November 19, 2025 • 31 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (11/19) - Alex Stone comes on the show to talk about Transportation Sec. Sean Duffy wanting people to behave better and dress nicer on airplanes. Minimum wage above a market rate does not work. More on the homeless crisis in LA. Update on Rob Bonta using campaign funds for legal help amid a bribery probe.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
You know, if if you asked me, if.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
There's one thing that I could get regardless of cost,
what would be the one thing I'd love to have
for the rest of my life?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Possession?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I'd love to have access to a private plane. I
am so disgusted flying and traveling. I'm never going to
get access to a private plane. I'm never going to
have one. I was on one once about ten years ago,
and it was wonderful. But I had to fly a
lot the last month because of a vacation, and we
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you know, we went to Iceland and met Cafie listeners there,
and then we had a family wedding and boy, people
are gross. You're in a confined metal tubety five thousand
feet into the air, and people dress badly, they smell bad,
They've got all their excess weight flop it over into
your seat. I mean, I oh, and I'm lucky. I
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was on a civilized plane. I see the videos all
the time. It seems to be spirit in Frontier. There's
constant fistfights, crazy people shouting.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I'd be well.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Sean Duffy, the Transportation Secretary, wants to bring back the
Golden Age of travel, where people are courteous and clean
and they treat all the workers properly. And they have
videos out now showing what life used to be like
on airplanes and then cut to oh and the dress
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and and just the hygiene. Let's get Alex Stone, ABC News. Alex,
are you telling me the KFI jet is not taking
you around?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
No, I didn't know we have one. I don't think
we have a Cafi wagon. It's not idling over there.
And no, no, nobody gives me anything. So yeah, the
campaign that they are kicking off today, they did it
with a video where the Department of Transportation is and
this is asking to be mocked by SNL. I mean,
the whole thing looks like a big SNL joke, but
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it's an interesting campaign that the Secretary Duffy is going for.
It's called the Golden Age of Travel starts with you,
And in the video, they begin with images and sounds
of the fifties and sixties when air travel was luxurious
and people got a fancy to get on airplanes, and
they had lobster and they were cutting off prime rib
and you had leg room for a mile in front
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of you, and they show all the great images of
times gone by.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I'm fly with me, fly, Oh my.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Goodness, it looks amazing. And then the video devolves into
fights on board airplanes today and.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
What we're dealing with now.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
So they are calling on all of us to restore
courtesy and classed air travel to they say, ensure the
safety of passengers, gate workers, and flight attendants, pilots as well.
The DOT says that this is because of a four
hundred percent increase in in flight outbursts and unruly passengers
since twenty nineteen. Now, they didn't break that down by
the year. I would guess that a lot of that
was during COVID. If you remember that all the mask
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fights every day that and it was like three or
four a day that we were covering in the federal
charges and everything, and people were going nuts over the
masks and over vaccine rules and all that. But Duffy
in this video, which has this old classic filter over
it says he wants you to ask yourself some questions
the next time you fly. This is where I feel
like SNL has got to be gearing up to do
this right here that John Duffy put out today. Are
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you helping a pregnant woman put her bag in the
overhead bin?
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Are you dressing with respect?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Are you keeping control of your children?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Are you saying thank you to your fight attendants and
your pilots? Are you saying please and thank you? In general?
The golden age of travel begins with you.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
So the department says it's committed to ushering in the
golden age of travel again, and they want the excitement
and manners and relaxation to come back. I think you're
gonna have a lot of people who say good luck
to that. The society that we live in now that
that went away a long time ago. The genies out
of the bottle on getting people to dress up when
they go and fly. At least they dress a little
bit nicer and demand the people be nice at the airport.
(04:16):
But I would also argue in all of this that
the airlines have a role to play that as they
are stuffing in more seats and making them as thin
as they possibly can, that they don't break when you
sit in them, but to put in more seats, charging
you for an aisle or a window and no meal service.
And a lot of times on a flight if you're
flying like up to the Bay Area and they say,
I'm sorry, it's too short of a flight for drink service,
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and you know it's not.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
It didn't used to be too short of a flight
for that.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
And just you know, the overall the boarding style and
the quick turnaround of the planes and whatnot, that it's
this is a two way street on this thing. But
at least from the passenger side, the campaign is going
to be be nice, dress a little bit nicer, say
please and thank you, and they just want a little civility.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Buy back an air trap.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I agree with you. The airlines treat people like crap.
And they wouldn't even hand out cookies, not even the
ice cream cart unless you're in Polaris, you're not. Where's
the ice cream cart? Come on through?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Not even a glass of water. Nothing.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
They get rid of the water and they got rid
of the cookies. Yeah, Or when they come on they say,
this is a short flight, we're gonna water and apple juice.
I'm like, who chose apple juice? Apples's a weird second
drink to offer to people. That's gross. But the people
really got it. They not only have to dress better,
they have to shower before they go on board. I mean,
you know, and some people you gotta get an o
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zepic prescription. I mean a lot of pajamas on board.
These yeajamas they've been sleeping in for five days. Yeah.
I was on a flight a couple of months ago
with my family, and as I went to get up,
one of my pet peeves is how people get off
of an airplane where if you are behind me, you
wait for me to go.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
You don't sneak.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Around or go running up the eye or anything that
are pushed your way up there. Right as I got up,
he put his hand on my shoulder and pushed me
back down from behind, and then walked by and went
up the aisle. I looked at my wife and she said,
just let it go, let it go.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I know, but I understand why you want to end up.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I end up feeling like on a punch a few
people out because just because we're crammed into each other
and people are are they're so unpleasant. Their demeanors are unpleasant,
their dress, they're they're they're hygiene. Apparently on the video
there was clips of people without socks and they've got
their feet resting on the back of putting their feet
up on the bullhead. It's like, no, get your feet off.
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The other thing is when you land and people start
having phone conversations. Wait five minutes. I don't want to
hear your phone conversation, especially if you put on speakerphone.
But nobody's quiet when they're talking on a phone, so
you know they're talking. And yeah, we just landed. Oh
it was an okay flight. Oh what time is Jenny
getting home tonight?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Five minutes? Do that in the terminal stop and they're
people using their feet to select their entertainment options on
the screen. I haven't seen that. That's really disgusting. Yeah,
it's not a flight about a week ago where there
was a guy just going to town picking his nose
in the middle seat in front of me.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
And then his wife or girlfriend was.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Just coughing and sneezing, and I thought, I don't know
how I'm gonna and I didn't get sick, but and
then I'll always blow the air out of the vent,
like right on me, thinking if she's coughing, it's got
to blow that out of the way, right.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
But you're just looking going, dude, stop picking your nose.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
We we were changing planes. We were on the East Coast,
so we and we're I forget this is Washington. We
were in or New York. We're changing planes, and the
plane was three hours late lifting off. We were stuck
on the plane for three hours.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Everybody was in a great mood.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Yeah, and then there was another six hours to go
in the flight nine hours. I was next to this guy.
He had tuberculosius. Oh, I swear he was coughing up
his lungs and mucus and fluid violently for nine hours.
I was trapped next to the guy nine hours. And
you know, in about five days you're gonna be really
Oh god, that was one of the most horrible experiences.
(08:03):
I'd rather deal with turbulence. I'd rather have the plane
drop like five thousand feet without warning that have to
deal with a guy with some horrible lung infection. And
at what point can you hit the flight attendant call
button and be like, I don't want them on the
plane here because they're really sick.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
There's nowhere to go. They book every single seat, so
it's not you. It's like put me in the back,
put me in a toilet seat. I don't care. Oh yeah,
I'm sorry. Thank you for coming on. You got it,
so please and thank you, yes, please, thank you for
the report. Please thank you John.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah, it's just it's just an uncivilized, savage society, it
really is, and that there are people who should never
go out in public, let alone go on a plane
and subject the rest of us to your presence. Are
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Cafiam six forty dot com. Slash pasta because I'm losing
my voice here yelling too much. There's one thing about
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a stupid progressive idea, and stupid progressives when the idea
is proven not to work, they push to do more
of it. One idea that has proven not to work
is a minimum wage that's much higher than the market rate.
We have a recent example. This is all true. I
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just checked all the numbers again. I guess it was
a year ago. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that requires
a twenty dollars minimum wage at restaurants fast food restaurants
except the restaurant chain that his buddy owns, but everybody
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else has to pay twenty And as soon as he
did that, restaurant chains started firing workers, and as of
this date, over nineteen thousand fast food workers were fired
after Newsom signed the minimum wage law nineteen thousand because
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twenty bucks is too much for a fast food restaurant
can't afford it. Nineteen thousand jobs lost. So what do
labor groups want? They are trying to browbeat the county
Board of Supervisors to agree to it. To their thirty by
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thirty demand thirty dollars an hour minimum wage by the
year twenty thirty. They want this in La, in the
county and in the city. The La County minimum wage
is seventeen dollars and twenty eight cents. You go from
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seventeen bucks to thirty bucks. And I told you before
that one out of eight students, freshman students that you
see San Diego, they do not even meet sixth grade
math proficiency. And you know what the damage of that is, Well,
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because most people cannot do math. They don't know why
mandatory twenty or thirty dollars an hour minimum wages are
so destructive because they can't run a business.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
I mean that San Diego story. There's a fair.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Number of kids who cannot do simple addition and subtraction.
So Upholster Works for Democrats survey at LA voters and
found that two thirds of them said the minimum wage
was a medium to high priority. From fifty eight percent
favorite a thirty dollars wage. That's why, Well, that's because
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they're either stupid or ignorant. It is impossible for businesses,
a lot of them, to pay a thirty dollars wage
without firing people or going got a business.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
It's math.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
But if people are coming out of high school with
great inflation, they're not required to take SAT or ACT
tests to get into college. Nobody teaches the information you
need on those tests anymore. The teachers apparently relaxed their
grading during COVID. Everybody was pushed through and graduated. So
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you graduate, you have a certificate of a diploma. You
know nothing. Your brain is empty, your Kamala Harris, nothing
going on in there. So then you get this proposition.
It's like, wow, we should have thirty dollars an hour, right,
don't you think?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Although yes, on that I support that. No, I'm gonna
tell you again.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Nineteen thousand people in California lost their jobs once Newsom
signed a twenty dollars an hour minimum wage for fast
food workers. What do you think thirty bucks an hour
is going to do it? I haven't quite figured out
why the unions pushed so hard for this, but I
know they don't care about their workers. I don't know
(15:12):
what the scam is. I don't know what the kickback
situation is. I'm only me here. I don't know. But
you know, there's a corrupt story. You know what they're
doing in New York City. New York City, I think
they passed some kind of you know, mandatory minimum wage.
You walk into certain fast food restaurants, and you walk
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up to a kiosk, now, and you get a worker
on a video screen who takes your order. The worker
is in the Philippines. Yes, you'll meet a woman on
a video screen from the Philippines. You tell her the order,
and she takes it and then sends it over to
the back kitchen, you know, thirty feet from where you're standing,
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and then they bring out the food. But now they're
not playing. They're not paying somebody to work the register anymore.
You work the kiosk, and a lady in the Philippines
processes the order, and somebody in New York City lost
their job.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
And that's what's going to happen here.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
They're not going to pay twenty and thirty dollars an
hour these companies, they simply won't. Otherwise they have to
raise prices, and I'm not paying any more for food
that I'm already paying if I go to a restaurant.
There's a restaurant, and I don't go to anymore. They
have gone too many years. Prices are too high and
everybody's doing that.
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Speaker 2 (16:49):
Our number one and we have a lot on Well
this this new fire chief that hell's his name? I
forgot already me more Hi Memore, Yes, three days on
the job, Hi me Moore. He should be unforgettable because
who's he angry with. He's angry at the media for
reporting number one that LA firefighters leaked out their own
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text messages about how they were ordered to flee the
hot spot in the Palisades that led to the big fire.
And he's also upset with a public letter that Channel
seven ran as a news story. A public letter by
other fire officials who are deeply ashamed over the way
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the fire management not only handled the fire, but their
responses since the LA Fire Department is in deep, deep
trouble and it looks like we're gonna have our third
bad fire chief in a row who's more interested in
yelling at the media than finding out why there were
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so many screw ups that have on all year long.
So that's in the first hour. You should listen to that.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I get so fed up, but I don't want to
get fed up.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
You know, the the vagrants are still around, the mental
patients of the drug addicts still rule the streets. Karen
Bass lies about the homeless numbers. The La Times still
run sob stories. The latest is written by James Rainey,
and we had running runnings with him years ago. He
(18:30):
did a profile on a homeless encampment along the edge
of the Pasadena Freeway, along the edge of the one
ten freeway, which is just above Arroyo Seco, and there's
one hundred people have made their homes inches away from
the freeway. One hundred thousand vehicles a day go by,
and there's one hundred people living there in this massive encampment.
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And on the other side is the cement channel which
he's all the disgusting runoff after a rainstorm Los Angeles.
You imagine what's in that Oh, what it is is
probably a lot of their their feces and urine getting
washed off.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
And we'll be taken to the ocean.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Last month, the city of La Oh, this is this
is another one of Bass's success stories. Started to move
them from the edge of the one ten freeway into
more permanent housing. And Rainy said, nowhere drove the enormity
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of this homeless problem home for me quite like this outpost.
And he says, clothes hanged to dry in a chain
link fence next to heaps of rusting bicycles and garbage.
I see forgotten women and men splashing themselves as clean
as possible with the soapy runoff from the yards of neighbors,
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of more fortunate neighbors. Will you stop blaming fortune and misfortune.
People create the circumstances they end up in life. People
make choices as to where they end up, apart from
those who have some kind of organic mental illness, a
brain disease, And we should scoop them up immediately and
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put put them into a mental health institution. But everybody else,
it's not that they're more fortunate and less fortunate. You
and I made decisions going back to when we were
in school, so that we could end up with jobs,
so that we have shelter and food, and we could
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have families who could enjoy the shelter and food. We
made those decisions, and we worked and executed. I'm not fortunate.
You're not fortunate. You created your own reality by getting
up and going to work. Really, you don't have to
do much else. You get up and you go to work.
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You exchange your work and time for money, and then
the money gives you shelter and food. These are people
who refuse to do that.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
It's not that hard.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
And then he's writing about how at this Arroyo Seco
encampment off the one ten he's seen over the years,
how authorities try and fail to rouse the squatters more
than once they build those tents and makeshift homes in
twenty fifteen, they did it again earlier this year. Well,
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you should never fail. You make the area off limits,
you put up razor wire if you have to, you
have constant police patrols, and every time you find more
mental patients and drug addicts and vagrants. You chase them out,
you arrest them if they won't go.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
That's what you do.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
That's why these people are in every city in America.
They're here because Karen Bass does nothing. She fakes it.
She smiles when she fakes it, and that's how she
gets away with all this. And then, of course you
have somebody here, you know, from the La Times, to
write about how terrible it is where he should be
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writing as if there's any failure, it's the fault of
the mayor and her staff for not executing an obvious solution.
You tell them to go, you put up the razor wire,
you put up the patrols, and if they don't go,
you put them in jail and then offer them either
drug treatment or mental health treatment to get out of jail.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
There's no other solution and there never will be. And
then you know the all the.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
SOB story is about why they're homeless. And then you
have this blithering idiot who's their counselwoman and unses her
Nandez one of the dumbest people on the planet. She
got six million dollars, she got sick million dollars from
the state uh for on some social services program here
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spending months building trust with unhoused people. Why don't we
have to spend millions of dollars to build trust with
unhoused people. Just say you're breaking the law, you're not
permitted to live here.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Would trust? This is what that's what, this is.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
What we're doing. They go and they talk to these
vagrants over and over and over again for months and
months and months. Vagrants don't want to move. One of
them says, I don't want to go to a shelter.
They find them unsafe and too restrictive. Yeah, you can't
use do booze and drugs often in these shelters or
there it's too far from home home.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
You're living on a patch of dirt next to a
freeway stop. It was too too far from my home.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Others wanted to make sure there'd be rooms for their pets. Great,
you're negotiating with a crazy, drugged out, whacked out mental
patient who has has some poor dog with him, and
so he will, he will, he will get off the streets,
he will get off the public property. This, this is absurd.
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This problem should have been over years ago. Eventually, this
is what's going to happen. You're going to be telling
these people you're under arrest if you don't leave, and
if we arrest you, the only way you get out
is choosing a mental health treatment or drug treatment. By
the way, they're going to be arresting people in San
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Jose and in San Francisco. The mayor announced, okay, so
you have two mayors, Matt Mahan and San Jose, and
you have Dan Lurie in San Francisco, and they said
this is over. Okay, We've got bill millions of dollars
in help for you take the help or you get arrested.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
No more. That's what's got to be done here.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
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Speaker 2 (25:16):
One of the things you want to listen to on
the podcast two o'clock hour. He at Katie Grimes ont and
we talked about Gavin Newsom's administration. Dozens of people from
his administration and other Sacramento political insiders got a letter
from the FBI in the last few days saying their
phone calls, texts, and other electronic communications have been intercepted
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part of the federal corruption case. To Newsom's chief of
Staff Data Williamson. But it seems like the FBI is
looking for other things as well. This happened for several
months last year. I told you a few days ago.
It's starting to crumble. And now Rob Bonto looks like
he and his staff was misleading the press this week
(26:03):
because it was learned that he had spent almost a
half million dollars of campaign money to a private law firm.
This private law firm was involved had to was supposed
to investigate for Banta a case which involved the indictment
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of the former mayor of Oakland, the former recalled mayor
of Oakland, and the Dweng family. It was a federal
bribery case. Banta had gotten a lot of money from
this Dwang family, and he spent almost a half million
dollars of campaign funds. And at first the campaign lied
(26:46):
and said, well, they just wanted to assist the investigation. No,
now he's admitting that the half million dollars he spent
were for Bonta's benefit to have legal counsel because he
was being asked about this federal bribery case by investigators.
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Let's play Ashley's a ball again, KCIA Channel three and Sacramento.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
After pushing for answers, we're getting a little more clarity
when it comes to the four hundred and sixty eight
thousand dollars that Attorney General Rob Bonta spent from his
reelection campaign on legal services and fees. His campaign clarifying
tonight that this money was used for him to lawyer
up as he faced questions from federal authorities. We're also
(27:34):
learning tonight this is a historic amount of money spent
on legal services by a candidate in California, not just
for Attorney General, but for any statewide constitutional office here
in the state. Bonta's campaign told us at first the
money was to help federal authorities in their bribery investigation
in the East Bay, which involved Oakland's ex mayor and
(27:55):
the Duong family, which were also Bonta's donors. Lied up
with this campaign today with several questions, including confirmation that
the law firm he paid was representing him as he
answered questions from federal investigators. His campaign has confirmed his advisor,
Dan Newman, said he was not a target in the investigation,
(28:16):
that he was just providing information and that's what the
attorneys were for. Newman keeps saying that the ongoing investigation,
they can't say much because again it is ongoing. But
at the same time he told me today that Bont's
role in that investigation is over.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Another question in all.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Of this is is it legal? Is this a permissible
use of campaign funds in California? Bont's advisor said this
was absolutely proper and necessary to use the funds because
of the nature of the charges against the people implicated
in that Oakland bribery probe. I checked in with Loyal
LA Law School professor Jessica Levinson, who noted campaign legal
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expenses are meant to be related directly to the campaign itself.
Typically that money is used, for example, to request a
recount in an election, or to litigate how a candidate's
name or title is seen on the ballot. Here's what
she had to say when it comes to bonta situation.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
In this case, the only connection that I can see
right now between the AG's election and the legal investigation
and proceedings would be whether or not the investigation initially
began with questions about the don's donations to the AG account.
What you would need in order to be able to
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draw that legal line between the political account, the committee
to run to be AG, and these big legal expenses.
Is some connection between that account, the reason that Bonta
is running to be AG, and the legal expenses in
this case.
Speaker 6 (29:52):
I think the best argument that Bonta could make for
how these expenses would be permissible is to say that
the investigation annger questions originally began based on the Dong's
campaign donations to that age account.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
So on that note, David and Andy Dong were indicted
during that federal probe. Together they donated twenty four three
hundred dollars to Just Bonce's re election campaign for twenty
twenty six. The Dong family donated one hundred and fifty
five thousand dollars total to him throughout his political career.
Bonce's campaign noting all of that money was returned after
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the investigation was made public in Oakland.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Earlier this year.
Speaker 6 (30:34):
But just talking about the half a million dollars in
legal fees.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
That's a lot of money, all of it just to
have attorneys by your.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Side as you're answering questions. I would think that would
be what it would cost me maybe to do a
whole trial. But that's a lot of money. Right, it is,
and that's.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
At the center of why we're asking so many questions
and we keep following up with this campaign and I
really cannot get a straight answer here behind that dollar amount.
What Bonce's campaign did confirm is that the are not
related to anything else or any other issues. His advisor
said this was not settlement money or anything like that.
But again, we still have a lot of questions just
(31:10):
related to this whole situation. How they went from saying
this was to help the investigation in his capacity, but
then now they're changing their story essentially today to say
that this was for him.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
To lawyer up.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
All right, We're done, Conway Next, Michael Kurzer is the
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
You know, if if you asked me, if.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
There's one thing that I could get regardless of cost,
what would be the one thing I'd love to have
for the rest of my life?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Possession?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I'd love to have access to a private plane. I
am so disgusted flying and traveling. I'm never going to
get access to a private plane. I'm never going to
have one. I was on one once about ten years ago,
and it was wonderful. But I had to fly a
lot the last month because of a vacation, and we
(00:50):
you know, we went to Iceland and met Cafie listeners there,
and then we had a family wedding and boy, people
are gross. You're in a confined metal tubety five thousand
feet into the air, and people dress badly, they smell bad,
They've got all their excess weight flop it over into
your seat. I mean, I oh, and I'm lucky. I
(01:14):
was on a civilized plane. I see the videos all
the time. It seems to be spirit in Frontier. There's
constant fistfights, crazy people shouting.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I'd be well.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Sean Duffy, the Transportation Secretary, wants to bring back the
Golden Age of travel, where people are courteous and clean
and they treat all the workers properly. And they have
videos out now showing what life used to be like
on airplanes and then cut to oh and the dress
(01:48):
and and just the hygiene. Let's get Alex Stone, ABC News. Alex,
are you telling me the KFI jet is not taking
you around?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
No, I didn't know we have one. I don't think
we have a Cafi wagon. It's not idling over there.
And no, no, nobody gives me anything. So yeah, the
campaign that they are kicking off today, they did it
with a video where the Department of Transportation is and
this is asking to be mocked by SNL. I mean,
the whole thing looks like a big SNL joke, but
(02:18):
it's an interesting campaign that the Secretary Duffy is going for.
It's called the Golden Age of Travel starts with you,
And in the video, they begin with images and sounds
of the fifties and sixties when air travel was luxurious
and people got a fancy to get on airplanes, and
they had lobster and they were cutting off prime rib
and you had leg room for a mile in front
(02:38):
of you, and they show all the great images of
times gone by.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I'm fly with me, fly, Oh my.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Goodness, it looks amazing. And then the video devolves into
fights on board airplanes today and.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
What we're dealing with now.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
So they are calling on all of us to restore
courtesy and classed air travel to they say, ensure the
safety of passengers, gate workers, and flight attendants, pilots as well.
The DOT says that this is because of a four
hundred percent increase in in flight outbursts and unruly passengers
since twenty nineteen. Now, they didn't break that down by
the year. I would guess that a lot of that
was during COVID. If you remember that all the mask
(03:16):
fights every day that and it was like three or
four a day that we were covering in the federal
charges and everything, and people were going nuts over the
masks and over vaccine rules and all that. But Duffy
in this video, which has this old classic filter over
it says he wants you to ask yourself some questions
the next time you fly. This is where I feel
like SNL has got to be gearing up to do
this right here that John Duffy put out today. Are
(03:38):
you helping a pregnant woman put her bag in the
overhead bin?
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Are you dressing with respect?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Are you keeping control of your children?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Are you saying thank you to your fight attendants and
your pilots? Are you saying please and thank you? In general?
The golden age of travel begins with you.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
So the department says it's committed to ushering in the
golden age of travel again, and they want the excitement
and manners and relaxation to come back. I think you're
gonna have a lot of people who say good luck
to that. The society that we live in now that
that went away a long time ago. The genies out
of the bottle on getting people to dress up when
they go and fly. At least they dress a little
bit nicer and demand the people be nice at the airport.
(04:16):
But I would also argue in all of this that
the airlines have a role to play that as they
are stuffing in more seats and making them as thin
as they possibly can, that they don't break when you
sit in them, but to put in more seats, charging
you for an aisle or a window and no meal service.
And a lot of times on a flight if you're
flying like up to the Bay Area and they say,
I'm sorry, it's too short of a flight for drink service,
(04:37):
and you know it's not.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
It didn't used to be too short of a flight
for that.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
And just you know, the overall the boarding style and
the quick turnaround of the planes and whatnot, that it's
this is a two way street on this thing. But
at least from the passenger side, the campaign is going
to be be nice, dress a little bit nicer, say
please and thank you, and they just want a little civility.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Buy back an air trap.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I agree with you. The airlines treat people like crap.
And they wouldn't even hand out cookies, not even the
ice cream cart unless you're in Polaris, you're not. Where's
the ice cream cart? Come on through?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Not even a glass of water. Nothing.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
They get rid of the water and they got rid
of the cookies. Yeah, Or when they come on they say,
this is a short flight, we're gonna water and apple juice.
I'm like, who chose apple juice? Apples's a weird second
drink to offer to people. That's gross. But the people
really got it. They not only have to dress better,
they have to shower before they go on board. I mean,
you know, and some people you gotta get an o
(05:39):
zepic prescription. I mean a lot of pajamas on board.
These yeajamas they've been sleeping in for five days. Yeah.
I was on a flight a couple of months ago
with my family, and as I went to get up,
one of my pet peeves is how people get off
of an airplane where if you are behind me, you
wait for me to go.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
You don't sneak.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Around or go running up the eye or anything that
are pushed your way up there. Right as I got up,
he put his hand on my shoulder and pushed me
back down from behind, and then walked by and went
up the aisle. I looked at my wife and she said,
just let it go, let it go.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I know, but I understand why you want to end up.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I end up feeling like on a punch a few
people out because just because we're crammed into each other
and people are are they're so unpleasant. Their demeanors are unpleasant,
their dress, they're they're they're hygiene. Apparently on the video
there was clips of people without socks and they've got
their feet resting on the back of putting their feet
up on the bullhead. It's like, no, get your feet off.
(06:34):
The other thing is when you land and people start
having phone conversations. Wait five minutes. I don't want to
hear your phone conversation, especially if you put on speakerphone.
But nobody's quiet when they're talking on a phone, so
you know they're talking. And yeah, we just landed. Oh
it was an okay flight. Oh what time is Jenny
getting home tonight?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Five minutes? Do that in the terminal stop and they're
people using their feet to select their entertainment options on
the screen. I haven't seen that. That's really disgusting. Yeah,
it's not a flight about a week ago where there
was a guy just going to town picking his nose
in the middle seat in front of me.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
And then his wife or girlfriend was.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Just coughing and sneezing, and I thought, I don't know
how I'm gonna and I didn't get sick, but and
then I'll always blow the air out of the vent,
like right on me, thinking if she's coughing, it's got
to blow that out of the way, right.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
But you're just looking going, dude, stop picking your nose.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
We we were changing planes. We were on the East Coast,
so we and we're I forget this is Washington. We
were in or New York. We're changing planes, and the
plane was three hours late lifting off. We were stuck
on the plane for three hours.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Everybody was in a great mood.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Yeah, and then there was another six hours to go
in the flight nine hours. I was next to this guy.
He had tuberculosius. Oh, I swear he was coughing up
his lungs and mucus and fluid violently for nine hours.
I was trapped next to the guy nine hours. And
you know, in about five days you're gonna be really
Oh god, that was one of the most horrible experiences.
(08:03):
I'd rather deal with turbulence. I'd rather have the plane
drop like five thousand feet without warning that have to
deal with a guy with some horrible lung infection. And
at what point can you hit the flight attendant call
button and be like, I don't want them on the
plane here because they're really sick.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
There's nowhere to go. They book every single seat, so
it's not you. It's like put me in the back,
put me in a toilet seat. I don't care. Oh yeah,
I'm sorry. Thank you for coming on. You got it,
so please and thank you, yes, please, thank you for
the report. Please thank you John.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah, it's just it's just an uncivilized, savage society, it
really is, and that there are people who should never
go out in public, let alone go on a plane
and subject the rest of us to your presence. Are
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Cafiam six forty dot com. Slash pasta because I'm losing
my voice here yelling too much. There's one thing about
(10:50):
a stupid progressive idea, and stupid progressives when the idea
is proven not to work, they push to do more
of it. One idea that has proven not to work
is a minimum wage that's much higher than the market rate.
We have a recent example. This is all true. I
(11:12):
just checked all the numbers again. I guess it was
a year ago. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that requires
a twenty dollars minimum wage at restaurants fast food restaurants
except the restaurant chain that his buddy owns, but everybody
(11:34):
else has to pay twenty And as soon as he
did that, restaurant chains started firing workers, and as of
this date, over nineteen thousand fast food workers were fired
after Newsom signed the minimum wage law nineteen thousand because
(12:00):
twenty bucks is too much for a fast food restaurant
can't afford it. Nineteen thousand jobs lost. So what do
labor groups want? They are trying to browbeat the county
Board of Supervisors to agree to it. To their thirty by
(12:24):
thirty demand thirty dollars an hour minimum wage by the
year twenty thirty. They want this in La, in the
county and in the city. The La County minimum wage
is seventeen dollars and twenty eight cents. You go from
(12:46):
seventeen bucks to thirty bucks. And I told you before
that one out of eight students, freshman students that you
see San Diego, they do not even meet sixth grade
math proficiency. And you know what the damage of that is, Well,
(13:13):
because most people cannot do math. They don't know why
mandatory twenty or thirty dollars an hour minimum wages are
so destructive because they can't run a business.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
I mean that San Diego story. There's a fair.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Number of kids who cannot do simple addition and subtraction.
So Upholster Works for Democrats survey at LA voters and
found that two thirds of them said the minimum wage
was a medium to high priority. From fifty eight percent
favorite a thirty dollars wage. That's why, Well, that's because
(13:51):
they're either stupid or ignorant. It is impossible for businesses,
a lot of them, to pay a thirty dollars wage
without firing people or going got a business.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
It's math.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
But if people are coming out of high school with
great inflation, they're not required to take SAT or ACT
tests to get into college. Nobody teaches the information you
need on those tests anymore. The teachers apparently relaxed their
grading during COVID. Everybody was pushed through and graduated. So
(14:25):
you graduate, you have a certificate of a diploma. You
know nothing. Your brain is empty, your Kamala Harris, nothing
going on in there. So then you get this proposition.
It's like, wow, we should have thirty dollars an hour, right,
don't you think?
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Although yes, on that I support that. No, I'm gonna
tell you again.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Nineteen thousand people in California lost their jobs once Newsom
signed a twenty dollars an hour minimum wage for fast
food workers. What do you think thirty bucks an hour
is going to do it? I haven't quite figured out
why the unions pushed so hard for this, but I
know they don't care about their workers. I don't know
(15:12):
what the scam is. I don't know what the kickback
situation is. I'm only me here. I don't know. But
you know, there's a corrupt story. You know what they're
doing in New York City. New York City, I think
they passed some kind of you know, mandatory minimum wage.
You walk into certain fast food restaurants, and you walk
(15:32):
up to a kiosk, now, and you get a worker
on a video screen who takes your order. The worker
is in the Philippines. Yes, you'll meet a woman on
a video screen from the Philippines. You tell her the order,
and she takes it and then sends it over to
the back kitchen, you know, thirty feet from where you're standing,
(15:52):
and then they bring out the food. But now they're
not playing. They're not paying somebody to work the register anymore.
You work the kiosk, and a lady in the Philippines
processes the order, and somebody in New York City lost
their job.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
And that's what's going to happen here.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
They're not going to pay twenty and thirty dollars an
hour these companies, they simply won't. Otherwise they have to
raise prices, and I'm not paying any more for food
that I'm already paying if I go to a restaurant.
There's a restaurant, and I don't go to anymore. They
have gone too many years. Prices are too high and
everybody's doing that.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
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Speaker 1 (16:48):
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Speaker 2 (16:49):
Our number one and we have a lot on Well
this this new fire chief that hell's his name? I
forgot already me more Hi Memore, Yes, three days on
the job, Hi me Moore. He should be unforgettable because
who's he angry with. He's angry at the media for
reporting number one that LA firefighters leaked out their own
(17:14):
text messages about how they were ordered to flee the
hot spot in the Palisades that led to the big fire.
And he's also upset with a public letter that Channel
seven ran as a news story. A public letter by
other fire officials who are deeply ashamed over the way
(17:36):
the fire management not only handled the fire, but their
responses since the LA Fire Department is in deep, deep
trouble and it looks like we're gonna have our third
bad fire chief in a row who's more interested in
yelling at the media than finding out why there were
(17:57):
so many screw ups that have on all year long.
So that's in the first hour. You should listen to that.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I get so fed up, but I don't want to
get fed up.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
You know, the the vagrants are still around, the mental
patients of the drug addicts still rule the streets. Karen
Bass lies about the homeless numbers. The La Times still
run sob stories. The latest is written by James Rainey,
and we had running runnings with him years ago. He
(18:30):
did a profile on a homeless encampment along the edge
of the Pasadena Freeway, along the edge of the one
ten freeway, which is just above Arroyo Seco, and there's
one hundred people have made their homes inches away from
the freeway. One hundred thousand vehicles a day go by,
and there's one hundred people living there in this massive encampment.
(18:55):
And on the other side is the cement channel which
he's all the disgusting runoff after a rainstorm Los Angeles.
You imagine what's in that Oh, what it is is
probably a lot of their their feces and urine getting
washed off.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
And we'll be taken to the ocean.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Last month, the city of La Oh, this is this
is another one of Bass's success stories. Started to move
them from the edge of the one ten freeway into
more permanent housing. And Rainy said, nowhere drove the enormity
(19:37):
of this homeless problem home for me quite like this outpost.
And he says, clothes hanged to dry in a chain
link fence next to heaps of rusting bicycles and garbage.
I see forgotten women and men splashing themselves as clean
as possible with the soapy runoff from the yards of neighbors,
(20:01):
of more fortunate neighbors. Will you stop blaming fortune and misfortune.
People create the circumstances they end up in life. People
make choices as to where they end up, apart from
those who have some kind of organic mental illness, a
brain disease, And we should scoop them up immediately and
(20:24):
put put them into a mental health institution. But everybody else,
it's not that they're more fortunate and less fortunate. You
and I made decisions going back to when we were
in school, so that we could end up with jobs,
so that we have shelter and food, and we could
(20:44):
have families who could enjoy the shelter and food. We
made those decisions, and we worked and executed. I'm not fortunate.
You're not fortunate. You created your own reality by getting
up and going to work. Really, you don't have to
do much else. You get up and you go to work.
(21:05):
You exchange your work and time for money, and then
the money gives you shelter and food. These are people
who refuse to do that.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
It's not that hard.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
And then he's writing about how at this Arroyo Seco
encampment off the one ten he's seen over the years,
how authorities try and fail to rouse the squatters more
than once they build those tents and makeshift homes in
twenty fifteen, they did it again earlier this year. Well,
(21:39):
you should never fail. You make the area off limits,
you put up razor wire if you have to, you
have constant police patrols, and every time you find more
mental patients and drug addicts and vagrants. You chase them out,
you arrest them if they won't go.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
That's what you do.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
That's why these people are in every city in America.
They're here because Karen Bass does nothing. She fakes it.
She smiles when she fakes it, and that's how she
gets away with all this. And then, of course you
have somebody here, you know, from the La Times, to
write about how terrible it is where he should be
(22:19):
writing as if there's any failure, it's the fault of
the mayor and her staff for not executing an obvious solution.
You tell them to go, you put up the razor wire,
you put up the patrols, and if they don't go,
you put them in jail and then offer them either
drug treatment or mental health treatment to get out of jail.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
There's no other solution and there never will be. And
then you know the all the.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
SOB story is about why they're homeless. And then you
have this blithering idiot who's their counselwoman and unses her
Nandez one of the dumbest people on the planet. She
got six million dollars, she got sick million dollars from
the state uh for on some social services program here
(23:09):
spending months building trust with unhoused people. Why don't we
have to spend millions of dollars to build trust with
unhoused people. Just say you're breaking the law, you're not
permitted to live here.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Would trust? This is what that's what, this is.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
What we're doing. They go and they talk to these
vagrants over and over and over again for months and
months and months. Vagrants don't want to move. One of
them says, I don't want to go to a shelter.
They find them unsafe and too restrictive. Yeah, you can't
use do booze and drugs often in these shelters or
there it's too far from home home.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
You're living on a patch of dirt next to a
freeway stop. It was too too far from my home.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Others wanted to make sure there'd be rooms for their pets. Great,
you're negotiating with a crazy, drugged out, whacked out mental
patient who has has some poor dog with him, and
so he will, he will, he will get off the streets,
he will get off the public property. This, this is absurd.
(24:22):
This problem should have been over years ago. Eventually, this
is what's going to happen. You're going to be telling
these people you're under arrest if you don't leave, and
if we arrest you, the only way you get out
is choosing a mental health treatment or drug treatment. By
the way, they're going to be arresting people in San
(24:44):
Jose and in San Francisco. The mayor announced, okay, so
you have two mayors, Matt Mahan and San Jose, and
you have Dan Lurie in San Francisco, and they said
this is over. Okay, We've got bill millions of dollars
in help for you take the help or you get arrested.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
No more. That's what's got to be done here.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
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Speaker 2 (25:16):
One of the things you want to listen to on
the podcast two o'clock hour. He at Katie Grimes ont and
we talked about Gavin Newsom's administration. Dozens of people from
his administration and other Sacramento political insiders got a letter
from the FBI in the last few days saying their
phone calls, texts, and other electronic communications have been intercepted
(25:39):
part of the federal corruption case. To Newsom's chief of
Staff Data Williamson. But it seems like the FBI is
looking for other things as well. This happened for several
months last year. I told you a few days ago.
It's starting to crumble. And now Rob Bonto looks like
he and his staff was misleading the press this week
(26:03):
because it was learned that he had spent almost a
half million dollars of campaign money to a private law firm.
This private law firm was involved had to was supposed
to investigate for Banta a case which involved the indictment
(26:25):
of the former mayor of Oakland, the former recalled mayor
of Oakland, and the Dweng family. It was a federal
bribery case. Banta had gotten a lot of money from
this Dwang family, and he spent almost a half million
dollars of campaign funds. And at first the campaign lied
(26:46):
and said, well, they just wanted to assist the investigation. No,
now he's admitting that the half million dollars he spent
were for Bonta's benefit to have legal counsel because he
was being asked about this federal bribery case by investigators.
(27:07):
Let's play Ashley's a ball again, KCIA Channel three and Sacramento.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
After pushing for answers, we're getting a little more clarity
when it comes to the four hundred and sixty eight
thousand dollars that Attorney General Rob Bonta spent from his
reelection campaign on legal services and fees. His campaign clarifying
tonight that this money was used for him to lawyer
up as he faced questions from federal authorities. We're also
(27:34):
learning tonight this is a historic amount of money spent
on legal services by a candidate in California, not just
for Attorney General, but for any statewide constitutional office here
in the state. Bonta's campaign told us at first the
money was to help federal authorities in their bribery investigation
in the East Bay, which involved Oakland's ex mayor and
(27:55):
the Duong family, which were also Bonta's donors. Lied up
with this campaign today with several questions, including confirmation that
the law firm he paid was representing him as he
answered questions from federal investigators. His campaign has confirmed his advisor,
Dan Newman, said he was not a target in the investigation,
(28:16):
that he was just providing information and that's what the
attorneys were for. Newman keeps saying that the ongoing investigation,
they can't say much because again it is ongoing. But
at the same time he told me today that Bont's
role in that investigation is over.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Another question in all.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Of this is is it legal? Is this a permissible
use of campaign funds in California? Bont's advisor said this
was absolutely proper and necessary to use the funds because
of the nature of the charges against the people implicated
in that Oakland bribery probe. I checked in with Loyal
LA Law School professor Jessica Levinson, who noted campaign legal
(28:55):
expenses are meant to be related directly to the campaign itself.
Typically that money is used, for example, to request a
recount in an election, or to litigate how a candidate's
name or title is seen on the ballot. Here's what
she had to say when it comes to bonta situation.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
In this case, the only connection that I can see
right now between the AG's election and the legal investigation
and proceedings would be whether or not the investigation initially
began with questions about the don's donations to the AG account.
What you would need in order to be able to
(29:33):
draw that legal line between the political account, the committee
to run to be AG, and these big legal expenses.
Is some connection between that account, the reason that Bonta
is running to be AG, and the legal expenses in
this case.
Speaker 6 (29:52):
I think the best argument that Bonta could make for
how these expenses would be permissible is to say that
the investigation annger questions originally began based on the Dong's
campaign donations to that age account.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
So on that note, David and Andy Dong were indicted
during that federal probe. Together they donated twenty four three
hundred dollars to Just Bonce's re election campaign for twenty
twenty six. The Dong family donated one hundred and fifty
five thousand dollars total to him throughout his political career.
Bonce's campaign noting all of that money was returned after
(30:31):
the investigation was made public in Oakland.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Earlier this year.
Speaker 6 (30:34):
But just talking about the half a million dollars in
legal fees.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
That's a lot of money, all of it just to
have attorneys by your.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Side as you're answering questions. I would think that would
be what it would cost me maybe to do a
whole trial. But that's a lot of money. Right, it is,
and that's.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
At the center of why we're asking so many questions
and we keep following up with this campaign and I
really cannot get a straight answer here behind that dollar amount.
What Bonce's campaign did confirm is that the are not
related to anything else or any other issues. His advisor
said this was not settlement money or anything like that.
But again, we still have a lot of questions just
(31:10):
related to this whole situation. How they went from saying
this was to help the investigation in his capacity, but
then now they're changing their story essentially today to say
that this was for him.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
To lawyer up.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
All right, We're done, Conway Next, Michael Kurzer is the
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