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Speaker 1: going to talk now with in just a minute, Blake Trolley.

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Speaker 1: I saw the video on news last night and I

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Speaker 1: saw more of it today and it's about this. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. It took a while to build these makeshift

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Speaker 1: homes along the one ten freeway in Highland Park, right

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Speaker 1: by the Arroyo Seko River that channeled river. And why

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Speaker 1: did it suddenly burst as a story. Now the neighbors

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Speaker 1: are upset, but you know, it missed. It taken a

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Speaker 1: little while to build this thing, and I guess some

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Speaker 1: people took all the discarded lumber and supplies that they

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Speaker 1: could find, or maybe they stole, and they turned turned

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Speaker 1: it into some pretty fair looking homes. I mean they're dilapidated,

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Speaker 1: but you know, at first clients it's like, well that

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Speaker 1: looks like a house. Well, let's get Blake Tarlie on

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Speaker 1: to see what's going on here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, John, I had the same question that you had,

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Speaker 2: exactly where did these materials come from to build these homes,

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Speaker 2: especially the home that's really kind of taking center stage

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Speaker 2: here with these with these news headlines. I heard you

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Speaker 2: commenting on why has this not been a story? And

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Speaker 2: I think part of that could be that this home

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Speaker 2: is a little bit off the beaten path. There's a

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Speaker 2: bike path across the way, but the home is about

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Speaker 2: I don't know, two or three hundred feet up and

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Speaker 2: across the river, so you know, to the it's really

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Speaker 2: not too many people are just going to pass it

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Speaker 1: Right and and for a distance it looks like a

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Speaker 1: normal house. And it's got a front door and electricity

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Speaker 1: and he's got lights, and I guess, you know, would

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Speaker 1: fool the average person. Then I it's not a place

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Speaker 1: that would be zoned for a home. No, absolutely not.

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Speaker 2: So if you think about the Arroyo Seco Wash where

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Speaker 2: these homes are situated, there's a few of these structures.

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Speaker 3: I counted five.

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Speaker 2: Now again, the one that's most complete, this is the

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Speaker 2: one that's getting headlines it and these other.

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Speaker 3: Structures sit up on a wall.

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Speaker 2: So if you think you've got the river down in

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Speaker 2: the kind of at the base of this wash, then

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Speaker 2: you have the concrete to the sides. Then like any

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Speaker 2: other wash, there's like a ten foot concrete wall, and

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Speaker 2: these homes are perched up on that wall, and each

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Speaker 2: of them have ladders coming down so that people can

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Speaker 2: ledge where they have these homes. To Fox eleven's credit,

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Speaker 2: they were the only outlet that was able to actually

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Speaker 2: get inside this home. They interviewed the guy that built it.

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Speaker 2: His name's Alejandro Diaz. He moved here from Guatemali, says

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Speaker 2: he's lived there for two years. And they actually got

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Speaker 2: got a garden in the back. I saw a garden

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Speaker 2: he hangs out around this encampment. And he said, yeah,

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Speaker 2: this guy took his time building this thing. And his

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Speaker 2: timeline was about a year and a half.

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Speaker 4: First it started with palettes, if I'm not mistaken, and

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Speaker 3: So I had asked that guy, how did everybody end

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Speaker 2: Because there are quite a few of these makeshift homes

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Speaker 2: like we talked about, and he said a lot of

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Speaker 1: I saw one report I think on Channel seven and

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Speaker 1: homeless people. Are they a nuisance? Noisy? Is there? You know,

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Speaker 2: I did these interviews in Highland Park, and every bystander

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Speaker 2: trying to survive. That said, you know, I did get

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Speaker 2: I talked to was from Glendale. The very first person

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Speaker 2: I talked to was from Glendale, but he was walking

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Speaker 2: in the air tachalism. Say you live in Glendale, how

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Speaker 2: long do you think a house like this would last

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Speaker 3: It was a post l like ten minutes, ten minutes tops.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the as soon as you hit that zip code,

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Speaker 2: it's a lot different police presence, like almost immediately. And

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Speaker 2: then we'll go to this jogger and this guy was

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Speaker 2: buff by the way, And I think that's kind of

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Speaker 2: what he's hinting at with this joke he kind of

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Speaker 5: I think he speaks to the cost of everything, and

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Speaker 5: if you look underneath the surface, there's enough money in

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Speaker 5: this country to prevent all of this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, now, what about your sense of safety? Do you

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Speaker 2: still feel safe walking here? Jogging here every day?

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Speaker 5: I feel safe? Yeah, but wouldout recommend anyone to walk

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Speaker 2: Now, one of the safety issues that I see with

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Speaker 2: this John is just the fact that to access these

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Speaker 3: That water's moving really fast.

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Speaker 2: It's one of those pieces of water that it doesn't

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Speaker 2: inside of it. This morning, I saw a what looked

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Speaker 2: then I saw a car bumper and it looked like

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Speaker 2: a canoe. I mean, it was just flying down the river.

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Speaker 2: And so for people to access these there's some video

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Speaker 2: that's been posted of people jumping over the river. I

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Speaker 1: And then the summertime, the washed windows to nothing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a lot easier in the summer, but you know,

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Speaker 2: even today, and I don't know what caused this, but

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Speaker 2: it seemed like the river when I was walking down

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Speaker 2: So the water level was low enough that it wasn't

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Speaker 2: this is when I saw that barrel coming down, in

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Speaker 3: The water was up on the sidewalk.

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Speaker 1: I was just talking to somebody the other day who's

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Speaker 1: then the city can come and tear down all your

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Speaker 1: whole construction project. Right, And then you have this guy

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Speaker 1: get everything officially approved of. And this guy is hanging

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Speaker 1: over a river. And if he's willing to do this

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Speaker 1: all this work to build it, why doesn't he go

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Speaker 1: get a real job. See everybody saying, oh wow, he's

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Speaker 1: just trying to survive. There's full time work he could

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Speaker 1: be having building real homes. I don't know. I don't understand.

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Speaker 1: There's like two sets of rules for everybody in the world.

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Speaker 1: You build your gate, you know, two inches too high? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Code inspection comes out to your house.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And I know the city did put out a statement

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Speaker 2: saying they're trying to house everybody, and they did say

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Speaker 2: that this is not a safe structure and they're trying

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Speaker 2: to deal with it. But yeah, John, I could understand

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Speaker 2: where there would be some stealing. The owners upset about this.

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Speaker 1: He's stealing the electricity, isn't he well.

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Speaker 2: One of the reports showed that he was tapped into

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Speaker 2: a yeah, a power pole.

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Speaker 3: He's stealing to get his power.

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Speaker 1: Sure, the rest of us are paying record high electricity

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Speaker 1: rates and this guy's getting in for free, and everybody goes, wow, Okay,

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Speaker 1: it looks kind of nice that house. Wow. You know,

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Speaker 1: I guess he's just trying to make it.

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Speaker 3: You know what I saw, John.

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Speaker 2: You know, one of the first stories I covered at

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Speaker 2: KFI was the opening of the tiny Home Village in

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Speaker 2: Highland Park, also up against the one ten. It's on

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Speaker 2: a tiny home village popped out, you know, popping up

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Speaker 3: There already is one.

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Speaker 2: And I spoke with that same guy who gave me

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Speaker 2: said he has been offered to live in that tiny

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Speaker 2: in that tiny tiny home village before, but he hasn't

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Speaker 4: I feel that the city should should do more to

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Speaker 4: help the homeless. I mean, granted they have the tiny homes,

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Speaker 4: but there's so many strict rules and river raft that

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Speaker 4: you have to follow there, and you know, just the

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Speaker 4: invasion of privacy. They have it the right to go

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Speaker 4: through your things at any time, and you know, I

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Speaker 4: think that's honestly why a lot of people are out here.

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Speaker 4: That's I know, that's why I'm out here.

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Speaker 3: So are you homeless living out here?

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Speaker 4: Not out here? But I'm living in a buddy's barrage.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, gotcha.

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Speaker 2: And you're saying the tiny homes just want to work

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Speaker 2: because what too many rules, too.

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Speaker 4: Many rules, a lot of negative influences for me personally.

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Speaker 5: Is that me?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: The big privacy thing is is what it is.

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Speaker 2: You know, did you ever have an opportunity to live

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Speaker 2: in the I mean I know, I was here when

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Speaker 2: they did the whole press conference and everything when these

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Speaker 3: Eric Carcetti was down here. Did they offer you a

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Speaker 3: stay in there?

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Speaker 1: I've been offered a few times.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, stay at this one right here, right, yes, yes,

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Speaker 2: So there you have. He's denying housing, but he's hanging

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, his privacy issues is they don't you're

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Speaker 1: not allowed to use drugs in these shelter situations, and

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Speaker 1: that those are the rules. There's a curfew, you can't drink,

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Speaker 1: you can't use drugs, and and that the code is, oh,

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Speaker 1: you don't have any privacy, yeah, right, that they do

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Speaker 1: have rules. Otherwise you'll have dozens of drug addicts all

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Speaker 1: in one location and eventually you have mayhem from it.

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Speaker 1: All right, well, thanks very much, Blake. All right, John,

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Speaker 1: all right, Blake Trolley, KFI News. We got a thousand

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Speaker 1: how much of that stuff he stole. He's definitely stealing

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Speaker 1: after two thirty, we're going to talk with Michael Gates.

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Speaker 1: He's been on with us many times. He's a city

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Speaker 1: You got the Biden clips ready? Okay? Hard to know

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Speaker 1: where to start here. I want to start with cut four.

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Speaker 1: This is Joe Biden making an appearance yesterday telling reporters

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Speaker 8: I'm gonna calling him uncle Posey. He was shot down.

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Speaker 9: He was on the Air Corps before there was an

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Speaker 1: The life if you could follow that, he said he

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Speaker 1: imagine that. Jean Pierre said, you saw the president. He

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Speaker 8: Play that and my uncle and they called them Ambrose Brosie.

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Speaker 8: They called him my uncle Bosey to Helen Athlete. They

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Speaker 1: It's like the Amtrak story. It's like the Amtrak story. Well,

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Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KF I

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Speaker 1: We might have heard during Ashley's News that we had

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Speaker 1: The that weasel lawyer of his, the Michael what's his?

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Speaker 1: Let's get and I'm not gonna have OJ to kick

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Speaker 1: Michael Gates? That's right, Michael Gates, who is the city

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Speaker 7: Hey John, how you doing?

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Speaker 1: I'm fine now in Huntington Beach. You guys passed this

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Speaker 1: you've got to have you have to show ID to vote?

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Speaker 1: So you guys are a bunch of communists, you realize.

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Speaker 7: That yeah, it's it's it's a it's I know it's

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Speaker 1: I have never gotten I've never understood the controversy from

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Speaker 7: What is the issue, Well, there's this false narrative being

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Speaker 1: You remember, you remember the Georgia situation, right a few

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Speaker 7: You're right, and and the data supports, you know, the

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Speaker 7: because the state is basically claiming that this these measures

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Speaker 7: Huntington Beach is a charter city, and as a charter city,

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Speaker 7: I mean, they're wrong. They're categorically wrong. And there's no

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Speaker 7: The state legislature can't rewrate the California Constitution.

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Speaker 1: City charters are legal, and a lot of the disputes

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Speaker 1: That it's the local control has always been a major

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Speaker 7: And the state has been way more aggressive in the

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Speaker 7: past decade or so in attacking local control, local authority,

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Speaker 7: and basically the state wants every city in the state

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Speaker 7: to be run as the states sees fit. I mean,

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Speaker 7: they basically want to commandeer all local control, take it

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Speaker 7: for themselves, and to dictate what local officials can do.

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Speaker 7: And at the end of the day, I mean, cities

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Speaker 7: need to wake up and realize if they're not going

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Speaker 7: to stand up and do it, Huntington Beach is doing them,

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Speaker 7: they're going to get going to get steamrolled, and they're

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Speaker 7: going to be doing the bidding of the state. And

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Speaker 7: then what's the point of city councils? I mean, why

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Speaker 7: do we have local deliberative bodies making decisions for local jurisdictions.

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Speaker 7: If the state's going to try to call all the shots.

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Speaker 1: They don't want local cities to have control. They don't

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Speaker 1: want city councils, they don't want mayors. They you know,

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Speaker 1: this is this is a like a central planning Soviet

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Speaker 1: style philosophy that they have.

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Speaker 7: That's nice and I can tell and we had a

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Speaker 7: press conference today and I made a few remarks I'm

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Speaker 7: along with the mayor and a couple other council members.

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Speaker 7: You know, we're Huntington Beach doesn't take any of this lightly.

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Speaker 7: We're serious about fighting legal battles. We're serious about fighting

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Speaker 7: the state. We're not intimidated. We're not going to give up.

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Speaker 7: They are, you know, poking the wrong bear because we literally,

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Speaker 7: frankly almost enjoy being in court fighting for our rights

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Speaker 7: and trying to beat back the state no matter what

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Speaker 7: the outcome.

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Speaker 1: Because it's a go ahead.

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Speaker 7: Sorry, well, we're doing it for the people. I mean,

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Speaker 7: what the state doesn't. I mean, I don't even think

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Speaker 7: the state appreciates the dynamics. The voters approved these measures

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Speaker 7: in the primary. So when the state sues Huntington Beach

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Speaker 7: now for the approved ballot measure, they're now basically suing

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Speaker 7: the voters. I mean, this is beyond city council discretion.

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Speaker 7: At this point, city council doesn't have discretion to say, well, Okay,

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Speaker 7: the state's mad at us and us, so let's let's

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Speaker 7: pull this back. Nope, this is the law of the

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Speaker 7: land in Huntington Beach by virtue of the will of

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Speaker 7: the voters, period, full stop. So when the state comes

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Speaker 7: down to Huntington Beach and it's going to try to

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Speaker 7: fight this and court. They're basically taking on the people,

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Speaker 7: the will of the people of Huntington Beach, and so

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Speaker 7: I have a duty and obligations to defend the city,

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Speaker 7: to defend the folks, to defend the law, to defend

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Speaker 7: our charter. And so we're going to fight this vigorously.

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Speaker 7: Just like I said in the press conference, We're going

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Speaker 7: to fight and fight and fight. And you know, the

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Speaker 7: mayor put out a call to other cities. You know,

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Speaker 7: you other cities need to start standing up and fighting too,

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Speaker 7: because if more cities fought back, the state might soon

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Speaker 7: realize they can't be bullying every city in the state

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Speaker 7: of California. It's four hundred and eighty two cities and

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Speaker 7: they're all being bullied at this point by the state

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Speaker 7: of California.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad, Michael, that you and Huntington Beach stand

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Speaker 1: up to the bullies. Thank you very much for coming on.

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Speaker 7: I'm glad you have us on and you can help

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Speaker 7: expose and cover this. It's really important. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Anytime, Michael Gates, City Attorney in Huntington Beach, when we

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Speaker 1: come back it's you can tell it's election season. There's

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Speaker 1: actually Democrats in Sacramento who want to lower your electricity bill.

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Speaker 1: All of a sudden, how high must electricity be for

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Speaker 1: the Democrats to want to lower it? We'll talk.

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Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.

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Speaker 1: This is a really big day because they it was

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Speaker 1: announced that the referendum that will greatly revise Prop. Forty

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Speaker 1: seven is very likely to make the ballot. They have

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Speaker 1: over nine hundred thousand signatures. They needed five hundred forty

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Speaker 1: six thousand. They got nine hundred thousand, and that is

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Speaker 1: way over the mark and that should put it on

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Speaker 1: the fast track. Now, you know, all the signatures have

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Speaker 1: to be verified, but they have a huge cushion there.

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Speaker 1: It's really important because you know how the shenanigans at

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Speaker 1: these county registrar offices led to well in La County suspiciously,

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Speaker 1: Mike Bonden almost got recalled but just missed, and George

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Speaker 1: Gascon almost got recalled but just missed. And the backers

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Speaker 1: of this proposition took that cue and they went into overdrive.

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Speaker 1: They had it was very well funded. I also have

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Speaker 1: to read to you the coverage by the Los Angeles Times. Okay,

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Speaker 1: this is huge here. Prop forty seven has been the

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Speaker 1: scourge of our life for ten years, and there's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a huge interest, and there's already huge support for it.

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Speaker 1: But the LA Times downplayed the story and tried to

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Speaker 1: poke holes in the idea that this would ever pass.

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Speaker 1: We'll explain it. They're not even featuring it very much

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Speaker 1: on their website. It's already buried. You have to go

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Speaker 1: hunting for it. Everything costs way too much in California,

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Speaker 1: and almost all of it is self inflicted by the governor,

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Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom and the Democratic legislature. They have created an

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Speaker 1: economic system here that is just awful. We have the

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Speaker 1: highest unemployment rate in the country. We have the highest

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Speaker 1: gas prices in the country. We even have the greatest

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Speaker 1: fast food price increase in the country. California fast food

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Speaker 1: prices have risen by seven percent in six months, and

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Speaker 1: this is ahead of the April first minimum wage increase.

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Speaker 1: April first, the twenty dollars minimum wage kicked in for

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Speaker 1: fast food. Leading up to April first, you about a

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Speaker 1: seven percent increase in fast food prices in the previous

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Speaker 1: six months, higher than any other state in the nation. Nationally,

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Speaker 1: fast food prices went up four and a half percent.

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Speaker 1: In California, it was it was, uh, let me see,

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Speaker 1: let me do the math in my head here, Well,

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Speaker 1: it was about seventy percent higher. And full service restaurants

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Speaker 1: prices went up by over three percent in the last

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Speaker 1: six months. In fact, California had four of the nation's

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Speaker 1: top ten places in terms of overall price hikes. If

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Speaker 1: you just broke up the country by area codes, we

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Speaker 1: had four of the top ten, including number seven Riverside

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Speaker 1: County area code nine to five to one. Food prices

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Speaker 1: were up eight percent at fast food restaurants. And then

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Speaker 1: let's see what's going to happen now that they added

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Speaker 1: a twenty dollars minimum wage. All this stuff hurts middle

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Speaker 1: income and poor people a whole lot more. Did I

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Speaker 1: mention the electric bill increase? That's what I was going

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Speaker 1: to do. There's a there's a new fixed monthly fee

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Speaker 1: that's supposed to be adopted by the California Public Utilities

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Speaker 1: Commission in May twenty four dollars fixed monthly increase to

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Speaker 1: all customers. If you're with PG and E Southern California,

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Speaker 1: Edison or San Diego Gas and Electric. Those of you

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Speaker 1: that get your electricity from LADWP, you're not going to

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Speaker 1: be affected by it. Not LADWP, but everybody else you will.

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Speaker 1: Twenty four dollars fixed monthly fee. It gets complicated, but

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Speaker 1: it Sacramento woke up, of course, you know they allowed

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Speaker 1: the fee, and now they realize election year people are

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Speaker 1: pissed about prices, pissed about inflation. So Jackie Irwin, a

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Speaker 1: Democrat from Thousand Oaks, wants to fight skyrocketing electricity rates.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you their whole global warm war has

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Speaker 1: led to the skyrot rocketing electricity rates. Solar and win

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Speaker 1: energy has been really expensive. All the extra taxes on

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Speaker 1: energy companies has been really expensive. We have by far

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Speaker 1: the highest electricity rates in the nation, seventy percent higher

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Speaker 1: than the national average. And then they added another twenty

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Speaker 1: four dollars monthly fee. Well, now Jackie Irwin tries to

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Speaker 1: play the heroin role. Our constituents have had enough, and

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Speaker 1: so have we. It's time to put reasoning back into

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Speaker 1: how we charge for electricity. Really, you know what's happened

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Speaker 1: for electricity prices over the last ten years. PG and

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Speaker 1: E rates increased by one hundred and twenty seven percent,

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Speaker 1: Southern California Edison ninety one percent, San Diego Gas and

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Speaker 1: Electrics seventy two percent. This new twenty four dollars fee

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Speaker 1: would be double the national average for a fixed electricity

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Speaker 1: bill charge. Double the national average. All right, we come back, Big,

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Speaker 1: Big Day. The California group that has is pushing a

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Speaker 1: major rewrite of Prop. Forty seven says it has nine

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand signatures. We'll talk about that when we return.

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Speaker 1: We've got Ashley Johnson live in the KFI twenty for

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Speaker 1: our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to The John Cobalt

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Speaker 1: Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on

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Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty from one to four pm every

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Speaker 1: Monday through Friday, and of course, anytime on demand on

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