Accident or Murder?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Sandy shack In for Jeff Cooner. We're going
to get back to our discussion regarding the crash in
Florida which killed three after an illegal alien pull the
U turn with a commercial truck on the Florida Turnpike.
But first it is time for Truth or Troll. Take
it away, Mike.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
And now America's favorite game show where you get to
the side on the Kooner Report.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
This is Truth or Troll.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Today's entry for truth control comes from President Trump in
a cabinet meeting yesterday when he floated an idea for
how to deter people from committing murder in Washington, DC.

Speaker 4 (00:46):
It'll be a.

Speaker 5 (00:46):
Crime free city. By the way, speaking of that, anybody
murders something in the capitol, capital punishment, capital capital punishment.
If somebody kills somebody in the Capitol Washington, d C.
We're going to be seeking the death penalty. And that's

(01:10):
a very strong preventative, and everybody that's heard it agrees
with it. I don't know if we're ready for it
in this country.

Speaker 6 (01:21):
But well you have it.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
It is.

Speaker 5 (01:23):
We have no choice. So in DC and Washington states
are going to have to make their own decision. But
if somebody kills somebody like you could have been killed.
Very lucky you didn't get killed. It's the death penalty.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Okay, capital punishment for murder in DC, capital punishment in
the Capitol.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
So what do you think, Sadie?

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Is he trolling here or is he being deadly serious?

Speaker 1 (01:51):
You know, most of the truth or trolls. And let's
face it, Donald Trump is the world champion of the troll.
I can usually tell by looking at him whether he's
whether he's got that little smile. He gets this little
twinkly smile on his face when he's trolling people. I
could not tell with this one whether he really he
really thinks that that's the way to go in DC.

(02:13):
You know, they've been very successful. It's been what twelve
days now with no murders. So I don't think they
need capital punishment in DC to stop murders. They just need,
you know, the federalization of the police force. But I honestly,
if I were to guess, i'd say he's telling the truth.
That would be he's not trolling. But that's just a

(02:35):
guess on my part. How about you, Mike, I think
he's being serious as well. Yeah, so we're but we'll see,
we'll see what happens. Thank you so much. I appreciate it.
There's always you know, we were initially thinking we would
name it Trump's Truth Control, but we wanted to make
sure we could use other people besides Donald Trump. But
he is ninety five percent of the trolling questions because

(02:56):
every day it looks like just to amuse himself, he
trolled somebody. But in this case, I don't know for sure.
But thank you again, Michael. So let's get back to
our conversation that we're having. One of the big issues
with mister Singh and his licensing was that he did

(03:17):
not speak English. He only got two out of twelve
on the proficiency test. And if you don't think English
is important, why are you giving the test as a
requirement for the CDL to begin with. If it's not,
why are you making people take it? And so when
he took it, failed it miserably, and you paid no
attention to it. I don't understand the rationale of the

(03:39):
test taker. Why they think, yeah, sure, you can have
a license anyway. The legislature obviously thought it was important,
or they wouldn't have made a requirement, right.

Speaker 4 (03:48):
So.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
I think being able to speak English, being able to
understand the signs, being able to understand directions from a
police officer, being able to respond to other motorists in
the road. These are all important things, especially if you're
talking about a commercial driver's license. So the question becomes,
should non English speaking truck drivers be pulled off the roads?

(04:13):
You know, should should we allow non English? And you
heard Troy from Idaho. So there's a lot of them
out there that don't speak English, and most of them
come from California, Washington, and Oregon. And this is not
the first time this issue has come up. The Wyoming
Highway Patrol, by the way, has weighed in on this
whole thing with mister Singh and the accident, the non
English speaking truck drivers out there, and they want legislation

(04:37):
to pull non English speaking commercial truck drivers from the roads.
And a trooper who is testifying in front of the
legislature regarding this issue reference that crash in Florida where
with mister Singh kill three people. So there are other
states where they're they're considering making speaking English even more

(05:00):
important than it already is and giving the police because
right now they see somebody and they pull them over
and they don't speak English, they can't you know, take
them off the road because they're if they're duly licensed
by a state, if they have that valid license in
their in their wallet or on their dashboard, they have
to let them go. Wyoming wants to be able to

(05:21):
if they catch it coming through their state, you know,
speaking English, they're just going to yank you right off
the road. You can send somebody else for your truck.
You're you're not driving through. So maybe that's the way
to go. There was a suggestion made on social media
that maybe Florida should implement a system using the way
stations on their highways at the borders to prevent illegal

(05:42):
alien truck drivers who don't speak English from creating these
you know, crashes, the same way they do the weight
the weight checks, maybe you do English checks as well.
What do you think of that idea?

Speaker 4 (05:54):
Is that?

Speaker 1 (05:55):
Does that maybe sound too onerous or do you think
that is a workable a workable fix to some of
these problems. Currently, there are i think nineteen states and
the District of Columbia who issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants,

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and all of them except for Virginia is a blue state,
and more than since I think the spring, more than
twelve hundred truck drivers have been taken off America's highways
for failing to adequately speak or read English. And that's
without a concerted effort to do that. So can you
imagine how many are out there that don't speak English

(06:36):
that are still driving around? I mean, Troy, our caller,
Troy from Idaho, kind of said, they're all over the place,
and they all come from one area. And if you
see a truck with California license plates, you give it
a wide berth, which, by the way, is something I
don't know about you, but I it never occurred to
me to look at the license plates of where trucks

(06:57):
are from. I'm going to start and if I anything
around me with a California plate, I am, because, Hey,
that truck driver got to Florida from California. There's nothing
to say it can't get to where I live from California.
I'm going to start watching for them and give them
a wide berth. How about you? Is it making you
think twice about being around a truck with a California

(07:19):
license plate. Let's go to David in Cape Cod David,
Welcome to WRKO, how are you, sir, nanswer?

Speaker 6 (07:29):
This is criminal neglect. This is first degree criminal negligence.
It's not the ones that don't speak any the people
that speak English that allow these guys to get the licenses,
all the way up to the governor of California, all
the politicians, the registry, everyone in the chain of custody
that allows this guy to get on the road is

(07:51):
guilty of criminal negligence. Those people that died in that
Florida cast they would decapitated. Dick cow went underneath that
cut their heads off, those poor people. Because this idiot
is on the road. There are trucks here in Massachusetts, thousands,
There's hundreds of thousands of trucks drivers Nancy all across
this country. And imagine if that guy was driving over

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the barn of the Sagamore Bridge and pulled some stuff
like that, and he had had a tanker that had
ll G gas, or he was crossing a railroad track
that had ellen G tankers, that'd be a catastrophic explosion
this guy could cause or he could take down the
if he had an LERG tanker coming across the Sagamore
Bridge and would take down the Cape bridges. I mean

(08:36):
this serious. Like that that driver that called there was
joking about this is not a joking matter. This is
deadly serious. Essentially, what California is doing is giving drivers'
licenses to blind drivers, to someone who couldn't drive. This
is this is endangering the public.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
I completely agree David that it's that it's we've have
to you right there. I'm so sorry because we're up
against a heartbreak, accident or murder. How would you describe
the crash that killed three people in the floor on
the Florida Turnpike after a non English speaking illegal alien
truck driver licensed by the state of California tried to

(09:16):
pull a U turn. Our last caller said, at the
very least, it is criminal negligence. Do you agree? What
should happen to him?

Speaker 4 (09:25):
You know?

Speaker 1 (09:26):
Is this there's a whole petition out there MOVEBA petition
saying just give him counseling. It was just an accident.
I don't think so, and neither does the Age of Florida,
who said they're going to throw the book at him,
and he's looking at a long time in prison. What
do you think is appropriate in this particular case? Dave
in New Hampshire. Welcome to WRKO. How are you Dave?

(09:51):
No problem? So what do you think this is? Is
this accident murder or just criminal negligence and there's no
just I guess in front of.

Speaker 4 (09:57):
That, I think it's murdering you. Again, like other people said,
not first degree, but like he said, he he got
behind the wheel. You have to be able to speak English.
I was. I've been doing this for about twenty years
and I was tested on it, you know. And you
have to be able to read the signs. One thing
Larry had mentioned that, you know, it was I haven't

(10:19):
seen the video so I'm not sure, but you turn signs,
but a lot of those, you know, cutthroughs on the
highway have you know, just say you know, authorized vehicles only.
So again it's English that he couldn't read, you know.
But I'll tell you this from every company I've ever
worked for, especially the bigger ones, that the first thing

(10:39):
that they tell one of the first things to tell
you is if you make an a legal U turn,
whether it's on a side road or a highway, you'll
fight it because it's some one of the most dangerous
things you can do. Was what that guy did? You
I mean I've been told by several companies weeks, like
a lot of the bigger companies who were doing what orientation,
you know, spend a few days learning their way of

(11:00):
doing it, their elogs system, stuff like that. And the
first thing is if you're making illegal U turn, you'll
fight it. And number two GPS you had said, it'll
get you know, bring it to the wrong place. They
call it guaranteed prison sentence. Yes, yes, if you do
stupid things, I'm serious. Wow, And every one of us
who's a truck driver out there, you know, I know

(11:23):
it's happened to every one of us. You know, you
miss a turn, Okay, it happens, right, you have to
and you might have to drive ten miles to turn
a rout. It's the way it goes. You cannot just
make your own rule and make your own gone to
just do what I gotta do. You have to make
sure that there is plenty of room.

Speaker 7 (11:41):
You know.

Speaker 4 (11:41):
There's a lot more to it than just like driving
a car. And you said you have to be proficient
in English reading writing. I don't. And this is a
federal license, I mean, yes, it's issued by the States,
but it's you know, it's it's a federal things. I
don't know how these people even get away with, you know,
issuing these things. It's I believe that like other people

(12:02):
who said that, the people who gave him the license
and everything else, they are a lot of the responsibility,
you know, and the company and stuff like that, because
you know me, and I don't think the guy did
it on purpose, because I mean, you know, these things
are so heavy and so big that if you really
want to do damage, there's a lot of other ways
to do it without that, you know what I mean.

(12:22):
And you know, if he really intended to do something,
I don't think that would have been it. You know.
And but again, like I said, they call it your
GPS guaranteed prison in sentence because of things like that.
It leads to the wrong place and you do something stupid, okay,
and you know he wouldn't be the first guy who
goes to jail over it. I mean, and I don't

(12:43):
think he should be treated leniently. I mean, what he did,
he killed three people. You are responsible for your truck, Okay,
there is no excuse, you know what I mean? And
acting but doing something that's illegal and just completely stupid.
So that's a whole other thing, you know, And so
I don't, as you say.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
Our earlier caller, Dave Troy from Idaho, said that he's
noticed because he's out on the in the Midwestern in
the Western coast, and he says, whenever they see a
truck with California plates, they give it, they give it
a lot of space because they're really bad drivers. He's
they've all noticed that the California is handing out licenses

(13:26):
without regard to qualifications. Have you noticed something similar?

Speaker 4 (13:30):
Yes, I have, And I was gonna mention that, Sandy,
because up here, you know, in the New England area,
it's not the California we have to watch out for.
It's Canada. You gotta watch out for the Canadian. It's
the same kind of drivers he was talking about, unfriendly,
no radios in their truck, beat up on the window
with their flip flops, and it's the Canadian ones. Because

(13:52):
you know, up there with you know, Trudeau's government and everything,
it was the same thing, and you'll see him with
the Quebec plates and stuff, and you'll see the exact
same thing. So over here, I'm more concerned with a
Canadian plate than I am a California plate, because obviously
we don't see too many of them up here, you
know what I mean. You know, it's so it's like

(14:12):
you're getting it from both from It's not just coming
from one direction, it's coming from different plates. Well, so
now you're.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
Giving me another license plate to look for, Dave. Now
I'm going to be looking for Canada license plates too.
So it's going to be Canada and California, Washington and Oregon.
Anybody with that license plate. I am just going to
let you go right by and give you a lot
of space. So well, Dave, thank you so much for calling.
I appreciate it very much, and I appreciate your perspective.

(14:39):
And please drive safely out there on the roads because
it is it is getting more and more dangerous every
single day. Justin from Revere. Welcome to WRKO. How are
you justin.

Speaker 7 (14:51):
Well, Sandy?

Speaker 8 (14:51):
How were I'm well?

Speaker 6 (14:52):
Sandy? How are you?

Speaker 1 (14:53):
I am fine? Thank you?

Speaker 8 (14:54):
So?

Speaker 1 (14:54):
Do you think this was an accident or murder or
criminal negligence? And what should happen to this guy?

Speaker 7 (15:00):
This is this is negligent homicide, vehicular homicide.

Speaker 4 (15:04):
It's murder.

Speaker 7 (15:05):
Uh, he should be held responsible. The company should be
held responsible. And you know this all comes from blue
from blue government. You know, Obama repealed the ELP testing
that was mandatory in a UH in a UH executive
order during Obama. You know, yeah, Sean Duffy signed it

(15:26):
to be enforced back in April and it and it
went into UH whatever the heck you call it back
in June. So DOOT officers are supposed to be ELPF
English Language proficiency proficiency tests are supposed to be given
at DOT inspections now so and that is supposed to

(15:49):
be put out of service if they cannot read English.

Speaker 6 (15:53):
So if something's being.

Speaker 7 (15:55):
Done, it's just not being done fast enough. You know,
I think it should be mandate to for every single driver.
I don't have a problem getting a sixty day notice
I have to go to the DMB and take a
proficiency test. I don't have problem doing. I have been
drive for twenty years. I drive a tanker truck. Everything
on the road and what's going on. And you know,

(16:16):
as a driver, we are guilty until proven innocent when
it becomes to any type of an accident, any type.
So he's one hundred percent responsible company everything. When the
person who stamped his license everything, everybody should be criminally
responsible for it.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
Well, apparently to your point, I guess Sean Duffy has
been very busy this past week. I have a Texter
too that's on the same line that says eighty five
seven says Sandy's secretary, Sean Duffie of the DOT needs
to go throughout the whole country checking everybody's credentials that
are on the books for driving with the CDL and
the route and root out all illegal aliens who carry

(16:55):
a CDL and revoke it effective immediately and shut that
garbage down now. And he apparently feels the same way
justin because yesterday Transportation Duffy warned California, Washington, and New
Mexico those are the three states that we know dealt
directly with mister Sengh. Washington first gave him his CDL,

(17:18):
California gave him his second license that he had, and
New Mexico let him drive through even though they knew
he didn't speak English. And he said basically that they
could lose millions in federal funding if they do not
enforce that English language proficiency standard that you were just
talking about. Cut number three please, Mike, so.

Speaker 9 (17:40):
Phase one for us, which I'm announcing today is we
are going to give these states thirty days to come
into compliance with truck drivers speaking proficiently the English language,
or we're going to look at federal funding that they
receive under the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
So they're going to lose their funding justin if they
don't comply with the order that you mentioned that he
put back into effect last June. So it looks like
the Trump administration at least is taking this extremely, extremely
to heart. We're talking about that horrific accident in Florida

(18:23):
where three people were killed after a non English speaking
yet licensed CDL driver from California pull a U turn
on the Florida Turnpike, killing them. And this is really
spotlet a problem that's been going on, and that is
illegal alien drivers who are not held to the same

(18:44):
qualifications that English speaking or American drivers are held to,
and that they don't have to pass the English if
they're from California or Washington State or apparently New Mexico
or Oregon, they don't have to pass the English proficiency test,
which has been mandated by their legislators as part of
the qualifications to get the CDL. Mister Singh, the guy

(19:08):
in Florida or from California who killed those people, only
got two out of twelve questions right, Yet he got
his CDL license, And the question becomes, what the hell
if you are letting him giving him a license even
though he's not meeting the basic requirements? Are you not
responsible for what he does? Meaning aren't you responsible for

(19:31):
killing three people on the Florida Turnpike. I think that
you are. What should happen to mister Singh? And what
are we going to do about this? Six oh three
on the text line says revoke and deport? Yeah, I
think that's in his future. I think a criminal trial
maybe first. That's up to the folks in Florida how
they want to deal with it, since it was there

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there citizens who were killed. Six one seven, says Sandy.
We will never know if this accident was done on purpose,
but I do know foreigners do get in trucks and
plow down people on sidewalks. Was this the mentality of
this guy who knows? Remember, as the caller said about
Canadian truckers, Remember the guy who took out the Tobin
Bridge a few years back. That's Scott from Okalla, Florida. Yeah,

(20:17):
I do remember that. Actually that that was a big
deal and Canada took a lot of heat for licensing
that guy. I think this guy should. I think the
state of California should take a lot of heat for
licensing this guy. What are we going to do about this?
Sean Duffy, our Secretary of Transportation just threatened a few
states yesterday saying, either you have to uphold your English

(20:39):
proficiency on your CDLs or you will lose federal funding.
You think that was a good idea.

Speaker 4 (20:46):
I think it was.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
I think that's very appropriate. Hit him where they live,
and maybe they need to go back and go through
their files and those folks that didn't pass, maybe those
licenses need to be revoked. That might be something that
he could look at too. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Marco
Rubio made an announcement. He says that work visas for

(21:07):
foreign commercial truck drivers are going to be paused. He says,
effective immediately, we are pausing all issuance of work visas
for commercial truck drivers. This was a He made this
announcement on x He said, the increasing number of foreign
drivers operating large tractor trailer trucks on US roads is
endangering American lives and undercutting the livelihood of American truckers.

(21:32):
I say he's right on both accounts. That's a big
ten four on both of those things. Do you think
that's enough or should we be doing more? Let's go
to George in New Hampshire. George, Welcome to w RKO.
How are you, sir?

Speaker 10 (21:47):
Thank you, Thank you Shelly for taking my call. I mean,
I'm just like the rest of everybody. I mean, it's
just simple, it's just common sense stuff. And I just
feel as though that both the federal govern and the
state government should be held accountable. It's just it's I mean,
look at the Francis Scott key Bridge. I mean, I

(22:08):
know that wasn't an immigrant to our country, but I mean,
these are things just it's just common sense. We're not
looking for physicists to run our government. You know, it's
just again common sense.

Speaker 6 (22:20):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
Well, do you view this as do you view this
as as an accident that happened in Florida or murder?

Speaker 7 (22:28):
I would say it's I would.

Speaker 10 (22:31):
I I mean, I just I don't know, I don't
know how you would classify.

Speaker 4 (22:35):
I'm not a lawyer, I.

Speaker 10 (22:36):
Would just say it's just incompetence soever, where however that
classification meets to the legal definition.

Speaker 4 (22:42):
I mean, I think in.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
Competence that leads to death is usually manslaughter or vehicular homicide,
which are both forms of murder.

Speaker 10 (22:54):
So then that's where it falls. But again, I mean,
let's hold the people who issue these license what's hold
the business is accountable for putting these people on the road.
That's how you deal with it. I mean, it's the
same thing with that accident that happened with the druggie
at a mask who was driving around the Hampshire took
out a bunch of motorcycle guys. You know again you know,

(23:17):
I mean it's just it's who had.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
A bad record, We're not who had a bad record
yet still had a CDL.

Speaker 10 (23:22):
Yeah right, But yet, I mean I can tell you
as a business owner with the dot you know, if
I don't have my health card on one of my trucks,
it's over ten thousand pounds. I mean, it looks like
I'm being inducted into Paris Island in the estate troop
of screaming happy. So I mean, you know, rules for me,
but not for thee I mean, we're just tired of that,

(23:44):
you know what I mean, I do so not It's
not equal.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
It's not equal application of the law. It's just like
if if you had gone into California and to get
your CDL, my guess is, and you did not pass
one section of the JAME, you wouldn't have gotten your license.
But this guy I did because they want him to
be licensed. They want him to be licensed, they want
him to live there, they want him to be part
of their voting base. I think that's what's happening here, George.

Speaker 10 (24:13):
They're looking at it more of a macro, like a
a big picture. They're like, we need, we need capable,
we need we need more truck drivers, we need more
people doing construction.

Speaker 4 (24:24):
And that's what I do.

Speaker 10 (24:25):
And you know, so it's like when I live down South,
it was a wild West. There are people that were
very it was very clear they were undocumented, some weren't.
We're following the process, but yet it was the wild West,
driving wages down, increasing the cost of just services in general,
I mean, from from from my burden to the community's burden.

(24:49):
But yet the macro approaches, how these how these government
entities approach dealing with these issues, and you know, it's
it's just it's just unfair, you know, and again and again.
If this is not we don't need physicists figuring out
these problems. It's just common sense systems and standards. Systems
and standards. That's all what engineering is all about. There's

(25:10):
a protocol for everything. And I understand that the way
our republic is set up that our states, you know,
basically have a sovereignty, but the federal government can definitely
dictate these are the minimum standards of what we're expecting
for the road, and you know, the states do what
they do. But I mean one is the last I
mean Lapter nine eleven. How many people were at the

(25:32):
state department fired knowing they're probably there was anything promoted.

Speaker 1 (25:37):
Yeah, yeah, you know, yeah, you're right.

Speaker 6 (25:40):
It's a failure.

Speaker 10 (25:41):
It was an obvious failure on their end for doing
their job. And yet you know, trillions and dollars and
decades later and all the mess that comes from what
we did. You know, it's the result when someone in
the government should have been doing their job and we
just have to start firing people.

Speaker 1 (25:59):
I agree with you, and I think one of the
one thing you said, well, the number of things, but
one thing in particular really rings true, and that it's
its common sense. And President Trump has held him out
himself out to be the common sense president basically. And
I think that's one of the reasons why the Democrats
are in so much trouble, is that they have abandoned
common sense for a platform that is gratuitously political and

(26:23):
building their own political base as opposed to what is
common sense, uh for the country. And I think that's
where they ran a foul and it just permeates everything
that they do. But I thank you for the call, George,
very much, and for your your very common sense approach
to this particular problem. The number is six one seven

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two six six sixty eight sixty eight six one seven
two six six six eight six eight. That's the number.
When you hear a caller drop off, it means a
line has opened up for you on the text line
seven zero four seven zero if you want to weigh
in there nine seven eight. So Sandy does massive you.
It's allowed illegals to obstain obtain CDLs. No, they don't.

(27:04):
In Massachusetts. They do not allow illegals to obtain commercial
drivers licenses. There was the Work and Family Act that
was passed a couple of years ago, allows mass residents,
regardless of immigration status, to apply for a standard you know,
a Class D are basic driver's license. However, the federal

(27:25):
regulations for CDLs require applicants to prove their US citizens
or lawful permanent residents, and Massachusetts follows the federal regulations
for CDLs. So I'm not saying they haven't thought about it,
but they haven't implemented anything that would allow them to.
As long as they follow the federal guidelines, the answer

(27:45):
will be no, they haven't. Let's go to Rita in Saugus, Rito.
Welcome to WRKO. How are you?

Speaker 3 (27:54):
I'm fine, thank you, and thank you for taking my call.
I am a first time caller.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
Oh welcome.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
I'm a little bit nervous, but I have to say
I appreciate. I agree totally with the previous call of
George on every level. To me, this whole situation is like, hmmm,
the guy who whoever signed provided that license was like

(28:24):
signing a license given a gun license, and then mister
Singh was the one who pulled the trigger.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
Yeah, I think that's a really good analogy. Rita. I
think that's a beautiful analogy. I think that's exactly what happened. So,
but then the question becomes if if, for instance, mister
Singh had shot somebody, and like you said, the person
who loaded the gun and handed to him and mister
Singh were both involved in this, would you try mister

(28:52):
Singh for murder or would you try both of them
for murder? Rita, Yes, would you try both of them
for murder? Would you try no?

Speaker 3 (29:04):
I would try both of them for murder?

Speaker 1 (29:06):
Yeah, yeah, I agree with you. So that means the
people who are responsible for giving mister Singh the gun
in this case, in this case the CDL license in
a huge truck should also be held accountable, and that
would be the Governor of California, Gavin Newsom.

Speaker 3 (29:24):
Yeah, he has not him, he, she, whoever. They have
a responsibility to the people of their community. Yeah, and
you know, and they failed, they failed at their giving
out license willy nilly, And they have no business doing

(29:44):
that a truck. It's it's a weapon. My good god.
And you see that the video of mister Singh making
that turn, I mean that was done with intentions. Did
he intend to kill? No, he didn't, but he knew
what he was doing and it was wrong. He's responsible

(30:07):
for Murda. Gavin Newsom is responsible for anybody who signs
off on these things, they are responsible as well. So,
you know what, suck it up.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
That's very aptly put Rita. I completely agree with that.
I agree with the suck it up mentality. Thank you
so much for the call. You did great. You know,
do you feel better now? Do you feel good after
you've called and talked on the air.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
I feel I feel well. You know, I was trying
to keep my emotions down. I am upset with this
on so many levels. And one of the things that
bothers me is these foreigners like this have no respectful life,

(31:02):
and they have no respect period.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
It would appear that that's correct, and that's one of
the things that the couple of truck drivers you know
that we have spoken with before, like Troy and Idaho
and some of the other people who called in and
said they've noticed that's a recent occurrence among truck drivers
and kind of coincides with illegal immigrants getting commercial licenses.

(31:29):
Is they don't seem to respect the other truckers. They
don't respect the rules of the road, and I think
you could probably add to that given what happened in Florida,
they don't respect life either because I think, or at
least in this case, mister Singh did not respect life
because he did something that was foreseeably going to really
hurt somebody at the very minimal and he killed three people.

(31:52):
And it wasn't a shocker that that happened, given what
he did, and so that does point to a huge
lack of back for both the roads, the country and
the people around him. I completely agree with that. Thank
you so much for the call, Rita, and thank you
for having the courage to call him for your first time.
I know it can be scary, and I appreciate it
very very much. To what Rita and I were talking about,

(32:16):
Gavin Newsom is, in fact, I think, on the hook
for responsibility. It's his state for what's happened in this
wholesale licensing, giving commercial licenses to people who are not qualified,

(32:37):
people who don't speak English, people who do not are
not here legally or don't have work permits. And it's
very interesting because social media was starting to go in
this direction and say Governor Newsom is responsible, and he
tried to respond to the criticism for issuing the CDL

(32:59):
to a on speaking not English speaking illegal, by pointing
out that Singh was granted a work permit by Trump.
That's actually what he said happened. The governor's press account
faulted Donald Trump for giving for giving a work permit,

(33:22):
and they said, and Newsom's office said, well, he got
the CDL because he had a government work permit.

Speaker 6 (33:28):
This was.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
This was the tweet that was sent out, a social
media point that was sent out by Governor Newsom's office.
Are you ready for this? Is It's going to make
you laugh? Maybe, hey, genius? The federal government in parentheses,
Trump administration already confirmed that this guy meets federal and
state immigration requirements. You issued him a work permit as usual,
the Trump administration is either lying or clueless.

Speaker 4 (33:55):
Hmm.

Speaker 1 (33:56):
So here's the thing about that. That's a complete lie.
It's a complete and utter why as was pointed out
by Homeland Security, who has the records on mister Singh,
and their response was false. Mister Singh is in the
US illegally and his work authorization was rejected under the

(34:19):
Trump administration on September fourteenth, twenty twenty. It was later
approved under the Biden administration in twenty twenty one. So
Biden so Trump said no, no, no work for you.
Biden administration came in and said, yeah, sure, what the hell,
why not and gave it to him and so. And

(34:40):
by the way, another thing that the Homeland Security pointed out.
And by the way, just in case you keep trying
to pass blame to somebody, the state of California issues
commercial driver's licenses. There is no national CDL. Sincerely, genius,
So I think I think that was very funny how
the Homeland Security responded to Newsom really pathetic attempt to

(35:02):
pass the buck onto somebody else. The only place that
the buck deserves here is on Governor Newsom and President
Joe Biden. Governor Newsom for issuing the CDL and President
Biden for having his administration issue the work permit. So,
I mean, that's where that's where it belongs here, and

(35:24):
before that, the hierarchy in Washington State, another blue state.
Do you think that Governor Newsom and his followers have
learned anything from this accident? Do you think that they
just think, oh wow, maybe we've really screwed up here.
We need to go back and we need to make
sure that our CDL drivers speak English. We need to

(35:46):
double check on their permits. We need to make sure
that everything is done. Or do you think that they're
just going to ignore the whole thing and let it
move on. Because I have a tendency to think that
they don't learn very quickly. I've at their learning curve.
To me is a flat line. I've never seen it
spike at all.

Speaker 4 (36:04):
What do you think?

Speaker 1 (36:05):
John and peabuddy, Welcome to WRKO. How are you Johnny?

Speaker 8 (36:11):
Warning and the next to take my call?

Speaker 4 (36:12):
Welcome?

Speaker 8 (36:14):
I hope I can take maybe just less than a
minute to get what I have to say and have
you respond. First off, this driver is playing oblivious and
using his non speaking language to protect himself. Secondly, you
don't need letters and numbers on a sign to indicate
what you.

Speaker 2 (36:32):
Need to do.

Speaker 8 (36:33):
Colors and shapes are usually the simplest way and simplest
form of driving if you don't have time to even
read it. For instance, a green sign is the way
you get on and off an exit. A white sign
is a speed limit, yellow is see we caution, a
red is to stop, and a slash meeds you just

(36:53):
don't do it. So basically, this guy had some experience,
and I'll tell you right now, experience driving, because if
he was able to get in that truck, start it,
put it in gear and go, he's driven before, or
either as a passenger or where he came from, he's
driven before. So he's playing oblivious to all of what happened.

(37:16):
And I'll tell you what the person to go after,
not just the state, not just to basically the company.
You go after the supervisor who handed him those keys,
because he had to know for sure to you got
to get down to brass tacks to find out. My
wife worked for a towing company and dealt with this
all of the time. People just playing dumb, saying I

(37:38):
didn't know I couldn't park here. I didn't know. You
know that the sign said I couldn't take this road,
and I have hitting someone and you know most of
them were just walking pedestrians. And these people sometimes they
just play dumb. So if you're in the car, you
better believe and you better know what you're doing. And

(37:59):
most of the time they do, but they're using their
language to protect themselves. I think at times, so well,
like I said, we need to get down to the
person who handed him those keys and bring him to
court as well, not just the person who hired that supervisor,
but the supervisor himself, who knew full well this guy
should not be in this truck.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
I don't disagree with that. I think that that's very
common sense and a very good reading of the situation. John,
But I think it's I think it's more than just
the people who handed in the keys and let him
get on the truck. The state of California allowed the
company to do that. They couldn't if the state was
not issuing CDLs to people who couldn't speak English and

(38:43):
who may not have the skills to drive, then the
company couldn't hire them. So I don't think it stops
that his immediate supervisor or the owner of the company.
I think it goes right up the chain in California
that allowed this to happen because and don't forget that,
they're not allowing it to happen just because they need
truck drivers, which of course there is a dearth of

(39:04):
truck drivers, and it is an industry that badly needs
qualified people. It's also because they view it as he's
an the legal alien. They view it as expanding their
voter base. And keeping themselves in power. That to me
is craven. It's craven to put people in danger, not
just in your own state, but in other states too,
by giving somebody a CDL who's not qualified and allowing

(39:27):
companies to operate to your point, inside the state to
hire these people, because the state had to have full
knowledge that that's what the company was doing, and the
company was only going as far as the state was allowing.
So they're equally at fault, I think as much as

(39:47):
mister Singh is, because he obviously knew that he wasn't
qualified and still did it. I think all the levels
here have to be held culpable.