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Speaker 1: It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to The Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app kf I AM six forty. It is The Conway Show. We'll keep an eye on the fires. Any updates, we'll have that for you. Or if there's any more updates on the people who are shot and killed in San Diego. There's heavy news coming out of San Diego as well. We'll keep you up on both of those stories and what the weather's going to be, like, what what this fire is doing. We'll have updates hourly here for you, So we're not going to forget about you. Just not gonna do it. All right, there's a there's another outbreak, and you know there everyone's worried about the next pandemic. Is it gonna be the hunt of virus coming off the cruise ship? Is it going to be I don't know. Another next one is ebola. There's an American doctor that tested positive for ebola. And so everyone's worried about out fires, Everyone's worried about the next pandemic. I think we're worried about everything all the time, and it's too much. It's way too much. But let's find out what's going on with ebola.
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Speaker 2: The Surge International Missionary Organization is confirming tonight that one of their American physicians from Richmond, Virginia, doctor Peter Stafford, is being treated for ebola, and that his wife, who works with him in Central Africa, was exposed but shows no symptoms. Doctor Stafford and his wife, doctor Rebecca Stafford, are seen here in a photo from the organization's website. Both have been living and working in the Democratic Republic of Congo since twenty nineteen with their four children.
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Speaker 1: Wow. How about that, and they got ebola? Wow?
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Speaker 2: And the family of six is now in their way to get specialized care and monitoring in Germany along with another doctor who is not showing signs of the disease.
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Speaker 3: CDC has been working hand in hand with a Department of State to move the American for treatment and care to Germany and other higher risk contacts to Germany from monitoring.
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Speaker 2: Doctor Peter Stafford first showed symptoms Saturday night and was diagnosed Sunday with this rare variant of ebola that has no vaccine.
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Speaker 1: Oh no, oh no. Everyone always thinks is this going to be the next you know, pandemic? I don't know.
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Speaker 2: At least eighty eight people have already died in this outbreak, that includes three hundred and thirty six suspected cases. It's a disease that can cause its victims to bleed to death. What pause its victims to bleed to death?
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Speaker 1: Doesn't sound good.
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Speaker 2: On top of all this, health officials at the CDC are still dealing with the haunavirus outbreak.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we've got two viruses going at each other. Maybe they'll run into each other and cancel each other out. That's possible, although I don't know. I'm not a doctor.
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Speaker 2: Someone else has tested positive from that cruise ship that is now docked tonight in Amsterdam and eleventh passenger, this time a Canadian.
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Speaker 1: I think it's over for that cruise ship. I can't imagine somebody getting excited to get on that cruise ship. I know they'll probably clean. It'll be the cleanership around. We all heard that story. But man, oh man, have you got plans to be on that ship? I think it's time to move on to the love boat.
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Speaker 2: To protect the state side, the US government is now refusing to allow anyone without a US passport entering into this country if they've been traveling through any of the regions dealing with ebola.
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Speaker 1: Wow, all right, the Ebola outbreak. That's big news. You got to know about this.
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Speaker 4: The authorities internationally, global health authorities and in those countries concerned din are partaking it pretty seriously for a number of reasons. I mean, firstly, this is a relatively uncommon strain of ebola.
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Speaker 1: Uncommon strain of ebola. It's worse than the other ebola we had years ago.
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Speaker 4: Which means that it's been pretty hard for the authorities in those countries, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda to detect cases and suspected cases early on. Also, the jographe here is pretty important. We're talking about an outbreaking.
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Speaker 1: Although you know what, the African countries do pretty well with these pandemics. I remember we went we were up in Oregon about five six seven years ago and oh no, he was during the pandemic, so I'd be about four or five years ago, and we came back. We flew into Ontario airport and the cab driver had a van and with advan was big, like nine hundred noises. But you know, you're just sort of getting you trusted and the guy was from Africa, and you know, we were still all masked up and six feet and you know, don't talk to anybody, you know, the whole run. Everyone was still paranoid. And so I asked him, I said, hey, what's it like in Africa? And he said, nobody did anything, no masks, no vaccine, no distance, nothing, And they had very few people die. They just decided they weren't going to participate, and they had less deaths percentage wise that we did in America. They're just like, yeah, we're just gonna go about our day, you know. And that's and they were very successful. We masked up distance, you know, shields, gloves, staying at home, boosters, We did the whole run, and we got nailed pretty hard.
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Speaker 4: In an eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, near to the border with Uganda, in a pretty remote area which has been conflict ridden for years.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of way So this guy's got four young kids over there, with ebola and conflict and wars and famine and all that stuff going on, he's had four young kids over there.
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Speaker 4: Wow, there's a lot of cross border activity around those areas, so contact tracing that makes it pretty hard to contact trace potentially, and there is no vibe. There is no vaccine for this particular strain of it.
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Speaker 5: Bona.
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Speaker 1: That's also okay. So you take your four kids to Africa. You know, you're a doctor, your wife's a doctor. You're going to go, you know, save people, and you're hit with the bowler and you've got four kids and a wife. You know, there's a lot of people that that wudn't even visit the Congo because of the fear of, you know, of catching ebola. This guy dragged his whole family to live out there.
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Speaker 4: A critical factor, and that is why the authorities are concerned that the current numbers of confirmed cases, suspective cases, and death in reality could be much higher than the current statistics actually suggest. And that is why the World Health Organization is declaring this a public health emergency of international concern.
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Speaker 1: Now, as you say, oh, did you hear that? Listen, don't half ass this, don't half ass this. You can half ass a lot of the things we talked about on the air, but not this.
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Speaker 4: A public health emergency of international concern. Now, as you say, it's not at the level of a pandemic.
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Speaker 1: Okay, But That's what they always say. Before there's a pandemic, there's no pandemic, and then two weeks later you're like, oh, it's a pandemic.
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Speaker 4: Totally pandemic at the level of a pandemic. But this is design, this declaration by the World Health Organization, which the US under President Trump withdrew from. It is designed to increase international coordination between the countries in that region and you know, increase awareness more broadly, to put those measures in place to try and contain the outbreak as quickly as possible and reduce the risk of it spreading any further.
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Speaker 1: How are officials trying to contain it? Yeah, good question.
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Speaker 4: Well, I mean, you know, they are already putting measures in those countries to isolate cases, as we saw with obviously COVID. You know, the classic measures of isolating suspected cases, testing as quickly as possible to confirm or not cases.
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Speaker 1: I think it's worth you know, I haven't been to Whole Foods since the Hunter of virus and the Bawler cases, but I imagine its mask city over there, right, everyone with the distance, the shoe prints on the floor six feet apart, gloves, shields, nobody's talking to each other. I'll bet Whole Foods is into a full swing.
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Speaker 4: I think it's worth mentioning. You know, the CDC has said that a small number of Americans are directly or have been directly impacted by this outbreak. Now, just to clarify what that means, the CDC is effectively saying that a small number of Americans could have been or may or may not have been come into contact with suspected cases. They're not commenting on exactly the level of risk to those particular Americans, but just I think all authorities involved, including the CDC, is taking absolutely no risks at all here. So they are withdrawing that small number of Americans from those affected areas as a precaution and clearly.
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Speaker 1: You know, great, they're coming home with the ball.
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Speaker 4: What the authorities more broadly in those countries are doing is plenty of testing isolating cases. But you know, just to want emphasize there is a real challenge in those areas. We're talking a very remote areas. There is an ongoing conflict in that part of the Democratic Republic of Congo as well, and people are moving across borders around their mining is very prevalent as a local industry ass which means plenty of mobility. And that is why the authorities health authorities in the World Health Organization believe this has spread relatively quickly. But they are doing everything they can now to contain the virus.
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Speaker 1: All right, Well, we'll see, I guess we'll see how this doll shakes down. But it is a lot of bad news out there. The fires, the shooting at the Islamic Center in San Diego, and now hunt a virus that continues. Another guy, another cat is sick with that. And then the Eballa breakout with an American involved with his wife and four kids. It's crazy out there. Crazy, all right, we'll try to make sense of most of it. Here. We're going to keep an eye on all these fires. But I really wish that uh if I if I could make one wish for everybody, it would be to get the watch Duty. Where my phone is, Oh here it is, Yeah, to get watch Duty. Watch Duty is your app that could potentially save your life. Watch Duty. It's free and they'll tell you where the fires are, where they're where they're going, what direction, win speed, all that stuff. It's called watch Duty. I can't stress it enough it it could potentially save your life and your family's life. They have information on the Sandy fire, the Burrow fire, the Isaac fire, the DeVore fire, and that's important information, so go out and get it. Plus there's a fire that nobody really is talking about on Santa Rosa Island that's burned nearly half of that island and it's at It's pretty big out there, so keep an eye on that as well. And you can you can you can get track King and it'll track these fires for you on this Watch Duty. And then you can donate, you know, if you like, if you feel like you've got a couple of bucks and want to donate to it. But it really is a great app. We all came became familiar with it during the fires of January seventh of last year, and they do save lives. That is one app that you should have on your home screen, especially if you've decided to move your family closer to the hills up in the mountains, that's where a lot of the fire action is. So Watch Duty. I recommend it. And if you don't get it and you live in the hills, I don't know what to say. Something's going on with you.
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Speaker 6: You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI AM six forty.
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Speaker 1: We got the fires burning, and we're going to keep you updated on those fires, on all the fires. I keep pushing that that that app Watch Duty. Hope you get it. We can, you can all the information on those fires, especially if you live in the hills. You're gonna want it, and then you're going to use it, and then you're gonna think of me when you use it, and I'll be happy, be a little proud, proud moment that you have it because we told you about it. And then we have the horrible incident in San Diego, the shooting in San Diego. So we're going to keep eyes and ears on both of those and keep you updated on all that stuff. We also have this is interesting here. Uh there's the worst properties in Los Angeles. You know, most properties are pretty horrible. You know, people renting apartments. The plumbing doesn't work, the electric doesn't work, the refrigerator, the heater, the air conditioning. You know, it's all fallowing apart. But they now have a list of the worst rental properties, the worst places to live in Los Angeles. If you're out there renting.
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Speaker 7: This building here off Willshure and Stoner is actually second on that list. It's under construction now though, so maybe things are getting better here.
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Speaker 1: Willshire and Stoner. That's where number two is.
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Speaker 7: We'll take you though to the number one spot when you're looking at the apartment building riddled with the most tenant complaints.
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Speaker 1: Wow, all right, it should be a big like an Oscar Awards, a big award, ladies and gentlemen. The worst rental property in Los Angeles.
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Speaker 8: In Hillside Via in Chinatown.
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Speaker 1: Ah, congratulations, Hillside Via in Chinatown the worst. And there's a lot of bad properties out there, but they got crowned.
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Speaker 7: Hillside Via in Chinatown tops the list published by Controller Kenneth Mahea this week.
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Speaker 8: It's part of a new.
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Speaker 7: Dashboard shining a light on the top one hundred properties.
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Speaker 1: One hundred worst places to live in LA.
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Speaker 8: With the most housing and code violations.
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Speaker 9: Say their fire alarm isn't working, plumbing isn't working, so more around the physical aspects of the building not working, and there's a code violation. And then when it comes to the housing violation cases, it could be things like tenant harassment, legal rent increases or even reduction of services for the tenants.
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Speaker 1: You can see always taking advantage of the people that are broke, you know, the people that don't have much money. They're running these crappy apartments and they just take advantage of them. It's not it's really uncol.
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Speaker 7: You can see all one hundred top offenders on this list, or you can type in the address, maybe your current one or one you're looking to move into, and see how many violations have been reported.
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Speaker 1: Oh that's great, Okay, it's nice that to have a master list on the crappiest places in LA.
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Speaker 8: You can also file a complaint through the dashboard.
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Speaker 9: We found out that there are eleven thousand complaints about tenant harassment right and only twenty three cases refer to the city attorney, and only four are actually, you know, prosecuted.
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Speaker 1: Do you hear those numbers? Listen to these numbers again, This is amazing.
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Speaker 8: Eleven thousand complaints.
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Speaker 1: One thousand, and you know, to get to a point where you're complaining, you had to try to knock that out your own, on your own for a while. You know, you maybe gave it a couple weeks, a couple of months to try to work out with your landlord. And then you said, fit, I'm going to file a complaint. And eleven thousand complaints were filed. Eleven thousand. Let's find out how many they took.
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Speaker 9: Care of complaints about tenant harassment, right, and only twenty three cases were refer to the city attorney and only four were actually you know, prosecuted.
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Speaker 1: Four out of the eleven thousand complaints for harassing these tenants, four of them went to the attorney's office.
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Speaker 8: City Attorney four Mahia says his office is recommending the city strengthen its Tenant Anti Harassment Ordinance and hopes this website will encourage the city council to do so.
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Speaker 9: This is meant to not only provide transparency, but also to empower Angelino's and tenants to robbish the city to use this data to advocate for better living conditions.
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Speaker 7: It's really quite the warning to renters. We've got a link to that dashboard on.
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Speaker 8: The Fox Local app.
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Speaker 7: We'd love to know if your property is on there, or maybe where you live is on there, or maybe you think it should be let us know.
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Speaker 8: We love in West Lam Nick Garcia, Fox Love of News.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's La throws a lot at us. You know, every day you wake up, bang bang bang, lots of action in LA. Whether it's people robbing your homes, whether it's fires, shootings, high speed chases, hit and runs. We get you, We get you good. And you know, a lot of people move out here thinking, oh, this is a dream come true. I'm moving to Los Angeles. Then turns into a nightmare and they go back to Saint Louis or Cleveland or you know, Foxborough wherever, because it just there's a lot to handle out here. If you're just moved out here recently, last couple weeks or so, you've got to be prepared. You got to get your thick skin on and be prepared because it is not easy to live in southern California. We throw a ton of crap at you every day. All right, when we come back, We've got a guy who is might be the next Attorney general in California's name is Michael Gates. And we don't do a lot of politics, but this guy is interesting. He's from Huntington Beach. He was the Huntington Beach City attorney for ten years. So let's find out what's going on and talk to him in studio, Michael Gates coming back with us. We're live on KIM six forty.
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Speaker 6: You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI AM six.
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Speaker 1: Forty and we don't really get into politics much. But there's a guy city in front of me who might be the new attorney general in the state of California's his name is Michael Gates. How you bub.
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Speaker 5: It's great to be here. I'm doing fantastic.
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Speaker 1: I think we met before down in Huntington Beach.
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Speaker 5: Right, that's the land of the Free and home of the bride.
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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I love Huntington Beach. I am going to be one of the Grand Marshalls in the parade you are.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, we are so glad to have you back.
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Speaker 1: I would love to move down there if I didn't have a daughter who went to school up here, and I would have moved to Huntingdon Beach in a heartbeat.
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Speaker 5: Well, you know, I was the city attorney there for ten years, so I'm going to take a little credit for it being the land of the Free and home of the brave and a place that you want to go from her.
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Speaker 1: And the nice thing about Huntingdon Beach unlike LA they almost unanimously, almost to the person, support the cops down.
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Speaker 5: There a hundred percent. And I've been a big law enforcement guy for years. And not only did I create a city level criminal prosecutor program in twenty seventeen to prosecute those crimes aggressively, I also literally took cases to court where I defended the police officers. So when they were sued for doing their job, I didn't settle them out. I went to court, I wrote up my saves, went to court, fought for them, and I've tried many multimillion dollar cases.
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Speaker 1: Oh that's great, excellent. They had somebody like you. Jackie Lacey was the what was you see the DA Yeah in Los Angeles for a while, And I went to an event at the right near the La Zoo at the gene Autry Museum, and I had my table was table ten, seat three, and I sit down, like, oh, Jackie Lacy's sitting right next to me. That's kind of cool. So I was talking to her. She was a huge fan of the Calberurnat show, and she went on and on about how she would watch it every every week with her mom and dad and maybe her grandparents and she was had very nice things to say. And I said to her, I said, hey, if my picture ever comes across your desk, would you give me a break? And she had the greatest response. She said, Tim, if your picture comes across my desk, you've passed on a lot of breaks.
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Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, that's a great line. Yeah, that's fantastic. And she was the good old days, right. And then you had George Gascon here in Los Angeles. Yeah, and then the city fell apart. Yeah, city fell apart. George Gascon was obviously terrible, and even in deep blue Los Angeles County, they tossed him out of office. Yeah, put Hawkman in. And Hawkman's doing a great job. Yeah, that's an upgrade. You know him, I know of him. I haven't spoken to him yet. You know, I'm running for Attorney General, which basically is the boss of the DA's right. So Gascon then had to work with Attorney General Rob Banta day in and day out.
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Speaker 1: And couldn't Bond have done anything about it?
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Speaker 5: He could have, because the Attorney General has purview over all fifty eight district attorneys. Well, they can't fire him, but they can set him aside and prosecute cases. If they're not going to toe the line and actually be tough on crime and enforce the law consistently, the Attorney General can set him aside in prosecute cases. But Hawkman has been a great upgrade, I think for Los Angeles. But when I'm in office as AG, I'm going to work with Hawkman on a regular basis and we're going to make LA even better because Hawkman. Look, Hakman has to deal with Bonta, and Bonta is soft on crime and he caddles criminals. He literally thinks that criminals are the victims because they're a victim of circumstance and they only commit crime because of the way they were brought up and things like that. All that nonsense. So we need to get back to basics and prosecute crime aggressively. Huntington Beach is tough on crime, and we are one of the ten top ten safest cities in the entire state of California out of nearly five hundred cities.
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Speaker 1: Because you've got a good chief down there, too, got.
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Speaker 5: A good chief and a good city attorney and a good top prosecutor, and we were a no nonsense city on social media. When we were crawling through social media to get intelligence, right, we would hear from people on social media, don't go to hunting to beach. Don't really Yeah, well no, don't go to hunting to beach if you're going to.
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Speaker 1: Come out of time, right. Yeah.
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Speaker 5: So there were these like near do Wells, or these these kids who wanted to like do naughty things right, or the flash mobs or whatever.
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Speaker 1: Do you work a lot with Todd Spitzer?
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Speaker 5: Yes, Todd Spitzer, a lot with Todd Spitzer, and a lot with Tony Rocucus before him.
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Speaker 1: Oh I see, okay, all right, And then you were endorsed by Rick Garnell.
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Speaker 5: Rick Groynell endorsed me. Yet Rick was a former Trump advisor and now ambassador. So Rick Rennell has said, look, I am going to get behind you. I'm you're the only statewide candidate I am endorsing right now because I know you can win. Those were Rick Rernell's words.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so you're running. There's only three people running basically for attorney's en room.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, two big players obviously the incumbent Robota, myself as the channer, Michael Gates for attorney general. And then there's another third candidate. She's like a Green Party. She's going to have a she's going to get a couple percentage points, but it's it's going to be inconsequential.
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Speaker 1: So you you all survived June and your big election then is in November.
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Speaker 5: Yes, and the audience should know. I am the lawn order candidate.
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Speaker 1: Right now.
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Speaker 5: We've got lawlessness in California. We've got corruption. All of this corruption that we're seeing, the nearly five hundred billion dollars worth of waste fraud abuse, that's taxpayer money just lost.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of that hospice stuff.
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Speaker 5: It is, and you know, Rob Bonta and Newsome learned about it previously and did not investigate or prosecute it. The state auditor came out with a report recently that said the state level officials had known about the waste fraud and abuse and did nothing about it. And that's Rob Bonta. So look, I'm the tough on crime guy. I'm going to fight corruption and fight crime. Rob Bonta has not been doing his job.
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Speaker 1: There were eight hundred hospices that were closed down and only four complained about it, so they knew they were doing something wrong.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and Bonta had Attorney General. Rob Bonta had a press conference a couple of weeks ago. Do you know how many of the eight hundred he found?
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Speaker 1: No?
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Speaker 5: Fourteen. So he's a day late and a dollar short. He's not serious about his job. He's not serious about fighting corruption.
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Speaker 1: All right. The website gates the number four AG dot com.
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Speaker 5: That's right, gates the number four AG dot com gates for AG And I'm all over.
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Speaker 1: Social media, right, and then you have to raise a lot of money to run in California, you.
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Speaker 5: Have to raise a lot of money. We raised a million dollars just in the past four months, so that's pretty remarkable. Yeah, so we're a serious candidacy. I'm a serious candidate. Rob Bonta is running scared right now. You can tell by the press conferences. And he's now trying to get on all of the news media to tout or brag about these victories that are not actually victories.
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Speaker 1: By the way.
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Speaker 5: All this fentanyl stuff that he's talking about, now, that's the work that the federal government's doing. He's just taking credit for it. Yeah, he's out there stealing valor in addition to everything else.
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Speaker 1: I hope you break the chain, because since I've been on KFI, every politician I've ever had on loses.
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Speaker 5: Okay, well, thanks a lot. I gotta go. You should have told me that before the show. Where's the exit? I gotta get out.
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Speaker 1: I didn't want to break your wife's heart. I like that wife of yours, Kelly, she's great. Yeah, all right, So Gates for a g dot com, gatesforag dot com. All right, can you stay with us?
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Speaker 5: I can't.
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Speaker 1: Well, we'll talk a little more about how you're going to straight now California. Let's do it because there's a lot of work to be done. Yes, I know, all right, and maybe I can get a job up there. Yeah, absolutely, you know, and you know, like pay me under the table. You know, we'll get into a real crime. Hey, you just set up an ng O and I can get you all the money you need. That's right. Well, all right, I want to talk about these n g os. Yeah, let's be cause I think, you know, we pay the highest taxes, the highest fees, the highest gas tax, all this stuff, and then we have no money. We're broke.
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Speaker 5: I know it's crazy, it's crazy, but but but they will tax you per mile don't don't worry.
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Speaker 1: Michael Gates with us. He's running for attorney general. He could be the next attorney general. Go to Gates g A. T. E. S the number four AG dot com. Gates for ag dot com. If you want to turn California round and get one of these cats in there that is not going to turn and look the other way when it comes to crime.
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Speaker 6: You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf I Am six forty.
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Speaker 1: All right, Michael Gates is with us. I didn't know you're originally from Cincinnati.
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Speaker 5: Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Speaker 1: That's a beautiful area.
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Speaker 5: Go Bengals.
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Speaker 6: Yep.
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Speaker 5: My uncles were bat boys for the Cincinnati Reds for years.
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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, that's a cool deal. Yeah. I spent June, July and August every summer. My grandparents in Cleveland went to school in Bowling Green, Ohio. If I ever write a thank you note or hold a door open for somebody, I got that from my grandparents in the Midwest. Yeah. They're the best people in the world. Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Midwest folks are great. That's why my wife basically married me. That's from the Midwest, right, And somebody in your family has a boat. Everybody's got a boat, exactly, and they got it. They go to lake for the summer at the exactly barbecue and bowling shoes that's right, yeah, bowling shoes.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Brunswick Bowling Area. Those are you know. Every Wednesday at noon was our bowling.
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Speaker 5: Bowling ball bag, the whole the whole fan Yep.
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Speaker 1: That's great. All right, you're gonna be the next to turn any general. Do you have to go through voting or are you just going to be you just walk in the office and you're it.
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Speaker 5: Well, look I got to get through June, right, the June election, and that'm easy, and then November. So it's gonna be it's gonna be a tough match in November. But but sixty five percent of respondents to polls right now are saying that California's head in the wrong direction. That means Democrats, independence, and Republicans are all agree that California is messed up. And you look, how do you get to sixty five percent of anything in California without Democrats, independence of Republicans agreeing on something?
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Speaker 1: Right, I'm surprised that number is so low. I think it'd be like ninety percent.
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Speaker 5: Well, in twenty twenty two, the very same poll, the very same question, only forty percent of people in twenty twenty two said that California was heading the wrong direction. So the fact that it's sixty five is pretty good.
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Speaker 1: What do you do? And as attorney general, you need to wake up at seven o'clock, You get in there at seven thirty, you have your coffee. What's the first thing you do?
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Speaker 5: Well, I crack some skulls.
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Speaker 1: You know how many people on your staff and who you're in charge of?
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Speaker 5: All the DA's yeah, so all the so yeah. So I have twelve hundred attorneys on my own staff with the California Department of Justice. Then we have purview over all fifty eight district attorneys and their departments. Wow, then all fifty eight sheriffs and their departments.
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Speaker 1: Is that right? Just a big job.
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Speaker 5: It's a very big job. There's fifty I keep saying fifty eight. That's because there's fifty eight counties. There's one DA per county, one sheriff per county, but they have their departments. No, So it's very very serious. And when we talk about cracking down on crime, you know, everybody in California structure shoulders like, well, you know, the problem's too big to solve, it's just too much. We have to learn to live with it. That is absolutely not true. Well, let me tell you something. California is among all fifty states, California is number six in highest crime across the nation. So California is a crime ridden state. And that's according to FBI data. And if you look at Huntington Beach where I was city attorney, where we're tough on crime, we're in the top ten safest in the entire state of California. Yeah. So, I mean, look, if you're serious about fighting crime, you can reduce crime. And we're going to do that throughout the state of California starting on day one too. Starting on day one.
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Speaker 1: We need to have somebody who you know, and I'm not talking about the small crimes, but I'm talking about you know, I think people get tired of looking at the you know, the hospice crime where you know, people are ripping off the government and they're driving around, you know, in beautiful cars Mercedes, Maseratis and the other the average joe is just working his ass off to get by. You know. It's tough. Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Well, We're going to be very, very tough on the corruption and also on crime. And what the audience should know is when I'm in office, justice is not going to look like lengthy and protracted investigations that lead to nowhere. All of us are tired of seeing those long investigations where nobody goes to jail. I'm putting people behind bars. Justice is going to be swift and diligent, and and I'm going to use the criminal justice system to claw back that money. So those fancy cars you're talking about, and the small islands and the bank accounts, I'm liquidating those through the criminal justice system. I'm going to get that money back and return it to the taxpayers. So death row, is that going to come back? That's what we're bringing that back to by FIAT.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but you can't. The governor has to sign off on executions in California. And is he going to do that? Or he or she or whoever the thanks to governors go.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: So we're looking at Steve Hilton leading the pack in the polls. So if if California wants to return or if Californians want to return California to a law and order state, they're going to elect me as the attorney general and Steve Hilton as the governor, and we're going to get to work right away. You know, California has lost its way. We are chaos the Trump all day. All they do is sue Trump. And of the twelve hundred attorneys I told you, about two hundred are devoted to the Trump lawsuits. And that's forty million dollars of tax paramney a year fighting the Trump administration while we're dealing with the highest crime in the nation, or nearly the highest crime in the nation. And you know what Bot is also doing with his resources. He's suing hospitals, including a children's hospital, to force them against their will, to perform trans surgeries on minors. Yeah so I support that, Yeah, yeah, I don't think so. No, So I mean, look, look, we are going to protect them most volterbo on our society that includes our children. We're gonna be complying with Title nine and get boys out of girls sports. We're gonna go the distance here and we're gonna return California to the glory days where we were a lawn or the state. Our girls were protected, our children were protected, and crime was low.
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Speaker 1: Let's go all right, Gates for a G G A T E s the number four a G dot com And I hope you, uh you know, do well and raise a lot of money and turn the state around.
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Speaker 5: Okay, well, I just I'm asking for your vote.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, like, look, I live in the state of California. You know I can vote for whoever I want. Yeah, well, you're your dog can vote to Yeah, we'll get Ernie. Ernie back to voting. I'm gonna ask Bellio for her vote, right, yeah, Bellio votes. You know, she won't know who she voting for, voting for, but she'll vote. All right, Ding dolong with you, buddy. I hope you win because you'll break the streak. Yeah yeah, yeah, absolutely, Thanks Gates for a G dot com. Good luck out there. Thanks. It can be brutal, so I hope you do it. Hey, I'm up for the fight, alright, thanks man, Thank you. All right, We're live on KFI AM six forty Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now you can always hear us live on KFI AM six forty four to seven pm Monday through Friday, and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1: It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to The Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app kf I AM six forty. It is The Conway Show. We'll keep an eye on the fires. Any updates, we'll have that for you. Or if there's any more updates on the people who are shot and killed in San Diego. There's heavy news coming out of San Diego as well. We'll keep you up on both of those stories and what the weather's going to be, like, what what this fire is doing. We'll have updates hourly here for you, So we're not going to forget about you. Just not gonna do it. All right, there's a there's another outbreak, and you know there everyone's worried about the next pandemic. Is it gonna be the hunt of virus coming off the cruise ship? Is it going to be I don't know. Another next one is ebola. There's an American doctor that tested positive for ebola. And so everyone's worried about out fires, Everyone's worried about the next pandemic. I think we're worried about everything all the time, and it's too much. It's way too much. But let's find out what's going on with ebola.
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Speaker 2: The Surge International Missionary Organization is confirming tonight that one of their American physicians from Richmond, Virginia, doctor Peter Stafford, is being treated for ebola, and that his wife, who works with him in Central Africa, was exposed but shows no symptoms. Doctor Stafford and his wife, doctor Rebecca Stafford, are seen here in a photo from the organization's website. Both have been living and working in the Democratic Republic of Congo since twenty nineteen with their four children.
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Speaker 1: Wow. How about that, and they got ebola? Wow?
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Speaker 2: And the family of six is now in their way to get specialized care and monitoring in Germany along with another doctor who is not showing signs of the disease.
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Speaker 3: CDC has been working hand in hand with a Department of State to move the American for treatment and care to Germany and other higher risk contacts to Germany from monitoring.
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Speaker 2: Doctor Peter Stafford first showed symptoms Saturday night and was diagnosed Sunday with this rare variant of ebola that has no vaccine.
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Speaker 1: Oh no, oh no. Everyone always thinks is this going to be the next you know, pandemic? I don't know.
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Speaker 2: At least eighty eight people have already died in this outbreak, that includes three hundred and thirty six suspected cases. It's a disease that can cause its victims to bleed to death. What pause its victims to bleed to death?
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Speaker 1: Doesn't sound good.
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Speaker 2: On top of all this, health officials at the CDC are still dealing with the haunavirus outbreak.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we've got two viruses going at each other. Maybe they'll run into each other and cancel each other out. That's possible, although I don't know. I'm not a doctor.
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Speaker 2: Someone else has tested positive from that cruise ship that is now docked tonight in Amsterdam and eleventh passenger, this time a Canadian.
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Speaker 1: I think it's over for that cruise ship. I can't imagine somebody getting excited to get on that cruise ship. I know they'll probably clean. It'll be the cleanership around. We all heard that story. But man, oh man, have you got plans to be on that ship? I think it's time to move on to the love boat.
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Speaker 2: To protect the state side, the US government is now refusing to allow anyone without a US passport entering into this country if they've been traveling through any of the regions dealing with ebola.
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Speaker 1: Wow, all right, the Ebola outbreak. That's big news. You got to know about this.
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Speaker 4: The authorities internationally, global health authorities and in those countries concerned din are partaking it pretty seriously for a number of reasons. I mean, firstly, this is a relatively uncommon strain of ebola.
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Speaker 1: Uncommon strain of ebola. It's worse than the other ebola we had years ago.
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Speaker 4: Which means that it's been pretty hard for the authorities in those countries, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda to detect cases and suspected cases early on. Also, the jographe here is pretty important. We're talking about an outbreaking.
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Speaker 1: Although you know what, the African countries do pretty well with these pandemics. I remember we went we were up in Oregon about five six seven years ago and oh no, he was during the pandemic, so I'd be about four or five years ago, and we came back. We flew into Ontario airport and the cab driver had a van and with advan was big, like nine hundred noises. But you know, you're just sort of getting you trusted and the guy was from Africa, and you know, we were still all masked up and six feet and you know, don't talk to anybody, you know, the whole run. Everyone was still paranoid. And so I asked him, I said, hey, what's it like in Africa? And he said, nobody did anything, no masks, no vaccine, no distance, nothing, And they had very few people die. They just decided they weren't going to participate, and they had less deaths percentage wise that we did in America. They're just like, yeah, we're just gonna go about our day, you know. And that's and they were very successful. We masked up distance, you know, shields, gloves, staying at home, boosters, We did the whole run, and we got nailed pretty hard.
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Speaker 4: In an eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, near to the border with Uganda, in a pretty remote area which has been conflict ridden for years.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of way So this guy's got four young kids over there, with ebola and conflict and wars and famine and all that stuff going on, he's had four young kids over there.
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Speaker 4: Wow, there's a lot of cross border activity around those areas, so contact tracing that makes it pretty hard to contact trace potentially, and there is no vibe. There is no vaccine for this particular strain of it.
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Speaker 5: Bona.
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Speaker 1: That's also okay. So you take your four kids to Africa. You know, you're a doctor, your wife's a doctor. You're going to go, you know, save people, and you're hit with the bowler and you've got four kids and a wife. You know, there's a lot of people that that wudn't even visit the Congo because of the fear of, you know, of catching ebola. This guy dragged his whole family to live out there.
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Speaker 4: A critical factor, and that is why the authorities are concerned that the current numbers of confirmed cases, suspective cases, and death in reality could be much higher than the current statistics actually suggest. And that is why the World Health Organization is declaring this a public health emergency of international concern.
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Speaker 1: Now, as you say, oh, did you hear that? Listen, don't half ass this, don't half ass this. You can half ass a lot of the things we talked about on the air, but not this.
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Speaker 4: A public health emergency of international concern. Now, as you say, it's not at the level of a pandemic.
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Speaker 1: Okay, But That's what they always say. Before there's a pandemic, there's no pandemic, and then two weeks later you're like, oh, it's a pandemic.
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Speaker 4: Totally pandemic at the level of a pandemic. But this is design, this declaration by the World Health Organization, which the US under President Trump withdrew from. It is designed to increase international coordination between the countries in that region and you know, increase awareness more broadly, to put those measures in place to try and contain the outbreak as quickly as possible and reduce the risk of it spreading any further.
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Speaker 1: How are officials trying to contain it? Yeah, good question.
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Speaker 4: Well, I mean, you know, they are already putting measures in those countries to isolate cases, as we saw with obviously COVID. You know, the classic measures of isolating suspected cases, testing as quickly as possible to confirm or not cases.
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Speaker 1: I think it's worth you know, I haven't been to Whole Foods since the Hunter of virus and the Bawler cases, but I imagine its mask city over there, right, everyone with the distance, the shoe prints on the floor six feet apart, gloves, shields, nobody's talking to each other. I'll bet Whole Foods is into a full swing.
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Speaker 4: I think it's worth mentioning. You know, the CDC has said that a small number of Americans are directly or have been directly impacted by this outbreak. Now, just to clarify what that means, the CDC is effectively saying that a small number of Americans could have been or may or may not have been come into contact with suspected cases. They're not commenting on exactly the level of risk to those particular Americans, but just I think all authorities involved, including the CDC, is taking absolutely no risks at all here. So they are withdrawing that small number of Americans from those affected areas as a precaution and clearly.
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Speaker 1: You know, great, they're coming home with the ball.
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Speaker 4: What the authorities more broadly in those countries are doing is plenty of testing isolating cases. But you know, just to want emphasize there is a real challenge in those areas. We're talking a very remote areas. There is an ongoing conflict in that part of the Democratic Republic of Congo as well, and people are moving across borders around their mining is very prevalent as a local industry ass which means plenty of mobility. And that is why the authorities health authorities in the World Health Organization believe this has spread relatively quickly. But they are doing everything they can now to contain the virus.
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Speaker 1: All right, Well, we'll see, I guess we'll see how this doll shakes down. But it is a lot of bad news out there. The fires, the shooting at the Islamic Center in San Diego, and now hunt a virus that continues. Another guy, another cat is sick with that. And then the Eballa breakout with an American involved with his wife and four kids. It's crazy out there. Crazy, all right, we'll try to make sense of most of it. Here. We're going to keep an eye on all these fires. But I really wish that uh if I if I could make one wish for everybody, it would be to get the watch Duty. Where my phone is, Oh here it is, Yeah, to get watch Duty. Watch Duty is your app that could potentially save your life. Watch Duty. It's free and they'll tell you where the fires are, where they're where they're going, what direction, win speed, all that stuff. It's called watch Duty. I can't stress it enough it it could potentially save your life and your family's life. They have information on the Sandy fire, the Burrow fire, the Isaac fire, the DeVore fire, and that's important information, so go out and get it. Plus there's a fire that nobody really is talking about on Santa Rosa Island that's burned nearly half of that island and it's at It's pretty big out there, so keep an eye on that as well. And you can you can you can get track King and it'll track these fires for you on this Watch Duty. And then you can donate, you know, if you like, if you feel like you've got a couple of bucks and want to donate to it. But it really is a great app. We all came became familiar with it during the fires of January seventh of last year, and they do save lives. That is one app that you should have on your home screen, especially if you've decided to move your family closer to the hills up in the mountains, that's where a lot of the fire action is. So Watch Duty. I recommend it. And if you don't get it and you live in the hills, I don't know what to say. Something's going on with you.
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Speaker 6: You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI AM six forty.
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Speaker 1: We got the fires burning, and we're going to keep you updated on those fires, on all the fires. I keep pushing that that that app Watch Duty. Hope you get it. We can, you can all the information on those fires, especially if you live in the hills. You're gonna want it, and then you're going to use it, and then you're gonna think of me when you use it, and I'll be happy, be a little proud, proud moment that you have it because we told you about it. And then we have the horrible incident in San Diego, the shooting in San Diego. So we're going to keep eyes and ears on both of those and keep you updated on all that stuff. We also have this is interesting here. Uh there's the worst properties in Los Angeles. You know, most properties are pretty horrible. You know, people renting apartments. The plumbing doesn't work, the electric doesn't work, the refrigerator, the heater, the air conditioning. You know, it's all fallowing apart. But they now have a list of the worst rental properties, the worst places to live in Los Angeles. If you're out there renting.
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Speaker 7: This building here off Willshure and Stoner is actually second on that list. It's under construction now though, so maybe things are getting better here.
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Speaker 1: Willshire and Stoner. That's where number two is.
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Speaker 7: We'll take you though to the number one spot when you're looking at the apartment building riddled with the most tenant complaints.
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Speaker 1: Wow, all right, it should be a big like an Oscar Awards, a big award, ladies and gentlemen. The worst rental property in Los Angeles.
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Speaker 8: In Hillside Via in Chinatown.
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Speaker 1: Ah, congratulations, Hillside Via in Chinatown the worst. And there's a lot of bad properties out there, but they got crowned.
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Speaker 7: Hillside Via in Chinatown tops the list published by Controller Kenneth Mahea this week.
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Speaker 8: It's part of a new.
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Speaker 7: Dashboard shining a light on the top one hundred properties.
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Speaker 1: One hundred worst places to live in LA.
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Speaker 8: With the most housing and code violations.
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Speaker 9: Say their fire alarm isn't working, plumbing isn't working, so more around the physical aspects of the building not working, and there's a code violation. And then when it comes to the housing violation cases, it could be things like tenant harassment, legal rent increases or even reduction of services for the tenants.
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Speaker 1: You can see always taking advantage of the people that are broke, you know, the people that don't have much money. They're running these crappy apartments and they just take advantage of them. It's not it's really uncol.
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Speaker 7: You can see all one hundred top offenders on this list, or you can type in the address, maybe your current one or one you're looking to move into, and see how many violations have been reported.
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Speaker 1: Oh that's great, Okay, it's nice that to have a master list on the crappiest places in LA.
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Speaker 8: You can also file a complaint through the dashboard.
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Speaker 9: We found out that there are eleven thousand complaints about tenant harassment right and only twenty three cases refer to the city attorney, and only four are actually, you know, prosecuted.
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Speaker 1: Do you hear those numbers? Listen to these numbers again, This is amazing.
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Speaker 8: Eleven thousand complaints.
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Speaker 1: One thousand, and you know, to get to a point where you're complaining, you had to try to knock that out your own, on your own for a while. You know, you maybe gave it a couple weeks, a couple of months to try to work out with your landlord. And then you said, fit, I'm going to file a complaint. And eleven thousand complaints were filed. Eleven thousand. Let's find out how many they took.
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Speaker 9: Care of complaints about tenant harassment, right, and only twenty three cases were refer to the city attorney and only four were actually you know, prosecuted.
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Speaker 1: Four out of the eleven thousand complaints for harassing these tenants, four of them went to the attorney's office.
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Speaker 8: City Attorney four Mahia says his office is recommending the city strengthen its Tenant Anti Harassment Ordinance and hopes this website will encourage the city council to do so.
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Speaker 9: This is meant to not only provide transparency, but also to empower Angelino's and tenants to robbish the city to use this data to advocate for better living conditions.
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Speaker 7: It's really quite the warning to renters. We've got a link to that dashboard on.
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Speaker 8: The Fox Local app.
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Speaker 7: We'd love to know if your property is on there, or maybe where you live is on there, or maybe you think it should be let us know.
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Speaker 8: We love in West Lam Nick Garcia, Fox Love of News.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's La throws a lot at us. You know, every day you wake up, bang bang bang, lots of action in LA. Whether it's people robbing your homes, whether it's fires, shootings, high speed chases, hit and runs. We get you, We get you good. And you know, a lot of people move out here thinking, oh, this is a dream come true. I'm moving to Los Angeles. Then turns into a nightmare and they go back to Saint Louis or Cleveland or you know, Foxborough wherever, because it just there's a lot to handle out here. If you're just moved out here recently, last couple weeks or so, you've got to be prepared. You got to get your thick skin on and be prepared because it is not easy to live in southern California. We throw a ton of crap at you every day. All right, when we come back, We've got a guy who is might be the next Attorney general in California's name is Michael Gates. And we don't do a lot of politics, but this guy is interesting. He's from Huntington Beach. He was the Huntington Beach City attorney for ten years. So let's find out what's going on and talk to him in studio, Michael Gates coming back with us. We're live on KIM six forty.
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Speaker 6: You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI AM six.
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Speaker 1: Forty and we don't really get into politics much. But there's a guy city in front of me who might be the new attorney general in the state of California's his name is Michael Gates. How you bub.
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Speaker 5: It's great to be here. I'm doing fantastic.
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Speaker 1: I think we met before down in Huntington Beach.
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Speaker 5: Right, that's the land of the Free and home of the bride.
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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I love Huntington Beach. I am going to be one of the Grand Marshalls in the parade you are.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, we are so glad to have you back.
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Speaker 1: I would love to move down there if I didn't have a daughter who went to school up here, and I would have moved to Huntingdon Beach in a heartbeat.
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Speaker 5: Well, you know, I was the city attorney there for ten years, so I'm going to take a little credit for it being the land of the Free and home of the brave and a place that you want to go from her.
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Speaker 1: And the nice thing about Huntingdon Beach unlike LA they almost unanimously, almost to the person, support the cops down.
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Speaker 5: There a hundred percent. And I've been a big law enforcement guy for years. And not only did I create a city level criminal prosecutor program in twenty seventeen to prosecute those crimes aggressively, I also literally took cases to court where I defended the police officers. So when they were sued for doing their job, I didn't settle them out. I went to court, I wrote up my saves, went to court, fought for them, and I've tried many multimillion dollar cases.
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Speaker 1: Oh that's great, excellent. They had somebody like you. Jackie Lacey was the what was you see the DA Yeah in Los Angeles for a while, And I went to an event at the right near the La Zoo at the gene Autry Museum, and I had my table was table ten, seat three, and I sit down, like, oh, Jackie Lacy's sitting right next to me. That's kind of cool. So I was talking to her. She was a huge fan of the Calberurnat show, and she went on and on about how she would watch it every every week with her mom and dad and maybe her grandparents and she was had very nice things to say. And I said to her, I said, hey, if my picture ever comes across your desk, would you give me a break? And she had the greatest response. She said, Tim, if your picture comes across my desk, you've passed on a lot of breaks.
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Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, that's a great line. Yeah, that's fantastic. And she was the good old days, right. And then you had George Gascon here in Los Angeles. Yeah, and then the city fell apart. Yeah, city fell apart. George Gascon was obviously terrible, and even in deep blue Los Angeles County, they tossed him out of office. Yeah, put Hawkman in. And Hawkman's doing a great job. Yeah, that's an upgrade. You know him, I know of him. I haven't spoken to him yet. You know, I'm running for Attorney General, which basically is the boss of the DA's right. So Gascon then had to work with Attorney General Rob Banta day in and day out.
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Speaker 1: And couldn't Bond have done anything about it?
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Speaker 5: He could have, because the Attorney General has purview over all fifty eight district attorneys. Well, they can't fire him, but they can set him aside and prosecute cases. If they're not going to toe the line and actually be tough on crime and enforce the law consistently, the Attorney General can set him aside in prosecute cases. But Hawkman has been a great upgrade, I think for Los Angeles. But when I'm in office as AG, I'm going to work with Hawkman on a regular basis and we're going to make LA even better because Hawkman. Look, Hakman has to deal with Bonta, and Bonta is soft on crime and he caddles criminals. He literally thinks that criminals are the victims because they're a victim of circumstance and they only commit crime because of the way they were brought up and things like that. All that nonsense. So we need to get back to basics and prosecute crime aggressively. Huntington Beach is tough on crime, and we are one of the ten top ten safest cities in the entire state of California out of nearly five hundred cities.
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Speaker 1: Because you've got a good chief down there, too, got.
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Speaker 5: A good chief and a good city attorney and a good top prosecutor, and we were a no nonsense city on social media. When we were crawling through social media to get intelligence, right, we would hear from people on social media, don't go to hunting to beach. Don't really Yeah, well no, don't go to hunting to beach if you're going to.
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Speaker 1: Come out of time, right. Yeah.
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Speaker 5: So there were these like near do Wells, or these these kids who wanted to like do naughty things right, or the flash mobs or whatever.
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Speaker 1: Do you work a lot with Todd Spitzer?
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Speaker 5: Yes, Todd Spitzer, a lot with Todd Spitzer, and a lot with Tony Rocucus before him.
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Speaker 1: Oh I see, okay, all right, And then you were endorsed by Rick Garnell.
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Speaker 5: Rick Groynell endorsed me. Yet Rick was a former Trump advisor and now ambassador. So Rick Rennell has said, look, I am going to get behind you. I'm you're the only statewide candidate I am endorsing right now because I know you can win. Those were Rick Rernell's words.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so you're running. There's only three people running basically for attorney's en room.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, two big players obviously the incumbent Robota, myself as the channer, Michael Gates for attorney general. And then there's another third candidate. She's like a Green Party. She's going to have a she's going to get a couple percentage points, but it's it's going to be inconsequential.
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Speaker 1: So you you all survived June and your big election then is in November.
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Speaker 5: Yes, and the audience should know. I am the lawn order candidate.
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Speaker 1: Right now.
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Speaker 5: We've got lawlessness in California. We've got corruption. All of this corruption that we're seeing, the nearly five hundred billion dollars worth of waste fraud abuse, that's taxpayer money just lost.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of that hospice stuff.
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Speaker 5: It is, and you know, Rob Bonta and Newsome learned about it previously and did not investigate or prosecute it. The state auditor came out with a report recently that said the state level officials had known about the waste fraud and abuse and did nothing about it. And that's Rob Bonta. So look, I'm the tough on crime guy. I'm going to fight corruption and fight crime. Rob Bonta has not been doing his job.
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Speaker 1: There were eight hundred hospices that were closed down and only four complained about it, so they knew they were doing something wrong.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and Bonta had Attorney General. Rob Bonta had a press conference a couple of weeks ago. Do you know how many of the eight hundred he found?
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Speaker 1: No?
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Speaker 5: Fourteen. So he's a day late and a dollar short. He's not serious about his job. He's not serious about fighting corruption.
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Speaker 1: All right. The website gates the number four AG dot com.
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Speaker 5: That's right, gates the number four AG dot com gates for AG And I'm all over.
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Speaker 1: Social media, right, and then you have to raise a lot of money to run in California, you.
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Speaker 5: Have to raise a lot of money. We raised a million dollars just in the past four months, so that's pretty remarkable. Yeah, so we're a serious candidacy. I'm a serious candidate. Rob Bonta is running scared right now. You can tell by the press conferences. And he's now trying to get on all of the news media to tout or brag about these victories that are not actually victories.
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Speaker 1: By the way.
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Speaker 5: All this fentanyl stuff that he's talking about, now, that's the work that the federal government's doing. He's just taking credit for it. Yeah, he's out there stealing valor in addition to everything else.
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Speaker 1: I hope you break the chain, because since I've been on KFI, every politician I've ever had on loses.
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Speaker 5: Okay, well, thanks a lot. I gotta go. You should have told me that before the show. Where's the exit? I gotta get out.
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Speaker 1: I didn't want to break your wife's heart. I like that wife of yours, Kelly, she's great. Yeah, all right, So Gates for a g dot com, gatesforag dot com. All right, can you stay with us?
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Speaker 5: I can't.
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Speaker 1: Well, we'll talk a little more about how you're going to straight now California. Let's do it because there's a lot of work to be done. Yes, I know, all right, and maybe I can get a job up there. Yeah, absolutely, you know, and you know, like pay me under the table. You know, we'll get into a real crime. Hey, you just set up an ng O and I can get you all the money you need. That's right. Well, all right, I want to talk about these n g os. Yeah, let's be cause I think, you know, we pay the highest taxes, the highest fees, the highest gas tax, all this stuff, and then we have no money. We're broke.
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Speaker 5: I know it's crazy, it's crazy, but but but they will tax you per mile don't don't worry.
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Speaker 1: Michael Gates with us. He's running for attorney general. He could be the next attorney general. Go to Gates g A. T. E. S the number four AG dot com. Gates for ag dot com. If you want to turn California round and get one of these cats in there that is not going to turn and look the other way when it comes to crime.
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Speaker 6: You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf I Am six forty.
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Speaker 1: All right, Michael Gates is with us. I didn't know you're originally from Cincinnati.
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Speaker 5: Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Speaker 1: That's a beautiful area.
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Speaker 5: Go Bengals.
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Speaker 6: Yep.
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Speaker 5: My uncles were bat boys for the Cincinnati Reds for years.
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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, that's a cool deal. Yeah. I spent June, July and August every summer. My grandparents in Cleveland went to school in Bowling Green, Ohio. If I ever write a thank you note or hold a door open for somebody, I got that from my grandparents in the Midwest. Yeah. They're the best people in the world. Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Midwest folks are great. That's why my wife basically married me. That's from the Midwest, right, And somebody in your family has a boat. Everybody's got a boat, exactly, and they got it. They go to lake for the summer at the exactly barbecue and bowling shoes that's right, yeah, bowling shoes.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Brunswick Bowling Area. Those are you know. Every Wednesday at noon was our bowling.
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Speaker 5: Bowling ball bag, the whole the whole fan Yep.
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Speaker 1: That's great. All right, you're gonna be the next to turn any general. Do you have to go through voting or are you just going to be you just walk in the office and you're it.
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Speaker 5: Well, look I got to get through June, right, the June election, and that'm easy, and then November. So it's gonna be it's gonna be a tough match in November. But but sixty five percent of respondents to polls right now are saying that California's head in the wrong direction. That means Democrats, independence, and Republicans are all agree that California is messed up. And you look, how do you get to sixty five percent of anything in California without Democrats, independence of Republicans agreeing on something?
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Speaker 1: Right, I'm surprised that number is so low. I think it'd be like ninety percent.
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Speaker 5: Well, in twenty twenty two, the very same poll, the very same question, only forty percent of people in twenty twenty two said that California was heading the wrong direction. So the fact that it's sixty five is pretty good.
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Speaker 1: What do you do? And as attorney general, you need to wake up at seven o'clock, You get in there at seven thirty, you have your coffee. What's the first thing you do?
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Speaker 5: Well, I crack some skulls.
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Speaker 1: You know how many people on your staff and who you're in charge of?
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Speaker 5: All the DA's yeah, so all the so yeah. So I have twelve hundred attorneys on my own staff with the California Department of Justice. Then we have purview over all fifty eight district attorneys and their departments. Wow, then all fifty eight sheriffs and their departments.
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Speaker 1: Is that right? Just a big job.
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Speaker 5: It's a very big job. There's fifty I keep saying fifty eight. That's because there's fifty eight counties. There's one DA per county, one sheriff per county, but they have their departments. No, So it's very very serious. And when we talk about cracking down on crime, you know, everybody in California structure shoulders like, well, you know, the problem's too big to solve, it's just too much. We have to learn to live with it. That is absolutely not true. Well, let me tell you something. California is among all fifty states, California is number six in highest crime across the nation. So California is a crime ridden state. And that's according to FBI data. And if you look at Huntington Beach where I was city attorney, where we're tough on crime, we're in the top ten safest in the entire state of California. Yeah. So, I mean, look, if you're serious about fighting crime, you can reduce crime. And we're going to do that throughout the state of California starting on day one too. Starting on day one.
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Speaker 1: We need to have somebody who you know, and I'm not talking about the small crimes, but I'm talking about you know, I think people get tired of looking at the you know, the hospice crime where you know, people are ripping off the government and they're driving around, you know, in beautiful cars Mercedes, Maseratis and the other the average joe is just working his ass off to get by. You know. It's tough. Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Well, We're going to be very, very tough on the corruption and also on crime. And what the audience should know is when I'm in office, justice is not going to look like lengthy and protracted investigations that lead to nowhere. All of us are tired of seeing those long investigations where nobody goes to jail. I'm putting people behind bars. Justice is going to be swift and diligent, and and I'm going to use the criminal justice system to claw back that money. So those fancy cars you're talking about, and the small islands and the bank accounts, I'm liquidating those through the criminal justice system. I'm going to get that money back and return it to the taxpayers. So death row, is that going to come back? That's what we're bringing that back to by FIAT.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but you can't. The governor has to sign off on executions in California. And is he going to do that? Or he or she or whoever the thanks to governors go.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: So we're looking at Steve Hilton leading the pack in the polls. So if if California wants to return or if Californians want to return California to a law and order state, they're going to elect me as the attorney general and Steve Hilton as the governor, and we're going to get to work right away. You know, California has lost its way. We are chaos the Trump all day. All they do is sue Trump. And of the twelve hundred attorneys I told you, about two hundred are devoted to the Trump lawsuits. And that's forty million dollars of tax paramney a year fighting the Trump administration while we're dealing with the highest crime in the nation, or nearly the highest crime in the nation. And you know what Bot is also doing with his resources. He's suing hospitals, including a children's hospital, to force them against their will, to perform trans surgeries on minors. Yeah so I support that, Yeah, yeah, I don't think so. No, So I mean, look, look, we are going to protect them most volterbo on our society that includes our children. We're gonna be complying with Title nine and get boys out of girls sports. We're gonna go the distance here and we're gonna return California to the glory days where we were a lawn or the state. Our girls were protected, our children were protected, and crime was low.
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Speaker 1: Let's go all right, Gates for a G G A T E s the number four a G dot com And I hope you, uh you know, do well and raise a lot of money and turn the state around.
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Speaker 5: Okay, well, I just I'm asking for your vote.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, like, look, I live in the state of California. You know I can vote for whoever I want. Yeah, well, you're your dog can vote to Yeah, we'll get Ernie. Ernie back to voting. I'm gonna ask Bellio for her vote, right, yeah, Bellio votes. You know, she won't know who she voting for, voting for, but she'll vote. All right, Ding dolong with you, buddy. I hope you win because you'll break the streak. Yeah yeah, yeah, absolutely, Thanks Gates for a G dot com. Good luck out there. Thanks. It can be brutal, so I hope you do it. Hey, I'm up for the fight, alright, thanks man, Thank you. All right, We're live on KFI AM six forty Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Now you can always hear us live on KFI AM six forty four to seven pm Monday through Friday, and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
