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Speaker 2: Debra's newscast that it's kind of a really strange story

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Speaker 2: that broke over the weekend. The LAPD was given a

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Speaker 2: limit on how many officers that can hire and how

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Speaker 2: much money they can spend on those officers, and they

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Speaker 2: just went out and hired an extra, an extra one

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Speaker 2: hundred and seventy officers that they don't have money for.

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Speaker 1: How does this work? We go to Michael monks Well,

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Speaker 1: de immersed in the city hall nonsense.

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Speaker 3: The answer, according to city Hall is uh, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I don't know how you got a Hello, laped, I

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Speaker 3: don't know how you got to make this decision. Where's

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Speaker 3: the money coming from? Nobody knows. Nobody knows the answer.

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Speaker 3: This came up in last week's City Council Budget Committee meeting,

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Speaker 3: and the city administrator was presenting his first of what

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Speaker 3: will be four quarterly presentations on this state of the

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Speaker 3: city's finances. You may recall John. Last spring, the city

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Speaker 3: revealed that it was facing a billion dollar budget deficit

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Speaker 3: and had to jump through a lot of hoops in

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Speaker 3: order to close that, including proposing a lot of layoffs,

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Speaker 3: including civilian positions at the LAPD. Everybody was going to

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Speaker 3: get hit. They managed to save everybody's jobs by moving

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Speaker 3: money around and maybe moving some people from one department

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Speaker 3: to another, so nobody ended up losing their jobs. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: but it's going to come back up again next spring.

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Speaker 3: I have no doubt about that, because the financial outlook

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Speaker 3: may not be as dire as it was last year,

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Speaker 3: but still poor, and it's poor because of reasons like this.

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Speaker 3: The oversight LAPD in that budget had been authorized to

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Speaker 3: hire two hundred and forty additional officers. Heard from that

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Speaker 3: have more. We'd like to have ten thousand. They got

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Speaker 3: about eighty seven hundred right now, authorized to hire two

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Speaker 3: hundred and forty. Their plan, as revealed at this budget

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Speaker 3: committee meeting where they were asking for an unbudgeted three

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Speaker 3: and a half million dollars was revealed to be that

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Speaker 2: New officers before the end of this fiscal year. And

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Speaker 2: with these guys already hired, are they in training?

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Speaker 3: Some have already gone through the academy or at least

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Speaker 3: through the recruitment class and the plan as announced. Won't

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Speaker 3: you listen for yourself. Here's the exchange as this was

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Speaker 3: revealed at the budget committee.

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Speaker 4: The budget assumed hiring two forty. We are the hiring

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Speaker 4: plan assume as we would hire four ten through the

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Speaker 4: end of the year.

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Speaker 5: But that's not what was approved in the budget.

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Speaker 6: That's correct.

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Speaker 4: The budget assumed hiring two forty.

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Speaker 5: So we know because we adopted it and it was

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Speaker 5: voted on by the council and signed by the mayor

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Speaker 5: that the twenty five to twenty six adopted budget authorized

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Speaker 5: two hundred and forty police officers with the potential of

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Speaker 5: hiring up to four hundred and eighty officers contingent upon

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Speaker 5: available funding. I'm wondering what funding sources have been identified

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Speaker 5: to support hiring the additional officers.

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Speaker 1: That part is correct.

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Speaker 3: We're giving you two hundred and forty officers, and then

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Speaker 3: Mayor Bass came out a little bit after that budget

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Speaker 3: was approved and said, we have reached an agreement with

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Speaker 3: city hall leadership, city council leadership to hire another two

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Speaker 3: and eighty. After the money is found, where do they

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Speaker 3: find this money? It's always a mystery.

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Speaker 2: Is it buried out in the desert somewhere? What we

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Speaker 2: find the money? Well, I mean, it's all in front

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Speaker 3: But the money has not been identified, and the hiring

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Speaker 3: has gone over the two hundred and forty anyway, And

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Speaker 3: so in addition to this three and a half million dollars,

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Speaker 3: they're millions and millions over already this fiscal year in

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Speaker 1: Exactly. It's a cycle thing.

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Speaker 2: By not hiring officers, you end up spending more money

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Speaker 2: in overtime. Well, let me ask you something, and you

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Speaker 2: I don't know how you hire one hundred and seventy people.

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Speaker 2: Let's say you're in charge of police hiring, doesn't somebody

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Speaker 2: above you then get some paperwork saying, oh, look at this,

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Speaker 2: there's one hundred and seventy new police officers here. Well,

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Speaker 2: then they go to somebody, who goes to somebody to

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Speaker 2: see who approved this, where the money is for this?

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Speaker 2: It seemed like everybody was surprised and the hiring already

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Speaker 1: That questions valid. John.

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Speaker 3: In fact, you might serve on the city council someday

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Speaker 3: because that question wasased by city council members Katie Garslovsky

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Speaker 3: you heard there in that last clip, and council member

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Speaker 3: Tim Mcoscars you can hear right here.

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Speaker 1: I think the simple question is what money is it?

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Speaker 1: And if it hasn't been identified, who are we firing

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Speaker 5: And at what point are we going to be real

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Speaker 5: about what is happening? And at what point does the

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Speaker 5: chair of Personnel tell the director of the personnel department

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Speaker 5: to stop hiring new officers or start firing other people.

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Speaker 7: Here's the my officers not identified additional funds for that

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Speaker 7: purpose as of today, as of the report, the report

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Speaker 7: in front of you. Of course, it projects significant overspending

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Speaker 7: and still with identified solutions, a gap of eighty million dollars.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's just the police department just getting the big

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Speaker 2: middle finger to the city council.

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Speaker 3: It was the police department moving forward apparently as if

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Speaker 3: this money would be found. When Mayor Bass put out

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Speaker 3: that announcement, oh, I say that there would be two

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Speaker 3: and forty. It was supposed to be within ninety days.

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Speaker 3: Those ninety days have long passed, and no ever came

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Speaker 1: Nobody said we didn't find the money.

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Speaker 3: It just seems like the communication broke down and the

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Speaker 1: In there. There's so many layers of bureaucracy.

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Speaker 2: There had to be a lot of people who would

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Speaker 3: The mayor put out a statement that said the budget

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Speaker 3: has been delivered under extremely difficult conditions, uncertainty from Washington,

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Speaker 3: budget continues to aggressively combat the home You know, she

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Speaker 3: went on and on and on, but she says, go ahead.

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Speaker 1: I want to thank the city council for coming together on.

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Speaker 3: This deal related to the police hiring, as we work

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Speaker 3: together to make Los Angeles safer. Now, who's the city

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Speaker 3: council leadership that she referenced, will Mark Louise Harris Dawson,

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Speaker 3: the councilman is the council president, and he's a brilliant man,

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Speaker 3: and he says that there's still more work ahead, especially

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Speaker 3: our commitment to work with the mayor to identify funds

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Speaker 3: for an additional two hundred and forty recruits within ninety days.

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Speaker 3: We will share further updates in the weeks ahead.

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Speaker 1: That those updates.

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Speaker 2: You you imagined, not that they would hire anybody here,

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Speaker 2: but if they just you hired fifty people who showed

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Speaker 2: up for work and they started working, and nobody in

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Speaker 2: all the management structure knew who hired them or how

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Speaker 2: we were going to pay for them. You would never

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Speaker 2: see this in a private company where you had hundreds

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Speaker 3: It would basically be like iHeart management saying we are hiring.

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Speaker 3: We are hiring seven people next month if we find

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Speaker 3: savings or money elsewhere. We would also like to hire

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Speaker 3: seven more, but the Human Resources department hiring fourteen. Huh,

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Speaker 3: but without that additional money being found any workplace.

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Speaker 1: So that's what has happened here.

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Speaker 3: And by the way, the financial condition of the city

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Speaker 3: is not good even right now. They are already at

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Speaker 3: this point projecting that the budget is eighty million dollars

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Speaker 3: overspent across all departments.

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Speaker 2: Ex testing what incredibly stupid government we have. Maybe they

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Speaker 2: should take some of the money from the homeless outreach

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Speaker 2: that goes for the homeless people who are setting dogs

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Speaker 2: on fire on the South Side. About that, all right, Michael,

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Speaker 2: Very good, Michael. It's good at explaining this nonsense that's

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Speaker 2: on your business card. Michael Monks explainer of nonsense.

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Speaker 1: We'll do more.

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Speaker 8: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am

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Speaker 8: six forty.

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Speaker 2: Just one more thing about Michael Monk's report. I don't

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Speaker 2: know if the police department just went rogue and decided

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Speaker 2: to help with this. We're going to hire as many

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Speaker 2: LPD force is way too low. Okay, because we got

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Speaker 2: we have our own communist running things, all right. Karen

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Speaker 2: Bass big defund the police woman and she tries to

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Speaker 2: talk a good game, but she's lying to you. She

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Speaker 2: doesn't want to hire police. City council doesn't want to

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Speaker 2: hire police. They have eighty seven hundred and they're projected

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Speaker 2: to lose several hundred this year through retirements. We need

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Speaker 2: ten thousands under via Goosa. God, how many years ago

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Speaker 2: was that? Thirteen years ago we had ten thousand. We

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Speaker 2: actually should have twelve thousand, especially with the Olympics coming,

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Speaker 2: so we're way way short. And it's because they spend

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Speaker 2: money on all the methaddicts and the mental patients who

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Speaker 2: are busy lighten up dogs in the street. That's why,

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Speaker 2: because that's apparently the priority. Give the money to useless

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Speaker 2: programs so that mental patients and drug addicts can set

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Speaker 2: dogs on fire. Welcome to your Los Angeles government. And

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Speaker 2: to get police who who should be who should be

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Speaker 2: arresting these homeless guys and taking him to jail instead

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Speaker 2: of allowing him to foul up the neighborhoods and kill

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Speaker 2: your pets. The police are the ones who get cut.

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Speaker 2: Just ridiculous. Now mentioned before Newsom is in Brazil well

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Speaker 2: rattling about climate change nonsense. Last how we played a

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Speaker 2: in the Palisades, it was climate change.

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Speaker 1: Okay, really, I've got now.

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Speaker 2: Newsom was in the news for Prop fifty and there

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Speaker 2: is a chance here this is not this is not

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Speaker 2: hype or anything, that Prop fifty is going to get

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Speaker 2: thrown out by the Supreme Court. I'll tell you how

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Speaker 2: that would work in a moment. But we have another

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Speaker 2: Newsome clip to play, and I don't want to forget

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Speaker 2: to play this today. He went to Houston for some reason.

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Speaker 2: Why was he in Houston?

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Speaker 8: He was.

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Speaker 2: I guess he went maybe over the redistricting, but did

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Speaker 2: he It was some victory speech for Prop fifty. Oh,

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Speaker 2: so he goes into Texas to show how brave he is. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: all right, well listen to this. That's went a little awry.

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Speaker 1: You may have seen this on election day in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 9: Days after I'll say it, Los Angeles Dollarars won.

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Speaker 1: The World Series.

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Speaker 10: I know, by the way, forgive me, forgive me, hold on,

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Speaker 10: hold on, hold on, hold on, hold hold.

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Speaker 1: On that is hold.

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Speaker 9: Did you not listen to Al Green? I was a

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Speaker 9: former mayor of San Francisco. That's harder for me than

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Speaker 9: it is for you. Okay, please, all right, I don't

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Speaker 9: need to hear that, idiot.

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Speaker 2: I don't think there are a lot of Dodgers fans

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Speaker 2: in Houston. It didn't even occur to him, So that

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Speaker 2: you know what, he's going to get a lot of that.

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Speaker 1: Oh, here's a story. We're going to do.

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Speaker 2: What Trump is banning fat people from foreign countries. It's

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Speaker 2: Fat people will not be able to get us. I

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Speaker 2: That's that's a real no, no more fat people in

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Speaker 2: All right, now, it is true President Trump is now

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Speaker 2: going to be rejecting visas for fat people. If you're

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Speaker 1: Uh, you need a visa to do that.

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Speaker 2: Uh if you're obese or you have obesity related health

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Speaker 4: So this is an insurance situation.

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Speaker 2: Uh, this is this is Yeah, they don't want fat

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Speaker 11: So what do you consider what what can the Trump

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Speaker 4: That's okay.

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Speaker 2: So they're going to have to size people up, if

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Speaker 1: When they approach the desk in all these.

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Speaker 4: Rejected, well, why you're too fat, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Just get one of those little bureaucratic stamper things. Too fat,

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Speaker 2: what are you or not you and I doing? We're

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Speaker 2: What are we doing with taking in poor people, and

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Speaker 2: You know, it's it's cruel that we don't pay for

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Speaker 2: That's quite expansive. If this change is going to happen immediately,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know your sugar numbers.

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Speaker 4: Well, if you're very large, how do you disguise that.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you can. I don't think.

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Speaker 12: Or you can say you're training for the NFL. That's right. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Now you may not have heard this, but Trump administration

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Speaker 2: seven percent. Yeah, and they think I'm still.

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Speaker 1: On the lookout for long term problems.

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Speaker 2: I am too, because you know, that really changes the

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Speaker 11: Once you start, I don't think you are supposed to

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Speaker 2: I know, I think it'll come back very quickly because

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Speaker 2: I have a number of friends on this, do you

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Speaker 2: I do. It seems it suppresses their appetite and they

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Speaker 4: Yeah, god, yeah, I mean that's nice.

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Speaker 2: And it definitely works. I mean I got friends who've lost,

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Speaker 4: I've seen people have.

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Speaker 1: It's not good.

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Speaker 11: No, they look like like a pop balloon. Yes, that's

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Speaker 11: a good description. Also, somebody who maybe is very.

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Speaker 2: They may no longer be as sick anymore or prone

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Speaker 2: to getting terribly sick because they've lost the eight. But

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Speaker 2: they sure look real sickly. Yes, and that's that that's tough.

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Speaker 2: But I you know what, eventually, I imagine all that

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Speaker 2: stuff will work work itself out. You just gotta you gotta,

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Speaker 2: you do have to work out. You got to keep

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Speaker 2: your your muscle structure up or you're just gonna end

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Speaker 2: up looking very shriveled and weak. I don't know, makes

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Speaker 2: it would make me nervous to be.

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Speaker 4: On one of those drugs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I you know, there's no evidence that

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Speaker 2: it's harmful, but I have a hard time trusting medicine.

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Speaker 2: I just have a hard time taking medicine that's going

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Speaker 2: to have a dramatic effect on my because you only

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Speaker 2: have one pancreas, right right, you know you have two kidneys,

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Speaker 2: so you ruin one, you got the other.

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Speaker 1: You got two lungs. You know.

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Speaker 2: They can do transplants for a lot of these organs,

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Speaker 2: even a heart. Right, you mess up your heart or

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Speaker 2: your liver, they can transplay a pancreas. Now there's no

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Speaker 2: second pancreas, and there's been very few successful transplants. So

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Speaker 2: that's that's why I'm nervous. But that's just my own

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Speaker 2: It's like you know my own neuroticism.

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Speaker 8: We're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A

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Speaker 8: six forty.

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Speaker 2: Coming up after three o'clock, we're going to talk with

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Speaker 2: poly Powers. Polly Powers is with a neighborhood group in

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Speaker 2: Chevy at Hills and two parts of the story. Part

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Speaker 2: one is, Chevy Hills is beautiful residential neighborhood in the

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Speaker 2: West side of LA and they are renovating a building

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Speaker 2: so that seventy mental patients and drug addicts can live

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Speaker 2: in the neighborhood, and predictably and rightfully, everybody is very

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Speaker 2: upset with this. Secondly, the reason this shelter exists is

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Speaker 2: because of some serious corruption. This building is part of

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Speaker 2: that federal investigation that's been done that found that the

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Speaker 2: people behind financing this construction or this renovation got their

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Speaker 2: money from the state and the county and spent a

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Speaker 2: lot of the money on nonsense. That basically they're being

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Speaker 2: charged with stealing the money and not using it for

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Speaker 2: the homeless. So we'll tell you about that. Here's an

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Speaker 2: overview of the story from Matt Seardoff from Fox eleven.

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Speaker 13: Controversial building in Chevy Hills tied to a federal investigation

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Speaker 13: now on track to become a new homeless shelter.

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Speaker 6: I believe that it should be stopped at least during

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Speaker 6: the federal investigation.

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Speaker 13: Last month, federal agents arrested real estate executive Stephen Taylor,

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Speaker 13: accused of bank fraud, identity theft, and money wandering. Investigators

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Speaker 13: say Taylor used fake bank records and bogus lines of

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Speaker 13: credit to bob what was then a senior living facility

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Speaker 13: for eleven million dollars. About a week later, Taylor then

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Speaker 13: sold it to the Wineguard Center for twenty seven million

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Speaker 13: dollars of stunning sixteen million dollar profit.

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Speaker 6: Where is that money? Where is the sixteen million dollars

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Speaker 6: in that was intended to be used for homeless housing

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Speaker 6: and it seems to have been diverted.

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Speaker 13: Despite the arrest, renovations continue inside the building in Windeguard's

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Speaker 13: plans to house more than seventy homeless people.

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Speaker 6: We feel like we've been completely left in the dark

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Speaker 6: about this entire situation.

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Speaker 13: Neighbors frustrated to describe the area as quiet with lots

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Speaker 13: of families just blocks from Poems Elementary School.

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Speaker 12: A lot of the things that we hold really dear

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Speaker 12: in this neighborhood that We've worked so hard for to

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Speaker 12: create community.

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Speaker 1: It looks just very unshaky right now.

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Speaker 6: No one is responding to our messages. We've been calling

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Speaker 6: for meetings, and we just feel that as a neighborhood,

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Speaker 6: we're being ignored.

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Speaker 13: A spokesperson for Lacity council member Katie Orslavsky says they're

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Speaker 13: outraged by the fraud allegations outing Los Angeles. Face is

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Speaker 13: an urgent need for safe, well managed housing for unhoused

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Speaker 13: older adults. The council member remains focused on ensuring the

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Speaker 13: Shelby site is operated responsibly.

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Speaker 1: There's billions of dollars on accounted for.

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Speaker 9: Local and state officials cannot give us an answers.

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Speaker 1: A federal task force can.

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Speaker 13: He he's investigating across California for fraud in misuse of

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Speaker 13: homeless funds.

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Speaker 6: We're in a family filled, residential neighborhood. There are plenty

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Speaker 6: of more appropriate sites.

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Speaker 13: The mayor's office tells me tonight that housing is very

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Speaker 13: important in this part of LA But looking at the property,

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Speaker 13: it seems like construction is almost complete.

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Speaker 1: No word on when this will open. So this is

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Speaker 1: a scam on top of a scam.

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Speaker 2: If you're following this in real estate executive Stephen Taylor

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Speaker 2: is being accused by the federal government of bank fraud,

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Speaker 2: identity theft, and money laundering. He used fake bank records

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Speaker 2: and fake lines of credit to purchase the property for

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Speaker 2: eleven million dollars, then sold it to something called the

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Speaker 2: Wineguard Center ten days later for twenty seven million. So

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Speaker 2: he bought it for eleven million with using all kinds

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Speaker 2: of frauds and then sold it for twenty seven million,

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Speaker 2: making sixteen million dollars. Nobody knows where that money is.

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Speaker 2: And now instead of a senior home living you are

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Speaker 2: to have a mental patient drug addicts center. And the

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Speaker 2: people in Chevy At Hills who are represented by one

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Speaker 2: of the worst, one of the worst city council people,

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Speaker 2: Katie Roslovsky, Boy is she a piece of work, doesn't care,

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Speaker 2: doesn't care what's going to happen to the neighborhood. And

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Speaker 2: this is near a school on top of it, And

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Speaker 2: of course Karen Bass is in support of this nonsense.

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Speaker 1: And so we spend.

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Speaker 2: Millions and billions and the homeless get all the goodies here,

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Speaker 2: and you, the taxpayer, get screwed because you vote for

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Speaker 2: a more on like Karen Bass, and you vote for

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Speaker 2: a more on like Katy Raslovsky. We're going to talk

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Speaker 2: to poll Powers next Deborah Mark live in the KFI

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Speaker 2: twenty four our newsroom.

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