Gavin Newsom being pressured to reverse his freeze on MediCAL for people in the Country Illegally

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Speaker 1: And we continue at two oh five in the afternoon on the John Phillips Show, Mister Randy Weggs in Culver City.

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Speaker 2: John, despite multiple calls to the LA City Council and the LAPD, the city did nothing about another squatter house en Larchmont that burned to the ground and then burned the neighbor's house down.

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Speaker 1: If only they could have known that that was going to be a problem.

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Speaker 2: Seriously, whoever's running against Hugo Soto Martinez just put together a graphic of all the homes that have burned down because he won't do anything about squatters.

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Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is the telephone number? What eight hundred two two two five two two two. There is a battle of bruin in Sacramento between California Governor Gavin Newsom and the ruling Democrats in the legislature, and Randy correct me if I'm wrong here, but the battle is over medical and the legislature, as I understand it, wants to make it so that legal American citizens in California have to prove that they're working to get medical but illegal aliens do not.

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Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom to deal with the fact that medical was going way over budget. Last year, announced some changes to medical for people in the country illegally, most notably cutting off people that can get into that program. Entry was frozen as of twenty twenty six and charging people on that program a thirty dollars a month premium. Well, there are members in the California legislature that say enough is enough. You need to unfreeze that and we need to give free healthcare to everyone that wants it in the country illegally. Great for more, here's Fox forty in Sacramento.

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Speaker 3: Governor Newsom is facing some heat from some in his own party over healthcare cuts impacting undocumented Californians. Several Democratic lawmakers are calling him out, demanding that he end the freeze on new medical enrollment for undocumented adults.

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Speaker 2: How many times did Gavin have to get a loan from the state reserves last year to deal with this many?

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Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us here for Fox forty News at five thirty, I Americ carryman a Nikki has the night off Fox forty Capital reporter Aton Wallace as their message and the Newsom's Administration's response to.

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Speaker 4: It, Governor reverse these cuts.

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Speaker 5: Los Angeles Democratic State Senator Madia Elena Dorrosso and other Democrats with that message for Governor Gavin Newsom, urging him to reverse a freeze on new medical enrollment for low income undocumented adults.

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Speaker 2: They are not a burden on California.

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Speaker 6: They are contributors.

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Speaker 2: They're Contributors'll go with that. They are contributors. Is that like you contribute, but you do it in a fun way. They are contributors.

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Speaker 4: They are taxpayers.

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Speaker 5: The public debate on this matter was in the spotlight last year when the news administration announced the state had to take out more than six billion dollars in loans to ensure it had enough money to keep funding Medical, the publicly funded program providing healthcare for more than fourteen million low income Californians.

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Speaker 2: Now you want to know what the indictment of California is a third of the state is on medical.

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Speaker 1: Well, because we lead the nation.

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Speaker 5: In poverty, including undocumented residents.

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Speaker 2: Now you come to this weird situation where medical is such a generous program that there is almost an incentive for you to never get out of poverty, because there's a big difference between being poor enough to qualify for medical and being just above that line. And now you're out thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars a year because you have to buy your own health insurance.

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Speaker 1: Which is one of the reasons that program is such a drain.

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Speaker 5: On the budget, including undocumented residents. The Newsom administration blamed Medical's financial strain on a number of issues, including higher healthcare costs and increasing number of seniors, and the state's decision to expand medical benefits to undocumented Californians.

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Speaker 7: There are investments that we are making that we simply cannot continue to make.

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Speaker 5: To help balance the budget, Newsom agreed to freeze new medical enrollment starting January first of this year, and the undocumented adults who had enrolled by twenty twenty six will have to pay thirty dollars monthly premiums beginning next summer.

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Speaker 2: Thirty dollars a month. And they'd balked at that and said, how dare they? They can't do that to us. It should be free. Apparently they're not familiar with the phrase. There's no such thing as a free lunch. Oh there is, if you're impoverished. In California, everything is free.

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Speaker 5: And the undocumented adults who had enrolled by twenty twenty six will have to pay thirty dollars monthly premiums beginning next summer.

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Speaker 2: This is not a budget solution.

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Speaker 5: Doroso's new bill SB fourteen twenty two would reverse Newsom's enrollment freeze.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but where are you gonna get the money?

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Speaker 1: They don't care.

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Speaker 5: She's also calling on the governor to reverse a decision that would see medical stop covering non emergency dental services for undocumented adults and some Green card holders starting this July. She and others here also want the governor to throw out a proposal that could see refugee.

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Speaker 2: Free medical and free dental.

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Speaker 1: Does she actually represent Californians or does she only represent illegal aliens?

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Speaker 2: Where's her district?

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Speaker 1: I think that was the former Kevin Dailey owned district.

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Speaker 5: Actually, She and others here also want the governor to throw out a proposal that could see refugees and assilis lose Medica cal coverage as well. That also believes in the long run the cuts will ultimately cost taxpayers more as they fund an increasing number of emergency room visits.

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Speaker 2: Here we go the myth that if you just give everyone free healthcare, the emergency rooms won't be packed. But John, are the emergency rooms packed.

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Speaker 1: They are completely packed. And I've got to say I've told the story on the air before I'll say it again. Rancho Mirage, California is a town of seventeen thousand people. It's almost entirely elderly and almost entirely white. A friend of mine went to the emergency room over at Eisenhower with one hundred and four degree fever and it took them something like I don't know seven hours to see him. And he said he was one of two people in that er who spoke English.

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Speaker 5: Sat also believes in the long run, the cuts will ultimately cost taxpayers more as they fund an increasing number of emergency room visits.

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Speaker 4: People cannot see a primary care doctor. They do not stop getting six.

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Speaker 2: They wait sixes. Does she have a speech impediment? What is going on with her?

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: They do not stop getting six.

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Speaker 1: You know, she used to run the La County Federation of Labor before she got elected.

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Speaker 2: Not surprised she.

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Speaker 1: Was probably more powerful than that job that she is in the legislature.

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Speaker 4: They wait, and then when they can wait no longer, they show up in the emergency room. At ten times. The cost of a routine visit.

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Speaker 5: Newsom's office says it does not comment on pending legislation, but the governor puts part of the blame on President Donald Trump for his HR one law, the Newsom administration says will lead to at least sixteen billion dollars in federal health care cuts for California. Newsom has long maintained he will do what he can to promote for all, something he expressed during this Capital interview last year.

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Speaker 4: I believe in universal health care and just a core principle.

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Speaker 1: Okay, then Jack, tax is up to pay for it, and watch your presidential ambitions go right down the toilet.

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Speaker 5: The Republicans say it's unaffordable.

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Speaker 4: The reality is our fiscal house is on the brink of collapse.

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Speaker 2: She's mad stop.

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Speaker 5: And negotiations over the governor's budget proposals are ongoing.

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Speaker 2: There you go. There is the latest on Marina Elena Dorazo going after Gavin for limiting access to medical for people in the country illegally because we could not afford it.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I want to go back to the beginning of the segment when I referenced that Gavin is fighting the legislature on whether or not. Illegals need to prove that they have a job to get medical because right now American citizens have to do that. Here is an article from Politico that dropped this morning quote on healthcare. As with most issues, Gavin Newsom has positioned himself as Donald Trump's chief antagonist, expanding access to insurance and deriding the red tape the President and Republicans in Congress have wrapped around treatment. But new eligibility rules Trump imposed on Medicaid patients put the California governor in a bind. California provides healthcare for one point seven million illegal aliens, not impacted by an upcoming federal requirement that Americans prove their employed or meet other criteria to remain enrolled in the government's free health care program. That left Newsom with a choice follow the president's lead or have a two tiered system in which citizens must prove their working but illegal aliens do not. Newsom chose equity, albeit quietly buried in a state budget plan, he included plans to impose the same work requirements on all recipients of medical the state's Medicaid program, including immigrants living in the country illegally. The decision marked a reversal for Newsom, a likely twenty twenty eight presidential contender who has been a vocal critic of Medicaid work requirements in the month since Trump approved them. A reflection of both California's budget woes and the fraud national climate around immigration, the move was another step back in a retreat by the governor, who, in his final year in office, has rolled back gains he made over two terms expanding healthcare coverage regardless of a person's immigration status, and that, of course, upset legislative Democrats who don't want illegal aliens to have to prove that they're working to gain medical When she first saw the work requirements in the budget proposal, Assembly Member Yes you know who, Mia Banta said it quote hurt my heart to be honest with you. Bonta, who chairs the Assembly Health Committee, said that work requirements are part of a strategy to lower costs by keeping eligible people out of the program. She introduced a bill in February that would block the governor from implementing them in the undocumented program. Quote, we're not living true to the values of California in our health care for all, which we fought so hard to be able to get Bonta said, So the fight right now is that they don't want illegals to have to prove that they're working, but they want American citizens to be forced to do that, and that is equitable to them.

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Speaker 2: And of course Mia Banta is the wife of.

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Speaker 1: That is very true. And Newsom, who has been all for free health care for illegals, is suddenly reversing himself only because he doesn't want to be the guy who is branded as giving free health care to illegals while not forcing them to prove that they're working, while having a different standard for American citizens, because he knows that would prevent him from winning a general election for president. And that's the only thing that's motivating Gavin Newsom right now, hence him spending state money to promote himself and combat disinformation around the country in other states, which he says is supposed to help California tourism. And none of us believe what the governor is saying because it's obviously not true. But this could be his achilles heel of all of the insane positions that Gavin Newsom has taken as governor. I think the state's las a fair attitude about illegal immigration and the fact that a broke state is willing to provide services for people who are not here legally is going to be as big as political liability. Because you go back to when Donald Trump ran in twenty sixteen and when he won in twenty twenty four, immigration was his number one issue in both elections, and the permissive attitude that Democrats had regarding the border was something that hurt them more than anything else. Don't forget Kamala Harris, as Vice president of the United States, was put in charge of the border by Joe Biden, and that blew up in her face like a hillbilly's rifle. And what the Democrats did in that election was just say, well, we have the border under control, and nobody believed them because all of us could see it with our own two eyes that it wasn't true. And Trump just hammered them over and over and over again. And if you're Gavin Newsom and you are giving away the store to people who shouldn't even be here in the first place, and you don't have enough money to meet your own budget, how do you think that's going to play nationally? That could be his Achilles heel more than anything else, and he knows it, and right now he's trying to cover his tracks. Otherwise, the last thing he tried to do right now is pick a fight with the legislature. He doesn't need that. He has a million and one problems right now. He went out and called Israel in apartheid state. He insulted blacks in the South by saying that he's just like them because he had low SAT scores. The last thing he needs is another fight on the home front, and that's what he has right now because he knows that this issue is a massive liability if he were to become the Democratic nominee in the general election. Eight hundred two two two five two two two is telephone number one. Eight hundred two two two five two two two. If you'd like to email the show, you can do so at Johnny don't like show at gmail dot com. That's Johnny don't like Show at gmail dot com. And Randy, if you want to listen to us on Saturdays in northern California, that's easy to.

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Speaker 2: Do well in Central California and probably Northern California as well. So here's the thing. We're here every single day noon to three Southern California on seven ninety KABC, Northern California on eight ten KSFO. That's a big old signal that you can hear all throughout Northern California. We're so happy to be there, but we wanted more. How can we get to the Central Valley. Well, I'll tell you how we can get to the Central Valley on Saturdays. So we do a special version of the Fixed California Hour. It's a replay of it where I combine stories that I think the central Valley, Fresno and Bakersfield would like. Sometimes stories that involve Fresno in the central Valley, like that sex offender that was trying to run for Fresno City Council, and I package it all together and it airs for that big audience in the central Valley on Saturdays at noon. You can listen to it if you're driving through by going to five eighty on the AM dial. What a five point nine FM. You can also stream it at kmjnow dot com. That's kmjnow dot com.

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Speaker 1: As we told you earlier in the program, the fees at LAX are potentially doubling for rideshare passengers. We know that a lot of people love to take uber or lyft to the airport and when they land back at LAX to take uber or left back home. That way you don't have to fool around with parking. Well, the city knows that, so they see you as a sitting duck, as an opportunity to get more money from the general public or from the flying public, so that they can dump that money into mass transit that of course nobody uses because it's awful.

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Speaker 2: For more on the LAX fees that, by the way, just passed. Here's NBC four new tonight.

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Speaker 6: Getting to LAX could soon cost you more money. The airport is proposing fee increases for ride shares, which could drastically increase the cost of your ride to or from the airport. NBC four is Starshah Phillips joins us now from LAX with how travelers are reacting to this Darsha, Yeah.

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Speaker 8: Carolyn, these are proposed fees that could be voted on by the Board of Airport Commissioners as early as Tuesday, And we spoke to many people here at the airport and they are not happy about the possibility of travel getting even more expensive.

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Speaker 2: It is so expensive to go in and out of lax with Ridehair, especially because unless you want to deal with the purgatory hell that is the Laxit lot, you get to pay for black to get picked up at the curb.

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Speaker 8: Lax proposing a significant increase in fees for ride share pickup and drop off. If approved, your ride to the airport could cost significantly more. Here's the breakdown. Currently, the ride share fee for pickup and drop off at the Laxit lot is four dollars. The proposed fee would increase to six dollars for ridehair taxis and limos. And if you want to be dropped off or picked up from the central terminal, that would really cost you under the proposed fee, going from five dollars to twelve dollars.

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Speaker 2: And of course they say they need to do this to encourage people to ride the people mover, which is not finished being built something they said would be finished three years ago.

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Speaker 1: And if you take it coming and going, that's a twenty four dollars increase in your fees.

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Speaker 8: This means a round trip ride to the airport with curbside drop off an Laxit pickup would cost you eighteen dollars in airport fees. Alone.

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Speaker 2: It is always worth it to pay for black Laxit is one of the dumbest ideas ever conceived at an airport. You notice how no other airport does that.

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Speaker 1: Nope, they're smarter than us.

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Speaker 2: So there you go. LAX has voted to approve the fees. So it just got even more expensive to go to LAX.

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Speaker 1: Fly out Ontario Kids eight hundred two two two five two two two. Earlier in the week, we told you that a district attorney in northern California was aggressively going after a company that exists to remove squatters from homes they don't belong in. The DA said that these companies do not have the right to use physical force to force squatters out, that they needed to go to court, and I guess just full around with that process for a couple of years and hope to get the squatters out of their home. Well, in Los Angeles there was a case of squatters who took over a home, and I guess they decided to just let the process play itself out and hope that the government eventually did something about it. Well, the government didn't, and now the home burned down and part of the neighborhood burned down with it.

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Speaker 2: For more on yet another preventable tragedy in Hollywood, in the Larchmont neighborhood. Here is CBSLA.

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Speaker 7: A massive fire gutted a vacant home in Larchmont yesterday and neighbors.

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Speaker 2: By the way, vacant homes don't just catch fire.

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Speaker 1: Nope, there were some people cooking some meth.

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Speaker 7: A massive fire gutted a vacant home in Larchmont yesterday, and neighbors say the situation that led out to it has been a problem for years.

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Speaker 6: And cbsla's Lose Delia Cabaletto joins us live from Marchmont, near the scene of that fire, and Lose Delia.

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Speaker 4: Neighbors are frustrated, right.

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Speaker 9: Not only do they say they're frustrated, they quite frankly.

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Speaker 1: Tell me, you got one.

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Speaker 2: It's been a while, but it happens.

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Speaker 9: Quite frankly, quite frankly, not only do they say they're frustrated, they quite frankly tell us they are fed up. They say they're fed up.

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Speaker 2: What did that add to what she was saying? It might be the most meaningless thing that people say.

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Speaker 1: It did put a smile on your face, though.

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Speaker 2: Quite frankly that's the og.

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Speaker 9: Not only do they say they're frustrated, they quite frankly tell us they are fed up. They say they're fed up with homeless encampments popping up in their neighborhood.

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Speaker 2: And Larchmont is a very expensive part of Hollywood.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's right there next to Hancock Park.

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Speaker 9: Popping up in their neighborhood. And most recently, this fire that tore through this home in this vacant lot. They tell us squatters had been coming in and out of this vacant home. They called the city a law enforcement and they say not much was done. Well, eventually this fire caught the next.

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Speaker 1: Door home one and by the way, when that DA in Northern California said you have to let the process play itself out, this is what he means. Well, if the neighborhood burns down, we can't save them all. But that's what you're supposed to do. That's the attitude.

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Speaker 2: This is how ass backwards California's tenant protection rights are. That you can declare yourself as a squatter and you can't get kicked out of a place that you were trespassing on.

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Speaker 9: The next door home on fire that a family was living in and they say, this is just devastating.

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Speaker 4: We've had problems with homeless encampments for years.

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Speaker 9: That's how NAT.

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Speaker 2: Please do not vote for four more years of Hugo.

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Speaker 1: No, but they do because these people don't elect themselves, the district has to elect them. You have to understand that there is a direct connection between how you vote and what kind of government you get.

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Speaker 9: That's how neighbor Heather Fonsega describes the ongoing issue of homeless encampments and squatters in her Larchmont neighborhood.

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Speaker 4: We call the city, we call our city councilmen. They send out people to talk to them, and then conventionally they leave and then another group comes in.

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Speaker 2: What do they offer the squatters? Social services?

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Speaker 1: Probably drug paraphernalia.

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Speaker 2: Sunday afternoon, you remember the other home in Hugo's district that burned down last year where the neighbor said that they were shooting snuff films in there.

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Speaker 1: Oh yes, how could I forget that?

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Speaker 9: One Sunday afternoon, those concerns turned into a rightening reality.

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Speaker 4: Walked outside and looked up and there was this huge plume of smoke.

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Speaker 9: More than one hundred firefighters battled the flames for over an hour before get.

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Speaker 2: This is, by the way, yet another circumstance where the firefighter should be billing the homeless department for this.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, because if we're going to spend money on worthless services like homeless services, and we're going to starve the fire department to do it, whatever homeless services falls on their face, they should have to pay up.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'll go further than that, because this is a straight up dereliction of Hugo not doing his job. The fire department should be billing Hugo's discretionary funds.

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Speaker 1: I like that idea.

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Speaker 9: Flames for over an hour before getting the blaze under control.

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Speaker 4: This was a abandoned house, or it was a derelict house was empty. There were squatters living here as well.

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Speaker 2: For as much as we talk about a housing crisis in California, they're sure a hell of a lot of abandoned homes.

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Speaker 1: Oh, because there's neighborhoods that people just don't want to live in, or there's streets that people don't want to live on because we've allowed blight to just take over. I forget who it was. There was someone a billionaire, maybe it was Palmer Lucky. Palmer Lucky put something on Twitter not long ago saying that part of the housing problem in California is that there are so many neighborhoods due to a lack of public safety, that are just no go zones for most normal people. And if we were to reclaim those neighborhoods, many of them are central to the city centers, and we were to make them safe again and make them desirable again, people would have no problem moving into those neighborhoods and populating them again.

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Speaker 4: Or it was a derrel lachtause was empty. There were squatters living here as well. They were definitely stealing. We saw them stealing electricity.

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Speaker 2: And how is that never something that we can arrest somebody for stealing from the power grid and creating a fire hazard. No one ever seems to be going to jail for that.

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Speaker 1: Nope, because that's a crime associated with poverty electricity.

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Speaker 9: But the flames didn't stop there. Next door, the fire destroyed Fonseka's neighbor's home.

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Speaker 4: They're devastated. I don't know what they're going to do. They've lost everything. I mean, you can see there's nothing left.

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Speaker 2: Here's a family that is now literally homeless because of LA's inaction to do anything about squatters. Their home burned down.

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Speaker 1: Well, could you imagine what the day to day life must be like living next to a home that's abandoned and taken over by squatters stealing electricity.

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Speaker 9: Two of the family's dogs also died in the fire, and Fonseka is now caring for three of their surviving dogs.

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Speaker 4: There were three dogs inside and only one of them survived.

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Speaker 9: She says. What makes this situation more frustrating is that her neighbor who lost his home has called law enforcement for help to clear squatters multiple times.

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Speaker 2: And law enforcement is not allowed to do anything about it.

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Speaker 1: Nope, it's not an LAPD problem. It's a Karen Bass problem. It's a city council problem. It's a Galvin Noosom problem. It's a Rob Bonta problem. They know that the powers that be don't want them to go in with a heavy hand and take care of it.

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Speaker 2: Who's Rob bot Bonta?

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Speaker 1: I stand corrected.

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Speaker 4: And just kind of not getting anywhere. Was this an accident waiting to happen or a problem? Yeah?

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Speaker 9: Maybe it probably was, adding she hopes the city can fix the situation before things get worse.

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Speaker 2: Not with the current management of the city.

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Speaker 1: Nope.

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Speaker 2: If you don't like this, you have an opportunity to change management. Hugo is up for election this June. Karen is up for election this June. If you would like to see a different version of Larchmont and Hollywood, where squatters don't take over homes and let them burn to the ground, you have an opportunity to make that change.

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Speaker 1: You have to start voting different. You can throw coins in a well, you can I don't know, rub Buddhist belly. None of that is gonna help unless and until you start voting different the city.

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Speaker 9: You can fix the situation before things get worse.

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Speaker 4: We're very worried that we could be next.

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Speaker 9: The office of council Member Ugo Soto Martinez.

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Speaker 1: The most useless person on that council.

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Speaker 9: The office of council Member Ugo.

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Speaker 2: So I have long thought that Unices was the worst member on the council, and over the last year it is Hugo, by leaps and bounds, the worst member of the La City Council. You know, let's criminalize kind of least the converters. Let's criminalize Copper.

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Speaker 1: No question about it.

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Speaker 9: The office of Council Member Ugo Soto Martinez says, there isn't much the city can do when it comes to private property.

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Speaker 1: But they say, sure, they're breaking the law, they're stealing electricity. You can't shut that down.

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Speaker 9: Nope, there isn't much the city can do when it comes to private property. But they say they're going to ask Building and Safety to reach out to the property owner and request they make changes.

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Speaker 4: We're also told.

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Speaker 2: That's the same thing he said about the other house in Hollywood, and then the next day it burned to the ground.

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Speaker 1: How is it the homeowner's fault. The homeowner didn't light the fire.

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Speaker 10: Changes.

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Speaker 1: No, there have been calls to the city to do something about it, at a minimum from the people in the neighborhood.

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Speaker 2: If our laws have become so towards tenant protections that this is something the city and the county and law enforcement cannot do anything about, we have to change those laws.

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Speaker 1: You know what I wonder. I wonder when you have cases of squatters who have moved into a home and the homeowner doesn't do anything about it. They don't complain to the city, they don't go to court, they don't hire one of these firms to remove the squatters. I wonder how many of them are owned by foreigners where they're just parking money.

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Speaker 2: Oh, that happens all the time.

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Speaker 9: Changes. We're also told that the family that lived inside this property was actually at church when the fire broke out, so none of them were hurt. They have started an online fundraiser to immediately help with living expenses, and within the last hour or so they've already raised more than one thousand dollars reporting live in Larchmont, Lustelli yak Abadito CBSLA.

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Speaker 2: So there you go. A family Enlargemont is now homeless because Hugo doesn't want to upset the squatters.

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Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is the telephone number one? Eight hundred two two two five two two two. All right, Randy, I think we have time for one more addition to the California Crime Bladder.

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Speaker 2: It's up and yet again this WOA WHOA What's up with?

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Speaker 1: Dum dumb thumb dunk dun dun dumb tun.

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Speaker 4: Dumb beats the Califonia Crime Bladder.

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Speaker 1: With Junk and Randy. This edition takes us to northern California.

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Speaker 2: There was a string of breakings in Alameda for mar Here's ABC seven in the Bay.

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Speaker 11: You know, hitting all the windows, Lina.

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Speaker 1: My god, what a way to start a report.

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Speaker 4: You know, hitting all the windows.

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Speaker 11: Lena Limb's been working hard to get repairs done after Malaya tea room was broken into.

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Speaker 4: They got it.

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Speaker 2: What are you getting out of a tea shop?

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Speaker 11: Caffeine room was broken into.

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Speaker 4: They got in, couldn't find any cash, rumm, it's true, and then they left.

00:31:48
Speaker 11: Hers is one of nine businesses hit last week in Alameda.

00:31:52
Speaker 4: People are just getting out of control. I don't know what they're looking for because small businesses nowadays, everyone knows we don't keep cash.

00:32:01
Speaker 1: Well, apparently not everyone.

00:32:05
Speaker 2: This travailance a soundtrack to the State of California.

00:32:11
Speaker 1: Wait, Gavin's gonna spend millions of dollars saying you're a liar.

00:32:16
Speaker 11: This surveillance video shows the moment thieves broke into one of the other businesses, doodle.

00:32:21
Speaker 2: Cakes, Not doodle Cakes, them too, doodle Cakes.

00:32:27
Speaker 11: The owners of the bakery say just ten dollars was taken from the tip jar, but replacing windows and potentially missing out on business hours does cost.

00:32:36
Speaker 2: It took a tenor out of the tip jar. How low can you go?

00:32:40
Speaker 1: Well, there's no liability from the point of view of the crook if you don't believe you're going to be caught, and if for some reason you are caught, you know you're not going to go to jail. What do you have to lose?

00:32:52
Speaker 4: I think we got to do something, definitely more patrols or anything like that.

00:32:56
Speaker 11: And it's not just these break ins that are raising concerns. Let me a police Wednesday warning that vandalism incidents are up, with vehicles being a target.

00:33:05
Speaker 12: We went from sixteen in a two week period to twenty one in a two week period. Very small change and it might be a very low level type of crime, but to us it's important to trust all types of crime.

00:33:15
Speaker 2: How many of those BIPs were at Pamela Price's expense.

00:33:21
Speaker 1: She was the gift that keeps on given.

00:33:23
Speaker 10: I've been bipped several times.

00:33:26
Speaker 12: Crime, But to us, it's important to trust all types of crime.

00:33:29
Speaker 11: Police say these vandalism incidents aren't specific to one area. Rather they are spread throughout the city.

00:33:35
Speaker 13: Police are asking people to have some extra awareness. Right now, make sure you're parking your car in a lit area, don't leave anything in your vehicle and be aware of your surroundings.

00:33:46
Speaker 2: There's a lot more officers live every single day like you're being followed by the mob.

00:33:53
Speaker 1: What a way to live.

00:33:55
Speaker 12: There a lot more officers that are allocated to the streets. We also have increase the number of traffic officers to help our visibility.

00:34:03
Speaker 11: It's worrying to have our community at risk like this. Theresa Garino lives in Alameda and owns a business here and says it's helpful when police keep them informed.

00:34:14
Speaker 4: I think a lot of us live in this bubble in Alameda, So maybe just let the residents know.

00:34:19
Speaker 2: Hey, yeah they figure crime that's an Oakland thing, not here.

00:34:22
Speaker 1: Well, guess what, the criminals in Oakland could move to Alameda any time they wont.

00:34:27
Speaker 4: Hey, you know, be extra diligent.

00:34:29
Speaker 11: Police were able to make arrest in the spat of break ins last week. They say evidence collected at several of the crime scenes linked back to the same car, which they tracked down within hours, along with several suspects.

00:34:41
Speaker 2: And I'm sure they use the license plate reading cameras to do that, the same license plate reading cameras that all the activists want the cities to break contracts with that's.

00:34:50
Speaker 1: Right, because they don't want you to have information that would lead to criminals being arrested.

00:34:56
Speaker 11: Tara Campbell ABC seven Eyewitness News.

00:35:00
Speaker 2: They played the glass breaking under her lockout. That's fabulous. There you go. They spayed a break ins in Alameda, California.

00:35:12
Speaker 1: Let's go to Jim in San Jose. Jim, Hello, Hey.

00:35:16
Speaker 4: How you doing today?

00:35:18
Speaker 1: Good? Good?

00:35:20
Speaker 10: A couple couple of comments. Abraham Lincoln said, all you have to do to get rid of a bad law is enforce it. If they wan't enforce a good law, then give them what they want. So if you're in Turlock, they take you out of town. There's no homeless in Turlock. They have a spot for you out in the country. You can stay here all you want, and they put you know, they provide services in Santa Clara. They drop you off in santase So why not instead of hiring an attorney and going through all the rigam roll with these bureaucrats that aren't going to do anything, why don't you just gather the people up and say, look, here's o the people that are having the problems, have them put their money together and pay the homeless to go hang out with these people's else, these undesirables, and do that. When you're in San Francisco as a contractor, you have to pay a homeless person to watch your vehicle so nobody breaks in and steals stuff or takes your vehicle. So you give them twenty bucks. I said, when I come back, I'll give you another twenty or whatever. Because you're not going to do anything. They're not affected. So how do you get them affected? You make them take the medicine that they're making you take. I don't think you're going to get this result in any other way, because these people are too stupid to do the obvious.

00:36:30
Speaker 1: What's wild to me is that the majority in the state, and these are people who are educated. These are people who make good money. It does cost a fortune to live here. These are the people who run the industries that make this state go, that they're willing to live like this. I do not understand why any adult who has a choice would be willing to live like this, But for whatever reason, the people who decide who wins the elections, they decide who's in charge of our institutions. They decide all of the important questions in the state. They seem to be fine living like this, and then what they do when you challenge them on it is they just deny it. They just say that you're spreading misinformation. They say that you're repeating right wing talking points. They say that you're taking one bad example and you're blowing it up and making it seem like that happens all the time, and they just continue to allow it to happen. And for the life of me, I can't figure that out. I know that they hate Donald Trump, that I'm aware of, and before that, they hated George W. Bush. I was well aware of that too, But state and local government is different than the federal government. You can still make it so that you live in a nice place where you're safe to roam about and do what you want to do. Yet, for whatever reason, the Trump derangement syndrome that these people have is so severe that they think that living like this is altruistic, that they are more compassionate than the other states, that they care more about their fellow neighbor than the other states, and they're so compassionate and so caring, they're willing to live it assesspool. They're willing to live in filth where criminals can do whatever they want and there are no consequences, and that's just the way it is, un lessen until those people change their mind and get their head screwed on straight, I don't see any of it changing, and that's really sad.