The Edison Files: Tavis Smiley and James Farr Bring Receipts on the Southern California Dispute

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BLA Talk fifteen eighty the wrong people to be prevaricating
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to joining me in the studio right now. The proprietor
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of this radio station, he is a storied journalist, broadcaster, interviewer,
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activist and author. Tavis Smiley, Good.
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Morning, Good morning, Dominic de prima. How are you today?
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I'm blessed. I am looking forward to what Liz ahead?
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How are you?
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I'm doing the best I can. You know me, if
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I complain, I'd be an in great so I'm glad
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to be here with you. Thank you for the space
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and time. Once again, let's jump right in. We promoted
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on Friday that we were going to release the Edison
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files today. Indeed those files are released. If you're listening
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to us right now in real time, go to any
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of our socials, go to our KBLA website and you
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can see the files.
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That we have now officially released to the public.
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We're going to walk through those files in just a
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second here, but all the files and I'm about to
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walk through. You can follow along with Dominique and yours
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truly by going to our website. You see them there
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on the website. Dominique on the website, and all of
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our socials. The files that we are going to walk
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through have been officially released to the public. You can
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follow along, you know, now we do it around here.
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It's all about full transparency.
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Before I do that.
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Though, when I was last year Dominique, I was sharing
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with you and your audience that Pedro Bazzar had responded,
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of course, to our official invite to appear on this station.
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Kjo CEO exactly, edisnationally yes.
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There you go.
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So, as you recall Southern California, Edison renegged on its
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commitment to participate in our most recent outide in the
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town hall, arguing that they were canceling, as you recall,
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because Planets lawyers were going to be on stage at
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the town hall. They were not. I repeat, they were not.
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Did I say they were not? Everybody now knows that,
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including Edison, because you saw the town hall, you heard
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the town hall, and to be clear, Edison was fully
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aware of that fact in advance. Underline that in advance,
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we're going to walk through these emails in just a second.
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In advance, Edison knew there were.
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Going to be no PLANUS attorneys on stage at this
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town hall. Nonetheless, they kept saying publicly and in emails
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to me personally that we'll come on the station for
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an interview, and so we invited Pedro Pizarro, President CEO
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of Edison International. I read his response on this program
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we invited him, He responds, I read the response. You
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opined on what you thought about that response, and we
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have since made contact with Edison to discuss what that
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engagement looks like. Those conversations are ongoing. But the day after,
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the day after he sent us that letter, he's all
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up in the La Times. Mister Pizarro is and here
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is what we had to say about that. Oh I
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need this one like with a KBLA Talk fifteen eighty editorial.
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I'm Tavis Smiley. Let me be clear about what we're
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witnessing here a text bookcase of talking about communities instead
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of talking with them. Pedro Pissarro, President and CEO of
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Edison International, found time this week to sit down with
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the La Times to discuss their so called fast paid
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program for those impacted by the out and then of
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Eaton Canyon fire.
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We think it is neither fast nor fair.
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But when we organize the community town hall southern California,
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Edison first confirmed participation and then abruptly canceled. There was
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no time available on mister Pizarro's calendar for a face
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to face conversation with the individuals and families who have
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lost everything due to the negligence of Southern California edison.
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This is not an accident.
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This is a choice about who deserves direct engagement and
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who gets managed through press statements. When you talk to
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the La Times about people, you control the narrative. You
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get to frame the issues on your terms, with your
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spin filtered through journalists who may or may not push back.
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But when you show up to a town hall, you
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face real questions from real people experiencing real problems. There's
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no pr buffer, there's real accountability. This pattern of being
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available to corporate medium but unavailable for community dialogue sends
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a clear message about whose voices.
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Matter and who's don't.
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It's the kind of disrespect that hides behind busy schedules
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and prior commitments, but the community sees right through it.
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If these issues are important enough to discuss with the
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La Times, they're important enough to discuss directly with the
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people living them. Anything less isn't just disrespectful, it's a
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fundamental failure of leadership and accountability.
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Mister Prasarro says in the La Times.
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Interview, I need to go to the supermarket and pass
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the Deenom or out to Denom and be able to
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look people in the eye. We want to do the
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right thing for our community. You had a chance to
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look folk in the eye at our town hall meeting
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last week.
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But you didn't show up.
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Then we invited you for a one on one conversation
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here at the station, but you have yet to confirm.
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So please please start with the gas lighting with a
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KBLA talk VIGINTI editorial. I'm Tavis Smiley, and as always
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we welcome your.
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Feedback, and there it is. I mean, you laid it
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out really, really well. Clearly they're dodging us, and I
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felt there was an aspect to it. Tavis sports like
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they feel that it's better to it's more important to
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them to spin what they're doing to the general audience,
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spin what they're doing to the mainstream media audience. Then
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to get the truth out to the actual victims who
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are trying to figure out how this is going to
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impact the rest of their life.
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And that was the purpose of the town hall.
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Three hundred plus people packed in that church victory Bible,
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waiting to hear from Southern California Edison, who had you.
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Give bad questions. We had questions still.
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Do and Edison just ghosted us and didn't show up
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at the last minute. So after that editorial starts running
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on this station, mister Pizarro's comm's team, his communications team
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then started talking directly to black media outlets. Underline the
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word black. Now they're talking to black media outlets, continuing
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to spread the same lie about pulling out because of
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the presence of trial lawyers, when once again they were
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told in advance that no trial lawyers would be participating
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in any way whatsoever, and certainly dominic after they saw
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the town hall, after they witnessed it, they could see,
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indeed that no trial lawyers were there. And yet they
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have continued to lie on this station publicly. These prevarications
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continue publicly. So at this point, if you're keeping score,
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they've lied on us on their website, They've lied on
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us in those email responses to listeners like you who
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reached out to them. Mister Pisarro advanced this false narrative
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on his virtual town hall on Wednesday evening, the fifth
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of November, the night before our town hall, they lied
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on us on local television. Put a pin in that
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for now, and now they think they can lie on
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us in black media spaces too. No, ma'am, no sir,
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ain't gonna be no black on black crime around here.
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You are not going to use black media spaces to
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attack another black media outlet. So today we are releasing
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the Edison files so you can read for yourself exactly
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what happened, and then we have something to say to
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Southern California Edison and their lawyers so when we come forward.
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The documentation that I'm going to share with you once
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again is now posted on all of our socials and
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our website, so if you aren't driving, you can tap
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in and follow along as Dominique, can I unpack what's
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inside of these Edison files?
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That's right, and you don't want to miss this because
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the lies are real and we have to stand on business.
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We have receipts. We're doing just that, all that straight
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ahead on KBLA Talk fifteen to eighty. Okay, look, I
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don't have the Epstein files, but I do have the
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Edison files, and Tavis Smiley is here to walk us
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through the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
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Of course, there are tons and tons of emails back
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and forth. We've been having this conversation with Edison since
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early August, late July, early August. The email thread begins
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back and forth with Edison trying to arrange this town hall.
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That's how long they've dragged their feet.
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They dragged their feet for months about this town hall
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that they said they want to do but not really.
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And so that's how long we've been at this dialogue.
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But I want to just point out seven emails that
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we pulled out of this a cash emails that really
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this transfer of emails rather that really tells the story
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of what happened here. So if you're again on the
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website or on our social you can follow along as
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I read these and give you a little commentary, and
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we'll move through this rather swiftly. This email is from
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Conversation Live. That's James Farr, the host of Buyer Out
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to a rising show every week. James was the person
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I appointed to be my sort of special envoy, as
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it were, to work with Edison to get this thing
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worked out. So James is on most of these emails.
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Scott Johnson is the recipient of this first email. There
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are others copied on it. Scott Johnson is in their
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Comm's department, working alongside Kathleen Dunleavy at Southern California Edison.
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So James says, Hi, Scott, thank you for your email.
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I am on deadline this afternoon, including this project. I
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can make myself available if you have a sense of
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what time you'd like to call. I also wanted to
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follow up regarding mister Pizzarro and or mister Powell's availability.
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Mister Powell is the president of Southern California Edison, mister
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Pissarro president of Edison International, So mister Pizzarro is mister
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Powell's ultimate boss, but mister Powell actually runs SCE. You
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previously confirmed that they would be able to participate during
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the first week of November. However, your recent note suggests
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they are now unavailable. Could you clarify the change in
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their availability, a specific date they are available, and what
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will specifically discuss further during the calls we can use
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the time effectively best, James Farr. What this establishes is,
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as we've said all along, that they did initially offer
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us mister Pizarro and mister Powell.
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Yep.
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Absolutely, they've lied about that repeatedly. What they say is
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he was never confirmed. Okay, you want to play a game,
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you want to play games here, but you offered him
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to us, and you gave us dates that he was available.
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James is saying this email, that's what you said, But
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now your recent emails are changing your tomb Can you
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please clarify that that's email number one. Let's move on
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to email number two. Scott Johnson responds, WA's these dates now?
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James's email is what on October the eighth. Mister Johnson
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responds on October fifteenth and says to James, Hi, James
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and kblaighteen, we wanted to let you know that Southern
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California Edison will definitely take part in the Thursday, November
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sixth town hall.
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Donnie de Prima, do you see that?
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I see it and you can see it too at
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KBLA fifteen eighty dot com. The date is October fifteenth,
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twenty twenty five. Took his time getting back to us,
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but he did.
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I keep reading from that same email. We wanted to
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let you know as soon as possible. Well, not really Scott,
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but yeah, so you can continue with the planning efforts.
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The SEE executive team is still working through schedules and
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availability to determine which officer or officers will be on
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the panel. We are trying to secure the information and
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we'll share at also a SAP.
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So he's confirming once again.
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Got mister Pizarro and mister Powell ain't coming, but we
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are confirming that we're going to do this and we're
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going to get back to you on who we're going
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to sing. Now why is this important because they continue
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to say in the media that we were considering the
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town hall, we were in conversations with KBLA. No, you
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confirmed in writing, as we've said all along. On October fifteenth,
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twenty twenty five. Let's go to email number three. Slide
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number three, Side number three says it is from Scott
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Johnson to James. Good afternoon, James, thank you very much.
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Thank you so very much for the update and detailed list.
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I am sorry that I don't have the confirmed names
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of the sec SSEE team members who will be participating before.
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We schedule a call.
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Please let me see if this additional information will help
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our team identify the appropriate representative.
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Wait for it, wait for it.
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Also, thank you for clarifying over the phone that QE
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representative indicates a representative from the Queenny Manual Trials lawyer
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trial lawyer's firm.
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Thanks Scott.
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Now why is this email important? It establishes that they
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were fully aware initially that there were in fact trial
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lawyers who were going to be on the panel. We
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sent them a list of all the names of the
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panelists and in the list.
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We put QE representative.
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So he's asking to James on the phone and the
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phone call what does que stand for? And James clarifies
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an email that que stands for a queenn E Manual
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Trial Lawyers. Do you see anywhere in this email where
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he suggests that the presidence of trial lawyers would.
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Be an issue? Do you see it, Dominique?
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I see nowhere in the cemail do they ever suggest
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that were a Queenny Manual to show up, that it
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would be a problem.
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They never say that.
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What he says is, thank you so much for the
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update and the detailed list. Thank you for clarifying over
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the phone that QE stands for a queenn E Manual.
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He says in a cmail this additional information will help
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our team identify the appropriate representative. At no point do
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they ever suggest that the presence of trial lawyer is
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going to be an issue anyway. Why is that important?
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That's the lie they keep telling I ain't done yet.
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That's slide number three. Let's go to slide number four.
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These are the Edison files sarnumber four. This is from
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Krystal nicks Hines, who's a partner at Queeney Manuel.
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Look at the date back up now.
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The date on the email from Scott Johnson that I
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just read is October twenty third at two fifty eight.
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I mean, I've read these slides out of order. I
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think I just read about of order.
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But the slide from Scott Johnson is dated October twenty
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third at two fifty eight.
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I did read them out of order.
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The next slide that I want to read now is
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from Krystal nicks Hines, partner at Queeny Manulm.
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I apologize for reading them out of order, Crystal says.
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At six o'clock in the morning on the same date,
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twenty third, Tavis, can we have a call today? We
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need to get a better sense of the program. Do
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you have a list of the panelists, and we need
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to talk through some sensitivities.
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Does one pm work for you both? She said both.
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She's talking about Jeffrey, her partner, her colleague at Queene Emanuel,
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and me.
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Does one pm work for both of you? I responded, yes.
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We got on a call at one pm on October
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twenty third. Now watch this Crystal saying we need to
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talk through some sensibilities. They were concerned, quinn Emmanuel not
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sce not Edison. Quinn Emanual was concerned that their presence
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on the town hall might present a problem. So they
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said to me, can we talk about some sensibilities? And
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during that phone call, Quinn Emmanuel backed out of the
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town hall.
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Right, which was for the greater good, because.
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They did not want they didn't want to get in away.
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A conflict of interest. They didn't want a problem. You
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agreed with that.
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I agree with that.
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So look at the date October twenty third, six o'clock
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in the morning, Edison, I mean, Queen Emmanuel is out.
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They're out.
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There is no issue with Queen Emnuel. Not to mention
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in Scott's email, he suggests that there's no problem anyway.
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He does saything about a problem, right, and.
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Just to be clear, there were no other trial lawyers
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that would have been there or would have been involved
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in any way. Quin Emmanuel sponsors James Show. They were
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a natural partner. They stepped away.
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That's right.
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So now we have, as of the twenty third of October,
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there are no trial lawyers involved in this at all.
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A couple of days later, we put out new collateral
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social media collateral. We put out a promo that I
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believe you voiced yep, and we put out a press
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release to the whole city inviting the media to cover
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this event. In our socials, in our promo, in the
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public release, the press release to the public, there is
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no mention of Queen Emanuel. They're out, and Edison is
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fully aware of all of They're tagged in everything. They
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are fully aware of all this data being released publicly.
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The promo on the air, the press release to the public,
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and the socials say nothing about any trial lawyers.
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They are out. Stay with me.
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Now, I'm with you.
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See is still advancing this lie that they pulled out
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because trial lawyers are gonna be involved. As of the
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twenty third, there are no trial lawyers involved this whatsoever.
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Now let's go to the next email. Next email is
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from me to mister Johnson. Look at the date November third,
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October twenty third. There are no trial lawyers involved, but
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we still ain't heard from See about who their reps
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are going to be. Scott says this information will help
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us decide who we gonna send.
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Y'all right, but.
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By the third of November we have still heard nothing
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from Edison. James Farr, my special envoy has been handling this.
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But now on the third look who This email is
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from Tavis Smiley. But I want you also to note
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the time with this email. What time do I go
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on the air dominate every.
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Day you go on the air, have a Smiley nine
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to noon?
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What is the time on this email?
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Nine am I run down the hallway, as you know,
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at nine o three to get on the air live.
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It was so important to me that before I went
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on the air at nine a m. I sent this email,
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ran down the hallway, jumped on the air and my
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email says very simply, mister Johnson, we need confirmation of
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names by Cob close a business today without fail full
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stop SCE is once again handicapping this event just days
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out now. Thank you Sir Tavis Smiley, they've been dragging
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their feet all along, and now we're seventy two hours out,
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and I say, y'all are once again handicapping this thing.
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Who are y'all going to send? I need to know
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by day's end without fail.
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And then.
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Kathleen Dunglevy note the time exactly, this is five thirty five,
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the same.
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Day I asked for a response by closing business, which
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is five.
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But exactly now before she sends this email, Kathleen and
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I have a phone call. I'm on the air at
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nine o'clock. I get off at twelve. I call Kathleen
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and we talk on the phone. It's a rough phone call,
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and I say to her, what do you mean you're
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pulling out?
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And what's the reason? Trial lawyers? What are you talking about?
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We go back and forth about why she's trying to,
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you know, make this claim that they're putting out because
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trial lawy is gonna be the you know, there are
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no trial lawyers there.
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It's already been documented.
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Right, sounds like an excuse exactly.
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So what I did was at her request.
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She says to me on that phone, called Tavis, send
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me in writing information confirming and detailing that there will
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be no trial lawyers there on the third of November.
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That's what she says, and I sent that to her.
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I send her five emails with all the collateral, the promo,
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the press release, everything saying to her and showing to
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her there will be no trial lawyers on November third,
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and she was reponds by closing business after receiving all
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that information by saying what High Tavish.
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Thanks for the follow up.
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The follow up is all the stuff I sent to
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her after our call at her request. High Tavish, thanks
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for the follow up. Unfortunately, we do not believe the
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venue will be appropriate due to planets due to the
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planet's firm participating on the panel what as noted in
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October three and third email and being noted as a
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sponsor on your website. We would like to offer you
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a separate interview with an sc rep and we can
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discuss terms at your convenience.
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I've just sent you all the information.
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Making it clear that there will be no persons representing
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trial lawyers anywhere near this conversation, and you received that
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info that you asked me to send to you, But
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then you hold onto this lie that we still ain't
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coming because.
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The triallayders peak gas lighting. Right there.
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These are the Edison files and then here's the last email.
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What time, what time?
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What time?
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Two minutes? You can do it.
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We'll continue, cust me.
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Let me do this last email, and then we'll come
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forward and I'll tell you what we're gonna do next,
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and then you can talk to James park perfect last
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email in this thread this from me to her. She sins,
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we response at what five to thirty five? I respond
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back at what fifty three? And I say, Kathleen, you
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asked us for clarification and confirmation in writing that No
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Planet's firm would be participating in our Thursday evening town hall.
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We provided you multiple assurances of that fact, fact press release,
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on air promo, and our social media collateral. I sent
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Kathleen all that stuff, and yet you continue to make
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reference to an obsolete October twenty thirty email as if
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KABA talk to Toen eighty is misrepresenting the truth. Queedy
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Manu's been out for ten days now eleven days. Again,
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to be clear, no plaineffstorneys are involved in this gathering
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in any way at all. Four times, four times I
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say in this email on top of the stuff I
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sent that that excuse is a lie that dog won't hunt.
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I can't even reading it is abundantly clear then that
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SCE is renegging on its commitment, and we will also,
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and so we will so inform the public to whom
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we have mentioned, marketed rather and promoted a town hall
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in which SE agreed in writing to participate. We regard
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this as a major strategic blunder on the part of
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SE one. We believe that SE will soon regret. Thank
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you for getting back to us with See's decision to
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decline participation. But in full transparency, we're not done with
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this matter, not just yet. Have a good evening, and
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we're not done yet. So there you have seven emails
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that make abundantly clear the timeline, the facts. SCE has
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known all along that there would be no trial lawyers
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on that panel, and yet they've continued to perpetrate this
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lie in the mainstream media, in black media. That that's
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why they pulled out. They're calling us liars. We told
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them the truth. They keep calling us liars. Now when
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we come for it, I got some audio for you.
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Some audio, and what's next after news traffic and sports
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only right here. Yeah, we found Pedro and now we
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are releasing the Edison files. Tavis Smiley is in the
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studio with me, and I'm also being joined by James
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Farhol's chime in momentarily. I am here. You can't see me,
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but I'm here. Tavis Smiley, you said we have audio.
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We do, and maybe clear there is far more documentation
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than seven emails. Right, there's even more Audioan what I'm
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about to play you. I got more audio, now, we
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got more documentary, we got more evidence. But I want
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to just play this one clip of Kathleen Dungleavy lying
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through her teeth on Spectrum News one on the morning
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of our town hall. Now I've just laid out for
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you in these Edison files when they knew I'm thinking
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of Barbara Jordan doing the Watergate hearings. What did the
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president know and when did he know? So I've already
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played for you. We've gone through the files. You know
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the storyline here. But keep in mind, this is Kathleen
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Dunleavy lying on Spectrum News I on the morning of
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the day of our town hall, when she knows all
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of this. You see the email thread I've sent her
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all the information. She knows full well that she's speaking
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on the morning of the six. She knows that tonight
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there are going to be no trial lawyers. She knows
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that full well. But this is what she says on
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Spectrum News one.
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So we saw this town hall as an opportunity to
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help communicate and answer questions about the program. We communicated
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very clearly that we would not be a part of
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it if Plaintiff's Council was part of it. We found
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out about week ago the Plaintiff's Council was going to
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be on the panel and also sponsoring the event. At
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that time we made the decision to withdrawal.
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There are two or three lives in that one clip.
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First of all, at what point did they make clearly
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to us that they would not be involved if Planet's
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lawyers were involved. That is not the email that Scott
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Johnson sent that I read to you earlier. At no
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point after the twenty third until the third when I
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talked to Kathleen Dunlevy, did they ever, ever, ever, ever, ever,
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ever say to us anything about them not coming because
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the trial lawyers. Ye. Scott Johnson on the twenty third
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says thank you for the information. Glad you clarified who
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QE is. Now we can figure out better who to sind.
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Does that sound like an issue with trial lawyers? And
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that's the last email we got from them. The third
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shows up. I'm on the phone with Kathleen Dunlevy, So
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she's lying when she says that we told them, you
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did not.
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Kathleen dun Levy, you're lying.
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And to be clear for those not paying attention or
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getting confused, Kathleen Dunleavy is their communication, one of their communications.
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Along with Scott Johnson exactly. She's actually Scott's boss. But
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the point is she's lying about what they told us.
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They didn't tell us that, and she's lying because she
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knows there are no trial lawyers that night. We've cerent
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her all the information. That's just one audio piece. I
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could give you more, and I've got more. That's just
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one clip to show you that on the day of
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the town hall they're lying to the public about KBLA
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Talk fifteen eighty. Let me say this and I'm gonna
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let James Parr take it from here. This is about
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the integrity of KBLA Talk fifteen eighty. We take pride
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Dominique and James and all of our colleagues here in
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that eviterous study year after year that finds us to
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be what the most trusted, the most credible, the most
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reliable media outlet period, not black media outlet. We're the
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most trusted, most credible, most reliable out the outlet for
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news and information that black people regard most.
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We take that seriously.
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But we live in an era right now, in this
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Donald Trump era, where he is epitomizing and normalizing this
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kind of line. So you keep telling the same liar enough,
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then folk will eventually believe you, especially if you are
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a goliath like Edison up against the David like KBLA.
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So here's the.
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Bottom line, and I'm out of here, got my own shoulder?
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Do we are right now demanding a public apology from
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Southern California Edison in the next forty.
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Eight hours forty eight hours, I'm.
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Going nick note to and Eddie Murphy with it.
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You got forty eight hours to apologize to k BLA
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talkie and Edy publicly. I want an email and don't
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send me none of that. We regret any misunderstanding.
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Because that's not an apology.
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That's not an apology, and it's not true. There is
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no to some understanding. It's all clear. I should say again,
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there is more documentation. I ain't even got to that insulting, demeaning,
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racist Jerry Springer comment like were running some black minstrel
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show over here.
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I ain't got to that yet. But we're gonna save
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a little space for grace.
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My lawyers are red to go, they read to go
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right now, but we're gonna save some space for grace
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and allow them to publicly apologize for lying on us repeatedly.
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We could be demanding right now the Kathleen Dunleavy and
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Scott Johnson be fired forthwith, whereas I'd like to say
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sooner than right now and quicker than at once. We
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could be demanding that right now because they have intentionally
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continued to lie on this station, Kathleen on Spectrum and elsewhere.
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Scott in a recent article in a black media publication.
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I ain't calling their name, but he lied on us
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in that article in black media spaces. So for the
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next forty eight hours, we will accept a public apology.
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For the next forty eight hours, we want to keep
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our focus on the victims and survivors of this tragedy
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in Altadenam. But we cannot allow SE to attack our
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legitimacy and our integrity with impunity. We can't allow that.
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We didn't start this fight, but we ain't running from it.
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And we will never, ever, never, on my watch, let
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any institution or individual deliberately lie on this station. We're
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not going to have it. I'm done, James, Good morning, morning.
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I mean, I have a question for both of you
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guys morning.
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Is that defamation that's for the lawyers to decide. I'm
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not a lawyer. I don't play on the radio.
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I just.
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We're telling the truth.
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Defamation.
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Yeah, I ain't passing the bar. Good morning.
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I ain't passed the bar. I do know a little bit.
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And uh, it's so much easier when you're just sitting
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in truth. And and I don't mean to be righteous, right,
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it was the truth as the delegation has heard. Uh,
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it's the truth as we put it out there. And
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for Southern California Edison Kathleen Dunlevy to embark on this
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intentional disinformation campaign straight up line.
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I mean clearly, because the first time Tavis came on
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my show to talk about this, he was on from
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a to eight thirty, the first half hour of the
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third hour, and then he went to go get ready
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for his own show. The minute he walked out, she
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was calling on the line, trying to get on with me,
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knowing that I'm not in the emails, that I don't
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know all of the details, and seeing if she can
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trip me up.
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And no, you, if you'd allowed her on the air,
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she would have told lies on our stage. Great, exactly,
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that's bold, that's bold.
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But we am but we're not Jerry Springer and we're
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not stupid. Like all of us are seasoned journalists here,
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So of course it's like, no, but you already said
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you were going to get the president on Tavis's show,
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So why would I have a comms person to come
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lie on my show?
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See, dominic it's important to point out when you are
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on on the record, right, I don't understand how she
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got this job, right, Like in every time you speak
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for Edison, you are on the record, which means there
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is a record and I can pronounce record as record. Also,
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so the things that she said in that call, she
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came in so hot, Dominique, I have never had to
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compose myself so much, only because of mister Smiley. I
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know how to deal with it, but I had to
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represent the station. I had to do everything in my
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power and capability to not prove the Jerry Springer trope.
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But it was highly offensive.
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Yep, that's highly offensive. Well, we're gonna let Tavis Smiley
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get ready for his show which is on.
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It is just fifteen forty eight hours. Forty eight hours.
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And an apology, and if not, we'll take it to
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the next level. But again we want to save some
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space for Grace. I want to repeat that we live
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in a society that's far too litigious. I don't want
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to engage in litigation. I just want a simple apology.
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That's all, a sincere apology.
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In an interview from mister.
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I said it on your show before very quickly.
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You want to assume that the CEO and the presidence
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of the parent company isn't involved at this level of
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this granular level of email.
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So again I'm saving.
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Some space for Grace because he advanced this same lie
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on his town hall but that's what.
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His people told him.
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But now that we have put these emails out for
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the public to see that they were fully aware, well
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in advance, they never expressed any concern about trial lords
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to begin with. And it wasn't them who pulled out.
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It was Plenty Emanuel who pulled out. They stood down
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so that we could talk to Southern California Edison without
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anybody in the way. And so you got forty eight
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hours to apologize, and if you don't, then we'll deal
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with it. But I am scheduling myself right now to
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be on first things first, be dominate the premium on
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Thursday morning at eight am. Got it, and I hope
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and expect to be reading an apology from Southern California
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Edson and if not, ill to you where we go
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from there, Domini, thank you for your space once.
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Again, Thank you, Tavis Smiley, James Farr and I have
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a few more details will unveil and I'm going to
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keep this conversation going when we come forward as per
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usual on KBLA Talk fifteen eighty. So James far is
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with me. You know him because he writes for the
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LA Progressive, but also because he is the host of
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his own show Saturdays on KBLA, The Conversation Live Alta
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Dina Rising, where he's done an excellent job tracking the
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aftermath of the Alta Dina Eating canyon fire. So let's
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just quickly recap. You can go to KBLA fifteen eighty
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dot com and see all of these emails for yourself,
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the Edison files which we released this morning because Edison
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is lying on us, So give me your I guess
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cliffs notes version of what Tavis just walked us through.
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Well, I think it's important to say, Dominique, that first
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of all, our north star in doing this event started
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months ago, and it was with the purpose and tension
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to bring Addison into community.
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Right, so people can understand the that's being offered to them,
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which is a serious crossroads and affecting the rest of
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your life.
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And then when you understand, like we do, crisis communications
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management is to deflect, blame, calls, confusion. I mean, this
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is textbook demonic corporate responsibility. I'm serious. Evil. Yeah, to
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flat out start off a constructed narrative and with the
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intent of trying to divide the community. They did everything
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they could to disallow that town hall from going forward.
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But folks want to know and they need the information.
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That's all we wanted to do was talk.
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That's it, right, So, and and it's important to note
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that on the email thread that we just went through,
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most of all of these emails have a number of
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people see seed on them, including our executives here at
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KBLA and the comms team there at Edison. So it's
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not like some people were left out of the loop with.
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No no they you know. And in the conversations that
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I have with mister Johnson Cel it's important to also
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we never know who's really listening to us right until
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they tell us right. And so I've known for months
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that if no one else was listening to the conversation
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Live Altadena Rising, their comms team have been monitoring our socials,
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our broadcast.
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I hope that helps our readings. Look. So slide number
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one was from you to Scott, and it basically establishes
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that you're following up regarding mister Pizarro or mister Powell's availability.
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That's in October, right.
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Yeah, that's October eighth.
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Okay, So you even go and Tavis alluded to it
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months ago. We said we were refraining from opining on
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the settlement at what they have proposed at that time,
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and we wanted to extend an olive branch. We wanted
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to be a bridge to bring them into community.
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So you're saying that's the part that's not reflected on
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these there's emails because this goes back to augustin The
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first one we share is October. Then there's one from
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to you and the team number two, which says that
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they're going to get back to you as soon as
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possible with their with who they'll have they guess they'll.
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Have once we confirmed everything, Dominique, and you have the
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dates better than not because.
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There October fifteenth, they're saying schedules and availability, we'll get
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back to you a SAP I heard clear.
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In fact, mister Johnson offered up three employees' names that
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they were considering. It was not documented because we were
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still waiting to figure out who as they indicate, who
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was the best representatives to come. As Tavis said in
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the previous segment segment, it's not until November three when
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he initiates a communication. She couldn't and she being Kathleen
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Dunn dune Levy, couldn't get in touch with mister Smiley.
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She calls me coming in.
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Hot and that's when the famous uh Jerry Springer comment.
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Had once, not twice, three times and then she to
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reenforce it in Stampa. She said, I told Tavis the
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same thing I asked miss Dunlevy, and it's the most
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unprofessional behavior I've ever seen. I said, just put it
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in writing, whatever it is, put it in writing that
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you're not participating, so we can move forward. At that point,
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she refused.
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Well, because they clearly have already. They've already shown that
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they're all in. But I do think, if I remember correctly,
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that there was a public interview where she admitted the
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Jerry Springer comment as well.
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So no, she didn't admit it. What happened is another
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black publication that they are pumulgating those distruths, the constructed narratives.
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They pressed mister Johnson for comment on it, right, did
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it happen? Did it not happen? He quoted me as
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saying it I said it on my Southern on the
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Soca Spectrum interviews. Johnson from Edison says he refuses to
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confirm or deny.
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Which means she said it. She said, so, I mean,
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but that's really racist. So you were saying, I don't
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know how she got this job, Well, anybody can you know,
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get a job if the resume looks good. What I
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don't understand is how she's keeping the job after you
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made a racist comment. Many times you can be asked
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to step down. When you repeatedly make a racist comment,
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you should be asked to stay well.
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I believe people terminate themselves, and I believe if they
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are doing what I believe they're doing, they're they're allowing
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her to constructively terminate herself. They're going to keep pushing
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her out in front of the public and let her continue.
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To make But again, that doesn't solve our problem. We
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need we need accountability for mister Pizarro or mister Powell.
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We need a public apology. They got forty eight hours,
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and we need them to speak to the people of Altadena.
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Most importantly, absolutely they and they most certainly owe an
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apology to the Altadena community, no doubt gas lighting. Those
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folks showed up wanting information.
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Slide three is Crystal nick Hines from their comms team
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saying she wants to get on a call with Tavis
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better sense of the program, walking through sensitivities.
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I'm not in that loop, so.
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You're not in that loop. But Tavis says, this is
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where Quinn Emmanuel unequivocally stepped out.
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Yes, I was aware of all of that. Mister Smile
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and I have been in constant communication about this, you know,
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for the better part of the last two months, trying
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to bring this forward.
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Slide number four, the twenty third of October, they're saying,
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thank you for the update. This is from Scott. Let
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me see what information I can we can help our
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team identify the appropriate representative. So this is the twenty third.
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After all the quinn emmanual conversation. They're still all in.
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Here as far as I knew. Yeah, that's what they
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confirmed in writing.
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Then the next email, November three, the this is from
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Tavis to mister Johnson. He says, we need a confirmation
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of the names by close of business today.
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Yes, and that's when Karen got active. Karen, I'm sorry, Kathleen. Yeah, Kathleen,
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just making sure you said there's there's not anyone else.
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Then we get the next one on our files, which
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are at KBLA fifteen to eighty dot com, is Doune
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Levy saying that they're pulling out, and that is November third,
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at five thirty five pm correct. And then of course
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the final one shared here is from Tavis, where he
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restates that they already what they already knew, no plaintive council,
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et cetera, et cetera.
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And then, as if that was not enough, the day
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of the town hall, she lies on TV live television
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about what the understanding is. No, it was a lie.
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It was a straight up lie. A week later, they
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go to mainstream press, the La Times, Zoro does an interview.
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They give an interview to a black media outlay where
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they continue to tell more lies. And here we.
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Are, well, hopefully the La Times and our colleagues at
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the World to Black Publication. We'll go to KBLA fifteen
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to eighty dot com. Now they can see the receipts.
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Hopefully they'll do it. Yeah, I saw that, but I
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hope now you know, you got the receipts, your journalists
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do the investigation. We've laid it out for you. Here's
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the emails.
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You know, we're coming up less than fifty days from
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the one year remembrance of this. For them to do
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this at this time. Thanksgiving is next week, Christmas is
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around the corner. Hanukkah kwansa, you name it, you name it,
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you name it. This is probably the most insensitive time
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for this corporation to exercise this level of corporate irresponsibility.
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They owe it to the community, but Pisarro is not
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fiduciary responsible to the community. It's profit over people.
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We gotta leave it there yet. So it's time for
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Tamas Smiley's show. You can hear James far on Saturday
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at ten every week and he's talking about Altada. James,
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thank you for your great work.
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No, thank you, Dominic.
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Yeah yeah. Tamas Smiley's up next, and he's got a
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jam pack show because that's how he does Mondays. That's
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how he mondays his Mondays. You can check in with
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me on social media. I'm at the Premia Radio d I,
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p R I m A and then Radio or KBLA
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fifteen eighty. Like my mama used to say, history is
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now and we are making it together until tomorrow. Save
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your eye. One Love,