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Speaker 1: life that nobody else wants to cover. And I think you,

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Speaker 1: especially if you live in La City, La County, you

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Speaker 1: really wonder what happened to the billions of dollars in

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Speaker 1: tax money that has been blown on homeless spending, because

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Speaker 1: you don't see anything that's been fixed, and the issue

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Speaker 1: keeps getting worse and worse. It's been ten years of this.

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Speaker 1: We know a lot of the money has disappeared, is

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Speaker 1: not traceable. There's a hearing that's been going on this

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Speaker 1: week in a federal judge's court to try to identify

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Speaker 1: where all this money went and whether the city and

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Speaker 1: the county should be running this homeless bureaucracy anymore. Here's

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Speaker 1: an angle and we're going to talk with Jamie Page

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Speaker 1: in just a moment. She's with Westside Current dot com.

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Speaker 1: And I tell you west Side Current you may not

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Speaker 1: be aware of it. It covers a lot of news

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Speaker 1: on the West side of la and the city in general,

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Speaker 1: and it really is one of the best news sites

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Speaker 1: out there. They've got a surprising number of fascinating stories that, again,

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Speaker 1: the other media outlets in town just ignore. They don't

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Speaker 1: even bother. You probably heard a few years ago of

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Speaker 1: Project home Key. This was a Gavin Newsom State of

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Speaker 1: California production, and the city and the county spent about

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Speaker 1: a billion, three hundred million dollars on their share of

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Speaker 1: Project home Key, and it was about purchasing buildings, renovating them,

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Speaker 1: And they did a pretty thorough investigation to find out

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Speaker 1: that after spending a billion three to buy these buildings,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of the ones that have homeless are

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Speaker 1: we'll go through and this is both the city and

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Speaker 1: the county. We'll go through all this with Jamie Page,

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Speaker 1: one of the star writers at the West Side Current

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Speaker 2: Jamie, how are you.

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Speaker 3: I'm good? How are you, John?

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Speaker 2: I'm good.

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Speaker 1: This is a great report. It's really everybody should read

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Speaker 1: this Westside Current dot com. Let's go over to describe

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Speaker 1: what Project home Key is supposed to be.

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Speaker 2: This was a twenty twenty idea.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was twenty twenty that at that point, and

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Speaker 3: not to confuse things, but it's important it was Project

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Speaker 1: And they built these apartment buildings. The county and the

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Speaker 3: No We bought these from contractors. And in my story

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Speaker 1: So we paid for buildings that were already constructed, and

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Speaker 1: In the county paid over a half a billion to

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Speaker 1: In the city spend eight hundred million dollars, and forty

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Speaker 2: And go ahead, No, you go ahead.

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Speaker 3: We've got thousands of people on our streets, We've paid

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Speaker 1: Do you have any idea? Is it just bureaucracy and

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Speaker 3: I've gotten several answers from the states. I've emailed the

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Speaker 3: ADA compliance. My question to them, though, was okay, fine,

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Speaker 3: if it's eighty eight compliance, then why did we not

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Speaker 1: That's ironic because the homeless people living in the streets

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Speaker 2: They don't care.

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Speaker 1: About the eighty eight violations in the streets, but suddenly

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Speaker 2: Is it giving these people a roof enough?

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Speaker 2: You have a roof, You're not going to get wet.

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Speaker 3: So the mayor can bypass all of this and use

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Speaker 1: You have a quote here from Sam Yebrie. He runs

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Speaker 1: a political organization called Thrive LA. I believe he's run

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Speaker 1: for office recently, and he says, when Bass claims there's

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Speaker 3: It's a question out there and thrive. LA is a

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Speaker 3: been studied. The same amount of people who die on

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Speaker 3: it's anecdotal. I mean, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Well, they're really dead. It's two thy five and eight.

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Speaker 3: It is, But they will argue that point that there's

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: He also says that Bass and Lassa kept two thousand

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Speaker 3: Well, he's referring to the story. I reached out to

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Speaker 3: It was because of the move from room key to

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Speaker 1: And one more thing in the article, and I heard

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Speaker 1: And the headline is LA port over a billion dollars

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Speaker 1: And I guess you found that story repeatedly.

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Speaker 3: We in some cases the price went three x. One

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Speaker 3: We have one case where the realtor bragged that he

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Speaker 1: Yeah, in some city, the city made a deal described

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Speaker 1: Center they acquired, Yeah, they acquired with home Key Funds.

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Speaker 1: So is our tax money for twenty seven million dollars

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Speaker 1: a seventy six unit facility. And just twelve days earlier,

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Speaker 1: So this company bought the property for eleven million, turned

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Speaker 1: seven million. From eleven million to twenty seven million and

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Speaker 1: twelve days and that twenty seven million dollars was our

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Speaker 2: Well that that really stinks. That should be investigating.

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Speaker 3: Hard earned tax money. Yeah, and we've brought it up

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Speaker 3: So we're looking at now, are they going to rehab

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Speaker 1: and accomplished twenty one. Well, what do you think is

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Speaker 1: gonna happen if you only require kids to get at

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Speaker 1: twenty one? Many of them are only going to get

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Speaker 1: at twenty one, and then what and then they get

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Speaker 1: an equity diploma. This is stuff that you know, for

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Speaker 1: one hundred years, a thousand years, nobody would ever think

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Speaker 1: of I don't know how they thought of this. It's

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Speaker 1: a horrific idea. I think anybody who's got a parent,

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Speaker 1: who's had a bit of parent would agree. But it's

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Speaker 1: San Francisco. The superintendent was waiving this like a this

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Speaker 1: is the new cool way. Other school districts have tried

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Speaker 1: this kind of kind of thing and they failed. Dublin

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Speaker 1: Unified got rid of zeros for missing assignments, and if

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Speaker 1: you just made a reasonable attempt, you got a fifty.

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Speaker 2: So as long as you.

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Speaker 1: At some boxes you got a fifty. Well, the parents

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Speaker 1: started screaming. They got rid of that. They have bastardized

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Speaker 1: the idea of equality. And the National Review wrote a

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Speaker 1: piece today saying that this upside down system of were

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Speaker 1: used to school kids and still knowledge and virtue and

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Speaker 1: habits so they could learn all their life. Now the

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Speaker 1: whole concept is will make them equal at the end.

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Speaker 1: So the smartest kid has to be penalized, the kid

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Speaker 1: who works the hardest has to be penalized. The kid

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Speaker 1: who comes from a culture where they value education and

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Speaker 1: accomplishment has to be penalized. And everybody's dumbed down to

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Speaker 1: the lowest common denominator. The kid who has the least

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Speaker 1: intellectual gifts, the kid who has the least amount of

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Speaker 1: energy and drive, the kid who comes from parents who

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Speaker 1: absolutely don't give a about their kid accomplishing and succeeding.

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Speaker 1: We're all dragged down to that level. Now, we're all

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Speaker 1: down there at the bottom. I cannot The list of

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Speaker 1: destructive progressive policies is endless, and they're all here in California.

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Speaker 1: You take this idea, take take it to forty nine

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Speaker 1: other states and see what they would do with this idea.

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Speaker 1: This is child abuse. That's that's San Francisco school superintendent

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Speaker 1: ought to be putting jail for child abuse for suggesting this.

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Speaker 1: Imagine if you have a smart, driven kid and they

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Speaker 1: have to subject themselves to this.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna have Richie Greenberg on.

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Speaker 1: He's a writer and a commentator and he's politically active

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Speaker 1: up in San Francisco, and he's gonna be on after

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Speaker 1: three o'clock. All right, I'll set up Michael Mche's return

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Speaker 1: appearance to the show, the USC professor who's done all

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Speaker 1: the research on gasoline prices, and I got a story

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Speaker 1: to play from you from Channel three Casera and Sacramento

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Speaker 1: only station in the state covering all the idiocy and Sacramento.

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Speaker 1: Anybody in La interested in sending a reporter up there once,

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Speaker 1: you know, once in a while, once a month.

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Speaker 2: No, no takers.

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Speaker 4: Okay, you're listening to John Cobelts on demand from KFI

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Speaker 4: AM six forty.

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Speaker 1: All right, right after two o'clock, we're going to have

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Speaker 1: USC professor Michael Machet. He has the research out. We've

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Speaker 1: had him on a couple of times. In fact, one

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Speaker 1: of his parents has gave us a record number of

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Speaker 1: Instagram views. I think people around the state are really

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Speaker 1: inwardly angry over the price of guess, and you should be,

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Speaker 1: because it is a total scam. We're paying almost five

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Speaker 1: bucks a gallon. The rest of the country is paying three.

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Speaker 1: There's about twenty five states paying less than three dollars

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Speaker 1: a gallon. It's not an anomaly, it's not a quirk.

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Speaker 1: It's states all over the country are paying, you know,

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Speaker 1: from between two fifty and three dollars a gallon, and

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Speaker 1: I think forty three states are paying less than three

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Speaker 1: forty a gallon. And then we're up at five. And

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Speaker 1: it's entirely, entirely due to taxes and regulations that are

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Speaker 1: unnecessary and punitive, and we're under the tyranny of this

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Speaker 1: unelected California Air Resources Board, which is filled with climate fanatics,

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Speaker 1: even though they have had zero effect on the world's

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Speaker 1: climate as long as they've been in existence. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's just their monsters are what they are, and what

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Speaker 1: they do is they hurt the middle class and the

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Speaker 1: working class and poor people terribly because you know, twenty

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Speaker 1: dollars two dollars extra for a gallon of gas is

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Speaker 1: forty dollars a week for a tank of gas forty bucks.

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Speaker 1: It's two thousand a year taken from people who don't

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Speaker 1: have much money.

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Speaker 2: That is abusive.

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Speaker 1: That is financial bullying and financial abusiveness on the part

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Speaker 1: of the California Air Resources Board. The chair is someone

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Speaker 1: named Leanne Randolph, and Siva Gunda is the vice chair

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Speaker 1: and the Division of Petroleum Market Oversight Director Ty Milder.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's got like weird names and they're running things here.

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Speaker 1: And they testified before the Assembly Utility and Energy Committee,

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Speaker 1: and here's the shaker. And this is a sign that

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Speaker 1: the legislature is hearing from normal people who are really

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Speaker 1: really pissed because they got a lot of blowback from

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Speaker 1: Democrats in the Assembly. Let's play you this story from

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Speaker 1: KRCA Channel three up in Sacramento that they covered the hearing.

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Speaker 1: So play cut number two if you would.

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Speaker 8: Governor Gavin Newsom's top administration officials in the hot seat

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Speaker 8: today over California situation with oil refiners and potential rising

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Speaker 8: gas price. Is Democratic lawmakers signaling they may be losing

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Speaker 8: trust with some of these agencies.

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Speaker 5: I know that what climate leadership does not look like,

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Speaker 5: and that is ten dollars gas present.

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Speaker 8: California's clean air push facing push back from both political parties.

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Speaker 8: Lawmakers worry state regulators have kept drivers, workers, and Californians

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Speaker 8: overall as an afterthought as two oil refiners prepare to

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Speaker 8: shut down within the next year. Those two account for

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Speaker 8: about twenty percent of the state's oil refining capacity.

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Speaker 9: We're talking about a plan when these companies leave and

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Speaker 9: what happens to the land.

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Speaker 2: I'm concerned about what happened to the people.

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Speaker 8: Lawmakers grilled the leaders of the state agencies that regulate

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Speaker 8: the oil and gas industry, including California Air Resources Board

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Speaker 8: Chairlee and Randolph, Vice Chairman of the California Energy Commission Seevagunda,

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Speaker 8: and the Department of Petroleum Market Oversight Director Time Milder.

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Speaker 5: We have a crisis on our hand that may have

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Speaker 5: been self created by the actions that perhaps have been

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Speaker 5: taken by the state by regulators.

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Speaker 8: Democratic Assemblyment David Alvarez and others frustrated after they were

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Speaker 8: swayed to approve some of the latest regulations put on

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Speaker 8: the oil and gas industry.

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Speaker 5: I think I also heard you say that another closure

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Speaker 5: can lead to a significant increase in cost to consumers

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Speaker 5: on the price of gas.

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Speaker 8: Yes, Sir Gunda Toad lawmakers, California will likely need to

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Speaker 8: have oil imported from other parts of the world by ships.

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Speaker 5: So we really have only one choice there today, which

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Speaker 5: is increasing imports.

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Speaker 2: Based on at work right now, that will be very

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Speaker 2: tight for the North.

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Speaker 9: Increase in imports, which means that you have more vessels.

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Speaker 2: Who in what I've heard.

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Speaker 9: Also with you increase the vessels, that that means more

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Speaker 9: emissions because we don't control those vessels and the missions

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Speaker 9: in which they bring.

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Speaker 2: Is that correct?

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Speaker 3: But you are correct that additional marine traffic would implicate.

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Speaker 8: Air quality issues beyond state waters that we do not regulate. Now,

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Speaker 8: this was just an informational hearing, so no action was taken.

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Speaker 8: It's unclear exactly what the next steps will be, but

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Speaker 8: Governor Newsom's administration is still apparently trying to come up

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Speaker 8: with a plan to deal with those two upcoming refinery closures.

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Speaker 8: Reporting at the state capital, Ashley Zablla case Harry three News.

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Speaker 1: Ashley Zabella the only working reporter in the state covering

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Speaker 1: the oppressive, abusive legislature, so she did another great job

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Speaker 1: there so you could see them slowly coming to life.

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Speaker 1: This has been well known for years We've been talking

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Speaker 1: about this for years. The excessive taxes and regulations have

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Speaker 1: strangled people financially to no benefit. You heard Leanne Randolph,

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Speaker 1: she's the nut who's the chair of the California Air

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Speaker 1: Resources Board. She goes that, Yeah, if we import oil

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Speaker 1: from foreign countries, additional marine traffic would imp implicate air

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Speaker 1: quality issues beyond state waters that we do not regulate. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because you're regulating emissions here in California. As if all

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Speaker 1: the air in California is contained within the state borders,

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Speaker 1: it's not. Any oil and gas that we don't produce

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Speaker 1: here is produced somewhere else, and it's the same amount

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Speaker 1: of emissions going into the same atmosphere that the.

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Speaker 2: Whole world shares.

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Speaker 1: Like it just hit her that, I mean, I'm sure

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Speaker 1: they would love to regulate the entire Earth's atmosphere, but

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Speaker 1: she can't.

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Speaker 2: So what's the point. What's the point of taking.

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Speaker 1: Oil and gas that got refined in Saudi Arabia which

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Speaker 1: has far more lax regulations regarding admissions. Other countries have

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Speaker 1: much much worse systems at regulating emissions than we do.

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Speaker 1: And now they're going to be producing another twenty percent

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Speaker 1: of our cast and oil. How does that help the world.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't. It makes it worse if you believe in

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Speaker 1: this nonsense. This makes no sense. This is just about

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Speaker 1: pure abusive control of our lives. That's all it is.

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Speaker 1: It's human nature. If you get some power, you get

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Speaker 1: abusive with the power when there's no check. Why do

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Speaker 1: you think we have a complicated system in Washington between

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Speaker 1: the President, the House, the Senate, and the court system.

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Speaker 1: Three levels of the court system, so nobody can get

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Speaker 1: too abusive, nobody can get too much power.

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Speaker 2: But here we got to.

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Speaker 1: The California Our Resources Board elected by no One appointed

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Speaker 1: by Governor Newsom, and now they're going to be beating

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Speaker 1: us over the head with eight point fifty gas. One

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Speaker 1: of the legislatureisla later said ten dollars. By the way,

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Speaker 1: all the legislators, and I'm going to name them later

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Speaker 1: after we have Michael Machey on. All the legislators that

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Speaker 1: you heard in that clip, they are all Democrats. It

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Speaker 1: was all democratic pushback. Okay, Michael miche the USC professor

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Speaker 1: conon next. You got to be listening to him. All right, Hey,

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Speaker 1: you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You

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

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

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Speaker 1: and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app