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"Handel on the Polls" - Props 2, 3, 4 · 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 1: on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 2: One week to go before the midterm election here. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to be covering that big time. Now, the
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  Speaker 2: also big time, and it actually affects us pretty deeply,
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  Speaker 2: more so than I think ever before, is the vote
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  Speaker 2: in Israel. It's going on right now, today. And it
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  Speaker 2: ends at, what, 3 o'clock our time, 2 o'clock our time?
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  Speaker 2: All right. Because, what, they're nine hours ahead of us.
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  Speaker 2: And I thought I want to start before I dive
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  Speaker 2: into the political stuff and what it means and how
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  Speaker 2: it affects, actually, the entire Mideast.
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  Speaker 3: I would even say the world. It's an important, important vote.
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  Speaker 2: I thought I would just have a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: fun and tell you a little bit of not only history,
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  Speaker 2: but current events. Now, Amy pointed out this morning that
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  Speaker 2: in Israel, the vote has to be in person, right?
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  Speaker 3: There is no other way.
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  Speaker 2: To vote but walk up to a voting booth on
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  Speaker 2: the day of the election today and vote. Well, there
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  Speaker 2: are a whole lot of Israeli citizens that live overseas, expats.
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  Speaker 2: In the United States, there's hundreds of thousands of Israelis.
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  Speaker 2: And so since the vote takes place in Israel, about
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  Speaker 2: 60,000 are flying back to Israel. And yesterday I did
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  Speaker 2: a story on Israel. a nonprofit that helps people fly back. Netanyahu,
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  Speaker 2: who is an acolyte of President Trump, they have actually
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  Speaker 2: been separated at birth.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, he went to court to try to stop.
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  Speaker 2: That, the nonprofit from helping Israelis come into Israel to vote,
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  Speaker 2: because the assumption is correctly that these people are coming
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  Speaker 2: to vote not for Netanyahu, but to overthrow Netanyahu. They're
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  Speaker 2: not big fans. Okay, so with that in mind, the
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  Speaker 2: vast majority use El Al Airlines. The Israeli airlines. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you've ever had the joy of
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  Speaker 2: flying Israeli airlines. You have never, ever seen security like
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  Speaker 2: you see on that airplane.
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  Speaker 3: First of all, all it's intimidating. It is super intimidating.
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  Speaker 2: All international flights have an air marshal aboard armed. And
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  Speaker 2: you don't know whether it's a businessman flying first class,
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  Speaker 2: a tourist flying coach, an ultra-Orthodox Jew who is in
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  Speaker 2: the back, who is dressed in the black suit, white shirt,
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  Speaker 2: the hat, and the side curls going down the side
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  Speaker 2: of his face with his beard. That could also be
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  Speaker 2: an air marshal. And the other thing I remember when
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  Speaker 2: I went on LL, I'll never forget the pilot. saying,
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  Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen, thank you for flying El Al. Today
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  Speaker 2: we're going to be flying at 35,000 feet, but for you, 32,000.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Don't forget to tip the waiters
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  Speaker 2: on the way out. Now, the security, as Neil has
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  Speaker 2: also suggested, let me tell you how insane it is.
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  Speaker 2: You go to, before you board the airplane, you have
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  Speaker 2: a security check. And these are tables like Costco tables.
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  Speaker 2: And you're asked to dump everything out. I mean, everybody
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  Speaker 2: throws everything out and they open every single suitcase. Everything
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  Speaker 2: is being brought up aboard the that you're bringing aboard
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  Speaker 2: the airplane. And what they do if you're a married couple,
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  Speaker 2: they separate you and ask the same questions. What toothpaste
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  Speaker 2: do you use? How long you've been married?
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  Speaker 3: Where do you live?
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  Speaker 2: Because terrorists have been known to be couples together to
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  Speaker 2: try to fool the airline. Also, they'll actually take toothpaste
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  Speaker 2: tubes and squeeze toothpaste out of them to make sure
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  Speaker 2: they're full of toothpaste. And when I took my little
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  Speaker 2: ones on our first trip to Israel, and they were
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  Speaker 2: five months old, so we had boxes of Pampers. And
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  Speaker 2: they opened up the box of Pampers. You know how
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  Speaker 2: it explodes out? Took two out, took a box cutter,
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  Speaker 2: opened two of them, sliced open the Pampers to see
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  Speaker 2: if the padding had any explosives in it. And then
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to repack. You ever try to repack Pampers
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  Speaker 2: into the box? And I said, how do I repack this?
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  Speaker 2: They threw me a roll of duct tape and said, hey,
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  Speaker 2: you figure it out. It was absolutely brutal. And they
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  Speaker 2: tell you three hours? No, three hours doesn't cut it.
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  Speaker 2: You want more than three hours to go there. It
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  Speaker 2: is insane security. Okay, that's just a story I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to share with you about flying on LL Airlines, 60,000
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  Speaker 2: American Israelis have flown into Israel.
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  Speaker 3: It's one of the few countries that won't.
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  Speaker 2: Even let Israeli citizens go to the consulate of the
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  Speaker 2: city they live in.
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  Speaker 3: You can't go to the American consulate in L.A. and vote.
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  Speaker 2: You have to go back to Israel. Okay, so what
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  Speaker 2: is going on with Israel? Well, right now, here are
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  Speaker 2: the questions that Israel is facing. The wars, unresolved wars, Hezbollah,
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  Speaker 2: the Houthis, Iran, certainly what's going on in Gaza, reeling
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  Speaker 2: from the 2023 Hamas attacks in Israel, the terrorist attack
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  Speaker 2: that killed 1,250 Israelis, 250 were kidnapped. And they have
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  Speaker 2: to figure out which way the character of this country
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  Speaker 2: is going to go. Is it going to go back
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  Speaker 2: to a liberal state? Western secular country, or is it
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  Speaker 2: going to swing right, which it has been, into an ultra-nationalist,
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  Speaker 2: hugely religious organization, a theocracy, effectively. And this is the
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  Speaker 2: vote that's going to make one or the other. That's
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  Speaker 2: why it's so important. It's the very nature of the
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  Speaker 2: country that's at risk here. And then, of course, who
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  Speaker 2: is the right person to lead it? So you have
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  Speaker 2: the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is looking at how does
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  Speaker 2: he keep his government together? Something about the Israeli government.
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  Speaker 2: It's a parliamentary system, which means the prime minister is
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  Speaker 2: not elected by the people. The prime minister is chosen
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  Speaker 2: by the party. And there has never been a party
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  Speaker 2: in Israel that has had a majority in the Knesset,
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  Speaker 2: their legislature. So the only way that a certain party,
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  Speaker 2: a certain prime minister can stay in power is to
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  Speaker 2: cobble together various parties. And you've had liberal governments put
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  Speaker 2: together ultra conservative parties and to cobble together some kind
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  Speaker 2: of a majority. And the ultra-nationalist parties, it used to
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  Speaker 2: be all they cared about was the religious aspect.
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  Speaker 3: That's it.
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  Speaker 2: We don't care about the politics. We don't care about anything.
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  Speaker 2: Just keep the country religiously very conservative. For example, one
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  Speaker 2: of the issues, people who study the Torah. We're not
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  Speaker 2: talking about going to university. We're not talking about going
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  Speaker 2: to secular schools. We're talking about these religious schools where
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  Speaker 2: these Jewish boys study the Torah, study the five books
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  Speaker 2: of Moses. It's a total religious school. They are exempt
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  Speaker 2: from being in the army. They don't have to go
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  Speaker 2: to the army. Israel has a conscription system. Every single
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  Speaker 2: Israeli is drafted. at the age of 18 years old.
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  Speaker 2: For women, it's two years in the army. For men,
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  Speaker 2: it is three years in the army. That's absolutely, that's
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  Speaker 2: set in stone, except for those that are studying the Torah.
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  Speaker 3: They are exempt.
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  Speaker 2: And I remember talking to a rabbi and I said,
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  Speaker 2: don't you think that's kind of unfair?
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  Speaker 3: Don't you think.
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  Speaker 2: That you're asking people to put their lives on the
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  Speaker 2: table And to support your ability to go, wouldn't you
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  Speaker 2: think your guys should also be drafted? And the rabbi
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  Speaker 2: said that the people that study the Torah are as
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  Speaker 2: important to the state of Israel as those who fight.
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  Speaker 2: That's what God wants. They want the army. God wants
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  Speaker 2: the army as well as people who study and therefore
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  Speaker 2: people who study are exempt. That's still going on today.
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  Speaker 2: And the people of Israel are nuts about that. That's
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  Speaker 2: a huge contention, especially families who have lost their kids
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  Speaker 2: looking down the street at a what they're called headers,
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  Speaker 2: which are religious schools. And those and those boys never
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  Speaker 2: go into the army. They're never at risk. So that
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  Speaker 2: is one of the issues that is at play. And, well,
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you a little bit more about that because
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  Speaker 2: that's complicated. They're putting it all together and what's happening
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  Speaker 2: in Israel right now and Donald Trump's connection and Israel's
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  Speaker 2: connection and Israel's reputation around the world.
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  Speaker 3: This is what the vote is all about today.
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  Speaker 4: You're listening to Bill Handel on demand from KFI AM 640.
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  Speaker 3: One week from today, the midterms.
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  Speaker 2: And today we're, I mean, all week I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: be doing the voter guide, my voter guide, not telling
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  Speaker 2: you how to vote, just telling you how I'm voting
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  Speaker 2: and why. And that's coming up at the bottom of
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  Speaker 2: the hour. I'll be doing a couple of props every day.
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  Speaker 2: So hang on to that. Some news that we are following.
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  Speaker 2: The NFL announced that Jay-Z is going to be headlining
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  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl tomorrow. the halftime show on February 14th
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  Speaker 2: at SoFi. And Mayor Karen Bass has called for an
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  Speaker 2: independent audit of the DWP, the Los Angeles Department of
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  Speaker 2: Water and Power, because of the frustration over this insane
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  Speaker 2: hike in utility bills, trying to figure out what happened. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: the other huge news is what's going on in Israel,
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  Speaker 2: the vote today to see who is going to be
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  Speaker 2: the new prime minister. And as I said in the
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  Speaker 2: break previously, since there has never been a majority party vote,
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  Speaker 2: in Israel, and you need a majority in order to rule,
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  Speaker 2: what happens is somebody, the head of a party, in
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  Speaker 2: this case, Likud, Benjamin Netanyahu, cobbles together various factions. And
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  Speaker 2: there are different parties, and some are ultra-Orthodox Nationalist Party,
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  Speaker 2: and those are the ones that Netanyahu has been able
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  Speaker 2: to put together with Likud, his party. Now, it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be a sea change in Israel. Is the country
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  Speaker 2: going to move further right and become an ultra-nationalist party?
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  Speaker 2: Or is it going to go back to being a
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  Speaker 2: secular party or a secular country? And the sea change,
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  Speaker 2: I think the only comparison is when Donald Trump was
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  Speaker 2: elected president. That was a sea change in this country.
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  Speaker 2: He was able to change how America operates. Its view,
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  Speaker 2: its international relations, the economy, I mean, all of it.
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  Speaker 2: He was able to change. That is probably what's going
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  Speaker 2: to happen if Netanyahu stays as prime minister.
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  Speaker 3: The change is going to be, oh, it's going to
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  Speaker 3: be more right wing.
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  Speaker 2: And a lot of people are not happy with that
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  Speaker 2: at all. Israel right now, there's a security risk going on.
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  Speaker 2: The country is reeling from lack of intelligence. with the
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  Speaker 2: Hamas invasion, the terrorist invasion of October 7th. Israel has,
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  Speaker 2: if not the best, one of the best intelligence forces,
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  Speaker 2: intelligence organizations in the world, and they missed it completely
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  Speaker 2: October 7th, and the country is reeling from that.
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  Speaker 3: The country is.
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  Speaker 2: Reeling from the war in Iran. Look what happened with
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  Speaker 2: the war. Because keep in mind, the entire world is
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  Speaker 2: on oil prices, not just us. So there's a problem economically.
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  Speaker 2: Israel has this disparity between the ultra-Orthodox and the way
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  Speaker 2: the country is operated as they're not particularly powerful, the ultra-Orthodox,
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  Speaker 2: but they're enough there to to swing an election, to
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  Speaker 2: then join a government, join a party so that the
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  Speaker 2: leader of the party becomes the prime minister. It's exactly
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  Speaker 2: what's happening right now. And you've got Netanyahu who's moving
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  Speaker 2: over to the right to grab those people. And the
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  Speaker 2: country is moving in that direction, and a lot of
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  Speaker 2: Israelis— and most Israelis are not particularly religious, by the way.
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  Speaker 2: It's a pretty secular country, even though it is a theocracy.
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  Speaker 2: Israel has an official religion, and the religion is a
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  Speaker 2: Jewish state. But it's freedom of religion, like— Well, it's
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  Speaker 2: like England, where the Church of England, the Anglican religion,
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  Speaker 2: is the official religion of England. But who cares? Because
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  Speaker 2: every religion operates there. And the same thing in Israel.
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  Speaker 2: Every religion operates there. Unlike, for example, Iran or even
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  Speaker 2: the Arab states that are allies with the United States.
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  Speaker 2: Those religions are officially Islam and nobody else practices Islam.
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  Speaker 2: It's a very different kind of government.
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  Speaker 3: So it's also a chance.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, and the other thing I want to point out
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  Speaker 2: that makes it so unusual is that when a prime
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  Speaker 2: minister or a putative prime minister cobbles together these parties,
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  Speaker 2: it's not a prime minister who chooses his cabinet. It's
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  Speaker 2: a prime minister that says, if you join my government,
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  Speaker 2: you can have the defense department or the housing department.
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  Speaker 3: Or the judicial part of it.
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  Speaker 2: And quite often, the prime minister is at odds with
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  Speaker 2: whichever party cabinet, whatever cabinet position some party official has.
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  Speaker 2: And what's going on right now, the race is between Israel,
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  Speaker 2: or excuse me, Netanyahu, and a former chief of staff
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  Speaker 2: of the army. So we'll get the initial... Initial results
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  Speaker 2: probably later on tonight. They're nine hours ahead of us.
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  Speaker 2: The polls close in Israel 10 hours ahead of us,
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  Speaker 2: or nine hours ahead of us, 10 p.m. their time tonight.
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  Speaker 2: So we're going to get some results probably by mid-afternoon,
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  Speaker 2: at least initial results. And if not actual counting results,
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  Speaker 2: they follow the way we do campaigns. They have accepted
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  Speaker 2: or they now just follow our plans, follow the way
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  Speaker 2: we do it. For example, hiring consultants, bringing in media people.
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  Speaker 2: They never used to do that. Now, our example is
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  Speaker 2: set and they're becoming very American-like, at least in the campaign.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll talk more about that later on.
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  Speaker 3: In the meantime... How are we doing? OK. Oh, the props.
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  Speaker 2: Let me talk about props today. We're going to do two,
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  Speaker 2: three and four voters guide to proposition. And I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to tell you how I vote and why. And yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: I really surprised Amy with prop one.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll go through all of it.
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  Speaker 2: These props today and during the week, we'll add the
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  Speaker 2: other props.
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  Speaker 3: As we talk about them. Are you going to talk
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  Speaker 3: about 40?
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  Speaker 2: I'm assuming I'm going to talk about 40. I sort
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  Speaker 2: of have to because there are some pretty important ones
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  Speaker 2: out there and other ones. Well, today, for example, prop two,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to spend 30 seconds on because that's a given.
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  Speaker 3: So 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 2: Today is the Israeli election day. And to see who
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  Speaker 2: is going to be the prime minister and which way
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  Speaker 2: Israel is going to go. And, of course, next Tuesday,
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  Speaker 2: our election. And it's even though it's not a presidential.
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  Speaker 2: Let me tell you, it's an important, important race. Now, California,
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  Speaker 2: we have the proposition system. We have recalls, and this
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  Speaker 2: is where the people themselves make the vote. Now, the
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  Speaker 2: proposition system actually was created at the turn of the
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  Speaker 2: last century because the legislature was so corrupt that the
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  Speaker 2: prop system was created so people could directly vote for laws. Well,
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  Speaker 2: today it's the other way around, but nothing has changed.
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  Speaker 2: So what's happening with the props? Well, a fortune is
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  Speaker 2: being spent, and I'm going to go through some of
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  Speaker 2: them My voter guy this entire week. So yesterday I
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  Speaker 2: did Prop 1 and shockingly enough to Amy, I actually
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  Speaker 2: voted in favor of it.
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  Speaker 3: More taxes.
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  Speaker 2: To help the homeless and to help various programs, veterans,
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  Speaker 2: and that usually is not the case. But I said, okay,
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  Speaker 2: that one I'm going for. So let me go through
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  Speaker 2: another couple of props. Prop two, this is an easy one.
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  Speaker 2: What it does is double the amount of money in
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  Speaker 2: the reserves of California. California gets the vast majority of
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  Speaker 2: its income tax or vast majority of its revenue income tax,
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  Speaker 2: and there has to be reserves. And what this does,
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  Speaker 2: Prop 2, is just double those reserves to make sure
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  Speaker 2: that it's a rainy day fund. It doubles it. No
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  Speaker 2: real opposition there. Now we have Prop 3. And this
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  Speaker 2: one is one of those that really, really bugs me.
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  Speaker 2: Whether or not I'm in favor of the underlying premise. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: this has to do with... High income Californians. And there
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  Speaker 2: was a 2020-12 voter approved tax rate for the high
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  Speaker 2: income Californians. So just to make sure that the rich people,
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  Speaker 2: the very rich people, and we're talking about single filers. $ 371, 000.
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  Speaker 3: Or more.
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  Speaker 2: For joint filers, it's $ 742, 000 per year. And for heads
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  Speaker 2: of households, $ 505, 000.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So, I mean, these are people that have money that
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  Speaker 2: pay this extra tax. So in 2012, it was put
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  Speaker 2: into place because the economy was, we were not in
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  Speaker 2: good shape. So we needed more money. And what's the
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  Speaker 2: philosophy of Californians? When in doubt, simply start taxing. Tax,
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  Speaker 2: tax and tax again. And keep in mind, the Democrats
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  Speaker 2: control California and we are a super majority. So what
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  Speaker 2: we did is this was a voter approved tax rate
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  Speaker 2: in 2012 as a proposition. And it was this extra
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  Speaker 2: tax that was paid was a temporary tax. It was
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  Speaker 2: going to disappear in 2016 or 2018, and it was
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  Speaker 2: extended to 2030. Remember, this is a temporary tax. Well,
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  Speaker 2: here's what happens. There's no such thing as a temporary
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  Speaker 2: tax in this state. What happens is those people or
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  Speaker 2: the state relies on this extra money coming in.
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  Speaker 3: It becomes part of the income. of the state's revenue.
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  Speaker 2: And the state leaders don't want to give up the tax.
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  Speaker 2: Liberals don't want to give up the tax. So these
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  Speaker 2: temporary taxes that are put into place, and remember, we
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  Speaker 2: were convinced to vote for this because it was only
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  Speaker 2: a temporary tax. Well, this extends the tax forever, right?
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  Speaker 2: word temporary disappears. And I'll tell you, I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's good stuff. What it does is it's for schools,
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  Speaker 2: it's for housing, it's for medical care. It's all the
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  Speaker 2: good things that we don't have money for. But the
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  Speaker 2: problem is, is the lying that goes down. Because even
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  Speaker 2: those that say it's a temporary tax know that it's
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  Speaker 2: never going to be a temporary tax, ever, ever, ever.
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  Speaker 2: And either the legislature will move it to a permanent
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  Speaker 2: tax or the voters themselves with these organizations that want
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  Speaker 2: an extended tax. And we're talking about liberal organizations that
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  Speaker 2: need the money to fulfill these social programs.
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  Speaker 3: So it is always a lie. It is always a lie.
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  Speaker 2: Whenever you see the word temporary or sunset, this program sunsets,
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  Speaker 2: which means it disappears at the end of.
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  Speaker 3: X number of years. Do not believe it for a second.
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  Speaker 3: It is an utter lie. And, uh, it's, is it
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  Speaker 3: going to pass? Uh, I hope not.
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  Speaker 2: I hope not because, uh, this is one where we're
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  Speaker 2: just lied to that we're normally lied to. Anyway, if
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  Speaker 2: you look at any of the TV ads, uh, or
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  Speaker 2: the print, uh, that comes out, those, uh, flyers that
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  Speaker 2: come to your mailbox like crazy before an election, uh,
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  Speaker 2: it's all lies.
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  Speaker 3: It's all lies.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, this tax, uh, is for firefighters, for example, uh,
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  Speaker 2: It's really the National Association of Pyromaniacs that are advocating
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  Speaker 2: this tax because it really takes away firefighters.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we want to pay firefighters more.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but they don't tell you they want to reduce
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  Speaker 2: the firefighting force by half.
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  Speaker 3: It's lies.
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  Speaker 2: It's lies on top of lies on top of lies. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: let me take a break and we'll do prop three.
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  Speaker 2: And this is an important one. It has to do
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  Speaker 2: with the public funding of election campaigns.
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  Speaker 3: And this one, I think I like.
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  Speaker 4: I like.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, Prop 3, I'm voting.
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  Speaker 2: No for, for those reasons, because the proponents are just
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  Speaker 2: lying to us, and I'm tired of that, although it's
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  Speaker 2: never going to stop. And Prop 4 happens to be
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  Speaker 2: public funding of election campaigns, which I'm a big fan of,
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  Speaker 2: and I'll tell you why I'm voting yes on that.
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  Speaker 4: You're listening to Bill Handel, On Demand, from KFI AM640.
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  Speaker 2: Coming up Tuesday, of course, is our election. Very important election.
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  Speaker 2: It's always this is the most important election in U.S.
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  Speaker 3: History. It's always that way.
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  Speaker 2: Biden runs. This is a more important election. Barack Obama runs.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: This is the most important election. Bill Clinton. This is
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: the most important election in the history of the United States. Well,
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: I got to tell you, when it comes to importance,
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: this is going to be an important election. It was
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: an important election when Donald Trump became president because he
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: did change America. In a major, major way. So we
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: have an election coming up. It's basically going to be
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: to stop Donald Trump. That's really what it is. It's
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: a referendum on Donald Trump. I'm talking about California, where
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: it's not a referendum about Donald Trump. Maybe a couple
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  Speaker 2: of congressional districts may flip. In Orange County, there may
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: be one or two. But Congress is going to flip Democratic.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a question of to what extent. How many
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: votes are going to move over to the other side?
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: How many positions are going to be Democratic, which is
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: going to stop the president? If it goes to Senate, too,
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: and that flips, that controls Donald Trump a lot. Now,
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  Speaker 2: what we do here in California is we have propositions.
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  Speaker 2: There are two kinds. One that the people themselves put
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  Speaker 2: on the ballot.
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  Speaker 3: OK.
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  Speaker 2: And the other one is legislature put it on the
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  Speaker 2: ballot so we can vote on it. And the last
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  Speaker 2: one I'm going to talk about today is.
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  Speaker 3: Prop 4.
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  Speaker 2: And there's something that's going on in California is that
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  Speaker 2: there is a ban on public financing of election campaigns.
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  Speaker 3: Federally, we can actually check off to.
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  Speaker 2: Give, I think, up to $ 3 now into a fund
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  Speaker 2: that politicians can ask for. I like the taxes. I
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: like the state to pay for the election. I'll tell
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  Speaker 2: you why. Every campaign, because that evens it out completely.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have Elon Musk throwing $ 400 million into campaigns.
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  Speaker 3: No one has ever done that. You don't have these wealthy.
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  Speaker 2: Bloombergs throwing in $ 40 million on the liberal side. or
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: George Soros, what you have is everybody has access to
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  Speaker 2: the same money. And PACs, well, they can't do anything
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: about PACs.
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  Speaker 1: Why?
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  Speaker 2: Because the Constitution, because Citizens United allowed PACs to have
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: whatever money, and that's where they collect money. And it's
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: ridiculously unfair. Because these politicians should be evened. I should
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: be able to get the same amount of information. Well,
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: in California, you can't even do that. What Prop 4
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: does is change that around. It eliminates that ban. So
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: politicians who have no money can go ahead and get
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  Speaker 2: state money and at least have a chance at running
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  Speaker 2: and get their message across. Because right now, if you
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: don't have tons of money, you don't have a viable campaign.
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  Speaker 3: That's it. It's that simple. You have to have access to.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm talking about an ungodly amount of money, hundreds
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  Speaker 2: of millions of dollars, for example, in the Senate race
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  Speaker 2: in Texas with Paxton and Tolerico.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, hundreds of millions of dollars, just that one race.
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  Speaker 2: And there are races across the country that used to
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  Speaker 2: be a few thousand dollars that have become tens of thousands,
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  Speaker 2: that have become hundreds of thousands. And there are two
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: ways of getting that money. One is you do it
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  Speaker 2: through small donations. And that's always a great advertising clip.
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  Speaker 2: This was small donations. There was no major donor. Well,
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: here's the reality is that major donors make the play.
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  Speaker 2: And what Prop 4 says is we're going to get
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  Speaker 2: rid of the ban that don't allow donations. candidates to
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  Speaker 2: get money because they should, they should get money. Now,
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: is it going to change anything? Unfortunately, not really, but
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  Speaker 2: it's going to give small players a chance at making,
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  Speaker 2: at getting some inroads. And so for Prop 4, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm in favor of Prop 4 for that reason. Now,
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: there are other propositions that are a lot more serious
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  Speaker 2: and have a lot more influence into which way things
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  Speaker 2: are going to go. Amy this morning asked about Prop 40.
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  Speaker 3: Are we going to do that? Oh, you bet we're
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: going to do that.
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  Speaker 2: So propositions as we continue with the voter guide tomorrow morning. Again,
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  Speaker 2: next few at 730. In the meantime, since it is Tuesday,
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: eight o'clock hour. Well, it's our tech segment with Rich DeMuro,
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  Speaker 2: as always. KFI AM 640.
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