Spencer Pratt responds to the LA Times hit piece on his residency

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

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Speaker 2: Kids are getting a very special education in South LA because when their parents are walking them to school, they have to pass a massive homeless encampment that, according to Matthew Sedorf, is littered with used condoms.

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Speaker 1: WHOA we put up with this? Why in the world do we put up with this?

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Speaker 3: Now?

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Speaker 2: How do you explain that to your elementary school age child? Oh, there was a birthday party at the encampment and those were all deflated balloons.

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Speaker 1: Here's what I would like to know. The bums living on the streets don't have the judgment to not do math, but they do have the judgment to use protection.

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Speaker 2: I bet you if we looked into it, the same nonprofits that are getting paid to pass out meth pipes to the homeless, they're also passing out condoms. Because I don't think the homeless are taking their General Assistance money and going to seven to eleven and asking for a pack of Trojans.

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Speaker 3: Think about this for a second.

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Speaker 1: You're going to people who are living in squalor and you're loading them up with drug paraphernalia and condoms and you go home at night thinking you did something good.

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Speaker 3: The ideology is very, very special, with Barbara Ferrer as the brains of the operation.

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Speaker 2: If there's any investigators out there, we should find out if the County of Los Angeles or San Francisco or Oakland is spending money on condoms for the homeless.

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Speaker 3: What else do.

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Speaker 1: They pass out besides the drug paraphernalia in the condoms? Are we giving him transfats to eight hundred two two two five two two two. Is the telephone number one eight hundred two two two five two two two. Well, we know that embattled Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is facing long odds at winning re election for a second term as the chief executive of the nation's second largest city. Spencer Pratt, of reality TV fame, whose home burned down on the Pacific Palisades fire, has consistently been polling in number two. He is now a threat to Karen Bass and her rule at city Hall, to the point to where Karen Bass's allies at the Los Angeles Times are putting out unfair hit pieces directed at Spencer Pratt and his domicile where he lives they claim he lives in Santa Barbara County, not in Los Angeles. However, of course, his home in Los Angeles burned down, and that's why he has temporary logic in another county. If and when his home is ever rebuilt, he plans on moving back to Pacific Palisades, something that the county registrar voter says is perfectly legal.

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Speaker 3: I digress.

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Speaker 1: Because he is currently a threat to Karen Bass's power at city Hall. He is out making his rounds everywhere he can go to make the argument that Karen Bass doesn't deserve a second term, and Randy he's on the television.

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Speaker 2: Spencer Pratt decided that he needed to react to this La Time story by sitting down with CBSLA. Let's listen to that interview. It's a good one.

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Speaker 3: I think want to.

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Speaker 4: Attack me from not living in the pouseage while running for mayor. Hey, brain surgeon, my house burned down.

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Speaker 2: I think that was his TikTok video and fact check one hundred percent.

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Speaker 5: Tro former reality show star in candidate for La Mayor, Spencer Pratt is blasting the La Times for a story questioning his residency. Now, Pratt last chat at the newspaper over a story questioning whether he is living in La which is a requirement for mayor old candidates.

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Speaker 6: In the video, he.

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Speaker 5: Says his family is sheltered at his father's rental property in Santa Barbara, but he says he got an airstream and also stays at his property in the Palisades.

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Speaker 7: Spencer Pratt is joining us Now Live to talk about the report and his candidacy for mayor.

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Speaker 6: Thank you so much for being with us this morning.

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Speaker 8: Thank you for having me so we.

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Speaker 7: Heard a little bit of your response in the post there. We want to give you a chance here Live to talk about a response.

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Speaker 6: To the article.

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Speaker 4: Well, first off, I find it ironic that the La Times is in El Segundo for the last eight years and they're not called the El Segundo Times.

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Speaker 1: That is also one hundred percent true. You can see where the La Times is headquartered when you're on the one oh five freeway going to lax in El Segundo.

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Speaker 2: Great line. I think John Cobalt gave it to him.

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Speaker 4: And speaking of my residency, I've been very transparent every week showcasing my dirt lot that it has no chance right now to be rebuilt.

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Speaker 2: That's where he does his podcast. He sits on a lawn chair on his burned out dirt lot. What do they think It's on a green screen in Culver City.

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Speaker 4: Because of all the red tape, insurance issues, the lawsuits against Karen Bass, LADWP, the state park. So the idea that I am not eligible to run from mayor is insane.

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Speaker 8: It takes one Google search.

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Speaker 4: My toddler could figure it out talking to AI that I'm one hundred percent eight.

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Speaker 3: Oh, Spencer, I don't know if you want your kids playing with rock No, no, no, let him get to be teenagers first.

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Speaker 4: My toddler could figure it out talking to AI that I'm one hundred percent able to run from mayor. Li Times only ran this story when I in the UCLA polls. They have me in the lead behind Caaren Bass, and when their little puppet candidate they're trying to cook up with the DSAY is now clearly not in the leade like Spencer Pratt, they dropped this hit piece. It's diabolical what they're doing.

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Speaker 1: Nithia Ramen, Yeah, and you know that's a very good point, because yes, the Los Angeles Times endorsed Karen Bass the last time around, but she was the most left wing candidate in the race.

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Speaker 3: She was running against Rick Caruso.

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Speaker 1: Now we have Nitthia Rahman, who's a straight up socialist, more in line with the politics of the La Times newspaper. They could theoretically dump Bass and get behind Nitthia Raman well.

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Speaker 2: And it is interesting because we've seen reporting, not these reporters at the La Times, but other reporters at the La Times that have gone hard on Karen Bass in the fire response, including finding out all of those documents that showed that she doctored the after action reports.

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Speaker 1: Yes, but the editorial page endorsed Karen Bass the last time around.

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Speaker 3: They did that, that is true.

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Speaker 8: I don't know who that is.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if they called Rick Caruso the face of white supremacy, though.

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Speaker 3: If they had more time they would have.

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Speaker 8: I don't know who that is. A DSA candidate.

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Speaker 2: Spencer Pratt did that. I don't know her good, diabolical.

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Speaker 4: What they're doing Nthea Ramin, I don't know who that is. A DSA candidate who's destroying her district. And anyone in my DMS will tell you how horrible it is living under her rule, with her dsa socialist trash.

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Speaker 8: So yes, I one hundred percent can run.

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Speaker 1: The more I hear from this guy, the more I love him. I'll tell you he won me over when he came into the studio for an hour and I peppered him with questions, real questions for an hour, and he was well read. He had clearly been thinking about it, he had clearly been researching it.

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Speaker 3: I'm all in, let's go well.

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Speaker 2: And what's interesting when you interview any politician, you can tell when they have a canned response because they practice it over and over. It seemed like, no matter what the issue is, he was speaking off the cuff, but he was speaking off the cuff and knew what he was talking about.

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Speaker 3: Which is not always the case with politicians for Madison, politicians for mayor.

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Speaker 8: And there's no secrets. Everybody knows.

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Speaker 4: I've been posting from my dirt lot every week talking about one day being able to rebuild here. It's disgusting what they are doing. And also they're discounting everyone whose house is burned down. Oh, they're not eligible to vote now because Karen Bass let their houses burn down. This is discussing obviously, I'm my lawyers reaching out to the els again, I mean the La Times, and we're.

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Speaker 2: Going to get Yeah Cochin, no welcome to do that.

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Speaker 1: That's another excellent point. If he's ineligible to run, then what they're saying is everyone who lived there, who's home burned down, is an eligible to vote, And we're going.

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Speaker 8: To get a retraction because it's disgusting.

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Speaker 5: Spencer, you've said you never thought you'd be running for mayor, but of course the Palace, as sayfire changed all that. Sadly, you lost your home as well as.

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Speaker 2: So many other You learn that government matters real quick when your house burns down because of the ineptitude of the city, the county, and the state.

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Speaker 1: Well, it wasn't just one failure. It was a series of failures, a series of dominoes falling that led to this tragedy. And it's impossible to look at this and go, yeah, you know what, the government did the best they could, and sometimes an act of God just happens and there's nothing you can do about it. This one is the exact opposite.

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Speaker 3: This one.

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Speaker 1: You look at it and you go, how did these idiots make mistake after mistake after mistake after mistake When this was all avoidable.

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Speaker 5: As well as so many others. Can you talk about what led you to join this race?

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Speaker 8: Absolutely?

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Speaker 3: Not only can I get an assist there? Shang led you to join this race?

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Speaker 8: Absolutely?

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Speaker 2: There you go, your old friend. Maybe Spencer should look into Shan. You know there's a mayor that had a very interesting career.

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Speaker 3: That's right, I like that. That is amazing, learn all the things not to do.

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Speaker 1: She was just in the California Post. A listener sent that to us and we still.

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Speaker 9: Got our Oakland A's baby.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely not only losing homes, Twelve of my neighbors burned alive due to the negligence of our city leaders and Karen Bass, who was in Ghana knowing this wind read weather event was coming. And then once I spent a year researching it, speaking with whistleblowers, uncovering the corruption and the cover ups, I was left with no choice. I had to run for mayor because no one was stepping up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Rick Caruso, I want to know what happened with him and what happened with a Laney at the state level, because the actions of those two make zero sense for Californians.

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Speaker 4: It's saying we change, we need accountability, We need transparency and that is why again the LA Times piece is so disgusting because I'm running on accountability. Everything I've said has been the truth, so of course I'm running for mayor. We need change in Los Angeles. We need common sense. And speaking of residency, the only thing that we should be talking about is the seventy thousand drug addicted human beings that are on the streets of Los Angeles dying. Six people a day. That's the residency. The LA Times should be focusing on.

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Speaker 6: Well, that's I do you know.

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Speaker 2: There was some improvement though when Karen Bass ran it was only five people a day.

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Speaker 3: I thought it was seven, depends on the day.

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Speaker 8: I guess LA Times should be focusing on.

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Speaker 10: Well.

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Speaker 7: I did want to ask you because there are so many issues affecting Los Angeles, at one of which you just brought up, and there are forty percent of voters surveyed who are still undecided.

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Speaker 6: How are you going to tap in to people.

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Speaker 7: Who maybe they feel terrible for the Palisades, but they have so many other issues affecting their neighborhood.

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Speaker 4: The Palaces is gone, Mayor Bass already let that burn to the ground. I'm fighting for Los Angeles. I'm fighting so my kids.

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Speaker 2: I'm fighting to make sure your neighborhood doesn't burn down.

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Speaker 1: To yeah, because what happens when the President of Nigeria is having an inauguration.

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Speaker 4: I'm fighting so my kids can grow up in the LA that I grew up.

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Speaker 2: You know, she would probably be better off if she loses, because there's no way she will ever be able to take another international trip as long as she is mayor of Los Angeles.

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Speaker 3: No, and she's not equipped to do the job.

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Speaker 1: So she's just going to have four more years of completely embarrassing failure to look forward to.

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Speaker 4: I'm fighting so my kids can grow up in the LA that I grew up in.

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Speaker 8: Moms, do not.

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Speaker 4: Feel safe whether you live in any part of LA taking your kids to school.

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Speaker 8: Would they send me the videos? All over La?

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Speaker 4: There's people with just fenoyl smoke blowing next to swing sets in every.

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Speaker 3: Part YEP, fact check true.

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Speaker 4: This is psycho And when they hear my message when I come in, I'm enforcing the laws that exist.

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Speaker 6: What is your message.

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Speaker 8: Enforcing the law? These are all laws people are breaking.

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Speaker 4: You cannot be naked, crazy people running in front of kids in schools you cannot be doing drugs in front of parks, you cannot be living on the sidewalks. These are all against the law, and as mayor, I'm going to force the law. I'm not going to pretend I'm compassionate while six people die a day.

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Speaker 8: That is not compassion.

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Speaker 4: We need to get these people treatment, mandatory treatment, help them get sober. If you're having a mental health crisis, just giving you needles and pipes on the street and dropping off a sandwich is not helping these people. Sorry, I'm getting pumped up. Yeah, no, it's unacceptable.

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Speaker 1: Well, and it's so refreshing to hear someone talk this way because we feel like we're the only sane ones in the asylum. Because you listen to Bash, you listen to Ferrer, you listen to the Board of Supervisors, you listen to the city.

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Speaker 3: Council, and they're all nuts.

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Speaker 1: They all buy into this left wing psychobabble that results in people dying in complete misery every single day, to the tune of six or seven per day. And if you disagree with them, then they regard you as a neanderthal, and there's no one in the room left to.

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Speaker 3: Make the sane argument.

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Speaker 1: I guess there's Catherine Barber on the Board of Supervisors and Tracy Park on the City Council.

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Speaker 3: But that's it. There's one sane person in that.

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Speaker 1: Room, and they're just beaten down to the point to where they don't even bother to make the arguments half the time because they know they're going to lose. This guy is going to go in there like a bull in a china shop and.

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Speaker 3: Force these idiots to accept reality.

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Speaker 2: It is a stark difference between pretty much everybody that's running. I mean, there's actually a whole lot of people running that we still don't even know who they are, but that you have so many people talking about with the addiction we see on the streets, we need to meet these people where they are, We need to enable them, we need to make them more comfortable, harm reduction, all that nonsense. And he is straight up saying no, what's going on in the streets is unacceptable, unacceptable.

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Speaker 5: Well, Spencer, you mentioned the recent poll out of UCLA that shows you behind incumbent Mayor Karen Bess. Where do you think this momentum for your campaign is coming from and how do you reach out to those voters that forty percent who are still undecided.

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Speaker 4: Well, first off, I'm here on this beautiful television show reaching out to all those forty percent voters. If you want change in Los Angeles, you vote for Spencer Proud. And that's why I continue doing these amazing opportunities to get my message out.

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Speaker 1: He is doing quite a bit of earned media. Oh yeah, and you notice he's going on these shows and there are no rules. When he came on with us. It wasn't like they said, Okay, you can talk about this, but you can't talk about that. He just showed up and he said, ask me anything.

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Speaker 3: I love that.

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Speaker 2: By the way, you know what earned media I get to listen to on the way home, which has a very different reach. Nithea went on Mike Bonnen's podcast.

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Speaker 3: Oh good lord, I'm.

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Speaker 2: Not even going to torture this audience with any clips from it, but for my own curiosity, I'm gonna listen to that because I am, like the one person subscribed to Mike Bonnen's podcast.

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Speaker 4: Amazing opportunities to get my message out. My message is common sense. We have lost the plot in LA and we need to go back to the beautiful La that a lot of us grew up here and we know what it's like and I'm gonna get it back. I'm gonna fight for it because once you lose everything, you have this drive. These these are politicians I'm running against. I'm an Angelino that lost everything because of the city's negligence.

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Speaker 7: What I think is really interesting, and we've asked Mayor Karen Bass by the way to be in studio before. She has not currently taken us up on that offer.

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Speaker 1: Your other No, she's still pissed, Yeah, because what answers does she have?

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Speaker 3: What can she say that can put lipstick on this pig.

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Speaker 2: She probably has CBS on a list somewhere where she doesn't like any of those people because it was that CBS national reporter that was peppering her with all kinds of questions about why she was in Ghana when the fires broke out.

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Speaker 3: Now she's going to stick to spectrum in kN X.

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Speaker 6: Other opponent, Nathia Ramman, was here.

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Speaker 7: We asked her about solutions to address our homeless crisis different from the current strategy.

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Speaker 6: We've now asked you that question.

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Speaker 7: What I think is interesting here as things are playing out, is that you're using as opposed to these other two candidates a really big social media strategy. We've seen this work for other candidates in the past, people who have thought, oh, that person will never win outspoken personalities.

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Speaker 6: How are you using.

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Speaker 7: It and will we continue to see these outspoken moments for you or are you trying to Are you trying to navigate now being politician Spencer Pratt versus reality TV star Spencer Pratt.

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Speaker 8: See, I'm not a reality TV star.

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Speaker 4: I'm a father with two sons that I want to be able to come back to Los Angeles and grew up in the city I loved.

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Speaker 8: I'm not running as reality star.

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Speaker 4: I'm running as Angela who grew up here and wants his children to grow up here. And the difference between me and these politicians is their liars. I am telling the truth. I am authentic. I use social media to tell the truth. The reason she can't come up here and tell you she's gonna do anything, it's because.

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Speaker 8: She's on the city council right now.

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Speaker 4: She's in charge of the homeless scam that they're doing right now.

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Speaker 3: That is also true.

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Speaker 2: Nithea, who's talking about all this change she would do if she becomes mayor, is the chair of the Homelessness Committee on the city council, and before that she worked for one of those phony, blooney homeless organizations in the private sector.

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Speaker 8: It is a scam.

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Speaker 4: They're laundering billions of dollars to increase homelessness.

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Speaker 8: These numbers they give you.

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Speaker 4: You look at the Rand Corporation, they say it's thirty percent higher than what the city will tell you.

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Speaker 3: Anyow, he pulled that out of his asz and that's true. Yep. Good for science. To Greek us eight.

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Speaker 4: Anyone with eyeballs can drive around and see this is apocalypse level. It is zombie takeover. This is an emergency. We have the Olympics coming and this business as usual for these elected leaders. Enough is enough. Obviously, it took my house burning, now, my parents' house berning, Now my neighbor's burning alive for me to get in this fight for the city.

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Speaker 8: But now I'm here and I'm not stopping.

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Speaker 7: Well, we're so glad you joined us. In the commercial break, you said you'd come back every week.

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Speaker 8: I want to come back every day.

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Speaker 1: But he promised that to us too. Well, we negotiated, but we couldn't make it work.

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Speaker 2: He'll be back at some point, Yeah, there you go, Spencer Pratt on with CBSLA blasting that La Times hit piece.

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Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is telephone number one. Eight hundred two two two five two two two. Well, Gavin Newsom always likes to brag when the state of California finishes first in something. We just finished first in something that is generating national headlines. But Randy, I don't know if he's going to be bragging about this one.

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Speaker 2: The District Attorney of Alameda County of Jones Dixon, the woman that replaced Pammy.

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Speaker 8: She called me a crime boss.

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Speaker 2: Has announced the new initiative to crack down on retail theft. And in that initiative, she walked through in East Bay Walmart where everything in the store was locked up. Apparently at this Walmart, they were stealing the men's genes, so they locked them up. Then they were stealing the women's gens, so they locked them up. Then they were stealing the kid's jeens, so they locked them up, and they said, screw it, all the genes.

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Speaker 3: I'll ghet it.

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Speaker 6: Had the log up the soft.

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Speaker 3: For more on this, we go to NBC in the.

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Speaker 11: Bay alme the County District attorney is stepping up efforts to crack down on organized retail crime.

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Speaker 6: This is an issue of crime.

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Speaker 2: This is why elections matter. If Pammy Price wasn't recalled, you know, she wouldn't be doing this.

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Speaker 6: I've been bipped several times.

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Speaker 3: No, she would ill crime.

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Speaker 12: This is an issue.

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Speaker 2: She would tell tell you that the people stealing those genes are the real victims.

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Speaker 1: That's right, because they need more genes and they can't afford them.

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Speaker 3: Ill crime.

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Speaker 11: This is an issue across the state. It involves me working directly with major retailers and other das across California. NBC's Lena Jones explains what's being done and whether it's making a difference.

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Speaker 6: Carol's actually one of our highest categories in the store.

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Speaker 13: From big box stores like Walmart to local small businesses, organized retail theF continues to impact retailers and shoppers across California. Now, Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dixon is taking a new approach, launching a listening toward to meet directly with retailers about the issue and the solution.

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Speaker 2: Helping is also a smart thing to do, as she is campaigning for re election, because you know who she's running against, our favorite quite frankly, although I'm not saying that campaign get any traction whatsoever.

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Speaker 3: No, because they've lived through her rule before.

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Speaker 10: Helping to find out what the trends are and what these stores do to help combat organize retail theft helps us to work regionally.

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Speaker 13: The DA met with Walmart leaders today in Union City. The focus was on something called boosters, which are professional theft rings that target stores across multiple cities.

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Speaker 8: The das are.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and the boosters then sell to the fencers, and so the boosters are usually the homeless, the crazy, what have you. They get paid to go into stores and steal stuff. Then that stuff goes to places like the Mission in San Francisco, or MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, or flea markets in Oakland where they're just straight up selling stolen goods.

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Speaker 1: I thought boosters were supposed to be just super fans of the football team.

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Speaker 13: Boosters, which are professional theft rings that target stores across multiple cities. The DA's office says it's easy data to track which stores are hit hardest, what's being stolen, and whether trends are improving. Officials say numbers are already showing progress, including at a Whole Foods in Oakland.

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Speaker 10: The stor in Oakland had the highest loss of any of their five hundred and fifty stores in three countries.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so that was the Whole Foods. I thought that was the Walmart, but it's the Whole Foods. The Whole Foods in Oakland had the highest amount of theft of every Whole Foods in the world.

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Speaker 3: My god, that is hilarious.

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Speaker 2: But apparently Prop thirty six changed that. And having a DA that will enforce these laws change that.

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Speaker 3: Pammy, she called me a crime boss.

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Speaker 10: The storm Oakland had the highest loss of any of their five hundred and fifty stores in three countries.

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Speaker 3: I love that she had that part at the end.

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Speaker 2: Even the Whole and Begaladesh doesn't have as much theft as Oakland.

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Speaker 10: And so for me, that's something to know. Although I have been coming down, so those numbers are coming down. We're doing something right, But what can we do to help that store?

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Speaker 13: Much like the problem, the solution has spread beyond city lines. That's why the DA says she's partnering with other district attorneys statewide to track suspects in streamlined prosecution. Walmart says it seemed the results.

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Speaker 14: There's still an issue, but I do think we've seen success as the DA's offices and other DA's offices across the state have increased cooperation and collaboration and prosecution.

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Speaker 2: I don't think this stuff at Walmart's going to not be locked up anytime soon, though.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, You're going to be buying your shampoo through bulletproof glass for a long time.

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Speaker 2: The most ridiculous example of the things that the retailers have had to do in recent years to prevent the theft was what the Walgreens in San Francisco did, where they used metal chains when a lock to lock up the freezer section because people were stealing frozen pizzas and ice cream.

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Speaker 3: They got the munchies at night.

00:26:13
Speaker 13: Small businesses say they're seeing some relief too. Osvaldo Sanchez says his restaurant Agave Uptown was hit more than twenty times, but hasn't been broken into in a year.

00:26:24
Speaker 3: Elections matter. Twenty times. It's been around for a while. That is so ridiculous.

00:26:33
Speaker 6: I've been bipped several times.

00:26:36
Speaker 3: Oh we know.

00:26:37
Speaker 13: Still, he notes. He closes his new Fruitville restaurant Dakaria elo early to avoid crime.

00:26:45
Speaker 2: No midnight Margarite is at Takaia and a lazoko.

00:26:49
Speaker 3: No.

00:26:49
Speaker 1: I mean, who wants to eat dinner at night for a week? Well, you eat dinner at like four, I do, but I also go to bed at like eight.

00:26:59
Speaker 15: Really hoped that whatever they're doing works for the community's safety, you know, like we wanted it to feel saved, and so we wanted it to feel safe. Us of business owners, we want the community to feel saved.

00:27:15
Speaker 13: Seven eleven stores remain free, which hard.

00:27:16
Speaker 1: This guy had a problem. They took the gun in his face. He dropped the Cheloupa.

00:27:22
Speaker 13: Seven eleven stores remain frequent targets. One Oakland owner says break ins have cost him nearly one hundred thousand dollars a year.

00:27:29
Speaker 1: Yep, well you have one stolen Kia that comes through a wall. That right there is tens of thousands of dollars by itself.

00:27:39
Speaker 2: Was it earlier this year or was it late last year where the seven to eleven got burglar It got robbed, and the employee was like, that's it. I quit And then they say, can you stay one more day so we can find you a replacement. So he stayed one more day and then he got robbed and beaten again.

00:27:57
Speaker 3: Dum, and they hit him on the coconut too.

00:28:01
Speaker 13: Still, he has faith in the coordinated approach.

00:28:04
Speaker 3: As long as they have a commitment to continue, it will make a lasting impact because we've been reporting the patterns in.

00:28:12
Speaker 2: Oakland, and of course, what do we know John about seven Eleven's in Oakland. We know that seven to eleven can't get any franchises to open any new locations there. People are pulling out and they're having a really hard time hiring.

00:28:24
Speaker 3: Thank Heaven in Oakland.

00:28:26
Speaker 13: Felina Jones, NBC Bay Area News.

00:28:28
Speaker 2: If there's one thing you learned on today's show, know this, Before Pam Price got kicked out, before Shang got kicked out, and before Prop thirty six, the whole foods in Oakland had the most theft of any whole foods in the world.

00:28:50
Speaker 1: I'm kind of surprised because you wouldn't think if thieves as being interested in organic products, what are they going to do with those blueberries? Eight hundred two two two five two two two is a telephone number? What eight hundred two two two five two two two. Well, we just told you about the whole foods in Oakland, at one point in time being the most robbed whole foods in the entire system. Well, now we're going to move to a different part of the East Bay where illegal dumping is now a problem. However, it's not a problem like it is in Oakland where they do the dumping on city property. This illegal dumping is going on private property.

00:29:43
Speaker 2: This is a bizarre story about someone that was going to hire someone to have a dumpster take all their trash to the dump but then as the dumpster was full, the payment didn't clear, and so the person with the dumpster decided to dump all the trash in their driveway.

00:30:03
Speaker 3: Uh oh. For more, here's KTVU Fox two.

00:30:15
Speaker 16: Now at ten garbage collected and then return right back to where it came from, the dispute prompting this debris dilemma in an East Bay neighborhood.

00:30:24
Speaker 3: Debris dilemma, there's some alliteration for you.

00:30:27
Speaker 16: I love it that ensuing pile of blight causing problems with some neighbors.

00:30:31
Speaker 6: Good evening, I'm plotting walk and.

00:30:33
Speaker 11: I'm Greg Lee.

00:30:33
Speaker 1: The owner of that dumpster company says he got duped by a customer who agreed to pay, but never did so.

00:30:39
Speaker 6: It returned the favor by returning the garbage.

00:30:44
Speaker 1: Like that old Elvis Presley song. Return to sender.

00:30:47
Speaker 16: New attend ktv's Tom Baker Live and San Pablo to explain, Tom.

00:30:53
Speaker 17: You know this could have actually been a he said, she said story with those old ring cameras.

00:30:58
Speaker 12: They provided a whole bunch of udence.

00:31:02
Speaker 17: Express rental dumpster's owner says people moving out of a house on San Pablo's nineteenth Street rented a dumpster for debris removal. The company placed the dumpster as ordered, but says the credit card number given was a problem.

00:31:17
Speaker 6: Uh.

00:31:17
Speaker 3: Oh, it's simple mistake or scam. It's a decline. He declined the cars.

00:31:26
Speaker 17: Martin Perez, owner of the dumpster firm, says when he asked about payment, all he got was delayed and broken promises.

00:31:33
Speaker 3: Keep saying like, oh, I'm gonna pay later, I'm gonna pay later. I'm gonna pay later. And I don't think they were gonna pay later. No, they were gonna pay never uh and never did or say you.

00:31:45
Speaker 2: Know, there can be a problem with that credit card and if you only have one, that's a red flag.

00:31:52
Speaker 1: You know, when I worked over at K and X back in the old days when we did cards, my job was to erase all of the cards. You would use the cards to play something like a sound clip and a news story. Well, one of the things that happens when you erase all the cards is if you have credit cards in your pocket and you're too close to the machine, it will also erase your credit cards. So I went through a period of time before I figured out what the connection was where my cards would be erased and not usable all the time.

00:32:27
Speaker 3: Oh boy uh. And never did or say, oh, I'm gonna put it money in the car so and you can charge a Monday happened like Monday we try a game col Oh, oh I forgot the car. Yeah, I don't think they forgot.

00:32:46
Speaker 17: When the company came for its dumpster, it was full, so the driver dumped the dumpster contents back on the driveway.

00:32:59
Speaker 3: You know, I would dumpster company on this one. I think they're completely in the right.

00:33:04
Speaker 2: They were not paid for the services, which include taking all that trash to the dump So if you don't want to pay, well, we're just gonna put it right back where we found it in the most embarrassing way.

00:33:17
Speaker 17: When the company came for its dumpster, it was full, so the driver dumped the dumpster contents back on the driveway.

00:33:25
Speaker 12: A neighbor told us this.

00:33:27
Speaker 9: It didn't block the street. It kind of just went on the sidewalk in a little bit onto like just the literally at the edge of the sidewalk.

00:33:34
Speaker 17: Dumpster owner Perez said he had already lost money on the dumpster delivery and pickup. Had he taken the debris to the dump he would have had to pay hundreds more in dumping fees, increasing his loss.

00:33:47
Speaker 3: Or take it to Oakland and just leave it on the street.

00:33:51
Speaker 17: At some point, a neighbor apparently called the police, and the police came out and they required that the driver removed the debris from the edge of the sidewalk onto the property itself.

00:34:02
Speaker 2: Boy, some of these towns in the East Bay that aren't Oakland, their police have a lot of free time.

00:34:09
Speaker 3: It seems like they were right on top of this one.

00:34:12
Speaker 17: Yep, remove the debris from the edge of the sidewalk onto the property itself. Later scavengers came and spread the stuff all over the place.

00:34:22
Speaker 6: She said.

00:34:27
Speaker 2: Apparently, if there's a giant pile of garbage in your driveway. People will come out to try to see if there's any valuables.

00:34:36
Speaker 3: I'm sure the neighbors love that.

00:34:39
Speaker 17: Later scavengers came and spread the stuff all over the place.

00:34:43
Speaker 9: She said she paid seven hundred dollars for it, and then all of a sudden, I see him back up and dump it all on the ground. I didn't really know what that was about.

00:34:54
Speaker 17: Now the mess of the scavengers left was cleaned up by a neighbor who covered it. Send Pablo Cold Enforcement has opened a case which could come back on the tenant or the property owner.

00:35:05
Speaker 12: Who we are told still lives right in town.

00:35:09
Speaker 17: Reporting live, Tom Baker, KTV Fox two News.

00:35:12
Speaker 16: All right, Tom, So for now, all we know is that pile's just gonna sit.

00:35:15
Speaker 6: There where it's been left.

00:35:16
Speaker 16: At least it's covered because we know the rain is coming.

00:35:20
Speaker 17: Oh no, well, the rain is coming, and then there's a problem with potential vermin, you know, moving in to keep out of the rain and all of that stuff.

00:35:28
Speaker 3: So this has to wait.

00:35:29
Speaker 2: Know what type is coming to San Pablo, because that's what's in La right now.

00:35:33
Speaker 3: Oh, this just keeps getting better and better, So this.

00:35:36
Speaker 12: Has to be taken care of. And eventually it will be.

00:35:39
Speaker 17: But somebody's going to have to pay for this, and it's going to be a whole lot more expensive than they just paid for the dumpster.

00:35:44
Speaker 6: Yeah, all right, all right, Tom bakerfort Live tonight. Thank you, Tom.

00:35:47
Speaker 2: There you go the dumpster dispute in San Pablo that led to a giant pile of garbage in somebody's driveway because they were trying to get out of paying the dumpster people.

00:35:59
Speaker 1: I've said this on more than one occasion on this program. Hoa's come straight to California courtesy of the devil. They are awful in every imaginable way. One of the few things they're good for is to make sure you don't have to live next to this because, let me tell you, the moment there was a hint of a problem, there would have been a blonde ponytail marching right up to that front door figuring out what happened. If it was in an HOA that I can promise you. Let's go to Kirk in Buena Park, Kirk.

00:36:48
Speaker 18: Hello, Ah, good evening, gentlemen. I was just wondering, since it's fixing California, or if you were going to get to Ron Bonto's press conference. I mean Bote, Robert, whatever his name is. He's so interconsequential to me where he is, you know, a voice coach by Obama where he can't say three words together without pausing. But he alleges that they've been aware of the medicaid fraud for years, and they've been working on it, and they've managed to find a whopping two hundred and seventy five million dollars in fraud gotten thirty million back, which by other reports there's in the billions of dollars of fraud, but they just can't find that.

00:37:36
Speaker 1: Well, we got into that heavily yesterday, and I will tell you this, Rob Bonta is someone who planned on doing nothing about any of this fraud. He was shamed into it by the federal government and by the news media. The news media covered it, the federal government acted on it, and the state of California was perfectly prepared to let this go on for and he got shamed into doing something.

00:38:03
Speaker 8: Bob Bonta.

00:38:05
Speaker 18: Part of the thing is is he like planning to go for another office because I want to bring it really highlight this so he doesn't have an ice cubes chance.

00:38:14
Speaker 1: Well, he's running for reelection, and according to a recent poll he was leading in that race. However, as an incumbent in a one party state, I think he was at something like forty percent, which is really pathetic, which means I guess in theory, Rob Bonta could lose if we spend enough time talking about that, and believe me, we plan on it.