Matt Capelouto
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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And it was like 50 grand a month, right? I don't think it was quite that much. You could lose it zero there. Oh, it was 55 grand a month? Yeah. But we wanted to call out the senators that kept... Voting against Alexandra's law and not passing it through to the floor for a vote. And it was recommended to me that I do not do that since it was being adopted by Prop 36. Right. It passed in November.
Yes.
Well, keep in mind, despite the setback in 2023, we were getting a lot of support. We actually had the majority of our state Senate on board as co-authors of the bill. We just couldn't get it passed out of the public safety committee controlled by five senators because three of those five, actually four of those five, would not support it. So they couldn't
So we couldn't get it to the full floor for a vote. If we got it there, it would have passed. Do you know the names of the four people that didn't support it? So Scott Wiener represents a district in San Francisco. Stephen Bradford represents a district here in Los Angeles. Nancy Skinner represents an area near Berkeley. And Ayesha Wahab. Ayesha Wahab was the other. Wahab? Wahab. Wahab. Wahab.
And I think her district is somewhere, is either Oakland or around Oakland. All right.
Not all of them are still on the safety committee anymore, but they're still moving on in politics, and these people do not belong in politics. No, they don't. They don't belong. They don't belong anywhere. So what ended up being great, a blessing in disguise, and it's amazing how things have just worked out the way they have. When did it start?
Well, you know, we first introduced this in 2020, and it first had its first hearing in early 2021. But every time we reintroduced it, We watered it down a little bit to just try to get something to pass. To make it more palatable. To make it more palatable. Ultimately, by the end, it was specific to just fentanyl.
Originally, we had it, somebody would get the admonishment for dealing methamphetamine, cocaine, fentanyl, and a couple other hard drugs. We narrowed it down to just fentanyl. So not carfentanil or xylizine? No, any analogs of fentanyl, they would get the admonishment. But also, primarily because fentanyl is now being put into all these other drugs. All of them. Right.
Anybody who's dealing drugs, we want to get the admonishment. But in an effort to make it pass, because this is one of the arguments by the Senate Safety Committee, they mentioned that it might be more palatable to them if we just narrowed it down to fentanyl, which we did. Right. We did some things to make sure a minor wouldn't get this admonishment.
They were dead set on if somebody is under 18 caught dealing drugs, they shouldn't get the admonishment. Keep in mind, I'm of the opposite belief on that. As a parent, if my child was dealing drugs, I want this. Give them this warning. It's just a warning. Scare the heck out of them. I don't want them to continue dealing drugs. Exactly. Exactly. It's just insane.
Yeah. Yeah. And we can't give a warning to somebody between 17 and 18 and convicted of dealing drugs. Yeah. Just because they happen to be 17, 16.
So when Prop 36 came along and the people who were behind it, they added Alexandra's Law to it and they kept it in its original format.
Yes. Yeah. When Prop 36 was announced and we started to get more, when was it announced? Oh, gosh. It had to probably around... March of 2024. And there had to be a lot of money raised because we need, you know, the ballot measure process. California doesn't make it easy. Realize a ballot measure is a way around our legislature.
So our legislature sets the rules on how you get something to qualify for the ballot. And it takes lots of signatures to get signatures these days, takes lots of money. You have a very short period of time to do it and you really have to have all the stars and you have to be about 100 percent over the figure that they give you because they do this Jedi mind trick nonsense.
Right. But this passed insane. Prop 36 passed overwhelmingly. Just over 70% of Californians voted in support. Wow. It's like one of the highest ballot measures that Californians supported in history.
And Prop 36 for your listeners and viewers so they know it. But that's important, though.
And I think it's your extreme liberals. We did have a lot of Democratic support. The mayor of San Diego. You're exactly right. You're exactly right. It's common sense. But we've let Sacramento run amok with these handful of legislators that just have too much power. And ultimately, now they abuse their power because they can. They're in positions of control.
But so your viewers know, Prop 36 dealt with a few things. It also dealt with the rampant retail theft that's been taking place in California. The And what people don't, what our legislators fail to tie into the retail theft is a good portion of that is because of drug use. You know, people are stealing to fuel their addiction. And so you curb one, you're going to help the other.
And in addition to Alexandra's law being part of it, one of the things I think this is really great, and I'm going to be very curious to get your take on it is, On your third arrest for a drug offense.
It is, you now have a choice between going to prison Or getting treatment. Whereas prior to Prop 36, you faced no prison time, and there was no incentive to go into treatment. I mean, you really had to go in on your own free will, but so many of these people are never going to get to that point or could perhaps die first. So not on your first, not on your second.
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