November 5, 2024 • 34 mins
ICYMI: Hour One of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – 2024 Pre-Election Coverage with a look at everything from what’s on former President Trump’s mind; to what you can and can’t do when you go to the polls and MORE - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
It's about it's about ready to get interesting in America.
Let me put it like that. This later with mo
Kelly if I am six forty live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. The countdown is on. In about twenty five hours,
the polls will close here in California, and by that
time we'll have a better sense of what the House
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will look like on the federal level, what the Senate
will look like on a federal level, and we probably
will have zero idea who will be our president at
that time. And if anyone says, well, we should know
on Tuesday night, you just don't understand how the process works.
We have more than eighty million mail in ballots last
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I saw that are already in the possession of various states,
and they can't even start counting them yet. I think,
with exception of Florida and a few other states, legally
they cannot start tabulating. Some states they can't even open
the ballots. Some states they can, but they can't for
the most part, count any of those mail in ballots
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until the polls close in their respective locations. Meaning if
you hear someone say, hey, so and so is leading
and mail in balloting, they are lying they are lying
or wish casting. Let's just say wish casting. There's no
way to know who is leading. Now they can try
to surmise looking at registrations, what counties they're coming from,
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historical data, how that person, excuse me, that area might
have voted, and then they'll make some educated guesses. But
there's no way to know. Nobody knows what is going
to happen. Billions of dollars has been spent in advertising.
Nobody knows. And I know you probably look put it
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this way, from the messages that you sent me. You said, Hey,
me and all my friends, we're voting for Kamala Harris.
Doesn't mean a damn thing. You and all eight of
your friends you know, or even eight relatives. It doesn't matter.
Twenty twenty four, it's a done deal. No it isn't. No,
it isn't. Nobody really knows what's going to happen, not
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only tomorrow, but well into Wednesday, I would say even Thursday.
Because the more mail in ballots you have, the longer
the process it's going to take. It doesn't mean that
it's illegitimate. It doesn't mean that someone's cheating. It doesn't
mean that the election is stolen. It just means that
there's a higher turnout and it's going to take longer
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to count the ballots. If you know the process, this
will not surprise you in any way. If someone Wink
wink should declare themselves the winner on Tuesday night, just
know that getting out in front of things and getting
ahead of themselves. But I will say this, and we're
gonna be talking just about politics tonight. This is one
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of those rare occasions. I'm just doing straight politics the bumpers.
The music will be featuring the rich legacy of Quincy Jones,
either as a songwriter, producer, or a ranger. Be nothing
but Quincy Jones music tonight, obviously in light of his
passing yesterday at the age of ninety one. But all
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the content in between the bumpers will be just about politics,
local and national. And I will say this, these two
presidential candidates could not be more disparate in nature, not
only who they are, but also they're closing arguments. And
I don't understand a lot of things that former President
Trump does. I just don't understand it. It doesn't seem
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like he's trying to raise his ceiling of voters. It
doesn't seem like he is reaching out, calling out, trying
to entice voters that he didn't already have to come
in to his tent. It doesn't seem like it. When
I was watching his rallies, and I watch as many
of them as I can, When I was watching his rallies,
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it just seemed like he was speaking to the same people.
It doesn't seem like he was saying, hey, you know,
come with me, even though you may not have considered
me before. It just seemed like he was talking about
something completely different. And it's an unconventional campaign. He's an
unconventional candidate. He was previously an unconventional president. And if
it turns out that all this works for him, then
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it wouldn't be the first time that I was wrong
about something. And you know, kudos to him. It just
seems like he's not giving himself the best chance to win.
When he, for example, when he said that he shouldn't
have left the White House recently, that's rather odd thing
to say.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
We had the best economy ever, We had that wall,
We had everything I built over five hundred miles away.
They didn't even talk about the wall, but we had
the best border. The safest border. I won't pull down
my world's favorite jactus. I don't want to waste a
lot of your time. But my world's favorite shore done
by the Border Patrol. It said we had the safest
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border in the history of our country. The day that
I left. I shouldn't have left. I mean, honestly, huh.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
If you should lose an election, and he did, you
have to leave. That's just how it works. You don't
get to squat in the White House. You don't just
get to arbitrarily decide. It's like, you know what, I
got stuff to do next week. So I don't feel
like packing. So I think I'm gonna stay a little
while longer. I did a real good job. The world
loved me.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Look at my beautiful border wall, that big, beautiful border wall.
I think I'll stay. No, it doesn't work that. It
doesn't work like that. You don't get to just stay
because you feel like you deserve to stay. I mean,
in other countries they call that a coup if you do.
I shouldn't have left.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
I mean honestly, because we did so, we did so well,
We had such a great so now, I mean, every
polling booth has hundreds of lawyers standing there. It's all
about the lawyers. Everybody's standing at lawyers. Nobody should have that.
You should have a damn ballot and you hand it in.
Do you know that an Arizona where I'm winning by
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a lot?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
I don't know what he means by winning by a
lot because no folks have been tabulated. Maybe he means
leading in the polls. I don't know. I'm not going
to explain what he means because I don't know what
he means in that instance.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Do you know that an Arizona where I'm winning by
a lot, but it takes four hours to fill out
the ballot?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Huh? Takes four hours to fill out the ballot. I
don't know what he's referring to. I just don't know.
You know, you can go ahead and try to figure
it out. But there was something else he said that
I took note of. That for me gives me pause,
and it seemed not the best message to send the
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two days before an election when you're talking about well,
let me set up the clip. In this clip, he's
talking about the bulletproof glass in front of him. How
it's not completely contiguous, it's not completely connected, there are
some gaps in it, and he's explaining in between the gaps,
line of sight and the fake news media. That's just
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setting up the clip.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I have a piece of glass over here, and I
don't have a piece of glass there, and this piece
of glass here, but all we have really over here
is the fake news.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
And to get me, somebody would have to shoot through
the fake news.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
And I don't mind that so much. I just don't
think that's funny, and I don't think that is something
that's going to bring him more voters. Now. Historically, he's
always satured around forty seven percent. That's been his ceiling historically,
and his floor is higher than most candidates. In other words,
his loyal, most faithful supporters won't leave him, so he's
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not going to go down. I think it's around thirty
five thirty six percent. It's just locked in, baked in,
not going anywhere. But I don't know if that message
is going to bring more to his base or his
base of support, which he needs to win. I'm just
talking about the analysis of it all. It's a strange
closing message when you're talking about you're being okay, if
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someone shoots thequoe nquote fake news media.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
The fake news, and I don't mind that so much.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I do.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty mo Kelly.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. All the music
tonight is in remembrance of the Quincy Jones who passed
away tonight, excuse me yesterday at the age of ninety one.
And in between the bumpers, we're talking nothing but politics
as election day is upon us. It's election Eve, and
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Twela and I were having a conversation during the break
and I have a feeling that your lives are similar
to ours in disrespect. Have you ever like walked into
the office and there's a group of people and they
act like they want your opinion on politics, but actually
they just want to give you their opinion on policy.
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They may say, hey, tuwala, you know the the elections
coming up, and it's really crazy out there. All these
strange things are happening. I can't believe that they might
elect Kamala Harris. Oh there's the bab. There's the bab.
It's the bate. And how you respond is going to
dictate how the next thirty five minutes are gonna go
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in your office, or it could be it'd be like, gosh,
you know this country, I wish they would just get
over itself and just go ahead and elect a woman.
Is there a counselor is there a question in there?
It's because you're because you're sitting at my way. You
want me to respond so you can gauge where I
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am on the political spectrum, so you can then launch
in with your opinions. I get it all the time,
and I, if at all possible, I never take the bate,
especially if I'm out in public, if only because sometimes
I'm recognized. Some people know what I may do when
I go to my hangouts and everything, and sometimes this
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well intentioned they may want my opinion. Like someone will
ask them like, hey, what do you think about this judge?
What do you think? And I said, I haven't gotten
into that yet. Or they may ask like what do
you think is going to happen? And I say to
them what I say to you, No one knows what
is going to happen. That's why you have former President
Donald Trump going to four states today. If he knew
what was going to happen. Do you think it'd be
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in four different states. No, do you think Kamala Harris
will be spending her whole month in Pennsylvania if she knew. No,
nobody knows. They're just doing all that they can to
control that which they can't control. But I get a
kick out of the folks who try to give you
that little bait out there. It's like, hey, yeah, so
what do you think about the election? I don't think anything.
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I know because you just want to tell me what
you think. How do you avoid the bait? Though? The
bait is alway so tasty. Look you look after you've
tasted some nasty bait, then you realize, Okay, you know
it's a trap. It's a trap. And what I will
do is I will hear conversations. People will talk politics
around me, or they'll ask me a direct question, and
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it's like my response is usually the same. I'm off work.
I don't, you know, don't I don't have anything I do.
That's my job. That's I'm here to have a glass
of wine. I'm not here to talk about Kamala and Donald.
I'm just not. But it's always funny to me, especially
in an office environment, it's a little bit different when
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we're here at CAFI because you know, we're not all
in at the same time. We're not passing each other
in the halls, spending seven and eight hours around each other,
Like I'm not going to cross paths with Gary and
Shannon for the most part, because we're just not here
at the same time. Every once in a while will
pass John Cobelt in the hall depending on when he's
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leaving it when I'm getting here, but we're not talking
about this, you know. So this is a very different
work environment. And I think, you know, the typical office
with the water cooler and everything, and I just I
avoid it like the plague, because it's not a three
minute conversation. It's a forty minute conversation with you doing
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most of the talking.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
You know.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
I have noticed how most interactions with you or Mark,
or even on myself, we always find ourselves talking about
other things. Like we're talking to news director Chris Little,
we're not talking about the news. We'll be talking about
you know, going on cruises or a movie. Yeah, like
we talk about everything else but the actual news.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Maybe it's a byproduct. It's up to Mark whether he agrees,
but for me, I know it's a byproduct of I
talk about news enough in my day to day. I'm
dealing with the news with Chris Little. That could kind
of thing that's not a conversation starter, not for me,
you know, other than hey, do you know of this
which is going on right now? It may impact your show,
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But it's not like we're going to sit around and
just talk about Wow, that metro bus meeting with something else. No,
a conversation start, not at all, Not at all. We'll
talk about maybe if he's writing metro link and if
he's had any type of issues. But I don't talk
to I don't talk about the news just about anybody.
I mean, I may talk about it on social media,
but for interpersonal relationships, no, And it's not like you
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shouldn't talk politics in the office. It's like, no, it's
just not. It's not interesting to me to have a
conversation with someone about ish I do professionally. It just isn't.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
I would think with you you probably would receive that more,
especially now more than most because people want your opinions
what you literally do day in day out, So it's
like you know, whether it be here, whether it be
on one of the news networks. That is what you do,
So I wonder is it curiosity?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
No, if someone recognizes me from spectrum, they most definitely
want to talk about politics. Okay, that's what they want
to talk about, just because that's their only reference point.
And usually I'm talking about politics. It's on spectrums that
they say, so what did you mean when you said?
Or they'll misquote me and allege that I said something
that I know I didn't say. It's how is it
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you think that da da da da da? I never
said that. Look, I'm not responsible for defending arguments I
did not make. I'm not responsible for trying to argue
what you wish I said or believed. And I had
a post on social media today on my personal Facebook,
or I'm saying like, not a day goes by in
which people try to tell me what I believe and
who I support. Why not a day goes by someone
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is always trying to tell me, Oh, you're just a
bleeding heart liberal stuck on that democratic. No, they say
democrat plantation, Oh that is always a good one. Yeah, yeah,
Oh do you say that to non black people or
only black people? Because when you say plantation, I'm thinking
like slavery iconography. So you know, I'm thinking like you're
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trying to say something to me specifically. I know I
sound like Bill Clinton, but I did not have sex
with that woman on that plantation. Right.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
It's rough when you got to play the plantation card,
isn't it. I couldn't even believe when I moved here
and there was a place called soup Plantation, It's like,
what the hell's going on? It still exists? Is there
another place called indentured sandwich?
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Tude? What's plantation? Okay, well, well put it this way. Look,
I'm not going to say it, but you can say it.
There's this buffet place that used to be in Torrents
called blank Barrel. Oh, cracker Barrel. Yeah. Oh yeah, that's
another weird. Yeah, it's like, it's a weird it's a
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weird put its way, it doesn't It doesn't matter what
you meant when you name the restaurant. It's still a
strange name for a restaurant, and it's going to get misconstrued.
It's going to be at the office. No, no, where
are you going to lunch today?
Speaker 6 (16:53):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Red Lobster? I don't care if they're closed. I'm not
going to the other places I've refuse. No, how did
I get here? Oh yeah, it's just the stuff that
people say to me is really, really weird. It's like
you thought you were going to get a positive response
out of me, You thought you're going to get any
response out of me. And I say all that to
say the election has made people dumb, I mean seriously idiotic,
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the things that they say, how they approach the subject matter,
and how they engage other people. I cannot wait for
this election to be over. And it's not going to
be over tomorrow, Like I said last segment, it's not
going to be over to probably Wednesday Thursday. In terms
of president now we'll know who's controlling the Senate and
that'll probably be the Republicans. Well, mo, I thought you
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said you couldn't predict the future. No, but I know
basic math, and let me just run this down for
you real quick. The Democrats are defending more seats in
the Senate than the Republicans, and if you're defending a seat,
you cannot add to your total. It's a virtual tie
in the Senate. So the Democrats are mostly trying to
protect what they already have. They won't really be able
to extend or increase their margin in the Senate, which
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means they're more likely to lose seats. Basic math, I
know it's something pretty special. They're more likely to lose seats,
which means they're more likely to lose control of the
Senate as opposed to the House, where you have four
hundred and thirty five races all tomorrow and that can
go either way, but you can go by the general
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mood of the country, where there's more data to suggest
that the Democrats will probably not definitely, but probably take
the House and we'll still have divided government regardless of
who becomes president. But we won't know who's president tomorrow night.
And if you're expecting that, you're going to be real upset,
and it will be your own fault, because I'm letting
you know right now, unless it's an absolute blowout, they're
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not gonna call it tomorrow night.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
KFI mo Kelly, We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
As we're talking about all things pre election, and one
of the measures which I was focusing in on just
me personally, but also if you listen to later with Mokel,
we've talked a lot about the County of Los Angeles,
how it's governed, the role of the Elle County Supervisors,
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the limitations of the position, and how much responsibility each
supervisor has. Early five LA County Supervisors, and I refer
to them in terms ofm as like many mayors, because
they're responsible for about two million people each one of them.
And you can imagine how unwieldy that could be when
you're asking one person to handle the services which are
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are required and necessary for two million people across municipal boundaries.
And so there was a movement afoot to increase the
number of supervisors, maybe from five to seven or even
when talking about Measure G to nine members. But there's
been a split amongst the LA County Board of Supervisors
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as far as supporting it. The measure as it reads
would increase the board from five to nine, and I
think most people would agree with that, but not everyone
is on board with the other provision, where it would
have like a CEO and it will be almost like
a mayor of the county and what types of powers
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that mayor would have, and whether the other supervisors would
be subordinate to that LA County supervisor mayor for lack
of a better word. I don't know what they would
call the position, but it would be an elected official.
I came across this really good conversation led by Conan
Nolan of NBC love him, and he was talking to
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some of the LA County Supervisors about this, and you
can get a good sense of some of the issues
and some of the positives around Measure G.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
On the Battle of the Los Angeles County is Measured G,
which would dramatically change governance of the nation's most popular
county from five members of the Board of Supervisors, expanding
it to nine and for the first time, allowing for
the county wide election of the chief executive officer, sort
of a mayor of the county. What I say earlier,
we had on the two supervisors who are supporting this measure,
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In fact, it was their idea that would be Janis
Hahn and Lindsay Horvov.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Lizzy Horbath, you've heard on this show a number of times.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
Now we're hearing from two LA County supervisors who oppose
the measure, Holly Mitchell, as well as LA County Supervisor
Catherine Barker.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
And you've heard Holly Mitchell and Catherine Barker on this show.
So this is something which speaks to me and is
very important, I think, to the life of most Angelinos
in La County.
Speaker 7 (21:42):
They both join us remotely thanks to both of you.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
So listen.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
Currently, the Board of Supervisors, you each represent two million people.
From what I understand, it hasn't changed since nearly statehood
the charter. So the argument is made that it is
time to expand the board so that there's greater representation.
Supervisor Mitchell, why is that not the case?
Speaker 8 (22:07):
Actually, I think it's a great idea, Conan, which is
why I brought forward a motion a year ago February
twenty twenty three to study overall governance updates for the
county as a whole, to expand the board to consider
a number of options that I think would be appropriate
for the Board to take into consideration. So I think
that's a great idea. I think the challenge with this
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measure is it does much more.
Speaker 7 (22:30):
Which is the county wide election is that of a
chief executive officer.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
That's the sticking point this county CEO. What types of
powers here or she would have the limitations. That's the
real sticking point, and if this measure does not pass,
it will be because of that.
Speaker 8 (22:49):
It's the county wide election of a chief executive officer
who has no term limits, who has hiring and firing
and oversight authority over all of the department heads, who
has full control the budget with veto power over the board,
and again has no term limits, which completely alters the
balance of power between either five or nine or whatever
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number of Board of Supervisors and this singular person who'd
be responsible for all ten million Angelinos.
Speaker 7 (23:19):
So, Supervisor Barger, is that the concern you represent North County?
Is it a concern that if you had a county
wide campaign for a.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
And here's something else which is I think worthy of highlighting.
Supervisor Barger is more to the right on the political spectrum,
and Supervisor Mitchell is much more to the left on
the political spectrum. So this is something which is really
not partisan at all. It's about the specifics and the
nuts and bolts of what the Ellie County Board of
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Supervisors would be going forward. So this is not a
partisan political fight.
Speaker 7 (23:54):
Executive branch and the supervisor has become the legislative branch. Essentially,
then then Lancaster and Palmdale could be ignored because you
don't have the density and the population that other parts
of the district or the county have.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
Absolutely, and you know, I mean to that point, anyone
that is saying that this isn't to give better representation
throughout the county is being disingenuous. This is actually a
consolidating power to one individual that will oversee not only
forty nine billion dollar budget but ten million people. So
what in fact is diluting the power of the board
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and giving it all to an elected CEO something that's varied.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
If they just put on the measure that will be
increasing the number of supervisors from five to nine, I
think it would pass overwhelmingly. But since you've also included
this elected position which would make all the other supervisors
subordinate to and as Holly Mitchell said that there would
be no term limits, that I believe is going to
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give a lot of people pause and look to see
if this measure goes down tomorrow whether one of the
main complaints would be about this new position, And I
would say the lack of clarity arounding how it would
govern and who would be able to keep that person
in check. So that's measured. Gee, That's something I'm looking
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at and I think you should look at as well
as far as La County. It's Later with mo Kelly.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And when we
come back, we're going to tell you about what you
can expect when you go to the polls tomorrow, if
you haven't already turned in your ballot, what you should do,
what you should not do, what you legally cannot do,
and also what type of procedure does California have when
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it comes to county our votes will tell you about that.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Next you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Kf I Am six forty. We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. And as you go to the polls tomorrow,
assuming you haven't already voted, having already dropped off your ballot,
these are some things that you should know now. I
know that we all feel very passionately about what we
believe about whoever we want to support, regardless of the race,
but there are some rules. There are some laws that
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you have to observe or the penalty could be jail's
finds both. Here's something that you cannot do. You cannot
campaign for a candidate, and this is within one hundred
feet of the entrance to a polling area or around
a person waiting to cast his or her vote. You
cannot ask a person to vote for or against any
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candidate or ballot measure. Do not display a candidate's name, image,
or logo. You've probably seen some incidents around the country
where someone may walk in with a Harris Walls T shirt.
Can't do that. Walking with a MAGA hat can't do that,
or a FJB shirt can't do that, So don't be
surprised if you try to do it and you receive resistance.
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You cannot provide any material or audible information for or
against any candidate or ballot measure near any polling place,
voting center, or ballot drop box. This is specifically for California.
You cannot distribute, display, or wear any clothing which includes hat, shirts, signs,
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button stickers that includes a candidate's name, image, logo, and
or support or oppose any candidate or ballot measure. Like
I said, you can't have the MAGA or FJB or
the Harris Walls paraphernalia at the polls, even though you
may not engage someone else, you may not have any
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intentions of talking to anyone else. That alone is against
the law. And you can't obstruct. You cannot block access
to or loiter near any ballot drop boxes. You can't
display any information or speak to a voter about that
voter's eligibility to vote. And you would think a lot
of this is just good common sense leave people alone.
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But as they say, common sense ain't all that common,
and there will be someone who will want to flaunt
the rules or laws and probably will try to put
it on social media proving that they broke the law.
Don't do it. Don't do it because, as I said,
doing any of the stuff that I listed and told
you about is considered electioneering and it's punishable by fines
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and or imprisonment. And of course with an election like this,
they're going to be cameras phones everywhere. You will be seen,
you will be recorded, and it's really not worth it.
You're not allowed to try to influence voters in any
way shape form. It is illegal. Of course, you can't
bribe voters to vote for a specific candidate. You cannot
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take photographs or record a voter entering or exiting a polling,
even though there will be cameras around, You cannot do that.
As far as a voter, you can't obstruct the ingress,
egress or parking. You can't challenge a person's right to
vote or prevent voters from voting. It doesn't matter what
you think about that person. Well, I don't think that
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person can legally vote. Well, you cannot intervene, and you
risk going to jail if you try. And let's say,
all this goes swimmingly, and afterwards you wonder, well, what
happens to a person's ballot? Well, for the folks who've
already sent in their ballots, California is one of the
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few states in which they can start opening, processing and
tabulating votes before the election. In fact, they can do
it no more than twenty nine days before the election.
But they can't reveal the totals or any type of
results to any one, not to the campaigns, not to
the press, not to you, not to me. So Californi,
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they're counting ballots right now. That's part of the reason
why when the polls close at eight o'clock and the
polls will be open tomorrow from seven am to eight pm.
That's part of the reason why they have an instant
return information they were. They're most likely just telling you
what the mail in ballot counts were at that moment,
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and you'll get a quicker sense of what's happening in
California as opposed to different states. Just know the process
so it doesn't surprise you or they or if you
wonder how did they count those so fast? Well, they've
been counting for the past twenty seven days as it
is twenty eight days.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Are you telling me you can't yell out or demand
information on the candidate you choose to vote for inside
of a polling place. No, that's so interesting because my
son just turned eighteen, first time voting, he said. He said, Daddy,
I'm in there, and I was embarrassed.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
I was shocked. I didn't even know what to do.
There was a woman in there.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
They are screaming, demanding to know how come Trump's name
wasn't on every name on the ballot?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Where is Trump? I only want to vote for Trump.
All these other people are in eligible to be on
the ballot.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
He said that the people they were trying to calm
her down, but she kept going on and on.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
You tell me that's illegal. That is illegal. You can't
any type of influence. Now she has a question or issue,
she can engage an election worker and ask the question.
But from the way you describe it, where she's creating
a scene, yes, that can be interpreted as either intimidation
or influencing, which you cannot do. That's shocking. Like if
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you went to an election worker and said, hey, okay,
I don't understand. I thought it was just Donald Trump
and Kamala Harris. Why is this? Why is RFK junior?
Or why is this person or why is this person
I never heard of? Also, well, that's just stining she
represents the Green Party or something, and I don't know
if they could give them that information. But if you
have a question, yes, you can always ask an election
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worker if you're not clear how it's done, because there's
some voting boosts which are electronic, and that can be
kind of confusing if you've never done it before, as
opposed to the paper balloting that we've all used, if
you've been a voter for any number of years. But
a lot of people don't know the laws, and they
just assume that you can walk in wearing whatever you want,
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saying whatever you want, and do whatever you want and
may get surprised when they get rightful pushback from the
election workers because the law is clear you can't do
any of that. And if you do that expecting that
there won't be any consequence where you're doing so at
your own risk. I can't say if you walk into
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a Trump County that there won't be maga hats on.
I'm saying it's not legal to do and depending on
where you go, you may or may not receive more pushback.
But the law is clear you can't do it. Whether
you get away with it, that's something different. But you can't.
You can't try to influence, intimidate. You can't ask someone's like, hey,
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I don't believe that person over there is a legal voter.
Can't do that, can't say that, don't try it, and
definitely don't try with me. Don't do it. Just leave
me the hell alone. Bother Mark Ronner, he likes to
be bothered, Like, keep me the hell out of this.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
I dropped my ballot off at the box at the library,
and that's the end of the story.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
I'm done. Look, I always like to do it on
election day. I like the energy of an actual election
day to drop off my ballot. Yes, I have mail
in capabilities, but I always physically drop it off because
I like to see what's going on on an actual
election day. It's later with Mo Kelly special pre election
coverage and also a musical tribute to Quincy Jones, who
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passed away yesterday at the age of ninety one. We're
live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
If you find yourself agreeing with everything we.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Say, we're doing it wrongs.
Speaker 7 (34:00):
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Speaker 1 (34:03):
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It's about it's about ready to get interesting in America.
Let me put it like that. This later with mo
Kelly if I am six forty live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. The countdown is on. In about twenty five hours,
the polls will close here in California, and by that
time we'll have a better sense of what the House
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will look like on the federal level, what the Senate
will look like on a federal level, and we probably
will have zero idea who will be our president at
that time. And if anyone says, well, we should know
on Tuesday night, you just don't understand how the process works.
We have more than eighty million mail in ballots last
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I saw that are already in the possession of various states,
and they can't even start counting them yet. I think,
with exception of Florida and a few other states, legally
they cannot start tabulating. Some states they can't even open
the ballots. Some states they can, but they can't for
the most part, count any of those mail in ballots
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until the polls close in their respective locations. Meaning if
you hear someone say, hey, so and so is leading
and mail in balloting, they are lying they are lying
or wish casting. Let's just say wish casting. There's no
way to know who is leading. Now they can try
to surmise looking at registrations, what counties they're coming from,
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historical data, how that person, excuse me, that area might
have voted, and then they'll make some educated guesses. But
there's no way to know. Nobody knows what is going
to happen. Billions of dollars has been spent in advertising.
Nobody knows. And I know you probably look put it
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this way, from the messages that you sent me. You said, Hey,
me and all my friends, we're voting for Kamala Harris.
Doesn't mean a damn thing. You and all eight of
your friends you know, or even eight relatives. It doesn't matter.
Twenty twenty four, it's a done deal. No it isn't. No,
it isn't. Nobody really knows what's going to happen, not
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only tomorrow, but well into Wednesday, I would say even Thursday.
Because the more mail in ballots you have, the longer
the process it's going to take. It doesn't mean that
it's illegitimate. It doesn't mean that someone's cheating. It doesn't
mean that the election is stolen. It just means that
there's a higher turnout and it's going to take longer
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to count the ballots. If you know the process, this
will not surprise you in any way. If someone Wink
wink should declare themselves the winner on Tuesday night, just
know that getting out in front of things and getting
ahead of themselves. But I will say this, and we're
gonna be talking just about politics tonight. This is one
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of those rare occasions. I'm just doing straight politics the bumpers.
The music will be featuring the rich legacy of Quincy Jones,
either as a songwriter, producer, or a ranger. Be nothing
but Quincy Jones music tonight, obviously in light of his
passing yesterday at the age of ninety one. But all
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the content in between the bumpers will be just about politics,
local and national. And I will say this, these two
presidential candidates could not be more disparate in nature, not
only who they are, but also they're closing arguments. And
I don't understand a lot of things that former President
Trump does. I just don't understand it. It doesn't seem
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like he's trying to raise his ceiling of voters. It
doesn't seem like he is reaching out, calling out, trying
to entice voters that he didn't already have to come
in to his tent. It doesn't seem like it. When
I was watching his rallies, and I watch as many
of them as I can, When I was watching his rallies,
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it just seemed like he was speaking to the same people.
It doesn't seem like he was saying, hey, you know,
come with me, even though you may not have considered
me before. It just seemed like he was talking about
something completely different. And it's an unconventional campaign. He's an
unconventional candidate. He was previously an unconventional president. And if
it turns out that all this works for him, then
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it wouldn't be the first time that I was wrong
about something. And you know, kudos to him. It just
seems like he's not giving himself the best chance to win.
When he, for example, when he said that he shouldn't
have left the White House recently, that's rather odd thing
to say.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
We had the best economy ever, We had that wall,
We had everything I built over five hundred miles away.
They didn't even talk about the wall, but we had
the best border. The safest border. I won't pull down
my world's favorite jactus. I don't want to waste a
lot of your time. But my world's favorite shore done
by the Border Patrol. It said we had the safest
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border in the history of our country. The day that
I left. I shouldn't have left. I mean, honestly, huh.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
If you should lose an election, and he did, you
have to leave. That's just how it works. You don't
get to squat in the White House. You don't just
get to arbitrarily decide. It's like, you know what, I
got stuff to do next week. So I don't feel
like packing. So I think I'm gonna stay a little
while longer. I did a real good job. The world
loved me.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Look at my beautiful border wall, that big, beautiful border wall.
I think I'll stay. No, it doesn't work that. It
doesn't work like that. You don't get to just stay
because you feel like you deserve to stay. I mean,
in other countries they call that a coup if you do.
I shouldn't have left.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
I mean honestly, because we did so, we did so well,
We had such a great so now, I mean, every
polling booth has hundreds of lawyers standing there. It's all
about the lawyers. Everybody's standing at lawyers. Nobody should have that.
You should have a damn ballot and you hand it in.
Do you know that an Arizona where I'm winning by
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a lot?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
I don't know what he means by winning by a
lot because no folks have been tabulated. Maybe he means
leading in the polls. I don't know. I'm not going
to explain what he means because I don't know what
he means in that instance.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Do you know that an Arizona where I'm winning by
a lot, but it takes four hours to fill out
the ballot?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Huh? Takes four hours to fill out the ballot. I
don't know what he's referring to. I just don't know.
You know, you can go ahead and try to figure
it out. But there was something else he said that
I took note of. That for me gives me pause,
and it seemed not the best message to send the
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two days before an election when you're talking about well,
let me set up the clip. In this clip, he's
talking about the bulletproof glass in front of him. How
it's not completely contiguous, it's not completely connected, there are
some gaps in it, and he's explaining in between the gaps,
line of sight and the fake news media. That's just
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setting up the clip.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I have a piece of glass over here, and I
don't have a piece of glass there, and this piece
of glass here, but all we have really over here
is the fake news.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
And to get me, somebody would have to shoot through
the fake news.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
And I don't mind that so much. I just don't
think that's funny, and I don't think that is something
that's going to bring him more voters. Now. Historically, he's
always satured around forty seven percent. That's been his ceiling historically,
and his floor is higher than most candidates. In other words,
his loyal, most faithful supporters won't leave him, so he's
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not going to go down. I think it's around thirty
five thirty six percent. It's just locked in, baked in,
not going anywhere. But I don't know if that message
is going to bring more to his base or his
base of support, which he needs to win. I'm just
talking about the analysis of it all. It's a strange
closing message when you're talking about you're being okay, if
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someone shoots thequoe nquote fake news media.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
The fake news, and I don't mind that so much.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I do.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
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Speaker 1 (09:16):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. All the music
tonight is in remembrance of the Quincy Jones who passed
away tonight, excuse me yesterday at the age of ninety one.
And in between the bumpers, we're talking nothing but politics
as election day is upon us. It's election Eve, and
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Twela and I were having a conversation during the break
and I have a feeling that your lives are similar
to ours in disrespect. Have you ever like walked into
the office and there's a group of people and they
act like they want your opinion on politics, but actually
they just want to give you their opinion on policy.
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They may say, hey, tuwala, you know the the elections
coming up, and it's really crazy out there. All these
strange things are happening. I can't believe that they might
elect Kamala Harris. Oh there's the bab. There's the bab.
It's the bate. And how you respond is going to
dictate how the next thirty five minutes are gonna go
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in your office, or it could be it'd be like, gosh,
you know this country, I wish they would just get
over itself and just go ahead and elect a woman.
Is there a counselor is there a question in there?
It's because you're because you're sitting at my way. You
want me to respond so you can gauge where I
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am on the political spectrum, so you can then launch
in with your opinions. I get it all the time,
and I, if at all possible, I never take the bate,
especially if I'm out in public, if only because sometimes
I'm recognized. Some people know what I may do when
I go to my hangouts and everything, and sometimes this
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well intentioned they may want my opinion. Like someone will
ask them like, hey, what do you think about this judge?
What do you think? And I said, I haven't gotten
into that yet. Or they may ask like what do
you think is going to happen? And I say to
them what I say to you, No one knows what
is going to happen. That's why you have former President
Donald Trump going to four states today. If he knew
what was going to happen. Do you think it'd be
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in four different states. No, do you think Kamala Harris
will be spending her whole month in Pennsylvania if she knew. No,
nobody knows. They're just doing all that they can to
control that which they can't control. But I get a
kick out of the folks who try to give you
that little bait out there. It's like, hey, yeah, so
what do you think about the election? I don't think anything.
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I know because you just want to tell me what
you think. How do you avoid the bait? Though? The
bait is alway so tasty. Look you look after you've
tasted some nasty bait, then you realize, Okay, you know
it's a trap. It's a trap. And what I will
do is I will hear conversations. People will talk politics
around me, or they'll ask me a direct question, and
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it's like my response is usually the same. I'm off work.
I don't, you know, don't I don't have anything I do.
That's my job. That's I'm here to have a glass
of wine. I'm not here to talk about Kamala and Donald.
I'm just not. But it's always funny to me, especially
in an office environment, it's a little bit different when
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we're here at CAFI because you know, we're not all
in at the same time. We're not passing each other
in the halls, spending seven and eight hours around each other,
Like I'm not going to cross paths with Gary and
Shannon for the most part, because we're just not here
at the same time. Every once in a while will
pass John Cobelt in the hall depending on when he's
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leaving it when I'm getting here, but we're not talking
about this, you know. So this is a very different
work environment. And I think, you know, the typical office
with the water cooler and everything, and I just I
avoid it like the plague, because it's not a three
minute conversation. It's a forty minute conversation with you doing
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most of the talking.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
You know.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
I have noticed how most interactions with you or Mark,
or even on myself, we always find ourselves talking about
other things. Like we're talking to news director Chris Little,
we're not talking about the news. We'll be talking about
you know, going on cruises or a movie. Yeah, like
we talk about everything else but the actual news.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Maybe it's a byproduct. It's up to Mark whether he agrees,
but for me, I know it's a byproduct of I
talk about news enough in my day to day. I'm
dealing with the news with Chris Little. That could kind
of thing that's not a conversation starter, not for me,
you know, other than hey, do you know of this
which is going on right now? It may impact your show,
(13:54):
But it's not like we're going to sit around and
just talk about Wow, that metro bus meeting with something else. No,
a conversation start, not at all, Not at all. We'll
talk about maybe if he's writing metro link and if
he's had any type of issues. But I don't talk
to I don't talk about the news just about anybody.
I mean, I may talk about it on social media,
but for interpersonal relationships, no, And it's not like you
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shouldn't talk politics in the office. It's like, no, it's
just not. It's not interesting to me to have a
conversation with someone about ish I do professionally. It just isn't.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
I would think with you you probably would receive that more,
especially now more than most because people want your opinions
what you literally do day in day out, So it's
like you know, whether it be here, whether it be
on one of the news networks. That is what you do,
So I wonder is it curiosity?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
No, if someone recognizes me from spectrum, they most definitely
want to talk about politics. Okay, that's what they want
to talk about, just because that's their only reference point.
And usually I'm talking about politics. It's on spectrums that
they say, so what did you mean when you said?
Or they'll misquote me and allege that I said something
that I know I didn't say. It's how is it
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you think that da da da da da? I never
said that. Look, I'm not responsible for defending arguments I
did not make. I'm not responsible for trying to argue
what you wish I said or believed. And I had
a post on social media today on my personal Facebook,
or I'm saying like, not a day goes by in
which people try to tell me what I believe and
who I support. Why not a day goes by someone
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is always trying to tell me, Oh, you're just a
bleeding heart liberal stuck on that democratic. No, they say
democrat plantation, Oh that is always a good one. Yeah, yeah,
Oh do you say that to non black people or
only black people? Because when you say plantation, I'm thinking
like slavery iconography. So you know, I'm thinking like you're
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trying to say something to me specifically. I know I
sound like Bill Clinton, but I did not have sex
with that woman on that plantation. Right.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
It's rough when you got to play the plantation card,
isn't it. I couldn't even believe when I moved here
and there was a place called soup Plantation, It's like,
what the hell's going on? It still exists? Is there
another place called indentured sandwich?
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Tude? What's plantation? Okay, well, well put it this way. Look,
I'm not going to say it, but you can say it.
There's this buffet place that used to be in Torrents
called blank Barrel. Oh, cracker Barrel. Yeah. Oh yeah, that's
another weird. Yeah, it's like, it's a weird it's a
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weird put its way, it doesn't It doesn't matter what
you meant when you name the restaurant. It's still a
strange name for a restaurant, and it's going to get misconstrued.
It's going to be at the office. No, no, where
are you going to lunch today?
Speaker 6 (16:53):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Red Lobster? I don't care if they're closed. I'm not
going to the other places I've refuse. No, how did
I get here? Oh yeah, it's just the stuff that
people say to me is really, really weird. It's like
you thought you were going to get a positive response
out of me, You thought you're going to get any
response out of me. And I say all that to
say the election has made people dumb, I mean seriously idiotic,
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the things that they say, how they approach the subject matter,
and how they engage other people. I cannot wait for
this election to be over. And it's not going to
be over tomorrow, Like I said last segment, it's not
going to be over to probably Wednesday Thursday. In terms
of president now we'll know who's controlling the Senate and
that'll probably be the Republicans. Well, mo, I thought you
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said you couldn't predict the future. No, but I know
basic math, and let me just run this down for
you real quick. The Democrats are defending more seats in
the Senate than the Republicans, and if you're defending a seat,
you cannot add to your total. It's a virtual tie
in the Senate. So the Democrats are mostly trying to
protect what they already have. They won't really be able
to extend or increase their margin in the Senate, which
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means they're more likely to lose seats. Basic math, I
know it's something pretty special. They're more likely to lose seats,
which means they're more likely to lose control of the
Senate as opposed to the House, where you have four
hundred and thirty five races all tomorrow and that can
go either way, but you can go by the general
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mood of the country, where there's more data to suggest
that the Democrats will probably not definitely, but probably take
the House and we'll still have divided government regardless of
who becomes president. But we won't know who's president tomorrow night.
And if you're expecting that, you're going to be real upset,
and it will be your own fault, because I'm letting
you know right now, unless it's an absolute blowout, they're
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not gonna call it tomorrow night.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
KFI mo Kelly, We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
As we're talking about all things pre election, and one
of the measures which I was focusing in on just
me personally, but also if you listen to later with Mokel,
we've talked a lot about the County of Los Angeles,
how it's governed, the role of the Elle County Supervisors,
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the limitations of the position, and how much responsibility each
supervisor has. Early five LA County Supervisors, and I refer
to them in terms ofm as like many mayors, because
they're responsible for about two million people each one of them.
And you can imagine how unwieldy that could be when
you're asking one person to handle the services which are
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are required and necessary for two million people across municipal boundaries.
And so there was a movement afoot to increase the
number of supervisors, maybe from five to seven or even
when talking about Measure G to nine members. But there's
been a split amongst the LA County Board of Supervisors
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as far as supporting it. The measure as it reads
would increase the board from five to nine, and I
think most people would agree with that, but not everyone
is on board with the other provision, where it would
have like a CEO and it will be almost like
a mayor of the county and what types of powers
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that mayor would have, and whether the other supervisors would
be subordinate to that LA County supervisor mayor for lack
of a better word. I don't know what they would
call the position, but it would be an elected official.
I came across this really good conversation led by Conan
Nolan of NBC love him, and he was talking to
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some of the LA County Supervisors about this, and you
can get a good sense of some of the issues
and some of the positives around Measure G.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
On the Battle of the Los Angeles County is Measured G,
which would dramatically change governance of the nation's most popular
county from five members of the Board of Supervisors, expanding
it to nine and for the first time, allowing for
the county wide election of the chief executive officer, sort
of a mayor of the county. What I say earlier,
we had on the two supervisors who are supporting this measure,
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In fact, it was their idea that would be Janis
Hahn and Lindsay Horvov.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Lizzy Horbath, you've heard on this show a number of times.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
Now we're hearing from two LA County supervisors who oppose
the measure, Holly Mitchell, as well as LA County Supervisor
Catherine Barker.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
And you've heard Holly Mitchell and Catherine Barker on this show.
So this is something which speaks to me and is
very important, I think, to the life of most Angelinos
in La County.
Speaker 7 (21:42):
They both join us remotely thanks to both of you.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
So listen.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
Currently, the Board of Supervisors, you each represent two million people.
From what I understand, it hasn't changed since nearly statehood
the charter. So the argument is made that it is
time to expand the board so that there's greater representation.
Supervisor Mitchell, why is that not the case?
Speaker 8 (22:07):
Actually, I think it's a great idea, Conan, which is
why I brought forward a motion a year ago February
twenty twenty three to study overall governance updates for the
county as a whole, to expand the board to consider
a number of options that I think would be appropriate
for the Board to take into consideration. So I think
that's a great idea. I think the challenge with this
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measure is it does much more.
Speaker 7 (22:30):
Which is the county wide election is that of a
chief executive officer.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
That's the sticking point this county CEO. What types of
powers here or she would have the limitations. That's the
real sticking point, and if this measure does not pass,
it will be because of that.
Speaker 8 (22:49):
It's the county wide election of a chief executive officer
who has no term limits, who has hiring and firing
and oversight authority over all of the department heads, who
has full control the budget with veto power over the board,
and again has no term limits, which completely alters the
balance of power between either five or nine or whatever
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number of Board of Supervisors and this singular person who'd
be responsible for all ten million Angelinos.
Speaker 7 (23:19):
So, Supervisor Barger, is that the concern you represent North County?
Is it a concern that if you had a county
wide campaign for a.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
And here's something else which is I think worthy of highlighting.
Supervisor Barger is more to the right on the political spectrum,
and Supervisor Mitchell is much more to the left on
the political spectrum. So this is something which is really
not partisan at all. It's about the specifics and the
nuts and bolts of what the Ellie County Board of
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Supervisors would be going forward. So this is not a
partisan political fight.
Speaker 7 (23:54):
Executive branch and the supervisor has become the legislative branch. Essentially,
then then Lancaster and Palmdale could be ignored because you
don't have the density and the population that other parts
of the district or the county have.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
Absolutely, and you know, I mean to that point, anyone
that is saying that this isn't to give better representation
throughout the county is being disingenuous. This is actually a
consolidating power to one individual that will oversee not only
forty nine billion dollar budget but ten million people. So
what in fact is diluting the power of the board
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and giving it all to an elected CEO something that's varied.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
If they just put on the measure that will be
increasing the number of supervisors from five to nine, I
think it would pass overwhelmingly. But since you've also included
this elected position which would make all the other supervisors
subordinate to and as Holly Mitchell said that there would
be no term limits, that I believe is going to
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give a lot of people pause and look to see
if this measure goes down tomorrow whether one of the
main complaints would be about this new position, And I
would say the lack of clarity arounding how it would
govern and who would be able to keep that person
in check. So that's measured. Gee, That's something I'm looking
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at and I think you should look at as well
as far as La County. It's Later with mo Kelly.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And when we
come back, we're going to tell you about what you
can expect when you go to the polls tomorrow, if
you haven't already turned in your ballot, what you should do,
what you should not do, what you legally cannot do,
and also what type of procedure does California have when
(25:43):
it comes to county our votes will tell you about that.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Next you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand
from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Kf I Am six forty. We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. And as you go to the polls tomorrow,
assuming you haven't already voted, having already dropped off your ballot,
these are some things that you should know now. I
know that we all feel very passionately about what we
believe about whoever we want to support, regardless of the race,
but there are some rules. There are some laws that
(26:17):
you have to observe or the penalty could be jail's
finds both. Here's something that you cannot do. You cannot
campaign for a candidate, and this is within one hundred
feet of the entrance to a polling area or around
a person waiting to cast his or her vote. You
cannot ask a person to vote for or against any
(26:40):
candidate or ballot measure. Do not display a candidate's name, image,
or logo. You've probably seen some incidents around the country
where someone may walk in with a Harris Walls T shirt.
Can't do that. Walking with a MAGA hat can't do that,
or a FJB shirt can't do that, So don't be
surprised if you try to do it and you receive resistance.
(27:03):
You cannot provide any material or audible information for or
against any candidate or ballot measure near any polling place,
voting center, or ballot drop box. This is specifically for California.
You cannot distribute, display, or wear any clothing which includes hat, shirts, signs,
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button stickers that includes a candidate's name, image, logo, and
or support or oppose any candidate or ballot measure. Like
I said, you can't have the MAGA or FJB or
the Harris Walls paraphernalia at the polls, even though you
may not engage someone else, you may not have any
(27:46):
intentions of talking to anyone else. That alone is against
the law. And you can't obstruct. You cannot block access
to or loiter near any ballot drop boxes. You can't
display any information or speak to a voter about that
voter's eligibility to vote. And you would think a lot
of this is just good common sense leave people alone.
(28:10):
But as they say, common sense ain't all that common,
and there will be someone who will want to flaunt
the rules or laws and probably will try to put
it on social media proving that they broke the law.
Don't do it. Don't do it because, as I said,
doing any of the stuff that I listed and told
you about is considered electioneering and it's punishable by fines
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and or imprisonment. And of course with an election like this,
they're going to be cameras phones everywhere. You will be seen,
you will be recorded, and it's really not worth it.
You're not allowed to try to influence voters in any
way shape form. It is illegal. Of course, you can't
bribe voters to vote for a specific candidate. You cannot
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take photographs or record a voter entering or exiting a polling,
even though there will be cameras around, You cannot do that.
As far as a voter, you can't obstruct the ingress,
egress or parking. You can't challenge a person's right to
vote or prevent voters from voting. It doesn't matter what
you think about that person. Well, I don't think that
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person can legally vote. Well, you cannot intervene, and you
risk going to jail if you try. And let's say,
all this goes swimmingly, and afterwards you wonder, well, what
happens to a person's ballot? Well, for the folks who've
already sent in their ballots, California is one of the
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few states in which they can start opening, processing and
tabulating votes before the election. In fact, they can do
it no more than twenty nine days before the election.
But they can't reveal the totals or any type of
results to any one, not to the campaigns, not to
the press, not to you, not to me. So Californi,
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they're counting ballots right now. That's part of the reason
why when the polls close at eight o'clock and the
polls will be open tomorrow from seven am to eight pm.
That's part of the reason why they have an instant
return information they were. They're most likely just telling you
what the mail in ballot counts were at that moment,
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and you'll get a quicker sense of what's happening in
California as opposed to different states. Just know the process
so it doesn't surprise you or they or if you
wonder how did they count those so fast? Well, they've
been counting for the past twenty seven days as it
is twenty eight days.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Are you telling me you can't yell out or demand
information on the candidate you choose to vote for inside
of a polling place. No, that's so interesting because my
son just turned eighteen, first time voting, he said. He said, Daddy,
I'm in there, and I was embarrassed.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
I was shocked. I didn't even know what to do.
There was a woman in there.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
They are screaming, demanding to know how come Trump's name
wasn't on every name on the ballot?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Where is Trump? I only want to vote for Trump.
All these other people are in eligible to be on
the ballot.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
He said that the people they were trying to calm
her down, but she kept going on and on.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
You tell me that's illegal. That is illegal. You can't
any type of influence. Now she has a question or issue,
she can engage an election worker and ask the question.
But from the way you describe it, where she's creating
a scene, yes, that can be interpreted as either intimidation
or influencing, which you cannot do. That's shocking. Like if
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you went to an election worker and said, hey, okay,
I don't understand. I thought it was just Donald Trump
and Kamala Harris. Why is this? Why is RFK junior?
Or why is this person or why is this person
I never heard of? Also, well, that's just stining she
represents the Green Party or something, and I don't know
if they could give them that information. But if you
have a question, yes, you can always ask an election
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worker if you're not clear how it's done, because there's
some voting boosts which are electronic, and that can be
kind of confusing if you've never done it before, as
opposed to the paper balloting that we've all used, if
you've been a voter for any number of years. But
a lot of people don't know the laws, and they
just assume that you can walk in wearing whatever you want,
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saying whatever you want, and do whatever you want and
may get surprised when they get rightful pushback from the
election workers because the law is clear you can't do
any of that. And if you do that expecting that
there won't be any consequence where you're doing so at
your own risk. I can't say if you walk into
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a Trump County that there won't be maga hats on.
I'm saying it's not legal to do and depending on
where you go, you may or may not receive more pushback.
But the law is clear you can't do it. Whether
you get away with it, that's something different. But you can't.
You can't try to influence, intimidate. You can't ask someone's like, hey,
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I don't believe that person over there is a legal voter.
Can't do that, can't say that, don't try it, and
definitely don't try with me. Don't do it. Just leave
me the hell alone. Bother Mark Ronner, he likes to
be bothered, Like, keep me the hell out of this.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
I dropped my ballot off at the box at the library,
and that's the end of the story.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
I'm done. Look, I always like to do it on
election day. I like the energy of an actual election
day to drop off my ballot. Yes, I have mail
in capabilities, but I always physically drop it off because
I like to see what's going on on an actual
election day. It's later with Mo Kelly special pre election
coverage and also a musical tribute to Quincy Jones, who
(33:48):
passed away yesterday at the age of ninety one. We're
live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
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Speaker 1 (33:55):
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