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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. While we know right

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Speaker 1: now the number one topic for most Americans is the border,

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Speaker 1: and I should say the wide open border and immigration policies,

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Speaker 1: especially after we've seen another tragic murder at the hands

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Speaker 1: of an illegal immigrant that was kind of came into

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Speaker 1: this country under the Biden administration. Last week we saw

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Speaker 1: President Trump, we saw President Biden both at the border

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Speaker 1: talking about it. I think the most interesting part about this, Timmy,

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Speaker 1: is that we're back here because in twenty sixteen, this

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Speaker 1: was the message, and I believe build the Wall was

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Speaker 1: really the message that made President Trump win. That was

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Speaker 1: the message that people said, my gosh, if we don't

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Speaker 1: have borders, what do we have as a country, If

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Speaker 1: we're not safe, what do we have as a country.

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Speaker 1: And yet here we are back in this situation. And

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Speaker 1: I was just listening because I knew we're doing this podcast,

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Speaker 1: and I'm just listening to all the coverage of Joe

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Speaker 1: Biden and Donald Trump being at the border, and it's

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Speaker 1: just bizarre to me how much the mainstream media wants

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Speaker 1: to cover this up for him, because they're going, oh,

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Speaker 1: you know, he had this border bill that would have

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Speaker 1: passed had Trump not stopped it. Look, Trump was honest.

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Speaker 1: He said, why would we have a bad bill when

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Speaker 1: we can get him out of office? And I agree,

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Speaker 1: I mean, why pass something that becomes law if it's

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Speaker 1: crap if you can get somebody into office that's going

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Speaker 1: to protect your border. And so when I heard this

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Speaker 1: story about a woman who's running for Congress in California

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Speaker 1: in the forty ninth district taking on a Democrat incumbent

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Speaker 1: Mark or Mike Levin, I was like, I like this, lady,

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Speaker 1: this is pretty impressive what she's doing. So capron Roe

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Speaker 1: is actually a disabled US Marine Corps veteran and the

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Speaker 1: CEO of Vetcom. And what I saw was a woman

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Speaker 1: who said, I mean a lot like Donald Trump, forget this.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to have an open border. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: want to welcome Kate onto the podcast. Thanks for being

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Speaker 2: So excited to be here. It's been a really big week.

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Speaker 2: And so the more coverage we can get on this

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Speaker 2: the better. So, you know, God bless you for this.

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Speaker 1: Well, I want to play something for the audience because

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Speaker 1: this is this was kind of a moment that I

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Speaker 1: think made you go viral, but for all the right reasons.

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Speaker 1: And it's I've seen a lot of shenanigans with people

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Speaker 1: and I say that because oddly enough, when I was

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Speaker 1: a video, but don't make it over the top because

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Speaker 1: when did Congress become a place where you like play

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Speaker 1: these over the top videos. I want people to know

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Speaker 1: that this is amazing that you went down there and

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Speaker 2: What good is a wall if you can walk right

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Speaker 2: around corner of the wall. I'm standing in America right now,

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Speaker 2: and now I'm standing in Mexico. I'm gonna tell you

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Speaker 2: what if in Washington you don't want to come secure

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Speaker 2: this border, I will do it myself.

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Speaker 1: I will do it. So if you're just listening to this,

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Speaker 1: that is Kate down at the border in San Diego,

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Speaker 1: forth and I have been watching all of this, with

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Speaker 1: and you actually secured the border yourself. So tell us

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Speaker 2: You know, when you run for politics, a lot of

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Speaker 2: people will say, well, I stand for this, and I

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Speaker 2: We're the solution. I wanted to inspire the everyday American

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Speaker 2: this on Amazon. It's really not that difficult. Now, there

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Speaker 1: And you were just out there again yesterday. I mean,

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Speaker 1: this is a passion of yours. You are in a

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Speaker 1: by eleven points. Your opponent won by five percentage points.

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Speaker 1: But it's California, and I think for those of us

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Speaker 1: sick and tired of all the crime. I don't know

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Speaker 1: what whether or not you're seeing an upticking crime in

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Speaker 1: San Diego. But what do you think the chances are

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Speaker 2: I don't think that everyone on the ballot can beat him.

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Speaker 2: I mean we ran Brian Marriott against him three times,

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Speaker 2: You're going to find yourself at a loss.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: They put him on the Veteran Affairs Committee, which is

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Speaker 2: they politic right. They played a long game and they

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Speaker 2: put him on the Veteran Affairs Committee, even though he

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Speaker 2: toe to toe with me, Mike Levin, no offense to you.

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Speaker 2: I'm a Marine Corps veteran. The largest Marine Corps based

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Speaker 2: I have a ton of support from the churches from

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Speaker 2: but I know that I can't. He will not do

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Speaker 2: This is fifty to fifty voter Ridge. It's fifty to

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Speaker 2: to tell you, as a Republican, your vote doesn't matter.

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Speaker 2: We narrowly miss. If I can go secure the border,

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Speaker 2: you can go vote. If I can hold the razor wire,

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Speaker 2: you can hold the ballot.

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Speaker 1: Correct me if I'm wrong. But you are one of

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Speaker 2: Correct youslutely can bala harvest YEP.

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Speaker 1: And so I would say for those of you that

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Speaker 1: thing that we've been saying to Republicans. Stop watching them

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Speaker 1: do the work and go how did they win? Go

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Speaker 1: help out. But the thing that I find unique about

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Speaker 1: would like going to Cuba. I mean, as an intelligence analyst,

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Speaker 2: I think it's scary that we have elected officials who

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Speaker 2: you know, I've been on a panel with my fellow

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Speaker 2: by having completely feckless leadership that has put our national

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Speaker 2: The left wants Democrats supremacy at the costs of those

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Speaker 1: I think it's very scary that we see. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we started to really wake up to this intelligence disaster

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Speaker 1: when the balloon flies over the United States and Biden's like, oh,

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Speaker 1: I mean, give me a break. How stupid can people

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Speaker 1: and I've said this several times, when you listen to

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Speaker 2: I'm on those places every day. I mean, if you

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Speaker 2: All the veterans, all the active duty came and I

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Speaker 2: was trying to put together car deals for veterans and

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Speaker 2: they were short funds. So I would say, do you

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Speaker 2: have disability compensation? And everybody said no. So about two

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Speaker 2: hundred people later, after I help them through this process

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Speaker 2: while owning a car dealership, not while owning VETCOM, I

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Speaker 2: just said, is anybody rated? Like? Why is? Why are

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Speaker 2: people not getting these funds? And it turns out they

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Speaker 2: either don't know that they can't, they tried and they failed,

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Speaker 2: or they just don't feel deserving. I didn't feel deserving,

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Speaker 2: even though all that stuff happened to me. I didn't

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Speaker 2: even feel like I deserved the funds. I'm not whatever

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Speaker 2: this hero thing is. And so I said, is there

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Speaker 2: a way to solve this problem? Because ten million people

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Speaker 2: who served collect nothing. So all this money that we

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Speaker 2: send all these other countries, all the money we used

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Speaker 2: to not secure the border, right, we send it all

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Speaker 2: around and veterans aren't collecting it. So I put together

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Speaker 2: vetcom and last in the last three hundred and sixty

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Speaker 2: five days from right now, we've done nine hundred and

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Speaker 2: twenty four million in lifetime funds for veterans and their families.

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Speaker 2: We make all their claims, we prepare them for this

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Speaker 2: adversarial process. We're in the trench with them, and it's

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Speaker 2: just it's been really fulfilling. We went from five employees

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Speaker 2: to fifty five in one year. Wowly traded company. The

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Speaker 2: thing I'm most proud of I've ever done in my

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Speaker 2: life is to help these veterans, especially the later age veterans,

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Speaker 2: you know in their eighties and nineties. You know where

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Speaker 2: they love us. Because I hugged a little guy the

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Speaker 2: other day, he's ninety two years old in my office

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Speaker 2: and he said I was the first person to hug

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Speaker 2: him in three years.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that's actually makes me emotional.

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Speaker 2: It's like so early here, I'm tired. It makes me

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Speaker 2: like crushed my spirit. I'm thinking this is somebody's grandpa

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Speaker 2: and I am the first person that hugged him. So

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Speaker 2: it just makes me feel good about the extra thing

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Speaker 2: that we provide to veterans.

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Speaker 1: Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on

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Speaker 1: a Tutor Dixon podcast. These two issues kind of go

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Speaker 1: hand in hand. The open border. We've seen Abbot busting

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Speaker 1: these migrants into sanctuary sanctuary cities. What they've you know,

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Speaker 1: they said they wanted them, and now they now they

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Speaker 1: don't want them. Now they're like, oh my gosh, this

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Speaker 1: was actually not what we're expecting. But we already had

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Speaker 1: a homeless veteran problem now it's so we've a lot

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Speaker 1: of on this podcast. We've talked a lot about the

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Speaker 1: fact that there are moms and dads in these communities

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Speaker 1: that are going, well, wait a minute, we needed government assistants,

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Speaker 1: we needed these these buildings, we needed these community centers

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Speaker 1: for our kids. And now they're going to migrant children.

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Speaker 1: They're going to migrants, they're coming into our schools unvaccinated.

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Speaker 1: But how is this affecting the money that would have

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Speaker 1: gone to veterans, the help that would have gone to veterans.

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Speaker 2: Well, I actually wrote an op ed about this. Homelessness

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Speaker 2: is one of the big areas of expertise that I have.

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Speaker 2: And what happens is the VA allocates funds that are

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Speaker 2: called Va hud Vash funds and this is meant to

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Speaker 2: help get veterans off the st get them into transitionary housing,

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Speaker 2: and get them on their way. Well, the VA people

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Speaker 2: think the VA administers this money. They don't. They give

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Speaker 2: it to other organizations by way of a grant, and

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Speaker 2: then from the federal level down they tell these other

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Speaker 2: organizations to spend it on migrants. So it used to

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Speaker 2: be that veteran homelessness was going down twelve percent, but

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Speaker 2: this last year it went up seven. That's a nineteen

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Speaker 2: percent of delta, So it actually went up nineteen percent,

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Speaker 2: not seven nineteen percent. And that is just unconscionable to

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Speaker 2: me that we even have homeless veterans. There's enough homeless

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Speaker 2: veterans in the in the in the United States to

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Speaker 2: fill like Petco Park, to fill a baseball stadium. Just

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Speaker 2: in San Diego, we have thousands of them on the street.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I actually had a different viral moment for

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Speaker 2: homelessness here in San Diego all over Fox because we

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Speaker 2: pretended we didn't even have a homeless problem. Meanwhile, two

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Speaker 2: thousand people were in a four x four block radius

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Speaker 2: living in like third world country, you know. Standard. It

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Speaker 2: was just appalling to me. So I tried to find

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Speaker 2: areas where we get away with stuff and go and

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Speaker 2: put a spotlight on it so people have to take action.

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Speaker 2: If I have to gaslight you into doing the right thing,

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Speaker 2: trust that I will. I will absolutely put your name

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Speaker 2: all over the TV and you will have to go

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Speaker 2: do the right thing.

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Speaker 1: So before we let you go for the day, tell

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Speaker 1: me your main issues. Obviously we've talked about some of them,

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Speaker 1: but you have some work that you're doing on climate

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Speaker 1: and all kinds of different things. And you know, we

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Speaker 1: those of us listening from outside of the state of California,

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Speaker 1: are like, well, what is it like? What are your plans?

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Speaker 1: Everybody comes to Congress with a different perspective, So give

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Speaker 1: us a quick overview of what you want to achieve.

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Speaker 1: What your biggest issues are.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I think the main focal point of

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Speaker 2: what I would like to focus on is veteran affairs,

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Speaker 2: because veterans touch every family. Everybody either is one or

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Speaker 2: nose one that's very close to them. And the ripple

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Speaker 2: effect of all the funds that go to veterans affairs,

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Speaker 2: all the healthcare system that touches all the families, all

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Speaker 2: the way down from all the retirees and everything else

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Speaker 2: needs a massive overhaul. I would like to work on that.

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Speaker 2: I would also like to provide direction on homeless, drugs,

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Speaker 2: and lawlessness. The homeless issue. People love to think it's

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Speaker 2: isolated here in California, and certainly it is. I've been

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Speaker 2: in San Diego, Oceanside, LA. I even flew to the

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Speaker 2: Tenderloin to go and see if they have the exact

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Speaker 2: same problem we do, and they do. It's just it's

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Speaker 2: a lack of will if you will to prosecute people

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Speaker 2: for being on drugs. Eighty five percent of people I

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Speaker 2: talk to are either actively doing drugs or dealing drugs

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Speaker 2: while I'm talking to every four feet in a city,

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Speaker 2: you can get drugs if you're not already standing on

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Speaker 2: the top of a drug needle. It's absolutely disgusting. So

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Speaker 2: solving that problem could happen with a base camp if

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Speaker 2: we turn law enforcement on at the same time, because

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Speaker 2: then you could provide people choices. You could say, you

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Speaker 2: are doing drugs and selling drugs, you're going to jail.

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Speaker 2: Go into base camp where you have a long enough

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Speaker 2: runway to get clean, where we can bucketize you and

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Speaker 2: figure out why you're homeless. That way, there is no

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Speaker 2: being homeless on the street. You want a camp, well

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Speaker 2: you're going to do it at infrastructured camping, at Base

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Speaker 2: Camp and all these cities. I would also like to

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Speaker 2: work on all the money that goes out. I wrote legislation,

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Speaker 2: crafted it called performance space funding. Every time I ask

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Speaker 2: a crowd, have you ever paid a contractor to work

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Speaker 2: on your house? Of course everybody says yes I have.

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Speaker 2: I said, you just pay and pray? Do you give

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Speaker 2: them all the money up front hoping that they finish it?

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Speaker 2: And everyone laughs because they know absolutely not. I wouldn't

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Speaker 2: do that, but that is exactly what we do with

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Speaker 2: every nickel. You wonder how we have a homeless industrial complex,

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Speaker 2: which just means all these horrible people that feed off

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Speaker 2: of capitalizing on homelessness. If in San Diego there was

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Speaker 2: performance space funding, there'd be about five people doing the

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Speaker 2: work because everyone else is just collecting funds and doing nothing.

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Speaker 2: So I have an endless amount of solutions because Kate's

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Speaker 2: brand is I don't talk about problems. I don't have

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Speaker 2: solutions for I will go there and I will provide

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Speaker 2: them the leadership they need to make good and right decisions.

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Speaker 1: Wonderful all right, Well, give us your campaign website so

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Speaker 1: people can visit it.

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Speaker 2: Katefourcongress dot com f o R not the number four.

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Speaker 2: I was lucky enough to get Katefourcongress dot Com and

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Speaker 2: I can this is the last stretch, you know, the

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Speaker 2: fifth is our primary here in California. Any help that

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Speaker 2: you want to lend this lady all the way across

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Speaker 2: the country, I could certainly use it.

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Speaker 1: Wonderful. Well, we'll make sure people go there. Everybody. You

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Speaker 1: heard her. She needs help, get out there, help her

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Speaker 1: what you can do anything, you know, financial donations, those

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Speaker 1: are always incredibly helpful. But Kate Monroe, thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: We wish you well in your congressional run. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much, and thank you all for joining us on

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Speaker 1: the Tutor Dixon Podcast. For this episode and others, go

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