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Armstrong and Getty Show, Kamala

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Harris is a lame excuse for why she's

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failing. Coming up in Marshall's News In about

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ten minutes before that, we got Tim the lawyer

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in the studio. Tim Sanderford, vice president

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for Litigation at the Goldwater Institute,

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where they busily fight for liberty.

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Perhaps you've heard of it. What have you guys

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been doing lately? A couple of wins? Huh yeah. We want

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a couple of cases in one in Florida and one in

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California involving home sharing, you know where

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people allow people to stay in their homes

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like an Airbnb or home away or something like that,

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and a lot of communities across the country

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are trying to violate people's private property

1:09

rights by telling them that they're not allowed to do that and

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imposing these blanket bands and and

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and so forth. So we this is an

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issue that that we've really taken on at the Goldwater

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Institute, and we want a case in Pacific

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Grove, California, just recently where

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the court there said that that violated the California

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Coastal Act. Now that's interesting because

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the California Coastal Act says that the Coastal Commission

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has the authority to set the rules for how people

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use their land along the coast. And usually they're very

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anti private property rights, environmentalist radicals,

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but in this case, they actually like home sharing because

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it's a way of allowing people to to to spend

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the weekend and enjoy the beach without building

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new hotels and things like that. So they're

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actually rather pro home sharing. So they've said

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that they don't want cities to outlaw people

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allowing allowing people to use their homes.

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So we won that case in the trial

1:56

court recently, and we want an even bigger case in Florida

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where they were uh that that community

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in Miami Dade County was prohibiting

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people from using their homes for short

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term rentals with these incredibly exorbitant

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fines like hundreds of thousands of dollars

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per violation, which we said violated

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the constitutional prohibition on excessive

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finds because both the federal and state constitutions

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prohibit the government from imposing these excessive

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fines. And fortunately, Florida

2:23

state law also said the same thing.

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It's set the number the amount of finds

2:27

that cities are allowed to levy. And the court said that that was

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illegal, that what the city was doing, and

2:32

struck down the entire ordinance. So

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we're still doing some cases in places like Illinois,

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for example, where Illinois Chicago's

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rule on home sharing is you have to get a license,

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and when you get a license, among other things,

2:44

the city is allowed to search your property

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quote at any time and for any

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reason. Wow, expended

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amendments and and we're not talking

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and you know, we're talking about people's homes here, you

2:57

know, so it's it's even more extreme than that. It's just in

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So unfortunately, this is one of those situations

3:03

where nimbiism and this

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this this basic fundamental

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premise people have that they have a right to

3:10

tell other people how to live their lives is

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so deeply rooted that even people

3:14

that you talk to who normally say, well, I'm in favor

3:16

of private property rights and limited government in the constitution,

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many of them will even turn around and say, well, but I have a

3:21

right to tell my neighbor what he can do with his land. Now,

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we're not saying that that people should be allowed to have

3:26

loud party houses or something like that.

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Of course, the city should be able to crack down on

3:31

nuisances, on noise and things like that. But

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you don't ban all backyard barbecues

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just because sometimes people get a little rowdy, or

3:37

or make it illegal to have a Super Bowl party just

3:40

in the entire city, just because sometimes one

3:42

or two people have too much parking

3:44

on the street or something. But that's the way this is

3:46

being approached nationwide, and

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it's a real shame because home sharing is good

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for local economies. It brings tourists

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into into towns to patronize

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local businesses and restaurants that otherwise would

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never go. I mean, I've I've done this. I was

3:59

in too a vacation to New Orleans not

4:01

long ago and stayed at a home sharing

4:03

at a home and we we went all to to all

4:05

these little local restaurants and things. We would

4:07

have never gone there if we had stayed at the big hotel

4:10

downtown. So this is another situation

4:12

where trying to dictate to other

4:14

people how they use their property and how they

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live their lives is also bad for

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the economy and bad for for people

4:21

who need homesharing to pay their bills. You

4:23

lift up your shirt and get some beads in New Orleans, You

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know I probably could

4:29

I stopped. I saw McDonald so much

4:31

nowadays. What's your Twitter feed? Because

4:33

you got one of the best Twitter feeds out there. It's

4:35

my my full name at Timothy Sanda for which

4:38

I probably should have shortened because it takes

4:40

up too many letters. Well, it shows

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up on our Twitter feed a lot, and I'm glad you fight for

4:44

You ever consider doing slipping falls? No.

4:48

I went to law school because I wanted to sue the government.

4:50

It's the best the world. I would do it

4:52

for free if I had to. In fact, I sort of do

4:54

because I don't charge my clients. And by

4:56

the way, we have supported entirely by donations

4:58

from people who agree with the things that we do. We're

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having our big annual gala

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dinner in Phoenix on Friday,

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and if if folks out there, if any of you would like

5:08

to come along, go to Goldwater Institute

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dot org. You can find out about the dinner

5:12

on Friday. You can find out about the stuff that we do. We

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have a blog where we follow all the all the stuff that we're

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engaged in across the country Goldwater Institute

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dot org. Tim is going to stick around for a little bit and I have

5:21

some questions about some of the stories of the day

5:23

and how they fit into liberty

5:26

and freedom in the law and that sort of thing. Marshall's got

5:28

his news in just a few minutes, and we'll check out on where

5:30

we are with the latest and all the dang

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stories that we're following. Dang story democratic

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