Katie Porter brings the minivan to the Central Valley

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Speaker 1: And very happy Wednesday to you at twelve oh seven in the West to each the John Phillips Show, Mister Randy Weggs in Culver City.

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Speaker 2: John. Later on in the show, we have another update on the San Leandro Police Department, as the San Leandro Police chief was involved in a hit and run and tried to cover it up when she clipped somebody's mirror going sixty miles an hour.

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Speaker 1: Oh, dear Dan, have you ever seen that before? A mirror getting clipped? Yeah, a mirror being taken off.

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Speaker 2: I remember a high speed chase where a guy was on a motorcycle and he was clipping people's mirrors with his arm because he was definitely high on meth.

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Speaker 1: But that was on purpose. I'm talking about accidentally. I have not seen it up front, have you. I saw it one time and it was hilarious, although the person whose mirror got taken off seemed to be really angry.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I don't think they would find it funny.

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Speaker 1: No, but watching it happen in front of you is like a slapstick comedy. Eight hundred two two two five two two two is the telephone number? What eight hundred two two two five two two two Back in the old days, there used to be a program on PBS called Where in the World Is Carmen San Diego.

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Speaker 3: It was.

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Speaker 1: A show about geography, a show about travel. How much do you know about the rest of the country and the rest of the world. Well, Where in the World is Carmen San Diego is no longer on the air, But Randy, today you and I are going to play a game called where in the world is Katie Porter?

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Speaker 2: More specifically, where in California is Katie Porter? Because Katie Porter is barnstorm in the state. As we are just a little over two months away from the June primary, we're just a little more than a month away from the ballot's going to your mailbox. And she fired up that mini van and took off on the road. Apparently she dragged her daughter with her to all these things too, And the road trip's gonna end in San Jose because apparently they're really big Sharks fans.

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Speaker 1: Is that so that's what she claims? Wait, she lives in Irvine. Shouldn't the Ducks be her team? I'm not making this up.

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Speaker 2: I chose not to download the video because I don't think it's fair to play any videos where she's exploitating one of her children. But she said, we love the Sharks because there's a Sharks player that wears a Pride flag on his hockey.

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Speaker 1: Stick, and that's why they like that particular team.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I don't know if they know anything about hockey, but they're really pro into the lgb's and t's.

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Speaker 1: I see.

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Speaker 2: I don't know about the q's and the eye in the a's.

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Speaker 1: And that's what the daughter said.

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Speaker 2: That's what Katie said. The daughter said, I see, okay. But again, the line that I won't cross with Katie Porter is when she tries to put her children in these videos. I don't think that's fair to them, and I don't think we should be making fun of her children. That's not making fun of Paul. That's making fun of a crazy woman screaming at her child to go carve some pumpkins.

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Speaker 1: All right. So those are the rules.

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Speaker 2: Those are my rules. You can have a different set of standards for yourself. That is totally fine, but that's where I draw the line.

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Speaker 1: So the first stop for Katie Porter on this tour across the state is the city of Bakersfield.

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Speaker 2: Katie goes to Kern County. For more, here's k e ro in.

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Speaker 4: Kern Democratic governor candidate Katie porterfielding questions from Kern Kenny rez in so on everything from healthcare to high speed rail.

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Speaker 1: You mean theoretical high speed rail.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's got to be real irritating if you're in Bakersfield, because you know that line ends in Wasco, which is not Bakersfield.

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Speaker 1: No, but there is a prison there and that's where I sent Graandpaul when I did that month the jury duty.

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Speaker 4: I'm Sam Weylla, your neighborhood reporter. Let's hit inside Tuesday's town hall. Porter, a former congresswoman from Orange County, is making your fourth stop in Kern County amidst this crowded primary. That is a healthy list of competition, the most recent ever since College. Pole noted that Porter has fallen behind Democratic candidates Eric Swowell and Tom Steyer, as well as Republican candidates Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco.

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Speaker 2: How much do you want to bet that she's got a setup in her house now where she's got a dark board and it's Tom Steyer's face on there, and she's hitting the bull's eye every single time.

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Speaker 1: Now what's funny is well Via Ragos had told us is that they're not allowed to address one another at the debates. Just imagine how different those debates would be if she could go directly after Tom Steyer to his face.

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Speaker 2: It would get by the way, the thing that was supposed to air on ABC, the one at USC that was supposed to be a debate debate, not a candidate forum. So we missed out on all of that.

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Speaker 5: Sorry for the noise. I'm cutting carrots.

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Speaker 1: And I think Tom Styer intended on spending a lot of time talking about big asses, wasn't it.

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Speaker 2: Well, yes he did, but I don't have that one on the hot bar yet. So just give me a second here. I have a very very very slow computer that has all these drops, and where is it? Where is tom Stier? When did we do that? It wasn't that long ago, last week. It's under Stier, big ass.

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Speaker 3: We're to big ass crisis, all right.

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Speaker 2: So during the break, I need to find a place on the hot bar for that. Okay, Back to Katie Porn.

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Speaker 4: When asked about how she envisioned shaping rules on the oil and gas industry while't balancing environmental regulations, Porter says she believes California needs more green energy to get online and quickly. However, it won't usurp the oil and gas industry immediately.

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Speaker 2: We need to well, the oil and gas industry will be all gone by twenty twenty seven.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we can't rely on solar roofs to make the state run. We need to go to where there's oil and drill like a crazed dentist.

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Speaker 5: We need to permit and build green energy faster in California to meet that increase in the Maya. In the meantime.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but Katie, this is California. We don't build anything fast.

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Speaker 1: No, we don't.

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Speaker 2: Everyone's celebrating at La Metro that they approved this extension of the K line that's going to go to West Hollywood and it breaks ground in twenty forty one.

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Speaker 5: In the meantime, we need to keep our existing energy sources going. So I think there will be lots of jobs for energy workers in California's future. It will be a mix.

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Speaker 2: So she's going with high pitched Katie for this town hall.

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't think she would use little girl Katie in Bakersfield.

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Speaker 5: So I think there will be lots of jobs for energy workers. In California's future, it will be a mix for the foreseeable future of traditional sources of energy oil, gass, other things, but it will also be ass today about half of our energy comes from green sources.

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Speaker 2: Well during the day. At night, half our energy comes from like Utah.

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Speaker 1: You notice, by the way, how guarded she is with this answer, because the oil industry is a big industry in Bakersfield.

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Speaker 2: One point, it's pretty much the first question any candidate gets when you're touring Bakersfield.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and you know what she would say if she was in San Francisco. All those guys in hard hats in Bakersfield can go to the junior college and get retrained and become beauticians.

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Speaker 5: Winter chicken dinner.

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Speaker 4: When pointed towards water, Porter says, in her eyes, the conversation has been residential versus commercial water and north versus South, But her focus is on ensuring that the state is capturing more of it.

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Speaker 5: We can have the water to meet all of California's needs, but it is going to take investing in water infrastructure.

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Speaker 2: We already invested in it. We passed a bond measure that was supposed to build a whole bunch of reservoirs and they never got done.

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Speaker 1: She is totally clueless. See this is what happens when they get asked about California issues. They don't know the basics, let alone the details.

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Speaker 5: What does that look like? It looks like more storm water capture. Our storms are getting bigger and we don't have the infrastructure to capture all that rain that is coming down.

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Speaker 4: Following the town hall, we spoke with a resident who said they came out because they wanted to hear what Porter had to say amidst the crowded field.

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Speaker 2: Important is that why they came out or they wanted to see if she were going to do something they went viral. Oh, if I lived in Bakersfield and I didn't have a lot going on, I'd show up to the Katie Porter event to see if she was going to hit anyone too out.

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Speaker 5: Of my shot.

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Speaker 4: Following the town hall, we spoke with a resident who said they came out because they wanted to hear what Porter had to say amidst the crowded field, and implored her community to do the same this election season.

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Speaker 6: I think it's important that voters take the time out to hear from candidates before they place their vote.

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Speaker 2: Californians don't usually do that, No, they don't. I wonder which name seems the most interesting, I'll vote for that person.

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Speaker 6: Learn about every single candidate and every single measure on your ballot.

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Speaker 2: And that's going to take a while. This ballot is going to the June one's going to be massive, and the November one is going to be insane. Just on the governor question alone, there's going to be sixty one candidates.

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Speaker 1: No, it's going to look like a menu at the cheesecake factory.

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Speaker 7: And above all else, vote Porter and a whole host of candidates looking to move forward through this primary election that slated for June second of this year in Bakersfield.

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Speaker 4: I'm Sam Well, your neighborhood reporter.

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Speaker 2: So that was Katie in Beggersfield. But Johnny, the tour didn't stop there, Nope.

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Speaker 1: After she siphoned some gas and threw away all the parking tickets, she pointed that MIDI van towards Hanford.

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Speaker 2: Here's CBS forty seven.

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Speaker 5: You at eleven.

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Speaker 8: Gubernatorial candidate Kittie Porter is in the valley. Tonight, the Democrat heldi town hall in Hanford as she continues on a tour of central California. I spoke with her about the state of her campaign and her take on recent polling showing Republicans were leading the race.

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Speaker 5: I'm proud of my record and I'm ready to talk.

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Speaker 2: To kel What record.

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Speaker 1: Wasn't she in Congress for like two or three terms?

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Speaker 2: She was in Congress for about six years. Don't really know of any notable legislation. What she loves to tout all the time was that she grilled the head of the CDC in the early COVID days to make them COVID tests free.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she harangued a bunch of executives.

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Speaker 5: I'm proud of my record and I'm ready to talk to Californians about it.

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Speaker 8: It's a crowded racer. California governor and former Orange Chanty hungresswoman Katie Porter knows it. She's campaigning in Hanford tonight.

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Speaker 2: This is where California gees.

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Speaker 8: Wrong, taking questions during a town hall covering topics ranging from medical coverage, affordability, and high speed rail.

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Speaker 2: Everyone's talking about the rail.

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Speaker 1: You know who's from Hanford.

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Speaker 2: Who's that?

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Speaker 1: Tyler Henry the Psychic?

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, right.

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Speaker 5: Now, this race is about a five way tie two Republicans.

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Speaker 2: No, it's not.

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Speaker 1: That's the way she's going to frame it, because otherwise she would have to admit that Styer and Swallwell and Bianco and Hilton are doing better than her.

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Speaker 5: Right now, this race is about a five waight tie. Two Republican candidates, three Democratic candidates, and I'm one of them. So my job is to be here on the ground.

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Speaker 8: Across California, Reason polling released by the California Democratic Party shows likely voters are split on who they want to support. With multiple Democrats in the race, Porter is bowling near ten percent behind Republicans Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco, who are leading the field. The bowling shows she's about neck and neck with fellow Democrats Eric Swollwell and Tom Steyer.

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Speaker 2: That's one heck of a three way tie.

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Speaker 1: I would love to know who is voting for her. Look what is her constituency.

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Speaker 2: Well, if you look at what she's promising, she wants to give everyone medical So maybe you want free healthcare, you go Katie. If you want to break up PG and E, you go Styre.

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Speaker 1: Do you think when you go to a Katie Porter event. It's going to be all elderly people who know her from MSNBC, people who watch cable news twenty four to seven. Or do you think it's going to be a lot of angry single moms and mini vans a little of both.

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Speaker 8: With multiple Democrats drinding beneath them, polling at less than five percent.

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Speaker 2: California, including Mayhan, who this ad spend is so far done at nothing for his campaign.

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Speaker 1: No, he is blown up on takeoff.

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Speaker 2: Well, and we talked about this, but it's just what's the point of going on with Jake Tapper.

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Speaker 1: No, and Morning Joe and all of those national podcasts. He is talking to an audience that doesn't get to vote in the primary.

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Speaker 5: Californians who want to vote for a Democrat and need to pick a Democrat who can win.

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Speaker 8: Porter was once seen.

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Speaker 2: But you lost in the Senate primary by a lot.

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Speaker 1: Well, that was the shift gift.

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Speaker 5: I call it the shift gift.

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Speaker 8: Porter was once seen as the Democratic front runner until a video of an interview with this be a Sacramento reporter went viral in October.

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Speaker 2: Oh, they're gonna play the Julie Watts tape.

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Speaker 1: Oh, we're very familiar with that on this program.

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Speaker 8: Showing Porter becoming combative saying she didn't want to continue the interview and.

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Speaker 5: I don't want to keep doing this. I'm gonna call.

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Speaker 2: It still makes me laugh every single time I heard I remember I was in the middle of shaving when I heard this, as I was listening to it before anyone else even knew about it, and I knew at that moment I had to be really careful because if I started breaking out laughing, I was gonna cut my face.

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Speaker 1: Okay, We'll just be lucky it was your face for shaving.

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Speaker 8: Showing Porter becoming combative saying she didn't want to continue the interview.

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Speaker 5: And I don't want to keep doing this. I'm gonna call it.

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Speaker 8: We as Porter if she feels like her campaign has recovered and what she's doing to change voters' minds, and what kind of work have you done to get the message out there about who you are and you know why you should still deserve to be a candidate.

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Speaker 2: Inist, Well, we know who she is.

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Speaker 1: Oh, we're very familiar with that.

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Speaker 5: Sorry for the noise. I'm cutting carrots. Yeah, I've always run tough races. I used to represent Huntington Beach, a deep Republican area as well as deep Democratic areas like Laguna Beach, and I've done a lot of press, so it's my job to keep showing Californians that I'm steady on my feet, I'm ready to answer tough questions.

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Speaker 2: My job is, well, the whole thing was you wouldn't answer a not tough question.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't even like she was being badgered. She was being asked the basics.

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Speaker 5: I'm ready to answer tough questions. My job as a candidate is to show that I would be the best leader for California. I've had a year plus to do that. Proud to be in a tie and ready to go win this thing.

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Speaker 2: I have been running for a year and I'm at ten percent, But I guess that's better than Tony Thurman, who's been running for two years and is at two percent. He might be on the show next week, Oh boy.

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Speaker 8: If you'd like to read more from.

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Speaker 2: Mark, we could ask him about what it was like dealing with Cecily when she said we're keeping the schools closed.

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Speaker 1: I wonder if he regrets that Tony Atkins dropped out, because at one point in time we had Tony Tony Tony running for governor.

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Speaker 8: If you'd like to read more from our interview with Katie Porter, we have more quotes about her positions, what she wants to do, her spots for the state. We have much more from her posted on our website, Your Central Valley dot com and our campaign twenty twenty six. Coverage continues on air and online tomorrow as multiple candidates for governor are planning on attending a gubernatorial roundtable at Frisno State.

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Speaker 2: Oh boy, I'm sure I'll be sitting in the car listening to that one.

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Speaker 1: You think that one will actually happen.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's a forum, so it's not a debate. They do a ton of these. There's just no news gets broken. I have listened to so many of them, and while I was thoroughly entertained, I'm like, boy, none of this is usable.

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Speaker 1: So there you have it, Katie Porter on the road Bakersfield, Handford, and it's going to end in San Jose to watch the San Jose Sharks play because one of our kids is hoping for heated rivalry. Wait, please, eight hundred two two two five two two two is the cellphone number?

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Speaker 3: We're to big ass crisis.

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Speaker 1: So we know that Katie Porter is campaigning in Bakersfield and in Hanford. But Tom Steyer, one of her Democratic rivals in the race, he's in San Diego.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna big ass crisis.

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Speaker 2: He is touring the most southern part of the state. He did a couple of forums and a couple of town halls, and apparently today he's going to go visit the Tijuana River.

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Speaker 1: When did that become a rite of passage where all of these candidates at some point have to go to the Tijuana River and look at the raw sewage flowing.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's an environmental crisis, and everyone seems to be ignoring it, including the current governor.

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Speaker 1: Well why did these candidates ignore it when they were in some other office?

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Speaker 2: That's true, Tom Steyer was never in elected office. So Okay, he gets a pass on that one for more. But he is a super big environmentalist. Why is this the first time we're hearing him talk about the Tijuana River.

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Speaker 1: That's true.

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Speaker 2: Let's hear what Styer had to say in San Diego. Here's NBC seven.

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Speaker 10: Okay, so here, we are about two months from the June primary election all ready, and early voting starts and five weeks the.

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Speaker 2: Governor's wait, wait, wait, wait, wait wait, I need an assist on that one.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 10: So here we are about two months from the June primary election already and early voting starts and five.

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Speaker 1: Weeks the governor thanks Cecily.

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Speaker 10: Okay, so early voting starts and five weeks.

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Speaker 11: The governor's race continues to pick up speed, and voters have no shortage of options. NBC seven's political reporter jowets.

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Speaker 2: And it's not the ten candidates you've heard of. They have sixty one options.

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Speaker 1: It's so wild.

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Speaker 11: The governor's raise.

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Speaker 2: I think the recall it was only about forty candidates.

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Speaker 1: By the way, we're going to have one of those candidates who got kicked off the ballot by Shirley Weber over some administrative issue. He's the Green Party candidate. But where he's going to be here too? Have you ever heard him in an interview? No, he's interesting, is that?

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Speaker 2: So maybe to prep you during the break, I'll send you his interview with our favorite Julie Watts.

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Speaker 1: Oh my.

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Speaker 11: The governor's race continues to pick up speed and voters have no shortage of options. NBC seven's political reporter Joey Safchik spoke one on one with Democrat Tom Steyer.

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Speaker 5: Today.

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Speaker 12: We are continuing to see the gubernatorial candidates make their way to San Diego. Today we caught up with Tom Steyer. He's the billionaire environmentalist. He's consistently pulling towards the top of the pack. In fact, the California Democrats had him in a dead heat with Katie Porter and Eric Swalwell.

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Speaker 1: So that's quite a sandwich. Don't put that visual in my head. Which one's the bread and which one's the meat?

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Speaker 12: And Eric Swalwell. So we asked what he needs to do to set himself apart. You brought home nearly forty million dollars last year. You're the only billionaire on the ballot. Why should Californians trust that?

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Speaker 2: Okay, this is once again, how are you going to get people to vote yes on the billionaire? He doesn't even work anymore. He left his business over a decade ago, and he still brings in forty million dollars a year.

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Speaker 1: So what does he do with his time? He's just hanging out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, he's buying ads and starring in commercials and that's pretty much been his full time job since twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 1: If I had that amount of money and no job, I would have the worst habits on planet Earth.

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Speaker 12: You brought home nearly forty million dollars last year. You're the only billionaire on the ballot. Why should Californians trust that you are going to be able to sympathize with their plight and make this state cheaper.

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Speaker 13: Well, I think there's two things going on here. One is the fact that I am getting around and seeing as many people face to face as possible. The other thing is this, He's.

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Speaker 2: Going to go face to face with the TJ. River next week.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he may want to reconsider that one.

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Speaker 13: I'm not taking the money from the special interests.

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Speaker 2: No, you have one special interest, and it's you and your ego.

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Speaker 13: I may be the only billionaire on the ballot. But I'm not the only billionaire in the election. All of these other people are taking money from billionaires.

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Speaker 2: Well, Matt Mayhan, and that's not really helping.

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Speaker 1: He's at what three percent.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think that campaign's going anywhere. It's too bad. But you know, California, get to California.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think the Democratic voters just don't care about state and local issues right now. And you see evidence of that by the fact that Matt Mayhan and Antonio via Ragosa, who are two Democrats, one has a lot of money Matt Mayhan and one has pretty good name ID after being the two term mayor of Los Angeles, and neither one of them are leaders of the pack.

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Speaker 13: The truth is, I'm the person who has no conflict, only represents the people of California. I'm not taking money from anyone who wants any different. The truth is, I'm the person who can stand up to every one of the special interests. They're mad at me because I'm standing up to them.

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Speaker 2: Here is the only thing that works for him with this argument, because most people, they don't care for that. First of all, they the average voter doesn't really know anything or care about who's donating to which campaign that's a little above their pay grade. But the one thing you can say with Tom Steyer and the one strategy he has said is Hey, I'm campaigning to break up PG and E. The other candidates are not because they're probably getting funded by PG and E.

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Speaker 1: But it's not as if he doesn't have interest groups who are behind him. He's received a number of union endorsements, for example.

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Speaker 2: Yes, but when we're talking about a Democratic primary, we don't consider unions a special interest even though they are maybe the largest special interest in the state.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, who has more Sway and Sacramento than them?

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Speaker 13: Because I'm standing up to them, they're supporting.

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Speaker 2: By the way, if you're wondering, I may hence at three percent, the unions don't like him.

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Speaker 1: They hate him.

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Speaker 13: Because I'm standing up to them. They're supporting other candidates. They're coming after me because I want to represent the people, the working people of California.

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Speaker 2: I would like to see a breakdown who has taken the most money from PG and E. Because I'm not voting for that person.

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Speaker 1: I would imagine it would be smallwell, because that's the part of the world that he comes from. He comes from the East Bay.

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Speaker 13: Because I want to represent the people, the working people of California.

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Speaker 12: Experts have said that your plans to lower electricity costs by double digits might be pie in the sky.

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Speaker 2: Well it is the governor's race. Everyone's got pie in the sky.

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Speaker 3: Ideas pie in the sky?

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Speaker 12: Are they?

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Speaker 13: Experts believe that monopolies work. That's that's pie in the sky. You know what's high in the sky. Believing that an electric monopoly is going to deliver low rates. We pay double the rates of everyone else in the United States.

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Speaker 2: You know, if he really wanted to put his money where his mouth is instead of spending money on ads for the past ten years, he probably could have just bought PG and HE and broken it up himself.

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Speaker 1: Now think about this, though, If he replaces PG and E, he's going to be the one to decide what comes after it, and he's going to put the people in charge of whatever comes after it. And I have a feeling it's going to look a whole lot like the DWP in Los Angeles with our favorite kenyone as in charge.

00:26:32
Speaker 2: She left, she went to Puerto Rico and she got eos. She got some big ovation at city council for it. How great of a job she did, What a great leader she was with her seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. And by the way, John, guess where Jennie Kennonis worked before the DWP.

00:26:53
Speaker 1: Oh God, I'm afraid to ask PG and E. Well, there you go.

00:27:00
Speaker 13: The idea that we would drop it by a quarter means we'd be paying fifty percent more than everybody else in the unixation. Not what I would consider a great outcome.

00:27:07
Speaker 2: And why is he talking so fast? Because he's super Dave Osborne.

00:27:12
Speaker 13: Then everybody else in the unixation not what I would consider a great outcome, And especially at a time when the cost of electricity and the cost of storage is plummeting.

00:27:22
Speaker 3: So do I think that that's hard to believe?

00:27:23
Speaker 1: Absolutely not, Shane. Can you give him an assist?

00:27:29
Speaker 2: You know, if I was at my home studio, I have a drop of hers saying absolutely not, but this'll have to do.

00:27:34
Speaker 3: So do I think that that's hard to believe? Absolutely not.

00:27:37
Speaker 13: Everybody around the world knows that the cost of generating and scoring electricity is going down.

00:27:44
Speaker 2: Except in California pretty much well, and one of the things that the utilities have done. And this shows you how bought and paid for the California State Legislature is and how many members of the California State Legislature literally come from PG and E or so cal edison that a state they gave incentives for people to get rooftop solar, changed the law and voided contracts to change those incentives to now gotten to a point where there is no incentive to get rooftop solar. They made it too expensive because it was competing too much with PG and E.

00:28:22
Speaker 1: This state, although they claim to be environmentalists, this state is really pay to play more than anything. And when one party is in charge, they're the ones that are selling everything. Now, are the Republicans and Sacramento any better? Who knows? Certainly the Democrats don't deserve to have a monopoly over state government anymore, but right now the Republicans don't have anything to sell, so who knows if they'd be any better.

00:28:51
Speaker 13: Eighty percent we should be part of that. We need to take advantage of it. And monopolies always do one thing. They charge you too much and they don't care about the service because you know what, they're a monopoly. If you don't like it, don't have any electricity.

00:29:04
Speaker 12: Stier has a town hall here in town this evening and is touring the t you Wanna River Valley to learn more about the sewage crisis tomorrow.

00:29:13
Speaker 2: Well he could have just asked Katie about it.

00:29:15
Speaker 5: You can smell it right here.

00:29:18
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think she's doing any favors for him.

00:29:22
Speaker 12: Joey Savchik MBC seven.

00:29:24
Speaker 2: So there you go. Tom Steyer in San Diego selling everyone on the concept of taking pag and e in the north so cal Edison in La County and Orange County and San Diego Gas an electric and breaking up the monopolies. Eight hundred two two two five two two two is telephone number one eight hundred two two two five two two two fixed California Hour coming up after the news at won. Well, it's not just the candidates for governor who are making the pilgrimage to the Tijuana River.

00:30:00
Speaker 1: So are the FEDS.

00:30:03
Speaker 2: The SBA administrator went down to smell it right here.

00:30:08
Speaker 5: You can smell it right here.

00:30:10
Speaker 2: And see how it's impacting small businesses. For more here is CBS eight.

00:30:15
Speaker 9: We begin tonight with the ongoing sewage crisis. In the South Bay and the impact it's having on small businesses. Good evening, and thank you.

00:30:23
Speaker 2: For there was a story yesterday about how it's spring break right now in Imperial Valley and kids can't even go outside because it stinks so bad.

00:30:32
Speaker 1: Here's what I don't understand. It's Mexico that's putting the sewage in the river. Has it ever occurred to anyone to just tell them to knock it off? And if they don't, there's going to be repercussions.

00:30:45
Speaker 2: What would those repercussions be? I don't know, something they're not gonna like. So far, the answer has been ignore.

00:30:54
Speaker 1: It, well, go kill another drug lord or something. I don't know.

00:31:00
Speaker 5: Good evening, and thank you for joining us. I'm Carlo Chakoto, I'm Marcella Lee.

00:31:04
Speaker 14: Businesses have faced fewer visitors, less foot traffic, and tough choices, but today they had a chance to share their concerns with the top federal small business official.

00:31:13
Speaker 9: News It's Brian White joins us live from Imperial Beach with what they had to say.

00:31:17
Speaker 15: Brian, Yeah, it's been more than one thousand consecutive days. That's nearly three years since these beaches have been fully open, and it's taken a toll on local businesses. Today they had a chance to air out their concerns with the top federal official.

00:31:32
Speaker 2: Can you imagine that, you know, we have beach closures for a day here or there because it rained in. All the sewage, all the homeless poop goes in the ocean. Thanks Barbara for air in this area. In Imperial Valley, the beaches have been closed for three years.

00:31:47
Speaker 1: Think about this for a second. If you're remodeling the house, you know what I'm talking about. You can't legally buy a pot filler for your coffee machine in California because sacrament I know, has decided that'll destroy the environment. You have to have your shower heads ship to other states because you can't get the ones that you want in California. We have to buy a summer blend of gas that's more expensive because it's good for the environment. We have to jump through every imaginable hoop to prove that we're green. Yet they're unwilling to tell the Mexicans to stop dumping raw sewage directly into a river because I guess that's anti woke.

00:32:36
Speaker 16: Small Business Administration Deputy Administrator Bill Briggs touring contaminated flood zones along the Tijuana River Valley.

00:32:43
Speaker 7: This is sewage frumpy Ona straight untreated the out card.

00:32:47
Speaker 16: The visit is part of a federal effort to address the decades long cross border sewage crisis. When the administration says it's committed to solving.

00:32:55
Speaker 2: By giving out loans to the small businesses, that's no.

00:33:00
Speaker 1: On the Mexican government. That's what you have to do. You could solve this problem by getting Mexico to get their act together.

00:33:07
Speaker 2: Well, several administrations of the federal government, including the current one, the past one, and the one before that that's technically the same one as now, have ignored this problem.

00:33:18
Speaker 1: Well they're not yelling loud enough at the Mexicans.

00:33:20
Speaker 17: Then APA is the lead on it right now and they have themlu with Mexico, and part of that is ensuring that Mexico is.

00:33:28
Speaker 1: Working and doing its part.

00:33:30
Speaker 2: But they're not, no, and they've shown zero interest in doing so.

00:33:36
Speaker 16: Before talking solutions, Briggs says, his focus right now is listening.

00:33:41
Speaker 1: Marco's out to them, right.

00:33:42
Speaker 2: I mean, what about smelling.

00:33:45
Speaker 1: Isn't that new lady president of Mexico a big environmentalist too? Isn't she all about the global warming? She's got a million and one problems that might be a little low on her priority list. I guess you can.

00:33:57
Speaker 5: Smell it right here.

00:33:59
Speaker 1: Marco's out to them, right. I mean it's important.

00:34:01
Speaker 17: I'm trying to understand how their businesses may or may not have been impacted, and.

00:34:06
Speaker 1: You know, I want them to succeed.

00:34:08
Speaker 16: At a roundtable near the Imperial Beach Pier.

00:34:11
Speaker 17: I really would welcome the input, and I welcome the opportunity to hear from folks.

00:34:15
Speaker 16: Local owners like Cesci Minichini shared how nearly three years of closures have taken a toll.

00:34:21
Speaker 5: We're hopeful.

00:34:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, imagine if you operate a shack near the beach and the beach has been closed for three.

00:34:26
Speaker 1: Years, here's what we should do. We should send plane after plane after plane after plane filled with trash, and we should dump it out of the plane right on Claudias Shinebomb's house.

00:34:38
Speaker 14: We're hopeful that there's relief, but I would rather have it fixed than have a loane. So that's my bottom line. You know, we're losing out on tourism. Our clients are moving away. People don't want to come here because.

00:34:51
Speaker 2: It's a health risk now well, and it's one of those situations where it's gotten so bad you're going to be selling your home at a loss or just abandoned because who's buying in this area.

00:35:02
Speaker 1: And by the way, this is a primo example as to why you should never buy a house because there's pretty pictures on the internet before you've actually physically seen it.

00:35:13
Speaker 16: Others like Jim Own or Lee Gray say the impacts stretched beyond the shoreline.

00:35:18
Speaker 1: People came down here for the beach.

00:35:19
Speaker 5: We're in southern California, but now that is closed.

00:35:22
Speaker 1: Business has been impacted.

00:35:24
Speaker 5: So many business been going out of business because we don't have a foot traffic for it.

00:35:27
Speaker 16: A crisis many here say is long overdue for a real fix.

00:35:32
Speaker 2: It does give us some hope.

00:35:33
Speaker 14: I mean, we kind of feel that we're being forgotten and that nothing's really being done about it because it's been going on for so long.

00:35:40
Speaker 2: I mean, to their credit, the local news stations are down there every week, it seems, and one of the supervisors is the one that's inviting all the candidates down there to go smell it right here.

00:35:50
Speaker 5: You can smell it right here.

00:35:53
Speaker 1: A friend of ours who's a restaurant tour just messaged us and said we were offered a restaurant on Imperial Beach in the sand opportunity. The smell was so foul you would be nauseous having lunch.

00:36:06
Speaker 15: We may eventually see some relief, some small business loans that may be in the works, but there was no official talk of that today, no promises made. These business owners say they appreciate the visit, but they're still waiting on lasting change.

00:36:19
Speaker 1: Marcella Carlo.

00:36:20
Speaker 2: Okay, so this deputy director of the SBA drew the short straw. Go down there and listen to the people talk about the stink. There's no action from the state, there's no action from the FEDS.

00:36:32
Speaker 1: That's where that guy gets to go, and Ricardo Lara gets to go to Bermuda. I'm very kind of sketch