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"Handel on the Polls" - Props 5, 37, 38, 39 · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM 640, the Bill Handel Show
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  Speaker 2: Less than a week to go before the midterms.
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  Speaker 3: I see some... And Amy and I were talking about
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  Speaker 3: bush in Africa and how I took advantage of the
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  Speaker 3: technology there. And it's kind of a fun video, actually,
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  Speaker 3: if you will. OK, what happened yesterday? The Israeli elections.
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  Speaker 3: And there was a lot of talk about Netanyahu being
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  Speaker 3: tossed as prime minister and Israel is going to change dramatically.
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  Speaker 3: And they're looking at very, very Very big stuff going
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  Speaker 3: on in Israel, much like we did when Donald Trump
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  Speaker 3: was elected. And that is, was the United States going
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  Speaker 3: to move in a different direction?
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  Speaker 2: We did.
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  Speaker 3: Israel, is it going to move in a different direction?
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  Speaker 3: Is it going to be effectively a secular government? Or
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  Speaker 3: is it going to move towards not particularly religious, but
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  Speaker 3: politics of the religious, ultra-nationalist, orthodox religion? politics in which
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  Speaker 3: those particular groups of people have enormous power. And why
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  Speaker 3: do they do that? Well, because no party wins enough
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  Speaker 3: seats to create a majority, and you need a majority
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  Speaker 3: in Israel to govern the country. And you need 61
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  Speaker 3: seats in the Knesset, their parliament. Well, there's never been
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  Speaker 3: a government that has gotten 61 seats. So what happens?
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  Speaker 3: There's a bunch of parties out there And you have
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  Speaker 3: usually the winner of the most seats then puts together
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  Speaker 3: a government. And so much like England, it's the president
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  Speaker 3: of Israel calls the prime minister and says, put together
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  Speaker 3: a government. And those are the politics. And they go
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  Speaker 3: to different parties. So right now, the Likud party, which
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  Speaker 3: controls Israel, that's the majority party with other parties attached,
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  Speaker 3: is connected to Israel. the ultra-Orthodox. The ultra-Orthodox joins the
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  Speaker 3: Likud party and all of a sudden 61 seats, which
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  Speaker 3: means the leader of the Likud party, Benjamin Netanyahu, now
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  Speaker 3: is the prime minister. And the way it works is
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  Speaker 3: you have these other parties that join the majority saying, okay,
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  Speaker 3: we'll join if you give us the defense department, if
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  Speaker 3: you give us housing, if you give us the judicial department.
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  Speaker 3: And that's how you have members of the cabinet that
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  Speaker 3: are totally disparate and at odds with the government in place.
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  Speaker 3: And so it's really interesting stuff how that works. So
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  Speaker 3: Netanyahu was going to lose, everybody thought, and he ended
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  Speaker 3: up not losing. And so what does that mean? Well,
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  Speaker 3: once again, his party got the most votes, although well
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  Speaker 3: short of 61. And now it's weeks of negotiations. that
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  Speaker 3: he is going to have with other parties to join
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  Speaker 3: him in trying to figure out exactly how they're going
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  Speaker 3: to govern. And when we talk about weeks of negotiations, policy, personnel,
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  Speaker 3: who's going to be in the cabinet, which positions, who
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  Speaker 3: are going to be the assistants, who's going to have control,
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  Speaker 3: it's very complicated stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And you just take weeks and weeks.
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  Speaker 3: One of the problems, for example, and this is what
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  Speaker 3: pisses off many, many Israelis, is because the prevailing party,
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  Speaker 3: in this case Likud, needs the ultra-nationalists. And the ultra-nationalists,
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  Speaker 3: the ultra-Orthodox, all they care about is their religion.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. They don't care about anything else.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the ultra-Orthodox or the nationalists care about Palestine never
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  Speaker 3: becoming a state, the settlements on the West Bank exploding
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  Speaker 3: like crazy, that Arabs have no rights whatsoever. And we're
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  Speaker 3: going to make damn sure that people from Gaza and
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  Speaker 3: the West Bank are treated like absolute crap, which is
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  Speaker 3: the case. And so one of the major parties out there,
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  Speaker 3: you know, there are Arab parties in Israel, that Israel
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  Speaker 3: has 20% Arab citizens. Because much like most countries in
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  Speaker 3: the world, if you're born in Israel, you're a citizen
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  Speaker 3: of Israel, whether you're Arab or not.
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  Speaker 2: So there are Arab parties. And it could be, and
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  Speaker 2: it's looking like that.
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  Speaker 3: The opposition candidate to Benjamin Netanyahu, Gadi Eisenkot, may very
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  Speaker 3: well put together a cobbling its organization.
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  Speaker 2: With Arab parties. And so it's insane.
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  Speaker 3: One of the things about the religious parties is that
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  Speaker 3: young men and women are exempt from military service. Because
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  Speaker 3: they are religious. And if you're religious and you study
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  Speaker 3: the Torah, if you study the five books, and that's
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  Speaker 3: what you do. I mean, you don't go to that university.
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  Speaker 3: It's studying in religious school, studying. It's like Bible studies.
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  Speaker 3: And all you do is study Bible. Well, those people
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  Speaker 3: involved in that are exempt from military service.
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  Speaker 2: And that's a huge issue.
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  Speaker 3: And at one point, for example, every hotel, every restaurant
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  Speaker 3: in Israel was official, licensed, had to be kosher. And
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  Speaker 3: at one point, El Al, the Israeli airline, in order
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  Speaker 3: to keep the Sabbath, every single airplane that El Al
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  Speaker 3: owned had to be on the ground Friday night for
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  Speaker 3: the Sabbath. Had to be on the ground and not
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  Speaker 3: flying wherever and whatever time zone there was. And how
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  Speaker 3: did they get around it? Well, you always find a
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  Speaker 3: way to get around it. And what El Al did
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  Speaker 3: was they leased their planes to another organization that was private,
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  Speaker 3: not controlled by the government.
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  Speaker 2: And same planes, same staff, same pilots.
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  Speaker 3: It's just on Friday night to Saturday night, it was
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  Speaker 3: another organization flying El Al airplanes. And it used to
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  Speaker 3: be that the pilots would change uniforms.
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  Speaker 2: And that got to be a little bit too complicated.
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  Speaker 3: So what happens on Friday night, the name tags, instead
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  Speaker 3: of saying El Al, they say something else. And airplanes
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  Speaker 3: are allowed to fly. Same thing in hotels. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you can't, Orthodox Jews, and this was a law in Israel,
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  Speaker 3: you cannot push a button to go from room to
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  Speaker 3: room in a hotel with an elevator. So what the
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  Speaker 3: elevators did is they were automatic, stopped at every floor,
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  Speaker 3: up and down so you didn't have to push a button.
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  Speaker 3: That's the other thing that Orthodox Jewry tells us is
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  Speaker 3: that you cannot do any work on the Sabbath. And
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  Speaker 3: then there are books, thousands of books written about what
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  Speaker 3: exactly is work. Is striking a match considered work? Yes,
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  Speaker 3: which is why you can't cook from the Sabbath. You
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  Speaker 3: can't turn on a light bulb. It has to be
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  Speaker 3: all timed with timers.
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  Speaker 2: It's insanity. It really is.
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  Speaker 3: It's just completely crazy. But the point is, back to
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  Speaker 3: what happened, nothing really happened. Nothing really changed. It's going
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  Speaker 3: to be more difficult for Netanyahu. He'll form a government,
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  Speaker 3: and it'll be exactly the same as it is.
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  Speaker 2: Now until the next election period. So much for that. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: let's get local here with our elections. Orange County.
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  Speaker 3: Election officials say that the feds, federal agents, delivered them
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  Speaker 3: a letter saying, here is how you are going to
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  Speaker 3: handle our requests in terms of voting.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, it hasn't stopped. California DOJ, let's go to work.
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  Speaker 4: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 3: Neil is, as he always does on Saturday, hosts the
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  Speaker 3: Fork Report podcast. And coming up on November 14th on
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  Speaker 3: a Saturday is going to be a very special broadcast
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  Speaker 3: because it's thanks grilling that he does every year. And
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  Speaker 3: that will be at the Wild Fork store in Laguna
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  Speaker 3: Niguel in Orange County.
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  Speaker 2: And I join.
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  Speaker 3: So come on, join us. And oh, they're going to
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  Speaker 3: give out samples. But man, when thanks grilling gives out samples,
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  Speaker 3: come really hungry.
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  Speaker 2: Because it is these are not Costco.
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  Speaker 3: Samples that all the Korean ladies are fighting for and
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  Speaker 3: shoving you out of the way. This is some seriously
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  Speaker 3: good stuff and a lot of it. OK, let me
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  Speaker 3: go into politics a little bit. And the ongoing war,
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  Speaker 3: of course, between the. Federal government, the state of California, L.A. County,
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  Speaker 3: the city of L.A. Well, it's not just those entities.
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  Speaker 3: How about Orange County? That's right in there. But wait,
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  Speaker 3: isn't Orange County all red? And why would the feds
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  Speaker 3: want to go against Orange County in any election process? Well,
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  Speaker 3: first of all, Orange County is purple now. And here's
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  Speaker 3: what happened. Bob Page, who's the Orange County registrar of voters...
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  Speaker 3: Said that two federal agents hand delivered a letter to
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  Speaker 3: him with a data storage drive, a little thumb drive.
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  Speaker 3: And the DOJ had delivered the same thing to another
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  Speaker 3: official who didn't even oversee elections because, frankly, they.
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  Speaker 2: Don't know what they're doing.
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  Speaker 3: And he said, County Council is evaluating the requests made
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  Speaker 3: by the Department of Justice. So Page emails his statement.
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  Speaker 3: He attaches a letter from the DOJ. And it obviously
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  Speaker 3: becomes very public. And it was delivered. This letter was
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  Speaker 3: delivered to Orange County clerk recorder Hugh Wynn, but with
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  Speaker 3: Monday's date and it's now addressed to Page. So there's
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of a screw up, but they got
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  Speaker 3: it to the right person. And so here's what the
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  Speaker 3: letter asks for, the DOJ, for help in determining the
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  Speaker 3: citizenship status of 1754 people that the feds had identified
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  Speaker 3: as likely aliens. Within 45 hours, you have to identify
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  Speaker 3: those people. And if you can't determine the citizenship, what
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  Speaker 3: the feds are asking is that Orange County officials.
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  Speaker 2: Segregate, not cancel, but segregate.
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  Speaker 3: The vote by mail ballot until their citizenship can be determined.
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  Speaker 3: And the county at this point says, you know what?
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  Speaker 3: We don't even know what you mean. Identified as possible non-citizens? How?
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  Speaker 3: Why 1754 as opposed to 1755?
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  Speaker 2: Where'd you get those numbers?
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  Speaker 3: Same thing the judge said in the case against California
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  Speaker 3: with the 20,000 ballots.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you say they're illegal or they may be illegal
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  Speaker 2: based on what? How about some proof?
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  Speaker 3: No, no, we just determined that they're illegal and you
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  Speaker 3: have to do the full investigation. So in response to
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  Speaker 3: the letter, Orange County officials said, we haven't formulated a
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  Speaker 3: specific approach in terms of responding to the letter. That
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  Speaker 3: 48-hour timeline, where did that come from? Whether to comply,
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  Speaker 3: how to comply. And Page said, this is a deadline
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  Speaker 3: that's not enforceable. It's just a deadline.
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  Speaker 2: They're saying in the letter. Bottom line, we don't want
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  Speaker 2: non-citizens to be voting in this election.
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  Speaker 3: But at the same time, we don't know how reliable
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  Speaker 3: this list is for Orange County. We even haven't had
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  Speaker 3: a chance to look at it. Now, the 20,000 votes,
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  Speaker 3: as you know, the feds, the DOJ, has asked the
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  Speaker 3: Court of Appeals to agree to the state segregating 20,000
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  Speaker 3: votes until those citizens or those people are determined to
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  Speaker 3: be citizens or not. And the court said, no, the
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  Speaker 3: appeals court said, we're not going to do it. We'll
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  Speaker 3: make a decision later, but we're not going to make
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  Speaker 3: a decision right now. It's just not going to happen.
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 2: Same thing.
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  Speaker 3: You are saying these are 20,000 people that you have
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  Speaker 3: doubts as to their citizenship and you want these votes segregated.
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  Speaker 3: These mail-in ballots segregated, not necessarily not counted, just segregated.
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  Speaker 3: So I guess they might not be counted. And the
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  Speaker 3: appeals court said the same thing, is where.
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  Speaker 2: Did you get $ 20, 000? How did you get this $ 20, 000 figure?
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  Speaker 3: Why $ 20, 000? And maybe not 21,000 come up with it.
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  Speaker 3: Give me give me some reason for doing this. And
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  Speaker 3: all the Fed's Department of Justice says is we have
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  Speaker 3: reason to believe. OK, now what? And then also the
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  Speaker 3: government on a 20,000 ballot issue kind of blew it
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  Speaker 3: because they went to the lower court to get the
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  Speaker 3: injunction to get the restraining order as to the 20,000.
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  Speaker 2: And the lower court didn't rule on it, said they
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  Speaker 2: were ruling it later.
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  Speaker 3: And then the Department of Justice went to the appellate
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  Speaker 3: court and the appellate court said, we don't have a ruling.
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  Speaker 3: Explain how you can appeal something that hasn't been decided.
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  Speaker 3: We'd really like to know that one. But, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's the ongoing fight in terms of the Orange County
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  Speaker 3: in this case, strangely enough, and the state of California
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  Speaker 3: and L.A., and the rest of the country in determining
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  Speaker 3: the votes and how the Department of Justice can stop
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  Speaker 3: votes or try to stop votes that it deemed are
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  Speaker 3: either Democrat or leaning Democrat. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to talk about the props coming up next.
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  Speaker 3: That's one big issue to talk about, and that is citizens,
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  Speaker 3: non-citizens voting, counting them, basically citizen ID. And I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to take a spin on it that is kind of surprising,
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  Speaker 3: even for me. So I'll deal with that coming up.
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  Speaker 3: The propositions.
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  Speaker 4: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 2: Coming up, it's going to be a busy week.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to be talking a fair amount about politics
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  Speaker 3: because our midterm election is coming up.
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  Speaker 2: And it's a big one. It is a big one.
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  Speaker 3: And we often hear politicians of both sides or all
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  Speaker 3: sides say, This election coming up is the most momentous
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  Speaker 3: election in the history of the United States. Well, sometimes
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  Speaker 3: there are really important ones, and this one happens to
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  Speaker 3: be that one. The most momentous? I don't know, but
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  Speaker 3: certainly hugely important. Okay, so a few things about California.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going through this every day until the election, and
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  Speaker 3: that is going through the propositions. As I explained yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: propositions are an interesting bit of politics in California. This
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  Speaker 3: is where the people directly pass laws. not just the legislature.
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  Speaker 3: And the reason that they came into being is because
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  Speaker 3: the legislature used to be so corrupt. Now we're going
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  Speaker 3: back a hundred and something years that the proposition system.
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  Speaker 2: Came into play.
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  Speaker 3: Now the props are so corrupt and it's the legislative,
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  Speaker 3: the legislative bodies that are not as.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. So let's go into a few of these. All right.
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  Speaker 2: As a backstory before I do, I'm going to throw
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  Speaker 2: some numbers at you. Okay. You'll see.
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  Speaker 3: And a lot of these propositions are bond sales. In
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  Speaker 3: other words, the state of California is offering X number
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  Speaker 3: of bonds that it pays.
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  Speaker 2: It's like treasury bills, except it's the state of California.
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  Speaker 3: It sells the bonds, you buy the bonds, it pays
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  Speaker 3: you interest, and the bond is good for 25 years,
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  Speaker 3: usually 20, 25 years, 30 years. And there's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of those going out because every time we talk about propositions,
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  Speaker 3: guess what it is? Usually is a bond measure. We're
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  Speaker 3: going to sell bonds to create this agency to pay
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  Speaker 3: for this, to pay for that. So here is the number.
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  Speaker 3: Right now, it is owed about $ 70 billion in bond
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  Speaker 3: payments that are out there, or bonds that we owe money.
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  Speaker 3: $ 37 billion have been authorized, but not sold, because it's
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  Speaker 3: a two-step process.
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  Speaker 2: The voters authorize, and then the bond actually has to
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  Speaker 2: be sold. And sometimes it's not easy to do with.
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  Speaker 3: Now, debt service every year is about $ 6 billion that
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  Speaker 3: we pay. I mean, it seems like a lot of
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  Speaker 3: money that we're paying in interest. Uh, but the point
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  Speaker 3: is our budget is $ 351 billion. So six out of
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  Speaker 3: three 51 is not very high.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: So, uh, let's go through a few of them. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm going to go through, uh, until Monday, uh,
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  Speaker 3: where I'm going to talk about them. Uh, prop 37, uh,
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  Speaker 3: this is the second mortgage home buyer program and revenue
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  Speaker 3: bond initiative. So bonds are going to be sold, in
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  Speaker 3: this case, $ 25 billion in bonds. And this establishes a
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  Speaker 3: second mortgage homebuyer program to qualified homebuyers, which means they
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  Speaker 3: have to meet certain limits of income, et cetera, and
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  Speaker 3: live in a certain area for a period of time.
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  Speaker 3: And the limit is at or below 200% of the
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  Speaker 3: median income for the same size family in that county
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  Speaker 3: or city. They will, this bond measure, will provide a
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  Speaker 3: down payment of at least 3% of the purchase price
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  Speaker 3: of a home, which a lot of mortgages are 3%
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  Speaker 3: or less, or you can get 3%, 5%, for example.
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  Speaker 3: There's some 5%, some are 10%.
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  Speaker 2: Well, 3% is not bad.
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  Speaker 3: And this is going to help those people to help
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  Speaker 3: just the housing. Does it make sense?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it does.
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  Speaker 3: Should we borrow money to help people out? And here again,
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  Speaker 3: we're talking about how much do we borrow and do
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  Speaker 3: we want to get housing going and do we kickstart
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  Speaker 3: it and what do we do?
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  Speaker 2: Well, another $ 25 billion?
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  Speaker 3: No. I think there are other ways of going about it.
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  Speaker 3: And there's just only so much we can borrow. Now,
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  Speaker 3: all of these programs are good programs in the sense
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  Speaker 3: they do good things. You know, the heart's in the
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  Speaker 3: right place. Let's help the poor. Let's help the disenfranchised.
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  Speaker 3: Let's help people own homes, buy homes. The point is,
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  Speaker 3: where do you draw the line? Well, according to these
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  Speaker 3: folks that are constantly putting up the proposition, there is
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  Speaker 3: no line ever. You just keep on selling, borrowing, selling
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  Speaker 3: to effectuate these programs. Okay, so I'm voting no on
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  Speaker 3: that one. Then here's another one of those, Prop 38,
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  Speaker 3: the Immunology and Immunotherapy Research Funding Initiative, $ 8. 4 billion in
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  Speaker 3: obligation bonds to sell to fund immunology and immunotherapy research.
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  Speaker 3: And this one requires the state to enter into a
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  Speaker 3: partnership with and it hasn't been named yet. It'll be
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  Speaker 3: up to the board that is going to be created.
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  Speaker 3: It will be a partnership, the state, with an immunology
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  Speaker 3: and immunotherapy research institute affiliated with the UC, University of California,
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  Speaker 3: and it'll get half of the money so that research
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  Speaker 3: can continue. And the remaining funds will go for grants
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  Speaker 3: to California-based public and nonprofit medical institutions.
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  Speaker 2: And so what does it do? Well, two things.
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  Speaker 3: Number one, it authorizes a ton of money, $ 8. 4 billion.
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  Speaker 3: And it says that that money will be spent for
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  Speaker 3: this kind of medical research.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a big fan of research.
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  Speaker 3: And it's going to the state is going to partner
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  Speaker 3: up with organizations associated with the UC system and or
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  Speaker 3: will simply grant money.
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  Speaker 2: To research organizations.
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  Speaker 3: And it's just another grant system because most of these
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  Speaker 3: research folks, they're given money by the feds or the
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  Speaker 3: state through a grant program. And these were cut drastically
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  Speaker 3: by the Trump administration because, well, social programs aren't as important. Well,
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  Speaker 3: to the state of California, these social programs are important.
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  Speaker 3: And so are another $ 8.
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  Speaker 2: 4 billion to be sold.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, You know, I'm all over the place with these
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  Speaker 3: votes because in some places I consider myself pretty conservative
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  Speaker 3: and others pretty liberal. But when it comes to medical research,
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  Speaker 3: immunology and immunotherapy, I think we can do a whole
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  Speaker 3: lot better in terms of giving people a quality of life.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm going to vote yes on this one.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, another bond. Now coming back, and this one.
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  Speaker 3: Is a big one that is hugely important in one
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  Speaker 3: way and it's not in another way. It's rather strange.
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  Speaker 2: It's a contradiction in terms.
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  Speaker 3: And that's Prop 39, Voter ID Citizenship Verification Registered Voter
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  Speaker 3: List Administration Initiative. Yep, that's the one that is politically fraught.
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  Speaker 3: And it just drips with politics. And I'll dive into that.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll give you an explanation of which way I'm
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: voting and why. And I think it's a different spin
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  Speaker 3: on it. We'll be right back.
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  Speaker 4: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 3: Six more days and then we have, of course, the
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: midterm election, which I'll be talking about and reporting on
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Wednesday as we dive into it. A couple of things
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: are going on right now. Trending Israel's vote count is underway.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: 70 percent of the vote counted and it looks like
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: a deadlock and it looks like there's going to be
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: no majority government. And it looks like Netanyahu is running.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: probably going to create another government. Can someone mute over there, please?
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: And then in Spain, 64 people killed in a high-speed
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: train accident where a high-speed train, these are north of 200.
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  Speaker 2: Miles per hour, collided with another train. No fun there.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Now, going and we're going to finish up today's analysis
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  Speaker 3: of propositions. And this one is sort of important, but
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: not really. And I'm going to tell you which way
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to vote and why. This is Prop 39,
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  Speaker 3: the Voter ID Citizenship Verification and Registered Voter List Administration Initiative.
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  Speaker 3: And what it does is require voters, if it passes,
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  Speaker 3: to present a government-issued ID for in-person voting or providing
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  Speaker 3: the last four digits of a government-issued ID designated during
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  Speaker 3: the voter registration for mail-in voting or And the election
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  Speaker 3: officials have to maintain accurate voter registration lists. Now, since
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: the states determine how elections are held, this one has
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  Speaker 3: some teeth. This one votes and the election officials have
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  Speaker 3: to do exactly what this proposition says. And it requires
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: the state-audited government compliance. And of course, a no vote
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  Speaker 3: means everything stays the same. Voters not required to present
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  Speaker 3: government-issued ID when voting. They still have to attest citizenship
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  Speaker 3: under penalty of perjury. Say, yep, I'm a citizen. And
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  Speaker 3: when registering, provide some kind of identifying information which election
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  Speaker 3: officials are not required to use. OK, there it's wide open.
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  Speaker 3: So let me ask you a question. And this is
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  Speaker 3: to counter fraud. Reality is there is no widespread fraud.
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  Speaker 2: There really isn't. This is a political red herring.
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  Speaker 3: And this all became huge as the president is talking
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  Speaker 3: about voter fraud and filing lawsuits against California, L.A. County,
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  Speaker 3: all on the argument of voter fraud, which really doesn't exist. Well,
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  Speaker 3: what was the election of 2020?
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  Speaker 2: It was rigged.
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 3: Because of voter fraud. Why do Republicans lose? Because of
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: voter fraud. Well, the reality is there is none or
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: certainly not widespread. Of course, with 150 million votes, you're
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: going to find an example or two of fraud, but
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: nothing widespread.
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  Speaker 2: We know that. However, I'm voting in favor of it.
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 3: Why am I voting in favor of a proposition that
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: is political in nature? That's promoted by people who I
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: don't believe their premise at all. And they're using it
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: for simply political purposes. Do they really care? I don't
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  Speaker 3: think so. They care that their own people are not
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  Speaker 3: being elected. And they're using this as basically an excuse.
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 3: Why am I voting in favor of it? Why am
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: I agreeing with those people? And I'll tell you why.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just sick and tired of hearing voter fraud. I'm
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: up to my eyeballs in hearing about voter fraud, voter fraud,
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  Speaker 3: voter fraud. And here's what we have to do. You
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  Speaker 3: have to show ID. Okay, how big a deal is
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  Speaker 3: to have ID? Just, okay, bring up ID. Make it mandatory. Well,
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: poor people aren't going to be able to vote, and
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: it disenfranchises poor people.
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  Speaker 2: How many?
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  Speaker 3: We don't know. You know, it's all up in the air.
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  Speaker 3: No one has any idea. And the reason I'm voting
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  Speaker 3: in favor is just to remove one of the bricks
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  Speaker 3: that are being used to hold up this voter fraud business.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. That's just one less argument that you have.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: It's that simple. Okay, you got it.
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  Speaker 3: This is going to stop voter fraud, which really doesn't
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  Speaker 3: exist en masse as a widespread issue. But if it
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  Speaker 3: makes you happy and you can shut up about voter
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  Speaker 3: fraud that doesn't exist, you can have it. It's small potatoes.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: Now let's move on to stuff that is really serious. Hey,
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  Speaker 3: stop this voter fraud business. You know, immigration, massive numbers
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  Speaker 3: of jobs are being taken away from Americans because of immigration.
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  Speaker 2: No, no. What numbers? Oh, we don't know the numbers.
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  Speaker 2: Do we have any idea? Millions and millions of.
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  Speaker 3: People are coming over the border every day, every week.
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  Speaker 3: The Mexicans are rapists.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Really? OK, so you found one or two or a dozen.
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  Speaker 3: I just want to take away some some of this
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  Speaker 3: ammunition that's being used and get down to some real,
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  Speaker 3: real issues.
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  Speaker 2: And voter fraud is not a real issue, but. OK, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you want to make it a big deal?
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  Speaker 3: All right.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Just OK. You got it. You got it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm voting in favor for it. So that's a yes
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  Speaker 3: vote for that initiative.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: Coming up, drones and the police department. Let me tell
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: you about how controversial that is. And we're going to
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: talk about that for a while because this issue is
• 27:02
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