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Speaker 2: on demand and you listen to what you missed already.

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Speaker 1: On the show, we went deeply.

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Speaker 2: Into the perversity and violence of Caesar Chavez, who I

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Speaker 2: don't think is going to have a state holiday with

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Speaker 2: Probably within a few hours they're going to repeal that holiday.

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Speaker 2: Maybe they should make it that all the state workers

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Speaker 2: have to go to work on March thirty first.

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Speaker 1: How about that one. We're going to have.

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Speaker 2: More on that later in the program. Now, I want

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Speaker 2: to talk to Jay Bieber. Jay Bieber is with the

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Speaker 2: National Motors Association. He's their policy director. We've had him

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Speaker 2: on frequently because unfortunately Los Angeles keeps coming up with

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Speaker 2: more and more ways to steal money from you. And

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Speaker 2: now they have something called their speed camera systems. One

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Speaker 2: hundred and twenty five of them are coming to Los Angeles.

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Speaker 2: This could mean that the city of LA would take

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Speaker 2: in over twenty six million dollars in tickets each year.

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Speaker 2: San Francisco has this. They got thirty three. We're going

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Speaker 2: to get one hundred and twenty five.

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Speaker 1: And boy, I.

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Speaker 2: Tell you, if you get a ticket from one of

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Speaker 2: these systems, good luck. It's going to be nearly impossible

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Speaker 2: to get out of it, even if they're wrong. Let's

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Speaker 2: talk to Jay. How are you, Jay? Oh?

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Speaker 3: I'm doing pretty good. It's been a long time since

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Speaker 3: I talked to you, So nice to be back on

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Speaker 3: the show.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right.

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Speaker 2: Tell me when is this coming to Los Angeles And

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Speaker 2: is it going to be spread around the whole city

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Speaker 2: or is it going to be concentrated in certain sections?

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Speaker 3: Now they're going to spread this around the whole city.

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Speaker 3: You know, every council member wants some in their district.

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Speaker 3: This is what they did with the red light camera program,

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Speaker 3: if you remember. And then you know, years later, when

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Speaker 3: we were getting rid of that program, it came out

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Speaker 3: that they just basically put a certain number in every

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Speaker 3: council district because they wanted it and didn't matter whether

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Speaker 3: just you know, that was one of the things that

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Speaker 3: killed the program. But this is you know, this is

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Speaker 3: supposedly coming out sometime towards the end of the year,

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Speaker 3: they're trying to push it through as quickly as possible.

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Speaker 3: They didn't go out to regular bidding on it. They

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Speaker 3: just tagged onto a program that was being run in Oakland,

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Speaker 3: California already. So they just basically handed out this multi

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Speaker 3: billion dollar contract and oh yeah there, you know this.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you know this is the way that it goes.

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Speaker 1: So I'm sure no corruption there.

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Speaker 3: Lobbied for this up in Sacra Mata are the ones

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Speaker 3: that are getting all the contract.

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Speaker 2: So so this this camera is gonna detect your speed

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Speaker 2: and the mail your ticket and you have to pay for.

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Speaker 3: It pretty much. I mean, it goes to the registered owner.

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Speaker 3: So they wrote it such that the owner of the

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Speaker 3: I mean, think about this. This is one of those

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Speaker 3: things where somebody else could have been driving your car

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Speaker 3: could have been you know, you take the car and

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Speaker 3: or you give it to you know, somebody to park

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Speaker 3: your vehicle and you know they get a ticket. Now

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Speaker 3: there's no way to know who's driving, because the.

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Speaker 2: Only thing that constitutional that you you get you get

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Speaker 1: Offense.

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Speaker 2: And and you're not even there, and they don't have

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Speaker 1: That seems like a violation is something.

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Speaker 3: Well, interestingly, there was just a judgment in Florida that

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Speaker 3: said that it is unconstitutional because they have a similar system.

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Speaker 3: It depends on how the law is written. But there's

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Speaker 3: a lot of problems with this law. There's a lot

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Speaker 3: I mean, there's a lot of a lot of problems

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Speaker 1: Well, let me go through them.

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Speaker 2: Because apparently there's no right to face your accuser. When

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Speaker 3: No, this is this is considered a civil violation. So

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Speaker 3: Like let's say you get a traffic ticket, even a

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Speaker 3: you get to you know, cross examine the people that

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Speaker 3: just like a parking ticket. If you get the ticket,

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Speaker 3: want to fight it. Nobody has to show up from

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Speaker 3: the government side. The hearing officer is required to assume

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Speaker 3: this is actually a really important come.

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Speaker 1: On this this is communist stuff here, of course it is.

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Speaker 3: But it's about money. I mean, this whole thing is

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Speaker 3: about money. They claim it's about safety, but it's about money.

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Speaker 3: And if I could have thirty seconds to explain why

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Speaker 3: this is such a problem, Because when you get a ticket,

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Speaker 3: speeding ticket from a police officer on a surface street,

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Speaker 3: not on the highway, but on surface street, what you're

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Speaker 3: doing is you're violating what they call the basic speed law.

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Speaker 3: And what that means is that you're driving at a

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Speaker 3: speed that's unsafe, that's unreasonable, it's an unreasonable speed. When

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Speaker 3: at that moment in time, in the conditions that were

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Speaker 3: that that was unsafe, and then you have the right

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Speaker 3: to cross examine that officer, and you have the right

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Speaker 3: to give evidence as far as no, my speed was

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Speaker 3: not unsafe. This system throws all of that out the window.

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Speaker 3: You might not have even been the person driving, and

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Speaker 3: even if you were, you might have gotten this ticket

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Speaker 3: weeks later, so you wouldn't be able to remember what

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Speaker 3: the conditions were. There's no way to defend yourself. Basically,

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Speaker 3: it turns so basically what it does is it turns

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Speaker 2: Oh that's crazy. I can't believe that would stand up

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Speaker 2: to a challenge. All right, one more thing, one more question,

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Speaker 2: because you know you find this intriguing. Like red light

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Speaker 1: Explain.

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Speaker 3: So we believe, based on the way the law is

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Speaker 3: written in other cases, like let's say a parking ticket,

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Speaker 3: they can put a hold on your registration. They can't

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Speaker 3: do that with these tickets. Same thing with red light

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Speaker 3: camera tickets. They you know, they can't. If they, for example,

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Speaker 3: they send it to a collection agency, the collection agency

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Speaker 3: can't send it to the credit reporting agency. So it

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Speaker 3: doesn't go on your credit reports, it doesn't affect your credit.

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Speaker 3: There's really nothing in the law, no mechanism for if

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Speaker 3: you don't answer it. And I'm not suggesting, you know,

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Speaker 3: people take legal advice here. I'm just saying in terms

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Speaker 3: of our understanding of the law that if these tickets

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Speaker 3: that there's any consequence that they have anything in the law. Now,

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Speaker 3: once they figure this out, they'll probably go back and

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Speaker 3: try to change the law. But now the way the

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Speaker 3: law is written, there's nothing that Wait, they.

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Speaker 1: Didn't figure that out when they wrote the law the first.

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Speaker 3: Time, because because they did actually have some mechanisms. But

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Speaker 3: excuse me, some of the social justice groups said, well,

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Speaker 3: you can't take somebody's you know, you can't. You can't

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Speaker 3: take somebody registration away because you know, poor people will

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Speaker 3: get creamed on this, but they will, So that's a

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Speaker 3: valid that's a valid concern, but I mean so so

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Speaker 3: they pulled that out of the law, so there's really

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Speaker 3: nothing in there to force you to do anything if they.

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Speaker 2: Can't if they if they can't force a poort person

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Speaker 2: to pay a ticket, they're not going to force me

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Speaker 1: No way. I'm all right.

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Speaker 3: I mean we should, you know, we should. We should

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Speaker 3: talk about some of the numbers that we're looking at here,

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Speaker 3: because this is what this is crazy.

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Speaker 1: It's like twenty six million dollars they can they can raise.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean right now, San Francisco, which has a program,

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Speaker 3: they're going to issue over seven million dollars in tickets

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Speaker 3: within the first year. We're looking at the numbers and

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Speaker 3: we've calculated that and if you extrapolate that to LA,

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Speaker 3: they have thirty three cameras systems, this will be one

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Speaker 3: that LA took issue over twenty six million dollars ticket button.

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Speaker 2: But I remember, and I'm gonna have to go after this.

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Speaker 2: I remember they had timed the red light cameras so

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Speaker 2: that your yellow light would be a quarter of a second,

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Speaker 2: and so people would get caught all the time going

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Speaker 2: so short. And if they rig these cameras, and I'm

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Speaker 2: sure they will because they always do, then there is

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Speaker 2: no recourse for a motorist because there's no discovery of evidence.

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Speaker 2: You can't face your accuser, and all they'll be they'll

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Speaker 2: just be stealing money from people. I gotta go, Jay Bieber,

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Speaker 2: we'll talk again soon. Thank you for coming on.

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Speaker 3: That's good.

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Speaker 1: No pleasure from the National Motors Association.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 4: six forty.

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Speaker 2: I AM six forty more stimulating talk radio John Cobelt

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Speaker 2: Show moistline is eight seven seven Moist eighty six eight

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Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app. UC Berkeley in Los Angeles. Times has

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Speaker 2: a poll out top two gubernatorial candidates here in the state,

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Speaker 2: Republicans Steve Hilton at seventeen percent. He's the former Fox host,

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Speaker 2: former aid to the British Prime Minister David Cameron, businessman

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Speaker 2: Steve Hilton seventeen percent, and current Riverside County Sheriff Chad

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Speaker 2: Bianco sixteen percent. They're number one and two. Next comes

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Speaker 2: two Democrats Eric whoa Well and missus potato Head and

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Speaker 2: they both have thirteen percent, and then that environmental whack

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Speaker 2: job billionaire Tom Steyers at ten. Everybody else is in

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Speaker 2: single digits and going nowhere, including our friend Antonio Viwergosa.

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Speaker 2: Matt Mahan's probably the saanest of all the Democrats. He's

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Speaker 2: he's going nowhere to he and they were goes at

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Speaker 2: four percent and you know we're down to what ten weeks.

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Speaker 2: The thing is, you know, they have a poll of

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Speaker 2: what people's top priorities are and when it comes to,

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Speaker 2: you know, the future in California, and forty percent said

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Speaker 2: reducing the cost of living. That's that that's the biggest

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Speaker 2: number out of all. You know, they have a laundry list.

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Speaker 2: So for one issue to get forty percent, and that

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Speaker 2: was among Democrats, Republicans, independents. And if it wasn't the

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Speaker 2: cost of living, it was lowering gas prices and utility

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Speaker 2: rates and the price of housing and blah blah, all

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Speaker 2: of it. Everything costs too much. We all know that

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Speaker 2: from March twenty first of last year, Reason Foundation, Reason Magazine.

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Speaker 2: California's roads and bridges rank forty ninth in overall condition

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Speaker 2: We've got the highest gas tax by far. They claim,

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Speaker 2: And you know they're not fixing the roads. I wrecked

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Speaker 2: because where do you think the money's going. It's going

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Speaker 2: The roads are a horrible mess. Well, Tony Strickland is

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Speaker 1: Why would anybody, anybody be opposed to that?

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Speaker 1: Who's against this?

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Speaker 4: Yes, you're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI

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Speaker 2: We're on from three to six every day after six o'clock.

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Speaker 2: John Cobelt's show on demand on the iHeart app. Moistline

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Speaker 2: And he introduced legislation which was to be heard this

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Speaker 1: All right, is Tony? What happened to it?

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Speaker 5: It did not pass. It failed on party line vote,

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Speaker 2: You're my bill, Your suspension would have led to Yeah,

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Speaker 5: Yes, it was quite eleven hundred dollars per family across

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Speaker 5: But the only thing when we could have done to

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Speaker 5: And these members are almost like Marie Antoinette in history.

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Speaker 5: Let them eat cakes. They they don't care.

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Speaker 1: What's the reason they give, if any.

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Speaker 5: They always say environmental. We're going too far on the environmental.

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Speaker 1: But tell, what do you think what environmental? What do

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they don't know. It's too important to suspend this

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Speaker 2: Dude, that a lot of a lot of the money's

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Speaker 1: That thing is is a corrupt disaster. They're stealing that money.

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Speaker 5: Could agree with you more. And look, this is like

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Speaker 5: even Antonio or Viragosa and Mayhan, the Democrats running for governor,

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Speaker 5: more oil production to California and Current County be energy independent.

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Speaker 1: They're they're they're they're babbling about the environment.

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Speaker 2: It's total nonsense because we're important, a tremendous amount from overseas.

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Speaker 2: These tankers are coming in from anywhere from a Rock

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Speaker 2: So where's the money going. This must be another big racket,

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Speaker 2: So they're not spending the gas tacks on the roads.

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Speaker 5: No, And it's going to things like the high speed rail,

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Speaker 2: Years Look, you know, I'm not being nice anymore. These

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking these senators are getting some kind of kickback

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Speaker 5: Kicked Yeah, there's a whole bunch of people come forward

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Speaker 1: Would they stop with the environment? The environment's beautiful in California.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that that This This is fanaticism, this is insanity.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he tries to he's got a campaign going on.

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Speaker 2: There's completely, completely, absolutely full of it. So if your

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Speaker 5: I'm just yeah, you know, that's exactly we need new

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Speaker 1: All right, Tony Strickland, what I got to run? Thank

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Speaker 5: Thank you for having me. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Thank all right. Republican State centered from hunting To Beach.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobel on demand from KFI.

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Speaker 2: We just had Tony Strickland on. He's the Republican state

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Speaker 2: And where yesterday we were at five fifty four a gallon?

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Speaker 2: And look at all the money that they're spending and blowing.

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Speaker 1: What's the reasoning why?

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Speaker 2: Because they steal it. Because they steal the money. This

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Speaker 1: You know what, I don't care about the climate. I

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Speaker 2: I looked it up this week, right because some people

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Speaker 2: It is just another way to steal money from you,

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Speaker 2: because this money is going to high speed rail twenty

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Speaker 2: five percent of one of these taxes, high speed rail,

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Speaker 2: which is the biggest crooked, most corrupt scam in the

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Speaker 2: history of America. You will not find more money wasted

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Speaker 2: on a bigger construction scam than high speed rail.

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Speaker 1: And I'm looking at the polling in the.

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Speaker 2: LA Times, Forty percent of what they're asked, what's the

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Speaker 2: priority for the next governor should that they should address?

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Speaker 2: Forty percent say reducing the cost of living in California.

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Speaker 2: Add to that, cutting taxes that's another ten percent, lowering

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Speaker 2: the state's high gasoline prices ten percent. They do this

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Speaker 2: pall before it hit five pin fifty a gallon, And

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Speaker 2: mostly it's Republicans. It's like, oh, here's another good one.

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Speaker 2: Cutting waste, fraud and political corruption. Forty eight percent of

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Speaker 2: Republicans say the next governor should focus on that. Only

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Speaker 2: ten percent of Democrats. Why are democrats comfortable with waste, fraud,

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Speaker 2: and corruption.

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Speaker 1: We've reported in the last couple of.

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Speaker 2: Weeks literally billions of dollars being wasted on fake hospices

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Speaker 2: and fake daycare centers and fake medical building, literally billions

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Speaker 2: of dollars.

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Speaker 1: I'm okay with that.

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Speaker 2: Only only five percent are worried about lowering the state's

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Speaker 2: high gasoline prices.

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Speaker 4: But that's wrong.

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Speaker 1: This is where I think there's a huge connect.

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Speaker 2: I don't think they understand how much of our gas

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Speaker 2: price depends on the excessive insane taxes.

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Speaker 1: And they're not going for the roads.

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Speaker 2: We have the worst roads, the worst roads in the

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Speaker 2: in the country in many categories. And if they are

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Speaker 2: not the worst, they are the next to worst. In fact,

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Speaker 2: the only the only state that had worst roads was Alaska,

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Speaker 2: and Alaska is eleven and a half months of winter.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what's wrong with people. All right, Uh,

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Speaker 2: we'll have more when we come back. And next to

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Speaker 2: our I'm gonna there's another. We have a we have

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Speaker 2: a train to nowhere, we have a bridge that goes nowhere,

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Speaker 2: and it's right here in Las aieans listener, and it's

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Speaker 2: they're wasting one hundred million dollars on it, debor Mark

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