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Speaker 2: I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobel

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Speaker 3: Remember, we have to get a million signatures to put

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Speaker 3: the California Voter ID Initiative on the ballot in twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty six.

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Speaker 4: Can't do this alone.

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Speaker 3: I need you to go to the website voter idpetition

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Speaker 3: dot org. That's voter ID petition dot org and sign

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Speaker 3: the petition. We need everybody off the couch into the fight.

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Speaker 3: We absolutely can take this state back. People are hurting.

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Speaker 3: A lot of people are waking up. They just don't know. Okay,

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Speaker 3: now that I've woken up, what do I do? How

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Speaker 3: do I fight back? That's where the movement comes in

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Speaker 3: that we're leading at reform California and the voter ID

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Speaker 3: initiative is our top priority. Got to get that done

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Speaker 3: because that then lays the groundwork for fraud free and

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Speaker 3: fair elections. It restores public trust and confidence so that

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Speaker 3: people return their ballots saying, look, at least it's a

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Speaker 3: fair election because they have voter ID. Too many people

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Speaker 3: give gave up, and we got to get them back

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Speaker 3: into our democracy. So go to the website voter ID

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Speaker 3: Petition dot org voter idpetition dot org and sign up,

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Speaker 3: and please share it with all your friends and family,

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Speaker 3: because we've got to get those signatures using grassroots, grassroots

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Speaker 3: word of mouth. Okay, we're talking about the insurance crisis,

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Speaker 3: so let's review the bidding real quick. If you're just

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Speaker 3: tuning in, we have an insurance crisis. People are seeing

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Speaker 3: their insurance lost canceled. The rates are skyrocketing. People are

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Speaker 3: being priced out of their home because they can't afford insurance.

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Speaker 3: If you're lucky, your insurance is up by forty to

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Speaker 3: sixty percent. Unlucky, it's up by three hundred percent because

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Speaker 3: you're in the government insurance program called the Fair Plan.

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Speaker 3: Politicians profit off of higher rates or do you didn't

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Speaker 3: know that? That's why you have me. I look through

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Speaker 3: the budget, figure out how to follow the money, and

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Speaker 3: then tell you where it leads to. And yes, the

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Speaker 3: insurance tax is one of the biggest revenue drivers to

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Speaker 3: so they like it when rates go up because they

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Speaker 3: get a bigger share, and so their gross receipts. Insurance

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Speaker 3: tax is billions of dollars into the state budget every year.

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Speaker 3: So when the insurance rates double, their revenue doubles, you

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Speaker 3: understand why they haven't fixed your rates.

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Speaker 4: Because they're in on the grift. They are in on

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Speaker 4: the corruption, they are in on the malfeasance. Ah.

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Speaker 3: Yes, why are we having insurance rates go up? Not

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Speaker 3: because of price gouging or claimate change, which is what

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Speaker 3: the politicians are trying to divert the attention to distract

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Speaker 3: people with Nope, it's not claimate change, it's not price gouging.

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Speaker 3: It is Number one, Biden's inflation has really hit home

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Speaker 3: replacement costs and that's where the insurance industry actuarial numbers

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Speaker 3: were way off. And so now they have a bunch

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Speaker 3: of losses because Biden's inflation made wood and drywall and

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Speaker 4: Boom.

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Speaker 3: They have to cover up. They have to make up

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Speaker 3: inflation happened again. I would argue that's the politician's mistakes

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Speaker 3: and problem. Second, we have had an insurance industry in

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Speaker 3: California that has been over regulated. We need to go

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Speaker 3: back to market based insurance so that insurance companies can

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Speaker 3: offer you a customized insurance policy, let you decide what

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Speaker 3: you should be covered under. And Third, we have not

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Speaker 3: had more fires, but we've had more severe fires because

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Speaker 3: not climate change, but because government has not maintained the

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Speaker 3: woodshed they haven't trimmed the forests, they haven't allowed private

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Speaker 3: trut property owners to trim defensive space. I have an

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Speaker 3: example of that from local government here in southern California

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Speaker 3: that will just blow your mind away. But let me

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Speaker 3: just set the stage here. If you own a home

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Speaker 3: they're saying, well, you can't clear that space because there

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Speaker 3: penalized and fined even though you're doing defensive space. That

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Speaker 3: the fire Marshall said was a good idea. Where do

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Speaker 3: you think the fires are started in urban settings?

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Speaker 4: They come from homeless camps. That's not climate change.

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Speaker 3: That is the absolute utter failure of Democrat coddling policies

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Speaker 3: George Foreman barbecue grills, and they like these fires. I

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Speaker 3: Last year, there were a reported fifteen thousand plus homeless

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Speaker 3: fires homeless related fires in the state of California, fifteen

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Speaker 3: of them go out of control. That's government's failure. But

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Speaker 3: if you go to those canyons, we're not seeing any

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Speaker 4: It's all overgrown. Is a tinderbox.

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Speaker 3: Do you know why government doesn't trim their landscape, their trees,

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Speaker 3: their brush because the trees don't pay union dues into

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Speaker 4: It's not like the forests.

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Speaker 3: Canyons are showing up saying hey, mister politician, can you

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Speaker 3: put some money in the budget for me. If you do,

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Speaker 3: I'll give you a campaign contribution. No, you know who

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Speaker 3: does that. A consultant on the high speed rail project

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Speaker 3: does that. A labor union boss shows up and says.

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Speaker 6: Hey, I'm with the teachers' union, and you need to

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Speaker 6: hire more administrative staff and give them salary hikes and

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Speaker 6: pay hikes and pension spikes, and then I get more

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Speaker 6: money out of the union trust for you and your

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Speaker 4: Politicians are only looking for campaign contributions. Let me tell you.

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Speaker 4: That is the number one driver of their behavior.

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Speaker 3: And so you don't have the canyon behind your house

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Speaker 3: that's overgrown giving a campaign contribution. That's why it's not cleared,

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Speaker 3: it's not maintained. No money in the budget for that.

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Speaker 3: And so again the bill I've offered, says Assembly Bill

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Speaker 3: five to sixty seven. Until government fixes the problem, then

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Speaker 3: the homeowners shouldn't be the one paying the price. The

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Speaker 3: government should pay the price. The government should provide insurance

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Speaker 3: rate rebates to every homeowner to shield them for any

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Speaker 3: increase that's above the national average on insurance price. We

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Speaker 3: should only be paying what the national average is, not

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Speaker 3: a penny more. And if government can't manage its policy

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Speaker 3: out here, then you know what, then government ought to

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Speaker 3: pay that price from the state budget. Because you've been

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Speaker 3: benefiting politicians for years on your insurance tax. You've taken

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Speaker 3: the pie. That's what Assembly BILLT five sixty seven said.

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Speaker 3: They killed it.

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Speaker 4: Coming up.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna give you this example right in my hometown

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Speaker 3: san Diego city is still failing to manage brush to

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Speaker 3: prevent fires. Yeah you think, but wait till you hear

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Speaker 3: some of the things that an auditor recommended and what

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Speaker 3: they're not doing. I mean, you're gonna read this and

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Speaker 3: you're gonna hear about this, and you're gonna be like,

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Speaker 3: what they're not doing that Again, when I tell you

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Speaker 3: it's government's fault for the fires, it's government's fault for

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Speaker 3: your insurance spikes. This is just one of many examples.

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Speaker 3: It's happening all throughout California, including in La with Karen

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Speaker 3: Bass guarantee she's not doing her job. Coming up, we'll

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Speaker 3: walk you through some of those negligent behaviors by your

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Speaker 3: Continue to submit your questions to me or any topic

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Speaker 3: you want me to cover. Remember, I'm inside the belly

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Speaker 4: I know what's really going on on virtually any of

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Speaker 4: these issues. So ask any question, raise any issue.

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Speaker 3: insurance and why it's so expensive in California.

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Speaker 4: Well dime version short short answer.

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Speaker 3: The politicians they have screwed up the insurance industry so

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Speaker 3: bad and they're not going to fix it because they

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Speaker 3: profit off of higher insurance rates. They have enacted years ago,

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Speaker 3: decades ago, something called a gross receipts tax on insurance policies.

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Speaker 3: So when the insurance rate goes up, they get more money.

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Speaker 3: They get billions of dollars in insurance taxes. It's one

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Speaker 4: So when your insurance doubles.

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Speaker 3: They smile ear to ear because they just got double

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Speaker 3: bill saying, let's not charge the insurance tax anymore. Clearly

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Speaker 3: government has screwed up insurance people are hurting. The least

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Speaker 3: They're piece of the largess. Of course, the politicians said, nope,

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Speaker 4: We're keeping it.

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Speaker 3: The local government, the state government, yes, even the federal government.

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Speaker 3: But state and local government here in California have utterly

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Speaker 3: screwed up not only insurance but brush management. So now

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Speaker 3: Big wild land fires can easily go out of control

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Speaker 3: because we don't manage our lands properly. So both state

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Speaker 3: your property, not theirs. You know, it's just something burns

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Speaker 3: down that the government owns. They just raise your taxes.

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Speaker 3: You get devastated. City of San Diego is in the

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Speaker 3: the city's not doing good at brush management, and here

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Speaker 3: are things you should be doing.

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Speaker 4: So let me read you what's going on.

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Speaker 3: In the Union Tribune, one of the recommendations was to

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Speaker 3: have the city's fire department begin to monitor and inspect

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Speaker 3: brush on city owned land in high risk areas. That

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Speaker 3: was a recommendation. Now you might say, well, Carl, this

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Speaker 4: You're telling me the fire department.

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Speaker 3: In the City of San Diego doesn't monitor and inspect

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Speaker 4: That's right.

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Speaker 3: You can't get more negligent than this. They say it's

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Speaker 3: climate change. They say the insurance companies are to blame.

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Speaker 3: They tell you that if you don't clear your land,

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Speaker 3: you're gonna get fined. But then they tell you the

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Speaker 3: environmental side of the spectrum says, you can't clear your land,

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Speaker 3: so you're damned if you do, damned if you don't.

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Speaker 3: But these people aren't even doing it themselves on their

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Speaker 3: So you've been up there for just a few weeks

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Speaker 5: Now how bad California is deteriorated in terms of leadership

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Speaker 5: I passed voter I D in Huntington Beach, as you know,

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Speaker 5: We have to show our ideas and how we govern better.

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Speaker 5: And I always talked about what we did in Huntington Beach.

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Speaker 1: And we started last cycle by passing.

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Speaker 5: I know you're doing it on the smily side, but

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Speaker 1: Pick up seats, and I know we're going to break.

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Speaker 5: That super majority because they don't represent common sense and

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Speaker 3: Senator Tony Strickland, thank you so much. Wonderful working with you.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna have a lot of fun getting the California

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Speaker 3: Voter ID Initiative qualified in twenty twenty six and making

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Speaker 3: that law. Appreciate everything. What's your website for people to

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Speaker 3: learn more and help you.

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Speaker 5: Out, tonystruggling dot com? Very simple? And then Carl We're

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Speaker 5: going to do this together. I'm excited about us turning

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Speaker 5: I'm looking forward to working with you in the years

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Speaker 3: That state Senator Tony Strickland and our co chair of

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Speaker 3: in our state. Coming up, we got to get more

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Speaker 3: introduce you to one of my priority candidates, Christy Bruce Lane,

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Speaker 3: all coming up as Carldonmo sits in for John Cobelt.

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Speaker 7: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI Am six.

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Speaker 3: Please do go on that website voter idpetition dot org.

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Speaker 3: Voter idpetition dot org. We need signatures and to put

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Speaker 3: the voter ide initiative on the ballot. We cannot do

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Speaker 3: this without your help. So if you want a better

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Speaker 3: state government, do you want things to change in California,

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Speaker 3: be part of the rebellion. You've got to actively be

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Speaker 3: part of the rebellion. Go to that website. That's the

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Speaker 3: best way to do it right now voter idpetition dot org.

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Speaker 3: One of my top challenges is a candidate recruitment because

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Speaker 3: nobody wants to go to Sacramento because they're part of

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Speaker 3: a permanent minority.

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Speaker 4: It's no fun.

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Speaker 3: But when we can get a fighter to run for office,

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Speaker 3: we need to go all in to support them because

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Speaker 3: we do need more fighters up in Sacramento. That's why

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Speaker 3: I am proudly in support of a state Senate candidate

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Speaker 3: in San Diego County.

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Speaker 4: This is an important seat the fortieth district.

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Speaker 3: It will help us break the Democrats supermajority in Sacramento,

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Speaker 3: and that candidate, Christy Bruce Lane joins me on KFI. Christy,

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Speaker 3: thanks for stopping by. So why are you willing to

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Speaker 3: go inside the Sacramento swamp?

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Speaker 8: Hey, Carl, thanks for having me on your show today. Yeah,

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Speaker 8: you know, I'm a fighter, I'm a principal fighter, and

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Speaker 8: you know, somebody's got to do it. I'm tired of

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Speaker 8: seeing our families being hurt by high taxes. Our business

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Speaker 8: is being destroyed, We're losing jobs. I have the experience

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Speaker 8: of mynd a former elected official. I'm you know, you know,

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Speaker 8: uh navigating state law and regulations has been a part

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Speaker 8: of my career and my experiences. I'm willing and able

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Speaker 8: to go up to the state and fight right alongside

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Speaker 8: of you to get the job done.

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Speaker 3: So what do you think if you if you had

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Speaker 3: set your top two or three issues, what would they be?

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Speaker 8: So top three, I'll talk about top three. Cost of

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Speaker 8: living is definitely number one. You know, securing our border

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Speaker 8: and addressing and restoring public safety. And I think we

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Speaker 8: really need to get the voter id on the ballot,

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Speaker 8: get that pass to restore election integrity. You know, a

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Speaker 8: lot of Californians have lost their faith and confidence and elections,

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Speaker 8: and we need to do that. You know, for cost

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Speaker 8: of living, we are getting hammered by taxes. Businesses are

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Speaker 8: getting hammered by taxes. We could talk about property tax,

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Speaker 8: payroll tax, which are killing our businesses. We have income tax,

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Speaker 8: mileage tax, and California politicians are still trying to repeal

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Speaker 8: Prop thirteen. I'll tell you California working families. You know,

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Speaker 8: they're already struggling with high cost of living and the

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Speaker 8: state and local politicians are making it worse by constantly

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Speaker 8: trying to raise taxes. I'll tell you, Carl I'm the

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Speaker 8: only one in this race who has not raised taxes.

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Speaker 8: We have got to go, you know, get back to

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Speaker 8: a common sense policies and Sacramento and you know, allow

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Speaker 8: our families and businesses to thrive again. For border security,

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Speaker 8: you know it is there's overwhelming data that shows there's

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Speaker 8: a crisis that our border and we need to secure

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Speaker 8: our border. We need to repeal the sanctuary state law.

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Speaker 8: I don't know if a lot of people know this.

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Speaker 8: Besides human trafficking, we have coming across the border, we

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Speaker 8: have fentanyl coming across the border. But our fentanyl overdose

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Speaker 8: has increased by eight hundred and sixty nine percent. You know,

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Speaker 8: our families deserve better. I personally have lost family members

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Speaker 8: to fentanyl overdose overdose. But we need to make our

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Speaker 8: neighborhoods safe again and our community safe again. And I

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Speaker 8: know Carl, you are a part of initiatives fighting as

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Speaker 8: sexually violent predators as alongside you, I worked alongside you

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Speaker 8: with that. There's a lot to address in public safety

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Speaker 8: to protect our families and communities. And I will say

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Speaker 8: coming up to Sacramento, we need to fight to repill

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Speaker 8: Prop fifty seven, you know, and that Prop fifty seven

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Speaker 8: removed law enforcement pools and allowed the release of those

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Speaker 8: violent criminals back on our streets. And again we have

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Speaker 8: to oppose a placement as sexually violent predators. Now I'm

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Speaker 8: endorsed by law enforcement. Lastly, voter ID, which I just

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Speaker 8: talked about briefly. We have to restore that. We have

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Speaker 8: to have, you know, faith and confidence in our elections.

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Speaker 5: Yep.

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Speaker 4: What is your website? Because we're up against a break.

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Speaker 3: But I got to tell you, if we can get

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Speaker 3: Christy Bruce Lane elected, and knowing that Tony Stricklands already

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Speaker 3: up there, I will have two partners in the State Senate.

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Speaker 3: There's not a whole lot of people on the Republican

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Speaker 3: side I can count on to throw the ball and fight.

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Speaker 3: But if we can get Tony and Christy up there

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Speaker 3: in that chamber, it totally changed changes the dynamics. It

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Speaker 3: gives me partners on the other side of the capital

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Speaker 3: to work with Christy. What is your website for people

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Speaker 3: to learn more and to chip into contribution.

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Speaker 5: So it's www.

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Speaker 8: Christybrucelane dot com. And I would like to invite people

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Speaker 8: to our Take Back San Diego reception in town Hall

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Speaker 8: coming up on the Legacy International Center from six to

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Speaker 8: seven thirty on the twenty ninth, So reach out to

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Speaker 8: me my event. That event is on my events page.

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Speaker 8: It's Christybruce Lane dot com and help us restore California.

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Speaker 8: Looking forward to getting up there and representing District forty

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Speaker 8: Senate District forty.

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Speaker 4: All right, thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: Christy Bruce Lane is Christy with the k Christibruce Lane

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Speaker 3: dot com. Go to the website. Help get more fighters

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Speaker 3: up in Sacramento. Coming up your issues, plas, I gotta

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Speaker 3: go through the recap. A lot of you been asking

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Speaker 3: me how many gifts are politicians getting, how much money's

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Speaker 3: been spent on lobbying, how are they getting perks. For

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Speaker 3: those of you who missed our Tuesday show, I'll give

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Speaker 3: you a real quick run through of the grift and

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Speaker 3: corruption that the politicians are engaging in in Sacramento behind

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Speaker 3: closed doors.

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Speaker 4: But first check on news with Debora Mark.

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Speaker 2: Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: You can always hear the show live on KFI AM

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Speaker 2: six forty from one to four pm every Monday through Friday,

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