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Speaker 2: Saturday.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, listening to you all weekend long, that's exciting.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. Do you have me on in the background

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Speaker 2: at your house?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, that's right.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk with Chris Lagra here, and you know what,

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Speaker 1: as soon as we're done with Chris, we will get

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Speaker 1: into this the state of the Los Angeles animal shelters.

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Speaker 1: It is so heartbreaking, so disgusting. Honestly, I'm worried I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna get you too upset I listen to.

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Speaker 3: Be honest, I may walk out because I.

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Speaker 2: Need you to talk to me about it. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 2: So Okay, because you have so much passion about it,

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Speaker 2: say you're right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, But the thing is we need to do something.

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Speaker 1: Well, I know, I know, and and did these these

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Speaker 1: animal shelters. You know what, Karen Bass has an animal

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Speaker 4: All those people need to be fired, John, Seriously, let's

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Speaker 4: fire them all.

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Speaker 3: There's people that are looking for jobs.

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Speaker 4: Let's hire those people that love animals and get rid

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Speaker 1: That's part of the problem is that the woman who

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Speaker 1: anybody stupid. The union would step in and protect anybody

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Speaker 4: How can you protect somebody that's that's so awful. I

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Speaker 4: know you want to get We're going to wait to

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Speaker 3: But that makes zero sense.

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Speaker 1: That's why you can't go and run Wager. I'm so angry,

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Speaker 1: Chris Lagraz coming on now, this is going to make

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Speaker 1: you angry too. If you have a house in a

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Speaker 1: who hates people who live in single family homes, hates them.

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Speaker 1: He's got a bill that the city would be required

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Speaker 1: you know, if you live within a half mile of

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Speaker 1: It would destroy life as we know it here in

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Speaker 5: Hey, John, Well, that's the most depressing intro I've ever gotten.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry to connect you to the to the dog abuse,

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Speaker 5: Every day we don't have It's the point where we

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Speaker 5: this bill, it's SB seventy nine, and it is. It

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Speaker 5: the grassroots got together and killed SB fifty and because

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Speaker 5: Wiener has turned out this. You sort of view this

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Speaker 5: absolutely right. It would require la Cities around the state

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Speaker 5: And there's a couple of tiers that frankly are irrelevant.

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Speaker 1: Is another day though, because what people need to know

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Speaker 5: And there's another little detail, which is developers because they

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Speaker 5: verified from the inside John. Metro will actually move a

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Speaker 1: Are some Democrats who are pushing back on this?

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Speaker 5: Well? Perfect question, John, and this is the call to action.

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Speaker 5: Everybody listening right now, please please please call or email

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Speaker 5: absolute star. Her name is Aisho Wahabb. She's from up

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Speaker 5: So this is the time for people to make those calls.

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Speaker 5: It takes literally fifteen seconds. You can actually call after

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Speaker 5: here to tell you it works. These senators, these lawmakers

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Speaker 5: in the Senate, Wiener is badly wounded. He's already badly

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Speaker 1: Why is he so crazy against people who live in

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Speaker 2: What's the obsession here?

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Speaker 5: He is bought and paid for by day real estate.

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Speaker 1: If you look at it, say that again, Say that again,

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Speaker 1: because you're thumb blipped out.

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Speaker 5: He is bought and paid for by big real estate.

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Speaker 5: This has nothing to do with affordability, nothing to do

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Speaker 5: he writes bills that that if they pass, you know,

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Speaker 1: It really is, and his cover story is always the

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Speaker 5: He's a progress He's not a progressive. I don't know

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Speaker 5: he's very effective because, frankly, a lot of voters, you know,

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Speaker 5: He's ought into for as a lot of well.

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Speaker 1: He's always a water boy for these real estate interests.

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Speaker 1: This is just is just corruption.

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Speaker 5: This is.

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Speaker 1: All the story in the in the Guard corruption.

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Speaker 5: It's demonstrably failing every place. I mean, look at Santa Monica.

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Speaker 5: Santa Monica has been pursuing this stack and pack bus

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Speaker 5: They're offering two, three, four months of free rent, gym memberships,

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Speaker 5: top of everything else, the corruption and the destruction of neighborhoods,

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Speaker 1: You know, one week it seems they want to legalize

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Speaker 1: buying teenagers for sex. You know, the next week gasoline

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Speaker 1: is going to eight to fifty. Now they're trying to

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Speaker 1: destroy single family neighborhoods with these gigantic apartment towers. Why

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Speaker 1: do they want to destroy everything? They want to destroy kids,

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Speaker 5: I you know, my one man's opinion is that it's

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Speaker 5: ultimately all about power, because if we do end up

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Speaker 5: dependent on transit, what freedoms do we have left will

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Speaker 5: it's all about power and profit. I think they want

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Speaker 5: a captive audience. And Scott Wiener is doing everything he

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Speaker 5: can to deliver it to and may developers countless billions

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Speaker 1: He's evil, all right, Chris, I know you'll stay on

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Speaker 1: top of this.

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Speaker 2: Please let us know.

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Speaker 1: Please call Ray and tell us if there's any advancement

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Speaker 1: for this horrible, evil bill.

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Speaker 5: I will again just really quickly. Please please, everybody listening,

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Speaker 5: you can just google who is my California state Senator.

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Speaker 5: Take that thirty seconds to shoot the email or make

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Speaker 5: the call. It is making a difference.

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Speaker 2: We can beat this thing, all right, Thanks Chris, Chris Leagra.

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Speaker 5: Thanks.

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Speaker 1: He's a journalist and he's covering Scott Sweeners. Just I mean,

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Speaker 1: that guy's just a human bowel movement. He is the

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Speaker 1: And it would require cities to approve anytime some developer

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Speaker 2: He is, and he wrote.

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Speaker 1: Bass is Danes's boss, but Danes's made contact with Jacqueline Hamilton,

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Speaker 2: There is a.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that is back.

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Speaker 1: If you remember, the jackass, destructive progressive holes in the

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Speaker 2: How are you, Chad?

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Speaker 6: And I'm doing very good? How are you? John?

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Speaker 1: They say the conditions are horrific inside your jails. Dozens

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Speaker 6: Well, the entire thing is a complete lie, and anyone

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't see why why the bail issues a problem.

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Speaker 6: Well, the people die. Every single day. People die, and

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Speaker 6: Absolutely, John I had a conversation with an ACLU attorney

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Speaker 2: And everyone he wants, everyone do not want.

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Speaker 6: Yes, they do not believe that anyone should go to jail.

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Speaker 1: If you say that to somebody, like an average person,

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Speaker 6: that unfortunately people like you are the only ones reporting it.

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Speaker 6: The mainstream repeata isn't the mainstream media is not going

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Speaker 6: to report it. But they know about it.

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Speaker 2: No, they don't do anything anymore. They don't cover anything.

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Speaker 1: I've got like half a dozen major issues on the

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Speaker 1: show today that there's absolutely no coverage from from the

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Speaker 1: LA Times or any of the television stations. So we're

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Speaker 1: working all by ourselves here. Chad, thank you very much

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Speaker 1: for coming on and let us know how this one goes,

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Speaker 1: all right, and good luck, absolutely good luck with your campaign.

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Speaker 1: Chad Bianco. He's the Riverside County Sheriff's Riverside County sheriff,

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Speaker 1: and he's running for governor as a Republican, and now

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Speaker 1: he's dealing with a bunch of civil rights groups suing

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Speaker 1: to end cash bail in Riverside County. That's already been decided.

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Speaker 1: It was decided by a state referendum a few years ago,

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Speaker 1: so that was supposed to be a dead issue. But

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Speaker 1: of course it's not all right. When we come back

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Speaker 1: something else I want to get to before we run

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Speaker 1: out of time. There's another Democrat that's a awakened in

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Speaker 1: the legislature and wants the head of the California Air

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Speaker 1: Resources Board to resign.

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Speaker 2: This is quite a story.

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Speaker 1: Well, we got a report from Ashley Zavalla from Channel

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Speaker 1: three and Sacramento. You have to go what five hundred

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Speaker 1: miles to find a television station that covers what's important

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Speaker 1: in your life.

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Speaker 2: Here in LA.

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Speaker 7: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 7: six forty.

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Speaker 1: Two runs of The Moist Line. Next hour, we're also

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Speaker 1: going to have Carl Demile on. And it looks like

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Speaker 1: the progressive destructive a holes in Sacramento have just passed

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Speaker 1: a bill to allow illegal aliens to count ballots at

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Speaker 1: our elections. Not making that one up, but that's coming

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Speaker 1: up in fifteen minutes right now. The crackpot jackass progressive

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Speaker 1: Democrats finally have realized that they went way too far

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Speaker 1: with their climate change obsession and now gas is headed

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Speaker 1: for a fIF They believe Michael Bache's study from USC

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Speaker 1: that gas could be eight to fifty by the end

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Speaker 1: of next year. Two refineries closing California Air Resources Board

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Speaker 1: has come up with a new fuel standard, and the

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Speaker 1: head of the California Air Resources Board yesterday and the CEC,

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Speaker 1: the California Energy Commission, they got roasted by a number

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Speaker 1: of Democrats. Well it continues. They had a hearing yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Here's a Democratic assembly Woman, Jazzmy Baines from Delano. Well

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Speaker 1: today she would like the head of the California Air

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Speaker 1: Resources Board to resign. The head is named Leanne Randolph.

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Speaker 1: And we have Ashley Zavalla from Channel three and Sacramento

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Speaker 1: with the news story.

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Speaker 8: Those new clean air rules are also known as the

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Speaker 8: updates to the state's low carbon Fuel Standards, and the

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Speaker 8: California Air Resources Board approved them days after the November election. Now,

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Speaker 8: as we first reported earlier this week, California's Office of

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Speaker 8: Administrative Law notified the board that the new rules do

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Speaker 8: not meet state standards, specifically stating there's an issue with

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Speaker 8: the clarity and that there was an incorrect procedure involved. Now,

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Speaker 8: the Low Carbon Fuel Standard update specifically aims to cut

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Speaker 8: transportation related carbon emissions in California by thirty percent within

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Speaker 8: the next five years, and that puts new cost pressures

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Speaker 8: on the oil and gas industry. CARB has acknowledged the

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Speaker 8: industry will likely pass those costs onto consumers at the

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Speaker 8: gas pump, but ahead of their vote refused to say

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Speaker 8: or analyze just by how much. Now we don't know

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Speaker 8: why the Office of Administrative Law blocked this from going

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Speaker 8: into effect. Specifically, as of right now, we are still

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Speaker 8: waiting for the OAL to release its letter detailing what

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Speaker 8: exactly is wrong with the low Carbon Fuel Standards. I'm

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Speaker 8: told that letter is expected to be out by Tuesday.

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Speaker 3: Of next week.

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Speaker 8: Now, in a statement, Folksman Dave klegger And said this

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Speaker 8: was a routine disapproval on technical grounds, not on the

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Speaker 8: merit of the regulation. He went on to say CARB

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Speaker 8: anticipates receiving more information from OL detailing its reasons for

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Speaker 8: the decision soon. They went on to say, quote, we

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Speaker 8: will refine the language per OL's guidance and resubmit for approval.

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Speaker 5: Today.

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Speaker 8: I interviewed Dean Flores, who was one of two CARB

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Speaker 8: members to reject the updated low Carbon Fuel Standards. Here's

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Speaker 8: what he had to say in response to all of this.

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Speaker 9: It's rare, and so there's something in what we sent

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Speaker 9: that did not match up to a point. But this

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Speaker 9: was actually stopped a forced time out, if you will,

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Speaker 9: and I'm anxiously looking forward to getting what their prescription

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Speaker 9: is to see if we can actually correct it meet

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Speaker 9: it in one hundred and twenty days. No one knows

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Speaker 9: what's going to be in that.

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Speaker 2: It may just be technical, it may not, but I.

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Speaker 9: Do know that it did cause a pause and a

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Speaker 9: discussion and once again on whether or not this was

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Speaker 9: actually really good policy, or whether or not we should

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Speaker 9: be doing something completely different.

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Speaker 8: So again we're still waiting on those full details from

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Speaker 8: the Office of Administrative Law. I've been told there was

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Speaker 8: an expectation it would be released by the end of

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Speaker 8: business today. That does not seem to be the case

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Speaker 8: at this point. But once KRB has that information, it

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Speaker 8: will have one hundred and twenty days to correct it.

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Speaker 8: Any major changes will require public input.

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Speaker 1: All right, So the sixty five cent gallon increase is

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Speaker 1: on pause for maybe one hundred and twenty days. Some

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Speaker 1: procedural problems. So that's the way I read that story,

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Speaker 1: sixty five cent increase pause. Here's what Jazz meet Bain said.

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Speaker 1: CARB has been given so much power they were prepared

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Speaker 1: to ban gas and diesel cars and trucks single handedly

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Speaker 1: it is outrageous the director would pursue such policies without

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Speaker 1: even trying to analyze the impact on prices. KARB needs

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Speaker 1: a leader who understands that Californians are struggling to make

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Speaker 1: ends meet. When we make people poor, we make people

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Speaker 1: less healthy. KARB cannot continue to treat working families that

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Speaker 1: cannot afford to pay eight dollars for a gallon of

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Speaker 1: gas as an inconvenience. Yes, and Zavalla went on to say,

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Speaker 1: KARB is an unelected group of sixteen members, twelve appointed

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Speaker 1: by the governor confirmed by the state Senate. LeAnn Randolph

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Speaker 1: was appointed in twenty twenty. Her term expires next year.

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Speaker 1: And so now we're getting word is that is that

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Speaker 1: that decision to raise the price sixty five cents a

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Speaker 1: gallon to implement new field standards has been delayed, perhaps

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Speaker 1: up to four months. And this LeAnn Randolph admitted yesterday

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Speaker 1: that KARB does not analyze how clean air rules could

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Speaker 1: impact costs for people across the state. LeAnn Randolph told

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Speaker 1: an Assemblyman David Alvarez, another Democrat, correct, we don't analyze

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Speaker 1: a retail cost. What we don't do is take the

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Speaker 1: next step to extrapolate how that cost would flow to

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Speaker 1: the consumer, because that would be speculative.

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Speaker 2: So they are admitting they approve.

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Speaker 1: A new fuel standard without even investigating or asking or

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Speaker 1: telling us what the increase is gonna be.

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Speaker 2: They don't care.

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Speaker 1: And then it was up to Michael mcche, the USC professor,

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Speaker 1: to say, well, that's going to cost sixty.

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Speaker 2: Five cents a gallon for everybody.

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Speaker 1: And then this uh Jasmine Baines, an assembly woman, finally

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Speaker 1: woke up and said, well, wait.

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Speaker 2: Wait a second.

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Speaker 1: Poor people can't afford that, well, most people can't afford that.

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Speaker 2: Only the rich can.

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Speaker 1: The middle class, in the working class, and the poor

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Speaker 1: can't afford any of this crap. And eight, you know,

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Speaker 1: this is just sixty five cents. They can't afford the

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Speaker 1: five and six dollars gas that we have now. By

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Speaker 1: the way, Eric Sclear has been on a trip the

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Speaker 1: last couple of days. He sent us photos as soon

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Speaker 1: as he crossed the state line into Arizona. Let me

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Speaker 1: find those. Just give me a second here, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: here we go. Okay. He paid two ninety four a

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Speaker 1: gallon in Quartsville, Arizona. That's right over the state line.

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Speaker 1: He said he couldn't snap a picture in time, but

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Speaker 1: one of the first signs that he saw in Arizona

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Speaker 1: right as we cross the state line was welcome Californians.

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Speaker 1: Just don't California are Arizona.

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Speaker 3: That was funny.

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Speaker 1: Four a gallon right over the border. I think Quartzite

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Speaker 1: is one of the first big towns you hit as

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Speaker 1: you go down to Interstate den two ninety four. Meantime,

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Speaker 1: we're paying a friend of mine, a friend of another

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Speaker 1: friend of mine. To my friends, they send me pictures

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Speaker 1: of gas prices all day. Okay at Beverly and Law

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Speaker 1: He sent me a picture regular six nineteen, a gallon

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Speaker 1: six nineteen at Beverly and Los Angeles.

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Speaker 3: It's ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: Court site just over the border is two ninety four.

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Speaker 1: And now we have one assembly woman who's awakened and said, hey,

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Speaker 1: poor people can't afford this. Yeah, yeah, you're right, absolutely right.

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Speaker 1: Welcome jazzmec Baines to reality. Thank you for coming. But

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Speaker 1: there is good news in that it looks like, at

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Speaker 1: least for now, maybe some momentum could build to stop

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Speaker 1: this thing entirely. The sixty five cent increase is going

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Speaker 1: to be on hold for a few months, we'll have

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Speaker 1: more of this on Monday.

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Speaker 2: Hey, you've been listening to the John Covelt Show podcast.

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Speaker 1: You can always hear the show live on KFI Am

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Speaker 1: six forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday,

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