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They also 23 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:18,360 Speaker 1: have this record ninety eight billion dollars budgets or a plus, 24 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:22,440 Speaker 1: but they ain't given any relief for actual gas prices. 25 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:26,640 Speaker 1: And apparently Republicans are making another attempt to stop this 26 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:30,840 Speaker 1: gas tax increase which takes effect on Friday. That's the 27 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:34,839 Speaker 1: twenty seventeen bill that raised the gas taxes. We tried 28 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:36,959 Speaker 1: to stop it in twenty eighteen with a ballot measure 29 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:41,399 Speaker 1: that failed, and of course the Democrats won't give any relief. 30 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:43,960 Speaker 1: Even now, when we've got six dollars and whatever sents 31 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 1: a gallon gas prices, it's going to go into effect 32 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:48,880 Speaker 1: on Friday. It doesn't seem like they're going to make 33 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 1: any attempt to stop that from happening. We'll talk about 34 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 1: it with Vince Fong, a Republican from Bakersfield. Apnews at 35 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 1: four thirty for the latest on that. We turned out 36 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:02,920 Speaker 1: to a story out of Truman Oaks. Jessica Lewis owns 37 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 1: a studio called Dragonfly Cycling, a cycling studio and according 38 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:13,720 Speaker 1: to this NBC four story, she is begging for help 39 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:17,919 Speaker 1: with the problem with homeless people around your business. Let's 40 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:20,800 Speaker 1: bring Jessica on and talk more about this. Welcome to 41 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:26,080 Speaker 1: the show. Thank you, all right, So tell people when 42 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 1: this started and what you're experiencing there with your business. 43 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:33,359 Speaker 1: So Dragonfly has been opened for seven years. We opened 44 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 1: in twenty fifteen. It wasn't perfect then, but it has 45 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:45,400 Speaker 1: gotten progressively worse. The homeless crisis started to escalate during COVID. 46 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:48,080 Speaker 1: We were doing outdoor classes on the parking lot and 47 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 1: started being harassed by homeless people, drug addicts, kind of 48 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:55,440 Speaker 1: walking up and down the alleyway near where we were 49 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 1: hosting the classes. It began then once we came back indoors. 50 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:03,040 Speaker 1: My hope was that we had overcome the hardest thing 51 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:04,840 Speaker 1: my business would have to overcome and we could go 52 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:10,080 Speaker 1: back to normal operating procedures. But unfortunately that is not 53 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:15,359 Speaker 1: the case. The crime and the homelessness has escalated, probably 54 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:18,320 Speaker 1: month over month. There seemed to be a little bit 55 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:25,679 Speaker 1: of a pullback maybe in like March April, but May 56 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:29,680 Speaker 1: and June June specifically, I've had six incidents at my 57 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:33,400 Speaker 1: little spin studio just in the month of June. Everything 58 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:36,520 Speaker 1: from a homeless person camping out at my front door 59 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:42,040 Speaker 1: with mounds of personal belongings, vomit, food, you name it. 60 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 1: We had a person defecate at the front door just 61 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 1: last Saturday at five fifteen in the afternoon. We've had 62 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:53,800 Speaker 1: a car broken into. One of my employees cars broken 63 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 1: into in the back parking lot by someone just rolling 64 00:03:56,640 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 1: down the alleyway on a bike. And you know, if 65 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 1: it's not specifically at Dragonfly, it is across the streets 66 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 1: at near the drug store, near the donut store, at 67 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 1: the in and out seems to be a hub for 68 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 1: people to hang out. And at the gas station just 69 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 1: two doors down from me as well. There are it's 70 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 1: like constant, we're constantly on guard. Yes, yeah, this is 71 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 1: somewhere along Ventora Boulevard. Is that where you are? It's 72 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:29,320 Speaker 1: on Van Eyes and Warpook. So we're about one blocks south, 73 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:32,280 Speaker 1: one and a half blocks south of or sorry, one 74 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:34,600 Speaker 1: a half blocks north in Ventura. And is there a 75 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:38,040 Speaker 1: homeless encampments nearby or these are just individual homeless people 76 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:41,719 Speaker 1: who just wander the area. Yeah, there was an encampment 77 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:46,280 Speaker 1: at the Riverside and Van Eyes and they did eventually 78 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 1: take care of that. Um they being I guess CD 79 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:54,159 Speaker 1: four Council Districts four did eventually take care of that 80 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 1: encampment and all those people and that trash is gone. 81 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 1: But now it's just random individual and it's different people 82 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 1: every single day. What's what's doing to your business? Oh? 83 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:07,800 Speaker 1: Go ahead, I'm sorry. Just last week, I say, just 84 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:10,039 Speaker 1: last week, a client was parking at one of the 85 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 1: meters on Van Eys about five, you know, five businesses 86 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:16,719 Speaker 1: down and was a homeless person was chasing her and 87 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:19,839 Speaker 1: throwing bottles at her. She literally ran into the studio 88 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 1: for class in the state of panic and was like 89 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:25,320 Speaker 1: closed the doors, closed the doors, close the doors. It 90 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:30,160 Speaker 1: was and this is becoming a normal occurrence. This was 91 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:32,960 Speaker 1: on the news last yesterday. UM I had called ABC 92 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 1: and NBC and said, hey, can you guys get me 93 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:36,760 Speaker 1: some coverage, maybe you can help. They showed up yesterday. 94 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 1: You would have thought I orchestrated the whole thing a home. 95 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:42,560 Speaker 1: Another homeless guy came in while the cameras were rolling. 96 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 1: They caught the whole thing on film, harassing six of 97 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 1: my clients and myself to cameraman everyone m at nine 98 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:53,960 Speaker 1: thirty in the morning, on a Tuesday. Did they include 99 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:58,920 Speaker 1: that coverage? Yeah, it was on ABC's coverage a little bit. 100 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:01,680 Speaker 1: You saw the guy walking in and had a massive 101 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:04,320 Speaker 1: tattoo on his stomach that said as the police, which 102 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:07,239 Speaker 1: to me with an indication that this is probably someone 103 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 1: who has been incarcerated for some hardcore crimes. Yeah, these 104 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:16,080 Speaker 1: are not. These are not people who recently became down 105 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:19,000 Speaker 1: and out and lost their jobs and are looking to 106 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:23,280 Speaker 1: be rehabilitated. These are people who are dangerous. Are they 107 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:25,200 Speaker 1: asking for money or they just come in there and 108 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 1: just rant or something? They rant, they come in they 109 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:31,160 Speaker 1: I mean, now we're at the point where we've gotten 110 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:34,159 Speaker 1: really used to locking the doors other than you know, 111 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:36,240 Speaker 1: five minutes before class starts, we let everyone in and 112 00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:41,159 Speaker 1: then we immediately locked the doors behind us. But you know, 113 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:43,520 Speaker 1: they typically don't ask for the bathroom. I mean, sorry, 114 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:45,560 Speaker 1: they don't ask for money, They as to use the bathroom, 115 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 1: They asked for water, or they just come and harass us. 116 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:50,599 Speaker 1: I mean we're now equipped with the teaser and we've 117 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:54,479 Speaker 1: got pepper spray, and we locked the doors all the 118 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:59,599 Speaker 1: time that the windows have been graffiti. It's it's insanity. 119 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:02,279 Speaker 1: How have you you must have lost customers do this. 120 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:06,120 Speaker 1: I did just a couple of the other day when 121 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 1: they saw my post on Facebook said I'm sorry, I 122 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 1: haven't been in the studio. You know. One of the 123 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 1: reasons I loved coming was that it was walking distance 124 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 1: from my home. I didn't have to deal with parking. 125 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:18,040 Speaker 1: But I'm afraid to walk there because in four blocks 126 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:22,600 Speaker 1: from you know, Dickens to Moore Park, they're harassed by 127 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:27,240 Speaker 1: five mentally ill people who you know, are capable of 128 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:29,800 Speaker 1: doing anything to anyone at any time. It's just not 129 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:34,000 Speaker 1: it's it's unreal. So let's talk about the city response. 130 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:37,120 Speaker 1: You're in the council district of Nititia Rahman and they 131 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 1: claim that they do send these ambassadors out there to 132 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:44,920 Speaker 1: deal with the situation. How's that working. So that team, 133 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:47,679 Speaker 1: which I believe is two people, and they work Monday 134 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:50,560 Speaker 1: through Friday, they're not they don't work on the weekends. 135 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:56,080 Speaker 1: That started a couple months ago, and I have utilized 136 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 1: that service three or four times now. Yesterday was the 137 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 1: first time I used it, actually four dragonfly. The other 138 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 1: three times was like there was a whole encampment getting 139 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:07,960 Speaker 1: set up by the best Buy and so I texted 140 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:09,560 Speaker 1: them to let them know, hey, you might want to 141 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:13,760 Speaker 1: do something about this. There was another one by the 142 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:16,520 Speaker 1: gas station on the seventy six station on van Iss 143 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:19,120 Speaker 1: in Ventura, so I notified them about yesterday was the 144 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 1: first time I notified them. The guy did give him credit. 145 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:26,040 Speaker 1: He did arrive within three to four minutes, introduced himself 146 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 1: to me and said, let me tell me what happened. 147 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:29,240 Speaker 1: Let me go talk to the guy. I don't understand 148 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:31,240 Speaker 1: what talking to the guy's going to do. We went 149 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:33,680 Speaker 1: across the streets, he had a conversation with him, came 150 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:36,000 Speaker 1: back and said, I'm really sorry you're dealing with this. 151 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:39,480 Speaker 1: The guy's clearly intoxicated. I was like, okay, and what's next. Yeah, 152 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:42,040 Speaker 1: you gotta arrest him and put him behind bars. I've 153 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:44,040 Speaker 1: called the police. It had been forty five minutes to 154 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:47,000 Speaker 1: show up. Not their fault because they've been defunded and 155 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 1: there's a third of them on the streets that we need. Yeah, 156 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 1: you know this, this uh, this team whatever they call it, 157 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 1: this team of people who are supposed to address the homeless. 158 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:02,880 Speaker 1: There there being conversations with them one by one, trying 159 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:06,960 Speaker 1: to present them with services that are available. But as 160 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 1: per the police, that I spoke to yesterday and everyone 161 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:11,760 Speaker 1: else I've talked to you. They don't want the services, 162 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:15,280 Speaker 1: and unfortunately, the law says that if they if they 163 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:20,600 Speaker 1: turned down the services, they're entitled to loiter and to 164 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:27,480 Speaker 1: be intoxicated and to people on the street without recourse. 165 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:30,080 Speaker 1: I love you did get thrown in jail. We know 166 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:32,800 Speaker 1: that they'll be out in two hours. I love this 167 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:35,320 Speaker 1: quote from you in the NBC four story, but you said, 168 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:37,240 Speaker 1: you know what they're doing. It's the equivalent of thoughts 169 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:40,000 Speaker 1: and prayers when the school is shot up. It really 170 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:43,280 Speaker 1: is just meaningless virtue signaling from them. Oh yeah, we'll 171 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:45,040 Speaker 1: send it out each team and they'll talk to the guy, 172 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:49,320 Speaker 1: and that's all we can do. That's correct, And that's 173 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:54,280 Speaker 1: why yesterday I admittingly spiraled out of control because once 174 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:57,600 Speaker 1: that guy said I'm really sorry to me, sorrow you 175 00:09:57,679 --> 00:10:01,160 Speaker 1: with like a trigger for thoughts and prayers for those 176 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 1: poor babies in Texas, and I just I couldn't control 177 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:06,640 Speaker 1: myself anymore because it's the same answer. I mean, I 178 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:12,440 Speaker 1: have fourteen, fifteen sixteen emails that I have spent hours 179 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:16,280 Speaker 1: putting together, sending to Nitthia Rahman and her team, and 180 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:18,360 Speaker 1: every time I send it to them. You know, I'm like, 181 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:21,240 Speaker 1: oh please, you know, meet Ryan. He's the newest member 182 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:23,000 Speaker 1: of the team, so make sure you see see him 183 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:26,120 Speaker 1: and meet And it's just like they're just rotating through 184 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:28,480 Speaker 1: people and nothing's ever getting done. I think it was 185 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:31,440 Speaker 1: eight months ago. I was promised power washers as like, 186 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:33,320 Speaker 1: can you at least wash the street so that like 187 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:38,160 Speaker 1: it's not filled with urine and feces and vomit. Nine 188 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:40,440 Speaker 1: months they still haven't got the powerwashers. Now because of 189 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:44,840 Speaker 1: ABC and NBC covering the story yesterday, somehow the powerwashers 190 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 1: are showing up tomorrow, of course Friday. I apologize, but 191 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:52,960 Speaker 1: it's like I posted the stuff on next door. Next 192 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:59,360 Speaker 1: door takes my post down. Yeah yeah, it's fully censored contents. 193 00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:03,640 Speaker 1: Nothing that was posted was defamatory. It was honest and 194 00:11:03,679 --> 00:11:06,920 Speaker 1: goodness truth. All right, Jessica, I gotta go, but I 195 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:08,880 Speaker 1: really appreciate you talking to us, and I wish you 196 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,360 Speaker 1: the best. Keep in touch and let us know how 197 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:12,880 Speaker 1: it's going. I hope you can hang in there. But 198 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:16,480 Speaker 1: it's frustrating, but thank you so much for the coverage. 199 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:18,679 Speaker 1: I as weciate it, all right, Jessica Lewis is the 200 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:22,080 Speaker 1: owner of a cycling studio Sherman Oaks called Dragonfly, and 201 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:25,000 Speaker 1: she has just had it with what the homeless people 202 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:28,440 Speaker 1: are up to, defecating, blocking people coming in, going on rants, 203 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:32,240 Speaker 1: threatening people. She is losing some clients in the city 204 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:35,920 Speaker 1: of la just sends out outreach teams who tell her 205 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:38,600 Speaker 1: we talked to him. Okay, we'll see you later. John 206 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:41,000 Speaker 1: and Ken showing KFI a chance to win money is 207 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:43,760 Speaker 1: coming up next. And all right, so Portland. I've been 208 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 1: to Portland in years. My sister used to live up 209 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:47,920 Speaker 1: in the Portland suburbs and when I went there, I 210 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:50,920 Speaker 1: found it to be a pleasant place, a little rainy, 211 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:55,960 Speaker 1: but mice and tree lots of trees, shady. There's parts 212 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:59,240 Speaker 1: of Portland now, including northeast Portland. This is above and 213 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:01,840 Speaker 1: beyond what the archists and the protesters did back in 214 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:05,240 Speaker 1: twenty twenty. The homeless problem has gotten so bad that 215 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:08,160 Speaker 1: this reporter who wrote this story for the Elsagundo Times, 216 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:13,240 Speaker 1: Angela Hart with Kaiser Health News, talked to the progressive 217 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:16,800 Speaker 1: residents of Portland and even they've decided this is too much. 218 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:20,480 Speaker 1: The way this is described. She first talks to a 219 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:24,680 Speaker 1: homeless woman who was sifting through garbage and towering piles 220 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:28,800 Speaker 1: of debris accumulated along a roadway on the outskirts of 221 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:34,120 Speaker 1: northeast Portland. It says here, for miles in both directions, 222 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:39,079 Speaker 1: the roadside is lined with worn RVs and rusted boats, 223 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:43,240 Speaker 1: doubling a shelter and spilling out from those RVs, the 224 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:46,880 Speaker 1: trash and the cast offs from this makeshift neighborhood stretched 225 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:53,440 Speaker 1: for miles. Broken chairs, busted up car parts, empty booze bottles, 226 00:12:53,679 --> 00:13:01,200 Speaker 1: soiled blankets, discarded clothes, crumpled tarps. Every so often you 227 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:06,400 Speaker 1: can see the piles just pop up. The homeless woman said, 228 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:07,960 Speaker 1: look at all this garbage out here. It used to 229 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 1: be beautiful nature, but now it's polluted. The deer and 230 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:13,920 Speaker 1: the river otters and the beavers have to live with 231 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:20,440 Speaker 1: all this garbage. And the description here is Portland's homelessness 232 00:13:20,520 --> 00:13:24,320 Speaker 1: problem now extends well beyond the downtown core, creating a 233 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:28,760 Speaker 1: crisis of conscience for the fiercely liberal city that for 234 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:32,320 Speaker 1: years has been America's most generous huh and investing in 235 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:37,280 Speaker 1: homeless support services. Tents and tarps increasingly crowd the sidewalks 236 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:40,720 Speaker 1: and parks of Portland's leafy suburban neighborhoods, and they're going 237 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:43,560 Speaker 1: to tell us again, these are all our unhoused residents. 238 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 1: They're just Portland people that fell on hard times. No, 239 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:48,000 Speaker 1: you're getting people from all over the country. You know 240 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 1: that the RV encampments have emerged as havens of heroin 241 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:55,719 Speaker 1: and fentneal use, a community of addiction from which it's 242 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 1: difficult to break free. All we always hear that part, right, 243 00:13:58,640 --> 00:14:01,960 Speaker 1: So we should just able the usage by setting up 244 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:05,960 Speaker 1: these free places where they can come and shoot up anyway. 245 00:14:07,559 --> 00:14:10,880 Speaker 1: It's remarkable how much services are available for people living 246 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:16,679 Speaker 1: homeless in Portland. Charity food deliveries, roving nurses used clothing 247 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:20,960 Speaker 1: drop offs, portable bathrooms and occasional free pumpouts for their 248 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:27,200 Speaker 1: RV restrooms, all courtesy of the city. Giant disposal containers 249 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:30,680 Speaker 1: for use syringes or located in areas with high concentrations 250 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:35,760 Speaker 1: of homeless people, red portable toilets, pepper retail corridors, as 251 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:37,960 Speaker 1: well as even some of the nicer neighborhoods and parts 252 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 1: of the city. Activists have nailed small wooden cupboards to 253 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:46,600 Speaker 1: street posts, offering up things like socks, tampons, shampoo and 254 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:51,640 Speaker 1: cans of tuna. What has this resulted in a worse problem, 255 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:55,920 Speaker 1: more homeless people. Cindy Stockton, who we tried to get 256 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:59,560 Speaker 1: on the show but she tuned in and turned us 257 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 1: down because she describes herself as a long time liberal progressive, said, 258 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:07,560 Speaker 1: Portland makes it really easy to be homeless. There's always 259 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:12,040 Speaker 1: somebody giving away free tents, sleeping bags, clothes, water, sandwiches, 260 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 1: three meals a day. It's all here. And she's one 261 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:18,600 Speaker 1: of these people that are now questioning what is our 262 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:23,800 Speaker 1: tolerance wrought The mayor of Portland is this democrat who 263 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:26,720 Speaker 1: I think we threw in the dumpster years ago, Ted Wheeler. 264 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:30,800 Speaker 1: They have spent twenty seven million dollars in Portland since 265 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:36,760 Speaker 1: twenty seventeen on homeless services under his leadership. Funding his skyrocketed. 266 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:40,280 Speaker 1: This year a record eighty five million will be spent. 267 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:43,560 Speaker 1: And you read through this story and you're thinking, oh, 268 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 1: finally a story in the Alsacundog Times. It gets it. 269 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:49,160 Speaker 1: If you enable this behavior, you're going to get more 270 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 1: of it. People have to take responsibility for their own lives. 271 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:56,120 Speaker 1: And then eventually at the end, here comes the clincher. 272 00:15:56,880 --> 00:16:01,000 Speaker 1: Portland has not invested enough in permanent how oh like 273 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:04,040 Speaker 1: the eight hundred thousand dollars a unit permanent housing that 274 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:06,880 Speaker 1: they're trying here. I mean, it's a nice city where 275 00:16:06,880 --> 00:16:10,120 Speaker 1: I'm sure real estate in certain sections is still pretty expensive, 276 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:13,080 Speaker 1: like it is in many parts of Los Angeles. You 277 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:18,560 Speaker 1: cannot build people permanent supportive housing and not run out 278 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:22,120 Speaker 1: of money. It's just too much. It's too expensive, and 279 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:24,480 Speaker 1: that's the problem they have here. These people need to 280 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:26,680 Speaker 1: take control of their lives. They need to go where 281 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 1: they can afford housing. They need to get off the 282 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:31,040 Speaker 1: drugs or alcohol. They need to get services for their 283 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:33,560 Speaker 1: mental illness, and they need to make changes in their lives, 284 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:37,840 Speaker 1: and they can't just continue to live in urvs. All right. 285 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:41,920 Speaker 1: Coming up next, we'll be talking about California's budget, and 286 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:45,480 Speaker 1: of course, on Friday, the increase to the gas tax 287 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:47,880 Speaker 1: takes effect. That's the one they voted for back in 288 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:51,840 Speaker 1: twenty seventeen that we tried to repeal in twenty eighteen, 289 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:54,840 Speaker 1: but the dumb voters would have none of it. We'll 290 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:57,640 Speaker 1: talk to Assemblyman Vince Fong, a Republican, for the latest 291 00:16:57,640 --> 00:17:00,560 Speaker 1: step in Sacramento, where apparently there's a I asked ditch 292 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:04,080 Speaker 1: effort being made by Republicans to many of them to 293 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:08,200 Speaker 1: stop the July first gas tax increase from going into effect. 294 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:11,000 Speaker 1: John and Ken's show making News this afternoon. At least 295 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:13,520 Speaker 1: this guy was alive before they sentenced him. Another Jeffrey 296 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:17,240 Speaker 1: Epstein R Kelly, the singer, about thirty years for underage 297 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:21,600 Speaker 1: sex and sex trafficking and racketeering crimes. Coming up after 298 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:24,000 Speaker 1: five o'clock. My guests will be the La County Sheriff 299 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:26,040 Speaker 1: Alex to get away for to talk about this decision 300 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:28,800 Speaker 1: by the West Hollywood City Council to cut back on 301 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:34,040 Speaker 1: Ella County Sheriff's deputies patrolling West Hollywood and the reasons 302 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:39,040 Speaker 1: for it and how they're spending money elsewhere ridiculous. So 303 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:41,359 Speaker 1: I'll talk to Sheriff V coming up after the news 304 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:43,679 Speaker 1: at five o'clock, and you'll also have one more chance 305 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:48,240 Speaker 1: with the keyword to possibly win a thousand dollars. Got 306 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:51,960 Speaker 1: this email from a listener named Melissa. I'm just wondering 307 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:54,520 Speaker 1: why we keep hearing gas prices are going down every 308 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:56,800 Speaker 1: day when they are not, Like, where do you see that? 309 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:00,560 Speaker 1: So unaffordable? I no longer can afford to drive to 310 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:04,160 Speaker 1: my job. I may be forced to quit because I seriously, 311 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:08,320 Speaker 1: can't afford the gas. I can't afford food. I'm living 312 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:12,000 Speaker 1: paycheck to paycheck. It sucks. I'm scared what is going 313 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:15,200 Speaker 1: to happen to me? California's outrageous and I'm neither Democrat 314 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:18,080 Speaker 1: or Republican. I have lost faith in a lot of things. 315 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:21,639 Speaker 1: We're going to talk now to Vince fog the Republican 316 00:18:22,119 --> 00:18:26,360 Speaker 1: up in Sacramento from the Bakersfield Current County area, and he's, 317 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:29,159 Speaker 1: of course I'm the Budget Committee, and the word is 318 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:33,160 Speaker 1: that they are going to approve tonight this three hundred 319 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:37,199 Speaker 1: billion dollars spending plan. What they will not do is 320 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:42,040 Speaker 1: give you any direct relief at the gas pumps. They 321 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:45,400 Speaker 1: will not suspend the scheduled increase in the gas tax, 322 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:49,359 Speaker 1: which takes effect midnight on Friday. Vince, welcome back to 323 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:53,399 Speaker 1: the show. Thanks for having me. Yeah, what can you 324 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:56,200 Speaker 1: tell us what's going on up there? Well, we are 325 00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:58,240 Speaker 1: an hour less than an hour and a half away 326 00:18:58,359 --> 00:19:00,800 Speaker 1: from a Wednesday session with is, which is very rare. 327 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:04,240 Speaker 1: You know, we're in this place because you know, the 328 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:08,040 Speaker 1: governor didn't want to engage with the legislature and with 329 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:10,840 Speaker 1: us in negotiating, and so now we're two days before 330 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:14,280 Speaker 1: the end of the fiscal year, and the governor is 331 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:19,360 Speaker 1: trying to jam a framework that is incomplete and has 332 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:24,720 Speaker 1: questionable priorities upon Californians. And as you indicated before, the 333 00:19:25,119 --> 00:19:28,760 Speaker 1: gas tax issue is front and center. In two days, 334 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:32,280 Speaker 1: the States gas tax is going up. And I think 335 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:36,480 Speaker 1: a lot of Californians will be shocked and in disbelief, 336 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:40,560 Speaker 1: and they'll be rightfully upset because the governor had a choice. 337 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:44,320 Speaker 1: He could have chosen to suspend the States gas sex. 338 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 1: He could have stopped the increase. But by his choice 339 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:51,280 Speaker 1: and the choice of Democrats and the legislature, they want 340 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:53,280 Speaker 1: and they're going to allow the gas sex to go 341 00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:56,639 Speaker 1: up well back in January. That's what he wanted to do, 342 00:19:56,880 --> 00:20:01,520 Speaker 1: suspend the scheduled gas tax increase coming July first. Instead, 343 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:06,439 Speaker 1: they're saying, well, we're giving people inflation relief money. This 344 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:09,240 Speaker 1: I mean, if you look at the tax burden, if 345 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:12,520 Speaker 1: you look at inflation, if you look at you know, 346 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:15,919 Speaker 1: just living in California, I mean, the average Californian is 347 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:20,679 Speaker 1: paying tens of thousands of dollars in higher costs and 348 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:24,800 Speaker 1: taxes to Sacramento. And so what is new Sim's answer 349 00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:27,000 Speaker 1: he's going to give you pennies on the dollar, two 350 00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:31,159 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars here, three hundred dollars there. You know, 351 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:34,440 Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's it's just tone deaf to the 352 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:39,280 Speaker 1: economic needs of Californians. Yeah, I mean, the average price 353 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:41,720 Speaker 1: of a gallon of gas in California is well over 354 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:44,640 Speaker 1: six dollars a gallon. It's been a huge increase just 355 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:47,320 Speaker 1: in the last couple of years. They really believe that 356 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:50,080 Speaker 1: sending people three hundred dollars checks is going to make 357 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:52,480 Speaker 1: up for all the difference in the escalating gas prices. 358 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:54,520 Speaker 1: And it's also kind of dumb because when you think 359 00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:56,960 Speaker 1: about it, if you actually did something like suspend the 360 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:59,480 Speaker 1: gas tax and it had a media effect at the 361 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:02,160 Speaker 1: price at the pump, people might recognize that you're trying 362 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:06,120 Speaker 1: to do something absolutely well. And Californians are hurting now. 363 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:10,439 Speaker 1: I mean, I asked the Governor's administration when would the 364 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:15,080 Speaker 1: earliest time be to provide at least some relief, and 365 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:19,240 Speaker 1: their answer was October. I mean, four months is what 366 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:25,120 Speaker 1: the governor considers immediate relief when Californians need relief now. 367 00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:27,960 Speaker 1: And you know the results of this, of this gas 368 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:30,720 Speaker 1: tax increase is that everything is going to be more expensive. 369 00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:34,560 Speaker 1: I mean not just gasoline, but food, groceries, electricity, I 370 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:37,719 Speaker 1: mean everything, because you know, we rely so much on 371 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:41,639 Speaker 1: how things get transported around our economy. And this is 372 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:45,560 Speaker 1: how tone deaf the governor is. He wants he's gonna 373 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:50,720 Speaker 1: allow the suspension of the sales tax of diesel, but 374 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:55,040 Speaker 1: he won't do any relief for for for those on gas. Yeah, 375 00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:56,640 Speaker 1: why do you think that is? I heard that he's 376 00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:58,840 Speaker 1: going to suspend the increase in the diesel gas tax 377 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:00,920 Speaker 1: and all those prices are even high are But why 378 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:02,920 Speaker 1: do you think he's paying attention to that? Is because 379 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:06,600 Speaker 1: of the whole trucking industry. We're trying to figure that out. 380 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:12,920 Speaker 1: I mean, the arguments he's using to justify a suspension 381 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:17,200 Speaker 1: of the diesel sales tax is the exact same reason 382 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:21,719 Speaker 1: that Californians are using to call for a suspension of 383 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:25,360 Speaker 1: the gas sex. He's concerned about higher costs, he's he's 384 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:29,680 Speaker 1: concerned about the impact on family budgets. But I mean, 385 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:32,000 Speaker 1: he's just what he talks out of both sides of 386 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:36,440 Speaker 1: his mouth. Yeah, and again we talked about this before, Vince. 387 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:39,000 Speaker 1: In the end, they don't want you drive in your 388 00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:42,000 Speaker 1: gas powered car. So this isn't the worst thing that 389 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:46,680 Speaker 1: could happen. That's how they look at it. Well, I mean, 390 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:49,080 Speaker 1: I think it's it's a little tone deaf. I mean, 391 00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:53,240 Speaker 1: we we are we are budgeting, we make policy in reality, 392 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:58,600 Speaker 1: and the reality of right of California right now is 393 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:02,720 Speaker 1: that Californians are hurting, they are driving in vehicles, and 394 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:05,800 Speaker 1: we need to give them relief. I mean, the price 395 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:08,960 Speaker 1: of gasoline is probably the number one issue that's impacting 396 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:11,439 Speaker 1: family budgets right now. And what's even worse in this 397 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:14,080 Speaker 1: budget as we dig through it, is that there's billions 398 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:17,880 Speaker 1: of dollars now going back to California's high speed rail 399 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:21,280 Speaker 1: system that isn't high speed and plagued with failures and 400 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:23,240 Speaker 1: structural falls. You and I have talked about this in 401 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:27,920 Speaker 1: the past, but even worse, this budget framework refuses to 402 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:32,439 Speaker 1: fund more highway capacity but actually seeks to reduce the 403 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:36,439 Speaker 1: amount of roads and highways in California. I mean, this 404 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:40,439 Speaker 1: is how crazy Sacramento has become. A ninety eight billion 405 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:43,320 Speaker 1: dollar budget surplus, this is a three hundred billion dollars 406 00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:46,399 Speaker 1: overall budget. They're going to pass this gas tax increase 407 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:48,240 Speaker 1: which is going to kick in on Friday. It's going 408 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:51,200 Speaker 1: to take in another five hundred million. I mean, this 409 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:53,920 Speaker 1: is unbelievable, with the way people are paying gas prices, 410 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:56,399 Speaker 1: that they just snub everybody and say we're got to 411 00:23:56,480 --> 00:24:00,639 Speaker 1: keep taking in this money. I mean, it makes no sense. 412 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:03,880 Speaker 1: I mean that's why Californians are upset, and rightfully so. 413 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:08,720 Speaker 1: I mean they've been clamoring for relief for months now, 414 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:13,080 Speaker 1: and in every single time we've called for a suspension 415 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:15,680 Speaker 1: of the Guess six, which is bipartisan. I mean, Democrats 416 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:19,679 Speaker 1: and Republicans have called for this. The Democrats and the 417 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:23,520 Speaker 1: governor have just ignored the issue and they wanted to 418 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:25,680 Speaker 1: go away, and it's not going to And of course 419 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:29,159 Speaker 1: they've created this committee in Sacramento that trying to study 420 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:32,600 Speaker 1: why gas prices are higher in California, and they just 421 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:35,440 Speaker 1: got to look in the mirror. All right, Vince, good 422 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:38,680 Speaker 1: to talk with you again. Keep us posted. I will 423 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:41,560 Speaker 1: thank you. That's a suddently been evinced fog from current 424 00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:44,840 Speaker 1: County Republican on the budget committee. But as I said, 425 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:47,560 Speaker 1: and you should tell people this, twenty years ago, the 426 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:50,439 Speaker 1: total spending was one hundred billion. Today they're about to 427 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:53,680 Speaker 1: pass the total spending budget of three hundred billion dollars. 428 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:56,960 Speaker 1: I don't think the populations increase that much, and if 429 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,080 Speaker 1: you look around, I don't think the quality of life, 430 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:04,200 Speaker 1: the roads, everything else about the state has increased that dramatically. 431 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:07,080 Speaker 1: John and Ken Show on kf I Am six forty 432 00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:10,200 Speaker 1: and coming up next hour, Sheriff Alex Vignueva Vale County 433 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:11,840 Speaker 1: will come on the show to talk about this vote. 434 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:14,160 Speaker 1: In West Hollywood, it was three to two to cut 435 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:19,399 Speaker 1: back on sheriff's deputies patrolling that city of about thirty 436 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:26,600 Speaker 1: five thousand people. Instead, they're going to use of security ambassadors. Whatever. 437 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:30,919 Speaker 1: That is remarkable because crime has shot up one hundred 438 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:34,440 Speaker 1: and thirty seven percent in wie Hoo. It's amazing these 439 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:37,560 Speaker 1: decisions are still being made. Who will have the sheriff's 440 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:44,440 Speaker 1: comments on it, but they're going to hire thirty security ambassadors, unarmed, 441 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:47,560 Speaker 1: blue shirted people that walk around and they'll take care 442 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:49,720 Speaker 1: of them. When another guy comes and tries to rape 443 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:52,680 Speaker 1: a woman, they'll be right there to make sure she's safe. 444 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:56,320 Speaker 1: Hard to understand, hard to believe. We'll talk to the 445 00:25:56,359 --> 00:26:00,600 Speaker 1: sheriff about it. After five o'clock. We had talked to 446 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:04,960 Speaker 1: Carl Demio from Reform California earlier in the show, and 447 00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:09,040 Speaker 1: they calculate that for every gallon of gas you buy, 448 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:13,520 Speaker 1: a dollar twenty nine of that price is taxes from 449 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:17,240 Speaker 1: the state of California. That's the gas tax that we've 450 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:20,680 Speaker 1: been talking about, the state gas tax. On top of that, 451 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:24,480 Speaker 1: you have the climate taxes. Remember, in addition to passing 452 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:28,639 Speaker 1: that massive gas tax increase in twenty seventeen, they also 453 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:31,560 Speaker 1: passed a bill that would pass along to the oil 454 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:35,800 Speaker 1: companies what they were calling like a climate change tax. Well, 455 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:39,240 Speaker 1: don't kid yourself. That got passed along to you. That's 456 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:42,600 Speaker 1: just the cost of doing business for the oil companies. 457 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:44,920 Speaker 1: So they made sure you're paying it to So now 458 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:48,160 Speaker 1: we're at about a dollar twenty nine a gallon in 459 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:52,600 Speaker 1: the state tax burden at the pump. Meanwhile, as we mentioned, 460 00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:56,080 Speaker 1: they're working on a budget deal. The other aspect of 461 00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:58,919 Speaker 1: this is, which is worth a few minutes on, they're 462 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:03,760 Speaker 1: coming up with a mass of energy plan for California. 463 00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:06,240 Speaker 1: Here we go again as they try to get you 464 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:08,960 Speaker 1: out of your gas powered cars. They want everything to 465 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:13,160 Speaker 1: go electric, but the grid is not big enough for that. 466 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:16,800 Speaker 1: We remember a couple of years ago when we had 467 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,479 Speaker 1: a particularly hot streak in the summer that they had 468 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:23,000 Speaker 1: to steal electricity from a couple of states. That's right, 469 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:26,520 Speaker 1: that's what they did with the power grid here in California. 470 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:29,159 Speaker 1: They diverted power that was supposed to go to I 471 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:33,320 Speaker 1: think Arizona and instead used it here. Because the last 472 00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:36,200 Speaker 1: thing in the world Gavin Knewsom wants because he believes 473 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:39,879 Speaker 1: he's a player now on the national stage, and he's 474 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:42,840 Speaker 1: aiming to run in twenty four if Biden doesn't, or 475 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:45,040 Speaker 1: maybe if Biden does, I don't know. Newsome's got quite 476 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:50,000 Speaker 1: the ego. He cannot afford the state of California to 477 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:53,680 Speaker 1: suffer power blackouts. That would get the people angry. He's 478 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:55,639 Speaker 1: not worried about the votes here. He's going to be 479 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,119 Speaker 1: re elected in November. I don't care if there's ten blackouts, 480 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:02,320 Speaker 1: but this will reside around the country and bad publicity. 481 00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:05,439 Speaker 1: So he's had to face a hard truth. How do 482 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:09,000 Speaker 1: I make sure that doesn't happen? Well, the Times apparently 483 00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:12,440 Speaker 1: not happy in this story. He's going to rely more 484 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:18,680 Speaker 1: on fossil fuels. That means keeping those beach front like that. 485 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:22,000 Speaker 1: He put that in there Beach front gas plants going, 486 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:25,920 Speaker 1: and they're going to keep the Diabolo Canyon nuclear power 487 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:29,200 Speaker 1: plant going. That's the plan. They're going to spend money 488 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:33,120 Speaker 1: on both those things because they know there's not enough 489 00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:37,120 Speaker 1: power in the grid for them to rely on solar 490 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:42,040 Speaker 1: farms in wind turbines. They also have another provision where 491 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:44,720 Speaker 1: they're going to allow the development of these type of 492 00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:52,160 Speaker 1: facilities to buy but to bypass local government opposition, environmental regulation. 493 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:55,560 Speaker 1: Of course, it's okay for our projects to bypass all 494 00:28:55,600 --> 00:29:00,320 Speaker 1: these things. But apparently they're going to have diesel generations 495 00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:05,720 Speaker 1: and four gas fired power plants along the southern California coast. 496 00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:09,360 Speaker 1: They were supposed to close back in twenty twenty, but 497 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:13,480 Speaker 1: they got to keep them going because there's a reality 498 00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:17,040 Speaker 1: that they're facing here and they really don't care about you, 499 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:21,320 Speaker 1: but they believe if they were power blackouts, the publicity 500 00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:23,960 Speaker 1: from this be horrendous. That's like a third world country. 501 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:29,160 Speaker 1: No other state is suffering this situation. There were in reports, 502 00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:30,800 Speaker 1: I heard of a couple of states that thought it 503 00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:35,800 Speaker 1: might happen, but not like we constantly here in California. 504 00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:39,200 Speaker 1: It's like with everything else now, Oh, fire season is 505 00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:42,880 Speaker 1: year round, well before you know what blackouts season will 506 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:46,840 Speaker 1: be year round. Electric utilities have managed to keep the 507 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:50,880 Speaker 1: lights on since those power blackouts in twenty twenty barely. 508 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:55,400 Speaker 1: But and this is the conundrum that the Times describes. 509 00:29:56,040 --> 00:30:00,120 Speaker 1: You see, all this fossil fuel stuff is making the 510 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:04,240 Speaker 1: planet warmer, and making the planet warmer is turning this 511 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:07,800 Speaker 1: into droughts, which means we get less hydroelectric power. And 512 00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:10,640 Speaker 1: because it's turning the weather warmer, we have a higher 513 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:13,520 Speaker 1: risk and people need to turn on war air conditioning. 514 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:16,120 Speaker 1: But we don't have enough electricity in the power grid. 515 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:18,400 Speaker 1: We may have blackouts, so we need to turn back 516 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:23,320 Speaker 1: to fossil fuels, which again leads to climate change, warmer temperatures, droughts. 517 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:26,720 Speaker 1: You see this circular cluster bleep that they're in trying 518 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:30,240 Speaker 1: to analyze this. This is the harsh realities. I was 519 00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:33,120 Speaker 1: just talking to Vince Fong. You assembly been from Bakersfield. 520 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:37,240 Speaker 1: They refuse to accept the reality. 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