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All right. I've been talking, I've been saying longingly, I wish we had a doge here in California, in Sacramento and Los Angeles.

Because I think the waste, the fraud, the criminal activity on the part of the legislature and the city council

here in L.A. and just all of it. I think the criminality, the theft, the fraud is overwhelming.

So Carl de Mio, the Republican Assemblyman from San Diego County, all by himself is trying to chip away at it.

And late last week at a budget hearing, he started talking about $25 million for some COVID-19 workplace outreach program.

And of course, COVID is long gone years ago.

What's this money for?

Well, it turns out it's going to 76 far left political organizations.

It's a slush fund.

It's a huge slush fund.

And he started talking about it publicly at the committee hearing.

And Robert Revis, the assembly speaker, a Democrat, got so pissed that this had been unmasked,

that he kicked DeMaio off the committee by Friday afternoon.

And now we have Carl DeMaio with us to talk about it.

Carl, how are you?

Hey, John. How you doing? I am good. Well, tell us the story from the beginning. How did you

discover this, this $25 million dollar COVID workplace outreach program? Well, here's the story from the very beginning.

Your longtime listeners know from my various appearances on your show that in a previous life,

before I got into politics, I had started one of the largest good government groups in the

nation in the 1990s.

And we audit government programs. We look for cost efficiencies. We were doging government

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