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Speaker 2: do is drive to work, to the store, pick up

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Speaker 2: always the government getting in the way.

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Speaker 1: There's those parking enforcement agents.

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Speaker 2: The police always seemed to be available to pull you

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Speaker 2: over on the freeway. When there were looters going through

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Speaker 2: my neighborhood, there was nobody around. In fact, I should

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Speaker 2: have just gone on the freeway and started speeding and

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Speaker 2: then maybe I could have led the police to my

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Speaker 2: neighborhood while the looters were having their way. Well, in

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Speaker 2: San Francisco, because of a new state law, they're the

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Speaker 2: first city to deploy speed cameras, thirty three of them.

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Speaker 2: And if you go eleven miles an hour or more

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Speaker 2: and you do it in front of one of these

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Speaker 2: intrusive nanny state cameras, you immediately will have a ticket

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Speaker 2: issued to you. And let's talk to Richie Greenberg. He's

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Speaker 2: the writer and commentator. We have him on frequently. He

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Speaker 2: tries to explain Sacramento. I'm San Francisco to us, all

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Speaker 2: of this order is from Sacramento.

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Speaker 1: Welcome. How are you.

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Speaker 3: I'm doing great, don How are you so happy to

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Speaker 2: It's good to have you on all right, explain what

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Speaker 2: this speed camera program is in San Francisco.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So a couple of years ago up in Sacramento,

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Speaker 3: the legislatures there pass AB six forty five, AB six

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Speaker 3: the major cities of California to start a pilot program

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Speaker 3: to install these speed cameras. And we are the first

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Speaker 3: city here in San Francisco of those I think San Francisco, Sacramento,

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Speaker 3: to try and find an automated way to deal with

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Speaker 3: this speeding phenomenon. Right, And I get it. I got

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Speaker 3: to tell you, I understand why they need to do this,

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Speaker 3: at least in a city like San Francisco, because we

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Speaker 3: other deputized government officials who can pull over these speeders. Right.

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Speaker 3: We don't have that capability here. And so they want

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Speaker 3: to use some automated license plate reading system, some service

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Speaker 3: areas that have been identified. And here in San Francisco,

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Speaker 3: they identified thirty three thirty three locations within this city

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Speaker 3: thirty three. So if you starting yesterday actually is when

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Speaker 3: them and for the first couple of months, this is

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Speaker 3: just going to be a a testing well, you'll receive

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Speaker 3: like a notice in the mail to say you have sped,

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Speaker 3: but you're not subject to the penalty yet. They just

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Speaker 3: want to make sure the whole system is working before

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Speaker 3: as this has come out and has gone public, now

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Speaker 3: that it is starting, we're all examining this to see

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Speaker 3: how it works and how the penalty is, how the

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Speaker 3: we're finding that it really doesn't seem to be aimed

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Speaker 2: A shock, of course, it's not. It's not about public safety.

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Speaker 2: It's about that that's I don't know if you heard.

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Speaker 2: We talked about the story earlier in in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 2: They're losing sixty five million dollars a year on parking tickets.

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Speaker 3: That's correct, yep, And so we're all looking at this

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Speaker 3: is just another way, it's another government money grab. They're

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Speaker 3: calculation of what you're going to be levied. It's not

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Speaker 3: not even calling it a fine. They're calling it a fee.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, oh, complete with the perversion of the language too.

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Speaker 3: That's exactly right.

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Speaker 2: That is classic progressive, a classic progressive course. You start,

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Speaker 2: you start messing with the language to confuse people. It's

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Speaker 2: not a fee, it's a theft.

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Speaker 1: Why don't they call it what it is, it's a

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Speaker 3: And add to that that, there's two other just characteristics

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Speaker 3: This is not a replacement for any officers that have

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Speaker 3: if you want to pay to go faster, right or

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Speaker 3: more convenient. That's what it seems to be.

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Speaker 2: Oh so really there's a with wait, there's no points

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Speaker 3: That that's correct because it's just it's not linked to

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Speaker 2: Okay, it really is about theft, then about taking the money,

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Speaker 2: because you know, if they wanted to reform people, then

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Speaker 3: Yes. And then there's the other added issue here, and

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Speaker 3: that has to do with the discount. If you qualify

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Speaker 3: So you could be someone who is working really hard,

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Speaker 3: they qualify for low income discount.

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Speaker 2: This socialism thing has taken full route right down and

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Speaker 2: right down to the speeding fines. So it's less of

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Speaker 2: a problem if poor people speed and endangered children that

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Speaker 3: Right, So, what it's doing is it's calculating what this

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Speaker 3: she is going to be. I'm so tempted to say, fine,

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Speaker 3: it's not a fine, it's what the fee is going

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Speaker 3: certain streets, right they're whatever they're doing. It's less on

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Speaker 3: And then how we calculate the god set.

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Speaker 2: They always make it like like incredibly complicated.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, And of course they are selling it though,

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Speaker 2: You know what's caused the increase in the pedestrian deaths

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles is exactly where you have the most homeless

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Speaker 2: people wandering around. I've had several in my neighborhood wander

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Speaker 2: And when they had this huge encampment in front of

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, that's right. And it's not just the

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Speaker 2: They're the ones getting run down and that's why the

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Speaker 2: pedestrian death ray goes up. Ritchie Greenberg, thank you for coming.

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Speaker 3: On my pleasure.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much. Good to have you.

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Speaker 2: Oh it reminds me the last ticket that my wife

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Speaker 2: got and I was there for it. She had her

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Speaker 2: license plate stolen in Los Angeles because you know, thieves

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Speaker 2: got carte blanche, right, so they steal a license plate.

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Speaker 2: Her plate is probably now on a car being used

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Speaker 2: in smash and grab robberies, okay, and she never got

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Speaker 1: And so we're parking.

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Speaker 2: We wanted to walk in a hiking area overlooking the

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Speaker 2: Malibu Beach, and we showed up and they had a

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Speaker 2: and waiting, and finally somebody moves. Okay, So we did

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Speaker 2: she drove away. We backed into our spot, went on

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Speaker 2: our little hike. We come back. We have a ticket.

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Speaker 2: Why because of the missing license plate? Oh god, we

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Speaker 2: carefully waited so we'd have a legal parking space. And

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Speaker 2: then this this Malibu parking enforcement agent fifty eight dollars

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Speaker 2: in Los Angeles because of the anything goes mentality.

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Speaker 4: Well, then don't you have a case. Can't you fight it?

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Speaker 2: I suppose we could, but you're not going to well,

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Speaker 2: because it's not worth it exactly. That's how they make

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Speaker 2: their money. It's it's not worth our time. Our time

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Speaker 2: is worth more than fifty eight dollars because they're going

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Speaker 5: It's your fault that you didn't get you didn't get

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Speaker 5: it back, you didn't do something that you didn't expedite.

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Speaker 1: It, you didn't get Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're just terrible.

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Speaker 2: We just we just pay hundreds of thousands of dollars

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Speaker 2: in taxes. But other than that, we're terrible people.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, we come back.

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Speaker 2: Did you hear well, you've probably heard about the the

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Speaker 2: murder of the wife of a prisoner. Yes, yes, yes,

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Speaker 2: I did, the conjugal visit. Did you also hear about

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Speaker 2: the fetish session that killed a man here in southern California.

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Speaker 4: Oh that I didn't hear about.

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Speaker 2: Oh well, we'll do both stories coming up, okay, okay,

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Speaker 2: and you're not going to believe the fetish. I've never

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Speaker 2: heard of this one, Okay, I.

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Speaker 4: Don't cannot wait.

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Speaker 1: We'll see. Maybe you're familiar with it. I don't.

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Speaker 4: I seriously doubt it.

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Speaker 2: If you are, I'm not going to say that's going

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Speaker 2: to be a promo from the Ages.

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Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A

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Speaker 6: M six forty.

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Speaker 2: I guess I should put out a warning that the

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Speaker 2: following segment is going to include sex and violence. So

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Speaker 2: if you're bothered.

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Speaker 5: How many people do you think are actually going to

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Speaker 5: turn off their radio?

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Speaker 2: I just feel a moral obligation. I don't want to

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Speaker 2: blindside anybody. So if you don't want to hear sex

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Speaker 2: and violence being discussed, okay, all right, this one you

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Speaker 2: may have heard. This guy named David Brinson, fifty four

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Speaker 2: years old. He's been in prison for over thirty years.

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Speaker 2: He murdered not one, not two, not three, four men

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Speaker 2: during a robbery in Los Angeles. He was sentenced in

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Speaker 2: nineteen ninety four and he's at the California healthcare facility

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Speaker 2: in Stockton right now at two in the morning in November.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know, when a guy's in prison for

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Speaker 2: So but I isn't it amazing that he had a

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Speaker 5: Yes?

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Speaker 2: You know, I know there's a lot of guys out

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Speaker 2: How they this got not this guy. This guy's been

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Speaker 4: Maybe that's the key.

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Speaker 1: I like bad boys. How bad four murders minimum?

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Speaker 4: Not bad enough for you?

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Speaker 2: Bad's got her going now here? This one's really weird.

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Speaker 2: There's a guy named Michael Well, let me just set

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Speaker 2: Sure so far that you know you don't identify now.

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Speaker 2: Michael had paid Michela eleven thousand dollars to come to

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Speaker 2: She arrived at six o'clock and Michael was already intoxicated,

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Speaker 2: He had several extreme and unusual requests. He wanted to

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Speaker 4: What's wrong with people?

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Speaker 2: So she said okay and wrapped them up like a mummy.

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Speaker 2: He wanted her to gorilla glue a pair of women's

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Speaker 3: What Yeah, so she did, but that's not coming off.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: She wanted to She wanted to wear women's boots while

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Speaker 4: Because that gorilla g glue is really strong.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Police and fire personnel. When they arrived at the scene,

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Speaker 2: they found Michael Dale unconscious Ryler's damn trying to revive him.

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Speaker 2: She denied placing anything over his head and claimed it's

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Speaker 2: According to the affidavit, Michael had duct tape over his mouth,

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Speaker 4: Are you going to say someplace else?

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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I'm surprised, and his head was sealed in

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Speaker 1: Eleven thousand dollars would cost for this.

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Speaker 4: Though, I was thinking, Wow, no, I'm not.

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Speaker 2: Going to do What are you getting for this?

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Speaker 3: This?

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Speaker 2: This girl's knocknna have eleven thousand dollars and what are

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Speaker 2: Her Instagram account has more than eleven thousand followers and

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Speaker 1: Okay, now it's going to.

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Speaker 2: Bother me is every time I go into the drawer

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Speaker 4: We're not paying enough, John, that's the problem.

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Speaker 2: Now that's supposed to be something you don't touch. It's sacrilegious.

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Speaker 2: point two million dollars in twenty twenty two as the

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Speaker 2: president of Air. This was our educational tax funds two million,

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Speaker 2: two hundred thousand dollars the year before a million one,

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Speaker 2: So you put it together, he earned three point three

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Speaker 2: million dollars in two years doing educational research that nobody

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Speaker 2: can explain. Jessica Heppin is the current president and CEO.

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Speaker 2: She earned six hundred and eighty five thousand dollars. The

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Speaker 2: executive vice president earned nine hundred and thirty one thousand.

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Speaker 2: The chief financial officer earned one point one million. You

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Speaker 2: get the idea. This is what I tell you about nonprofits.

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Speaker 2: Nonprofits for for issues that people go, oh, well, yes, god,

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Speaker 2: I'm sure good work is being done. Children's education, homelessness,

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Speaker 2: you know, the stuff where people get emotionally manipulated, they're

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Speaker 2: made to feel good. You don't want to fund children's education,

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Speaker 2: you don't want to help children learn. The people in

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Speaker 2: these nonprofits have zero interest in helping children learn. They

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Speaker 2: have a huge interest in getting wealthy. One guy's making

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Speaker 2: three million, another one's making a million one a year,

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Speaker 2: another one's making almost a million a year. And I

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Speaker 2: can and again, seventy percent of students in the United

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Speaker 2: States are not reading or doing math at a proficient level.

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Speaker 2: They are illiterate and enumerate. They can't read and they

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Speaker 2: can't do math. And we spent three trillion dollars, and

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Speaker 2: so Trump says, maybe we should shut this down. Maybe

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Speaker 2: this is a colossal scam. It is a colossal scam,

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Speaker 2: and it has been for forty five years. And that's

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Speaker 2: why everybody Washington is screaming and squealing because the gravy

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Speaker 2: train has been derailed.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean, people earn a huge living on our tax

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Speaker 2: money and they don't do anything useful.

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Speaker 1: This was stunning.

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Speaker 2: So I don't subscribe to a lot of things, and

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Speaker 2: I don't recommend many subscriptions. But Michael Schellenberger Public dot News,

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Speaker 2: it's like twelve dollars a month, and I read all

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Speaker 2: his stuff because he finds out things like this. And

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Speaker 2: this is of course not debated on This is not

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Speaker 2: discussed on the cable channels. You're not going to see

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Speaker 2: this in the major newspapers because they would rather create

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Speaker 2: a an atmosphere for a food fight and between whatever

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Speaker 2: Democrats are popping off and whatever Musk and Trump say.

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Speaker 2: This is why it's a disaster. Million. These guys made

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Speaker 2: millions of dollars. They didn't improve any child's education at

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Speaker 2: all with all their research. It was a racket. Good

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Speaker 2: for them, they pulled it off. It's not hard to

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Speaker 2: do with the way the government is in this country.

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Speaker 2: Line next hour and right after Debra's news at three o'clock.

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Speaker 2: State Senator Tony Strickland on from Huntington Beach. He had

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Speaker 2: a great idea and a bill. He asked the set

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Speaker 2: of Democrats, why don't we defund high speed rail this

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Speaker 2: year and use the money to lower gas prices? I

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Speaker 2: bet you would love this idea, right, I would love

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Speaker 2: this idea. Who doesn't want lower gas prices and in

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Speaker 2: exchange no money spent on high speed rail? Anybody think

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Speaker 2: we should spend high speed rail and leave the gas

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Speaker 2: prices that they are number one in the nation. There

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Speaker 2: were two chances for the legislature to lower gas prices

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Speaker 2: yesterday and they said no to both of them. We'll

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Speaker 2: talk about all that next hour. We've been talking about,

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Speaker 2: you know, the well the budget cutting in Washington, and

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Speaker 2: a lot of stuff must be cut because there is

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Speaker 2: so much waste, like that Education Department contract we talked

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Speaker 2: about where you had several executives making millions of dollars

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Speaker 2: doing research and the research yielded nothing of value. We've

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Speaker 2: got seventy percent, seventy percent of the kids in this

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Speaker 2: country do not read proficiently and they do not compute

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Speaker 2: math proficiently. Now, when you have a seventy percent failure

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Speaker 2: rate and you're spending millions of dollars on executive salaries

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Speaker 2: for these fake nonprofits that are running off with your money, yeah,

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Speaker 2: we need a doge, We need a musk and a Trump.

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Speaker 1: How else are we going to get rid of this? Now?

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Speaker 2: We've got our own version of a financial disaster in

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles. We talked about this some yesterday. A billion

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Speaker 2: dollar budget deficit entirely self inflicted by the incompetence of

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Speaker 2: Karen Bass. And going back to Eric Arsetti, he set

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Speaker 2: the template here and the city council.

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Speaker 1: You just have a bunch.

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Speaker 2: Of bozos who apparently are among the seventy percent who

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Speaker 2: are not proficient at math. I mean, I don't know

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Speaker 2: how many of them are public school graduates here at LA,

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Speaker 2: but wow, you can see what happens right when you

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Speaker 2: have like fifty years of bad education. Eventually, those little

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Speaker 2: stupid kids grow up and they become stupid adults and

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Speaker 2: they get elected into office. LA Times has a store

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Speaker 2: no it' see. LA Daily News has a story on

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Speaker 2: the budget deficit and they ask, it's like a question

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Speaker 2: and answer piece. What are the primary factors contributing to

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Speaker 2: the shortfall? Well, LA has had slower than expected revenue growth.

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Speaker 2: Business taxes are short. Gee, why would that be? Maybe

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Speaker 2: because you allowed all the criminals and homeless people to

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Speaker 2: run amock. A lot of businesses have closed in LA,

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Speaker 2: a shocking number of businesses.

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Speaker 1: And I know this. Just drive down Willstrom Boulevard.

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Speaker 2: Look at all the restaurants that have boarded up I

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Speaker 2: have on my side of town, which is a nice

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Speaker 2: part of town. I can't tell you how many shopping

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Speaker 2: centers are practically vacant, with dozens of empty storefronts, shops, restaurants.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's gone.

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Speaker 5: So they're also the worried about the looting, too, worried

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Speaker 5: about people breaking in and taking all the stuff.

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Speaker 2: It was criminals looting, it was crazy people in mental patients.

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Speaker 2: And I know a lot of people who didn't want

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Speaker 2: to go out to dinner anymore, and they weren't going

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Speaker 2: to go walking around window shopping. Sales taxes are down

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Speaker 2: for the same reason. By the way, the business comment

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Speaker 2: in LA really sucks. You know what's glossed over because

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Speaker 2: we have an incompetent media. We've had the second highest

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Speaker 2: unemployment rate in the country for years. In California, we

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Speaker 2: have a high unemployment rate. There aren't a lot of

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Speaker 2: good paying jobs. We have a lot of poverty. We

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Speaker 2: have a lot of people on Medicaid, a lot of.

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Speaker 1: Them are legal aliens.

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Speaker 2: And by allowing all the crime and all the homeless people,

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Speaker 2: businesses going out of business. Customers are scarce. Business taxes down,

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Speaker 2: sales taxes down, hotel taxes down because why would you

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Speaker 2: vacation here? They saw what was going on on television.

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Speaker 2: They see it's the homeless capital of America. We're just

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Speaker 2: known for our disasters like the latest is the fire,

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Speaker 2: and eventually everybody figures out, oh yeah, the fire was

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Speaker 2: far worse because the city really didn't have a functioning

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Speaker 2: fire department.

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Speaker 1: Did they.

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Speaker 2: Like we said before, fire hydrants were broken, reservoirs were empty,

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Speaker 2: engines were busted and not fixed. Firefighters are at fifty percent.

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Speaker 5: By the way, John did you get any snitches that

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Speaker 5: want to co host with you to talk about what

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Speaker 5: really happened in Maribas's office when the fire broke out.

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Speaker 1: We're short of snitches. Wow, it's a snitches draft. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. Nobody wants to come forward and tell the truth.

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Speaker 4: John's going to pay you big bucks to do it.

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Speaker 2: Now we're getting little It's crazy. I can do this

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Speaker 2: job without paying for snitches. The truth will come out eventually. Apparently.

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Speaker 2: The costs that are rising include liability claims. Again, you

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Speaker 2: don't know how many people sue the city because they've

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Speaker 2: tripped over a city sidewalk.

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Speaker 1: Labor agreements.

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Speaker 2: They gave away huge contract increases in pension increases to

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Speaker 2: all the unions. And well, let's see when business taxes

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Speaker 2: are down, sales taxes down, hotel taxes down, liability claims

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Speaker 2: are up, more payroll, more pensions. In fact, Kenneth Mahea says, yeah,

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Speaker 2: steep increases in payroll, coasts, costs surging, liability payouts, revenue

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Speaker 2: projections way down, mismanagement incompetence, Bowbery, Boobery. Deborah Mark is

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Speaker 2: up next, and then we're going to talk to State

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Speaker 2: Senator Tony Strickland. He'd like to defund high speed rail

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Speaker 2: and use the money to lower gas prices. Deborhmark live

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Speaker 2: in the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey, you've been

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