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Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz show on IHeart Radio.

My guest today is Susan Crabtree.

Susan is the national political correspondent for Real Clear Politics, author of the book

Fools Gold on California Corruption and a contributor to the California Post and City Journal.

Hi, Susan.

So nice to have you on.

It's great to be with you, Carol.

Thanks for having it.

So I've been on a little bit of a California run on this show.

I had Joel Pollock on. He's the opinion editor at California

Post. I had Jennifer Van Lahr from Red State on. And so the question I ask my California

buddies is, are you hopeful about California? Oh, no, I'm actually not hopeful. I'd have to be brutally honest. That's the bluntest

answer I've gotten. California Post is actually a bright light. I think things are changing

a little bit in the media landscape because of the California Post. And now there's a new venture

within a Manhattan Institute is launching their

California anti-fraud venture. I didn't know that. That's great. Yes, everybody, you know, fraud is

suddenly sexy in California. We've been dealing with it, people who live here for, you know,

decades and it's only gotten worse and worse.

But at least there's some signs of hope flickering.

But the problem is that the politics aren't changing.

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