform who try to protect our lives. That's

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Speaker 2: part of their sick twisted ideology. They're sick twisted religion,

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Speaker 2: contempt for the men and women who try to protect us,

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Speaker 2: either from the bad guys or fires and other natural disasters.

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Speaker 2: And I think we should get I think we should

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Speaker 2: get from whatever source that two percent that billion dollars

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Speaker 2: that they spend on the legal aliens and homeless people

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Speaker 2: two percent of the forty billion that they spend at

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Speaker 2: double the size of the LA Fire Department. That's what

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Speaker 2: a rational society would do. So number one, you get

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Speaker 2: rid of Karen Bass. Number two, we thought you'd get

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Speaker 2: that billion dollars out of somebody. Oh, I got when

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Speaker 2: Trump comes to town next week. Oh, we got to

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Speaker 2: talk about that, because they want federal money reimbursed. Trump's

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Speaker 2: only going to give the money if there are strings attached,

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Speaker 2: and there should be strings attached. Talk about that. Deborah

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Speaker 2: Mark Live the KFI twenty four hour News are with Hey,

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