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Speaker 1: And we continue at one oh five in the afternoon on the John Phillip Show. Mister Randy wanings in Culver City.
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Speaker 2: John, it's a very exciting day in the town because it's opening day for the Oakland Bees. I wonder if Shang's gonna throw out the first pitche Absolutely.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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Speaker 2: Interestingly enough, I was watching a video where NBC Bay was interviewing the VP of communications for the Oakland Ballers. And the VP of Communications for the Oakland Ballers is that guy Casey Pratt who quit being the sports guy for ABC seven in the Bay to work for Shang.
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Speaker 4: Yes they do, Yes, they do.
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Speaker 2: And now he's working for the ballers Oakland Bees.
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Speaker 4: And we still got our Oakland A's baby.
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Speaker 5: No you don't.
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Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is the telephone number. What eight hundred two two two five two two two. It is our pleasure to welcome our next guest to the program is the president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association and host of the Howard Jarvis Radio Show, which here is Tuesday nights on KABC that would be tonight at six o'clock. You can get him online at HJTA dot org. And follow him on exit. John Coupaul, John Coupaul, welcome.
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Speaker 6: Good to be here, John, And I'm in Sacramento, where at least temporarily we have the A's, but they're gonna soon be going to Las Vegas. So the team that can't seem to settle.
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Speaker 1: Down, and I'm gonna go up there in June and watch them beat my Angels and melt in the sun.
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Speaker 6: Well they'll probably beat my Red Sox too come August, so we'll see what happens, all right.
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Speaker 1: Not long ago, we had State Senator Tony Stricklet on the program and I asked him the question, of all the candidates for governor, which one would be the worst for taxpayers? And his answer was Tom Steyer. I thought it was going to be Katie Porter, but turned out to be Tom Steyer. He thinks that if elected, Tom Steyer would be the biggest threat to California homeowners and taxpayers of them all.
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Speaker 5: Do you agree with that?
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Speaker 6: Absolutely? Tony Number one has been a staunch fiscal conservative. He's been an ally of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association for many years, and yeah, he has spot on this one. Tom Steyer's answer to everything is to raise taxes, whether it's on businesses through a split roll, dismantling Proposition thirteen, which he has expressly stated he wants to do raising taxes on the so called billionaires and major corporations, who of course employ individuals. So his economic plan is not only disastrous, but it is the epitome of hypocrisy, given how this guy has made his money through venture capitals, oil and everything else. I like oil. The petronium industry gives me a product I actually use by putting it in my car. But this guy is now posturing and posing as as the latest messiah for the socialist Democrats. And yet you know he ran one of the biggest hedge funds on the planet. So again, I really, I really wonder whether California is going to buy what he is selling. I have my doubts.
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Speaker 5: What's odd to me?
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Speaker 1: And he must have poll tested this or something, because he never deviates on the language. He never says, I'm going to take aim at Prop thirteen. The moment I'm elected, I'm gonna call for a special election, and we're going to try to gut seentral portions of that popular proposition.
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Speaker 5: What he says is I'm going to close.
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Speaker 1: A corporate tax loophole, and that's how he's trying to frame it to people. But what he actually means is going after Prop thirteen.
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Speaker 6: That is correct. What he means is he wants what's called a split role, which is dividing the residential property tax role from commercial And this has been an idea floated by progressives for a long period of time. The argument from their side has been that somehow Proposition thirteen created a loophole for businesses, but that is that is fundamentally false. California has always had a unified tax role of all property. It's been that way since the eighteen hundreds. So Prop thirteen did not create some sort of loophole for business properties. And when he says business properties, it's unclear whether that means multi family residential property. It certainly includes commercial, industrial, maybe AG we don't know. But if he's going to cash the checks that he's writing to all the unions, he's going to have to come after everybody, and I think everybody should be concerned about that.
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Speaker 1: Another DEM Credit candidate in the race is Javier Basserra, who's now calling a top all of the other Democratic candidates in the field, and he has all kinds of ideas in terms of what he's going to do to spend money, but he's not explicitly clear on just exactly.
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Speaker 5: How he's going to come up with that money.
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Speaker 1: Do you see him as one of these candidates who is not going to run explicitly on gutting property or raising specific taxes, but he's going to box himself into a corner and end up there if he actually produces all of the spending that he is promising.
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Speaker 6: Well, I think if you go back and look at his previous statements, he's gone on record as saying we need more revenue, and that's just code for more taxes. So he has been pretty consistent throughout his political career on that point. Very rarely do you have some Democratic candidate come out and say the first thing I'm going to do as governor is I'm going to go after the men massive amounts of fraud, whether it's the ed D fraud, whether it's the hospice fraud, whether it's the IHSS fraud, whether it's the fraud in the community college enrollment. I mean, there was a time there when millions of dollars was going out the door in student aid to Russian bots in Chechnya and other places. Look, you know, we've always been told that, hey, you conservatives, you're always talking about fraud. But that's that's just budget dust. There's not enough money there in the fraud to make a difference. Well, I think if Doge, if nothing else, proved that the amount of money that we to waste fraud abuse is not insubstantial, it's substantial. It's huge. It's not millions, it's billions. And so I think that one of the things, and I think both of the Republican candidates and purposes of Full Disclosure even endorse Steve Hilton, but he talks about this quite quite eloquent, that there is a lot of fraud out there, and before you talk about raising any taxes, you've got to go after the places where we are wasting money. And it's just not the fraud, of course, it's the waste, but it's also the drag on the economy through excessive regulations, lawsuits. Again, the majority party seems to cater to the trial lawyers, public sector labor organizations, all the groups that send them money. And I think sooner or later people are going to wake up, and I think in large part they already have. I'm somewhat more optimistic than others that this could actually be a good election cycle here in California.
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Speaker 1: Matt Mahon, the mayor of San Jose, is trying to frame himself as a taxpayer friendly Democrat or the most taxpayer friendly Democrat in the race. Do you think that's a fair characterization or you think he's as bad as the others.
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Speaker 6: I think that is a fair characterization, but you got to remember that the bar is very low. When you're talking about the best of the Democratic candidates. That's a pretty low bar. But I've dealt with Matt before. All of the Democratic candidates is let's just put it this way, He's the one who is not insane, and in fact, that should be that should be his campaign slogan, Matt vote Matt Mahon, He's not crazy.
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Speaker 1: Now, on the Republican side, you just said that you and the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association endorse Steve Hilton. I happen to like Steve Hilton a whole lot. I'm very impressed with his knowledge, the amount of time he spent studying these subjects, coming up with solutions those sorts of things. It's certainly very articulate in the debates and the various interviews and forums that he participates in. All of that being said, what I want more than anything is I want a Democratic lockout on the November ballot. I want Hilton and Bianco to be in the top two. And you look at these numbers of ballots that have been returned so far in the state of California, and the Democrats only have a four point advantage over Republicans. It's like forty one to forty seven percent or forty one to forty eight percent as of today, which is a huge over performance for Republicans compared to where they were at this time in twenty twenty two, and a huge underperformance for Democrats from where they were in twenty twenty two. I can't tell you personally the number of Democratic voters in my own social network I have talked to who are going to sit this out because they have no clue what to do in the selection because their party is giving them no direction. Newsom has an endorsed, Pelosi hasn't endorsed, Kamala Harris hasn't endorsed, and they don't know who to vote for. And typically that's not what happens over there. They tell them go vote for Biden over Trump or Harris over Trump, and they all go out and do it. And this time around they're not getting that kind of direction. What do you think would happen? How do you think the barometric temperature would change in California if two Republicans made the November ballot as opposed to a Republican and a Democrat.
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Speaker 6: Well, I think it would be fantastic because number one, if for no other reason, you would break one party rule. And now it is also very clear that the day after the swearing d somebody would file a recall petition against whoever won. But there would be a period of time where they could get a lot done. In turn, the powers of the governor are quite substantial. There could be a lot of things that are done. And as it relates to the Democratics having a low voter turn, now I have seen communications from Democratic leaders saying two Democrat voters don't vote yet, wait until there's a consolidation, Wait until there's a coalescence behind one candidate. Well, that hasn't come, and time is running short. So I don't know what they're going to do. Does that mean that the Democrat voters are waiting till the last moment or does it mean that they're going to sit it out? Honestly, John, I don't know, but it's going to be kind of interesting to watch. But you're right, the turnout model so far have looked pretty good for fiscal conservatives.
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Speaker 1: Let's shift gears here for a second and talk about the LA mayoral election where Spencer Pratt if you look at the betting markets, is now favored to make the November ballad that would likely put him in a runoff with the incumbent mayor, Karen Bass, who's looking for another four years. Spencer Pratt very taxpayer friendly, running as a candidate who does not want to increase the taxes and regulations and fees, wants to roll them back, in particular for homeowners trying to rebuild in Pacific palisades and areas that have been impacted by fires. How big of a difference would that make for LA residents? If Spencer Pratt were able to knock Karen Bass off.
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Speaker 6: It would be huge. Number One, he is very articulate and he's also a man on a mission. I mean, his house burned down and he has got I won't say on the warpath, but he has got an axe to grind against the entire LA political structure, and justifiably so the notion that you had two empty reservoirs. You know, it's not climate change. Give me a break. I mean, everybody's trying to blame everybody else. I think he is the kind of individual's off I'm not sure he has a discernible political philosophy, but I think that may not be necessary if you've got somebody running who's highly motivated wants to not destroy the system, but just make the system better and more responsive to individual citizens of the city of Los Angeles. Right now, again, the city is run by the forces of special interest, the homeless, industrial complex, all the special interests out there. I think he recognizes that there is a lane for a candidate who just wants to promise to the voters he's going to do what he can to provide good municipal services to the citizens of the city at a reasonable cost. I mean, that's a heck of a winning message.
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Speaker 1: What is your take on his campaign ads, the videos, the AI videos that he's been putting out because let me tell you, I just got back from vacation. I was in Alaska for a week, and when people would find out what I do for a living, they wouldn't ask me about the governor's race. They wouldn't ask me about Gavin Newsom running for president. They all wanted to know about Spencer Pratt, and they'd all seen those videos that he'd put up online and they were unbelievably impressed. It seems like those videos are cutting through the noise.
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Speaker 6: They really are, And my understanding is a lot of them were produced free by I guess a friend or somebody he knows they're not really his. I guess some people have. He obviously pushes them out, But it doesn't look like there's any campaign finance reporting. There may there may be on that, but that's not the point. Your Your point is this is upending the whole idea of the way elections are run. I can tell you that there are a lot of political consultants who are looking at this and looking how cheap these things were to produce. And it's going to turn the political consultant class into into a frenzy because they're going to their candidates going to ask them, why can't I do something like this to be as effective as this guy without having to pay, you know, tens of millions of dollars. It's going to be very interesting. I do think that the method by which he is running his campaign is so outside the box it has shocked a lot of people.
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Speaker 1: There are tax initiatives on the ballot at the local level, including measure er in Los Angeles County.
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Speaker 5: What should voters know about that?
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Speaker 6: It is it purports to be for specific purposes sealth, gere and those kinds of things. It's a general fund tax, folks. It is going into the black hole of the general fund. And that is true with a number of these taxes being proposed up and down the state of California. They're being disguised as taxes for specific popular purposes, but their general tax increases, meaning which means there's no legal restrictions on how they're being spent. And John, the reason they're jamming all these taxes now is because our initiative, the Local Taxpayer Protection Act, to say Prop thirteen, is on the ballot. We would roll back many of these taxes, or at least prevent them. In the future. So that is why we're seeing a massive jam job of proposed new taxes for this coming November is because they are so fearful of our initiative.
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Speaker 1: We've also seen Measure B in Contra Costa County in the Bay Area.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a big one as well. There's been a number of proposals. I think the big one for the Bay Area coming up is going to be one of their massive transit taxes. We successfully killed the last massive transit tax in the Bay Area. It was like a nine county wide regional tax. We killed it before it even got in the ballot by embarrassing them by proving that their math was actually wrong in terms of how much the tax would be and how much it would generate. But people need to understand the the ballots are going to be very confusing this year. For people who want at least some degree of clarity, go to our website at HJATA dot org. We take positions on all the virtually all the statewide ballot measures, and we've taken a positions on some of the major local ones. But we also provide guidance on things like how how to judge whether or not a local bond is something worthwhile pursuing. We don't think many of them are at this point, but we have a lot of information on our website that actually empowers taxpayers to make informed decisions on what they're voting on.
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Speaker 1: And that website is HJTA dot org. That's HJTA dot org. You can follow John on exit John Coopaul that's John without the Age, John Coopaul on X John Coopaul, President of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.
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Speaker 5: Thanks so much for stopping by.
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Speaker 6: You bet John take Care.
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Speaker 1: And right now it's time to open up the California Crime Blodder.
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Speaker 3: It's happened yet again.
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Speaker 1: This Wow, Wow, what's up here?
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Speaker 7: Dun dun dunk don dundunk dun reached the Califonia Crime Blodder with John Ray.
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Speaker 5: And this edition takes us to the state Capitol.
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Speaker 2: In Old Sacramento. We're seeing a spike in crime. For more on this, we got a fox in Sacramento.
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Speaker 8: Well, Niki, it is nice and quiet right now here in Old Sacramento, but many merchants say that it is well after things get dark that it starts to heat up and crimes tend to happen. This family says their fourth graders are on a field trip from Orange County to visit Old sack Yosemite and Coloma.
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Speaker 2: So when we get off, boy, these oc school districts must just have a ton of money.
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Speaker 1: We never got those kinds of field trips when I was in school.
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Speaker 2: We got the Librea tar pits. We didn't get to go off to Sacramento.
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Speaker 9: So when we get off the bus, they did a whole safety discussion with us before we walked around in this thing instead and sat At the same time the.
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Speaker 1: Kids, You're not in Irvine anymore, however, they should point this out. Usually if you have your pocket picked in Sacramento, it's coming from inside the Capitol Dome.
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Speaker 9: I'm sad at the same time for sure. Yeah, you want to be able to take your kids anywhere and feel safe.
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Speaker 8: I definitely wouldn't go out that late with especially.
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Speaker 6: With my kids.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, a valid concern considering Old sac merchants say for the past three months, they've seen an uptick in crime, including stabbings, robberies, and break ins into businesses there.
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Speaker 10: This is an ongoing process. Sometimes it increases, sometimes it decreases. But what I've experienced is over time, maybe my store has been broken into, like at least ten to twelve.
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Speaker 5: Times, ten to twelve times. What is she in La County?
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Speaker 10: It's devastating for us.
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Speaker 8: Rooksana Hawk has owned Sacramento Sports and Souvenirs for the past thirty six years.
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Speaker 10: They come and break the glass. I don't know they.
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Speaker 2: Have al so you probably have people that go in there to buy kings gear. Who's going in there to buy A's gear?
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Speaker 5: Nobody?
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Speaker 1: But if she's selling Pokemon cards, maybe they're there to steal.
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Speaker 10: I don't know. They have a clawl like thing or whatever with which you pick up trash or something, and they siphoned everything out of here.
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Speaker 2: Sounds like she got cleaned out. It's poor lady ten to twelve times.
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Speaker 10: I don't know. They have a clawl like thing or whatever with which you pick up trash or something, and they siphoned everything out of here. Bring me everything from here, and the tables was gone. I have been asking and constantly requesting more police presence here, especially at nighttime.
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Speaker 8: This manager of a restaurant and barn old sac is asking for the same thing. She asked that we don't show her face at the end of the night.
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Speaker 2: Everyone's concerned about their identity on the TV. Nobody wants to be shown anymore. No one wants their fifteen minutes.
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Speaker 5: And keep in.
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Speaker 1: Mind, by the way, Sammy the Ball has no problem going on TV showing his face and.
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Speaker 7: Boys at the end of the night, there has to be some type of stable control because it's out of control. Last weekend was like fifty plus people out here still at like three o'clock in the morning.
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Speaker 8: Sacramento Police confirmed that a fight broke out ending in a stabbing in the early morning hours of May ninth. The victims survived. No arrests have been made yet. Police also say they're still investigating a break in at this Old Sack restaurant and bar from last week. These are surveillance images of the suspect. In direct response to the shop owners claims. SACKPD tells us in part, the Sacramento Police Department is committed to the safety of our community and continually evaluates the most effective allocation of resources to support this. Staffing is generally increased downtown on weekends and during large events. Additionally, they say the public safety camera network is used to help prevent and we're spawn to crime, and the bike office at three twenty k Street enables officers to remain closely connected to the area.
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Speaker 5: That's what we'll do it more bicycle officers.
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Speaker 1: I love the fact that they just talk about how much money they're spending, how many personnel, how much personnel they have on the case, but they're not talking about the neighborhood actually becoming safer.
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Speaker 2: Well, the police can only do so much. They can make the arrest, but we have California laws, and California laws means that everyone who goes in is getting out pretty soon.
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Speaker 7: We get a lot of complaints too.
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Speaker 2: They're not even in prison long enough to get that funny blunny degree.
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Speaker 7: We get a lot of complaints too.
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Speaker 8: It makes people not want to come down.
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Speaker 7: Here or the Capitol of California. People should be able to come down here and get the tour and want to go visit the you know, the train museum, or even go to clubs and dance and drink and be responsible and have fun all right?
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Speaker 2: In the Venn diagram of life? Is there anybody who goes up to Sacramento that during the day is going to go to the train Museum and at night is going to go clubbing. I will say this that train museum is impressive. I didn't say it wasn't. All I'm saying is that, is there somebody who goes to the train Museum by day and is out club until three am at night? What if you drop some ecstasy at the train museum.
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Speaker 7: You know, the train museum, or even go to clubs and dance and drink and be responsible and have fun.
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Speaker 8: And police encourage the community to continue to report suspicious and criminal activity here. They say it helps them identify trends and also to respond more effectively. Reporting live in Old sac covering local news that matters, where we to Shaddocks, Fox forty News.
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Speaker 2: So there you go, the spike and crime's going on in Old sac including a memorabilia store owner who's been burglarized a dozen times.
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Speaker 1: And I love the fact that there's drag racing going on in the background as the reporter is locking out.
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Speaker 5: And that's not rue. Paul at a race car either.
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Speaker 1: All right, Randy, it's time to reopen the blotters to catch its dummy.
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Speaker 5: We shouldn't make this stuff up if we tried. I said, Hell no, Verny boy, let me get up one out of here. It's the California Crime.
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Speaker 2: Bloater and this one takes us to Oj Simpson's old stomping ground. The neighborhood that's getting a break in today, it's Brentwood with a home invasion robbery.
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Speaker 5: Here is NBCLA.
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Speaker 11: So we've said this has been a very busy day. We have more breaking news, a home invasion in Brentwood tonight. Three suspects now on the run after they broke into a home with people inside. NBC four is Tracy Leong, live in Brentwood with more on this latest home invasion.
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Speaker 4: Tracy, Yeah, Colleen, it happened at this home right behind me on Montana Avenue, just near Bristol. Police are still on scene as well as construction workers. They are boarding up that front door where the window was completely shattered. They've been out here for several hours. The break in, according to police, happened around eight forty tonight. LAPD says the court.
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Speaker 5: You're not even waiting until bedtime. You know who used to live there? Who's that? Betty White?
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Speaker 1: And she was on a plane with me one time and she claimed and I think she said this publicly too, not just privately to me, but she said that her dogs, because she was a big animal person, her dogs used to always get out of her house and they would run Ojs and OJ would call her and she would have to go to OJ's to get the dogs back.
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Speaker 5: That's awkward. In retrospect.
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Speaker 4: Ed says the call came in as a burglary in progress. Investigators they are searching for three people dressed in black who allegedly used a crowbar to break into the home.
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Speaker 2: Breaking down how old school actually using a crow bar and not a Kia, Well it's not Oakland.
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Speaker 4: That front window. The homeowner says his tenant lives here and was inside when they broke in, and then they held her down, Officers say shortly after they took off in a white Mercedes Sedan. This comes after a string of recent breaking.
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Speaker 2: Why these criminals are doing so well they can buy luxury cars or steal them.
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Speaker 4: This comes after a string of recent breakings and burglaries lost the LA area, So understandably frightening for people in this area to know more people are out there potentially armed with a crowbar targeting this neighborhood.
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Speaker 5: The lowest crime level since the nineteen sixties.
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Speaker 1: Huh, Well, if you were smart enough to understand statistics, you would know that would be the case.
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Speaker 4: The homeowner, Jacob Robaport, says, here's what happened.
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Speaker 12: Well, from what I know is that they broke into this window, and all of a sudden we heard some people are screaming. This lady was screaming, and there was somebody was jogging and he saw the whole thing. That two guys jumped out of the window and they got into a car and they took off. You just got to do whatever you can to be safe these days. You know, it's just it's happening all over.
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Speaker 2: You know, everyone in La sounds so defeated, every single man on the street interview.
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Speaker 12: Just it's happending all over, you know, look on even in Beverly Hills or Venture Boulevard. You know, every day, every you know second, something is happening there.
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Speaker 2: So well, it's happening in Beverly Grove. I don't know about Beverly Hills. Separate Police Department.
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Speaker 4: Jacob Robaport, who owns this home, says there is a security system set up. There are cameras, but it's unclear if it recorded what was happening in progress just a couple hours ago. He also says he doesn't believe anything was stolen, but of course his tenant is pretty shaken up because she was held down on the ground by at least two of those men. Again, Colleen, they were wearing all black and from what we know, they took off in a Mercedes. That's all we know right now. Reporting live in Brentwood, tracling on NBC four News.
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Speaker 2: There you go, your neighborhood of the day to get a home invasion robbery in Los Angeles was Brentwood.
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Speaker 1: I wonder if that guy's dogs used to run over to OJ's home too.
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Speaker 5: What's going on in America?
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Speaker 1: And right now it's time to reopen the California Crime Blodder's dummy.
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Speaker 13: We shouldn't make this stuff up if we tried, I said, Hell no, Verny boy, let me get up on out of here.
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Speaker 2: It's the California Crime Blodder And this edition takes us to the ie. This time, we've got a situation going on in Rialto.
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Speaker 5: For more, here is cbs LA.
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Speaker 6: Real businesses in Rialto targeted by a burglar See BSLA Zach Bowetto spoke with a store and who helps women build confidence?
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Speaker 5: Who's determined to keep pushing forward?
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Speaker 9: All right?
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Speaker 3: This small business created to help women feel confident is one of several in this Rialto shopping center hit by vandalism and theft.
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Speaker 5: Early that's not very confidence inspiring. No, it's not early Wednesday morning.
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Speaker 8: You know that person hit home. This is something that.
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Speaker 3: I built.
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Speaker 5: Secure. Don't cry. This was sad.
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Speaker 3: Security camera video shows the moments the suspect through a brick and shattered the front door to one of the businesses before he hit several others, including Vanessa Jimenez his shop, which she opened after the death of her son Sergio.
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Speaker 7: You know, I built stuff closed by clothes, you know, piece by piece and breaks my heart. Everything missing and takes a big hit.
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Speaker 13: When the thief realized he couldn't get in through the front door of the clothing store here, he broke into the business next door, then punched a hole in the wall.
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Speaker 5: WHOA, this guy has aggression issues.
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Speaker 3: Then punched a hole in the wall and climbed through it.
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Speaker 11: That's when I discovered I had a size of a hole for a mannequin.
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Speaker 5: It fit through.
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Speaker 4: Which one did go through?
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Speaker 5: Hemene says, he stole a mannequin.
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Speaker 2: Boy, this's like a Loony Tunes episode. What do you think he's doing with that mannequin?
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Speaker 5: You don't want to know which one did go through?
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Speaker 3: Hemenez says.
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Speaker 13: The suspect got away with her cash register, about one hundred and fifty outfits, and more than a dozen cowboy hats.
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Speaker 1: Hey, you know that congresswoman that always wears the cowboy hat.
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Speaker 5: She hasn't been shown up to work. Maybe it was her. She says.
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Speaker 3: He also tried to take a mannequin but left it behind.
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Speaker 5: He took all that haa hats.
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Speaker 3: While the items have not been recovered. Rialto police say they have arrested a rialto man for the break ins.
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Speaker 5: They say, what was the giveaway the ten cowboy hats? Yeah? Was he dressed up like the Marlborough man?
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Speaker 3: They say he was out on early release for another burglary conviction.
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Speaker 2: Of course, you don't say. Yet again the California Parole Board deeming somebody safe to re enter society, who obviously is not.
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Speaker 5: Totally dropping the ball yet again.
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Speaker 3: They say he was out on early release for another burglary conviction.
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Speaker 1: Is very easy to sit back and say, oh, it's just a business, it's just the window. But behind the business, behind the broken window, behind the loss, there are real people.
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Speaker 5: Both and twenty five hats.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's gonna be some sunburned bald heads in Rialto.
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Speaker 3: Both Jamenaz and her neighbors say they're grateful for the quick action of rial to police.
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Speaker 5: And notice how when the story's not La County, it ends differently. Oh yeah, an arrest was made.
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Speaker 3: And now as these businesses and their landlord repair their broken doors and walls, they hope that comeback can be greater than the setback.
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Speaker 6: No thing.
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Speaker 12: I was still good in business, and I hope it'll be better in the future.
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Speaker 11: I'm just going to be coming back stronger. You know, I'm not gonna let this stop me.
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Speaker 13: I'll definitely coss on in Rialto Zach Bowotto CBSLA.
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Speaker 5: There you go.
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Speaker 2: A burglary in Rialto and including of a store where someone tried to steal a mannequin after they punched a hole in the wall, but he was arrested But the most California part about this story is this guy was already in prison and we decided to let him out early.
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Speaker 1: What is she going to say if Yosemite Sam stops buying, wants to buy a hat.
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Speaker 5: No, he's busy running for governor.
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Speaker 1: All right, Well, we've got one more hour coming up on the John Phillips Show. We know that Nancy Pelosi is not running for reelection to be the congresswoman from San Francisco, but so far
Speaker 1: And we continue at one oh five in the afternoon on the John Phillip Show. Mister Randy wanings in Culver City.
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Speaker 2: John, it's a very exciting day in the town because it's opening day for the Oakland Bees. I wonder if Shang's gonna throw out the first pitche Absolutely.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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Speaker 2: Interestingly enough, I was watching a video where NBC Bay was interviewing the VP of communications for the Oakland Ballers. And the VP of Communications for the Oakland Ballers is that guy Casey Pratt who quit being the sports guy for ABC seven in the Bay to work for Shang.
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Speaker 4: Yes they do, Yes, they do.
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Speaker 2: And now he's working for the ballers Oakland Bees.
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Speaker 4: And we still got our Oakland A's baby.
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Speaker 5: No you don't.
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Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is the telephone number. What eight hundred two two two five two two two. It is our pleasure to welcome our next guest to the program is the president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association and host of the Howard Jarvis Radio Show, which here is Tuesday nights on KABC that would be tonight at six o'clock. You can get him online at HJTA dot org. And follow him on exit. John Coupaul, John Coupaul, welcome.
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Speaker 6: Good to be here, John, And I'm in Sacramento, where at least temporarily we have the A's, but they're gonna soon be going to Las Vegas. So the team that can't seem to settle.
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Speaker 1: Down, and I'm gonna go up there in June and watch them beat my Angels and melt in the sun.
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Speaker 6: Well they'll probably beat my Red Sox too come August, so we'll see what happens, all right.
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Speaker 1: Not long ago, we had State Senator Tony Stricklet on the program and I asked him the question, of all the candidates for governor, which one would be the worst for taxpayers? And his answer was Tom Steyer. I thought it was going to be Katie Porter, but turned out to be Tom Steyer. He thinks that if elected, Tom Steyer would be the biggest threat to California homeowners and taxpayers of them all.
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Speaker 5: Do you agree with that?
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Speaker 6: Absolutely? Tony Number one has been a staunch fiscal conservative. He's been an ally of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association for many years, and yeah, he has spot on this one. Tom Steyer's answer to everything is to raise taxes, whether it's on businesses through a split roll, dismantling Proposition thirteen, which he has expressly stated he wants to do raising taxes on the so called billionaires and major corporations, who of course employ individuals. So his economic plan is not only disastrous, but it is the epitome of hypocrisy, given how this guy has made his money through venture capitals, oil and everything else. I like oil. The petronium industry gives me a product I actually use by putting it in my car. But this guy is now posturing and posing as as the latest messiah for the socialist Democrats. And yet you know he ran one of the biggest hedge funds on the planet. So again, I really, I really wonder whether California is going to buy what he is selling. I have my doubts.
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Speaker 5: What's odd to me?
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Speaker 1: And he must have poll tested this or something, because he never deviates on the language. He never says, I'm going to take aim at Prop thirteen. The moment I'm elected, I'm gonna call for a special election, and we're going to try to gut seentral portions of that popular proposition.
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Speaker 5: What he says is I'm going to close.
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Speaker 1: A corporate tax loophole, and that's how he's trying to frame it to people. But what he actually means is going after Prop thirteen.
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Speaker 6: That is correct. What he means is he wants what's called a split role, which is dividing the residential property tax role from commercial And this has been an idea floated by progressives for a long period of time. The argument from their side has been that somehow Proposition thirteen created a loophole for businesses, but that is that is fundamentally false. California has always had a unified tax role of all property. It's been that way since the eighteen hundreds. So Prop thirteen did not create some sort of loophole for business properties. And when he says business properties, it's unclear whether that means multi family residential property. It certainly includes commercial, industrial, maybe AG we don't know. But if he's going to cash the checks that he's writing to all the unions, he's going to have to come after everybody, and I think everybody should be concerned about that.
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Speaker 1: Another DEM Credit candidate in the race is Javier Basserra, who's now calling a top all of the other Democratic candidates in the field, and he has all kinds of ideas in terms of what he's going to do to spend money, but he's not explicitly clear on just exactly.
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Speaker 5: How he's going to come up with that money.
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Speaker 1: Do you see him as one of these candidates who is not going to run explicitly on gutting property or raising specific taxes, but he's going to box himself into a corner and end up there if he actually produces all of the spending that he is promising.
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Speaker 6: Well, I think if you go back and look at his previous statements, he's gone on record as saying we need more revenue, and that's just code for more taxes. So he has been pretty consistent throughout his political career on that point. Very rarely do you have some Democratic candidate come out and say the first thing I'm going to do as governor is I'm going to go after the men massive amounts of fraud, whether it's the ed D fraud, whether it's the hospice fraud, whether it's the IHSS fraud, whether it's the fraud in the community college enrollment. I mean, there was a time there when millions of dollars was going out the door in student aid to Russian bots in Chechnya and other places. Look, you know, we've always been told that, hey, you conservatives, you're always talking about fraud. But that's that's just budget dust. There's not enough money there in the fraud to make a difference. Well, I think if Doge, if nothing else, proved that the amount of money that we to waste fraud abuse is not insubstantial, it's substantial. It's huge. It's not millions, it's billions. And so I think that one of the things, and I think both of the Republican candidates and purposes of Full Disclosure even endorse Steve Hilton, but he talks about this quite quite eloquent, that there is a lot of fraud out there, and before you talk about raising any taxes, you've got to go after the places where we are wasting money. And it's just not the fraud, of course, it's the waste, but it's also the drag on the economy through excessive regulations, lawsuits. Again, the majority party seems to cater to the trial lawyers, public sector labor organizations, all the groups that send them money. And I think sooner or later people are going to wake up, and I think in large part they already have. I'm somewhat more optimistic than others that this could actually be a good election cycle here in California.
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Speaker 1: Matt Mahon, the mayor of San Jose, is trying to frame himself as a taxpayer friendly Democrat or the most taxpayer friendly Democrat in the race. Do you think that's a fair characterization or you think he's as bad as the others.
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Speaker 6: I think that is a fair characterization, but you got to remember that the bar is very low. When you're talking about the best of the Democratic candidates. That's a pretty low bar. But I've dealt with Matt before. All of the Democratic candidates is let's just put it this way, He's the one who is not insane, and in fact, that should be that should be his campaign slogan, Matt vote Matt Mahon, He's not crazy.
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Speaker 1: Now, on the Republican side, you just said that you and the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association endorse Steve Hilton. I happen to like Steve Hilton a whole lot. I'm very impressed with his knowledge, the amount of time he spent studying these subjects, coming up with solutions those sorts of things. It's certainly very articulate in the debates and the various interviews and forums that he participates in. All of that being said, what I want more than anything is I want a Democratic lockout on the November ballot. I want Hilton and Bianco to be in the top two. And you look at these numbers of ballots that have been returned so far in the state of California, and the Democrats only have a four point advantage over Republicans. It's like forty one to forty seven percent or forty one to forty eight percent as of today, which is a huge over performance for Republicans compared to where they were at this time in twenty twenty two, and a huge underperformance for Democrats from where they were in twenty twenty two. I can't tell you personally the number of Democratic voters in my own social network I have talked to who are going to sit this out because they have no clue what to do in the selection because their party is giving them no direction. Newsom has an endorsed, Pelosi hasn't endorsed, Kamala Harris hasn't endorsed, and they don't know who to vote for. And typically that's not what happens over there. They tell them go vote for Biden over Trump or Harris over Trump, and they all go out and do it. And this time around they're not getting that kind of direction. What do you think would happen? How do you think the barometric temperature would change in California if two Republicans made the November ballot as opposed to a Republican and a Democrat.
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Speaker 6: Well, I think it would be fantastic because number one, if for no other reason, you would break one party rule. And now it is also very clear that the day after the swearing d somebody would file a recall petition against whoever won. But there would be a period of time where they could get a lot done. In turn, the powers of the governor are quite substantial. There could be a lot of things that are done. And as it relates to the Democratics having a low voter turn, now I have seen communications from Democratic leaders saying two Democrat voters don't vote yet, wait until there's a consolidation, Wait until there's a coalescence behind one candidate. Well, that hasn't come, and time is running short. So I don't know what they're going to do. Does that mean that the Democrat voters are waiting till the last moment or does it mean that they're going to sit it out? Honestly, John, I don't know, but it's going to be kind of interesting to watch. But you're right, the turnout model so far have looked pretty good for fiscal conservatives.
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Speaker 1: Let's shift gears here for a second and talk about the LA mayoral election where Spencer Pratt if you look at the betting markets, is now favored to make the November ballad that would likely put him in a runoff with the incumbent mayor, Karen Bass, who's looking for another four years. Spencer Pratt very taxpayer friendly, running as a candidate who does not want to increase the taxes and regulations and fees, wants to roll them back, in particular for homeowners trying to rebuild in Pacific palisades and areas that have been impacted by fires. How big of a difference would that make for LA residents? If Spencer Pratt were able to knock Karen Bass off.
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Speaker 6: It would be huge. Number One, he is very articulate and he's also a man on a mission. I mean, his house burned down and he has got I won't say on the warpath, but he has got an axe to grind against the entire LA political structure, and justifiably so the notion that you had two empty reservoirs. You know, it's not climate change. Give me a break. I mean, everybody's trying to blame everybody else. I think he is the kind of individual's off I'm not sure he has a discernible political philosophy, but I think that may not be necessary if you've got somebody running who's highly motivated wants to not destroy the system, but just make the system better and more responsive to individual citizens of the city of Los Angeles. Right now, again, the city is run by the forces of special interest, the homeless, industrial complex, all the special interests out there. I think he recognizes that there is a lane for a candidate who just wants to promise to the voters he's going to do what he can to provide good municipal services to the citizens of the city at a reasonable cost. I mean, that's a heck of a winning message.
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Speaker 1: What is your take on his campaign ads, the videos, the AI videos that he's been putting out because let me tell you, I just got back from vacation. I was in Alaska for a week, and when people would find out what I do for a living, they wouldn't ask me about the governor's race. They wouldn't ask me about Gavin Newsom running for president. They all wanted to know about Spencer Pratt, and they'd all seen those videos that he'd put up online and they were unbelievably impressed. It seems like those videos are cutting through the noise.
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Speaker 6: They really are, And my understanding is a lot of them were produced free by I guess a friend or somebody he knows they're not really his. I guess some people have. He obviously pushes them out, But it doesn't look like there's any campaign finance reporting. There may there may be on that, but that's not the point. Your Your point is this is upending the whole idea of the way elections are run. I can tell you that there are a lot of political consultants who are looking at this and looking how cheap these things were to produce. And it's going to turn the political consultant class into into a frenzy because they're going to their candidates going to ask them, why can't I do something like this to be as effective as this guy without having to pay, you know, tens of millions of dollars. It's going to be very interesting. I do think that the method by which he is running his campaign is so outside the box it has shocked a lot of people.
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Speaker 1: There are tax initiatives on the ballot at the local level, including measure er in Los Angeles County.
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Speaker 5: What should voters know about that?
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Speaker 6: It is it purports to be for specific purposes sealth, gere and those kinds of things. It's a general fund tax, folks. It is going into the black hole of the general fund. And that is true with a number of these taxes being proposed up and down the state of California. They're being disguised as taxes for specific popular purposes, but their general tax increases, meaning which means there's no legal restrictions on how they're being spent. And John, the reason they're jamming all these taxes now is because our initiative, the Local Taxpayer Protection Act, to say Prop thirteen, is on the ballot. We would roll back many of these taxes, or at least prevent them. In the future. So that is why we're seeing a massive jam job of proposed new taxes for this coming November is because they are so fearful of our initiative.
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Speaker 1: We've also seen Measure B in Contra Costa County in the Bay Area.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a big one as well. There's been a number of proposals. I think the big one for the Bay Area coming up is going to be one of their massive transit taxes. We successfully killed the last massive transit tax in the Bay Area. It was like a nine county wide regional tax. We killed it before it even got in the ballot by embarrassing them by proving that their math was actually wrong in terms of how much the tax would be and how much it would generate. But people need to understand the the ballots are going to be very confusing this year. For people who want at least some degree of clarity, go to our website at HJATA dot org. We take positions on all the virtually all the statewide ballot measures, and we've taken a positions on some of the major local ones. But we also provide guidance on things like how how to judge whether or not a local bond is something worthwhile pursuing. We don't think many of them are at this point, but we have a lot of information on our website that actually empowers taxpayers to make informed decisions on what they're voting on.
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Speaker 1: And that website is HJTA dot org. That's HJTA dot org. You can follow John on exit John Coopaul that's John without the Age, John Coopaul on X John Coopaul, President of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.
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Speaker 5: Thanks so much for stopping by.
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Speaker 6: You bet John take Care.
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Speaker 1: And right now it's time to open up the California Crime Blodder.
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Speaker 3: It's happened yet again.
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Speaker 1: This Wow, Wow, what's up here?
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Speaker 7: Dun dun dunk don dundunk dun reached the Califonia Crime Blodder with John Ray.
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Speaker 5: And this edition takes us to the state Capitol.
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Speaker 2: In Old Sacramento. We're seeing a spike in crime. For more on this, we got a fox in Sacramento.
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Speaker 8: Well, Niki, it is nice and quiet right now here in Old Sacramento, but many merchants say that it is well after things get dark that it starts to heat up and crimes tend to happen. This family says their fourth graders are on a field trip from Orange County to visit Old sack Yosemite and Coloma.
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Speaker 2: So when we get off, boy, these oc school districts must just have a ton of money.
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Speaker 1: We never got those kinds of field trips when I was in school.
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Speaker 2: We got the Librea tar pits. We didn't get to go off to Sacramento.
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Speaker 9: So when we get off the bus, they did a whole safety discussion with us before we walked around in this thing instead and sat At the same time the.
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Speaker 1: Kids, You're not in Irvine anymore, however, they should point this out. Usually if you have your pocket picked in Sacramento, it's coming from inside the Capitol Dome.
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Speaker 9: I'm sad at the same time for sure. Yeah, you want to be able to take your kids anywhere and feel safe.
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Speaker 8: I definitely wouldn't go out that late with especially.
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Speaker 6: With my kids.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, a valid concern considering Old sac merchants say for the past three months, they've seen an uptick in crime, including stabbings, robberies, and break ins into businesses there.
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Speaker 10: This is an ongoing process. Sometimes it increases, sometimes it decreases. But what I've experienced is over time, maybe my store has been broken into, like at least ten to twelve.
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Speaker 5: Times, ten to twelve times. What is she in La County?
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Speaker 10: It's devastating for us.
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Speaker 8: Rooksana Hawk has owned Sacramento Sports and Souvenirs for the past thirty six years.
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Speaker 10: They come and break the glass. I don't know they.
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Speaker 2: Have al so you probably have people that go in there to buy kings gear. Who's going in there to buy A's gear?
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Speaker 5: Nobody?
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Speaker 1: But if she's selling Pokemon cards, maybe they're there to steal.
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Speaker 10: I don't know. They have a clawl like thing or whatever with which you pick up trash or something, and they siphoned everything out of here.
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Speaker 2: Sounds like she got cleaned out. It's poor lady ten to twelve times.
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Speaker 10: I don't know. They have a clawl like thing or whatever with which you pick up trash or something, and they siphoned everything out of here. Bring me everything from here, and the tables was gone. I have been asking and constantly requesting more police presence here, especially at nighttime.
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Speaker 8: This manager of a restaurant and barn old sac is asking for the same thing. She asked that we don't show her face at the end of the night.
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Speaker 2: Everyone's concerned about their identity on the TV. Nobody wants to be shown anymore. No one wants their fifteen minutes.
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Speaker 5: And keep in.
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Speaker 1: Mind, by the way, Sammy the Ball has no problem going on TV showing his face and.
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Speaker 7: Boys at the end of the night, there has to be some type of stable control because it's out of control. Last weekend was like fifty plus people out here still at like three o'clock in the morning.
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Speaker 8: Sacramento Police confirmed that a fight broke out ending in a stabbing in the early morning hours of May ninth. The victims survived. No arrests have been made yet. Police also say they're still investigating a break in at this Old Sack restaurant and bar from last week. These are surveillance images of the suspect. In direct response to the shop owners claims. SACKPD tells us in part, the Sacramento Police Department is committed to the safety of our community and continually evaluates the most effective allocation of resources to support this. Staffing is generally increased downtown on weekends and during large events. Additionally, they say the public safety camera network is used to help prevent and we're spawn to crime, and the bike office at three twenty k Street enables officers to remain closely connected to the area.
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Speaker 5: That's what we'll do it more bicycle officers.
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Speaker 1: I love the fact that they just talk about how much money they're spending, how many personnel, how much personnel they have on the case, but they're not talking about the neighborhood actually becoming safer.
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Speaker 2: Well, the police can only do so much. They can make the arrest, but we have California laws, and California laws means that everyone who goes in is getting out pretty soon.
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Speaker 7: We get a lot of complaints too.
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Speaker 2: They're not even in prison long enough to get that funny blunny degree.
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Speaker 7: We get a lot of complaints too.
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Speaker 8: It makes people not want to come down.
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Speaker 7: Here or the Capitol of California. People should be able to come down here and get the tour and want to go visit the you know, the train museum, or even go to clubs and dance and drink and be responsible and have fun all right?
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Speaker 2: In the Venn diagram of life? Is there anybody who goes up to Sacramento that during the day is going to go to the train Museum and at night is going to go clubbing. I will say this that train museum is impressive. I didn't say it wasn't. All I'm saying is that, is there somebody who goes to the train Museum by day and is out club until three am at night? What if you drop some ecstasy at the train museum.
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Speaker 7: You know, the train museum, or even go to clubs and dance and drink and be responsible and have fun.
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Speaker 8: And police encourage the community to continue to report suspicious and criminal activity here. They say it helps them identify trends and also to respond more effectively. Reporting live in Old sac covering local news that matters, where we to Shaddocks, Fox forty News.
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Speaker 2: So there you go, the spike and crime's going on in Old sac including a memorabilia store owner who's been burglarized a dozen times.
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Speaker 1: And I love the fact that there's drag racing going on in the background as the reporter is locking out.
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Speaker 5: And that's not rue. Paul at a race car either.
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Speaker 1: All right, Randy, it's time to reopen the blotters to catch its dummy.
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Speaker 5: We shouldn't make this stuff up if we tried. I said, Hell no, Verny boy, let me get up one out of here. It's the California Crime.
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Speaker 2: Bloater and this one takes us to Oj Simpson's old stomping ground. The neighborhood that's getting a break in today, it's Brentwood with a home invasion robbery.
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Speaker 5: Here is NBCLA.
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Speaker 11: So we've said this has been a very busy day. We have more breaking news, a home invasion in Brentwood tonight. Three suspects now on the run after they broke into a home with people inside. NBC four is Tracy Leong, live in Brentwood with more on this latest home invasion.
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Speaker 4: Tracy, Yeah, Colleen, it happened at this home right behind me on Montana Avenue, just near Bristol. Police are still on scene as well as construction workers. They are boarding up that front door where the window was completely shattered. They've been out here for several hours. The break in, according to police, happened around eight forty tonight. LAPD says the court.
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Speaker 5: You're not even waiting until bedtime. You know who used to live there? Who's that? Betty White?
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Speaker 1: And she was on a plane with me one time and she claimed and I think she said this publicly too, not just privately to me, but she said that her dogs, because she was a big animal person, her dogs used to always get out of her house and they would run Ojs and OJ would call her and she would have to go to OJ's to get the dogs back.
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Speaker 5: That's awkward. In retrospect.
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Speaker 4: Ed says the call came in as a burglary in progress. Investigators they are searching for three people dressed in black who allegedly used a crowbar to break into the home.
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Speaker 2: Breaking down how old school actually using a crow bar and not a Kia, Well it's not Oakland.
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Speaker 4: That front window. The homeowner says his tenant lives here and was inside when they broke in, and then they held her down, Officers say shortly after they took off in a white Mercedes Sedan. This comes after a string of recent breaking.
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Speaker 2: Why these criminals are doing so well they can buy luxury cars or steal them.
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Speaker 4: This comes after a string of recent breakings and burglaries lost the LA area, So understandably frightening for people in this area to know more people are out there potentially armed with a crowbar targeting this neighborhood.
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Speaker 5: The lowest crime level since the nineteen sixties.
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Speaker 1: Huh, Well, if you were smart enough to understand statistics, you would know that would be the case.
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Speaker 4: The homeowner, Jacob Robaport, says, here's what happened.
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Speaker 12: Well, from what I know is that they broke into this window, and all of a sudden we heard some people are screaming. This lady was screaming, and there was somebody was jogging and he saw the whole thing. That two guys jumped out of the window and they got into a car and they took off. You just got to do whatever you can to be safe these days. You know, it's just it's happening all over.
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Speaker 2: You know, everyone in La sounds so defeated, every single man on the street interview.
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Speaker 12: Just it's happending all over, you know, look on even in Beverly Hills or Venture Boulevard. You know, every day, every you know second, something is happening there.
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Speaker 2: So well, it's happening in Beverly Grove. I don't know about Beverly Hills. Separate Police Department.
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Speaker 4: Jacob Robaport, who owns this home, says there is a security system set up. There are cameras, but it's unclear if it recorded what was happening in progress just a couple hours ago. He also says he doesn't believe anything was stolen, but of course his tenant is pretty shaken up because she was held down on the ground by at least two of those men. Again, Colleen, they were wearing all black and from what we know, they took off in a Mercedes. That's all we know right now. Reporting live in Brentwood, tracling on NBC four News.
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Speaker 2: There you go, your neighborhood of the day to get a home invasion robbery in Los Angeles was Brentwood.
00:31:56
Speaker 1: I wonder if that guy's dogs used to run over to OJ's home too.
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Speaker 5: What's going on in America?
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Speaker 1: And right now it's time to reopen the California Crime Blodder's dummy.
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Speaker 13: We shouldn't make this stuff up if we tried, I said, Hell no, Verny boy, let me get up on out of here.
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Speaker 2: It's the California Crime Blodder And this edition takes us to the ie. This time, we've got a situation going on in Rialto.
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Speaker 5: For more, here is cbs LA.
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Speaker 6: Real businesses in Rialto targeted by a burglar See BSLA Zach Bowetto spoke with a store and who helps women build confidence?
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Speaker 5: Who's determined to keep pushing forward?
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Speaker 9: All right?
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Speaker 3: This small business created to help women feel confident is one of several in this Rialto shopping center hit by vandalism and theft.
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Speaker 5: Early that's not very confidence inspiring. No, it's not early Wednesday morning.
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Speaker 8: You know that person hit home. This is something that.
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Speaker 3: I built.
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Speaker 5: Secure. Don't cry. This was sad.
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Speaker 3: Security camera video shows the moments the suspect through a brick and shattered the front door to one of the businesses before he hit several others, including Vanessa Jimenez his shop, which she opened after the death of her son Sergio.
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Speaker 7: You know, I built stuff closed by clothes, you know, piece by piece and breaks my heart. Everything missing and takes a big hit.
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Speaker 13: When the thief realized he couldn't get in through the front door of the clothing store here, he broke into the business next door, then punched a hole in the wall.
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Speaker 5: WHOA, this guy has aggression issues.
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Speaker 3: Then punched a hole in the wall and climbed through it.
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Speaker 11: That's when I discovered I had a size of a hole for a mannequin.
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Speaker 5: It fit through.
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Speaker 4: Which one did go through?
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Speaker 5: Hemene says, he stole a mannequin.
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Speaker 2: Boy, this's like a Loony Tunes episode. What do you think he's doing with that mannequin?
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Speaker 5: You don't want to know which one did go through?
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Speaker 3: Hemenez says.
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Speaker 13: The suspect got away with her cash register, about one hundred and fifty outfits, and more than a dozen cowboy hats.
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Speaker 1: Hey, you know that congresswoman that always wears the cowboy hat.
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Speaker 5: She hasn't been shown up to work. Maybe it was her. She says.
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Speaker 3: He also tried to take a mannequin but left it behind.
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Speaker 5: He took all that haa hats.
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Speaker 3: While the items have not been recovered. Rialto police say they have arrested a rialto man for the break ins.
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Speaker 5: They say, what was the giveaway the ten cowboy hats? Yeah? Was he dressed up like the Marlborough man?
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Speaker 3: They say he was out on early release for another burglary conviction.
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Speaker 2: Of course, you don't say. Yet again the California Parole Board deeming somebody safe to re enter society, who obviously is not.
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Speaker 5: Totally dropping the ball yet again.
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Speaker 3: They say he was out on early release for another burglary conviction.
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Speaker 1: Is very easy to sit back and say, oh, it's just a business, it's just the window. But behind the business, behind the broken window, behind the loss, there are real people.
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Speaker 5: Both and twenty five hats.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's gonna be some sunburned bald heads in Rialto.
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Speaker 3: Both Jamenaz and her neighbors say they're grateful for the quick action of rial to police.
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Speaker 5: And notice how when the story's not La County, it ends differently. Oh yeah, an arrest was made.
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Speaker 3: And now as these businesses and their landlord repair their broken doors and walls, they hope that comeback can be greater than the setback.
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Speaker 6: No thing.
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Speaker 12: I was still good in business, and I hope it'll be better in the future.
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Speaker 11: I'm just going to be coming back stronger. You know, I'm not gonna let this stop me.
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Speaker 13: I'll definitely coss on in Rialto Zach Bowotto CBSLA.
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Speaker 5: There you go.
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Speaker 2: A burglary in Rialto and including of a store where someone tried to steal a mannequin after they punched a hole in the wall, but he was arrested But the most California part about this story is this guy was already in prison and we decided to let him out early.
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Speaker 1: What is she going to say if Yosemite Sam stops buying, wants to buy a hat.
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Speaker 5: No, he's busy running for governor.
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Speaker 1: All right, Well, we've got one more hour coming up on the John Phillips Show. We know that Nancy Pelosi is not running for reelection to be the congresswoman from San Francisco, but so far
