Altadena HOA hits fire victims with a 25k assessment

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Speaker 1: And very Happy Friday to you at twelve oh seven in the West each the John Phillips Show, Mister Randy Waggings across the Glass John. The California Secretary of State's office has posted the final certified list of candidates running for governor in the June second primary, and there are twenty four Democrats, twenty three Independents, twelve Republicans, one libertarian, and one Piece and Freedom Party candidate for a grand total of sixty one candidates on the ballot. How many porn stars or actors who started different strokes? None this time around. Well, that's a change of pace. I wonder what the polling would look like if they put all sixty one candidates on the polls. You do realize this ballot is going to look like a menu at the cheesecake factory. Yes, and it's going to be a complete mess. Eight hundred two two two five two two two is telephone number?

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Speaker 2: What?

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Speaker 1: Eight hundred two to two two five two two two. I have to admit I have a little pep in my step today because the Angels defeated the Houston Astros yesterday, So the negativity and defeatism hasn't set in yet cherish this moment, John, It's not gonna last long. That is very true. And the Dodgers they ended up beating Arizona yesterday. Oh wow, so there's gonna be about two million angry people with melanoma. How about the West Sacramento as they start playing today? Right? I think?

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Speaker 3: So?

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Speaker 1: Their building is coming along in Las Vegas? Have you seen that? No? Yeah, where the Tropicana used to be, right across from the Mandalay Bay. There. Are you going to be safe going to those games? I'm not going to Raiders games? What are you talking about?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 1: I mean when the the A's inevitably moved to Vegas and the Angels will be playing the As several times, are you gonna have to go to a meeting beforehand? Oh? I'm going to go to just about every homestand that is played in Las Vegas involving the Angels. You might need to get a condo out there. I might. All Right, it's Friday, It's Jimmy Buffett Friday, and we're going to start out with a treat for all the people in radio land because it is an ed Lasco's Friday too, and it's on like Donkey Kong. It is not a crime blodder story though it is actually something far worse and something that I'm sure a lot of people listening and even in the studio have experience with. Imagine that you are a survivor of the Eaton fire, whether your home burned down or your home was damaged. Well, there are some survivors of the Eaton Fire that live in an hoa. Mind you, it's an hoa full of burned down in damaged buildings, and the Hoa, doing what hoas do, has put down a twenty four thousand dollars assessment on all homeowners and burned out lot owners that they must pay in thirty days. You know, in the old days, I would have said that hoas are filled with neighborhood Napoleons, but I think napoleon is not the accurate term. They're filled with Karens, and the Karens have been unleashed.

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Speaker 4: Karen, why are you doing this?

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Speaker 1: For more on the hoa in Alta Dina that is foicing the victims of the Eden Fire. Here's Ed Laskos and Fox eleven.

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Speaker 2: Recovery efforts from the Eaton Fire take a dramatic turn with neighbors at odds. Lawsuits flying, and now some homeowners are getting hit with an HOA bill almost twenty four thousand dollars each.

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Speaker 1: That's oh wow, right? How are people supposed to plan for these special assessments when their house didn't burn down, let alone when you have no house. I am a pretty even keeled guy. How many times have you seen me raise my voice in my life? It's almost never happened. If they sent me an assessment for twenty four thousand dollars after my home burned down, I would go to jail. I think the angriest I ever seen you was that video you sent me early in COVID where you threw your la times in the garbage. Oh yes, but I didn't even yell then. I never raise my voice. I never get really truly mad. This would piss me off. This would be a bleepfest. Oh yes, those expletives would fly. How are residents dealing with it all?

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Speaker 5: We go live to Fox eleven's Atlaskos and Altadena with more on that story edge chrisina wild situation here. Imagine getting hit with an assessment almost twenty four thousand dollars. You have a short period of time to pay it, and you're one of those who lost everything. You have nothing left but a burnt out land. Your home is gone. That's the situation here. That's the controversy. Let's get this.

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Speaker 1: Might be worse than when the LAFD sent bills to clear your brush on your burned out lots in the Palisades.

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Speaker 5: It's just rude. That's the situation here. That's the controversy. Let's get right to it.

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Speaker 1: To the video.

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Speaker 5: We go talking about the gated high end community of Levina. If you're familiar with it, it's high in the hills up on the northwestern side of Altadena. Some three hundred homes here, more than fifty of them burned, destroyed in the devastating Eaten fire, several others heavily damaged. And now you have the HIAA a year later trying to rebuild, saying it needs some sixty one million dollars for those fire repair costs, everything from infrastructure like fencing, landscaping, irrigation, but the ha doesn't have.

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Speaker 1: Of course, in HOA would figure out a way to charge you sixty one million dollars for landscaping. Okay, let's just walk this through here for a second. Whenever I get a bill from my HOA, it comes where to your mailbox? Okay, those burned down? If you don't pay the bill that comes to your mailbox, where do they post to notice letting you know that you haven't paid your bill? I guess they just use a sticky and put it on the ground of where your house used to be. It's typically the front door, right, they put the notice on the front door. Well, that burned down too, So what do they do? Send carrier pigeons.

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Speaker 5: For those fire repair costs, everything from infrastructure like fencing, landscaping, irrigation. But the HOA doesn't have all of that money. Their insurance won't cover. So you and I know what this.

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Speaker 1: So, when the insurance industry is screwing over the HOA, what does the HOA say, Like a bully getting bullied, I'm gonna screw over the people inside the HOA. I love the fact that they look at all of these fire victims, all of these people that have lost everything down to their baby pictures and toothbrush, and they go, you know what, it's been a while since that person's been screwed. What do you say we charge them twenty four thousand dollars and if they don't pay them thirty days, we're going to auction off their house or what's left of it. You and I know what does the HOA do?

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Speaker 5: And it needs money. Yes, it hits everybody, the homeowners with an assessment. But wait until you hear how much this assessment is and especially the terms of when it has to be paid and what happens if you can't pay it.

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Speaker 1: Listen, expect us. The only thing enjoyable about this story is ed Lasko's.

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Speaker 3: Ed is the king and expect us to give them twenty four thousand dollars with thirty days notice twenty four twenty four grand or risk Leans, How.

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Speaker 1: Can you justify a thirty day window for that massive of a payment? No, and then how do you come up with twenty four thousand dollars If I'm sure you've exhausted your bank account trying to rebuild, finding temporary lodging, all of the issues that have popped up since the fire took out your house. Well, and imagine trying to get a loan and they would use your house as collateral, except you don't have one anymore.

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Speaker 3: Leans, late fees, twelve percent interests, and the removal of your house is actually auctioning off your home.

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Speaker 5: A lot of these people's fifty some of them they have nothing. There's anything burned down exactly.

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Speaker 1: And you noticed that Newsom is nowhere. These people have been abused since the fire started and nothing is changing, and you talk to people in local government and they go, well, we're doing everything we can help these people. And then we cover the news on a daily basis and it's always something like this happening, and there's no one there to protect them. They are on their own. You know, I was once again wasting my life listening to yet another Newsom interview. He was on with John Avlon, who's now with The Bulwark, and he was asked about the fact that only thirty homes have been rebuilt in all of southern California since the fires, and his answer was, well, that's faster than in Paradise. And that's the attitude. That is one hundred percent Govin Newsom's attitude. And he was probably irritated that he was even asked the question and.

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Speaker 5: They got to pay twenty four minute.

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Speaker 1: Yes they do.

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Speaker 3: Let's negotiate with all of these companies. Maybe there's a way to bring it down and figure out a payment plan.

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Speaker 1: Also, if the insurance companies are not paying out the HOA, shouldn't. I don't know. Somebody like the governor or the insurance commissioner be down there trying to figure that one out. I'm very kind of sketch. Yeah, good luck getting him to move. What do you think his vacation calendar is like on his last year of his term and he is termed out. Oh, he's going to follow DJ Kitty Glitter around like he's Pat Robertson.

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Speaker 3: Bring it down and figure out a payment plan that's fair to everybody. If you can pay it now, great, If you can't pay it for six months, we feel bad for you.

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Speaker 1: This isn't how hoa's worked. Dude, you knew what you were getting into. I feel awful for these people, but you know what you're getting into when you go into an HOA. There are certain things you get from it, especially being in a gated community, but there are certain trade offs. Well, it's a protection racket. It's like what the mob used to do in the old days. We live in a state where you know that you're on your own. So if you want to live in a place that is clean, that is not taken over by the homeless. Typically, what you have to do is you have to live behind a locking gate, but you have to make a deal with the devil to do it, because the people who enforce the rules are the Karens. And by buying into an HOA, you are unleashing the Karens. And once you unleash the Karens, they not only fight the evil, they fight the good too, because the Karens just live to be at war twenty four to seven. And if there's no homeless people causing any problems, they're going to turn their anger towards you. And then every time you pass them on the street, there's gonna be some screeching metopausal explosion. And that's just coming from the men. Your hedges are a half inch too high. The Karens can't turn it off. They have one speed. It doesn't matter if they're at the airport, they're at the post office, they're at home, it doesn't matter. I can only imagine what it's like to be married to one of them. Well, most of them are divorced, I guess I should say. But that's who you're dealing with here. You made the deal with the devil, and the devil is good to enforce every clause in that contract. So just go into it knowing if you buy into an HOA that John and Kate plus eight haircut is gonna haunt you in your sleep.

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Speaker 3: But we're gonna allow you to pay it off over six months because your house just burned. The pain continues, and it's really split this community. I don't know how we get back from this. I think it's pitted neighbor against neighbor. People think I'm a troublemaker just because I'm asking questions and want fairness.

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Speaker 1: Yes, this guy's getting branded now because he said, wait, how am I supposed to pay a twenty five thousand dollars bill in my house burned down? He needs one of those Karen Voodoo dolls now live.

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Speaker 5: Ryan says he wants does he really wants transparency? Says he's been trying pressing the HOA for that transparency. Unhappy he's not getting ay the answers he wants. We've been trying to contact the Hoaight, no luck there as well. There's been some lawsuits filed. But ladies, it's a tough battle almost as they say, think about. It's like fighting city hall. You can't win. The ho ways right through the state they have a great You.

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Speaker 1: Can sometimes win against city hall, you cannot win against an hoa. It is the most oppressive form of government out there, including dictatorships. That is true.

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Speaker 5: The ho ways right through the state, they have a great deal of power. A lot of us have been through it before, and that's what these folks are dealing with here. But they're really upset because they understand you're rebuilding from that horrible fire, but the high cost and then the quick payment plan and then the threats if you can't make the payment plan, what happens in terms of interest and everything else that goes on.

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Speaker 1: So there you go. That's the latest out of an howay in Alta Dina where the residents are getting a twenty five thousand dollars assessment, you know, for their burned out lots, and they get to pay it in thirty days or they're going to get leans, they're going to get fines, they're going to get interest, and they're even getting threatened to auction off their non existent home. I could speak from experience. I have lived in a neighborhood that got taken over by the homeless in crime, and I have lived in a neighborhood that has been governed by an hoa and the Karens, who make it up pound for pound. If you put them up against one another, and you gave me a binary choice, I think I'd rather deal with the homeless than the Karens, because at least you can talk some sense into a schizophrenic at times. With the Karens, there's no way. It's just a brick wall with blonde hair.

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Speaker 4: Karen, why are you doing this?

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Speaker 7: Fox forty Capitol reporter Asoon Wallace spoke with a state senator behind a new bill that would require more Prop thirty six funding and has reaction from the governor.

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Speaker 8: He's a failing in every step of the way.

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Speaker 4: GOP Huntington Beach State Senator Tony Strickland blasting Governor Gavin Newsom, arguing he's falling short on funding for Prop thirty six programs across the state. Back in twenty twenty four, voters approved Prop thirty six with sixty eight percent of the vote to toughen penalties for certain theft and drug offenses.

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Speaker 1: Ballot measures never have those kind of margins, no, especially with the two term governor actively campaigning against it.

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Speaker 4: Including fentanel possession and to expand treatment programs for repeat drug offenders in.

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Speaker 8: Law enforcement tools they need to keep us safe.

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Speaker 4: Prop thirty six was unfunded when it passed, meaning the legislature and governor had to fund its programs, including drug courts, treatment services, and operational costs. The governor and a majority of legilative demos.

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Speaker 1: Which by the way, they're talking about, they need about four hundred million dollars to fully fund this program, which means fully funding the treatment beds and all the other things we need to make sure this program works. Four hundred million dollars is a fraction of less than one percent of the budget. What do you think this is? Do you think that Newsom thinks that if he fully funds it and we start putting people in prison, he's going to be called a racist in those early primaries, or do you think this is personal to him and he just fundamentally really does not believe in clean and sober and because Prop thirty six is geared towards trying to get people off of drugs and off of alcohol who have severe problems with it, that he just fundamentally philosophically disagrees.

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Speaker 4: The governor and a majority of legislative Democrats approved allocating one hundred million dollars for Prop thirty six over three years, but Strickland, along with several law enforcement leaders and a handful of Democrats, say that is not enough.

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Speaker 1: In fact, right now, Matt Mayhan is doing a press conference with the San Diego County DA Summer Stephan saying we need to fund Prop thirty six. How much do you think Gavin Newsom hates Matt Mayheon. Well, Gavin was at that big Bloomberg conference and he was asked on the spot that hey, Matt mahon's running for Governor Gavin did a. I don't know her.

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Speaker 4: They argue Prop thirty six needs four hundred million dollars each year to fully fund public safety programs and treatment costs. Without that funding, they worn Prop thirty six will not succeed.

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Speaker 8: It's a slap in the face what Governor Newsom did and just gives pennies and put no money into, for example, probation, which is a whole centerpiece of the whole initiative, and.

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Speaker 1: We don't do probation anymore in Los Angeles, by the way, because no one wants to work in the juvie halls and everyone's calling out six, So they made all the field deputies go into the juvie hall, so there's nobody actually checking on anyone on an ankle monitor. You know what this could be. This could be the same approach that he's taken to the death penalty, which is sign on to every idiotic policy that makes it cost a fortune and take forever, and then say, you know, we need to get rid of it because it just costs a fortune and it takes forever, and I'm just looking out for taxpayers here with Prop thirty six. If he doesn't fund it, and then Prop thirty six doesn't produce the desired results, He's going to go, well, look, we should just get rid of Prop thirty six because it's clearly not working. Although not funding Prop thirty six actually works against what he wants because he doesn't want more people in the jails. But if you're not funding Prop thirty six and you're not funding those treatment programs, well that means that on your third bust for drug possession, the only place we have to put you is the jail. From my point of view, I don't really care put him in rehab, put him in jail, whatever, just keep them away from me. Well, one thing that I will tell you, and it is an interesting thing that happened in La County. We changed das we got rid of this jackass boy Frankly who if you don't know his nickname, we used to tell everyone by email, well, so allies in the nineteen ninety his nickname would be every other word out of my mouth, yep. But we replaced it with Nathan Hawkman. And Nathan Hakman got put in the same time as Prop thirty six, and he started filing Prop thirty six in the first year. I believe there were over eight hundred Prop thirty six cases in La County and LA County famously has been trying to shut down Men's Central Jail and replace it with nothing, because of course that makes sense. In an update about closing Men's Central Jail, the supervisors that want everybody out, we're told because of Hawkman's Prop thirty six, we don't know if we can close the jail now.

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Speaker 8: And that's an accountability piece of the initiative. And he refused a fund it. He wants to see a bill. He campaigned against it.

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Speaker 4: Now, Strickland is authoring a new bill to create a new fund dedicated to funding Prop thirty six with four hundred million dollars annually.

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Speaker 8: Don't tell me that you don't have the money. That's that's a lappable argument. In fact, California doesn't have a revenue problem, it has a wasteful spending problem. When you can spend billions of dollars on the high speed rail, we only asked for four hundred million dollars to keep it safe across the state of California.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're spending a billion dollars of cap and trade money every single year on the high speed rail, and that's still not enough to fund even the initial line from Losco to Maderra. It would actually be an interesting question to have answered if we were to eliminate the waste, fraud, and abuse in California, how much money would we have left over and how much could they lower the taxes? Well, you just look at COVID where thirty billion dollars went out the window with unemployment fraud all across the country, but coming out of California, that buney could have been used for a whole lot of things.

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Speaker 8: When you can spend billions of dollars on the high speed rail, we only asked for four hundred million dollars to keep it safe across the state of California.

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Speaker 4: The California Department of Finance sent us a breakdown of Newsom's one hundred million dollar Prop thirty six allocation. It includes fifty million for county behavioral health services and another fifty million for court related costs, including pre trial services and public defense.

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Speaker 1: We don't need to be given the public defender offices any more money. They're already refusing cases of being held in contempt of court. In San Francisco, it's amazing that they were able to get away with that.

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Speaker 4: Niney Moore and another fifty million for court related costs, including pre trial services and public defense. At a Wednesday press conference, Newsom defended his Prop thirty six funding decisions, adding he's allocated hundreds of millions of dollars over the years for behavioral health programs that he says will help implement Prop thirty six.

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Speaker 3: An unprecedented investment in mental health, homelessness, and housing that has no comparable nothing.

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Speaker 9: They've never had this kind of investment.

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Speaker 1: By the way, if he's talking about Prop wy, that's interesting because he kept getting asked on the campaign trail in twenty twenty four, well, you just got everyone to pass Prop one and that's supposed to fund a whole bunch of beds. Couldn't some of those be treatment beds for substance abuse? For Prop thirty six? He said no, But now he's saying that's exactly what it is, and Prop one is a disaster. He promised us that so many things would be going on in year one due to Prop one passing and that funding being set aside. But Randy, we've learned that that in fact is not happening. Well, what's happening is the money's going out the window. What the money's actually going towards? Nobody knows.

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Speaker 4: It's Trickland though, doubling down and his demand for more Prop thirty six funding.

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Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna let go until it fully gets funded.

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Speaker 4: And the governor is expected to present his updated budget in May.

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Speaker 1: We should have a cecily. Can I get an assist on that one?

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Speaker 4: And the governor is expected to present his updated budget in May. He should have a better idea then whether he plans to add funding for Prop thirty six.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't at the state.

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Speaker 4: Capitol covering local news that matters. Hey, Tom Wallace, Fox forty News.

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Speaker 1: So there you go, the latest on the fight to fully fund Prop thirty six. You got Tony Strickland's bill. And as I mentioned, Matt Mayhan and this might just be a campaign stunt, it might not be, but he's down in San Diego with Summer Stephan and they are announcing their full fledged campaign to get Prop thirty six fully funded. Is he going to take his pilgrimage to the Tiawater River while he's down there? I think he already? Did you know if I look back in the rundowns. I think I have a story of Mayhean going to the Tijuana River. Katie. Now, I don't know if Matt Mayhan put on the gas mask.

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Speaker 10: You can st right here.

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Speaker 1: We know that Katie did. Never changed, Katie, never change. Eight hundred two two two five two two two East telephone number. What eight hundred two two two five two two two. Well, we've seen a number of cases recently where inmates who are regarded as quote unquote elderly are being let out of prison early, or at least the parole boards are voting to do that because of a state law that was signed by Galvin Newsom. Galvin Newsom does not want the prisons to be filled with inmates, so he figured, why not let the old ones out first so we can shift their healthcare cost to Medicare. And specifically, what Gavin did was he changed the definition of old from sixty five to fifty and the time you have had to serve from thirty years to twenty. How old is Gavin in his late fifties? And didn't you just write a book called young Man in a Hurry? Yes, it's a biography. It's about when he was a young man and he was in a hurry. But fifty is now elderly according to the California State Parole Board. Yes, do you realize, Randon, you and I are knocking on the door of elderly at least when it comes to the California Parole Board. Okay, but here's the problem. Perverts don't age out, they just become old perverts. And now Newsome is trying to let the old perverts out of prison, and a former Democratic member of the legislature who's now a county sheriff says it's time to end this practice. Jim Cooper, the Sacramento County Sheriff, has been all over the elder release stories that have been going out there, getting attention to them, and now he is starting a campaign for a ballot measure that he says would reform the root of all of this, which he says goes back to even before the elder parole law. This all goes back to Prop fifty seven, which let everyone out with halftime. For more on this, we go to AB ten in Sacramento.

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Speaker 4: We start tonight with a new push from Sacramento County Sheriff Jim Cooper.

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Speaker 1: Who says enough is enough.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, he's launching a ballot initiative to change Prop fifty seven.

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Speaker 1: There's going to be so much stuff on this ballot. Oh can you imagine. Well, there's going to be sixty one candidates on the primary, and when you get to the statewide ballot in November, there's going to be sixty one propositions.

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Speaker 7: Aiming to keep sexually violent predators from being released under elderly parole laws.

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Speaker 5: The move comes after recent cases here in Sacramento involving convicted offenders being considered for release.

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Speaker 7: ABC ten's Roxanealus explains what this proposal would do and why the sheriff says it's all about protecting kids.

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Speaker 9: I've fed up. I'm frustrated. It has to change. We have to put victims first.

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Speaker 6: With strong words, Sacramento County Sheriff Jim Cooper is calling on voters to change Prop fifty seven. On Wednesday, he launched a new ballot initiative, Protect Our Kids Reform Prop fifty seven, which he says would block sexually violent predators from being released under elderly parole laws.

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Speaker 1: That seems pretty common sense. I want to just remind you one more time. When I was on jury duty that month. It was a sexual molestation case and the defendant was eighty nine years of age.

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Speaker 9: The real damage after.

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Speaker 1: What was more scarring from that month, the testimony or the Applebays, They were both awful.

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Speaker 9: The real damage of fifty seven that it gave the parole board way too much unfeathered power.

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Speaker 1: They routinely and then when you get that parole board full of appointees from Gavin Newsom, they go crazy. I love the fact that, like so many of them, the moment this guy got out of the legislature, he found Jesus.

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Speaker 9: They routinely released violent inmates early, even after a jury trial and judicial sentencing.

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Speaker 6: Cooper says, the voters never really knew what they were voting for, and that's why it needs to go back to the voters. The response comes.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and what do you think the title in summary of that one's going to be? Oh? Would Bob Bonta writing it? Bob Bonta?

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Speaker 6: The response comes after recent cases of convicted sexually violent predators being considered for release under California's elderly parole laws.

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Speaker 9: What makes it so eronic? And Sacramento we have David Allen Funston. Mister Vogelsong, he molested seven girls and one boy, and I'm sure there are many more. Mister Vogelsong molested six boys. That is the issue. What is the moral compass of this?

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Speaker 10: Detectives with the Sheriff's Office also say in many cases there are more victims who have never spoken up, amplifying the need to keep predators locked up.

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Speaker 11: I can't help but wonder how many of you may have been a victim in your childhood, because unfortunately not all these cases, the vast majority don't get reported, so scars are forever. And I hope that the public will understand what Sheriff Cooper is trying to do here.

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Speaker 1: I mean, currently we are in a situation where the pendulum has swung in one direction. Prop thirty six was a start, but there are plenty of other things we need to reform, this being a major one, the mental health diversion being another one. Another thing Jim Cooper, by the way, has been all over I wonder if he's going to stay a Democrat long.

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Speaker 6: Sheriff Cooper says it's scary that the parole Board could release other sexually violent predators. Detectives are also not convinced that sexually violent predators can be reformed, and.

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Speaker 1: Mister Funston said, I can control it. I don't think so.

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Speaker 11: Once a pedophile, always a pedophile.

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Speaker 1: He's not wrong.

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Speaker 6: Plan is now to raise money for signature gathering, which Sheriff Cooper says shouldn't be difficult to do since it means protecting children.

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Speaker 9: If you're against a proposition to protect our kids, that means you stay with pedophiles and predators.

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Speaker 7: That was our Roxana Liis reporting. The sheriff says this isn't a political issue and every child deserves protection. When signatures are collected, the measure could go on the twenty twenty eight ballot, giving voters the final say.

00:33:29
Speaker 1: Oh he's waiting for twenty twenty eight for this one. Let's go to Robert in San joseer Robert, Hello, Yeah, I.

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Speaker 12: Just wanted to make a comment on this. Nick Shirley Leo.

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Speaker 13: I saw where he was asking this guy and read out by NWSOM Matthew and vote for news.

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Speaker 12: And he's so sure because NWSOM gave me my freedom. The guy was in for murder and carjacking and another offense, and he had a life sentence and I mean this is a nuisances act like he's got He's got this narcissistic sort of he's some mythical figure like Robinhood and everybody in the you know, the normals in the middle class across the where they wanted a normal life and the almost safe streets are. You have to put up with his garbage, and we're the guilty ones for disagreeing with him. I'm sick of it.

00:34:16
Speaker 1: I don't know how you defend this and remain intellectually honest. Who could look you in the eye and go, yeah, you know, I know that these people molested a bunch of people, but they're over the age of fifty, So I mean, come on, what do you think they're going to do molest people from the walker.

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Speaker 13: It's just not fair and the victims, and you've got to put these We would create the Big House for to separate these people. They've earned their position at the Big House. They're lucky, you know, back in the day they've been they've been strung up. We're giving him four squares and a cot and a bunch of entertainment. I mean, they got it made in the shade. You got better than I'm doing. I'm living out of my car and we're working to because I have to roll an uber after I get out of my main job, you know, seven days a week, just.

00:35:00
Speaker 12: To make ends meet.

00:35:01
Speaker 1: All right, thank you for the call, sir. I appreciate it. I say, keep them in the big house where everyone around them is a little long on the tooth for their taste.