1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,160 Speaker 1: Around from one to four every day, and you can 2 00:00:02,240 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 1: hear the podcast after four o'clock. It's the entire show. 3 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 1: And go to iHeart the Rheart radio app and it's 4 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:12,240 Speaker 1: called John and Ken on demand. Yeah, and about fifteen minutes, 5 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:14,440 Speaker 1: another keyword will be revealed for your chance at a 6 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:18,560 Speaker 1: thousand dollars in the KFI cash Refilled contest. We have 7 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:23,440 Speaker 1: talked for years about California wanting to impose a mileage 8 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:26,680 Speaker 1: tax on drivers. So I did like a little Google search. 9 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:29,880 Speaker 1: I just wanted to read you one quick thing from 10 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:32,880 Speaker 1: the Mercury News up in the San Jose area. Their 11 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:38,360 Speaker 1: transportation guy takes questions from readers. Here's from Jim Spinello 12 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:42,480 Speaker 1: from Alamo, California. The monage tax been around a while. 13 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 1: I was one of five thousand volunteers in a twenty eighteen, 14 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:50,000 Speaker 1: six month study called the California Road Charge Pilot Program. 15 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:53,640 Speaker 1: It was outstanding. It covered different options to register your 16 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 1: mileage and also had different options to pay. What happened 17 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 1: to the final report to the legislature, It was great. 18 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:02,279 Speaker 1: That's a real person writing to them. Do you think 19 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 1: that's an operative It doesn't it sound like he signed 20 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:08,680 Speaker 1: Jim Spinello from Alamo. Yeah, there probably is no Jim 21 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:13,120 Speaker 1: Spinello and Alamo. It was great a mileage tax, mileage tax. No, 22 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:18,399 Speaker 1: that was a staffer from one of these progressive state senators. 23 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 1: Well it's the idea that won't go away. We're gonna 24 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 1: bring on Carl Demio from Reform California and COGO Radio's 25 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:29,840 Speaker 1: talk about where this is currently in Sacramento. Carl, how 26 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:32,959 Speaker 1: are you, hey, guys, how are you doing? You have 27 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:36,920 Speaker 1: something down there which we have in our area, a 28 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 1: regional transportation agency Sandy sand And let me just start 29 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:47,640 Speaker 1: out with a little complaint. You see, you guys did 30 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:52,280 Speaker 1: such a great job exposing a guy named Hassan Acrata 31 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:57,040 Speaker 1: up in Los Angeles for his crazy left wing nonsense 32 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 1: that he lost his job in LA. But we then 33 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 1: turned around and hired him down here. So thanks a lot, 34 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 1: guys for sending sending a communist products, the communist road 35 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:12,400 Speaker 1: diet guy. Right, yes, yes, And so anyway, we are 36 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 1: dealing with an agency that's out of control. They they 37 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:19,400 Speaker 1: they never want to six roads. They've lied, they've cheated, 38 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:23,280 Speaker 1: they've stolen money for road repairs. Um, they want to 39 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:26,679 Speaker 1: put money into transit and bike lanes, empty buses. Now 40 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:30,519 Speaker 1: they'd come along with a mileage tax six cents per mile, 41 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:34,240 Speaker 1: which would be nine hundred dollars per driver on top 42 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:37,120 Speaker 1: of the gas tax, on top of the car tax 43 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:42,240 Speaker 1: each year. And what happened is every driver with a 44 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 1: registered car in the county would have to submit their 45 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:49,120 Speaker 1: mileage every year. And they're actually saying that there would 46 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 1: be an audit at the small check um and that 47 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:54,680 Speaker 1: you would then be taxed six cents per mile. Again, 48 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:58,000 Speaker 1: that's about nine hundred dollars for a fifteen thousand mile 49 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 1: commuter each year, which is about the average for the 50 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:03,520 Speaker 1: average car. A lot of people, though, are much higher 51 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:06,560 Speaker 1: than that, particularly low income people who have to live 52 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:09,639 Speaker 1: farther away for affordable housing. So that's extra money going 53 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: to the hands of government, not to fix roads. This 54 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:15,360 Speaker 1: is this is insane And for those of you in 55 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 1: La thinking, oh, this is just a San Diego issue, No, 56 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 1: as you just mentioned, this is a proposal that these leftists, 57 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 1: these Democrat politicians are looking forward to statewide. They want 58 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 1: San Diego to do the pilot first, and then once 59 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 1: San Diego does it for the first year, they're going 60 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 1: to expand it to California statewide, and even Joe Biden 61 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 1: put a mileage tax pilot project in his federal budget 62 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 1: and got the Democrats in this last Congress to actually 63 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 1: approve it. So we now have a mileage tax effort 64 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 1: going on at the local level, the state level, and 65 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:55,120 Speaker 1: the federal level, and we're trying to kill it. No, 66 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 1: they're thinking about replacing the gas tax with the mileage 67 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:01,680 Speaker 1: taxes a se No, this is on top of it. No. No, 68 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 1: these people will never give you any tax relief. So 69 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 1: it's not like, oh, we're gonna go from one thing 70 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:09,400 Speaker 1: to the other and you get a discount or a rebate. No, 71 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:11,640 Speaker 1: this is on top of the highest gas tax in 72 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 1: the country, on top of the highest car tax in 73 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:16,520 Speaker 1: the country. Um, and you know what they say is, well, 74 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:20,159 Speaker 1: we need it because people are are becoming more fuel efficient. No, 75 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:22,559 Speaker 1: that is a lie. If you take a look at 76 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:26,200 Speaker 1: what's happening is they're not using existing gas tax money 77 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 1: or car tax money to fix roads. They've been stealing 78 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:30,800 Speaker 1: that money all along. So when they say we need 79 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:34,039 Speaker 1: the money for the roads, they're lying. The Secondly, secondly, 80 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:37,080 Speaker 1: if you take a look at, um, the the the 81 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:41,000 Speaker 1: philosophy behind the mileage tax. It's contained in the Sanddag 82 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:45,760 Speaker 1: Regional Transportation Transportation Plan, even in Caltran's own studies on 83 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:48,359 Speaker 1: this thing. What they're saying is that by imposing a 84 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 1: mileage tax, their goal is to increase and this is 85 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:56,800 Speaker 1: this is their words, to increase quote the pain and 86 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 1: cost of driving, the pain and cost of driving. Honesty 87 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:05,440 Speaker 1: is a mileage tax is designed to get you out 88 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:10,839 Speaker 1: of your car and to use the unsafe, uh smelly 89 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:16,680 Speaker 1: bus that that's not convenient. God, and look is going 90 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:18,240 Speaker 1: to do that. The bus is up here in Los 91 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:25,840 Speaker 1: Angeles are rolling sores. They're filled with Yeah, they're defecating 92 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:29,800 Speaker 1: and urinating and vomiting and leaving all their body fluids 93 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 1: all over the bus or all over the train car. No, 94 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 1: but nobody will, yeah, exactly. And so what what they're 95 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:42,279 Speaker 1: saying is it's not just a revenue grab, it's it's 96 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:47,600 Speaker 1: a climate change behavior modification effort. And my response is, 97 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 1: you people have lied to us repeatedly every year. You've 98 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:54,080 Speaker 1: never wanted to fix our roads. You've taken our money, 99 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:58,039 Speaker 1: given us congestion, and you're laughing about it because you're saying, well, 100 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:00,520 Speaker 1: you know, these people shouldn't be driving cars anyway, so 101 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:03,240 Speaker 1: eventually the pain will be enough to get them out 102 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 1: of their car. Because the climate change scam is to 103 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:11,039 Speaker 1: emotionally manipulate people, make them feel guilty, make them feel 104 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:13,880 Speaker 1: that they should be compliant and go along with what 105 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:18,799 Speaker 1: the central government wants, which is control. The central government 106 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:21,919 Speaker 1: just like in any communist country wants control. But you 107 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:25,120 Speaker 1: have to get people compliant. How you do that? Make 108 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:29,159 Speaker 1: them feel bad, shame them, emotionally manipulate them, and it's 109 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:33,360 Speaker 1: working on people. Yeah, sadly too many of them are. 110 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:36,400 Speaker 1: But I'm finding that this mileage tax proposal is a 111 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:39,719 Speaker 1: bridge too far, no pun intended. We got Democrats that 112 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:42,880 Speaker 1: don't like it, independence and Republicans don't like it. I 113 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 1: think a lot of people in Los Angeles and Orange 114 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:48,000 Speaker 1: County are going to say absolutely not. It doesn't matter 115 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:50,480 Speaker 1: what political party you're from, this is just a bad proposal. 116 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:54,479 Speaker 1: So we need to organize the grassroots campaign to put 117 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:56,840 Speaker 1: pressure on the politicians to stop this. And in fact, 118 00:06:56,839 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 1: in San Diego County, because we've been doing this, organizing 119 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:03,359 Speaker 1: on the ground and getting people to speak out against 120 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:08,520 Speaker 1: these proposals, we've actually had Democrat politicians either lose election 121 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:12,560 Speaker 1: get recalled from office. We've done two recalls so far 122 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 1: in San Diego based on the mileage tax and been successful. 123 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:20,560 Speaker 1: And then we also are seeing Democrat politicians in office saying, well, 124 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:23,480 Speaker 1: maybe now is not a good time. So we're asking 125 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 1: people to sign online the petition to register your opposition 126 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:32,440 Speaker 1: at stop the Mileage Tax dot com. That stop the 127 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:37,760 Speaker 1: mileage tax dot com Stop the mileage tax dot com. Alright, good, 128 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:42,520 Speaker 1: and that's anybody can sign on this petition. Anybody can 129 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:46,480 Speaker 1: because we know that this idea is not just San Diego. 130 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 1: This is going to happen in La Orange County, ben Chura, 131 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 1: no matter where you are Inland Empire, it is going 132 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:54,440 Speaker 1: to happen in your area. And so what we need 133 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:57,320 Speaker 1: to do is get all of these board of supervisors 134 00:07:57,320 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 1: and city councils to basically go on record now saying 135 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:03,640 Speaker 1: that they do not support a mileage tax. And then 136 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:09,240 Speaker 1: we also need to make the word heard in Sacramento, 137 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 1: because that's the last stop is they would go to 138 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:14,080 Speaker 1: the legislature and say, well, we can't do this at 139 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:16,440 Speaker 1: the local level, but let's just cram it down their 140 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:18,960 Speaker 1: throats through the legislature. So we know that that day 141 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:22,560 Speaker 1: is coming. Stop themileage tax dot Com is where you 142 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:24,120 Speaker 1: need to go and share it with all your friends. 143 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:25,640 Speaker 1: Let's get a lot of people to add their name, 144 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:29,120 Speaker 1: all right, Carl, thank you very much. Thanks guys. No 145 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:33,199 Speaker 1: Carl Demio from Reform California also a host on Calgo 146 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:36,000 Speaker 1: Radio in San Diego and stop from mileage tax dot 147 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:38,319 Speaker 1: Com as their latest effort. Let's not forget the other 148 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:41,319 Speaker 1: player in this, the California Air Resources Board. They have 149 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:43,640 Speaker 1: been looking for a long time to get people to 150 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:46,760 Speaker 1: drive their gas powered cars less. This would be another 151 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:50,640 Speaker 1: tool they would use. We don't have a normal American 152 00:08:50,679 --> 00:08:53,680 Speaker 1: system of government here in California. It is unlike the 153 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 1: other forty nine states. What we have is much closer 154 00:08:56,840 --> 00:09:00,800 Speaker 1: to a Russian or Chinese form of communist government. And 155 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:02,960 Speaker 1: you're not gonna it's not gonna sink into your head 156 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:05,559 Speaker 1: until it's too late. They're doing this drip by drip, 157 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:10,439 Speaker 1: day by day. They're slowly tightening the news around our necks. 158 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:13,880 Speaker 1: And every few weeks there's another idea, and another idea 159 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:17,440 Speaker 1: and another idea. And while this idea has been around 160 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:20,600 Speaker 1: for a number of years, what blocked it at the 161 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:25,079 Speaker 1: state level is we used to have a less than 162 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:28,720 Speaker 1: two thirds Democratic majority, and you couldn't pass a tax 163 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 1: increase unless the majority for the increase was two thirds. Well, 164 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:35,840 Speaker 1: now the Democrats have had more than two thirds for 165 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:39,280 Speaker 1: a while, and they've been able to pass tax increases 166 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:42,560 Speaker 1: and all kinds of nonsense. And what you need is 167 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 1: a second party who gets at least thirty five percent 168 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:51,360 Speaker 1: of the seats to block them from doing stupid stuff 169 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:54,520 Speaker 1: like this. All right, coming up next your chance, it's 170 00:09:54,520 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 1: some money, that's right. California, California kofis catch refill contest. 171 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:02,240 Speaker 1: Listen for the key where John and Ken kf I 172 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 1: am six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Stop 173 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:08,200 Speaker 1: the mileage tax dot com. We just talked to Carl 174 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:11,880 Speaker 1: Demio from Reformed California. That's their latest campaign. As it 175 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:14,640 Speaker 1: looks like there's an effort in Sacramento and from the 176 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:17,920 Speaker 1: California Air Resources Board and from some San Diego officials 177 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:21,760 Speaker 1: to move forward with a mileage tax. San Diego County 178 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:24,800 Speaker 1: might be the pilot county where I just read and 179 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:27,840 Speaker 1: a column by Jim Desman, who's a supervisor down there. 180 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:32,760 Speaker 1: Three percent of San Diego travelers use mass transit. Three 181 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:35,240 Speaker 1: this is, and this is what they want to use 182 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:37,880 Speaker 1: the money for, to build a mass transit system. This 183 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 1: is a ridiculous fight that we're having all over southern California, 184 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:46,280 Speaker 1: certainly in La County. Is you have a very very 185 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:50,760 Speaker 1: tiny percentage of the public using the trains and the buses, 186 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:58,120 Speaker 1: and most of those are wackos. I mean, they're they're psychotics, 187 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:03,800 Speaker 1: mentally ill, they're drug addicted, they're the homeless, and and 188 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:06,280 Speaker 1: that's a big percentage of the users. And then you 189 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:09,280 Speaker 1: have the very very poor and just just the weirdos, 190 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 1: the functioning weirdos. I mean, there's nobody I've ever met 191 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 1: living out here all these years, Nobody I know who 192 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:20,240 Speaker 1: regularly took a bus or a train anywhere for an 193 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:24,880 Speaker 1: So I know this, and I actually look at the 194 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:28,240 Speaker 1: buses going by I take just to get to the 195 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:30,360 Speaker 1: bagel shop every morning. There are a lot of buses 196 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:32,880 Speaker 1: that go down Wiltshire Boulevard and they stop at lights, 197 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:34,640 Speaker 1: and they stop in front of the shops, and I 198 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:36,880 Speaker 1: stand and I look to see who's in there, and 199 00:11:36,960 --> 00:11:39,839 Speaker 1: it's it's it's frightening. If there's anyone in there at all, 200 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:43,600 Speaker 1: it's often empty. So there's no point in spending another 201 00:11:43,679 --> 00:11:47,280 Speaker 1: dollar on the entire public transit system in this county, 202 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:50,960 Speaker 1: or in San Diego County or in Orange County, ridership 203 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:55,040 Speaker 1: is down in some cases to nineteen eighties levels. It is. 204 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:59,400 Speaker 1: It is filthy, it is dangerous, it is sick. It 205 00:11:59,559 --> 00:12:02,600 Speaker 1: is a rolling mental institution. It's a it's a rolling 206 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:07,439 Speaker 1: psych ward and enough is enough and stopped when next 207 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:09,640 Speaker 1: time they put a tax on the bellot don't get 208 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:13,040 Speaker 1: manipulated psychologically. It's like, well, we have to do our 209 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 1: part for the environment and smart mass drags it projects. 210 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:21,959 Speaker 1: You're not taking them. No one in your family, nobody 211 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:25,040 Speaker 1: on your block, nobody at your church. Nobody's taking them 212 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:31,040 Speaker 1: except the psychotics and the mentally ill and the drug addicts. 213 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:34,280 Speaker 1: That's it. There's the only people taking it. Yeah, because 214 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:37,160 Speaker 1: the last regular people are using mass transit stopped during 215 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 1: the pandemic. That's why they used. Car market just exploded. 216 00:12:40,280 --> 00:12:42,160 Speaker 1: People are like, I'm not getting on those trains and 217 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:45,000 Speaker 1: buses now, not like can I catch COVID. I could 218 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 1: catch somebody dropping his pants and dropping a loaf. I 219 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:51,240 Speaker 1: don't want to come. People will will buy a car 220 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:54,560 Speaker 1: even if it's five hundred dollars whatever they have to 221 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:56,800 Speaker 1: do in Dell Bell do it, get the insurance and 222 00:12:56,840 --> 00:12:59,280 Speaker 1: hope they're not getting to get caught. But fake plates 223 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:01,040 Speaker 1: on the car. I mean, that's what I would do. 224 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:06,440 Speaker 1: All rights, others some other well somewhat good news. And 225 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:08,520 Speaker 1: we talk about this from time to time when we're 226 00:13:08,559 --> 00:13:13,560 Speaker 1: helping people gather signatures for a ballot measure. We've remarked 227 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:16,560 Speaker 1: how easy it is for what we would call the larger, 228 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:20,440 Speaker 1: big pocket organizations to do this. And this is a 229 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:23,800 Speaker 1: group of fast food companies who got together collected enough 230 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:28,880 Speaker 1: signatures too for now block Assembly Build two five seven. 231 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:32,360 Speaker 1: This is the fast food bill. This one's we've called 232 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:35,040 Speaker 1: this one communists too. This was an effort by the 233 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 1: state to basically take over the fast food business in California, 234 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:41,760 Speaker 1: to have a council set wages and benefits for the 235 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:45,000 Speaker 1: fast food workers. Right, forget what the company wants to do. 236 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:47,800 Speaker 1: We're gonna tell you what to do, how much to pay, 237 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:51,160 Speaker 1: what the time off policies are, the healthcare policies are. 238 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:55,800 Speaker 1: We're going to dictate how the working conditions are. And 239 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:58,640 Speaker 1: people were stunned, but nobody was more stunned than the 240 00:13:58,679 --> 00:14:03,160 Speaker 1: restaurant groups. So They immediately went out and they were 241 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:06,240 Speaker 1: just told by the Secretary of State that they have 242 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:09,320 Speaker 1: enough valid signatures to put this on the ballot for 243 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 1: the voters to kick it back and negate AB two 244 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:18,160 Speaker 1: five seven, But that won't happen until November of twenty 245 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:23,040 Speaker 1: twenty four. However, because they qualified for the ballot, this 246 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:27,160 Speaker 1: law sits there. It cannot take effect until the people 247 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:30,160 Speaker 1: have voted, So there you go. They submited more than 248 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:33,680 Speaker 1: a million signatures and seven twelve thousand were deemed to 249 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:36,240 Speaker 1: be valid. That was enough to put this on the ballots. 250 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:39,880 Speaker 1: This is just nothing but the destruction of small businesses. 251 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:44,240 Speaker 1: You see. Riverside School of Business said fast food prices 252 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:47,960 Speaker 1: would go up as much as thirty percent if this 253 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:50,920 Speaker 1: thing passes to pay for the salaries right, And what 254 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:54,800 Speaker 1: would happen is is the restaurants, which are mostly locally owned, 255 00:14:56,120 --> 00:14:59,040 Speaker 1: would result in job losses running from twenty eight to 256 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:03,080 Speaker 1: forty six and the closure of eleven hundred to eighteen 257 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:06,720 Speaker 1: hundred fast food locations across the state. So you're going 258 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:09,480 Speaker 1: to put small business owners at a business, and you're 259 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 1: gonna put the workers at a business, and either they're 260 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:19,120 Speaker 1: so terribly ignorant or misinformed, or just their delusional liars. 261 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:23,400 Speaker 1: I don't know what, but McDonald's doesn't own the McDonald's 262 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:26,120 Speaker 1: in your neighborhood. Burger King doesn't own the Burger King. 263 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:29,160 Speaker 1: That's a small business owner. Most of the time, they 264 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:33,480 Speaker 1: buy the property, they build the building, and then they 265 00:15:33,680 --> 00:15:36,920 Speaker 1: lease the Burger King name. They lease the name, they 266 00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:39,240 Speaker 1: get the rights to sell Burger King products, but they 267 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:41,600 Speaker 1: have to follow all the rules. The restaurant has to 268 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:43,720 Speaker 1: look a certain way, the menu has to be followed 269 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:46,920 Speaker 1: to a t, the cooking instructions have to be followed 270 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:50,640 Speaker 1: very rigorously, and so you end up being a burger 271 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:53,880 Speaker 1: King restaurant. But you're not sticking it to Burger King 272 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:57,800 Speaker 1: by passing this law or supporting this law to pay 273 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:01,120 Speaker 1: exorbitant salaries. You're sticking it to local business owner who's 274 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:03,000 Speaker 1: simply going to go out of business. And how many 275 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 1: times have we said this, This is not a career 276 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:07,600 Speaker 1: job and was never meant to be. But that's the 277 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 1: problem we've encountered in the last ten to fifteen years. 278 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:13,000 Speaker 1: There were people working there in their thirties, forties and 279 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:15,560 Speaker 1: fifties who have mortgages and children that are saying pay 280 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 1: me more because I have higher bills. That's not the 281 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:22,480 Speaker 1: way it works. No, that was always considered a low skill, 282 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 1: low level job, and that's because fast food companies do 283 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:28,720 Speaker 1: well because their product is relatively cheap in addition to 284 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:31,160 Speaker 1: being fast. It's cheap. If you're gonna start paying these 285 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:34,400 Speaker 1: people twenty two dollars an hour and up, that ain't 286 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:35,720 Speaker 1: going to be the case anymore. Where you're going to 287 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:38,640 Speaker 1: buy a burger. There's no industry stution. The industry's gone. 288 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:43,440 Speaker 1: If the prices aren't cheap, then the industry doesn't exist, 289 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 1: because nobody goes to McDonald's to pay twenty eight dollars 290 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:50,480 Speaker 1: for lunch. No, all right, we got more coming up. 291 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:53,080 Speaker 1: Johnny Ken camp I AM six forty Live Everywhere, or 292 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:56,080 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app. All right, the Moistline is returning in 293 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 1: today's So here's your head's up. 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Coming 304 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:36,240 Speaker 1: right after the news at three o'clock. Well, the unbelievable 305 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:40,520 Speaker 1: story that unfolded on January sixth, did Newport News Virginia 306 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:43,640 Speaker 1: has a few updates. This was when a six year 307 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:47,479 Speaker 1: old boy shot his teacher. Her name is Abigail's Werner. 308 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:51,399 Speaker 1: She is recovering, thankfully, twenty five year old teacher at 309 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:55,239 Speaker 1: rich Neck Elementary School. The announcement was made by her 310 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:58,480 Speaker 1: lawyer that they planned to sue the school district on 311 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:02,359 Speaker 1: that day. For the course of a few hours, three 312 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:06,359 Speaker 1: different times school administration was warned by concerned teachers and 313 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:09,080 Speaker 1: employees that the boy had a gun on him at 314 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:12,159 Speaker 1: the school and was threatening people, but they could not 315 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:16,040 Speaker 1: be bothered and here is what happened. According to the attorney, 316 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:19,679 Speaker 1: the teacher first went to an administrator around eleven fifteen 317 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:22,640 Speaker 1: am on the day of the shooting and said he's 318 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:25,600 Speaker 1: threatened to beat up another child they didn't do anything. 319 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:29,240 Speaker 1: An hour later, another teacher went to an administrator and 320 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:32,040 Speaker 1: said she had taken it upon herself to search the 321 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:35,679 Speaker 1: boy's book bag, but warned, I think he may have 322 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:38,560 Speaker 1: slipped the gun into his pocket before he went out 323 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:43,200 Speaker 1: for recess. The administrator downplayed the report and said, ah, 324 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:47,080 Speaker 1: he has little pockets. Shortly after one pm, another teacher 325 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:50,240 Speaker 1: told the administrator that a different student, who was crying 326 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:53,640 Speaker 1: and fearful, said the boy showed him the gun during 327 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:58,160 Speaker 1: recess and threatened to shoot him if he told anyone again. 328 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:02,600 Speaker 1: No action was taken, so they all returned to school. 329 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:05,240 Speaker 1: Apparently one thought was, oh, the school day is almost over. 330 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:08,720 Speaker 1: Let this play out. And then a fourth employee ask 331 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:12,160 Speaker 1: an administrator for permission to search the boy and was denied. 332 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:16,080 Speaker 1: Wait out the situation. The school days almost over, the 333 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:20,159 Speaker 1: administrator said to that employee. There is an update in 334 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:23,400 Speaker 1: the story from the New York Post. Doctor Ebony Parker, 335 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:27,360 Speaker 1: the assistant principle at that school, has resigned. She could 336 00:19:27,359 --> 00:19:29,840 Speaker 1: not be reached for comment. Well, she and everybody else 337 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:33,880 Speaker 1: how to resign? Everybody and who was involved in this story? 338 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:37,399 Speaker 1: How to go? What were they just so favorable to 339 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 1: the boy? And his problems that they thought, I'm trying 340 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:44,399 Speaker 1: to figure this out because it's you. It used to 341 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:46,960 Speaker 1: be not too long ago that we were swinging over 342 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:50,720 Speaker 1: into the other direction. In fact, I started looking around 343 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:54,680 Speaker 1: for now the zero tolerance remember the zero tolerance phrase 344 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:56,840 Speaker 1: that went on and is it some people? What did 345 00:19:56,840 --> 00:19:58,959 Speaker 1: they bring to school that was considered a weapon? Remember 346 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:02,040 Speaker 1: all that talk? Nuttiest one I found was has happened 347 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:05,360 Speaker 1: about five years ago in North Carolina middle school where 348 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:10,280 Speaker 1: a student was suspended for drawing a stick figure. Oh yeah, 349 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:12,680 Speaker 1: that was another issue, right, Yeah, thirteen year old boy 350 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:15,840 Speaker 1: and he's doing all these different drawings. He had a 351 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:20,160 Speaker 1: race car, a tower, and a guy holding a gun 352 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:24,560 Speaker 1: because he's a deer hunter, and that he was making 353 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:28,000 Speaker 1: these drawings. They saw the stick figure holding a gun 354 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:30,840 Speaker 1: and all hell broke loose and they suspended him. And 355 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:33,360 Speaker 1: I remember we had some zero tolerance cases that were 356 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:37,280 Speaker 1: just absurd. The kids were being unfairly punished and stigmatized. 357 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:40,639 Speaker 1: And now it swung over to a kid at six 358 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:44,600 Speaker 1: walks around with a gun. People see it. You have 359 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:49,200 Speaker 1: four people walk into administrator's office and says, he's got 360 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:50,439 Speaker 1: a gun. He's got a gun, he's got a God, 361 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:55,480 Speaker 1: he's got a gun. Oh No, I don't think so. 362 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:58,119 Speaker 1: This kid was already on the radar. Remember he barricaded 363 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:00,439 Speaker 1: himself in the classroom and he threatened to cut the 364 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:03,080 Speaker 1: teacher's face. Yeah, and he was a kid like it, 365 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:05,800 Speaker 1: came out of nowhere, whose parents were forced to show 366 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:10,320 Speaker 1: up every day to chaperone him through the school day. 367 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:12,639 Speaker 1: And this was the first day that neither one of 368 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:16,280 Speaker 1: him was there. And look what happened. And on top 369 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:18,719 Speaker 1: of that, the mom had just bought the gun. Of 370 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:21,120 Speaker 1: course she's claiming she had it locked up and high 371 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:23,800 Speaker 1: up on a shelf, which is obviously a total lot. Yeah, 372 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:25,840 Speaker 1: the gun was in the woman's closet on a shelf 373 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:28,080 Speaker 1: wall over six feet high and had a trigger lock 374 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:30,640 Speaker 1: that required a key. Yeah, I don't think so. No 375 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:34,679 Speaker 1: good one. I mean, everybody just lies like crazy. And 376 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:40,399 Speaker 1: I'm wondering, what is what is the apathy about? What 377 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:44,720 Speaker 1: is the lack of urgency when you hear, especially now, 378 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:49,840 Speaker 1: there's so many school shootings going on, right and people 379 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:55,000 Speaker 1: will will put a school into immediate lockdown what's going on? 380 00:21:56,920 --> 00:22:01,280 Speaker 1: And you see him sometimes administrators completely passive. I mean, 381 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 1: it's certainly that way when there's sexual abuse charges. But 382 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:10,280 Speaker 1: now he actually shoots a teacher and everybody in the 383 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:17,040 Speaker 1: administration knew it was coming. It's the parents said that 384 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:21,160 Speaker 1: the boy had an acute disability, was under a care 385 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:23,480 Speaker 1: plan that included the mother of father attending school with 386 00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:26,240 Speaker 1: him and accompanying him to class every day. But wouldn't 387 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:28,879 Speaker 1: you know it, the week of the shooting, they stopped 388 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:31,000 Speaker 1: doing that. They just weren't there with him. They haven't 389 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:33,760 Speaker 1: really given a foot of that. What is that disability? 390 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:36,600 Speaker 1: I know you've got all these privacy rules, but he's 391 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 1: an evil murderer. Yeah, how bad since he was walking 392 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:42,480 Speaker 1: around with a loaded gun. He's a homicidal mania with 393 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:46,000 Speaker 1: six year olds and he shot a teacher. Maybe you 394 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,359 Speaker 1: should reveal what this disability is because I'm not aware 395 00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:51,720 Speaker 1: of a disability that causes a six year old to 396 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:54,600 Speaker 1: bring a loaded gun to a school and shoot. That's 397 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:57,840 Speaker 1: not a disability. How many six year olds tell another 398 00:22:57,920 --> 00:22:59,720 Speaker 1: kid in the schoolyard, yeah, you saw my gun. If 399 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:01,920 Speaker 1: you tell anybody, I'll shoot you with it. You can't 400 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:05,159 Speaker 1: even imagine where do you even get the ability to 401 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:09,639 Speaker 1: articulate that thought? I at six, man, I can barely 402 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,159 Speaker 1: remember things I was doing today? How do you know 403 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:14,199 Speaker 1: how to remember the first grade? Right? How do you 404 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:16,840 Speaker 1: how do you know how to hold the gun? How 405 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:18,600 Speaker 1: do you know how to shoot it? How do you 406 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:21,800 Speaker 1: know how to hide it? I think you're right. They 407 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:24,679 Speaker 1: were bending over backwards to give this special needs child 408 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:28,119 Speaker 1: all of the breaks and hope that he would straighten up. 409 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:30,200 Speaker 1: So we don't want to sit there and constantly search 410 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:32,719 Speaker 1: his backpack because he would feel like we didn't trust up. 411 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:36,639 Speaker 1: People don't straighten up. If he's got like a disorder 412 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:41,120 Speaker 1: in his brain, right, some kind of biological problem inside 413 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:43,760 Speaker 1: his brain, there is no straightening up out of that. 414 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:48,439 Speaker 1: You know, he's got a severe mental problem that's likely 415 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:50,920 Speaker 1: not curable. So he got to keep them away from 416 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:54,439 Speaker 1: everybody else. So now they're gonna get sued, and they 417 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:57,320 Speaker 1: should get sued. Apparently they're making a bigger issue out 418 00:23:57,320 --> 00:23:59,719 Speaker 1: of this than Apparently the school administrators at this particular 419 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,320 Speaker 1: school district just never listened to the teachers whenever they 420 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:05,040 Speaker 1: have complaints like this, whether it's discipline or some of 421 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:07,040 Speaker 1: their problem, they feel like they're just not heard. They're 422 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:10,399 Speaker 1: dismissed over and over again. And now we get one 423 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:12,520 Speaker 1: that gets shot when the bullet went through her hand 424 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:15,520 Speaker 1: and into her chest. Fortunately it look like she's going 425 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:20,040 Speaker 1: to recover. But and this assistant principle is a doctor, yes, 426 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:23,920 Speaker 1: as a PhD. And I guess so that would be 427 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,639 Speaker 1: the reason for calling her a doctor, right, Ebbody, Parker, 428 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:29,760 Speaker 1: She doesn't have the common sense that if you've got 429 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:32,080 Speaker 1: four people saying the kid has a gun, you go 430 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:36,720 Speaker 1: get the kid and you isolate him, and at his 431 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:44,520 Speaker 1: backpack and his book bag and everything. I really, I'm 432 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:50,280 Speaker 1: just astonished. I'm presumably this woman, ebbody has a triple 433 00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:54,240 Speaker 1: digitiq right as opposed to meet tonight to discuss a 434 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:59,040 Speaker 1: separation agreement in a severance package for her severance package 435 00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:02,160 Speaker 1: and poor that people have contracts, you know. But by 436 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:05,320 Speaker 1: the way, the teacher and everybody else, why not gathered 437 00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:08,439 Speaker 1: the students and run out of the class. I mean, 438 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:10,520 Speaker 1: if you've got if you've got students coming up saying 439 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:12,760 Speaker 1: he showed me a gun, don't you like clear out 440 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:15,840 Speaker 1: the entire class. Don't you pick up the kid who 441 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:17,760 Speaker 1: supposedly has the gun and hold him up in the 442 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:21,800 Speaker 1: air and take him to the administrator's office and say 443 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:25,119 Speaker 1: I'm clearing out my class. We're all running down the 444 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:28,240 Speaker 1: block and hiding until you do something. You really have 445 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:32,360 Speaker 1: to take extreme action in the moment. You can't just say, oh, 446 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:34,879 Speaker 1: mister administrator, you know I think this kid might have 447 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:37,959 Speaker 1: a gun. Oh no, he doesn't. Okay, I'll just go 448 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:43,119 Speaker 1: back to my classroom. Honestly, nobody actually acts when there's 449 00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:47,080 Speaker 1: a real emergency. People just stand there. Everyone's afraid to offend. 450 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:50,320 Speaker 1: About an hour before they're shooting, this teacher texted loved 451 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,639 Speaker 1: one saying she was really concerned and was frustrated because 452 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:57,720 Speaker 1: no one was doing anything about this child who clearly 453 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:02,760 Speaker 1: needed help and he had a gun. A text, get 454 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:04,800 Speaker 1: on the INTERCIM system at the school and tell everybody 455 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:06,840 Speaker 1: to clear out. I now, run out in the hallway, screen, 456 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:09,760 Speaker 1: they barricade the doors, go into lockdown. Yeah, run out 457 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:11,880 Speaker 1: in the hall and scream. Run out in the hall 458 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:14,320 Speaker 1: and screen and get to chase out there and shoot you. 459 00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:16,399 Speaker 1: She gotta be careful. What are they gonna do? Fire you? 460 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:18,960 Speaker 1: What if you washed here? All right? We got more 461 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:21,800 Speaker 1: coming up. Johnny ken KF I am six forty live 462 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:26,200 Speaker 1: everywhere the iHeartRadio app. Well, good news, very exciting news. 463 00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:29,440 Speaker 1: Trump is allowed back on Facebook and Instagram in case 464 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:33,960 Speaker 1: we're really pining for that, isn't his truth? Social working 465 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:37,720 Speaker 1: really well, isn't he. No, he hardly got anybody on that. 466 00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:41,040 Speaker 1: I know, I had a way. I was kind of 467 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:44,399 Speaker 1: rooting for him because I hate those stupid tech conglomerates, 468 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:49,200 Speaker 1: stupid Twitter. And yeah, I know we're gonna be talking 469 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:52,480 Speaker 1: to well, somebody who would like to stop the parole 470 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:54,720 Speaker 1: of a murderer. This comes up from time to time 471 00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:58,159 Speaker 1: on the show. Listeners reach out to us and ask 472 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:02,760 Speaker 1: for our help. Along with hundreds of residents out in Redland, 473 00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:05,240 Speaker 1: this group is fighting to keep a man by the 474 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:08,639 Speaker 1: name of Damian Guerrero in prison for the murder of 475 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:12,119 Speaker 1: a woman by the name of Kelly Bullwinkle. His fourth 476 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:15,000 Speaker 1: parole hearing is scheduled for the end of the month. 477 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:18,560 Speaker 1: We'll talk about the case, We'll see how you can help. 478 00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:22,919 Speaker 1: Anytime we can stop murderers. There shouldn't go together. There 479 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:26,359 Speaker 1: should be no parole for murderers. Doesn't happen. In fact, 480 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:30,280 Speaker 1: they should be executed. But that one's a pretty tough 481 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:32,680 Speaker 1: thing to expect. Getting to keep him in jail anymore. 482 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:35,480 Speaker 1: That's just it. There's always a reason and this one's 483 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:37,480 Speaker 1: not old, so this is not one of these elder 484 00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:43,760 Speaker 1: parole things. But anyway, Kelly Bullwinkle died in two thousand 485 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:46,800 Speaker 1: and three at the hands of this man. And we'll 486 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:49,960 Speaker 1: learn more about the case and how you can help 487 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:53,800 Speaker 1: coming up after the news at three o'clock. Plus, her mother, 488 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:57,520 Speaker 1: who had fought very hard against this parole, actually passed 489 00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:02,160 Speaker 1: away in twenty fourteen. She was only Yeah, others are 490 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:06,679 Speaker 1: taking up the cause for family members to prevent the 491 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:12,919 Speaker 1: parole of this horrific murder, is yeah, And sometimes you 492 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:15,040 Speaker 1: have to get into the details to get people to 493 00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:18,639 Speaker 1: understand this is a dangerous person who does not should 494 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:22,560 Speaker 1: not get his freedom. Uh, you know, from the world 495 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:26,439 Speaker 1: of public relations, of course, we all know what happened 496 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:28,840 Speaker 1: during the pandemic when they locked down all the schools. 497 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:32,480 Speaker 1: The learning loss, which is kind of a mild way 498 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:36,879 Speaker 1: of saying it, became the worst in the worst school districts. 499 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:40,080 Speaker 1: There were parents and better school districts who were able 500 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:43,200 Speaker 1: to hire private tutors who had little garage classrooms in 501 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:49,200 Speaker 1: the neighborhood, but the really, really financially less well off 502 00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:53,320 Speaker 1: communities kids suffered because they had no classroom time. They 503 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,920 Speaker 1: weren't going to do zoom school. So you know, a 504 00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:59,200 Speaker 1: couple of years later, here we had la unified school 505 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:04,000 Speaker 1: district with its flashy new supervisor announcing, I know we 506 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,600 Speaker 1: can make up some of the learning loss with a 507 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:12,720 Speaker 1: fancy word acceleration days. That's what we'll do. We'll announce it, 508 00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:14,600 Speaker 1: we'll get all sorts of media coverage, and we'll talk 509 00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:16,960 Speaker 1: about a few stinking days for a few hours in 510 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:21,080 Speaker 1: a classroom. Oh really, very few days, very few day. 511 00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:25,520 Speaker 1: Just they did too recently. We'll go through the attendance, 512 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:31,120 Speaker 1: but the El Segundo Times has computed that it ends 513 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:35,000 Speaker 1: up costing six hundred and eleven dollars per day per 514 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:40,160 Speaker 1: student for this pr move. And the strangest thing about 515 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:43,800 Speaker 1: this was, well, not strange, but the district pretty much 516 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:48,680 Speaker 1: lied about the attendance numbers. Of course they did. They 517 00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:51,800 Speaker 1: put out well all right near the end of the 518 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:55,400 Speaker 1: second acceleration day, this Carvallo character of the superintendent. So 519 00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:59,120 Speaker 1: it attended sixty thousand and seventy thousand first day, second day, 520 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:03,000 Speaker 1: fifty thousand, sixty thousand. A month later, officials cut the 521 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:07,600 Speaker 1: figures in half, and then on Friday, more specific numbers 522 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:11,960 Speaker 1: were issued In all, thirty six thousand, four hundred and 523 00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:15,080 Speaker 1: eighty six students attended one or both days. The first 524 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:17,600 Speaker 1: day the number was about thirty three thousand, the second 525 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:20,440 Speaker 1: day down to twenty six thousand. So the total number 526 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:23,600 Speaker 1: of school days attended fifty eight thousand, nine hundred and 527 00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:26,479 Speaker 1: forty eight does work out to six hundred and eleven 528 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:31,920 Speaker 1: dollars perse school day per student. That is a complete 529 00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:35,400 Speaker 1: waste of money. And how I would imagine two acceleration days. 530 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:36,960 Speaker 1: Nobody knew what the hell they were doing, and we 531 00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:39,400 Speaker 1: weren't gonna you weren't getting your regular teacher you were 532 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:41,880 Speaker 1: they were off for a year and a half. I know, 533 00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:44,800 Speaker 1: you get to this is a pr move. And often 534 00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:47,160 Speaker 1: it wasn't at the same school and it wasn't the 535 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:52,760 Speaker 1: same teacher. Well, possibly could be accomplished, I don't know. 536 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:54,560 Speaker 1: One parents said, well, you know she would have been 537 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:56,840 Speaker 1: sitting around doing nothing anyway, so why not send her 538 00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:00,320 Speaker 1: in to learn a little? A little, a little? But 539 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:02,720 Speaker 1: this is my problem, isn't with that? My problem is 540 00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:04,800 Speaker 1: they were trying to patch up the bigger problem with 541 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:08,440 Speaker 1: only the learning loss. But ELLA unified its pathetic results 542 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:11,600 Speaker 1: anyway with trying to convince the world that, well, we'll 543 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:13,680 Speaker 1: come up with the fancy term acceleration days, and that 544 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:15,680 Speaker 1: will help make up all of the problems in the 545 00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,480 Speaker 1: school discs. When you have the school board and then 546 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:22,960 Speaker 1: and then the superintendent, and the local politicians and even 547 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:27,480 Speaker 1: stupid dipity Dooknewsom, they're all terrified at the teachers union. 548 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:31,320 Speaker 1: And the teacher's union was on this jihad. They were 549 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:32,959 Speaker 1: refusing for a year and a half to go to 550 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:37,800 Speaker 1: school for no reason. There there was no scientific evidence 551 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:39,920 Speaker 1: that could change their minds. They simply didn't want to work. 552 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:44,680 Speaker 1: They just wanted to lay around in their bathrobes, unwashed 553 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:50,360 Speaker 1: and do this this half assed zoom school that nobody liked. 554 00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:55,440 Speaker 1: Nobody got anything good out of. The other crimin side 555 00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:59,600 Speaker 1: of this story is this just happened recently the return 556 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:02,320 Speaker 1: of one of the longest oldest hacks in John and 557 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,880 Speaker 1: Ken show history, Jackie Goldberg, has returned as the school 558 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,720 Speaker 1: board president. And good lord did she do a pep 559 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:12,480 Speaker 1: talk And this elsa gonna time story. Well, eighty three 560 00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:14,000 Speaker 1: percent of the kids who showed up were kids that 561 00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:16,240 Speaker 1: wanted to show up. That tells me they're on to something. 562 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:18,480 Speaker 1: And I went to a few schools, and I saw 563 00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:22,560 Speaker 1: good learning going on just ore and for some of 564 00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:28,720 Speaker 1: these classes, only two kids showed up. Carvallo went to 565 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:30,920 Speaker 1: one of the classes. And that's why they lied about 566 00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:33,800 Speaker 1: the attendance numbers, right they. I mean, obviously some kids 567 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,200 Speaker 1: signed up who didn't show up, but you can't put 568 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:38,440 Speaker 1: that out as an attendance number until you actually count 569 00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:41,000 Speaker 1: the kids in the classrooms. You don't put out the 570 00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:43,720 Speaker 1: sign up number. Well when you when they added it 571 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:47,960 Speaker 1: all up, less than nine percent of the students showed 572 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:52,000 Speaker 1: up for even one day. Nine percent, right, so over 573 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,640 Speaker 1: ninety percent of the kids never showed up to these 574 00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:58,760 Speaker 1: ridiculous acceleration days because the parents and the kids knew better. 575 00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:01,600 Speaker 1: They knew this would be a waste of time. Now, 576 00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:05,040 Speaker 1: this was just some kind of face saving device, so 577 00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:07,680 Speaker 1: that Carvallo and all these other bone heads that run 578 00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:10,800 Speaker 1: the LA school system would have an answer for reporters. Well, 579 00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:14,959 Speaker 1: we did have acceleration days and that resulted in fifty 580 00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:19,440 Speaker 1: eight thousand days worth of learning. That's very good, because 581 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:21,200 Speaker 1: I had in my head while you were saying that 582 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:23,880 Speaker 1: somebody had a debate. Who just throws out numbers like that. 583 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:27,360 Speaker 1: We're implemented acceleration days, and we were able to make 584 00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:30,160 Speaker 1: up a lot of the learning laws. No, yeah, because 585 00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:32,640 Speaker 1: people don't do math. Their eyes glaze over when they 586 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:35,440 Speaker 1: hear numbers and they wou wouldn't know. That means ninety 587 00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:37,800 Speaker 1: percent of the kids never even showed up. The truth 588 00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:40,240 Speaker 1: is it's all about giving up and moving on. Kids 589 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:42,440 Speaker 1: are being passed through now just to get them out 590 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:44,800 Speaker 1: of the school and to say, well, they graduated, did 591 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:48,760 Speaker 1: they go bye bye, have a nice compromise, succeeded, whatever 592 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,160 Speaker 1: we have to do to make sure you just get through. 593 00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:54,760 Speaker 1: Enjoy the fry basket. Don't worry about you know. And 594 00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:57,160 Speaker 1: that's what we've been watching the last few years, tearing 595 00:33:57,200 --> 00:34:00,560 Speaker 1: apart standardized testing. Oh yo, it's a bit nasists and 596 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:03,480 Speaker 1: it's culturally biased and it's bad. No, none of this 597 00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:07,600 Speaker 1: matters anymore. The Bathrobe crowd of teachers, they got theirs, 598 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:10,279 Speaker 1: they got the salaries, they got the pension benefits, they 599 00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:13,040 Speaker 1: got the healthcare benefits, They have tenure. They can't get fired. 600 00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:16,759 Speaker 1: They made it. These kids, Yeah, they're gonna be uh 601 00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:21,000 Speaker 1: working in Amazon warehouses, breaking their back or cooking burgers 602 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:24,600 Speaker 1: and fries. These teachers don't care they got theirs. What 603 00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:27,960 Speaker 1: was the story I saw this morning headline some dope 604 00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:31,359 Speaker 1: be professor at some college you've got some airtime, was 605 00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:34,759 Speaker 1: saying that math and math classes. I think he used 606 00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:42,319 Speaker 1: the term sis heterocentrist, and I'm like, you know, some 607 00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:45,799 Speaker 1: of the world's greatest technologies and advancements science come from 608 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,440 Speaker 1: a basis in math. I mean, so, you know what, 609 00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:51,719 Speaker 1: And people who buy into his garbage, they're gonna fail 610 00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:54,040 Speaker 1: in life, and people who laugh at it are going 611 00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:57,520 Speaker 1: to succeed. You know it. You're you're gonna have a wife, 612 00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:00,440 Speaker 1: gonna make you angry though, because this stuff can't catch you. 613 00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:03,359 Speaker 1: Just got to keep your kids out of schools where 614 00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:08,000 Speaker 1: people talk like that. All right? Coming up next, we're 615 00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:10,640 Speaker 1: going to hear the story of what happened to a 616 00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:13,560 Speaker 1: young lady named Kelly Bullwinkle. She was murdered back in 617 00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:17,319 Speaker 1: two thousand and three, and sadly, we're looking at the 618 00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:21,120 Speaker 1: parole possibility again for her murderer. John and Ken caf 619 00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:24,680 Speaker 1: I Am six forty Live Everywhere, the iHeartRadio app and 620 00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:27,240 Speaker 1: Deborah Mark Live in the twenty four Hour Cafe Newsroom