Jan. 14, 2025

57 - CALIFORNIA - Water, Fires, and Gavin Newsom

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I present the data and discuss California's water supply, why they ran out of water for the fires, the blatant mishandling of public projects, and the overall incompetence of Gavin Newsom.

Links:

https://www.drought.gov/states/california

https://cww.water.ca.gov/regionscale

https://cdec.water.ca.gov/resapp/RescondMain

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Take my beneficiity like you just let me eat my way.

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Welcome back, World of Blade. Listeners to episode fifty seven today. Well,

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today I had a lot of topics ready to go,

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but I think I'm going to focus on fire, the

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fires in southern California specifically, because there's a lot of

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misinformation floating out there in the ether, a lot of

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larger social media accounts pushing well rhetoric that just isn't

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quite truthful, and everyone's pointing fingers. Everyone, of course, wants

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to politicize the event. It's the Democrat's fault, It's the

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Republican's fault. Trump's fault for not supporting California Mayor Karen

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Bassi's fault for not really mad the situation in LA

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and then of course Governor Newsom's fault. Everybody's to blame here.

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It doesn't matter what side of the aisle you're on,

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they're all to blame. But let's dive into some facts.

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Because everybody assumes that California is out of water, that

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we don't have any water. Now, technically California is in

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a drought. You've got to understand that California is made

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up of many micro climates. It's not just one climate

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that blankets the entire state. Everybody thinks California is enjoyable,

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moderate temperature, full of sunshine and surfboards. We're all out

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there barbecuing and grilling on the beach each and every day,

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tossing back coronas, enjoying the waves, and hey, it's always sunny.

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But that's not the truth. The fact of the matter

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is we have areas that are extremely cold. We have

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areas that get in insane amounts of snowfall. We have

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areas that have so much fog and it's so thick

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you can barely see past your windshield, if you can

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barely see past your hand at all. And of course, yes,

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we do have warm weather, which is nice, but we

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also have insanely hot weather. We're talking one hundred and

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ten degrees, one hundred and fifteen degrees. You see, you

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can't just call California always sunny, always temperate, always enjoyable

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in terms of the weather. We get all the seasons

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out here, we really do. And yes, by definition, California

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isn't a drought. California is a large land mass, and historically,

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sure we've had less rain, but then there's times we

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have more rain. Now that's neither here or there right now,

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because the reality is man has created ways to store

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and collect water via reservoirs and tanks and other ways

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that we use, especially here in California, to make sure

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that we have water. Now, the bigger question and what

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starts this blame game, is the management of that water,

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the amount of water we store, and again how we

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handle the water flows in California. Let's go over some

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data that will dispel the belief to mystify everybody in

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terms of whether or not California has water. First off,

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let's talk about precipitation. Let's talk about precipitation statistics. So

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if we're just looking at precipitation in certain areas, for example,

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area of focus right now, that's all over the news

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because it's you know, southern California is literally getting burned

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away by fire. So let's talk about the Colorado River area,

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which is all the way down there below kind of

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below or next to Los Angeles, San Diego, right there

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by the border of Mexico, by the Snora Desert all that. So,

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if we're looking at the Colorado River area, the water

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year to date is point zero two inches, so yeah,

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not a lot of water out there. In fact, it's

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only one percent of average, okay, one percent of average.

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So the max has ever been in that area is

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almost seven inches. The average is won one point eight,

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so the average of one point eight and the minimum

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has been point zero two, that being right now reported

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as of January thirteenth, twenty twenty five. Now I'm getting

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this information from the California Water Watch at CWW dot

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water dot CA dot gov, and I'm gonna have a

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lot more of these stats from different organizations. I'll leave

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these in the show notes for you. But yes, we're

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below average right now, right now, as of now in

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that particular area where below average, Now, let's go into

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the South coast. South coast is pretty much that stretch

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of La all the way down to Tijuana, so it

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takes up San Diego down to Tijuana. So that's that

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what they would call region number nine, which is the

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South Coast, and water you're to date is point three

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one inches. Okay, so it's only five percent of average.

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So yes, again, southern California is experiencing less than average rainfalls.

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Historical record in that area is twenty five inches. The

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average is six point five six, and right now we're

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at the lowest it's ever been, which is point three one. Again, yes,

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southern California is receiving less rainfall than average South La

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Hunting or Lahontan. I can't pronounce that correctly, so I apologize.

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But this is like the region where the Mojave Desert

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is and all that, and just what did you take note?

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So Region eight and ten ten are read earlier, and

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Region eight are both considered desert areas. So water you're

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to date is zero point eight one inches, thirty one

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percent of average. The max has ever had was over

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eight and a half inches. The average is two point

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six one and the minimum is zero point one five,

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which is as of year to date, we're above that minimum.

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We're definitely not the average though, and we're only thirty

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one percent of its average. But a lot of water,

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a lot of water that gets pumped down to southern

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California actually comes from areas north of California, and if

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we want to look at that information, Sacramento River area. Now,

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the Sacramento area has been a topic of contention when

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it comes to water stores and flows because of the

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whole delta smelt fiasco, the one that Governor Gavin Newsom

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denies he knows anything about, the one that he says

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Trump is lying about. But as we get deeper into

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this podcast, this particular episode you're listening today, you're gonna

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find out a little bit more truth about that matter. Now.

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Right now, in that Sacramento River area, a lot, a

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lot of water has accumulated. In fact, y're todate they

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have accumulated over nineteen inches water and they are at

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one hundred and twenty four percent of average. If we

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go into the North Coast area, which is upast Sacramento,

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above San Francisco, they have received thirty four point one

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nine inches and are one hundred thirty nine percent above average.

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So the idea that all of California is out of

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water is not true. Now, are we perfectly fine in

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all regions. No, But there's enough water in terms of

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precipitation to go around. Is it enough to make every

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single part of our land lush and green? No, absolutely not.

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And remember California is full of microclimates. In fact, when

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we talk about southern California, that area Los Angeles, to

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be quite honest, years ago, years ago, before man came

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and decided they want to settle there and plant more

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plants and buildings and put in water infrastructure to keep

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everything nice and green and lush. Was all desert. It

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was desert, but Man decided to geoengineer it and turn

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it into something else. Same thing that was going on

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in Las Vegas, for example, Las Vegas, Nevada desert. If

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you go to Las Vegas now, you can't even tell

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it was a desert outside of the heat. But as

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soon as Man, as soon as Man backs away and

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stops maintaining Las Vegas, for example, it will return right

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back to the desert it was. So I want you

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to keep that in mind. There are areas where people live,

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mass populated areas that were considered uninhabitable, but Man thought

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differently and developed these areas so that they were habitable. Again,

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using Las Vegas as an example, and of course Los Angeles.

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So technically that area historically has always been a desert,

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but Man has decided that it will not accept its

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fate in living in a desert. So it takes care,

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takes maintenance, it takes water, stores, water infrastructure, it takes plants, greenery,

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everything to make it habitable. Let's move on to the

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drought situation, because, as I said, technically, yes, California is

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still in a drought. According to drought dot Gov, there

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are twenty one point seven million California residents in areas

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of drought and that has gone up by over fifteen

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percent recently. But another interesting fact is we've had the

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wettest November on record, in fact, that eighteenth wettest November

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since eighteen ninety five, and that means that this particular

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November we had over four point twenty four inches total

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for separtation. Total we're talking about California total, averaging it out,

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that's one point seventy one inches up from average or normal.

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We've also had the wettest January through November on record

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since eighteen ninety five, being the twenty eighth since eighteen

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ninety five, with a total precipitation of twenty two point

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five to three inches, and that is up three point

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seventy five inches from the average. So looking at this,

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you can say, well, California isn't really in a drought.

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We've received enough water, but that is an average and

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it doesn't mean that every single area has enough water

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to cover its needs. Again, it's a big land mass,

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so you got to keep in mind some areas want

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to be deserts, some don't. Hence why we have reservoirs

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and why we pump water from one area to another.

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A lot of people don't even know this. Up in Yosemite,

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in fact, Hatchetchy, that area, that reservoir was primarily built

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to store water and pump it to San Francisco. That's

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right all the way up from Yosemite to San Francisco. Now,

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if you don't live in California, I'll just tell you

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that is a long way away from each other. And

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yet that's what happens in California. You would think all

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that water up there is enough to feed the entire

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central valley like San Joaquin Valley, Stanislaus County, that whole

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area would get that water. But no, it's pumped to

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San Francisco. So there's a lot of there's a lot

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of strange contractual agreements between different cities, counties, et cetera

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on who gets what water stores and whatnot. And it's

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all designed to make sure everyone has enoughness based on population.

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But if we want to talk about if we want

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to talk about the reservoirs in general, let's talk about them.

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You see, most of the reservoirs, while they not be

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at full capacity, are all ab above historical average, most

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of them. This data I got from Water Resources and

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it's CDec is the California Data Exchange Center. Okay, California

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Department of Water Resources. It's that CDec dot water dot

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CA dot gov. According to the data that was reported

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January twelfth of this year, twenty twenty five. Now, some

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of these are I'm going to read you our northern

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and then we'll get down to kind of the middle

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of California into the southern California area. But for example,

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a lot of people heard of Shasta. So the reservoir

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over there is one hundred and twenty six percent above

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its average. No, it's not full, but it's way above

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its historical average. Oraville is also one hundred and twenty

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nine percent above its historical average. New Bullard's Bar one

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hundred and twenty six above average. Now full sum is

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below average, it's eighty eight percent of But then we

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go down to Comanche and we're at one hundred and

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twenty two percent above Trinity one hundred and twenty six

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percent above and you're starting to see the picture here.

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We're above average on most every reservoir that we have

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in California. Now let's talk about southern California. So now

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we start to get into basically my area where we're

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talking about Sonoma, San Louis. We've got new Malons, Don Pedro.

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All of them are at or above historical average. Now

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southern California, look at Kachuma or Katcuma. However, you say

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that one hundred and thirty eight percent above average, Casitas

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one hundred and twenty four percent above average, Castaic or

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Castick ninety eight percent. You have Diamond Valley one hundred

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and thirty five percent above average, Pine Flat one hundred

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and twenty seven percent above average. Millerton is below and

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is at eighty one percent of historical average. But overall,

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I think you're starting to see the picture here in

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your mind. Right overall, most all reservoirs are at or

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above average. So do we have enough water? Well, if

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you're looking at just precipitation, maybe not. But if you're

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looking at total California water stores in terms of reservoirs,

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well maybe California does have enough. So with that information

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you're probably asking yourself, well, if there's all this water store,

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then why did we run out of water during the fires?

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Why do we run out of water in the Palstates fire?

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What happened? Why did the hydrants go dry? Well, that

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also has to do with water stores, but not necessarily reservoirs.

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We're talking about water storage tanks. There are currently three

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tanks there that will help supply water up into the hills.

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That is about one million gallons per tank or three

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million gallons total. Now we can argue that that is

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not enough water store, and there is also an argument

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that the pumps weren't keeping up with a demand. Let

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me let me play this clip of the CEO here,

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Janice kens kenonas Ke. I'm sorry, you know what. I

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flubbed that all the time. But Janice Kenyonyas anyway, you

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get the idea. She is the CEO of the LA

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Department of Water. Now here's the thing though, LA Department

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of Water. She's a CEO and she gets paid seven

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hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. With that kind

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of money, you think that this person would be extremely

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competent know exactly what's going on. And I'm not going

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to get into that argument. Many people have called her

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a DEI higher, but the reality is she did come

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from PG and E or Pacific Gas and Electric in

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which she was kind of forced out. I'm not really

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sure the whole story, but she had to resign due

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to the mishandling of what happened with pging in years back,

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with all the fires because of the unmaintained electrical lines

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and everything else. And then we had the gas pipes

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that leads and exploded. I don't if anybody remembered that.

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So with all of that, she left, resigned, whatever the

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case is, and now she's in place as the CEO

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of the Lle Department of Water and Power. And somehow

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seems like she got an upgrade or reward because now

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she's getting paid seven hundred and fifty thousand a year.

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I don't understand it, but whatever. Now here's her explaining

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what happened as it relates to the pumps running out

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of water. Here's the clip.

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We ran out of water and the first tank at

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abound four forty five pm yesterday. We ran out of

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water on the second tank about eight thirty pm, and

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the third tank about three am this morning. Those tanks

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help with the pressure on the fire hydrants and the

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heels of palisades. And because we were pushing so much

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water in our trunk line and so much water was

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being used before it can't get to the tents. We

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were not able to feel the tents fast enough. So

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the consumption of water was faster than we can't provide

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water in our trunk line. So I want to make

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sure that you understand there's water on the trunk line,

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it just cannot get off the hill because we cannot

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feel the tents fast enough.

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Okay, So that explanation, that explanation is the correct explanation.

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I guarantee you that she doesn't even really know that

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someone wrote that for her. I can guarantee you that.

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But regardless, regardless, it is the correct explanation. The problem

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lies in why were the pumps inadequate? Why did we

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only have three water tanks to feed the hills in

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an area that is known to catch fire. It's that

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area up there, that's Santa Anna area, Palisades. All of

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that area naturally catches fire, and they have fires every

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single year in that area. Now this is the worst

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of them. I mean, it's pretty much decimated most of

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all of La wiped out the Palisades, It's jumped over,

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destroyed Malibu, all the coastal homes. I mean, this is

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a legit, real disaster in California, a real disaster. The

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world may not recognize it because America is rich and

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strong and all that, but the truth is it's a disaster.

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So with all that being said, you're in a known

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area that has problems with fire, and here we are

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facing one of the greatest fires in history, and your

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infrastructure is not ready to support the needs of those

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that want to manage, maintain, and put these fires out.

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And the big question is why who made the call?

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Why hasn't this been done? Again, a lot of fingerpointing

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news some blames Trump, Trump blames new Some news blames

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the local government down in southern California or government agencies.

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Nobody wants to take responsibility. So let's fast forward here

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because this has been a known problem, and in fact,

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let's go back about eleven years or so. In twenty fourteen,

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there was a proposition that was past Proposition one water

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storage investment program. That's right, there was a water storage

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investment program and it was funded with public funds. It

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was for the benefit of the public for storing water. Now,

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this proposition had dedicated two point seven billion, not million

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billion with a B for investments in water storage projects.

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I'm getting this information from the Water commit or the

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California Water Commission, So this comes straight from the bureaucracy's mouth,

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straight from the government website CWC dot CA dot gov.

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And while it is a government website, we all know

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there's a lot of bureaucracy within the government. So let

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me read this. Proposition one of twenty fourteen dedicated two

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point seven billion for investments in water storage projects. The

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California Water Commission is administering the Water Storage Investment Program

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or WSIP to fund the public benefits associated with these projects.

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In July of twenty eighteen, the Commission made maximum conditional

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eligibility determinations, which is the amount of Proposition one funding

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available to a given project for eight projects that collectively

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would boost California's water storage capacity. Buy get this two

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point seven seven million acre feet, not gallons. We're talking

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about acreage two point seven seven million acreage feet that

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is used to store water. It goes on the read.

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The projects range from expanding existing reservoirs, so making them bigger, okay,

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to boosting groundwater storage, to building twenty first century surface

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storage facilities because many of them are well, they're in need,

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they're in need of being updated. Since July of twenty eighteen,

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one project withdrew from the WSIP and the Commission adjusted

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the remaining projects mceeds. Now, that particular project, I'm trying

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to narrow down which one it was. I'm trying to

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see if that was connected to the whole Delta smelt fiasco.

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I'm having a hard time doing that right now. But regardless,

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there are multiple projects that were proved in are moving forward.

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The problem here is none of them have been completed,

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none of them. So here's a graph they have. In

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twenty twenty three, construction began in current Farm, and construction

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has began in twenty twenty four on the Harvest Water project. Okay,

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But in twenty twenty five they barely awarded the funding

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for lols of Villa Carros and they're barely going to

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begin the construction. Twenty twenty six, they are barely going

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to award or prove to award funding for Willow Springs.

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In twenty twenty six also sites and they will dark

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construction on those two in twenty twenty seven. Same thing

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goes for the Chino Basin. They're also projected that in

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twenty twenty seven. The Harvest Water project will be operational.

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In twenty twenty seven, that's also again when they start

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construction with Chinel Basins, So in twenty twenty eight is

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when they start Pachaco. Now Pacheco is a big one

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because Pacheco is going to be one of the largest

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projects that will actually feed down to southern California. The

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Pachako one is based in the Central Valley of California. Now,

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everything though, will not become operational until twenty twenty eight

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or later, and that's a big problem. See, the fires

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have already happened. The money has been awarded and approved

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in twenty fourteen, and most of these projects aren't even

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gonna start construction til twenty twenty seven. One of them

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will be twenty twenty six, but the majority of them

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starting around twenty twenty seven. The fires have already happened,

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and part of this project is again expanding reservoirs, waters,

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building twenty first century water stores, et cetera. Now, those

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water stores would have been important. It would have been

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important in southern California, especially right there where the fires were,

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the Palisate fires, because with only three tanks and pump systems,

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it's not enough to feed the demands of a major

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fire or in this case, a huge fire that is unprecedented. See,

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they could have used three more tanks, so that would

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have been six million gallons ready and available. Now beyond that,

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let's talk about the water that gets to southern California,

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because southern California, again, it's a drier area, less precipitation

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than the you know, the far north northern area of

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California up in the mountains. You know, there's a lot

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that a lot of snowfall, et cetera. But how do

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we get the water to southern California. I'm going to

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also tell you about another project that is part of this.

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There is a reservoir in Sacramento. Now this is that

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reservoir or that area where else talking about that was

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tied to that Delta smelt fiasco. Now, according to cal Matters,

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which is an organization that monitors pretty much various projects government,

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et cetera. In California. According to them, they have a

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report and article that wrote about this. This came out

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in February of twenty twenty three headline this reservoir in

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Sacramento River has been planned for decades, So this report

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in twenty twenty three, and at that time they've already

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been waiting for this project to be done decades. It

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has been planned for decades, and the question is what's

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taking so long. In summary, the site reservoir is a

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four point four billion again not million billion, with a

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b four point four billion dollar project to add dams

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and store more water that'll be sent south south as

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in southern California. But it's still years away from completion.

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I'm want to read that one more time. It is

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still years away from completion. The final environmental report up

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there it is I knew that was going to be

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somewhere environmental report. Let me keep reading. The final environmental

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report is expected this year, which was twenty twenty three.

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By the way, that's when this report came on, so

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before construction of two large dams and other structures can begin,

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So they were still going through environmental studies and whatnot

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back then in twenty twenty three. Aside from environmental reports,

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other things that have been holding this project up our

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acquisition of water rights, permitting, and of course, as I

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stated earlier, the environmental review. You're going to keep hearing

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an environmental review, right because in California, environmental reviews really

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hold up projects for years, in years and years, and

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also add additional costs to projects. So even though this

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has been scheduled for twenty twenty four, it's likely will

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be delayed another year. So here we are twenty twenty five,

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still delayed, and it says that they're expected for it

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to be completed by twenty thirty or twenty thirty one.

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So this whole thing started. This whole thing started back

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in twenty eighteen with the two point seven billion dollars

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that were allotted and put away set aside to be

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spent specifically on water stores in California. Yet we have

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nothing but delays in bureaucracy that hold it up, and

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everything is delayed because of well the bureaucracy and various departments,

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being more specific environmental departments. It's saying that this reservoir,

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though it would store as much as one point five

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million acre feet of Sacramento River water and could eventually

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boost water supplies, especially in dry years, which we're in

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in California. Specifically, we're in a dry year in southern

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California for more than twenty four million people, and it

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stays heered, mostly in southern California. Just like I just said,

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five hundred thousand acres of Central Valley farmland would also

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be supplied. And it's saying the reservoir will now cost

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four point four billion, and it says Prop one we'll

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cover up to eight hundred and seventy five million of

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this funding. So again, we have a large project that

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they've been talking about doing for years, has been planning

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for decades. Twenty eighteen, money's put aside, given to California

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for building additional stores, and it gets tied up due

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to environmental reporting which we're still waiting on, studies, water rights,

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et cetera. So again, who's the blame as Trump to blame,

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is Gavin Newsom to blame? Karen Basst Like, who's the blame?

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Who's the blaming? Karen Bassa has nothing to do with

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any of this, So I'm going to get her out

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of the way. But as we know, with anybody in leadership,

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all the blame falls on your shoulders and I'm pointing

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at you, mister Newsome. Gavin Newsom, yes, you because if anything,

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if you're looking out for your state, listen, a large

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amount of your constituents are in southern California. It is

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a largely populated area of California. Do you not think

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you might be paying attention to this project and where

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it's at now? As far as as far as water

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drinking water is concerned, there's another project. This isn't so

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much about water stores, but just to point out how

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much more money has been going into the water situation

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in general in California, because in November of twenty twenty four,

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there was another twenty six point two million for pure

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water recycling projects, so basically just making water drinkable. So yes,

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so everybody realizes there's a water concern, of water issue,

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and it's not so much that water available in California

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isn't necessarily there. We have the ways, we have the means,

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we have the abilities to expand on the storage capacities.

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We have the ability to put the infrastructure in place

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to make sure that all areas get the water. But

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even though all the money has been put aside for

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these projects, nothing's happening. Nothing's happening, Gavin. Gavin Newsom goes

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on to defend himself against Trump. Trump says, and I'm

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reading this from one of his posts, he said, Governor

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Gavin Newscum, not Newsom, but new Scum, refused to sign

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the water Restoration declaration put before him that would have

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allowed millions of gallons of water from excess rain and

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snow melt from the North to flow daily into many

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parts of California, including the areas that are currently burning

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in a virtual apocalyptic way. He wanted to protect an

457
00:30:42.279 --> 00:30:46.240
essentially worthless fish called a smelt by giving it less water.

458
00:30:46.680 --> 00:30:49.440
It didn't work. And he's right. No matter what they

459
00:30:49.440 --> 00:30:54.720
did to try to preserve the smelt, their numbers kept

460
00:30:54.920 --> 00:30:58.359
declining and continue to decline. And the whole situation with

461
00:30:58.400 --> 00:31:01.119
the smelt goes back for many years. It's not just

462
00:31:01.279 --> 00:31:04.319
what's happening now or recently. By the way, anyway, I'm

463
00:31:04.319 --> 00:31:06.119
going to stop there, and I'm gonna I'm going to

464
00:31:06.200 --> 00:31:10.079
say that. Keep in mind, he's talking about water flowing

465
00:31:10.160 --> 00:31:15.119
from the North Okay, and he's more specifically addressing or

466
00:31:15.160 --> 00:31:17.240
referring to the project I just talked to you about

467
00:31:17.440 --> 00:31:23.599
the large reservoir that has been planned and proposed in Sacramento.

468
00:31:24.279 --> 00:31:27.640
So that's what Trump's referring to. I have a clip

469
00:31:27.640 --> 00:31:30.920
of Gavin Newsom getting all hot and bothered about all

470
00:31:30.960 --> 00:31:34.799
of this, and here's his response.

471
00:31:34.960 --> 00:31:37.880
To the President elect. I don't know what he's referring

472
00:31:37.920 --> 00:31:40.839
to when he talks about the Delta Smelt and reservoirs.

473
00:31:40.839 --> 00:31:43.519
The reservoirs are completely full. Of the state reservoirs here

474
00:31:43.680 --> 00:31:47.160
in southern California. That missing disinformation. I don't think advantages

475
00:31:47.319 --> 00:31:51.000
or aids any of us responding to Donald Trump's insults.

476
00:31:51.599 --> 00:31:55.119
We would spend another month. I'm very familiar with him.

477
00:31:55.279 --> 00:31:58.480
Every elected official that he disagrees with very familiar with him.

478
00:31:58.599 --> 00:32:00.960
We do know, though, from reporting locally, that that one

479
00:32:01.000 --> 00:32:03.839
reservoir that serves the Palisades was not full, and that's

480
00:32:03.880 --> 00:32:07.079
exactly what triggered my desire to get the investigation to

481
00:32:07.160 --> 00:32:09.599
understand what was happening with that local reservoir that was

482
00:32:09.640 --> 00:32:12.480
not a state system reservoir, which the President elect was

483
00:32:12.519 --> 00:32:15.039
referring to as it relates to the Delta and somehow

484
00:32:15.039 --> 00:32:17.039
connecting the Delta Smelt to this.

485
00:32:17.559 --> 00:32:22.480
All right, So Gavin Newsom is obviously lying. He's lying.

486
00:32:23.559 --> 00:32:25.480
He's acting like he has no idea what's going on

487
00:32:25.960 --> 00:32:29.279
with the Delta Smelt, no no idea. He doesn't know

488
00:32:29.319 --> 00:32:32.160
what reservoir he's referring to in the North. I just

489
00:32:32.319 --> 00:32:35.759
read the report from the government websites, all the reporting

490
00:32:35.759 --> 00:32:40.519
and data. I just exposed Gavin Newsom's lies by just

491
00:32:40.559 --> 00:32:42.680
doing a little bit of research, just a little digging,

492
00:32:42.680 --> 00:32:44.839
a little googling, a little you know this that whatever,

493
00:32:45.599 --> 00:32:47.920
he's a liar. He's trying to say he has no idea,

494
00:32:48.319 --> 00:32:50.519
and he's trying to say all the Southern California reservoirs

495
00:32:50.519 --> 00:32:52.319
are full, then they don't need water from anyone. We

496
00:32:52.920 --> 00:32:56.200
know that's bullshit because I just read that data. Okay,

497
00:32:57.200 --> 00:33:01.599
they're not full. Many of them are at historical average,

498
00:33:02.480 --> 00:33:05.480
many of them are below. One of them is absolutely below.

499
00:33:05.480 --> 00:33:08.920
But they're not full, They're not at capacity. They may

500
00:33:08.920 --> 00:33:14.720
be hitting averages. And yes, Southern California, the precipitation level

501
00:33:15.079 --> 00:33:19.240
has been nil almost zero, and yes you are in

502
00:33:19.359 --> 00:33:22.400
need of water. I used to live up by that

503
00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:26.039
reservoir that I referred to earlier, on the one in

504
00:33:26.119 --> 00:33:31.799
Pachaco San Luis Reservoir, to be specific, and I went

505
00:33:31.880 --> 00:33:34.319
to that reservoir, took a tour, talked to the workers

506
00:33:34.319 --> 00:33:36.519
there and everybody, and this was I mean this was

507
00:33:36.599 --> 00:33:40.160
years ago, and everybody there said that most of that

508
00:33:40.200 --> 00:33:43.799
water you see here doesn't even feed the area. It

509
00:33:43.839 --> 00:33:47.880
gets pumped down to southern California, and it is a large,

510
00:33:48.359 --> 00:33:53.039
massive store. You take a road, a Highway one fifty two,

511
00:33:53.079 --> 00:33:56.640
which snakes through that on its way over into Gilroy.

512
00:33:56.920 --> 00:33:58.279
It would be the way that you would get down

513
00:33:58.319 --> 00:34:01.880
into For anybody in California who knows, it's your way

514
00:34:01.920 --> 00:34:06.000
to get from those battles, for example, into Gilroy Morgan Hill,

515
00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:07.279
and then you just get the one on one and

516
00:34:07.400 --> 00:34:09.920
keep driving down and get into San Jose and all that.

517
00:34:10.840 --> 00:34:12.440
So anyone in California that knows that area, you know

518
00:34:12.480 --> 00:34:17.199
exactly what I'm talking about. As you're driving, that reservoir

519
00:34:17.599 --> 00:34:21.239
is on your side and in your view for I

520
00:34:21.280 --> 00:34:24.679
would say a good three quarters of your drive through

521
00:34:24.719 --> 00:34:29.320
those mountains. It is already very large, and there's money

522
00:34:29.320 --> 00:34:34.639
put aside to make it even bigger, to increase his capacity. So, yeah,

523
00:34:34.760 --> 00:34:38.000
southern California needs water from the north. It absolutely does.

524
00:34:38.039 --> 00:34:41.159
It can't survive without it. Gavin Newsom denying that there's

525
00:34:41.159 --> 00:34:44.559
any project proposed or anything in place to be built

526
00:34:44.559 --> 00:34:48.440
to supply water to southern California is absurd. He's a liar,

527
00:34:48.920 --> 00:34:51.840
He's always been a liar. He's a politician. He can

528
00:34:51.920 --> 00:34:54.920
care less about the people of southern California, because if

529
00:34:54.960 --> 00:34:58.400
he did, he would be taking responsibility or at least

530
00:34:58.400 --> 00:35:00.480
reference these projects and saying, hey, hey, you know what,

531
00:35:01.280 --> 00:35:04.960
we have all this in place. We've approved for all

532
00:35:05.039 --> 00:35:08.800
of these, all these projects to be to be completed.

533
00:35:09.480 --> 00:35:13.679
They're in the queue, and just admit. The issue is

534
00:35:13.679 --> 00:35:17.320
is none of it was done quick enough. A lot

535
00:35:17.360 --> 00:35:19.239
of them are planned to be finished by twenty thirty

536
00:35:19.639 --> 00:35:23.280
or later. And unfortunately we're in the situation we are

537
00:35:23.320 --> 00:35:26.079
in now because we are just not prepared to handle

538
00:35:26.119 --> 00:35:29.719
the situation that fell upon us. That is what happened.

539
00:35:30.840 --> 00:35:34.840
So Gavin Newsom doesn't deny anything about the smelt whatever, Okay, cool,

540
00:35:35.880 --> 00:35:39.880
not a problems. Here's a CBS News article about you know,

541
00:35:39.920 --> 00:35:43.920
it came out last year February fifteenth, says no more

542
00:35:44.000 --> 00:35:50.519
Delta smelt. The Delta Tunnel project threatens their extinction for good. So, yeah,

543
00:35:50.599 --> 00:35:53.199
the Delta smelt have been a thing it's been a

544
00:35:53.239 --> 00:35:56.360
public thing. It's been something that's been reported on in

545
00:35:56.400 --> 00:36:01.639
California for decades. Right here, Jan, Joaquin County, a project

546
00:36:01.639 --> 00:36:08.320
to move water from Sacramento region down to again southern California.

547
00:36:08.519 --> 00:36:12.639
Hold on, so, CBS News reported on this, Gavin Newsom

548
00:36:12.679 --> 00:36:16.280
denies it. Who's the right, who's wrong here? Let me

549
00:36:16.360 --> 00:36:19.360
keep reading. This is a very complex issue. Californians are

550
00:36:19.400 --> 00:36:21.039
in need of water all over the state, but with

551
00:36:21.079 --> 00:36:24.639
a project like the Delta Tunnel, environmentalists say, there's that

552
00:36:24.800 --> 00:36:28.719
environmental word again. Sorry, janterrupt, but I'm got to keep reading.

553
00:36:28.760 --> 00:36:31.480
The environmentalists say that fifty species of fish in the

554
00:36:31.480 --> 00:36:34.760
Delta are at risk, as well as the wildlife and

555
00:36:34.920 --> 00:36:37.840
people who depend on the fish. It says, for the

556
00:36:37.840 --> 00:36:40.920
sixty year in a row, the DWR has found no

557
00:36:41.239 --> 00:36:44.559
Delta smelt. So for six years going they've been moderning

558
00:36:44.559 --> 00:36:47.840
this situation and they haven't found any Delta smelt. It's

559
00:36:47.840 --> 00:36:51.440
a small endangered fish that's only found again, only found

560
00:36:51.559 --> 00:36:55.320
in the San Francisco Estuary. The future of the Delta

561
00:36:55.320 --> 00:36:59.480
smelt population looks grim considering the Delta Tunnels projects. Invasive

562
00:36:59.559 --> 00:37:03.679
construins diction. Okay, so tell me again, mister newsom how

563
00:37:04.199 --> 00:37:06.800
Trump was lying and wrong and doesn't know what he's

564
00:37:06.840 --> 00:37:09.880
talking about, because right here a Corners report by CBS

565
00:37:09.880 --> 00:37:12.400
News Local CBS by the way, CBS thirteen out here

566
00:37:12.440 --> 00:37:15.000
in California, looks like the project was held up or

567
00:37:15.079 --> 00:37:17.199
is being held up over concerns of this small fish

568
00:37:17.280 --> 00:37:22.000
that you deny. There's any involvement with that you deny

569
00:37:22.599 --> 00:37:25.320
is holding anything up? Well, maybe you didn't know. Maybe

570
00:37:25.320 --> 00:37:27.960
you are an incompetent idiot, like everybody thinks Cavin New

571
00:37:28.000 --> 00:37:30.599
So maybe you aren't, or maybe you didn't know because

572
00:37:30.639 --> 00:37:32.679
this report came out in twenty twenty four. I know

573
00:37:32.719 --> 00:37:34.880
you're busy. You're touring around trying to make sure that

574
00:37:34.920 --> 00:37:37.639
everybody knows that you might be a candidate to become president,

575
00:37:38.480 --> 00:37:42.559
which given the situation of California for the last or

576
00:37:42.599 --> 00:37:44.920
at least your time in office, to be exact, it's

577
00:37:44.920 --> 00:37:47.599
been a disaster. It's been a disaster. But let me

578
00:37:47.639 --> 00:37:51.280
go to this, to this other report here from Farm Progress.

579
00:37:51.440 --> 00:37:54.960
So the farmers have always been very very conscious of

580
00:37:55.000 --> 00:37:57.840
the water situation here in California because they need it

581
00:37:57.880 --> 00:38:04.079
for their farms. Here's here's this is great, that's great, gavinus,

582
00:38:04.199 --> 00:38:06.199
he denies anything. Right, I don't know anything about this

583
00:38:06.199 --> 00:38:07.960
Delta smell. I don't know I know nothing about this

584
00:38:08.039 --> 00:38:12.280
Sacramento project that Trump is talking about. All right, here's

585
00:38:12.280 --> 00:38:17.400
a report from two thousand and seven, two thousand and seven,

586
00:38:18.079 --> 00:38:21.800
Delta smelt shuts down major water supply. Hold it. Whoa, whoa,

587
00:38:21.800 --> 00:38:28.440
whoa Wait a Minutekevin, Babykevin, listen, listen, hold on here.

588
00:38:29.559 --> 00:38:31.320
That you just say I knew nothing about it, you'll

589
00:38:31.360 --> 00:38:33.840
know what Trump's talking about. Referring to some small fish

590
00:38:33.840 --> 00:38:36.719
blah blah blah Delta smell. N there's no Sacramento project.

591
00:38:36.760 --> 00:38:40.079
I don't know what he's talking about. They've been talking

592
00:38:40.079 --> 00:38:42.320
about this Delta smelt as far as back as two

593
00:38:42.360 --> 00:38:45.639
thousand and seven, two thousand and seven. It's been holding

594
00:38:45.840 --> 00:38:51.840
up water systems, it's been holding up water projects. Cavin

595
00:38:52.360 --> 00:38:57.280
takes some fucking responsibility. So if we're gonna start pointing fingers,

596
00:38:58.039 --> 00:39:00.920
Gavin wants to point fingers that Trump Trump point fingers

597
00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:04.679
at Gavin. Gavin wants to blame Mayor Karen Bass and

598
00:39:05.199 --> 00:39:09.880
the local you know, bureaucracies and government agencies down there

599
00:39:09.880 --> 00:39:15.400
in southern California. But hey, man, Ultimately, you are responsible.

600
00:39:15.519 --> 00:39:17.519
You're very aware of all these projects because all of

601
00:39:17.559 --> 00:39:20.840
this needs your final approval. Don't tell me you don't

602
00:39:20.920 --> 00:39:26.159
know what's going on. So yeah, our water systems in California,

603
00:39:26.320 --> 00:39:31.239
water stores have been mishandled at least back as far

604
00:39:31.440 --> 00:39:35.159
as two thousand and seven. They've been proposing this project

605
00:39:35.239 --> 00:39:38.960
in Sacramento to help feed the needs of southern California

606
00:39:39.480 --> 00:39:42.360
as far back as two thousand and seven, if not

607
00:39:42.400 --> 00:39:44.840
even earlier. I'm just going back as far as I

608
00:39:44.960 --> 00:39:48.320
found it to be recorded. I mean, I could dive

609
00:39:48.360 --> 00:39:50.880
deeper in this, but I think everybody is starting to

610
00:39:50.920 --> 00:39:54.000
see the picture here. Get the whole picture. Get the point.

611
00:39:54.480 --> 00:39:58.119
Gavin Newsom is an incompetent liar who's just trying to

612
00:39:58.159 --> 00:40:03.000
save his ass. That's what's going on here. That is

613
00:40:03.039 --> 00:40:06.880
the reality. That's what's happening. But hey, to put further

614
00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:12.360
insult to injury here Beyond the water, let's talk about

615
00:40:12.679 --> 00:40:16.440
the LA Fire Department. Let's talk about something that happens

616
00:40:17.800 --> 00:40:20.079
very often. And I can tell you this from personal experience,

617
00:40:20.159 --> 00:40:24.039
because I've sat in many board meetings for cities and counties,

618
00:40:24.400 --> 00:40:25.840
and I'm going to tell you right now that when

619
00:40:25.880 --> 00:40:31.960
it comes to funding, fire departments always get the bad

620
00:40:32.159 --> 00:40:34.960
end of the stick. Fire departments are always on the

621
00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:40.119
chopping block, specifically their employees. The labor side is always

622
00:40:40.320 --> 00:40:43.639
deemed to be expensive, and many times, you know, there

623
00:40:43.679 --> 00:40:45.559
are small cities that decide, hey, we don't need a

624
00:40:45.559 --> 00:40:48.280
fire department. We're going to make the county take take

625
00:40:48.280 --> 00:40:51.239
control of everything and provide, and the county is now

626
00:40:51.280 --> 00:40:53.840
on the hook for it. I have no idea why

627
00:40:53.880 --> 00:40:56.440
this is a thing in California. Why nobody thinks that

628
00:40:56.880 --> 00:41:01.440
funding and supplying the needs of your fire department is important.

629
00:41:02.440 --> 00:41:04.280
But the fire department outside to put on fires are

630
00:41:04.280 --> 00:41:07.639
always usually your first responders. They're there before the ambulances

631
00:41:07.679 --> 00:41:10.519
get there. Now, I talked about some of this with

632
00:41:10.559 --> 00:41:13.599
my brother on our show Random Thoughts with Manuel and George.

633
00:41:14.199 --> 00:41:16.440
Check that out. I think you're going to find it

634
00:41:16.440 --> 00:41:19.480
insightful and also hilarious as we you know, we tend

635
00:41:19.519 --> 00:41:23.800
to let loose on that particular podcast. But I want

636
00:41:23.800 --> 00:41:27.039
to point something out when it comes to the funding

637
00:41:27.480 --> 00:41:30.960
and what has been going on. Remember the rumor, Remember

638
00:41:30.960 --> 00:41:34.119
the story about the seventeen and a half million dollars

639
00:41:34.719 --> 00:41:38.360
that the LA Fire chief was saying Hey, you know

640
00:41:38.599 --> 00:41:41.920
La County LA wanted to take that and strip that

641
00:41:41.960 --> 00:41:45.480
from us, and Eryody was saying, oh, you're lying, that

642
00:41:45.599 --> 00:41:47.599
was never the case, that wasn't true. Well, you're right,

643
00:41:47.599 --> 00:41:49.960
it's not true. It's actually projected to be much higher.

644
00:41:50.639 --> 00:41:52.360
I'm going to go over some numbers with you now.

645
00:41:52.400 --> 00:41:55.000
I'm going to give a shout out, little hat tip

646
00:41:55.400 --> 00:41:59.719
over to an x account here for this information. It's

647
00:42:00.199 --> 00:42:06.880
Teats Sanchez tee t Z Sanchez handle is at Bengal

648
00:42:07.519 --> 00:42:10.719
for Everson all one word as Bengal b E n

649
00:42:10.880 --> 00:42:15.840
g A L number four. Ever since he provided some

650
00:42:15.880 --> 00:42:19.079
information when he was responding to someone who was claiming

651
00:42:19.119 --> 00:42:22.199
actually responded to Gavin Newson himself. This is funny. I

652
00:42:22.280 --> 00:42:25.039
want to read this post. So Gavin says, I am

653
00:42:25.079 --> 00:42:29.000
calling for an independent investigation into the loss of water

654
00:42:29.079 --> 00:42:32.440
pressure to local fire hydrants and the reported unavailability of

655
00:42:32.519 --> 00:42:35.920
water supplies from the Santa Ennez Reservoir. Well, I just

656
00:42:35.960 --> 00:42:38.320
went over a lot of reasons as why that you

657
00:42:38.400 --> 00:42:43.760
didn't have enough water, Gavin. But teets here responds, and

658
00:42:43.800 --> 00:42:46.320
I love it. He's got he's got pictures and clippings

659
00:42:46.360 --> 00:42:48.800
from you know here. Let me just blow this up

660
00:42:48.840 --> 00:42:53.480
and read this year. So here's here's the department update

661
00:42:53.679 --> 00:42:57.159
from January twenty sixth of this year, twenty twenty five. Now,

662
00:42:57.159 --> 00:42:59.199
everyone said the seventeen and a half million dollars that

663
00:42:59.239 --> 00:43:00.920
everyone was talking about of being cut from the fire

664
00:43:00.960 --> 00:43:03.280
department was was an absolute lyne and you're right, may

665
00:43:03.360 --> 00:43:05.400
maybe it was a flabba lie. I don't know, because

666
00:43:05.480 --> 00:43:10.559
according to this Operations Valley Bureau, which includes the La

667
00:43:10.639 --> 00:43:16.360
Fire Department, Okay, and the Fire Chief Board of Fire Commission,

668
00:43:16.440 --> 00:43:23.960
the CoA, and the UFLAC or La County, they're proposing

669
00:43:24.320 --> 00:43:28.079
a budgetary cut for your twenty twenty four twenty twenty

670
00:43:28.119 --> 00:43:32.760
five of forty eight point eight million dollars. They want

671
00:43:32.800 --> 00:43:39.119
to reduce the budget to fire protection, fire response the

672
00:43:39.159 --> 00:43:43.639
fire Department in La County by forty eight point eight million,

673
00:43:45.480 --> 00:43:47.440
and it says that the only way to provide a

674
00:43:47.480 --> 00:43:50.400
cost savings would be to close as many as sixteen

675
00:43:50.719 --> 00:43:55.960
fire stations. Huh. It says that the LA Fire Department

676
00:43:56.000 --> 00:43:59.639
Superintendent will be added to all LA Fire Department brush

677
00:43:59.639 --> 00:44:03.559
assigned meants to coordinate La County hand crews. So they're

678
00:44:03.599 --> 00:44:06.840
going to take all these resources and then add more

679
00:44:07.239 --> 00:44:15.480
onto the superintendents or the LA fire departments superintendents shoulders huh.

680
00:44:15.800 --> 00:44:19.960
Now they're claiming that resources while those stations would be closed,

681
00:44:20.000 --> 00:44:22.920
will be reallocated, but it does not ever say that

682
00:44:23.000 --> 00:44:26.880
they will continue to bolster or replenish those resources at

683
00:44:26.920 --> 00:44:30.719
the same levels after they've gone through what was given

684
00:44:30.760 --> 00:44:33.960
to the sixteen fire stations that they're proposing to close. Now,

685
00:44:34.039 --> 00:44:38.440
let's keep going over this situation and this proposal, because

686
00:44:38.519 --> 00:44:42.000
here's where that seventeen and a half million dollars came from.

687
00:44:42.760 --> 00:44:46.480
And outside of closing fire stations, it was specifically aimed

688
00:44:46.559 --> 00:44:52.840
at cutting staff, as it always is, as it always

689
00:44:52.880 --> 00:44:56.199
Believe me, I've sat in so many meetings, so many

690
00:44:56.199 --> 00:45:01.280
city county meetings that I have I have first hand

691
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knowledge that this fuckery goes on. They're always trying to

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cut the budget of the fire department. They're always trying

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to justify why they even need to pay for one.

694
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It's ridiculous, this ludicrous, It makes no sense. So the's

695
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seventeen and a half million dollars that was going on

696
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or what was that was floating around the internet and

697
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on social media that everybody says was a hoax, No,

698
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it was not. It was seventeen and a half million

699
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dollars that was part of this forty eight million dollar reduction.

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The reason the seventeen point five million dollars was narrowed

701
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or focused in on was because it really attacked the

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amount of staff. Okay, let me go over some of

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these numbers. The adopted budget of twenty three twenty four

704
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budget changes and the budget for twenty five twenty four

705
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to twenty five. They're trying to propose so salaries, general salaries.

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They want to reduce it by about four million dollars.

707
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They also want to reduce over time by two million,

708
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over time by variables staff. You know, I don't know

709
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if that's like overflow people you need to fight fires

710
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in addition to or night crews. But anyway, they were

711
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reduced at by almost six million. And they want to

712
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reduce expenses. We're talking about contractual services. They want to

713
00:46:16.280 --> 00:46:20.159
reduce by four million. They want to reduce uniform uniforms

714
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guys uniforms by almost one point five million. They want

715
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to get rid of administrative costs by only two hundred

716
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thousand oz. Hey hey, fuck the firemen, fuck the firefighters.

717
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Let's let's let's let's gouge them the most, but office

718
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staff and we only need to do a slight reduction

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operating supplies. They want to reduce operating supplies by almost

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thirteen million dollars, okay, thirteen million. Those operating supplies are

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things that the firefighters need, things they need to fight

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the fires. So when you add all this up, now

723
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there's an offset and sworn bonuses, so they do want

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to increase bonuses by a little, and they want to

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increase some overtime here as well. It looks like some

726
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other staffing, so they want to increase that by looks

727
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like twenty five million, twenty six minutes. So some things

728
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are kind of offset here. But overall they want to

729
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cut over seventeen million, five hundred thousand dollars from the

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fire department for the twenty four to twenty five budget year.

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So more is being revealed. Who's responsible In the end,

732
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is it Trump's fault?

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Gavin?

734
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Because he called you out because he said you're more

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concerned with a small fish. You denied it, but I

736
00:47:50.079 --> 00:47:53.039
just proved you're wrong. You said you didn't know anything

737
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about that northern water that Trump was referring to, But

738
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then I proved you're wrong again. Come Gavin, you can't

739
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do this, Kevin had As I said, this is public information.

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I found it, and if I found it, I'm gonna

741
00:48:05.599 --> 00:48:07.920
tell you right now, there are way more capable journalists

742
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that can dig even deeper and make you look like

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an even I don't know how, but an even more

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incompetent idiot. This, this, in the end, falls on your shoulders, Gavin.

745
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The mismanagement of our forests, the mismanagement of our water

746
00:48:26.280 --> 00:48:31.440
supplies and water stores, the constant delay of products being

747
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completed due to environmental factors, all adds up to failure,

748
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and Gavin, you are ultimately the one to blame. Just

749
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admit you're wrong. Just admit that you're wrong. You're going

750
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to I mean, you have no other play at this point.

751
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So and conclusion, because I've been going a while and

752
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I know this is pretty data packed and it's just

753
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a lot of numbers and whatnot. I want everybody to understand, Yes,

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California has one water. Does it have water in every

755
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single little area? No, But overall we have enough water

756
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to spread around and share the wealth with others. California

757
00:49:10.719 --> 00:49:12.480
can't take care of its own. And I didn't even

758
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talk about the two billion gallons of water that are

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pumped out of reservoirs almost every day because of overflow.

760
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I didn't even tell you about that, but that's that's

761
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another ridiculous amount of water that's being pumped out. So again,

762
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if we didn't have enough water, then why are we

763
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pumping water out of our reservoirs in the ocean to

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make way for snow mountain overflow? Why are we trying

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to expand our reservoir stores to hold more of this

766
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water so we don't have to pump it up? And

767
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more importantly, while I've already proven that we do have

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enough water stores and that there's money put aside to

769
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increase those capacities and build new ones, ultimately, the failure

770
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that happened in the water supply to the hydrants came

771
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down to the fact that these projects, all this money's

772
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two point seven billion dollars that was allotted for these

773
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projects to happen, haven't happened yet. Most of them we're

774
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not even going to be completed. As I said, until

775
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twenty thirty twenty fifty, there was not enough tanks. There's

776
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only three million gallons worth of storage capacity that did

777
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not keep up with the demand to put the palistape

778
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fires out period. They need to double that capacity at least,

779
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and they need to improve on the pump systems to

780
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get up the hill. This comes down to a mismanagement problem,

781
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and I don't know who's exactly the blame. Gavin, you're

782
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in charge of California. You can talk about investigations all

783
00:50:51.199 --> 00:50:53.079
you want, but man, you know what, you got to

784
00:50:53.119 --> 00:50:56.239
get off your ass, get in there and hold people accountable.

785
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I don't care if they're your buddies. I don't care

786
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if they're Democrats or Republicans, doesn't fucking matter. Man, At

787
00:51:02.840 --> 00:51:05.679
this point, you got to hold people accountable. If you

788
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got people making seven hundred and fifty thousand a year,

789
00:51:08.440 --> 00:51:13.280
that CEO, for example, for the LA Department of Water

790
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and Power, if she's making seven hundred thousand dollars a year.

791
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If you've got Karen Bass out there, the mayor of LA,

792
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making over three hundred thousand. If these people are very

793
00:51:23.239 --> 00:51:26.760
highly paid, you have every right to hold them accountable,

794
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and you need to hold them accountable. You want to

795
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show everybody you're a good governor. Stop being a pussy,

796
00:51:32.920 --> 00:51:35.639
take care of everybody. Get down to the bottom of

797
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the situation and make sure that you hold them accountable.

798
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And you have to ask the question, what is holding

799
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up these projects? Because everything that has been holding these

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00:51:45.199 --> 00:51:51.440
projects up has contributed to the detriment of everybody's safety

801
00:51:51.679 --> 00:51:56.440
in that area of southern California. It's a it's a

802
00:51:56.480 --> 00:52:02.039
direct threat. The water needs to flow. Happen, listen, California

803
00:52:02.119 --> 00:52:06.280
needs to cut the bullshit, stop worrying about little things

804
00:52:06.599 --> 00:52:09.159
that in the long run don't really matter because when

805
00:52:09.199 --> 00:52:11.519
it came to that delta's mouth, they're primarily found up

806
00:52:11.559 --> 00:52:17.639
in the San Francisco area. So what do we are.

807
00:52:17.760 --> 00:52:19.639
It's like we're shooting ourselves in the foot out here

808
00:52:19.639 --> 00:52:23.199
in California. And yes, ultimately, Gavin, it does fall on

809
00:52:23.199 --> 00:52:26.000
your shoulders no matter what you say in the end,

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this is your fault. Well, thanks for listening. Remember to like,

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subscribe and share the show. That's all I ask, and

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have a great day.

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