Eric Early on the state of the Governor's Race

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Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is jelphone number one. Eight hundred two two two five two two two. It is our pleasure to welcome our next guest to the program. He is a Republican attorney and businessman who ran for the United States Senate in twenty twenty four and previously ran for Attorney General of the state of California. You can get him online at Ericurly dot com and follow him on Exit Eric Early, Underscore CA Eric Early, Welcome.

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Speaker 4: Always great being with you, John.

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Speaker 1: Well, thanks so much for stopping vibe. So I've got to tell you. We cover the gubernatorial race in this state just about every day, and right now it appears as if the Republicans are seeing this race one way and the Democrats are seeing this race a completely different way. And it boggles my mind that Republicans can't get with the program. And here's what I mean. Democrats right now are freaking out that two Republicans will make the November ballot and the Democrats in a deep blue state will be locked out of the general election. Republicans that I see on social media or talk to seem to be of the belief that there's no way that's going to happen. And you have the candidates running for governor clawing each other's faces off instead of I guess, working together or at least having a truce with one another not to attack each other. And they're saying that there's going to be a Democrat, there's going to be a Republican on the November ballot, and that's just the way it is. And I think that's awful because if Republican voters can get motivated to turn out and under the best case scenario, from my point of view, split their vote fifty to fifty between the two of them, I think that's probably the only shot that Republicans have of picking up that seat. If there's any Democrat and any Republican on the November ballot, I don't think it's going to be a competitive race, and I don't think the Democrats are going to be forced to spend any money here. Why aren't the Republicans seeing what the Democrats are now worried about?

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Speaker 4: Tell you, John, you are preaching to the choir one hundred percent. I've been saying very much what you just said for several months now. I have not taken a position among the two leading Republican candidates in the governor's race. I've stayed on the fence. And the main reason is is because, like you just said, I firmly believe that if we end up with one Republican and then one Democrat in the general, and I do believe we'll get at least one Republican in there, that there is no way that Republican can become governor. But if we end up with two Republicans, if that miracle happens in the general, well then it's a fade, a compleat. We end up with a Republican governor of the state of California, and we start turning around this entire mess. So much like you were saying, I keep telling everybody, no, just stop going after one or both of these are Republican candidates.

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Speaker 1: Let them be.

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Speaker 4: Let the voting continue the way the polls seem to be shaping up here, and we could end up with both of those guys in the general election. But for whatever reason, there are groups of Republicans going after Bianco. There's groups of Republicans going after Hilton. The candidates themselves are doing that. Particularly with respect to Hilton, He's been really going after Bianco harder than Bianco's been going after him. But I was at an event this past Saturday where both of them spoke and the other one wasn't in the room when one was being talked about. But unfortunately they were both taking shots at each other.

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Speaker 1: And here's the other thing. I know, people say, well, what does it even matter if a Republican gets elected. Democrats are still going to control the state legislature. So it's not like a Republican is going to get any conservative legislation out of Sacramento. But here's the reality. When you're the governor, not only do you sign or veto legislation, you appoint judges. You appoint people to boards and commissions like, oh, I don't know, the Public Utilities Commission. You can appoint people to the Coastal Commission. You can appoint people to parole boards. And these boards and commissions have more of an impact on your life than you think that they do, because every time you turn the news on and you see some elderly pervert getting let out of prison early because the parole board was snookered by their pleas. Guess what if you have sane people on those boards, that sort of thing isn't going to happen, even if the governor signs no legislation coming out of the legislature. Simply by being able to put sane judges back in and sane people on these boards and commissions, You're going to see an improvement coming out of Sacramento almost immediately.

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Speaker 4: Oh, agree again. Governor has huge powers in the state of California, especially this state which has been dominated one party control for almost twenty years. Now we get a Republican governor up there, things will start changing immediately. First of all, we won't have a Newsom type signing bills into law which are as far left and disastrous for the state as can be. All the things you said with the commissions, the various executive powers that a governor has to stop things in their track that are harming the state. When it comes to the price of a gallon of gas, both of these Republican candidates see clearly what needs to be done. We have to completely reverse the entire climate change ideology that Gavin Newsom has enforced on this state for the for the entirety of his term, which has caused one oil refinery after another to flee the state, causing us to import gasoline from overseas for people to pay for. A governor can have tremendous effect on the various taxes on gallons of gas. So it would be night and day if we could get a Republican in office huge changes to this state.

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Speaker 1: I also wouldn't assume that they're going to be a one termer for sure, because if they get in and life improves for the people of California, I could easily see a successful one term governor being re elected hundred percent.

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Speaker 4: And you know another thing, and I believe both of these guys, either Hilton or Bianco, they would convene. First of all, they'd be huge supporters of law enforcement. Right now, we have a governor who has no respect whatsoever for law enforcement, and that's trickling down throughout the entire state and leading to so much of the fear of the citizenry, of the criminals, so much of the rise of the criminal's culture in the state. That would be a huge deal. Also, I believe both of them would bring in business executives, business owners, small business owners, large business executives from all around the country and all around the state to find out what could be done to rescue our business community from the killer regulations that have been dropped on them left, right and center from these people in power for twenty years. So listen, we got to get a Republican up there. And that goes back to how you started the conversation, John, let's stop taking shots as Republicans, stop taking shots at Hilton Bianco. Just go vote, vote, vote, vote for your Republican governor candidate, and that miracle could happen two of them in the general election.

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Speaker 1: The chairman of the California Democratic Party has called on low performing candidates in the race to drop out. So far, only one has taken them up on his offer, Ian Calderon, who is pulling at less than one percent. All of the others will be on the ballot and say they're not dropping out of the race. Do you see any of them dropping out of the race before the ballots go out in early May.

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Speaker 4: I'll tell you, John, I don't know. The last time I spoke to you on your show here you've said some great things about how so many of these Democrat candidates are so entrenched in where they stand in their careers, how if they get out of this race, will they ever have a political career after this. They've put in so much time i'm an effort in this and they still seem to have this this faint hope that they can still get ahead. So I don't know whether some of those lesser ones will get out. I mean, if a brain in his head, for example, and he doesn't unfortunately, he would get out of the race. Betty Yee, same thing, she would get out of race. Don't know if they get out. But I think where you're going to start seeing, you know, the Democrats last stand, regardless of whether some of these people get out of the race or not, will be We're going thee money coming in these these far left, these Democrats, they managed to, you know, come up with hundreds of millions of dollars for advertising, whether it's from their public employees, unions who frankly own the Democrat Party in the state of California, to billionaires from around the country. Uh. And and then I think what we're going to see is somewhere around when the ballots start dropping a month before the election or a little bit before that, the airwaves are going to start being just filled with political ads. Of course we're going to see that, but I think a lot of those are going to be generated in such a way as to cause the focus to be on one or two of the Democrat candidates most and that will, for better or for worse for the Democrats. I think have an important impact for them in the primary election.

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Speaker 1: Here's what worries me. I think there's a high likelihood that one of the top three Democrats is going to collapse because you look at these candidates, they're all problematic. Tom Steyer is a guy who has not been vetted yet, so who knows what's in his past. And I think that there's this sense of a fundamental unfairness about a guy who's simply trying to buy a job because he's bored and wants to use it as a stepping stone to run for president. A second time porter who I think you were the one that correctly first called her bipolar, where we've seen these videos for he snapping at reporters and telling her staffers to get the f out of her shot. And when she was asked point blank, could you assure us that there won't be any more videos like that that drop, she said she couldn't, So I assume at some point later in this campaign we're going to see more of those kinds of videos coming out about her. And then you have Eric Swolwell, who has awful judgment, who slept with a Chinese spy and was doing god knows what in Washington, d C. While he was occupying a safe seat. They're all taking time bombs. And if you have two high performing Democrats instead of three because one of them collapses, then I think the Republicans are in trouble. And I could very easily see any of those three collapsing.

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Speaker 4: You know, that is a very interesting way to look at it, John, that if one of them lapses, then that would give them a better chance to get at least one of them through the primary. It's a very interesting way to look at it. And by the way, again, I don't disagree with you. I mean, you know, potatoes Porter is a human nightmare. Swalwell is a joke. And as you know, there's a move a fit a foot in DC to release the Fang Fang files, which are the apparent FBI files relating to his serious relationship for quite a long time with a Chinese spy Fang Fang, And there is the styre thing. Nobody knows them, but listen when it comes to styr he's got so much money, and he's put so much money he's managed to get, you know, get quite a boost because that money. I don't know if he's going to fall out, and you know, with Swalwell and Katie Porter, it is still an open question. But I'll tell you, if the Republicans stick together, they still have a great shot at it. But again, as I was saying, I think there's going to be hundreds of millions coming in from dark forces that are going to do whatever they have to do to make sure at least one of those Democrats get through, whether they run elections as if they are or rather commercials as if they are quote unquote supporting I'll just pick a name, Bianco, and then they start saying, you know, in these ads, they start saying, they say everything that a Republican would not want to hear, but they make it sound like the ad is being put out there by a Republican to cause voters to get away from Bianco and and and perhaps support only one of the Republicans. They're known to do that. These these dem money brokers and these you know, these Ace Smith types, who is you know, a cutthroat you know Democrat operative up in the Sacramento area of the highest magnitude. I think when we start seeing the ads come down is gonna be very interesting. But as far as the three of them that you're just referring to. Anything's possible. Certainly with respect to Swollwell and Porter. We'll see what happens.

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Speaker 1: The negative ads really haven't started yet. I assume they're going to start just before the ballots go out in the mail. Which candidate do you think is going to get the nastiest?

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Speaker 4: First of all, I think some of the nastiest ads are going to come from other sources. They'll come from packs that are supposedly not controlled by any candidate. They'll come from packs that are funded by the public employees unions like the California Teachers Association and maybe the SEIU. They'll come from some packs that perhaps we don't even know yet. Those will be some of the nastiest, nastiest commercials. But the other thing is John, there's only one candidate that can really afford to do a high level TV advertising campaign in this governor's race. Stop nobody else. None of the ones we are talking about have the money to do a statewide, really nasty campaign. And I mean, of any of them, perhaps Matt Mann Mahan is raising the most money from the Democrats. He could probably perhaps do some advertising damage, But I think the real damage the real nastiness will either come from Styr or it'll come from Styro, and also come from those other groups I just mentioned, simply because of the amount of money that kind of stuff costs.

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Speaker 1: And I'll tell you he's already starting to go after Swallwell over the residency issue, because Walwell obviously doesn't live in California. He's been raising his family in the state of Maryland. He's been there for quite some time. He's indicated on bank forms that that's his primary residence, and Styr was the first one to start going after him on that. I would imagine that that will be the first attack of many that.

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Speaker 4: Makes a ton of sense, and I could totally see that happening. And as I just said, there's really only Stier that has the money in this particular gubernatorial race, where all the under cannonies just when you look at what they've raised their they're sort of all hovering, or at least the leaders are hovering around the six to ten million dollar range, which in a statewide election in California, unfortunately, is is not nearly enough to do what it would take to knock people off with TV commercials. So it would be Styre money, and it would be whoever these public employee unions frankly decide they want to keep in the race and get out of the race.

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Speaker 1: Eric Early, Republican attorney and businessman from right here in the state of California. He ran for a US Senate in the twenty twenty four primary and for Attorney General of California in a prior election. You can get him online at Ericurly dot com and you can follow him on Exit Eric Early, Underscore CA. Eric Early, thanks so much for stopping by.

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Speaker 4: Thanks again for having me.

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Speaker 1: Who was it Vicky Lawrence and saying the night the lights went out in Georgia? Sure, I think it was Vicky Lawrence. I think her husband wrote it, and she was the first one who sang it. I know Reeba covered it, Yeah, she did it, but I think Vicky was before her. Anyway, It's not just Georgia that has the lights turned off, so does the San Fernando Valley. Randy's Neck of the Woods. Eight hundred two two two five two two two is a telephone number one eight hundred two two two five two two two. Well, Randy, it appears as if your neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley is now without power.

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Speaker 2: Because once again people ripped out all the copper wires. They're also without internet because they ripped out all the fiber optics.

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Speaker 1: That's got to make working from home easy.

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Speaker 2: Well, this isn't specifically happening in my neighborhood, but yes, it's got to be tough for a whole lot of people. This is going on in Van Eyes. I live in the part of town that used to be called Van Eyes, but property values kept going down, so they changed the name to Lake Balboa and put a fake lake in the park for mar Here is Fox eleven and Matthew Seedorf.

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Speaker 3: Newt Tonight thieves are cutting copper wirelines in the dark and leaving entire neighborhoods without power, cable TV, and Internet.

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Speaker 1: What are they supposed to do? Talk? Just imagine how hard it is for the teenagers.

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Speaker 3: The damage is costly, and cutting live lines can trigger fires and serious injuries. Fox loves Matthew Seedorf his live in Van Eys with the latest.

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Speaker 5: Well, Christine, A lot of time these crooks go after streetwlights like this one. Joe, I will show you. They broke in here and knocked out power to this line and much of the neighborhood. But this time the crooks went after internet cables undergrad and it was all caught on camera. Copper Wire crooks strike again, this time around three am and van NY's one man wearing a hoodie, the other shirtless with a medical mask.

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Speaker 2: Shirtless with a medical mask. He knows that they can identify his chest tattoos, right.

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Speaker 1: It's very concerned about COVID.

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Speaker 5: The other shirtless with a medical mask, surgically removing wires.

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Speaker 3: It was loud, and then I was like.

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Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, these are not quiet crimes. They're also not quick crimes.

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Speaker 1: No, and it's on video, so it's not like we don't know who did it. People have this didn't copper because I want these streets.

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Speaker 5: Kennis Savantes heard the action and started recording. Her video shows the shirtless suspect pulling internet cables from underground while his partner stands watch near the getaway car.

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Speaker 3: Nan he even took a long black cable tied it to his car and we're trying to like really take out.

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Speaker 2: They were trying to rip the cables out of the ground by attaching them to the car.

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Speaker 1: This seems like something out of Loney Tunes.

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Speaker 2: You know. It takes a lot of time, a lot of money and a lot of effort to build a city like Los Angeles, it doesn't take very long to completely destroy it.

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Speaker 1: As much as he could.

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Speaker 5: This section of Vani is plagued by thieves targeting copper wire also above ground, block after block ripped wines connecting to street.

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Speaker 1: Whites left in the dark. The thieves, how do we allow this?

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Speaker 2: How exactly are we supposed to invite the world to come to the World Cup with this kind of nonsense.

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Speaker 1: Well, because the mayor's allies on the council don't want to criminalize this sort.

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Speaker 2: Of behavior, And specifically this council and this council person happens to be a Melda.

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Speaker 1: Padilla broken windy theory.

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Speaker 2: And when a conversation was going on at the La City Council about a tax increase to fund street light repair and solar lights for the entire city, Ammelda said, you know, some neighborhoods want light, but.

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Speaker 1: Some neighborhoods don't.

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Speaker 2: I remember that, seriously, can we get an IQ test for these jobs?

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Speaker 1: Street pavements that are cooler? She endorsed bass.

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Speaker 5: The thieves didn't seem worried about getting caught.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, they don't seem to care about getting caught. And this isn't something you can offload at the swap meter, eBay or MacArthur Park. They're taking them to license smelters and license junkers, and for some reason the city Attorney's office can't go after them.

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Speaker 1: Everyone in town knows that the city is looking the other way.

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Speaker 5: This probably so rampidt right now at and TS crews from northern California here trying to restore service.

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Speaker 1: Is that happening a lot? Oh yeah, yeah, if you're at and T, why even bother now? No, it's just going to get stolen again. Now, I know my bill is so expensive.

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Speaker 5: Across LA, the numbers are staggering. Roughly thirty two thousand street wide repair request now active, mostly tied to copper theft.

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Speaker 2: And the timeline for most of those repair requests is a minimum of a year.

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Speaker 1: How is it if you live in that neighborhood and you work from home? How do you keep your job?

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Speaker 5: Mayor Karen Bass last week approved plans to replace those lights with solar ones.

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Speaker 2: Oh and you know what she said, And it's so insulting. They're going to prioritize the neighborhoods that are going to have the World Cup watch parties.

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Speaker 1: Oh, you gotta be kidding me, because.

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Speaker 2: Of course that's what's important, not the neighborhoods that are seeing the biggest spikes in crime. But we want the tourists to have this facade that is a safe, functional city, and.

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Speaker 1: We're willing to do all of that. We're just not willing to put the bad guys in jail. You know.

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Speaker 2: We're almost at the point since most of Hollywood's out of work. What we should do is do what they did at the end of Blazing Saddles. We should have this facade of a fake rock ridge for all the tourists to come see and it'll just look like LA's a nice place.

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Speaker 1: Wait, what's the point of stealing that?

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Speaker 6: To make money? So they go and sell it, but it gets you guys without street lights and Wi fi?

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Speaker 1: Oh, bubber.

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Speaker 6: La laid back to make money, So they go and sell it, but it gets you guys without street lights and Wi fi. Oh do you think this is the sound of a bass voter, a carusive voter, or a non voter.

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Speaker 1: Oh ding ding ding.

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Speaker 5: Some unaware not worry that the thieves on their block haven't been caught.

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Speaker 1: I'm so angry. Well, are you angry enough to start voting differently or voting at all?

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Speaker 5: Well, major portions of the neighborhood are now dark.

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Speaker 2: You don't even want to know the percentage of the vote in the special election to replace Nurie Martinez that sent Ammelde Padia into a two hundred and twenty thousand dollars job.

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Speaker 1: The neighborhood kids the down ask kids don't like it. It was about ten percent. Unreal.

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Speaker 5: Well, major portions of the neighborhood are now dark and without internet.

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Speaker 1: It's annoying, it's frushitting. They make the environment here, I mean it's not the prettiest, but they don't make it any better for sure.

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Speaker 5: She estimates that the crooks were here about fifty minutes, while it took police an hour to get here.

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Speaker 2: Just nothing in the city works no, and it costs a fortune to live here. And it's stories like this are why nobody was surprised that the city of La and the County of La lost fifty four thousand people in population in one year.

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Speaker 1: I get it that this is not a crime that results in someone dying, but think about the number of victims who are impacted by this crime, and the cops can't get there in less than an hour.

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Speaker 5: She estimates that the crooks were here about fifty minutes, while it took police an hour to get here. So far, no arrest having made.

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't you don't even need to say that part of the story, Seedorf.

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Speaker 1: We knew well, if it took him an hour to get there, they probably already sold the wire by then.

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Speaker 5: So far, no arrest having made her lifetime in Van ey Is. Matthew Sedor Fox eleven notes.

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Speaker 2: Nobody has a good answer, whether it's from the city council, the mayor's office, the city attorney, or even the district attorney.

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Speaker 1: Who talks tough on this issue.

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Speaker 2: Why is it so hard to go after the people buying this stuff.

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Speaker 7: That?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I know they think it's racist to arrest the people who are stealing that. But you're one hundred percent correct. If you don't want to do that, then fine, go pull the business licenses of the individuals and the entities who are buying it from them.

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Speaker 2: But they won't do that either, No, just like they won't shut down the illegal pot shops. This you know, there is all this illegal activity from businesses and they don't care.

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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 to two. Well, we've told you that the city of Los Angeles never misses an opportunity to disrespect the fire victims. Yet again, and Randy, we have yet another example.

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Speaker 2: The victims of the Palisades fire that still have empty, burned out lots, homes that are not rebuilt, homes that still are not livable because of all of the toxic material. A lot of them have been storing some of their belong inside those big storage containers, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, the pods.

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Speaker 2: Well, Karen Bess thought it was a good idea to send notices to those victims that, hey, you have to move your pods because you're blocking the no traffic that's on there because nobody lives there anymore.

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Speaker 1: It's just unreal that they continue to do this, especially after her awful pull numbers have been published.

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Speaker 2: This is the same city where they sent notices to people at their burned out lots that they have to clear their brush or they're gonna get fined again.

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Speaker 1: There is no brush. It's a burned out lot.

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Speaker 2: For more on this insanity, here is a report from KTLA.

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Speaker 7: Now it won some residents in the Pacific Palisades waiting for their homes to be rebuilt following last year's devastating wildfires, facing a new involving storage containers. Good afternoon, This is the KTLA five News at one. I'm Lauren Lister. Those that have rented them out and placed them outside their homes have now been told the containers must be removed. KTLA's Angelie Kakata is live in the Pacific Palisades with details, and Angelie, you've got answers from the mayor on this.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, Lauren.

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Speaker 8: We just spoke with the mayor this morning. She says, as of right now, that notice that was sent out here to the community is on pause.

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Speaker 1: Why did it go out at all?

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Speaker 2: Oh, because you're not paying attention to a damn thing that's going on in this mess of a bureaucracy.

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Speaker 1: Now, this is what happens when all you do is focus on Donald Trump. You don't do the basics of your job. She hasn't been doing that the entire time she's been there, And again, voters have to change the way they vote if they want City Hall to behave differently. She's doing what she promised that she would do, and as a result, you're getting awful government.

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Speaker 3: Pause.

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Speaker 8: It's not clear for how long, but this is what we're talking about here. As you can see behind me here, this is a container like these parked in front of homes on city streets. And that's what the city says they have an issue with.

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Speaker 2: Now yesterday, Why the city doesn't do anything about all of the derelict RVs that are on city streets that are impeding traffic and blocking parking.

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Speaker 1: They probably look at it as a money making opportunity because if they know that there's no way for these people to get rid of those pods, they have no place to put them, then ultimately they're gonna get fined.

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Speaker 8: Parked in front of homes on city streets, and that's what the city says they have an issue with.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 8: Yesterday, a notice went out to the companies who rent out these containers saying they had forty eight hours to move them or they would be towed and the owners would be charged.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Taylor, seriously, that's how the city operates. Again, this shouldn't surprise people who pay attention.

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Speaker 2: If you live on a street where they haven't towed the RVs in years, that's gonna feel even more infuriating. How about that video that was shot of the sewer lady and what's going on in South la where the street sweeper is literally bobbing and weaving around all the homeless RVs. The city doesn't do a damn thing about that, But they're gonna tow and find all of the people that have storage containers in front of their burned out lots in a neighborhood where there is no traffic anymore because nobody lives there.

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Speaker 1: There's one set of rules for taxpayers and homeowners and one set of rules for everyone else.

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Speaker 8: Would be charged. Okay, Taylor reach out to one of those companies. They confirmed with us they received the notice for several homes in the area. From there, the news this morning trickle down two homeowners. Again, all of this comes as people are trying to get their lives back. I spoke to one homeowner.

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Speaker 2: Just you know, a year and a half later, and they're still dealing with this. The city is not helping them one the state's not helping them one bit, and I don't.

00:33:03
Speaker 1: See this changing anytime soon. This nightmare is going to last forever for them.

00:33:08
Speaker 8: One homeowner just a few well, this.

00:33:10
Speaker 2: Is why fifty thousand people left the county. The majority of that was the victims of the Palisades and the eaten fire. They a lot of people, whether it's temporary or maybe it will be permanent, they've relocated outside of La County, and for good reason.

00:33:33
Speaker 8: One homeowner just a few minutes ago, she does have a pod in front of her home that is on a street, but she wants to remain anonymous. She says their backyard burned down. They can't go back into their house until the chemicals are out. In the meantime, their furniture is into one of these containers. She says, the news is horrible for morale here, and she has a message to the city about the containers so called blocking traffic.

00:33:58
Speaker 1: There's no trafficings to.

00:34:01
Speaker 5: Who's coming. There's nothing to come for unless you're working here, truly, unless you're trying to get back in your house.

00:34:11
Speaker 1: Now.

00:34:11
Speaker 2: I know we don't have a lot of perspective on how other cities are run, but is Karen Bass the worst city in America? At Karen Bass the worst mayor in America at this point.

00:34:20
Speaker 1: It's either her, Barbara Lee, or that guy Rex Richardson in Long Beach. He's a strong contender too. I'm putting Karen Bass on top of all of them.

00:34:29
Speaker 3: If you're feeling down, if you're feeling blue, let's get help for you.

00:34:34
Speaker 2: She has been a disaster. It took a lot to get me to miss the good old days of Garcetti.

00:34:43
Speaker 1: I receive things on both ends. That's a tough butt now.

00:34:47
Speaker 8: Of course, as we were saying that, notice is a pause right now, but it's not clear for how long it is.

00:34:52
Speaker 2: It's really interesting too, because you go back. You know, LA wasn't that great under via Gosa, but compared to what it was after via Gosa. Which is funny because as he's running for governor and Tonio Viragosa is constantly talking about how much of a mess LA was when he got in and how much better it was when he got out, and he will, when asked, say that, yes, it is way worse now than it was when he was mayor. Yet he still endorsed Bass, and Bass endorsed him.

00:35:22
Speaker 1: And if you want to go back, we talked about downtown LA being a zombie apocalypse movie. When Richard Reardon was mayor of La those eight years, that was as good as it gets. When the Disney Concert Hall went down there, and Staple Center went down there, and restaurants and shops and theaters, and it became a desirable place to live and spend your time. It was safe. Other parts of Los Angeles that make the blatter on a regular basis, believe it or not, when Dick Reardon was mayor, they were safe. And then you take the good mayor out of the equation and you put people like Karen bast In, and it goes to hell fast. When we say government matters, this is what we're talking about. And you know what Dick Arden didn't do when he was mayor. He didn't talk about the president twenty four to seven. He talked about Los Angeles. He talked about the local issues, and his motivation for running was to make Los Angeles work again. And it worked. And it's like we learn nothing from that. We decided, all right, well, let's go ahead and elect some woman who has come from this legislature, who's never run anything before in her life, who is going to run solely on federal issues, and let's see how that goes. Well, this is how it goes. They burned down your house and then they find you constantly.

00:36:55
Speaker 8: Now, of course, as we were saying, that notice is a pause right now, but it's not clear for how long it will be paused for, which is actually creating more confusion here for homeowners, many of them still not living in their homes for now. We're putting live in Pacific Palisades. Angela Kakadae. Back over to you in Hollywood.

00:37:11
Speaker 2: How many stories have we done in the last year and a half of the victims of the most devastating fire, a preventable fire. How many times they've been kicked when they're down by the city, by the county, over and over and over again, for complete nonsense.

00:37:31
Speaker 1: This is what happens. And they are not going to change. They're not. If you want the government to behave differently, you have to change who's in charge. That's on you, voters with the program. What if you change it for Nythia, No, don't do that. It can get worse. Don't forget that part of it.

00:37:54
Speaker 2: So you're saying, let's say, theoretically, Nithio wins three years from now, I'll be talking about how I missed the good old days of Karen Bess.

00:38:03
Speaker 1: You probably will. At that point, I won't be living here.