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Speaker 2: Feature on the iHeartRadio app. We've got John Fleischman coming on.

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Speaker 3: A long time analyst and very involved in the Republican

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Speaker 3: state as well as anybody. He's got a site called

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Speaker 3: sodoesitmatter dot com? So doesitmatter dot com? And we are

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Speaker 3: going to get to one of his latest topics in

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Speaker 3: a moment. Sacramento, the legislature is going to put something

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Speaker 3: on the ballot which will make it, I guess, facilitate

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Speaker 3: happy sounding ballot measures, but buried inside our terrible tax increases.

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Speaker 2: Johnny All, I'm here.

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Speaker 4: I'm still recovery from having just watched the NEWSOM twenty

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Speaker 4: twenty eight campaign, rally paid for with your state tax

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Speaker 4: dollars and streamed on the official government ex account.

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Speaker 5: But I'm here.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk about that first.

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Speaker 3: So he wants to force redistricting on the state so

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Speaker 3: that we could get forty nine Democratic representatives out of

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Speaker 3: fifty two, right, because forty three is not enough, and

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Speaker 3: he wants.

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Speaker 4: To he I got like thirty seven percent of the

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Speaker 4: four percent of the representation.

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Speaker 3: No, it's absolutely nuts. So he has this rally today.

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Speaker 3: He wants to redraw the lines. And for people who

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Speaker 3: don't know, there was a ballot initiative that passed way

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Speaker 3: to draw these lines. No politicians. So he wants to

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Speaker 2: Then this morning, I know you saw this.

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Speaker 3: You wake up and political has a pall that says

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Speaker 3: that redistricting commission. They don't want Newsom or anybody else

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Speaker 3: getting him Bay. So he starts out he's behind two

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Speaker 3: then he holds a pep rally. Is he insane?

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Speaker 5: You know what?

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Speaker 4: I think he's figured out that win or lose. He

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Speaker 4: I really saw this more as they knew him for

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Speaker 5: But yes, he's insane.

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Speaker 4: He's going to rally all these people and they're going

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Speaker 4: the US Department of Justice is going to start filing

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Speaker 4: lawsuits the minute that they do this, talking about violation

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Speaker 4: of the Voter Rights Act. There are districts in California

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Speaker 4: that have to be approved by judges because of arcane rules,

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Speaker 4: and I wouldn't be surprised if we saw the Department

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Speaker 5: But that doesn't matter to him.

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Speaker 4: All he's doing is rallying all those people in the

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Speaker 3: And it was a lot of union people and a

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Speaker 4: I turned on the rally a little bit late, and

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Speaker 4: I'm like, hey, that's the union guy that got arrested

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Speaker 1: Literally like you can't make it up.

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Speaker 3: I feel like we live it in a different country

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Speaker 4: It's like this dystopian reality of life.

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Speaker 5: And yeah, you're.

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Speaker 3: Not kidding well, because he's got to get this done quickly.

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Speaker 3: He's got to get it on the ballot in a

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Speaker 4: They got to get They got to get it on

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Speaker 4: of voters have said, if you want us to print

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Speaker 5: To be on this timeline.

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Speaker 4: And that's why I think he's very, very susceptible to

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Speaker 5: Court, but in federal court.

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Speaker 4: Now, now you've got a federal Department of Justice that's

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Speaker 4: going to go before federal courts, and that the end

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Speaker 4: of that chain gets to a much different Supreme Court.

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Speaker 5: Than the one in California.

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Speaker 4: And so I think it'll be interesting to see what happens.

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Speaker 4: I don't think Newsom cares if he gets it on

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Speaker 4: at his because all he's doing is rallying the base

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Speaker 4: so that he can become the nominee for president in

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Speaker 4: twenty twenty eight. It's like it's like a win win

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Speaker 5: He's happy.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's talk about it.

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Speaker 4: Said, Really, we got to get to the boring bill,

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Speaker 4: which is a horrible bill.

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Speaker 3: No, it's a horrible bill. I don't want to short

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Speaker 3: trift this Assembly Bill six. It's on a fast track

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Speaker 3: in Sacramento. Explain so that everybody can understand what would

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Speaker 3: this bill do if it became law.

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Speaker 4: Okay, so everyone who's listening, you already know that when

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Speaker 4: the the John Colebolt Fairness Act, and then the question

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Speaker 4: give equal time on his radio show to left wing wackos.

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Speaker 5: You'd know what the question is. You know what it is.

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Speaker 5: You know it's straightforward.

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Speaker 4: Well, if there's a.

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Speaker 1: Tax measure that's put before you right.

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Speaker 4: Now on the ballot, in addition to saying, you know,

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Speaker 4: you want to make schools better, it has to actually

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Speaker 4: say this represents a tax increase. This is how much

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Speaker 4: will cost, and this is how much money will be

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Speaker 5: What the tax implications are.

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Speaker 4: What this legislation SB six ninety nine, sorry, AB six

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Speaker 5: That warning to taxpayers.

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Speaker 4: We're going to take it off of the ballot that

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Speaker 4: can find it buried on page you know, forty seven

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Speaker 4: they've been constantly getting raises, constantly driving up the pension costs,

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Speaker 6: They're now forced to put measures on the ballot to

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Speaker 4: The measure, and so it's really insidious.

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Speaker 1: It's really terrible.

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Speaker 4: As you said, Don, I wrote about it all on

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Speaker 4: So Doesntmatter dot Com. But it's really bad and it's

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Speaker 1: So literally, the only.

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Speaker 4: Person I think standing between this bill and it becoming

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Speaker 4: just gave his presidential rally this morning. Because if he

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Speaker 4: Newsom has suddenly decided to be a baby. There's no

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Speaker 4: I'm not telling your listeners not to call their senators,

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Speaker 5: But you know, I'm like what.

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Speaker 4: I'm following behind the most cynical talk show host in America,

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Speaker 4: And so you know, I'm really kind of skeptical that

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Speaker 5: But this is the latest scheme. If they can.

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Speaker 3: Well historically they've done it when they can get away with.

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Speaker 3: I mean, remember Prop forty seven was the Better Schools,

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Speaker 4: ties back to the speech that Gavin Newsom gave this morning,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's already bad enough that the title and summary

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Speaker 5: Of the system. It's it's it's it's ihypoperacy.

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Speaker 2: It's best I know, it's quite a time we're living in.

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Speaker 3: John Fleischmann, thank you for coming and go read his

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Speaker 3: site sodoesitmatter dot com. And there's further details explaining what's

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Speaker 3: going on here sodesitmatter dot com. Thank you, John, all right,

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Speaker 3: After the Palisades and Altadena burned out, they were trying

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Speaker 1: Hey?

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Speaker 3: So, as it stands, new Some issoot in order and

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Speaker 1: First of the couple quick points of clarification, the story

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Speaker 1: Well, and here's the thing. The reason and Gavin Newsom

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Speaker 2: There's a bill that would allow that.

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Speaker 1: And the only requirement is that the parcel be within

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Speaker 1: Absolutely because itself has new new heights allotments. And then

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're screwed.

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Speaker 3: I could wake up and there could be a fifteen

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Speaker 1: It could be low income, it could be luxury. It

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Speaker 1: And the reason I'm telling that story is it's another

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Speaker 1: example of these laws that have been passed over the

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Speaker 1: and the EMBs. We are now starting to see the

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Speaker 1: worst fears that those of us who have been advocating

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Speaker 1: against these laws all along, our worst fears are coming

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Speaker 1: true because they are written so broadly and in language

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Speaker 1: that has so many loopholes you could, you know, literally

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Speaker 1: drive a construction truck through it. And we're now starting

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Speaker 1: to see that manifest in all of these different ways.

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Speaker 1: And so Gavin Newsom said, sure, I'll get rid of

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Speaker 1: SB nine and the Palisades and Alta Dina, which also

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Speaker 1: by the Ray, raises another question. So then the question is,

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Speaker 1: mister Governor, just so unclear? There are hundreds of other communities,

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Speaker 1: including yours, including mine in the Bay Area, that are

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Speaker 1: very similar to the Palisades in terms of fire danger, evacuations,

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Speaker 1: et cetera. So, mister Governor, is the new policy that

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Speaker 1: I have to wait for my neighborhood to burn down

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Speaker 1: before I get relief from these laws.

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Speaker 5: Yes, why is the only.

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Speaker 2: Answers?

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Speaker 5: Yes?

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Speaker 2: Can you all right? Thanks very much for coming on, Chris.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk.

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Speaker 1: There's a ton more to talk about.

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Speaker 2: Do you got time to stand and wait?

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Speaker 5: Wait?

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Speaker 2: Do you got time to stand in another segment?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Sure?

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Speaker 3: Okay, all right then hang on, hang on, we'll talk

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Speaker 3: more about this. Crystal gras a journalists are more coming up.

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Speaker 7: You're listening to John Cobel on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 7: six forty.

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Speaker 3: We continue with Crystal Graw. Chris is a local journalist,

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Speaker 3: and we're talking about all these outrageous laws which are

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Speaker 3: going to allow developers to buy lots in your single

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Speaker 3: family neighborhood and build all kinds of high density housing

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Speaker 3: is the polite term. It's could be low income housing.

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Speaker 3: It could be housing that ends up fifteen stories high

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Speaker 3: right across the street from you. Because they're they're they're

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Speaker 3: using the state law to overrule all local law, local

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Speaker 3: zoning law, especially when it comes to single family housing,

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Speaker 3: which has been declared evil by the progressives in Sacramento.

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Speaker 2: Chris, when we left off, you said there's a lot

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Speaker 2: more going on what else is going on?

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, since since about twenty for about the

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Speaker 1: last ten years, the legislature has passed something like three

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Speaker 1: hundred bills that have been signed in the law and

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Speaker 1: in some shape or form rest control from local governments

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Speaker 1: away from development and housing and land use. And there

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Speaker 1: are all sorts of new exceptions and exemptions for multi

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Speaker 1: family development because, as you alluded to, the prevailing wisdom

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Speaker 1: and sacramento is that single family houses are responsible for

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Speaker 1: everything from racism to you know, polar bears dying horrible depths.

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Speaker 2: Right, climate change though, yeah.

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Speaker 1: So, now never mind the fact that eighty two percent

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Speaker 1: of cals of every conceivable walk pipe and the background

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Speaker 1: live in low density neighborhoods, single family neighborhoods and duplexes

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Speaker 1: and the like. You know, that's that's the California, the

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Speaker 1: American dream that an has declared war on. So whether

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Speaker 1: it's a density bonus is something that they use that

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Speaker 1: if a developer adds just a small sprinkling of quote

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Speaker 1: unquote affordable units, they get to add multiples of that

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Speaker 1: in regular price, market rate and measury units. So the

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Speaker 1: way it pencils out for the developer who by the way,

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Speaker 1: there's no way of enforcing even those affordability requirements. But

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Speaker 1: the developer just puts it down on paper and they

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Speaker 1: get their extra units and their extra levels, And as

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Speaker 1: I said a few minutes ago, that's how you get

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Speaker 1: to as many as fourteen or fifteen under SP seventy nine.

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Speaker 1: So they are now SB seventy nine is a culmination

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Speaker 1: of this whole process. And California is in good company.

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Speaker 1: Oregon has has all but outlawed single family zoning. The

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Speaker 1: city of Minneapolis got rid of single family zoning. New

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Speaker 1: York is trying to do it, and there's even some

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Speaker 1: similar legislation in Texas and Florida because you know, for

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Speaker 1: certain Republicans they think this is a matter of property

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Speaker 1: rights and if you want a piece of property, if

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Speaker 1: you want to build fifteen stories, well you should be

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Speaker 1: allowed to build fifteen stories. So there's actually a bill

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Speaker 1: in Florida right now that would do something similar to

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Speaker 1: SP seventy nine. Next a mile radius, not a half

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Speaker 1: mile radius. And as I often say to folks, you know,

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Speaker 1: when Gavin Newsom and Ron De Santis starts singing from

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Speaker 1: the same hymn, all the rest of us better pay attention.

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Speaker 3: And this is all funded by developers who spend lots

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Speaker 3: of money on guys from Newsome to Desantus.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Scott Wiener in Sacramento. Yeah, absolutely, this is

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Speaker 1: This is big developers, big finance, big philanthropy, and big tech.

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Speaker 1: And you know this is all the fifteen minute city,

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Speaker 1: which you and I have talked about many times, and

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Speaker 1: I know others have talked about on the show, but

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Speaker 1: less than any But you have any doubt take a

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Speaker 1: look at SB seventy nine.

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Speaker 2: Fifteen minute cities.

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Speaker 3: Just briefly run down that whole concept because most I

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Speaker 3: bring this up every once in a while with people.

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Speaker 2: And they've never heard of this.

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Speaker 3: And that's the real problem here is most people don't

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Speaker 3: know this is all going on. But briefly, what's a

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Speaker 3: fifteen minute city?

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Speaker 1: Great? Well, because most people have better things to worry

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Speaker 1: about the idea of the fifteen minute city was originated

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Speaker 1: in where many great ideas have come from over the

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Speaker 1: last century or so, at the Sorbonne in Paris, by

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Speaker 1: a professor there who the concept is that everybody should

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Speaker 1: live in intense urban cores where everything we need is

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Speaker 1: a fifteen minute walk, bicycle ride or transit ride away

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Speaker 1: from working, schoolcation to socializing, to shopping to everything. It's

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Speaker 1: all in about fifteen minutes. And to get there we

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Speaker 1: need to get rid of our cars, which is why

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Speaker 1: the city of Paris over the last five years has

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Speaker 1: gotten rid of about sixty percent of its public parking spaces.

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Speaker 1: And if you want to see the future if California

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Speaker 1: continues down this path, go to the fifteenth are on

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Speaker 1: these months and a TikToker or a delivery driver, how

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Speaker 1: they feel about who they gonna have parking. It's always,

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Speaker 1: you know, the lower income and the working folks who

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Speaker 1: get hit first and the worst.

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Speaker 5: So this is this.

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Speaker 1: Sp seventy nine, this up zoning, this trying to turn

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Speaker 1: single family homes into many Miami beaches, the Manhattan's, this

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Speaker 1: is this is a very well refined period. It's happening.

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Speaker 3: But if eighty two percent of the public is living

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Speaker 3: in single family home neighborhoods, when when everybody figures this out,

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Speaker 3: and clearly very few have, there's going to be a

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Speaker 3: big blowback.

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Speaker 2: There has to be.

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Speaker 1: Well, but by that time, Zron Mom Danny will be

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Speaker 1: president and we'll be out of luck.

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Speaker 2: Chris, I gotta go gotta do the news.

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Speaker 5: Thank you, Thanks Sean.

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Speaker 2: That a good one, all right, rage.

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Speaker 3: Journalists, Yeah, we can't do enough on this topic. And

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Speaker 3: you've got to become aware of this and start spreading

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Speaker 3: the word yourself or you are, because there's usually there's

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Speaker 3: no parking requirements for these developers to put up these monstrosities,

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Speaker 3: these up to fifteen story buildings, with all these dozens

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Speaker 3: of units. There's no parking requirements and there's no there's

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Speaker 3: no uh way to get out in the Palisades. It

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Speaker 3: was nearly impossible to get out as it was. Oh,

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Speaker 3: they hate suburbia. And of course the Republicans are finding

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Speaker 3: a reason to join this because they want the money.

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Speaker 3: You know, for decades the Republicans were just as complicit

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Speaker 3: in uh open borders because their corporate buddies wanted the

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Speaker 3: cheap labor. That's why we had a huge problem. And

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Speaker 3: now they're back joining forces with the likes of Scott

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Speaker 3: Wiener and Gavin Newsom because they're all got their heads

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Speaker 3: in the troth enjoying all those campaign donations from the

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Speaker 3: developers we got. There's a lot of work to do.

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Speaker 3: You got to wake up, stop staring at your phone.

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Speaker 3: Are more coming up temver Mark live in the CAFI

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