Katie Porter goes on Instagram live

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Speaker 1: And we continue at one five in the afternoon on the John Phillips Show, Mister Randy weggs across the glass well, the valley has outdone South La. Sure, the old news was that there were sewer people in South LA. Now there's sewer people in Canoga Park. There's sewer people all over. We just got an email at Johnny don't like show at gmail dot com. That's Johnny Don't like show at gmail dot com about our girl, Katie Porter. Here's what the email said. I questioned John's request to create a drop of Katie Porter, saying I can smell it right here, but I'm very glad that he did. Makes me laugh every time.

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Speaker 2: You can smell it right here.

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Speaker 3: It's a contender for Drop of the year. Folks.

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Speaker 1: Now, it's interesting that we got that email because America's sweetheart, Katie Porter is on the campaign trail. So Katie Porter, along with several other candidates, was all dressed up, made up and ready to go to that debate at USC and then that debate got canceled. So Katie Porter was all jazzed up and nowhere to go. So what did she do? She turned on the Instagram live on her FaceTime on her phone, and she said, screw it. I'll just say everything that I was gonna say there right here on the Socials True Story.

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Speaker 3: I was watching it from my hot tub. You might have a problem. For more. We go to Katie Porter's INSTA.

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Speaker 2: Hi, everybody, it's Katie Porter.

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Speaker 1: Oh, we're doing that again. We're back to the little girl voice. You're always wondering which Katie Porter you're gonna get. And sometimes it's the real Katie Porter out of my shot. Sometimes it's Katie Porter the chef.

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Speaker 2: Worry for the noise, I'm cutting carrots.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes it's Katie Port of the.

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Speaker 2: Gormand I'm pulling in to the bakery.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes it's Katie Port of the hall mech expert.

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Speaker 2: What I haven't heard about is anything about dishwashers.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it's Katie Port of the airline passenger. Sometimes it's Katie Port of the wrestler. Oh, but this time it was high pitched Katie.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I have this wrong because my degrees aren't in psychology, they're in political science, so I don't know much about this. But maybe she's in fact not bipolar, which is what I call her all the time. Maybe she's multiple personalities. You're saying that this Katie and this Katie out of my shot are separate personalities inside that body.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the first one was the purple Lady.

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Speaker 2: Hi, everybody, it's Katie Porter, excited to be with you this evening.

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Speaker 3: Wow, we've gone up an octave.

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Speaker 1: Okay, if you have pets in your car, it may be a good idea to turn the volume of the radio down because this is going to make them jump out of the window. And I'm just going to point out as we listen to this video that went on for thirty five minutes, we're not going to get to all thirty five minutes, but I have to tell you the visual here, which, by the way, you can check out this video. I posted it on my substack today Randywangradio dot substack dot com. Because she's on FaceTime on Instagram Live, and she has decided that she's going to be doing lots of propcomedy at this insta live where she's going to show different polls and different little charts that she's written on the whiteboard. But because she's on her FaceTime camera, all of the images appear backwards. Is she going to make MINNESTRONI No, she did that in a different video.

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Speaker 2: Sorry for the noise. I'm cutting carrots for those of you who don't know. I'm running for governor of California. We had expected you.

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Speaker 1: Notice at the end of California she even goes up a notch. It's almost like she's doing her best a Laney impression for Californians. Why didn't you run so weird? You got the money, lady.

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Speaker 2: We had expected to be on the debate stage this evening. When that debate was canceled, we wanted to make sure that we still had a chance to take questions from Californians.

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Speaker 1: So please spoiler alert, she doesn't actually take any questions for a really long time. She just has a big spiel to do. Oh yeah, she goes through all of her canned answers, so please, pretty much everything she was set to say at the debate she was gonna unload on the instas.

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Speaker 2: So please put your questions in the chat. We're watching. I have wonderful My campaign manager, Crystal's here watching to see.

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Speaker 3: Wait, is she the one that got cursed out? No, I don't think she works for her anymore.

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Speaker 1: Out of my shot that wasn't Crystal huh?

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Speaker 2: Watching to see your questions and I have a couple of whiteboards coming up.

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Speaker 3: Boy, she really is the female carrot Top, isn't she.

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Speaker 1: There's a video that she put out this morning, but I refuse to play it on the air because she ropes her daughter into it, and her daughter's a minor and I don't want to exploit that. But there's from the mini van driving to go meet unions. Oh come on, I do want to see more videos from that minivan. I want to see all the fast food wrappers, all the candy wrappers, all the stolen handicapped parking placards, the unpaid parking tickets. What do you think else's in there? It's kind of like whatever the bad version of the Mary Poppins carpetbag is can be found on the floor of that minivan.

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Speaker 2: To talk with you about it as well, So firstly, just start with the most Well you remember the prop when she was sitting with Aton Wallace for her senate run and they looked at the minivan and oh, my kid's homework is back here.

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Speaker 3: Oh look at that.

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Speaker 2: To talk with you about it as well, So firstly, just start with the most obvious question, I guess is what do I think is at stake in this governor's race.

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Speaker 3: That's not the most obvious question. Nope.

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Speaker 1: I wonder how many people in the chat, because she was doing this from the kitchen, said where's the exercise bike? Well, here's the most obvious question. Who's willing to ensure that minivan, Adriana or Veronica.

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Speaker 2: Winter chicking dinner? What do I think I would bring into Californians as governor? And for me, this race is really about our future. It's about making I'm sure that we are going to be focused on how do we make sure that our kids and future generations at Californians can live here. That means not just good, high paying jobs, but also can they afford housing, can they afford healthcare? Do we get to live in a place that's true to our California values, which means standing up to Donald Trump.

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Speaker 3: There's your first mention right out of the box.

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Speaker 2: So this race is obviously about fighting back against Trump. I have done that when I was in Congress. But it's also about solving some of California's long standing challenges. So I'm excited to.

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Speaker 3: Talk about you.

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Speaker 1: No, I know we call her America's sweetheart all the time on this program, but you know what she really is? What's that America's ex wife.

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Speaker 2: So I'm excited to talk with you tonight about some of my policy proposals around free college tuition, around childcare, around housing, and excited to do that. So I think the next question I'm gonna take might be the most obvious one, which.

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Speaker 1: Is these aren't questions, No, this is her talking to herself, which, again multiple personalities, I guess is no big shocker. She did a whole bunch of debate prep and she's just using that. There isn't like, hey, hot girl ninety three wants to know, No, that's not going on here.

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Speaker 2: I think the next question I'm gonna take might be the most obvious one, which is what happened? Why are you not on the debate stage? And I want to tell you So, I had a great outfit. I had graty earrings. I was very excited. Even my fourteen year old daughter approved of my outfit.

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Speaker 3: She really likes to rope the kids in Okay.

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Speaker 1: Could you imagine if you let your kids dress you though, I think my niece would have me dressed up like a pirate because whenever they have the full ability to choose, it's always an old Halloween costume, is not o.

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Speaker 2: And I think we all know that does not happen very often. So the Decision USC which was hosting this debate, put together a set of criteria about who was going to be invited, and those criteria were waiting about two thirds toward where people stood, where the candidates stood in the poll, at about one third toward how much money candidates had either contributed to themselves in the case of a self funder like Tom Steyer.

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Speaker 3: Oh she hate Tom Steyer, Oh she does.

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Speaker 1: You imagine how disappointed she was when this debate got canceled, how many things that she was going to scream at Tom Steyer in his face about well, I think if you're looking at which personality would be interacting with Styer, that would be the pro wrestler.

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Speaker 2: Had raised. And because of that, one of the low pulling candidates pulling up at our below three percent in the most recent poll, San Jose Mayor and Matt Mayhon was invited to the debate stage.

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Speaker 1: This is where the whole thing fell apart. It was a very wealthy donor to USC allegedly Rick Caruso, who said Mayhead needs to be there, which means they had to change their algorithm, which screwed over people like Tony V. But that's the way those universities work. If you have a building named after you, anything you want goes. Everything is paid to play at these universities, including USC, San.

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Speaker 2: Jose Mayor and Matt Mayhon was invited to the debate stage. Other candidates, folks who've been running for a year alongside me, were excluded, although they have pulled usually a little bit higher. So after lots of back and forth, lots of understandable concern about letting money influence politics, about transparency, but also about wanting to be in front of voters and give voters choices. Last night late I just heard this morning, USC canceled the debate. So let me tell you kind of.

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Speaker 3: How much screaming do you think happened when that happened. Oh, you would not want to be her campaign manager that night.

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Speaker 2: Sorry for the noise. I'm cutting carrots. So let me tell you kind of where the polls stand, and I have two for you. First, this is.

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Speaker 1: A little okay again, this is radio, but you're going to need to check out the visual of her holding up a screen, but because she's on FaceTime, the screen image that she's showing appears backwards and nobody can read it well. Given the fact that Gavin Newsom is dyslexic, what do you think he thought.

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Speaker 2: First, this is a little bit of a different use of a whiteboard than I have made in the past. But first, this is a recent poll and what it shows is that the two Republicans. This came out today. By the way that the two Republicans.

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Speaker 1: I love the fact that she has no idea that what the viewers see are hieroglyphics, that the.

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Speaker 2: Two Republicans are still polling. At sixteen and fourteen, there are only two major Republican candidates, and there's a.

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Speaker 3: Three there's ten others, but we don't know who they are.

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Speaker 2: And there's a three way tie among the Democrats.

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Speaker 1: So when she's talking, this is the poll that was released by the California Democrat Party to get the other candidates to drop out. Let's just quickly move on from this as fast as we can, because I don't want to think about Katie Porter in three ways in any capacity.

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Speaker 2: Little deed and there's a three way tie among the Democrats.

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Speaker 1: Me, Tom Steier, Eric Swollwell, that would be quite a three way Aaron Swallwell, they're the bread and she's the meat in that little sandwich.

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Speaker 3: Oscar Meyer.

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Speaker 1: Baby.

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Speaker 2: Now, I know these numbers look low. There are a decent number of undecided voters. But when you total these numbers up, it's like they total to thirty plus thirty.

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Speaker 1: That's sixty the mas she's doing math carry the four divide by two usually what the whiteboards are meant for solving complex math problems.

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Speaker 2: And then we've got some of the other candidates are all pulling in. This poll from the California Democratic Party are all pulling came out today, are pulling in either three percent, two percent or one percent.

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Speaker 1: Sorry, Betty, how much do you think Betty ye hates her?

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Speaker 2: So that's where it stands right now, a three way tie, and among the Democrats, the two Republicans still higher. So I would say I get a lot of questions about what are we going to do. We don't want a Republican, we don't want to governor who's going to cooperate with Trump.

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Speaker 3: We're back to the pro wrestler.

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Speaker 1: But she's still trying to do it in the hoity toity hive pitch voice.

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Speaker 2: I completely agree. This poll that is coming out from the Californy Democratic Party today, which is going to continue to come out, is an effort to provide candidates with fresh information.

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Speaker 1: It's an effort to pressure the low pollers to get out. That's what they want. They do not want a Republican elected governor.

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Speaker 2: Is an effort to provide candidates with fresh information about where they stand and about what where the situation is. Our job is to continue to push forward to win over undecided voters. We're going to be coming up on digital and TV ads soon.

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Speaker 3: Katie's going to be on the TV.

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Speaker 1: She hasn't really done a whole lot of spending all of the ads that I play for you just go up on her YouTube page. But I don't think she's doing a lot of buys.

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Speaker 4: Well.

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Speaker 1: I think that's what a lot of them are doing. A lot of them, outside of Tom Steyr and Matt Mayhan are hoarding their money so they can just dump it all in at the very end. We're getting to a point where I have KTLA on in the studio in case there's like breaking news or a chase or something. Every commercial break I look up, it's either mayheen styer sty r mayhean back and forth, over and over and over again. I have Channel eleven on in here, and all it is are Tom Steyer ads.

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Speaker 2: We're going to be coming up on digital ads and TV ads soon. That is all part about helping those people who are undecided to make a choice. So on that front, I wanted to start taking some questions. The first question we have is pretty easy one what are your top priorities?

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Speaker 1: Nobody, nobody in the Instagram live chat wrote that question.

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Speaker 3: No, because here's what happens.

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Speaker 1: You say, Bob in Claremont wants to know, blah blah blah. You just don't go Okay, here's our first question, and then you ask yourself the question. Well, and you ask such a basic question, I'll tell you by the way. She gets to the end of this thing and she starts looking at the actual questions on there and they're more about like do you support Israel or not? Yeah, there's nothing she wants to see in those comments.

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Speaker 2: So on that front, I wanted to start taking some questions. The first question we have is pretty easy, one. What are your top priorities? So I will say two one Fighting Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: Of course, is that The third mention. She goes to that well over and over and over again.

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Speaker 2: That we cannot have unmasked, masked, unlawful, unconstitutional, immoral agents in our street. We can't allow Trump to take a hatchet to people's health care. We can't allow them to attack our university system, our clean air and clean water. We have to have that, and I do think that all of Democratic candidates in this race really intend to do that. I think we would bring our own style and our own energy to it, but I think we all would do it. I have spoken out about abolishing ice. I've been very very clear about that for months now, and I think that's an important position that I've taken, and maybe in contrast to some of the other top Democratic candidates. My other top priority.

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Speaker 1: Is it, So your first priority is to talk about a federal policy that you have no control over.

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Speaker 2: Yes, My other top priority is helping Californias afford to live here and to thrive here, not just to get by, but to really succeed. I've spent my life as a consumer protection professor and advocate and I know there's no bigger cost for families than the cost of housing.

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Speaker 1: And she knows that because she's in subsidized housing. Well, doesn't she usually talk about food though? Don't We usually get to the grocery store. It's coming, you know, it's coming.

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Speaker 2: That subsumes the biggest chunk of.

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Speaker 3: Families consumes something like that.

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Speaker 2: That subsumes the biggest chunk of families budgets. So my top priority is making it affordable to live here. To do that, you have to tackle the big stuff. So bringing down housing costs, which I want to talk more with you about here in a minute. Healthcare a really big expense for people, college costs, I have a plan for that, and childcare. These are really big expenses. We all go to I grow why I shouldn't say we all go to the grocery store.

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Speaker 3: Some people don't there we go. That's my girl.

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Speaker 1: Well, find out what Katie got at the grocery store. Next, as we listen to Katie Porter's thirty five minute install live that she did because the debate got canceled.

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Speaker 2: Sorry for the noise. I'm cutting carrots.

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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. 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. What's so funny in there? Well, I don't want to read most of these emails because I don't want to have to go to a meeting after the show. But there's one suggestion that let's just say they would like us to play that old call of the guy that explained his friends and counter with Katie Porter, and then at the end of that story, he would like me to add this drop.

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Speaker 2: You can smell it right here.

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Speaker 3: Nope, not gonna happen. We're not going there.

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Speaker 3: Buy fake boobs, bad girl.

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Speaker 1: That's all coming up on the KMJ Fix California Hour replay. Okay, so Katie Porter, along with all the other candidates for governor, got stood up with the debate this week and she decided that she was going to use her a material on Instagram.

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Speaker 3: Let's get back to Katie Porter on Install Live.

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Speaker 2: We all do to igrow white? Shouldn't say we all go to the grocery store. Some people don't in this.

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Speaker 1: Are you saying Tom Steyer in pushing around of carts at Ralph's?

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Speaker 3: Can you imagine him at Whole Foods?

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Speaker 2: We all do I grow white? Shouldn't say we all go to the grocery store. Some people don't in this race. But I go to the grocery store, I push your shopping cart, I see the prices of everything. Going up.

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Speaker 1: Well, she's lightening up right now go back to the first part of that statement.

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Speaker 3: It sounds like she's chopping carrots again.

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Speaker 2: We all doded, I grow white. Shouldn't say we all go to the grocery store.

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Speaker 1: Some people don't in this race, But I think she's just smacking her hands.

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Speaker 3: That sounded like a knife going through something.

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Speaker 2: Sorry for the noise, I'm cutting carrots. We all doded, I grow white. Shouldn't say we all go to the grocery store. Some people don't in this race, but I go to the grocery store.

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Speaker 3: That was a knee slapper.

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Speaker 2: Could be I go to the grocery store. I push your shopping cart. I see the prices of everything going up. I just had my kid trying to put a nine dollars box of cereal from an Albertson's into my cart.

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Speaker 3: How old are your kids?

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, Wait a minute, Wait a minute, Wait a minute. So she's saying that when they go to the grocery store, they're all sneaking food into the cart.

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, I just had my kid trying to put a nine dollars box of cereal from an Albertson's into my cart.

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Speaker 3: She really likes to use the kids as props.

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Speaker 2: She does, and I see that, But I think the big stuff, the housing, the childcare, the big costs, that's where we can make the biggest difference in helping families afford to live.

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Speaker 1: Here, what brand of cereal goes for nine bucks a box? What is the most expensive brand of cereal typically in an Albertson's, Golden Gram's, maybe count Chocula. Let's go to Grog and you're gonna type this into your little machine there. Find out what is the most expensive cereal? And how big of a box of cereal are we talking? Because you know those costco boxes. Those are like three bags of cereal in one. That might justify the nine dollars costs. But who buys those unless you have a family of fifteen, because it's gonna.

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Speaker 3: Go stale unless you eat it real fast.

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Speaker 1: Okay, what is the most expensive box of cereal sold? You're still typing at not a secretary at Ralph's in California. All right, do your work in grocs. Let's see what Elon has to say about all of this.

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Speaker 2: Okay, sorry for the noise, I'm cutting carrots.

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Speaker 3: Okay, she might be right. She might be right.

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Speaker 1: Okay, according to groc here are the cereals that usually rank as the highest priced single boxes at Ralph's. Number one Catalina Crunch that is sold for between nine ninety nine and eleven ninety nine. I have never heard of Catalina Crunch, have you? It's rock Okay. Here's what the description is of it. Keto friendly, high protein, often the most expensive regular box. There is no way anyone in that household put that in the cart.

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Speaker 3: I don't think they're buying Catalina Crunch.

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Speaker 1: Number two Magic Spoon that's between nine forty nine and ten ninety nine. That's also high protein and keto, and I don't think they're buying You can't usually get Magic Spoon at the regular grocery store, okay. Number three is seven Sundays or purely Elizabeth Granola Cereals, premium granola style cereals.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're not getting that one.

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Speaker 1: Number four Bear Naked. What apparently there's a cereal called bear naked? B e are Naked. It has been a long time since I've been down that aisle. What's the cartoon on that box? A three hundred and fifty pound hairy naked guy. I think it's time to move on.

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Speaker 2: So that's what I'm focused on as my top priorities. All right, next question is about one of my policy platforms that I rolled on.

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Speaker 3: Here's our next non existent question.

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Speaker 2: All right, next question is about one of my policy platforms that I rolled out. You can find out more about them. We have videos about all of them on our Instagram account, social media accounts and soon to come if they're not already up on our web page. The question was about how can we afford to provide free childcare in California? And let me start by making it an observation. Two observations.

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Speaker 1: One is this just because she doesn't want to watch her own kids. This is something that always ends up in all of her stump speeches. It's like banning corporate pack buddy and earmarks.

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Speaker 2: One is we cannot afford not to make it possible for Californians to work. We can't leave twenty eight billion dollars a year on the table of economic growth because people can't afford childcare. That's what we're losing right now. Our competitor nations have all invested in childcare, and our competitor states places like New Mexico and New York are investing.

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Speaker 3: We already invested in childcare in this country.

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Speaker 1: Lady. It's called the television. Just put your kids in front of it and leave them there for hours.

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Speaker 2: Are investing in free childcare because they know that it grows our economy. The second observation I want to make about child care is it's not something that we do just to help parents or just to help kids. It helps everybody. Why because a strong growing economy and economy that's attracting and retaining its young workers. That is an economy that is growing, and so that is really really an important and important thing that we need to be doing.

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Speaker 1: So Okay, I know this is a qualitative statement, but I'm going to say it anyway. Maybe if she wouldn't have slammed dunk mashed potatoes on dad's head, someone would be around the house, So you don't need a babysitter.

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Speaker 2: I'm pulling in to the bakery. So how would we pay for it? I am a believer that all taxes should be progressive.

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Speaker 1: Oh here we go, time to bring in more money. Oh yeah, soak the rid, soak the rich, soak the ridge.

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Speaker 2: That means that those who have an earn more should pay more. Let me tell you what we have right now.

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Speaker 1: She's bringing out the whiteboard. And again, if you see the video, because she's on her FaceTime camera, all the props that she's putting up you can't read because it's all backwards. She's doing a mirror shot.

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Speaker 2: Let me tell you what we have right now in California with regard to the taxes that corporations pay. Right now, in California, we have a flat corporate tax. So a corporation that makes say one hundred dollars a year in profits, they pay eight point eight four percent, and many of them pay much less than that.

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Speaker 1: In fact, a lot of corporation Notice how now that she's talking about corporation, she's getting a little louder. Oh yeah, now we're inching closer to the rest voice.

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Speaker 2: They pay eight point eight four percent, and many of them pay much less than that. In fact, a lot of corporations in California, including profitable large ones, pay zero in California state taxes. That's about closing tax loopholes, which I also want to do and I have a track record of doing. If a corporation makes a million dollars a year. Guess what they pay eight point eight four percent.

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Speaker 1: Notice how excited she's getting thinking about taking away corporations money.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no, you can tell. This is what. This is what brought her to the party.

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Speaker 2: If a corporation makes a million dollars a year, guess what they pay eight point eight four percent. For corporation makes a billion dollars in profits, You got it, eight point eight four percent.

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Speaker 3: Now the dog's barking. She must be doing this from her house.

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Speaker 1: She is, and she got so loud talking about the tax rate that now the dog woke up.

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Speaker 2: You got it. Eight point eight four percent.

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Speaker 1: Now go feed sparky. What do you think she named her dog old yeller. No, that's not she's not Christy Nome.

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Speaker 2: Now that's not how your taxes work. If you make more in a year and you trip up into a new tax bracket, you have to pay a little bit more. That's what a progressive tax is. And we should do the same thing with corporations. So saying to corporations in your most profitable lie.

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Speaker 1: Surprise, she hasn't acknowledged the dog. Don't mind that. That's just my pitbull mauling the mail well, she has learned the hard way that she should not react to anything outside of her performance. Out of my shot, because if she screams at the dog, it's over. Eight hundred two two two five two two two is a telephone number? What eight hundred two two two five two two two, Royal Oaks. ABC News legal analysts coming up after the news at two, and Seneca Scott joins us after that, you cannot contain yourself. What are you gonna do if she drops out? Well, she's not gonna drop out, she's gonna lose, but god willing profitable yet, we're going back to Katie Porter on her live instaf Profitable year. Please, that dog is still barking. Well, she keeps getting louder. Can you blame the dog?

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Speaker 2: Profitable year? Please?

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Speaker 1: Do they put the dog outside because they knew that would bark When she starts yelling, I'm sure.

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Speaker 2: Profitable year, please not please. In your most profitable year, you're gonna have to pay a little bit more tax. And that's how taxes, income taxes work for us, that's how taxes should work for corporations. So we're not targeting big business, we're not targeting little business. We're saying, in your most profitable year, you're gonna afford to pay a little more taxes. This would and say we took it from eight point eight four to nine and a half or eight point eight four to ten for the top most profitable corporations. Those are not very big changes.

00:31:33
Speaker 1: We're not gonna do with all that money. Probably give it to the Somalis. I don't know.

00:31:41
Speaker 2: Those are not very big changes. We're not talking about this. We're talking about a little bit of tax change that would generate a lot of the money that we need.

00:31:50
Speaker 1: It is fascinating how many people that are running for governor are honestly campaigning on the platform in California of raising taxes because Katie wants to raise the corporate tax right, Tom Steyer says, the first thing he would do as governor is hold a special election to gut Prop thirteen. Why do these people think that these businesses are moving out of state? Why do they think we're going to lose between three and five congressional districts. Why do they think a trillion dollars of wealth has moved out of state? And they go, well, it's just a little bit. How many taxes are on the ballot this year, so many taxes, so many bonds, we can't even count at this point. And then they all go, well, it's just a little bit, so what's your problem. Well, if you pass them all, then a little bit becomes a lot, and you're in competition with forty nine other states. They're not doing this in Texas, they're not doing this in Florida. So it's easy for these companies to justify the decision to move out of California to a more business friendly state.

00:32:57
Speaker 2: That would generate a lot of the money that we need to pay for free childcare, would easily generate the money we need to provide a pathway.

00:33:04
Speaker 1: You know what, if I had the money for free childcare, I wouldn't pay for it. Raise your own damn.

00:33:09
Speaker 2: Kids to provide a pathway a free college tuition for every Californian.

00:33:18
Speaker 1: And so we already give away free college. It's just a community college with all those ghost students. California. Let me tell you there's a lot of things that this state doesn't do right. There are certain things we actually do a pretty good job at, and one of them is higher education. The California community college system is very good California State University is very good. The University of California is very good. It's an excellent education, and it's cheap. Don't tinker with it because you will ruin it. When I went to California State University at Fullerton as an undergraduish there was eighteen hundred dollars this semester and I received an excellent education. You go to other states, it's a lot more expensive than that. Keep it the way it is. It's affordable. I'm sure it's gone up a lot since then, but in those dollars, it's probably similar to whatever it is that we're charging now. That is an excellent value. You can take out loans if you don't have the money, you can work and pay it off that way.

00:34:33
Speaker 3: If that's what you want to.

00:34:34
Speaker 1: Do, don't kill the goose that laid the golden egg.

00:34:41
Speaker 2: And so that is what I'm proposing to do. It's something that some other states have done. And the great thing about this tax proposal is it's on the taxes on profits. So if a corporation sells a lot of widgets in the ear and takes.

00:34:56
Speaker 3: In a lot of widgets, don't you have any widgets at home?

00:35:02
Speaker 2: They have a choice to what to do with that money. They could pay their employees more. Yes, they could invest in their business and grow it. Yes, they could bested in research and development.

00:35:17
Speaker 1: So you know, now you're just incentivizing the companies to do stock buybacks so that don't have to pay your tax. She is someone who has worked for a university and has no clue how the actual world works.

00:35:29
Speaker 2: They could bested in research and development. Great, or they can take it as profits, pay their shareholders, pay their executives, and pay more California tax. All right, next question.

00:35:42
Speaker 3: She got so amped up with that. Let's go to Rocko in Santa Clarita.

00:35:47
Speaker 4: Rocko, Hello, Hey, John, Hello, thank you, thank you for taking my call. I really have a problem with taxing when you make more money and not giving you money back when you lose money, like on anything on a business that you have on stock, they tax the heck out of you. If you may say one hundred thousand dollars in a year on stock, still tax the heck out of you next year when you lose two hundred thousand. They don't come in and say, hey, we're going to give you some money back, because you know you paid it last year and you lost this time.

00:36:26
Speaker 3: Yeah. It's a one way street with them.

00:36:29
Speaker 5: Yes, and that is the worst thing in the world. And I don't know what to do about it. I mean, I complain about it, voast them out. But what do you think.

00:36:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, nothing's going to change in this state until people start voting differently and if the people of California elect this woman to be governor. If you think it can't get worse, guess what it can. Thank you for the call, sir,