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KBLA Talk 1580. Good morning. Good morning and God bless.
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I'm Dominique DiPrima. This show is called First Things First.
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And my very first thing every single day is prayer.
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Always prayer. Giving thanks, giving praises and asking for blessings
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from God. Asking for the blessings of the ancestors and
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the elders. And let's go. Let's count our blessings today. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
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20 million. No matter what is going down. We are
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truly blessed today and every day. So look, it is
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a wealth-building Wednesday, and it is going to be a
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great day. It's Election Day. You know that. It's Election
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Day today and every day until November 3rd, and then
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it will be, well, too late to do anything about it. Well,
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not really, because you can always do things outside of
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the ballot box, but too late to do anything about it.
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who won, what won, what lost, and we got some
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good gifts. I'll call them gifts. There are some lovely
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gifts in this ballot that you're going to want to unwrap.
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And I'm excited because today, in this hour, I get
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to talk with Pastor Eddie Anderson, the Edward, I should say,
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the senior pastor at McCarty Memorial, and he's just so
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politically savvy. I always learn stuff when he comes here,
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so I'm really Really, really, really looking forward to that.
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Then Hour 2, we'll do our Wealth Building Wednesday. We
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have a special guest. We always like to put the
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spotlight on a Black-owned or BIPOC-owned, socially innovative woman-owned or
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local beloved business or business opportunity. We'll do that. The
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phone lines are always open at 809-20-1580, 809-20-1580. And in
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hour three, I'm going to do that speed ballot that
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I've been promising. Look, so you can get your sample
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ballot ready, get you a pen or a pencil. And
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I'm not saying you have to vote like me because
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you can say, oh, forget her. That's wrong. But we
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just going to mark it up together. OK, we're going
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to mark it up together and we're going to do
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it rapidly. I'm not going to do a deep dive
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and go off on a tangent about Prop 40, even
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though I could. Prop 39, even though I could. We're
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just going to go boom, boom, boom. Um, and so, yeah, we,
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we have got a lot, uh, going on today. All right. So, um,
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thank you. Thank you. Thank you for being here. You know,
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the rules, you get to call at 800-920-1580 anytime you want. Um,
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we ask folks to call once a week, except when
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we have these special amnesty, uh, situations. Uh, you know,
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I am... Yeah. So you're always invited. 800-920-1580. 800-920-1580. So apparently,
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and I, you know, I can't wait to talk to
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Pastor Eddie about this, but apparently there is, there was
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a vote yesterday at the LA City Council on these cameras.
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And it's crazy to me because We, everyone's talking about
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the flock cameras, right? The flock cameras, which are surveillance cameras.
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And folks are, they're wildly unpopular. People do not want
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to be surveilled. Surprise, surprise. It seems very unconstitutional, undemocratic.
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But communities are pushing back against these cameras all across
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the nation. But one of the things that really worried
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me in the last, the last debate for the mayoral
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candidates is that when they brought up these cameras, Neither
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one of them was saying no, no cameras, no way,
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no how. And apparently the city council agrees. Because if
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it's named something else, then they're good with it. And so,
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you know, I'm not sure if we get another chance
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to stop this. I know that Pastor Eddie will know.
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Dr.
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Malina Abdullah will be here tomorrow. And she was there
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in the city council chambers yesterday. But it is just,
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to me, I think for those of us who say,
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oh no, we don't want these license plate reading cameras.
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We don't want surveillance of citizens. But the reality is
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we have to just not only track the ones called flock.
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We have to track cameras by any other name. So
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as of yesterday, it seems that the LA city council
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has approved the Axon cameras. I mean, flock by any
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other name is just a stank, um, to me. Um,
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and you know, I, I think we, we're going to
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have to find a way to keep this issue alive. Um,
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Because it's never too late, even if it's a done deal.
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But right now, as far as we know, the Axon,
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the camera's called Axon, which is, you know, just more
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unnecessary surveillance. And the thing to me is that they're
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talking about, you know, protecting migrants from ICE, which I'm
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here for that, for sure. But also regular everybody else, too,
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that's not a migrant, citizen or not citizen, who wants
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to be under constant surveillance? So, you know, I think
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that this is something that we are going to have
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to make our voices heard. Right now they've activated speed
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enforcement cameras and now this. It's a lot. All right.
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Pastor Edward Anderson next on KPLA Talk 1580. It may
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sound weird when I say it because he's a pastor.
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He is the senior pastor at McCarty Memorial Church, but
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he's also an activist. Pastor Edward, you are one of
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the most knowledgeable people I know when it comes to
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what's going on in our city, what needs to happen.
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You laugh, but it is so true. I interview pastors.
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people every day i talk to people every day i
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mean you're an activist and obviously i know that you
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are in the liberation theology mold but it's not just
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uh say a thing and wave a flag it's like
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you really are in the weeds on policy and you
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know candidates and all that stuff i think it's amazing.
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Yeah, but I think we have to be, our power
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is information, right? We have to be informed and you
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can't have, I say you can't be faithful or have
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a good theology or religious ethic if you don't actually
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know what's going on. You can't be, you know, all
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of the mentors that I've had and all the books
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I've read, they all say don't be loud and wrong.
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You know, know your stats and your data, have the
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conversations with people. and use your own experience. And that's
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when change is actually possible.
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Okay. Well, I think we kind of may possibly be
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in the loud and wrong era, but.
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Oh my goodness.
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It's very refreshing. And you come from a long line of,
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you come from a line of clergy.
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I do.
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So, I mean, was that part of the, was that
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part of the family tradition too, the activist part?
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Absolutely. My, my, uh, My grandfather desegregated the largest base
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in Georgia and was like the first black elected politician
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down there in South Georgia after Reconstruction. So, I mean,
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we've been doing this work with our neighbors for a
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long time.
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It's powerful. And you were just explaining to me that
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you're going to City Hall after the show today.
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Yeah, after the show today. If you're in L.A. at
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City Council, they are doing the vote. to phase out
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oil drilling. They did the vote a couple of years ago.
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Why is it happening again? Because the oil companies sued
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the city. But now the litigation is complete and we
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have a chance to phase out oil drilling in Los
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Angeles City. It's already been done in Englewood. Shout out
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to Isaac Bryan for that. But that's important because the
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the kind of chemicals that come out of the oil wells,
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they affect things like pregnancy and miscarriage. They affect things
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like cancer or asthma. The kids in Jefferson Park all
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go to their elementary school and they all have nosebleeds
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because of the oil fields and the way that they're
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not following the regulations. And so if you notice in
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South LA, the oil fields are usually open. In West LA,
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there's all these other regulations where they're like covered and
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capped and they get cited and all these kind of things.
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That does not happen south of the 10. And so
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we're just going there today to stand with Council President
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Marquise Harris-Dawson, the Stand LA Coalition, and leaders across the
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city to create some environmental justice.
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That's amazing because they're everywhere. I mean, there's actually a
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lot of them and it's weird because we kind of
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get used to it. It's like another tree, but it's
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really not another tree. I mean, I, you know, I
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spent a lot of time working out in Kenneth Hahn
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park and I'm always passing those oil wells. And I
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was shocked to learn that when they do get shut down,
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the state is left to pay the bill. The, The
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oil companies get to just walk away. Can you imagine
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if you could just like close a business or, you know,
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blow up your house and just leave it there for
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the city to clean up?
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Yeah.
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Or the state?
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The state. They have to cap it. And it's crazy because,
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you know, for instance, like I think the oil well
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over here makes, I think, supposedly... Around like $ 300, 000 to $ 400, 000
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a week. Wow.
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So they can afford to cap it.
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They can afford to cap it. They can afford to
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cap it.
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Okay. So let me ask you, which one is it?
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Oh, okay.
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I'm going to have to find it. Because I want
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to get your opinion about some of these city measures.
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And there's one of them. I can't remember the letters
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of it. It's a city measure that will make them
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have fewer city council meetings.
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Yes.
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And I'm wondering where you are on that because it
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sounded like a bad idea to me because there's so
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much they have to get done. But a couple of
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the council members are saying, well, we could get more
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done if we weren't sitting in council meetings. But they're
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not always sitting in council meetings because they do skip
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those meetings. So I'm like, I wonder where you are
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on that.
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Yeah. I mean, I think this is going to sound weird,
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but I'm actually for less council meetings. Really? They are
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at a. A time that is accessible for the public,
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because the truth is a lot of what the council
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work is happens in committees throughout the week. So they're
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just doing votes and public comments. So if there's less
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council meetings, I think there's also should be some regulations
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like you actually have to listen to public comment. Like
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you can't, like you're only going to be here like once.
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So you need to make sure you actually are listening.
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How do you force people to listen? I mean, we
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got to figure out a mechanism. Because if you ever
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go to council meetings, sometimes you're like, I'm here for
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public comment and there's no one in the room.
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Well, yeah, making them be in the room would be
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one way.
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Yeah, making them be in the room. But I think
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that's actually, it depends on timing and accessibility. Because right
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now they do council meetings. And all the votes, they're not, like, debating.
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They're debating, but, like, a lot of the votes are already, like,
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figured out.
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By the time they get there, they're figured out. Well,
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and the thing to me is that they should be
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at night, right? They definitely should be at night because people,
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a lot of people can't go during the day. They
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have actual jobs. And I think, well... If they only
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had them once a week. But see, the thing is,
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none of this is in the measure, right? If the
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measure said we will have our meetings at night and
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attendance will be mandatory, otherwise the council members get fined
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or something, then it would seem more fruitful.
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Yeah. I mean, I think, yeah, I think there has
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to be some ramification. But that's also, you know, you
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have the CLA and.
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Maybe the city attorney and the ethics commission will lean
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in and, you know, I don't know. If you miss
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three or four council meetings in a row, there's some
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repercussions that happen. I mean, I don't know if it's
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once a week, but at least you should, you know, yeah.
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I don't think having it three times a week is
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actually that great for the community. Okay.
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I think it's Measure E.
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Yeah.
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It says it's county of Los Angeles. No, that Measure
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E is county.
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Okay.
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That's actually not it. We want Measure E. That's really important.
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We want Measure E.
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Yeah, Measure E is important. This is the one that
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saves Measure J.
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Yeah, Measure E saves Measure J and also fixes the
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ethics commission for the county of Los Angeles, which we
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will need, okay, because it's all a setup. Not a setup.
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It's all a pathway. It's a pathway to having stricter
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enforcement when we get the county CEO in 2028.
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Oh, okay. See, this is what I'm talking about. Hadn't
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even thought about that. That county CEO is basically, we're
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getting an emperor now.
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We're getting a governor for Southern California. You said an emperor? Well,
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it's not term limited, so maybe.
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To me, it's like an emperor.
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It depends on who gets elected.
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Yeah, it's an elected emperor. I voted against it, but
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It happened.
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It happened. And so there will be a person in
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2028 who will be over a $ 44 billion budget in
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88 cities, including the city of Los Angeles, including the
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city of Long Beach, including Pasadena. Beverly Hills, they all
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would have to come to this, go through this office
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and this person to get some of their services that
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they need because that person will oversee all of the
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departments of LA County, which provides all your health services,
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a lot of your public services. That is not a
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city thing. If you have a sheriff department, all of that,
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the jails, all of that would go through one person.
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I like how you say, if you have a sheriff. So, yeah,
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which is okay if that person is good. But if
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you get a.
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If you get a person who is.
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MAGA?
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MAGA or sees it as a way to wield power...
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Power hungry person. Then that person will be there for,
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can be there for 20 years, you know.
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Okay, this is why I was confused.
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It's EE.
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The city measure is EE. City Ethics, Elections, and Governance.
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And this is supported by McCosker, Yaroslavsky, Harris-Dawson, and opposed
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by Monica Rodriguez, who tends to be more conservative. But
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to me, it sounded like, okay, so y'all just want
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to meet once a week now? It is also giving
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the inspector general in the fire department, independent assessor, more authority,
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which sounded good.
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It sounds good. I think Monica probably gets it because
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she's like, y'all aren't going to come anyway. But there
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has to be a forcing mechanism, I think, for this.
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I just want to say there's a lot of measures.
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I was at a bar shop yesterday, and they was like, Pastor,
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which measure do we vote on? I was like, which one?
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It's like 10 pages of ballot measures. It's insane.
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I say it's like an SAT. So, yeah, that's EE.
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Okay.
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And EE is the one we were talking about. That's
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why I got confused.
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EE is the county. EE is the city. Right.
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And EE, if you want... More independence for the fire
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commissioner and the police, the inspector general of the police department.
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If you want them to have more clout and you
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want the city council to meet once a week instead
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of thrice a week.
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Don't you like how they put it all together? Yeah,
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it's weird. It should be separate.
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Well, yeah.
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These people are not related, really.
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That's what Rodriguez was complaining about, too, saying they were
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trying to sneak in less meetings with the ethics piece.
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Mm-hmm.
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Increases penalty for campaign finance violations. Increases referendum petition signature requirements.
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It's a lot.
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It's a lot.
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It kind of makes you feel like you have to
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vote yes. Because I'm a one, I've got to go
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for all.
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Well, for me, it's kind of the, I think a
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lot of people think the opposite. They think I'll just
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vote no on everything and keep it safe. But that's really,
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this time that is not safe. Not safe at all.
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And what about this? Okay, I'm going to say what
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they are, because like you said, there's 500 million of them,
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and it's, you know, it's a lot. This, which one
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was I thinking about? Okay, TE. This is an exemption
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for the victims of the Palisades fire from the mansion tax.
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And so at first I was like, yay, you know,
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people who have been impacted by the fire need a break, right?
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That seemed normal to me. But then I'm thinking mansion tax.
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So that means they have a $ 5 million property to
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sell that they want to sell.
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Yeah.
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Not necessarily even just their primary residence.
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Yeah.
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So I'm like, hmm.
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I don't know.
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Do they need that tax break?
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I mean, yeah. I'm not sure. I haven't made a
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decision on this. I mean, I think, I get it.
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People need a break to, if you're rebuilding homes.
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Yeah, it's T-E, by the way.
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Right. But if you are, I don't know, like if
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you're selling a property and your property is still worth
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$ 5 million after a fire, I mean.
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It means you have a property worth $ 5 million. Which,
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to be fair, the Palisades doesn't mean.
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It's a huge. No, it could be like a two
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bedroom house.
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In the Palisades, it really could.
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But yeah, I just, I don't know. I mean, how
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do you enforce that is my question in. Because the
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mansion tax already, or measure ULA, has already been a
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little hard to enforce. So I really feel like.
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Really? Meaning... Well, I know that I've read about how
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the wealthy are hiring these law firms to get them
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out of it.
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Yeah. So it's already been like... It's not actually capturing
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the amount of money we thought it would capture to
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build the housing that we know we need.
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But there is... But we are now getting.
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We are getting money.
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And that money is moving.
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We are getting money. So that's a good thing. Yeah.
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So I think the measure needs to be worked out
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a little bit more. I think that's, I don't know
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if it needs to be a referendum. I think it
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kind of just needs to be like a city attorney
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figuring it out, which is why we have to vote
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for a right city attorney who can, you know, enforce
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the laws.
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Yeah. Speaking of city attorneys. John McKinney, the deputy DA,
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was in here yesterday. Of course, Marissa Roy came about
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a week or so before that. And, you know, this is,
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for some people, confusing. We only have a minute here
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until news, traffic, and sports because, you know, Attorney McKinney
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is a tall, handsome black man. And Attorney Roy is
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a white woman, a tall, good-looking white woman. But, you know,
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I mean, you see the Sentinel has endorsed McKinney, the
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New Frontier Democratic Club.
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Well, I think they, yeah. If you want a progressive,
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it's Marissa Ward. I'll say that. If you want more
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of the same, like law and order, then it's McKinney.
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I'm voting for her, but I don't know if that'd
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be helpful.
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Yeah, that'd be helpful.
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I'm voting for Marissa Rory. Yeah.
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Well, you know, I'm no longer allowed to endorse on
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this station, but there will be signs.
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Yeah. I mean, I think we need a progressive in
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the space. I think her work as a California, like,
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Deputy Attorney General, working with Rob Bonta, who defended us
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time and time again, her actually winning a lawsuit versus Meta,
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And then her building a coalition. I think her coalition
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says it all to me. Like, she had the coalition
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that literally reflects L.A. And I think that speaks volumes.
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And I think she is a white woman. Well, I
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guess technically she's AAP. I think her father's South Asian. No,
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I didn't know that. But, yeah, I did because I
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remember talking about Bollywood. So, yeah, I mean, I think
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for progressives, Someone who's looking at misdemeanors, someone who's looking
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at wage theft, someone who's looking at rental control, but
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also able to take on the bigger fights when ICE
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pulls up.
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Hold that thought, Pastor. We got news, traffic, and sports.
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Hard stop right here. All right, I'm going to try
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to maximize my time with the brain of Pastor Edward
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Anderson while he's here. And you can maximize it, too,
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if you go to church.
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Yeah, come on by on Sunday, 1045.
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I love that your service is exactly at 1045.
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I may have to change it soon, though, because, you know,
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I just realize people still think it's 11 o'clock. Oh,
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I see. It's been at 1045 for like 50 years,
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but I make cave. I make cave.
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Oh, you make cave. Okay, well, let me make sure
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we know that. Okay. So, um, yeah, there's a poll,
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the new poll in the LA times today saying that the, um,
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and you know, the LA times does never met a
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black politician they love, but, um, They're claiming that Mayor
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Bass has come from behind and is now in a
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dead heat with Councilmember Nithya Raman. They're tied with 40%
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of likely voters according to this same Berkeley IGS poll.
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Yeah. I think it's always been a dead heat in
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my mind. Yeah. I've never believed the polls that said like, oh,
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Rahman is now like 10% ahead in this race. No,
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not realistic. It is a, it will be a vote
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that will be won. Here's your margin of victory, in
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my opinion, with Latinos and Gen Xers.
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Really? Okay. So because, I mean, clearly we talked about
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this off the air. There's a generational divide. Younger people
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prefer Rahman. And it makes sense. She's like 41. The
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mayor is 70. So it makes sense. But older people
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vote more.
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Older people vote more. When I say that, I'm saying
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because if you're 45 and under in Los Angeles, you're
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more likely to be a renter. You may be a
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high earner or working multiple jobs. And you are more
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concerned about affordability in a different way. The affordability you're
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concerned about in a city that quote-unquote works, that you're
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concerned about, that you're paying, you're seeing so much money,
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you know. I take my own family, for example. Me
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and my wife, we both have, between us, we have
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five degrees.
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Okay?
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Wow. And we both are executives at our jobs, and
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we have to rent. And then you get a light
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bill that's like $ 3, 000. That's crazy. And me and her
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are like, well, we got to figure out how we're
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going to go visit our family for Christmas. You know,
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like these kind of conversations that are happening in multiple
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households across the city that are renters. So that's the
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issue that they're talking about. And the campaign doesn't really talk,
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you know, one campaign doesn't really talk about that. So
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that's Nithya's ilk of folk and folks who have like
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transplanted over here. And then you have folks who are
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homeowners who are probably in their late 50s, early 60s
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or above. who have a different kind of affordability issue.
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They're wondering about like, how do I rent out my ADU?
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They're worrying about safety when I'm going to the store
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and like, all right, do we have more police or not?
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These are like real- And utility bills. And utility bills.
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And water bills. Because how do you hold.
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On to your health? But there's another issue that, you know,
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I heard a millennial influencer who was talking, you know,
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in favor of Nithya, Raman, the council member, And she
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was saying, well, old folks have money. Boomers have money.
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Gen X have money. What about all the old renters?
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What about the 50, 60, 70-something renters? Or the unhoused?
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I mean, the unhoused are coming from the ranks of
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the elderly.
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The highest level of unhoused folks is actually coming from
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people who are like 55 and above. And then what
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you also are seeing is I don't believe that like, oh,
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who's that money? No, like people are on fixed incomes.
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Like I don't know how many times. I mean, I
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pastor a church, so maybe I feel it differently.
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Yeah, probably.
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But people are on fixed incomes, but they're feeling the pinch. Right. Right.
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And so you have those who are trying to hold
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on to what the little bit that they worked so
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hard for to keep.
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Right.
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Who are going to vote in a different way than
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folks who are like, all right, well, L.A. doesn't really,
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you know. You know, forget it.
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I mean, and for me, I think there's a trust factor.
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You know, because Council Member Rahman changes her mind so much.
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Two months ago, Karen Bass was the bee's knees. Now she's,
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you know, LA's going to hell in a handbasket. You know,
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I'm firing the chief. I'm not firing the chief. I'm
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firing the chief. I can't fire the chief. It takes
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a long time to fire the chief. I'll wait till 2030.
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I mean, this kind of indecisiveness or flip-flopping, whatever you
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want to call it, for some, especially people that, you know,
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come from other communities like black folks are like, do
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I trust this person? Yeah.
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I mean, I think the loyalty and trust question is
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rose big in black and brown communities. Yeah. Um, it's
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how we survive.
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What, what, you know, not just what have you done
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for me lately, but what have you done? What have
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you done consistently over the course of your life and career?
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Absolutely. And so I tell, you know, uh, Nithya Ram and,
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I think she, I've said this in the New York Times,
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I can say it out here too. I think she
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is brilliant. Like she's a great mind.
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I mean, Harvard grad, right?
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Harvard, MIT, a whole thing. But she gets into the
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details of policy. It's implementation. And when it comes to implementation,
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what happens is it's based upon the deal. Can the
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community members trust that what we said in the room
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and sign on the paper shows up on the street?
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And I think for some folks, there's a question.
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Right.
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And I think you have to, that is a question
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that you have to, as a candidate, you have to
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figure out how you're going to prove to folks that
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you're trustworthy. What I would love to hear, and I mean,
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I know who I'm getting with Mayor Bass. And, you know,
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I know exactly what kind of policies, I know where
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we can press and push and where we can work with.
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And I know that black people are not on the menu,
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but at the table. I think for Councilman Rahman, I
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would love to hear from people who've actually worked from her.
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Black people?
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Black people.
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Yeah.
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Who worked with her, who worked for her in her office,
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who are saying like, all right, you know, everyone was
515
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talking about Blade. I didn't want to bring them up,
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but everyone was talking about Blade. And I think Blade
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just went with A lot of people in their generation
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are feeling the pains, and yeah, Nithya Raman seems like
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the great alternative for that. What I would say is
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get it in writing. Get it in writing, yeah. And
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set the meeting.
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I also think for the young generation, like my own son,
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it's Gaza.
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It's Gaza.
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It's Gaza.
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And it's time up. Y'all been boxing us out.
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Yeah, that too.
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You've been boxing us out. Y'all lost a whole generation
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of leaders. Well, yeah.
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Yeah, I mean, I don't know if we can say
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that in L.A. Look at the city council. You've got
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some younger folks there.
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That's my black leaders.
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Oh, black. Okay. Point taken. I mean, other than Obama,
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who had to elbow his way in.
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I mean, we've got Isaac Bryan and Sade. Right.
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Very good representatives.
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We love them.
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Yeah.
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I'm just saying that, like. Right.
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There's room for more. I agree. I do agree. Believe
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it or not, I'm never trying to talk myself out
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of a job.
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Yeah.
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But I do think we need to hear from more
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young voices all the time. On the other hand, to
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put out a black agenda with no black organization, no
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black leadership, no black— black visible person giving you a
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co-sign is problematic. And then I don't know if you
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saw Senator Lola Smallwood-Cravis yesterday.
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She said, that's my joint. She said, I curated the
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Black Workers Center.
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And you cribbed our stuff. And that's what I was
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saying yesterday. This looks a lot like what the L.A.
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Black Workers Center put out. you know, for the L.A.
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City Charter Commission. And so you would think their name
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would be on it or they would have been consulted.
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That is a problem for me. You say that you're
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going to get all these black staffers, but you don't
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have them now. Or at least I don't see them.
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Maybe you do. If they do, they're in the back.
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I mean, yeah. I mean, I think you have to...
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This is the difference. If you're a candidate and you're
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not the actual mayor currently, you have to demonstrate... The
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way you will govern now. So you need to demonstrate
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the coalition you will build, the people you will hire,
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the conversations you would have and make that public.
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Model it.
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You have to model it.
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Yeah, that makes sense.
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If you're not, I mean, this is why, you know,
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take it outside of LA. This is why like El
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Saeed and all these people are like gaining. This is
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why Mondani was so popular. He demonstrated for people what
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it would look like.
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And also there were a lot of specifics, right?
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Absolutely.
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A public option for grocery stores. It's very specific. It's
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not a chicken in every pot. I don't want to
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hear somebody say, I'll do what the mayor is doing,
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only better. I need you to be specific. Okay, public
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options for grocery stores. This is how we're going to
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make it happen. This is the plan. This is where
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the funds are going to come from. You know, that
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kind of thing. I do think, though, and I've said
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this before, that we are lucky because we don't have
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anybody terrible running.
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No, no.
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I mean, either way it goes, it's not going to
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be the demise of the city.
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They're not like, you know, I know people try to
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act like, oh, it's, you know, they're light years away.
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Not really. This is like an inner city squabble. And
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the question is, do you want to go forward on
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this trajectory that we are on, believing there'll be more implementation?
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That's your choice. Do you want experience? Do you want
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someone who built the coalition and does that work? Or
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are you saying it's time for a change and we
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need to start anew and get back to basics? That's
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what Nithya's campaign is all about, getting back to basics.
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I think that's the voter choice right now. It is
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a dead heat. I think you will not know who
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the mayor of Los Angeles is until the end of November.
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So get your popcorn and watch the midterms and see
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if there's a blue wave happening on the national scale.
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And if Hakeem Jeffries becomes the first black speaker of
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the house, that's what we're watching for on election day.
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Because L.A. is not happening, y'all. Until... Thanksgiving. Yeah, you're
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going to be Thanksgiving. And figure out who your mayor
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is going to be.
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That is wild. But I think you're probably right about that.
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If it's as close as... This polling is showing, and I...
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You know, polling for me right now, I'm not... I'm
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not a believer at the moment.
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I don't believe... I mean, I would say this. I'm
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a part of a coalition called Trust Account Coalition. It's
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like Antonio Vargas and... Oh, Travis is a part of that, too.
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And I would say to folks that the election for
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mayor will be very, very close. So the numbers you
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see on election night will definitely change. So I'm saying
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that because people are going to see one candidate is
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going to have a higher number, like, you know, maybe
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five to six points ahead. And then it's going to
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trickle away.
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Yeah, for sure that. Because, I mean, older voters tend
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to vote earlier.
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Yes.
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Tend to vote by mail.
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And all of everybody who's my age, it's an SAT test.
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They have not taken it. Okay. I haven't voted yet.
631
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I'm not going to lie. I haven't either. All right.
632
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And I told my wife the other day, I said,
633
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we got to get them ballots in because you know
634
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Trump is trying to play these games. Right.
635
00:33:29.799 --> 00:33:30.420
Exactly.
636
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But when we send our ballot in, they're not going
637
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to get there until next week, Thursday. So that's when
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my vote's going to get counted. I already know.
639
00:33:38.539 --> 00:33:42.279
Yeah, same. I mean, I'm not in your generation, but
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I act like it.
641
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You're there in spirit. We love.
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You. Yeah, but the point is, and that's what Trump
643
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always exploits. He goes, oh, I was way ahead. And
644
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then because the people that voted for you voted earlier,
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those were counted first. It doesn't mean cheating. It just
646
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means that it takes a while. And I, you know,
647
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I don't love it, but I'm comfortable with it because
648
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I'd rather have you count accurately than count fast.
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And that's why it takes so long. It's not because
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they're playing games with machines. It's because they're double counting
651
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every vote. I mean, they're going over it, making sure
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they got the right person, the right name, the right thing.
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And then they're counting. They're not like just running it
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through a machine and being like, OK, we're good. That's
655
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not how that works.
656
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Yeah. Okay, when we come forward, I do want to
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do a little more, if you don't mind, on Measure E,
658
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the county measure, because I think it is under-discussed and
659
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one of the single most important things on the ballot,
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in my opinion. Pastor Edward Anderson of McCarty Memorial Church
661
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is here. I'm Dominique DiPrima, and this is KBLA Talk 1580.
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Paul says that people at Southwest College Voting Center laughed
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at him when he told them he needed to see
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his vote being counted because of the Trump administration. Real talk,
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that's what I do. I fill in my mail-in, and
666
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I take it to the polling place so I can
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see someone, or put it in a county box.
668
00:34:57.599 --> 00:34:59.760
Yeah, I put it in a county box and I
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track it.
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Oh, you do the voting track? Oh, yeah.
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Maybe I'll start doing that. They got to text me
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when it's counted.
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Text me when you count. Text me when my vote
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gets home safe. Okay, so county measure E. Even if
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you skip over other stuff, because this is longer than
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an SAT, as I've said, county measure E is not
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one to.
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Skip, right? No, you need to. County measure E, I think,
679
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is one of the most important local measures that we have.
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It does a couple of things, and you can check
681
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me because I'm just going off memory here. But one,
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it helps fix the ethics commission at the county level,
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which is important, right? So we all wanted an independent
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ethics commission that will have actual power to reel in
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our board of supervisors mainly. Also kind of departmental board
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of supervisors. So that's one thing that it does. The
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00:36:00.289 --> 00:36:04.030
other thing that it does, it fixes the charter. So
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everyone remembers, maybe you don't, but maybe you should. In 2020,
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we passed Measure J. I was on the coordinating committee
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with Isaac Bryan, Eunice's, a bunch of community folks. It
691
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was like one of the biggest measures to pass. And
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Measure J allowed us to create care and community firsts.
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which allowed us to take 10% of the county revenue
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and reinvest it into community. Well, when we passed measure G, okay,
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when we passed the measure that gave us the county
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CEO and established S commission, the charter was changed, but
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it got rid of parts of measure J. So what
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this does is restore what you initially voted for in 2020,
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which is give me your money, like give, give you
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back your money.
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Okay.
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For, for health purposes, for community, for equity. And so
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that's important. And then this also helps us create some
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of the guardrails that we're going to need when we
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have our new CEO, the elected CEO, or as Dominique
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Elkley put it, our new emperor.
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The emperor of LA County.
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So you want to make sure you have a check
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because if you don't fix it, if you don't get
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the details, if you don't get the details right now
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and the person gets there and trying to figure it
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out on the fly, You may be in a worse
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off position.
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So who is their supervisor? Because, I mean, technically the
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county CEO would be answerable to the board of supervisors, right?
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00:37:32.860 --> 00:37:35.800
But if they control the budget, aren't they kind of
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the boss?
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00:37:36.500 --> 00:37:39.300
Yes. So is the county executive. So what will happen
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now is that the board of supervisors would essentially become
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a legislative body. If you think about it as like
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American government, the board of supervisors will become like your congress.
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And the CEO is your president.
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00:37:54.420 --> 00:37:56.940
Okay, but the president doesn't have the purse strings, but
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he does have veto power.
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And the difference is that this office, because it's the CEO,
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they get to shape the budget.
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Yeah.
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And that's where the power lies.
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So who do they report to? The governor?
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No, they report to us. All 10 million of us.
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Oh, Lord. Let us pray. Wait, you're supposed to say that,
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not me. So, well, you know, we talked about city attorney.
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We only have a few minutes left. I'm trying to
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squeeze in as much as I can. We talked about
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city attorney. We talked about mayor. Are there any other
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races that you have a particular, you know, that you
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think are being under-discussed?
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Oh, the biggest one that I've told people that everyone
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should be looking at is the Insurance Commissioner race.
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Really?
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Because everyone wants to talk about the Palisades Fire. They
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want to talk about the Edgerton Fire. They want to
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talk about, oh, our coastline is disappearing. It is. Mother
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Nature is coming back for her coast. Yeah. The coastline
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is disappearing.
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Okay.
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And the question is, well, who's going to pay for
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all of these new weather anomalies, acts of God, that
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happen in our state? Well, the insurance companies will have
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to pay. Well, who's going to enforce that? The insurance commissioner. So, listen,
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vote for yourself and for your children and your grandchildren
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and for your grandma, too, because we all are going
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to have some weather issue. We're all going to have
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some kind of fire thing. We're all going to have
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some issue in the future. And we don't need to
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be getting played. We don't need to be delayed.
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So here you have another situation where you have an
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African American man and Mike Gibson out of Compton.
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For the insurance commissioner, no. Oh, that's Board of Equalization.
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The insurance commissioner is Jane Kim and Ben Allen. Right, right, right.
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So you have two Democrats and Ben Allen, sorry for
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the confusion. Ben Allen is also considered fairly progressive out
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of Santa Monica.
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She's out of Santa Monica and Jane Kim's out of
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San Francisco.
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And considered quite progressive.
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Quite progressive. Jane Kim's going, she wants to create a
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statewide disaster fund. She wants the state to, an insurance
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fund so that you can be taken care of. I
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think they're both brilliant. I mean, personally, I like Jane
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Kim more than Mr. Allen. And you mean politically, not personally, right? Politically.
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So I think that, you know, A race that everyone
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should look at and do some study on.
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Okay, and that's fair. And I do think the good
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news is we don't have anybody terrible.
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No, you don't.
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Because there's a couple races where we have something terrible.
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A couple of races like, I don't know, you know,
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the lieutenant governor and superintendent. What is it?
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School superintendent.
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I don't even know who these people are. I'm like,
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who are these people?
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Right.
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Yeah.
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Well, you know, one of the women running for superintendent
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of schools is MAGA.
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Yeah.
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So we can start there.
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We can start there. Yeah. We can start there.
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Well, Pastor, thank you so much for coming in. I
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told my friend, if I could have Pastor Anderson in
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here every day until Election Day, he would never get
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to preach. But you can hear him preach at 1045
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on Sunday.
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1045 on Sunday. And I would just say, go vote.
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I would tell people that your vote is your form
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of intercessory prayer.
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Ooh.
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And so if you are a praying person, pray with
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your vote for folks who care about equity and justice
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and righteousness and for prosperity and change. They don't have
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to have all of your same religious values. I'm not
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going through and asking them, do you believe Jesus is
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the son of God? That's not what I'm voting for.
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I'm voting for, can you see equity? Can you be fair?
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Can you do justice? Do you care about the liberation
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of all people? And if that's it, how do we
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vote you in?
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Thank you, Pastor Edward Anderson, News Traffic and Sports. Then
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it's Wealth Building Wednesday, only here.
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KBLA Talk 1580. Good morning. Good morning and God bless.
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I'm Dominique DiPrima. This show is called First Things First.
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And my very first thing every single day is prayer.
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Always prayer. Giving thanks, giving praises and asking for blessings
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from God. Asking for the blessings of the ancestors and
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the elders. And let's go. Let's count our blessings today. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
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20 million. No matter what is going down. We are
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truly blessed today and every day. So look, it is
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a wealth-building Wednesday, and it is going to be a
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great day. It's Election Day. You know that. It's Election
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Day today and every day until November 3rd, and then
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it will be, well, too late to do anything about it. Well,
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not really, because you can always do things outside of
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the ballot box, but too late to do anything about it.
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who won, what won, what lost, and we got some
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good gifts. I'll call them gifts. There are some lovely
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gifts in this ballot that you're going to want to unwrap.
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And I'm excited because today, in this hour, I get
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to talk with Pastor Eddie Anderson, the Edward, I should say,
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the senior pastor at McCarty Memorial, and he's just so
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politically savvy. I always learn stuff when he comes here,
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so I'm really Really, really, really looking forward to that.
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Then Hour 2, we'll do our Wealth Building Wednesday. We
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have a special guest. We always like to put the
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spotlight on a Black-owned or BIPOC-owned, socially innovative woman-owned or
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local beloved business or business opportunity. We'll do that. The
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phone lines are always open at 809-20-1580, 809-20-1580. And in
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hour three, I'm going to do that speed ballot that
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I've been promising. Look, so you can get your sample
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ballot ready, get you a pen or a pencil. And
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I'm not saying you have to vote like me because
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you can say, oh, forget her. That's wrong. But we
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just going to mark it up together. OK, we're going
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to mark it up together and we're going to do
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it rapidly. I'm not going to do a deep dive
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and go off on a tangent about Prop 40, even
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though I could. Prop 39, even though I could. We're
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just going to go boom, boom, boom. Um, and so, yeah, we,
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we have got a lot, uh, going on today. All right. So, um,
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thank you. Thank you. Thank you for being here. You know,
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the rules, you get to call at 800-920-1580 anytime you want. Um,
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we ask folks to call once a week, except when
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we have these special amnesty, uh, situations. Uh, you know,
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I am... Yeah. So you're always invited. 800-920-1580. 800-920-1580. So apparently,
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and I, you know, I can't wait to talk to
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Pastor Eddie about this, but apparently there is, there was
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a vote yesterday at the LA City Council on these cameras.
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And it's crazy to me because We, everyone's talking about
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the flock cameras, right? The flock cameras, which are surveillance cameras.
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And folks are, they're wildly unpopular. People do not want
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to be surveilled. Surprise, surprise. It seems very unconstitutional, undemocratic.
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But communities are pushing back against these cameras all across
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the nation. But one of the things that really worried
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me in the last, the last debate for the mayoral
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candidates is that when they brought up these cameras, Neither
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one of them was saying no, no cameras, no way,
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no how. And apparently the city council agrees. Because if
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it's named something else, then they're good with it. And so,
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you know, I'm not sure if we get another chance
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to stop this. I know that Pastor Eddie will know.
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Dr.
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Malina Abdullah will be here tomorrow. And she was there
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in the city council chambers yesterday. But it is just,
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to me, I think for those of us who say,
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oh no, we don't want these license plate reading cameras.
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We don't want surveillance of citizens. But the reality is
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we have to just not only track the ones called flock.
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We have to track cameras by any other name. So
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as of yesterday, it seems that the LA city council
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has approved the Axon cameras. I mean, flock by any
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other name is just a stank, um, to me. Um,
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and you know, I, I think we, we're going to
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have to find a way to keep this issue alive. Um,
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Because it's never too late, even if it's a done deal.
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But right now, as far as we know, the Axon,
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the camera's called Axon, which is, you know, just more
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unnecessary surveillance. And the thing to me is that they're
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talking about, you know, protecting migrants from ICE, which I'm
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here for that, for sure. But also regular everybody else, too,
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that's not a migrant, citizen or not citizen, who wants
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to be under constant surveillance? So, you know, I think
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that this is something that we are going to have
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to make our voices heard. Right now they've activated speed
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enforcement cameras and now this. It's a lot. All right.
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Pastor Edward Anderson next on KPLA Talk 1580. It may
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sound weird when I say it because he's a pastor.
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He is the senior pastor at McCarty Memorial Church, but
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he's also an activist. Pastor Edward, you are one of
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the most knowledgeable people I know when it comes to
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what's going on in our city, what needs to happen.
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You laugh, but it is so true. I interview pastors.
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people every day i talk to people every day i
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mean you're an activist and obviously i know that you
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are in the liberation theology mold but it's not just
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uh say a thing and wave a flag it's like
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you really are in the weeds on policy and you
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know candidates and all that stuff i think it's amazing.
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Yeah, but I think we have to be, our power
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is information, right? We have to be informed and you
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can't have, I say you can't be faithful or have
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a good theology or religious ethic if you don't actually
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know what's going on. You can't be, you know, all
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of the mentors that I've had and all the books
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I've read, they all say don't be loud and wrong.
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You know, know your stats and your data, have the
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conversations with people. and use your own experience. And that's
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when change is actually possible.
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Okay. Well, I think we kind of may possibly be
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in the loud and wrong era, but.
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Oh my goodness.
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It's very refreshing. And you come from a long line of,
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you come from a line of clergy.
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I do.
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So, I mean, was that part of the, was that
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part of the family tradition too, the activist part?
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Absolutely. My, my, uh, My grandfather desegregated the largest base
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in Georgia and was like the first black elected politician
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down there in South Georgia after Reconstruction. So, I mean,
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we've been doing this work with our neighbors for a
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long time.
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It's powerful. And you were just explaining to me that
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you're going to City Hall after the show today.
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Yeah, after the show today. If you're in L.A. at
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City Council, they are doing the vote. to phase out
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oil drilling. They did the vote a couple of years ago.
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Why is it happening again? Because the oil companies sued
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the city. But now the litigation is complete and we
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have a chance to phase out oil drilling in Los
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Angeles City. It's already been done in Englewood. Shout out
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to Isaac Bryan for that. But that's important because the
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the kind of chemicals that come out of the oil wells,
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they affect things like pregnancy and miscarriage. They affect things
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like cancer or asthma. The kids in Jefferson Park all
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go to their elementary school and they all have nosebleeds
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because of the oil fields and the way that they're
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not following the regulations. And so if you notice in
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South LA, the oil fields are usually open. In West LA,
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there's all these other regulations where they're like covered and
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capped and they get cited and all these kind of things.
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That does not happen south of the 10. And so
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we're just going there today to stand with Council President
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Marquise Harris-Dawson, the Stand LA Coalition, and leaders across the
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city to create some environmental justice.
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That's amazing because they're everywhere. I mean, there's actually a
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lot of them and it's weird because we kind of
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get used to it. It's like another tree, but it's
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really not another tree. I mean, I, you know, I
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spent a lot of time working out in Kenneth Hahn
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park and I'm always passing those oil wells. And I
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was shocked to learn that when they do get shut down,
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the state is left to pay the bill. The, The
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oil companies get to just walk away. Can you imagine
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if you could just like close a business or, you know,
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blow up your house and just leave it there for
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the city to clean up?
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Or the state?
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The state. They have to cap it. And it's crazy because,
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you know, for instance, like I think the oil well
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over here makes, I think, supposedly... Around like $ 300, 000 to $ 400, 000
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a week. Wow.
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So they can afford to cap it.
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They can afford to cap it. They can afford to
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cap it.
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Okay. So let me ask you, which one is it?
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Oh, okay.
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I'm going to have to find it. Because I want
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to get your opinion about some of these city measures.
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And there's one of them. I can't remember the letters
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of it. It's a city measure that will make them
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have fewer city council meetings.
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Yes.
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And I'm wondering where you are on that because it
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sounded like a bad idea to me because there's so
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much they have to get done. But a couple of
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the council members are saying, well, we could get more
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done if we weren't sitting in council meetings. But they're
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not always sitting in council meetings because they do skip
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those meetings. So I'm like, I wonder where you are
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on that.
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Yeah. I mean, I think this is going to sound weird,
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but I'm actually for less council meetings. Really? They are
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at a. A time that is accessible for the public,
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because the truth is a lot of what the council
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work is happens in committees throughout the week. So they're
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just doing votes and public comments. So if there's less
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council meetings, I think there's also should be some regulations
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like you actually have to listen to public comment. Like
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you can't, like you're only going to be here like once.
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So you need to make sure you actually are listening.
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How do you force people to listen? I mean, we
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got to figure out a mechanism. Because if you ever
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go to council meetings, sometimes you're like, I'm here for
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public comment and there's no one in the room.
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Well, yeah, making them be in the room would be
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one way.
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Yeah, making them be in the room. But I think
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that's actually, it depends on timing and accessibility. Because right
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now they do council meetings. And all the votes, they're not, like, debating.
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They're debating, but, like, a lot of the votes are already, like,
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figured out.
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By the time they get there, they're figured out. Well,
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and the thing to me is that they should be
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at night, right? They definitely should be at night because people,
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a lot of people can't go during the day. They
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have actual jobs. And I think, well... If they only
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had them once a week. But see, the thing is,
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none of this is in the measure, right? If the
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measure said we will have our meetings at night and
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attendance will be mandatory, otherwise the council members get fined
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or something, then it would seem more fruitful.
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Yeah. I mean, I think, yeah, I think there has
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to be some ramification. But that's also, you know, you
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have the CLA and.
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Maybe the city attorney and the ethics commission will lean
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in and, you know, I don't know. If you miss
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three or four council meetings in a row, there's some
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repercussions that happen. I mean, I don't know if it's
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once a week, but at least you should, you know, yeah.
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I don't think having it three times a week is
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actually that great for the community. Okay.
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I think it's Measure E.
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It says it's county of Los Angeles. No, that Measure
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E is county.
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That's actually not it. We want Measure E. That's really important.
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We want Measure E.
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Yeah, Measure E is important. This is the one that
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saves Measure J.
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Yeah, Measure E saves Measure J and also fixes the
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ethics commission for the county of Los Angeles, which we
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will need, okay, because it's all a setup. Not a setup.
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It's all a pathway. It's a pathway to having stricter
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enforcement when we get the county CEO in 2028.
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Oh, okay. See, this is what I'm talking about. Hadn't
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even thought about that. That county CEO is basically, we're
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getting an emperor now.
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We're getting a governor for Southern California. You said an emperor? Well,
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it's not term limited, so maybe.
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To me, it's like an emperor.
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It depends on who gets elected.
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Yeah, it's an elected emperor. I voted against it, but
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It happened.
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It happened. And so there will be a person in
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2028 who will be over a $ 44 billion budget in
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88 cities, including the city of Los Angeles, including the
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city of Long Beach, including Pasadena. Beverly Hills, they all
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would have to come to this, go through this office
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and this person to get some of their services that
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they need because that person will oversee all of the
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departments of LA County, which provides all your health services,
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a lot of your public services. That is not a
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city thing. If you have a sheriff department, all of that,
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the jails, all of that would go through one person.
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I like how you say, if you have a sheriff. So, yeah,
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which is okay if that person is good. But if
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you get a.
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If you get a person who is.
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MAGA?
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MAGA or sees it as a way to wield power...
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Power hungry person. Then that person will be there for,
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can be there for 20 years, you know.
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Okay, this is why I was confused.
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It's EE.
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The city measure is EE. City Ethics, Elections, and Governance.
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And this is supported by McCosker, Yaroslavsky, Harris-Dawson, and opposed
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by Monica Rodriguez, who tends to be more conservative. But
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to me, it sounded like, okay, so y'all just want
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to meet once a week now? It is also giving
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the inspector general in the fire department, independent assessor, more authority,
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which sounded good.
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It sounds good. I think Monica probably gets it because
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she's like, y'all aren't going to come anyway. But there
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has to be a forcing mechanism, I think, for this.
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I just want to say there's a lot of measures.
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I was at a bar shop yesterday, and they was like, Pastor,
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which measure do we vote on? I was like, which one?
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It's like 10 pages of ballot measures. It's insane.
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I say it's like an SAT. So, yeah, that's EE.
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Okay.
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And EE is the one we were talking about. That's
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why I got confused.
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EE is the county. EE is the city. Right.
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And EE, if you want... More independence for the fire
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commissioner and the police, the inspector general of the police department.
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If you want them to have more clout and you
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want the city council to meet once a week instead
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of thrice a week.
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Don't you like how they put it all together? Yeah,
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it's weird. It should be separate.
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Well, yeah.
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These people are not related, really.
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That's what Rodriguez was complaining about, too, saying they were
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trying to sneak in less meetings with the ethics piece.
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Mm-hmm.
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Increases penalty for campaign finance violations. Increases referendum petition signature requirements.
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It's a lot.
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It's a lot.
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It kind of makes you feel like you have to
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vote yes. Because I'm a one, I've got to go
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for all.
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Well, for me, it's kind of the, I think a
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lot of people think the opposite. They think I'll just
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vote no on everything and keep it safe. But that's really,
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this time that is not safe. Not safe at all.
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And what about this? Okay, I'm going to say what
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they are, because like you said, there's 500 million of them,
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and it's, you know, it's a lot. This, which one
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was I thinking about? Okay, TE. This is an exemption
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for the victims of the Palisades fire from the mansion tax.
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And so at first I was like, yay, you know,
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people who have been impacted by the fire need a break, right?
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That seemed normal to me. But then I'm thinking mansion tax.
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So that means they have a $ 5 million property to
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sell that they want to sell.
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Not necessarily even just their primary residence.
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So I'm like, hmm.
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I don't know.
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Do they need that tax break?
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I mean, yeah. I'm not sure. I haven't made a
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decision on this. I mean, I think, I get it.
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People need a break to, if you're rebuilding homes.
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Yeah, it's T-E, by the way.
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Right. But if you are, I don't know, like if
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you're selling a property and your property is still worth
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$ 5 million after a fire, I mean.
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It means you have a property worth $ 5 million. Which,
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to be fair, the Palisades doesn't mean.
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It's a huge. No, it could be like a two
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bedroom house.
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In the Palisades, it really could.
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But yeah, I just, I don't know. I mean, how
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do you enforce that is my question in. Because the
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mansion tax already, or measure ULA, has already been a
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little hard to enforce. So I really feel like.
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Really? Meaning... Well, I know that I've read about how
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the wealthy are hiring these law firms to get them
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out of it.
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Yeah. So it's already been like... It's not actually capturing
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the amount of money we thought it would capture to
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build the housing that we know we need.
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But there is... But we are now getting.
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We are getting money.
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And that money is moving.
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We are getting money. So that's a good thing. Yeah.
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So I think the measure needs to be worked out
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a little bit more. I think that's, I don't know
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if it needs to be a referendum. I think it
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kind of just needs to be like a city attorney
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figuring it out, which is why we have to vote
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for a right city attorney who can, you know, enforce
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the laws.
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Yeah. Speaking of city attorneys. John McKinney, the deputy DA,
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was in here yesterday. Of course, Marissa Roy came about
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a week or so before that. And, you know, this is,
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for some people, confusing. We only have a minute here
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until news, traffic, and sports because, you know, Attorney McKinney
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is a tall, handsome black man. And Attorney Roy is
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a white woman, a tall, good-looking white woman. But, you know,
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I mean, you see the Sentinel has endorsed McKinney, the
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New Frontier Democratic Club.
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Well, I think they, yeah. If you want a progressive,
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it's Marissa Ward. I'll say that. If you want more
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of the same, like law and order, then it's McKinney.
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I'm voting for her, but I don't know if that'd
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be helpful.
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Yeah, that'd be helpful.
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I'm voting for Marissa Rory. Yeah.
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Well, you know, I'm no longer allowed to endorse on
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this station, but there will be signs.
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Yeah. I mean, I think we need a progressive in
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the space. I think her work as a California, like,
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Deputy Attorney General, working with Rob Bonta, who defended us
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time and time again, her actually winning a lawsuit versus Meta,
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And then her building a coalition. I think her coalition
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says it all to me. Like, she had the coalition
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that literally reflects L.A. And I think that speaks volumes.
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And I think she is a white woman. Well, I
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guess technically she's AAP. I think her father's South Asian. No,
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I didn't know that. But, yeah, I did because I
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remember talking about Bollywood. So, yeah, I mean, I think
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for progressives, Someone who's looking at misdemeanors, someone who's looking
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at wage theft, someone who's looking at rental control, but
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also able to take on the bigger fights when ICE
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pulls up.
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Hold that thought, Pastor. We got news, traffic, and sports.
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Hard stop right here. All right, I'm going to try
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to maximize my time with the brain of Pastor Edward
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Anderson while he's here. And you can maximize it, too,
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if you go to church.
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Yeah, come on by on Sunday, 1045.
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I love that your service is exactly at 1045.
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I may have to change it soon, though, because, you know,
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I just realize people still think it's 11 o'clock. Oh,
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I see. It's been at 1045 for like 50 years,
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but I make cave. I make cave.
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Oh, you make cave. Okay, well, let me make sure
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we know that. Okay. So, um, yeah, there's a poll,
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the new poll in the LA times today saying that the, um,
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and you know, the LA times does never met a
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black politician they love, but, um, They're claiming that Mayor
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Bass has come from behind and is now in a
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dead heat with Councilmember Nithya Raman. They're tied with 40%
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of likely voters according to this same Berkeley IGS poll.
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Yeah. I think it's always been a dead heat in
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my mind. Yeah. I've never believed the polls that said like, oh,
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Rahman is now like 10% ahead in this race. No,
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not realistic. It is a, it will be a vote
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that will be won. Here's your margin of victory, in
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my opinion, with Latinos and Gen Xers.
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Really? Okay. So because, I mean, clearly we talked about
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this off the air. There's a generational divide. Younger people
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prefer Rahman. And it makes sense. She's like 41. The
417
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mayor is 70. So it makes sense. But older people
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vote more.
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Older people vote more. When I say that, I'm saying
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because if you're 45 and under in Los Angeles, you're
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more likely to be a renter. You may be a
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high earner or working multiple jobs. And you are more
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concerned about affordability in a different way. The affordability you're
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concerned about in a city that quote-unquote works, that you're
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concerned about, that you're paying, you're seeing so much money,
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you know. I take my own family, for example. Me
427
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and my wife, we both have, between us, we have
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five degrees.
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Okay?
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Wow. And we both are executives at our jobs, and
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we have to rent. And then you get a light
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bill that's like $ 3, 000. That's crazy. And me and her
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are like, well, we got to figure out how we're
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going to go visit our family for Christmas. You know,
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like these kind of conversations that are happening in multiple
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households across the city that are renters. So that's the
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issue that they're talking about. And the campaign doesn't really talk,
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you know, one campaign doesn't really talk about that. So
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that's Nithya's ilk of folk and folks who have like
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transplanted over here. And then you have folks who are
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homeowners who are probably in their late 50s, early 60s
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or above. who have a different kind of affordability issue.
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They're wondering about like, how do I rent out my ADU?
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They're worrying about safety when I'm going to the store
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and like, all right, do we have more police or not?
446
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These are like real- And utility bills. And utility bills.
447
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And water bills. Because how do you hold.
448
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On to your health? But there's another issue that, you know,
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I heard a millennial influencer who was talking, you know,
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in favor of Nithya, Raman, the council member, And she
451
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was saying, well, old folks have money. Boomers have money.
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Gen X have money. What about all the old renters?
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What about the 50, 60, 70-something renters? Or the unhoused?
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I mean, the unhoused are coming from the ranks of
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the elderly.
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The highest level of unhoused folks is actually coming from
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people who are like 55 and above. And then what
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you also are seeing is I don't believe that like, oh,
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who's that money? No, like people are on fixed incomes.
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Like I don't know how many times. I mean, I
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pastor a church, so maybe I feel it differently.
462
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Yeah, probably.
463
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But people are on fixed incomes, but they're feeling the pinch. Right. Right.
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And so you have those who are trying to hold
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on to what the little bit that they worked so
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hard for to keep.
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Right.
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Who are going to vote in a different way than
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folks who are like, all right, well, L.A. doesn't really,
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you know. You know, forget it.
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I mean, and for me, I think there's a trust factor.
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You know, because Council Member Rahman changes her mind so much.
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Two months ago, Karen Bass was the bee's knees. Now she's,
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you know, LA's going to hell in a handbasket. You know,
475
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I'm firing the chief. I'm not firing the chief. I'm
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firing the chief. I can't fire the chief. It takes
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a long time to fire the chief. I'll wait till 2030.
478
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I mean, this kind of indecisiveness or flip-flopping, whatever you
479
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want to call it, for some, especially people that, you know,
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come from other communities like black folks are like, do
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I trust this person? Yeah.
482
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I mean, I think the loyalty and trust question is
483
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rose big in black and brown communities. Yeah. Um, it's
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how we survive.
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What, what, you know, not just what have you done
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for me lately, but what have you done? What have
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you done consistently over the course of your life and career?
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Absolutely. And so I tell, you know, uh, Nithya Ram and,
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I think she, I've said this in the New York Times,
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I can say it out here too. I think she
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is brilliant. Like she's a great mind.
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I mean, Harvard grad, right?
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Harvard, MIT, a whole thing. But she gets into the
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details of policy. It's implementation. And when it comes to implementation,
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what happens is it's based upon the deal. Can the
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community members trust that what we said in the room
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and sign on the paper shows up on the street?
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And I think for some folks, there's a question.
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Right.
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And I think you have to, that is a question
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that you have to, as a candidate, you have to
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figure out how you're going to prove to folks that
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you're trustworthy. What I would love to hear, and I mean,
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I know who I'm getting with Mayor Bass. And, you know,
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I know exactly what kind of policies, I know where
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we can press and push and where we can work with.
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And I know that black people are not on the menu,
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but at the table. I think for Councilman Rahman, I
509
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would love to hear from people who've actually worked from her.
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Black people?
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Black people.
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Yeah.
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Who worked with her, who worked for her in her office,
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who are saying like, all right, you know, everyone was
515
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talking about Blade. I didn't want to bring them up,
516
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but everyone was talking about Blade. And I think Blade
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just went with A lot of people in their generation
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are feeling the pains, and yeah, Nithya Raman seems like
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the great alternative for that. What I would say is
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get it in writing. Get it in writing, yeah. And
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set the meeting.
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I also think for the young generation, like my own son,
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it's Gaza.
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It's Gaza.
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It's Gaza.
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And it's time up. Y'all been boxing us out.
527
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Yeah, that too.
528
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You've been boxing us out. Y'all lost a whole generation
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of leaders. Well, yeah.
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Yeah, I mean, I don't know if we can say
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that in L.A. Look at the city council. You've got
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some younger folks there.
533
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That's my black leaders.
534
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Oh, black. Okay. Point taken. I mean, other than Obama,
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who had to elbow his way in.
536
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I mean, we've got Isaac Bryan and Sade. Right.
537
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Very good representatives.
538
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We love them.
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Yeah.
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I'm just saying that, like. Right.
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There's room for more. I agree. I do agree. Believe
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it or not, I'm never trying to talk myself out
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of a job.
544
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Yeah.
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But I do think we need to hear from more
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young voices all the time. On the other hand, to
547
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put out a black agenda with no black organization, no
548
00:29:38.369 --> 00:29:43.440
black leadership, no black— black visible person giving you a
549
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co-sign is problematic. And then I don't know if you
550
00:29:45.660 --> 00:29:48.599
saw Senator Lola Smallwood-Cravis yesterday.
551
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She said, that's my joint. She said, I curated the
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Black Workers Center.
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And you cribbed our stuff. And that's what I was
554
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saying yesterday. This looks a lot like what the L.A.
555
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Black Workers Center put out. you know, for the L.A.
556
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City Charter Commission. And so you would think their name
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would be on it or they would have been consulted.
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That is a problem for me. You say that you're
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going to get all these black staffers, but you don't
560
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have them now. Or at least I don't see them.
561
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Maybe you do. If they do, they're in the back.
562
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I mean, yeah. I mean, I think you have to...
563
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This is the difference. If you're a candidate and you're
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not the actual mayor currently, you have to demonstrate... The
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way you will govern now. So you need to demonstrate
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the coalition you will build, the people you will hire,
567
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the conversations you would have and make that public.
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Model it.
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You have to model it.
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00:30:35.829 --> 00:30:36.609
Yeah, that makes sense.
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If you're not, I mean, this is why, you know,
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take it outside of LA. This is why like El
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Saeed and all these people are like gaining. This is
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why Mondani was so popular. He demonstrated for people what
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it would look like.
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00:30:49.440 --> 00:30:51.960
And also there were a lot of specifics, right?
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Absolutely.
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A public option for grocery stores. It's very specific. It's
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not a chicken in every pot. I don't want to
580
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hear somebody say, I'll do what the mayor is doing,
581
00:31:00.599 --> 00:31:03.559
only better. I need you to be specific. Okay, public
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options for grocery stores. This is how we're going to
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make it happen. This is the plan. This is where
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the funds are going to come from. You know, that
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kind of thing. I do think, though, and I've said
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this before, that we are lucky because we don't have
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anybody terrible running.
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No, no.
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I mean, either way it goes, it's not going to
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be the demise of the city.
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They're not like, you know, I know people try to
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act like, oh, it's, you know, they're light years away.
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00:31:26.450 --> 00:31:33.769
Not really. This is like an inner city squabble. And
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the question is, do you want to go forward on
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this trajectory that we are on, believing there'll be more implementation?
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That's your choice. Do you want experience? Do you want
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someone who built the coalition and does that work? Or
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are you saying it's time for a change and we
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need to start anew and get back to basics? That's
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what Nithya's campaign is all about, getting back to basics.
601
00:31:55.640 --> 00:31:58.009
I think that's the voter choice right now. It is
602
00:31:58.049 --> 00:31:59.829
a dead heat. I think you will not know who
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00:31:59.869 --> 00:32:02.289
the mayor of Los Angeles is until the end of November.
604
00:32:02.529 --> 00:32:05.210
So get your popcorn and watch the midterms and see
605
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if there's a blue wave happening on the national scale.
606
00:32:08.569 --> 00:32:11.690
And if Hakeem Jeffries becomes the first black speaker of
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the house, that's what we're watching for on election day.
608
00:32:14.410 --> 00:32:19.130
Because L.A. is not happening, y'all. Until... Thanksgiving. Yeah, you're
609
00:32:19.150 --> 00:32:22.299
going to be Thanksgiving. And figure out who your mayor
610
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is going to be.
611
00:32:23.500 --> 00:32:26.200
That is wild. But I think you're probably right about that.
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If it's as close as... This polling is showing, and I...
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You know, polling for me right now, I'm not... I'm
614
00:32:32.019 --> 00:32:33.339
not a believer at the moment.
615
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I don't believe... I mean, I would say this. I'm
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a part of a coalition called Trust Account Coalition. It's
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like Antonio Vargas and... Oh, Travis is a part of that, too.
618
00:32:44.109 --> 00:32:52.470
And I would say to folks that the election for
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mayor will be very, very close. So the numbers you
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see on election night will definitely change. So I'm saying
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that because people are going to see one candidate is
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going to have a higher number, like, you know, maybe
623
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five to six points ahead. And then it's going to
624
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trickle away.
625
00:33:10.750 --> 00:33:13.569
Yeah, for sure that. Because, I mean, older voters tend
626
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to vote earlier.
627
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Yes.
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Tend to vote by mail.
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And all of everybody who's my age, it's an SAT test.
630
00:33:20.049 --> 00:33:23.690
They have not taken it. Okay. I haven't voted yet.
631
00:33:23.730 --> 00:33:25.190
I'm not going to lie. I haven't either. All right.
632
00:33:25.230 --> 00:33:26.299
And I told my wife the other day, I said,
633
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we got to get them ballots in because you know
634
00:33:27.680 --> 00:33:29.740
Trump is trying to play these games. Right.
635
00:33:29.799 --> 00:33:30.420
Exactly.
636
00:33:30.619 --> 00:33:33.059
But when we send our ballot in, they're not going
637
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to get there until next week, Thursday. So that's when
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my vote's going to get counted. I already know.
639
00:33:38.539 --> 00:33:42.279
Yeah, same. I mean, I'm not in your generation, but
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I act like it.
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You're there in spirit. We love.
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You. Yeah, but the point is, and that's what Trump
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always exploits. He goes, oh, I was way ahead. And
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then because the people that voted for you voted earlier,
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those were counted first. It doesn't mean cheating. It just
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means that it takes a while. And I, you know,
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I don't love it, but I'm comfortable with it because
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I'd rather have you count accurately than count fast.
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And that's why it takes so long. It's not because
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they're playing games with machines. It's because they're double counting
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every vote. I mean, they're going over it, making sure
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they got the right person, the right name, the right thing.
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And then they're counting. They're not like just running it
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through a machine and being like, OK, we're good. That's
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not how that works.
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Yeah. Okay, when we come forward, I do want to
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do a little more, if you don't mind, on Measure E,
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the county measure, because I think it is under-discussed and
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one of the single most important things on the ballot,
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in my opinion. Pastor Edward Anderson of McCarty Memorial Church
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is here. I'm Dominique DiPrima, and this is KBLA Talk 1580.
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Paul says that people at Southwest College Voting Center laughed
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at him when he told them he needed to see
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his vote being counted because of the Trump administration. Real talk,
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that's what I do. I fill in my mail-in, and
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I take it to the polling place so I can
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see someone, or put it in a county box.
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Yeah, I put it in a county box and I
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track it.
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Oh, you do the voting track? Oh, yeah.
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Maybe I'll start doing that. They got to text me
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when it's counted.
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Text me when you count. Text me when my vote
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gets home safe. Okay, so county measure E. Even if
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you skip over other stuff, because this is longer than
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an SAT, as I've said, county measure E is not
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one to.
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Skip, right? No, you need to. County measure E, I think,
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is one of the most important local measures that we have.
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It does a couple of things, and you can check
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me because I'm just going off memory here. But one,
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it helps fix the ethics commission at the county level,
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which is important, right? So we all wanted an independent
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ethics commission that will have actual power to reel in
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our board of supervisors mainly. Also kind of departmental board
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of supervisors. So that's one thing that it does. The
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other thing that it does, it fixes the charter. So
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everyone remembers, maybe you don't, but maybe you should. In 2020,
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we passed Measure J. I was on the coordinating committee
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with Isaac Bryan, Eunice's, a bunch of community folks. It
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was like one of the biggest measures to pass. And
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Measure J allowed us to create care and community firsts.
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which allowed us to take 10% of the county revenue
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and reinvest it into community. Well, when we passed measure G, okay,
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when we passed the measure that gave us the county
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CEO and established S commission, the charter was changed, but
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it got rid of parts of measure J. So what
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this does is restore what you initially voted for in 2020,
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which is give me your money, like give, give you
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back your money.
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Okay.
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For, for health purposes, for community, for equity. And so
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that's important. And then this also helps us create some
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of the guardrails that we're going to need when we
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have our new CEO, the elected CEO, or as Dominique
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Elkley put it, our new emperor.
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The emperor of LA County.
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So you want to make sure you have a check
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because if you don't fix it, if you don't get
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the details, if you don't get the details right now
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and the person gets there and trying to figure it
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out on the fly, You may be in a worse
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off position.
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So who is their supervisor? Because, I mean, technically the
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county CEO would be answerable to the board of supervisors, right?
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But if they control the budget, aren't they kind of
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the boss?
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Yes. So is the county executive. So what will happen
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now is that the board of supervisors would essentially become
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a legislative body. If you think about it as like
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American government, the board of supervisors will become like your congress.
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And the CEO is your president.
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Okay, but the president doesn't have the purse strings, but
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he does have veto power.
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And the difference is that this office, because it's the CEO,
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they get to shape the budget.
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Yeah.
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And that's where the power lies.
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So who do they report to? The governor?
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No, they report to us. All 10 million of us.
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Oh, Lord. Let us pray. Wait, you're supposed to say that,
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not me. So, well, you know, we talked about city attorney.
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We only have a few minutes left. I'm trying to
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squeeze in as much as I can. We talked about
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city attorney. We talked about mayor. Are there any other
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races that you have a particular, you know, that you
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think are being under-discussed?
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Oh, the biggest one that I've told people that everyone
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should be looking at is the Insurance Commissioner race.
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Really?
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Because everyone wants to talk about the Palisades Fire. They
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want to talk about the Edgerton Fire. They want to
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talk about, oh, our coastline is disappearing. It is. Mother
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Nature is coming back for her coast. Yeah. The coastline
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is disappearing.
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Okay.
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And the question is, well, who's going to pay for
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all of these new weather anomalies, acts of God, that
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happen in our state? Well, the insurance companies will have
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to pay. Well, who's going to enforce that? The insurance commissioner. So, listen,
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vote for yourself and for your children and your grandchildren
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and for your grandma, too, because we all are going
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to have some weather issue. We're all going to have
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some kind of fire thing. We're all going to have
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some issue in the future. And we don't need to
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be getting played. We don't need to be delayed.
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So here you have another situation where you have an
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African American man and Mike Gibson out of Compton.
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For the insurance commissioner, no. Oh, that's Board of Equalization.
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The insurance commissioner is Jane Kim and Ben Allen. Right, right, right.
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So you have two Democrats and Ben Allen, sorry for
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the confusion. Ben Allen is also considered fairly progressive out
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of Santa Monica.
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She's out of Santa Monica and Jane Kim's out of
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San Francisco.
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And considered quite progressive.
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Quite progressive. Jane Kim's going, she wants to create a
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statewide disaster fund. She wants the state to, an insurance
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fund so that you can be taken care of. I
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think they're both brilliant. I mean, personally, I like Jane
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Kim more than Mr. Allen. And you mean politically, not personally, right? Politically.
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So I think that, you know, A race that everyone
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should look at and do some study on.
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Okay, and that's fair. And I do think the good
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news is we don't have anybody terrible.
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No, you don't.
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Because there's a couple races where we have something terrible.
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A couple of races like, I don't know, you know,
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the lieutenant governor and superintendent. What is it?
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School superintendent.
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I don't even know who these people are. I'm like,
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who are these people?
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Right.
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Yeah.
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Well, you know, one of the women running for superintendent
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of schools is MAGA.
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Yeah.
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So we can start there.
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We can start there. Yeah. We can start there.
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Well, Pastor, thank you so much for coming in. I
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told my friend, if I could have Pastor Anderson in
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here every day until Election Day, he would never get
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to preach. But you can hear him preach at 1045
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on Sunday.
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1045 on Sunday. And I would just say, go vote.
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I would tell people that your vote is your form
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of intercessory prayer.
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Ooh.
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And so if you are a praying person, pray with
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your vote for folks who care about equity and justice
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and righteousness and for prosperity and change. They don't have
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to have all of your same religious values. I'm not
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going through and asking them, do you believe Jesus is
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the son of God? That's not what I'm voting for.
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I'm voting for, can you see equity? Can you be fair?
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Can you do justice? Do you care about the liberation
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of all people? And if that's it, how do we
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vote you in?
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Thank you, Pastor Edward Anderson, News Traffic and Sports. Then
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it's Wealth Building Wednesday, only here.
