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"Handel on the Polls" - Props 40, 41 · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM640, the Bill Handel Show on
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  Speaker 1: demand on the iHeartRadio app. Just as we went off
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  Speaker 1: the air or we locked out and we said goodbye
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  Speaker 1: to Handel on the news, one of the stories, the
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  Speaker 1: very last part, was that there were a couple of
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  Speaker 1: guys who were being nailed in Minnesota for dressing up
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  Speaker 1: in burkas and trying to vote. They are, well, agent provocateurs,
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  Speaker 1: if you will. You know, anything to disrupt an election
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  Speaker 1: because they're the crazy guys.
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  Speaker 2: And Amy had said— Well, they were saying, though, that
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  Speaker 2: they were doing it to expose fraud.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, of course they were. Yes. They weren't.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't actually try to vote.
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  Speaker 3: No, to expose fraud.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, because that's because there's fraud and you expose fraud
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  Speaker 1: by doing things like this.
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  Speaker 3: Fair enough.
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  Speaker 1: OK, but there is there is sound on this. There
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  Speaker 1: was a video. And Amy, you found it. And let's
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  Speaker 1: play it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's James O'Keefe and Cam Higbee. And they start
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  Speaker 2: out and they introduce the video saying what they're doing.
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  Speaker 3: We dressed in full traditional Muslim attire.
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  Speaker 2: And then they went to polling places using names of
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  Speaker 2: registered voters during the state's primary in August.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, good. We can go pick up Mohammed and Ranuzu
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  Speaker 3: in the car outside. That certainly worked, didn't it? They've
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  Speaker 3: been charged, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: They are facing a count of unlawful voting and identity theft.
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  Speaker 2: They were using other people's names.
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  Speaker 3: Got it.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 3: A little bit of politics here.
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  Speaker 1: And the hit that California is taking, especially among Republicans,
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  Speaker 1: especially by the president. And this is not only a
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  Speaker 1: anti-California diatribe, but it's also an allegations that a lot
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  Speaker 1: of Republicans are bringing to the table. And that's California's
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  Speaker 1: elections and how they're run and how long it takes
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  Speaker 1: to count the vote.
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  Speaker 3: And the longer it takes, the more there is fraud.
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  Speaker 1: Mail-in voting, I think per definition by the president, is
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  Speaker 1: rife with fraud, and California is traditionally mail-in voting. I
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  Speaker 1: think Oregon has almost 100% mail-in voting, doesn't it, Amy?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they've been doing mail-in voting for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: So therefore, I'm surprised that the screaming isn't about Oregon.
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  Speaker 1: But here's what happens. California, the election results won't be
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  Speaker 1: projected maybe until days, even weeks afterwards. Why? Well, first
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  Speaker 1: of all, 23 million registered voters in California. That's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of votes to count. But also because such a
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  Speaker 1: large number of mail-in ballots are going to be counted,
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  Speaker 1: some don't arrive until a week after voting ends and
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  Speaker 1: still must be counted. Because the courts have ruled and
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  Speaker 1: California says if your vote is postmarked, if you're mail-in voting,
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  Speaker 1: if your ballot is postmarked by California, Election Day, they
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  Speaker 1: have up to a week to count it. And matter
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  Speaker 1: of fact, when you talk about the other votes, provisional votes,
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  Speaker 1: those votes, they have 38 days after the Election Day,
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of State, to count them. So the Supreme Court
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  Speaker 1: last month rejected the administration's attempt to limit the mail-in
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  Speaker 1: voting for now, and that's going to stay the same.
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  Speaker 1: California Secretary of State, he said, here is why it
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  Speaker 1: takes so long. We have an arduous process of counting
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  Speaker 1: mail ballots and validating voter signatures. Like each envelope signature
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  Speaker 1: has to match the signatures on file, each one.
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  Speaker 3: And so that takes a long time.
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  Speaker 1: Eighty nine percent of Californians did in the primary voted
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  Speaker 1: by mail, as did I. And of course, because we
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  Speaker 1: have this long ballot counting process, it opens the floodgates.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump saying by definition that this is the elections in.
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  Speaker 3: This state are rigged. They're always rigged if a Democrat wins.
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  Speaker 3: Here's a quote.
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  Speaker 1: In the end, they're not going to let you win it.
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  Speaker 1: They just won't let you win it because it's a
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  Speaker 1: rigged state. Trump said that during a Newsmax interview. He's
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  Speaker 1: repeatedly talked about Spencer Pratt, who lost in the L.A.
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  Speaker 3: Mayoral primary election.
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  Speaker 1: Initially he was in second place, and then he was
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  Speaker 1: edged out by Nithya Raman once the ballots were fully counted.
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  Speaker 1: And see, there we go. Spencer Pratt was doing great.
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  Speaker 1: At the end of the election, election day, his opponent
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  Speaker 1: was crying. Oh, she lost so badly, she was crying.
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  Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden, like a week and a half.
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  Speaker 3: Later, you hear she's surging. Nobody ever heard of her.
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  Speaker 1: You know that people nobody, that nobody ever heard of
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  Speaker 1: don't surge, whatever that means. And the only time they
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  Speaker 1: surge is when they cheat. Now, it's there is, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: some kind of crazy ass logic to this, because here's
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  Speaker 1: what happens is that the Republicans do very well on
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  Speaker 1: voting day. And the Democrats come in, usually more Democrats
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  Speaker 1: vote by mail than do Republicans. That's simply the way
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  Speaker 1: it pans out. So because Republicans do better on voting day,
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  Speaker 1: anything that's counted after that day's votes, should not be
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  Speaker 1: counted because here's what happens. You have Republicans typically are
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  Speaker 1: ahead on voting day, those counts, and then the mail-in
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  Speaker 1: ballots come in. And as the later votes come in,
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats do better. Well, if Democrats do better after
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  Speaker 1: the initial reports of the Republicans, that's rigged.
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  Speaker 3: It's a lie. We were ahead. We Republicans were ahead.
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  Speaker 4: Look at this.
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  Speaker 3: All of a sudden, the Democrats are ahead. That's cheating.
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  Speaker 3: That's being rigged. And that is the problem.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, incidentally, the allegation of rigging by the president, as
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  Speaker 1: ridiculous as it is, it looks like he's absolutely right
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  Speaker 1: about it in Alaska, which I'm going to talk about
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  Speaker 1: the next segment.
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  Speaker 3: How, yeah, Democrats can rig votes, too.
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  Speaker 1: OK, so at this point, what else I want to
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  Speaker 1: say about this?
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  Speaker 3: The mail-in ballot.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the president voted himself mail-in, but he has also
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  Speaker 1: advocated there should be exceptions to the mail-in ballot. But
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  Speaker 1: the bottom line is mail-in ballots, because the Democrats do
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  Speaker 1: better traditionally, are by definition rigged. And I guarantee you,
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  Speaker 1: if you start looking come Tuesday, and the Democrats, well,
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  Speaker 1: they're either going to win by a little bit, they're
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  Speaker 1: going to lose, not lose enough in the Senate to
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  Speaker 1: lose the Senate itself.
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  Speaker 3: Or on the other way, they may explode.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean, it's going to be a wave, this
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  Speaker 1: Democratic wave, this blue wave, that's really going to knock
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  Speaker 1: all of us on our.
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  Speaker 3: Asses, particularly the Republicans.
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  Speaker 1: As every Republican who runs loses, how many people are
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  Speaker 1: going to argue that that was a rigged vote? Because
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  Speaker 1: the philosophy is real simple. A Democrat wins, it's rigged.
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  Speaker 1: A Republican wins, it's not rigged. The only fair election
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  Speaker 1: in this country, fair and honest election, is a Republican win.
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  Speaker 1: And the president is asked over and over again, are
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  Speaker 1: you going to abide by the win? Will you recognize
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  Speaker 1: a Democrat winning? Yes, if it is a fair vote.
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  Speaker 1: If it is a fair vote. However, if a Democrat
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  Speaker 1: winning is never a fair vote, Of course, he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have to pay attention because it's rigged.
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  Speaker 3: It's fraudulent.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I want to talk about a truly rigged election,
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  Speaker 1: what's happening in Alaska and what the Democrats are accused
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  Speaker 1: of doing. And it looks like they did exactly that
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  Speaker 1: as this story pans out. And this, well, this is
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  Speaker 1: this is an attack on democracy. Also, you know, talk
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  Speaker 1: about that when we come back.
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  Speaker 4: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 1: A little bit of trending. We've gotten a last poll
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  Speaker 1: in here in California. Becerra at 60 percent. Hilton at
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  Speaker 1: 36 percent for California governor. Well, that's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a close one, isn't it? Now, what is going to
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  Speaker 1: be close? Karen Bass versus Nithya Raman for L.A.
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  Speaker 4: Mayor.
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  Speaker 1: It's 40-40 with 19 percent unvoted. I decided that's a lot.
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  Speaker 1: And then the propositions tell you where they're going. And
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  Speaker 1: it looks like we, California, we want to spend more money.
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  Speaker 1: And I do in one case, too. So I'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about that. Now, if you listen to the show, you
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  Speaker 1: notice I nail, rail against the president and the Republicans,
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  Speaker 1: always advocating and accusing the Democrats of rigging the election.
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  Speaker 1: Every time a Republican wins, a Republican loses, it's rigged.
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  Speaker 1: The 2020 election was rigged because Trump lost. Elections across
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  Speaker 1: the country are always rigged if a Democrat wins. OK,
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  Speaker 1: so the argument that the Democrats are always rigging elections,
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  Speaker 1: I have said this ridiculous.
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  Speaker 3: OK, there's no proof whatsoever.
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  Speaker 1: Now, it looks like the Democrats in Alaska. That is
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  Speaker 1: a problem for the Democrats because it looks like the
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  Speaker 1: president and other detractors in the Alaska race, the Senate race,
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  Speaker 1: are absolutely right if this story actually has legs. And
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  Speaker 1: this is a New York Times story that broke. It
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  Speaker 1: turns out, we've been talking about this, that the two
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  Speaker 1: Dan Sullivans running for governor, or excuse me, running for senator,
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  Speaker 1: and the accusation from the Trump administration and Republicans were
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  Speaker 1: that the campaign of Mary Peltola went out and found
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  Speaker 1: someone who has the same name as the Republican incumbent.
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  Speaker 3: We want to find another Republican.
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  Speaker 1: Dan Sullivan, they found one and he went ahead and
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  Speaker 1: registered and put his name in just a few days
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  Speaker 1: before the filing deadline. He's on the ballot and the
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  Speaker 1: Republicans are going crazy as they rightly should. if this
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  Speaker 1: story is as it happens. And it looks like it's
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  Speaker 1: panning out to be. And now you have two Dan
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  Speaker 1: Sullivans running, which if there is confusion, the vote's going
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  Speaker 1: to be split somewhat. And the sole Democrat, Mary Peltola,
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  Speaker 1: is going to be a shoo-in.
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  Speaker 3: That seems to be the philosophy.
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  Speaker 1: And at first, the Peltola campaign said, no, no, we
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  Speaker 1: didn't do it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it looks like they did do it.
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  Speaker 1: And it was a secret plan, senior advisors to both
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  Speaker 1: her campaign and Peltola. the top campaign committee supporting Senate
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  Speaker 1: Democrats in general, yeah, it looks like that's happened. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the second Dan Sullivan, the one that came in just
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  Speaker 1: before the time to register, is a retiree, schoolteacher, small
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  Speaker 1: Alaskan fishing village, and he is accused of being recruited
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  Speaker 1: because he shared Dan Sullivan's name, first and last. And
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  Speaker 1: it looks like the campaign did exactly that. And Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump rightly is going out of his mind, as are Republicans.
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  Speaker 1: And the Trump administration, or Donald Trump specifically, has said,
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  Speaker 1: you've got to remove the second Dan Sullivan's name off
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  Speaker 1: the ballot. Yeah, good luck on that one, since the
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  Speaker 1: ballot's already printed and mail-in balloting has already started.
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  Speaker 3: Mail-in voting has already started. Well, there should be criminal investigation. Well,
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  Speaker 3: there is.
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  Speaker 1: The Alaska governor, Mike Denlovey, who's Republican, said, you bet
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  Speaker 1: we're investigating, called for the investigation. And they're looking at
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  Speaker 1: possibly criminal violations, civil violations.
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  Speaker 3: Here's the problem.
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  Speaker 1: As disgusting as this is, and by the way, it
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  Speaker 1: is disgusting. There's no question. It looks like it's perfectly legal.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like you can do it. And it is
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  Speaker 1: not a violation. You can throw up all the names
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  Speaker 1: you want on a ballot. Now, if it turns out
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  Speaker 1: that there are no laws passed against this, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure there's going to be the legislature has come in
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  Speaker 1: and passed some laws making this some kind of a violation,
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  Speaker 1: although not easy to prove. I mean, we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: proving that someone registered illegally. and ran for office for
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  Speaker 1: the purpose of screwing up someone else's vote. You're getting
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  Speaker 1: into someone's head. That's not easy to prove. However, you've
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  Speaker 1: got someone on the campaign of Peltola said that's exactly
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  Speaker 1: what we did. We went and hunted this person down. Okay, well,
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  Speaker 1: there's some proof there. You know, to me, at first,
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  Speaker 1: the accusation, I said, come on, stop it. Really? How
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  Speaker 1: about someone in the same name wanting to run? How
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  Speaker 1: about someone with the same name wanting to run to
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  Speaker 1: screw up the Democratic vote, the Republican vote? You can
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  Speaker 1: do that. What, that's criminal? If your name is Dan
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  Speaker 1: Sullivan and you don't like the Republican and you go
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  Speaker 1: ahead and register yourself and you run and you want
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  Speaker 1: to screw up the vote, how could that be illegal?
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  Speaker 1: But if someone plans it, and conspires and finds the
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  Speaker 1: second Dan Sullivan, that's different.
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  Speaker 3: So one of two things is going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Either there's going to be some legislation passed, which it
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  Speaker 1: should be instantly, that if there's enough proof here, there's
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  Speaker 1: a real issue, or there's some real violations, or That's
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  Speaker 1: going to be our next election.
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  Speaker 3: You know, for example.
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  Speaker 2: There's going to be a hundred Dan Sullivan's on the ballot.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to see half a dozen on both sides.
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  Speaker 1: And then it's crazy. I mean, they've got to put
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  Speaker 1: a stop to this. They have to put a stop,
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  Speaker 1: especially if it's a conspiracy to do this. The problem
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  Speaker 1: is there's nothing illegal at this point about this.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Like I used to do on Halloween, my segment of necrophilia.
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  Speaker 1: the victimless crime. And I would, I would do that
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  Speaker 1: every year. And I would argue what you can't, you
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  Speaker 1: can't rape a corpse, a corpse.
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  Speaker 3: It's not a person.
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  Speaker 1: You can't argue that emotional damage has occurred. That's not
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  Speaker 1: a person. And the family says, well, you having sex
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  Speaker 1: with a corpse emotionally damages me.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's kind of hard to prove. So what ended
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  Speaker 3: up happening?
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  Speaker 1: Then they passed laws saying necrophilia is a crime. having
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  Speaker 1: sex with dead people, particularly frozen dead people, is a
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  Speaker 1: criminal act. So now necrophilia is no longer a victimless crime.
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  Speaker 1: Same thing may happen here. Putting names in to screw
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  Speaker 1: up elections may very well be a violation, but you
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  Speaker 1: have to prove it. In this case, it's probably there's
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  Speaker 1: enough proof here to make it happen. So it's fascinating stuff.
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  Speaker 1: All right, coming up, some of the props that I've
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  Speaker 1: been talking about. I'll be doing this every day until Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: So don't go away.
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  Speaker 4: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 1: Today at 830, we're going to do our Wednesday segment
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  Speaker 1: of medical news with Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Jim Keeney, which.
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  Speaker 1: We couldn't do yesterday on Wednesday when it's supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be done because Jim.
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  Speaker 3: Was tied up.
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  Speaker 1: So it becomes Thursday's, Wednesday's segment. That's coming up at 8.30.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure that didn't confuse anybody.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going through the propositions between now and the day
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  Speaker 1: of the midterms, which is Tuesday. And today I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to hit three more of the propositions. This is part
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  Speaker 1: of my voting guide. It's not really a voting guide.
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  Speaker 1: It's just the way I vote and explaining why I'm
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  Speaker 1: doing it and which way I'm going for it. which
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  Speaker 1: way I'm going for the vote, and it's just to
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  Speaker 1: let you know how I'm doing it. In no way
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  Speaker 1: is it trying to get you to vote the way
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  Speaker 1: I vote. That is simply not on the table. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so today I'm going to talk about 40, 41, and 42.
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  Speaker 1: All right, the 41, Proposition 40, and this one is
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  Speaker 1: really controversial because this will be the first one in
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  Speaker 1: the country, if it passes, It is a one-time wealth
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  Speaker 1: tax for state-funded healthcare education and food assistance program. The
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  Speaker 1: big deal is a one-time tax for billionaires. And it
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  Speaker 1: goes to health care, and it's a one-time levy. Keep
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  Speaker 1: in mind, this is one time, all right? 5% tax
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  Speaker 1: on any accumulated wealth that taxpayers have, trusts, whatever, on values,
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  Speaker 1: assets valued over a billion dollars. And that's all shares, bonds,
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  Speaker 1: evidence of indebtedness, someone owes you money. That's part of
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  Speaker 1: your asset base. And this is you can do this.
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  Speaker 3: Say you're a.
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  Speaker 1: Billionaire and there aren't too many out there, but let's
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  Speaker 1: say you're a billionaire. I think we have a couple
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  Speaker 1: hundred in California. So it's a 5% tax of anything
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  Speaker 1: over a billion dollars. So let's say you're worth $ 20
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  Speaker 1: billion or $ 10 billion or $ 2 billion or a whole
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  Speaker 1: lot more than that.
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  Speaker 3: What ends up happening? Well, 5% goes to the state.
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  Speaker 1: Anything over a billion dollars. Now, most of us don't care. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: let's pass it because, hey, billionaires don't need all that money.
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  Speaker 3: And so what? Well, I got to tell you something.
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  Speaker 3: This reminds me of what happens in England.
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  Speaker 1: And I interviewed Richard Branson many, many years ago, and
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  Speaker 1: he described what kind of grief he had for becoming
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  Speaker 1: a wealthy man. There is something that's slightly immoral, has
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  Speaker 1: some kind of distaste by being a very wealthy person.
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  Speaker 1: There's something wrong with it. You can't honestly become a billionaire.
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  Speaker 1: So if you are, Well, we want to be fair
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  Speaker 1: and take some of your money and spread it out.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, on top of income tax.
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  Speaker 1: Now, there are some loopholes, clearly, but still, they're minor
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  Speaker 1: compared to saying we're going to tax everything over a
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  Speaker 1: billion dollars. And here's the problem I have. One time,
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  Speaker 1: by law— That's it. And it can go over the
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  Speaker 1: next five years where the billionaires can take the amount
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  Speaker 1: of money owed and split it up over five years. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if they do split it up over five years, whatever
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  Speaker 1: is remaining, let's say they take 20% this year, leaving 80%,
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  Speaker 1: it's 7.5% on top of that 80% because they're giving
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  Speaker 1: you the joys of being able to pay it off.
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  Speaker 1: It's basically interest on the tax is what's being paid.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, there is a real philosophy here. And
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  Speaker 1: there is a dilemma that we have as taxpayers and citizens.
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  Speaker 1: And that is, do we keep punishing people who make
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  Speaker 1: a lot of money and create a lot of wealth
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  Speaker 1: and create jobs?
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  Speaker 3: Well, they're not paying enough people. They're not paying enough money.
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  Speaker 3: Amazon isn't paying enough money for its workers.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you pass minimum wage laws.
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  Speaker 3: That's what you do.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's legal. do you tax the people that
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  Speaker 1: own it? Do you tax Jeff Bezos? If he were
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  Speaker 1: to live in California, which there's no way in hell
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  Speaker 1: he would do, the guy's worth, what.
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  Speaker 3: A hundred and something billion dollars.
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  Speaker 1: So he gets to write a check for at 5% of,
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  Speaker 1: what would that be? $ 5 billion, $ 7 billion, straight out. Now,
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  Speaker 1: is this going to help the state? Of course, it's
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  Speaker 1: going to help the state.
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  Speaker 3: Is it fair? I don't think so. I mean, can
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  Speaker 3: he afford it?
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  Speaker 1: Of course he can, but You know, that's like the philosophy.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was, I forget which politician said this,
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  Speaker 1: but it was nobody needs more than a million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Anything over a million dollars should go to the government
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  Speaker 1: because you can live on a million dollars. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: a house over here costs a million dollars anywhere down
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  Speaker 1: the street. And so it's tough for the government to,
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  Speaker 1: in my opinion, to say to you, we don't want
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  Speaker 1: you to make money. or we do want you to
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  Speaker 1: make a lot of money so we can take it.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, I'm voting no on that because it's just
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  Speaker 3: not right. It's just not right. Now, I'm not going
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  Speaker 3: to pay any of it. Of course, you're not going
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  Speaker 3: to pay any of it.
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  Speaker 1: But let's nail the billionaires.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, by the way, one time. Does anybody believe it's
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  Speaker 3: one time? Does anybody believe it's one time?
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  Speaker 1: Because this is what we do as taxpayers, those who
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  Speaker 1: push the.
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  Speaker 3: Proposals, the propositions.
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  Speaker 1: And that is, and I talked about this yesterday, we
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  Speaker 1: have a tax that's only going to go on for
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  Speaker 1: five years. Because we have something specific to pay for
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  Speaker 1: and we need to come up with the money. So
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  Speaker 1: it's a five-year, it sunsets in five years. So coming
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  Speaker 1: up to five years, here's a new proposition. Well, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to extend that. Matter of fact, the last one
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  Speaker 1: was extended indefinitely. And the advertisement says you're not going
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  Speaker 1: to pay one penny more in taxes.
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  Speaker 3: That's the other thing, you know, when you look at
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: these ads, they're all liars.
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  Speaker 1: They all lie through their teeth and it's you're not
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  Speaker 1: going to pay one dime more in taxes. That was
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Proposition 10.
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  Speaker 3: I remember that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's true, but it was supposed to end the tax.
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  Speaker 1: So now it just keeps on going forever. And that's,
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  Speaker 1: I think, the case with this one time wealth tax.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever I see anything, it says one time and the
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  Speaker 1: government is doing it. I don't think so. It really doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: It makes no sense. So now I want to come
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  Speaker 1: back and do two more. I'm going to do Prop
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  Speaker 1: 41 and Prop 42. And there's a real contradiction here.
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  Speaker 1: You have one proposition that's fighting the other proposition. What
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  Speaker 1: happens when you have opposing propositions? They cancel each other out. Well,
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  Speaker 1: someone's got to give. And I'll explain that to you
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  Speaker 1: when we come back. Prop 41, Prop 42.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 1: The lead up to the midterm elections on Tuesday. And
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: the reason I'm pushing so hard on doing these stories
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  Speaker 1: is because truly, truly this time around, we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: which way America is going and is going to go.
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  Speaker 1: At certain times, I mean, everybody who runs, oh, America
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: is at a crossroads. Oh, we have to decide.
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  Speaker 3: Normally, it's give me a break. OK, I know you
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  Speaker 3: say that.
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  Speaker 1: But this time around in the election of Donald Trump,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: America did change pretty drastically. And what's going to happen
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: in the next two years? Does the president have unbridled power,
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  Speaker 1: which Republicans have given him so far? Or do the
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Democrats have the ability to stop and basically hold up
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  Speaker 1: some of the some of the initiatives that he is doing? Also,
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at and I look at CNN and Fox
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  Speaker 1: and BBC News every day on the screens. And I'm
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: seeing you see this all the time. If you watch
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: reporters going around and they're going to breakfast places, they
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: go to coffee shops and they stick microphones in people's
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: faces who are having breakfast. And we'll ask, who are
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  Speaker 1: you voting for and why?
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  Speaker 3: Which great.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: One person is telling you who he or she is
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  Speaker 1: voting for. I think those are so stupid. Now, if
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: I were doing that, I would come up and say,
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  Speaker 1: who are you voting for? By the way, are you
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: going to finish that entire breakfast? You're really going to
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: leave some of that behind, huh? I'm kind of hungry.
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  Speaker 3: That would be great. All right. Proposition.
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  Speaker 1: California Proposition 42 prohibits new taxes on retirement holdings, personal assets, savings, etc.
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  Speaker 1: And limits retroactive taxes initiative. But wait a second. California
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  Speaker 1: Prop 40 says exactly the opposite. It's a one-time wealth
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  Speaker 1: for the state for billionaires. One-time 5%. tax on any
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  Speaker 1: assets over over a billion dollars. But Prop 42 goes
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  Speaker 1: the other way, says you can't do it. You prohibit
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  Speaker 1: new taxes. OK, so you've got two completely conflicting proposition,
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  Speaker 1: which does happen occasionally.
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  Speaker 3: So who wins out?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's easy if one gets over 50% of.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: The vote and the other one does not.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: But what if they both get over 50% of the vote?
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: Because you're voting on two different propositions. Now what happens?
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  Speaker 1: Well, if someone gets 55% of the vote, if one
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: proposition gets 55% of the vote or another one gets 52%
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  Speaker 1: of the vote, The 55% that is superior and the
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  Speaker 1: other one disappears because you can't have no new taxes
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: and the exact opposite saying new taxes. So we have
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: opposing views. Propositions. And I believe if you look at
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: what's going on right now, the billionaire tax actually is
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  Speaker 1: underwater right now. California voters are saying, you know, a
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: one time tax for billionaires.
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  Speaker 3: Come on.
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  Speaker 1: How much are we going to tax? First of all,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know how many people believe one-time tax. Every
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: time you hear, if a politician says only this once,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: if a politician says this tax will disappear in five years.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: Now you're talking to someone who is lying to you.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: And how do you know that a lie is coming
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  Speaker 1: out of this politician's mouth? Well, if the lips are moving,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: the lie is on the table. And that is the
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: way we work. And let's always talk about the ads
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: you see. The ads obfuscate.
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  Speaker 3: They lie.
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  Speaker 1: They do things like, oh, we're only going to tax
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  Speaker 1: once and don't believe anybody that says that we're going
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  Speaker 1: to increase the tax.
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  Speaker 3: It's only this once. It's not another one. Okay. You
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: believe it? Sure.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll do more about that. More propositions. What's going on?
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  Speaker 1: And what do we have here? Oh, a couple of
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: races I'll talk about when we come back. in terms
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: of the polls that are going around the country. By
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: the way, the latest poll, and I think CNN did it,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: shows that the Democrats are moving further ahead across the country.
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  Speaker 1: And I'd like to see some internal polls of the Republicans,
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  Speaker 1: because those internal polls always are more optimistic, always.
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  Speaker 3: Which one do you believe? Yeah, we don't know until
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: the vote is counted. We really don't know. Okay, coming up,
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: am I doing that? Yeah, I am.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: The baby bust, forcing a real reckoning at public schools.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: I've done a little bit of that before, but I
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: want to expand on that story when we return. This
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