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Speaker 1: We're going to talk with Assemblyman Vince Thong. I think

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Speaker 1: Get a. Newsom released his new budget for the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty four to twenty five fiscal year. This thing had

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Speaker 1: a sixty eight billion dollar deficit in it, except Newsom

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Speaker 1: Back in twenty eleven, twenty eleven, the budget was ninety

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Speaker 1: I'm all right, now, you're running for Congress this year.

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Speaker 2: Right, I am running for Congress. Yes, you're California is

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Speaker 2: California should not be the model for the country.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna say. You're going to go from hopefully from

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Speaker 2: Well, we got big problems. I mean, the problems are

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Speaker 1: How in the hell do we go from ninety eight

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Speaker 2: Unsustainable spending? And of course you know you got a

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Speaker 1: And he comes out yesterday and a few weeks ago,

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Speaker 2: If you look historically the Independent Legislative Analyst Office, their

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Speaker 1: Maybe we have to go down this path. It's the

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Speaker 2: Correct that it was yesterday. Yesterday, Yeah, and it's called

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Speaker 1: Well, the thing is, Alex Lee's bill would would impose

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Speaker 2: Well, it's unconstitutionally, it's terrible. It's a terrible idea.

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Speaker 1: You've got obviously a super majority in the state Senate

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Speaker 1: Because these are such extreme progressive socialist wackos. How do

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Speaker 2: Well, part of it is public shaming. I mean we

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Speaker 1: What are you going to do?

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Speaker 2: I mean, if you if you keep doing what you're doing,

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Speaker 1: It seems like any non Democrats are moving out by

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Speaker 1: no matter what the condition of the state is. Well.

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Speaker 2: So the coalition that we're building to change our state

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Speaker 2: you've been leading the charge on fiscal responsibility for a

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Speaker 2: You and I have talked about high speed rail. How

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Speaker 2: in the heck are we spending a billion dollars every

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Speaker 1: You know what's scary is this past year we've been

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Speaker 1: which is shocking. The budget was up to three hundred

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Speaker 1: what did it go for.

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Speaker 2: Exactly. That's the exactly, that's that's the question we ask

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Speaker 2: Democrats all the time. You cannot define success now based

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Speaker 2: What has happened? Homelessess has gotten worse, public safety has

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Speaker 1: The public schools and the cities are horrible, and like

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Speaker 1: you said, the streets are unlivable. Between the homeless and

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Speaker 1: are they are they are they all just stealing it?

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Speaker 2: mean the governor defines success if you even if every

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Speaker 2: that's not what Californians, that's not how they define success.

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Speaker 2: We define success on whether problems are getting solved. Are

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Speaker 1: People got to vote differently. I'm sure we'll talk again soon.

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Speaker 1: And and Vince, good luck. You're running in the primary

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Speaker 1: first in March for Commedsy.

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Speaker 2: Primary first and primary first, and there's a special election

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Speaker 2: two weeks later.

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well, good luck and all that. Thanks John,

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Speaker 1: all right, Vince Fong. And he's a Assembly Republican in

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Speaker 1: me and the others. The fraud was discovered by the

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Speaker 1: National Academy of Television, Arts and Sciences. They put out

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Speaker 1: the Emmys. I don't know what took them so long.

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Speaker 1: ESPN says, some members of our team were clearly wrong

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Speaker 1: and submitting certain names. They go back to nineteen ninety seven.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, what was the smoking gun that finally had the Emmys, like,

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Speaker 7: we got to do something about this.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to find out here. See one of the

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Speaker 1: network people said, why did you do this? And they said,

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Speaker 1: you have to remember those personalities are so important and

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Speaker 1: they have egos. In fact, you know one of the

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Speaker 1: on air people that had made remarks about executives lining

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Speaker 1: their office shelves with statuettes, except it's the on air

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Speaker 1: people who actually attract the viewers for the programs. So

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Speaker 1: were these hosts aware that ESPN was doing this. No,

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Speaker 1: they didn't know. Yeah, exactly. So you can't fault the

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Speaker 1: hosts for doing this. No, but I guess, I guess.

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Speaker 1: I guess the executives were aware that the on air

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Speaker 1: people had always felt slighted that they were never honored.

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Speaker 1: Although there's got to be post categories, right, And that's

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Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. I don't really understand this. Thirty

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Speaker 1: seven times none of them knew.

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Speaker 7: And now it's like guys like Kirk Herbstreet and Rhys

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Speaker 7: Davis and Chris Faller, these guys have been a part

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Speaker 7: of college sports for years and they've been touted as

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Speaker 7: award winning hosts and all of that.

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Speaker 1: It's like they can't go by that anymore, even though

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Speaker 1: they didn't. It's not their fault. They feel like fools. Yeah, exactly,

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Speaker 1: like they probably have them up on their mantle and

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Speaker 1: everybody's come over the house.

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Speaker 7: The backgrounds of the screen on zoom right exactly.

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Speaker 1: Now, everyone they know knows that those Emmys were fake. Yeah, terrable.

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Speaker 1: On air talent was until twenty twenty three prohibited by

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Speaker 1: their guidelines for being included in a credit list in

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Speaker 1: that category. It would see Game Day would get Emmys

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Speaker 1: for being Outstanding Weekly Studio Show, but it would just

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Speaker 1: go the individual awards would just go to crew members

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Speaker 1: and not the on air hosts, which is oh, I see,

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Speaker 1: I see. There were individual awards such as Outstanding Host,

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Speaker 1: Outstanding Studio Analysts, blah blah blah, but they were not

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Speaker 1: eligible to take a trophy if the show wins because

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Speaker 1: they wanted to keep anchors from double dipping from getting

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Speaker 1: two awards. So the execs were being greedy. Well yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was the ruling of the National Academy of Television

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Speaker 1: Arts and Sciences. They didn't want people getting two awards

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Speaker 1: for the same show for the same job, and ESPN

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Speaker 1: decided that they would revise the rule themselves. Gotta love

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Speaker 1: a loophole.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI

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Speaker 1: It's going up there as we speak, all right, all right,

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Speaker 1: so you can get it everywhere. Alex Stone coming on

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Speaker 1: right after three o'clock. Hunter Biden was in town today

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles to get arraigned on tax evasion charges,

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Speaker 1: and we will talk with Alex about that event. Now.

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Speaker 1: I started to talk about this briefly last hour, and

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Speaker 1: then the car chase interrupted and that turned into a

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Speaker 1: head on collision, so that that that was worth it.

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Speaker 1: Safeway up in the Fillmore section of San Francisco is closing,

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Speaker 1: and the neighborhood is really upset. And you may wonder, well,

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Speaker 1: what do I care. I'm not in San Francisco. It's

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Speaker 1: not my Safeway. But there is there is a pattern here,

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Speaker 1: and people have to break this pattern. The supervisor for

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Speaker 1: that district is a guy named Dean Preston. Dean Preston

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Speaker 1: he got a lot of publicity just a few weeks

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Speaker 1: ago because he's against all the f where it's to

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Speaker 1: clean up the Tenderloin district, which is filled with thousands

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Speaker 1: of drug addicts. And he bristles every time there's criticism

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Speaker 1: in his district about all the homeless and the drug addicts,

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Speaker 1: and he blames capitalism for it. He says, the homelessness

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Speaker 1: in his district is absolutely the result of capitalism. Well,

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Speaker 1: part of capitalism is a private company that runs grocery

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Speaker 1: stores like Safeway. And because of all the homelessness and

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Speaker 1: the drug addicts and the mental patients and the crime,

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Speaker 1: Safeway is closing its store on Webster Street. They're selling

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Speaker 1: the property. Much of the inventory in Safeway is locked

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Speaker 1: behind plexiglass, So if you want to go grocery shopping,

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Speaker 1: you've got to find an employee to open each plexi

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Speaker 1: eh plexiglass panel. That self checkout kiosks were shut down

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Speaker 1: to cut down on theft. They've had community meetings about

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Speaker 1: all the loitering, drug use, and homeless encampments on the

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Speaker 1: property on the parking lot. The store managers were at

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Speaker 1: their wits end. They started blasting classical music in the

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Speaker 1: parking lot to discourage the loitering and the homeless encampments.

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Speaker 1: But nobody thought they'd shut down the supermarket, and now

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Speaker 1: locals are complaining. They go one woman named Maddy Scott saying,

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Speaker 1: we have to suffer because of a drug epidemic in

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Speaker 1: our city, which we know has a lot to do

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Speaker 1: with the robberies. It's not right and it's not fair. Well,

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Speaker 1: you vote for a guy like Dean Preston, who thinks

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Speaker 1: the company that runs your Safeway store is part of

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Speaker 1: the problem. Grocery stores own own grocery store owners are

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Speaker 1: part of capitalism. He thinks capitalism creates homelessness. The store

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Speaker 1: says the homelessness is breeding robberies, criminals terrorizing people in

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Speaker 1: the parking lot and business is way down. Now, He's saying,

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Speaker 1: I stand in solidarity with the community and urge Safeway

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Speaker 1: to rescind the closure plan and meet with community and

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Speaker 1: city leaders to develop a plan. Safeway should remain open. Well,

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Speaker 1: they can't because Dean Preston has created an environment where vagrants,

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Speaker 1: drug addicts, and mental patience and criminals rule and normal

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Speaker 1: people have to hide. And now they can't buy groceries

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Speaker 1: in the neighborhood because when they went to the store

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Speaker 1: everything was locked up. They couldn't even check out quickly

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Speaker 1: because so many of the vagrants were coming in and

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Speaker 1: stealing things. Well, but what do you expect Safeway to do?

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Speaker 1: Just keep taking the losses. If you vote differently, if

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Speaker 1: you'll have a different city councilman or supervisor, then they

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Speaker 1: would enforce the law, get rid of the homeless encampments,

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Speaker 1: put the thieves in prison, have clean streets, have safe

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Speaker 1: parking lots, have well stocked shelves that are not locked

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Speaker 1: with plexiglass. Go drive around the rest of the country.

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Speaker 1: You're not going to find grocery stores with all their

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Speaker 1: items locked up behind plexiglass. That doesn't happen in most

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Speaker 1: of the real world. But Dean Preston says, leave the

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Speaker 1: drag addicts alone, the homelessness alone, and it's the capitalists

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Speaker 1: that are to blame. And the people voted for him

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Speaker 1: over and over again. I see the people in this

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Speaker 1: new story complaining, this is terrible, this is awful. Here's

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Speaker 1: a civil rights leader, Reverend Arnold Townsend. How will these

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Speaker 1: seniors who don't drive get their groceries? If I have

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Speaker 1: five or six kids, am I supposed to bring groceries

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Speaker 1: home on the bus. That's what we're going to be

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Speaker 1: faced with. They're gonna have to go to other neighborhoods

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Speaker 1: to buy groceries. Well, who elected Dean Preston? Who elects

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Speaker 1: all these San Francisco supervisors and the idiot San Francisco mayor.

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Speaker 1: These people do go look at their voting records. They

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Speaker 1: voted for this guy. That's why he's in office. They

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Speaker 1: put him there. If a guy ran saying I'm cleaning

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Speaker 1: up all the homeless encampments, I'm throwing all the criminals

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Speaker 1: in jail, he wouldn't get elected in San Francisco. They'd

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Speaker 1: say he's too harsh, he's mean, he's cruel, he's insensitive,

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Speaker 1: he's racist, and sexists and this and that. Yeah, there'd

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Speaker 1: be all these It's well, okay, fine, Safeway's packing up

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Speaker 1: and moving out, and now these people have no place

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Speaker 1: to buy food. That's the fault of the people. It's

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Speaker 1: the fault of the people for electing idiots like Preston

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Speaker 1: until regular people take responsibility for the morons they vote for.

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Speaker 1: All the businesses are going to move out. San Francisco's

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Speaker 1: emptying out. Any rational businessman is looking at what's going

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Speaker 1: on and saying, not here. You can put a You

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Speaker 1: can open a grocery store anywhere in the nation. There's

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Speaker 1: thousands of other counties and thousands and thousands of other cities.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to do it in the Fillmore district

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Speaker 1: of San Francisco or the Tenderloin district. We come back

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Speaker 1: Alex Stone that crack addict Hunter Biden is in town. Whoo.

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Speaker 1: Must have been big news in the downtown drug districts.

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Speaker 1: He's uh, he was being arraigned today on tax evasion charges.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to Alex Stone for ABC News about that

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Speaker 1: coming up on the John Cobalt Show. Hey, you've been

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