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Speaker 1: You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 2: This is Carl Demayo filling in for John Cobelt. I

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Speaker 2: about the breaking news, the problems in California, and of course,

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Speaker 2: if we work together, we can make California well sane again,

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Speaker 2: restore our state to the golden state of opportunity that

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Speaker 2: in for John through Friday. If you have any issues

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Speaker 2: any topics, any questions you might have, use the talkback

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Speaker 2: what you're thinking. We've got a lot to get to today.

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Speaker 2: We're going to be talking about the mileage tax. Have

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Speaker 2: you seen this proposal that Gavin Newsom and California Democrats

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Speaker 2: have to charge you for every mile you drive. Here's

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Speaker 2: my hand and you can pick a finger. These people

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Speaker 2: are absolutely insane. They're everywhere you look. They're trying to

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Speaker 2: get into your pocket, into your wallet, into your purse.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna be talking about the mileas tax and what

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Speaker 2: we're doing to block this absolutely insane, unfair, crazy, latest

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Speaker 2: corruption in homelessness spending. US Attorney Bill A. Saley has

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Speaker 2: spending to quote unquote solve homelessness? Remember when Gavin Newsom

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Speaker 2: said I'm gonna solve homelessness. It involves raising taxes and

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Speaker 2: spending billions of dollars giving all the contracts and the

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Speaker 2: I let that out? Hey, Look, they're not interested in

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Speaker 2: helping poor people. They're interested in lighting the pockets of

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Speaker 2: We'll be getting into the scandal associated with those funds.

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Speaker 2: People need to go to jail all over this thing.

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Speaker 2: I'm so glad that Bill a Sale is launched in

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Speaker 2: a federal criminal investigation. I want to see people under oath.

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Speaker 2: scam that you've ever seen. And then finally we're going

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Speaker 2: to get into fixing schools. There's a big election in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty six where we can actually get someone into

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Speaker 2: statewide office called the California Superintendent of Schools and it's

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Speaker 2: to basics, reading, writing, and arithmetic. All that's coming up

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Speaker 2: on today's show. Plus, remember use that talkback feature on

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Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app. Ask any question, raise any issue, and

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Speaker 2: I will endeavor to give you a response. So why

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Speaker 2: half ago. Well, I was sworn in just a little

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Speaker 2: over one hundred days ago as a California state legislator.

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Speaker 2: And yesterday's show I kind of gave you a behind

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Speaker 2: because we're doing a Doze California project, we revealed that

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Speaker 2: last year California state politicians got one point four million

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Speaker 2: political system in California because this political system doesn't give

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Speaker 2: up close and personal every day. Okay, so let's get

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Speaker 2: into the mileage tax. I need real quick my top

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Speaker 2: priority in the twenty twenty sixth election. We have a

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Speaker 2: our movement at Reform California dot org. That's our website,

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Speaker 2: that's our ground zero in the fight to take back

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Speaker 2: the state Reform California dot org. Reform California dot org.

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Speaker 2: But I need your help, and so we're going to

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Speaker 2: be highlighting this every hour. I need your help to

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Speaker 2: million signatures. Go to the website voter ID petition dot org.

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Speaker 2: That's voter ID petition dot org. Sign up voter ID

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Speaker 2: petition dot org. And by the way, get all your friends, family,

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Speaker 2: We need a million signatures. All right, and we'll talk

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Speaker 2: more about voter ID in a moment. Mileage tax. Have

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Speaker 2: you heard about it. You better get ready because they

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Speaker 2: So you already pay the highest car tax in the nation,

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Speaker 2: you just get to pay through the you know what,

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Speaker 2: Now they steal the money and they line the pockets

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Speaker 2: The punishments will continue as long as the Democrats are

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Speaker 2: haven't been paying attention. It's a scam. So the mileage

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Speaker 2: tax will track your mileage. Yes, they are going to

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Speaker 2: talking about how Newsome and Coltrans have just released a

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Speaker 2: report proposing how great a mileage tax would be for California.

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Speaker 2: Listen in it's cut three.

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Speaker 3: Currently, about eighty percent of California's road and highway repairs

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Speaker 3: less and less funding for those repairs, now, leading to

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Speaker 3: this possible mileage.

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Speaker 1: Tax for all drivers.

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Speaker 2: Well it's stop there, stop right there. No no, no, I

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Speaker 2: have to stop. No no, no, no, no no. The state

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Speaker 2: is not getting less gas tax revenue each year. It's

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Speaker 2: The state is continuing to have record number amount of

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Speaker 2: gas tax revenue. None of it's going to the roads though.

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Speaker 2: Don't for a moment think, oh, well, it's fixing the roads. No,

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Speaker 2: it's not going to the roads. It's going to transit bureaucrats.

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Speaker 2: It's even going the homeless camps. Of Caltrans's maintenance budget

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Speaker 2: goes to picking up trash in homeless camps, not maintaining roads,

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Speaker 2: cleaning up against up after the hoboes, which again is

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Speaker 2: a problem caused by the state politicians. Oh but listen

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Speaker 3: Three now leading to this possible mileage tacks for all drivers,

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Speaker 3: and not surprisingly, not all drivers are on board.

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Speaker 4: No, not for it.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, I'm ahard know on everything. I gotta save my

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Speaker 3: Cindyegan gel Hoffelina wants to put the brakes on any

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Speaker 3: possible per mile road charge for drivers, an idea the

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Speaker 3: state's now exploring. As explained in this video released by Caltrans.

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Speaker 5: It's an innovative way to collect funding for roads and

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Speaker 5: how many gallons of gas you buy, because as we

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Speaker 5: move toward a zero emission future, the gas tax won't

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Speaker 1: Caltrans just completed.

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Speaker 2: You understand placed off right there? Stem Do you understand

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Speaker 2: all of these special interests are sitting there seeing dollar

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Speaker 2: which we mandated that you don't want, then we need

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Speaker 2: to find a way to continue to fleace you. So

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Speaker 2: this is an innovative way. You know how they use

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Speaker 2: the word innovative. I would not use the adjective innovative

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Speaker 2: to describe this insane mileage tax proposal. There's a couple

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Speaker 2: other choice adjectives I would use to describe it. I

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Speaker 2: think you can imagine what I would be saying about it.

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Speaker 2: But again, we are on KFI. We have a license.

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Speaker 2: We can't be vulgar on air and innovative.

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Speaker 6: Do you know how much they probably spent on this

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Speaker 6: marketing video millions of your gas tax money to basically

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Speaker 6: thinking a mileage tax is a nice idea.

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Speaker 2: And it's all because the electric vehicles are coming, you mean,

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Speaker 2: the one that you've mandated and crammed down our throats.

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Speaker 2: That again, now, seventy percent of Californians have said that

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Speaker 2: they don't want to mandate for electric vehicles. They'd like

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Speaker 2: consumer choice, and most of us who haven't bought an

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Speaker 2: ev by now would rather have the gas powered vehicle

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Speaker 2: at most, maybe a hybrid. All right, coming back, I'm

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Speaker 2: going to explain for some of you who might say,

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Speaker 2: but Carl, what about this point about the electric vehicle.

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Speaker 2: I don't want electric vehicles to get a free ride. OK.

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Speaker 2: I know what you're saying. All right, that's perhaps the

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Speaker 2: only argument that could possibly be used for a mileage tax. Again,

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Speaker 2: I will respond to that argument. I will drop kick

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Coblt on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 4: six forty.

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Speaker 2: Arl Demo sitting in for John Covelt, and we've got

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Speaker 2: Gas prices so much higher in California. Here's a floor

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Speaker 2: We're talking one out of five drivers at best in California,

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Speaker 2: Let's be honest about this. Let's be clear, not a

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Speaker 2: neither are you. Now that's not your fault. You're paying

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Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom. They're not spending the money on the roads,

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Speaker 2: Everyone's saying, Okay, we don't want this, But Carl, what

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Speaker 2: to some of those submissions very shortly. Remember, we got

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Speaker 2: talking about the California mileage tax. This is a crazy,

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Speaker 2: Kind of makes you want to vote Republican, kind of

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Speaker 2: makes you maybe not want to just vote, but do

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Speaker 2: something else, get violent, don't get violent, but do vote.

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Speaker 2: And that's where Reform California comes in. We're leading the

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Speaker 2: charge against the mileage tax because this is coming and

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Speaker 2: we're making it an issue in all of the state

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Speaker 2: legislative races, state Assembly, state Senate, because they're the ones that,

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Speaker 2: with a two thirds vote, can impose a mileage tax

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Speaker 2: on you. So people say, Carl, how are you going

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Speaker 2: to stop this? Number one, we need seven seats in

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Speaker 2: the state Assembly to break the Democrat supermajority. And I

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Speaker 2: have a list on the website Reform California dot org.

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Speaker 2: Click under target seats. Reform California dot org click under

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Speaker 2: target seats. I have a list of sixteen seats that

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Speaker 2: we can win in the state Assembly. All we need

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Speaker 2: are seven of the sixteen. These are winnable seats. We're

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Speaker 2: recruiting candidates, we're training them, we're mentoring them, we're endorsing them,

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Speaker 2: we're supporting them. We have to have less than fifty

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Speaker 2: percent of those seats go our way in the twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty sixth election in order to break the supermajority. The

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Speaker 2: mileage taxes then killed. But but I'll do one better

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Speaker 2: for you. We're backing the Taxpayer Protection Initiative, the California

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Speaker 2: Taxpayer Protection Initiative that would ban the legislature from imposing

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Speaker 2: a mileage tax without a vote of the people. Oh

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Speaker 2: and by the way, it requires that when taxes are

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Speaker 2: put on the ballot that you actually have to use

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Speaker 2: an honest ballot title that says tax increase, so people

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Speaker 2: actually know what the hell they're voting on that their

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Speaker 2: wallet is on the line. Here, we have a plan.

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Speaker 2: We need your help, So go on that website, Reform

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Speaker 2: California dot org. Sign up, be part of our movement,

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Speaker 2: because we will give you a voter guide of all

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Speaker 2: of the candidates and whether they are Yes on a

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Speaker 2: mileage tax or No on a mileage tax. And I'm

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Speaker 2: looking at you, Karen Bass, I'm looking at all of

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Speaker 2: the Los Angeles southern California city council members, county board members.

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Speaker 2: We get the yes or no answer from them on

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Speaker 2: whether they oppose or support a mileage tax. And by

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Speaker 2: the way, when they don't say one way or another,

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Speaker 2: we put them down as assumed to be in support,

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Speaker 2: because you really need your head examined if you can't

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Speaker 2: say immediately that you're opposed to this idea as a politician. Oh,

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Speaker 2: I have to break do I Well, that's nice, Thank

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Speaker 2: you so much. Anyway, coming back, we will take a

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Speaker 2: couple of your comments from the talkback feature on the

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Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app, because I know a lot of you have

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Speaker 2: a lot of topics, a lot of questions about how

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Speaker 2: politics works, why things are happening the way they're happening,

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Speaker 2: what you can do to join the fight for sanity

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Speaker 2: in our state. This is Carl Demyo filling in for

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Speaker 2: John Cobelt.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John cobelts on demand from KFI Am six.

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Speaker 2: Carl Demyo filling in for John Gobelt. Coming up in

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Speaker 2: our two o'clock hour, we are going to blow the

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Speaker 2: lid open on the scam, the corruption, the scandals around

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Speaker 2: California's wasteful homelessness spending. I'm telling you right now, the

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Speaker 2: politicians are intentionally taking your homeless dollars billions and using

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Speaker 2: it to fund their political campaigns. And we have followed

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Speaker 2: the money at Doze, California, and we've got the receipts

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Speaker 2: and we've got the evidence, and we're gonna present it

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Speaker 2: during our two o'clock hour, three o'clock hour. We're going

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Speaker 2: to talk about fixing schools, getting the wokeism out of

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Speaker 2: the classroom, and getting our schools back to basics, reading, writing,

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Speaker 2: and arithmetic. There's a pretty simple way to do that.

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Speaker 2: But reminder, get online and help us clean up our

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Speaker 2: elections by signing the voter ID petition at voter idpetition

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Speaker 2: dot org. Voteridpetition dot org. That is your assignment this

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Speaker 2: week to help us get the million signatures we need

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Speaker 2: to put this on the ballot, all right. So we

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Speaker 2: have that talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app, and we've

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Speaker 2: been collecting some of your questions and comments about news

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Speaker 2: things that you want to ask me about. What is

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Speaker 2: it really like in Sacramento? Is it really as corrupt

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Speaker 2: as we think? It's worse? Short answer, it's worse. So

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Speaker 2: I have not. I have not listened to any of these.

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Speaker 2: Producer Ray and director Eric have been going through and

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Speaker 2: compiling them. They are the ones selecting them. This is

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Speaker 2: the first you are hearing it for the first time.

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Speaker 2: I'm hearing it for the first time. So I hope

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Speaker 2: I'm good on my feet. I think so. So pick

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Speaker 2: any of the ones that you want to hit me with.

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Speaker 2: Let's start with the first one, all right, The first

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Speaker 2: one we got is from d Paulson. Well, Carl, this

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Speaker 2: should be a great week on KFI. I think my

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Speaker 2: biggest concerns are why are we being so ripped off

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Speaker 2: on gas, insurance and sales tax? If you could cover those,

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Speaker 2: I'd really appreciate it, thank you. Okay, short answer, the

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Speaker 2: politicians are corrupt, lying thieves. That's why you're being ripped off.

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Speaker 2: The politicians want your money. They will continue to lie

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Speaker 2: to you saying, oh, it's for the children. If you

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Speaker 2: don't raise your sales tax, the children will suffer. Grandma

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Speaker 2: will have to eat cat food. Well maybe it's good

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Speaker 2: for her. I don't know, because you know what, with

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Speaker 2: the higher taxes, I'm eating cat food. Grandma's gonna eat

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Speaker 2: cat food as well because she's got to pay taxes.

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Speaker 2: You think Grandma doesn't pay her sales tax or her

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Speaker 2: gas tax or insurance tax. We're gonna talk about insurance

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Speaker 2: in greater depth later this week, because unless you're living

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Speaker 2: under a rock, you probably know we have an insurance

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Speaker 2: crisis on our hands. Your insurance rates, if you're lucky,

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Speaker 2: are up by double digits, twenty to thirty to forty percent.

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Speaker 2: And if you're not lucky, your insurance was canceled and

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Speaker 2: you're you're forced into the government, government run insurance program

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Speaker 2: called the Fair Plan, or as I call it, the

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Speaker 2: Unfair Plan, and your rates have gone up by three

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Speaker 2: hundred percent. So it's a major crisis. Let me just

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Speaker 2: tell you, and I'm gonna tease it because I'll walk

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Speaker 2: you through. I think we're gonna do it tomorrow, maybe

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Speaker 2: maybe Friday. But do you know that the politicians get

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Speaker 2: more money when your insurance premium goes up? You didn't

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Speaker 2: know that? Oh yeah, it's it's it's it's absolutely they

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Speaker 2: have a self interest. When your insurance premium goes up

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Speaker 2: three hundred percent, they smile ear to ear because they're

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Speaker 2: getting three hundred percent more of their insurance tax. They

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Speaker 2: get a rake on every premium. Oh you didn't know that. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: government gets its little piece of the action. Again, none

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Speaker 2: of the people in the media are following the money.

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Speaker 2: It's as plain as day. It's in the state budget.

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Speaker 2: The insurance premium tax is one of the biggest funding

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Speaker 2: mechanisms of the California state budget. It's three point six

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Speaker 2: billion dollars. They're profiting on your pain. And of course

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Speaker 2: the gas tax we've been talking about all hour. They

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Speaker 2: want to pretend that the gas prices are higher because

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Speaker 2: oil and gas companies are price gouging. You man, anytime

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Speaker 2: gas hit seven eight dollars a gallon, what does what

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Speaker 2: does Newsom do? He stands up there and does a

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Speaker 2: press conference. Oh, I can't believe it. Gas prices are high,

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Speaker 2: and I don't know why. That's why I'm ordering a

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Speaker 2: governor's investigation into why gas prices are so high. And

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Speaker 2: I'll come back and I'll give you a report once

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Speaker 2: the investigation's done. He never produces the report, and the

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Speaker 2: media never asks for follow up. None of the members

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Speaker 2: of the liberal media, which carry the water for this guy,

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Speaker 2: ever say a governor this is now the seventh press

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Speaker 2: conference in seven years, and the seventh investigation you've ordered,

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Speaker 2: but we've gotten no report from the previous investigations. And

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Speaker 2: all the time you always say, I'm on it, I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna investigate it. Oh and by the way, Reform California says,

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Speaker 2: break down the gas price per gallon, it's a buck

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Speaker 2: fifty three in gas taxes, state state burden, state collections,

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Speaker 2: state fees and charges and taxes. It's all that's going

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Speaker 2: to you, sir. Why do you need you a buck

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Speaker 2: fifty three per gallon when other states are doing it

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Speaker 2: for much lower. We have a lousy media in this state.

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Speaker 2: They're either lazy, inept or they're biased or a combination thereof.

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Speaker 2: And that's why I'm thrilled when we can bypass the

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Speaker 2: liberal media and go directly to the people again. Reform

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Speaker 2: California has a whole digital news podcast information program that

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Speaker 2: we spend a lot of time putting out news stories

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Speaker 2: so that you can share them on your social media platforms.

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Speaker 2: That's why I'm here sitting in for my good friend

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Speaker 2: John Is. I want you to hear the truth. But

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Speaker 2: here's the thing. You need to share the truth with

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Speaker 2: all your friends and family. And that's why I go

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Speaker 2: to that website, Reform California dot org. Sign up at

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Speaker 2: the bottom because anyone who signs up and is part

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Speaker 2: of the Reform California movement. Every Friday at nine am,

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Speaker 2: you get a weekly wrap of all the news stories

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Speaker 2: we put out and you can share them with your friends.

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Speaker 2: And a lot of times it goes into why your

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Speaker 2: gas prices are high, breaking down the California state gas tax,

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Speaker 2: why are the utility rates double the national average, and

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Speaker 2: how the government did it to you? Or why insurance

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Speaker 2: when it goes up, politicians are glad because they're getting

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Speaker 2: more money. And you share these stories with Democrat friends

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Speaker 2: and neighbors because we don't do it in a partisan way.

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Speaker 2: We really just present the facts, and a lot of

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Speaker 2: them are now waking up and realizing the Democrat politicians

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Speaker 2: of this state have literally betrayed all of us. They

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Speaker 2: have been scamming us so sales tax, gas tax, insurance rates.

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Speaker 2: Why are they so expensive? But we have thieves for politicians.

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Speaker 2: Short answer, all right, keep them coming talk back feature

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Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app. We will get to as many

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Speaker 2: of those submissions as possible, having fun with I mean,

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Speaker 2: that was a softball, guys. You guys holding back on

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Speaker 2: the hard stuff. I want. I want the hard stuff.

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Speaker 2: So next hour, I want you to give me some

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Speaker 2: hard ones. We're gonna be talking about homelessness in our

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Speaker 2: next hour, and how billions of dollars have been literally

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Speaker 2: laundered by politicians to their campaign contributors. We've got the receipts.

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Speaker 2: But first News with Eileen Gonzales and the KFI twenty

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Speaker 2: four hour Newsroom.

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Speaker 1: Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt 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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Speaker 1: and of course, anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app