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Yes, indeed. Your representative, our representative, he represents the district
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we're sitting in right now, the 55th, Baldwin Hills, Crenshaw,
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Culver City, Ladera Heights, Mar Vista, and more. Beverly Grove,
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Pico Robertson. I feel like I'm a rapper when I
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say all the places you represent. He's the chair of
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the Committee on Natural Resources, the chair of the Assembly's
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first select Committee on Poverty and Economic Inclusion. Assemblymember Isaac Bryan,
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good morning.
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Good morning, Dominique. It's good to be back.
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It's great to have you. I didn't realize that poverty
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and economic inclusion was a new thing. It seems like
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something we would have been had considering how many poor
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people live next to really rich people in California.
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Yeah, and I don't think it should be a select committee.
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I think it should be a standing committee. But all
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of the work I do is rooted in poverty alleviation,
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and I'm one of those crazy people who believes that
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we can eradicate poverty, and that's the society we all
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want to live in.
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You believe we can end poverty.
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I think we should.
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Absolutely. Yeah.
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We have a trillionaire among us. Yeah.
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And from what I understand, we may have two or
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three before the year is out.
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It is disgusting. Yeah.
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It's a lot. Well, since you brought it up, what's
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the difference between a select committee and a permanent committee?
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A select committee is a committee that was approved by
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the leadership of the House, in this case, the Speaker.
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And it was asked for by that member. or asked
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for of the speaker, the speaker asked the member to
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lead it. In this case, I asked for a select
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committee on poverty and economic inclusion. I also asked to
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chair the select committee on the status of boys and
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men of color.
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And so they're there as long as that speaker's there
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and then they go away, or?
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They're there as long as I am here.
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Oh, they're long, okay, as long as you're there.
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Or until I, you know, shift my focus into a
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different capacity.
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I see, okay. And could that become permanent?
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That would take a speaker to decide that they want
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to make it permanent. Okay. Some select committees, though, get
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passed down through the generations because we just believe it's important. So,
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for example, the Select Committee on the Status of Boys
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and Men in Color has been in the legislature for
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about a decade. And it's been chaired by Senator Steve Bradford,
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Senator Joan Sawyer, and now myself. And I think it's
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just us believing that this issue is too important to
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let this select committee die out. And we've held some
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massive hearings, including... at Chucos Justice Center here in Los Angeles.
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We held one in Sacramento, and we're going to do
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another hearing in Oakland later this year.
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And what is the goal of those hearings, the purpose?
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For me, it's always to develop legislative ideas. And so
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for our hearing in Los Angeles, before we went to
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Chucos Justice Center, we also went inside Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall,
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and legislation was inspired by the young boys who were
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incarcerated there.
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Yay, I love that legislation so much, the HUG Act.
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Yes.
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It sounds like silly, but it's so dope. And you
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were able to get that signed by the governor this year.
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That's right. And I went into Barry J. Neidorf Juvenile
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Detention Center in Sylmar this week and gave out assembly
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certificates to the young men who were involved.
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To the young men who helped come up with this
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act and helped inspire it.
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Absolutely. In fact, I told them, you should write on
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your resume that you changed California law while you were incarcerated.
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And if anybody questions it, have them call me.
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That's dope. So for people who didn't, you know, haven't
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heard us talking about this before it was signed into law,
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explain what the HUG Act is.
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Yeah. So I found out last December. I went inside
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Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall to play basketball for Christmas with
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incarcerated youth in a nonprofit called Hoops for Justice. And
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while I was there, I was talking with the young
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people about the conditions of their confinement. And Kian, Peter, Ruben,
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they huddled me in a corner and they were telling
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me a story about how they got the toothpaste changed
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and how much it meant to them. And, you know,
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in my head, I was thinking I can be toothpaste.
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What else? What else would you like? But then he said,
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you know, a lot of us talking to be really
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nice if we could just hug our moms when they
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come to visit. And I was shocked that that's a
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thing to begin with. And I was like, you can't
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hug your moms. And I'm asking probation. You don't let
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them have physical contact with their mothers who do the
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mothers have to go through the scanner. I went through
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and get sniffed by the dogs that I went through
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as an elected official. And the answer is yes. And
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then I found out there are some facilities in California
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that do allow physical contact. Santa Cruz, for example, and
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in other counties. So we know this can be done
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and should be done. And we know how much physical
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touch means for a child's well-being and the opportunity for
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them to stay healthy and whole and to treat accountability
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with care because we know all these young people are
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coming home and we want you to grow up to
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a full functioning adult, not someone who's going to go
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back into incarceration. So we wrote this bill together, me
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and the incarcerated youth. And the bill was called the
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HUG Act and it gives them the right to physical contact.
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We're the first state now, California, that gives incarcerated youth
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the right to physical touch from their loved ones when
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they come to visit.
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Congratulations on that. From what I understand, you even got
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a few Republicans to sign off on that.
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I did get a few Republicans.
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Bipartisanship can exist.
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I went to the mothers of the legislature.
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Aha, that was low. That was smart, though. So you
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went to the mamas who thought, if my kid's incarcerated,
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because any mom knows that on any given day, something
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crazy can happen and your kid can end up inside.
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That's right.
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And the Republican mamas got on board.
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In fact, Heather Hadwick, who represents the northernmost district in
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the state, she voted no on the floor because that
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was the Republican record for the day and the recommendation
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for that vote. And then she realized it was the
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bill she and I had talked about, and she went
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up and To change your vote in the assembly, you
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have to announce it to the whole body. You have
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to go in front of the whole body and say,
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I'm changing my vote on this. And so you don't
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want to do that very often because it could look
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like you're not paying attention or, you know, whatever.
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It could be embarrassing.
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Yeah, it could also like you can't change the outcome,
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but you can, you know, it's just you want to
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be on top of your votes. You want to know
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what your vote was doing. Um, we don't get do
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overs at the ballot, for example, like, you know what, actually. Yeah.
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Can I take back my Trump vote?
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In this instance, it's the first time I'd ever seen
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a Republican in the six years that I've been there.
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Vote change a no on a democratic bill to a yes. Uh,
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and so she vote changed a yes on the Huck
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act and it was amazing. And then I gave her
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a hug.
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That is amazing. And it's, um, I think, you know, again,
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I'll say it because I've seen the studies, I've seen
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the data, uh, that it's not only mental health, which
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is also important, but also physical health. If people don't
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get hugs, if people don't have physical touch, it, it
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has a detrimental physical and mental impact on them. And
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I would imagine it's even more when they're growing.
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No, absolutely. And, uh, there's a powerful, um, 10 minute
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kind of investigative, uh, documentary on the Hug Act that
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just aired on CBS two nights ago. The incarcerated young
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people who wrote the legislation with me are featured in it.
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And they're so brilliant. And their ability to articulate why
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this legislation is so meaningful and important to them, I
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couldn't have done it any better and I'm real proud
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of them.
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I'm pretty sure they're proud of themselves. I hope they are.
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But also it's worth pointing out that that kind of thing,
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that kind of a victory for a kid any kid,
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but especially an incarcerated kid, seems like it could change
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the whole trajectory of their lives.
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And that was the whole impotence for doing it for me.
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I mean, one, it's good policy change and it's necessary
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and it's rooted in dignity and compassion, but also being,
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I remember the first bill I was a part of
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when I was in graduate school and how much of
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an impact that had on my policy trajectory and my
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belief that systems could change for the better or that
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we could dismantle harm. And I think for all of
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these young people and their families, this bill activated their
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streak of social justice and their belief in moving the
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levers of politics and civil society, the mothers of these
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young people came up to Sacramento all year and testified
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with me. And we threw a big celebration, 200 family
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members after it was signed, the day after it was signed.
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We huddled up 200 people to celebrate because it was
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a labor of love for the people inside, the young
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kids inside, and all of their families, and then all
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of us on the outside who were pushing And then
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we immediately went to L.A. County and we said, look,
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the law goes into effect in January. Can you start
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doing it now? And L.A. County said, yeah, we'll do
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it now.
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Yeah, which is how common is that?
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Not very. I've never been a part of a piece
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of legislation that was signed into state law. And then
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the county jumped in and said, we're going to start
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implementing this before we're required to.
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I mean, getting the county to do anything fast is
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pretty miraculous anyway. But to me, what that says is
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that people understood how important this was to the incarcerated
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young people.
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And it was a unanimous motion as well, which means
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even the friction and the fractures on that board of supervisors,
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including the Republican on the board, all stepped in and said,
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we should do this.
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Amazing. Well, you had a good legislative session. We've got
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some new laws. That's just one of them. We'll look
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at more when we come forward. Assemblymember Isaac Bryan, I'm
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Dominique DiPrima for KBLA Talk 1580. Assemblymember Isaac Bryan is here,
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and we're talking about the legislative year that you had.
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You had actually a really busy year. And so let's
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talk about, well, since Professor Justin Hansford was here, we're
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doing our Freedman Friday, which you yourself have done before.
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Let's talk about the Disclosure Act. Truth in Disclosure, I think,
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is what it's called. Assembly Bill 2599. Yes, ma'am. Last
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time you were on, I said, will the governor sign it?
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I was skeptical. I'm not going to lie. He did.
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I think I probably said yes. I felt very confident.
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You said, yeah. You said, I'm pretty sure. You said,
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let's see. But you seemed pretty confident.
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Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you're not going to burn black
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folks on the way out the door, or at least
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you shouldn't. And so I had faith that he wouldn't,
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and he didn't. And he announced the signing of the
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bill on his podcast with Bryan Stevenson, which I thought was.
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Strategic.
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True Gavin Newsom fashion. Strategic.
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But that, I mean, but nevertheless, I mean, I also
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think it has to do with the way that you
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shepherded the bill, the way that you, the relationship, whatever
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the relationship that you have with the governor, that you
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were able to get this across the finish line.
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Well, I want to give a shout out to the
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44 organizations that, you know, stood in the paint with
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us all year, trusted the strategy, moved strategically together. that
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kind of solidarity, that's how you get the big things done.
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It's why through the years, the more people try to
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fracture and create different lines of division, the further we
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get from the freedom dreams that we actually all share.
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Okay, so just for folks who haven't been paying attention,
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explain what your bill does.
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My bill requires private corporations with gross receipts of over
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$ 100 million to, under penalty of perjury, disclose their historic
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ties to to slavery, which is an incredibly big deal
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because we talk often about the public recompense that's needed
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to repair the harms of slavery. What does that mean
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for our civic infrastructure and for the government? But we
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don't often talk about the private wealth that was stolen, generated,
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and compounded through generations in the hands of private companies
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and private employers. This gets at that conversation. And once
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we have that data from the Truth and Disclosure Act,
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we can start to have meaningful conversations about What does
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this mean to know that these companies and corporations have
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these kinds of ties to slavery? What does it mean
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about their ability to do public contract, for example? Should
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the government have public contracts with corporations whose basis of
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wealth generation began with chattel slavery? Those kinds of questions.
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Should there be some sort of repair that's demanded in
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those kind of companies and corporations that are doing business
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in California? All of that becomes on the table once
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the information is known. The problem is right now people
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just don't know. I think anecdotally we'd say stuff like, well, yeah,
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the banks wrote loans that were underwritten with slaves and
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the insurers wrote insurance policies that were underwritten with enslaved people.
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But we don't have hard numbers and facts and information.
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There was a bill a few decades ago that kind
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of started to get at this conversation for insurers only.
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Senator Hayden's bill.
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Correct. Not in a comprehensive enough way. It's not a
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public dashboard like this one will be. And it doesn't
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impact all industries and all businesses. In fact, the insurance
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companies were in opposition to our legislation all year because
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they knew ours went further and they didn't want to
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disclose more and they didn't want it to be publicly available.
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But we fought them and we won.
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Well, Professor Hansford, you know, who is... the founder of
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the Ogletree Reparative Bar Association and is a reparations activist
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who's spoken at the UN, he said this is important
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because just like the studies that are coming out, like
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the task force and like other studies, it not only
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puts it on the record, it is the source itself,
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in this case the corporation, admitting that this was what
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they did. Not an outside person accusing them, not a
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speculative theory, but the corporation itself admitting and putting on paper,
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this is what we did.
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The other piece he pointed out, though, is that it
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has to be enforced. And that sometimes, I guess they
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had something like this in the city of Chicago, and
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he said it wasn't enforced at all. So how do
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we make sure that this has some teeth?
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Yeah, the good news is that the enforcing agency is
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the Department of Justice. For local municipalities, it gets a
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little bit harder because if the city of Los Angeles
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had something like this as the enforcement, the LAPD, You
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know what I mean? Like that's right. It's different tools.
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The city attorney, maybe. Right. If you've got the right
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city attorney. In this case, it is the Department of
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Justice enforcing the state's laws. And I feel I feel
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very confident in California's Department of Justice, especially in the
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hands of Rob Bonta, because it is also the Department
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of Justice who wrote the task force report.
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Fair point. We got a lot to cover. I know
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that we only have five minutes before news, traffic, and sports.
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We'll talk more on the other side. But let's start
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on the Englewood oil field.
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Yeah. What do you want to know?
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Well, I mean, this is something you've been working on
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for a long time.
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Absolutely.
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And it goes to your stewardship of the Environmental Committee,
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as well as your interest in reparations, even though technically
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it's not reparation. So just explain what happened.
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So two years ago, we passed a piece of legislation
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to close the field by 2030. That is underway. The
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operator of the field is suing the state of California,
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suing me, and we're fighting back. We're pushing back. But
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we also required them to pay a penalty fee for
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every low-producing well into a community repair fund that can
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only be appropriated within two and a half miles of
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the field. I knew then two years ago that the
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next step was to get direct cash payments out to
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families who have had their health impacted living next to
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the fields. And so we wrote legislation this year, AB 1661,
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that calls for the establishment of a program that pays
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direct cash payments, compensation to families who have had their
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health impacted living next to this field. And that bill
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was also signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom. It
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is the largest form of environmental reparations of its kind
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in South LA. And it's a model that I think
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we can continue to build on. And it also comes from,
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I believe, Chapter 24 of the Reparations Task Force Report,
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which calls for the closing down of toxic environments in
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descendant neighborhoods and in black communities, the building of urban
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green spaces and parks, it doesn't actually call for in
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the task force report direct compensation by the polluters to
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harmed families. We took it a step further, but that's
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our job.
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So how does that work? I mean, how are people
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going to get paid? How is it determined? You know,
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you live here. Do you have to prove your case? Like,
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how does it work?
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You're going to have to prove your address, but then
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we're going to try to make it a very low
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bar self-attestation if you live in the two and a
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half miles, but it will be kind of like a
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lottery system because it's a pilot. So it'll go through
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the county. We're working with Supervisor Holly Mitchell in the
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second supervisorial district of which most of the oil field exists.
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They had the breathe program a few years ago, which
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was a universal basic income program in the second district.
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We're going to kind of build out on that framework.
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They know how to get direct compensation to the community.
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We're going to use the infrastructure that already exists. And
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because this is a pilot, if we like it, And
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this operator has to pay more money into this fund.
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We can grow this if it's the best use of
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these resources. For me, it's the start is to get
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money out the door. Maybe we want parks. Maybe we
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want affordable housing. Maybe we want some other green and
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sustainable infrastructure. We can make those investments too. If we
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decide as a community, no, we just think folks need
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some money in their pocket, then we'll do that. I'm
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interested in doing what improves the conditions of life the most.
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And I don't presume to always have the right answer
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by myself.
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So you're starting with the check. You're starting with direct
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cash payments to families who have been harmed. And is
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there a requirement like they've been there a certain amount
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of time? I would think no.
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There isn't. Okay.
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So someone that lives in that area that can say that.
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Who has a child with asthma, who was, you know,
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we're still developing some of the mechanics with the county.
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There will be implementation motions in LA County. So stay active,
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stay engaged, plug in with scope. and Black Women for Wellness.
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Those are some of our community partners who are working
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through the details. The money has already been approved by
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the state. The kind of infrastructure to get it out
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the door is something we're still working with the county on.
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So when you say the money has been approved, is
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this money coming from the Englewood oil field?
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Correct. It's coming from the Englewood oil field to a
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repair fund in the state and then from that repair
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fund to LA County, from LA County out the door
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to communities.
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So now when you talk about They're supposed to close
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by 2030. Yeah. So this is a fund that goes
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from now to 2030 for those low-producing fields. And assuming
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that they get it done by 2030, then that program
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would end.
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Correct. And, you know, that was kind of the way
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I designed it. I don't want to create an incentive
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in the community for these oil wells to continue to
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operate because they're paying into a repair fund. Also, it
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brings up the point that they should have been paying
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into a community repair fund all of these years.
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Right.
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In Alaska, when they're drilling for oil, the community gets
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dividends of the profits. Right. Other communities don't allow oil
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wells right next to their neighborhoods. But this has been
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going on a very, very long time. We're finally holding
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them accountable. But I am okay if this fund disappears
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as long as the toxins in our community also disappear.
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As the toxins disappear, absolutely. Assemblymember Isaac Bryan is here.
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You got actually more things that have been signed into law.
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And maybe you want to... Maybe you want to talk
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to us about some of the other things that you
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did not author, but we've got to get through the
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ones you authored first. This is a stack of them.
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We've got news, traffic, and sports right here, but remind
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people how to follow you on socials before we go
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into that.
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My handle is IB2 underscore real.
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IB2 underscore real hasn't changed yet, huh?
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No, it's been that way since the beginning.
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It's been too real since day one. All right, news, traffic,
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and sports, then more. Only right here. Maybe we're not
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going to get to anybody else's new laws. I didn't
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realize it was 11 that you got signed by the governor.
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That's right.
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A couple of them I wasn't tracking. I wasn't tracking
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your AI bill. Miles, time to take notes. You know,
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Miles has the Do Better show now on Saturdays at noon.
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AI is his thing.
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We love it. to see it.
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So what is this AI piece that I missed?
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First in the nation legislation. In fact, it was signed
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by Governor Newsom on the very last day he could
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sign bills. I got to be with him on that day,
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and it felt pretty meaningful to be a part of that.
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moment of California history, right? The, the end of a
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governor and he ended his last bill signing was, was
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AI protections, including my bill, 1883. We found out that
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there are certain companies that are tracking people's emotional state
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of being, uh, and their neural data. Um, they're, I mean,
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literally wearing earpieces and chips that are connected, you know,
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connected to, um, that can infer their emotional state of wellbeing.
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So imagine being in a call center and being on
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calls and then getting a little pings and reminders to,
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you know, that you're not being happy enough for that.
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You know, the tone of your voices. Yeah. Being tone
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policed by, by AI.
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Maybe ping, ping, pinging me all day.
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Yeah. Cause you're having a bad day today and we
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can tell, but we need you to perk up that.
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And then collecting like your neural data, like your very
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sensitive brain activity and brain waves that can tell when
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you're stimulated in certain ways and not while on the job.
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I don't think your employer should have that. I think
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there should be some safe places. My emotional well-being in
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my brain should be one of those safe places. And
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so we're the first state in the country to ban
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employers or prohibit their ability to use this kind of
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AI data on their employees.
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I mean, that's next level big brother if they're literally
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in your head.
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They are absolutely there. And that is where they're heading.
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And let's talk about the ticket prices. That's a big deal, right?
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Yeah.
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I mean, it is for me. I wasn't able to
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go see Usher and Chris Brown because it was a
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little out of my range.
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And then, you know, Jay-Z's at SoFi this weekend.
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Yeah, I know. Miles is going. I'm jealous.
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I'm going, too. I'm not going to lie.
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Okay, I'm jealous of both of you guys.
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We got 99 problems, but getting a ticket was not one.
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The....
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We've all noticed what happens with a really big show
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or somebody who's really popular, right? The tickets go on
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sale at 6 in the morning. You're up at 5.50, refreshing, refreshing, refreshing.
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All of a sudden, you see it's sold out in
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two minutes. You're like, I don't know how it sold out.
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I've been up. I was trying to get these tickets.
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Next thing you know, you're on the secondary market. You're
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on StubHub. You're on SeatGeek or Vivid. And you're looking
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and you realize when they went on sale at 6
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in the morning, you could have got a ticket for $ 95.
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Now in the secondary market, it's $ 600. It's $ 700. It's $ 1, 000.
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Man, they wanted $ 1, 300 to go see Usher and Chris Brown.
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I was like, nope, can't do it.
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And the reason for that is because there's a lot
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of bot buying. But even more so than that, if
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you're up at 6 a.m. trying to buy the tickets,
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you're really on top of it. I feel like many
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of us, you just Google Usher tickets or Jay-Z tickets
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and then you click some of the first links. What
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we found out is that there was an entire industry
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and market around speculative ticketing, which essentially is where these
486
00:22:54.759 --> 00:22:59.519
secondhand sellers advertise tickets they don't have yet before they
487
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even go on sale for more than they're about to
488
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go on sale for. And you as a consumer, if
489
00:23:05.210 --> 00:23:08.970
you don't know this isn't the real ticket seller and
490
00:23:08.990 --> 00:23:12.049
this isn't the real price, you end up buying a
491
00:23:12.089 --> 00:23:14.730
ticket through this route and then hoping that they can
492
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deliver on it. And the way they deliver on it
493
00:23:16.430 --> 00:23:18.619
is by bot buying tickets. the tickets when they go
494
00:23:18.720 --> 00:23:21.400
on sale in bulk, and then reselling it to you,
495
00:23:22.069 --> 00:23:26.730
there's an entire middleman economy. And it hurts consumers. It
496
00:23:26.769 --> 00:23:29.369
also hurts the artists and the people who actually put
497
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on the shows because they don't get a cut from that.
498
00:23:33.190 --> 00:23:35.750
It's dirty and it's shady and it is now banned
499
00:23:35.769 --> 00:23:36.430
in California.
500
00:23:36.910 --> 00:23:40.309
Okay, so me and my friend, me and my friend,
501
00:23:40.769 --> 00:23:43.390
the judge, we were going to see Daniel Caesar.
502
00:23:43.690 --> 00:23:44.309
I know your friend.
503
00:23:44.849 --> 00:23:47.230
We had tickets. I know you do. We had tickets.
504
00:23:47.569 --> 00:23:50.680
We had great seats. We get there, and we're getting
505
00:23:50.720 --> 00:23:53.759
these notifications that we've upgraded you, but they're really not
506
00:23:53.799 --> 00:23:55.960
an upgrade. They put us in the pit, and then
507
00:23:56.160 --> 00:24:01.390
they upgraded. They put us in some nosebleeders, and so
508
00:24:01.509 --> 00:24:04.069
probably they never even had the tickets they sold us.
509
00:24:04.650 --> 00:24:07.579
That is correct. That's crazy.
510
00:24:07.630 --> 00:24:09.359
We drove all the way out to Anaheim.
511
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People show up sometimes believing they had tickets and then
512
00:24:12.269 --> 00:24:14.190
they have nothing for them. And the person who has
513
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to deal with that is the venues, which is why
514
00:24:16.190 --> 00:24:18.809
we were working with venues all year who have to
515
00:24:18.849 --> 00:24:21.329
explain like you don't actually have a ticket. And it's like, well,
516
00:24:21.369 --> 00:24:23.099
I bought one. It's like, yes, that's.
517
00:24:23.519 --> 00:24:26.380
Yeah, that's what we were going through. And my friend
518
00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:28.700
was like, nope, because as soon as we scan this
519
00:24:28.759 --> 00:24:31.299
thing and go in the crappy seat, we're not going
520
00:24:31.319 --> 00:24:33.460
to be able to get a refund. So we turned
521
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around and drove home.
522
00:24:34.849 --> 00:24:36.029
And you missed the entire concert?
523
00:24:36.109 --> 00:24:37.509
We never saw the concert.
524
00:24:37.690 --> 00:24:39.069
And then on the way home, you just put on
525
00:24:39.109 --> 00:24:41.109
Daniel Caesar CDs and put on.
526
00:24:41.109 --> 00:24:41.650
Yeah, pretty much.
527
00:24:41.690 --> 00:24:43.730
Yeah, had karaoke in the car. Yeah.
528
00:24:44.130 --> 00:24:45.759
So, but now that would be illegal.
529
00:24:46.190 --> 00:24:46.539
Correct.
530
00:24:47.039 --> 00:24:49.779
Meaning, I mean, meaning what would happen? We would have,
531
00:24:50.200 --> 00:24:50.619
we would.
532
00:24:50.500 --> 00:24:51.980
Be able to make a complaint. Meaning they have to
533
00:24:52.079 --> 00:24:54.200
have the ticket before they can sell it to you.
534
00:24:54.359 --> 00:24:55.559
And if they don't, it's a crime.
535
00:24:55.940 --> 00:24:56.960
Correct. Okay.
536
00:24:57.420 --> 00:25:00.680
Yeah. As it was, you know, she got our money back,
537
00:25:00.720 --> 00:25:02.589
but that's because it's, you know, she's a lawyer.
538
00:25:02.609 --> 00:25:03.069
Right.
539
00:25:03.089 --> 00:25:05.000
If it would have been me, I probably... Would have
540
00:25:05.019 --> 00:25:05.819
been out the money.
541
00:25:05.900 --> 00:25:07.400
There's a lot more work we have to do in
542
00:25:07.420 --> 00:25:10.960
this ticketing space. But I will tell you, it was strangely,
543
00:25:10.980 --> 00:25:13.170
and I didn't expect this, one of the biggest, if
544
00:25:13.210 --> 00:25:16.210
not the biggest legislative fight I'd ever engaged in.
545
00:25:16.410 --> 00:25:16.890
Really?
546
00:25:17.730 --> 00:25:22.109
The secondary sellers, StubHub, spent more money lobbying last year
547
00:25:22.609 --> 00:25:25.920
than the entire California Chamber of Commerce and the Western
548
00:25:25.960 --> 00:25:30.400
States Petroleum Association. What? All of the oil companies and
549
00:25:30.420 --> 00:25:33.369
the California Chamber of Commerce spent less money than StubHub
550
00:25:33.390 --> 00:25:34.970
spent trying to stop this bill.
551
00:25:35.490 --> 00:25:39.990
Wow. So the price gouging that's happening with these concerts
552
00:25:40.069 --> 00:25:43.319
and any kind of show you want to see, there's
553
00:25:43.359 --> 00:25:46.960
a whole industry behind it that's lobbying to keep it
554
00:25:47.000 --> 00:25:47.720
the way it is.
555
00:25:47.799 --> 00:25:51.140
That's right. They spent $ 4. 5 million trying to stop this bill.
556
00:25:51.859 --> 00:25:57.220
It was an incredibly Herculean effort. It was the last
557
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bill to leave the legislature and go to the governor's desk.
558
00:26:01.900 --> 00:26:05.180
Because the fight went all the way until 11.50 on
559
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the final day at night. Dang.
560
00:26:07.160 --> 00:26:09.750
So was that a wake-up call for you? I mean,
561
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as far as what's happening with the ticket industry?
562
00:26:12.609 --> 00:26:14.289
Absolutely. And it was a reminder to me that it's
563
00:26:14.309 --> 00:26:18.309
a righteous fight to get engaged in. The tactics of
564
00:26:18.329 --> 00:26:22.630
the opposition are dirty. They might have been running ads
565
00:26:22.690 --> 00:26:25.309
on KBLA. They were certainly running. They were running ads
566
00:26:25.349 --> 00:26:27.910
in the Sentinel. I mean, I had to call some
567
00:26:28.000 --> 00:26:29.319
of my folks and be like, I just want you
568
00:26:29.359 --> 00:26:31.900
to know these are like ads against me. So whatever
569
00:26:31.940 --> 00:26:35.160
they're paying for this ad, you know, yesterday's price is
570
00:26:35.200 --> 00:26:37.779
not today's price. Like raise that thing up. Make them
571
00:26:37.799 --> 00:26:38.339
pay for this.
572
00:26:39.259 --> 00:26:42.180
Oh, my goodness. But it does make sense because it
573
00:26:42.279 --> 00:26:47.859
seems like suddenly in the past five, ten years, tickets
574
00:26:47.900 --> 00:26:51.930
have become so expensive. Correct. Um, to where, you know,
575
00:26:51.970 --> 00:26:53.490
when I went to see Beyonce, I had to make
576
00:26:53.509 --> 00:26:55.799
the choice, get a couch or go see Beyonce.
577
00:26:56.019 --> 00:26:56.319
Correct.
578
00:26:56.619 --> 00:26:58.700
I went to see Beyonce. Still don't have the couch,
579
00:26:59.180 --> 00:26:59.839
but it was worth it.
580
00:26:59.839 --> 00:27:00.539
You made the right choice.
581
00:27:00.579 --> 00:27:03.180
Yeah, I think I did, but we shouldn't have to
582
00:27:03.259 --> 00:27:04.279
make those choices.
583
00:27:04.539 --> 00:27:06.279
You shouldn't. And it didn't used to be like that.
584
00:27:06.339 --> 00:27:08.500
And especially as the venues are getting larger. I mean,
585
00:27:08.519 --> 00:27:11.160
the largest arena in the world is here in Inglewood.
586
00:27:11.500 --> 00:27:13.519
So far, that's the largest arena in the world.
587
00:27:13.660 --> 00:27:14.960
Absolutely. I believe the largest stadium.
588
00:27:15.119 --> 00:27:18.230
So now, um, when you say we have more, yeah,
589
00:27:18.329 --> 00:27:21.710
for sure that, um, When you say more work to do,
590
00:27:23.390 --> 00:27:25.630
you believe there's other things that can be done to
591
00:27:25.670 --> 00:27:28.380
protect consumers and get these prices under control?
592
00:27:28.700 --> 00:27:31.819
I think so. One of them that I'm still debating myself,
593
00:27:31.980 --> 00:27:33.680
and I'm not sure. One of my colleagues, Matt Haney
594
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from San Francisco, feels very confident in this. And I'm
595
00:27:36.940 --> 00:27:38.960
not sure. I'm still figuring out how I feel about it.
596
00:27:39.009 --> 00:27:41.450
But he believes there should be price caps on the resale.
597
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That if a ticket is being resold, it can only
598
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be marked up X percentage of the original sale. My
599
00:27:49.450 --> 00:27:51.210
struggle with that is, you know, I've been on the
600
00:27:51.230 --> 00:27:52.880
other side of that where like I bought a ticket.
601
00:27:54.079 --> 00:27:56.079
In fact, I had a ticket to Adele's last show
602
00:27:56.180 --> 00:27:58.740
in Vegas. Girl and I were going to go to
603
00:27:58.779 --> 00:28:01.049
Vegas and see Adele's last show. Got the tickets for
604
00:28:01.069 --> 00:28:05.029
a couple hundred bucks through the lottery system. She announced
605
00:28:05.089 --> 00:28:07.410
it was her last show, realized I couldn't make it.
606
00:28:07.450 --> 00:28:10.250
So we had a ticket to sell. So that thing for,
607
00:28:10.970 --> 00:28:14.180
you know. thousands you bought a car right yeah it
608
00:28:14.200 --> 00:28:16.920
was it was it was incredibly lucrative and i think
609
00:28:16.960 --> 00:28:18.859
once i bought the ticket like i own the ticket
610
00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:20.720
that's my ticket now i can sell it for whatever
611
00:28:20.759 --> 00:28:23.319
somebody wants to buy it for but then you know
612
00:28:23.359 --> 00:28:26.460
for for something remember haney my colleague up north he
613
00:28:26.500 --> 00:28:29.049
believes there's just like a fundamental unfairness in this market
614
00:28:29.069 --> 00:28:31.109
and the the point is to try to go to
615
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shows and make shows accessible for everyday people and so
616
00:28:34.329 --> 00:28:36.329
even though i i made out good on that sale
617
00:28:37.269 --> 00:28:39.029
In a different instance, I'd be on the other side
618
00:28:39.069 --> 00:28:41.859
of that. And there are other countries around the world
619
00:28:41.910 --> 00:28:45.700
and other places where these price caps exist. Still kicking
620
00:28:45.740 --> 00:28:46.180
that around.
621
00:28:46.220 --> 00:28:48.779
I mean, I understand what you're saying. You don't knock
622
00:28:48.819 --> 00:28:50.740
the hustle. You want people to have the ability to
623
00:28:50.799 --> 00:28:53.119
make money and come up. I wonder if there's a
624
00:28:53.160 --> 00:28:54.779
way where we could cap resale.
625
00:28:54.799 --> 00:28:56.640
How many tickets you can have. Like.
626
00:28:56.970 --> 00:28:59.829
Cap resale for these bots and companies that are buying
627
00:28:59.849 --> 00:29:02.869
them in bulk but not for the individual you know
628
00:29:03.250 --> 00:29:06.029
who's actually just a regular person buying a ticket.
629
00:29:05.769 --> 00:29:07.849
Correct or maybe it's like you can't hold more than
630
00:29:07.849 --> 00:29:10.369
15 tickets at a time right you know doesn't we
631
00:29:10.410 --> 00:29:15.839
need to disincentivize the commercialization of this secondary practice because
632
00:29:16.359 --> 00:29:18.759
they're just scraping off the top you're not the artists
633
00:29:19.259 --> 00:29:21.819
who are making the shows you're not the venues you're
634
00:29:21.839 --> 00:29:24.160
not anyone involved in logistics you're not the fan who's
635
00:29:24.200 --> 00:29:26.890
experiencing it you're just right there in the middle taking
636
00:29:26.930 --> 00:29:28.970
giant cuts out of this. And that's, I'm not a
637
00:29:29.019 --> 00:29:29.519
fan of that.
638
00:29:29.859 --> 00:29:32.279
Yeah, me neither. Cause I didn't get to go see
639
00:29:32.359 --> 00:29:35.549
Usher and Chris Brown. So remember, Isaac Bryan is here.
640
00:29:35.849 --> 00:29:38.650
Of course you came out of the foster care system.
641
00:29:38.670 --> 00:29:41.160
I want to talk about that bill when we come forward.
642
00:29:41.900 --> 00:29:45.279
You're still at it, working on reforming that. New laws.
643
00:29:45.799 --> 00:29:48.940
Are you a Californian? This applies to you. If not,
644
00:29:49.079 --> 00:29:50.579
it may still apply to you because you may want
645
00:29:50.619 --> 00:29:53.680
to do something like that in your state. All that
646
00:29:53.740 --> 00:29:57.140
is coming up only right here. Assembly member Isaac Bryan
647
00:29:57.180 --> 00:29:59.200
is here. We've been talking about, you know, you had
648
00:29:59.240 --> 00:30:01.880
a big year. I mean, I guess in the legislature,
649
00:30:01.900 --> 00:30:04.369
it comes and goes. You can propose bills, but you
650
00:30:04.380 --> 00:30:08.670
got to get your fellow legislators in both chambers, the
651
00:30:08.710 --> 00:30:11.289
Assembly and the Senate, to vote yes on them. You
652
00:30:11.309 --> 00:30:12.849
got to get them out of committee. And then you
653
00:30:12.869 --> 00:30:15.500
got to get them signed by the governor. You had 11.
654
00:30:15.500 --> 00:30:17.279
I had no idea it was so many, so we
655
00:30:17.319 --> 00:30:19.440
probably skipped a few of the important ones.
656
00:30:19.460 --> 00:30:20.319
That's right.
657
00:30:20.400 --> 00:30:22.500
But the one that was most important to me, of course,
658
00:30:22.539 --> 00:30:30.220
was 2599, the corporate accountability for reparations. That was super important.
659
00:30:30.269 --> 00:30:32.630
The HUG Act, I think, was super important. We talked
660
00:30:32.670 --> 00:30:37.809
about those. We talked about the AB 1661, Englewood Oil Field.
661
00:30:38.630 --> 00:30:42.170
And we were just talking about the ticket pricing, which
662
00:30:42.190 --> 00:30:46.210
I think was huge. the AI legislation so they can't
663
00:30:46.690 --> 00:30:51.519
go inside your head and get your emotional and neurological data.
664
00:30:52.880 --> 00:30:54.420
What about the foster youth piece?
665
00:30:55.039 --> 00:30:59.660
Yeah, so we passed AB 2162 this year. Right now
666
00:30:59.700 --> 00:31:04.099
there's a program where the federal government provides housing vouchers
667
00:31:04.119 --> 00:31:06.259
for foster youth when they age out of the child
668
00:31:06.279 --> 00:31:10.309
welfare system. And California has a program that helps you
669
00:31:10.509 --> 00:31:12.990
figure out how to use that housing voucher. It's a
670
00:31:13.230 --> 00:31:16.720
peer navigation program paid for by the state. The problem
671
00:31:16.740 --> 00:31:20.119
with it is these vouchers, you can get them up
672
00:31:20.160 --> 00:31:23.200
until you're 24 and then they're good for four years.
673
00:31:23.900 --> 00:31:26.369
So you could get one, a voucher at 24 years
674
00:31:26.509 --> 00:31:30.869
old and then use it when you're 27. The state's
675
00:31:30.970 --> 00:31:34.950
peer navigation program ends at 24. And so there's a misalignment.
676
00:31:35.519 --> 00:31:38.119
And those kids who are 24 to 28 don't get
677
00:31:38.160 --> 00:31:40.539
the support they need from the state in finding their housing,
678
00:31:40.839 --> 00:31:42.809
even if the federal government is going to pay for it,
679
00:31:43.329 --> 00:31:46.069
pay for the voucher itself. And so we changed the
680
00:31:46.109 --> 00:31:47.950
rules of that program to make sure that if you
681
00:31:47.990 --> 00:31:51.329
receive a voucher from the federal government, no matter your age,
682
00:31:51.470 --> 00:31:52.970
up until the end of the program at 28, the
683
00:31:53.190 --> 00:31:55.109
state will step in and make sure that you know
684
00:31:55.150 --> 00:31:57.829
how to use that voucher and get housed. We know
685
00:31:57.849 --> 00:32:01.299
that it's going to help house thousands of former foster
686
00:32:01.339 --> 00:32:03.599
youth across the state, and it's something we should have
687
00:32:03.619 --> 00:32:04.380
been doing a long time ago.
688
00:32:05.009 --> 00:32:07.410
And some people will listen and say, well, 28, 27,
689
00:32:07.410 --> 00:32:13.650
that's not a kid. But the fact is that when
690
00:32:13.690 --> 00:32:16.450
we start to see the number of foster youth that
691
00:32:16.470 --> 00:32:21.490
are ending up being unhoused, the connection becomes really significant
692
00:32:21.930 --> 00:32:23.980
to me all the way through the 20s.
693
00:32:24.549 --> 00:32:28.799
I'm 34 and I still need some help. You know,
694
00:32:28.859 --> 00:32:32.299
sometimes it's difficult to navigate these systems, especially if you...
695
00:32:33.640 --> 00:32:38.400
The amount of support that children who come from affluent
696
00:32:38.440 --> 00:32:43.670
families receive in navigating life is important and immense. And
697
00:32:43.690 --> 00:32:46.150
there's nothing wrong with that. But when you realize that
698
00:32:46.170 --> 00:32:48.329
there are young people who have been deprived of that
699
00:32:48.750 --> 00:32:51.109
and have had to figure everything out on their own,
700
00:32:51.569 --> 00:32:54.279
and then they come into hostile systems that are not
701
00:32:54.339 --> 00:32:56.839
easy to access, even though they were designed to help them,
702
00:32:58.259 --> 00:33:00.400
we can do better. We should do better. So to me,
703
00:33:00.400 --> 00:33:02.079
24 is definitely still a kid. 28 is still a kid.
704
00:33:03.589 --> 00:33:07.730
The older I get, the older the kid range, I realize.
705
00:33:07.789 --> 00:33:12.890
Yeah, same, same. You know, today is my sister Shani's birthday.
706
00:33:12.910 --> 00:33:16.259
Happy birthday, Shani. Her heavenly birthday, I should have said.
707
00:33:16.359 --> 00:33:20.559
She was murdered in a domestic violence situation. Not her,
708
00:33:20.640 --> 00:33:26.420
but her other sister's estranged husband shot her and her girlfriend.
709
00:33:26.440 --> 00:33:27.420
I'm sorry to hear that.
710
00:33:27.480 --> 00:33:30.720
Yeah, fatally shot them. Thank you. I bring it up
711
00:33:30.779 --> 00:33:33.509
because you have also had a piece, AB 1573, that
712
00:33:33.529 --> 00:33:35.549
pertains to domestic violence.
713
00:33:35.569 --> 00:33:35.670
Yes.
714
00:33:39.710 --> 00:33:41.470
My brother Raz, who's the mayor of Newark, he put
715
00:33:41.509 --> 00:33:46.150
up a clinic for women, a domestic violence clinic. But
716
00:33:46.730 --> 00:33:50.970
actually earmarking these pieces for women that are in these
717
00:33:51.009 --> 00:33:53.789
situations is really crucial to keeping them safe, right?
718
00:33:54.089 --> 00:33:57.990
Yes, absolutely. Right now, we don't require that cities and
719
00:33:58.009 --> 00:34:02.410
jurisdictions plan in their housing element a specific housing for
720
00:34:02.450 --> 00:34:06.339
domestic violence survivors and survivors of trafficking. In Los Angeles,
721
00:34:06.359 --> 00:34:08.590
we have a couple of institutions that that have been
722
00:34:08.630 --> 00:34:10.809
established in the nonprofit sector to do that, like the
723
00:34:10.849 --> 00:34:14.070
Downtown Women's Center. But state law doesn't require that those
724
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exist and does not create the regulatory infrastructure for them
725
00:34:18.559 --> 00:34:21.739
to exist to their fullest capacity. And I learned this
726
00:34:21.900 --> 00:34:25.639
by meeting with domestic violence survivors and trafficking survivors in
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downtown Los Angeles and in downtown San Francisco. And they
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told me how important it would be to have legislation
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that requires this to exist. And so we wrote this
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legislation together, Domestic Violence Survivors trafficking survivors and I wrote
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the Unseen and Unheard Act that requires jurisdictions to include
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in their planning, in their housing element, specific housing for
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trafficking survivors and for domestic violence survivors. And I think
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it's important. It's necessary. It's long overdue. I was proud
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to champion this legislation alongside them. And I think you're
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picking up a theme in the way that I like
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to write policy. And I think the people who are
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most impacted by our problem are people who should be
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at that decision-making table. And so I try to Keep
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myself connected to the ground, connected to community, and make
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sure that I remain a vehicle for taking those incredible
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ideas and positive changes to the state capitol and fighting
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as hard as I can.
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Yeah, well, I think that's important. Those are the small
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little changes that can make a huge difference. And, you know,
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it resonated with me, of course, because of Shani Isis,
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Makita Jones, Baraka. May she rest in peace. Okay, you
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said 11, and I didn't get to 11. Are there
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a couple more you want to highlight before we run
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out of time this morning?
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You know, maybe just one more. And that is, earlier
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this year, Liam Ramos was a five-year-old child in Minnesota
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He was coming home from school. ICE used him as
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bait to lure his father out of the house and
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then shipped Liam and his father to a detention facility
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in Texas, in San Antonio, Texas. Liam got sick at
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that facility. A judge had to order his release immediately
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and he was sent back home to Minnesota to be
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with his family as he should have been this entire time.
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It was tragic. It became a national story. It was
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shameful for our entire country. If that happened in California
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and the child died, was gone for more than 30 days,
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the family could lose their social safety net, lose their
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state-provided benefits. And I think that that's wrong. There's a
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couple exceptions in state law when a child's missing. For example,
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if they're in the hospital for an extended stay, we
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won't take your benefits. But we don't have an exception
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for if they're kidnapped by ICE because we never thought
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we would need one.
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Because we shouldn't need one.
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Because we shouldn't need one, because this shouldn't happen. But
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we know that these kidnappings are happening across the country
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and are happening in California. And we know that vulnerable
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families are being punished because of this terror, you know,
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this terror that's being rained on them from the federal administration.
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So we passed AB 1655 to protect the CalWORKs benefits
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of families if their children were separated for a period
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of time. That was also signed into law by Governor
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Gavin Newsom. And I'm grateful. We had a really big
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year in the legislature. We measure years in two year cycles.
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And so for me, it's 25 pieces of legislation passed.
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Over these last two years, everything from raising the wages
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of incarcerated firefighters to providing direct cash payments for folks
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who live by the Inglewood oil field. I'm proud of
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the work we've done.
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Yeah. And as you should be. And appreciate you coming
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in to share these new bills and laws. I had
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some more questions, but we're out of time. So I'd
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be too real is where you want to find him
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if you want to if you want to chat. Off
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the air. And Assemblymember Isaac Bryan, thank you for always
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coming in and always being part of our team here
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at KBLA Talk 1580.
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Grateful for all you do. It's good to be back
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with you.
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Great to see you. The best of Tavis Miley is
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on now. He's got the highlights of the week that was.
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And remember, he has had a lot of great guests
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on this week, including Michael Ely yesterday. I missed that,
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but you don't have to. All that is coming up
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in the next few hours. And don't forget, you can
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tap in with me, DiPrima Radio, D-I-P-R-I-M-A, and then radio
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on all platforms. I even have a TikTok. I know,
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it's Miles. He got me on TikTok. I like to
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close with a quote, and I usually quote one of
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my parents. Today, I'll go with my dad, the late
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great poet laureate of New Jersey, Amiri Baraka, who once said,
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a person is either free or they are not free.
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There can be no apprenticeship for freedom. I'll see you
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on social media. I'll see you in the streets. Until
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next time, KBLA delegation, one love.
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Yes, indeed. Your representative, our representative, he represents the district
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we're sitting in right now, the 55th, Baldwin Hills, Crenshaw,
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Culver City, Ladera Heights, Mar Vista, and more. Beverly Grove,
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Pico Robertson. I feel like I'm a rapper when I
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say all the places you represent. He's the chair of
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the Committee on Natural Resources, the chair of the Assembly's
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first select Committee on Poverty and Economic Inclusion. Assemblymember Isaac Bryan,
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good morning.
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Good morning, Dominique. It's good to be back.
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It's great to have you. I didn't realize that poverty
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and economic inclusion was a new thing. It seems like
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something we would have been had considering how many poor
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people live next to really rich people in California.
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Yeah, and I don't think it should be a select committee.
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I think it should be a standing committee. But all
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of the work I do is rooted in poverty alleviation,
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and I'm one of those crazy people who believes that
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we can eradicate poverty, and that's the society we all
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want to live in.
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You believe we can end poverty.
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I think we should.
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Absolutely. Yeah.
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We have a trillionaire among us. Yeah.
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And from what I understand, we may have two or
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three before the year is out.
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It is disgusting. Yeah.
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It's a lot. Well, since you brought it up, what's
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the difference between a select committee and a permanent committee?
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A select committee is a committee that was approved by
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the leadership of the House, in this case, the Speaker.
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And it was asked for by that member. or asked
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for of the speaker, the speaker asked the member to
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lead it. In this case, I asked for a select
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committee on poverty and economic inclusion. I also asked to
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chair the select committee on the status of boys and
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men of color.
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And so they're there as long as that speaker's there
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and then they go away, or?
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They're there as long as I am here.
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Oh, they're long, okay, as long as you're there.
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Or until I, you know, shift my focus into a
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different capacity.
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I see, okay. And could that become permanent?
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That would take a speaker to decide that they want
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to make it permanent. Okay. Some select committees, though, get
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passed down through the generations because we just believe it's important. So,
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for example, the Select Committee on the Status of Boys
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and Men in Color has been in the legislature for
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about a decade. And it's been chaired by Senator Steve Bradford,
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Senator Joan Sawyer, and now myself. And I think it's
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just us believing that this issue is too important to
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let this select committee die out. And we've held some
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massive hearings, including... at Chucos Justice Center here in Los Angeles.
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We held one in Sacramento, and we're going to do
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another hearing in Oakland later this year.
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And what is the goal of those hearings, the purpose?
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For me, it's always to develop legislative ideas. And so
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for our hearing in Los Angeles, before we went to
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Chucos Justice Center, we also went inside Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall,
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and legislation was inspired by the young boys who were
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incarcerated there.
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Yay, I love that legislation so much, the HUG Act.
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Yes.
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It sounds like silly, but it's so dope. And you
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were able to get that signed by the governor this year.
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That's right. And I went into Barry J. Neidorf Juvenile
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Detention Center in Sylmar this week and gave out assembly
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certificates to the young men who were involved.
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To the young men who helped come up with this
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act and helped inspire it.
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Absolutely. In fact, I told them, you should write on
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your resume that you changed California law while you were incarcerated.
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And if anybody questions it, have them call me.
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That's dope. So for people who didn't, you know, haven't
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heard us talking about this before it was signed into law,
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explain what the HUG Act is.
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Yeah. So I found out last December. I went inside
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Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall to play basketball for Christmas with
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incarcerated youth in a nonprofit called Hoops for Justice. And
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while I was there, I was talking with the young
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people about the conditions of their confinement. And Kian, Peter, Ruben,
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they huddled me in a corner and they were telling
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me a story about how they got the toothpaste changed
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and how much it meant to them. And, you know,
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in my head, I was thinking I can be toothpaste.
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What else? What else would you like? But then he said,
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you know, a lot of us talking to be really
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nice if we could just hug our moms when they
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come to visit. And I was shocked that that's a
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thing to begin with. And I was like, you can't
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hug your moms. And I'm asking probation. You don't let
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them have physical contact with their mothers who do the
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mothers have to go through the scanner. I went through
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and get sniffed by the dogs that I went through
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as an elected official. And the answer is yes. And
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then I found out there are some facilities in California
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that do allow physical contact. Santa Cruz, for example, and
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in other counties. So we know this can be done
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and should be done. And we know how much physical
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touch means for a child's well-being and the opportunity for
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them to stay healthy and whole and to treat accountability
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with care because we know all these young people are
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coming home and we want you to grow up to
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a full functioning adult, not someone who's going to go
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back into incarceration. So we wrote this bill together, me
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and the incarcerated youth. And the bill was called the
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HUG Act and it gives them the right to physical contact.
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We're the first state now, California, that gives incarcerated youth
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the right to physical touch from their loved ones when
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they come to visit.
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Congratulations on that. From what I understand, you even got
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a few Republicans to sign off on that.
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I did get a few Republicans.
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Bipartisanship can exist.
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I went to the mothers of the legislature.
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Aha, that was low. That was smart, though. So you
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went to the mamas who thought, if my kid's incarcerated,
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because any mom knows that on any given day, something
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crazy can happen and your kid can end up inside.
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That's right.
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And the Republican mamas got on board.
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In fact, Heather Hadwick, who represents the northernmost district in
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the state, she voted no on the floor because that
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was the Republican record for the day and the recommendation
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for that vote. And then she realized it was the
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bill she and I had talked about, and she went
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up and To change your vote in the assembly, you
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have to announce it to the whole body. You have
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to go in front of the whole body and say,
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I'm changing my vote on this. And so you don't
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want to do that very often because it could look
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like you're not paying attention or, you know, whatever.
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It could be embarrassing.
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Yeah, it could also like you can't change the outcome,
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but you can, you know, it's just you want to
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be on top of your votes. You want to know
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what your vote was doing. Um, we don't get do
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overs at the ballot, for example, like, you know what, actually. Yeah.
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Can I take back my Trump vote?
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In this instance, it's the first time I'd ever seen
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a Republican in the six years that I've been there.
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Vote change a no on a democratic bill to a yes. Uh,
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and so she vote changed a yes on the Huck
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act and it was amazing. And then I gave her
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a hug.
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That is amazing. And it's, um, I think, you know, again,
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I'll say it because I've seen the studies, I've seen
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the data, uh, that it's not only mental health, which
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is also important, but also physical health. If people don't
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get hugs, if people don't have physical touch, it, it
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has a detrimental physical and mental impact on them. And
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I would imagine it's even more when they're growing.
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No, absolutely. And, uh, there's a powerful, um, 10 minute
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kind of investigative, uh, documentary on the Hug Act that
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just aired on CBS two nights ago. The incarcerated young
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people who wrote the legislation with me are featured in it.
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this legislation is so meaningful and important to them, I
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couldn't have done it any better and I'm real proud
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of them.
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I'm pretty sure they're proud of themselves. I hope they are.
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But also it's worth pointing out that that kind of thing,
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that kind of a victory for a kid any kid,
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but especially an incarcerated kid, seems like it could change
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the whole trajectory of their lives.
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And that was the whole impotence for doing it for me.
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I mean, one, it's good policy change and it's necessary
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and it's rooted in dignity and compassion, but also being,
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I remember the first bill I was a part of
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when I was in graduate school and how much of
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an impact that had on my policy trajectory and my
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belief that systems could change for the better or that
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we could dismantle harm. And I think for all of
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these young people and their families, this bill activated their
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streak of social justice and their belief in moving the
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levers of politics and civil society, the mothers of these
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young people came up to Sacramento all year and testified
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with me. And we threw a big celebration, 200 family
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members after it was signed, the day after it was signed.
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We huddled up 200 people to celebrate because it was
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a labor of love for the people inside, the young
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kids inside, and all of their families, and then all
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of us on the outside who were pushing And then
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we immediately went to L.A. County and we said, look,
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the law goes into effect in January. Can you start
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doing it now? And L.A. County said, yeah, we'll do
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it now.
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Yeah, which is how common is that?
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Not very. I've never been a part of a piece
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of legislation that was signed into state law. And then
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the county jumped in and said, we're going to start
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implementing this before we're required to.
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I mean, getting the county to do anything fast is
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pretty miraculous anyway. But to me, what that says is
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that people understood how important this was to the incarcerated
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young people.
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And it was a unanimous motion as well, which means
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even the friction and the fractures on that board of supervisors,
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including the Republican on the board, all stepped in and said,
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we should do this.
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Amazing. Well, you had a good legislative session. We've got
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some new laws. That's just one of them. We'll look
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at more when we come forward. Assemblymember Isaac Bryan, I'm
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Dominique DiPrima for KBLA Talk 1580. Assemblymember Isaac Bryan is here,
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and we're talking about the legislative year that you had.
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You had actually a really busy year. And so let's
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talk about, well, since Professor Justin Hansford was here, we're
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doing our Freedman Friday, which you yourself have done before.
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Let's talk about the Disclosure Act. Truth in Disclosure, I think,
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is what it's called. Assembly Bill 2599. Yes, ma'am. Last
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time you were on, I said, will the governor sign it?
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I was skeptical. I'm not going to lie. He did.
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I think I probably said yes. I felt very confident.
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You said, yeah. You said, I'm pretty sure. You said,
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let's see. But you seemed pretty confident.
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Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you're not going to burn black
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folks on the way out the door, or at least
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you shouldn't. And so I had faith that he wouldn't,
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and he didn't. And he announced the signing of the
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bill on his podcast with Bryan Stevenson, which I thought was.
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Strategic.
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True Gavin Newsom fashion. Strategic.
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But that, I mean, but nevertheless, I mean, I also
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think it has to do with the way that you
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shepherded the bill, the way that you, the relationship, whatever
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the relationship that you have with the governor, that you
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were able to get this across the finish line.
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Well, I want to give a shout out to the
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44 organizations that, you know, stood in the paint with
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us all year, trusted the strategy, moved strategically together. that
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kind of solidarity, that's how you get the big things done.
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It's why through the years, the more people try to
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fracture and create different lines of division, the further we
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get from the freedom dreams that we actually all share.
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Okay, so just for folks who haven't been paying attention,
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explain what your bill does.
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My bill requires private corporations with gross receipts of over
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$ 100 million to, under penalty of perjury, disclose their historic
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ties to to slavery, which is an incredibly big deal
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because we talk often about the public recompense that's needed
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to repair the harms of slavery. What does that mean
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for our civic infrastructure and for the government? But we
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don't often talk about the private wealth that was stolen, generated,
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and compounded through generations in the hands of private companies
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and private employers. This gets at that conversation. And once
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we have that data from the Truth and Disclosure Act,
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we can start to have meaningful conversations about What does
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this mean to know that these companies and corporations have
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these kinds of ties to slavery? What does it mean
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about their ability to do public contract, for example? Should
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the government have public contracts with corporations whose basis of
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wealth generation began with chattel slavery? Those kinds of questions.
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Should there be some sort of repair that's demanded in
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those kind of companies and corporations that are doing business
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in California? All of that becomes on the table once
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the information is known. The problem is right now people
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just don't know. I think anecdotally we'd say stuff like, well, yeah,
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the banks wrote loans that were underwritten with slaves and
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the insurers wrote insurance policies that were underwritten with enslaved people.
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But we don't have hard numbers and facts and information.
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There was a bill a few decades ago that kind
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of started to get at this conversation for insurers only.
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Senator Hayden's bill.
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Correct. Not in a comprehensive enough way. It's not a
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public dashboard like this one will be. And it doesn't
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impact all industries and all businesses. In fact, the insurance
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companies were in opposition to our legislation all year because
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they knew ours went further and they didn't want to
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disclose more and they didn't want it to be publicly available.
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But we fought them and we won.
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Well, Professor Hansford, you know, who is... the founder of
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the Ogletree Reparative Bar Association and is a reparations activist
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who's spoken at the UN, he said this is important
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because just like the studies that are coming out, like
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the task force and like other studies, it not only
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puts it on the record, it is the source itself,
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in this case the corporation, admitting that this was what
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they did. Not an outside person accusing them, not a
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speculative theory, but the corporation itself admitting and putting on paper,
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this is what we did.
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The other piece he pointed out, though, is that it
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has to be enforced. And that sometimes, I guess they
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had something like this in the city of Chicago, and
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he said it wasn't enforced at all. So how do
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we make sure that this has some teeth?
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the Department of Justice. For local municipalities, it gets a
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little bit harder because if the city of Los Angeles
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had something like this as the enforcement, the LAPD, You
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know what I mean? Like that's right. It's different tools.
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The city attorney, maybe. Right. If you've got the right
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city attorney. In this case, it is the Department of
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Justice enforcing the state's laws. And I feel I feel
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very confident in California's Department of Justice, especially in the
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hands of Rob Bonta, because it is also the Department
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of Justice who wrote the task force report.
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Fair point. We got a lot to cover. I know
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that we only have five minutes before news, traffic, and sports.
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We'll talk more on the other side. But let's start
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on the Englewood oil field.
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Yeah. What do you want to know?
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Well, I mean, this is something you've been working on
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for a long time.
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Absolutely.
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And it goes to your stewardship of the Environmental Committee,
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as well as your interest in reparations, even though technically
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it's not reparation. So just explain what happened.
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So two years ago, we passed a piece of legislation
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to close the field by 2030. That is underway. The
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operator of the field is suing the state of California,
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suing me, and we're fighting back. We're pushing back. But
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we also required them to pay a penalty fee for
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every low-producing well into a community repair fund that can
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only be appropriated within two and a half miles of
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the field. I knew then two years ago that the
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next step was to get direct cash payments out to
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families who have had their health impacted living next to
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the fields. And so we wrote legislation this year, AB 1661,
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that calls for the establishment of a program that pays
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direct cash payments, compensation to families who have had their
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health impacted living next to this field. And that bill
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was also signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom. It
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is the largest form of environmental reparations of its kind
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in South LA. And it's a model that I think
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we can continue to build on. And it also comes from,
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I believe, Chapter 24 of the Reparations Task Force Report,
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which calls for the closing down of toxic environments in
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descendant neighborhoods and in black communities, the building of urban
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green spaces and parks, it doesn't actually call for in
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the task force report direct compensation by the polluters to
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harmed families. We took it a step further, but that's
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our job.
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So how does that work? I mean, how are people
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going to get paid? How is it determined? You know,
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you live here. Do you have to prove your case? Like,
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how does it work?
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You're going to have to prove your address, but then
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we're going to try to make it a very low
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bar self-attestation if you live in the two and a
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half miles, but it will be kind of like a
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lottery system because it's a pilot. So it'll go through
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the county. We're working with Supervisor Holly Mitchell in the
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second supervisorial district of which most of the oil field exists.
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They had the breathe program a few years ago, which
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was a universal basic income program in the second district.
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We're going to kind of build out on that framework.
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They know how to get direct compensation to the community.
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We're going to use the infrastructure that already exists. And
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because this is a pilot, if we like it, And
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this operator has to pay more money into this fund.
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We can grow this if it's the best use of
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these resources. For me, it's the start is to get
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money out the door. Maybe we want parks. Maybe we
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want affordable housing. Maybe we want some other green and
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sustainable infrastructure. We can make those investments too. If we
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decide as a community, no, we just think folks need
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some money in their pocket, then we'll do that. I'm
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interested in doing what improves the conditions of life the most.
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And I don't presume to always have the right answer
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by myself.
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So you're starting with the check. You're starting with direct
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cash payments to families who have been harmed. And is
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there a requirement like they've been there a certain amount
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of time? I would think no.
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There isn't. Okay.
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So someone that lives in that area that can say that.
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Who has a child with asthma, who was, you know,
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we're still developing some of the mechanics with the county.
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There will be implementation motions in LA County. So stay active,
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stay engaged, plug in with scope. and Black Women for Wellness.
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Those are some of our community partners who are working
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through the details. The money has already been approved by
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the state. The kind of infrastructure to get it out
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the door is something we're still working with the county on.
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So when you say the money has been approved, is
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this money coming from the Englewood oil field?
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Correct. It's coming from the Englewood oil field to a
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repair fund in the state and then from that repair
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fund to LA County, from LA County out the door
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to communities.
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So now when you talk about They're supposed to close
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by 2030. Yeah. So this is a fund that goes
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from now to 2030 for those low-producing fields. And assuming
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that they get it done by 2030, then that program
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would end.
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Correct. And, you know, that was kind of the way
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I designed it. I don't want to create an incentive
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in the community for these oil wells to continue to
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operate because they're paying into a repair fund. Also, it
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brings up the point that they should have been paying
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into a community repair fund all of these years.
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In Alaska, when they're drilling for oil, the community gets
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dividends of the profits. Right. Other communities don't allow oil
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wells right next to their neighborhoods. But this has been
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going on a very, very long time. We're finally holding
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them accountable. But I am okay if this fund disappears
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as long as the toxins in our community also disappear.
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As the toxins disappear, absolutely. Assemblymember Isaac Bryan is here.
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You got actually more things that have been signed into law.
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And maybe you want to... Maybe you want to talk
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to us about some of the other things that you
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did not author, but we've got to get through the
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ones you authored first. This is a stack of them.
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We've got news, traffic, and sports right here, but remind
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people how to follow you on socials before we go
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into that.
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My handle is IB2 underscore real.
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IB2 underscore real hasn't changed yet, huh?
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No, it's been that way since the beginning.
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It's been too real since day one. All right, news, traffic,
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and sports, then more. Only right here. Maybe we're not
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going to get to anybody else's new laws. I didn't
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realize it was 11 that you got signed by the governor.
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That's right.
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A couple of them I wasn't tracking. I wasn't tracking
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your AI bill. Miles, time to take notes. You know,
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Miles has the Do Better show now on Saturdays at noon.
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AI is his thing.
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We love it. to see it.
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So what is this AI piece that I missed?
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First in the nation legislation. In fact, it was signed
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by Governor Newsom on the very last day he could
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sign bills. I got to be with him on that day,
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and it felt pretty meaningful to be a part of that.
427
00:20:07.970 --> 00:20:10.269
moment of California history, right? The, the end of a
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governor and he ended his last bill signing was, was
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AI protections, including my bill, 1883. We found out that
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there are certain companies that are tracking people's emotional state
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of being, uh, and their neural data. Um, they're, I mean,
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literally wearing earpieces and chips that are connected, you know,
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connected to, um, that can infer their emotional state of wellbeing.
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So imagine being in a call center and being on
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calls and then getting a little pings and reminders to,
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you know, that you're not being happy enough for that.
437
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You know, the tone of your voices. Yeah. Being tone
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policed by, by AI.
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Maybe ping, ping, pinging me all day.
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Yeah. Cause you're having a bad day today and we
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can tell, but we need you to perk up that.
442
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And then collecting like your neural data, like your very
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sensitive brain activity and brain waves that can tell when
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you're stimulated in certain ways and not while on the job.
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I don't think your employer should have that. I think
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there should be some safe places. My emotional well-being in
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my brain should be one of those safe places. And
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so we're the first state in the country to ban
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employers or prohibit their ability to use this kind of
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AI data on their employees.
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I mean, that's next level big brother if they're literally
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in your head.
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They are absolutely there. And that is where they're heading.
454
00:21:26.400 --> 00:21:29.980
And let's talk about the ticket prices. That's a big deal, right?
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Yeah.
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I mean, it is for me. I wasn't able to
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go see Usher and Chris Brown because it was a
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little out of my range.
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And then, you know, Jay-Z's at SoFi this weekend.
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Yeah, I know. Miles is going. I'm jealous.
461
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I'm going, too. I'm not going to lie.
462
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Okay, I'm jealous of both of you guys.
463
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We got 99 problems, but getting a ticket was not one.
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The....
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We've all noticed what happens with a really big show
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or somebody who's really popular, right? The tickets go on
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sale at 6 in the morning. You're up at 5.50, refreshing, refreshing, refreshing.
468
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All of a sudden, you see it's sold out in
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two minutes. You're like, I don't know how it sold out.
470
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I've been up. I was trying to get these tickets.
471
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Next thing you know, you're on the secondary market. You're
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on StubHub. You're on SeatGeek or Vivid. And you're looking
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and you realize when they went on sale at 6
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in the morning, you could have got a ticket for $ 95.
475
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Now in the secondary market, it's $ 600. It's $ 700. It's $ 1, 000.
476
00:22:25.920 --> 00:22:28.420
Man, they wanted $ 1, 300 to go see Usher and Chris Brown.
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I was like, nope, can't do it.
478
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And the reason for that is because there's a lot
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of bot buying. But even more so than that, if
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you're up at 6 a.m. trying to buy the tickets,
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you're really on top of it. I feel like many
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of us, you just Google Usher tickets or Jay-Z tickets
483
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and then you click some of the first links. What
484
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we found out is that there was an entire industry
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and market around speculative ticketing, which essentially is where these
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secondhand sellers advertise tickets they don't have yet before they
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even go on sale for more than they're about to
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go on sale for. And you as a consumer, if
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you don't know this isn't the real ticket seller and
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this isn't the real price, you end up buying a
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ticket through this route and then hoping that they can
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deliver on it. And the way they deliver on it
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is by bot buying tickets. the tickets when they go
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on sale in bulk, and then reselling it to you,
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there's an entire middleman economy. And it hurts consumers. It
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also hurts the artists and the people who actually put
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on the shows because they don't get a cut from that.
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It's dirty and it's shady and it is now banned
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in California.
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Okay, so me and my friend, me and my friend,
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the judge, we were going to see Daniel Caesar.
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I know your friend.
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We had tickets. I know you do. We had tickets.
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We had great seats. We get there, and we're getting
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these notifications that we've upgraded you, but they're really not
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an upgrade. They put us in the pit, and then
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they upgraded. They put us in some nosebleeders, and so
508
00:24:01.509 --> 00:24:04.069
probably they never even had the tickets they sold us.
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That is correct. That's crazy.
510
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We drove all the way out to Anaheim.
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People show up sometimes believing they had tickets and then
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they have nothing for them. And the person who has
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to deal with that is the venues, which is why
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we were working with venues all year who have to
515
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explain like you don't actually have a ticket. And it's like, well,
516
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I bought one. It's like, yes, that's.
517
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Yeah, that's what we were going through. And my friend
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was like, nope, because as soon as we scan this
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thing and go in the crappy seat, we're not going
520
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to be able to get a refund. So we turned
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around and drove home.
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And you missed the entire concert?
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We never saw the concert.
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And then on the way home, you just put on
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Daniel Caesar CDs and put on.
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Yeah, pretty much.
527
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Yeah, had karaoke in the car. Yeah.
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00:24:44.130 --> 00:24:45.759
So, but now that would be illegal.
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Correct.
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Meaning, I mean, meaning what would happen? We would have,
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we would.
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Be able to make a complaint. Meaning they have to
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have the ticket before they can sell it to you.
534
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And if they don't, it's a crime.
535
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Correct. Okay.
536
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Yeah. As it was, you know, she got our money back,
537
00:25:00.720 --> 00:25:02.589
but that's because it's, you know, she's a lawyer.
538
00:25:02.609 --> 00:25:03.069
Right.
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If it would have been me, I probably... Would have
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been out the money.
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There's a lot more work we have to do in
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this ticketing space. But I will tell you, it was strangely,
543
00:25:10.980 --> 00:25:13.170
and I didn't expect this, one of the biggest, if
544
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not the biggest legislative fight I'd ever engaged in.
545
00:25:16.410 --> 00:25:16.890
Really?
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The secondary sellers, StubHub, spent more money lobbying last year
547
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than the entire California Chamber of Commerce and the Western
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00:25:25.960 --> 00:25:30.400
States Petroleum Association. What? All of the oil companies and
549
00:25:30.420 --> 00:25:33.369
the California Chamber of Commerce spent less money than StubHub
550
00:25:33.390 --> 00:25:34.970
spent trying to stop this bill.
551
00:25:35.490 --> 00:25:39.990
Wow. So the price gouging that's happening with these concerts
552
00:25:40.069 --> 00:25:43.319
and any kind of show you want to see, there's
553
00:25:43.359 --> 00:25:46.960
a whole industry behind it that's lobbying to keep it
554
00:25:47.000 --> 00:25:47.720
the way it is.
555
00:25:47.799 --> 00:25:51.140
That's right. They spent $ 4. 5 million trying to stop this bill.
556
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It was an incredibly Herculean effort. It was the last
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bill to leave the legislature and go to the governor's desk.
558
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Because the fight went all the way until 11.50 on
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the final day at night. Dang.
560
00:26:07.160 --> 00:26:09.750
So was that a wake-up call for you? I mean,
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as far as what's happening with the ticket industry?
562
00:26:12.609 --> 00:26:14.289
Absolutely. And it was a reminder to me that it's
563
00:26:14.309 --> 00:26:18.309
a righteous fight to get engaged in. The tactics of
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00:26:18.329 --> 00:26:22.630
the opposition are dirty. They might have been running ads
565
00:26:22.690 --> 00:26:25.309
on KBLA. They were certainly running. They were running ads
566
00:26:25.349 --> 00:26:27.910
in the Sentinel. I mean, I had to call some
567
00:26:28.000 --> 00:26:29.319
of my folks and be like, I just want you
568
00:26:29.359 --> 00:26:31.900
to know these are like ads against me. So whatever
569
00:26:31.940 --> 00:26:35.160
they're paying for this ad, you know, yesterday's price is
570
00:26:35.200 --> 00:26:37.779
not today's price. Like raise that thing up. Make them
571
00:26:37.799 --> 00:26:38.339
pay for this.
572
00:26:39.259 --> 00:26:42.180
Oh, my goodness. But it does make sense because it
573
00:26:42.279 --> 00:26:47.859
seems like suddenly in the past five, ten years, tickets
574
00:26:47.900 --> 00:26:51.930
have become so expensive. Correct. Um, to where, you know,
575
00:26:51.970 --> 00:26:53.490
when I went to see Beyonce, I had to make
576
00:26:53.509 --> 00:26:55.799
the choice, get a couch or go see Beyonce.
577
00:26:56.019 --> 00:26:56.319
Correct.
578
00:26:56.619 --> 00:26:58.700
I went to see Beyonce. Still don't have the couch,
579
00:26:59.180 --> 00:26:59.839
but it was worth it.
580
00:26:59.839 --> 00:27:00.539
You made the right choice.
581
00:27:00.579 --> 00:27:03.180
Yeah, I think I did, but we shouldn't have to
582
00:27:03.259 --> 00:27:04.279
make those choices.
583
00:27:04.539 --> 00:27:06.279
You shouldn't. And it didn't used to be like that.
584
00:27:06.339 --> 00:27:08.500
And especially as the venues are getting larger. I mean,
585
00:27:08.519 --> 00:27:11.160
the largest arena in the world is here in Inglewood.
586
00:27:11.500 --> 00:27:13.519
So far, that's the largest arena in the world.
587
00:27:13.660 --> 00:27:14.960
Absolutely. I believe the largest stadium.
588
00:27:15.119 --> 00:27:18.230
So now, um, when you say we have more, yeah,
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00:27:18.329 --> 00:27:21.710
for sure that, um, When you say more work to do,
590
00:27:23.390 --> 00:27:25.630
you believe there's other things that can be done to
591
00:27:25.670 --> 00:27:28.380
protect consumers and get these prices under control?
592
00:27:28.700 --> 00:27:31.819
I think so. One of them that I'm still debating myself,
593
00:27:31.980 --> 00:27:33.680
and I'm not sure. One of my colleagues, Matt Haney
594
00:27:33.700 --> 00:27:36.920
from San Francisco, feels very confident in this. And I'm
595
00:27:36.940 --> 00:27:38.960
not sure. I'm still figuring out how I feel about it.
596
00:27:39.009 --> 00:27:41.450
But he believes there should be price caps on the resale.
597
00:27:42.089 --> 00:27:45.650
That if a ticket is being resold, it can only
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00:27:45.710 --> 00:27:49.390
be marked up X percentage of the original sale. My
599
00:27:49.450 --> 00:27:51.210
struggle with that is, you know, I've been on the
600
00:27:51.230 --> 00:27:52.880
other side of that where like I bought a ticket.
601
00:27:54.079 --> 00:27:56.079
In fact, I had a ticket to Adele's last show
602
00:27:56.180 --> 00:27:58.740
in Vegas. Girl and I were going to go to
603
00:27:58.779 --> 00:28:01.049
Vegas and see Adele's last show. Got the tickets for
604
00:28:01.069 --> 00:28:05.029
a couple hundred bucks through the lottery system. She announced
605
00:28:05.089 --> 00:28:07.410
it was her last show, realized I couldn't make it.
606
00:28:07.450 --> 00:28:10.250
So we had a ticket to sell. So that thing for,
607
00:28:10.970 --> 00:28:14.180
you know. thousands you bought a car right yeah it
608
00:28:14.200 --> 00:28:16.920
was it was it was incredibly lucrative and i think
609
00:28:16.960 --> 00:28:18.859
once i bought the ticket like i own the ticket
610
00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:20.720
that's my ticket now i can sell it for whatever
611
00:28:20.759 --> 00:28:23.319
somebody wants to buy it for but then you know
612
00:28:23.359 --> 00:28:26.460
for for something remember haney my colleague up north he
613
00:28:26.500 --> 00:28:29.049
believes there's just like a fundamental unfairness in this market
614
00:28:29.069 --> 00:28:31.109
and the the point is to try to go to
615
00:28:31.190 --> 00:28:34.289
shows and make shows accessible for everyday people and so
616
00:28:34.329 --> 00:28:36.329
even though i i made out good on that sale
617
00:28:37.269 --> 00:28:39.029
In a different instance, I'd be on the other side
618
00:28:39.069 --> 00:28:41.859
of that. And there are other countries around the world
619
00:28:41.910 --> 00:28:45.700
and other places where these price caps exist. Still kicking
620
00:28:45.740 --> 00:28:46.180
that around.
621
00:28:46.220 --> 00:28:48.779
I mean, I understand what you're saying. You don't knock
622
00:28:48.819 --> 00:28:50.740
the hustle. You want people to have the ability to
623
00:28:50.799 --> 00:28:53.119
make money and come up. I wonder if there's a
624
00:28:53.160 --> 00:28:54.779
way where we could cap resale.
625
00:28:54.799 --> 00:28:56.640
How many tickets you can have. Like.
626
00:28:56.970 --> 00:28:59.829
Cap resale for these bots and companies that are buying
627
00:28:59.849 --> 00:29:02.869
them in bulk but not for the individual you know
628
00:29:03.250 --> 00:29:06.029
who's actually just a regular person buying a ticket.
629
00:29:05.769 --> 00:29:07.849
Correct or maybe it's like you can't hold more than
630
00:29:07.849 --> 00:29:10.369
15 tickets at a time right you know doesn't we
631
00:29:10.410 --> 00:29:15.839
need to disincentivize the commercialization of this secondary practice because
632
00:29:16.359 --> 00:29:18.759
they're just scraping off the top you're not the artists
633
00:29:19.259 --> 00:29:21.819
who are making the shows you're not the venues you're
634
00:29:21.839 --> 00:29:24.160
not anyone involved in logistics you're not the fan who's
635
00:29:24.200 --> 00:29:26.890
experiencing it you're just right there in the middle taking
636
00:29:26.930 --> 00:29:28.970
giant cuts out of this. And that's, I'm not a
637
00:29:29.019 --> 00:29:29.519
fan of that.
638
00:29:29.859 --> 00:29:32.279
Yeah, me neither. Cause I didn't get to go see
639
00:29:32.359 --> 00:29:35.549
Usher and Chris Brown. So remember, Isaac Bryan is here.
640
00:29:35.849 --> 00:29:38.650
Of course you came out of the foster care system.
641
00:29:38.670 --> 00:29:41.160
I want to talk about that bill when we come forward.
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You're still at it, working on reforming that. New laws.
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Are you a Californian? This applies to you. If not,
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it may still apply to you because you may want
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to do something like that in your state. All that
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is coming up only right here. Assembly member Isaac Bryan
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is here. We've been talking about, you know, you had
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a big year. I mean, I guess in the legislature,
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it comes and goes. You can propose bills, but you
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got to get your fellow legislators in both chambers, the
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Assembly and the Senate, to vote yes on them. You
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got to get them out of committee. And then you
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got to get them signed by the governor. You had 11.
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I had no idea it was so many, so we
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probably skipped a few of the important ones.
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That's right.
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But the one that was most important to me, of course,
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was 2599, the corporate accountability for reparations. That was super important.
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The HUG Act, I think, was super important. We talked
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about those. We talked about the AB 1661, Englewood Oil Field.
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And we were just talking about the ticket pricing, which
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I think was huge. the AI legislation so they can't
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go inside your head and get your emotional and neurological data.
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What about the foster youth piece?
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Yeah, so we passed AB 2162 this year. Right now
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there's a program where the federal government provides housing vouchers
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for foster youth when they age out of the child
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welfare system. And California has a program that helps you
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figure out how to use that housing voucher. It's a
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peer navigation program paid for by the state. The problem
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with it is these vouchers, you can get them up
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until you're 24 and then they're good for four years.
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So you could get one, a voucher at 24 years
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old and then use it when you're 27. The state's
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peer navigation program ends at 24. And so there's a misalignment.
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And those kids who are 24 to 28 don't get
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the support they need from the state in finding their housing,
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even if the federal government is going to pay for it,
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pay for the voucher itself. And so we changed the
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rules of that program to make sure that if you
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receive a voucher from the federal government, no matter your age,
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up until the end of the program at 28, the
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state will step in and make sure that you know
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how to use that voucher and get housed. We know
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that it's going to help house thousands of former foster
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youth across the state, and it's something we should have
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been doing a long time ago.
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And some people will listen and say, well, 28, 27,
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that's not a kid. But the fact is that when
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we start to see the number of foster youth that
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are ending up being unhoused, the connection becomes really significant
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to me all the way through the 20s.
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I'm 34 and I still need some help. You know,
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sometimes it's difficult to navigate these systems, especially if you...
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The amount of support that children who come from affluent
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families receive in navigating life is important and immense. And
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there's nothing wrong with that. But when you realize that
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there are young people who have been deprived of that
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and have had to figure everything out on their own,
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and then they come into hostile systems that are not
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easy to access, even though they were designed to help them,
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we can do better. We should do better. So to me,
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24 is definitely still a kid. 28 is still a kid.
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The older I get, the older the kid range, I realize.
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Yeah, same, same. You know, today is my sister Shani's birthday.
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Happy birthday, Shani. Her heavenly birthday, I should have said.
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She was murdered in a domestic violence situation. Not her,
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but her other sister's estranged husband shot her and her girlfriend.
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I'm sorry to hear that.
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Yeah, fatally shot them. Thank you. I bring it up
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because you have also had a piece, AB 1573, that
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pertains to domestic violence.
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Yes.
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My brother Raz, who's the mayor of Newark, he put
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up a clinic for women, a domestic violence clinic. But
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actually earmarking these pieces for women that are in these
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situations is really crucial to keeping them safe, right?
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Yes, absolutely. Right now, we don't require that cities and
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jurisdictions plan in their housing element a specific housing for
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domestic violence survivors and survivors of trafficking. In Los Angeles,
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we have a couple of institutions that that have been
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established in the nonprofit sector to do that, like the
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Downtown Women's Center. But state law doesn't require that those
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exist and does not create the regulatory infrastructure for them
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to exist to their fullest capacity. And I learned this
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by meeting with domestic violence survivors and trafficking survivors in
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downtown Los Angeles and in downtown San Francisco. And they
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told me how important it would be to have legislation
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that requires this to exist. And so we wrote this
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legislation together, Domestic Violence Survivors trafficking survivors and I wrote
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the Unseen and Unheard Act that requires jurisdictions to include
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in their planning, in their housing element, specific housing for
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trafficking survivors and for domestic violence survivors. And I think
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it's important. It's necessary. It's long overdue. I was proud
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to champion this legislation alongside them. And I think you're
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picking up a theme in the way that I like
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to write policy. And I think the people who are
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most impacted by our problem are people who should be
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at that decision-making table. And so I try to Keep
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myself connected to the ground, connected to community, and make
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sure that I remain a vehicle for taking those incredible
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ideas and positive changes to the state capitol and fighting
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as hard as I can.
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Yeah, well, I think that's important. Those are the small
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little changes that can make a huge difference. And, you know,
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it resonated with me, of course, because of Shani Isis,
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Makita Jones, Baraka. May she rest in peace. Okay, you
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said 11, and I didn't get to 11. Are there
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a couple more you want to highlight before we run
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out of time this morning?
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You know, maybe just one more. And that is, earlier
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this year, Liam Ramos was a five-year-old child in Minnesota
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He was coming home from school. ICE used him as
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bait to lure his father out of the house and
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then shipped Liam and his father to a detention facility
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in Texas, in San Antonio, Texas. Liam got sick at
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that facility. A judge had to order his release immediately
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and he was sent back home to Minnesota to be
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with his family as he should have been this entire time.
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It was tragic. It became a national story. It was
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shameful for our entire country. If that happened in California
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and the child died, was gone for more than 30 days,
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the family could lose their social safety net, lose their
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state-provided benefits. And I think that that's wrong. There's a
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couple exceptions in state law when a child's missing. For example,
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if they're in the hospital for an extended stay, we
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won't take your benefits. But we don't have an exception
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for if they're kidnapped by ICE because we never thought
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we would need one.
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Because we shouldn't need one.
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Because we shouldn't need one, because this shouldn't happen. But
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we know that these kidnappings are happening across the country
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and are happening in California. And we know that vulnerable
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families are being punished because of this terror, you know,
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this terror that's being rained on them from the federal administration.
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So we passed AB 1655 to protect the CalWORKs benefits
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of families if their children were separated for a period
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of time. That was also signed into law by Governor
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Gavin Newsom. And I'm grateful. We had a really big
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year in the legislature. We measure years in two year cycles.
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And so for me, it's 25 pieces of legislation passed.
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Over these last two years, everything from raising the wages
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of incarcerated firefighters to providing direct cash payments for folks
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who live by the Inglewood oil field. I'm proud of
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the work we've done.
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Yeah. And as you should be. And appreciate you coming
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in to share these new bills and laws. I had
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some more questions, but we're out of time. So I'd
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be too real is where you want to find him
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if you want to if you want to chat. Off
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the air. And Assemblymember Isaac Bryan, thank you for always
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coming in and always being part of our team here
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at KBLA Talk 1580.
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Grateful for all you do. It's good to be back
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with you.
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Great to see you. The best of Tavis Miley is
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on now. He's got the highlights of the week that was.
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And remember, he has had a lot of great guests
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on this week, including Michael Ely yesterday. I missed that,
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but you don't have to. All that is coming up
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in the next few hours. And don't forget, you can
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tap in with me, DiPrima Radio, D-I-P-R-I-M-A, and then radio
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on all platforms. I even have a TikTok. I know,
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it's Miles. He got me on TikTok. I like to
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close with a quote, and I usually quote one of
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my parents. Today, I'll go with my dad, the late
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great poet laureate of New Jersey, Amiri Baraka, who once said,
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a person is either free or they are not free.
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There can be no apprenticeship for freedom. I'll see you
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on social media. I'll see you in the streets. Until
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next time, KBLA delegation, one love.
