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Speaker 1: have much to cover this hour. We're going to be

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Speaker 1: talking with Alex Stone at two thirty because this is

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Speaker 1: a fascinating story, aren't bank break ins and jewelry heists

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Speaker 1: really entertaining? The owners of a jewelry store in La

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Speaker 1: say they had twenty million dollars worth of jewels stolen.

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Speaker 1: They cut their way in, the bad guys, disabled the

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Speaker 1: security cameras and took cash, gold bars, and jewelry. Alex

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Speaker 1: will describe what happened for us coming up after two thirty,

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Speaker 1: and we're also going to tell you about the LEDWP

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Speaker 1: which did not fill up that one hundred and seventeen

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Speaker 1: million gallon in reservoir, so there was very little water

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Speaker 1: available for the Palisades fire. They are now claiming that

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Speaker 1: they cannot be legally sued for not providing the water.

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Speaker 1: It's hard to believe how abusive the l A d

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Speaker 1: WP is in that Genie Kinoniez. We'll give you the

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Speaker 1: whole legal argument coming up, but first, Michael Munks from

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Speaker 1: Cape My News. Michael, Good afternoon, John.

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Speaker 2: I'm in downtown LA checking to see if any city

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Speaker 2: or county officials are suspects in that jewelry heights since

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Speaker 2: they're in such desperate need of money.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that's a good idea, yeah, because they steal stuff

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Speaker 1: every day. They steal our money every day, So why

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Speaker 1: not go for the gold bars and the jewelry. They

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Speaker 1: can make a lot of thinker look more quickly. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, So what's uh? What's this? They've got a

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Speaker 1: new budget coming out and they have a big deficit.

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Speaker 1: They've got billions of dollars that they have to pay

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Speaker 1: over years for all the pedophile they employees who were

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Speaker 1: sexually abusing seven thousand kids over the years at the

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Speaker 1: juvenile centers and in the prisons. What how is it

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Speaker 1: that they got a budget and no county employee loses

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Speaker 1: their job.

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Speaker 2: Well, it sounds like they have somehow managed to stack

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Speaker 2: the numbers in a way that will keep everyone who

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Speaker 2: is currently employed still employed. That's different than what the

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Speaker 2: City of Los Angeles is facing with. Their own budget crisis,

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Speaker 2: where we might find out next week there could.

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Speaker 1: Be up to thousands of layoffs.

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Speaker 2: But at the county, they've got a forty seven point

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Speaker 2: nine billion dollar budget for the new fiscal year that

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Speaker 2: starts on July first. It's being talked about as we

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Speaker 2: speak at the County building. County CEO Fecia Davenport is

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Speaker 2: speaking to the Board of Supervisors right this.

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Speaker 1: Moment about this budget.

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Speaker 2: But as you noted, they are feeling some very serious pain,

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Speaker 2: some of it self inflicted. You're talking about a four

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Speaker 2: billion dollars settlement of nearly seven thousand claims of sexual

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Speaker 2: abuse against county workers, mainly at probate camps and probation halls,

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Speaker 2: and Fishia Davenport, the county CEO, says they're going to

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Speaker 2: feel the impacts of that settlement for years to come,

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Speaker 2: probably through the budget in twenty fifty. So if you're

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Speaker 2: talking about this, John.

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Speaker 1: You know something, if they don't get their act together,

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Speaker 1: I will be I am not going to rest until

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Speaker 1: all this nonsense stops. Well, you know, well, they got

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Speaker 2: I was just going to say, this is a county

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Speaker 2: that is in significant transition. Just a couple of weeks ago,

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Speaker 2: they said, look, we're going to create a new department,

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Speaker 2: they are basically defunding the LA Homeless Services Authority. They're

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Speaker 2: going to keep that stuff in how so, this is

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Speaker 2: going to be more responsibility over money as their own

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Speaker 2: is about to expand. Starting in twenty twenty eight, LA

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Speaker 2: County residents will be voting for a county executive sort

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Speaker 2: two there will be four more supervisor positions available, bringing

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Speaker 2: the total to nine supervisors. So the government is growing,

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Speaker 2: their budget is constrained. They're looking at three percent cuts

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Speaker 1: This county executive. What is the difference between that position

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Speaker 2: It's basically the difference between a city manager and a mayor.

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Speaker 2: The city manager is typically appointed and answers to the board,

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Speaker 2: there are checks and balances incorporated into city or county charters.

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Speaker 2: But this will be an elected person with executive authority,

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Speaker 1: So soon we're going to have a count mayor.

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Speaker 2: In effect, there's going to be a more powerful position

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Speaker 1: That would appear. Wow. And then we're gonna have nine

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Speaker 2: Yeah, four years after So they'll elect the county executive

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty eight. They're waiting until twenty thirty two

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Speaker 2: for the additional supervisors because they want to get the

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Speaker 2: all of those new districts. These are folks who say, look,

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Speaker 2: there's five of us in a county of ten million.

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Speaker 2: We're representing two million people each. It wasn't designed for

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Speaker 2: one person to represent this many people, So let's divide

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Speaker 2: it up a little more.

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Speaker 1: No, they represent more people than many governors haveing states.

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Speaker 1: There are plenty of states with less than two million people.

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Speaker 1: If that's exactly, I just so, I just don't get it.

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Speaker 1: They got a billion dollars they got to pay for

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Speaker 1: the wildfires, They got all this money they got to

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Speaker 1: pay to settle the sex abuse claims. Then you have

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Speaker 1: Trump threatening to pull federal funding. Where is all this

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Speaker 1: off it. It just doesn't add up to me that.

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Speaker 2: You nailed a couple of other important points. They've got

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Speaker 2: the wildfires to contend with. They're estimating costs for the

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Speaker 2: county somewhere around a billion dollars. Some of that might

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Speaker 2: be reimbursable from the federal government. But then on the

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Speaker 2: other hand, they're having difficulty building a relationship with the

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Speaker 2: new federal government, President Trump, and you know he's not

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Speaker 2: happy with cities that have established sanctuary statuses and FISHA.

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Speaker 1: Davenport says at.

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Speaker 2: Least thirteen percent of the county budget comes through either

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Speaker 2: threatened because of a poor relationship with the administration in Washington.

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Speaker 2: So they're facing a lot of challenges right now, and

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Speaker 2: again it's being talked about this second at the County

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Speaker 2: note there is a very expensive purchase also on the

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Speaker 2: to purchase a skyscraper here in downtown LA to move

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Speaker 1: They're buying a skyscraper. They got money for that.

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Speaker 2: They've got money to buy a skyscraper, and they want

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Speaker 2: to move the government to the skyscraper.

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Speaker 1: Why don't they move the government out of the country.

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Speaker 1: You could probably get a cheap skyscraper somewhere in South America.

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Speaker 1: That'd be a better place for them. Maybe I just

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Speaker 1: like a train there. I'm looking at Davenport's quotes in

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Speaker 1: one story. Our revenue outlook is challenging. To put it mildly,

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Speaker 1: the amount of new funding in the budget is at

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Speaker 1: a five year low, and we're in an uncharted territory

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Speaker 1: with all these pressures, the wildfires, the sex abuse settlement,

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Speaker 1: threat of deep cuts in federal funding. The abuse settlement

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Speaker 1: is the costliest in county history. I don't know they

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Speaker 1: ought to be making emergency maneuvers now because they're gonna sink.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly right.

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Speaker 2: And those are probably the comments that we're hearing right

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Speaker 2: now from supervisors who are asking, you know, what does

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Speaker 2: the path forward look like? You know, it's one thing

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Speaker 2: to go through a challenging budget cycle. Every government has

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Speaker 2: to contend with this from time to time if the

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Speaker 2: economy goes poorly. But to see an outlook that says,

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Speaker 2: at least one situation like this abuse settlement is going

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Speaker 2: to impact you for decades to come.

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Speaker 1: That's really troubling, and so they should be maneuvering.

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Speaker 2: But instead of figuring out where, you know, some serious

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Speaker 2: cuts might come, right now, it's just a three percent

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Speaker 2: across the board. While they're jockeying to create a new

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Speaker 2: come from the sales tax, while also building a skyscraper,

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Speaker 2: or not building but acquiring a skyscraper, while also expanding

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Speaker 1: It's a lot to juggle, all right. Michael Monks, CAF

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Speaker 1: I do is Thank you always a pleasure, Thank thank

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Speaker 1: you very much. When we come back, LEDWP says it

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Speaker 1: can't be sued for not filling up the reservoir. Really,

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Speaker 1: we'll have that for you.

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

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Speaker 3: six forty.

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Speaker 1: All right, two of thirty. Alex Stone coming on. Exciting

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Speaker 1: break in in uh Los Angeles when the bad guys

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Speaker 1: somehow cut their way into a jewelry store and stole

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Speaker 1: twenty million dollars worth of gold and jewels and cash.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about that with Alex Stone coming up at

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Speaker 1: two thirty. Okay. One of the most incompetent, egregious blunders

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Speaker 1: ever to be seen in US history was the boneheads

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Speaker 1: blockheads at the LADWP LA Department of Order and Power.

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Speaker 1: They had a one hundred and seventeen million gallon reservoir,

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Speaker 1: it's called the Santa Andez Reservoir in the Palisades, and

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Speaker 1: they didn't fill it up. It was empty for over

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Speaker 1: a year. Supposedly they were supposed to fix a cover

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Speaker 1: like a big pool cover, and they didn't because they're

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Speaker 1: bubblehead named Janice Keinoniez, who is not hired on merit.

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Speaker 1: I think that's for certain. She still has her job

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Speaker 1: because Karen Bass hired her, and Karen Bass only hires

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Speaker 1: incompetent people, it seems, I mean, the list of buffoons

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Speaker 1: that she has hired is incredible, and Kenoniez is exhibit A.

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Speaker 1: So imagine, imagine showing up for work and you have

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Speaker 1: you know, your your CEO of the Department of Water

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Speaker 1: and Power, right, you're supposed to provide water. You've got

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Speaker 1: a reservoir that was built in nineteen sixty four specifically

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Speaker 1: to put out fires. There's a history. There was a

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Speaker 1: famous fire in bel Air in nineteen sixty one. You

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Speaker 1: the time, and that was such a spectacular fire that

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Speaker 1: everyone realized that all the towns in the foothills of

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Speaker 1: all the way to the Palisades, are in grave fire danger.

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Speaker 1: They need a water supply, So the DWP dug a

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Speaker 1: big hole Santetez Reservoir in the Palisades and Genie Quinoniez

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Speaker 1: was not intelligent enough to fill it right before. She

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Speaker 1: had many months. I mean this. They they drained the

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Speaker 1: so she had about, you know, eight nine months before

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Speaker 1: the dry season is over, before the wet season starts.

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Speaker 1: And unfortunately last year of the dry season extended all

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Speaker 1: So the Pacific Palisades residents and they've got a lot

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Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom signed a bailout of the illegal alien healthcare

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Speaker 1: to keep track of all this nonsense. Do you remember

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Speaker 1: a guy named Sam Brinton. He was the bald, red, lipsticked,

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Speaker 4: I'm looking at his picture.

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Speaker 1: He's fat, he's balding. The lipstick does not help the look.

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Speaker 4: No? No, not the second guy that you just said,

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Speaker 5: You know one pictures where lipstick another one's looks blue

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Speaker 1: groups or they're independently insane. It is not a movement

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Speaker 1: the government is wasting lots of money. Most of the

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Speaker 1: Trump is doing. So there is no outpouring of revolt

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Speaker 1: funded by some left wing organization. Mostly, I mean, what

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Speaker 1: did I just tell you We're blowing billions of dollars

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Speaker 1: on illegal alien healthcare. Put that up in a proposition.

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Speaker 1: See if it passes, even in California, that would be

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Speaker 1: voted down. People should be really pissed off and angry

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Speaker 1: with how your money is being stolen and wasted. And

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Speaker 1: in the rest of the country they are, and they're

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Speaker 1: applauding what's going on. But you know, much of the

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Speaker 1: the proper paperwork being processed. Just like there's this alternate

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Speaker 1: reality going on whenever you turn on the television. All right,

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Speaker 1: when we return, now, we're gonna have Alex Stone on right,

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Speaker 1: because there's this big heist in La got a jewelry

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Speaker 1: they did it and nobody noticed until it was Teborah

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Speaker 1: Mark is live in the CAFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey,

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