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Speaker 1: On June the second, there's about I think ten recognizable

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Speaker 1: You remember a few years ago, I think there's twenty

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Speaker 1: According to Newt Gingrich, of all people, he put this

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Speaker 1: All right, We've got Steve Hilton. Steve Hilton is the

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Speaker 5: I'm very well. Gavin's obviously done a really great job

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Speaker 5: Two hundred and ninety one million dollars. Nearly three hundred

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Speaker 1: That's how much he's going to add to this homeless program.

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Speaker 1: And after three years, it's nineteen or twenty two people

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Speaker 5: Exactly because yet again it's a total gimmick instead of

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Speaker 5: That was in March twenty twenty four, nearly two years ago.

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Speaker 5: a very important thing everyone needs to understand. It's an

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Speaker 5: Because all of that money, the six billion and so on,

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Speaker 1: There's layers and layers and layers of corruption, and and

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Speaker 5: And this is what they hide behind. And but this

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Speaker 1: Newsom has appropriated more than four hundred and twenty four

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Speaker 5: For twenty two people from twenty two big, absolute massive scandal.

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Speaker 5: Well like you and people hear these numbers and you think,

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Speaker 5: That's why the beginning of the year when I said

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Speaker 1: With one party rule. That's always that always is what happens.

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Speaker 1: and that was the part. But they don't care about

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Speaker 5: Exactly. That is the business model of the one party rule,

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Speaker 5: That's actually what's been going on for all these years

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Speaker 5: an obscene scandal, and we are going to not just

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Speaker 5: stop it, but hold these people accountable for what they've done.

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Speaker 1: All right, Steve, I got to run. We got to

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Speaker 1: get the news in. I want you to come in

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Speaker 1: person so we can spend even longer to talk.

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Speaker 5: All right, Yeah, we got to do that. I'm looking

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Speaker 5: forward to John.

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Speaker 1: All Right, Steve Hilton, leading candidate running for governor as

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Speaker 1: a Republican here in California. Thanks for all your time.

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Speaker 1: We got more coming up.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Cobel on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 4: six forty.

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Speaker 1: We just had Steve Hilton on, who's the leading candidate

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Speaker 1: for California governor, And we were talking about Davin Newsom

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Speaker 1: wasting over four hundred million dollars on his care court

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Speaker 1: to put mental patience in mental health care, to be

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Speaker 1: ordered into mental health care by judge. And after four

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Speaker 1: years and over four hundred million dollars, twenty two twenty

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Speaker 1: two crazy people were ordered by the courts indoors and

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Speaker 1: now names Newston is spending another three hundred million dollars.

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Speaker 1: Everything seems to be corrupt, the system is breaking down,

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna next hour in just a few minutes.

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Speaker 1: I only got a minute here because we talked a

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Speaker 1: long time with Steve. I'm going to tell you the

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Speaker 1: story of how David Allen Funston actually got released by

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Speaker 1: the parole board even after getting convicted of kidnapping eight children.

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Speaker 1: He raped most of them little children ages three to seven,

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Speaker 1: and he went before a parole board at the age

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Speaker 1: of sixty three because he was old enough to retire

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Speaker 1: as a prisoner. Yeah, they have this concept in California.

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Speaker 1: It's called elderly parole. They retire you from the prison.

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Speaker 1: You're eligible at the age of fifty fifty. You got

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Speaker 1: to serve at least twenty years of your sins. The

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Speaker 1: thing is, he was sentenced sixty eight years to life,

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Speaker 1: and he got out after thirty I think less than that.

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Speaker 1: He committed the crimes thirty years ago, so he's sixty three,

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Speaker 1: he's supposed to serve life, right, I mean, he kidnapped

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Speaker 1: eight kids and he raped most of them. Horrible, horrible stories.

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Speaker 1: So the other day the par board announced, yes, we're

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Speaker 1: letting him go Newsome signed this law, and it's like

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Speaker 1: who voted for this, who voted for this? We have

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Speaker 1: that we know. We have our spies and investigators working.

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Speaker 1: I also have the complete transcript of the Parole Board hearing.

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Speaker 1: Now I want a little combat day, one hundred and

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Speaker 1: thirty pages. I'm reading this morning. I'm sitting in bed

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Speaker 1: late one hundred and thirty pages in front of me,

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Speaker 1: and I'm going through this, and there is a lot

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Speaker 1: of graphic stuff in here. It was one hundred and

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Speaker 1: thirty pages of David Funston's sexual fantasies about children, which

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Speaker 1: he was admitting to and describing, and which the Parole

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Speaker 1: Board was aware of because they were describing. And then

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Speaker 1: they came to the conclusion that he should be set free.

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Speaker 1: Now they the thing is, he's been arrested again because

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Speaker 1: there were other charges against children that he was never

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Speaker 1: prosecuted for, going back to nineteen ninety six, sexually assaulting

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Speaker 1: a child in Roseville. So now he's back in jail

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Speaker 1: and he's up for another trial, supposedly, but he's still

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Speaker 1: has been paroled for all the other crimes. I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you how this happens when we come back. Deborah Mark

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