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Hey b La Top fifteen eighty.
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Good morning, Happy Monday, God bless I'm Dominica Prima. The
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show is called First Things First, and my first thing
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every day is prayer given, thanksgiving, praises and asking for
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blessings from God, asking for the blessings of the ancestors
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and the elders.
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And let's go.
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Man.
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It's a busy season, is a busy time.
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We got a lot to talk about, in a lot
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to do. Okay, today is mindful Monday, but well, our
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mindfulness instructor is having a mindful vacation, so we will
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be on our own, will be left to our own
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devices for meditation affirmation.
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I got a little something something for you.
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So our one we look local, what's going on on
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the left coast side of town. Our two we go national, international,
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and beyond. Typically we lead off with a little grounding
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or guided meditation affirmation. Our three we do a deep
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dive with a hot topic or a person of interest.
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And today we'll be talking with a poet, activist, author.
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Luis Rodriguez.
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You may know him from Mivia Loka, probably his most
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famous work, which was made into a film, but he
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is also a poet. The proprietor of Tiachuca Bookstore and
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cultural center in the valley, and a I think two
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or three time gubernatorial candidate for the state of California,
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so he may have a bit to say about that.
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And of course you are invited in every hour. I
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think you know that by now. If you're new here, welcome.
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You can call in every hour at eight hundred nine
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two oh fifteen eighty eight hundred nine twenty fifteen eighty.
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You can also tap in on YouTube where the folks
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are in the comments. And I always like to read
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the comments while I'm live on the air because it
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gives me real time feedback from you beyond the phone.
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Some people just are at work or they don't like
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public speaking. It's the perfect way for you to work
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and tap in and share what is on your mind. Man,
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a lot of things going on in this state of
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California right now and across the nation, so we will
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have a chance to wait in on those. Good morning,
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Jackal Nanderson, Good morning, Molly Bell, Good morning, Paul Lee.
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Good morning to.
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Our KBLA Chat chairpersons and our regulars. It's lovely to
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see you. It's a busy time, a busy week. I
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was just telling Miles, I don't know how I get
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myself into all these things, but you are in them
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with me and looking very forward to that. So Thursday
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is the People's Budget Assembly. I'll be hosting that at
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the Center for Black Power. That starts at seven pm.
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You're invited. There's going to be dinner served that will
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be free of charge. Everything will be free of charge.
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And if you want to go to People's Budget la
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dot com slash survey, you could do that before the sixteenth.
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You could do it now. It only takes about ten minutes.
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And what it does is it lets you say how
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you think the budgeting should go for the City of
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Los Angeles. Should we spend more on parks or more
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on cops, Should we spend more on street lights or
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more on parking enforcement, that kind of thing. They give
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you little lists and you just go yes, no, yes, no.
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It's actually kind of fun because you're imagining what the
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LA of your dreams would be like. So that's happening.
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Then there's data that's presented to the group. Doctor David
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Turner and doctor Tabatha Jones Jolivette will do that and
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then we talk about it it's a really nice assembly
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at the Center for Black Power, which is right next
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to the La Mert Park metro station. It's a forty
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sixth Place, not forty sixth Street, not forty sixth Avenue,
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forty sixth place, right across from the actual park at
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the BLMLA Center for Black Power. So I'll see you
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there on Thursday at seven, and of course there's more
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to come. The following week we will have we'll have
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a screening. We're gonna have the screening of the Michael
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Jackson movie and.
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We'll be giving away tickets shortly.
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And then on the twenty fifth of April, which is
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a Saturday, we have the African Focus Incorporated Goodwill Awards.
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You can go to Africanfocus dot org if you want
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more information. I'll be m seeing that that is see.
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I got my African dress on today. This is the
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first one I ever bought when I went to Ghana,
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which was the first country I ever visited when I
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went back to the Motherland in twenty sixteen.
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That was our.
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Initial trip African Focus Trailblazer Tours.
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And so what we do at the Goodwill Awards.
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Is African families who live here in Los Angeles will adopt.
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They call it an Induction'll adopt African American families is
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a way of healing the breach, the wounds of our enslavement.
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And it's a really beautiful ceremony. They usually bring a
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king over from Africa. I'm pretty sure this year we
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have a Euroba king who's coming. And we do that.
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We give out some awards, we break bread, people dance,
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everybody wears their beautiful African garb and it is a
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really great networking and sort of grounding situation. There's more too,
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but I'd be talking all day Earth Day of courses
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next week. Man, it's a lot, a lot, a lot
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going on, So stay connected with us at KBLA fifteen eighty,
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dot com at KBLA fifteen eighty, on all the social
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media platforms, and of course you can find me at
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the Premia Radio, d IP E R, I AM AN
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and radio. Recently we started streaming on Facebook, so you
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could see us on Facebook or YouTube and occasionally Instagram.
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When I decide to stream, I'm on all of those
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at Dupremia Radio, d I, p R, I M A
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and then radio. Man, do I look skinnier? Do I
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look skinnier, whiles might not be skinnier. Huh.
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I feel shot out of a.
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Cannon, but at the same time somewhat spacey. I decided
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to do doctor Goss's cleanse this weekend. Doctor Paul Goss,
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the organic chemist who worked for the pharmaceuticals quit and
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then became sort of the godfather of West Coast herbalist.
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Doctor Goss is the one who trained doctor Sabie, who
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trained Doctor rab who trained w Moja.
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He's like the og.
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May he rest in peace, and he's the proprietor of
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New Body Herbs, now owned by his children. But it's
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an intense cleanse.
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Probably feel light as a feather right now.
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Yeah, yep.
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I've only done it a few times in my life
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because you drink a whole bunch of olive oil, you
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drink orange juice, and you don't really eat much. Of course,
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I was vegan for ten days in preparation for that,
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because you want to make sure your body's ready. You
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don't want to go from Hamburger to doctor Goss's cleans.
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That's all bad, you guys, And then you got to
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come back easy. You can't just go from cleans to
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Hamburger either. You'll be writhing in pain.
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So you're at the point where, I mean, how long
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of a faster or cleans is this going to be
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for you?
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Well, I mean I was doing vegan for ten days.
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Now I did the herbs and stuff last for seven days,
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and then after the herbs you stay. According to doctor Vegan,
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Doctor Goss, you stay vegan for the rest of your life.
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But I usually try to do at least two or
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three weeks from the cleanse of staying vegan, and mostly
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he wants you to eat eighty percent raw foods and
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twenty percent cooked foods.
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Well, I look forward to seeing how this process plays
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out live on the air every morning.
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Yeah, for my long time you know, friends and followers.
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Ricky Harris, the comedian, co hosted for me on Front
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Page for a while on the other radio station. Actually
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he was there for a couple of years, and we
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did this challenge where the entire all of us, all
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of us took the cleans together, and then I chickened
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out and I only Rihet did the clets, but I
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ended up doing it later. Anyway, jas Mechanic joins us
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this hour, looking forward to that man the Governor's race.
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What's happening in city elections. The statewide election season is here.
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I'm Dominique Daprima for KBLA Talk fifteen eighty. Right now,
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you're not just back to me, You're back to Jasminchanic
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award winning journalists, political and cultural commentator, political strategists, and activists.
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Her work spans media, politics, culture. She says she's driven
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by curiosity, accountability, and refusable to waste time on empty narrative.
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You're funny, Jasmine gen X, opinioned, opinionated, political, and always caffeinate,
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always caffeinated. Good morning, good morning, Good morning, Miles. Yeah,
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well no, you never do. You guys are the AI
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twins or both of you guys doing wow. I don't
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know if this clean has made my voice go away,
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but both of you guys are doing a lot in
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the AI space.
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Check out Twanda.
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I am Twanda dot Ai.
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I am Twanda dot All telling it's really funny.
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Actually you never.
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Knew good meeting story coming out today too, because apparently
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she found out that Donald Trump was talking trash about
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the Pope, so she had a report on that and
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she has some very interesting interviews.
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Yeah yeah, okay, well you're shot out of the cannon
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today because I got questions for you in California. California
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has experienced a political earthquake.
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Yes, you could say that.
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Eric Swolwell, who was, depending on which pole you look at,
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either in first place or second place in the California
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Gubman of territorial race, suspended his campaign, which is political
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speak for quit because of sexual misconduct allegations which seemed
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to be building and building, and this is a pattern,
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one woman went on CNN. A couple of women made allegations.
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The San Francisco Chronicle published a report of him forcing
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himself on young on one young staffer. Another woman said,
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the congressman sent inappropriate sexual messages and dickpics.
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So you know, my theme song for every election cycle
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is always E forty's Choices. So y'all, if you know
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the song is playing, it's it's the bad music right now,
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you hear it in your head. Okay, you got choices.
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You have less choices than you did on Friday. But
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I will say this, and as a former congressional staffer,
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never piss off the staffers. Your staffers know all of
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your secrets. Your staffers know everything. Always treat your staffers nice.
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That is why when a few months ago, remember when
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Katie Porter found herself all over social media for being
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yet never piss off the staffers. You know, I just
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find really interesting because this didn't happen overnight. And I've
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seen many interviews of representatives and different folks, congressional representas saying, oh,
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everyone knew Matt Gates and Eric Swalwell never to have
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young staffers around them, and this and that, Well why
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didn't you say anything like why you know, why did
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he get this far? So I'm very like eh. And
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Plus also remember I'm looking at it also through the
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lens of someone that watched this entire democratic establishment here
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completely ignore ed Buck had nothing to say. And now
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I'm watching folks again like I did with with cisar Chaves,
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fall all over themselves. Folks can't run away from Swallwell
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fast enough. And I'm just like, okay, white female victims.
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But okay, true, But you know I have to push
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back because you always say ed Buck democratic strategists, which
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he was donor donor donor. After being a Republican donor.
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He started as a Republican donor, then he went to
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the Republican Party.
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He spent more time as a Democrat.
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I mean, I get that, I get that. But what
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I'm saying is these problems cross party lines in both directions.
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It's not like Swalwell's the only second past.
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But I'm talking about the Democratic Party. I you know,
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I tell people all the time, like I really you know,
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I get popcorn and red vines for the fighting that
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goes on and fighting on the other side, I don't care,
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you know, I'm firmly in that gen x era. I
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don't care. Okay, But when it comes to us and
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holding us accountable and and and and being consistent, yeah,
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you know. So I do look at things through that lens.
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I look at when you know, black folks are the victims,
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and how the Democratic Party makes up all kinds of excuses,
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even to the point of ignoring things. So I bring
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that to the table as well whenever I look at
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these situations.
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So you're saying you hold us to a higher standard Democrats.
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Yeah, absolutely. And then so at the same time, I'm like, okay, well,
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if he's not good enough for governor, why is it
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good enough for the House?
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Well, there is a pretty strong movement, mostly coming from Republicans, though,
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to make him step down from Congress Herrick Swallwell.
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Oh, but you know, let's see how the party feels
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about that, because you know, our votes are so the number.
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right And so I'm not saying that he can't be
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replaced with another Democrat, because of course he can. This
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is California.
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But so would that be governor new someone get to
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pick someone, or is it a special election?
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no one wants to wait for that to happen because
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there'll be votes and things that happen in between. So well,
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I guess we'll really find out how the Democratic Party
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feels about sexual harassment and sexual misconduct when it's done
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by a member of the House very very soon, because
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if they start making excuses about, oh, well but we
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you know, we'll just wait until he's up and we'll
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we'll just you know, then, no, you're not as serious
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as you claim to be. You're not really ten toes down.
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I don't think Eric's going to be the only one.
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of this gubernatorial race, there's going to be lots of
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stuff that comes out about folks. Of course, this is
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there are a whole areas of campaign that do nothing
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but ops research.
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I mean, come on, yeah, I mean I do.
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couple months out now, So we are we.
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Get this close to with like fifty three fifty two days.
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Okay, So how we get this close to the election
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and we're just now finding this out about Eric Swall,
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especially as you said, it's been an open secret.
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of Hollywood actors, white and black directors, producers who everybody
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knew Winstein was. Everybody knew Cosby had proclivities. I mean,
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everybody inside insiders. Just like there's certain people everybody knows
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that person is gay, not that being gay is the
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same as a sexual predator. But these are open secrets
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that somehow don't lead to any kind of public reality.
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think it was yesterday he suspended the campaign, and the
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calls had gotten pretty pretty loud, and he was tinto's
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down about how he was going to fight the allegations.
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But of course, when you know your coacher step back,
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your donors start.
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To bail, your staff is resigning in droves.
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Right, So I think he saw that he had no choice.
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But at the same time, I think, you know, the
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media plays a role in this as well. You know,
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they if no no one believes, or there's no one
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out there to put the story out there, or you know,
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because a lot of times part of it is that.
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I remember when I was in the beginning trying to
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get folks to cover the ed Buck situation when only
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one person had died in his apartment. I remember a
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certain network told me that they were afraid of being
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sued and they couldn't do the story.
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Yeah, that doesn't surprise me.
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Yeah, I mean everybody tread really lightly with this, the
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candidates tread lightly until the chronicle story. I was treading
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lightly with it because the only place I saw it
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verified was on Instagram. And that's not even verified. It's
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people's opinions Twitter and Instagram.
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Until I can.
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Get something that's you know, backed up with a personal
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testimonial or fact, I don't I always hesitate to.
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Just it's hard. I know, this is a very changing
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media landscape in this country really in this world. But
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we've got a lot of news that has broken or
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social media and not traditional media over the past decade.
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But still because we people like you and other folks,
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folks do want it from like a mainstream outlet, and
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that's not always really easy. That's actually how I got
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into the five years that I spent covering the LAPD. Okay,
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because the La Times wasn't covering this. The correction for me,
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it's not looking for a mainstream media. I need a
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community source.
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I need at person saying it's not just an influencer
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writing I think this or everybody knows this.
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Right, you want more than Candice Owen's Yes, please, But
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that's like going back to what I was saying, Like,
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you know, that's how I ended up covering the LAPD
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those years ago, was because even though the stories were
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salacious and actually so unbelievable, they ended up being true.
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They ended up being true.
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But you weren't copying rumors. You had sources inside the LAPD.
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You had actual cop that we're telling eight.
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And I remember talking to folks who like, oh, I
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went to The Times and I went to so and so,
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and I guess they didn't believe, and so it's not
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hard for me to believe that maybe there were staffers,
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to mainstream and got pushed back or or you know,
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remember there are advertisers that certain entities are looking out for.
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of board members or presidents that are friends with certain people.
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We've seen it happen on a national level. How stories
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get buried, right, Yeah, and so it's not surprising that
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it took this long. But again, my thing is, if
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he's not good enough to be California's governor, then there
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needs to be a real conversation about that that seat
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in Congress.
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Sixty seconds going into news, traffick and sports. How do
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you think this reshapes the governor's rape?
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It doesn't. You still have choices. You have less choices
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than you did on frid Day. And folks, you know,
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particularly the undecided who are the majority right now, need
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to look at all of these candidates seriously and figure
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out who they're going to run with.
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Because you don't think it helps Styre reporter or Via Rugosa, or.
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It helps when you have someone drop out, because that
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means their supporters now need someone else to vote.
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Hopefully it bumps one of those Republicans off the top rch.
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That's what I'm hoping at least.
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Oh, we should talk about their republicas for half a
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second when we come back about their their unable to
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endorse Hilton over the weekend. Interesting even Yes, yes.
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Not that I care, but it's I got my popcorner
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to care the reality star versus the prop I mean oathkeeper.
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Let us pray news, traffic and sports and when you
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come forward on k b l A Talk fifteen eights.
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I love.
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Love but I love that song.
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I love to use it whenever I talk about the
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election because at the end of the day, we've got choices.
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We do yep, Nope, nope.
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And and so Swalwell is out. You said you don't
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think it maybe would particularly help any certain candidate, but
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we'll see. I have been saying that one of the
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top three needs to drop out.
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I said my.
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Vote was for Porter because I think the mean Boss
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thing hurt her enough. She probably could go somewhere, meditate,
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come back and run for something else.
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And she's the one with the highest name recognition when
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you look at the polls, just because of all of
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the things that she she did while she was in.
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Congress, which yeah, which she did some great stuff, but
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I think she was wounded. But now that Swalwell is out,
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there's at least no one's going Now that's gone. I
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think people are candidates are probably even more firmer in
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the results today right where they are. And I've said
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this and continue to say this, you just never know
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what's gonna happen in in in these races, you absolutely
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never know right up until the last minute, what is
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what hammer's gonna drop, what what.
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Scandal is gonna pop off? You just don't know. And so, yeah,
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I don't see Porter moving. I don't see I don't
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see Besarah stepping.
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It seems like he's getting a little momentum from this.
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I don't see Antonio Vieta Ragosa moving. I betty, he
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has been pretty firm. I think folks are gonna are
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gonna keep keep going.
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And the sad thing is you didn't even mention Tony
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thurmant so I'm just right exactly, But I mean, I'm
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just kidding, Like you said, we don't know who could
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break out, who could fall off. I certainly look like
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Swawoh was kind of taking on the mantle.
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Of right in their stire. Matt what's his name, Matt
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made Yeah, Yeah, so, I you know, I saw a
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couple of stories where Gavin is acting like God and saying,
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you know, basically, the thinking is that he may have
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to step in and endorse someone to get the Democrats
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in California to make up their mind, and we'll see
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if I'm not one of those Democrats. I can make
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up my mind just fine without Gavin Newsom's input, right,
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and we'll see.
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If how much people care.
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But you mentioned that the Republicans are having their own
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circular firing squad at the moment, which is nice. It's
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nice to see the discord happening on both sides.
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Yeah, it's it's theatrical. To me, it's like grab my
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popcorn and my red vines. I very much have the
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same attitude when I look at Candice Owen getting mad
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at Trump, it's like it's mildly amusing, like okay, so yeah, so,
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you know, for folks who are who are not paying
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attention to this race, Donald Trump came out and endorsed
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Steve Hilton for governor on social media for Fox news
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host right and advisor to the former Prime minister, British
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Prime Minister. He did it last Sunday, not this past Sunday,
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but the Sunday before on social media. And so the
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assumption was, I guess that the Republican the California Republican
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Party was going to follow suit and just endorse him
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as well. And when they had their conference over the weekend,
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they did not. They did not. And there are two
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Republican candidates, Chad Bianco, who is who made headline news
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for being the sheriff that stole all them ballots, you know,
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feeding into Trump's narrative about elections being fixed and people
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voting who shouldn't be voting, and they they couldn't because
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and actually Chad Bianco got forty nine percent of the
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delegates votes their delegates votes for the endorsement. Now you
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need to get sixty percent as the threshold to actually
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get the endorsement, but he got more than Steve Hilson.
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That's really terrifying. That's terrifying because Chad Bianco not only
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stole those ballots where it's so called investigation which is
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currently been halted by a judge, but he is an oathkeeper.
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Now he claims he's a former oathkeeper, but to me,
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that's like former clan unless you completely renounce it, you know,
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you're still.
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oathkeeper like activities along the campaign trail.
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So that means like half of California's Republicans are fine
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electing a white supremacist as governor of the state of California.
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Absolutely, So this is the part where we should cat
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that's a whole problem for those of us who are not,
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you know, drinking that kool aid and a part of
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that group y'all undecided, need to get off the bench
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and make up your mind before you do end up
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with either an oathkeeper as your governor or a version
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of Trump with a British accent as your governor.
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I mean a Fox News host and I know that. Yeah,
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the President wants Fox News hosts in every position ideally,
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But the guy's also wealthy. I mean people talk about
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Tom Steyr Hilton is wealthy.
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Yeah, but people need to make up their mind. And we're,
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you know, fifty three fifty two some odd days out
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from the election. We're even less than that for early
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voting and ballots dropping and so because the election really
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starts when the when the ballots drop and get in
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your mailbox.
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Okay, be sure, we've already started talking to candidates here,
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and we'll be talking to them until we're blue in
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the face, pretty much until election day.
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I mean that's when the election ends.
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On election day.
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People think it's just getting started. No, it ends on
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election day. But yeah, folks, you all need to make
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up your mind. You need to, you know, do your
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little research on these candidates, you know, and if you
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don't feel like you're capable to do the research, you
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can always reach out to me because I'll stay you
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in the right direction, or someone else who you do
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trust to let you need.
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And just so people are clear, you do a ballot I.
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Do voter recommendations. Absolutely. I look forward to doing it.
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I get giddy about it, you know. I from the
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judges to the city attorney to the sheriff. You know,
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you would think we only have the governor's race and
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the mayor's race going on in this state right now
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and in this city and county, but we have so
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many other races. There's a possibility of san Bernardino getting
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its first black mayor, first black woman mayor. There are
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all these really great races going on. There's some messy ones. Compton,
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I'm talking about you. There's some messy races going on too.
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But so we all need to be paying attition folks
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who've been listening to me for any amount of time
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when it comes to politics. Not my favorite thing to
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say is no, your zip code do not tell me
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what is going on in Washington, d C. And you
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cannot tell me what is going on in your city
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and your county.
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Yeah, well we well, we don't have time for this today.
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But everybody's running for my Assembly speaker, my Assembly not speaker,
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my Assembly members seat, Isaac Bryan, that's mine too. Everybody's
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running for that one.
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Yeah.
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But I do want to talk when we come forward
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about speaking of your research into LA PD and smaller races.
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Oh city attorneys race, Yeah, yeah, yes, lots of go
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on on there.
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There's like three candidates, is.
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It so, John, Yes, there's three, two and.
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The incumbent, right, the incumbent of course, being Heidi Steiny Soto. Yeah,
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Heidi Feldstein Soto is is the incumbent and she has
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actually just been hit with a huge Speaking of election,
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what do you call them October surprises? I guess for
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the primaries, there are April surprises. This breach of the LAPD.
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Database. It's not their database.
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It was like a some kind of storage unit for
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data in the City Attorney's office, but it has all
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these sensitive records l a PD, disciplinary records, lawsuits against
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the LAPD, all kinds of personnel records, and so now.
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Yeah, they were hacked, and and so the union had
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endorsed her, and the police union had endorsed her, and
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the Los Angeles Protective League. Uh, and they've rescinded that endorsement. Now,
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in politics, that's a big thing to the average voter
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that listens to kb LA. I don't think we care
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that much just in terms of oftentimes whoever the police
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union is endorsing the opposite direction. Yeah, but the city
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attorney's race is so critical and so important, and so
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many people don't know the difference between the district attorney
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and the city attorney. But if you care about homelessness,
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tenants rights, environmental issues here in the city of LA
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that's the office you need to be paying attention to, right, So.
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Break down the difference between the city attorney and the
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district attorney.
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There was a joke there, but I am not going
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to say it.
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El Stein, Soto and the Hawkman went into a bar.
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No oh, okay.
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But the difference is just one, the obvious one misdemeanors, felonies,
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but just also too, Like I said, we homelessness is
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a huge issue in our city and primarily those issues
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are dealt with out of the City Attorney's office. So
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when we talk about unhoused people being ticketed on house
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people being misdemeanors, right, yes, all of that comes out
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of the City Attorney's office. When we when we look
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at tenants rights issues, landlord tenant, all of that stuff
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again falls into the purview of the City Attorney's office.
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There are a lot of people who are big in
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the environment, and we should be. Those issues tend to
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come out also of the City Attorney's office. A lot
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of business issues as well, and so they the City
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Attorney's office is humongous and they play a huge role
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in our day to day life here in Los Angeles.
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And you know, uh, four years ago Heidi was elected.
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I didn't support her. I did not vote for her
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at the Times of matter of fact, I worked for
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her competitor on her competitors campaign, and I know that
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a lot of people are not happy with her. She
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I got. I'm not gonna say it. I'll do it
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after the break because i just want to double check
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my research. But I'm almost pretty sure I don't need to,
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but I will. But let's just say her democratic roots
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don't grow, don't go too far down Crown, all.
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Right, more than this, because this is an important race.
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The city attorney is the is the legal advisor to
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the city council in that air and every city department.
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So if she or she is conservative, then her his
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or her conservative viewpoints will actually influence all kinds of
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other city policy and departments, and they're the way they move.
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So this is a race that we should pay more
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attention to.
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And it's getting kind of.
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Spicy, so maybe we will more straight ahead on KBLA
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Talk fifteen eighty We talk fifteen eighty. Man, there is
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a lot going on. It's election season. We're going to
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be busy. We're going to try to draft Jasmine a
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little more because we got so much to unpack and uncover.
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So we're talking about the city attorney's race. The main
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candidate I've been hearing about going against Heidi Feldstein Soto
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is Marissa Roy. Yes, what do we know about her?
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Well, Marissa has been She actually to my surprise, and
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I say that, I was very surprised. She did get
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the endorsement of the Democratic Party, the Los Angeles County
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Democratic Party, of the party that I am a delegate in.
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Why were you surprised, I mean, she's coming out of this,
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She's coming out of Bonta's office. Right. The state of is.
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Also a party that endorsed Villa Nueva Viaanueva then could
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vote to censor him after he did all the crazy.
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Things and hasn't voted and weighed in on governor.
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Right, it has not, No, they're just they just ratified
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what the state party did, which was no endorsement. So yeah, no,
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I was surprised. But Mrissa is backed by a lot
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of labor. She has a ton of labor support. She
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has a lot of support from like you know, La
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Ford ground game, even the Democratic Socialists.
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Really, she's a Deputy Attorney General in the Department of
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Justice Consumer Protection section, and she.
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Has she's got the endorsements and then you got John McKinney, prosecutor,
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the deputy district attorney out of Nathan Hoffman's office. Now,
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if you remember, he also ran for district attorney. I
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do Hawkman, not that long ago. Mike. Assumption is that
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the union, for example, like the police union, will probably
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throw their weight behind Kenny.
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Certainly the prosecutor should. Yeah, so he's a black man,
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he is, he's also That's why.
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I said my assumption is he is a black man, right,
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but he's also something. I mean, you know, there's there's
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that going for them, for him with them, so we'll
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see what happens that there with that. And then you
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were saying, there's another person who I've actually.
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Not heard of.
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Ada or Ida ASSUREI. She's a staff attorney at Public
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Council and Legal Aid Foundation of l A. She represents
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tenants and low income small business owners. She also worked
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for the l A City Attorney and the San Diego
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City Attorney.
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Okay, I didn't know much about her.
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She she says she's gonna hold landlords accountable for tenant harassment.
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Obviously she's coming from legal aide. She probably has a
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more protended, more pro working class perspective. Whether or not
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she has a chance is another question. She's been endorsed
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by Peace and Freedom Party, Biking while Black and Stop
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the Gondola Coalition. So, but you said you were going
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to do look in your files for something you wanted
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to verify regarding felt Yeah, we're.
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Gonna leave that alone because I don't have time to
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really get into it. Let's just say that that Heidi
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is on the more conservative side, and I don't even
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think she herself would argue with that description. She is
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very conservative, and since she's you know, taken over the
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city attorney's office, there have been a few issues. This
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latest one is the one that's you know, making all.
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The LAPD hack, which caused them to withdraw their endorsement.
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But I don't know that they'll endorse elsewhere.
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Who knows they may. That's why I said the only
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other person that makes sense would be McKinney. But we'll
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have to see what happens there. I mean, but there
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are people who were upset with Heidi for her office,
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sued one of the journalists. Yeah, she's for the photographs
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of the remember when there was the officer photographs and
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that whole public records situation. So that's just another.
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She's tried to block a.
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California Public Records Acts. She's yeah, so there's.
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And she and you know, she tried to block a
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contract for eviction for free eviction eviction protection services, which, yeah,
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so this may be center.
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You know, I I I'm okay with the one term
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elected official because in your first term, your job is
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to show us, the voters and your constituents that you
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are doing what you promised to do on a campaign trail.
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If we are unhappy with your performance in your first term,
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we are under no obligation to reelect you. And it
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you know, we saw it happen with Via Nueva, We
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saw it happen with i'ment McDonald, We saw it happen
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with Jackie Lacy. Like these are not positions for life,
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even if they don't have term limits. Okay, So I'm
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okay with that. Like you had if you had a
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term in office and the majority of the voters don't
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feel like you did what they wanted you to do
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as as in that office, that is the voter's responsibility
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and write to say, hey, let's bring in someone else
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and see what they've got. And whoever comes in may
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be better, may not be better, but that is why
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we have elections every four years, not every eight people,
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not only when it's time for the president. Our most
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important elections are the are the local ones.
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Yeah, jas mechanica, time flies when you're on the radio.
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What do you want to leave us with this morning?
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Oh, have a great day. Just you know, have a
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great day, keep from being unlived, be nice.
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Remind us where to find you.
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Oh I am Jasmine dot com, Jasmine with the Y
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J S, M, Y N E. And I'm on all
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the socials.
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Man, oh mighty. All right, thank you for coming in.
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It's always great to see you. And hopefully we'll get
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to talk again soon because I got a lot of questions.
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Paul says.
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Tom Steyer needs to come in for a first things
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first interview. Look, they all do, We're invite we are.
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We have invited them all. We've invited all the mayorals.
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All the shriffaid advertised too.
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Our first sheriff candidate will be here Thursday is on.
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You're gonna be hearing from a lot of these folks, judges,
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and not every race, but the ones that impact us.
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And you know who I'm talking about.
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No, your zip code. Folks, you got choices
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Your zip code choice yes, No, KBLA top fifteen, e
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Hey b La Top fifteen eighty.
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Good morning, Happy Monday, God bless I'm Dominica Prima. The
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show is called First Things First, and my first thing
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every day is prayer given, thanksgiving, praises and asking for
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blessings from God, asking for the blessings of the ancestors
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and the elders.
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And let's go.
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Man.
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It's a busy season, is a busy time.
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We got a lot to talk about, in a lot
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to do. Okay, today is mindful Monday, but well, our
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mindfulness instructor is having a mindful vacation, so we will
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be on our own, will be left to our own
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devices for meditation affirmation.
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I got a little something something for you.
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So our one we look local, what's going on on
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the left coast side of town. Our two we go national, international,
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and beyond. Typically we lead off with a little grounding
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or guided meditation affirmation. Our three we do a deep
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dive with a hot topic or a person of interest.
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And today we'll be talking with a poet, activist, author.
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Luis Rodriguez.
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You may know him from Mivia Loka, probably his most
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famous work, which was made into a film, but he
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is also a poet. The proprietor of Tiachuca Bookstore and
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cultural center in the valley, and a I think two
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or three time gubernatorial candidate for the state of California,
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so he may have a bit to say about that.
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And of course you are invited in every hour. I
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think you know that by now. If you're new here, welcome.
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You can call in every hour at eight hundred nine
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You can also tap in on YouTube where the folks
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are in the comments. And I always like to read
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the comments while I'm live on the air because it
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gives me real time feedback from you beyond the phone.
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Some people just are at work or they don't like
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public speaking. It's the perfect way for you to work
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and tap in and share what is on your mind. Man,
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a lot of things going on in this state of
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California right now and across the nation, so we will
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have a chance to wait in on those. Good morning,
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Jackal Nanderson, Good morning, Molly Bell, Good morning, Paul Lee.
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Good morning to.
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myself into all these things, but you are in them
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with me and looking very forward to that. So Thursday
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is the People's Budget Assembly. I'll be hosting that at
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You're invited. There's going to be dinner served that will
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dot com slash survey, you could do that before the sixteenth.
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you think the budgeting should go for the City of
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Los Angeles. Should we spend more on parks or more
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on cops, Should we spend more on street lights or
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more on parking enforcement, that kind of thing. They give
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you little lists and you just go yes, no, yes, no.
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LA of your dreams would be like. So that's happening.
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forty sixth place, right across from the actual park at
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the BLMLA Center for Black Power. So I'll see you
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there on Thursday at seven, and of course there's more
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a screening. We're gonna have the screening of the Michael
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a Saturday, we have the African Focus Incorporated Goodwill Awards.
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I got my African dress on today. This is the
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first one I ever bought when I went to Ghana,
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which was the first country I ever visited when I
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went back to the Motherland in twenty sixteen.
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a way of healing the breach, the wounds of our enslavement.
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have a Euroba king who's coming. And we do that.
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everybody wears their beautiful African garb and it is a
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really great networking and sort of grounding situation. There's more too,
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next week. Man, it's a lot, a lot, a lot
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going on, So stay connected with us at KBLA fifteen eighty,
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dot com at KBLA fifteen eighty, on all the social
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and then radio. Man, do I look skinnier? Do I
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look skinnier, whiles might not be skinnier. Huh.
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I feel shot out of a.
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Cannon, but at the same time somewhat spacey. I decided
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to do doctor Goss's cleanse this weekend. Doctor Paul Goss,
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the organic chemist who worked for the pharmaceuticals quit and
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then became sort of the godfather of West Coast herbalist.
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Doctor Goss is the one who trained doctor Sabie, who
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trained Doctor rab who trained w Moja.
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He's like the og.
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May he rest in peace, and he's the proprietor of
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New Body Herbs, now owned by his children. But it's
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an intense cleanse.
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I've only done it a few times in my life
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because you drink a whole bunch of olive oil, you
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don't want to go from Hamburger to doctor Goss's cleans.
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That's all bad, you guys, And then you got to
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this hour, looking forward to that man the Governor's race.
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What's happening in city elections. The statewide election season is here.
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I'm Dominique Daprima for KBLA Talk fifteen eighty. Right now,
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you're not just back to me, You're back to Jasminchanic
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award winning journalists, political and cultural commentator, political strategists, and activists.
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Her work spans media, politics, culture. She says she's driven
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by curiosity, accountability, and refusable to waste time on empty narrative.
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You're funny, Jasmine gen X, opinioned, opinionated, political, and always caffeinate,
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always caffeinated. Good morning, good morning, Good morning, Miles. Yeah,
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well no, you never do. You guys are the AI
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twins or both of you guys doing wow. I don't
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know if this clean has made my voice go away,
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but both of you guys are doing a lot in
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the AI space.
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I am Twanda dot Ai.
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I am Twanda dot All telling it's really funny.
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the Pope, so she had a report on that and
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Yeah yeah, okay, well you're shot out of the cannon
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today because I got questions for you in California. California
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has experienced a political earthquake.
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Yes, you could say that.
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Eric Swolwell, who was, depending on which pole you look at,
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either in first place or second place in the California
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Gubman of territorial race, suspended his campaign, which is political
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speak for quit because of sexual misconduct allegations which seemed
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to be building and building, and this is a pattern,
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one woman went on CNN. A couple of women made allegations.
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himself on young on one young staffer. Another woman said,
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the congressman sent inappropriate sexual messages and dickpics.
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So you know, my theme song for every election cycle
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is always E forty's Choices. So y'all, if you know
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the song is playing, it's it's the bad music right now,
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you hear it in your head. Okay, you got choices.
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You have less choices than you did on Friday. But
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never piss off the staffers. Your staffers know all of
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your secrets. Your staffers know everything. Always treat your staffers nice.
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find really interesting because this didn't happen overnight. And I've
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seen many interviews of representatives and different folks, congressional representas saying, oh,
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everyone knew Matt Gates and Eric Swalwell never to have
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young staffers around them, and this and that, Well why
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didn't you say anything like why you know, why did
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lens of someone that watched this entire democratic establishment here
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completely ignore ed Buck had nothing to say. And now
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fall all over themselves. Folks can't run away from Swallwell
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fast enough. And I'm just like, okay, white female victims.
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don't care. Okay, But when it comes to us and
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holding us accountable and and and and being consistent, yeah,
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replaced with another Democrat, because of course he can. This
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feels about sexual harassment and sexual misconduct when it's done
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knew Winstein was. Everybody knew Cosby had proclivities. I mean,
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everybody inside insiders. Just like there's certain people everybody knows
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that person is gay, not that being gay is the
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same as a sexual predator. But these are open secrets
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To bail, your staff is resigning in droves.
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Right, So I think he saw that he had no choice.
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media plays a role in this as well. You know,
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they if no no one believes, or there's no one
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out there to put the story out there, or you know,
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because a lot of times part of it is that.
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I remember when I was in the beginning trying to
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get folks to cover the ed Buck situation when only
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one person had died in his apartment. I remember a
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certain network told me that they were afraid of being
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sued and they couldn't do the story.
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Yeah, that doesn't surprise me.
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Yeah, I mean everybody tread really lightly with this, the
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candidates tread lightly until the chronicle story. I was treading
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lightly with it because the only place I saw it
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verified was on Instagram. And that's not even verified. It's
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people's opinions Twitter and Instagram.
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Until I can.
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Get something that's you know, backed up with a personal
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testimonial or fact, I don't I always hesitate to.
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Just it's hard. I know, this is a very changing
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media landscape in this country really in this world. But
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we've got a lot of news that has broken or
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social media and not traditional media over the past decade.
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But still because we people like you and other folks,
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folks do want it from like a mainstream outlet, and
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that's not always really easy. That's actually how I got
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into the five years that I spent covering the LAPD. Okay,
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because the La Times wasn't covering this. The correction for me,
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it's not looking for a mainstream media. I need a
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community source.
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I need at person saying it's not just an influencer
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writing I think this or everybody knows this.
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Right, you want more than Candice Owen's Yes, please, But
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that's like going back to what I was saying, Like,
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you know, that's how I ended up covering the LAPD
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those years ago, was because even though the stories were
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salacious and actually so unbelievable, they ended up being true.
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They ended up being true.
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But you weren't copying rumors. You had sources inside the LAPD.
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You had actual cop that we're telling eight.
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And I remember talking to folks who like, oh, I
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went to The Times and I went to so and so,
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and I guess they didn't believe, and so it's not
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hard for me to believe that maybe there were staffers,
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Maybe there were folks that even today maybe did go
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to mainstream and got pushed back or or you know,
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remember there are advertisers that certain entities are looking out for.
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of board members or presidents that are friends with certain people.
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We've seen it happen on a national level. How stories
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get buried, right, Yeah, and so it's not surprising that
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it took this long. But again, my thing is, if
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he's not good enough to be California's governor, then there
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needs to be a real conversation about that that seat
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in Congress.
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Sixty seconds going into news, traffick and sports. How do
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you think this reshapes the governor's rape?
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It doesn't. You still have choices. You have less choices
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than you did on frid Day. And folks, you know,
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particularly the undecided who are the majority right now, need
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to look at all of these candidates seriously and figure
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out who they're going to run with.
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Because you don't think it helps Styre reporter or Via Rugosa, or.
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It helps when you have someone drop out, because that
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means their supporters now need someone else to vote.
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Hopefully it bumps one of those Republicans off the top rch.
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That's what I'm hoping at least.
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Oh, we should talk about their republicas for half a
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second when we come back about their their unable to
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endorse Hilton over the weekend. Interesting even Yes, yes.
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Not that I care, but it's I got my popcorner
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to care the reality star versus the prop I mean oathkeeper.
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Let us pray news, traffic and sports and when you
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come forward on k b l A Talk fifteen eights.
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I love.
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Love but I love that song.
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I love to use it whenever I talk about the
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election because at the end of the day, we've got choices.
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We do yep, Nope, nope.
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And and so Swalwell is out. You said you don't
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think it maybe would particularly help any certain candidate, but
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we'll see. I have been saying that one of the
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top three needs to drop out.
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I said my.
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Vote was for Porter because I think the mean Boss
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thing hurt her enough. She probably could go somewhere, meditate,
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come back and run for something else.
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And she's the one with the highest name recognition when
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you look at the polls, just because of all of
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the things that she she did while she was in.
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Congress, which yeah, which she did some great stuff, but
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I think she was wounded. But now that Swalwell is out,
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there's at least no one's going Now that's gone. I
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think people are candidates are probably even more firmer in
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the results today right where they are. And I've said
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this and continue to say this, you just never know
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what's gonna happen in in in these races, you absolutely
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never know right up until the last minute, what is
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what hammer's gonna drop, what what.
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Scandal is gonna pop off? You just don't know. And so, yeah,
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I don't see Porter moving. I don't see I don't
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see Besarah stepping.
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It seems like he's getting a little momentum from this.
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I don't see Antonio Vieta Ragosa moving. I betty, he
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has been pretty firm. I think folks are gonna are
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gonna keep keep going.
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And the sad thing is you didn't even mention Tony
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thurmant so I'm just right exactly, But I mean, I'm
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just kidding, Like you said, we don't know who could
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break out, who could fall off. I certainly look like
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Swawoh was kind of taking on the mantle.
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Of right in their stire. Matt what's his name, Matt
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made Yeah, Yeah, so, I you know, I saw a
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couple of stories where Gavin is acting like God and saying,
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you know, basically, the thinking is that he may have
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to step in and endorse someone to get the Democrats
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in California to make up their mind, and we'll see
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if I'm not one of those Democrats. I can make
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up my mind just fine without Gavin Newsom's input, right,
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and we'll see.
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If how much people care.
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But you mentioned that the Republicans are having their own
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circular firing squad at the moment, which is nice. It's
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nice to see the discord happening on both sides.
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Yeah, it's it's theatrical. To me, it's like grab my
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popcorn and my red vines. I very much have the
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same attitude when I look at Candice Owen getting mad
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at Trump, it's like it's mildly amusing, like okay, so yeah, so,
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you know, for folks who are who are not paying
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attention to this race, Donald Trump came out and endorsed
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Steve Hilton for governor on social media for Fox news
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host right and advisor to the former Prime minister, British
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Prime Minister. He did it last Sunday, not this past Sunday,
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but the Sunday before on social media. And so the
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assumption was, I guess that the Republican the California Republican
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Party was going to follow suit and just endorse him
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as well. And when they had their conference over the weekend,
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they did not. They did not. And there are two
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Republican candidates, Chad Bianco, who is who made headline news
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for being the sheriff that stole all them ballots, you know,
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feeding into Trump's narrative about elections being fixed and people
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voting who shouldn't be voting, and they they couldn't because
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and actually Chad Bianco got forty nine percent of the
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delegates votes their delegates votes for the endorsement. Now you
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need to get sixty percent as the threshold to actually
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get the endorsement, but he got more than Steve Hilson.
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That's really terrifying. That's terrifying because Chad Bianco not only
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stole those ballots where it's so called investigation which is
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currently been halted by a judge, but he is an oathkeeper.
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Now he claims he's a former oathkeeper, but to me,
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that's like former clan unless you completely renounce it, you know,
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you're still.
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And clearly he hasn't renounced it, not that he's doing
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oathkeeper like activities along the campaign trail.
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So that means like half of California's Republicans are fine
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electing a white supremacist as governor of the state of California.
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Absolutely, So this is the part where we should cat
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that's a whole problem for those of us who are not,
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you know, drinking that kool aid and a part of
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that group y'all undecided, need to get off the bench
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and make up your mind before you do end up
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with either an oathkeeper as your governor or a version
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of Trump with a British accent as your governor.
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I mean a Fox News host and I know that. Yeah,
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the President wants Fox News hosts in every position ideally,
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But the guy's also wealthy. I mean people talk about
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Tom Steyr Hilton is wealthy.
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Yeah, but people need to make up their mind. And we're,
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you know, fifty three fifty two some odd days out
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from the election. We're even less than that for early
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voting and ballots dropping and so because the election really
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starts when the when the ballots drop and get in
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your mailbox.
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Okay, be sure, we've already started talking to candidates here,
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and we'll be talking to them until we're blue in
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the face, pretty much until election day.
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I mean that's when the election ends.
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On election day.
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People think it's just getting started. No, it ends on
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election day. But yeah, folks, you all need to make
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up your mind. You need to, you know, do your
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little research on these candidates, you know, and if you
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don't feel like you're capable to do the research, you
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can always reach out to me because I'll stay you
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in the right direction, or someone else who you do
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trust to let you need.
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And just so people are clear, you do a ballot I.
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Do voter recommendations. Absolutely. I look forward to doing it.
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I get giddy about it, you know. I from the
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judges to the city attorney to the sheriff. You know,
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you would think we only have the governor's race and
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the mayor's race going on in this state right now
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and in this city and county, but we have so
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many other races. There's a possibility of san Bernardino getting
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its first black mayor, first black woman mayor. There are
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all these really great races going on. There's some messy ones. Compton,
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I'm talking about you. There's some messy races going on too.
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But so we all need to be paying attition folks
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who've been listening to me for any amount of time
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when it comes to politics. Not my favorite thing to
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say is no, your zip code do not tell me
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what is going on in Washington, d C. And you
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cannot tell me what is going on in your city
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and your county.
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Yeah, well we well, we don't have time for this today.
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But everybody's running for my Assembly speaker, my Assembly not speaker,
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my Assembly members seat, Isaac Bryan, that's mine too. Everybody's
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running for that one.
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Yeah.
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But I do want to talk when we come forward
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about speaking of your research into LA PD and smaller races.
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Oh city attorneys race, Yeah, yeah, yes, lots of go
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on on there.
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There's like three candidates, is.
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It so, John, Yes, there's three, two and.
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The incumbent, right, the incumbent of course, being Heidi Steiny Soto. Yeah,
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Heidi Feldstein Soto is is the incumbent and she has
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actually just been hit with a huge Speaking of election,
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what do you call them October surprises? I guess for
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the primaries, there are April surprises. This breach of the LAPD.
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Database. It's not their database.
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It was like a some kind of storage unit for
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data in the City Attorney's office, but it has all
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these sensitive records l a PD, disciplinary records, lawsuits against
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the LAPD, all kinds of personnel records, and so now.
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Yeah, they were hacked, and and so the union had
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endorsed her, and the police union had endorsed her, and
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the Los Angeles Protective League. Uh, and they've rescinded that endorsement. Now,
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in politics, that's a big thing to the average voter
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that listens to kb LA. I don't think we care
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that much just in terms of oftentimes whoever the police
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union is endorsing the opposite direction. Yeah, but the city
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attorney's race is so critical and so important, and so
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many people don't know the difference between the district attorney
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and the city attorney. But if you care about homelessness,
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tenants rights, environmental issues here in the city of LA
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that's the office you need to be paying attention to, right, So.
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Break down the difference between the city attorney and the
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district attorney.
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There was a joke there, but I am not going
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to say it.
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El Stein, Soto and the Hawkman went into a bar.
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No oh, okay.
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But the difference is just one, the obvious one misdemeanors, felonies,
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but just also too, Like I said, we homelessness is
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a huge issue in our city and primarily those issues
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are dealt with out of the City Attorney's office. So
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when we talk about unhoused people being ticketed on house
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people being misdemeanors, right, yes, all of that comes out
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of the City Attorney's office. When we when we look
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at tenants rights issues, landlord tenant, all of that stuff
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again falls into the purview of the City Attorney's office.
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There are a lot of people who are big in
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the environment, and we should be. Those issues tend to
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come out also of the City Attorney's office. A lot
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of business issues as well, and so they the City
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Attorney's office is humongous and they play a huge role
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in our day to day life here in Los Angeles.
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And you know, uh, four years ago Heidi was elected.
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I didn't support her. I did not vote for her
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at the Times of matter of fact, I worked for
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her competitor on her competitors campaign, and I know that
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a lot of people are not happy with her. She
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I got. I'm not gonna say it. I'll do it
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after the break because i just want to double check
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my research. But I'm almost pretty sure I don't need to,
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but I will. But let's just say her democratic roots
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don't grow, don't go too far down Crown, all.
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Right, more than this, because this is an important race.
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The city attorney is the is the legal advisor to
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the city council in that air and every city department.
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So if she or she is conservative, then her his
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or her conservative viewpoints will actually influence all kinds of
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other city policy and departments, and they're the way they move.
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So this is a race that we should pay more
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attention to.
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And it's getting kind of.
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Spicy, so maybe we will more straight ahead on KBLA
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Talk fifteen eighty We talk fifteen eighty. Man, there is
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a lot going on. It's election season. We're going to
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be busy. We're going to try to draft Jasmine a
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little more because we got so much to unpack and uncover.
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So we're talking about the city attorney's race. The main
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candidate I've been hearing about going against Heidi Feldstein Soto
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is Marissa Roy. Yes, what do we know about her?
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Well, Marissa has been She actually to my surprise, and
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I say that, I was very surprised. She did get
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the endorsement of the Democratic Party, the Los Angeles County
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Democratic Party, of the party that I am a delegate in.
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Why were you surprised, I mean, she's coming out of this,
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She's coming out of Bonta's office. Right. The state of is.
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Also a party that endorsed Villa Nueva Viaanueva then could
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vote to censor him after he did all the crazy.
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Things and hasn't voted and weighed in on governor.
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Right, it has not, No, they're just they just ratified
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what the state party did, which was no endorsement. So yeah, no,
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I was surprised. But Mrissa is backed by a lot
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of labor. She has a ton of labor support. She
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has a lot of support from like you know, La
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Ford ground game, even the Democratic Socialists.
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Really, she's a Deputy Attorney General in the Department of
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Justice Consumer Protection section, and she.
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Has she's got the endorsements and then you got John McKinney, prosecutor,
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the deputy district attorney out of Nathan Hoffman's office. Now,
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if you remember, he also ran for district attorney. I
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do Hawkman, not that long ago. Mike. Assumption is that
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the union, for example, like the police union, will probably
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throw their weight behind Kenny.
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Certainly the prosecutor should. Yeah, so he's a black man,
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he is, he's also That's why.
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I said my assumption is he is a black man, right,
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but he's also something. I mean, you know, there's there's
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that going for them, for him with them, so we'll
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see what happens that there with that. And then you
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were saying, there's another person who I've actually.
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Not heard of.
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Ada or Ida ASSUREI. She's a staff attorney at Public
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Council and Legal Aid Foundation of l A. She represents
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tenants and low income small business owners. She also worked
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for the l A City Attorney and the San Diego
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City Attorney.
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Okay, I didn't know much about her.
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She she says she's gonna hold landlords accountable for tenant harassment.
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Obviously she's coming from legal aide. She probably has a
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more protended, more pro working class perspective. Whether or not
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she has a chance is another question. She's been endorsed
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by Peace and Freedom Party, Biking while Black and Stop
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the Gondola Coalition. So, but you said you were going
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to do look in your files for something you wanted
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to verify regarding felt Yeah, we're.
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Gonna leave that alone because I don't have time to
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really get into it. Let's just say that that Heidi
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is on the more conservative side, and I don't even
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think she herself would argue with that description. She is
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very conservative, and since she's you know, taken over the
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city attorney's office, there have been a few issues. This
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latest one is the one that's you know, making all.
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The LAPD hack, which caused them to withdraw their endorsement.
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But I don't know that they'll endorse elsewhere.
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Who knows they may. That's why I said the only
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other person that makes sense would be McKinney. But we'll
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have to see what happens there. I mean, but there
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are people who were upset with Heidi for her office,
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sued one of the journalists. Yeah, she's for the photographs
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of the remember when there was the officer photographs and
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that whole public records situation. So that's just another.
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She's tried to block a.
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California Public Records Acts. She's yeah, so there's.
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And she and you know, she tried to block a
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contract for eviction for free eviction eviction protection services, which, yeah,
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so this may be center.
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You know, I I I'm okay with the one term
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elected official because in your first term, your job is
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to show us, the voters and your constituents that you
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are doing what you promised to do on a campaign trail.
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If we are unhappy with your performance in your first term,
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we are under no obligation to reelect you. And it
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you know, we saw it happen with Via Nueva, We
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saw it happen with i'ment McDonald, We saw it happen
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with Jackie Lacy. Like these are not positions for life,
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even if they don't have term limits. Okay, So I'm
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okay with that. Like you had if you had a
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term in office and the majority of the voters don't
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feel like you did what they wanted you to do
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as as in that office, that is the voter's responsibility
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and write to say, hey, let's bring in someone else
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and see what they've got. And whoever comes in may
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be better, may not be better, but that is why
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we have elections every four years, not every eight people,
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not only when it's time for the president. Our most
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important elections are the are the local ones.
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Yeah, jas mechanica, time flies when you're on the radio.
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What do you want to leave us with this morning?
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Oh, have a great day. Just you know, have a
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great day, keep from being unlived, be nice.
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Remind us where to find you.
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Oh I am Jasmine dot com, Jasmine with the Y
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J S, M, Y N E. And I'm on all
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the socials.
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Man, oh mighty. All right, thank you for coming in.
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It's always great to see you. And hopefully we'll get
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to talk again soon because I got a lot of questions.
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Paul says.
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Tom Steyer needs to come in for a first things
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first interview. Look, they all do, We're invite we are.
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We have invited them all. We've invited all the mayorals.
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All the shriffaid advertised too.
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Our first sheriff candidate will be here Thursday is on.
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You're gonna be hearing from a lot of these folks, judges,
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and not every race, but the ones that impact us.
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And you know who I'm talking about.
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No, your zip code. Folks, you got choices
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Your zip code choice yes, No, KBLA top fifteen, e
