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Speaker 1: that front and seven. Yes, that's a tragedy above all tragedies. Well,

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Speaker 1: describe at tax in order to get around tax reform requirements.

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Speaker 1: Because politicians have used fees on your water bill, on

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Speaker 1: your utility bill, on other bills to try to disguise

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Speaker 1: what a tax is. We want to make sure that

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Speaker 1: anything that is a tax is treated as a tax.

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Speaker 1: And then third, it restores the two thirds vote requirement

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Speaker 1: for all tax heights and mandates that every tax enacted

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Speaker 1: by the state legislature would have to be put on

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Speaker 1: the ballot for a public vote, no matter how many

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Speaker 1: votes the tax might get in the state legislature. Now,

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Speaker 1: the reason why this provision here is important is there's

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Speaker 1: a Supreme Court California Supreme Court case called Upland, and

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Speaker 1: Upland overturned the two thirds vote requirement. The liberal judges

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Speaker 1: basically waived a magic wand and got around prop thirteens

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Speaker 1: requirements for tax measures that are put on the ballot

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Speaker 1: by citizens. Well, you and I both know that no

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Speaker 1: citizen groups actually fund those campaigns. It's government interests that

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Speaker 1: do it. So we're going to restore the two thirds

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Speaker 1: required vote. But it also would have prevented the gas

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Speaker 1: tax in twenty eighteen because even if the legislature has

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Speaker 1: the two thirds votes to impose a car tax or

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Speaker 1: a gas tax, which is what they did in twenty seventeen,

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Speaker 1: this would require that that would still be placed on

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Speaker 1: the ballot and not be levied on people unless the

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Speaker 1: voters approved it also by a two thirds vote. So

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Speaker 1: this is a big deal. In fact, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers

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Speaker 1: Association and Reformed California both agree that this ballot measure

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Speaker 1: is the most consequential tax protection measure since nineteen seventy eight,

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Speaker 1: the original Prop thirteen. Yeah, and I think what they've

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Speaker 1: been trying to do with the local TAXIX is to

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Speaker 1: drop it down to like a fifty five percent vote.

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Speaker 1: Is that what they've been doing in a lot of jurisdictions. Yes,

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Speaker 1: not only a fifty five percent vote, and those would

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Speaker 1: be for parcel taxes, but they've been getting it through

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Speaker 1: on a fifty percent vote by using this scam that

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Speaker 1: says that Prop. Thirteen and Prop to eighteen really only

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Speaker 1: apply to when politicians place measures on the ballot. But

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Speaker 1: if a little citizens group collects signatures and puts a

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Speaker 1: massive tax on the ballot, well then that should just

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Speaker 1: be a fifty percent vote. Well you know what happened.

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Speaker 1: The special interests that will get the money from government,

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Speaker 1: like the unions, the labor unions, or the big contractors,

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Speaker 1: those groups basically fund a signature gathering effort and then

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Speaker 1: they lower the threshold to fifty percent. So the reason

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Speaker 1: why Howard Jarvis and others forty years ago fought for

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Speaker 1: the two thirds vote requirement is because politicians always are

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Speaker 1: going to have the advantage, and so we need to

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Speaker 1: give taxpayers a fighting chance to stop a tax hike

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Speaker 1: by requiring a two thirds vote. And that's what our

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Speaker 1: measure will restore in the state of Point So I'm desperate.

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Speaker 1: We have no money to pay for signatures. We have

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Speaker 1: one point one million signatures all. We need our three

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand by July fifteenth. And here's what I'll do.

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Speaker 1: I will pay to mail the petition to anyone who

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Speaker 1: would like it. To get the petition mailed to you

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Speaker 1: all you have to do is sign up that oppose

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Speaker 1: tax hikes dot com, that suppose taxhalk tax hikes dot com,

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Speaker 1: oppose tax hikes dot com. All right, that sounds simple.

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Speaker 1: Oh before I let you go, I want to ask

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Speaker 1: you one question because I know you also follow this

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Speaker 1: up here. And obviously we had the June seventh primary,

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Speaker 1: and you probably noticed they're still counting votes because of

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Speaker 1: all the mail ins. Why do you think they all

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Speaker 1: go towards the progressive liberal candidates up in La? Here

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Speaker 1: the mayor's race. It was on election night and for

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Speaker 1: a couple of days after Rick Caruso was leading. He's

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Speaker 1: the republic or Democratic candidate, but the moderate one, and

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Speaker 1: the liberal congresswoman Karen Bass was a bit behind. And

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Speaker 1: now she's like pulled way ahead. Why is it that

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Speaker 1: all of the late mail in ballots are still being

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Speaker 1: counted always swing in that direction? Any theory? Well, well,

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Speaker 1: here's the thing. It's only happening in La that way.

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Speaker 1: In this election. Conservative voters waited till the end because

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Speaker 1: they want to walk their ballot in. They don't want

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Speaker 1: to go and use the mail system and whatnot. So

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Speaker 1: what we're seeing across the state of California. Is that

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Speaker 1: center right candidates, conservative Democrats who are conservative Republicans are

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Speaker 1: gaining ground in every place in the state of California

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Speaker 1: as these extra ballots are counted, except for one place,

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles. And so I can tell you this right now,

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Speaker 1: I think that the LA Registrar of Voters office is

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Speaker 1: the worst run election office in the state of California,

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Speaker 1: and that my friend is saying a lot given the competition.

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Speaker 1: All right, Carl, thanks for coming on. I appreciate it,

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Speaker 1: Thank you. All right. Opposed tax Hikes dot Com. If

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Speaker 1: you want to get the petition mail to you for

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Speaker 1: the California Taxpayer Protection Act, They've need hundreds of thousands

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Speaker 1: of more signatures by a deadline of late next month.

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Speaker 1: But as Carl said, they will mail the petition to you.

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Speaker 1: They'll spend the money on the stamp and get it

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Speaker 1: out to you. And this deals with important measures like

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Speaker 1: trying to rein in all the tax hikes we see

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Speaker 1: from the legislature and even your local towns and cities.

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Speaker 1: That's Opposed tax Hikes dot Com. We got more coming

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Speaker 1: up on the John and Ken Show here on KFI

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Speaker 1: in Orange County. In Anaheim, there is an all boys

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Speaker 1: Catholic high school called Servite, and on the campus of Servite,

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Speaker 1: completed in twenty seventeen, there's a state of the art

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Speaker 1: aquatics center named after father Kevin Fitzpatrick. Is this nothing

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Speaker 1: more than another priest child molester? It was the schools

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Speaker 1: swimming and water polo coach and an algebra and religion teacher.

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Speaker 1: He was there for over twenty years and then everyone said,

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Speaker 1: what happened to father fitzpet Where do you go? Oh,

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Speaker 1: we got transferred. It's a surprise. Well, like many of

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Speaker 1: these stories, sadly from that time and hopefully not today,

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Speaker 1: it may have been transferred because they were aware that

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Speaker 1: he was molesting boys. And we're going to talk to

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Speaker 1: an attorney for a now sixty year old man who

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Speaker 1: says that father Fitzpatrick indeed molested him. Fitzpatrick is dead.

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Speaker 1: He died in nineteen ninety seven. But as I said,

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Speaker 1: he was at the school from nineteen seventy to nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety two at Servite, and then he was transferred to

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Speaker 1: Our Savior Catholic Church in La Archdiocese in ninety three, oh,

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Speaker 1: you know, Mahoney's territory, and then a church in suburban

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Speaker 1: Portland in ninety four, oh, the very next year, and

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Speaker 1: then he died in ninety seven, So another ugly story.

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Speaker 1: Will talk to the attorney for this man who finally

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Speaker 1: had reckoning when he was on the campus of the

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Speaker 1: schooling so the aquatic Center, and just said that's it.

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Speaker 1: I got to start talking about this. So we'll get

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Speaker 1: the full rundown coming up after the news. At three o'clock,

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Speaker 1: I was just talking to Carl Demio Reform California and

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Speaker 1: the California Taxpayer Protection Act, as he mentioned opposed tax hikes.

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Speaker 1: Dot com is where you go to get the petition

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Speaker 1: mailed to you. There's good taxpayer protections and that hopefully

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Speaker 1: we can get it on the ballot for November. Probably

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Speaker 1: one of the few things we'll see on the November

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Speaker 1: ballot that John and Ken would give a thumbs up.

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Speaker 1: Yes too. But I asked him at the end of

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Speaker 1: the interview about this mail in balloting now. He said,

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Speaker 1: that's the vote count. The late vote count is actually

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Speaker 1: pretty good in other parts of California. But news came

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Speaker 1: out last night in the Los Angeles mayoral primary. You

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Speaker 1: think about this on election night, and I guess for

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Speaker 1: the day after Karen Bass was behind Rick Caruso by

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Speaker 1: five points. I think it was forty two to thirty seven.

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Speaker 1: Now it's completely flipped. Bass has got forty three percent

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Speaker 1: of the votes. Carusoe has thirty six. As they continue

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Speaker 1: to issue these updates on the count of the mail

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Speaker 1: in ballots, and by the way, that's really what everybody's doing.

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Speaker 1: I think it gets upwards of eighty percent of the

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Speaker 1: vote now people are doing mail in. I don't have

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Speaker 1: a big problem with that, but I just want to

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Speaker 1: know what goes on with this. Why would such a

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Speaker 1: high percentage of late voters they dropped it off at

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Speaker 1: the ballot place on election day, or they stuck it

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Speaker 1: in one of those special collection boxes, or they stuck

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Speaker 1: it in the mail And why would they all just

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Speaker 1: be voting for Bass? Why is that? Isn't that a

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Speaker 1: little weird and a little suspicious because it makes you

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Speaker 1: think right away someone's stuffing the ballots in there. Maybe

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Speaker 1: they harvested them and collected them. The day of the election,

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Speaker 1: they ran around just ask people what you gotta vote

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Speaker 1: by mailion in vote? All right, let's talk about that, right.

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Speaker 1: And I have no proof of this, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: but this is indeed incredibly suspicious because normally, when you

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Speaker 1: have a vote that's still being counted, it sort of

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Speaker 1: follows the pattern of the votes that are already in,

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Speaker 1: the people who voted by mail already, and the people

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Speaker 1: who voted on election day. It doesn't really switch by

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Speaker 1: this much. And of course the Elsagunda Times called on

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Speaker 1: all their election experts who said, oh, those were late deciders.

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Speaker 1: All of a sudden, it really just comes down now

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Speaker 1: to the two of them, right, the two of them

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Speaker 1: being Karen Bass and Rick Caruso, and they just decided

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Speaker 1: to head towards Bass. Same thing's going on with a

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Speaker 1: couple of city council seats. One Bill gil Saedio appears

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Speaker 1: to be out of a job on the La City Council.

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Speaker 1: Not that I'm not happy about that, but he is

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Speaker 1: trailing a community activist. What's happening in several city council races. Also,

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Speaker 1: Mitchell Farrell is losing out to a labor organizer. They're

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Speaker 1: both picking up tons of votes in these late mail

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Speaker 1: in ballot counts. I just think that something doesn't smell right,

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Speaker 1: and I wish somebody would take a closer look at this,

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Speaker 1: because why is it that the same group of people

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Speaker 1: voting for the same candidates all were late. And I

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Speaker 1: use the word late because allegedly it has to be

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Speaker 1: postmarked by midnight June seventh, which was primary day. But

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Speaker 1: why all of them? I mean, it's like just completely downhill.

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Speaker 1: Same thing with the sheriff's race that tightened up from

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Speaker 1: the day of the election. Sheriffian Aueva is still leading

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Speaker 1: his prime opponent and they'll have a runoff of the fall,

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Speaker 1: and of course Bass and Crusoe will have a runoff

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Speaker 1: in the fall. But it's going to be tough for

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Speaker 1: Rick Caruso because if she's already beating him, and you

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Speaker 1: got to figure if people turn out that voted for

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Speaker 1: some of the other candidates, like that loser Kevin Billyone,

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Speaker 1: then they might split in her direction, which would be

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Speaker 1: tough news for Rick carusa because, as I said, this

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Speaker 1: is one of the last hopes for the city of La.

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Speaker 1: Apparently Mike Bonnen was doing a celebration dance and it

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Speaker 1: else are going to have Times article over the weekend that, oh,

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Speaker 1: it was a strong left progressive turnout the City of

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Speaker 1: La And that's because these mail in ballots which are

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Speaker 1: still being tabulis. They're now calling it election month. They

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Speaker 1: have until some time in July to certify the election.

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Speaker 1: So they're just sitting there going through these ballots, which

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Speaker 1: I don't know it's more than two weeks. How long

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Speaker 1: does it take a ballot to get from a mailbox

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Speaker 1: as somebody dropped it in, say, the night of June seventh,

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Speaker 1: to the registrar's office where it wasn't a big turnout.

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Speaker 1: They're not that busy. Why is it still two weeks

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Speaker 1: they're still going through these ballots. Well, we're being very careful.

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Speaker 1: We're doing signature matching. Yeah, I want to see how

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Speaker 1: many rejected ballots there are versus say, the George Gascon

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Speaker 1: recall effort when they turn in those petitions. All right,

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Speaker 1: coming up next, Well, evil never really goes away, does it.

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Speaker 1: We have another lawsuit against the Catholic Diocese. This is

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Speaker 1: the claim of a now sixty year old man that

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Speaker 1: he was molested back in the seventies and for even

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Speaker 1: longer period of that or even into nineteen eighty by

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Speaker 1: a priest at Is School in All Boys High School

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Speaker 1: in Anaheim Catholic School. Johnny Ken Show, KFI AM six

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Speaker 1: forty and Deborah Mark has the news from the KFI

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