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Speaker 2: Two rounds of the moistline coming up in the three

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Speaker 2: the big story of the day, and it's even headlining

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Speaker 2: almost everyone. I would say nearly one hundred percent of

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Speaker 2: the public would like people who buy teenage girls and

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Speaker 2: But not the fifty five Democratic Assembly members here in California.

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Speaker 2: And this has caused a huge ruckus because they actually

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Speaker 2: voted voted to protect the sixteen and seventeen year olds,

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Speaker 2: well not no, wait, not to protect the teenagers, protect

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Speaker 2: the people who buy the teenagers for sex. And this

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Speaker 2: all started with State Senator Shannon Grove, a Republican from Bakersfield.

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Speaker 2: Last year, she got a pretty comprehensive bill passed to

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Speaker 2: try to fight sex trafficking in California, and there was

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Speaker 2: a lot of Democratic opposition, and then Gavin Newsen stepped in.

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Speaker 2: But there was one exception that was insisted upon by

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Speaker 2: the Democrats, and that is making it not an automatic

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Speaker 2: felony to buy a sixteen or seventeen year old for sex.

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Speaker 2: Shannon Grove is coming on with us now because they

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Speaker 2: tried to close that loophole in the Assembly, a Democratic

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Speaker 2: assembly woman, former prosecutor Maggie Croll. It was her bill,

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Speaker 2: and she's gotten a lot of crap from her own

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Speaker 1: Shannony there, I am John.

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Speaker 3: Thank you. Nobody believes this story, you know, it's just crazy. No,

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Speaker 3: this is crazy.

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Speaker 2: This is one of the most insane stories that I've

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Speaker 2: ever seen. And that is saying a lot because we've

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Speaker 2: there on the all time list. So let's take people back,

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Speaker 2: you know, kind of condensed as best you can. You

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Speaker 2: passed a bill last year taking a crack at ending

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Speaker 2: the human trafficking racket in the state, talk about the

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Speaker 2: bill that you got passed, and why this exception occurred

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Speaker 2: for the sixteen and seventeen year olds.

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Speaker 3: So go back one more year. We had SB fourteen.

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Speaker 3: It was not a serious felony to sell children for

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Speaker 3: sex or traffic minors for sex in the state of California.

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Speaker 3: So we made it a serious felony. The serious felony

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Speaker 3: more time in prison, keep them away from these kids

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Speaker 3: that they've been trafficking. That build guidance, assembly, public safety.

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Speaker 3: And that's the one the governor came out to rescue.

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Speaker 3: The same people who killed it on Tuesday resurrected it

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Speaker 3: on Thursday, and the governor eventually signed it. Then our

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Speaker 3: coalition of human trafficking survivors said, look, you got to

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Speaker 3: go after the demand. The buyer. They pay their five

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Speaker 3: hundred bucks or their six hundred bucks, or they're one

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Speaker 3: on the girls are on a quota. They described the

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Speaker 3: quota like the guy the pimp would say, you got

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Speaker 3: if you're at nine hundred and you have to get

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Speaker 3: mean they're required or they don't eat or sleep or

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Speaker 2: Wait, so they have to have enough customers and a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, oh for that, God, yes, horrible. It's horrible. And

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Speaker 3: California's the number one human trafficking state in the nation.

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Speaker 3: So then we get they go after the because the buyers,

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Speaker 3: once they bought you, it was a brutal They just

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Speaker 3: whatever it was. So we went after the buyers specifically

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Speaker 3: for minor children, and we wanted to give it, give

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Speaker 3: them a ten thousand dollars fine, put them for a

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Speaker 3: them register the sex offender. So they I went to

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Speaker 3: public Safety. They're like, we're forcing these amendments on you.

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Speaker 3: We're only going to cover fifteen years in below, not

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Speaker 3: I said, I refuse to take those amendments, and they said,

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Speaker 3: then the whole bill dies. So then what do you do.

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Speaker 3: You have to move forward and protect fifteen year olds

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Speaker 3: never stopped fighting for sixteen and seventeen year olds. Enter

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Speaker 3: Maggie Correll, former prosecutor hundreds of human trafficking cases, took

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Speaker 2: The back page was that website where a lot of

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Speaker 3: Yes, and so she took down back page. This is

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Speaker 3: she is an expert in this field and a Democrat. Hey,

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Speaker 3: and a Democrat. So I presented it to her. So

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Speaker 3: she did a loitering for the purposes of Protestant for purchasing,

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Speaker 3: loitering for purchasing. So if you're some prea extending out

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Speaker 3: can watch them and see if they engage. The whole bit.

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Speaker 3: And then she added sixteen and seventeen year olds that

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Speaker 3: the same paid I did. She got to committee and

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Speaker 3: they're like, we're not hearing your bill unless you take

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Speaker 3: with that that she knew she gets the loitering peace

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Speaker 3: which is without reference to file a bill to the floor,

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Speaker 3: the previous bill with her original language including sixteen and

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Speaker 3: Assembly made a subsequent motion and I'm just going to

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Speaker 3: go through this. That's a subsequent motion to take out

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Speaker 3: sixteen and seventeen year old, remove Maggie Correll as the author,

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Speaker 3: and instead of having solid build it say you will

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Speaker 3: and we have the intent of doing something in the

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Speaker 2: So right now, if you buy a sixteen year girl

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just long enough to explain to your wife where

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Speaker 3: you've been. Sorry, I said that, no, Risten, So I

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Speaker 3: guess California some California Democrats, including leadership, they are actively

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Speaker 3: stopping good bills to go through to protect children from

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Speaker 3: being bought solicited for sex.

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Speaker 2: You're stopping Why are they sacrificing children to sex perverts

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Speaker 2: who are forcing these girls to have sex with many

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Speaker 1: Why would they do this? What's their motivation?

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Speaker 3: I have not yet been able to figure that out.

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Speaker 3: I can just tell you that every attempt for the

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Speaker 3: or sold has been dealt with nothing but hostile amendments.

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Speaker 3: And the last one we had to take by, you know,

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Speaker 3: basically a gun to our head, because then you lose

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Speaker 3: the protections for fifteen year olds and you can't just

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Speaker 3: walk away from them.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I understand that, but they're so passionate about it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is the hell they want to die on.

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Speaker 1: Isn't that weird and creepy?

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Speaker 3: Yes, I mean it is the hell they want to

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Speaker 3: die on. They delayed the floor session for almost an

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Speaker 3: hour and a half yesterday so the Speaker could meet

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Speaker 3: so that they would vote no on Maggie's bill and

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Speaker 3: yes on the new bill that gave us. The legislature

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Speaker 3: intends to do something.

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Speaker 2: Later on to Preah right, The legislature intends to do

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Speaker 2: something later on. You know, this is a pretty easy

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Speaker 2: one here. You simply make it a felony period, end

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Speaker 2: a story. I mean, what, that's right, there's nothing to

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Speaker 3: But it's it's been a knockdown drackout for It's been

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Speaker 3: a knockdown drag out for three years. I mean three

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Speaker 3: So I'm thinking, hey, it's because I'm a Republican. Let's

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Speaker 3: get a good Democrat to do it. And who else

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Speaker 3: but Maggie Carroll. She is a a ten year, fifteen

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Speaker 3: year prosecutor with a Department of Justice prosecuting him in

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Speaker 3: traffic the cases took down back page. Who else is

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Speaker 3: better at that than her? And the public safety care

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Speaker 3: You should see that. And I don't mean to promote

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Speaker 3: in a station. The asthletys of all a video of him,

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Speaker 3: and he's like, well, everybody says, everybody says that Maggie

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Speaker 3: is a prosecutor. I'm a prosecutor too, And he just

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Speaker 3: sounded like a whiny baby. I don't even know how

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Speaker 1: Shannon, hang on the line. I' on and continue with you.

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Speaker 1: But I do a news break here.

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Speaker 2: We got Shannon Grove, the Republican state senator from Bakersfield,

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Speaker 2: and she started the bowl rolling last year with trying

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Speaker 2: to end all this sex trafficking of children. She got

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Speaker 2: as far as fifteen year olds, but the sixteen and

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Speaker 2: seventeen year olds can still be trafficked. Guys could still

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am

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Speaker 5: six forty.

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Speaker 2: We're talking with state Senator Shannon Grove. She wrote the

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Speaker 2: original legislation last year to protect minor children from sex predators,

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Speaker 2: but she was forced into accepting sixteen and seventeen year olds.

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Speaker 2: So at this moment, if a predator is caught buying

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Speaker 2: be a felony, could just be a misdemeanor to make

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Speaker 2: it an automatic felony. Maggie Crell's bill has to pass,

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Speaker 2: and she's been trying to get it past. Crell's a Democrat,

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Speaker 2: a prosecutor involved in a lot of sex trafficking cases

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Speaker 2: as a prosecutor, and she's running into a brick wall

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Speaker 2: of Democrats who who want who don't want to make

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Speaker 2: it a felony. We are talking, as Shannon just pointed out,

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Speaker 2: young girls and boys being sold on the streets and

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Speaker 2: they have to have so many sex partners and hit

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Speaker 2: a certain quota in terms of cash, and if they don't,

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Speaker 2: they're beaten and starved and not allowed to sleep. And

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Speaker 2: leading the charge to block Maggie Crell's bill is an

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Speaker 2: assembly member Nick Schultz. He is the new chairman of

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Speaker 2: the Public Safety Committee, and he took the bill away

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Speaker 2: from her, stripped her name off, and now he's controlling

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Speaker 2: it and says, well, we'll continue the discussion tonight. He

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Speaker 2: has a town hall meeting coincidentally here in Burbank at

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Speaker 2: the ACF Burbank Youth Center from seven to nine o'clock.

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Speaker 2: You ought to go, especially if you've got a teenage

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Speaker 2: daughter or son. Seventy five East Santa Anita Avenue in Burbank,

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Speaker 2: seventy five East Santa Anita Avenue in Burbank ACF Burbank

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Speaker 2: Youth Center from seven to nine. Go discuss the matter

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Speaker 2: with Nick Schultz. I'm sure he'd be happy to hear

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Speaker 2: from you. Now, let's let's get back to Shannon.

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Speaker 3: Okay, wait, John, back at for just a second. You

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Speaker 3: said Nick Schultz is going to be at an ACF

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Speaker 3: youth center giving a town hall when he won't protect

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Speaker 3: Are they not youth?

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Speaker 1: You know what I said to Debra a few minutes ago.

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Speaker 2: I feel like someone's pulling a prank on all of us,

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Speaker 2: that it can't really be this crazy, But yes he is.

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Speaker 3: His chanshall hall site tonight is a youth center. And

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Speaker 2: He was the mayor Burbank for the last two years.

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Speaker 2: He's thirty six years old. I looked up his Wikipedia page.

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Speaker 2: He his Wikipedia page says, and I don't know who

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Speaker 3: So this is what they say. They say it disproportionately

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Speaker 1: They've got it backwards, and then they got it backwards.

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Speaker 2: They're protecting wealthier white guys when the victims are the children.

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Speaker 2: But Shannon, it's fifty five members of the Assembly and

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Speaker 1: What's has gone on?

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Speaker 3: There's I don't have an explanation. I wish I did,

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Speaker 3: Ask him. I don't know, I don't and I don't

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Speaker 2: I know, it's it's one of these nonsense words that's

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Speaker 3: I'm like, equitable, equitable. How come we can't make sixteen

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Speaker 2: It's some kind of shut up word. I'm totally baffled. Well,

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Speaker 3: This, and this first term freshman lawmaker that's like a

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Speaker 3: he's not listening to them, and he went to leadership,

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Speaker 3: all he even something I don't remember exactly that was

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Speaker 3: like all children should be protected, full stop, like no

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Speaker 2: Know, what if he can't convince his own assembly to

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on, Shannon.

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Speaker 3: Appreciate you. John, have a great day.

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Speaker 5: All right, you're listening to John Cobels on demand from

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Speaker 2: Coming up after three o'clock, John Manly, who has represented

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Speaker 2: As she said, the way the law is written now

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Speaker 1: And the leader of the.

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Speaker 2: Resistance against making this a felony is Nick Schultz, who's

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Speaker 2: I'm not making any of this up. He's terman of

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Speaker 2: He's taken it away from Maggie Crewll, the Democrat who

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Speaker 2: to Nick Schultz seven to nine o'clock tonight, ACF Burbank

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, two's seventy five, three oh four.

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Speaker 2: I think that's the basic salary. I don't think that

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Speaker 2: Let's play cut number one.

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Speaker 1: Take a listen. Are you going to be taking to

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Speaker 4: That video was taken by Scott Myers, a local attorney

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Speaker 4: The City of La is currently considering scaling back across

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Speaker 2: June, three hundred and four thousand dollars is a.

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Speaker 1: So now that's stuff.

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Speaker 2: That's why my wife and I spent eight nights in

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Speaker 2: and that is not much different than a year ago

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Speaker 2: when there was no fire. They had twenty from January

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Speaker 2: through March and twenty twenty fourth twenty and now it's

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Speaker 2: up to twenty three because they have the neighborhoods so secured.

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Speaker 2: The Sheriff's department requested the National Guard come back to Altadena,

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Speaker 2: but that request was denied by the California Office of

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Speaker 2: Emergency Management. They said take CHP officers, saying the National

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Speaker 2: Guard are not peace officers. They cannot perform policing duties.

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Speaker 2: They can just do traffic control and disaster response. So

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Speaker 2: the people in Altadena have been completely abandoned by the

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Speaker 2: government and they're still trying to figure out why the

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Speaker 2: people in the burned out neighborhoods never got a warning

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Speaker 2: for up to nine hours.

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Speaker 1: Nothing gets explained.

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Speaker 2: They burn you out. What's not burned is looted. Nobody

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Speaker 2: protects you, nobody explains, nobody's helping you.

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Speaker 1: Nothing.

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.

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Speaker 2: Right after two o'clock, we're gonna talk to John Manly.

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Speaker 2: He is with Manly, Stewart and Finalde they're the number

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Speaker 2: one firm representing victims of sexual abuse. You know him

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Speaker 2: from all the major cases that he's handled here in

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles, including the La Archdiocese. He wants to speak

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Speaker 2: out on what the uh, perverts, pedophiles, and predators who

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Speaker 2: govern us on the Assembly Public Safety Committee and in

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Speaker 2: the Assembly in general. He wants to talk about how

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Speaker 2: they're blocking a bill that would make it a felony

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Speaker 2: to buy a sixteen or seventeen year old on the

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Speaker 2: street for sex. And you've heard that. Nick Schultz is

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Speaker 2: the chairman of the Public Safety Committee and he's blocking

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Speaker 2: the bill. In fact, he grabbed the bill away from

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Speaker 2: the woman who submitted it, Maggie Krell. Maggie is a

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Speaker 2: Democrat prosecutor and she has spent her career going after

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Speaker 2: sex traffickers. Well, the bill snatched away because she wants

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Speaker 2: to actually put him in state prison. And Schultz, it's

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Speaker 2: claiming it's some equity problem. Well, Manly is going to

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Speaker 2: take care of that equity argument because he's got some

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Speaker 2: statistics on who the sex victims are here. They're not

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Speaker 2: the wealthier white guys who are buying the boys and

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Speaker 2: girls equity.

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Speaker 1: What a load of crap. So oh oh, Nick Schultz,

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Speaker 1: where's he appearing tonight? Town Hall?

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Speaker 2: Tonight, Nick Schultz here in Burbank ACF Burbank Youth Center.

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Speaker 2: That's fitting seventy five East Santa Anita Avenue in Burbank.

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Speaker 2: Excuse me, seven to nine o'clock. Not making this up.

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Speaker 2: He's actually he's actually appearing tonight to take your comments.

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Speaker 2: Those of you with children, especially sixteen and seventeen year olds.

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Speaker 2: Schultz doesn't care if they're sold into sex slavery, so

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Speaker 2: he may want to confront him about that. Okay, Now,

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Speaker 2: you know, sometimes guys get too much to drink on

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Speaker 2: a plane, right, And this guy's named Dennis Woodbury. He's

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Speaker 2: forty nine years old, former CHP captain. He goes on

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Speaker 2: a plane from LA to Florida. Last month, he drank

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Speaker 2: a whole bottle of prosecco during the flight.

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Speaker 1: They'll serve that much.

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Speaker 2: And then he grabbed a flight attendant's butt and yelled

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Speaker 2: I loved you, I love you, and then showed a

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Speaker 2: second flight attendant attendant a pornographic picture. So he's being

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Speaker 2: charged with a felony count of abuse of sexual contact

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Speaker 2: and he could go to prison for two years. The

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Speaker 2: twist is that the flight attendant who had their butt

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Speaker 2: grabbed and the flight attendant who is told that Woodbury

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Speaker 2: loved them, they're both men. He went after two male

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Speaker 2: flight attendants. He was in the business class section of

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Speaker 2: Jet Blue going from Fort Lauderdale to lax And before

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Speaker 2: the flight left the gate, he called the male flight

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Speaker 2: attendant over and say, hey, you want to see this,

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Speaker 2: And it was a picture of a dog and a

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Speaker 2: blurred image of two men having sex in the background.

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Speaker 2: Imagine you're sitting next to this guy. No, the flight

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Speaker 2: attendant says, oh my god, and Woodbury excuse me. Captain

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Speaker 2: Woodbury laughed and said I was wondering how long it

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Speaker 2: would take you. And then Woodbury suggested the two men

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Speaker 2: go on a cruise together. When the flight attendant demonstrated

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Speaker 2: how the plane's oxygen masks worked, he saw Woodbury looking

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Speaker 2: at him and made a hand pumping motion. I don't

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Speaker 2: know what that meant. Oh you don't, no, baby. He's

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Speaker 2: a farmer and he was showing off how he milks cows.

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Speaker 2: Then the other flight attendant was collecting meal trays. Woodbury

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Speaker 2: used his left hand to slap the guy's butt and

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Speaker 2: yell that he loved him.

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Speaker 1: But he's not done. What was in this prosecco? That's prosecco?

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Speaker 1: Is well, that's just wine, right, it's Italian wine. Yes, okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go buy some. This is what it does.

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Speaker 1: I was just showing, guess.

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Speaker 2: Woodberry then pulled down his pants to expose his penis

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Speaker 2: to the first flight attendant, who was standing at the

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Speaker 2: front of the plane. Then he asked for more wine,

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Speaker 2: and when he was told that no more wine for you,

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Speaker 2: he pulled out his member a second time, and when

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Speaker 2: the plane landed, he was escorted off the plane by

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Speaker 2: lax police officers and he shouted the flight attendants, this

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Speaker 2: is all your fault because you didn't go to the

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Speaker 2: bathroom with me.

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Speaker 1: What what is wrong with this guy? It's more than prosecco.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And then he told police it was the flight

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Speaker 2: attendant who'd gone after him, trying to get him into

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Speaker 2: the bathroom.

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Speaker 1: But Woodbury declined, and that guy used to have a

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Speaker 1: badge and a gun. He was a HB. That's really scared. Okay,

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Speaker 1: well we come back.

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Speaker 2: John Manley, He's got a lot to say about this

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Speaker 2: situation in the Assembly where all the perverts, pedophiles and

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Speaker 2: predators have ganged up fifty five of them to make

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Speaker 2: sure that buying a sixteen or seventeen year old for

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Speaker 2: sex is not a felony.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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