Mike Netter on the lack of response to the Tijuana River Valley Disaster

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

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Speaker 2: Will writes in it Johnny Don't like show at gmail dot com and says, if the sewer is filled with bombs, shouldn't my sewer feeb be removed from my DWP bell.

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Speaker 1: That's a very good point. Eight hundred two two two five two two two is telephone 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 candidate for the California State Senate in District twenty two, that is the San Gabriel Valley, West Covina and the like. You can get him online at Rebuild California dot com and follow him on x at Netter Mike Mike Netter. Welcome John.

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Speaker 3: It's a pleasure to be here today, especially in the Fix California Hour, because it sure seems that our current legislature isn't fixing much of anything.

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Speaker 4: Does it.

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Speaker 1: Well, let's go ahead and start with one issue that's becoming a write of passage for so many of the candidates running for governor, and that is what to do about the polluted Tiawana River.

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Speaker 5: You can smell it right here.

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Speaker 1: Steve Hilton was the first one to go down there. But then Katie Porter, America's sweetheart, decided that she would take a tour and bring a camera crew with her. That's when it got on our radar. But after she did it, Betty Yee, who is a candidate for governor as well, and others, and I believe Javier Bessera also went down there and toward that river. They're all willing to acknowledgence polluted. They're all willing to acknowledges disgusting, but they don't really have much to say about what to do about it.

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Speaker 3: Your thoughts, Well, I used to live down in Imperial Beach actually right on that strip in the early eighties.

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Speaker 4: Don't hold that against me.

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Speaker 3: And what's funny is that this has been going on forty plus years. Okay, forty plus years. There is a state sleugh as they call it, down there, a state park right across the street from.

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Speaker 4: Where I used to live on the beach. Okay, this isn't a new problem.

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Speaker 3: I'm glad it's getting a lot of political attention now, but I still have friends in Imperial Beach who been talking about.

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Speaker 4: This for years.

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Speaker 3: And here's the reality of it. If the state legislature I get that land down there is a hodgepodge of agencies. It's partially owned by a little bit the City of the Imperial Beach, County of San Diego, a state park, a federal and this just in the ocean, and the sewage really doesn't care. It flows all over the place. The problem for my friends, which I still have down there, is there virtually isn't no one to call.

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Speaker 4: They can't just get something. They get great.

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Speaker 3: Politicians come down, they do a little bit of a photo shoot, they plug their nose. Katie Porter comes down. I won't say what she might plug and leaves. Here's the reality. The legislature of California, a long time of go, should have form.

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Speaker 4: And I want to do this when I.

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Speaker 3: Become state center a commission at least to act as a one stop shop so the citizens down there. Basically all government does right now is become a four to one one for them.

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Speaker 4: Oh where's the pollution today? That's federal land.

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Speaker 3: Oh it's in your backyard, that's San Diego County land.

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Speaker 4: Good luck to you.

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Speaker 3: Oh, it's killing animals that state land. Good luck to someone to call. This Legislature of California ought to beginning together and at least forming a way for the citizens who live down on that strip up to the Silver Strand, so they have a number to call a legislature down there that the person who's there is absolutely useless, and that particular commission deals with the various agencies to at least get their complaints in.

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Speaker 4: You don't have to be a.

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Speaker 3: Rocket scientist or a smell scientist. This has been going on for forty years, and the frustration down there has always been there is virtually not one agency to call or one person a call who can help at least get when you see things happening, John Randy.

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Speaker 4: When you live down there in the morning, you can see it flowing in. In addition to the sewage flowing in. As I put out a video the other.

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Speaker 3: Day, animal wildlife dies and is left there to rot for days on end on the beach in its state land federal land. There needs to be a state commission form to lease so the people living there are able to voice their concerns to one agency who then handles this inner agency complaint. This finger pointing o back and forth literally in almost half a century that they have virtually done nothing about it is.

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Speaker 4: Appalling and disgusting.

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Speaker 3: Whether environmentalists or not, no matter what you are, this problem, which is an international problem, California needs to take ownership of it.

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Speaker 1: Why is it that in the second largest county in the state of California, San Diego County, they have let this go on for this long in that condition because they have the political muscle to do something about it if they want to. Why do you think they just shrug their shoulders and move on.

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Speaker 3: It's a little bit I guess it sounds funny. It's a little bit like homelessness. Because they fused the refused to put somebody actually in charge of it, it's easier for the elected officials to point the other way. There's a big border problem down there which has taking place. You may have not heard this before Biden administration, where it's easy to cross when the tide is low each day, and when the tide is low, people could cross and Felucia could come in, and nobody really wants to take ownership of it. It's not an easy problem to solve, but the reason that no one has solved it is no one is willing up and put someone in.

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Speaker 4: Charge of ownership. It's a little bit like Homo, says John. I know that sounds kind of funny when I put.

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Speaker 3: It that way, But if you don't have, as we used to say, one throat to choke wants somebody to call as you see it happening, and for anybody down there, it's nice again to make a nice little photo stop. Go down there and spend twenty forty forty eight hours and you can watch the points where it comes in. They could do diversionary tactics by getting some agencies together to do a little bit of the natural diversion of water. Let the federal government deal with what's happening in Mexico.

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Speaker 4: This is not a new issue.

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Speaker 3: It bubbles up once again about every five or six years, oddly enough when there's an election taking place. But Distinct has to kind of take a bit of ownership of it because that big slew is it's called it's a state park across the street from the beach, and that's where the pollution is.

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Speaker 4: Flowing into that stinks.

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Speaker 3: That's where it sits and resides in an actual state park, and gee, they found the money to put up a nice little building where you can go and see pictures of all the wildlife which used to be alive. But they can't seem to find the money to even establish a commission, a hotline or all get together to find a way to divert the actual sewage, raw sewage which flows in every day.

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Speaker 4: And if people would bother to get down there at five or six in the morning like we used to, you could see it flowing. You could see it moving back and forth.

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Speaker 3: The state owns that park where the sewage resides, and they don't want to admit it.

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Speaker 1: Or speaking with Mike Netterer, who you can follow on x at netter Bink, Mike, let's shift gears here and talk about the bombshell discovery that we learned about in San Francisco. It was caught on tape where you had advocates going to advocates for various statewide ballot propositions, going to homeless people and paying them to sign petitions to get these initiatives on the ballot. Frequently they were paying them to sign the petitions not as themselves but as another registered voter. Somewhere else in the state of California, who never gave them consent to put their name on the petition. This is something I'm sure or if there wasn't video evidence that we had, would be denied. But you have it right there in front of your face, if you want to watch the video. We had them, gentlemen on who was the one who was taking the video? JJ? I believe his name was right. And it's something certainly that is not legal, it's certainly not ethical, but it's something that clearly goes on in California politics all the time.

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Speaker 4: And by the way, I know, JJ's a fantastic man. He runs around taking pictures. James will Keith then jumped on saw it in LA And another thing that wants me to quote yell at the interview, not yelling you and Randy, but yelling at the fact.

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Speaker 3: I don't think people realize how dangerous this is. Of all the things we talk about in the election, my roots and politics being in the recall, here's the reality of it. And again I was just evolved in the top fifty case which relates to this.

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Speaker 4: Oddly enough, once.

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Speaker 3: The unions take this money and they funnel it into the nngos and get these signatures, and they get these initiatives on the ballot and these unions. It's just shocking, and the groups behind this are pretty smart. These signatures are turned in. Then when they turn the legit signatures first, which a lot of people don't know, they do a ten percent. They do a random check and as long as the most of the initial signatures, which will be the legal ones, past the random check, they then will randomly check the rest of them.

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Speaker 4: And here's the danger.

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Speaker 3: These then get on the ballot. These propositions get on the ballot. Then the unions will go forth and make sure that they pass even though they were not legally signed. And all of a sudden, we have laws that most of us don't agree to. And once they're passed, okay, the courts are going to be very reluctant to overturn them, even though the signatures required illegally. Again, one of the reasons I'm running for state senator is immediately what the legislatures do is scream, stop those petitions one hundred percent and start over. Because we know this action has been taking place on the street for a long time. JJ caught it and film in San Francisco. O'Keefe caught it on film in Los Angeles. It's probably taking place in other parts of the state. If the state legislature has had guts and wasn't cited necessarily with the people trying to get their initials on the ballot, which are blatantly define the law right in front of our face, they would immediately demand that those petitions be suspended that they're gathering signatures for you, because I guarantee those petitions.

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Speaker 4: Are not stopping tax sikes. They're doing things we should raise taxes and help the left make a better life for themselves, not a better life for the people of California.

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Speaker 3: It's corruption in plane sight. And John Phillips, I got a question for you, where the heck is the outrage on that? They can the legislature can be outraged about certain people not taking place in the debate and writing a letter for that to upset yesterday, but they shouldn't seem too concerned with about prime election trying taking place on the streets of the two biggest cities in California. The legislation needs to grow a pair of you know what and get up and do something about that. Immediately, because once these get too far down the road and the horses out of the barn, it is going to be incredibly hard to overturn these things. Even though we know they're stolen goods, as we like.

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Speaker 1: To say, I don't think they're aware of or seem to care that when stories like this come out, it does so much damage to the credibility of free and fair elections in California with the population that lives here, to the point to where I think people just disengage from the process if they don't see it as being fair. If you think that your vote isn't going to count, or you think the system is rigged so that the people who are powerful get what they want, then why you even bother with it. We have very low participation in politics here in California to begin with. Part of it is because so many people are from other places. They're from other states, they're from other countries. They feel like they don't have skin in the game in a way where you're going to the same school as your mom and your grandma and your great grandma and that sort of thing. But the state of California could rain this in if they want to. They're the ones that choose not to. And it drives people crazy because who was it Judge Judy who used to say, if it doesn't make sense, it didn't happen. And you see certain things regarding our elections in California where you go, hmm, there are more votes cast than people. That doesn't make sense. And they go, well, you're a conspiracy theorist and you don't know how this actually works, and what you're saying is not true and all your our concerns are unfounded, and you should put tinfoil hat tinfoil hats on your head and that sort of thing. And then something like this pops up and you know, you know, Mike that if there wasn't video evidence of this happening, they would flat out deny it and claim that you are Alex Jones.

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Speaker 4: Here's the really scary part. They look, we work with Susan Shelley, we'll work with Carl Demayo, and so do you to get this stuff on the ballot. And I really and they look, some of these legislatures on the left, aren't that stupid? They know that this will suppress the vote and for the people that have busted their posterior I'll let you fill in the word legally inethically to get save Prop thirteen and voter ID on the ballot. How do you think we feel knowing that a lot of people who aren't involved in these lumbers are going to go.

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Speaker 3: I'm not gonna vote because I see this video, ev And what's the point? I actually think, conscious or unconscious, it's almost part.

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Speaker 4: Of a plot.

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Speaker 3: Despite did they say, oh, you're suppressing democracy on the right. No, you on the left know exactly what you're doing. If not, why wouldn't those legislators when they see the video evidence be raising the groupe.

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Speaker 4: I guarantee you, John Phillips that if the left caught a video of you, me and Randy doing some illegal they would be writing letters and be on TV. Randy raved about it. But oddly enough they don't want it's their people doing it. Strange, isn't it?

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Speaker 1: Well, what's wild to me is they're the first ones to jump up and scream rigged elections. Katie Porter did it when she lost the US Senate race to Adam Schiff, and she got in trouble for it, but she did it in Texas. Jasmine Crockett did the same thing. She said that the election was rigged in Dallas County and that's why she lost that Democratic primary. Yet none of them want any sort of guardrails, whether it is photo ID or requesting an absentee ballot or anything that you can come up with that would produce a free and fair election. They're against it for one reason or another. Well, you can't have it both ways. You can't say no to any guard rails and then claim that the election was rigged anytime the results don't go your way.

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Speaker 3: Right, And this actually goes beyond even the guard rails we're trying to establish, which makes sense. These are actual guard rails which are already established by that California Constitution.

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Speaker 4: For all the Democratic friends out there, try to get a copy and read it sometime. We're not supposed to pay to get signatures and register people illegally. These aren't even things we're trying to establish.

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Speaker 3: And if I sound extra hot and heavy today, because during the recall, I was accused of all kinds of breaking the law. And we're like, we are actually following the law that was established by the liberals many moons ago. We are asking right now on these petitions follow the law, so we could try to get new laws made which makes sense, not new laws made which makes no sense. That you're trying to pull one over in the public. You have to stop it at it's a point of initiation. And that's really scares me about these petition signatures. They haven't even gotten on the ballet yet, and once they get on the ballot, that horse is galloping down the path.

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Speaker 1: John Phillips Mike Netter candidate for California State Senate in District twenty two that is the San Gabriel Valley. And you can get him online and rebuild a California dot com and follow him on x at Netter Mike, Mike Netter, thanks so much for stopping by.

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Speaker 4: Quite a pleasure.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Paul in San Francisco. Paul, Hello, hero.

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Speaker 6: Regarding homeless, if one would look at a website from the Stay of California about the homeless, one would never see any enterical lovelace about how long the almost have lived here, what job they had, did they have utility bills? Did they have a telephone number? Did they pay rent? You will never see any of that. All the information is self reported from the homeless, which means nothing.

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Speaker 1: So as I could say, what was it that Harry Truman used to say? There's lies, damn lies and statistics. If they're the ones in charge of publishing the statistics, they're going to tell whatever story they want to tell, whether it's true or not. Based on the lived experience of all of us who live here in the state of California, we know that the homeless population has exploded from where it used to be not that long ago. They can deny it, and they can put up phony statistics that prove their arguments to be true. None of us who actually live here believe it.

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Speaker 6: And when I grew up here in San Francisco, of those people are homeless or considered pumps, and there's a big definition are different and a bumb and some of your homeworks.

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Speaker 1: So earlier this week, we told you about a trick that the San Francisco Public Defender's Office is playing that is resulting in a loophole being exploited and criminals not facing jail time.

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Speaker 2: The San Francisco Public Defender's Office claims they are overwhelmed thanks to the tough on crime prosecutor Brooke Jenkins, bringing so many cases that they can't keep up and they're not taking any cases. And apparently if a public defender says they're not taking a case, the case can get thrown out.

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Speaker 1: How the hell does that happen.

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Speaker 2: Well, there's one judge even in San Francisco, who says enough of that, holding the public defender in contempt for refusing to do their job. And by the way, the heads of these offices make hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars. Sure, the on theline public defenders probably make only a couple hundred bucks to defend a case. But the person who's paid by the city or the county to run your public defender's office, they get paid a ton of money. So we got to really do a whole lot of work in figuring out who these people are and make sure they're not ideo logue. Everyone should get out of prison nut jobs, because that's what we've got in San Francisco. Here is a report from NBC in the Bay.

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Speaker 7: Twenty six counts of contempt of court at a twenty six thousand dollars fine. That is the penalty as San Francisco judge is ordered for the city's public defender, p Dmano. Rogers says his office is overwhelmed with cases and has been refusing some new ones.

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Speaker 1: How can you do that because you know it's going to result in people not going to jail and your office not having to work to make that happen. If there's a loophole that you can exploit that's much easier and faster, why not do it?

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Speaker 7: Atadio Kntana reports, the judge said the public defender could take more cases, but is choosing not to.

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Speaker 2: You know, there was a time where the public defender was people just getting started in the criminal justice world. There was a time where the public defender was checked out attorneys that aren't really good enough to be in a law firm, so they're like, okay, let's just settle. Nowadays, there are people that choose to go into the world a public defender because they are full on criminal justice reform advocates, and they are very dangerous.

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Speaker 1: Well, and here's something else too, And these judges choose to do it when they want to and choose not to do it when they want to. But one of my best friends is a judge in Orange County. And let me tell you, as much as I love her and as much as I'm so happy that she is one of my closest friends. I would not want to be one of her children, because she could look at you as you're telling her something and instantly know if you're lying or not. I don't know how she got these special powers, but she has a BS detector like I've never seen before, probably because she spends her entire life sitting in a room where everyone lies to her, and she notices patterns, and she picks up on certain things, and she's always right. Whenever you're trying to figure out if someone's telling a tale or someone's being truthful, I go directly to her. And it looks like this judge in this particular instance, understood that the public defender was feeding him BS, and this judge called them out.

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Speaker 8: The for today's hearing, public defender Manol Raju rallied a loud group of supporters.

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Speaker 1: Wait, isn't he the political reporter on CNN?

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Speaker 2: Different guy, that's Manu Raju. This is Monol Raju.

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Speaker 1: He and I used to be coworkers and we had many drinks together.

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Speaker 8: The for today's hearing, public defender Monau Raju rallied a loud group of supporters, mostly staff from his office.

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Speaker 2: So they were paid to be there. Yes, his employees rallied around him. Even in San Francisco, there's not a whole lot of people with the free time to go stand outside and rally for the public defender to not do his job.

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Speaker 1: How is that even legal? Where you tell your employees to go out and protest with you people who depend on you for their w two political activities are supposed to be separate.

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Speaker 8: And several fellow chief public defenders from other counties, they all say they're overloaded with cases and the other side is outspending them.

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Speaker 1: The district attorney.

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Speaker 2: It's not a spending race, is What are the das supposed to do? Not file charges when an arrest is made because oh, the public defenders are overworked. That doesn't make any sense.

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Speaker 9: Nope, Sue Attorney's office US thirty nine million dollars more than the public defender's office in San Francisco.

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Speaker 2: That's what this is about. He wants more money.

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Speaker 1: Oh sure, that's what it's always about.

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Speaker 9: In addition to criminal defense, we also defend immigrants against deportation against federal authorities. We also provide mental health advocacy for people.

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Speaker 2: It sounds like your office is doing too much.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, why don't you dial some of that back.

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Speaker 9: In mental health court with the city Attorney on the other side.

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Speaker 8: Chief public defenders from other counties all agreed their offices are facing similar case loads. They're feeling the effects of recent tough run crime priorities at many DA's offices.

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Speaker 2: He wants to go back to the good old days of Chase Aboudin where we just didn't charge anybody and the Public Defender's office got to sit there and do nothing.

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Speaker 1: God help us.

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Speaker 8: They're feeling the effects of recent tough run crime priorities at many DA's offices.

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Speaker 10: Because I think our felony filings were up six hundred just in the last few years. Each year is up six hundred from what it was before our new DA to effect.

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Speaker 4: Two years ago.

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Speaker 2: By the way, Brooke Jenkins, there's your ad for reelection.

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Speaker 10: I think our felony filings were up six hundred just in the last two years. Each year is up six hundred from what it was before our new DA to effect two years ago. So they're getting more people in order to prosecute, but we're not getting enough to defend them.

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Speaker 8: Public Defenders' offices do not take all of the cases that das Prosecute representatives from San Francisco, San Joaquin, and Alameda County say they take about seventy to eighty percent of the cases in may Raju.

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Speaker 2: What does that tell you about most of the people that are getting arrested for the repeat offenses over and over and over again their destitute.

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Speaker 1: These are homeless people, These are drug addicts. These are people who are committing the same crimes over and over and over again. And not only is it costing us money to deal with all of the fallout of a lawless city, but we're also paying for their criminal defense time and time and time again.

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Speaker 8: It's also claw ugging up the courts in may Raju decided to refuse taking certain cases, citing heavy workloads for his office. Private attorneys were assigned through the San Francisco Bar Association, but then they began refusing cases after a few months.

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Speaker 2: Nobody wants to represent these homeless people, would you.

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Speaker 8: Private attorneys were assigned through the San Francisco Bar Association, but then they began refusing cases after a few months. Late last year, Superior Court Judge Harry S. Dorfmann convened a hearing on this issue, and in January he found that the Public Defender's office does have capacity to take these cases.

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Speaker 2: Oh so the public Defender's full of it.

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Speaker 1: You know what happens the homeless people that we've just described that steal from the right a, that steal from the cvs, that steal from the mom and pops, the frequent flyers. These are people who are out of their mind. They're either on drugs or mentally ill. And if you're their attorney, you have to go meet with them, which means they harass the living hell out of you, and they stink and they curse at you, and they call you every slur in the book, and they're disrespectful, and they don't care about your time. And if you do a good job for them and get them a sweet deal or even get them off on the charges, they don't thank you. They just abuse you. I can't imagine doing that job, but that's a huge part of it. And I'm sure there are certain people they know are the problem children and they don't want any part of them. But guess what, that's the job. Do you think if you work at the Department of Sanitation for the City of Los Angeles, You'm going to go into the sewer and clean app after the sewer people. But it's the job. It's the job description. You knew that when you signed up for it. So buck up, Buttercup.

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Speaker 8: And order the office to do so. But since that order, the Public Defender's office has refused to take on twenty six separate cases. Today, Judge Dorfmann decided that each one of those is a separate contempt of court charge with a one thousand dollars fine each.

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Speaker 2: Now does he get paid, have to pay that personally or does that come out of the department?

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Speaker 1: Good question.

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Speaker 8: San Francisco District Attorney Brook Jenkins agrees with the judge's decision.

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Speaker 11: Not only did the court conduct a comprehensive hearing of the staffing and the workload levels at the Public Defender's office, but we had the Controller's office to an audit and they drafted a report, both of which reached the same conclusion that they have sufficient staff to deal with the caseloads that they have.

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Speaker 8: During today's hearing, Public Defender Raju's attorney asked the judge to put the fine on hold while they appealed.

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Speaker 2: Wait a second, The Public defender hired a private attorney. Why didn't he use a public defender?

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Speaker 1: Boy? Is everyone just trying to run up the bills as much as possible?

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Speaker 2: Well, this is the legal system.

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Speaker 8: To put the fine on hold while they Judge Dorfmann refused and gave Raju ten business days to pay it in San Francisco, said Hugintana NBC Bayer your news.

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Speaker 2: There is the latest on the fight going on between the County of San Francisco, the DA's office, and the public defender who refuses to do his job yet he wants to get paid for it. Eight hundred two two two five two two two is jellphone 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. Johnny, don't like show at gmail dot com.

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Speaker 1: All right. Earlier in the program, we told you about the sewer people in South LA. And a few months ago we did a story also in South LA about a particular intersection where individuals would go in the middle of the night and dump off a long large amount of rotting pork like pallettes and palettes and palettes of unused ribs and roasts and chops just sitting out there in the middle of the street, and it would take the city forever, but eventually they'd go clean it up, and then the next day someone would be by in the middle of the night and dump another large amount of rotting pork.

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Speaker 2: You know, Katie, I think that's where you might want to shoot your next video.

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Speaker 4: You can smell it right here.

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Speaker 1: And the people in the neighborhood were really upset, as you could understand, but the government gave them no help. It was an unincorporated part of South La so Holly Mitchell was their de facto mayor, which meant that nothing happened, quite frankly. And now it looks like something similar is now going on in the Bay area. Well similar in that we're talking about rotting meat, but it's it's a very, very, very different story. This is the story of a restaurant that accidentally had an instacart sent to their establishment when nobody was there, so they dropped off the meat in front of the restaurant to just sit there. Uh oh from mar Here's NBC in the Bay Great Setup.

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Speaker 12: New eleven, a San Francisco restaurant, is responding tonight to this photo circulating on social media. Look carefully, it shows pounds of meat left outside of the shop doors during an unseasonably warm weekend.

00:32:36
Speaker 2: Now the old well, maybe they're just going for a real slow cook.

00:32:40
Speaker 1: Maybe this is an advertisement from peta warm weekend.

00:32:44
Speaker 12: Now, the owner of the restaurant says, there's an explanation to all of this. Nbc'sgvang has the details.

00:32:51
Speaker 5: You could call it somewhat of a rare site.

00:32:54
Speaker 2: Pap get it. We're gonna have a little fun today, don't we.

00:32:59
Speaker 1: Why not?

00:33:00
Speaker 13: You could call it somewhat of a rare site package raw beef and a jar of mayonnaise.

00:33:06
Speaker 1: Oh no, oh, come on, you can smell it right here.

00:33:12
Speaker 2: Getting a lot of use out of that drop might be the winner. In twenty twenty six.

00:33:21
Speaker 5: It's on the pavement outside.

00:33:22
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's between her and this bot Bonta. That's my favorite. I'm going with our girl, Katie.

00:33:30
Speaker 5: You can smell it right here.

00:33:31
Speaker 13: It's on the pavement outside the Mission District location of Hamburger project on Guerrero and eighteen.

00:33:37
Speaker 2: A reddit use, Well, that's one the interesting project they're doing there, I'll say.

00:33:42
Speaker 13: A Reddit user captured the initial image yesterday posting raw hamburger left in the sun on the sidewalk.

00:33:49
Speaker 1: You you was right.

00:33:53
Speaker 13: Joven works at the corner store across the street. He says he saw the delivery driver knock for a bit, but the restaurant was closed.

00:34:00
Speaker 10: So I asked him, you can drop in the store because I work in the neighborhood over there in front of that. So he just said no, I'm not allowed to do that.

00:34:08
Speaker 13: Joe Ven says that's when the driver left the ground beef on the sidewalk and sent the owner this message saying he didn't have time to wait.

00:34:16
Speaker 1: How convenient.

00:34:19
Speaker 2: You got to be real careful of when you schedule those instacart deliveries because chances are they have something that's not shelf stable, and if they're going to leave it out in the sun, you're screwed.

00:34:30
Speaker 1: And so is everyone else in the neighborhood.

00:34:32
Speaker 5: The owner told me over the phone he was horrified.

00:34:35
Speaker 13: He said they ran out of meat because of a busier than usual Friday and Saturday, likely because of the warm weather. Since he was out of town, he ordered more via instacart. He says the delivery arrived early before any of his employees showed up.

00:34:52
Speaker 2: And hilarity ensued. Sometimes you got to meet that delivery guy. This actually happened to me one Now. I wasn't ordering any raw meat, but my wife and I did an instacart when we were in New Mexico, and we were expecting it to be at the house at five o'clock. So we were enjoying a happy hour drink down the road at four o'clock and all of a sudden, I get all these notifications. The driver's on his way. The driver's on his way, and we were still mid drink. So that's when my wife said, you're getting up, and you're going and putting that stuff inside the house, and I'm going to have another drink. So I hoofed it down there, loaded everything in the house, got back and had time for one more happy hour drink. True story, but.

00:35:38
Speaker 13: An instacart spokesporus and said the delivery was made within the customer selected delivery window, and the driver made attempts to communicate with a customer upon arrival. When warpers did arrive more than half an hour later, Hamburger.

00:35:50
Speaker 5: Project says they tossed the products.

00:35:52
Speaker 13: The restaurant put out this statement saying, in part we take food safety extremely seriously and they.

00:35:57
Speaker 2: Were never going to sell that meat.

00:36:00
Speaker 1: Imagine if they did, the letter in the window would just tell you what kind of heppatitis you're going to get.

00:36:07
Speaker 13: Already updated, our delivery procedure is to ensure this does not happen again.

00:36:12
Speaker 3: It was just like it was like three packs of like brummy and then just like a man.

00:36:17
Speaker 12: I mean, that's that's the reason.

00:36:19
Speaker 1: What's throw it out?

00:36:19
Speaker 5: I mean, yeah.

00:36:20
Speaker 13: The post has garnered more than three thousand up or down votes and nearly six hundreds, and.

00:36:25
Speaker 2: I bet the comments are all super catty because it's read it.

00:36:28
Speaker 1: You know, when I'm in foreign countries, especially the shady ones, I pretty much just eat vegetarian because I assume that the way that they handled the meat is consistent with showing up to work, seeing the meat riting on the sidewalk, and going, yeah, we could make that work.

00:36:53
Speaker 2: What countries are you even talking about.

00:37:00
Speaker 13: The post has garnered more than three thousand up or down votes and nearly six hundred comments, where users appear to be beefing with each other.

00:37:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, well it has read it.

00:37:11
Speaker 5: And trying to lay Blaine.

00:37:12
Speaker 14: I didn't think it warranted negative comments about Hamburger project or the delivery person. No one was harmed.

00:37:21
Speaker 2: Hey, the person doing the instacart did his job. He delivered it when he said he was going to deliver it. If no one's there to get it, that's on them. Yeah, do your scheduling better.

00:37:33
Speaker 14: In the leaving of Hamburger in front of a Hamburger shop in.

00:37:37
Speaker 5: San Francisco, Givang, NBC B Area News.

00:37:40
Speaker 2: There you go, the story of the burger meet left on the side of a restaurant in San Francisco.

00:37:46
Speaker 1: I'm surprised the homeless didn't interject themselves into this story.

00:37:51
Speaker 2: You think they'd grab it.

00:37:54
Speaker 1: God knows what they'd do with it.