Gavin Newsom wants to spend $20 million of taxpayer money on a big ad campaign

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Speaker 1: And very Happy Tuesday to you at twelve oh six. In the West, it's the John Phillip Show, Mister Randy Wangs in Culver City.

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Speaker 2: John, it doesn't get much more California than this. LAX wants to double the fees for people to use rideshare at the airport to encourage people to use the people mover that does not exist.

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Speaker 1: That is so on brand for the city of Los Angeles.

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Speaker 2: We're going to punish you until you use this thing that isn't even finished being built yet.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you I used to fly out at LAX all the time. I think I have flown out of LAX maybe one time in the last five years. The regional airports in southern California are almost universally fantastic, and it doesn't even matter which one you're talking about. Long Beach, phenomenal, Burbank, Great Orange cow a Dream, Palm Springs like going back into time Ontario. Not brand new, but still shiny and easy to use. The regional airports are the way to go, and as long as you're willing to connect to avoid going through that misery, it's easy. And sometimes it's either the same cost or even a little bit cheaper because you are connecting.

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Speaker 2: Burbank, it's always more expensive, much more expensive.

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Speaker 1: By how much.

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Speaker 2: Oh let's see, you want to just talk Vegas. Lax to Vegas can be under fifty bucks. Burbank to Vegas is usually minimum two hundred bucks. Oh my, well, how much is your sanity worth?

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 2: There is that. Of course Burbank doesn't have any lounges.

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Speaker 1: That's true. They need to get some of those. Orange County does. They have an Admirals Club there and it is fantastic apropos of nothing. Have you noticed that as soon as we started bombing Iran, I stopped getting spam calls on my phone?

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Speaker 2: Have you you know now that you think about it. I don't know if there's a connection there, but I have not been getting a lot of spam calls on my phone.

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Speaker 1: I used to get six or seven spam calls a day, maybe more, and then we start bombing Iran, and all of a sudden, it just stops. And I brought that up to someone last night and they said, you know what, I haven't gotten a spam call in a while too, And I used to get them twenty four to seven. I wonder if that's a thing.

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Speaker 2: Oh wait, I got one a half hour ago, okay, and then I got one at nine point thirty this morning, and I got two yesterday, So into me. Still time to bomb him again.

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Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is a telephone number one eight hundred two two two five two two two. Well, Gavin Newsom might be an absentee landlord here in the state of California. He's very actively running for president in the other forty nine states. He knows that his image is a failed governor is something that will hurt him in the Democratic primaries, which is why he is now using your tax dollars to make sure his image is polished to the voters. In Iowa.

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Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom wants twenty million dollars from the legislature for an ad campaign to promote how great California is for tourism, but also to stamp out all that misinformation and disinformation about California.

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Speaker 1: What'll be interesting to see is if they go along with it. And I say that because we now know that school districts like Oakland Unified are totally broke and they're gonna want more money from the Feds. We know that public transit is totally broke, and they want more money from I guess not the FEDS, the state. They want money from the state as well. All of these different entities that are now failing in the state of California thanks in part to Gavin Newsom and his lack of leadership. They want Sacramento to kick in, and Sacramento is going to have to tell some of them, not all of them, but some of them that there's no money for them. Well, if there's no money for them, but there's money for a slush fund to make Gavin Newsom look good to Democratic primary voters in other states, some of them aren't gonna like that.

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Speaker 2: For more on Gavin Newsom's proposed ad campaign, here is three and Ashley Zavala.

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Speaker 3: Governor Gavin Newsom wants to use millions in taxpayer money to advertise California in a better light case.

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Speaker 4: RY three's political director, ash's Avala followed.

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Speaker 2: Up on You're gonna need some real good creative for that.

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Speaker 5: After ashes Evala followed up on this spending with lawmakers, what did they tell you so?

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Speaker 3: Our main question to those lawmakers who oversee the budget committees at our state capital Is this a good use of taxpayer money? Governor Gavin Newsom wants to use it.

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Speaker 2: It's not anything that's not normal for states and cities to spend money on tourism. But when it's about tourism adds, that's one thing. If it is ads that say, hey, everything that you're hearing on the radio is BS about California, that's a little different.

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Speaker 3: Is this a good use of taxpayer money? Governor Gavin Newsom wants to use nineteen million dollars to promote California in a better light nationally?

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Speaker 2: According to weights thinking about ads on Fox, Oh, you know he will, because he wants Fox to talk.

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Speaker 4: About it nationally.

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Speaker 3: According to a state Request for Proposal also known as RFP, it opened last month.

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Speaker 2: Thee well, you know, Gavin would probably consider a lot of the things that we say on this show to be quote, misinformation. Gavin, you want to do.

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Speaker 1: An ad buy well, if you were to saint Gavin Newsom's prospects for running for president, all you have to do is take yesterday's totally bonker show and put it on the radio in all fifty states. That'll be the end, Tom.

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Speaker 3: According to a state Request for Proposal, also known as RFP.

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Speaker 4: It opened last month.

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Speaker 3: The ad campaign is meant to promote how the state is quote an economic powerhouse and unmatched tourism destination and worlds at the center of innovation. The campaign is meant to fight quote negative narratives amplified online and in partisan media.

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Speaker 2: He understod, he, well, it doesn't matter what he understands it not. But you know a lot of the criticism that comes a California comes from Californians.

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Speaker 1: Here's what's going on. And I saw a Democratic strategist on social media today talking about this, and he said that any Democratic politician who was in office, particularly in a very blue place after George Floyd and all through the woke era that we all had to live through, unfortunately, they're going to have some problems because they're going to have done some things and said some things that at that time was totally normal in their circles. That now makes you an unelectable pariah. And what Gavin Newsom needs to do, because he is a big time offender when it comes to that, is he needs to make sure that he has enough money to combat those narratives because there's so much that he did and said through that time period, that's going to come out just like that woke Billy Graham that's running for US Senate in Texas, and we have a new video every day. The one that came out yesterday was him on some podcast and they go, besides your family and friends, what do you truly love? And he said, trans children. And that video is now making its way all over the place. It's a bad look now. Probably when he did it, he got nothing but praise from the audience that he was speaking to. But you take it out of that era and you put it on the television now and it's a bad look. And we know Gavin Newsom did a million nutty things. Remember when Arizona voted to make abortion illegal and he said that California would allow Arizona abortion providers to come to the state and I guess provide abortions for every woman that slept with one of the Phoenix Suns. And none of that happened. That's on Gavin. How about when he told black Californians that he was going to give them reparations after George Floyd. Anybody gotten to check in the mail? The answer, of course is no. And then you have all of the crazy trans stuff that he was involved with, where I don't know, we bought two sets of genitals for every trans person in the state. Oddly enough, even though we're very generous with that, I don't believe Adam Schiff has even one penis.

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Speaker 2: Okay, you got a calm down, kid, all right, it's only twelve fifteen.

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Speaker 3: Up to fourteen million dollars of the money would be spent on the advertisements themselves. Another up to five million dollars would cover costs for travel, agency fees and production costs. The contract is expected to run from April sixth until December thirty first of this year, which is the end of Governor Gavin Newsom's term California.

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Speaker 2: It's a long ad campaign.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's going to make some aes in other states. Real rich.

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Speaker 3: California has been grappling with budget problems over the last several years, and you may be wondering, well, where is this money coming from. According to Newsom's Department of Finance, the money has already been earmarked to Governor Newsom's Office of Business and Economic Development has a budget this year of three hundred and seventy three million dollars.

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Speaker 2: If you want to know why California's budget is so bloated, a office that you didn't even know existed, Gavin Newsom's Office of Economic Development gets an annual budget of three hundred million dollars a year. What does that department do? Nobody knows. It's got to be political propaganda. It is meant to frame him as a national leader who could be the next president.

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Speaker 3: Where is this money coming from? According to Newsom's Department of Finance, the money has already been earmarked to Governor Newsom's Office of Business and Economic Development has a budget this year of.

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Speaker 2: Please tell me what that department does.

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Speaker 1: No, that's got to be a slush fund. That has to be Gavin's fund for travel or advertisements or any kind of self promotion.

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Speaker 3: To Governor Newsom's Office of Business and Economic Development has a budget this year of three hundred and seventy three million dollars.

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Speaker 4: The money is coming out of that.

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Speaker 3: So today we tried to check in with the lawmakers who help oversee California state spending plan again, is this a good use of taxpayer dollars?

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Speaker 4: We started in the Assembly.

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Speaker 3: The budget chair there, Assembly Women Jesse Gabriel said he needed to read the request for proposal before commenting.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's one advantage he has over Gavin, who claims to be illiterate.

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Speaker 3: We also asked Assemblywoman sharing Quirk Silva, who oversees a budget committee that's focused specifically on Governor Newsom's office.

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Speaker 4: She told me she's not commenting.

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Speaker 1: Well, she's as dumb as a box of rocks.

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Speaker 3: Then over in the state Senate, before lawmakers got started, I approached the budget chairman over there, Senator John Laird.

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Speaker 4: He would not comment. I also reached.

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Speaker 1: Out one behind the Capitol Annex project who got real bitchy with her in that interview that they did together and won't answer any of the basic questions. Yep.

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Speaker 3: I also reached out to State Senator Melissa Hurtado, who leads the subcommittee that oversees Governor's the Governor's office spending in the Senate. She was out sick today, but she texted me that she had no comment.

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Speaker 1: So I guess the home office in Sioux City, Iowa put out the instructions.

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Speaker 4: Here's what the Republican budget leaders had to say.

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Speaker 6: This just looks like to me that the governor has taken an opportunity to promote himself around the entire country. You know, I've heard a lot, especially on my side of the aisle, people had issues with Christynom spending over two hundred million dollars on what looked like a promotional campaign for herself.

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Speaker 2: Is this ad campaign going to have Gavin shirtless on horseback?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? How about Gavin shooting your dog?

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Speaker 6: And now the governor's about to do that with a state that is projecting a lot of fiscal issues into the future. This isn't responsible. This looks like corruption, and it looks like this is cutting a deal right now before he kicks off his next four year campaign to be the president of the United States, and it's wrong.

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Speaker 7: First of all, it's promoting Gavin Newsom. This is unquestionably part of his presidential campaign. But what concerns me more is that it's seeking to regulate speech. And my concern is that when I talk about.

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Speaker 2: Well, if you remember, Gavin put up that website when the fires broke out in southern California, the Palisades Fire and the Eton fire, he put out a website claiming that he was able to make sure that you were not getting misinformed and disinformed about all of the things that were wrong with those fires, and constantly he would put up statements that were then disproven.

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Speaker 1: Remember what they claimed Initially they claimed that anyone who said that there was no water the fire hydrants with spreading misinformation. They accused Rick Caruso and Fox eleven of spreading misinformation. Fox eleven got their information not just from Rick Caruso, who called in live on the air that night, but they also got it from the firefighters who were working the line that night, and that was originally deemed to be misinformation. Is they're saying it's misinformation that the state isn't helping the fire victims. The fire victims say they can't get calls returned, particularly from the Department of Insurance, that they're getting no help from them, and the state goes, oh no, we're moving heaven and earth. For these people.

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Speaker 7: Is that it's seeking to regulate speech. And my concern is that when I talk about, as an example, regulatory issues that I think compromise California is a good place to do business, this program's probably going to say I can't say that anymore.

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Speaker 2: That's what really bothers.

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Speaker 3: I reached out to the Governor's office for comment. His spokesperson said in part that the state has a right to quote tell the true story, and went on to say that setting the record straight will benefit every business, worker and resident of the state.

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Speaker 4: Okay, so they've put out this request.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: You might get sued for false advertising if you put out an ad campaign telling people how safe Los Angeles is and then they come here and get stabbed on Hollywood Boulevard.

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Speaker 1: Think about what they're doing here. How often do we do stories about people who get killed on the metro or people who get killed in areas that we know are not safe. And what he is going to do is he is going to take your taxpayer money and he is going to go out and he is going to tell people who could theoretically come here on vacation that all of these dangerous places are totally safe. Don't forget his characterization of MacArthur Park, where he made it seem like it was the park where Mary Poppins and Dick Van Dyke were answer around with the Banks kids, and not the drug den that we know that it is. If you live in Japan and you see Gavin Newsom on TV saying that MacArthur Park is safe. I guess I would go there. If you're traveling to a country or a city that you know nothing about and you just hear that there's a big park in the middle of the city and the governor says it's totally safe, I would go. And what he's going to do is he's going to lead these little lambs to slaughter.

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Speaker 8: Okay, So they've put out this request to have companies apply for gene to become the ones who could get paid for this.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, at this point we don't know who exactly it's to be seen. We did see in the RFP documents that small businesses will be considered first for this. We are expected to know by the end of the month who exactly will get this contract. I imagine this one specifically will be under some scrutiny maybe, but we'll follow this.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, there is definitely some inherent corruption with this, and it goes all the way back to the COVID days, because Gavin would constantly be spending emergency money on all kinds of different COVID PSAs. But I wouldn't be surprised at all if you look at who's going to be getting some of this money if any of it goes to iHeartRadio, remember they produce his podcast.

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Speaker 1: That is an excellent point. Gavin Newsom is all about Gavin Newsom. This is not about protecting California tourism, California businesses, or California's image. This is about making Gavin Newsom look like an attractive candidate for president. Eight hundred two two two five two two two is a 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. Eight hundred two two two five two two two is a telephone number one eight hundred two two two five two two two. If you'd like to listen to us on the radio in Fresno or pretty much anywhere in northern California, Randy, that's easy to do so.

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Speaker 1: Well, another oil company is now saying that California is draconian cap and trade legislation could push them out of the state.

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Speaker 2: This time it's the Marathon refinery in Los Angeles. And they're all all the big refiners that are left, and there are not many. They're all sounding the alarm that these new cap and trade regulations that are supposed to go into effect in May will push all of them out of the state. For more on this, we got a CBS eight in San Diego.

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Speaker 5: There's no disagreement that something must be done by the legislature and governor.

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Speaker 4: The disagreement is on the how.

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Speaker 5: And big news today yet another letter of concern by major California refinery threatening to move out of state if regulations don't change.

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Speaker 9: Sacramento created this mess. Sacramento needs to fix it.

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Speaker 4: We are not independent anymore. If we were not importing, we would be energy independent.

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Speaker 5: California Republicans say they're frustrated by the high cost of the pumps, amid refinery closures and increased reliance on foreign imports for oil supply.

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Speaker 4: Well, they say the call and by the way.

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Speaker 1: I want to point this out because as you mentioned yesterday, Randy, this was started under Schwarzenegger, and it was increased under Jerry Brown and increased under Gavin Newsom. The opponents of cap and trade at the time said that it would result in the cost of gasoline going through the roof and oil refineries moving out of state. Everything they said has turned out to be true. And at the time that they voted on this, we were told that none of those things would happen, that if we didn't do cap and trade legislation the result would be worse, and that is not true. They lied, and the people who opposed that legislation, everything they said has been validated.

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Speaker 2: Well, and whatever you think the money is going towards, it goes towards nonsense. It is being used to spend to fund the high speed rail, but not at a level where it will actually ever be finished. And last year they used cap and trade money to give out vouchers for e bikes and what happened. A whole bunch of jackass teens turned into monsters overnight.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Jerry Brown.

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Speaker 5: Well, they say the conflict in Iran has contributed to the increase in gas crisis nationwide.

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Speaker 9: But also, it was happening before Iran and California.

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Speaker 5: They argue California's strict regulations have all ready led to dwindling in state oil production, as seeing with the Phillip sixty six refinery in Los Angeles and Valero in Venetia.

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Speaker 2: Because see here is an interesting factoid. Importers don't pay cap and trade. It's just for the companies that are producing the oil in the state. So now they are operating at a loss, and it is cheaper to import the oil from all of these dirty refining countries.

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Speaker 1: Imagine doing that in any other context, where you create a playing field where you disadvantage the people who are doing business in your state and give every imaginable advantage to those outside of your state, outside your country.

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Speaker 5: Two facilities producing twenty percent of California's gasoline, The California Energy Commission says refinery closures have led to more reliance on imported fuel.

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Speaker 6: We cannot continue to be at the mercy of international players who we never know what's going to happen.

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Speaker 5: Democrats, a grease state level relief is needed, especially amid.

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Speaker 2: Really how many of them voted for these new cap and trade extensions. Well, don't forget what happened when Cap and Trade was extended, where the Republicans in Sacramento, led by Chad Mays, were dumb enough to make all of their vulnerable members vote for it, so all of the vulnerable Democrats got to vote against it so they could claim that it was bipartisan. Then all those Republicans get wiped out in the next election and the Democrats end up with Cap and Trade and a two thirds majority.

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Speaker 5: Democrats agree state level relief is needed, especially amid newly proposed regulations by the California Air Resources Board that offer fewer permits for higher fees for their capin invest program, which allows.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they don't even call it cap and trade anymore, it's capin invest And what are we investing in a project that has not cleaned one speck of air because it's still not completed. The high Speed rail.

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Speaker 5: Offer fewer permits for higher fees.

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Speaker 2: For fewer member and we found this out from Ezra Klein's book Abundance. The reason the high speed rail was started in Fresno is because the Obama people said there's too much asthma and Fresno. How much asthma have we cleaned up thanks to Cap and trade and the high speed rail in Fresno Zero. That's right, that.

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Speaker 5: Offer fewer permits for higher fees for their Cap and invest program, which allows polluters to pay for credits to continue operations and offers consumer rebates. When it comes to actual action, what are you proposing, Senator?

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Speaker 7: I think card needs to pull back on some of their proposals that they have for astronomical increases in fees.

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Speaker 2: And John, this will be another one of those instances where Gavin will say, Hey, this isn't me, this is the California Air Resources Board, leaving out that he appoints those members.

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Speaker 1: And he signed the legislation that they are citing to do all this destructive stuff.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, if you want to go after the California Air Resources Board, you can, but they are following the letter of the law, the law passed by the legislature and signed by the governor to increase the regulations to hit our climate guals.

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Speaker 1: And whenever you're appointed to one of these boards, it's not like he goes out and appoints random people. He appoints people who he knows will implement his vision. They're doing what they were told to do by Gavin Newsom. This is not the time to do that.

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Speaker 5: We also try to speak to Democratic State Senator Catherine Blakespeare, a chair of the Senate Environmental Quality Committee, which recently discussed refinery closures. Last time, she abruptly ended the interview, citing time after we pushed back on her answer, seeing California policies weren't the reason for refiners leaving.

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Speaker 1: So they're just going to be in denial. Yep.

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Speaker 4: Monday.

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Speaker 5: We asked for a follow up, she refused, Oh okay, thank you, Monday Marathon Petroleum Corporation.

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Speaker 1: Notice how often that's the answer that they get. They just don't respond to questions. They don't answer anything. They're not responsive. They don't feel like they have any obligation at all to explain to the public why they're doing what they're doing. And the attitude is, well, it's a one party state, we're bulletproof, we're never going to lose. Why should we even engage in this.

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Speaker 5: Monday Marathon Petroleum Corporation, which operates the largest refinery in California, became the latest to oppose the proposed amendments, saying refineries would be forced to reconsider operations in state. Marathon joins PBF and Chevron and threatening to pull out.

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Speaker 9: We already expect refineries to leave five, ten, fifteen years down the road, but we're going to see them leave even sooner.

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Speaker 5: Republicans want an emergency session, and some aren't calling for federal intervention to resume offshore oil drilling, but it's California.

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Speaker 4: We would likely push back. We're going to get a lot of pushback.

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Speaker 6: This isn't Trump's fault, this is our fault and our responsibility.

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Speaker 5: We reached out to the Governor's office, Air Resources Board, and Energy commit CARB says quote the Captain Investent program is the most cost effective way for California to achieve its statutorially mandated climate goals.

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Speaker 2: They say cost effective, but it's been passing the cost on to the average California and the poorest among us, because increasing the price of gas is the most regressive tax you can have for over two decades, and California's air isn't really much cleaner than it was two decades ago. And in fact, all of the emissions reductions that they have cited were wiped out because of the state's inability to deal with anything with wildfires.

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Speaker 1: And this is what goes on here in North Korea, where they just say, oh, CARB is a success. Anyone who says otherwise is spreading disinformation. Oh the high speed rail that's a smashing success in Anyone who says otherwise is lying. There's no homeless here, there's no crime here. Everything's fine. That's what they're saying, and that's what they're going to say in the ads that Gavin Newsom is going to put out in the forty nine other states. They created this alternate reality that is in no way associated with all of our lived experience for those of us who live here where every single day we know what they're telling us isn't true, but they figure if they just go out and say it enough times, people will believe it.

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Speaker 5: The Captain Investment Program is the most cost effective way for California to achieve its statutorily mandated climate goals. Public comment on the amendments end today. Jenni Huh news eight.

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Speaker 2: There you go. That's the latest on yet another refiner, the largest in California, saying, if these regulations go into effect, we might have to get out of dodge eight hundred two two two five two two two is the telephone number? What eight hundred two two two five two two two. Steve Hilton, candidate for governor, joins us at the top of the hour. But first, we told you that e bikes are one of the industries or I guess the street that creates e bikes benefit from cap and trade money because I guess it's a green way of getting from point A to point B. But we know that it's turned a bunch of teenagers into monsters, and now those monsters have figured out they can get the e bikes on the freeways. A whole bunch of teenagers on e bikes were videotaped poppin' wheelies on the five Freeway in San Diego, just showing that this technology has been a net negative for society. How many cars have e bikes taken off the road?

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Speaker 1: Zero?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Interesting? For more, here's NBC seven in San Diego.

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Speaker 7: We're going to begin tonight with a popular motor transportation for kids that research is showing has become increasingly more dangerous.

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Speaker 2: Yes, at this point, with all the stories that have come out, if you buy one of these things for your teenager, what does that say?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, at this point, you know they're gonna end up on the freeway or they're going to end up harassing your neighbors.

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Speaker 8: Yes, So the potential dangers of e bikes and e motorcycles we're on full display this weekend in this video that has gone viral. NBC seven's and Mariy Fleming has a closer look at this video and also a study from Rady Children's Hospital that shows just how dangerous e bikes can be.

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Speaker 10: E bikes are definitely fun to ride, but according to research, they're more dangerous than pedal powered ones.

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Speaker 2: Did you'd really need to research that?

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Speaker 1: How much money did they spend on that study?

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Speaker 10: According to a study from Raty Children's Hospital, it shows that people who ride.

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Speaker 2: If you fall off a bike going ten miles an hour, it's not going to hurt as bad as when you fall off a bike going fifty miles an hour, especially if you run over a seventy five year old.

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Speaker 10: According to a study from Raty Children's Hospital, it shows that people who ride e bikes are two point four times more likely to suffer injuries than people on regular ones. The risky behavior of some e bikers and e motorcyclists captured over the weekend. In the social media video.

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Speaker 2: Checking these e byke kids on the freeway, I don't really understand what differentiates these things between a bicycle and a motorcycle. They have an electric motor.

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Speaker 1: Some of them.

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Speaker 2: You don't even have pedals anymore. You use a throttle. But you need a license to operat a motorcycle offside, you know, if you're ever on the streets. But we give these to children way under sixteen and you don't need to have any kind of safety course.

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Speaker 1: Well, what's so wild about it, too, is this is a state that exists to regulate everything, and for whatever reason, they're allowing the e bikes to be the wild West.

00:31:40
Speaker 10: A crew of cyclists popping wheelies while weaving in and out of traffic lanes on the five Freeway through downtown. The downside of that dangerous behavior highlighted in a Raty Children's Hospital study. It shows that over the past four years, there's been an exponential increase in trauma related injuries involving e bikes, from just three in twenty twenty one to two hundred and sixty two last year.

00:32:03
Speaker 1: Whoa going up.

00:32:07
Speaker 11: We're seeing a lot more kids are being admitted to the ICU.

00:32:10
Speaker 10: As the trauma medical director at Rady Children's Hospital, doctor Romeo Ignacio has witnessed the injuries firsthand.

00:32:16
Speaker 2: And of course, if you remember the story from last week where in Orange County, the ocda's office is charging the parent who illegally modified their kid's e bike to make it more dangerous, and then when the kid crashed and hurt himself, he's charging the parent with child endangerment.

00:32:36
Speaker 1: Hell yes, good.

00:32:39
Speaker 10: He says. In addition to severe head injuries, they're also seeing chess and organ injuries as well as spleen and liver damage.

00:32:46
Speaker 2: Oh boy, you know, in my day, teen's got liver damage the old fashioned way.

00:32:53
Speaker 1: But now none of them are drinking. They're just riding the e bikes on the freeway.

00:32:58
Speaker 10: Because of how fast riders are going. When a crash happens.

00:33:01
Speaker 11: That kind of acceleration going into a stationary object or object that's moving. Yeah, you're right, it's like they're hitting another wall or car, and that obviously it leads to a lot of damage or what we saw on that.

00:33:14
Speaker 2: By the way, this is if you're ever in the city of Amsterdam, which you're well aware, is like to everyone rides a bicycle there. The e bikes have spread to Amsterdam, so you have to look really carefully when you cross any street because those things will run you over.

00:33:31
Speaker 1: Note to self, if I ever go to Amsterdam, take Uber everywhere.

00:33:35
Speaker 12: Or what we saw on that social media video was outrageous.

00:33:40
Speaker 10: San Diego City Council Memberollo Campo is proposing rules that would mandate e bike riders be twelve and older.

00:33:46
Speaker 1: And that's not gonna help, no, because they have no judgment either. Every time we hear a local municipality that wants to finally regulate the e bikes, it is with the weakest possible I guarantee you the kids popping wheelies were over twelve.

00:34:06
Speaker 10: And though he says his ordinance wouldn't regulate the freeways, what they're doing is already illegal. He's hoping to say.

00:34:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, but they're not getting They're not going to get arrested for it.

00:34:17
Speaker 1: No, of course, not maybe in Orange County, but nowhere else.

00:34:20
Speaker 10: He's hoping the safety education campaign launched with his proposed law would help curb this type of behavior.

00:34:26
Speaker 12: What I'm seeing right now is a lot of fifth and sixth graders, kids that are eleven and younger doing incredibly dangerous things. I don't want them to suffer. I don't want families to suffer. I want them to be safe, to get to school safely.

00:34:37
Speaker 1: I'm not if you bought your ten year old and e bike, you're a bad parent. What are the salespeople saying to these parents? Yeah, ten year old, I think they're but sure enough to ride one of these things fifty miles an hour on the freeway. Don't you well again, if you remember when the California Air Resources Board took cap and trade money that comes from you paying higher gas prices and put it into a voucher program to give people two thousand dollars off of these e bikes. They said it was to take cars off the road. I don't see a lot of adults riding these bikes and not commuting well. And just think about this. If you have children on e bikes on the freeway, at some point, some motorist is going to run them over. And you know what, It's not gonna be that motorist's fault because the e bikes have no business being on the freeway. But you know what's gonna happen. You're gonna have a grieving mother and a grieving father on TV talking about how evil the motorist is and they're gonna sue the person and they're going to try to ruin their life. You know where this is added.

00:35:49
Speaker 12: I don't want them to suffer. I don't want families to suffer. I want them to be safe, to get to school safely.

00:35:54
Speaker 11: I'm not anti e bike.

00:35:55
Speaker 10: Doctor Nacio says he just wants kids to have safe, enjoyable fun while.

00:35:59
Speaker 2: On Wait his name is doctor Natcho.

00:36:07
Speaker 1: That's great.

00:36:08
Speaker 10: Doctor Nacio says he just wants kids to have safe, enjoyable fun while on their e bikes. But after being inside the operating room and seeing the trauma number skyrocket, he has this message for parents.

00:36:20
Speaker 11: I don't want them to be in our men's room with the regret that they've gotten the wrong vehicle for their child. Just think twice when you get a bike and making sure it's the right decision for your child.

00:36:31
Speaker 10: Oh MARII fleming.

00:36:32
Speaker 2: And we put so many rules and classes you have to take just to be able to get a driver's license to drive a car, which is like going around the roads in a suit of armor, but a much more dangerous mode. Of transportation. There is no restrictions whatsoever on who can ride them.

00:36:50
Speaker 1: It's crazy, makes zero sense, and I think a lot of communities are just about over it too, actually, in the South Bay by the beach,