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Bloomberg Radio New York
"mark ridley thomas" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Image. I've lived here for 56 years and this is the largest water I've ever seen. Governor Andy beshear added the death toll is going to grow. Homes were washed away and floodwaters also took out roads and bridges. Bashir has called it an ongoing natural disaster. The chair of the House oversight committee is urging HHS to declare monkeypox a public health emergency, New York Democrat Carolyn maloney wrote a letter to Health and Human Services secretary Xavier becerra calling on the department to issue the declaration, so it can access emergency funds. We're in big trouble as a country. That's what former president Trump said on the clay Travis and buck Sexton show Trump also expressed concerns about a potential World War three. He cited the Russia Ukraine war and issues with Taiwan. Cal fire says 106 homes have been destroyed by the oak fire burning west of Yosemite National Park. The week old fire has burned through more than 19,000 acres and is 45% contained as of this morning. Another 640 structures are still considered threatened. Some of George Floyd's family members and activists aren't satisfied with the recent sentences of three former Minneapolis police officers. They say the penalties handed down recently were too small to town, who held back bystanders while Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck received a three and a half year sentence, ex officer J Alexander king got a three year prison term, and Thomas lane, who held Floyd's feet, received two and a half years. I'm Lisa Taylor. With July wrapping up we're heading into the peak of hurricane season, the national oceanic and atmospheric administration says August September and October are the most active months. Noah is calling for between 14 and 21 named storms this season. There have been three since June 1st. I'm Brian shook. 9 11 victims families are gathering to protest this weekend's live golf tournament at former president Trump's New Jersey club, Liz Warner reports. 9 11 victims families expressing grief and outrage about the tournament, Saudi packers. Can not believe that we have to be here. 21 years later. Speaking out against a government that is trying to sports wash or whitewash, their atrocities all over the world. While Trump and players also coming under fire for taking blood money from a sponsor of terrorism with 15 of 19 9 11 hijackers coming from Saudi Arabia, that nation also faces international condemnation for the brutal murder of a Washington Post journalist. Two men accused in the murder of Memphis rapper Young Dolph were in court today, authorities say Justin Johnson and cornelia Smith are both suspects in the deadly shooting and remain in jail on unrelated charges in court smith didn't receive bond. Johnson will be back in court next week as he attempts to be moved to a correctional facility. Suspended Los Angeles city councilman Mark Ridley Thomas is suing the city for money he believes he's owed. Phil Hewlett has the details. Really, Thomas colleagues decided to suspend him from the council following his indictment on federal corruption charges last October, city controller Ron galperin then decided to also suspend his pay and benefits, Ridley Thomas lawsuit says the move was unauthorized unlawful and politicized. The suspended councilman once a court ordered, deeming the decision unlawful. I'm Phil Hewlett Martin Scorsese is set to direct a new project with Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead role. The wager will release on Apple TV and is an adaption of an upcoming non fiction book by David grant. This comes as DiCaprio and Scorsese are working on the upcoming film Killers of the Flower Moon, which is expected to release sometime next year. I'm
The Propaganda Report
"mark ridley thomas" Discussed on The Propaganda Report
"Then it wasn't a horse dewormed her. I did hear him say that. But it seems like i didn't. I wasn't even sure. Rogan said that he took it. I'm more that he just had it in his possession. He felt that they were wrong. And how they reported it. But yeah i i think that is interesting and he. I mean i would have to see it like myself to see if i found rogan authentic. I'm sure he's mostly authentic but he didn't pin down. Edward snowden the way i wanted him to so he kind of lost forever. No is the aftermath of this for cnn. Was here's the headline. Basically watch sanjay gupta try and get joe rogan to get vaccinated. See what happened. And it's just an attempt to make make rogan. Look stupid and make sanjay gupta. Look like he was doing his best and gupta tweeted out later. I tried my best guys if i could have gotten through to. Just one person on his audience. And i've done my job. I'm surprised who wasn't successful. Because neil grass tyson cotton rogan on puerto. The moon landing right. Oh did he did neither. Thanks so yeah. I think that was the big deal like flipping back of rogan. Guy was wrong about the moon landing guys. So maybe maybe he's back that. I don't know but i read or even heard him say that after talking snail duress is on he thinking. I gotta listen to that one. That one i haven't heard but i so i wanted to talk about a sore event. I heard out here but it was actually. This was also on fox. So i guess it is national news a councilman ridley. Thomas mark ridley. Thomas was indicted on federal corruption charges twenty federal corruption charges for promising things to the former dean of the usc school of social work. What he promised was to put money sear money towards the university in return for them admitting his son sebastian into graduate school with a full tuition scholarship and pay professorship so the he was indicted and so was the dean and a couple things. I wanted to point out about this. What is. I've never thought that the person who receives a bribe or whatever the person who is not in the public trust who has tax dollars to that. They're using for their own personal benefit. That's a crime but people in the private sector universities or whatever who have grown up in this world where you can't do business without getting licenses permissions even even if it's tax free bonds all these things..
990 The Answer
"mark ridley thomas" Discussed on 990 The Answer
"Gem of a piece here. L. A City Councilwoman Mark Ridley Thomas writes about Larry Elder says about Larry Elder who they call the white supremacists use your talents and gifts for good not to bring other people down, particularly those that don't deserve to be down. That's what Larry Elder fails to understand. He's throwing out all the rhetoric about the minimum wage. All that talk about poverty, pimps, all that act anti vaccine. It's only politically it's not only politically but intellectually offensive. Earl Ofari Hutchinson, a political analyst and author says quote. The only positive I see in an elder candidacy is that it's another wake up call for Democrats in California nationally to not take black people or people of colors, votes and support for granted. Najee Ali says black activist he would be a disaster for the black community would suffer greatly. He's the black trump and I'm speaking as his friend. Even though Ollie acknowledges that his friend trip is strained. Abdullah, who runs BLM, says quote Anytime you put a black face on white supremacy, which is what Larry Elder is, there are people who will utilize that as an opportunity to deny white supremacy. They say. How could this be white supremacy? This is a black man, but everything that he's pushing everything stands for is advancing white supremacy. Oh, you mean like school choice for black kids, white supremacy. Abdullah getting safe streets and Compton is white supremacy, improving literacy rates. Black people know Better than how dangerous elder is. She writes in the L A Times l A times He's the O G troll that no one is supposed to feed. But here we are. She ends by saying Newsom hasn't been perfect. And took far too long for the state to roll out the covid 19 tests and vaccines equitably. Yeah, right. And of hundreds of thousands of Californians weren't still on their unemployment checks. The level of fraud and mismanagement of the employment development Department would almost be comical. But as Camargue er said, quote I'm not interested in going back to Jim Crow. Because I want to have a black person is governor. Duh. She ends her piece. Do they actually believe this nonsense that they right? That Larry Elder is going to usher in Jim Crow back to California. First of all, I would even have the power to do that, as governor. No, of course not a silly question. This is nothing more than a fearmongering and scare tactic. This is something that Is a great fault line in the entire hyper racial ization of American politics. And that's when we put up black conservatives or office like Larry Elder. That dare to call BLM what it is Advocate for school choice, safer streets, economic development and empowerment. And how does he get received by his fellow black Americans? They call him a white supremacist. Pretty racist to do that, isn't it? Larry Elder has the entire political establishment of California reeling and in a free fall. If Larry Elder actually ushered in Jim Crow, by the way, he wouldn't be allowed to serve as governor. It's such a ridiculous thing to say it really is. You know what? The closest thing to Jim Crow you actually have in California. Is the state of the public and government run schools under the regime of Gavin Newsom, that isn't happening in downtown Los Angeles. While the white kids get to go to private schools, Larry Elder will try to change that through school choice. But Erica D. Smith doesn't care about that. Erica D. Smith says she cares about black people. I care about black issues. What are those black issues that you actually care about? You trying to tell me that black issues are different than just regular human issues. That the development of the character in the soul and the spirit of a human being safe streets, having lots of Children staying loyally married to somebody. Yeah, We need to worry about black issues as if we need to have identity politics, type segmenting of issues. Larry Elder recognizes understands the evil of this. That's why he succeeded. He's willing to call it out. By the way, Larry Elder is raising millions of dollars. Gavin Newsom is putting out ads all over California. I've seen a ton since I've been here. He's a defense. And I call everyone across the country to do some role to help out Larry Elder in this race, he can win. Which would be It would be a shock to the system the likes of which we haven't seen since Donald Trump's election election in 2016 so like collect elder dot com, we're going to repost our episode of Larry Elder on Charlie Kirk dot com For you guys to check it out, still might be up. But we're going to kind of put a link to it. If you guys want to check it out. It's worth listening to email us your thoughts already. Freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com. Do we have Keith in our three? Think we do amazing conversation about Afghanistan and about what's happening there straight from the front lines, So check it out right now..
John and Ken on Demand
"mark ridley thomas" Discussed on John and Ken on Demand
"The deborah's openly trolling for likes. Yes i am so under the guise of its national radio day in case you don't know that one of those fake facebook holidays special day. We took a picture. So she doing forced me into Take a picture and and they pushed on virtual and all this stuff. Don't facebook twitter and instagram. And by the john and ken show re tweeted the picture. Because it's so good. I what is it. It's a picture of what two of us two of us. Why is it so good i. I'm a thousand pictures of you to. It's a good picture. Wow yeah even shannon ferren just liked it right now. how good. It was how desperate people are. All right she got nothing else to do. But to look at your. This was a big production. Here you missed it. And i know you're sorry you missed it. I'm very. I got breaking news on the john and ken show breaking news. Bigger than your twitter crap. Guess who's coming to california to campaign for newsom next week big story. All joe carmela. Alma harris is coming to california campaign in person for news battle. Get votes supposed to be going to vietnam which is coming i. They've relegated her to vietnam assured trips about probably know she tried to present herself as being right in the middle of the afghan policy and now is running from it. i think she booked herself to vietnam president harris. Exactly although you know what. Joe might be right. She might be president soon. The way things are going we told you last hour polling. You're showing a majority of americans believe that joe is not in charge and does not have the mental and physical capacity right now to the job. Yeah and i don't think you bounce back from it and we. Did you see the story yesterday. If the electoral today trump would win. He would be biden's this after this afghanistan thing that that's That's possible it said that a number of black voters and others decided that they don't like Biden's leadership would switch. Hi we're going to be talking about. Steve gregory steve went to vanish today because Local groups in venice held a private townhall meeting with the sheriff alex in wave and was on a roll. Yeah he has a lot of clips. So we'll file Yeah i got a ton. Ken just have fifteen cuts. Well we can't put fifteen cuts in a row after ten seconds a mash up. No seriously so. This was an invitation. Only organized by residents business owners of venice beach the invited the sheriff to speak with him last night in this business. That's right at the boardwalk. Now no one. Outside of that invitation list was invited in and no one gets to see it. So i was able to get some audio from it though. And let's start right out of the chute couple things. That really caught my attention. Cut fifteen eric. This is pretty much the one thing that really made me spit out my coke. If i had the cooperation of the city and county we could have the entire county cleared up about ninety days the entire county. We would have relocated all the homeless indiana. You're shelters or the defied save campgrounds of mood them. They're provide the wraparound services the trash removal the hygiene stations. All those good things and get people on the pathway to get back on their feet and getting home. We could do ninety days full cooperation. So he's Laid down the gauntlet here ninety days if he had full cooperation and the only exception in the caveat that he said would be the he wouldn't be watered with the camps in the riverbed right now 'cause they don't they're not adjacent to residential areas right so that would not be a priority right but he identified the three top priorities for him that he wants to clean up and that was venice beach. Hollywood in alvarez street. He says it was a three of the top tourist attractions and they're big employers in the all adjacent to neighborhoods so it was a big. That was a big one so toward the end of the evening. I'm going to be jumping around here and cut five. He really kind of. I don't know if you want to. If you want to interpret this as a directive if you will but this is the advice that he sort of clearly gave cut five at five. In the nineteen seventies rancho palos. Verdes was part of the city of los angeles the this inc and they became unincorporated. And now there's served by lameda sheriff station. I'm just throwing it out there sound. I will have nothing to do with that. Political process of any agency already community size ago. There on what he they can. Just incorporate right up yesterday asking questions after that. how do i go about it. Yeah oh yeah. Venice should secede well los angeles. And that's just it in some other. Cities have tried to do with. He said the difference was they tried to change. The name of the sitting tried to create a new city right. He said in this case all you have to do is unincorporated. You have to vote on it and whatever unincorporated in the new beach you become an unincorporated areas of los angeles right. There was a very interesting. I and that's for an independent standalone. City can do shirt right. Actually honest would actually have to secede from la. But in malibu do that. I remember when i first moved here. Malibu had had was separating from. I didn't know. I don't remember that you're probably right. Good malibu's not part of the city of. Yeah well they have been at one time this the other thing too he was talking about really rallying people to in in voters to get out and vote people out and you know. He went on his his tirade about You know the la city council the board of supervisors. The governor calls them the trifecta and the architects failures. He said many times but he talks about which very interesting is this. The way that the board of supervisors does it's agendas in how the politics are run on that side in cut twelve. He talks a lot about if you want to call in and comment on a motion that There's a process you have to go through but this is something. He revealed that i was not aware of. If you call into the board of supervisors on tuesday mornings at nine o'clock good luck if you say you're in support of that motion to let you in to speak. If you say you're against it you won't get in so pretty much everything that the board does violates the brown act because they're not. It's not an honest public debate. They have entire boiler rooms of people that will generate these emails. They're all identical. It's always the same five hundred characters with the exact same email on every motion that they want they down their friend and off. It goes so come. Friday when they post the agenda about come tuesday morning at eight in the morning. Hey we got five hundred emails on support not a single one against it. Then you'll have a supervisor running the show saying well. We received five hundred emails and support this motion by. Golly it must be good. The whole thing is rate. That's true you being played. I mean. I've heard a supervisor. Yeah they want him out. They've been after him. Yeah this is why they want him out. Because he's telling the truth about how corrupted fake they are yeah so he goes on to mark ridley. Thomas now focuses on mark ridley thomas because what he was trying to do. He's trying to give credit to some of the only city council people that want to be a part of the solution. His solution yeah. He pointed out. John lee pointed out a bruce keno right and then here he talks a little bit. About how boost guy knows motion to shut down by mark. Ridley thomas is cut number nine and then we'll follow up mark really. Thomas said well he offer was offered a plan. Well let's do five hundred feet of every school in. Cover the whole county okay. Face value great idea and it was shot down by the genius known as mark really thomas he said well we wanna make sure. We're gonna do it right so we'll take one and we'll study it.
KCRW
"mark ridley thomas" Discussed on KCRW
"Ella's nightclubs much longer. Eric Garcetti. Last week, the White House announced the president Joe Biden has nominated Ella's mayor to be the next U. S. Ambassador to India. The news came with little surprise. It's been reported for several months now that he was first in line for that job. But now that his nomination is official the scramble to replace him assuming he is confirmed Begins John regard He's a writer and reporter for Los Angeles magazine where he's been covering this. Hey, John, Hey, Steve and Gloria Molina's former L. A City Council member. Former L. A county supervisor as well. Gloria. Welcome to you. Thank you, Steve. Pressure. I really appreciate it, John. I'm going to start with you. Because the mayor must still get confirmed by the Senate. The United States Senate has been in hot water lately with them. Couple of scandals in his administration of former aide accused of sexual harassment during his time in office. The accusation is that Garcetti New. Of course, Garcetti says he did not His chief of staff, was suspended after mocking labour activist Dolores Huerta on Facebook. Do you think that could affect his confirmation? You know, it certainly raises a lot of attention and questions, But one also has to think that the Presidential administration is not going to go forward with this nomination unless they are highly certain. That they are going to be able to get this through. So you know, let's assume that they have already been back channel talks. Will Mayor Garcetti be questioned intensely by Republicans? I mean, it is a very thin margin in the Senate. As you know, let's assume he does get confirmed, though. What happens when the mayor steps down? I mean, well, the city then appoint an interim mayor. Would would that normally be the City Council president? Well, this is where things get really, really interesting. Steve. Now you do hear a lot of talk these days as you just referenced about how Nury Martinez, Who's the Council president? Would normally take over as acting mayor. The city charter hold the council president takes over when the mayor Karl was out of California. But that's also usually seen as a short term solution. Something not intended to be in place for what could be almost a four year if not longer, so the council would have the option. Then you know of appointing some sort of, uh, you know, interim mayor or some sort of caretaker mayor. And again, you know, this is not going to be over. You know, a week or two weeks or a month Expect this process to take several months. So there's gonna be plenty of time for the City Council to figure out OK, how do we want to fill this void? Yeah, it doesn't help that. There are a couple of City council members who want the job right? Who want the job permanently? Not just on a need basis. I'm talking about Joe Buscaino. I'm talking about Nury Martinez. I mean it. Nury Martinez is the council president, right? So wouldn't she have a leg up on getting the nod? Absolutely An island and and we are, and this is so complicated. It's great that you mention that because again, we do have this mayoral election taking place next year with the primary in June and the runoff in November. And you know, essentially because you know, in addition to those individuals who you mentioned City Attorney Mike Fear is already in the mayor's race, and there are thought the two other council members Mark Ridley Thomas and Kevin Day. Leone also want to run for mayor. The last thing any of these individuals are going to want is for someone else to get a leg up by serving as acting mayor, so there's going to be lots of efforts to ensure that you know that the person who you know so that if an interim mayor is installed The fat person is not going to run for mayor. Now, By the way, this is tricky. This has happened before. In San Francisco in 2011. Edley was installed as a caretaker mayor. After Gavin Newsom became lieutenant lieutenant governor. Lee had promised not to run for mayor. Then he found out that he liked the job shocked everyone by announcing he would run and a couple months later, he won became mayor of San Francisco. So there's gonna be a lot of things at play here in Los Angeles as decisions are made in terms of who could potentially be an interim mayor. Gloria Molina. You served on the City Council. Assuming the council does appoint an interim replacement. Who do you think is the ideal candidate? Well, I think that it's an opportunity for the City Council and for a city to really look at a leader who can really do the job being elected in is very, very different than someone who is serving in a role to get the work done. There are so many people who are influencing every single decision that that people who are running for office regrettably need to please everyone, and so consequently no decisions. Are well made. So I I really think it's an opportunity for the City Council to look at this in a much broader sense, other than you know about me getting elected and and look at an opportunity to bring in someone. Who really could do the job provide the kind of leadership put up with all of the influencers that we have out there. All the lobbyists all the special interest in really start tackling some of the issues that need to be done everything from police reform. Homelessness and other issues. I I you need a problem solver. And right now, the last thing that that we need is someone who instead of Working on the issues that are significant to this city is running for office at the same time while they're trying to serve as interim mayor, so it would be a mistake for the City Council to select anyone who is going to be a candidate. John regarding what names are being floated. Oh, though, there certainly are few of them who are out there and, uh, you know, as you know, As Gloria says, you know, it's a question of, you know, unelectable itty, you know it is out there. One of the ones who you hear mentioned frequently is the former Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa because he could not be elected mayor again. I believe there are questions as to whether it's you know it's allowed, but he is someone who certainly Has the gravitas and knows the job as well. You hear the name of former city comptroller and mayoral candidate, Wendy Gruel? Um, she obviously certainly knows how Los Angeles works. You also hear Paul Krekorian. He's a council member. Um, you know, I mentioned as well you know, it's been indicated that he would not You know, be interested in running for mayor and again. That would be something that everyone who would install it into a mayor wants to happen. But you know, those are three of the names. You know who you hear mentioned, you know, certainly There's probably others being kicked around as well. But really, I think it's going to be so important. And Gloria did a great job of running down some of just these really key characteristics because the next mayor Is going to come in and next interim mayor will come in and have so many of these crucial issues that just need to be tackled, including budget, including homelessness, including police reform..
790 KABC
"mark ridley thomas" Discussed on 790 KABC
"And I know you're proud of a lot of the work that's been done when it comes to homelessness, But there are still so many challenges there outside the door right here at City Hall. There's an intent encampment right here. There's tents all over the place objectively. How can you say that Homelessness was a success isn't what's happened with homelessness in L. A of failure? No, I don't look at its success or failure. I look at it as a challenge and one in which we've made tremendous progress. $10 million was being spent on homelessness. When I started this year, we'll see a billion dollars, right. We got the state to put 12 billion down on top of that. Well, that is a success. We are spending more money than ever before. I love how they consider that some great accomplishment. Well, you know, we spend money. Well, Charlie Sheen. We've hired thousands of people to work at law, so whether or not they're actually doing anything that's a different story. You see, at some point, the wires get crossed. You spend money to solve the problem. If you spend money and don't solve the problem, That's not a success. That's a waste of money. Wherever it was that whoever it was that educated him seem to teach him the wrong lesson. Let's listen. There's tens of thousands of lives that we have not only change but saved in the city. Mean, it does look like probably a big pile of dirt out there, you know, Right? When you think about homelessness, that would be a pile two or three times bigger If we hadn't had voters passed measure age respect to C 11,000 units of homeless housing. That's 1000 more than we promised two years earlier than we promised for $15,000 less per unit. But, you know, I've worked on homelessness since I was 14 here until we get serious as a nation. What was he doing at 14? No kidding. Yeah. I think his dad was prosecuting the man and I I've been working on this problem for almost my entire life. And I've done a great job, haven't I? I was working on this in utero. The tens of thousands of lives that we have not only changed but saved in the city. Mean, it does look like probably a big pile of dirt out there. You know, when you think about homelessness, that would be a pile two or three times bigger If we hadn't had voters passed measure age, respond to C 11,000 units of homeless housing. That's 1000 more than we promised two years earlier than we promised for $15,000 less per unit. But, you know, I've worked on homelessness since I was 14 here until we get serious as a nation. Yeah, the city of L. A will never solve homelessness. We need a housing policy in a mental health policy in this country. That guarantees that local governments aren't picking up the pieces of the failures of years and years past. I was out in Venice this morning. Um you know, we've housed nearly 100 people in just two weeks, so I know we know how to do this. But that was months of planning budgeting. And you know you have to then make sure those folks don't just come right back that they're actually in housing and getting the health care that they need. The point he just made is not an intellectually honest argument. He made a point that cannot be proven. Well, yeah, the problems horrific and it's gotten worse. But if we didn't do what we did, it would be even worse than it is today. That's similar to what Fauci and Ferrer and others are saying about things like social distancing, shutting down the schools, shutting down the beaches, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Same thing with the carbon emissions, tax cap and trade. The cost of gasoline is going through the roof in part thanks to those fools and you confront them about it, and they go. Well, If we didn't do what we did, it would be worse. Well, how can you prove that in the answer is you can't So to try to paper over their failure. They try to take the argument to an impasse immediately because if you hit that impasse, it's just, he said. She said, Who knows? Let's move on. Have fun in India. Why that he on top of that says, Well, you know you can never do this in just Los Angeles a national problem. I can't solve homelessness. That's what he campaigned on for two mayoral terms, but it's just that that's not even a thing. That's a possibility. So why even try? Let's listen to more. But you know, there's a lot of people that will see this and say, Look, we've spent all this extra money. A lot of that construction has moved slow, and there's still so many homeless people that say, I don't want the housing. I don't want to do that, and they're still on the street. I understand those frustrations. But I also know the only way to solve homelessness is to get people to care in the housing that they need. There really is no other magic formula. I've heard many people saying what we're doing must be wrong because they're still out there. Know what we're doing is not enough. We've never had the level of funding, Which is why I convinced this president as a candidate to make housing a human right. Think about if you and I are hungry. We get food stamps, no matter how many of us there are, If you and I don't have health care, we get medical Medicaid. But if you and I need housing, one in eight people currently in the city Get a federal subsidy for housing Section eight voucher. We need to make that eight out of eight and then we could see an end to homelessness. He's learned absolutely nothing from his failures. Well, we've spent money and it didn't work. What's the point point? What's the deal? Well, we haven't spent enough. That's the issue. Again. He's making a point that cannot be proven, but it's ridiculous on its face. And he thinks we're going to buy the answer. And by the way, if he stuck around in Los Angeles, what he would be doing is urging us to raise our taxes yet again to spend more on homeless services that aren't working. And whoever it is that takes over for him will likely be advocating for the same things because they're ideologically the same. Whether it's Nury Martinez, Kevin Daly own Mike. Fewer Mark Ridley Thomas fill in the blank. They're all cut from the same cloth. So what He did, whether he knows it or not his tip his hand on what they're going to be asking us for pronto. All right, You've heard me predicted time and time again, and now it's happening. The new administration is doing everything they can to decimate the economy and render the dollar worthless. Besides printing money like it's going out of style. Introducing legislation and initiatives. It will cost us trillions and trillions of dollars and you know where that money is going to come from your pocket in the form of outrageous tax hikes and out of control inflation, the more the dollar becomes under attack. The more owning real physical gold makes sense throughout history, gold has proven to be a reliable hedge against inflation..
790 KABC
"mark ridley thomas" Discussed on 790 KABC
"Sudden she gets to be the interim mayor of Los Angeles, Guess who has a tremendous advantage over all of their opponents, Nury Martinez. So if you're Joe Buscaino or your mark Ridley Thomas or your Kevin Daly own and you're thinking about running yourself, that's going to happen over your dead body. You're not going to let it happen. Because once they get in that office, even if it's for a day. They will put on the ballot that they're the incumbent mayor of Los Angeles, and that is worth a mint. In politics. People always vote for incumbents. It happened in San Francisco. They had a vacancy in the mayor's office because they're mayor Ed Lee passed away. And London Breed was the president of the City Council. And she got in there on an interim basis and blew everyone else away. No one's going to touch her. She's going to be the mayor of San Francisco, and until she turns out Before her. They actually got burned. For the first time. So Gavin Newsom was the mayor of San Francisco. He gets elected to be lieutenant governor was six months left on his term. Various members of the board of Supervisors up there wanted to replace him. So they didn't want to give any of them a leg up. So what they did was they found a city administrator, a guy who's never run for office before who didn't have much of a personality. Who said I'm not going to run to be mayor. I'll just be a caretaker. His name was Ed Lee. Ed Lee gets in office and decides he likes being mayor and he reneged on the deal. He puts his name on the ballot. He's a two term mayor of San Francisco. He's the one that died in office. So these members of the City Council, they pay attention to all of this palace intrigue and they know what they can't let happen. So Nury Martinez is not going to be the Inter mayor of Los Angeles. They won't allow it. So the rumor that's been swirling about who's going to get the gig on the short term. Is none other than former L. A Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. He's the one they're thinking about put again. You say to yourself, John. This guy just got blown out in the race for governor. He looks like father time. He was a bit of a BA phone when he was there before. Why would they do that? Well, The answer is Antonio Villaraigosa has already served two terms as mayor of L. A. He would be ineligible to run for mayor. He couldn't be the incumbent running for a four year term. Not allowed. So he wouldn't be a threat to them. That's why they would appoint him. And that's what I believe is going to happen. But that's assuming that Garcetti has the votes Garcetti gets through the Senate, and I'm not convinced that that's going to happen. But my oh, my On a Friday afternoon 12 noon They just gave us something nice and juicy, Didn't they? 12 26, Let's take a look at the roads. ABC. Dependable Traffic sponsored by Discover Baldwin Park 10 westbound after Baldwin Park Boulevard crash in the left lane, stop and go from sunset in West Covina, Ontario, the 15 Colbun before the 10 crash in the right lane. Stop and go from Foothill San Bernardino Sigalert, The 2 15 South found after DeVore Big Rig fire has the right lane blocked traffic is slammed..
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"That their request for that support, but that support is there If folks needed 147 people are unaccounted for, and De Santis says the search and rescue operation will go on. Until everyone is found. Huntington Beach is getting some pushback on a decision to appoint someone to fill a vacant city council seat. Critics on social media have called for the runner up from the November election to fill the seat vacated by Tito Ortiz Chapman University Elections expert Mike Moody and says there are pros and cons to the two choices. Cities have to fill seats. The benefit of a special election is it gives the voters on immediate say in terms of who they're going to a point, but they're very costly. The city says an election would cost a million dollars versus The application process. They're able to appoint somebody right away. But the the challenge there who is it that they're going to appoint next month, the council is expected to pick after interviewing more than 180 applicants. Corbyn Carson KFT News, the L. A City Council has moved toward an ordinance that would partially limit homeless camps in parts of the city Councilman Joe Buscaino used rare procedural motion to bring the ordinance before the council and I don't believe that we should leave on a month long recess without passing this ordinance, the council on Mark Ridley Thomas did his own letter. Slate of maneuvering to create a less restrictive ordinance seems to me that the narrative has to be enlightened and not draconian. The motion. The council agreed to orders the city attorney to drop an ordinance by tomorrow that allows the city to enforce the clearing of sidewalks in certain places such as near schools, parks and libraries. Chris and Carl. Okay, fine news problems on the 2 10.
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"505. We'll talk with the infectious disease Doctor Simone Wild and I want to go back to this. Covid 19 vary it you've got the World Health organization saying one thing you've got the CDC saying one thing you've got l. A county health officials saying another thing when it comes to Covid, nineteen's Delta variant. Do we wear a mask? Do we not wear a mask? If you're vaccinated are all the vaccines effective in treating the delta variant? We'll find out when we talked with Dr Wilds in just a few minutes. But let's get back to some of these stories coming out of the K F I 24 hour newsroom health experts in the U. S, say the World Health Organization's warning that masks are necessary to stop the spread of the delta Covid 19 variant. Has not changed the CDCs guidance. Dr Anthony Fauci says fully vaccinated people would only need the masks as a precaution. There may be some people even in areas. Where there's good vaccination who has special concern who maybe elderly who may have an underlying medical condition. Fauci says People should get the vaccine to protect themselves because 20% of new Covid cases in the US are from the more infectious delta variant. Now, the Supreme Court says the eviction pause that was issued by the C D. C will stay in place until the end of next month. The justices voted 5 to 4 against an emergency request from a group of landlords asking the court to end the moratorium. The order keeps landlords from evicting tenants who don't pay rent because of the pandemic. Daly City Council has moved toward an ordinance that would partially limit homeless encampments in parts of the city. Kuzmin Joe Buscaino used the rare procedural motion to bring the ordinance before the council and I don't believe that we should leave on a month long recess without passing this ordinance, The Councilman Mark Ridley Thomas, did his own legislative maneuvering to create a less restrictive ordinance seems to me that the narrative has to be enlightened. And not draconian the motion. The council agreed to orders the city attorney to drop an ordinance by tomorrow that allows the city to enforce the clearing of sidewalks in certain places such as near schools, parks and libraries. Chris and Carl. Okay, if I news Accounting Homeless Services Authority has drawn up a road map for shrinking encampments. Last executive director Heidi Marston says that the pandemic limited how her agency could deal with encampments, which we know made homelessness across l, a more visible than ever, and really was a daily reminder. They're all of the systems that are at play that have not met the needs of thousands of Angelenos. Marston outline specific principles yesterday to put outreach workers and non profit groups on the same page for how they get people off the streets, she says failure to follow the recommendations could mean more people cycle back onto the street after they're put in the housing. Well. Some civil rights groups have filed a joint complaint against the state over its emergency rent assistance program. They say the program excludes people without access to a computer in the materials are not properly translated into the languages of the majority of renters. An attorney with Asian Americans advancing justice says the five billion in rent relief and eviction moratorium extension do very little to stop widespread devastation. If people with disabilities people who don't speak English or people without Internet access can apply for assistance. The complaint was sent to the Department of Fair Employment and Housing and asks for the materials to be properly translated into multiple languages and the ability for people to apply for assistance by phone. Steve Gregory KFT News and police in Pasadena have confirmed they are investigating claims by a woman who alleges she was physically assaulted by Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer, The women's lawyer told TMZ, his client suffered severe physical and emotional pain. But Bowers agent says the picture had a consensual sexual relationship with a woman who initiated it in April. The Dodgers say they take allegations of this nature very seriously, and they have handed the matter to Major league baseball. When we come back, we'll talk with the infectious disease doctor Simone Wild. I want to debunk some of the myths that we're hearing about the delta variant of Covid 19. I don't want to find out which ones are true. All that straight ahead right now, Let's take a look at your drive High Robbin banks. Good morning. What's up on the 10? Good morning. Yeah, we're clearing a crash in Alhambra. It's going to be on the 10 westbound at the 7. 10 cleared it from the fast track lanes and the left lanes here, So you're still going to feel a little bit of slowdown right around Fremont Avenue, even though everything is on the right shoulder. Still borrow the to 10 Eastern McLay hearing. There may be a brush fire. Maybe an encampment fire here on the right shoulder, So we'll watch that El Segundo, one of five eastbound It's profitable. LeVar dreck on the on ramp so you can see that from the main lines a little bit of slowing as a result, Diamond bar 60 westbound just after Diamond Bar Boulevard conked out SUV. It's partially blocking the right lane Kft and this guy helps get you there faster. I'm.
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"You're listening to greater l A on kcrw The show that connects you to the people and places of Southern California. I'm Steve to take us and today we're taking you to The streets of New York City. They're jammed with people. Street vendors traffic. One thing you don't see. Those are long rows of camping tents on the sidewalks, a common sight that you see in Los Angeles. Not because New York doesn't have a homelessness crisis. In fact, more people are experiencing homelessness in New York City than in all of L. A county. In New York. Many more unhappy people sleep indoors. That's partly because New York has a law guaranteeing a right to shelter, meaning the city must provide emergency shelter. To every on house person who qualifies for that help. Could that happen here in L. A Well, one state lawmaker is proposing a similar law in California and in the city of Los Angeles Council member Mark Ridley Thomas has proposed a right to housing ordinance not the same thing. But he says temporary shelter could be included in his definition of housing. Meanwhile, an ongoing federal lawsuit is also pressuring the city and the county to create more shelter beds. So today the question How did New York's right to shelter mandate come to be? How is it working and what could learn from it at this critical moment? KCRW Santa Scott, who covers homelessness and housing, she's here to discuss with us. Hey, Anna. Hey, Steve. So how did New York's right to shelter begin? How did it all get started? It goes back to the 19 seventies to one unused man named Bob Callahan. I didn't talk to Callahan for this, but I talked to someone named Robert Hayes, who knew Callahan really well. He was a pugnacious guy, and he, um you know it was trouble. He was a short order Cook. Before he kind of fell on hard times back in the seventies. So more than 40 years ago. Haze you just heard was a young law student at N Y U and he was volunteering at a homeless services center. Later, he went on to found the coalition for the Homeless, which is a big non profit advocacy group. But he started out all those years ago as a volunteer, and that's how he met Bob Callahan. Callahan at the time was in his fifties, He was suffering the effects of severe alcoholism, and he stayed on the streets around lower Manhattan. Hayes became really disturbed by the fact that a lot of unhappy as New Yorkers were suffering on the streets and dying on the streets, and he wanted to do something about it. And I had absolutely no influence that no one really particularly wanted to talk to me. And honestly back, then, none of the large nonprofit charitable organizations or particularly interested in helping homeless people, there was some money. There are no contracts. New York City did not have a billion plus dollar homeless budget, and if the city and state governments would help the federal government's not going to help, what do you do? You get angry, Then you go to court. You go to court. So hes eventually brought a class action lawsuit against the city, arguing that there is a constitutional right to shelter in New York, and it was on behalf of all homeless men in New York City, because that's who was mostly housed at the time. They're single men, and Callahan was the lead plaintiff. So I assume Mana that they won the case. They did on behalf of of men. You mentioned men. How did the law then expand to include everyone, all genders. Well after they won that first case, New York didn't just go out and build thousands of shelters overnight. There were subsequent lawsuits and together over time, all of these cases forced the city to greatly expand its shelter beds and also who they had to provide shelter for. And how much Ana? Is this related to whether you know you hear it over and over again. It's It's easier to be homeless in L A, because the weather isn't as severe as it is in New York, although it can be obviously deadly to be homeless in Los Angeles. At least here. We don't have those freezing winters, right? Yeah, that's right. Good question. It's very deadly to be homeless in Los Angeles, by the way, but you're right that the weather is a big part of what happened in New York. And now that New York has a really big shelter system. The weather is a big factor in driving people into that system, even though many of the shelters themselves aren't necessarily nice places to be. I talked to someone who has firsthand experience with that. Her name is Ebony Holden. She's worked in social services in New York City for more than a decade. And years ago, she stayed at a New York shelter herself. It was just so dangerous. It was like, Of course, I know this on privacy, but you're in a gymnasium, and there's like cots. Just mind up next to each other with, like, maybe a sheer curtain and possibly, you know, and they're like, Oh, well. Don't take off your shoes might not have them When you wake up. People are fighting or, you know someone got stabbed. It was just like I'd rather live on the street. Well, she's obviously not on the streets anymore. But it certainly does go to the reason or many reasons that people sometimes refused shelter. They don't want to go. They don't want to be vulnerable in a position like that. She was eventually Able to find a place to live. So was it the shelter system that ultimately helped her It was one piece of it. She didn't stay in the in the shelter system for very long. But, of course, For some people who go into shelters. It is a stepping stone to permanent housing in a better situation. Holden, though, also said that in her work now she sees people get stuck in shelters in a kind of long term limbo. And one thing that advocates didn't foresee when all of this began was In the decades after that original lawsuit. So in New York City, that means the shelter system has ballooned and become this permanent fixture. New York spends about $3 billion a year on homelessness. You might remember recently. It was really big news when L. A Mayor Eric Garcetti said he would spend $1 million on homelessness in the coming fiscal year. Well, A lot of the costs in New York are related to maintaining that big shelter system and some homeless advocates see that as a problem One person I talked to is Debra Paget. She's a social work professor at N Y. U The shelter industry is a multi billion dollar industry, and there's absolutely no incentive from the city or from these non province really, to end homelessness To put it bluntly, Um they mean it's not that people don't want to end homelessness, but Thousands of jobs now that depend on homelessness. I mean, I hear what she's saying Anna. But even if the shelters are not ending homelessness, they are helping people get in off the streets. I mean, they.
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"I were talking about different costumes We've had to dawn and our days. Yeah, And I remember at a time when I was in junior high that I was the Marine Catholic. Wildcat mascot for a time during basketball season, and that thing smelled like teenage boy to no end. It was the worst thing is I can still smell it. Today. I was in Easter Bunny for a radio station promotion in reading. And it was like 100 and 50 degrees on Easter that year. So there I am in the stupid bunny costume and I would have to sit out there and have little kids come and like, hang out and take pictures with me, and I'd be all happy. Then I would go run into the freezer of the holiday market, run into the freezer and take my head off. So there's the half On bunny sitting there with her head off getting cool before I have to go. Be happy again with kids. I love that Rosen Island story so good. I only think the the not craziest thing I had to do was dress up as Steve Irwin. Crocodile Hunter. Yeah. Post death. Where I had a sting Ray sticking through. My body was for one of the handle shows. I was going to say What occasion was this for? You know, but it was not didn't involve, like a giant mascot Suitor. You couldn't do that joke today, who? Mm. You're right. I probably now that you mention would be anti stingray. A couple stories American consumers absorbed. Another surge in prices in May 0.6% increase over the last month and a 5% increase in consumer prices over the last year, so they're looking at potential inflation. Well. Last week, we told you about Cal OSHA and their new guidelines that as we return to work Everyone still has to wear a mask except if everyone's vaccinated, and we all had the question legally of what workplaces can ask you about your health. That's uh, that's in violation of your privacy. How are we going to know who's vaccinated and who's not and how many. Uncomfortable work environments will result from finding out who the guy is. That's not vaccinated and why we all have to wear masks. Imagine the the situation where Bob from accounting volunteers, the fact that he's not vaccinated for whatever reason he doesn't want to be, or he's got health issues or he already had the Covid which also doesn't play into this, which is strange, but Then the bosses say to you. Well, actually, everybody still has to wear the 99. Other people who were create work here still have to wear masks, even though they're all vaccinated, but who is not vaccinated and they say we can't tell you Well, Cal OSHA apparently listens to the show. They heard our concerns, and they called an emergency meeting for last night. And they said, You know what? We're going to back off that? Let's think about falling in line with Newsom's fully reopening June 15th plan. Let's think about maybe just getting rid of the masks. Well, I don't know about that, but we'll figure it out by next week. Right. So Tuesday is going to roll around, and Cal OSHA is still Still enforcing rules that were set up in November of last year. Now what they've said is June 15th, according to the governor were open for business with some small exceptions. And June 17 is when Cal OSHA is going to meet again to try to figure out what they're going to do. But even if they do meet on June 17th and come up with a plan that is at least in line with California Department of Public Health and the CDC, when it comes to masking in workplaces, those won't go into effect until June, 28th. So the only way to fix this and again I came up with this conspiracy theory last week or two weeks ago when Cal OSHA was going to meet for the first time and they punted on it, And I said the only person who has the control with the swipe of a pen to change these rules as Governor Newsom. I said they were giving him a get out of recall card on a platter by allowing him to look like a hero and come forward and say, Well, listen, Cal OSHA is doing their work I In the meantime, I'm going to write an executive order or sign an executive order that said. That Cal OSHA rules. Temporarily will be in line with whatever the California Department of Public Health and the CDC says. When it comes to vaccinated people and whether or not they need to wear masks in the workplace, however, remember, just last week Didn't we break the news about the state's largest labor organization, writing a massive check for the anti recall effort? Yes, because they're about to change presidents. And it's the labour representatives that have called for Cal OSHA not to relax the mask standards. Why Because it frees them in contract talks. State demand more money for their workers. Because now they can say that their workers are unsafe because this the state has relaxed the max masks. Guidelines or whatever. So he's got to them If he's going to sign an executive order, he's fn Ewing, the very people who just put a fat check in his pocket and again. Listen, I said this a while ago. One of the ways for him to guarantee that he's not recalled, is to stand up to the labor unions. Whether it you've got to follow the money. I know and they're the ones bankroll in this thing. I know, but at this point, I think they would forgive him down the line, right? I feel like this is their their relationship is cozy enough that he can get away with a one time thing that says Hey, on June 15th, we're all going to be following the same rules. We need to come up with clear specific set of rules that in a very general terms says if you are vaccinated, or if you have had the Covid. You do not have to wear a mask. You do not have to You could then say, as the governor of the great State of California. If you in your workplace want to require them, that's up to you. If you as a place of business feel like that's the best way to do it, you can do that. You're gonna you're gonna get the repercussions from that Some people will love it. Some people will hate it. But you as a business, a private business have the opportunity to in, uh, input rules put rules in place. That you think best protect your customers and your workers. But most importantly and again. This is not this does not exist in these rules. That we all need to take responsibility for our own health. The government does not care will not care cannot care on the micro level individually. They don't give two piles of rat turd hunter virus about you. They don't care. So you as an individual have to decide. Do I want to continue to wear a mask? Find that no one's gonna Well, people will judge you, but that's up to you. Listen, if you want to wear a mask, continue to wear a mask. There's nothing wrong with you're not doing anything to me. You're not hurting me. But if I choose not to wear a mess, because I am fully vaccinated, and I have read the statistics, and I do know how to do math and I understand risk. And let me live my life. You're trying to get the government out of your business. I mean, I'm all for it, but I don't think it's very likely. They love to be in your business. By the way. I love to tell you what to do. I did watch about 45 minutes of that meeting last night that troubles me. Painful. Yeah, that was him. I mean, it's reminiscent of covering the Board of Supervisors meeting. Oh, the but and that's before cell phones. You guys, I just sit there. And listen to that crap for hours. Listen to Mark Ridley Thomas. Go on and on about office chair and then the office. I didn't have a distraction. It was in the dark Ages. I didn't have a distraction, right coming up next. I read this morning that people are taking fewer showers in the pandemic. Oh, they're also changing the office dress code will tell you about that you change is coming up. Next Gary and Channel will continue in for handle from the newsroom. Jennifer Jones Lee, the.
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"Phillips. All episodes streaming now on Peacock. Live from NPR news in Washington. I'm Dave Mattingly, the White House's shifting discussions on an infrastructure bill to a bipartisan group of 10 senators. This. After President Biden ended discussions with the Senate's lead Republican negotiator, Shelley Moore, capital of West Virginia, The two were unable to close the gap on the price tag. Republican Congressman Carlos Jimenez of Florida chairs the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. The problem was vitamin immigration started out with $2.3 trillion for this package. Some other stuff in it was has nothing to do with infrastructure. In negotiations with capital, Biden lowered his proposal to $1.7 trillion Republicans were proposing less than a trillion dollars in spending with much of the money coming from unspent covid 19 relief funds. Transportation Secretary Pete Buddha judge says he remains optimistic the president spoken with a number of senators and we think that at the end of the day it's still absolutely possible for there to be a bipartisan deal on this in Washington, Jimenez and Buddha Jazz We're speaking to NPR's morning edition. President Biden is on his way to Europe. The eight day trip includes a G seven summit in Cornwall, England, a NATO meeting in Brussels and a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva, Switzerland. This is Biden's first overseas trip since taking office. This is NPR news. You're listening to KCRW I'm Cherry Glazer Costa Mesa couple has now officially been charged in the road rates shooting death of a six year old boy on the 55 Freeway near Orange. The suspected shooter, Marcus Harris is accused of murder. Investigators say he fired the shot that killed Aiden Leo's as he rode in the back of his mother's car last month, Orange County District attorney DEA Todd Spitzer says Eras also faces other charges that is discharging. A firearm into an occupied motor vehicle with the discharge of a firearm as an enhancement and the punishment for that crime is life in prison. Barra's girlfriend win. Lee is charged with accessory after the fact and knowingly concealing a firearm in her car. Investigators believe they've recovered the weapon used in the shooting, as well as the white Volkswagen involved. They say hundreds of tips came in that helped them Now this is alleged suspects. But who, if anyone will get the roughly half a million dollar reward in the case is still up in the air. When it comes to rewards. We get all the reports, we look at all the participation. We determine who did what And what percentage of their activity contributed. Essentially before making any determination, Spitzer says. The reward is also contingent upon not just an arrest, but a conviction. Errors and Lee are due back in court for their arraignment on June 18th. Local officials are calling for more solutions to Ella's housing crisis. The City Council has voted unanimously to approve a resolution supporting any legislation that increases rental assistance resources, including housing vouchers. To help with the homelessness crunch. Council member Mark Ridley Thomas says there's a desperate need for federal aid and a national right to housing policy, He says about 25% of people qualify for federal housing assistance fired here in our very own City. That number is closer to one in 10 qualifying. Residents get about This compounds effectively exacerbates the crisis that we call homelessness in Los Angeles. The City Council vote came as the L. A County Board of Supervisors took action to provide further relief for low income tenants. The board passed a motion to look at ways to help pay off rent balances accumulated by struggling Angelenos during the pandemic. County supervisor helplessly says some estimates show tenants in L. A county, Ohio, almost $1 billion in back rent. Support for NPR comes from Procter and Gamble, maker of Nerve. I've nerve relief Survive is designed.
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"L. A City Councilman Joe Boost Kayano has turned down itself next year, is announcing today that he is going to run for mayor in 2022. He is the councilman in the sand Peter area. He was a former member of the LAPD, and he thinks he could be the next mayor for L. A city. He's probably the best member of the City Council. He's Pretty regularly right on target, which is something to be said for that crowd because so few of them ever, ever come to the right position on they're just downright suicidal on any number of subjects, But we could do a whole lot worse than Joe Boost guy. You know, he's definitely one of the most common sense people on the L. A City Council, not just on police issues, but He seems to understand what the really needs to be done on things like homelessness and would definitely be in the shot of in the arm for the city of L. A. As to his chances. I don't know. Apparently, there are other members of the City Council who are also planning on announcing, and I could think of one that would scare the living daylights out of you and may well one doesn't know the pledge of allegiance. He's gonna be running. That's Kevin Daily own. Do we still have that? I gotta find it. Yeah, that piece of work. And then we've got Mark Ridley Thomas, who's been around for 900 years in every elected office that you could win in the county of Los Angeles. He's back on the City Council after being on the Board of Supervisors. For three terms and the only reason by the way that he's back on the City Council because he already turned out of there. He had to terms on the City Council, and then he moved on the other offices. But then they extended the term limits from 2 to 3 terms so he could come back for one final term, where he was a lame duck. The day he put his hand on the Bible, so he's looking for something to run for You guys the definition of musical
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"And the sheriff basically said that she and that he has lost all confidence in dealing with her. This point forward. Yeah. I don't know how you listen. The relationship between the county Board of Supervisors and L. A county Sheriff Axel Alex, Being a wave have been has been strange since he took office Impacted incredibly back in. Was it march April of last year when they booted him out of the role of head of emergency services. This is not gonna make it any easier. Well, You know, it's funny because after the first of the year two sheriff's first press conference and after the election because then Mark Ridley Thomas was out and you know things got shifted a bit, So I asked the sheriff then I said Because Mark Ridley Thomas was one of the biggest antagonistic against the sheriff and Marty made no. No bones about it. I mean, he was He knew he did not like the sheriff and he wanted him out of there. So I asked the sheriff in a press conference. You know, what do you feel like going forward now that some of your some of your detractors air out of there, and he said he was very confident that this was going to be a great year, and he was going to work with the board, he's reached out and I think you saw the letter where he's tried to reach out to so lease a few times, and she refuses his His meetings and, um, but he seems to think that things are going to get better. Now. This comes up out of the blue and by the way after the press conference the other day, I asked the question. Someone from his inner sanctum came over and said, By the way, you should check her Twitter account. She's scrubbed all of the posts a while. Of course she did. And so, but you see him. I mean, you got the letter and you see a lot of the examples of those posts. What about l A p D have I mean, obviously they're a huge agency and would probably have some interaction with the county in some way to have they made any comments. You know, It's funny. You mention that because after we talked about it on your show, I also talked about it on Conway that night. And about 10. Minutes after I did that I was contacted by deputy chief within the LAPD. He had heard the story and he said, Can you tell me more so I told him a little bit more about what I knew. I showed him some of the posts as well. And he said now he's very concerned because Members of the LAPD Command staff sit on committees in which this person sits on and now they're supposed to be this sort of cooperative effort between city and county constantly and that calls into question now. Your ability to be able to do the job objectively moving forward. I mean, apparently, they all thought she was doing the job objectively before, But when they see all of these posts, and they have seen what you know, kind of where she really stands, they have serious concerns. Also, it's just so blatant. You know, it's not even Loki E think you You call that derogatory statements? It's pretty aggressive. Anti police anti sheriff's Department posts and it's almost like you wonder if it speaks to the culture in that office. Yeah, that's a good point. Because You know you obviously everyone's entitled to their own opinion. It really is. And I think the sheriff outlined it in there, too, that the First Amendment does not protect her ability to attack the way she did verbal or, you know, through post on social media. She can have her own personal views. She has a master's in social work so she can she can have her views and she could do them. But when it impedes on her ability to do her work objectively and also her actions what looked like violate county policy. And that's an issue and again when she's being given all of this sensitive information and all this background information. The sheriff also had concerns with who knows who. She's leaking this information to I mean, who is she talking to about this? I mean, is this Cisco bigger? Does it go does it? You know, he Suggested that maybe she's using information in other ways that she shouldn't you know. So there was a lot of that, too. Came up as well. Steve. Thank you. You gotta guys take care of you, Gregory there with the latest and again who knows what Hilda Solis will do with her Justice Deputy Esther Limb. A, she told Steve. It's a personnel matter, and it's gonna take some time for us to figure out exactly what sort of reaction is going on in the office on if she's punished in any way. All right. Gary and Shannon will continue crazy story out of San Francisco. But it's not so crazy, right? Because it is San Francisco. Hello, Hello, Layla Mohammed has an update on the news. What's going on? I hope this isn't the same story..
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"For a long time, one of the leaders that the state Senate and Sacramento and was brought up many times in our show and battered about Darrell Steinberg. For some time. Now he's been the sacramental mayor. This is another example of California's far left progressive politician. But he's having a problem in Sacramento, and they came and vandalized his home over the weekend. A few dozen people dressed in black faces covered, some wearing body armor. Others with shields protested outside of Steinberg's home. Apparently were upset about unhappy used people. Who died during the big Winter storm that came to that area at the end of January. I guess claiming that the city of Sacramento didn't do enough to get these people off the streets where they could be saved. So they took it out. On Steinberg's home. And they came. There apparently is a pretty big police presence, but they threw rocks at the front door. They threw rocks at the garage. They destroyed a sculpture. In the front yard. They ripped out all of the landscaping lights. This is protests have come to Steinberg's home before, but this is the first time That the protesters started to break things. Of course, this story doesn't get a lot of play because it's not the trump mob. No, but I don't understand. 80 cops were there and they monitored 50 protesters. They did not make any arrests. Well, what did they do when they were trashing everything? Yeah, I didn't get that either. 80 officers were there. How did they not see what these people were doing? Or they just let him do it? I just let him do it. Yeah. I mean, they piled up yard waste to barricade the front door. And and they the look of that photo. They protesters they overturned. Ah, yard waste container. Mm. And they used the yard waste. They piled up. You have these huge branches from trees. And it's piled up. She can't get out the front door. And they also destroyed a sculpture there whether the cops just stood there. And the way it says here, the department supports everyone's right to free expression. What is this? Don't you? Don't you chase these goons out of residential neighborhoods that the other tolerance for these people is unbelievable. And this big kind of a trump mob? Holy mackerel. The media When I went to town demanded arrests. How much you wanna bet Steinberg has been in indulgent because it's just the homeless need a voice, right? You know, this is this is the problem is Steinberg is probably one of those that just lets them sit in their own waste and inject their drugs and die in the streets. I mean, they die in l a county. What about 1000 a year? And and everybody lets him die in L, a county And I'm sure Steinberg does the same thing because the only way to keep him from dying is to force them into treatment. Nobody wants to do that. So he thinks he's doing the right thing. Letting him die in the street. And now he's being called on it by the left wing. Say, Hey, what are you doing? What are you doing, Letting him die in the street. They, the sacramental homeless union is launched to recall campaign the homeless against, Um it says here, just at least two homeless people died during the storm, but they made it sound like it was a lot more than that. Uh huh. Remember, Steinberg and you ever hear about this anymore? He's on that task force of Newsom's on homelessness. Remember? That was announced two years ago. Right? You know, what have they done along with Mark? Ridley Thomas? Remember to Task force? Yeah, And it's the same dumb clucks for 20 years. Darrell Steinberg, Mark Ridley Thomas, Gavin Newsom, the same guys. They move around from job to job. They work. You know, they're they're They're state Senators there, Assemblyman their county supervisors. Their mayor's They gotta become a governor. Lieutenant Governor Baba Baba Ba. They're all move around these jobs. They're all on task forces. They all slobber each other up. They accomplished nothing. Everything is worse and worse. Look at all the damage thousands of dollars. Rocks. A security cameras destroyed. Lighting fixtures. Destro arrests, huh? Yeah, no around no rest. So I got to somebody's house. So Steinberg didn't order the police department TOC, stop it. Thank you. They've indulged all these left wing Web jobs. So won't cause from him alone. Yeah, from coast from up and down the West Coast. This is what they're getting. It's like it's like Dad. Portland mayor had to pull out pepper spray. Some crazy person who was hassling him. These. These people are like those trump protesters. From protestors hate Republicans and Democrats and these anarchists hate Democrats and Republicans. I don't I don't think any of these politicians understand what they're playing with here. Both sides hate the whole government. The entire establishment. The whole infrastructure is not a party to have a point. Yeah, Sometimes they do. All right. We got more coming up. That's what you get. When you put up with it. You'd you'd eventually they'll come for you. John and Ken Ko Phi and Debra.
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"mark ridley thomas" Discussed on KFI AM 640
"The housing codes, services to the homeless people. It employed 737 people costing $55 million last year. And the former director. His name is actually Rushmore. Rushmore, Cervantes. Resigned in July. His salary was $255,000. That's more money than was paid to the former housing and Urban Development secretary Ben Carson. But you know what's worse than that? He was a complete failure in his job. This is this is what's galling. Your local homeless officials there paid more than the highest Cabinet members of the federal government. And they're a complete and utter failure. Homeless is has done nothing but explode. For bed 67 years now. And they just keep sucking up more and more and more money. More and more people are hired there. The bureaucracy expands. And and what we get is more people lying in the streets and dying in the streets, more poop and more needles. What's the point of paying Rushmore seventies? Anything? What's the point of even having this the homeless agencies? What's the point? Would we have? Fewer people. If we had no would we have more homeless and we had no homeless agencies, I guess is the question. I mean, What we've managed to find out. Is that these agencies have part of what we call the homeless industrial complex. Where I mean famously, and I wish they had this in the story, but they didn't the one that we talk about the most is the Los Angeles County Homeless Services Authority, known as Lassa. That's the one where that director resigned over a year ago, and on the way out the door. He said he was just proudest for adding employees. To the agency. That's honestly all they think about. It's a weird kind of cult. You know how you can't really understand why the Cuban on people believe and what they believe in. Well, this is another version of a cult. You'll never understand why they praise themselves for hiring people. Rather than damning themselves. For having the homeland's almost numbers explode under their watch. Yeah. Thanks to transparent California just did a quick search of the Los Angeles County Homeless Services Authority. That guy's name was Peter Lynn. Remember him? Yeah, he was the one who was self congratulated $242,000 was his pay and benefits. He was followed by a whole list of people in front of me here that made well over $150,000 a year. I don't even know what their titles or it's just a list of names and I'm still scrolling. And still, I've got people making over 100 grand on past 20 on the list. This is all the homeless. All the hopes Authority employees still scroll it can't still people paid over $100,000 a year. That's right at that agency. Finally, it stopped. Now I met somebody who makes only 98,000. After about 30. Some odd is that the janitor? I could click it and see what their job is. Let me see. It's probably the janitor. They don't really It's not coming up right away. But this is what we told you about. When you just decide to throw money at a problem or you're going to do is put people on the payroll. It's not going to solve the problem. You know, there was a stupid set of paragraphs in here. Now the city blames the surgeon homeless population on an influx of vagrants coming to the city. Now wait a second for years, they said The reason for all the vagrants in the street was income inequality, lack of affordable housing. And we said no. There's homeless people coming from all over the country and they're coming on on Busses and trains or however, Transportation. Whatever transportation they can acquire. These were outsiders. They were coming from out of the city and out of the state all around. No, no, it's their housing shortage and the income inequality. Well now. Mark Ridley Thomas. Wasn't L, a county supervisor. And he moved to White City Council. He is on the City Council now. Yeah, he goes, he says if we were in any other jurisdiction, we'd be celebrating the fact that we take many people out of homelessness. Claiming that they played 23,000 people in homes. But more people came in here. Well, that's the thing the homelessness was up 14%. In 2020 14%. So I think that that number that they placed 23,000 homes I think is bogus. I think that they rotating the same people in and out of shelters, but put that aside for a second. Now, he says. We've got to find ways to stem the inflow. Well, you're not going to stem the inflow. If it's clear to every vagrant in the nation that they can live in a tent. In fact, the Ted told me supplied to them by some idiotic homeless agency and that they could live on the sidewalk. And they could have a grill. Open Flame grill. They can have all the drugs they want to inject. They can urinate defecate. They can have sex in the street and the police will never bother them or their or their possessions. Mark Ridley Thomas is so slow witted and dense You have this because you allow it. Beverly Hills doesn't allow it. They don't have it. Manhattan Beach doesn't allow it. They don't have it. What I mean, this is like crazy land here. You have it because you allowed. We've gotta find some way to stem the inflow boy. It might be worth our time one day, although I think it would take an hour. I'm still scrolling through all these positions at the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority from transparent California how much they're paid. I mean, I got down to a guy it's making. I got some more reasonable $57,000 here, but their job titles are hysterical. Um, this guy is a report developer. Whatever that is a report developed. You know why other than they're called, like data. It was like a data clerk. It's the same crowd that sent $50 billion of e D. D money after criminals. It's the same people. It's the same crowd who designed an incomprehensible vaccine rollout. Or an incomprehensible walk down scheme. It's all the same people. They all make six figures. None of them know what they're doing. All they do is suck out our tax money and we willingly pay them. And then everybody's looking around, saying, Why is everything so screwed up? It's our fault. It's your fault. You put up with this the way Mark Ridley Thomas puts up with the homeless and then wonders what were there almost everywhere. Well, we're wondering why is everything so stupid and screwed up? Because we put up with it. In fact, we finance it. We willingly send of our tax money to create all these systems that don't work, so you don't get a vaccine..
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"mark ridley thomas" Discussed on KFI AM 640
"Vaccines and stuff at the two o'clock media briefing for the county Health Department. And she said to date since the vaccines were first delivered. We have something roughly a little over 960,000. Doses have been delivered. L a county of that little over 500,000 have been administered for the first dose and 144,000 for the second dose. So that's 645,000 something like that out of 960. So they've got 300,000 roughly 300,000 doses yet have yet to be. Dispersed and, interestingly on the city Council called today one of the things that That I don't know if it's gonna complicate matters or not, because you know, the state sets the guidelines and it trickles down because one council member finally flat out asked who's in charge? Yeah, we have no idea who's in charge of this because we're getting information from the state. One minute we get information from you the next minute we hear something different on the news, who's in charge and often the messages or contradict other all contradictory? And she said, Well, she said, it all starts at the federal level and then goes to the state level. Then the state decides what the counties are going to get. And is it okay? How does that happen? How does that work? So now? What happened is every council member obviously is fighting for their own turf, And they all they're all basically lobbying for the rules to change to favor their district's And that's I don't know if that's going to further complicate things, and they want you mean well, like, for instance, who's eligible? Yeah, to make because though, I think was daily own brought it up Council member daily on that genius where he said the Pledge of Allegiance today. No, but he talked about the fact he says, You know, I understand first responders and medical workers and those over 65 75 years old. But what about the single mom? So is going to work in a restaurant. Maybe a McDonald's and has three or four Children at home and in a large family at home is forced to go work in that environment and be out in work or they lose their home. Shouldn't that person out actually have the same sort of level of urgency as the person 75 older. And so you've got a lot of them, you know, because she's not at the risk of dying, but we have to start with the death risk. First Death overwhelms anybody else's sob story in his in his point, woz that he understood that, but his point was, if she doesn't work, the family suffers, and then he gets to be a big mess. And you know they lose their home. So you know everybody's got a story and you know, she chose to have four kids. Well, I don't know why. Why you make a lot of bad life choices, and then you get to go to the front of the line ahead of people actually, more likely to die. I don't you know that, but that's the kind of stuff that was going on in the meeting that they're all they had her ear for a little bit about. Going into town like a coin to where they have it unbelievable rate of spread. Have had. Why haven't they said mobile units? That's what fire is doing that right now, because what I'm hearing is a lot of the residents, Immigrant residents don't trust the government are not gonna voluntarily show up and stand in line. They just don't believe some part of this whole process. They don't believe that the vaccine is safe. They don't believe that the virus is actually that bad. Whatever it is, they don't trust the government. So how are they going to get in there? And what did they have a program for that? So l a city fire has been working on that and chief Terrazas was also on the call today with for where to talk about that. They got mobile vaccination programs now where they've got their paramedics and they're going along with the corps volunteers and they're going into those hot spot communities and they're going to be doing mobile vaccination sites, and it's supposed to be up and running in the next couple weeks. But that again that takes coordination, training and then identifying and it's just some logistical challenges. How about improve phone service? Because a lot of elderly people can't handle the app? That is a big problem is well, and a lot of people are confused about the second appointment because some people are getting automatically notified about the second appointment. Others aren't getting notified. Others aren't getting information. And that was the other issue They were bringing up today. And Ferrer said that they are working on it on and they're getting up. Figured out, so I will leave you with this last thing. Yeah, That's the last thing about Ridley Thomas. A contract being pushed through today where a mark Ridley Thomas wants to spend looks like $20,500. Or someone to follow him around and videotape him and then post stuff on Facebook. Hey, is an ego bag. He doesn't have a regular aid that could do that on the panel. What? I was wondering here at a time when the city is supposed to be cutting down $1000. Yes says here the city's total. How long 20,000? Well, it's $85 an hour. Who needs to video Do once you see dollars an hour you go free not to exceed $20,500. It'll be from January 1st of this year to December 31st. It's creating an implementing the media request tracking system. What creating graphics and videos and posting multimedia content to the website. Accessing archival footage and developed digital media is needed, arranging interviews and film footage for videos and media appearances. Serving as a consultant for utilization of social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and next door as well as live streaming another video Bayswater narcissist and serving as a consultant to a relative to the newsletter and digital engagement, as well as media outreach strategies. Side. Steve. What, guys? Thank you, but we got more coming up. Debra Marquez News. Riverside County has issued evacuation warnings for some recent wildfire burned areas near the.
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"mark ridley thomas" Discussed on KFI AM 640
"We're out of the surge. We're out of the surge. What did that? That was the first We've heard of that. Hmm. Olsen. We're out of the surge. Because, she says, so we're done. What possible? Restrictions could they add to the restaurants? I can't think of anything that I haven't seen. I suspect now and this is what she kind of alluded to it last week, and she she spoke about the fact that they're going to start getting tighter on restaurant workers wearing gloves, masks shields, which every restaurant I was going to when it was allowed was doing that already. Yes. You're gonna see more spaces between tables. That was one of the biggest problems she had last time. I remember that was going back and looking at notes she felt like tables for two crowded together. No large parties. Large gatherings, No big birthday parties or any of that kind of stuff. The only one I've seen on that list is Yeah, I'd see a table a tent, right? Uh, but but all the other things all the restaurants that I could see with my eyes are following all the procedures. The also when you you here, saying that they're consulting with restaurant owners, groups and the unions today So that could put a layer of protection or bureaucracy in this that did not exist before, so we don't know what's coming from that meeting today, and then we presumably will find out. If not tomorrow be Friday. We'll find out what that's going to be. Now. I've been told by restaurant owners Some have already just opened. Now. They're like, OK, what you gonna do? Oh, yeah. We were open legally Friday, anyway. Yeah, I'm saying ah, A little of that. We were told that there are the restaurant owners. There are still following the letter of the law and they're waiting for it. And they still no one's there. They're going to go bankrupt. First you follow the rules. It's survival of the fittest here. All right. You got anything else? Yeah, we'll keep you got a couple things here, including something that just Got in putting my lap about Mark Ridley Thomas already spending money that the city doesn't have. Okay, well, so he's now back on the City Council, Right? Remember, John years ago when he spent big bucks to decorate his offices when he became supervisor, right? Well, this is interesting. So you e got the contract here, Okay. Do you need more time to talk, Debra, or we don't know why? Because that doesn't count the time in the news from my morning doing okay. You called her a spoiled brat. Yeah, that's not nice. No, it's not about you. Big bully about Faxon. Accuracy. Oh, throw in some facts and accuracy while we're trying. You just read the news fight. Okay. Just read. What I put in front of this is great. Uh, John attention. Okay, if I'd ever Marquez news like county health officials say they are still not getting enough. But the Koven 19 vaccine supervisors in Orange County have slammed health officials over problems with an APP that's supposed to help People register for vaccine appointments in the White House team Heading up the federal government's response to the pandemics is President Biden. Has a goal to get at least one million people in the U. S vaccinated every day against Cove. It will go to the 1 34, and we will check in with the K F eye in the sky next You afraid of the dentist to the point you have got in years. And now what's happened your mouth right decay. Some infection, access bus blood. The horror show in there smells bad too well, coming dental can fix all this. Can you fantasize for a minute about having a beautiful smile? Perfect. Healthy gums, perfect teeth. You can bite and chew anything you look attractive. People want.
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Supervisors Join Civilian Oversight Commission Members In Calling On Los Angeles County Sheriff Villanueva To Resign
"Relations between Sheriff Alex Villanueva and county officials have hit a new low supervisors Sheila Kyul and Mark Ridley Thomas joined calls yesterday for Villanueva to resign due to his resistance to oversight from the board and the civilian oversight Commission. Rafe Zonen's Rafe Sunshine heads the Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs at Cal State L. A. This level of resistance. The civilian oversight from the sheriff, which really did begin even before he took office between his election and when he took office is really unprecedented. He says. Civilian officials, like the Board of Supervisors have options They can't obviously turned back his election, but the he's subject to voter recall. He's also subject to subpoena according to court decisions. Sonenshein ads that voters may end up having the final say when Villanueva faces reelection in the year, 2022
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Judge approves deal between Los Angeles city and county to house 7,000 homeless people
"Only officials announced an unprecedented agreement yesterday to provide housing for almost seven thousand people who live near freeways in homeless encampments as well as those who are over sixty five are vulnerable to cope at nineteen the agreement was approved by a federal judge and it requires the city and county to house most of those covered by the pact within ten months KCRW's del saxman has more LA taxpayers have spent billions of dollars in recent years to address homelessness but the situation has worsened at last count more than sixty six thousand nine house people reside in LA county an increase of more than twelve percent in a year this deal focuses on the thousands of people living above below or next to freeways where U. S. district judge David Carter said they are breathing unhealthful levels of exhaust it also applies to elderly people living on the streets and those with medical conditions that put them at high risk of becoming seriously ill from cove it ninety in county supervisor mark Ridley Thomas and city council president Mary Martinez say the city will provide six thousand new beds within ten months plus seven hundred more eight months later the county will spend three hundred million dollars over five years to fund services for those who have been house the agreement stems from a sweeping federal lawsuit that was filed by a coalition of homeless advocates in downtown business owners who said the city and county's failure to adequately address the problem had led to a public health crisis
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Thousands of homeless people living near Los Angeles freeways to get shelter
"Housing for nearly seven thousand people living near freeways and homeless encampments in LA could be less than a year away this deal focuses on the thousands of people living above below and next to freeways were U. S. district judge David Carter said their breathing on helpful levels of exhaust it includes those people over sixty five are vulnerable to covert nineteen county supervisor mark Ridley Thomas and city council president Marie Martinez say the city will provide six thousand new beds within ten months plus seven hundred more eight months later the county will spend three hundred million dollars over five years the fund services for those who have been housed in the action stems from a sweeping federal lawsuit filed by a coalition of homeless advocates and downtown business owners who said the problem has led to a public health crisis at last count more than sixty six thousand on house people reside in LA county an increase of more than twelve percent over the previous
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Los Angeles County's homeless population rose nearly 13% before pandemic
"New numbers out today show the city and the county's homeless population is still growing even though we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars to fight it in LA county at least sixty six thousand people are now homeless that's up thirteen percent from last year and in the city there are now more than forty one thousand people experiencing homelessness and that's a fourteen percent increase these numbers come from the January homeless count so they don't include how things have changed since the pandemic started case Italy's Anna Scott covers housing and homelessness and she joins us now hi Hey well sixty six thousand people a huge increase thirteen percent it seems officials can't really get a grip on this crisis despite tons of money as I said being poured into this how come yeah well it's the same big factors that we've seen for several years now the biggest thing being housing affordability and just a growing number of people falling out of the housing market in twenty nineteen the LA homeless services authority which puts out this count estimates that eighty two thousand people became homeless so officials say that even though they're spending all this money a lot of it from measure H. which was the tax increase from a few years ago even though the system is housing more people than ever before it's still not enough one of people I spoke to is LA county supervisor mark Ridley Thomas if in any other jurisdiction we'd be celebrating the fact that we take that many people out of homelessness but I'm grateful that we have measured rates because or not FOR measure H. things will be more bleak and the report out today also highlights how black people are being pushed out of housing at disproportionately high rates they make up only eight percent of the total population of Los Angeles county but thirty four percent of people experiencing homelessness and this is something that that loss of the homeless services authority has looked out before and in this report they point to systemic racism and housing policy and health care in the justice system I'm always being factors in these numbers yeah all not new but all receiving renewed attention in the wake of the killing of George Floyd so what are officials saying now about this right well they get these numbers weeks before they're made public they think a lot about how they're going to frame it and I think it's fair to say that by pointing to these big forces they're deflecting a little bit from their old phone role in all of this and one person that I spoke to this week we talked about that is Carol Sobel she's a longtime civil rights attorney who has sued the city many times on behalf of a house clients and she said this crisis is the failure of city and county government to meet those big challenges that are not new at all if you have those forces then what do you as elected officials do to counter them you have two choices you let them go rampant or you do something to counter it and you have to do enough and of course measure H. money is helping people the city is building new affordable and permanent supportive housing about seven thousand units from another measure that was passed by voters a few years ago but but all of this is still very short of the need and keep in mind like you mentioned at the top of this segment none of these numbers take into account covered nineteen which is already leading to infections and one study out of UCLA projects that it could result in as many as thirty six thousand evicted households becoming homeless
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Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig welcome first child together
"November rose McGowan one of the first people of the metoo movement versus Harvey Weinstein and Asia are Gento was not far behind It came out That Asia are Gento had a sexual assault allegation all her own and that it involved a seventeen, year old boy a boy that she played mother to when the two worked on a film when he was just, seven years old he claimed that she was a mentor that she was a mother. Figure to him and when he went to go hang out with her when he was seventeen and she was thirty seven at a hotel in marina del Rey that he thought that that mentor. Relationship was continuing he says she plied him with alcohol for. Sex on him Now adding, insult to injury is when she came out in the metoo movement the alleged encounter in marina del Rey happened in, about twenty thirteen and then she came out last year this metoo movement and the kid says he's now twenty two, but we'll call him the kid he says that when he saw her come out. As a victim that it triggered something in him it pissed him off and so that's when lawyers started getting involved and who was handling Asia are gentiles legal problems none other than Anthony bourdain. Her boyfriend at the time who just months after settling this Legal, issue for her killed, himself no idea if any of. That's really no idea I'm just going down the time right I know an and that's but that, when you think about. It it it adds a layer of frustration I think to the to, the Anthony bourdain suicide. Now what came out is. A text chain that Asia are Gento had with off friend TMZ, went with it last week because Asia are Gento when this new surfaces says wait a minute, I. Never had sex with kid right she publicly she said I didn't have sex with that kid. And so the the tax chain comes out the next. Day I think she says in the text chain is I had sex with the kid right but I you know something about it was totally consensual and. It, didn't happen the way he says. It went down etc and she does admit in. That Tex Jane that it was, Anthony, bourdain who paid Jimmy Bennett, this three hundred and eighty thousand dollars in, hush money and she went on, to explain something about how the kid was extorting. Her and that he was sending her these unwanted nudes so on and so forth well Rose McGowan released a statement Monday and. Confirmed That, it was her partner rain dove w ski who was. Conversing with Asia are, Gento about Jimmy Bennett in those text messages it was rain dove who leaked the messages to TMZ quick, update on that is that rain dove says it wasn't the techs chain that rain was involved with that prompted the release on TMZ was not the person who leaked, them to TMZ I just wanted, them to the part of the legal process going forward. So what rain dove, says is rain dove sent the text chain to police because rain dove felt like Jimmy Bennett deserve just, as much legal protection as Asia are or rose McGowan was getting when it comes to these metoo allegations rain dove born nineteen eighty nine It says here they are a, gender, non conforming model and activist Yes they're just multiple I mean which is one rain dove but she goes by, day that, has her pronoun of choice in why don't we just he just He they do not have preferred pronouns. They, explained in an. Interview quoting, here for me appro noun. Is a sound and what I'm listening to in that sound is respect and I'm listening, for intent Where'd you go What's your intent Let me let me say this. About rain dove Let me just play these other this this is from the today show today where rain dove went on the today show and explained why rain dove gave those text messages to police when it became. Apparent that they were not going to allow, for Justice to occur for. Truth. To be on the table I I knew I had no. Choice but to go forward because otherwise I would. Be. Complicit and I would be robbing another. Individual of their ability to be heard on their story reminds me a little bit Mark Ridley Thomas uses too many words to make a small baby point you mean rain dove reminds you of markedly Tom yeah Oh sorry you put a pronoun well. She did say that if you're sorry rain dove. Said This is really tough rain dubs said rain dubs said if, you want to address me. And you're doing it respectfully and you're calling me him or they you can. Call. Me it I don't care as. Long as what you're trying to say something that's respectful okay let me read this. As. Well, I. Technically could call her. Or, him are at this is a post, from, Instagram yeah This, is an interesting. Way to approach this issue of pronouns gender nonconformity parts. Is parts gender bread persons this is it right. Listen, this is what rain dove wrote just a week ago. A little more than a week ago they don't like me, hate me fear me tag them in. The comments below dear being, I welcome you to the table have a seat. Ask anything you. Want say anything you want you are welcome here for the next twenty four hours I've. Out ANSI every comment made on this post well that's cool. By all being supportive and anti my existence if. You have questions about. My. Identity or, even. Identity politics, this is a safe place to ask if you have strong opinions this is a safe space to, a moat them they seem. Nice I'm here meet you and hopefully showcase that while I'm firm and strong. In. My existence I am also not. A threat to your health or safety I want to know the u. that is. You Because you are equal to I see what I. Mean that's the Mark Ridley Thomas territory right there Rain dove has appeared in men's and women's fashion campaigns before entering the world of, modeling dove studied at Berkeley received a degree in genetic. Engineering rained of also worked, as a
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New mother tested positive for opiates after eating poppy seed bagel
"And other hot humid day good morning I'm Deb Lawler top stories now too high stakes elections. One for a house seat in Ohio the other for governor. Of Kansas are too close to call although President Trump claimed, victory, on, Twitter last, night for Ohio Republican Troy balder. Sohn tough news for Red Sox nation this morning as announcer Jerry Remmy is facing another battle with cancer Rambis fought that disease for a decade finishing a round of treatment earlier this year and. An overnight house fire in Dorchester leaves one, person displays a firefighter suffered minor injuries battling that blaze. On ash bond street and other news the search is continuing for the driver of a car. That struck a bicyclists in Jamaica plain. The Senate. Was caught on another drivers dashcam WBZ's Ben Parker tells us the victim's family has plenty of questions and concerns the father of the twenty year old woman injured in a hit and run crash on monday says he can't believe the driver of the car involved didn't see her today overtake her and cut her off the man tells w._b._z. t._v. he got a call from his daughter after the collision that left her with scrapes and scratches she was crying tearful because he was shocked at the whole thing and she was in pain now police are looking for the driver of that vehicle a red four door hatchback and they're asking for the public's help ben parker w._b._z. newsradio ten thirty a western man is in custody after stabbing two people near city hall david burgos is charged with two counts of armed assault or murder no word on the condition of the victims the reward for information regarding missing university of iowa student molly tebbit's is now over three hundred thousand dollars the reward money has continued to pour in as individual donations are being accepted on the crime stoppers of central iowa website investigators are hoping the more than three hundred thousand dollar reward will convince someone with valuable information Step forward with a tip needed to break the case open crime stoppers assuring tipsters both by. Phone and online that their tips are anonymous Molly Tibbets. Has been missing for twenty. Days or father rob Tibbett says he believes his daughter is with someone she knows but admits it's just speculation Brian burrow ABC news USC president max Nikki s has stepped down after saying. He, would back in may the decision comes after many faculty members call for his resignation in the wake of sex abuse. Complaints involving a campus Dr CBS's. Suzanne marquess Nikki is based a series of scandals dean of the medical. School Herman Pola Fito was accused of using drugs even in his USC office his replacement mohawk Varna accused of. Sexually harassing a researcher USC settled for one hundred and. Thirty five thousand dollars last week USC as the. US attorney's office to open a criminal investigation into one hundred thousand dollar donation from LA county supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas that. Helped his son get a professor job at USC that money ended up in his son control A ks had, been USA president, since twenty ten Florida Atlantic university postpones its graduation ceremony after what. Police called a credible threat the announcement was made just. Minutes before commencement, was set to begin a sticky note. Containing a, threat was posted in a. Woman's bathroom, friends and, family of the. Graduates were already seated in the school's auditorium when the entire building. Was evacuated a new date has not been announced a Maryland woman discovers that eating a poppy seed bagel before giving birth has consequences Elizabeth. Eden told WBAL TV in Baltimore that she was in labor in. April when a doctor told her she had tested positive for opiates and. She had been reported to the state that net that her daughter had to stay at the hospital for five days while her mother was assigned a case worker however eaten fought back to a school health class where she learned that eating, poppy seeds could lead to a false positive the mom told the case worker about the bagel the file was closed I'm Shelley Adler. The Georgetown librarian Washington DC was forced to close after four snakes were discovered. Near meeting room the library, called pest control and the building, was given the all-clear yesterday the library will have another gathering of stakes today.