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KBLA Talk 1580. You're still invited in. You're always invited
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in at 800-920-1580. 800-920-1580. So I said, I'm going to
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go through this ballot. I'm going to do it fast.
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I'm going to do it without endorsing because we here
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at KBLA no longer do that. But with understanding. So
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we understand what we're doing. And yeah, that's what we're doing.
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But we are also welcoming you in. I was just
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studying this information about the new poll, which shows now
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what Pastor Eddie Anderson said earlier, that this appears to
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be neck and neck, the mayor's race of Los Angeles,
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and saying that the Spencer Pratt voters are choosing Bass, which,
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hard to believe, but maybe. I mean, that's what the
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poll says. I also wonder if they're actually going to
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show up and vote. That's another question. And it looks
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like this polling is also showing that the Valley is
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is actually leaning towards Mayor Bass rather than Rahman, which
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is interesting because, you know, she, parts of her district
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are there in the valley. But that swing is shown
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in this polling. If you believe it, that the race
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has flipped in the valley, meaning Rahman was leading Bass
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in the valley last time they did this poll, which
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I questioned then just as I'll question this one now.
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but it's got to feel like a breath of fresh
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air for the mayor, um, that this UC Berkeley, um,
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and LA times poll, you know, we know how the
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LA times feels about the mayor, um, is showing them
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neck and neck. Um, and it's showing them neck and neck,
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even though according to the poll, the mayor's unfavorable ratings
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are still not good, uh, still at 65%, but You know, again,
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the other thing about this poll, which we said about
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the last one, is that it's mostly conducted online. It's
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an online poll. And I would argue that an online
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poll would favor Nithya Raman since she tends to have,
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she's younger, she tends to do better with younger voters.
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She tends to be more popular with the group that
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would be online taking a poll, right? As compared to,
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those voters, those Gen X and, um, boomer voters, likely voters.
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So we'll see. I mean, this, I would, I would
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think that their methodology and the origination of the poll
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have the potential to favor Nithya Raman. So the fact
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that they are neck and neck could mean that the
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mayor is currently ahead. Um, You know, only Tuesday will tell.
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How about that? Only Tuesday will tell. I do believe,
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you know, yeah, it's true. It looks like conservatives are
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circling in their wagons with Bass. We've seen that with
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the almost endorsement of Rick Caruso, who did not endorse
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but did say that he planned to vote for Mayor Bass. That's,
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you know. And you do see that. I also think
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that Rahman is facing erosion in other areas that are
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not Pratt voters. Because I do think that the conversation
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around Daryl Gates was problematic to black Angelenos and others
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who are concerned that, you know, you're not from here.
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Maybe you need more time. Maybe you need more seasoning.
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Maybe you're ready to be mayor in four years. Who knows?
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I don't know. But whatever it is, And the question
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of race, this black agenda with no black input. I
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think these things have taken a toll on Nithya Raman
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in terms of her popularity. But only Tuesday will tell.
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That's what we know. And I'm not going to talk
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up all this time because I am still going to
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go through the ballot. But let's do a quick check
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in with Lynette from Inglewood. Jombo, hola, hotep, what's up?
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Hello, hello, and good morning to everybody in reparations and
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memory of our ancestors. And we know that the struggle
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continues always. To God be the glory. Now, I know
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we live in the United States of amnesia, lying, and
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denial half the time. But where is it where we
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are getting this corporate media blackout of, you know, the
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poll places that have been, you know, for the early voters?
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either unavailable or not open, I mean, you know, open
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as they should be or they've been rearranged or what
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have you, miraculously, I should say. And also the corporate
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media blackout of the protest against Apple, against Palestine, which
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they're protesting Apple's role in Palestine genocide and Congo slavery.
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as of recently. Now, we hear about the blast not
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being too good on the new product that they just
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put out, but we don't hear anything about all of this,
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you know. And, you know, the neocolonial push, you know,
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for the Congo and for Africa, as well as what
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Elon Musk has done with all these satellites over Africa.
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And also the ensuing lawsuit against Apple for monopolization of Which,
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you know, I mean, this is antitrust and this is
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going on right now.
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Okay, so Lynette, you just ran down about 32 topics.
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So let's do a little deep dive on a couple
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of them since you're complaining that they're not being covered.
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All right, so when you're talking about the moving, the
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polling places, are you talking about the HBCU? Are you
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talking about Texas cutting location? Are you talking about Tennessee
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changing votes to Republican? What are we talking about here?
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No, I'm talking about the real-time stuff like this week.
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about the polling places about Apple. This is real.
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Okay.
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Well, I'm taking them one at a time. Okay. Cause
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you're all over the map. So the first issue you
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brought up was polling places. So we're starting there. Uh,
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When you say real-time... No, we're.
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Not about to do you.
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No, no.
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You don't hear nothing. I don't hear... I had to
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look on YouTube to see this about the polling.
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Okay, but that's why I'm asking you. Are you talking
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about California? Are you talking about Texas, Mississippi? Talking about
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the HBCUs? Like, which polling place shenanigans are we talking about?
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Because I haven't heard of... I haven't heard of Cali ones.
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I haven't stayed in particular to California, forgive me. But
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I am just like, where's the Inspector General and the
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DOJ and all this kind of stuff talking about election
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security crap? You know, no wonder Kendrick Lamar is saying,
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turn the TV off. You know, I mean, I'm not saying, hey,
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we don't need information anymore. and we don't need to
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be information savvy, but, you know, the airwaves, according to
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the Constitution, belong to the people, just like the post offices,
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right in the Constitution.
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I got you. This kind of stuff is basic. I
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love that they moved that polling place off of the
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campus in North Carolina, and those students from the HBCU,
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I think it's North Carolina A & T, They marched.
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They marched to the polling places, hundreds of them. I
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love that. That is what I'm talking about.
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But you get what I'm saying, and I'm like, well,
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where is the accountability? So no wonder people are like,
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we've got to fight for every little crumb. You know,
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and then our melody, and if you can't go to
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the early voting places, you know, whatever. You know, and
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also about, you know, making Apple and Elon Musk and
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everybody accountable for what they've been doing. you know, for
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the longest to, you know, and it ain't just Africa.
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They have the Chinese, you know, that work for Apple
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have been committing suicide. But, you know, these are the
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kind of things that we wonder, like, you know, what
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is really going on with this media? And then by
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this merger, it's just going to be Nazi palooza. You
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just might as well say it, you know, with this
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corporate merger.
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Because now they have CBS and CNN and TikTok. So
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I think it's important to be mindful of that and
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a bunch of other stuff, too. So I was trying
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to unbox your issues one by one, but I think
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you did a pretty good job wrapping it up right there.
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The problem with Apple is, you know, for someone like myself,
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I don't believe in, I don't agree with what they're
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doing in the Congo, even though they've given themselves plausible
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deniability by using outside contractors. I don't believe in, you know,
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in many of the investments that they make. And yet
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I'm very Mac dependent, right? So are you going to
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give up your iPhone? Am I going to give up
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my MacBook Air? Honestly, I don't think so. So what's
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the alternative? Do we become shareholders and try to influence
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their decisions? Or do we just have to bite the
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bullet and say, no more Apple?
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What happened to Elon Musk because of what he did to,
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you know, the government, cutting all these jobs and coming
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over here like he owned, you know, the presidency when
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him and Trump.
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Speaking of immigrants, yeah. Okay, so come on and land
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for me, Lynette, because I said I was going to
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go through this ballot. You got a whole agenda that
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will take us to 2050.
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I'm not saying that we're going to be smashing Apple stores,
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but there's something along that. The reckoning is coming. And
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there's something called the New Global Tech Order, you know, neocolonialism.
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And that's what the tech bros really are with Trump.
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And there's also a push against all of this, what
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is it called, badmerit.com or... something.
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Okay, girl, you're doing too much. I mean, I love
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you because you pay attention and you call and you
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have so much energy and I love that, but you
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about to start us all off down a whole other path. So, Lynette,
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let's save it until Wednesday after the election, okay? Okay.
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Thank you. Appreciate you. Lynette, you there? All right. One love.
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We'll go to Dee from LBC. Be quick for me.
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Leave me enough time to go through this ballot, would you, Dee?
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You know, Dominique, I'm always asymmetric and off topic.
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Oh, no. Now I've learned my lesson. I've got to
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learn to not go to your call when I'm trying
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to stay focused. What's on your mind?
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You know, I am a radical, a.k.a. progressive Republican. I
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have a solution to the tax problem. You want to
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hear it?
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Sure. As long as it's not as long as the
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tax code.
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You tax everyone at a 25% flat tax and send
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the negative quintile a negative income tax. A check. Yeah,
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you send them a check.
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Yeah, but the flat tax has so many problems. Okay,
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we're going to save that until after the election. You
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want to call me back with your.
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Unicorn, progressive Republican, which is making my head explode just
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thinking about it in today's MAGA environment. And we're going
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to talk about that flat tax because that flat tax
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to me is one of those things that sounds better
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than it really is.
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Well, it's not a sales tax, which is a different animal.
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That's highly regressive. Highly regressive. You know, I'm for Medicare
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for all. I'm here for.
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Head Start, Universal Preschool. I'm here for all this stuff.
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So we'll have to talk about that after we get
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through Tuesday because I love the Medicare for all Republican.
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That's definitely a unicorn. Dee, I love that you share
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your ideas with us, and I appreciate the call. Dee
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called me at 809-20-1580, and I invite you to do
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the same. I think when we come forward, I'm going
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to start at the back of this ballot and work
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my way forward because the easy part is the front.
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Down ballot is a little more tricky. That's next on
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KBLA Talk 1580. I do appreciate you. So starting at
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the back of the ballot, you have the state judicial candidate.
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These are people that are running to be a judge now.
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On the state level, the Court of Appeal, second in
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the various divisions, right? And this is confusing because there's
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no opponent. You just vote yes or no. So if
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you vote no, it means you don't want that person
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to be a judge anymore. If you vote yes, it
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means you want to keep that person as a judge.
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And if that person doesn't get more than 50% plus one,
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that means they get to finish their term and then
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they're not a judge anymore anymore. And then the governor
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steps in and appoints the replacement for them. And this
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is an area where, you know, it's interesting because a
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lot of the voter guides don't even touch this. So
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I'm not going to pretend that I have this all together,
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but I will say this. And also they tell you
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almost nothing about them. All the ballot says is presiding judge,
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Gonzalo Martinez, presiding judge Michelle Kim, presiding judge Gregory Weingart.
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So all they're telling you is that they're a judge.
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Anything beyond that, you have to look up yourself at
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the robing room or, you know, rate my judge. But
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attorney Carrie Harper will be here tomorrow in the last
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hour of the show. And she has done a deep
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dive on this. So if I, I'm going to tell
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you the truth for me, I would not be, I
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won't be making my decisions about the yes or no
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on these state judges until I complete my conversation tomorrow
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with attorney Carrie Harper. She just does really great deep
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dives on the judges. She actually goes, I mean, I've met,
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I haven't met any of these state ones. I've met
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the county ones because they come in, but she goes
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and does a deep dive that includes like going to
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events where the judges will be and just hanging out
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and getting to know them that way. And that's, um,
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that's powerful. So I'm, like I said, I'm going to hold, um, my,
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my vote on these until after that conversation. Anyway, we're
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just going to be talking about, um, what you, might
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want to consider and what we're voting on. And then
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you're going to make your own decision. But all of these,
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the last page and a half are state judicial judges.
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You vote yes or no. If you vote no, they lose,
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you know, if enough people vote no, they lose their
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job after their term is up and then the governor
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replaces them. So I guess if you wanted Becerra to
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have a chance to replace all of the judges, assuming
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Hilton doesn't win, You would vote no on everybody, but
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we'll get more helpful information on these on tomorrow. So,
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starting down ballot, State Measure 45, Prop 45, this modifies
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environmental review for certain projects, initiatives, and statutes. Seems like
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it would speed up building housing, but the opponents are
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the Coalition for Clean Air, California Environmental Voters, Physicians for
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Social Responsibility, and the National Wildlife Federation. And now we're
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hearing from the indigenous nations here in California that this
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would cut them out, cut out their input on some
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of the big development projects. So, If you vote yes
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on 45, you want to make it where it's easier.
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It's called Amends the CEQA, which is the California Environmental
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Quality Act. It means that you want to allow big
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corporations to fast track their projects and not have to
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worry about the environmental impact. And, you know, it's California
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Children's Hospital Association and California Council for Affordable Housing. These
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are the people that are for it. They want to
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build faster and they think this would help. The other
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thing to think about with this is that it's going
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to cost, could cost up to $ 100 million. So we're
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looking at something that could cost us $ 100 million in
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order to fast track corporate building.
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So....
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That one was a little confusing, but I made up
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my mind on that one. 44, requires community health clinics
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to spend 90% of revenue on program services. If you
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vote yes, that means you want the clinics to have
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to spend 90% of their revenue on program services. If
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you vote no, you want to leave it the way
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it is now. Every doctor that I have talked to
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and every community health organizer that I've talked to is
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against this because they are saying that it will make
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local clinics close because it's making us decide at the
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ballot box how they have to spend their money. So
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if they need a new building or they need new
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radiology equipment, they can't get it because it doesn't fit
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into the requirements of this bill. It will impose big fines.
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So if you want to dictate that these clinics have
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to spend their money in a certain way, 90% on
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program services, then you vote yes. If you are worried
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about clinics closing and legislating budgets for community care, then
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you vote no on this one. This one is not
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that confusing to me. I have made up my mind.
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Who's against it? American Academy of Pediatrics, the California School Nurses,
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the California Academy of Family Physicians, the California Medical Association,
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and just about every single health care provider I have
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talked to. What's weird is supporters, none submitted. So how
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did it get on the ballot? Not sure. Moving on,
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Prop 43. This will limit the voters' ability to raise
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revenues for local government services, legislative constitutional amendment. It means
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that local taxes, special taxes that voters want to pass
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will need a larger majority in order to pass. So
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that means they would need, instead of 50%, they would
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need two-thirds of the vote starting in 2027, beginning of 2027.
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It means that maybe it will be harder for local
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jurisdictions to raise money in the future. This is the
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California Taxpayer Association, the folks that brought you Things like
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Prop 13 and Chambers of Commerce. The opponents to this
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are professional firefighters, California Federation of Teachers. Nurse Alliance of
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SEIU California. This is one of those measures that means
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that local jurisdictions, cities, have less flexibility in terms of
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deciding whether how to raise money for themselves. If you
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want to make it, create more restrictions on how cities
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can raise and spend money, vote yes. If you want
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to leave it the way it is, you vote no.
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I think that there's a lot of tricky stuff on
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this ballot, and that's one of them. Right now, people
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are concerned about where their money is spent, how their
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money is spent. We're sensitive about taxes. But we have
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to be mindful of the fact that these are the
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times when we can get tricked into voting for things
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that end up causing us big problems later. News, traffic,
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and sports, then more of the ballot when we come forward,
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only right here. Yeah, okay, okay, okay. I must speed up.
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I'm taking too much time. I said speed round. I'm
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over here going, well, please put that. But let's, real quick,
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let's go to Big Phil calling us from L.A. Hi,
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Big Phil.
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Hi.
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Good morning, good morning, good morning. Devil don't sleep. We'll
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move very, very quickly. Go Karen Bass. They put some
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nasty commercials about her, but she know how to run
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the city and ramen don't. And second of all, you
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had a guy want to talk about the church pastors.
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I do not give tithes, Dominique, but I will help somebody.
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I come up Catholic, but I will help somebody. Pay
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the house note. I don't give tithes. Jesus never asked
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for no money, okay? And number three, they're racist about
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the three-year-old soccer kid. That's ridiculous.
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They need to be fired.
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The little black kid, look, three-year-old, he was good, the
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soccer kid. You see that?
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Yeah, now the cops are saying that they were called
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because the parents were acting mean and not because the
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kid was too good. But, I mean, you know, the
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hateration is real. This is reverse DEI, right? Oh, you're
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too good. We got to shut you down. You're three. Yeah.
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Okay.
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Well, I got to go. I love you. Go Karen bad.
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Go Karen bad. Go Karen bad. You got to take care.
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All right. Love you more. Thanks, big Phil. Appreciate the
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call back to the ballot. This is okay. This is
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me blazing through this ballot. Now I'm going to stop
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playing around. Okay. So prop 40, 41 and 42 are
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a group thing. They go together.
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Okay. So.
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Prop 40 taxes the billionaires. If you think billionaires should
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pay more taxes, it's a one-time thing, then you vote yes.
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If you think, oh, no, they're going to leave town,
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they're going to, you know, it's going to cause other problems,
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then you vote no. But 41 and 42 are just
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poison pills for 40. They kill Prop 40 even if
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it passes. So if you don't want 40, you vote yes, no, no.
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I mean, yes, yes, yes. No, no, yes, yes. But
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if you want to tax billionaires, you vote yes on 40,
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no on 41, no on 42. And 41 and 42,
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41 prohibits new state taxes that exclude revenues from state spending.
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42 prohibits new state personal property taxes and certain retroactive
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state taxes. See, so 41 and 42 are preemptively stopping
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you from taxing billionaires. And they are They want us
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to think they're going to save us tax money. I'm
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not so sure about that. So 41, 42, kill Prop
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40 and 40 taxes billionaires. So yeah, I think you
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know how I'm voting on that. Then 39, this is
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the one that our commercials that we're running here call
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a MAGA power grab. Well, Whether you think it is
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or you think it's not, the fact of the matter
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is this is a bill to make it harder to vote.
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So if you think that this could be voter suppression,
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you vote no, along with the NAACP, the SCLC, and
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the ACLU, Common Cause, and the League of Women Voters.
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If you think we are in need of making it
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harder to vote, you vote yes on 39 with.
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The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, the Latino Political Association, and
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the Transparency Foundation, whoever that is. 39 will, by the way,
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also cost tens of millions of dollars, maybe hundreds of
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millions to make it harder to vote. 38, this is
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the one for immunology, medical research initiative statute. Sounds good
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because it is supported by the Alzheimer's, of Los Angeles
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Kidney Cancer Association of American Nurses. However, the thing about
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this is that it is written to mainly help send
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money to just one organization, one institute. And so people
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who are voting no are voting no because it seems
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like it's one billionaire with enough clout to get a
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measure on the ballot to fund his own initiative. People
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who are voting yes say this is good because it
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will make more research available for all of these things,
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no matter who is doing said research. So yes, if
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you want to authorize this bond, no, if you're going
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to leave things the way they are. Prop 37, Loan
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Program for Middle-Income Buyers of Qualified New Homes. It is
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a program to offer $ 25 billion bonds so that people
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who qualify can get these fixed-rate mortgages. People who support
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it say, look, this is going to make it easier
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to buy a home in California. People that are against
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it are saying that it probably won't help low-income buyers
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or black and Latino folks because the ceiling is high.
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In other words, higher, upper-middle-class folks can benefit from this.
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And the kinds of houses you can buy are limited,
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so it would be harder to buy a less costly home.
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Measure 5 changes recall election process for statewide officers. You
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vote yes if you're tired of Republicans constantly having statewide
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recalls for states. elections that they cannot win in the generals,
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and you vote no if you want to leave things
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the way they are. We don't know how much this
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would cost. There are no supporters submitted, and there are
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no opponents submitted. But under the current law, you have
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to figure out you're getting rid of the person and
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who you're going to replace them with at the same time.
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If you'd like to decide whether or not you get
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rid of the person and then have a chance to
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think about who you want to replace them, you vote yes.
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If you want to leave things the way they are,
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you vote no. Measure four repeals prohibition against public funding
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of election campaigns. If you want to make it easier
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to have campaign finance reform, you vote yes. If you
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want to leave things the way they are, you vote no. Again,
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the League of Women Voters is a yes on four.
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California Nurses, California Mental Health Advocacy, and once again, your no's.
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the good old Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association and the California
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Taxpayers Association. Measure three, makes permanent a tax to pay
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for health care and more importantly, schools. It will just
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keep this going. It's already in effect. It's a tax
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on the wealthy. And so instead of having to renew
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it every few years, now it will become permanent. If
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you want to just make this permanent so that we
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don't blast holes in our education budget, you vote yes.
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If you think that we should have to re reintroduce
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this every couple years and you are, you know, trying
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to make taxation a little easier on the very wealthy
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in Cali, then you vote no. Measure two means that
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we can save more money for a rainy day. People
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who are against it say we need to spend our
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money on, you know, we need to spend our money
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on The day-to-day, we don't need to spend more money
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on savings. We need to spend more money on programs
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and what we need today. People that are for it
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say that we do need to save money for a
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rainy day. And given the number of emergencies that this
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particular state faces, it would make sense to have higher reserves.
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Supporters include Gavin Newsom, Javier Becerra, the L.A. Chamber of Commerce,
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and professional firefighters. There are no opponents submitted. Measure 1.
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This is to provide more housing, a bond for general
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obligation fund to build more housing for veterans, students, and
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the elderly, self-help for the elderly. This is supported by
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the U.S. Vets, California Federation of Teachers, self-help for the elderly,
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Habitat for Humanity. No opponents submitted. That is measure one.
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If you want to build more housing for veterans, students,
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the elders and permanent supportive housing for the unhoused, then
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you're going to vote yes on measure one. If you
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don't want to do those things, you're going to vote no.
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And by the way, this is not a new tax,
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which is important to know. Okay. Superintendent of Public instruction
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Sonia Shah is a Republican she is a school board
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a district school district president in the Inland Empire I
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believe I might be wrong about that Richard Barrera is
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a Democrat they both want to be superintendent of public
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instruction If you think it's time for a MAGA Republican
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to be school superintendent, you vote Shaw. If you want
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to try to keep a Democrat in that position, you
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vote Barrera. State Board of Equalization, Samuel Suketan versus Mike Gibson.
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These are both Dems. Mike Gibson is African American out
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of Compton. He is a centrist. Samuel Sukhothan is a progressive.
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I don't know his ethnic background. He's a labor union organizer.
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Here you have two Dems going head to head. So
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you've got to choose. Do you want the African-American who's
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more moderate or do you want to go with a
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more progressive and lesser known candidate in Samuel P.
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Sukhothan?
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Insurance Commissioner, Jane Kim versus Ben Allen. Again, two Dems.
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Ben Allen, a state senator from the west side of L.A.,
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strong track record as a liberal Democrat. Jane Kim, Democratic
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attorney out of the Bay Area, consumer advocate, backed by
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most of, she is backed by almost every progressive voter guide.
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The L.A.
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Progressive, the Courage California, Knock LA, La Defensa. On the
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other hand, Ben Allen is a known factor and is
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backed by Senator Steve Bradford, who also ran for California
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Insurance Commissioner. So you kind of have, you know, two Dems,
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same situation, one slightly different. slightly or possibly largely more
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progressive than the other. And you've got to look at
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their track record and make up your mind. Or if
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you want to, you know, I would suggest tapping them
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with these photo guides and look at their whys on
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this one. Attorney General Rob Bonta versus Michael Gates. Rob Bonta,
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the current Attorney General, is a progressive. He is the first...
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Filipino-American statewide representative. He's running for re-election. He is a Democrat.
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The man running against him, Michael E. Gates, is a Republican.
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He worked for the Trump administration and got sent home
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for creating a toxic work environment, something he denies doing.
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But he is your mainstream MAGA Republican. running for state
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attorney general here in California. So if you think we
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need more conservative attorney general, much, much, much more conservative
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attorney general, you vote for him. If you want to
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stick with the Democrat who is currently in office, you
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vote for Rob Bonta. I'm going to make it. I
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think I'm going to make it all the way through
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this ballot. I don't know. All right, I'm going to
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keep trying when we come forward. KBLA Talk 1580. All right,
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all right, all right. Hurry up, Dominique. Let's get this done.
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We're blazing through this ballot today. Where did we leave off?
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We left off a treasurer. Jennifer Hawks is a Republican.
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Eleni Koulinakis is not. She is moderate, but she is
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a Democrat. So, yeah, treasurer. That's your choice. Sometimes it's
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more simple. Malia Cohen is the current controller. She is
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running for re-election. She is an African-American woman and a Democrat.
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She is running against Herb W. Morgan, a Republican who
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calls himself a chief investment officer. I was not confused
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about that one. Secretary of State Donald P. Wagner is running,
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is a Republican, running against Shirley Webber. She's a Democrat,
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Shirley Weber. Dr. Shirley Weber is the assembly member at
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the time who brought us the California Reparations Task Force,
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among other things, and she's running for re-election. Some feel,
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if you feel it would be problematic to have a
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Republican Secretary of State at a time when the Trump
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administration is attacking the state of California, then you're going
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to vote for Shirley Weber. If you think that's not
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a problem, you'll vote for Wagner. Lieutenant Governor, you've got
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the same thing. You've got Gloria Romero, a Republican, Dem-turned-Republican,
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against Fiona Maher, who is an experienced Democrat for Lieutenant Governor.
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And then for the governor's race, of course, you've got
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the Fox News host, Charismatic Steve Hilton going up against
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the longtime Democratic lawmaker, Javier Becerra. He will be the
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first Latino governor in the state of California, ironically enough.
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And I think that one is going to break down
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largely along party lines. County Measure A. On this one,
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it's about who gets to settle disputes over wages, hours, benefits,
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and working conditions. I found it confusing. I will say that, again,
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the LA Progressive is urging a no vote on Measure A.
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La Defensa urging a no vote on Measure A. And
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so you may have to figure that one out for yourself.
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But certainly, it seems like binding arbitration as opposed to
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other means has its drawbacks measure e well this is
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um if you want to save la's care first agenda
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if you want to put more ethics oversight in place
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for the county of los angeles and its 88 cities
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then you vote yes if you don't then you vote
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no if you vote yes you're joining the league of
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women voters california clean money california common cause and aapi
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equity alliance Okay, I'm going to save the judges for
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tomorrow with attorney Carrie Harper. Measure PRK, the parks. If
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you want to put more investment into parks and have
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a minimum amount of our general fund budget that goes
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to parks, you vote yes. If you want to leave
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things the way they are, you vote no. Measure PRT.
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If you want to give people who live near city airports, harbors,
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and water and power departments, if you want to give
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those people more voting power, on those commissions. We are
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going to amend the city charter to do just that.
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If you want to do that amendment, you vote yes
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on PRT. If you want to leave things how they are,
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you vote no. FD, the fire department, this is funding
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for the LA fire department. If you want to raise
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money for the fire department on top of what they're
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getting from the city, above and beyond what they're getting
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from the city, by adding half of a percentage sales
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tax in the city of LA bringing us up to
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10 point, I think it's two, 5%, then you're going
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to vote yes. If you don't want to pay more
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sales tax, even if it's for our fire department, then
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you are going to vote no. If you're like people
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who think like the fire department is an emergency, we
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need to just ante up that sales tax, you're going
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to vote yes on FD. If you're like Ed Sanders
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and you're tired of sales taxes going up, up, up,
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and you don't care what it's for, then you're going
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to vote no on FD. And then the campaign finance
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for the Board of Education, that's SC, you're going to
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vote yes if you want to change the charter. And
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LA Common Cause is urging a yes vote on this.
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If you're voting no, you don't want to change the
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charter to make it clearer what the rules are for
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school boards. Oh, did I forget the sheriff? I sure did.
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Robert Luna versus Alex Villanueva. If you want to go
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back to the mini MAGA sheriff that we had who
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was targeting journalists like Cerise Castle for writing about deputy gangs,
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if you want to go back to the days of
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a sheriff who is at war with the L.A. County
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Board of Supervisors and arrests supervisors, then you're going to
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want to vote Alex Villanueva. If you want to stay
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where we are right now with Robert Luna, who succeeded him,
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and the current sheriff, then you're going to vote for Luna.
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The choice is yours. That's a nonpartisan race, although former
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retired Sheriff Villanueva has said that he has switched to
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the Republican Party. Robert Luna has said he's a Democrat.
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But it's a nonpartisan office, so you're going to have
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to vote your knowledge. Okay, whew, did it. Judges are tomorrow,
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hour three. Tavis Biley's next. He's got a great lineup
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for you, as per usual. And Cornel West is on today, right? No,
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not today.
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Okay.
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I never keep track of it, but he's got an
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amazing lineup as per usual. I got to go. Making
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room for Tavis Smiley. I'll see you tomorrow. I'll see
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you on social media. Find me at DiPrima Radio, D-I-P-R-I-M-A.
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And then radio, I'm Dominique DiPrima. Until tomorrow, my KBLA delegation.
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one love.
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KBLA Talk 1580. You're still invited in. You're always invited
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in at 800-920-1580. 800-920-1580. So I said, I'm going to
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go through this ballot. I'm going to do it fast.
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I'm going to do it without endorsing because we here
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at KBLA no longer do that. But with understanding. So
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we understand what we're doing. And yeah, that's what we're doing.
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But we are also welcoming you in. I was just
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studying this information about the new poll, which shows now
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what Pastor Eddie Anderson said earlier, that this appears to
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be neck and neck, the mayor's race of Los Angeles,
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and saying that the Spencer Pratt voters are choosing Bass, which,
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hard to believe, but maybe. I mean, that's what the
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poll says. I also wonder if they're actually going to
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show up and vote. That's another question. And it looks
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like this polling is also showing that the Valley is
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is actually leaning towards Mayor Bass rather than Rahman, which
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is interesting because, you know, she, parts of her district
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are there in the valley. But that swing is shown
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in this polling. If you believe it, that the race
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has flipped in the valley, meaning Rahman was leading Bass
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in the valley last time they did this poll, which
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I questioned then just as I'll question this one now.
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but it's got to feel like a breath of fresh
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air for the mayor, um, that this UC Berkeley, um,
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and LA times poll, you know, we know how the
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LA times feels about the mayor, um, is showing them
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neck and neck. Um, and it's showing them neck and neck,
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even though according to the poll, the mayor's unfavorable ratings
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are still not good, uh, still at 65%, but You know, again,
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the other thing about this poll, which we said about
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the last one, is that it's mostly conducted online. It's
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an online poll. And I would argue that an online
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poll would favor Nithya Raman since she tends to have,
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she's younger, she tends to do better with younger voters.
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She tends to be more popular with the group that
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would be online taking a poll, right? As compared to,
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those voters, those Gen X and, um, boomer voters, likely voters.
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So we'll see. I mean, this, I would, I would
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think that their methodology and the origination of the poll
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have the potential to favor Nithya Raman. So the fact
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that they are neck and neck could mean that the
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mayor is currently ahead. Um, You know, only Tuesday will tell.
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How about that? Only Tuesday will tell. I do believe,
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you know, yeah, it's true. It looks like conservatives are
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circling in their wagons with Bass. We've seen that with
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the almost endorsement of Rick Caruso, who did not endorse
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but did say that he planned to vote for Mayor Bass. That's,
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you know. And you do see that. I also think
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that Rahman is facing erosion in other areas that are
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not Pratt voters. Because I do think that the conversation
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around Daryl Gates was problematic to black Angelenos and others
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who are concerned that, you know, you're not from here.
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Maybe you need more time. Maybe you need more seasoning.
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Maybe you're ready to be mayor in four years. Who knows?
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I don't know. But whatever it is, And the question
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of race, this black agenda with no black input. I
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think these things have taken a toll on Nithya Raman
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in terms of her popularity. But only Tuesday will tell.
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That's what we know. And I'm not going to talk
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up all this time because I am still going to
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go through the ballot. But let's do a quick check
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in with Lynette from Inglewood. Jombo, hola, hotep, what's up?
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Hello, hello, and good morning to everybody in reparations and
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memory of our ancestors. And we know that the struggle
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continues always. To God be the glory. Now, I know
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we live in the United States of amnesia, lying, and
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denial half the time. But where is it where we
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are getting this corporate media blackout of, you know, the
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poll places that have been, you know, for the early voters?
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either unavailable or not open, I mean, you know, open
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as they should be or they've been rearranged or what
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have you, miraculously, I should say. And also the corporate
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media blackout of the protest against Apple, against Palestine, which
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they're protesting Apple's role in Palestine genocide and Congo slavery.
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as of recently. Now, we hear about the blast not
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being too good on the new product that they just
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put out, but we don't hear anything about all of this,
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you know. And, you know, the neocolonial push, you know,
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for the Congo and for Africa, as well as what
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Elon Musk has done with all these satellites over Africa.
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And also the ensuing lawsuit against Apple for monopolization of Which,
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you know, I mean, this is antitrust and this is
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going on right now.
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Okay, so Lynette, you just ran down about 32 topics.
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So let's do a little deep dive on a couple
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of them since you're complaining that they're not being covered.
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All right, so when you're talking about the moving, the
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polling places, are you talking about the HBCU? Are you
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talking about Texas cutting location? Are you talking about Tennessee
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changing votes to Republican? What are we talking about here?
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No, I'm talking about the real-time stuff like this week.
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about the polling places about Apple. This is real.
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Okay.
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Well, I'm taking them one at a time. Okay. Cause
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you're all over the map. So the first issue you
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brought up was polling places. So we're starting there. Uh,
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When you say real-time... No, we're.
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Not about to do you.
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No, no.
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You don't hear nothing. I don't hear... I had to
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look on YouTube to see this about the polling.
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Okay, but that's why I'm asking you. Are you talking
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about California? Are you talking about Texas, Mississippi? Talking about
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the HBCUs? Like, which polling place shenanigans are we talking about?
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Because I haven't heard of... I haven't heard of Cali ones.
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I haven't stayed in particular to California, forgive me. But
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I am just like, where's the Inspector General and the
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DOJ and all this kind of stuff talking about election
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security crap? You know, no wonder Kendrick Lamar is saying,
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turn the TV off. You know, I mean, I'm not saying, hey,
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we don't need information anymore. and we don't need to
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be information savvy, but, you know, the airwaves, according to
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the Constitution, belong to the people, just like the post offices,
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right in the Constitution.
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I got you. This kind of stuff is basic. I
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love that they moved that polling place off of the
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campus in North Carolina, and those students from the HBCU,
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I think it's North Carolina A & T, They marched.
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They marched to the polling places, hundreds of them. I
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love that. That is what I'm talking about.
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But you get what I'm saying, and I'm like, well,
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where is the accountability? So no wonder people are like,
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we've got to fight for every little crumb. You know,
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and then our melody, and if you can't go to
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the early voting places, you know, whatever. You know, and
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also about, you know, making Apple and Elon Musk and
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everybody accountable for what they've been doing. you know, for
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the longest to, you know, and it ain't just Africa.
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They have the Chinese, you know, that work for Apple
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have been committing suicide. But, you know, these are the
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kind of things that we wonder, like, you know, what
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is really going on with this media? And then by
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this merger, it's just going to be Nazi palooza. You
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just might as well say it, you know, with this
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corporate merger.
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I think it's important to be mindful of that and
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a bunch of other stuff, too. So I was trying
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to unbox your issues one by one, but I think
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you did a pretty good job wrapping it up right there.
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The problem with Apple is, you know, for someone like myself,
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I don't believe in, I don't agree with what they're
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doing in the Congo, even though they've given themselves plausible
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deniability by using outside contractors. I don't believe in, you know,
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in many of the investments that they make. And yet
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I'm very Mac dependent, right? So are you going to
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give up your iPhone? Am I going to give up
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my MacBook Air? Honestly, I don't think so. So what's
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the alternative? Do we become shareholders and try to influence
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their decisions? Or do we just have to bite the
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bullet and say, no more Apple?
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What happened to Elon Musk because of what he did to,
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you know, the government, cutting all these jobs and coming
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over here like he owned, you know, the presidency when
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him and Trump.
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Speaking of immigrants, yeah. Okay, so come on and land
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for me, Lynette, because I said I was going to
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go through this ballot. You got a whole agenda that
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will take us to 2050.
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I'm not saying that we're going to be smashing Apple stores,
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but there's something along that. The reckoning is coming. And
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there's something called the New Global Tech Order, you know, neocolonialism.
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And that's what the tech bros really are with Trump.
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And there's also a push against all of this, what
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is it called, badmerit.com or... something.
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Okay, girl, you're doing too much. I mean, I love
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you because you pay attention and you call and you
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have so much energy and I love that, but you
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about to start us all off down a whole other path. So, Lynette,
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let's save it until Wednesday after the election, okay? Okay.
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Thank you. Appreciate you. Lynette, you there? All right. One love.
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We'll go to Dee from LBC. Be quick for me.
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Leave me enough time to go through this ballot, would you, Dee?
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You know, Dominique, I'm always asymmetric and off topic.
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Oh, no. Now I've learned my lesson. I've got to
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learn to not go to your call when I'm trying
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to stay focused. What's on your mind?
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You know, I am a radical, a.k.a. progressive Republican. I
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have a solution to the tax problem. You want to
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hear it?
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Sure. As long as it's not as long as the
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tax code.
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You tax everyone at a 25% flat tax and send
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the negative quintile a negative income tax. A check. Yeah,
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you send them a check.
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Yeah, but the flat tax has so many problems. Okay,
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we're going to save that until after the election. You
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want to call me back with your.
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Unicorn, progressive Republican, which is making my head explode just
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thinking about it in today's MAGA environment. And we're going
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to talk about that flat tax because that flat tax
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to me is one of those things that sounds better
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than it really is.
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Well, it's not a sales tax, which is a different animal.
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That's highly regressive. Highly regressive. You know, I'm for Medicare
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for all. I'm here for.
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Head Start, Universal Preschool. I'm here for all this stuff.
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So we'll have to talk about that after we get
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through Tuesday because I love the Medicare for all Republican.
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That's definitely a unicorn. Dee, I love that you share
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your ideas with us, and I appreciate the call. Dee
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called me at 809-20-1580, and I invite you to do
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the same. I think when we come forward, I'm going
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to start at the back of this ballot and work
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my way forward because the easy part is the front.
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Down ballot is a little more tricky. That's next on
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KBLA Talk 1580. I do appreciate you. So starting at
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the back of the ballot, you have the state judicial candidate.
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These are people that are running to be a judge now.
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On the state level, the Court of Appeal, second in
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the various divisions, right? And this is confusing because there's
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no opponent. You just vote yes or no. So if
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you vote no, it means you don't want that person
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to be a judge anymore. If you vote yes, it
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means you want to keep that person as a judge.
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that means they get to finish their term and then
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they're not a judge anymore anymore. And then the governor
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steps in and appoints the replacement for them. And this
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is an area where, you know, it's interesting because a
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lot of the voter guides don't even touch this. So
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I'm not going to pretend that I have this all together,
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but I will say this. And also they tell you
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almost nothing about them. All the ballot says is presiding judge,
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Gonzalo Martinez, presiding judge Michelle Kim, presiding judge Gregory Weingart.
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So all they're telling you is that they're a judge.
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Anything beyond that, you have to look up yourself at
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the robing room or, you know, rate my judge. But
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attorney Carrie Harper will be here tomorrow in the last
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hour of the show. And she has done a deep
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dive on this. So if I, I'm going to tell
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you the truth for me, I would not be, I
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won't be making my decisions about the yes or no
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on these state judges until I complete my conversation tomorrow
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with attorney Carrie Harper. She just does really great deep
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dives on the judges. She actually goes, I mean, I've met,
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I haven't met any of these state ones. I've met
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the county ones because they come in, but she goes
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and does a deep dive that includes like going to
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events where the judges will be and just hanging out
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and getting to know them that way. And that's, um,
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that's powerful. So I'm, like I said, I'm going to hold, um, my,
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my vote on these until after that conversation. Anyway, we're
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just going to be talking about, um, what you, might
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want to consider and what we're voting on. And then
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you're going to make your own decision. But all of these,
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the last page and a half are state judicial judges.
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You vote yes or no. If you vote no, they lose,
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you know, if enough people vote no, they lose their
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job after their term is up and then the governor
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replaces them. So I guess if you wanted Becerra to
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have a chance to replace all of the judges, assuming
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Hilton doesn't win, You would vote no on everybody, but
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we'll get more helpful information on these on tomorrow. So,
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starting down ballot, State Measure 45, Prop 45, this modifies
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environmental review for certain projects, initiatives, and statutes. Seems like
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it would speed up building housing, but the opponents are
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the Coalition for Clean Air, California Environmental Voters, Physicians for
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Social Responsibility, and the National Wildlife Federation. And now we're
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hearing from the indigenous nations here in California that this
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would cut them out, cut out their input on some
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of the big development projects. So, If you vote yes
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on 45, you want to make it where it's easier.
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It's called Amends the CEQA, which is the California Environmental
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Quality Act. It means that you want to allow big
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corporations to fast track their projects and not have to
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worry about the environmental impact. And, you know, it's California
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Children's Hospital Association and California Council for Affordable Housing. These
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are the people that are for it. They want to
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build faster and they think this would help. The other
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thing to think about with this is that it's going
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to cost, could cost up to $ 100 million. So we're
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looking at something that could cost us $ 100 million in
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order to fast track corporate building.
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So....
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That one was a little confusing, but I made up
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my mind on that one. 44, requires community health clinics
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to spend 90% of revenue on program services. If you
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vote yes, that means you want the clinics to have
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to spend 90% of their revenue on program services. If
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you vote no, you want to leave it the way
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it is now. Every doctor that I have talked to
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and every community health organizer that I've talked to is
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against this because they are saying that it will make
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local clinics close because it's making us decide at the
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ballot box how they have to spend their money. So
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if they need a new building or they need new
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radiology equipment, they can't get it because it doesn't fit
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into the requirements of this bill. It will impose big fines.
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So if you want to dictate that these clinics have
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to spend their money in a certain way, 90% on
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program services, then you vote yes. If you are worried
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about clinics closing and legislating budgets for community care, then
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you vote no on this one. This one is not
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that confusing to me. I have made up my mind.
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Who's against it? American Academy of Pediatrics, the California School Nurses,
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the California Academy of Family Physicians, the California Medical Association,
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and just about every single health care provider I have
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talked to. What's weird is supporters, none submitted. So how
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did it get on the ballot? Not sure. Moving on,
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Prop 43. This will limit the voters' ability to raise
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revenues for local government services, legislative constitutional amendment. It means
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that local taxes, special taxes that voters want to pass
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will need a larger majority in order to pass. So
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that means they would need, instead of 50%, they would
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need two-thirds of the vote starting in 2027, beginning of 2027.
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It means that maybe it will be harder for local
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jurisdictions to raise money in the future. This is the
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California Taxpayer Association, the folks that brought you Things like
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Prop 13 and Chambers of Commerce. The opponents to this
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are professional firefighters, California Federation of Teachers. Nurse Alliance of
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SEIU California. This is one of those measures that means
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that local jurisdictions, cities, have less flexibility in terms of
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deciding whether how to raise money for themselves. If you
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want to make it, create more restrictions on how cities
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can raise and spend money, vote yes. If you want
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to leave it the way it is, you vote no.
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I think that there's a lot of tricky stuff on
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this ballot, and that's one of them. Right now, people
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are concerned about where their money is spent, how their
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money is spent. We're sensitive about taxes. But we have
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to be mindful of the fact that these are the
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times when we can get tricked into voting for things
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that end up causing us big problems later. News, traffic,
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and sports, then more of the ballot when we come forward,
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only right here. Yeah, okay, okay, okay. I must speed up.
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I'm taking too much time. I said speed round. I'm
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over here going, well, please put that. But let's, real quick,
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let's go to Big Phil calling us from L.A. Hi,
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Big Phil.
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Hi.
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Good morning, good morning, good morning. Devil don't sleep. We'll
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move very, very quickly. Go Karen Bass. They put some
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nasty commercials about her, but she know how to run
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the city and ramen don't. And second of all, you
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had a guy want to talk about the church pastors.
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I do not give tithes, Dominique, but I will help somebody.
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I come up Catholic, but I will help somebody. Pay
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the house note. I don't give tithes. Jesus never asked
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for no money, okay? And number three, they're racist about
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the three-year-old soccer kid. That's ridiculous.
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They need to be fired.
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The little black kid, look, three-year-old, he was good, the
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soccer kid. You see that?
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Yeah, now the cops are saying that they were called
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because the parents were acting mean and not because the
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kid was too good. But, I mean, you know, the
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hateration is real. This is reverse DEI, right? Oh, you're
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too good. We got to shut you down. You're three. Yeah.
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Okay.
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Well, I got to go. I love you. Go Karen bad.
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Go Karen bad. Go Karen bad. You got to take care.
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All right. Love you more. Thanks, big Phil. Appreciate the
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call back to the ballot. This is okay. This is
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me blazing through this ballot. Now I'm going to stop
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playing around. Okay. So prop 40, 41 and 42 are
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a group thing. They go together.
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Okay. So.
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Prop 40 taxes the billionaires. If you think billionaires should
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pay more taxes, it's a one-time thing, then you vote yes.
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If you think, oh, no, they're going to leave town,
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they're going to, you know, it's going to cause other problems,
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then you vote no. But 41 and 42 are just
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poison pills for 40. They kill Prop 40 even if
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it passes. So if you don't want 40, you vote yes, no, no.
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I mean, yes, yes, yes. No, no, yes, yes. But
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if you want to tax billionaires, you vote yes on 40,
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no on 41, no on 42. And 41 and 42,
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41 prohibits new state taxes that exclude revenues from state spending.
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42 prohibits new state personal property taxes and certain retroactive
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state taxes. See, so 41 and 42 are preemptively stopping
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you from taxing billionaires. And they are They want us
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to think they're going to save us tax money. I'm
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not so sure about that. So 41, 42, kill Prop
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40 and 40 taxes billionaires. So yeah, I think you
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know how I'm voting on that. Then 39, this is
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the one that our commercials that we're running here call
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a MAGA power grab. Well, Whether you think it is
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or you think it's not, the fact of the matter
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is this is a bill to make it harder to vote.
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So if you think that this could be voter suppression,
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you vote no, along with the NAACP, the SCLC, and
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the ACLU, Common Cause, and the League of Women Voters.
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If you think we are in need of making it
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harder to vote, you vote yes on 39 with.
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The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, the Latino Political Association, and
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the Transparency Foundation, whoever that is. 39 will, by the way,
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also cost tens of millions of dollars, maybe hundreds of
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millions to make it harder to vote. 38, this is
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the one for immunology, medical research initiative statute. Sounds good
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because it is supported by the Alzheimer's, of Los Angeles
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Kidney Cancer Association of American Nurses. However, the thing about
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this is that it is written to mainly help send
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money to just one organization, one institute. And so people
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who are voting no are voting no because it seems
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like it's one billionaire with enough clout to get a
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measure on the ballot to fund his own initiative. People
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who are voting yes say this is good because it
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will make more research available for all of these things,
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no matter who is doing said research. So yes, if
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you want to authorize this bond, no, if you're going
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to leave things the way they are. Prop 37, Loan
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Program for Middle-Income Buyers of Qualified New Homes. It is
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a program to offer $ 25 billion bonds so that people
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who qualify can get these fixed-rate mortgages. People who support
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it say, look, this is going to make it easier
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to buy a home in California. People that are against
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it are saying that it probably won't help low-income buyers
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or black and Latino folks because the ceiling is high.
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In other words, higher, upper-middle-class folks can benefit from this.
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And the kinds of houses you can buy are limited,
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so it would be harder to buy a less costly home.
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Measure 5 changes recall election process for statewide officers. You
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vote yes if you're tired of Republicans constantly having statewide
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recalls for states. elections that they cannot win in the generals,
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and you vote no if you want to leave things
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the way they are. We don't know how much this
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would cost. There are no supporters submitted, and there are
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no opponents submitted. But under the current law, you have
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to figure out you're getting rid of the person and
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who you're going to replace them with at the same time.
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If you'd like to decide whether or not you get
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rid of the person and then have a chance to
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think about who you want to replace them, you vote yes.
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If you want to leave things the way they are,
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you vote no. Measure four repeals prohibition against public funding
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of election campaigns. If you want to make it easier
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to have campaign finance reform, you vote yes. If you
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want to leave things the way they are, you vote no. Again,
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the League of Women Voters is a yes on four.
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California Nurses, California Mental Health Advocacy, and once again, your no's.
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the good old Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association and the California
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Taxpayers Association. Measure three, makes permanent a tax to pay
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for health care and more importantly, schools. It will just
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keep this going. It's already in effect. It's a tax
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on the wealthy. And so instead of having to renew
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it every few years, now it will become permanent. If
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you want to just make this permanent so that we
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don't blast holes in our education budget, you vote yes.
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If you think that we should have to re reintroduce
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this every couple years and you are, you know, trying
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to make taxation a little easier on the very wealthy
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in Cali, then you vote no. Measure two means that
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we can save more money for a rainy day. People
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who are against it say we need to spend our
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money on, you know, we need to spend our money
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on The day-to-day, we don't need to spend more money
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on savings. We need to spend more money on programs
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and what we need today. People that are for it
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say that we do need to save money for a
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rainy day. And given the number of emergencies that this
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particular state faces, it would make sense to have higher reserves.
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Supporters include Gavin Newsom, Javier Becerra, the L.A. Chamber of Commerce,
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and professional firefighters. There are no opponents submitted. Measure 1.
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This is to provide more housing, a bond for general
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obligation fund to build more housing for veterans, students, and
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the elderly, self-help for the elderly. This is supported by
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the U.S. Vets, California Federation of Teachers, self-help for the elderly,
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Habitat for Humanity. No opponents submitted. That is measure one.
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If you want to build more housing for veterans, students,
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the elders and permanent supportive housing for the unhoused, then
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you're going to vote yes on measure one. If you
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don't want to do those things, you're going to vote no.
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And by the way, this is not a new tax,
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which is important to know. Okay. Superintendent of Public instruction
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Sonia Shah is a Republican she is a school board
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a district school district president in the Inland Empire I
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believe I might be wrong about that Richard Barrera is
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a Democrat they both want to be superintendent of public
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instruction If you think it's time for a MAGA Republican
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to be school superintendent, you vote Shaw. If you want
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to try to keep a Democrat in that position, you
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vote Barrera. State Board of Equalization, Samuel Suketan versus Mike Gibson.
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These are both Dems. Mike Gibson is African American out
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of Compton. He is a centrist. Samuel Sukhothan is a progressive.
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I don't know his ethnic background. He's a labor union organizer.
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Here you have two Dems going head to head. So
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you've got to choose. Do you want the African-American who's
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more moderate or do you want to go with a
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more progressive and lesser known candidate in Samuel P.
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Sukhothan?
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Insurance Commissioner, Jane Kim versus Ben Allen. Again, two Dems.
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Ben Allen, a state senator from the west side of L.A.,
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strong track record as a liberal Democrat. Jane Kim, Democratic
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attorney out of the Bay Area, consumer advocate, backed by
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most of, she is backed by almost every progressive voter guide.
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The L.A.
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Progressive, the Courage California, Knock LA, La Defensa. On the
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other hand, Ben Allen is a known factor and is
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backed by Senator Steve Bradford, who also ran for California
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Insurance Commissioner. So you kind of have, you know, two Dems,
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same situation, one slightly different. slightly or possibly largely more
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progressive than the other. And you've got to look at
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their track record and make up your mind. Or if
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you want to, you know, I would suggest tapping them
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with these photo guides and look at their whys on
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this one. Attorney General Rob Bonta versus Michael Gates. Rob Bonta,
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the current Attorney General, is a progressive. He is the first...
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Filipino-American statewide representative. He's running for re-election. He is a Democrat.
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The man running against him, Michael E. Gates, is a Republican.
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He worked for the Trump administration and got sent home
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for creating a toxic work environment, something he denies doing.
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But he is your mainstream MAGA Republican. running for state
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attorney general here in California. So if you think we
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need more conservative attorney general, much, much, much more conservative
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attorney general, you vote for him. If you want to
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stick with the Democrat who is currently in office, you
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vote for Rob Bonta. I'm going to make it. I
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think I'm going to make it all the way through
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this ballot. I don't know. All right, I'm going to
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keep trying when we come forward. KBLA Talk 1580. All right,
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all right, all right. Hurry up, Dominique. Let's get this done.
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We're blazing through this ballot today. Where did we leave off?
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We left off a treasurer. Jennifer Hawks is a Republican.
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Eleni Koulinakis is not. She is moderate, but she is
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a Democrat. So, yeah, treasurer. That's your choice. Sometimes it's
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more simple. Malia Cohen is the current controller. She is
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running for re-election. She is an African-American woman and a Democrat.
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She is running against Herb W. Morgan, a Republican who
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calls himself a chief investment officer. I was not confused
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about that one. Secretary of State Donald P. Wagner is running,
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is a Republican, running against Shirley Webber. She's a Democrat,
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Shirley Weber. Dr. Shirley Weber is the assembly member at
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the time who brought us the California Reparations Task Force,
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among other things, and she's running for re-election. Some feel,
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if you feel it would be problematic to have a
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Republican Secretary of State at a time when the Trump
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administration is attacking the state of California, then you're going
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to vote for Shirley Weber. If you think that's not
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a problem, you'll vote for Wagner. Lieutenant Governor, you've got
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the same thing. You've got Gloria Romero, a Republican, Dem-turned-Republican,
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against Fiona Maher, who is an experienced Democrat for Lieutenant Governor.
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And then for the governor's race, of course, you've got
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the Fox News host, Charismatic Steve Hilton going up against
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the longtime Democratic lawmaker, Javier Becerra. He will be the
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first Latino governor in the state of California, ironically enough.
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And I think that one is going to break down
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largely along party lines. County Measure A. On this one,
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it's about who gets to settle disputes over wages, hours, benefits,
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and working conditions. I found it confusing. I will say that, again,
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the LA Progressive is urging a no vote on Measure A.
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La Defensa urging a no vote on Measure A. And
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so you may have to figure that one out for yourself.
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But certainly, it seems like binding arbitration as opposed to
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other means has its drawbacks measure e well this is
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um if you want to save la's care first agenda
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if you want to put more ethics oversight in place
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for the county of los angeles and its 88 cities
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then you vote yes if you don't then you vote
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no if you vote yes you're joining the league of
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women voters california clean money california common cause and aapi
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equity alliance Okay, I'm going to save the judges for
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tomorrow with attorney Carrie Harper. Measure PRK, the parks. If
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you want to put more investment into parks and have
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a minimum amount of our general fund budget that goes
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to parks, you vote yes. If you want to leave
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things the way they are, you vote no. Measure PRT.
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If you want to give people who live near city airports, harbors,
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and water and power departments, if you want to give
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those people more voting power, on those commissions. We are
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going to amend the city charter to do just that.
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If you want to do that amendment, you vote yes
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on PRT. If you want to leave things how they are,
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you vote no. FD, the fire department, this is funding
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for the LA fire department. If you want to raise
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money for the fire department on top of what they're
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getting from the city, above and beyond what they're getting
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from the city, by adding half of a percentage sales
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tax in the city of LA bringing us up to
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10 point, I think it's two, 5%, then you're going
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to vote yes. If you don't want to pay more
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sales tax, even if it's for our fire department, then
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you are going to vote no. If you're like people
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who think like the fire department is an emergency, we
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need to just ante up that sales tax, you're going
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to vote yes on FD. If you're like Ed Sanders
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and you're tired of sales taxes going up, up, up,
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and you don't care what it's for, then you're going
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to vote no on FD. And then the campaign finance
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for the Board of Education, that's SC, you're going to
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vote yes if you want to change the charter. And
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LA Common Cause is urging a yes vote on this.
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If you're voting no, you don't want to change the
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charter to make it clearer what the rules are for
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school boards. Oh, did I forget the sheriff? I sure did.
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Robert Luna versus Alex Villanueva. If you want to go
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back to the mini MAGA sheriff that we had who
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was targeting journalists like Cerise Castle for writing about deputy gangs,
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if you want to go back to the days of
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a sheriff who is at war with the L.A. County
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Board of Supervisors and arrests supervisors, then you're going to
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want to vote Alex Villanueva. If you want to stay
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where we are right now with Robert Luna, who succeeded him,
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and the current sheriff, then you're going to vote for Luna.
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The choice is yours. That's a nonpartisan race, although former
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retired Sheriff Villanueva has said that he has switched to
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the Republican Party. Robert Luna has said he's a Democrat.
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But it's a nonpartisan office, so you're going to have
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to vote your knowledge. Okay, whew, did it. Judges are tomorrow,
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hour three. Tavis Biley's next. He's got a great lineup
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for you, as per usual. And Cornel West is on today, right? No,
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not today.
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Okay.
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I never keep track of it, but he's got an
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amazing lineup as per usual. I got to go. Making
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room for Tavis Smiley. I'll see you tomorrow. I'll see
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you on social media. Find me at DiPrima Radio, D-I-P-R-I-M-A.
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And then radio, I'm Dominique DiPrima. Until tomorrow, my KBLA delegation.
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one love.
