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Speaker 2: on whatever you missed. All right, let's got so much

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Speaker 2: to do. I'm gonna keep rolling here. Carl Demio's coming on.

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Speaker 2: He is a Republican assembly member from San Diego. He

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Speaker 2: is the chairman of Reform California, which is an activist

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Speaker 2: group which looks like is going to be able to

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Speaker 2: get on the ballot an initiative requiring you to show

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Speaker 2: ID when you vote. They needed eight hundred plus thousand

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Speaker 2: signatures and they now have one point three million signatures

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Speaker 2: and it seems like they're well over the mark. Let's

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Speaker 2: talk to Carl Demayo and see what this means. Carl,

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Speaker 2: how are you.

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Speaker 3: I'm doing well, John, and we're just so grateful that

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Speaker 3: people signed this initiative and volunteers stepped up to collect signatures.

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Speaker 3: This was a real team effort and it is a

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Speaker 3: citizen's uprising because the politicians had a chance to enact

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Speaker 3: common sense voter ID requirements. A year ago, the politicians

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Speaker 3: in Washington in the Senate had a chance, or still

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Speaker 3: have a chance, but they don't do it. The politicians

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Speaker 3: won't do it. This is despite the fact that voter

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Speaker 3: ID is a bipartisan issue. There's a seventy eighty percent

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Speaker 3: support in every poll that you see, including a majority

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Speaker 3: of Democrats. And of the one point three five million

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Speaker 3: signatures that we collected, nearly half of them came from

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Speaker 3: Independence and Democrats. So this is a consensus measure, and

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Speaker 3: yet the politicians are trying to stop it at every turn.

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Speaker 3: The citizens are just going to have to impose it

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Speaker 3: on our broken political system this November in the election.

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Speaker 2: I explain because plenty of people may not have heard

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Speaker 2: about this or only slightly familiar. Should this past pass

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Speaker 2: in November the next election day, what will people have

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Speaker 2: to do? How will the process work this voter IDEA

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Speaker 2: good question.

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Speaker 3: There are two sections to this state constitutional amendment. The

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Speaker 3: first section deals with cleaning up our voter lists to

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Speaker 3: make sure that only eligible people are on the voter

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Speaker 3: list and receive ballots, and the second section is about

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Speaker 3: making sure we check the identity and verify the identity

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Speaker 3: of someone who returns the ballot. So, for the first section,

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Speaker 3: California has abysmally outdated, poorly maintained voter lists, and a

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Speaker 3: lot of people are getting ballots that are no longer

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Speaker 3: living here in California or they're not citizens. And so

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Speaker 3: what we require is that every county registrar will now

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Speaker 3: have the legal responsibility and the authority to maintain accurate

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Speaker 3: voter lists. You might think that that's already in law,

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Speaker 3: it's not. The Secretary of State bans a lot of

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Speaker 3: the counties from doing proper list maintenance. It also requires

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Speaker 3: as part of that that government agencies that have databases

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Speaker 3: would have to cooperate with the registrar voters as they

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Speaker 3: verify citizenship. And so we also require as part of

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Speaker 3: this an outside audit every two years before mail and

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Speaker 3: ballots are mailed out. The independent state Auditor would have

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Speaker 3: to randomly audit every county's voter file and publish the

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Speaker 3: results to the public. And if the voter file isn't

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Speaker 3: properly maintained, then that becomes something that the court can

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Speaker 3: order changes and fixes on. So the first part of

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Speaker 3: this is all about holding government accountable for doing citizenship

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Speaker 3: verification and eligibility and residency review.

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Speaker 1: We have a lot of yeah, go ahead, sorry.

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Speaker 4: But the second part is super simple, and that is,

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Speaker 4: once we verify who's on the list, then any one

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Speaker 4: with the current government ID, driver's license, passport, uh, social

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Speaker 4: security card, all they have to do is show that

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Speaker 4: when they vote. It doesn't really have any burdens or

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Speaker 4: requirements on the voters. What it really is about is

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Speaker 4: holding government officials accountable for doing their damn job to

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Speaker 4: maintain accurate voter lists. It's so simple, and that's why

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Speaker 4: Democrats even are very supportive of this. It's just good government.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, normal people, normal Democrats, citizens are But the activists

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Speaker 2: and the whack jobs who serve as our representatives, they've

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Speaker 2: got all kinds of nonsense reasons because they want they

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Speaker 2: want to protect their their their cheating machine. They want

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Speaker 2: to keep the cheating machine fully operational. That's the only

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Speaker 2: reason to be against voter ID is because you and

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Speaker 2: your party are cheating and profiting and benefiting from it.

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Speaker 1: There's no other there's no other reason or or or.

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Speaker 3: You know, I mean, I do believe that there's all

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Speaker 3: sorts of problems and cheating. But even worse, public perception

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Speaker 3: voter ID, when it's not done properly. When we have

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Speaker 3: lucy goosey systems where there's ballots sitting on the ground

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Speaker 3: people who've long since fled the state, it sends the

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Speaker 3: message to other voters that your vote really is going

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Speaker 3: and that's why public trust and confidence plummets and participation plummets.

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Speaker 3: You know what's interesting, John, They say that this is

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Speaker 3: about suppressing the vote, it's a lie. What's odd about

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Speaker 3: it is that when voter ID systems are implemented in

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Speaker 3: other states, voting participation actually increases, and it particularly increases

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Speaker 3: amongst minority voters because people realize, we'll wait a minute,

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Speaker 3: since the election is being done properly and it's being

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Speaker 3: done with safeguards, then nobody can out my vote. My

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Speaker 3: vote matters. And so this is an idea that's so simple.

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Speaker 3: When the politicians say it's racist, or when they say

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Speaker 3: it suppresses the votes of women or whatnot, the voters

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Speaker 3: are smart enough to say, you guys are insane. It's

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Speaker 3: a lie. This is common sense. Let's just get this up.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's so stupid.

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Speaker 2: I mean, if they're going to object to something, have

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Speaker 2: a more intelligent response, something based in reality. Most everybody

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Speaker 2: has an idea of some kind, so there's no such

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Speaker 2: thing as it being racism or this anti woman thing

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Speaker 2: is something new. I mean, they're just making up nonsense

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Speaker 2: have a reasonable discussion. There's nothing to discuss. Everybody's got

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Speaker 2: ID and all of us use it all day and night.

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Speaker 3: They want to make this a part of an issue

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Speaker 3: because they thrive on division, and that's how they stop

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Speaker 3: public consensus when you have a seventy percent issues. They lie,

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Speaker 3: they cheat, they represent, they divide, they call it racist.

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Speaker 3: The good news is what we're seeing in the polling

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Speaker 3: and from what we saw during the signature drive, John,

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Speaker 3: is that people are overwhelmingly already at a consensus point

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Speaker 3: and they're just they're going to ignore these Democrat politicians

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Speaker 3: who are making up these excuses as to why this

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Speaker 3: is a bad thing. The public wants it, it's going

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well we got we have a lot of dead

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Speaker 2: people on the voter rolls. People have moved away illegal aliens,

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Speaker 2: so all that's going to be cleared out and those

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Speaker 2: names can't be used anymore for any any kind of

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Speaker 2: fake votes.

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Speaker 1: Exactly.

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Speaker 2: All right, very good, Carl Deamaiel, thank you for coming

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Speaker 2: on the Republican Assemblymen. Excellent work. I know this isn't

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Speaker 2: easy to do this. This is really exhausted.

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Speaker 3: We're exhausted. We're gonna take a couple of days off

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Speaker 3: to just rest up. But the election in November is

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Speaker 3: coming around, so we got to, you know, get back

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Speaker 3: out there and hustle and pass it in November.

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Speaker 2: Okay, the Voter Idea Initiative, Thanks Carl, we'll talk again soon.

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Speaker 2: It's going to be on the ballot, and obviously that's

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Speaker 2: something you vote yes for. There is absolutely no intelligent

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Speaker 2: objection to having a voter ID law, not zero. It

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Speaker 2: means whoever whoever says otherwise is lying and trying to

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Speaker 2: intimidate you and scare you into thinking that you're a racist,

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Speaker 2: or you hate women or whatever.

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Speaker 1: The new cause du jour is we when we come back.

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Speaker 2: Fundston, the guy who killed no the guy who raped

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Speaker 2: eight little children. We talked about him last week. He's

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Speaker 2: been rearrested already. We'll tell you about it when we

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Speaker 2: come back, and we're going to tell you about something

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Speaker 2: pretty explosive that we plan to unveil tomorrow.

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 5: six forty.

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Speaker 2: Last week we told you about David Funston. David Funston

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Speaker 2: was a serial child rapist. There is no euphemism that

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Speaker 2: you can use to softly and gently explain what he

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Speaker 2: was doing to these children. It was eight children, seven girls,

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Speaker 2: one boy. They were ages three to seven. We talked

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Speaker 2: about it quite a bit last Thursday, and David Funston

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Speaker 2: got parole from the state prison. Gavin Newsom has twenty

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Speaker 2: one people on the Board of Parole and he has

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Speaker 2: appointed or reappointed all twenty one, so they represent Gavin

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Speaker 2: Newsom's thinking on what you do with someone who repeatedly

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Speaker 2: rapes little children. One of them was a five year

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Speaker 2: old girl who is raped, beaten up and thrown on

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Speaker 2: And still the commissioners at the parole hearing. And by

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Speaker 2: the way, I have the transcript of the parole hearing

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Speaker 2: and I will get to what we're going to do

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Speaker 2: with this transcript in a moment. Funston, though, has been rearrested.

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Speaker 2: He has been transferred to Placer County Jail and held

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Speaker 2: without bail. He's got new charges from nineteen ninety five,

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Speaker 2: sexual assaults on a five year old girl from nineteen

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Speaker 2: was one of the prosecution witnesses at his nineteen ninety

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Speaker 2: nine trial. Now, if you're just getting up to speed

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Speaker 2: on this, we have an elderly parole law which allows

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Speaker 2: inmates as young as fifty years old to get out

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Speaker 2: Exceptions made for somebody who raped eight little children and

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Speaker 2: not talking little ages three to seven. This was passed

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Speaker 2: by the sex perverts in our legislature, and that's what

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Speaker 2: they are. It got most Democrats voted for this. One

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Speaker 2: Democrat Assembly Member Maggie Crow is so disgusted. I never

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Speaker 2: imagine someone like him would get released. It's an insult

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Speaker 2: And she has legislation that would allow state officials to

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Speaker 2: classify people like Funston as sexually violent predators. And then

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Speaker 2: you go to a state hospital and they could do

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Speaker 2: all their hocus pocus fake treatment there, and it is

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Speaker 2: hocus pocus fake treatment. I'm telling you this. I'll tell

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Speaker 2: you this one hundred times. If whatever your sexual orientation is,

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Speaker 2: and you tell me if I'm you tell somebody tell

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Speaker 2: me I'm I'm wrong. Whatever you're attracted to when you're

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Speaker 2: a young teenager, whenever you know, puberty hits and you

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Speaker 2: whether you're interested in the opposite sex or the same sex,

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Speaker 2: or maybe some small farm animals or little children, that

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Speaker 2: stays with you forever. There is no changing that. That

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Speaker 2: your DNA, absolutely hard coded. And what is shocking is

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Speaker 2: the people who will tell you up and down that

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Speaker 2: gay people were born that way and you can't you

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Speaker 2: can't change their sexual orientation with any kind of therapy. Well,

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Speaker 2: they think you can. If you happen to be attracted

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Speaker 2: through some kind of therapy be and you no longer

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Speaker 2: get aroused by little boys and girls. No, it's true

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Speaker 2: across the board. Whatever you're attracted to, you're attracted for

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Speaker 2: life and there is no changing it. And they're so

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Speaker 2: and they're twisted. And I'm telling you, I suspect anybody

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Speaker 2: who would vote to release a compulsive rapist who did

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Speaker 2: it eight times. I got a question, what's going on

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Speaker 2: in your personal life? I got to wonder what you're

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Speaker 2: thinking about late at night, or what you're doing, or

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Speaker 2: what you're watching, because my god.

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine this guy does it eight times? Now.

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Speaker 7: If you guys are doing that, I am done. You

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