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Speaker 3: At three point thirty after Deborah's news, we are going

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Speaker 3: to have the state Minority Leader Brian Jones. He released well,

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Speaker 3: Newsom staff who are attacking the USC Professor Michael McShee

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Speaker 3: sixty five cents a gallon, this is going to lead

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Speaker 3: making the rounds explaining his research. He's done a lot

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Speaker 3: of research recently, all of it quite unflattering to Newsom,

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Speaker 3: because what Newsom is doing is punishing everybody to try

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Speaker 3: know the reasons that's not working. So now his staff

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Speaker 3: is smearing Michael MChE and Brian Jones Sentminori leader wants

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Speaker 3: to wants to Well, he's got a lot to say

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Speaker 3: about that. We'll get to that in a few minutes.

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Speaker 3: Time to once again if you're just joining us. Deborah Mark,

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Speaker 3: our award winning news anchor, won another one yesterday or

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Speaker 3: this morning.

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Speaker 2: The Edward R.

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Speaker 3: Murrow Award for her series called Suicide, Stigma and Shame.

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Speaker 3: You may remember it from last year. It's a regional

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Speaker 3: over California and beyond and Melifornia, Nevada, and it's entered

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so I'll find out in the summer if if

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Speaker 3: If I am six forty dot com slash suicide And

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Speaker 3: and also a link to Deborah and I talking about

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Speaker 3: it when it was originally aired last September. Right, Yes,

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Speaker 3: so congratulations to her, than you please don't text her

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Speaker 3: while she's driving home.

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Speaker 2: Away when I'm going she got pulled over by the

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Speaker 4: I was so excited looking at all the likes and

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Speaker 3: So you know, you could cause a major accident on

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Speaker 3: the one on one if you text her this afternoon.

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Speaker 3: We've been we've been doing a lot today. I for

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Speaker 3: some reason, I don't know why things go in waves.

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Speaker 3: There's a herd mentality. But there's been a lot of

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Speaker 3: stories on Gavin Newsom, kind of retrospective stories. Hey, he

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Speaker 3: to change his views publicly. Like yesterday he came out

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Speaker 3: And Michael Schellenberger at Public Dot News had a great

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Speaker 3: all the bad policies that Newsome instituted, enabled, amplified, really

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Speaker 3: destructive policies that led to at this point, almost two

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Speaker 3: It's like, how many people has Gavin Newsom killed? Between

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Speaker 3: admitting to twenty seven billion. Whatever it is, it has

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Speaker 3: We've got illegal aliens now getting healthcare, big budget deficit,

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Speaker 3: Those are the three things that are costing us money

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Speaker 3: Legal aliens, homeless people and criminals the only three constituencies

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Speaker 3: All the losers in life who don't deserve this money,

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Speaker 2: He's so full of it.

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Speaker 6: Listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM six forty.

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Speaker 3: After Depbor's news at three point thirty, we're going to

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Speaker 3: have you heard what Kevin Newsom is doing? That that

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Speaker 3: his analysis. He's been on our show several times now,

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Speaker 5: How sad.

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Speaker 2: And he's going to provide the AI friends.

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Speaker 5: Oh, he's going to choose the AI friends.

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Speaker 3: And then you know what, he is such a creepy weirdo.

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Speaker 4: But how is he going to tailor those AI type

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but you want real friends, not fake AI friends.

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Speaker 3: He says, AI friends are the solution. The average American

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Speaker 3: It's not like I'm mister popularity, but I got way

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Speaker 3: more than three friends and I know you do.

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Speaker 3: The average person wants fifteen friends, according to Zuckerberg. You know,

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Speaker 3: Zuckerberg going to be locked up in a mental institution.

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Speaker 3: He's already done enough damage to the world. For people

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Speaker 4: For example, all you have to say is are you real?

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Speaker 7: Yes, as like a suggested like friend like, hey, you

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Speaker 2: Those are some of the listeners that complain to you.

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Speaker 3: But people, they don't exist, they don't care what you think.

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Speaker 3: All right, we come back. We're going to have Brian Jones,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you run on that, Newsom.

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Speaker 3: That and all the criminals you let out at a prison,

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Speaker 3: Brian Jones is coming on here. Just a quick rundown

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Speaker 2: The whole thing is a mess.

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Speaker 3: The people around the country are paying in the two

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Speaker 3: And now Newsome and his office is attacking Michael MChE

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Speaker 2: Brian, welcome, Thank you, John.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you're recovering this, and I know you've been,

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Speaker 1: you know, having Professor Mache on your show and cover this,

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Speaker 1: he's attacked me, he's attacked anybody who has anything different

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Speaker 3: Well he can't. They're fewed it if it's true. And plus,

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Speaker 3: that's what they want. The progressives and Sacramento want gas

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Speaker 2: That's what they want.

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Speaker 1: That was the purpose of that, yeah, or worth it,

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Speaker 1: They've said that they've been continuous in that messaging that

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Speaker 1: And it just goes to show that this governor is

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Speaker 3: Now, I thought, what might save us all when it

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Speaker 3: That's just not He's not going to do that. It's

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Speaker 1: Well, I think I think what happened, John, is all

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Speaker 1: He's been pushing all of these green policies for the

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Speaker 3: But why is he pushing something that he knows isn't

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Speaker 1: Because it's popular, it had sounds good, went to the

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Speaker 1: And so he's surrounded himself, looking at his dinners, at

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Speaker 1: It's always around people that have insulated themselves from the

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Speaker 1: He doesn't understand the plight of trying to fill up

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Speaker 3: You know, every day I've been going on the tripa

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Speaker 2: You go ahead.

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Speaker 1: Here's the amazing thing. California. We have enough oil to

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Speaker 1: Anywhere in the states, this.

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Speaker 2: Is what's crazy.

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Speaker 3: Gas prices have been dropping dramatically across the country, oil

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Speaker 3: But like I said, about twenty seven states are under three.

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Speaker 2: I just it states with similar.

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Speaker 3: Alaska is three dollars and fifty nine cents, Hawaii is

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Speaker 3: course the price is going to go up. We're going

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Speaker 1: Well, we already are. We're getting a small portion of

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Speaker 2: Texas is at two seventy two.

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Speaker 3: What happens in California if we're actually paying six dollars

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Speaker 1: an economics crisis right now when it comes to fuel costs, John,

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Speaker 1: We're on the precipice of an economic disaster. And the

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Speaker 1: important thing to understand is this is self made. Gavin

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Speaker 1: Newsom owns this crisis, and when it becomes a disaster,

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Speaker 1: he's going to own this this disaster. And remember, this

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Speaker 1: is not a natural disaster. This wasn't caused by an earthquake,

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Speaker 1: This wasn't caused by a tsunami, this wasn't caused by flooding.

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Speaker 1: This wasn't caused by hurricanes or tornadoes or snowfall or rain.

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Speaker 1: It was caused by the policies of this governor and

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Speaker 1: his leftist associates in the Democratic Party.

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Speaker 3: All right, Brian, I got to run. Thank you for

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Speaker 3: coming on. We'll talk again.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for covenant. We're going to keep more California.

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Speaker 2: Brian Jones, Sennate Minority Leader.

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Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 6: six forty.

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Speaker 3: Moist fine for Friday is eight seven seven moist eighty

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Speaker 3: six eight seven seven moist eighty six. You may have

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Speaker 3: been hearing about the Palisades fire coverage, the Altadena fire

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Speaker 3: coverage for several months now and thinking, well, that's really

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Speaker 3: horrible and tragic, but it doesn't affect my life. The

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Speaker 3: fire didn't hit me. Well, the insurance surch charges are

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Speaker 3: going to hit you, because the companies that got hit

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Speaker 3: with billions of dollars worth of claims is they're they're

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Speaker 3: going to raise insurance rates on a lot of homes

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Speaker 3: that were nowhere near the fire zone. The California Fair

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Speaker 3: Plan with approval of that that Ricardi Lara cal fart Lara,

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Speaker 3: the insurance Commissioner the guy who's gone on four six trips,

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Speaker 3: many of them subsidized by the taxpayer, to countries all

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Speaker 3: over the world. Well, this guy is in charge of

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Speaker 3: the Fair Plan, and so now he has assessed the

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Speaker 3: insurance carriers in the plan a billion dollars. And the

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Speaker 3: Fair Plan is made up of various insurers and this

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Speaker 3: is regulated by the state, and they were swamped after

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Speaker 3: the Palisades and Altadena fires and expects the costs for

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Speaker 3: the fires are going to total about four billion dollars.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't have the money, it doesn't have much of

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Speaker 3: a surplus, it doesn't have much in the way of

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Speaker 3: reinsurance funds, and they need another billion dollars. So even

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Speaker 3: if you live one hundreds of miles away from the fires,

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Speaker 3: if you're in the Fair Plan, you could be forced

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Speaker 3: to pay an extra assessment on top of the annual

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Speaker 3: premium which have gone by up by hundreds and thousands

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Speaker 3: of dollars on their own. So no matter how high

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Speaker 3: the insurance has gone up under the Fair Plan for you,

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Speaker 3: it's going up even higher to account for this extra

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Speaker 3: billion dollars. Triple A Mercury are two of the largest

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Speaker 3: home insurers in the state, and they filed applications wanting

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Speaker 3: to raise rates also Amica or Amica and Western Mutual

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Speaker 3: and and this is going to get approved because the

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Speaker 3: fair Plan is broke. So Karen Bass flying off to

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Speaker 3: Africa and ignoring the weather report and the fire warnings,

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Speaker 3: Karen Bass giving us half a fire department in Los Angeles,

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Speaker 3: LA having one hundred of its fire engines getting repaired,

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Speaker 3: the fire Chief Kristin Crowley sending a thousand fire fighters home.

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Speaker 2: All that means they have to raise a.

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Speaker 3: Billion dollars from thousands of people who are were not

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Speaker 3: affected by the fires. So you have to pay for

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Speaker 3: the incompetence of Karen Bass and Kristin Crowley and the

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Speaker 3: LA City Council and the LA County Board of Supervisors

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Speaker 3: and their policies. There was a lot of damage done

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Speaker 3: in out to Dina, So you're all getting affected if

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Speaker 3: you're in the Fair Plan, no matter where you're living

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Speaker 3: in the state. And it all leads back to a horrific,

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Speaker 3: horrible response and horrific prevention policies. We will continue covering this.

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Speaker 3: We got Michael Krozer coming up with the news. Conway

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Speaker 3: is next and Michael is live in the CAFI twenty

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