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all of us at least here can agree to
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this that people have always looked to
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california for inspiration
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and now in the midst of
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of so much turmoil with the stacking of
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stresses
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and dramatic social and economic change
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california is doing what we've done for
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generations
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lighting out the territory ahead of the
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rest
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expanding the horizon of what's possible
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well that was governor newsome's most
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poignant lines of his speech there a
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defiant rally cry for california still
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in the nation's leader not the follower
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so let's bring in this week's panel of
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analysts and journalists kc 24 political
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analyst and host of powell to the people
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where civility is in style on kxcx 1550
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also former fresno county superintendent
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of schools larry powell and then we have
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news director for gv wire bill mcewen
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guys thank you for being here so let's
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start with the state of the state
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obviously governor newsom really good
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with words
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did he rally californians in what we're
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seeing at the pump what we're seeing at
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the grocery store and everything we're
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dealing with now because of the conflict
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in ukraine
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so uh from my perspective this was a
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this was a state of the state speech
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that was
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overlooked by the public that barely
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raised a ripple i think most people's uh
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focus is on ukraine
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and this gas tax rebate let me have you
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reply to that i think it was interesting
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because he said in his own speech that
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the expectation was low that anybody was
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listening because of the world events so
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you're right on he even said nobody's
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going to pay any attention to what i say
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tonight so let's talk about this gas tax
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rebate is this what uh the best way to
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spend that 60 billion dollar surplus
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that they will have actually a 60 i
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think a 60 million dollar surplus i
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should correct myself there is this the
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best way to spend it for californians
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with a gas gas tax rebate but only for
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those who have a car so we're not sure
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how this is working
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so i
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you've identified the hole in this and
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there has to be a way to get people that
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don't drive cars or
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who are not registered owners they need
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to get some help from
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some relief from inflation as well
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and it's interesting because it is
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billions by the way
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his
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when he told us in january how much
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money was left educators always look for
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that then they get the may revise the
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may revise is going to be 18 billion
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dollars more than what he thought we
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would have in january so we're looking
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at billions of dollars i think he needs
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to do some long-term kinds of things he
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needs to help those folks who are facing
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bread prices going crazy gas prices
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going crazy all of those kinds of things
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because there are so many that are
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hurting right now you know i'm just
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wondering there we heard from shannon
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grove and and dr joseph penbera about
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maybe they should look into drilling now
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because of the conflict in kern county
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there's new ways of doing it also
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cutting out the gas tax he hasn't done
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that yet is this the obvious thing to do
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cut the gas tax out i think if you look
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at some of the economists
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they say that california pays about a
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dollar 27 a gallon 87 some of them say
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so there's different numbers but if
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you're paying that much in tax on a gas
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at a gallon that's crazy so absolutely
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crazy it's 50 cents for the gas tax
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right then you add the
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gas emissions and regulations
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and you're at about a dollar 27 more a
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gallon and then also in california
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we pay a higher price that no one has
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really been able to account for
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you know and it's called the missing tax
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or whatever and it's the result of the
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fact that
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gas can't be brought into california via
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pipeline we have aging refineries and
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then we also have our own special
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formulation to reduce uh pollution
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no
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no doubt that the oil companies make a
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lot of money
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natural disasters things like that have
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cut the supply as well it's been crazy
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well let me finish with this guys this
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is the fourth state of the state
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it's an election year for governor
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newsom he beats a recall handily is that
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did he just feel like he had to give
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this uh this smooth over speech to
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to try to rally californians because you
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know he feels he's already won at the
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ballot box
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so i saw the speech more as a speech to
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the nation
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and to remind people yeah they tried to
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recall me but i'm still presidential
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material i think that was the political
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purpose of that speech
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in regard to what's going to happen in
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november he's going to wind up with 60
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62 percent of the vote uh he's
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intimidated the republican field yeah i
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think that's probably true except for
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one thing gray davis made a mistake with
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tax
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when he tried to tax cars at a different
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level if you remember that was brought
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back as also an economic tough time and
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he went from a very popular governorship
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doing all kinds of good things for
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educators and things like that to being
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recalled
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you know and so i i would say there's
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always the one issue that might just get
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somebody so i i think he has to be still
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cautious even though we're a blue state
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uh people vote their dollars very very
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often you know yeah you start hurting me
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at the dollar at the market and you know
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at the gas station i may do something
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that's why he's talking about this gas
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tax yeah give it back there you go all
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right guys hang tight we have a lot more
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to discuss coming up in our second panel
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but coming up is california's high-speed
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rail back on track or could it see more
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dead ends and roadblocks when it comes
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to financing and construction a rare
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exclusive interview with the ceo of the
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high-speed rail authority brian kelly
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next
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