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Speaker 1: really one of the worst political creatures in LA. And

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Speaker 1: the Democratic Socialists of America. I'm always explaining this to

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Speaker 1: my life. You haven't been this. You haven't been a

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Speaker 1: DSA member. It is a modern term for communism. And

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Speaker 1: We can not even have lost in butuener we Lindsey

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Speaker 1: Horbeather is gonna run. Uh Now we give Karen Bass

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Speaker 2: You know, people all over LA, maybe even including you,

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Speaker 2: And I'm happy to tell you, John Cobelt, it has happened.

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Speaker 2: It's Karen Bass. Karen Bass is going to be able

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Speaker 1: Would be happy if the police department just dissolved on paper.

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Speaker 2: Councilman Ramen opposes a lot of those efforts to remove

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Speaker 1: This is going to be a very interesting race. So

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Speaker 2: I mean, Mayor Bass a year and a half ago

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Speaker 1: I see, and so it's more important to oppose Trump

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Speaker 1: What was the first publication?

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Speaker 2: What publication got the scoop the full interview with council

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Speaker 1: But guess there's hardly an LA media that covers any

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Speaker 2: They have a City Hall bureau and they're good journalists

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Speaker 1: No, certainly not to end well because the Post is

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Speaker 2: As I said at the beginning, you might be somebody

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Speaker 1: I'm scared that they're gonna want a Democratic socialist. They

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Speaker 1: may like Mom Donnie, there's four. He didn't back off

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Speaker 1: on anything. If he did rhetorically a little bit, nobody

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Speaker 2: the DSA has a lot of influence. They have four

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Speaker 1: They already have outsized power.

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Speaker 2: They do have direct influence on people who have pushed

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Speaker 1: And most of the most of the public doesn't know

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Speaker 2: You would have the two largest cities in America governed

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Speaker 1: Does anybody believe Spencer pract can can be a competitive candidate.

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Speaker 2: One, he is a protest vote for people who do

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Speaker 2: he's from the palace which burned down. He has legitimate

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Speaker 1: She would think her behavior before enduring it after the

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Speaker 1: We don't want her anywhere near power. This is the

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Speaker 1: year of the unsinkable Karen Bass. All right, that's the frightening.

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Speaker 1: We'll give us plenty to do. I suppose we'll be

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Speaker 1: very busy. All right, very good, Michael Monks, KFI News

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Speaker 1: on Nithia Rahman when we come back, all right, you

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Speaker 1: want to know about the Democratic Socialists, what they're about,

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Speaker 1: You want to know about it in their own words,

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Speaker 1: We'll tell you. Come back and you'll see. This is

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Speaker 1: like a cancer that has infiltrated the government, and Spencer

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Speaker 1: Pratt might be the only cure.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A

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Speaker 1: Okay, So, Nythia Ramen, Nythia Rahmen is this councilwoman who

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Speaker 1: is with the Democratic Socialists of America. And uh, I'm

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Speaker 1: going to read to you about this. This this party.

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Speaker 1: The California Post went through their their manifesto. They they

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Speaker 1: actually hate the traditional Democratic Party. I don't I don't

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Speaker 1: think people are grasping the threat here. They are well organized,

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Speaker 1: They're not large in number, but they make a lot

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Speaker 1: be measrized by Zorn Mundami is one of these democratic socialists.

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Speaker 1: It is a modern day version of communism. But they're

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Speaker 1: willing to do it slowly and mildly at first. And

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Speaker 1: I think this is the part that doesn't people don't get.

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Speaker 1: They do this incrementally, bit by bit, step by step.

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Speaker 1: or use the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. Don

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Speaker 1: Mahaalika coming on right after Devers three o'clock news. Don

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Speaker 1: is ABC News law enforcement contributor and he's a retired

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Speaker 1: how this whole Nancy Guthrie case doesn't fit any normal

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Speaker 1: that after three o'clock. Michael Monks mentioned earlier that The

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Speaker 1: see the comments, and you know, the New York Times

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Speaker 1: has a very left leaning, very liberal readership, especially among

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Speaker 1: the commenters. But wow, bad reviews for Nythia Rahman. From

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Speaker 1: her constituents of this rob wrote, she is no star.

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Speaker 1: She is feckless and generally missing in action when it

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Speaker 1: comes to helping people who she serves. The Ventura Boulevard,

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Speaker 1: Carter has become a magnet for criminals and homeless drug addicts.

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Speaker 1: Hundreds of small businesses have packed up and moved due

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Speaker 1: You can bring in the local news to showcase how

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Speaker 1: she's missing in action and never does a thing. She

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Speaker 1: will have her contacts attack your business by getting inspections

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Speaker 1: with negative outcomes, but if you donate to her, wow,

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Speaker 1: they all go away. She is a crook, a female

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Speaker 1: version of Gavin Newsom. Both are totally worthless. Okay, here's

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Speaker 1: another unhappy constituent. This is the worst thing that could happen.

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Speaker 1: I lived in Rahman's district and unfortunately voted for her

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Speaker 1: the first time around. She did absolutely nothing nor her constituents,

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Speaker 1: never showed up for meetings with the community, and basically

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Speaker 1: has continued to do a terrible job. She literally never

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Speaker 1: responds to calls or emails asking her to do her job. Sadly,

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Speaker 1: she was voted for a second term barely and has

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Speaker 1: continued to do nothing. And I am a pretty liberal Democrat.

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Speaker 1: She's consistently excusing the homeless and say they have a

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm telling you, that's really what she believes.

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Speaker 1: She voted No one a proposed bill to keep the

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Speaker 1: homeless five hundred feet away from schools. She won't even

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Speaker 1: keep mental patients and drug addicts a measly five hundred

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Speaker 1: feet from the schools. Here is another person. She's my

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Speaker 1: current counselwoman, and a plague in the city. Even though

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Speaker 1: Karen Bass needs to go, another offensive and ineffective leader

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Speaker 1: who never accomplished anything in the real world is not

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Speaker 1: the way to go. There's another one no from resident liberal.

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Speaker 1: They signed this note no good candidates for La mayor.

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Speaker 1: It's beyond sad. Good luck with the hosting the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty eight Olympics, where the world will see the feces,

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Speaker 1: drug traff drug trash, graffiti, and blue tarps and tents

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Speaker 1: sheltering the homeless on every overpass and alongside every freeway.

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Speaker 1: Here's susan. She would be even more of a disaster

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Speaker 1: to La than Bass's she's totally incompetent as a council person.

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Speaker 1: But the real estate scam that is the homeless industrial

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Speaker 1: complex of this city, I suppose she is useful. Here's

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Speaker 1: another one from Cynthia. We live in her district. She's

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Speaker 1: unresponsive and ineffective. Not what LA needs. Right now, here's

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Speaker 1: another one, Laurie, I live in her district. She's an

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Speaker 1: absolute disaster, uncarrying and uncommutative to the average constituent. She's

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Speaker 1: no better than Bass and probably worse as a mayor. Well,

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Speaker 1: we'll look through these tomorrow. And believe me, I read

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Speaker 1: a lot of the New York Times and the comments

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Speaker 1: because I'm trying to understand this far left progressive philosophy

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Speaker 1: at attitude, and it looks like even that crowd, the

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Speaker 1: ones who live in Rama's district, are saying, don't do this.

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Speaker 1: This is a disaster. But defund the police and abolish

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Speaker 1: the prisons. That's what that's what that's what she's about,

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Speaker 1: that's what Nithia Robin's about. And the Democratic Socialists of America,

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Speaker 1: you just start there. Defund the police, abolish the prisons,

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Speaker 1: and the homeless have the right to live in front

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Speaker 1: of a school where there's drugs and guns being sold

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Speaker 1: and used. I don't know how these people do it.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how. I don't know what kind of

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Speaker 1: brain disease has infected so many here in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: All right, coming up after three o'clock, we've got Don

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Speaker 1: Mahalakhan from ABC News on the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping, which

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Speaker 1: is not in any way resembling any other similar crime case.

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Speaker 1: Deborah Markets live in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey,

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