June 25, 2024 • 32 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Guest Host Chris Merrill filling in with a look at why the rising cost of living is forcing many to reconsider their summer spending plans…PLUS – Thoughts on Gov. Newsom’s new California budget deal AND the Los Angeles City Council’s plan to establish a citizen’s commission to explore the possibility of expanding the size of the council, reduce the number of council meetings and MORE - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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You're listening to Later with Moe Kellyon demand from KF I am six forty.
I'm Chris merrill in from O Kelly. Great to be here, Mark
Ronner, great to be here withyou. Nice to hear your voice again.
It has been a while, ithas and I always enjoy so much
spending time with you. And Twalais second to none, just a tremendous
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guy. In fact, t Walagot a shout out. I do a
show on Sunday afternoon. You mayhave heard it many many times because I
know how dedicated you are and wegave Twalla major shout out. So uh,
just to love working with you,guys. I look forward to it
all the time. And is thereanybody better than Fush? No, there
is not, well debatable, Imean no, don't do that to fo.
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Come on, come on, getoff on the right foot. Now,
get off on the right foot.They asked me if I wanted to
fill in FORMO this week, andI said, yeah, that'd be great.
I would love it. I'd loveto work with you guys. But
I have ulterior motives and that isthat I get paid, which is nice.
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It's nice to get paid. Ihave already spent the money that I
plan on making this week, theexpenditure will come to go on vacation.
That's my plan. I don't knowif I didn't have the extra influx of
cashola, if I would be doinga vacation. And evidently I'm not alone.
A lot of people are actually cancelingsummer, which sounds like somebody we
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used to tell our kids if theydidn't behave will cancel summer vacation, that
sort of thing, right, Idon't know. The kids are dumb,
They're great. I love it.Come to find out, more than a
third of people have decided to changetheir travel plans for the next year because
of the rising cost of living.There is a survey that was done and
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they surveyed two thousand adults, andthey said most people are spending their money
on groceries, clothing, and homegoods, which I can only assume is
throw pillows. If that's anything likemy house, I believe a solid twenty
percent of her income goes to throwpillows to pile onto the sofa. Here's
one of the stats from the surveythat I found was truly incredible. Over
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three fourths of those surveyed believe thatinflation is to blame for their cost of
living increases, which of course begsthe question, what do the other quarter
of all people think is the reasonfor their cost of living increases at any
given time? Is inflation not thereason the cost of living goes up,
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unless, of course it's your owndecisions and you moved into a house you
can't afford, or something of thatsort. But I don't know who was
saying no, no, Inflation's fine, No, it sucks. Inflation sucks.
And you can argue over who youwant to blame for it. If
it's Trumpet, is tax cuts,if it's Biden and is overspending, I
don't care. But let's face it, inflation is is nuts, and and
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if your cost of living has goneup is because of inflation. So a
third of people say they are changingtheir vacations or they're cashing in their credit
card points and frequent flyer miles.I did. I did an Instagram post
earlier this week. I guess maybeit was last week, because this is
the earliest you can get in aweek, And I made mention of what
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I think is a real racket bythe airline companies. Follow me on this,
I like to use airline miles.So I'm flying to my hometown where
my parents are in northern Michigan.It's about two thousand miles right, so
there and back two thousand, twothousand, let's see two thousand carried the
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one. It's four thousand miles,right. Do you know how much it's
going to cost me an airline miles? Forty eight thousand airline miles? Why
do they call them airline miles?Miles? If they're not miles, they're
not even close to miles. Theysay, airline, You've got forty eight
thousand airline miles. Cool. Ishould be able to fly around the world
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twice, but I can't because airlinemiles don't translate into actual miles. So
please stop calling them airline miles.Some have started to do this. I
think my Southwest says it's points.Now I'm flying American this time around,
and I think Southwest says that they'repoints, which is kind of like going
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to the casino and you're not reallybetting money, you're betting chips. So
they say, well, you've gotit, points that you've earned. And
that makes me crazy too, becauseagain, I was under the illusion that
a point was a dollar. Itis not a point, is more like
ten cents or even a little bitless. I'm cheap. That bothers me.
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One of the things that people aredoing, and I've actually run into
this my wife is she's a workfrom home person and she has people under
her. She's a director for alaboratory and they've got employees all over the
country and she's got I don't know, five six employees of her own.
They just hired a person. Andthis person always shows that they're online,
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right, So you go to teamsand it looks like they're online. But
when she reaches out, she doesn'tget any response. So if she's there
and she's online, why is shenot responding? And I have a theory
that it's because she's working another jobat the same time. So this is
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actually a thing where people are.They're getting jobs that they can work remotely,
and then they get another job thatthey can work remotely, and they
half asked it at both jobs andthey collect two paychecks. Not bad,
right, So as long as youcan keep things straight, you can be
working for two different people at thesame time and you're totally double dipping.
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You're working two jobs. At thesame time. Back in the day,
you used to have to work onejob and you get done and then you
go to the other job if youhad to work two jobs. Now some
people are messing with a system andthey're working two jobs at once, and
of course they'll makeup excuses, well, I had to do that because I
had, you know, I hadto pay for my the the diapers,
or throw pillows or whatever else itis. And the truth is they're just
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scamming. Is a total scam.Part of me is angry about that.
Part of me is mad that Ididn't think of it first. But this
is incredibly frustrating when employers catch onand the people who are really really good
at scamming system will then start playinggames and they'll say, oh, I've
got to I have to take somefamily leave, i got to take that
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to medical leave issue, I've gotto I've got a disability I've got and
so they start playing it so youcan't even lay them off. I mean,
this is happening more than I'd liketo admit. I'd like to think
it's a one off, but thisis happening quite a bit. Actually,
some people are doing the whole vacation, but then taking their remote work on
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the road with them, so they'recalling it working paid time off. In
other words, they're not if you'rea millennial, excuse me. If you're
a gen Z, you call itquiet vacationing because they have to rename everything.
It drives me crazy. So,believe it or not, it's a
TikTok trend shocker. All the worstthings in humanity start with TikTok. So
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what they're doing is they're calling thisquiet vacationing. So they go on vacation,
they take their laptops with them,and then they'll they'll pop in on
their laptop, they'll shake the mouse, they'll make it look like they're online,
and then they go back to whateverthey're doing on vacation. Oh,
I'm going on a hike. Theytake their phones with them, and then
it looks like they can pull upteams and make it look like they're online.
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Quiet vacationing. And now I'm realizingas I'm telling you this that I
might be giving some people a badidea, but it's true. This is
what many people are doing quiet vacation. Don't do it. If you get
caught, people are gonna hate you, but just the same they're doing it
anyway. Quiet vacationing the latest trendwhich used to be called just ripping off
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the company. But again, intoday's world, we all have to rename
everything because that's what we do.That's what it is. Where do we
have Oh yes, okay, speakingof trying to get away with stuff,
California is working on our new budget. Remember a couple of years ago when
we had like one hundred billion dollarsextra. Now we're short. We're always
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short normally when it comes to budgeting, we always end up short and you
always have to say, we're gonnahave to cut stuff. So Governor Batman
has gotten out the scissors and he'sstarting to cut. What you're gonna need
to know about this budget deal thathe's working on and who's going to get
screwed? That's next you're listening tolater with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI
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AM sixty. Is looking at waysto try to shore up the old California
budget. And this is a realbooger because we're short on money again.
Comes to no surprise. A coupleof years ago we had this massive surplus.
In large part that was because wewere getting money from the stimulus plans,
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right, So now we don't getthat money. Oh how about that?
So we're all trying to figure outwhat do we do with this.
By the way, California is notthe only state that's that's crunching numbers when
it comes to budget because a lotof states had access from the stimulus plan.
In our state, we had togive the money back, right,
That's the way the rules read isthat if you have excess money over a
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certain amount, it has to goback to the taxpayers. And then we
argue over which taxpayers get it.Is everybody to get back a sliding scale?
Is everybody get back to the sameamount? That kind of thing,
right, So, now Gavin Newsomhas put forward a three hundred billion dollar
spending plan, which is mind bogglingamount of money, a bigger budget than
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any other state in the union.And what do we do, what do
we do to try to whittle thingsdown to under three hundred billion dollars?
Well, there's the issue, right. So according to let me see last
Senate President pro Tem Mike McGuire andAssembly Speaker Robert Reeves, they say also
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relies on reserves, meaning Randy dayfunds that kind of thing and pauses some
business tax credits to address a remainingrevenue gap estimated at fifty six billion dollars
over the next two years. Inother words, even after we make this
proposal, even after we whittle thingsdown, we're still short fifty six billion
dollars. And what are the politiciansalways tell us everything's fine, don't worry
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about a thing. That's that's alwaysone side, one group of politicians,
and other's that everything it's cool,nothing to worry about. And then you're
gonna have the other side of that, it says, is calamity. It
is a disaster. This is apocalyptic. And there's never any middle ground,
right, It's always it's always theend of the world or everything's fine.
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Nothing to see here. So,according to News to Me, he says,
this agreement sets the state on apath for long term fiscal stability,
addressing the current short phone strengthening budgetresilience down the road. In other words,
it's a bunch of crap, Hesays. We're making sure to preserve
programs that serve millions of Californians,including key funding for education, healthcare,
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expended behavioral health services, and combatinghomelessness. Okay, but somebody's got to
get hosed, right, Yeah,so who's losing it? Sixteen billion dollars
in cuts, including a reduction andfunding for nearly all state departments and eliminating
thousands of vacant positions, collectively expectedto save nearly three point seven million dollars.
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So if you are working for thestate and you are feeling like,
my god, they got to getsomebody in here. Oh, they need
to hire somebody. Well, we'reall trying to do all this work.
They needed to hire somebody, don'tplan on it. It looks like they're
just going to say, uh yeah, we're not going to fill that position.
So that's frustrating for people who areworking and they're expecting that somebody is
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eventually going to fill the empty desknext to them. They're not. The
doc is going to take an additionalthree hundred and eighty five million dollar cut.
Newsom didn't even want that much,But you had progressive lawmakers that said,
we need to shrink the prison system. So what's the best way to
shrink the prison system. Well,it's not to deter crime, of course,
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It's simply to cut the budgets.Yeah, that's gonna go over grade.
No more pudding cups. Sorry.One billion dollars from various affordable housing
programs, and the four billion dollarsfor health care workforce development, and five
hundred million dollars to build student housingthat's gone. Scholarship program for middle class
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students is going to lose one hundredand ten million dollars annually. You're screwed.
You're gonna have to get your richmom to lie on your resume to
get you in, or apply fora scholarship in a sport you've never participated
in. And three billion dollars inpreviously promised funding to expand food benefits to
undocumented immigrants, increase pay for providerswho care for people with developmental disabilities at
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a new subsidized childcare slots, andbuild out a broadband internet. Those are
all getting delayed, so remote areasthat are waiting on broadband you're not getting.
That's all you're all host But theyare going to protect core programs and
expand medical regardless of immigration status,you will have health care. You won't
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have any food or a house tolive in, but you will have health
care. So you got that goingfor you. There'll be ink is funding
for behavioral health as well as welfaregrants and supplemental income for seniors. So
there you go. Local governments getanother one billion dollars to address homelessness.
So a billion dollars spread out overthe state to address homelessness and healthcare for
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everyone, just no place to live. Listen, I'm not saying it's easy.
I don't want the job. You'renever gonna get me running for politics
because I don't want the job.But sometimes doesn't it feel like Sometimes it
feels like, uh, listen,you're gonna have to make a sacrifice.
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We'll decide which sacrifice is best foryou, and then you'll just make do.
It's kind of like saying, man, it's really cold outside and I
have to put on gloves, butI don't have enough money to buy two
pairs of gloves. Maybe I couldjust wear a sock on one hand and
a glove on the other. Done. Yeah, we kind of have to
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make too. What else could wepossibly do? And let's face it,
a billion dollar state wide to helphomelessness that's not even gonna make a dent,
which is why you will have theopportunity to vote for another tax increase.
God love California. Every November,we have a ballot that has got
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about a goad jillion proposals on it, and half a gagillion of those proposals
are to raise taxes on ourselves.Do you want to raise taxes in the
gas you put in your car?Oh? I can't wait to do that?
Yeah? Do that? Do youwant to raise sales tax? Ool
for what? Well, we're gonnabuild shelters, will you or will you
just feeder it away somewhere else?Probably Federate away count me in so La
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is proposing a half cent sales taxin La County to fund affordable housing and
homeless services. The Affordable Housing HomelessSolutions of Preventions Now measure would repeal and
replace the measure eged quarter cent salestax that funds homeless programs in La.
How many of us, seriously,how many know what the sales tax is
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earmarked for? Only knows that wego to the store at this store in
this area is going to have aneight percent sales tax, and that store
in that area is going to havea nine and a half percent sales tax.
And somewhere in the annals of thedocumentation is a list of all the
different places that you're eight and ahalf, nine and a half percent,
whatever it is is supposed to goto right somewhere, all of it is
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broken down. I don't know wherethat is. You don't know where that
is. How much that goes tothe state, how much that goes to
the city, how much that goesto the county, and what goes to
the county, how much goes tothe homeless, how much goes to the
library, how much goes to transport. I don't know. I don't know.
But every time we turn around,you've got a politician saying it's only
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half a penny. That's fifty centson every one hundred dollars you spend.
Are you saying you can't afford fiftycents on every hundred dollars you spend?
Well, I can, but I'mprobably gonna have to put off my vacation
because the last time you asked meto raise taxes on myself, I said
yes because you said it was onlygoing to be a quarter around one hundred
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dollars, and before that it wasonly a dollar around one hundred dollars,
and before that it was only seventyfive cents one hundred dollars, and pretty
soon all these only start to addup. And now but by a car
which has gone up in price.Now, all of a sudden, I
have a bill and I got anextra forty five hundred dollars out a fifty
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thousand dollars car because you kept askingme to just add an extra fifty cents
here and there. Well, itstarts to add up, and now I'm
broke, So that sucks, allright. Chris Meryl I AM six forty
were live everywhere in your iHeartRadio app. You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly
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on demand from KFI AM six forty. The La City Council voted to start
a new citizen Commission. The citizenCommission will do what the citizen Commission will
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look at, expanding the city council. This is ah, this is boring
stuff, isn't it. But here'swhat's going on. Sometimes, I honestly
believe that the leaders elected leaders intentionallymake everything they do so boring that nobody
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pays attention. That may be prettycynical. It could be that there have
just been so many lawyers along theway that every time city councils and city
commissions and the city well officials andall that other craft have to do something.
They just they're just bogged down bythe legal lees of it all.
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And then they're all trying to sayon self important that sort of thing.
So here's what the La City Councilis doing. They want to create a
new citizen commission. And this ispeak bureaucracy. Love this. What do
you guys want to do? Igot an idea, let's expand the city
council. And they go, well, expand the city council. Why would
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we do that? And then peoplecome forward and they go, well,
you should do it because of thisand this and this. You should have
better representation of the diverse population ofthe city. You should have smaller districts
so that we have more equitable representationfor each area. And this would also
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allow you to have fewer council meetingsin the world. Wow, fewer council
meetings, and council members get boredtoo at these city council meetings. There
are fifteen council members right now,and the idea of stretching this out and
adding more council seats, I don'tknow how many there were be it'd be
if we go up to nineteen ortwenty one or twenty three. I think
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it has to be an odd numberso that you have you know, I
ended up with ties when people arevoting on things. So whatever it is,
they go, Wow, these alsodenlike really great ideas. Let's put
together a study committee. Well that'sreally god, it is so boring,
all right, So what are wedoing with a study committee? Committee?
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The La City Council fifteen members ofthe La City Council literally got together and
decided that if they want to letnew people into their club, they need
to decide if the club can handlemore people. So they put together a
commission, a study commission of thirteenpeople. We have thirteen people studying what
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the fifteen people are doing to decideif we need more than fifteen people to
do it. Outstand, Okay,so what are they gonna do. Well,
they're going to look into whether ornot that's a good idea. They
will study the concept. There's alreadybeen a council committee that studied the concept.
They took several months. They neverreally figured out what they wanted to
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do. And so what they saidis, look, we had a few
of us get together. We talkedthis over. We studied the concept,
which sounds like corporate crap talk,right, oh, conceptionally speaking, we're
studying it. And then they decidedwe didn't really know what to do,
so we put together a study commission. So now the study commission is going
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to look into whether or not weshould expand the city council. Doesn't that
sound thrilling? Actually thrilled by this. Some are saying, including the nonprofit
group La Forward, that they needto expand the city council to twenty nine
members. Twenty nine okay, soyou're almost doubling the size of the city
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council. That's great, sounds great. What does that mean for me?
Basically, it means that you're gonnaget split up into different districts. Again,
if you live in LA in LosAngeles, if you live in the
city, you're just gonna get splitto a bunch of new city new districts.
So whoever your council member is rightnow would not be your council member
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in the future. You'd have achance to see different yard signs for people
going forward. I honest to god, I don't know how much of a
difference. It makes, and we'verun into this hole. Let's expand things
for the sake of expanding things.In other realms, you've probably heard the
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Supreme Court, for instance, peopleare saying, oh, we need to
expand the Supreme Court. A lotof the time they say that if there's
a major decision that the country doesn'tlike, like the overturning of Roe v.
Weight, Roe v. Way getsoverturned, and a lot of specifically
progressive saying we need to expand thecourt. The thought process is man fdr
one or to do this? Hewas onto something. If we just expand
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the court, then Biden would getto name the new justices and by how
much do they want to expand thecourt? We want to go from what
nine justices? And they go,do they want to go to eleven?
They go, see, we goto eleven and that would give us five
on the liberal wing, but therewas Stibody six on the conservative wing.
No, we need to go tothirteen. So it's always about math in
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order to get what people want.In the end, it's never really about
expanding. I don't know that thiswould not do as they say, and
that is offer a better opportunity formore accurate and equitable representation across the city.
Maybe. Maybe, But here's whatI do know. If you expand
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the city council, you're still goingto have an awful lot of people to
say it's not good enough, it'snot good enough, it's not good enough,
it's not good enough. And honestly, you've got a city of four
million people right now, it's representedby fifteen people. If you up that
to twenty nine, if that's whatthey go to, or twenty five or
however many they end up going to. Uh great, Um, that's better
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than fifteen, I guess. Buthonestly, four million people being represented by
fifteen or by twenty five, howmuch of a difference does that really make
in the end, Because I gotto tell you, I don't think it's
a whole lot. I don't thinkit's going to do a whole heck of
a lot. There is something thatsome cities are doing which I think is
fascinating. Some cities have decided thatthey want to up their status so that
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they don't have to abide by statelaws. There's one state law that was
adjudicated a couple of years ago wherea judge said, yeah, this applies.
This applies to everybody except for ahandful of charter cities. What that
means and what the law is they'retrying to get around is next. I'm
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Chris Meryl, I AM six forty. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio Web.
You're listening too later with Moe Kellyon demand from KFI AM six forty.
Imagine that you are living in acity and all of a sudden there's
a state law that comes down thatyou don't like. I know it's difficult
to imagine, but it's true.So imagine that the state state law comes
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down and it's it's it's one thatyour people in the city are not big
fans of. However, in thecase of the state law that allows you
to turn your house into a intoa a duplex, or a triplex or
a quad plex, number of citiessaid, we don't like it that people
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can turn their houses into whatever theywant. Now, the reason the state
law has passed, of course,is because the rent is too high.
Right, rent is too high?What are we gonna do about it?
How about if we just allow peopleto take their single, single family homes,
put a wall in the middle ofcall to duplex. Well, some
cities said, well, we don'tlike that. We don't want the population
in our city to grow. Wedon't want people having a small plate.
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We want our single family homes.So they sued, and there was a
judge that said that the law thatallows you to split your houses into a
duplex or a triplex or a quadplex, regardless of local zoning restrictions is not
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not applicable in certain cities like We'redown to Beach, Carson, Torrents,
Whittier, del Mar. Why becausethose cities are what they call charter cities.
I guess I thought all cities hadsome sort of a charter, and
I apologized for not knowing better.I just thought that we did. I
thought charters were I thought if youhad a city, i'd have a city
charter. I guess not. SoEvidently, we've got a number of cities,
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and right now there are there area bunch of cities, like a
few in the Bay Area that aresaying we now want to become a charter
city. We want to put togethera charter. And if we have a
charter, then that means we don'thave to abide by certain state laws,
and we can develop our own zoningoutside of this state law. So again
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you've got some of these some ofthese places that are they've got some money,
right, And then you've got someplaces that just say, we don't
basically want to increase housing availability.They want exclusivity. They want to make
sure that the people who live insingle family homes continue to have only single
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family homes. And the reason forthat is, again is to remain above
I guess everybody else to just bewe don't want that. So since this
judge ruled it, a bunch ofthese cities now are looking at saying,
okay, we got to draw upa charter. And a charter is very
specific. It's kind of like aconstitution for the city for each one of
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these independent cities, but it hasa far more specificity. So it says,
okay, here's our zoning, here'show our trash is done, here's
how our sewage is done. Everything'slaid out right. The problem is the
people who live in those communities haveto vote to turn themselves into a charter
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city. In other words, youwould have to vote. This is bizarre.
You would have to You would haveto vote to disallow your right to
do as you please with your homein order to give your municipality the right
to ignore state laws that you don'tlike. Does that make sense. I'm
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voting against my right so that Ican have other rights. I know they
twisted themselves up. And here's thekicker. The ruling by the judge is
being challenged. It's going to goto an appeals court, and the appeals
court will have to decide whether thecounty judge, his name is Curtis Kidney's
an ell county judge, was offhis rocker or if he's onto something.
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And so what does that mean toyou? Share question? I don't have
any idea, Honestly, I don't. I really don't know. If you
live in some places, I guessit means you can't turn your place into
a duplex, which I suppose alsostinks if you are thinking about putting in
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like a mother in law quarters.Or when I was young, my parents
converted part of the garage. Itwas very nice of them into a little
studio apartment for me. When soI was in college, but I still
lived at home, but I alsohad my own little studio apartment kind of
deal. Like they wouldn't have beenable to do that if the city disallowed
it. Right now, elsewhere inthe state, anybody, unless you're in
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these charter cities who have different rules, anybody would be allowed to We're in
a student apartment for their college kid, put it in a studio for mom
who's moving in, whatever it mightbe, or put in a casita.
I always loved saying cassida. Itmakes me sound fancy. You could put
in a casida so that you couldrent it out to somebody. Right,
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that would be totally allowed in orderto ease the housing crisis. Make you
a few extra bucks on the side, which is good because the cost of
everything is going up. Sounds great, unless, of course, you live
in one of these charter cities,in which case you would say, I
don't want people to be able todo that because I want to continue to
be above their class of people wholive in apartments and rentals. I guess
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that's the idea. So now thatthat's fixed, now that it's all solved,
I feel better. Thank god wehave that going on. I don't
know, we just keep an eyeon it, find out. I suppose
if we have if we limit ourown independence in order to give the cities
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independence, and in the meantime,the cities will be spending a ton of
dollars. The reason again, theyhave to have the residents vote on it.
And if the residents vote on it, an election costs money. But
they also have to pay lawyers tocome up with very specific means of operating
the city as its own independent charter, separate from the jurisdiction of the state.
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I guess again, sometimes I thinkthe elected officials want things to be
incredibly boring and complicated just to makeus go whatever, just do whatever,
man, I don't care. Wejust don't pay attention. And again,
it's either that or we've got somany lawyers involved that we're all just trying
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to dance around the law wherever wecan. It's the only thing I can
figure out. I'm Chris Merril can'if I am six forty were live everywhere
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I and KOs T HD two LosAngeles, Orange County Live everywhere on the aper radio
You're listening to Later with Moe Kellyon demand from KF I am six forty.
I'm Chris merrill in from O Kelly. Great to be here, Mark
Ronner, great to be here withyou. Nice to hear your voice again.
It has been a while, ithas and I always enjoy so much
spending time with you. And Twalais second to none, just a tremendous
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guy. In fact, t Walagot a shout out. I do a
show on Sunday afternoon. You mayhave heard it many many times because I
know how dedicated you are and wegave Twalla major shout out. So uh,
just to love working with you,guys. I look forward to it
all the time. And is thereanybody better than Fush? No, there
is not, well debatable, Imean no, don't do that to fo.
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Come on, come on, getoff on the right foot. Now,
get off on the right foot.They asked me if I wanted to
fill in FORMO this week, andI said, yeah, that'd be great.
I would love it. I'd loveto work with you guys. But
I have ulterior motives and that isthat I get paid, which is nice.
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It's nice to get paid. Ihave already spent the money that I
plan on making this week, theexpenditure will come to go on vacation.
That's my plan. I don't knowif I didn't have the extra influx of
cashola, if I would be doinga vacation. And evidently I'm not alone.
A lot of people are actually cancelingsummer, which sounds like somebody we
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used to tell our kids if theydidn't behave will cancel summer vacation, that
sort of thing, right, Idon't know. The kids are dumb,
They're great. I love it.Come to find out, more than a
third of people have decided to changetheir travel plans for the next year because
of the rising cost of living.There is a survey that was done and
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they surveyed two thousand adults, andthey said most people are spending their money
on groceries, clothing, and homegoods, which I can only assume is
throw pillows. If that's anything likemy house, I believe a solid twenty
percent of her income goes to throwpillows to pile onto the sofa. Here's
one of the stats from the surveythat I found was truly incredible. Over
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three fourths of those surveyed believe thatinflation is to blame for their cost of
living increases, which of course begsthe question, what do the other quarter
of all people think is the reasonfor their cost of living increases at any
given time? Is inflation not thereason the cost of living goes up,
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unless, of course it's your owndecisions and you moved into a house you
can't afford, or something of thatsort. But I don't know who was
saying no, no, Inflation's fine, No, it sucks. Inflation sucks.
And you can argue over who youwant to blame for it. If
it's Trumpet, is tax cuts,if it's Biden and is overspending, I
don't care. But let's face it, inflation is is nuts, and and
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if your cost of living has goneup is because of inflation. So a
third of people say they are changingtheir vacations or they're cashing in their credit
card points and frequent flyer miles.I did. I did an Instagram post
earlier this week. I guess maybeit was last week, because this is
the earliest you can get in aweek, And I made mention of what
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I think is a real racket bythe airline companies. Follow me on this,
I like to use airline miles.So I'm flying to my hometown where
my parents are in northern Michigan.It's about two thousand miles right, so
there and back two thousand, twothousand, let's see two thousand carried the
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one. It's four thousand miles,right. Do you know how much it's
going to cost me an airline miles? Forty eight thousand airline miles? Why
do they call them airline miles?Miles? If they're not miles, they're
not even close to miles. Theysay, airline, You've got forty eight
thousand airline miles. Cool. Ishould be able to fly around the world
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twice, but I can't because airlinemiles don't translate into actual miles. So
please stop calling them airline miles.Some have started to do this. I
think my Southwest says it's points.Now I'm flying American this time around,
and I think Southwest says that they'repoints, which is kind of like going
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to the casino and you're not reallybetting money, you're betting chips. So
they say, well, you've gotit, points that you've earned. And
that makes me crazy too, becauseagain, I was under the illusion that
a point was a dollar. Itis not a point, is more like
ten cents or even a little bitless. I'm cheap. That bothers me.
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One of the things that people aredoing, and I've actually run into
this my wife is she's a workfrom home person and she has people under
her. She's a director for alaboratory and they've got employees all over the
country and she's got I don't know, five six employees of her own.
They just hired a person. Andthis person always shows that they're online,
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right, So you go to teamsand it looks like they're online. But
when she reaches out, she doesn'tget any response. So if she's there
and she's online, why is shenot responding? And I have a theory
that it's because she's working another jobat the same time. So this is
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actually a thing where people are.They're getting jobs that they can work remotely,
and then they get another job thatthey can work remotely, and they
half asked it at both jobs andthey collect two paychecks. Not bad,
right, So as long as youcan keep things straight, you can be
working for two different people at thesame time and you're totally double dipping.
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You're working two jobs. At thesame time. Back in the day,
you used to have to work onejob and you get done and then you
go to the other job if youhad to work two jobs. Now some
people are messing with a system andthey're working two jobs at once, and
of course they'll makeup excuses, well, I had to do that because I
had, you know, I hadto pay for my the the diapers,
or throw pillows or whatever else itis. And the truth is they're just
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scamming. Is a total scam.Part of me is angry about that.
Part of me is mad that Ididn't think of it first. But this
is incredibly frustrating when employers catch onand the people who are really really good
at scamming system will then start playinggames and they'll say, oh, I've
got to I have to take somefamily leave, i got to take that
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to medical leave issue, I've gotto I've got a disability I've got and
so they start playing it so youcan't even lay them off. I mean,
this is happening more than I'd liketo admit. I'd like to think
it's a one off, but thisis happening quite a bit. Actually,
some people are doing the whole vacation, but then taking their remote work on
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the road with them, so they'recalling it working paid time off. In
other words, they're not if you'rea millennial, excuse me. If you're
a gen Z, you call itquiet vacationing because they have to rename everything.
It drives me crazy. So,believe it or not, it's a
TikTok trend shocker. All the worstthings in humanity start with TikTok. So
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what they're doing is they're calling thisquiet vacationing. So they go on vacation,
they take their laptops with them,and then they'll they'll pop in on
their laptop, they'll shake the mouse, they'll make it look like they're online,
and then they go back to whateverthey're doing on vacation. Oh,
I'm going on a hike. Theytake their phones with them, and then
it looks like they can pull upteams and make it look like they're online.
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Quiet vacationing. And now I'm realizingas I'm telling you this that I
might be giving some people a badidea, but it's true. This is
what many people are doing quiet vacation. Don't do it. If you get
caught, people are gonna hate you, but just the same they're doing it
anyway. Quiet vacationing the latest trendwhich used to be called just ripping off
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the company. But again, intoday's world, we all have to rename
everything because that's what we do.That's what it is. Where do we
have Oh yes, okay, speakingof trying to get away with stuff,
California is working on our new budget. Remember a couple of years ago when
we had like one hundred billion dollarsextra. Now we're short. We're always
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short normally when it comes to budgeting, we always end up short and you
always have to say, we're gonnahave to cut stuff. So Governor Batman
has gotten out the scissors and he'sstarting to cut. What you're gonna need
to know about this budget deal thathe's working on and who's going to get
screwed? That's next you're listening tolater with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI
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AM sixty. Is looking at waysto try to shore up the old California
budget. And this is a realbooger because we're short on money again.
Comes to no surprise. A coupleof years ago we had this massive surplus.
In large part that was because wewere getting money from the stimulus plans,
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right, So now we don't getthat money. Oh how about that?
So we're all trying to figure outwhat do we do with this.
By the way, California is notthe only state that's that's crunching numbers when
it comes to budget because a lotof states had access from the stimulus plan.
In our state, we had togive the money back, right,
That's the way the rules read isthat if you have excess money over a
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certain amount, it has to goback to the taxpayers. And then we
argue over which taxpayers get it.Is everybody to get back a sliding scale?
Is everybody get back to the sameamount? That kind of thing,
right, So, now Gavin Newsomhas put forward a three hundred billion dollar
spending plan, which is mind bogglingamount of money, a bigger budget than
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any other state in the union.And what do we do, what do
we do to try to whittle thingsdown to under three hundred billion dollars?
Well, there's the issue, right. So according to let me see last
Senate President pro Tem Mike McGuire andAssembly Speaker Robert Reeves, they say also
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relies on reserves, meaning Randy dayfunds that kind of thing and pauses some
business tax credits to address a remainingrevenue gap estimated at fifty six billion dollars
over the next two years. Inother words, even after we make this
proposal, even after we whittle thingsdown, we're still short fifty six billion
dollars. And what are the politiciansalways tell us everything's fine, don't worry
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about a thing. That's that's alwaysone side, one group of politicians,
and other's that everything it's cool,nothing to worry about. And then you're
gonna have the other side of that, it says, is calamity. It
is a disaster. This is apocalyptic. And there's never any middle ground,
right, It's always it's always theend of the world or everything's fine.
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Nothing to see here. So,according to News to Me, he says,
this agreement sets the state on apath for long term fiscal stability,
addressing the current short phone strengthening budgetresilience down the road. In other words,
it's a bunch of crap, Hesays. We're making sure to preserve
programs that serve millions of Californians,including key funding for education, healthcare,
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expended behavioral health services, and combatinghomelessness. Okay, but somebody's got to
get hosed, right, Yeah,so who's losing it? Sixteen billion dollars
in cuts, including a reduction andfunding for nearly all state departments and eliminating
thousands of vacant positions, collectively expectedto save nearly three point seven million dollars.
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So if you are working for thestate and you are feeling like,
my god, they got to getsomebody in here. Oh, they need
to hire somebody. Well, we'reall trying to do all this work.
They needed to hire somebody, don'tplan on it. It looks like they're
just going to say, uh yeah, we're not going to fill that position.
So that's frustrating for people who areworking and they're expecting that somebody is
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eventually going to fill the empty desknext to them. They're not. The
doc is going to take an additionalthree hundred and eighty five million dollar cut.
Newsom didn't even want that much,But you had progressive lawmakers that said,
we need to shrink the prison system. So what's the best way to
shrink the prison system. Well,it's not to deter crime, of course,
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It's simply to cut the budgets.Yeah, that's gonna go over grade.
No more pudding cups. Sorry.One billion dollars from various affordable housing
programs, and the four billion dollarsfor health care workforce development, and five
hundred million dollars to build student housingthat's gone. Scholarship program for middle class
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students is going to lose one hundredand ten million dollars annually. You're screwed.
You're gonna have to get your richmom to lie on your resume to
get you in, or apply fora scholarship in a sport you've never participated
in. And three billion dollars inpreviously promised funding to expand food benefits to
undocumented immigrants, increase pay for providerswho care for people with developmental disabilities at
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a new subsidized childcare slots, andbuild out a broadband internet. Those are
all getting delayed, so remote areasthat are waiting on broadband you're not getting.
That's all you're all host But theyare going to protect core programs and
expand medical regardless of immigration status,you will have health care. You won't
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have any food or a house tolive in, but you will have health
care. So you got that goingfor you. There'll be ink is funding
for behavioral health as well as welfaregrants and supplemental income for seniors. So
there you go. Local governments getanother one billion dollars to address homelessness.
So a billion dollars spread out overthe state to address homelessness and healthcare for
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everyone, just no place to live. Listen, I'm not saying it's easy.
I don't want the job. You'renever gonna get me running for politics
because I don't want the job.But sometimes doesn't it feel like Sometimes it
feels like, uh, listen,you're gonna have to make a sacrifice.
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We'll decide which sacrifice is best foryou, and then you'll just make do.
It's kind of like saying, man, it's really cold outside and I
have to put on gloves, butI don't have enough money to buy two
pairs of gloves. Maybe I couldjust wear a sock on one hand and
a glove on the other. Done. Yeah, we kind of have to
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make too. What else could wepossibly do? And let's face it,
a billion dollar state wide to helphomelessness that's not even gonna make a dent,
which is why you will have theopportunity to vote for another tax increase.
God love California. Every November,we have a ballot that has got
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about a goad jillion proposals on it, and half a gagillion of those proposals
are to raise taxes on ourselves.Do you want to raise taxes in the
gas you put in your car?Oh? I can't wait to do that?
Yeah? Do that? Do youwant to raise sales tax? Ool
for what? Well, we're gonnabuild shelters, will you or will you
just feeder it away somewhere else?Probably Federate away count me in so La
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is proposing a half cent sales taxin La County to fund affordable housing and
homeless services. The Affordable Housing HomelessSolutions of Preventions Now measure would repeal and
replace the measure eged quarter cent salestax that funds homeless programs in La.
How many of us, seriously,how many know what the sales tax is
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earmarked for? Only knows that wego to the store at this store in
this area is going to have aneight percent sales tax, and that store
in that area is going to havea nine and a half percent sales tax.
And somewhere in the annals of thedocumentation is a list of all the
different places that you're eight and ahalf, nine and a half percent,
whatever it is is supposed to goto right somewhere, all of it is
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broken down. I don't know wherethat is. You don't know where that
is. How much that goes tothe state, how much that goes to
the city, how much that goesto the county, and what goes to
the county, how much goes tothe homeless, how much goes to the
library, how much goes to transport. I don't know. I don't know.
But every time we turn around,you've got a politician saying it's only
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half a penny. That's fifty centson every one hundred dollars you spend.
Are you saying you can't afford fiftycents on every hundred dollars you spend?
Well, I can, but I'mprobably gonna have to put off my vacation
because the last time you asked meto raise taxes on myself, I said
yes because you said it was onlygoing to be a quarter around one hundred
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dollars, and before that it wasonly a dollar around one hundred dollars,
and before that it was only seventyfive cents one hundred dollars, and pretty
soon all these only start to addup. And now but by a car
which has gone up in price.Now, all of a sudden, I
have a bill and I got anextra forty five hundred dollars out a fifty
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thousand dollars car because you kept askingme to just add an extra fifty cents
here and there. Well, itstarts to add up, and now I'm
broke, So that sucks, allright. Chris Meryl I AM six forty
were live everywhere in your iHeartRadio app. You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly
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on demand from KFI AM six forty. The La City Council voted to start
a new citizen Commission. The citizenCommission will do what the citizen Commission will
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look at, expanding the city council. This is ah, this is boring
stuff, isn't it. But here'swhat's going on. Sometimes, I honestly
believe that the leaders elected leaders intentionallymake everything they do so boring that nobody
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pays attention. That may be prettycynical. It could be that there have
just been so many lawyers along theway that every time city councils and city
commissions and the city well officials andall that other craft have to do something.
They just they're just bogged down bythe legal lees of it all.
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And then they're all trying to sayon self important that sort of thing.
So here's what the La City Councilis doing. They want to create a
new citizen commission. And this ispeak bureaucracy. Love this. What do
you guys want to do? Igot an idea, let's expand the city
council. And they go, well, expand the city council. Why would
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we do that? And then peoplecome forward and they go, well,
you should do it because of thisand this and this. You should have
better representation of the diverse population ofthe city. You should have smaller districts
so that we have more equitable representationfor each area. And this would also
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allow you to have fewer council meetingsin the world. Wow, fewer council
meetings, and council members get boredtoo at these city council meetings. There
are fifteen council members right now,and the idea of stretching this out and
adding more council seats, I don'tknow how many there were be it'd be
if we go up to nineteen ortwenty one or twenty three. I think
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it has to be an odd numberso that you have you know, I
ended up with ties when people arevoting on things. So whatever it is,
they go, Wow, these alsodenlike really great ideas. Let's put
together a study committee. Well that'sreally god, it is so boring,
all right, So what are wedoing with a study committee? Committee?
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The La City Council fifteen members ofthe La City Council literally got together and
decided that if they want to letnew people into their club, they need
to decide if the club can handlemore people. So they put together a
commission, a study commission of thirteenpeople. We have thirteen people studying what
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the fifteen people are doing to decideif we need more than fifteen people to
do it. Outstand, Okay,so what are they gonna do. Well,
they're going to look into whether ornot that's a good idea. They
will study the concept. There's alreadybeen a council committee that studied the concept.
They took several months. They neverreally figured out what they wanted to
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do. And so what they saidis, look, we had a few
of us get together. We talkedthis over. We studied the concept,
which sounds like corporate crap talk,right, oh, conceptionally speaking, we're
studying it. And then they decidedwe didn't really know what to do,
so we put together a study commission. So now the study commission is going
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to look into whether or not weshould expand the city council. Doesn't that
sound thrilling? Actually thrilled by this. Some are saying, including the nonprofit
group La Forward, that they needto expand the city council to twenty nine
members. Twenty nine okay, soyou're almost doubling the size of the city
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council. That's great, sounds great. What does that mean for me?
Basically, it means that you're gonnaget split up into different districts. Again,
if you live in LA in LosAngeles, if you live in the
city, you're just gonna get splitto a bunch of new city new districts.
So whoever your council member is rightnow would not be your council member
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in the future. You'd have achance to see different yard signs for people
going forward. I honest to god, I don't know how much of a
difference. It makes, and we'verun into this hole. Let's expand things
for the sake of expanding things.In other realms, you've probably heard the
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Supreme Court, for instance, peopleare saying, oh, we need to
expand the Supreme Court. A lotof the time they say that if there's
a major decision that the country doesn'tlike, like the overturning of Roe v.
Weight, Roe v. Way getsoverturned, and a lot of specifically
progressive saying we need to expand thecourt. The thought process is man fdr
one or to do this? Hewas onto something. If we just expand
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the court, then Biden would getto name the new justices and by how
much do they want to expand thecourt? We want to go from what
nine justices? And they go,do they want to go to eleven?
They go, see, we goto eleven and that would give us five
on the liberal wing, but therewas Stibody six on the conservative wing.
No, we need to go tothirteen. So it's always about math in
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order to get what people want.In the end, it's never really about
expanding. I don't know that thiswould not do as they say, and
that is offer a better opportunity formore accurate and equitable representation across the city.
Maybe. Maybe, But here's whatI do know. If you expand
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the city council, you're still goingto have an awful lot of people to
say it's not good enough, it'snot good enough, it's not good enough,
it's not good enough. And honestly, you've got a city of four
million people right now, it's representedby fifteen people. If you up that
to twenty nine, if that's whatthey go to, or twenty five or
however many they end up going to. Uh great, Um, that's better
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than fifteen, I guess. Buthonestly, four million people being represented by
fifteen or by twenty five, howmuch of a difference does that really make
in the end, Because I gotto tell you, I don't think it's
a whole lot. I don't thinkit's going to do a whole heck of
a lot. There is something thatsome cities are doing which I think is
fascinating. Some cities have decided thatthey want to up their status so that
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they don't have to abide by statelaws. There's one state law that was
adjudicated a couple of years ago wherea judge said, yeah, this applies.
This applies to everybody except for ahandful of charter cities. What that
means and what the law is they'retrying to get around is next. I'm
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Chris Meryl, I AM six forty. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio Web.
You're listening too later with Moe Kellyon demand from KFI AM six forty.
Imagine that you are living in acity and all of a sudden there's
a state law that comes down thatyou don't like. I know it's difficult
to imagine, but it's true.So imagine that the state state law comes
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down and it's it's it's one thatyour people in the city are not big
fans of. However, in thecase of the state law that allows you
to turn your house into a intoa a duplex, or a triplex or
a quad plex, number of citiessaid, we don't like it that people
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can turn their houses into whatever theywant. Now, the reason the state
law has passed, of course,is because the rent is too high.
Right, rent is too high?What are we gonna do about it?
How about if we just allow peopleto take their single, single family homes,
put a wall in the middle ofcall to duplex. Well, some
cities said, well, we don'tlike that. We don't want the population
in our city to grow. Wedon't want people having a small plate.
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We want our single family homes.So they sued, and there was a
judge that said that the law thatallows you to split your houses into a
duplex or a triplex or a quadplex, regardless of local zoning restrictions is not
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not applicable in certain cities like We'redown to Beach, Carson, Torrents,
Whittier, del Mar. Why becausethose cities are what they call charter cities.
I guess I thought all cities hadsome sort of a charter, and
I apologized for not knowing better.I just thought that we did. I
thought charters were I thought if youhad a city, i'd have a city
charter. I guess not. SoEvidently, we've got a number of cities,
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and right now there are there area bunch of cities, like a
few in the Bay Area that aresaying we now want to become a charter
city. We want to put togethera charter. And if we have a
charter, then that means we don'thave to abide by certain state laws,
and we can develop our own zoningoutside of this state law. So again
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you've got some of these some ofthese places that are they've got some money,
right, And then you've got someplaces that just say, we don't
basically want to increase housing availability.They want exclusivity. They want to make
sure that the people who live insingle family homes continue to have only single
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family homes. And the reason forthat is, again is to remain above
I guess everybody else to just bewe don't want that. So since this
judge ruled it, a bunch ofthese cities now are looking at saying,
okay, we got to draw upa charter. And a charter is very
specific. It's kind of like aconstitution for the city for each one of
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these independent cities, but it hasa far more specificity. So it says,
okay, here's our zoning, here'show our trash is done, here's
how our sewage is done. Everything'slaid out right. The problem is the
people who live in those communities haveto vote to turn themselves into a charter
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city. In other words, youwould have to vote. This is bizarre.
You would have to You would haveto vote to disallow your right to
do as you please with your homein order to give your municipality the right
to ignore state laws that you don'tlike. Does that make sense. I'm
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voting against my right so that Ican have other rights. I know they
twisted themselves up. And here's thekicker. The ruling by the judge is
being challenged. It's going to goto an appeals court, and the appeals
court will have to decide whether thecounty judge, his name is Curtis Kidney's
an ell county judge, was offhis rocker or if he's onto something.
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And so what does that mean toyou? Share question? I don't have
any idea, Honestly, I don't. I really don't know. If you
live in some places, I guessit means you can't turn your place into
a duplex, which I suppose alsostinks if you are thinking about putting in
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like a mother in law quarters.Or when I was young, my parents
converted part of the garage. Itwas very nice of them into a little
studio apartment for me. When soI was in college, but I still
lived at home, but I alsohad my own little studio apartment kind of
deal. Like they wouldn't have beenable to do that if the city disallowed
it. Right now, elsewhere inthe state, anybody, unless you're in
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these charter cities who have different rules, anybody would be allowed to We're in
a student apartment for their college kid, put it in a studio for mom
who's moving in, whatever it mightbe, or put in a casita.
I always loved saying cassida. Itmakes me sound fancy. You could put
in a casida so that you couldrent it out to somebody. Right,
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that would be totally allowed in orderto ease the housing crisis. Make you
a few extra bucks on the side, which is good because the cost of
everything is going up. Sounds great, unless, of course, you live
in one of these charter cities,in which case you would say, I
don't want people to be able todo that because I want to continue to
be above their class of people wholive in apartments and rentals. I guess
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that's the idea. So now thatthat's fixed, now that it's all solved,
I feel better. Thank god wehave that going on. I don't
know, we just keep an eyeon it, find out. I suppose
if we have if we limit ourown independence in order to give the cities
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independence, and in the meantime,the cities will be spending a ton of
dollars. The reason again, theyhave to have the residents vote on it.
And if the residents vote on it, an election costs money. But
they also have to pay lawyers tocome up with very specific means of operating
the city as its own independent charter, separate from the jurisdiction of the state.
(31:26):
I guess again, sometimes I thinkthe elected officials want things to be
incredibly boring and complicated just to makeus go whatever, just do whatever,
man, I don't care. Wejust don't pay attention. And again,
it's either that or we've got somany lawyers involved that we're all just trying
(31:47):
to dance around the law wherever wecan. It's the only thing I can
figure out. I'm Chris Merril can'if I am six forty were live everywhere
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