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Speaker 1: Welcome everybody. Well, we were expecting a pretty crazy La

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Speaker 1: they have not done. Marie Martinez has taken a leave

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Speaker 1: of absence. Sadio and de Leone were there, but they

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Speaker 1: on YouTube uncensored. Later Channel five picked up at what

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Speaker 1: was funny is Bonnen When it came his turn to speak,

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Speaker 1: five apologized right after a speech they didn't know that

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Speaker 1: to edit it out, but you turn on YouTube. Holy mackerel,

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Speaker 1: it was raining F bombs and every other kind of

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Speaker 1: vulgarity bomb too. That that's bet as entertaining as anything

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Speaker 1: I've seen in a while. Yeah, I mean, well Blake

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Speaker 1: him on and see what he's gathered. Yeah, guys, as

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Speaker 1: you said, this was an explosive meeting. I mean it honestly,

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Speaker 1: the meeting just flooded with angry people. Main street right

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Speaker 1: people inside. As you say, these protesters they want Martinez,

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Speaker 1: Daileone Sadio out. In fact, right before we went into

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Speaker 1: we want a full resignation. So as these this this

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Speaker 1: after the the the you know, the leave of absence announcement.

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Speaker 1: They're saying, not one more you know, not one more day.

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Speaker 1: We want you out right now, Not one more day,

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Speaker 1: hey Blake. Were the organized groups? These were these organized groups?

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Speaker 1: Are these just individuals who showed up? Could you tell? Yeah? No,

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Speaker 1: it was definitely a huge swath of organized groups, but

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Speaker 1: and again they just could not get this meeting started.

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Speaker 1: At one point, councilman Mitchell Ferrell, so he has to

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Speaker 1: run the meeting. He's not the council president. Of course

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Speaker 1: so they're trying to get this meeting under way. He's struggling.

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Speaker 1: It will happen. Now, it can happen with everyone in

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Speaker 1: And again Biden Bonden called on all three of them

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Speaker 1: to vote for a new council president. And that's you know,

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Speaker 1: just I mean, I don't it's a little long, guy.

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Speaker 1: So if you guys want to just cut it off

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Speaker 1: at some point, let me know. But I did speak

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Speaker 1: This is not okay. Nour Martinez has announced a leave

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Speaker 1: swear that. One needs to go get some training over

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Speaker 1: at the Museum of Tolerance. Trade needs to be put

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Speaker 1: in every program possible to save racists from the harm

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Speaker 1: they're doing the community. That woman sat there on LA

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Speaker 1: shocked and appalled by this behavior. I I've never heard

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Speaker 1: he's in the same audio recording. You know, there are

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Speaker 1: people who have been in rooms where sexist, homophobic, racist,

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Speaker 1: They were subordinates, and they were we leave the room

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Speaker 1: if we have to and try to say something later.

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Speaker 1: As we said, and during all the gay right stuff,

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Speaker 1: silence is death. In this case, silence is acquiescence. You

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Speaker 1: don't say something you agree with it. What about Kevin

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Speaker 1: They need to go. It's pretty simple. There's no room

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Speaker 1: quote unquote leadership. They were not leaders, they were part

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Speaker 1: to his credit, he knows, and everybody in this city

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Speaker 1: is furious and disgusted. We have done thirty years of

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Speaker 1: crap on community members. They do not have the right

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Speaker 1: President Biden is calling them to step down. Nearly half

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Speaker 1: of city council members today called on them to be censured.

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Speaker 1: Other city council members have flat out called for their resignations.

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Speaker 1: The California Democratic Party has called on them to resign

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Speaker 1: both LA mayoral candidates, Congressman Adam Shifts, Senator Alex Paedia,

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Speaker 1: Labor Union's church leaders, and again just plenty of everyday

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Speaker 1: closing in here on LA City Hall right now? All right, Blake,

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Speaker 1: Blake Foley k if I News covering the chaos at

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Speaker 1: What's the point here? You think they want the money? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they want to They want to continue to be paid

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Speaker 1: I don't think most of her. She joined the council

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Speaker 1: She was kind of she was low key. Um she

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Speaker 1: don't want Supulvita Boulevard. They have a lot of uh

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Speaker 1: And then that's when I first heard of her, and

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Speaker 1: talk about him more when we come back. She's actually

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Speaker 1: I don't know, we'll explain all this. Johnny ken KF

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Speaker 1: I am six forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, nobody is more at the center of

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Speaker 1: this whole La City Council scandal. Controversy. They actually call

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Speaker 1: it Nerri Gate now then the city council president nor Martinez.

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Speaker 1: Most of the excerpts that are played, she says the

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Speaker 1: worst things. She's the one that throws out the racial slurs.

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Speaker 1: She's the one that picked a couple of other city

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Speaker 1: council member and picked on the Wall Hawkins. Six on

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Speaker 1: a little line there too. But I met you. Nine

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Speaker 1: did you watch on YouTube? Off and on a couple

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Speaker 1: of hours and play off baseball and we're really haven't fun,

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Speaker 1: you know what? I forgot the baseball games around that's

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Speaker 1: how Yes, So I saw your text that it's on YouTube,

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Speaker 1: and I thought I always switching between that and the

429
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Speaker 1: Braves Phillies game. But I totally forgot about the Braves Phillies.

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Speaker 1: I forgot. I didn't realize there was baseball until I

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Speaker 1: got to the office. Look at that. Yeah, for once,

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Speaker 1: something beat baseball in your brain. You still worked up

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Speaker 1: over the story. We're coming up and they were screaming

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Speaker 1: in English, they were screaming in Spanish, they were cursing.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the YouTube feed was just hysterical, and they

436
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Speaker 1: all had a lot of him had nicknames and what's

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Speaker 1: his name, Sean O'Farrell. He would he would do Mitch,

438
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Speaker 1: Mitch O'Farrell, Sean, it's some fake, irishing mitche farrell. He

439
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Speaker 1: would announce the next three speakers, and much of the

440
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Speaker 1: time it was nicknames or street names or something like

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Speaker 1: they weren't real it was like he was looking at

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Speaker 1: this list. Somebody called Red Chief is on this list.

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Speaker 1: It was like he was sunflowers coming up. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: like introducing cartoon characters and you knew the ones with

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Speaker 1: the wacky names are gonna put on the best show

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Speaker 1: at the microphone. Yeah really, Uh, let's see who else

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Speaker 1: can we play? We'll just move through this. Uh, this

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Speaker 1: one's not identified, just says male citizen calling for justice.

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Speaker 1: Let's listen to cut four. Do we watch us? This?

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Speaker 1: Get em okay? As Vienna, The comments of now former

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Speaker 1: City Council President Nuori Martinez and Council Member Kevin de Leone,

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Speaker 1: and with the complicity of Guilsado and the Federate and

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Speaker 1: the former Federation President Ronarera, who were in the room

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Speaker 1: laughing at these comments, are racist, disgusting, and the undermine

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Speaker 1: the solidarity work that we've all been building here in

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles. These four individuals have possibly damaged the decades

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Speaker 1: of intentional and difficult work of building multi racial understanding

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Speaker 1: and solidarity among black and Latin X communities. Martinez and

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Speaker 1: her colleagues proved that they cared more about consolidating their

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Speaker 1: own political power than being of service to our great city.

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Speaker 1: The offensive anti black, anti indigenous, anti child, anti queer,

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Speaker 1: anti tenant comments are revolting. Thank you did he say

463
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Speaker 1: anti child? I think I know Norri Martinez said something

464
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Speaker 1: about pot and son. But I the beatdown child? Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: the beatdown. That's right. She didn't want to take the

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Speaker 1: kid and give him a beat down. Here's one cut

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Speaker 1: number five. This is Herman. We'll set the clock for

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Speaker 1: thirty three minutes for the other items. Please stick to

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Speaker 1: the items, mister Herman. There are a lot of peoples

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Speaker 1: of people that want to speak, so please right. I

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Speaker 1: will try my best. Public hearings have not been heard.

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Speaker 1: Item nineteen Kevin deliones a piece of Item nineteen, Item

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Speaker 1: number twenty relative to offer of a reward for information

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Speaker 1: leading to the identification, apprehension, conviction, snitches, get stitches. Shut

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Speaker 1: your ass up and let me finish food, Let me finish.

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Speaker 1: I got three months, minute months, want it? Get't to me? Right? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's okay. Stop, you're done. So Herman, you're done, badhouse Herman,

478
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Speaker 1: you're done. Yeah okay, So so, mister Herman, you weren't

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Speaker 1: on the items. You've used up your minute. So we're

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Speaker 1: going to move on to the next speaker. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: you weren't on your items. Well, these are a lot

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Speaker 1: of these are gadflies. They're activists. I know they've had

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00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:20,119
Speaker 1: a problem with that city council. The same thing with

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Speaker 1: the La County Border Supervisors. There's people to show up

485
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Speaker 1: and shout at him all the time and wanted to

486
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 1: just get up there and speak, and they just carry on, Well,

487
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:29,000
Speaker 1: you know, something to do. There was another funny group there.

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00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:32,840
Speaker 1: These were remarkably Thomas fans and they were angry. Why

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00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 1: these uh, these three on the recording didn't get kicked

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Speaker 1: off the council immediately because you got rid of Mark

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Speaker 1: Ridley Thomas. You ought to bring him back. And I'm thinking, well,

492
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 1: this guy got it dited on bribery and corruption. But

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00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:47,680
Speaker 1: you know, he's got his fans who want him back.

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Speaker 1: They don't care criminal case. It's different. And they didn't

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Speaker 1: do that right away. They eventually did remove them, right

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Speaker 1: It took some time before they im surprised how many

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Speaker 1: us three days old. So were most of the speakers

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Speaker 1: because you watched were they were they black or were there?

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Speaker 1: It was it a mixture, It was a mix. But

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Speaker 1: but everybody, everybody was mad. I mean Hispanics. We're mad

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Speaker 1: at these uh Hispanic council people, and the blacks are

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Speaker 1: mad at the Hispanic council people. Somehow where nobody caught

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Speaker 1: up there and defended the comments. Did they? No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: I I was gonna say, I don't like to hear

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Speaker 1: that audio. That's gonna be crazy. I can't imagine saying, ah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: they got it right. I support him. Yes, Mary Martinez

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Speaker 1: had a point there. It's like, no, nobody did that.

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Speaker 1: All right, we'll play a little bit more coming up.

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Speaker 1: Johnny Ken KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the

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Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. You know, we were talking about all the

511
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Speaker 1: UH people at the city council meeting this morning who

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Speaker 1: were cursing out the absent deleonned Sadia Sadio and Nouri Martinez.

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Speaker 1: But Mike Bonden gave a tearful speech. There was one

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Speaker 1: guy who wasn't buying it bond and Bonden is really

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00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 1: sobbing quite hard, and it's it's uncomfortable to watch someone

516
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 1: who he's understandably getting a lot of sympathy from people

517
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Speaker 1: because all the remarks towards his son. But let's not

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Speaker 1: forget what Bonden is. Bonden, it caused a lot of terror,

519
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:20,360
Speaker 1: has caused a lot of terror for a lot of

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Speaker 1: people live on the West Side by allowing all the

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Speaker 1: crazed homeless people and the criminals to run amuck. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of people who've suffered, and there have

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Speaker 1: been casualties, not to mention all the homeless people that

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Speaker 1: have died, all the crime victims because of Bonden's policies.

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Speaker 1: And you know he's going to get his day of

526
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Speaker 1: sympathy here. But you know, after this blows over, remember

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Speaker 1: who Mike Bonden is. Mike. Mike Bonden is a terribly

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Speaker 1: destructive person who is behind some of the most damaging

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Speaker 1: policies that I've ever seen by any politician on any

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Speaker 1: level in any city. He's just abhorrent. And there was

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Speaker 1: one guy on our side there, Red Chief got number six,

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Speaker 1: thank you. I'm the red Chief on most of the

533
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Speaker 1: bull number one. Mike Bonden's been callings monkeys for years.

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Speaker 1: All that don't make no sense. You know what, all

535
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Speaker 1: of you guys need to take take a look at

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Speaker 1: yourself and figure it out. Because you guys are all

537
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:25,480
Speaker 1: up see and you guys all cause trouble man. And

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00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,680
Speaker 1: this is what one big problem man. A whole bunch

539
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:32,880
Speaker 1: of boys on national TV in LA about what nothing

540
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Speaker 1: because everybody has that's some name called. Everybody has done

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Speaker 1: the name called it an they life. I don't agree

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00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:44,200
Speaker 1: with it, Yeah, I don't agree with it. But the

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00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:46,800
Speaker 1: one that's pointing the finger has done the most name calling.

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Speaker 1: Put us off, Venice Beach, all the black people. He

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Speaker 1: put us all off. Venis speech for some real estate you,

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Speaker 1: Mike Bonden, there you go? Was he homeless and Venice Beach?

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00:30:57,800 --> 00:30:59,800
Speaker 1: Is that what he's he put us out? I don't know.

548
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,880
Speaker 1: And it doesn't sound like he's running a bank, so

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00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 1: I pick homeless guy. Yeah, I don't know. I mean

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00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 1: that just was so succing. It's like a few Mike Bonnen. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm not so sure it was articulate enough to really understand,

552
00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 1: but sure he wasn't moved by, you know, all all

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Speaker 1: the tears. I don't know. If Mike Bonnen's actually been

554
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 1: calling people monkeys for years, he can't just blurt that

555
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 1: stuff out. I don't know either. It was tough, though,

556
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 1: watching Bonnen play the sympathy card just because of how

557
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 1: we feel about him. That was a tough part for

558
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 1: me watching this morning. O, me too, me too, right,

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00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:41,719
Speaker 1: you know, give him a break for a day, the Sunflower.

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Speaker 1: Let's move to cut number eight. First. I just want

561
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:48,000
Speaker 1: to say it was a miracle that I made it

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Speaker 1: into the city Hall. A miracle. There are hundreds of

563
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 1: people outside banging on the door and seeing Mitch. Oh,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about Echo Park, Mitch, and how you hate

565
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 1: unhoused people and how nobody got housing. Because my mom

566
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Speaker 1: works in homeless services and unfortunately she met nan Or

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Speaker 1: Nuri Nuri. She met Nuri and she told me this

568
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 1: is Nuri. This wasn't a slip up, this is her, Okay,

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Speaker 1: And that's the only conversation we've heard. How many of

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00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,200
Speaker 1: you sitting on this council right now have had those

571
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Speaker 1: closed door talks? Racist, bigoted? You are a disgrace. None

572
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Speaker 1: of you represent the people of Los Angeles. You never have.

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00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:33,680
Speaker 1: It's clear twenty twenty we were begging for the police

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Speaker 1: to be defunded in the community. Here you go, the

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Speaker 1: police and the city council. You're a disgrace. Thank you, Sunflower.

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00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:46,120
Speaker 1: Everybody hates them for different reasons. Oh, it's every crazy

577
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 1: activists showed up today to get their minutes, were screaming,

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Speaker 1: and especially this had so much attention. They were probably

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Speaker 1: very excited to have their one minute when a lot

580
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:57,560
Speaker 1: more people will be tuning in like you. That's right.

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Speaker 1: There were thousands of people on on YouTube this morning. One.

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Speaker 1: They don't represent anything. It's a crowd of mental patience.

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00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 1: I got out there speaking. Yeah, honestly, I occasionally agreed

584
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Speaker 1: with one or two of the mental patients. Now to

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Speaker 1: back up what we were talking about yesterday, this was

586
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Speaker 1: all about redistricting. That was the purpose of the meeting

587
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Speaker 1: where they did all the comments that they made, led

588
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Speaker 1: by Nori Martinez and Haref Bombs and Delion and Sadil

589
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 1: redistricting in the Times broke this out. We're talking about

590
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Speaker 1: this yesterday because we don't believe in this crap. But

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Speaker 1: that's this is kind of what it's about. The Latino

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Speaker 1: leadership is not happy that even though they're forty eight

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Speaker 1: percent of the population, they're just twenty seven percent of

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Speaker 1: the council seats. And that's kind of what they were

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Speaker 1: trying to do there, figure out how they can improve

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Speaker 1: their racial representation. John and I don't look at things

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00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 1: that way. But you have to sometimes, you know, put

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Speaker 1: yourself in the other person's perspective to kind of understand

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Speaker 1: why these this this, These four were so worked up,

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Speaker 1: that's what that. And and blacks are down to eight

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Speaker 1: percent of the population, but they hold quite a few

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Speaker 1: council seats. Yeah yeah, um, they have almost a quarter

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Speaker 1: of the council seats right with the eight percent of

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Speaker 1: the population, So they have about triple the power compared

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Speaker 1: to their population. And I think because a lot of

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Speaker 1: the neighborhoods overlap the Latinos, these Latinos speaking here wanted

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Speaker 1: to do something about that. In the way they drew

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00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:38,800
Speaker 1: up the districts to see if they can improve their representation.

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Speaker 1: And whereas whites, whites are overrepresented two uh, there's twenty

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Speaker 1: eight percent of the population they have of the seats

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Speaker 1: they have six six right, So that kind of came

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Speaker 1: up a couple of times, but obviously didn't get as

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Speaker 1: much attention as the main What you could do is

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Speaker 1: you could draw a line. Draw lines, let's say a

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Speaker 1: square that makes a district one hundred or Saint Hispanic,

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Speaker 1: and they will get a Hispanic representative. But that means

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00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:09,960
Speaker 1: there are far fewer Hispanics available in the other districts, right,

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Speaker 1: so you could create these Hispanic islands, or these Black islands,

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Speaker 1: or these white islands. And actually, you know, they may say, hey, look,

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Speaker 1: this is an all Hispanic district. You're going to get

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Speaker 1: your Hispanic representative. But what they've done is they made

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Speaker 1: it impossible to get a Hispanic rep in any other district.

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Speaker 1: And that's why you see all these long squiggles on

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Speaker 1: a district map, because they're trying to keep people pinned

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Speaker 1: in and they're also trying to keep people gate it

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Speaker 1: out of certain districts. They try to calculate mathematics. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there's another story today that one of the council people

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Speaker 1: wanted an Armenian councilman and so they were debating on

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Speaker 1: how to draw a map to maximize the number of

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Speaker 1: Armenians in a district to get the guy inn think

631
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Speaker 1: of that one. No, that was but you see when

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Speaker 1: you think like this tribally, this is all you doing

633
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Speaker 1: night and day. Because the belief was also is they're

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Speaker 1: going to vote for me because we're the same race,

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Speaker 1: the same ethnicity. So you know, we can draw a

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Speaker 1: district that favors my race or ethnicity. I can stay

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Speaker 1: in power for a long time. Maybe someday, in a

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Speaker 1: better world, it won't work like that. People will think independently,

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Speaker 1: and they won't necessarily vote just because someone's the same

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Speaker 1: someone they think has a better way of handling problems

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Speaker 1: like homelessness and crime. All right, when we return, a

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Speaker 1: couple of reasons, we're going to Bidenville. Johnny's coming to

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Speaker 1: He's also turning eighty next month, but they're trying to

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Speaker 1: keep that really low key. Also have a new poll

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Speaker 1: out about people's concerns over his mental health. Do all

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