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Speaker 1: Ken show, Well yesterday, a big story around this time

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Speaker 1: Two of John's people were killed it was an area

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Speaker 1: take him two years of driving eight hours a day

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Speaker 1: to get to that total. So what does that tell you?

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Speaker 1: They're making stuff. They make stuff up. They make people

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Speaker 1: If they do, it'll say, wow, look at all the

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Speaker 1: hours he's put an I guess you know all he's

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Speaker 1: he's a good man. There, he's a good man. Driving

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Speaker 1: that taxi. Uh and if all this stuff is probably

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Speaker 1: made up because they're they're overriding mission, they're weird ideology

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Speaker 1: that there's their zealotry is about emptying prisons, no matter

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Speaker 1: what you've done. But to a serial arsonist, you unleash

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Speaker 1: in in in California of all places, during fire season,

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Speaker 1: well you're gonna see what a freaking loser Newsom is.

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Speaker 1: If he lets this guy out, then you know he's

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Speaker 1: completely full of it. He doesn't he doesn't fear climate change.

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Speaker 1: The fires are what completely undoes all this climate change

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Speaker 1: work that he's in favor of. So if he's letting

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Speaker 1: arsonists out, you know he's a complete fraud. All right,

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Speaker 1: we got more coming up, John and Ken kf I

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Speaker 1: am six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app Dever, Yes, yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: I know what you're going to say. Yes, Yes, don't

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Speaker 1: say it. Okay, fine, I won't say it. Karen bass

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Speaker 1: is the new mirror. They just called the race. No,

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Speaker 1: you didn't say it the way the Times did. According

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Speaker 1: to an Associated Press Reprojection should be the first woman

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Speaker 1: in second black Angelino elected to lead the city in

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Speaker 1: its two hundred and forty one year history, because race

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Speaker 1: and gender matter most, not that she's gonna let the

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Speaker 1: homeless and the criminals run amuck like Garcetti did. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: oh that's bad news. I'm gonna go home now. Sadly,

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Speaker 1: as we said, the later the votes came in, the

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Speaker 1: more they went to Bass. He was winning like sixty

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Speaker 1: something percent of all the later ballots that were tabulated.

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Speaker 1: It's just people who barely care. Rick Caruso spent one

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Speaker 1: hundred million dollars of his own money, shattering local spending records.

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Speaker 1: Gave it a good run, he did, but um, South

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Speaker 1: and East LA. He couldn't reach the late voters. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's yeah, but it's it's the late voters in those

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Speaker 1: in those districts south and east lay. Noah, we saw

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Speaker 1: the map yesterday. The map is honestly two cities. You

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Speaker 1: could probably draw a line and separate the vast majority

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Speaker 1: of Carusoe support from the vast majority of Bass support.

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Speaker 1: The Caruso support is west and north, and Bass is

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Speaker 1: east and south. Primarily, Well, you were right. Your west

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Speaker 1: side people wanted to make a change. No, they're fed up.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't right. You don't talk to people in the

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Speaker 1: south and east. Well, I don't. I don't get there.

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Speaker 1: It's also her territory. She's from Baldwin Hills and her

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Speaker 1: congressional district is also in that territory you describe. So

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Speaker 1: it's not surprising she got that kind of support. It

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Speaker 1: was really it's about turnout, and I thought he'd get enough.

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Speaker 1: You know, west side voters, more upscale people to vote

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Speaker 1: than usually do with the other end of that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but I don't. Well, that's where the mail in ballots

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Speaker 1: come in. The mail in ballot, let's have juiced the

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Speaker 1: vote among people who ordinarily didn't use to vote much.

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Speaker 1: Bass says her first priority will be declare a state

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Speaker 1: of emergency on homelessness. Right, I'm not more announcements. I'm

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Speaker 1: not interested in do it and work to get people housed.

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Speaker 1: That's it a generic Oh, that's Garcetti exactly. She's just

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Speaker 1: going to carry out the same program. She thinks by

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Speaker 1: shouting emergency that it changes anything. No, you actually you

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Speaker 1: have to do the work and take them off the streets,

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Speaker 1: and housing isn't going to accomplish that because it takes

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Speaker 1: many years and seven hundred thousand dollars to build an apartment.

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Speaker 1: So it's it's not happening. If that's what she means, then,

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Speaker 1: like I predicted, she's not serious about it. She doesn't care.

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Speaker 1: There was never any passion. She just knew in this

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Speaker 1: moment she had to prattle the happy talk about homelessness

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Speaker 1: and crime. You know, whatever it takes to win, say

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Speaker 1: whatever you have to do, and that's what she did. Well,

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Speaker 1: you won't leave the way. This story describes the two

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Speaker 1: of them. Bass a black woman who spent decades in

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Speaker 1: public service, evolving from an activist organizer to pragmatic elected official.

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Speaker 1: You want to hear the Crusoe paragraph. Carusoe a white man,

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Speaker 1: small W. Yeah, black is capital B. White is small

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Speaker 1: W fast building. Built a real estate empire on spectacle

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Speaker 1: and spectacular attention to detail, creating highly controlled private spaces

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Speaker 1: like the Grove Shopping Center that evoke an idealized version

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Speaker 1: of urban life. Holy crap, I can't believe that paragraph. No,

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Speaker 1: that his high sheen candidacy. That's a that's that's a

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Speaker 1: woke focused on his easy digestible pledge to clean up

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Speaker 1: LA Who's who who wrote that? Who is this? Let's

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Speaker 1: oh my god, this is unbelievable. Oh this is Julia Wick,

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Speaker 1: oh staff writer. Yeah, we've read her. I thought it

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Speaker 1: was gonna be Taran Luna. Who's another Now that they're

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Speaker 1: they're wocals and and and they're they're they're socialists and

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Speaker 1: they're Marxists, and that's the whole la times. So somebody

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Speaker 1: like Carus don't notice. They don't write how many jobs

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Speaker 1: he's created, how much tax revenue he's brought to the city,

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Speaker 1: how many millions of people voluntarily go to his shopping

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Speaker 1: centers and enjoy themselves. Right, you could have written that too,

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Speaker 1: but they don't know. She's a coalition builder, it says, Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: I think when you draw millions of people into your properties,

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Speaker 1: you're a coalition builder too. She's really done nothing. That's

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Speaker 1: a congresswoman now she sits she really didn't have a

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Speaker 1: job in her life. She did work for a while

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Speaker 1: in a county emergency room, but then she moved on

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Speaker 1: to work for nonprofits and activists, and then she became

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Speaker 1: a politician. Yeah, for deck, there's just nothing here in

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Speaker 1: her career that tells you she can fix any of

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Speaker 1: these has been not there. No, she's been living off

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Speaker 1: me and you and everybody else. Who pays taxes for

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Speaker 1: at least thirty years. She's been doing that. Well, you'll see,

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Speaker 1: you'll see, yeah, you'll see. I don't live in La. Yeah. No,

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Speaker 1: it's it'll spill over to your town too. It'll spill

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Speaker 1: over all over. Oh no, I'm putting up the wall.

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Speaker 1: They're not coming here with your vagrants. It's it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be all over La count or crime. I mean, look

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Speaker 1: at last night, people got stabbed in a target store

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Speaker 1: in downtown La. Yeah. Has she said anything about that,

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Speaker 1: any official statement? On the day she gets she gets

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Speaker 1: formally elected. Two people get stabbed in a target and

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Speaker 1: and the homeless vagrant gets shot dead. That's your welcome

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Speaker 1: to La Karen Bass all right. Coming up next, the

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Speaker 1: mayor of Whittier, Joe Vinatieri, will join us to talk

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Speaker 1: about the impact there of this horrible story from this

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Speaker 1: morning when a bunch of police cadet recruits were run

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Speaker 1: over by a guy in an suv. It happened in

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Speaker 1: the six o'clock hour this morning, and a number of

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Speaker 1: them in pretty bad shape. John and Ken kf I

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