Speaker 1: Right now.
Speaker 2: What a pleasure this is to welcome back to the
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty Show. Katie Grimes the editor in chief
Speaker 2: of the California Globe. Katie a long time investigative journalist
Speaker 2: covering the California state capital. She authored a book, California's
Speaker 2: War against Donald Trump, Who Wins and Who Loses? And
Speaker 2: is a just terrific read at The California Globe. Recent article,
Speaker 2: Democrats don't want the public to know they're protecting pedo files. Great, Scott,
Speaker 2: what is this all about? Katie Grimes joins us, Hey, Katie,
Speaker 2: how are you?
Speaker 3: Hey? Joe Getty doing well? How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm terrific for listening, folks.
Speaker 2: Jack had to jet off to a follow up appointment
Speaker 2: for his eye surgery, but he's doing great and he'll
Speaker 2: be back tomorrow. But that's a hell of a headline.
Speaker 2: Democrats don't want the public to know they're protecting pedal files.
Speaker 1: What are we talking about?
Speaker 3: Well, it is in quotes, and I quoted Assemblyman Bill
Speaker 3: a Sale from a Assembly floor speech yesterday, or not
Speaker 3: really necessarily a floor speech. He forced the Assembly to
Speaker 3: try and to vote, or he was trying to on
Speaker 3: a bill that he has which would end sanctuary protections
Speaker 3: for illegal aliens convicted of sex crimes against minors. So
Speaker 3: it's kind of a mouthful, but the bottom line is
Speaker 3: the Democrats, not one Democrat in the Assembly yesterday would
Speaker 3: consider having a debate about this and voting on it.
Speaker 2: All right, let's not jump past that the bedrock of
Speaker 2: this too quickly. So California extends sanctuary status to illegal
Speaker 2: aliens convicted of sex offenses against child the children being
Speaker 2: child rapists.
Speaker 3: Essentially, well, essentially, what it is is California passed the
Speaker 3: law a few years ago that phibits law enforcement from
Speaker 3: working with ICE agents. So even if they have a
Speaker 3: sex crime illegal alien in their custody and ICE shows up,
Speaker 3: there's like no cooperation happening. And so it essentially, according
Speaker 3: to assemblymen, as Faily offers sanctuary protections for these people.
Speaker 1: It's absolutely horrible.
Speaker 2: And the assemblyman just wanted his bill to be heard
Speaker 2: and debated, but I understand it got kind of hairy
Speaker 2: on the floor as he was trying to do that.
Speaker 1: Yes, it was.
Speaker 3: Quite a sight. And when this happens in the Assembly
Speaker 3: or the Senate, it's very telling. So when he was
Speaker 3: just reading the motion, that he was making to allow
Speaker 3: the Assembly rules to be suspended so that his bill
Speaker 3: could bypass the committee process because they won't hear it
Speaker 3: in committee and instead be heard on the floor. The
Speaker 3: Speaker pro Temp cut off his mic and told him
Speaker 3: to stop it and accused him of trying to debate,
Speaker 3: you know, the issue right then and there, and they
Speaker 3: continued with his mic cut off. So he had to
Speaker 3: yell his motion across the Assembly floor, for which they
Speaker 3: did grant a vote, and that's what was voted down,
Speaker 3: that the rules would not be suspended and his bill
Speaker 3: would not be heard.
Speaker 2: Wow wow, I think is that another quote from Assembly
Speaker 2: in a sale He said it's been languishing as Democrats
Speaker 2: in the Public Safety Committee refused to hear it quote
Speaker 2: because they know I'd bring angel moms and county sheriffs
Speaker 2: to testify, and they just don't want the question to
Speaker 2: be asked, right, That's exactly it.
Speaker 3: So the bill did sense, it did get assigned to
Speaker 3: the Assembly Public Safety Committee, but the committee won't hear it.
Speaker 3: They won't put it on the calendar or the agenda,
Speaker 3: and so that's why he tried to force this yesterday.
Speaker 3: He did have a mother there whose whose son was
Speaker 3: killed twenty two years ago by an illegal alien, and
Speaker 3: you know, she's a living, breathing testament to the fact
Speaker 3: that this is still, twenty two years later, a massive
Speaker 3: issue in California.
Speaker 2: Well, and it doesn't have a chance of getting out
Speaker 2: of committee or getting voted on or anything like that,
Speaker 2: which is just testament to the one party banana republic
Speaker 2: politics that California is dealing with these days. Is there
Speaker 2: more to that story, Katie, or are you up for
Speaker 2: moving on to other fair.
Speaker 3: We can move on. I will just one last little
Speaker 3: not is there were thirty members of the Assembly yesterday
Speaker 3: who refused to vote no. So thirty spineless human beings
Speaker 3: who wouldn't even put their yes or no vote out there.
Speaker 3: And I included that in the article if people are interested.
Speaker 2: To know who California is ungovernable, so you write a
Speaker 2: fair amount. I love reading you on California Globe. What
Speaker 2: recently has really got your attention and fired up that you've.
Speaker 3: Written about, Well, all kinds of good news coming your
Speaker 3: way from me to the California Air Resources Board is
Speaker 3: going to add another f defense onto our gas taxes.
Speaker 3: It's their clean air tax, aren't you excited.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Wow, How certain is that to happen? Is that one
Speaker 2: of those aspirational uh plans? Or do you think that's
Speaker 2: actually gonna hit the gas pumps?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: They already voted it. It's been approved by the unelected board,
Speaker 3: which does not have the authority to pass taxes, but
Speaker 3: they did. And yeah, it's it's supposed to hit the uh,
Speaker 3: the tax board, I think in June.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just it's it's it's so mountainous at this point,
Speaker 2: the misgovernance of California and the the mobbed up feel
Speaker 2: of the legislature and all.
Speaker 1: I just I don't know, it's just so discouraging.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right, I find it extremely discouraging. It's it's
Speaker 3: why I write the articles that I write. It just
Speaker 3: trying to expose what they're doing or not doing. What
Speaker 3: they're you know, the the bs that they're addressing U,
Speaker 3: you know, on the Assembly, for all kinds of DEI
Speaker 3: garbage and social welfare crap instead of what's going on
Speaker 3: with the California economy. You know what the governor isn't doing.
Speaker 3: You know, he's jetting off to you know, climate change
Speaker 3: conferences with the Pope instead of staying here and governing
Speaker 3: this horrific state.
Speaker 1: Yeah, r Katie.
Speaker 2: Katie Green brought us a story just a few minutes
Speaker 2: ago about the one hundred million dollars or so being
Speaker 2: dumped into this anti hate hotline foolishness. And I've tried
Speaker 2: to describe this to people in various ways, and I'm
Speaker 2: sure you could do a better job or a different
Speaker 2: job of explaining how government NHL menke and my hero
Speaker 2: is so great on this. Government will identify a problem,
Speaker 2: real or imaginable or imagine rather, and they will say, well,
Speaker 2: we must solve this. This is a terrible problem. We
Speaker 2: are going to devote this money to this solution, including
Speaker 2: something as dopey as a phone line. But the point
Speaker 2: is not solving the problem. The point is handing out
Speaker 2: the money, isn't it exactly?
Speaker 3: And that is one of the things I focus on
Speaker 3: free It's this. The story that Katie Green reported on
Speaker 3: is one I covered. We actually have a division of
Speaker 3: the California Civil Rights Department called California Versus Hate, and
Speaker 3: I wrote about it last year when the governor and
Speaker 3: the first partner were hawking this ridiculous hotline where you know,
Speaker 3: if you've been the victim of hate. You can call
Speaker 3: and report it. And I called it, you know, the
Speaker 3: Department of Snitches again, real or imagined hate, And they've
Speaker 3: got people investigating this, and so really, what it's about.
Speaker 3: It just celebrated its first anniversary. They did receive ninety
Speaker 3: one million dollars in grants for to put a stop
Speaker 3: to hate. Because ninety one million dollars, absolutely, you know,
Speaker 3: strikes the fear of God in me and my hate.
Speaker 3: And really, what it's about, Joe, is they're ramping up
Speaker 3: for the twenty twenty four election because anybody who doesn't
Speaker 3: vote the way the Democrats in California vote are haters
Speaker 3: and they're anticipating a lot of calls about.
Speaker 2: Politics, right, and anybody does vote that way gets paid
Speaker 2: through some phony program or another. I can't imagine what
Speaker 2: hilariously dopey efforts they're going to make it eliminating hate.
Speaker 2: Will it be posters or public service announcements, or will
Speaker 2: we just not ever see anything of that money? Will
Speaker 2: it just kind of disappear into the pockets and cronies.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it disappears into NGOs, And in this case, some
Speaker 3: of it might go to local governments for their efforts
Speaker 3: to eradicate hate. Also, again, super subjective doesn't mean a
Speaker 3: thing at all. You don't eradicate hate. You don't say, oh,
Speaker 3: I wish there would be no hate in California and
Speaker 3: then send money on it. So no, it's it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2: So the snitch line you got my attention, though, So
Speaker 2: if Jack annoys me in particular, someday I can call
Speaker 2: the snitch line and say that he's been discriminating against
Speaker 2: me because of my Presbyterian heritage.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know if that's a protected category, Joe, Well,
Speaker 3: they might not be that interested. Yeah, I know. Well
Speaker 3: they said that last year they received over two thousand calls,
Speaker 3: a thousand of which were actual hate issues, so plenty
Speaker 3: of people are I mean, I would have thought there'd
Speaker 3: be millions of calls, but yeah, ninety one million dollars
Speaker 3: for two thousand calls, half of which were even qualifying
Speaker 3: for real hate.
Speaker 2: That that that well, that ought to be on the
Speaker 2: California state flag instead of a bear. I'm not sure
Speaker 2: how you would portray it, but what a beautiful symbol
Speaker 2: of the current state of affairs. Katie Grimes of the
Speaker 2: California Globe. You must, you must, you must bookmark California
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Speaker 1: It is realistic, it is not partisan.
Speaker 2: It's smart, and it's a it's a fun read and
Speaker 2: a kind of perverse way, just because you know, as
Speaker 2: Katie was discussing, they're getting away with it, but they're
Speaker 2: not getting away with it completely because somebody's shining light
Speaker 2: on it.
Speaker 1: So well done, Katie. We really admire what you do.
Speaker 3: Thanks a lot, Joe.
Speaker 2: All Right, you got it, and let's talk again soon, okay, please, yes,
Speaker 2: thank you, all right, thank you the fabulous Katie Grimes,
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty